Because it was also necessary to guard against Jin Ren and Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, Ye Tianlong could not take away the main force this time, so Ye Tianlong was ready to recruit and train some more militia troops to make up the number.

He didn't expect these temporarily recruited militiamen to help him charge into battle, but hoped that when he captured the cities in Fangla, those militiamen would be able to help him defend the cities, so that he could draw out all the regular soldiers for battle.

Fang La's territory was not small, and Ye Tianlong felt that at least 500,000 militia were needed to be enough, so he began to recruit troops in Tokyo City and the surrounding areas.

At the same time, he also sent Song Jiang back to Shandong to exterminate some small groups of thieves and rebels who had recently emerged there.

I have to say that Song Jiang took a large group of Liangshan heroes to deal with these small groups of thieves, and even because of his huge reputation in the green forest, many thieves surrendered directly when they heard that Song Jiang was coming.

So just one month later, Song Jiang successfully pacified the Shandong region, and at the same time, the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command not only did not decrease, but suddenly increased to more than 50,000 people.

These extra soldiers and horses are all composed of Song Jiang's incorporation of those thieves and rebels who voluntarily surrendered, which is still in the case of selecting the young and strong as much as possible, and eliminating the old and weak, otherwise Song Jiang can completely make the soldiers and horses swell to more than 100,000 in one fell swoop.

Seeing that Song Jiang was so effective, Ye Tianlong couldn't help but feel very pleased, and after the pacification of the Shandong region and the training of 500,000 militia was completed, the next step was naturally to conquer Fang La.

This time, Ye Tianlong transferred 200,000 regular soldiers, plus the 500,000 militia and 20,000 elites from Song Jiang, a total of 720,000 horses, for the attack on Fangla.

In order to show his face as much as possible in front of Ye Tianlong, the emperor, Song Jiang still personally brought the army over this time, preparing to fight with the army, and the remaining 30,000 horses in Liangshan were handed over by him to Zhiduoxing Wuyong, so that he could stay in Shandong, deter Xiaoxiao, and maintain the stability of this area.

Due to the last battle with the Jin army, the main force of the Jin army retreated decisively under the leadership of Wanyan Aguta, resulting in the Liangshan group led by Song Jiang not making any contributions. So this time, Song Jiang also specially asked to be the vanguard of the army.

Regarding Song Jiang's request, Ye Tianlong simply agreed, after all, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Fang La's command was far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Jin Army, and it was no problem for Song Jiang to lead those Liangshan heroes to be the vanguard.

In the original plot of "Water Margin", this Fang La was originally exterminated by Song Jiang and his brothers, although the casualties were a little higher.

And this time, Song Jiang received a large amount of sophisticated equipment supported by Ye Tianlong, so that his soldiers were armed to the teeth, and their combat power was much stronger than before.

Not long after Song Jiang led his army to set off, he encountered an enemy army on the edge of the Yangtze River.

At that time, Song Jiang was collecting fishing boats by the river to prepare to cross the river, but found that a Fang La army had crossed the Yangtze River and began to conquer the city here.

The two sides also met unexpectedly, and they happened to bump into each other on the riverside.

The number of this Fangla army was only more than 5,000 people, but in the face of the Liangshan army of more than 20,000 people, it took the initiative to attack.

This is mainly because the Fang La army has won many battles before, and those court officers and soldiers are completely crushed in the face of the rebel army.

This gave all the officers and men of Fang Lajun an illusion, that is, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court were vulnerable.

In fact, the so-called official troops that Fang Lajun dealt with some time ago were actually the Xiang army of the Great Song Dynasty.

In order to prevent these displaced people from running around and deteriorating public order in various places, and at the same time, in order to prevent these displaced people from finally being gathered together by ambitious people to rebel, the high-level leaders of the Great Song Dynasty made a special establishment of the Xiang Army, and gathered those displaced people to form a branch army.

And after becoming a Xiang Army, it doesn't mean that these homeless people have a good life, they are better called Xiang Army, but the ugly thing is actually that the court and the government do not have to pay wages for free coolies, building river embankments, escorting materials, and even dirty work such as mining and drying salt will be thrown to them to do.

And after doing so much work, the treatment of the Xiang army is very poor, and even the basic filling of the stomach can not be done, and every year many Xiang soldiers are exhausted, starved to death, or run away directly.

In this way, the so-called box army, how strong the combat effectiveness is, as long as it is an army with a little morale, no matter how poor the equipment is, it can defeat these box army soldiers.

At this time, the main general gave an order, and they all did not hesitate to charge the enemy one by one.

Song Jiang looked at the enemy soldiers who rushed over quickly with a howl as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and he couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart, thinking that the morale of the enemy army was very high!

However, after he took a closer look with a telescope, he found that although the morale of the enemy army was high, the equipment was very rudimentary, and the enemy army in front of him was equipped with less than a hundred soldiers with iron armor, and most of the other soldiers were only equipped with simple leather armor and cloth armor, and most of the equipment was spears, and the archers were only a few hundred people, and they all used low-level bows and arrows such as hunting bows, and there were no crossbowmen.

Looking at the enemy army with such poor equipment, Song Jiang suddenly didn't panic, and his legs didn't tremble, only to see his big hand wave, and suddenly more than 3,000 crossbowmen of the Liangshan army stepped forward one after another, and began to shoot crossbow arrows and arrows at those enemy troops.

As several rounds of arrows rained down, those Fangla soldiers suddenly suffered heavy losses, and more than a thousand people were killed at once.

In the face of such huge casualties, those soldiers of the Fang La Army, who were originally like being beaten with chicken blood, suddenly calmed down, did not dare to continue to charge forward, but began to retreat towards the rear.

However, at this time, the enemy's main general led dozens of cavalry under his command to stop those routs and quickly regrouped the formation.

Then the enemy commander in iron armor rode his horse to the front of the battle with a spear and shouted at the Liangshan army: "Will you only rely on the advantage of the bow and crossbow?" If you have the guts, come out and go one-on-one with Ben! ”

Song Jiang was not surprised at all when he saw this scene, after all, not long ago, the Liangshan Group under his command was also a grass-stage team like the other party, and the minions under his hands had low combat effectiveness, and most of the time they could not play a big role, in order to stimulate the morale of these minions, fighting generals became a very effective means, and when the battle formation was rushing, the role of those fierce generals was also very large, and it was often the breakthrough opened by these fierce generals. Therefore, Liangshan Group and Fangla Group attach great importance to those heroes with strong martial arts.

At this time, seeing that the enemy's main general took the initiative to ask for a one-on-one fight, Song Jiang felt that this guy should be a master, so he glanced at Qin Ming who was not far away, after all, Qin Ming was the strongest general under his command now, and for the sake of insurance, it was better to send the other party to fight.

After Qin Ming saw Song Jiang's eyes, he understood that the other party was going to take the lead by himself, and he just wanted to make more military achievements, so he immediately nodded knowingly, and then rushed out of the big formation with his mace and came to the enemy general.

"I am the thunderbolt Qin Ming, my subordinates do not kill the nameless, and the thief will report his name quickly!" After Qin Mingle stopped his war horse, he opened his mouth and shouted to the enemy general not far away.

The general of the Fang La army on the opposite side faced Qin Ming's loud voice, frowned, and then replied: "I am the Tai Sui God of the Twelve Gods of Jiangnan, Gao Keli!" Qin Ming, I have heard of your reputation as far away as Jiangnan, why do you want to be the eagle dog of this court and work for those faint kings and traitors? ”

"Shut up! Today's saints are wise and martial, but they are not the same as the faint monarchs and traitors of the Great Song Dynasty, they don't know the number of days, and they still want to resist the heavenly soldiers and rebel and make chaos, this is the way to kill themselves! I advise you to surrender early! When Qin Ming heard the other party say that the emperor he was serving for now was a faint monarch, he was immediately angry and retorted loudly.

After all, he Qin Ming is not blind, but he saw Ye Tianlong driving the expedition in person and repelling the army of the Jin Kingdom, how could such an emperor be a faint monarch!

And when Gao Keli saw Qin Ming's excited appearance, he smiled disdainfully, then raised the spear in his hand, pointed at Qin Ming and said, "You said I don't know the number of days, I want you to see who doesn't know the number of days today, look at the gun!" ”

Qin Ming saw that the other party's words had just fallen, so he rode his horse and rushed towards him, and when he rushed to a distance of about two meters in front of him, he stabbed him fiercely. So seeing this, Qin Ming hurriedly waved the mace in his hand and smashed it fiercely at the spear stabbed by the other party.

After a loud bang, not only was the spear stabbed by Gao Keli slammed away, but even the men and horses were shocked by the huge force transmitted from the weapon and retreated several steps.

Seeing that the other party was so vulnerable, Qin Ming immediately made up his mind, and the mace in his hand quickly swung out again and again.

Then Gao Keli barely supported three moves, and was smashed by Qin Ming with a stick, and the weapon flew out of his hand, and the tiger's mouth was completely cracked, and there was blood.

Before Gao Keli, who had lost his weapon, escaped, Qin Ming had already followed with a stick, knocking the opponent's Heavenly Spirit Cover and helmet together, and after falling off the horse, he was very miserable and bled to death.

Song Jiang was overjoyed when he saw that Qin Ming had killed the enemy general in three or two moves, and he couldn't help but praise loudly: "What a Qin Ming!" ”

And those soldiers of the Fangla Army, when they saw that their main general was actually stoned to death by the enemy generals so quickly, they couldn't help but have a big drop in morale.

Song Jiang was very keenly aware of this, so he immediately waved the command flag and ordered a general attack.

The soldiers of the Fangla army, who had lost their main general, were like a plate of scattered sand, and as soon as the Liangshan army rushed here, they were completely dispersed.

Because almost all of the Fangla soldiers were infantry, but the Liangshan army had more than 3,000 war horses provided by Ye Tianlong to form a cavalry unit, so relying on these cavalry, almost all the soldiers of the Fangla army who fled were captured.

Later, after some interrogation of these captives, Song Jiang learned that the army led by Gao Keli, the Tai Sui god, was sent by the Fang La army to cross the river to explore the way, and at this time, on the other side of the river, there were more than 200,000 troops had been assembled, and when Gao Keli found out the situation on the other side of the river, he would invade across the river on a large scale.