Qiming 1158

Chapter 909

Qi Fang was really happy for this expedition.

Although he needs to send troops to fight according to the plan of the Privy Council, but even if the war situation is unfavorable, he can throw the blame to the Privy Council, and he does not need to take full responsibility for himself, isn't it beautiful?

As the saying goes, the older the rivers and lakes, the less timid they are. Qi Fang has been rampant in the rivers and lakes for decades, and it is time to be timid and conservative.

In the face of those ups and downs, his first thought was no longer to meet men and fuck his mother, but how to skillfully throw the pot away and not take responsibility.

As long as you don't take responsibility, you can do anything. In other words, you must determine the attribution of responsibility before doing something, which is also convenient for throwing blame afterward.

Since the Privy Council is so head-scratching that everyone dreams of going back to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty to play the map and assume the main responsibility, then Qi Fang is also happy not to take responsibility and follow the plan of the Privy Council step by step.

In his opinion, although the plan of the Privy Council is a bit pedantic, it is safe and steady, and there will be no major problems no matter what.

More importantly, although he was captured, lost his army, and almost lost his life, he finally survived, and not only that, but also gained a more powerful position.

Not to mention that the two people he hated the most were dead.

Shao Hongyuan died.

Zhang Jun died.

He simply won.

Now that he has nothing to do, he can still lead the troops to continue fighting. After winning the battle, he may have his own future and a higher status.

It seems that the most important thing in a person's life is not to make contributions, but to succeed in standing in a team.

Qi Fang's triumphant leader set off from Lin'an to the front line of Xinzhou. On the way, he was relaxed, happy, and self-satisfied.

Of course, he didn't care what the army did when they passed by.

He didn't care if the soldiers stole or robbed anything when they passed by the farm, molested women or beat up men.

As long as the soldiers obey the orders and follow him to reach the destination at a certain speed, then some small episodes in the process can be regarded as a stress-relief game for the soldiers, and they are allowed to play. There is nothing in the military regulations that prohibits them from doing this. content.

In mid-October, after the army arrived in Quzhou and Xinzhou, the local officials had already handed over [-] strong men to him, and provided him with enough food and relatively strong barracks.

The local officials didn't have high demands on him, they just hoped that he would restrain the army, not enter the city, and not damage their achievements.

They can do whatever they want in the countryside, but here they are poor. The two months’ supply of food has already drained the poor ghosts, and the tax has been levied for six years, and they can’t squeeze any oil out of them.

Then it's a matter of resolving the battle as quickly as possible.

It is not easy for them to provide food for two months. Of course, if Lin'an can still collect food and grass, we will not say it, but we can only give it for two months.

Qi Fang laughed.

"Don't worry, the rebel army is just a mob. It was because Shao Hongyuan was too incompetent that he was defeated. Now that the Privy Council has directly appointed a plan, it doesn't take much effort to eliminate all the rebels! Why two months? One month enough!"

Qi Fang seemed to have completely forgotten the failure of Shao Hongyuan's two separate offensives, and he didn't know how many troops the Peasant Army currently has. No other action is taken.

The Sentinels marched all the way to the south, and what they saw were empty villages, empty mountains and river valleys, and there were no traces of human life, so it was judged that the peasant army had implemented the strategy of clearing the walls and clearing the fields.

And when they moved further towards the south city, they finally encountered obstacles.

It's just that what hinders them is not the main force of the peasant army, but a group of "troublemakers" who look like ordinary people.

These "terrorists" were numerous and powerful, and when they saw them, they surrounded them and beat them by surprise. Several people were beaten to death on the spot.

Only a small number of sentries, because of good luck or their own high force, fought against the "treacherous people" and escaped successfully. They specially came to report the news and told Qi Fang about this.

Qi Fang was very angry. He felt that these unscrupulous people were really daring and reckless. Not only did they not want to repay Song Dynasty, they resisted to the death, and they even followed the bandits and killed Song's army?

Don't these troublemakers want to go to heaven?

"It is said that troublemakers come out of poor mountains and evil waters. It seems that this is true. It seems that these troublemakers will not be used by me. The order will be passed on. Whenever the army passes along the way, once they encounter troublemakers, they will kill them all. Stone If you want to pass the knife, you need to change your species!"

"Here!"

The subordinates immediately went to give orders.

As soon as the news got out, his soldiers rejoiced.

Qi Fang himself has no talent for training troops, but this forbidden army was compiled and trained by Yang Cunzhong.

As a direct confidant of Zhao Gou, Yang Cunzhong has certain military talents. His training skills are not under Wu's generals, and he is quite familiar with the cycle of fear, so he also adopted this method when compiling and training the forbidden army.

Although this group of forbidden troops did not go through many battles and the results were not very good, they were full of animal nature and did not obey Qi Fang's commander-in-chief at first, but when they heard that Qi Fang allowed them to fight, they were all ecstatic and yelled and thanked them General.

Apparently their steel knives were hungry and thirsty.

To actually dare to attack and kill the official army, I just don't know whether to live or die!
Qi Fang was only in charge of countering the rebellion. As for how many people died in the process of countering the rebellion, it was not within his scope of consideration, and who died was not within his scope of consideration.

The court only wants results, not processes.

According to the information brought back by the sentinels, Qi Fang confirmed that the peasant army had given up the vast area north of Nancheng County, and concentrated the main force on the front line of Nancheng for defense, so the north of Nancheng could march safely.

Qi Fang then occupied Jinxi County in Fuzhou on October [-], set up a logistics base in Jinxi County, and then led a further [-] troopers to the south, heading for Nancheng County.

One branch of Rushui is Jinxishui. The Song army in Jinxi County entered Rushui through Jinxishui, and then went all the way south along Rushui to reach Nancheng. Pass freely, unstoppable.

Unless the peasant army dispatched the main force to confront him.

That's great, he can't ask for it, he really hopes to start a face-to-face strength contest with the peasant army.

He felt that he could study his post-war development from his position of strength.

On the way south of the army, he found that the situation was indeed similar to what the sentries had probed.

I didn't encounter any troublemakers, and I didn't find any villages with people, but I encountered many empty villages.

It's fine if it's purely empty, there are still traps specially left in these villages, and many swaggering Song soldiers were hit by the traps, either dead or injured.

There was not a grain of grain to be found in the empty villages, the wells were blocked with stones, and there was nothing that could be used in the low and dilapidated houses.

It was clearly the autumn harvest season, but the grains in the fields had been harvested completely, and there were not a few broken grains found on the ground.

The marching road was damaged, people were barely able to walk, and it was very difficult for vehicles and horses to advance.

Bridges on some rivers were also damaged, as were ferry crossings, making it difficult to move on without repairs.

All of these greatly affected the speed of Qi Fang's army's advance.

While Qi Fang felt unhappy, he also felt that this group of rebels was very unusual. It was really not easy to implement such a thorough plan to fortify the wall and clear the wilderness.

This reminded him of Shao Hongyuan's two previous defeats, so he secretly raised some vigilance in his heart, and the marching process was more careful.

As a result, when he arrived at Nancheng County, he was surprised to find that it was also an empty city.

Everything that could be eaten, drunk, and used was removed, and what was left was only houses made of wood, stone, and mud that had no use other than shelter from the wind and rain.

No one, not even an animal, the two-legged and four-legged were gone.

Has the hard walls and clear fields reached this point?

Qi Fang was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he had no other choice but to order the entire army to take a day off in the county town, and then continue to send people south to spy on the military situation.

He didn't think the rebels would be able to fortify the wall and clear the country to this point.

But the fact is that the sentry he sent to spy on the news did not encounter any obstacles on the way to Nanfeng County, but encountered obstacles when approaching Nanfeng County, was discovered and attacked by the armed peasant army, and died several times. Personally, the rest ran.

There is no doubt that the rebels have assembled in Nanfeng County!
(End of this chapter)