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Chapter 1057 The whole army was wiped out again?

Some things really can't blame the Lin'an court for being too slow.

Because the progress of this war is too fast, and the speed of information transmission is too slow, the information received by Lin'an is too late.

When the Lin'an court knew that the peasant army had attacked the Jiujiang army, the peasant army had already wiped out the Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army.

When the Lin'an court knew that the peasant army had launched an attack on the Ezhou army, the peasant army had already moved further, conquering Jingmen and blocking the retreat of the Xiangfan Song army.

When the Lin'an court determined that the Ezhou army and the Jiujiang army had been destroyed, the Ming army had already moved south and began to surround the Xiangfan and Song army with the peasant army from north to south and launched an attack.

When the Lin'an court finally got the news of Xiangfan's Song Army's request for help, the Ming army had destroyed all the military obstacles and military villages around Xiangyang and Fancheng, and formally encircled Xiangyang and Fancheng across the moat of the two cities.

Moreover, Fancheng has killed more than a thousand Song soldiers and injured more than 100 people because of the artillery attack of the Ming army. The rest were injured.

The interior of the two cities suffered losses due to the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, and the ordnance and food suffered varying degrees of damage, each with its own losses.

All in all, when the Lin'an court received the news of the request for help, Xiangyang could still say that he was in a good state and could persevere, but Fan Cheng could not say that he was in a good state anyway.

Because of the lag of the news, the response measures of the Lin'an court were very funny.

When the peasant army completely wiped out the Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army, Zhao Tan ordered the Privy Council to dispatch the Ezhou army to urgently help.

The privy envoy Chen Kangbo ordered the army of Ezhou to quickly rush to the army of Jiujiang, and then presented the form to Zhao Tan, saying that "the rebel is daring and took the initiative to attack Master Wang, the crime is unpardonable, and he will be punished and destroyed], and then asked Zhao Tan to order the first attack immediately. Four wars against bandits.

Now that the bandit army has already displayed its sword, we, the King of Song Dynasty, can't help it. The Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army should launch a full-scale counterattack, and the Xiangyang army should be prepared as a reserve force. !
Zhao Tan deeply applauded Chen Kangbo's suggestion, so he passed a decree to order the war, and the Privy Council was solely responsible for the battle.

The civilian government was quite critical of this, and Shang Shu Zuocheng Ye Yiwen and Shang Shu Youcheng Shen Gai were dissatisfied with this, but under the mediation of the political minister Zhou Linzhi, they chose to shut up.

Zhou Linzhi meant that the affairs of the Privy Council were too sensitive, and they would not be involved if they could not be involved.

[Have you seen Zhang Jun and Shi Hao? 】

Zhou Linzhi's words killed Ye Yiwen and Shen Gai's dissatisfaction.

Indeed, under Zhao Gou's hands, they could still be arrogant, but under Zhao Tan's hands... it's better to take it easy.

So Zhao Kanan and the Privy Council made a lot of military plans for the Jiangnan West Road battle, including how the Jiujiang army should defend, how to counterattack, how the Ezhou army should attack, how the Xiangyang army and the Imperial Imperial Army should rush to help, etc. Detailed planning was done.

But they moved too slowly, or the peasant army moved too fast.

When the plan had just been formed and before it could be promulgated and implemented, the news that the army in Ezhou had also been attacked reached Lin'an.

The news shows that at the same time that the Jiujiang army was attacked, the Ezhou army was also raided by the Jiangnan West Road thieves, resulting in heavy losses.

The city of Ezhou has been lost, the whereabouts of senior officers and civilians are unknown, the status is unknown, the number of Ming troops is unknown, and the source is unknown.

The foggy news shocked the Lin'an court.

Is the thief army taking the initiative to attack?
Sudden attack on Ezhou?

Except for the waterway, don't you think?

Yu Yunwen, who was shocked by the news, immediately lay on the map to watch the local terrain, and pointed to the Jiangxia Mountains in front of Zhao Tan at the battle meeting.

"From the time point of view, the thieves must attack in two ways, attacking Jiujiang all the way from the water, all the way by land, crossing the mountains and over the mountains to raid Ezhou! It is even possible that the attack on Jiujiang is a cover for the thieves to raid Ezhou!"

Yu Yunwen's analysis is reasonable, but Zhuge Liang's behavior after the fact does not change anything.

Zhao Tan said angrily: "Think about countermeasures now! In this situation, both armies are under attack! The bandit army dares to take the initiative to attack the Great Song King! I don't know what the situation is now! How could the battle be like this?!"

Zhao Tan felt a little exasperated.

Another privy deputy envoy Hu Quan was more calm, and he immediately proposed a response plan.

"Your Majesty, the first plan is to immediately send a part of the Xiangyang army to help Ezhou. In any case, we must stabilize the battle situation in Ezhou. We cannot let the thieves occupy Ezhou and Jiujiang at the same time. If this is the case, the Yangtze River waterway will be blocked by the thieves. , the beginning and the end can not be taken care of, the problem is serious!

Second, it is necessary to immediately prepare the imperial army to help the local area. I am afraid that the battle situation between the Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army will be unfavorable, and the losses will be heavy.Immediately! "

Hu Quan's suggestion was supported by most of the officials in the Privy Council, and Zhao Tan nodded through gritted teeth.

"Immediately rectify the army. At least [-] to [-] people will be rectified at present, and then continue to send troops! I want to level the entire Jiangnan West Road! Level it!!"

Zhao Tan was extremely annoyed, and kept saying vulgar words, and even said that he wanted to kill all the local thieves and wipe out the nine clans.

In his opinion, it is quite benevolent that the stone wants to pass the sword and the person wants to change the species. If you don't do this, you will not be able to show the mighty power of the sky!

Zhao Tan gritted his teeth and said such vicious words, one can imagine how angry he has become.

The ministers of the Privy Council were terrified and shocked by the murderous aura of the emperor, but no matter what they thought in their hearts, when Zhao Tan was angry, they would not be in trouble.

So they immediately rectified the Lin'an Forbidden Army in accordance with Zhao Tan's request, and prepared to concentrate the Lin'an Forbidden Army to aid the Jinghu Theater.

However, just a few days after the order was delivered, the newly rebuilt Lin'an Forbidden Army was scrambling to prepare for the expedition, and when the officials of the Privy Council were struggling to allocate supplies, news of the annihilation of the Jiujiang Army and the Ezhou Army reached Lin'an City one after another.

The news was brought by the collapsed troops of the Jiujiang army and the Ezhou army. They reported the news of the defeat of the army and the annihilation of the army in a panic. Zhao Tan was stunned on the spot, unable to speak for a long time.

The entire Privy Council and the civilian government were also frightened and slow to respond.

All over again?

The Jiujiang Army and the Ezhou Army that had just been formed, how long did it take to complete the formation, and then the whole army was wiped out?

An army of [-] people, if the whole army is wiped out, the whole army will be wiped out?
(End of this chapter)