Qiming 1158

Chapter 926 Why! ! !
To put it simply, what happened some time ago was of course very humiliating for the Southern Song Dynasty.

A rebel army of 4000 soldiers set off from Jiangnan West Road, penetrated five state capitals, penetrated the hinterland of the Southern Song Dynasty, killed officials, destroyed countless warehouses, and directly abolished the war potential of these five states .

Even the local chaos also spread to other surrounding states. For a long time, it was difficult for the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions to provide the Southern Song Dynasty with any food and salaries to continue the war.

All the accumulated ones have been destroyed, and I don’t know how long it will take to accumulate them again. Anyway, according to the financial system of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is very difficult to restore them within five years, unless they want to get rid of these places.

The destroyed state capitals, Yixinzhou and Quzhou, were especially serious.

"The bandit army even broke through five prefectures and more than a dozen counties including Xinzhou, Quzhou, Yanzhou, Wuzhou, and Lin'an, and fought thousands of miles away, killing hundreds of officials and officials, and destroying hundreds of warehouses. Dilapidated, officials suffered extremely heavy losses.

Right now, the remaining local government can't even effectively restore local order, so people are panicked. Many people have moved to other states to take refuge because of their fear. "

Ye Yiwen softly told Zhao Tan the news he had discovered.

Zhao Tan rubbed his temples seemingly calmly.

"Is that really what the Four Thousand Thieves Army did?"

"Yes……"

Ye Yi asked softly and replied.

"Where's Qi Fang?"

"There is no definite news yet, but the logistics have been destroyed and there is no help. Qi Fang may have been ... in distress."

"What about the army?"

"His Majesty……"

"I asked the army?!"

Zhao Tan's tone suddenly became sinister.

Ye Yiwen shuddered and said, "According to the judgment, it is very likely that the entire army has already been... already... annihilated."

Zhao Tan took a deep breath.

After a long time, his voice was slightly hoarse: "Where's Wu Gong?"

Ye Yiwen's face darkened.

"Wu Gong went to the table and said that because the weather suddenly turned cold, and the supplies he used in winter were broken and could not be replenished in time, many soldiers died of frostbite, and if they fought again, the whole army would be destroyed, so he really couldn't support it. Only risk retreat."

"Where's Yao Zhong?"

Zhao Tan looked at Ye Yi with the last glimmer of hope and asked, "Where's the most elite army in the Song Dynasty?"

"Yao Zhong's department has just arrived in Dangyang, Wu Gong has already retreated, and the loss is quite large, and the local area is unable to support the food and salaries of Yao Zhong's expedition. Now Yao Zhong's department has traveled to Jiangling, and sent a letter to ask the court what to do next. , they will obey the orders of the court."

Zhao Tan was silent for a while, then suddenly became furious. He stood up and pushed everything on the table in front of him to the ground. With the sound of shattering, his roar was full of unwillingness.

"why!!!!"

He glared angrily, blue veins bulged on his forehead, and his eyes were full of anger and unwillingness.

He was angry, and he was unwilling. In fact, Wu Gong was even more angry and unwilling than him.

Wu Gong even had the upper hand for a while, pressing Zhao Yucheng to fight, and fighting Zhao Yucheng almost without the strength to fight back, but in the end he still failed to win.

It's not his fault, but if you want to, you have to blame the bad logistics and bad bureaucracy of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wu Gong set off from Ezhou with [-] troops, and the first target was Nanchang.

Taking into account the threat of Jianchang County to the back road, Wu Gong divided a team to attack Jianchang County after landing through Poyang Lake.

The defense force in Jianchang County was led by Lu Chengren. He led 5000 soldiers to defend Jianchang County, and fought fiercely with [-] Song Army soldiers, causing huge damage to the Song Army.

And Wu Gong didn't know how many troops the Peasant Army had from the beginning to the end, and Song Jun's intelligence work was so far from the original, that Wu Gong always felt that the Peasant Army he was facing was only 3 to [-]. , and most of them are mobs.

However, Zhao Yucheng concentrated on defending Nanchang County with a total of 4 troops, two divisions of troops, and another division guarding the rear of the Linjiang Army as a reserve team. Fortification transformation, all the defense weapons are used.

They even blocked the entire Ganshui branch from Poyang Lake to Nanchang by means of Hengjiang iron cables and sunken ships.

Originally, several waterways could be used, but all of them were blocked by the sunken ship and the Hengjiang iron cable.

As a result, Wu Gong led the army to advance halfway, only to find that the ship could not continue to move forward. A large area in front was full of sunken ships. I don't know how long it would take to clear them all.

Wu Gong was helpless, feeling that he was already marching fast, and the peasant army's response was too fast.

So he could only order to switch from water to land, and it took a lot of time to start again.

Fortunately, the thieves had no way to seal all Poyang Lake, so they could temporarily use the Poyang Lake waterway to transport logistical supplies to the place closest to the battlefield, which would reduce the loss and danger of logistical transportation to some extent.

All the way to the south, they did not encounter any peasant army boats blocking them, so Wu Gong believed that the peasant army should not have established a water army at all, and could not fight water battles at all, so the way to transport logistics by water was right, and the Privy Council did it right.

That being the case, only the last part of the distance was left to travel by land, and Wu Gong didn't care that much.

He commanded [-] troops to the south along the Gan River, advancing all the way, searching for the enemy all the way, the army was well-organized, and there was no weakness to catch.

After the news reached Nanchang, Zhao Yucheng frowned, feeling that this was not an easy battle.

In fact, the same is true. Zhao Yucheng tried to send troops to harass Wu Gong’s troops, but they were all repelled by Wu Gong’s careful arrangements. The repeated harassment failed to achieve results. Siege.

Because it was impossible to use the navy to attack Nanchang City, the three-dimensional siege operation planned by the Privy Council in the joint operation of the navy and the infantry could not be carried out for the time being, and could only rely on the attack of the infantry.

But it doesn't matter. Wu Gong is good at using foot and cavalry to fight, but he is relatively unfamiliar with water warfare. He is also willing to accept the challenge if the opponent can give him the opportunity to play.

When Qi Fang kept making stupid mistakes and fell into Xu Tong's trap step by step, Wu Gong was not affected, and he didn't care about the hard walls and clear fields just a short distance away, and started a resolute attack on Nanchang City step by step.

All kinds of siege weapons and various siege troops came into battle, and the surging and defeated offensive constantly shook the defense of Nanchang City.

Zhao Yucheng sat in Nanchang City, calmly commanded the army to defend the city, and used various defense weapons to resolutely resist the Song army outside the city.

He knew that his troops had the upper hand, and Song's troops were almost half his size. Although he didn't have the upper hand, he firmly believed that he could achieve the final victory.

Of course, he was not without thorough preparations.

For example, he also ambushed an army on Meiling on the west side of the city, preparing to suddenly attack when the battle between the two sides was inextricable and the Song army was also very tired, and Wu Gong was caught off guard.

However, the Song army under Wu Gong's command was really not weak, and they advanced and retreated very well.

After the two sides fought around Nanchang City for seven or eight days, Zhao Yucheng discovered that the Song army was exhausted, and when they returned to the army camp, they did not have a strict formation.

After Zhao Yucheng caught such an opportunity, he immediately ordered the city to shoot arrows in the sky, and the assault troops on Meiling got the signal and rushed out like tigers descending the mountain to attack the Song army.

It was also Wu Gong's negligence. He marched all the way and was harassed by the troops sent by Zhao Yucheng, so that he concentrated all his energy on the city, ignoring Meiling, and after hastily explored the city, he concentrated on attacking the city, striving for a quick victory. Unexpectedly, it was put together.

The rapid attack of the peasant army gave the Song army a big blow. Some Song army soldiers dropped their weapons and fled in a panic. The peasant army directly killed them, and they brought a lot of casualties to the Song army in one encounter.

However, things did not change in the direction Zhao Yucheng hoped.

I thought that the exhausted Song Army returning troops would definitely be defeated by the peasant army's recharged commandos, and then the defeated troops would definitely attack the Song army camp, and the peasant army would take advantage of the situation to cover and kill, and they would be able to win a big victory.

Because he was well prepared, Zhao Yucheng planned to go out of the city to attack, but he did not expect that the Song army would actually withstand this wave of peasant army raids, and there was no collapse.

The [-] peasant army in charge of the raid was of course not weak and well equipped, but after a brief panic, the Song army was stabilized by the unshakable Wu Gong with the sound of rumbling drums.

A well-trained army is not the same as a half-way monk. There is a big difference between the two sides.

When the Song army was in a panic, the people who were rushed by the rapid impact of the peasant army turned their backs, but the former army was defeated, but the latter army, led by Wu Gong's general Zhao Qi, withstood the impact of the peasant army.

They withstood the attack of the peasant army, and Wu Gong immediately mobilized his personal cavalry to attack the peasant army's raiding force. The peasant army was hindered and restrained, and failed to complete the task quickly and lost the opportunity.

So the scattered Song Army was gathered up again by professional officers, regained its formation and combat effectiveness, and turned around to kill it.

The raiding force was immediately in a dangerous situation, with the risk of being completely wiped out.

As a last resort, Zhao Yucheng immediately sent his subordinate general Gao Meng to lead the elite soldiers from the city out of the city to support him.

(End of this chapter)