Qiming 1158

Chapter 1030 We have been on the road
Zhao Yucheng marched westward with excitement, and by the way ordered a navy to advance to the port north of Dehua County, to capture the last Southern Song military port, destroy the nearby Southern Song navy, and cut off the passage of this Song army. Possibility of escape by water.

On March [-]th, Zhang Xiaohu's vanguard arrived outside Dehua County. He led his army to sweep the Song Army military strongholds outside Dehua County. He found that these military strongholds were not reliable, and most of the defenders had no will to fight, and they were destroyed at a touch. .

Soon, Zhang Xiaohu leveled the Song army facilities around Dehua County, and then immediately marched westward according to Zhao Yucheng's order, quickly captured Matou Garrison, and defended this important point.

At the same time, Zhao Yucheng also led the peasant army to arrive outside Dehua County, surrounded Dehua County on three sides, and began to prepare to attack the city.

On March 30, when Zhao Yucheng led the army to attack the city, the peasant army sailed straight to the Dehua military port in the early morning, destroying and capturing more than [-] Song army warships in the port.

So far, the Song Army's inland rivers, the patrols of the Jiangzhong Naval Division, and the battle fleet in the Jiujiang area have been wiped out, and the peasant army has gained control of the Yangtze River system in this section.

Then the peasant army navy division marched westward and arrived at Matou Garrison, where they cooperated with Zhang Xiaohu's troops to blockade this section of the Yangtze River waterway to prevent the Ezhou army that might attack before the army captured Dehua county.

However, Zhao Yucheng and Zhang Xiaohu were obviously thinking too much about this.

On March [-], Zhou Yun's request for help was sent to Ezhou and to Wang Shun. Wang Shun was shocked when he learned that the peasant army had initiated a war.

"The bandit army took the initiative to attack the Jiujiang army? Is there such a thing?"

"This is absolutely true! And the number of thieves is very large. Zhou Tongzhi needs Wang Tongzhi's help very much. Otherwise, once the Jiujiang army is defeated, the thieves will inevitably attack Ezhou. At that time, how can the Ezhou army be immune? Also ask Wang Tongzhi to send troops to help. !"

Wang Shun hesitated for a while, then nodded slowly.

"Okay, I understand, I will immediately arrange the army to support, you go back immediately and tell Zhou Tongzhi, please stick to it and don't give up!"

"Thank you Wang Tongzhi!"

The messenger was very grateful and immediately set off back to Dehua under the protection of the cavalry arranged by Wang Shun.

After the messenger left, Wang Shun did not immediately arrange troops to support Zhou Yun, but thought of another thing.

How could the peasant army suddenly initiate war on its own initiative?

Shouldn't they be on the defensive side?

Why did you suddenly take the initiative to attack?
And it sounds like they have a lot of troops, so that Zhou Yun can't fight independently, and he needs to send troops to support them to fight the peasant army.

How did the peasant army suddenly become so strong?
Wang Shun thought about the current situation, and thought of the new army that was not strong at present.

A team has just formed an army for several months and has been trained for several months. Some soldiers have not yet mastered the method of cooperating with the army, and even weapons cannot be used sparingly.

Especially the archers, the crossbowmen are easy to train, and the archers are really not good at fighting in the army for two or three years.

But the problem is that he now has a lot of ordinary longbows, but he is very lacking in strong crossbows and divine arm bows.

Although some weapons were supplied by bribing Ezhou officials, the number of important strong crossbows and divine arm bows was still very small, so the current Ezhou army was facing an extreme shortage of long-range shooting power.

He told the Privy Council about this kind of thing long before he led the army to Ezhou to garrison, but the Privy Council was indifferent to it, just told him that there must be a way to the front of the mountain, and there would be a solution in Ezhou.

Then Wang Shun found out...

Before the car reaches the mountain, there must be a way - a dead end.

He expects the supplementary ordnance to become a means for the local bureaucrats to earn extra money.

A group of recruits who couldn't even form an army formation quickly, and a total of less than [-] archers and crossbowmen, this was his army of [-].

But despite this, as a general with professional qualities, Wang Shun still did not despair.

If he was given another year, he would have a certain confidence that he would be able to pull up a more regular army with certain combat effectiveness.

He will work hard to train the army to make it more professional, more effective and able to win battles.

But at the moment, his army is just pretending, with a silver-like pewter head, which looks good, but is actually useless.

Therefore, when the Privy Council was preparing to launch the fourth encirclement and suppression war, Wang Shun conveyed his suggestion to the Privy Council, and felt that it should be postponed for a while so that the recruits could be trained more fully, just the training of the few months in Lin'an...

Really underestimated the amount of training a professional army needs.

But the Privy Council didn't take it seriously, and instead told him that this kind of thing should be decided by the Privy Council, the court minister and the emperor. He was just a military attache and should not interfere with the court decision.

Otherwise, the fate is not easy to say.

Wang Shun, who knew the truth, could only choose to shut up.

But the current problem can't be solved by shutting up. He didn't want to ask for trouble, but trouble took the initiative to find him.

The Jiujiang army was formed earlier, and the number of veterans was relatively large. Wang Shun believed that the combat effectiveness of the Jiujiang army was higher than that of the Ezhou army. Now the Jiujiang army could not cope with the peasant army. The peasant army was defeated.

It is not correct and unwise to send troops knowing that they will be defeated.

At this time, a wise general should be aware of his own shortcomings, choose the correct approach, and avoid being overwhelmed with blood, so Wang Shun made a decision——

Go to fucking support, I won't go to die.

When the army's training degree is insufficient, the best way to offset the disadvantages and play the advantages is to defend the city, use the city to offset the gap between yourself and the elite army, delay as long as possible, and then...

Ask the Xiangyang army for help!
The Xiangyang army is basically all hob meat from the battlefield. A considerable part of them are veterans who have fought face to face with the Jin people. They are quite tough in battle. They are the absolute elite of the Song army. They don't need to come , even if only 1 people come, it is enough to deal with the peasant army.

But then again, his colleagues asked for help. If he didn't send out any troops, it wouldn't sound good to hear from the court in the future, so Wang Shun decided to take a compromise.

That is to send troops out, the goal is to support the Jiujiang army will not change, but this speed of travel...

It's more demanding.

It’s hard to walk when it’s raining, it’s hard to walk when it’s windy, it’s hard to walk when it’s thundering, it’s hard to walk when the sun is too big, and it’s hard to tell the direction when it’s cloudy, and it’s hard to walk.

So the marching speed will be very slow.

As for when to arrive in Dehua County to support Zhou Yun...

We are on our way!

Wang Shun quickly made a decision that was very in line with his own interests.

As for Zhou Yun, although there is no festival, but there is no friendship worth risking to help him.

Moreover, he had also heard that Zhou Yun and the peasant army were doing business very well before, which made him very unhappy, who had no foundation and could not operate a business.

It's time to suffer.

I just need to take care of my one-third of an acre of land.

(End of this chapter)