Chapter 201: Expedition (5)

Seeing that they had fallen into a desperate situation, some generals who didn't want to die in vain suggested to the Seed Master Dao that it would be better to surrender to the Jin Kingdom or Western Xia like the Fold family.

It turned out that before the invasion of the Jin State, the Zhejia Army, as an army on the border with the Western Army, could not resist the Jin people, and even his hometown was captured by the Jin people, so he had no choice but to surrender to the Jin State.

In order to attract more Song ministers to surrender, the Jin people did not embarrass the Folded Family, and let them continue to lead the original Folded Army.

Now these generals feel that if they lead them to surrender, they will at least be able to save a small life, so that they will not be trapped and die in Xingqing Mansion like this.

However, the seed master can be said to be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, even if he is facing a desperate situation now, he refuses to follow the advice of his subordinates to surrender to the Western Xia and Jin States, but instead directly beheads the generals who persuaded him to surrender.

After the master Dao decisively killed several surrender generals, on the surface, the military spirit in Xingqing Mansion was stable, but in fact, the soldiers in the city knew very well in their hearts that if the emperor did not send reinforcements, their situation would not change in essence, and when Xingqing Mansion really couldn't hold it, they might not be able to take care of any loyalty, and they could only surrender to the Xixia people in order to save their lives.

And at the same time that the seed master Dao led tens of thousands of remnants of the Western Army in Xingqing Mansion to resist the onslaught of the Western Xia people, Ye Tianlong's side finally captured the city wall of Hangzhou City after five or six days of strong attack, and began to enter the city to engage in fierce street battles with the enemy.

After all, this Hangzhou city is the base camp of the Fang La army, so their behavior of harming the people here is still somewhat restrained, so the people in Hangzhou have not completely separated from the Fang La army, so that they can still retreat into the city for street fighting after the city wall is captured.

However, the soldiers of the Qinglong Empire are higher than the soldiers of the Fang La Army in terms of equipment and cultivation, so even if the Fang La Army relies on the complex terrain in the city to fight street battles, it is still completely at a disadvantage, and its living space is being compressed by the enemy step by step, and it is estimated that in a few days, it will be completely compressed to the point that there is no way to escape.

Fang Tianding also felt very desperate about this, in the fierce battles of these days, he could be regarded as having seen the strength of the Blue Dragon Empire's army with his own eyes, especially the black guy among them, which made him particularly impressed, even if the other enemy generals were powerful, but after fighting for a long time, they would be tired. But the black-faced man with a double axe was like a humanoid beast, not only fierce in the process of fighting, but also as if he would not feel tired, the longest time the guy fought for a whole day, and one person killed more than 3,000 soldiers under his command.

Now there are only more than 40,000 soldiers left under his command, and most of the generals under his command have been lost, among which even the four generals have already lost Shi Bao, the general of Nanli, and as for those deputy generals, they have lost a full thirteen people, namely Li Tianyou, Wu Zhi, Tang Fengshi, Wang Ji, Yuan Xing, Yao Yi, Cui Yu, Lian Ming, Zhang Tao, Su Jing, Mi Quan, Bei Yingkui and Feng Yi.

Of the remaining eleven lieutenant generals, several of them were also seriously injured, and they did not have much combat effectiveness at all.

What made Fang Tianding desperate the most was that he hadn't seen a single reinforcement arrive until now, as if they had been half abandoned, and they could only fight alone here.

What Fang Tianding didn't know was that in fact, there were several waves of reinforcements these days, but they were all wiped out by Ye Tianlong's troops who were ambushed on the road in advance, and they had already killed about 150,000 enemy troops, and the enemy generals also killed five members, namely Wu Sheng, Bai Qin, Cheng Gui, the head of the Jade Claw Dragon, Xie Fu and Wu Yingxing, the right deputy head of Xizhu Dragon. In addition, three enemy generals were captured alive, namely Xiaoyang Youji Pang Wanchun, Jiang Yin and Xiahou Cheng.

As a result, because Fang Tianding was young and knowledgeable, he thought that he had been given up by his father! So today, when Ye Tianlong routinely went to persuade him to surrender before the attack, the prince of Wu actually came out with a white flag and surrendered.

Ye Tianlong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately sent people to receive these surrendered enemy troops.

Among these surrendered enemy troops, those ordinary soldiers actually didn't look down on Ye Tianlong at all, and many of them had to be eliminated from the army later, but among those generals, there were really several fierce generals!

Among them, the strongest ones are naturally Deng Yuanjue, the national teacher of Baoguang Rulai, Li Tianyan, the general of the Zhenguo, and Si Xingfang, the general of the protector of the country. There are also eleven deputy generals, namely Zhao Yi, Huang Ai, Chao Zhong, Xue Dounan, Leng Gong, Zhang Jian, Wen Kerang, Mao Di, Wang Ren, Xu Bai and Zhang Daoyuan.

After taking Hangzhou City, Fang Lajun can be said to have gone to the general trend, and then Ye Tianlong's march was much calmer. After three days of repairing in Hangzhou, we continued to set off. As for the city of Hangzhou, 50,000 militiamen were also left to garrison.

After marching for more than two days, the army arrived at Dusong Pass, where there were originally 30,000 defenders and three guards, but one of the enemy generals, Wu Sheng, went to Hangzhou with 10,000 soldiers and horses to support, but not only was all the soldiers and horses under his command annihilated, but he was also killed on the spot by Dong Ping, a two-gun general.

So now there are only 20,000 defenders and two enemy generals left in this Dusong Pass, and these two enemy generals are Jiang Yin and Wei Heng respectively according to the time of the investigation, and the force value is not high, that is, the level of third-rate generals.

After learning of this situation, Ye Tianlong first sent people to persuade him to surrender, if he could successfully persuade him to surrender again, it would also prevent the two sides from continuing to fight and increase casualties.

Perhaps because he had already learned that the crown prince Fang Tianding had surrendered, coupled with the fact that Dusong Pass had a small number of soldiers, he had no chance of winning in the face of the army of the Qinglong Empire, so Jiang Yin and Wei Heng simply surrendered after discussing it.

Ye Tianlong was also very happy to see these two people so familiar with current affairs, and personally met with these two generals, telling them that as long as they worked well for the Blue Dragon Empire in the future, then all kinds of rewards were absolutely indispensable.

After leaving 20,000 militia garrisons at Dusong Pass, Ye Tianlong led the army to continue to advance, and soon entered the territory of Muzhou, where there was an extremely dangerous terrain of Wulong Ridge, where the Liangshan army suffered heavy losses in the original plot. So Ye Tianlong sent several partial divisions to attack other county seats, and he himself led the main army to attack this Wulong Ridge.

Because many cities have been captured before, there are also many enemy generals gathered in this Oolong Ridge, including Jingde, Zhai Yuan, deputy chief of Jinlanlong, Qiao Zheng, Bao Daoyi, Zheng Biao, Tan Gao and others, and more than 60,000 soldiers and horses.

In order to be able to capture this Oolong Ridge, Ye Tianlong sent a lot of soldiers recruited from the territory of the original Rhodok Kingdom, these soldiers have grown up in the mountains, and in this kind of terrain, they can be said to be on the ground and can exert the strongest combat effectiveness.

Before the war, Ye Tianlong also sent people to persuade him to surrender as usual, but those who were able to escape all the way here were some diehards, and there were no ones who wanted to surrender at all, and there were even people who wanted to shoot the soldiers who came to persuade them to surrender, but fortunately, the soldiers fled quickly, so they didn't lose their lives.

Seeing that these guys were so ignorant, Ye Tianlong immediately launched a fierce attack on Wulong Ridge, and even sent out those high-level troops that were rarely used before.

In the end, after five days of fierce fighting, Ye Tianlong finally completely wiped out this group of enemy troops entrenched on the Oolong Ridge and was able to continue to advance.

This time it didn't take long to advance, and there was another checkpoint in front of the army, this checkpoint was called Yuling Pass, which was the last barrier of Fang La's army, because after breaking through this checkpoint, the enemy army could kill Fang La's hometown Qingxi County.

So there are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in this checkpoint, including five generals, namely Lei Jiong, Ji Ji, Emperor Uncle Wang Fang Yuan, Shangshu Wang Yin and Squire Gao Yu.

As a result, Ye Tianlong easily captured this checkpoint without much effort, because Shi Qian, who arrived here in advance, ventured into contact with the original two guards of this Yuling Pass, Lei Jiong and Ji Ji, and persuaded the two to join the Blue Dragon Empire.

These two people probably also felt that Fang La's army was losing and retreating, and most of the territory was occupied by the Qinglong Empire, and the Wu State established by Fang La should not exist for a few days, so they accepted the persuasion of Shi Qian and secretly took refuge in the Qinglong Empire.

After Ye Tianlong's army arrived at Yuling Pass, the two immediately launched a mutiny with their own soldiers and horses, among which the emperor's uncle Wang Fang Yuan was killed on the spot, and Shangshu Wang Yin and the squire Gao Yu were injured and captured.

After capturing Yuling Pass, Ye Tianlong left 20,000 militiamen to garrison here, and then went non-stop to Fang La's hometown of Qingxi County.

As a result, when Ye Tianlong arrived in Qingxi County, Fang Lajun still heard the wind and fled in time, after all, this is Fang La's hometown, and the Fang family has a lot of power here, so many people will be willing to give them a message.

"Retreat to Bangyuan Cave! Keep chasing me, I don't believe they can keep running! ”

After asking where Fang Lajun fled, Ye Tianlong led the army to continue the pursuit, and finally it took only two days to chase in front of Bangyuan Cave.

It is said that there are more than 50,000 elites of Fang La's army here, in addition to Fang La, there are also Fang Jie, Du Wei, Lou Minzhong, Zu Shiyuan, Pu Wenying, He Conglong and Fang Baihua.

Before and after Ye Tianlong led the troops to the Gangyuan Cave, he routinely sent people to persuade him to surrender, but unfortunately the soldiers shouted for a long time and did not see any response from the Gangyuan Cave.

The other party's closed-door attitude also angered Ye Tianlong, these are all a group of desperate thieves, and he is still pretending to be with him, he is not used to this kind of person.

So he immediately sent people to collect a lot of firewood and grass around, and then sent the soldiers with loud voices to shout into the Bangyuan cave: "Fang La, if you hide in the cave and don't come out, we will set fire to it, and when the time comes, we will burn you all alive inside." ”

After hearing this shout, there was finally movement in the source cave, first a team of heavy armored infantry of about 1,000 people opened the way, and then Fang La led the last few generals under his command to ride war horses out of the source cave.

Ye Tianlong looked at this Fang La curiously, and found that the other party had a face with Chinese characters, and his face was not angry and arrogant, so it was no wonder that he was able to pull up such a large number of rebel troops in such a short time. It's a pity that his ability and vision are still a little lacking after all, after the uprising has just made some achievements, he began to be complacent, and he founded the country and became the emperor early, and his control over his soldiers was also rapidly reduced, resulting in many Fangla soldiers in various places began to unscrupulously oppress the people, resulting in the original rebel army quickly becoming bandits, and completely lost the hearts of the people.