Qiming 1158

Chapter 1335 South, South, South!

It is true or false that the Northern Song Dynasty used the whole country to build Kaifeng, and the Southern Song Dynasty used the whole country to build Hangzhou.

So much local tax revenue was taken by Hangzhou that the locality was impoverished.

He couldn't even perform some of the functions he was supposed to have. Usually, he would need the help of a slightly richer place to exterminate bandits, let alone recruiting the army to rescue him.

It can be said that it is very meaningful for the army to establish a blockade at the first time to prevent the outflow of information. In this way, the local government knows that the time of Hangzhou's accident has been pushed back for several days.

The news first spread in several areas around Hangzhou Prefecture, and then gradually spread to the outside world.

When the local government heard the news, the first thing was shock, then panic, and then they sent someone to investigate more accurate news, and then began to calculate the profit and loss, to see what they had to do to ensure their own interests to the greatest extent.

Is Da Song going to end?
Is the Ming army going south?
Now, is there any point in recruiting the Army King to Rescue the Driver?

The system of the Southern Song Dynasty will cultivate a group of exquisite egoists to the greatest extent. After weighing the pros and cons, these refined egoists quickly came to some conclusions.

For example, the Ming army will definitely go south, the Great Song Dynasty is really over, and the Ming Dynasty will completely occupy Jiangnan, and they will be completely liquidated.

So the only way to survive is to run away!

Few of these local officials who were still under the orders of the Hangzhou court chose King Qin to rescue him. Most of them chose to pack up the gold and silver they looted, and quickly took their families to the south, and never looked back.

No official position, no power, no honor.

Terrible.

But it is not without exception.

In addition to cultivating refined egoists, the system of the Southern Song Dynasty also cultivated a small number of nerds and ignorant loyalists.

Xing Rong, the magistrate of Jiande County, Yanzhou, was very angry when he learned of this.

He believes that Jiangnan is already a vassal of Ming, and he has never disrespected Ming, but Ming is still unwilling to let Jiangnan go. This is a harsh and tyrannical act.

So he burned the flag of Jiangnan Kingdom, raised the flag of Song Dynasty again, scattered his family wealth to recruit soldiers, and wanted to lead the soldiers to Hangzhou Qinwang to rescue him and fight the Ming army to the death.

When Di Zizhen, the magistrate of Lanxi County in Wuzhou, learned of the sudden change in Hangzhou, he wept bitterly, gritted his teeth and hated the brutality of the Ming Dynasty.

So he dismissed his concubines, servants, and family wealth, recruited soldiers with his family, organized an army, and prepared for the Northern Expedition to Hangzhou. King Qin rescued him and fought the Ming army to the death.

Chuzhou Tong sentenced Niu Yuanhua to learn of Hangzhou's sudden change, and his heart was greatly distressed.

After feeling the pain of losing his country and his family, he decided to use his wealth to recruit troops and go north to Hangzhou to fight the Ming army to the death.

In the stalls where local officials generally drag their families to flee south, it is not that no one goes upstream.

Unfortunately, it can only be said that these people who went upstream are brave, but the starting point may not be so in line with their own ideas.

And the bravery of a few people can't change the overall situation, and their "Northern Expedition" was not in the eyes of the Ming army from the beginning.

Zhou Zhi's Ming army rangers defeated the army organized by Xing Rong, the county magistrate of Jiande, who first tried to attack Hangzhou.

A group of exhausted infantry was captured by Ming Rangers without any defense, and the result is understandable, of course.

As for the remaining few King Qin's troops, they were quickly eaten up by the Ming army defenders who defended various traffic arteries under Zhou Zhi's subordinates.

I had to eat it when they brought it up. If I didn't eat it, I would be very sorry for their hard work.

These men's diligent actions did not bring any threat to the Ming army.

As Su Yonglin led his army to the north bank of the Yangtze River on the sixth day of August in the eighth year of Hongwu, and began to cross the river, the third and last Ming-Song war officially began.

Under the leadership of Zhang Yuejing and Zhao Yucheng, the main force of the [-]st Corps and the main force of the [-]th Corps launched a thunderstorm-like military operation respectively. After Su Yonglin led the army to cross the river, he quickly integrated the army and galloped towards Hangzhou.

Because Jiankang House and Zhenjiang House were ceded to the Ming Kingdom after the Second Ming-Song War, the main force of Su Yonglin's crossing the river was very efficient and fast. South.

Su Yonglin held a military meeting in Jiankang Mansion, divided the army into three parts, and launched a storm-like sweeping operation against the southeast by taking three routes.

The Right Route Army set out from Jiankang Mansion, attacked Taiping Prefecture, Chizhou, Huizhou, and finally Quzhou, and then arrived in Xinzhou. In Xinzhou, it joined up with the friendly army of the No. 20 First Army of the Seventh Corps. The two units merged into one and attacked south Shaowu Jun, Fujian Road.

The Left Army started from Zhenjiang Prefecture, attacked Changzhou, Jiangyin Army, Pingjiang Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, and then arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture.

The Middle Route Army, led by Su Yonglin himself, started from Jiankang House, attacked Guangde Army, Huzhou, and then arrived at Hangzhou House.

The Left Route Army and the Middle Route Army joined forces under Zhouzhi and Zhang Shi in Hangzhou Prefecture, replenished their troops, reorganized them, and then divided into two groups again.

After the reorganization, the Left Route Army started from Hangzhou Prefecture, attacked Shaoxing Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and then went south to attack Fuzhou on Fujian Road.

After the reorganization, the Central Route Army led by Su Yonglin himself will start from Hangzhou Prefecture, attack Yanzhou, Wuzhou, and Chuzhou directly south, and then continue southwards and enter Jianning Prefecture on Fujian Road.

After the three armies from the left, center and right smashed through the two Zhejiang areas, they directly entered Fujian Road.

After the Right Route Army broke through the Shaowu Army, it directly attacked Tingzhou on Fujian Road.

After the Left Route Army captured Fuzhou, it advanced southward to the Xinghua Army and relieved the danger of Quanzhou.

After the Middle Route Army has defeated Jianning House, it will continue to attack Nanjianzhou to the south, and then enter Zhangzhou. The Left Route Army and the Right Route Army will also join forces with the Middle Route Army in Zhangzhou.

After the three-way army meets Zhangzhou, you can wait and see the situation to see if it is necessary to enter Guangnan East Road.

If there is, then cooperate with Zhao Yucheng's Seventh Corps to fight, if not, then talk about it.

Anyway, Su Yonglin felt that he had come all the way, so he would naturally go to the southernmost territory of the country for a tour to see what this piece of land was like until the Ming and Qing dynasties were fully valued by the imperial court. To what extent.

After the tactics were formulated, Su Yonglin issued a declaration to the entire army.

Down South, Down Down, Down Down!

Go to Hangzhou, go to Fuzhou, go to Meizhou, go to Leizhou, go to the ends of the earth, until the exploiters in Jiangnan are wiped out!

The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and the troops were divided into three groups. On the ninth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of Hongwu, a fierce military operation was launched, and the battle to sweep the south of the Yangtze River began.

On August [-], Su Yonglin led his army to capture Jianping County. On August [-], the army broke through Guangde County and entered Huzhou.

On August [-], the front of the army broke through Wucheng, and on August [-], the front of the army broke through Deqing and Wukang one after another.

Wherever the Ming army went, the bureaucrats and dignitaries of Jiangnan country fled in confusion, the landlords ran with their heads and mice ran away, and they encountered resistance by chance.

Even without firearms, on the plains, the resisters are no match for the Ming army's iron cavalry at all, and the steel torrent belonging to the age of cold weapons is enough to crush them.

Therefore, the Ming army did not encounter any obstacles.

In the service, the 31-year-old Su Yonglin regained the pleasure and drive he had been away for ten years. He personally led the cavalry as the vanguard of the army, defeated three small troops trying to resist the Ming army, and personally killed a Song army under the protection of Su Yong. The general's head won the applause of the whole army.

On August [-], Su Yonglin personally led a large army of cavalry to kill the city of Hangzhou, and received support from Zhou Zhi, Zhang Zhi and Su Changsheng, and the two armies joined forces ten miles north of Hangzhou.

(End of this chapter)