Chapter 209: Conquering Fang La (3)
Several other Jiangnan gods saw the leopard tail god and Tong and the god of mourning, one was shot through the chest by an arrow, and the other was smashed by a flying stone and his face was covered with blood, and he died of pain after falling off the horse, and they all felt bad, and they couldn't help but retreat in their hearts.
However, at this time, Dong Ping, the double spear general, Suo Chao, the golden gunner, Xu Ning, the nine-pattern dragon Shi Jin, the sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, the walker Wu Song, and the prodigal son Yanqing and others quickly arrived, and entangled those enemy generals to death, so that they had no chance to escape at all.
Xiao Li Guanghuarong and Zhang Qing of the feather arrows kept firing arrows and flying stones in the rear, so the twelve gods of Jiangnan not only had to resist the attack of the enemy generals in front of them, but also had to be careful of these hidden arrows, and one would be hit if he was not careful.
In less than three minutes, the twelve gods of Jiangnan were killed by six people, namely the six Ding God Xu Tong, the thunderbolt god Zhang Jinren, the giant spirit god Shen Ze, the Taibai god Zhao Yi, the hanging guest god category, and the yellow banner god Zhuo Wanli.
Among the remaining three, the Dunjia God Ying Ming was also injured a lot, and the Heavenly God Shen Gang and the You Yi God Pan Wende protected him and wanted to escape, but at this time, many Liangshan masters had already surrounded them, and the three of them gathered hundreds of personal soldiers under their command and rushed several times but failed to rush out, and the Heavenly God Shen Gang was even attacked by Yan Qing with a crossbow, and was shot in the right shoulder, and the weapons in his hands were all taken off and fell.
At the same time, the assault team led by the black whirlwind Li Kui also entered the enemy's infantry array, which was really like a whirlwind, turning the enemy's infantry array upside down in an instant, with casualties everywhere. As Li Kui and the others went deeper and deeper, the enemy's infantry formation was about to collapse completely.
Whether it is a fighting general or a fighting soldier, they are all defeated, and they see that there is no chance of turning the tables at all, so in desperation, the three of Qingtian God Shen Gang, You Yi God Pan Wen and Dunjia God Ying Ming can only surrender to Song Jiang.
With the surrender of the three remaining Jiangnan Twelve Gods, many of those soldiers of the Fangla Army also surrendered, and some fled.
Because Ye Tianlong had told Song Jiang in advance not to kill those enemy soldiers who surrendered casually, after all, these were actually Han Chinese. Therefore, Song Jiang simply accepted the surrender of these enemies, and sent people to help treat those wounded enemy soldiers.
After the final count, there were as many as 100,000 soldiers of the Fangla army who surrendered, and 50,000 or 60,000 of the Fangla soldiers who were killed on the spot, and the remaining 100,000 all fled.
After dealing with these prisoners, Song Jiang continued to march with his army, and soon arrived at Runzhou City.
This was originally the base camp of Nalu Shinang, but at this time, because of the rout of the army, the troops were empty, and the soldiers of the Fangla army in the city saw the arrival of the enemy army, so they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and left, allowing Song Jiang to easily occupy the city.
Subsequently, Song Jiang left 5,000 men and horses to guard Runzhou City, and he continued to march and arrived in Dantu County.
Because he heard that the enemy's army was pressing the border, Fang La also immediately sent his general Xing Zheng to Dantu County for reinforcements.
As a result, it happened to collide with the army led by Song Jiang. Because there were not many generals under Xing Zheng's command, and the number of troops was only more than 20,000, he was not the opponent of the Liangshan army led by Song Jiang at all, and he was quickly defeated, and he was killed on the spot by Suo Chao, the urgent vanguard.
At this time, Ye Tianlong led the main army to rush over, and after hearing about Song Jiang's series of victories, he felt very relieved, and then he left 20,000 and 5,000 militiamen in Narunzhou City and Dantu County respectively to defend the city, and then joined forces with Song Jiang to kill the Suzhou City.
The lord of this Suzhou city is Fang La's third brother - the three kings Fang Maung, and there are eight generals under his command, including Liu Yun, the general of the flying dragon, Zhang Wei, the general of the flying tiger, Xu Fang, the general of the flying leopard, Guo Shiguang, the general of the flying leopard, Wu Fu, the general of Feiyun, Gou Zheng, the general of Feishan, Zhen Cheng, and the general of Feishui, and the defenders of the city are as many as 200,000, which can be said to be a wide range of generals.
At this time, Fang Maung had also learned the news that the enemy army had quickly captured Runzhou City and Dantu County, and knew that the enemy army was menacing and should not be careless.
So he faced the army that had already killed the city of Suzhou, and he had been closed, and he was resolutely not going out of the city to fight with the enemy like that Lu Shibao.
Faced with this situation, Ye Tianlong had no good way, so he could only let people build siege equipment and prepare for a strong attack, and on the other hand, let Song Jiang and Lu Junyi lead 10,000 horses and horses respectively to attack Xiuzhou and Huzhou.
There are not many defenders in these two places, there are only five or six thousand, and the guards are Duan Kai and Gong Wen respectively, their strength is mediocre, and they are not masters.
Therefore, it only took Song Jiang and Lu Junyi one day to easily capture these two cities, but it took three or four days to hurry.
And Ye Tianlong's side finally succeeded in killing the city wall of Suzhou City after a few days of fierce attacks at this time.
Wu Song and Lu Zhishen, the two masters of foot combat, took the lead, wearing heavy armor, and climbed the city wall first under the dense rain of arrows and stones of the enemy, and then these two people relied on their natural divine power, frantically waving the weapons in their hands, and stubbornly withstood the siege of a large number of enemy troops, buying precious time for other soldiers to ascend the city.
And as a large number of heavy infantry also successfully climbed the city wall, the soldiers on the side of the Fangla army were quickly defeated and retreated.
Seeing this, Fang Xiang immediately led his eight fierce generals to kill him, preparing to personally block the enemy's attack.
Seeing this, Ye Tianlong immediately sent out most of the masters under his command, especially Lin Chong, who was the first to join his command, at this time he already had a congenital double cultivation, at this time after climbing the city wall with a steel gun more than two meters long, the steel gun in his hand immediately bloomed into the sky The shadow of the gun, the three kings Fang Xiang was only barely blocked in front of him and was repulsed, if it weren't for the flying bear general Xu Fang and the flying leopard general Guo Shiguang around him desperately covering, I am afraid that Fang Xiang would be killed by Lin Chong on the spot.
After the frightened Fang Xiang retreated under the cover of his subordinates, he still wanted to continue to increase his troops to the death, but he suddenly found that the city was suddenly on fire, and a group of enemy troops were leading a large number of people to attack the mansion.
And the leader of this group of fine works is the drum flea Shi Qian who lurked into Suzhou City early, although this is also a veteran of the Qinglong Empire, although he is not good at fighting head-on, but relying on that superb light skill, it can be said that there is almost no place that he cannot sneak into.
And under Ye Tianlong's orders, Shi Qian even found a team of special forces with good skills, who were responsible for spying on enemy intelligence, or infiltrating enemy cities to assassinate enemy generals and create riots.
At this time, Shi Qian seized the opportunity and decisively led his subordinates to set fire to the chaos in Suzhou City.
Speaking of which, this Fang La is indeed not angry, when he first started the uprising, he was indeed in line with the will of the people, after all, at that time, the Jiangnan region was already angry and resentful of the Song Dynasty Huizong Zhao Ji's Hua Shi Gang, even many rich families were not spared, and they were often forcibly broken into their homes by Zhu Mian and his gang to rob money and strange stones.
At this time, Fang La shouted from the heights, raised troops to rebel, and killed Zhu Mian and his gang in Jiangnan as soon as possible, which can indeed be said to be extremely popular with the people, otherwise the army under his command would not have swelled to this extent in a short period of time.
As far as Ye Tianlong knew, in the month he trained the militia, Fang La's soldiers and horses had already exceeded one million, and there were dozens of generals.
Perhaps it was because the power swelled too fast, causing Fang La's army to float from top to bottom, and Fang La himself directly registered in Hangzhou as the emperor, claiming to be the Holy Prince, and Jianyuan Yongle.
When the soldiers under Fang La's command saw that they had all founded the country, they also regarded themselves as the founding heroes, and they quickly became corrupt one by one, indulging in enjoyment, and many soldiers directly began to oppress the people, frantically looting the people's fat and ointment, causing the people in the Jiangnan region to suffer another round of catastrophe.
As a result, Fang La's army began to lose the support of the people quickly, and the people in many places were even more looking forward to the imperial army being able to fight over as soon as possible and rescue them from the hands of Fang La, the devil.
The situation in Suzhou City is similar, the people have long hated Fang La's army, so much so that Shi Qian easily contacted a force of thousands of people in Suzhou City, and many people took the initiative to join his subordinates, making it so powerful when he shot today, and Fang Xiang was stunned all of a sudden.
After being surprised, Fang Xiang immediately sent troops to suppress the rebellious people in the city, but at this time, Ye Tianlong outside the city also had a very tacit understanding with Shi Qian to increase the intensity of the attack, making many city walls almost completely lost.
This situation forced Fang Maung to devote all his forces to fighting the enemy on the city walls, and there were no more troops to suppress the chaos in the city.
Shi Qian saw that no one came to deal with them, and after capturing the government of Suzhou City, he quickly seized the granary of Fang La's army in the city, and then killed all the way to the west city gate, opened the city gate, and let the friendly troops outside the city smoothly enter the city, and then completely controlled the four city walls in his hands by attacking from both sides.
When Fang Xiang saw that the western gate and city walls were completely lost, and that a large number of enemy troops were rapidly pouring into the city, he immediately knew that the city could not stand it.
If it was the beginning when Fang La's army was still popular with the people, Fang Maung might be able to scatter his troops around the city to fight street battles with the enemy.
But now that the reputation of the Fang La Army has become extremely stinky, once the soldiers of the Fang La Army want to hide in those houses and fight with the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire, those people will probably take the initiative to report to the side of the Green Dragon Empire, making the soldiers under his command have no place in the city at all.
"Damn! Let's withdraw! Go to Hangzhou City to ask for help from the Holy Father! ”
After hearing the retreat order issued by Fang Maung, the other soldiers of Fang Lajun breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly escorted Fang Maung and retreated to Hangzhou.
But how could Ye Tianlong let the enemy easily carry away, after he found that Fang Maung led tens of thousands of Fang La troops to abandon the city, he immediately sent more than 20,000 cavalry to chase him down.
Due to the location of Fang Lajun in the south, coupled with the fact that Zhao Ji of Huizong of the Song Dynasty let his traitorous ministers make a mess of the horse politics of the Great Song Dynasty, the number of horses in the Great Song Dynasty was greatly reduced. Therefore, even if Fang La's army has laid down such a large territory, the cavalry under its command does not exceed 10,000, and there are only more than 3,000 light cavalry under this Fang Xiang, which is far inferior to the cavalry of the Qinglong Empire in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness.