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Chapter 1034 Xu Tong's surprise attack on Ezhou

Xu Tong led the soldiers all the way forward, eating pancakes and salty cheese along the way, obtaining a lot of carbohydrates, protein and extremely high calories, so as to quickly replenish their physical strength.

In this way, it is not a problem to climb mountains and mountains, and the overall physical fitness of the army is maintained at a good level.

After the entire army successfully assembled at the scheduled location on March [-], in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, Xu Tong also gave them a day of training, let them continue to eat pancakes and salty cheese, and collect some wild fruits they encountered on the way. , Supplement the various nutrients the body needs, and accumulate physical strength.

After a day of rest and recuperation, the physical fitness of the entire army returned to a state where they could fight smoothly. Therefore, on March [-] of the fifth year of Hongwu, Xu Tong led the warriors who followed him to check the ordnance, adjust the state, and launched a fighting.

At the end of the ugly day on March [-]th, when the sky was just dawning, Xu Tong led the warriors to dig out of Jiangxia Mountain and smashed directly into the city of Ezhou.

When they arrived near the city of Ezhou, just as the city gate of Ezhou opened, Xu Tong decisively ordered three hundred knights to sacrifice their lives to storm the city gate, rushed into the city gate with decisive courage, and killed all the Song troops in the city gate hole. .

Afterwards, Xu Tong stormed his army, shouting and killing, and the peasant army swarmed into the city of Ezhou, and decisively attacked the Song army and the government in the city of Ezhou.

In a very short period of time, the Song army and government forces in the city of Ezhou suffered a devastating blow.

Before dawn, Song Chen, the governor of Ezhou, was attacked by the peasant army in his mansion. All the guards died in battle. He hid in the toilet by himself, and was then searched by the peasant army and captured with his family.

Wang Shun, the main general of the Ezhou army, originally lived in the barracks outside the city, but last night he happened to enter the city to ask Song Chen for more ordnance. The two broke up in the middle of the night. Wang Shun didn't go back and planned to continue today. and Song Chenmo.

As a result, it ran into the peasant army's surprise attack on the city of Ezhou.

The guards around him wanted to escape, but he fled to the edge of the city gate and was attacked by the peasant army who had already controlled the gate. Most of the guards around him were killed and injured. captured.

The four gates of the city of Ezhou were quickly controlled by the peasant army. The military and political officials in the whole city became the turtles in the urn. The dead were dead, the injured were injured, and the arrested were arrested. During the chaos, he was beheaded and captured by the peasant army.

In fact, they themselves are to blame.

Of course, the soldiers did not dare to disobey the military order to prepare the whole army for war, but the middle and senior officers had many privileges. They felt that it was not fun to live in the barracks, and it was very depressing and uncomfortable to live in. Anyway, before the war started, they lived in the city of Ezhou. Wouldn't it be fun to eat, drink, and have women?

So I went to Ezhou City to eat, drink and have fun, usually going back in the morning at night to spend the night of ecstasy.

Then hit the peasant army surprise attack on the city of Ezhou.

Who can blame this?

The officers were devastated, and the army stationed in the city was also disorganized in the chaos, fled in all directions, and some people set fire, burned, killed and looted on the way to escape, trying to fish in troubled waters to get benefits, and then directly run back to their hometowns.

The Song soldiers, who were not under the control of the officers, were like the king of destruction. It was obvious that the peasant army was attacking rapidly. Instead of defending, they took advantage of the chaos to burn, kill, and loot, further intensifying the chaos in the city.

So much so that the peasant army did not exert much force, and the city of Ezhou completely collapsed.

So the raid came to an end soon.

At four o'clock in the morning, Xu Tong entered the governor's mansion, and looked at the Ezhou military and political officials of the Southern Song Dynasty who were kneeling all over the room, his face was full of ridicule.

"Because the general is not with his own army, but lives in the city and has fun, and is now captured by me, what else is there to say?"

Xu Tong ordered all these people to be imprisoned, leaving a small number of troops to control the prisoners of war and appease the city, and then quickly led the main force out of the city to attack the main force of the Ezhou army in the Song army camp, trying to defeat them with a decisive impact when they were leaderless. .

There is only one chance. If he can't seize this great opportunity and win more with less, he will be trapped in Ezhou City and wait for Zhao Yucheng to come to help once those soldiers react.

Xu Tong boldly and decisively led the army out of the city to attack the Song army barracks on the hills outside the city.

what's the situation?I haven't called yet?
Why did they mess up by themselves?
Xu Tong couldn't figure this out, and once suspected that this was Song Jun's trick to lure the enemy, but he felt that so many people caught in the city wouldn't lie. How could these Song Jun have the brain to play tricks to lure the enemy?

So Xu Tong decisively led the army to attack and attacked the Song army barracks outside the city in one fell swoop. Only then did he find that the Song army in the barracks had indeed collapsed, and they were killing each other in a very tragic state.

Bomb camp?

Xu Tong didn't have time to think so much, his head was full of excitement about winning, he swung his army to cover up, and joined this big chaos, killing Song Jun's corpses everywhere.

The battle finally ended at the beginning of noon. The Song army was defeated, and almost the entire army was wiped out. The Song army's strongholds outside the city were all captured by the peasant army.

After that, Xu Tong knew why the Song army barracks outside the city collapsed before he launched an attack.

Because Song Jun has his own people.

Before the Lin'an imperial court recruited recruits, the recruiting plan of 7 and 8 recruits needed to be realized, so the standards were relaxed.

Basically, you're a man, you don't have to have gray hair to enlist, and it doesn't matter where you are.

If you really want to struggle with this, who would want to be a soldier?

I'm afraid it's not enough to capture all the people around Lin'an City to serve as soldiers.

Therefore, Su Changsheng was able to arrange a group of relatively brave Skynet Army spies to enter the Song Army's new army and dormant.

Because these spies were of high quality, brave, and knew few words, they passed the special military examination and were immediately appointed as grassroots officers in the army, controlling a team of 50 people.

This group of spies was later broken up and incorporated into different armies. Seven or eight of them were arranged under Wang Shun's command together, and they came to Ezhou and became a member of the Ezhou army.

When the peasant army launched a surprise attack on the city, because the momentum was too great, the barracks outside the city also noticed it, and they all felt strange and frightened, not knowing what happened.

Because the senior officers in the barracks basically lived their days of ecstasy in the city of Ezhou, there was not even a senior officer in the barracks that everyone could obey. Several middle-level officers got together to discuss things, and they were arrested by themselves in the barracks outside the city. people attacked.

Because of the strict hierarchy in the Song army, not only soldiers would be severely beaten and humiliated, but even lower-level officers would inevitably be bullied and beaten by higher-level officers.

At a critical moment when there were changes in the city of Ezhou and there was no one to talk to in the barracks outside the city, the three spies who stayed in the barracks saw an opportunity.

(End of this chapter)