Chapter 1363 If ??there is bone and blood to escape, it will be your favor
It turned out that the letter reported that Fang La, who had occupied 25 counties in eight states including She, Mu, Hang, Su, Chang, Hu, and Xuan, was eager to quickly conquer the entire Jiangnan area, and ordered Fang Qifu to lead 60,000 rebel troops to attack Xiuzhou. However,
However, they encountered the Eastern Route Army led by General Wang Zhen to attack the Song Army. Fang Qifu was defeated and had to retreat to Hangzhou. The Song Army took advantage of the situation and approached Hangzhou. Fang La personally resisted. However, due to the lack of food and reinforcements, the Manichaeans had no choice but to retreat to Hangzhou.
They were forced to evacuate. In the ensuing battle near Hangzhou, Fang La's troops were defeated by Wang Zhen. From then on, the situation of the Manichaean uprising took a turn for the worse. The Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and the elite Western Army under the command of Tong Guan were strategically
Gain a suppressive upper hand.
Tong Guan also dispatched Yang Keshi, Liu Zhen and other generals together with Wang Zhen to successively capture Shezhou, Muzhou and other areas where Manichaeans were most densely populated before Fangla's uprising. When he first drove out the weak imperial troops in various military states in the south of the Yangtze River,
, the Manichaeans, and the rebels in various places were like wolves and tigers, invincible. However, these battles were all based on the momentum of the soldiers and horses. When they met the few elite troops of the Song Dynasty, they were in turn invincible by the enemy.
The overwhelming momentum caused the Manichaeans to retreat one after another. The Western armies marched to the south of the Yangtze River, which immediately turned the battle situation upside down, and allowed Xiao Tang to be roughly sure that there would be no more changes in the collapse of Fangla's uprising.
Now the three naval divisions of the Hengjiang Army commanded by Zhejiang Silong, the Fubo Army commanded by Xu Dadao and Xu Wen, and the Baihe Army commanded by Wei Zhaode have sailed large and small ships, passed through the sea, and headed south by waterway.
Naturally, the two large villages in Baiyun Mountain and Wuyi Mountain were always paying attention to the war situation and were already prepared to evacuate at any time. After the incident, the general strategic development direction has been finalized, and Xiao Tang will never be involved.
In the mud pit of the Jiangnan war situation.
However, during this period, Fang La also sent envoys to the stronghold to negotiate. Compared with the previous Manichaeism, it seems that the Xiaotang uprising was louder than the thunder and light raindrops, so they did not dare to invade the state and seize the county. They only dared to occupy a few strongholds to stay safe and looked down upon them.
attitude, now when Manichae asks to cooperate with Xiao Tang again, it seems that he is begging for help, and he is very anxious.
Fang La's counselor Chen Houtong repeatedly sent messages to state the dangers, to the effect that he asked Xiao Tang to send troops to invade the state capitals in the area south of Jingdong Road, and then seize the Huaiyang Army (today's Gupi Town, Suining, Jiangsu) to advance.
Huainan East Road and the tiger occupies the north of the Yangtze River. This can contain the Western armies that are conquering Manichaeism, and the north and south can coordinate and restrain the official army from destroying their own troops. Otherwise, Xiao Tang and Fang La will jointly rise up against the imperial court.
If Fang La dies, the Song court's only real concern will be Xiao Tang's rebellion. If the conquest army is allowed to defeat them one by one, it will be difficult to save the soldiers and horses led by Xiao Tang...
Chen Houtong's lobbying words were reasonable and well-founded, but of course they could not scare Xiao Tang, who understood the direction of official history.
In addition, there was a message from the Manichaeans who were eager to get support from Xiao Tang's army: they hoped that Xiao Tang's confidant leader Chai Jin could marry Fang La's daughter Fang Jinzhi. They had originally joined forces to resist the tyranny of the Song Dynasty. Now,
It is just right to form a good alliance between Qin and Jin.
But according to Xiao Tang's thinking, Fang La's previous attitude in betrothing his daughter to Chai Jin should have been as if he was on the stronger side to recruit a wife that his daughter likes, and as the dragon's son and grandson of the Chai family, Zhimo can also send
A son-in-law of some use. But now that the situation is so urgent, the Manichaeans are anxiously looking forward to begging the confidant leader among the alliance forces to become their uncle, and try their best to appeal to Xiao Tang to agree to send troops.
Rescue, saving Fang La and his gang from being wiped out and destroyed.
Fang La, compared to how arrogant and arrogant he was in the past, pretending to be a guide to the country, is now in a critical situation, and naturally he no longer cares about his face...
Xiao Tang sneered in his heart, and then looked at Chai Jin who nodded in response. He originally thought that he would not have to be recruited by the court like Song Jiang and lead his troops to conquer La La in the south of the Yangtze River. As for the original work, the Liangshan Army sent Chai Jin as an internal response, but The drama of being recruited by Fang La as his son-in-law, and then causing Chai Jin and the Song army to cooperate inside and outside to break the Qingxi Gangyuan Cave should not happen again, but Xiao Tang discovered at this time that there was still some fate between Chai Jin and Fang Jinzhi... ..Perhaps, it can only be said to be a bad fate.
In the book, the day Fang Jinzhi learned about Chai Jin's true identity was also the day when Fang La's family failed in their rebellion, and all relatives and children were about to be tortured and executed. Fang Jinzhi was betrayed by her husband again, and she had no choice but to She chose to hang herself to death, and she was also a poor woman who died because of the cruel reality.
However, from the beginning, Chai Jin wanted to reduce the casualties of his sworn brothers. He was not afraid of the danger of his life and infiltrated into Manichaeism as an internal agent. However, he was appreciated by Fang La and recruited him as his son-in-law. This incident is also the beginning of Chai Jin in the original work. It was unexpected, so even if he stabbed Fang La hard in the back, he couldn't say that this little Xuanfeng was a ungrateful person. But now that Chai Jin and Fang Jinzhi have become friends, I don't know what he thinks of Fang La. The daughter of a wealthy man?
Xiao Tang finished thinking in his mind, and then asked Chai Jin: "But from what the Manichaeans said, it seems that before the current war crisis, Fang Lan's beloved daughter had a crush on brother Chai Jin. Jiangnan Mani If the religious uprising is put down by the Western Army, Fang La's family will be overthrown, and there will be no eggs left...Since Fang La's daughter Fang Jinzhi once showed her kindness to you, I don't know, brother, what do you think? "
After hearing this, the hesitation in Chai Jin's eyes flashed away. Immediately, his face straightened and he said seriously: "Even if Fang La's daughter and I know each other, we are not married yet. My brother and the other brothers have already planned the overall situation." We have decided on a strategy. If we interfere in the Jiangnan war and cause trouble, it will also disrupt my brother's overall plan. Now I am determined to accomplish big things. I am not a little boy who is uneasy and uneasy because of the love between his children. How can I be a man in the world? How can I forget my roots because of women? I have caused unnecessary casualties to all my brothers and the troops in the village, so how am I, Chai Jin, any different from an animal?"
Xiao Tang only hesitated for a moment and thought to himself: Listening to Chai Jin's words, it turns out that he also has some affection for Fang Jinzhi, but it is true that the relationship between Fang La and me is not good yet. To put it bluntly, they are just hoping that the other party will make a loud noise to distract the imperial court's conquest troops and make use of each other. Therefore, regardless of the life and death of Fang La, Fang Jinzhi and even other leaders of Manichaeism, compared with Our army’s trial planning must indeed focus on the overall situation...
After a moment of silence in the Juyi Hall, Xiao Tang made up his mind and suddenly said: "... Go to the two brothers Pang Wanchun and Shi Bao and send another flying pigeon message, saying that if there are still Manichaean envoys Go and send a message to ask us to send troops, so don't pay attention. The two villages in Baiyun Mountain and Wuyi Mountain are not far from the seaside. Now, the officers and soldiers who are taking advantage of the expedition against Manichaeism in the south of the Yangtze River are only focused on suppressing and capturing Fangla, the leader of the bandit, and are waiting for Hengjiang, Baihe, and Fubo. When the three navy armies arrived at the shore of the East China Sea, they ordered the two armies to separate and carefully avoid being hunted by the police. They abandoned the stronghold and took boats, bringing all the soldiers and their families in the stronghold to join them...
Although there is no need to intervene in the war in the south of the Yangtze River, we cannot save a large number of defeated soldiers. However, if Fang La has a small family or a defeated Manichaean general surrenders during the evacuation of Baiyun Mountain and Wuyi Mountain, we can still save them.
We boarded the ship to avoid disaster. Although Fang La and I raised troops to fight against the imperial court, our plans were completely different. But it was indeed only because he led the Manichaeans to launch an attack in the south of the Yangtze River that we were able to involve the elite of the Western Army and teach us how to kill them.
After defeating the officers and soldiers led by the old thief Gao Qiu, they can rest for a while, and there is room for maneuver in planning... Now Fang La will undoubtedly be destroyed, whether his flesh and blood, or his confidants, if he can be rescued in an all-round way,
Taking a few lives can be regarded as a favor that I can repay him."
