Chapter 372: Yang Wen's Fury
According to the agreement between Zan Wanshou and Hou Xing, after the battle of Shenjian City, he should take a naval brigade to escort the Banzhou army to Fushun. The strength of another naval brigade under the Shenjian City went down the river to Chongqing Prefecture, and then transferred to Fushui, which is called the Fujiang River by the Perak Army, and went to Lingquan Mountain and Jiantan after passing through Diaoyu City. Zhang Jue has promised to send the Diaoyu City Navy to accompany him. With the help of the Diaoyu City navy, who are familiar with the local water conditions, the newcomers will avoid the shoals and reefs along the way, and wipe out the few new annexed sailors.
The strategy of the Thunderbolt army to march into Fushui in a roundabout way came from the hands of Ouyang Xuan, and if it could be achieved as scheduled, it would form a situation of closing the door and beating the dog against the Ximeng army in Fushui, and completely cut off the road of New York's retreat to eastern Sichuan. In addition, the Thunderbolt Army, which controls Fushui, can also wait for the opportunity to send artillery and ammunition to Pengxi Village. If once the support channel is opened and Lingquan Mountain and Pengxi Village have the heavy artillery removed from the ship, the Mongolian army will have to exchange a large number of human lives for recapture.
After a big war, soldiers need to rest and recuperate in order to have better combat effectiveness. After resting for a few days, the soldiers' physical strength recovered slightly, and Zan Wanshou prepared to march in two ways. At this time, the Sichuan Preparation Division sent someone to come, to be precise, Yu Xing's son Yu Dazhong came with soldiers and horses.
Yu Xing was flanked by Liu Cheng and Lili in Shenjian City, losing more than 20,000 elite soldiers and horses, making the anti-Mongolian situation in Sichuan precarious. He knew that the government and the opposition had long been dissatisfied with him for forcing Liu Cheng to oppose him, and if the news of this fiasco reached Lin'an, there would inevitably be an uproar, and even if he spent more money bribing Jia Nidao and other important ministers of the court, he would not be able to keep his official position, and would even be impeached and imprisoned. After Zan Wanshou led the army to repel the Mongol army and capture the Shenjian City, his mind became active again: Zan Wanshou is the prefect of Jiading and his subordinate, and his military exploits should of course be recorded on the head of the Sichuan Preparation and Placement Division, and this credit is naturally his own.
"Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers", Yu Xing was reluctant to send Yu Dazhong into battle, but of course his own son was the only thing to grab credit for. Immediately, he asked Yu Dazhong to bring the official document of the Sichuan Preparation Division and go to take over Shenjian City. As long as he controls the Divine Arm City, he can attribute all the battle achievements to himself and his cronies on the good news reported to Lin'an.
For Zan Wanshou, Yu Xing has long been unpleasant. Not only did he not send money to himself, but he also did not obey the instructions to seize the ships of the Perak Army, and even got into a heated fight with Ouyang Xuan, copying the same set in western Sichuan. What's even more excessive is that he also degraded his cronies in Jiading Mansion and drove them away. If it weren't for him, how could his hardcore henchman Liu Da'er rebel and surrender to the Mongolian army? The more Yu Xing thought about it, the more angry he became, and secretly decided in his heart that after this matter was over, he would slowly clean up Zan Wanshou.
If it weren't for the fact that Zan Wanshou had already been incorporated into the system of the Thunderbolt Army, if it weren't for Yang Wen personally leading the Banzhou Army in Shenjian City, if it weren't for Yu Xingtuo's non-people, his treacherous plan would have really succeeded. After all, the official level crushes people to death, and military merits are reported by the boss, and the right to speak is also controlled by the boss. Subordinates are often manipulated to death by their superiors, and there is room for resistance. It's just that Zan Wanshou and other high-level officials in Jiading Mansion have long been integrated with the Thunderbolt Army, and the vast number of soldiers and civilians have also widely accepted the concept of the Thunderbolt Army, and they are only disappointed in the corrupt court, and they are even more disgusted by Yu Xing's greed, where they will easily hand over the Divine Arm City to Yu Xing's father and son.
Although Banzhou is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Sichuan Establishment Division, it has always belonged to an independent force that listens to the investigation and does not listen to the propaganda, and it is also the object of the Lin'an court's great efforts to win over. If the Banzhou Yang clan fell to the Mongol army, not only would the southern part of Sichuan be opened, but the Mongol army would also have a springboard to attack Tanzhou and other hinterlands of the Southern Song Dynasty, and then seize the Jingxiang line and go down the river to Lin'an. In fact, the year before last, the famous Mongolian general Wuliang Hetai tried to attack Tanzhou through Miaojiang but failed, so he had to detour the Guangnan West Road to attack Tanzhou, break into the hinterland of the Southern Song Dynasty and burn all the way, and successfully joined Kublai Khan's army by the Yangtze River.
The geographical location of Miaojiang is extremely important for the "Han belly" strategy of guarding against the Mongolian army, and the fierce Banzhou army is also the main combat force of Sichuan's resistance to Mongolia, which determines that the attitude of Banzhou Yang is very important to the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to Mongolia. Although Yang Wen also has a friendship with Yu Xing, Ouyang Xuan is Yang Wen's son-in-law, and the Thunderbolt Army and the Banzhou Army are strategic allies. What's more, in the battle of Shenjian City, the Banzhou army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and Yang Wen would not give the results to others at all.
To say that this Yu Dazhong is greedy and stupid, he can't see the situation clearly at all. He came with dozens of small warships, and as soon as he landed ashore, he rushed straight to the Divine Arm City with hundreds of people. In his eyes, the artillery warships floating with the flag of Jiading Mansion in the water are also fish belly, and sooner or later they will also fall under the command of his father and son. When passing by the Banzhou military barracks, when he saw the Yang banner on the high flagpole, he also regarded it as nothing, and went directly around the barracks, which was really arrogant. You must know that even if Yu Xing came in person and saw Yang Wen's banner, he had to be hypocritical.
In fact, don't look at the name of Banzhou under the control of the Sichuan System and Placement Division, don't look at Yu Xing as a feudal official, but if the court really wants to choose between Yu Xing and Yang Wen, the bigwigs in the court will not hesitate to give up Yu Xing. Although the Southern Song Dynasty shared the world with scholars, it would open a department every few years, and there was no shortage of civil officials at all, and offending Yang Wen offended the Yang family in Banzhou, which also meant that Miao Jiang no longer obeyed the orders of the imperial court. Although the emperor and the important ministers of the current dynasty were mediocre, they could distinguish which was more important on this issue.
Just before Yu Dazhong arrived at Shenjian City, Yu Xing's personal captain Su San'er also secretly came to Luzhou, and told Zan Wanshou about Yu Xing's intentions in advance. As the founder of the "Firefox" network and the best spy of the Thunderbolt Army, Su San'er has provided a lot of high-value intelligence for the Thunderbolt Army in the past few years, but it has also aroused Yu Xing's suspicions.
In order to prevent being poisoned by Yu Xing, Ouyang Xuan ordered Su San'er and the people who might be exposed to wait for an opportunity to withdraw to Chongqing Mansion. This will be his last intelligence mission, after which he will serve in the Perak Army General Staff, where he will still be in charge of intelligence. Although Zan Wanshou is not much older than Yang Bangxian, he is more strategic and calm, after listening to Su San'er's information, he smiled and bowed to Yang Wen and said, "It seems that Uncle Lao Yang has to come forward to handle this matter."
Yu Dazhong is a man who does not know the height of the sky, he led his men to rush to the east gate of Shenjian City, but saw that the city gate was closed. Immediately, he took out the documents of the Sichuan Preparation Division, called Zan Wanshou's name, and said loudly that he wanted him to open the door. The soldiers guarding the city were willing to ignore him, but they only claimed that Lord Zan was not in the city, and that the Divine Arm City had been taken over by the Banzhou army, and if you wanted to enter the city, you needed a warrant from Lord Yang Bangxian of the Banzhou Army, but Lord Yang was not in the city. This answer formed a dead circle, making it clear that Yu Dazhong and others would not be allowed to enter the city, and Yu Dazhong was so angry that he scolded.
No matter how much you screamed, still no one opened the door. Annoyed, Yu Dazhong asked his men to climb the city wall, preparing to climb into the city and forcibly open the city gate. The sergeant defending the city was already scolded so uncomfortable that he saw that the other party was going to use force, so he immediately smashed the soldiers who climbed the wall with blue noses and swollen faces, and crawled away from the city gate.
Yu Dazhong actually knew that he should visit Zan Wanshou and Yang Wen first, and then discuss the matter of entering the city. The reason why he was so anxious to control Shenarm City was because he was worried about the money that Liu Cheng and his henchmen had saved over the years. Yu Dazhong was afraid that the red tape of handling the handover would delay the time, so that the people in the city would transfer the money.
It is simply wishful thinking that he can be greedy for money at will with just a piece of paper from the Sichuan Preparation and Construction Division, and take away the credit of other people's bloodshed, which is simply wishful thinking, at least in front of the Thunderbolt army. The Divine Arm City was taken by the Thunderbolt Army and the Banzhou Army from the hands of the Mongolian Army, and it was impossible to give it to others. As for the money that Yu Dazhong was thinking about, Zan Wanshou had already written to Ouyang Xuan, suggesting that the military-political joint conference use it for the post-war reconstruction of Luzhou.