In early July, 30,000 reinforcements led by Lin Yong arrived in Yincheng.
In mid-July, the Eastern Route Army of Seventh Uncle Song Tong also captured Yingshang and Ruyin.
The siege of Gushi and Dingcheng has been formed.
Wei Nan of the West Route Army sent good news and destroyed Ruzhou City at the end of June, but the explosive packs had not yet been sent.
Wei Nan adopted the method of continuous strong attack, bombarding with artillery and throwing explosives continuously.
Jiang Gong finally couldn't bear it any longer and had no choice but to withdraw.
Now Wei Nan has stationed troops in Yingyang, and his troops are directed towards Luoyang.
Song Yang looked at the battle report and his face became more and more happy.
At this point in the war, the situation has become clear. The Luo Xin Group is in obvious decline and will be defeated soon.
Even if the traitor soldiers continue to retreat north, they will just linger.
"Every battle is going well. It seems that it is possible to achieve the set goals ahead of schedule!"
Song Yang said with satisfaction.
"Yes! The soldiers dare to fight and fight hard, and several generals are also commanding Ruoding. Beiding and central plains are just around the corner." Fang Zhe said with a smile.
"By the way. Chen Fu is a good boy! He actually defeated three thousand thieves and cavalry." Song Yang said with a smile, holding the battle report of Lin Yong and Chen Fu in his hand.
"This shows that our railway troops are also capable of fighting."
"Yes, yes! I will send a letter of commendation to Chen Fu soon. I guess he must have been looking forward to it these days!"
"Your Majesty still understands Mr. Chen."
Song Yang put down Chen Fu's message and said: "Chen Fu's engineering battalion has always been in the rear, and he had no chance to make military exploits. As a result, the traitors rushed to give him credit. According to Chen Fu's temperament, he should at least be happy.
Ten days and eight days!”
"Hahaha! Yes, yes, it is indeed his character."
The two chatted for a while about Chen Fu, and then Gongsun Qi came.
"Your Majesty, we captured more than a dozen defeated soldiers today! They all said they were deserters from the North. They no longer wanted to fight for the bandits and wanted to come and seek refuge with us. But I detained them all." Gongsun Qi said, cupping his fists.
"Haha. A dozen more? So I've caught almost a hundred in the past few days."
"Yes. Counting today's number, there are ninety-seven in total." Gongsun Qi knew it well.
"Okay. Then just keep them all locked up. There's no need to go through the trouble of screening them, and we can release them together when the war is over. We don't need them to help us fight the war, just be honest and don't cause any trouble."
Recently, there have been more and more bandits sneaking across the river in the North.
There are real defeated troops here, and there must also be thieves spying on them.
Song Yangcai didn't bother to distinguish them. As long as he was caught, he would lock them all up.
Those who have food and drink will be raised first and kept in prison until the end of the war!
"You have to watch carefully by the riverside. There have been several cases of spies causing trouble in Jiangzhou, Jiangxia and other places. Don't let them make too much noise."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. The patrols on the river have been intensified again, and the Minzhuang Team has also been organized to patrol the streets three times a day to ensure strict defense."
While talking, Ma Cheng also came.
In his hand was an urgent message from Jiang Ning.
"The letter from Prince Gao Junliang should be about the Tokyo Camp!"
"Oh? Take a look. There's been no news from them for a while."
Song Yang sat up straight.
The envelope is marked red, which must be a good thing.
Ma Cheng opened the letter and read out the contents.
Sure enough, this is good news.
It has been two months since the Tokyo Battalion was formed.
On the third day, he and Han Jin established a camp at Hu Douzhou.
And successfully annihilated the Mitarai family's fleet.
Seven ships of various types were seized.
Some prisoners were also captured.
From the mouths of those prisoners, I learned about the Mitarai family's base in the Okan coast.
On the third day, a clipper was immediately sent to investigate the area and determine the waterway to and from it.
And a sneak attack on the Mitarashi family's headquarters.
This one was quite fruitful, and a lot of treasures were grabbed.
At the same time, it was also confirmed from a petty leader of the Mitarai family that it was not the Mitarai family who robbed Song Yang's two treasure ships.
There are only two established Japanese pirates in the south, and it's not Mitarai, it must be the Koin family.
Although Sanri had a grudge against Mitarai, he had no intention of blaming the Mitarai family.
The three of them are already Song Yang's loyal servants, and they will naturally do their best to serve their master.
In order to investigate the hijacking of the treasure ship, Sanri has already started looking for traces of Xiao Quan's family.
But I don't have a clue yet.
According to the prisoners of the Mitarai family, the camp of the Koinu family, which competes with them, should be further south.
That area is currently beyond the scope of Tokyo Camp's exploration, so this letter also asks Song Yang to mobilize the power of the southern governments to find the base of the Xiaoquan family.
"They have performed well in the past three days. I will send them some food and wine as a reward."
"As for Xiaoquan's family...the south...leave this matter to my third uncle. I'll write him a letter later and ask him to investigate from the south."
Song Yang thought about it and said.
Although Jiangnan East Road directly governs the state capital, according to Sanri, Xiaoquan's family may have to go further south.
Lingnan Road is at the southernmost part of Daqian, so it would be more convenient for my third uncle Song Jing to handle this matter.
Lingnan Road has also developed well in recent years. With Song Yang's support, the Lingnan Renaissance Army has been established.
According to the standards of the Jiangzhou Renaissance Army, a standard Renaissance Army of 30,000 people was established.
It is also equipped with a thousand muskets and fifty tiger squatting cannons.
Song Yang still trusted his third uncle Song Jing.
After all, we are our own family.
Of course, the most advanced cannons and continuous fire guns are still in your own hands...
Song Jing is not idle now. Some time ago, the Fuxing Army went on the Northern Expedition, and Song Jing began the Western Expedition.
And the progress is going smoothly, and the area east of Longzhou and south of Yongzhou has been recovered.
There are only two or three groups of barbarians still entrenched in the western and northwest areas of Lingnan Road.
The letter reporting the victory on Lingnan Road was also sent to Jiangzhou a few days ago.
The situation this year is very good.
Everything is moving towards unification.
The armies from all directions advanced steadily.
There are still four months until Niangen. The main combat mission this year is to capture the three important towns of Luoyang, Xinyang and Xuzhou.
These three places are the three major cities where Luo Xin Group operates most.
As long as these three big cities are captured, the bandits will basically become rogues again.
At that time, their living space will be gradually reduced, and the Luo Xin Group should be completely eliminated next year.
The situation was as expected. In early August, under the encirclement of the Eastern Route Army and the Central Route Army, Gushi was defeated first, and then the city was captured.
Luo Xin led the defeated troops all the way back to Zhongshan.
Now Luo Xin only hopes to be able to withstand a wave of revival troops at Zhongshan, because behind Zhongshan is Xinyang.
On Yu Ming's side, they captured Gushi, and after securing the city, they stationed their troops at Luoshan.
Uncle Qi's Eastern Route Army turned northward.
Chenzhou, Luyi and other cities surrendered without a fight.
So far, the southeastern region of Henan Province and the entire Huainan Province had returned to Daqian, and were brought under the jurisdiction of Song Yang.
All the roads of the Northern Expedition were going smoothly, but some minor problems occurred on the Central Guizhou Road in the west.
In mid-August, Song Mao sent news that the Chenzhou Liu brothers and sisters had fallen out with Jiu An.