Qiming 1158

Chapter 910 How can the food road be broken?

According to the plan of the Privy Council, Qi Fang needs to go south now.

And before going south, some troops need to stay behind to ensure the existence of Nancheng County as a logistics food station.

Since the other party had fortified the wall and cleared the country, and moved all the unruly people away, Song Jun could not get supplies from the local area, so he could only ask for transportation from the rear.

As a result, the Song Army's requirements for logistics personnel and logistics ships increased.

Fortunately, it is only late October, and the weather is still not cold. Generally, the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River will not freeze, and the ice will not be broken unless it is really cold. Beauty is not their problem.

Even so, the arrangement of the logistics food station also greatly slowed down Qi Fang's march.

But Qi Fang felt that this was necessary, because logistics and food supply were really important. He had learned from the experience of Tian Shizhong's defeat and death in the previous battle, and he really attached great importance to logistics.

Finally, after preparations for the further march were completed, Qi Fang was able to lead the main force along the river to attack Nanfeng County.

He felt that although the rebels here were quite capable and able to create a situation where they could fortify the wall and clear the country, facing the absolute advantage of the Song army, unless they retreated again and again, they would sooner or later fight against the Song army.

Moreover, there is a limit to retreating. Now that you are constantly retreating, there will always be a time when you cannot retreat, let alone retreating with so many troublesome people.

Sooner or later he will catch up and kill him.

If it weren't for the lack of cavalry under his command, he really wanted to send cavalry to quickly pursue it, so as to open the eyes of the rebels and local troublemakers, and let them know what is a real army and what is the elite of the Song Dynasty .

Very brutal!

But he didn't know that the "rebels" and "troublemakers" were preparing to launch the most courageous counterattack against them with full courage and tenacity just because they knew how cruel they really were.

On October 25, the Song army, led by Qi Fang, arrived ten miles north of Nanfeng County and set up camp here.

According to observations, Nanfeng County did have soldiers and horses stationed for defense, and there were indeed traces of the rebels, so Qi Fang confirmed that the rebels' strong walls and clearing the fields also had limits.

A smile of "everything is under control" was outlined on the corner of his mouth, feeling that he had reached the limit of the rebels.

Obviously, the rebels were unable to continue to flee southward with those troublemakers, and had to stop them in Nanfeng County, so Qi Fang confirmed that those troublemakers who attacked his sentry before were struggling south of Nanfeng County. Trek.

And as long as he breaks through Nanfeng County as soon as possible, he can take revenge on those unscrupulous people.

So he set up his formation and began to command the army to attack Nanfeng County. He first cleared all the military obstacles outside Nanfeng County, and then against the blow of long-range weapons on Nanfeng County, he forced the soldiers recruited by Quzhou and Xinzhou to attack Nanfeng County. Twenty thousand cannon fodder carried sandbags to fill the pits and moats.

The [-] strong men recruited from Quzhou and Xinzhou did not receive any effective protection. The large wooden curtains were used to protect the soldiers of the imperial army, and they did not protect these cannon fodder at all. Fill the pit.

There is still a long way to go before filling the moat.

But it doesn't matter, Qi Fang forced these peasants to fill in a section of the moat to ensure that they could pass people, and then began to use this channel that the strong men paid for their lives to transport soldiers and siege ordnance, and began to attack Nanfeng County.

Nanfeng County is just a small city. The original city wall was only two or three meters high, but the peasant army built it urgently and raised the city wall to five meters. The defense power was greatly improved, and the lethality against the Song army was also greater.

However, some small casualties are not in Qi Fang's eyes at all. What he wants is the final victory, the pleasure of the Song army beating the peasant army violently, and the pride of a successful victory.

The number of defenders of the peasant army guarding the city is obviously not as large as that of the Song army, and it is not easy to resist.

Three days after the siege of Nanfeng County, the Song army began the link of ants attaching to the city. At this time, the peasant army was also forced to fight hand-to-hand with the Song army, fighting bloody battles, relying on the advantages and courage of the defenders to repel them again and again. Stopped Qi Fang's attack.

As time went by, Nanfeng County became more and more dangerous.

The Song army's trebuchets smashed down the defensive facilities on the top of the city many times, and also smashed many military facilities in the city, and repeatedly attacked the top of the city. The peasant soldiers on the top of the city even appeared holding Song soldiers. Falling headfirst off the wall together.

Relying on such a tragic sacrifice, the peasant army was able to defend Nanfeng County under the siege of the Song army.

But even so, the complete suppression of Nanfeng County by the Song army with its superior force was still obvious, so the smile on Qi Fang's face became more and more obvious each time.

He felt he had seen a bright future ahead.

He felt that he was about to break through here, and then launched a massacre of the troublemakers south of the county seat.

It must be bloody, but it will be joyous.

However, at this moment, on the first day of November, when the cold wind suddenly picked up, Qi Fang suddenly learned that there was a small problem behind his house.

His food supply was cut off.

How could the food road be cut off?
Seeing Nanfeng County, which was already on the verge of collapse, could be breached with just a little more effort, Qi Fang suddenly fell into confusion. He didn't quite understand how he was cut off from food.

They were obviously calling all the way, so how could they be cut off from food supply?
In his opinion, the only place that could threaten his grain road is Linchuan County in Fuzhou. According to the investigation beforehand, there are troops stationed in Linchuan County.

However, the distance from Linchuan to Jinxi was [-] miles, and no matter how fast the troops marched, it would take four to five days. During this period, the sentry cavalry he had spread out within a radius of fifty miles would never fail to spot him.

In order to protect the grain road, he even sent a navy to block the waterway from Linchuan to Jinxi, increasing the cost of traveling for the peasant army.

And he also arranged for an elite army of 3000 people to be stationed in Jinxi County, responsible for undertaking the protection of food and grass, and the person in charge was the most cautious officer in the Forbidden Army.

No matter how you look at it, it is a foolproof situation.

How did that happen?

Of course things didn't just happen by accident.

In fact, the reason is not complicated.

Accepting Zhao Yucheng's order to guard Fuzhou and Jianchang Army, as the first line of defense against Qi Fang, the general of the Peasant Army is Xu Tong, commander of the Second Division.

Naturally, he was not the only army, and behind him was the army of the [-]th Division of the Peasant Army.

However, Xu Tong felt that since he was the first line of defense, he should play the role of the line of defense. Wouldn't it be good to kill the enemy on his side as much as possible?

Qi Fang?

Is that the general who surrounded them but took the initiative to do business with them behind?

Isn't this kind of general difficult to deal with?
Xu Tong thought so.

Qi Fang didn't know who his opponent was, but the Peasant Army knew who his opponent was.

After the Southern Song Dynasty made a decision, before the news reached Wu Gong, who was a little far away from Lin'an, Zhao Yucheng got the information from the second action group of the Skynet Army in Nanchang, and learned that the Southern Song Dynasty was about to launch another attack. It is Shi Hao, the new privy envoy.

(End of this chapter)