Qiming 1158

Chapter 886 Copy the path that Su Yonglin has traveled

In mid-July, after the peasant army swept Jizhou, the peasant army invaded Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army and Fuzhou, and regained the three areas that had been occupied by the previous wave of insurgents.

The battle process was very easy, because after these places were attacked by the insurgent army, the local reactionary forces suffered heavy losses, and some even the local officials had not yet returned to their positions, and the garrison of the Song army was almost non-existent.

Some idle people are pulled over by new officials or small officials who temporarily serve as senior officials, and given some weapons, they directly become local security forces, wandering around the city and the countryside all day, and they don’t know whether they are security forces or gangsters. .

Can this level of armament be able to fight against the peasant army?
Obviously it is impossible.

As a result, the peasant army was devastated all the way, and it was like a broken bamboo. It easily wiped out all these so-called armed forces and achieved a brilliant victory.

On July [-], the third year of Hongwu, Zhao Yucheng personally led [-] soldiers to capture Nanchang County, the capital of Longxing Prefecture.

He successfully wiped out the bureaucratic system of Nanchang County, the bureaucratic system of Longxing House and the bureaucratic system of Jiangnan West Road, which were located in Nanchang County.

The peasant army fully complied with Zhao Yucheng's call to "strengthen ourselves while fighting".

As they marched to fight, they announced that they would divide the land for the peasants in the occupied areas, protect their property, and attack the local tyrants and evil gentry who had a large amount of land and had not been eradicated.

This is the simplest and most crude way to attract farmers to support them. It can quickly gain the support of farmers, gain a firm foothold in the local area, and quickly launch attacks on local reactionary forces.

Although the previous wave of insurgents launched a strong attack on the local tyrants and evil gentry, when the Song army made a comeback, some local tyrants and evil gentry who had escaped before also returned and became masters again.

And this time, the peasant army will not let them go.

They led the peasants to defeat the military forces of the local tyrants and evil gentry, exterminate them, and used practical actions to prove to the local peasants that they would really allocate their fields to them and protect their interests.

Through this commitment and action, the peasant army has won the trust and strong support of the local poor farmers, and has received great support from the farmers in terms of food and manpower, and the operation is smooth.

As a result, the peasant army grew and grew at the same time, and the speed of development was extremely fast, which was comparable to the speed of expansion.

After the northern prefectures were captured by the peasant army, Ganzhou did not escape the capture of the peasant army.

However, different from other places, the remnants of the last two rebel armies in Ganzhou still insisted on fighting against the Song army and formed a confrontation with the local Song army. The arrival of the peasant army directly overwhelmed the Song army and rescued the Song army. The insurgents who persisted in resistance.

As a result, the peasant army and the uprising army merged, and the remnants of the uprising army were merged into the peasant army as a whole, which expanded the strength of the peasant army and accelerated the peasant army's capture of Ganzhou.

By the end of July, most of Longxingfu, Junzhou, Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army, Fuzhou, Jizhou, Ganzhou, Nan'an Army, Jianchang Army and other places were captured by peasant army, and a wave of peasant army attacked almost the entire Southern Song Dynasty. Jiangnan West Road.

During this period, the local Song army and local officials basically did not bring any effective resistance to the peasant army, and basically collapsed at the touch of a button.

They would never have expected that the peasant army surrounded by the Luoxiao Mountains would turn around and swallow the Song army in the same way as snakes swallow elephants.

Who would have thought of such a thing?

Yet it is so.

Therefore, they failed to establish an effective defense mechanism. Some county towns were even conquered by the peasant army when the county magistrate was on leave.

In the process of siege of cities and territories, the number of peasant troops also expanded to about 8, and their strength was greatly enhanced.

Zhao Yucheng re-armed the peasant army through the captured state arsenal, and ordered the ministries to maintain the original division-level establishment and expand the brigade-level establishment to accommodate more rebels to join the peasant army.

On July 29, Zhao Yucheng issued an army preparation order in Nanchang City.

With a clear mind, he did not continue to choose to attack cities and expand territory, but realized the weakness of the current peasant army and the lack of combat effectiveness, and realized that it is not possible to over-attack now.

He clearly realized that the peasant army in the current state is not stronger than the Song army except for its spirit and momentum, especially the peasant army has not completed the political construction and military law construction of the Ming army, and there are still many deficiencies.

Military regulations, military laws, political ideology, methods of action, etc. need time to be sorted out, and the combat effectiveness of the army also needs training to be consolidated. Therefore, the peasant army can no longer continue to expand.

Controlling the dangerous terrain around Luoxiao Mountain and building a base area is the most suitable behavior at present. The peasant army needs to settle, accumulate and build.

It is necessary to make this war-torn land into the strongest base of the Fuxing Association in the Southern Song Dynasty, so as to strengthen the occupation of the local area and make it substantially separated from the Southern Song Dynasty.

Once certain rules are established here, the Southern Song Dynasty will not only face the struggle of the peasant army, but also the resistance of thousands of peasants if they want to retake this land.

The peasants who own their own land and property will never want to return to the brutal oppression of the Southern Song Dynasty. They will do their best to help the peasant army to resist, and the Southern Song Dynasty's offensive will face many difficulties and obstacles.

So Zhao Yucheng issued eleven army building preparation orders in succession according to the army building method he had learned from Su Yonglin, and dispatched staff from his side to each garrison point to issue them.

He needs the peasant armies from all over the world to seize the time to carry out political and military construction, and to build a cohesive army, not to mention how strong, before the next wave of siege and suppression by the Song army arrives.

Judging from the current overall strength comparison, it is clear that the Song army is still strong and the peasant army is weak. Unless the Ming army joins in, there will be no change in a short period of time.

However, there was an intense anti-corruption struggle and revolutionary action going on within the Ming Kingdom, and Zhao Yucheng also knew about this.

He learned through the secret channel of the Skynet Army that Su Yonglin was launching a devastating strike against the superior, which made him very happy, and at the same time he was full of confidence in his actions.

Although the Song army was powerful, although it was numerous, and it possessed a powerful oppressive force, the peasant army was definitely not one to sit still.

According to what he knew about the Southern Song Dynasty and the Song army, Zhao Yucheng estimated that it would take more than three months for the next military operation of the Southern Song Dynasty to launch.

It is estimated that it will take them a lot of time just to shirk responsibility and make noise.

A huge failure requires someone to take the blame. Who is to blame, whether he is willing, and whether it will trigger a new round of political struggle in the court is unknown.

Su Yonglin had told him that the Southern Song Dynasty was a standard civil war, both inside and outside.

Therefore, this period is the golden period for the development of the peasant army.

Zhao Yucheng was complacent, made plans, arranged manpower, made overall plans, and prepared to build an enclave of the Ming Dynasty on Jiangnan West Road.

Build a peasant association system here, connect with the peasant army, realize the dual system of the Liberation Army and the peasant association earlier on this hot land, and replicate the path taken by Su Yonglin.

At the same time, the Lin'an court, as Zhao Yucheng had expected, was caught in an extremely fierce political struggle.

Of course, the cause is not controversial, it is the collapse of Jiangnan West Road.

The news of the collapse of Jiangnan West Road was sent to Lin'an eleven days after the official defeat. Some local officials rushed to send the news to Lin'an City. During this period, many difficulties and obstacles were eliminated, and the news was finally delivered. The news also arrived at some of the broken troops.

The news was first sent to the Privy Council, and at that time Zhang Jun was discussing matters with Zhao Tan in the palace.

The officials of the Privy Council felt that the matter was too big and could not be concealed, so they hurriedly sent it to the palace and handed it over to Zhao Tan and Zhang Jun.

(End of this chapter)