Qian Song

Chapter 120 Li Cun's Troop Strength (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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South Zhejiang, Wenzhou.

Yu Daoan of Nanxi in Yongjia was one of the late uprisings among the heroes in the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions.

At the time of Yu Daoan's uprising, almost all the major forces in the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions had formed. The two most powerful groups, the Huben Army and the Fang Layi Army, already had hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

At this time, Yu Daoan had less than a hundred people.

But Yu Daoan is one of the few generals in the rebel army who is good at fighting. Not long after the uprising, he defeated the [-] Song troops led by Chen, the inspector of Wushou here, from Nanxi to Mutian.

Nearly May, Yu Daoan led his troops to Yueqing, stationed troops at Baihe Temple, recruited brave men, and prepared to grow rapidly.

But at that time, Fang Layi's army annexed Hong Zai's army and obtained Chuzhou, and its territory was united with Lu Shinang in Taizhou.

Lu Shinang and Yu Daoan are old friends, they want to unite with Yu Daoan, and they also say they are willing to send troops to help Yu Daoan take down Wenzhou.

But although Yu Daoan respected Lu Shinang's character, he felt that Lu Shinang's boss, Fang La, was not a person who could achieve great things, so he refused to join forces with Lu Shinang.

History changed slightly at that moment. Because of Fang La's intervention, Yu Daoan did not go north to join forces with Lu Shinang to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Song army and the landlord armed forces as in history. Instead, he knew that Wenzhou was a dead place. , Also led the crowd to lay down the whole territory of Wenzhou.

After this, Yu Daoan made an amazing decision!

——Yu Daoan actually sent someone to go to Hangzhou by water to express his willingness to vote for Li Cun.

Yu Daoan's decision is indeed surprising, because from the current situation, Wenzhou is an enclave—an enclave surrounded by Fangla territory.

To be honest, that is to say, Fang La didn’t pay much attention to the development of the naval army, and he was focused on grabbing territory with Li Cun on land. In addition, Wenzhou didn’t have much strategic value, otherwise Fang La could have sent Wenzhou into Wenzhou at that time. His territory.

As a result, Wenzhou took advantage of Yu Daoan, and then Li Cun.

but--

In order not to irritate Fang La, change the situation of the two sides at that time, and catch Fang La by surprise in the future, Li Cun did not declare Wenzhou to be his own, and did not even garrison Wenzhou.

——Li Cun just secretly sent a group of generals, military supervisors and officials to Yu Daoan to help Yu Daoan train the army and manage Wenzhou. At the same time, Li Cun paid the Huben Army in Wenzhou three months of military pay.

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The situation in Wenzhou is similar to that in Wuzhou.

It's just that there is not one hero here in Wuzhou, but several groups of heroes.

Captured Zhu Yan and Wu Bang in Shouchang County.

Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo were four people who were active in Wuyi and Yongkang.

Zhu Shi, the female general of the rebel army who was active in the Dongyang area-although she was a female general, she used tricks to kill Sun Chen and captured Dongyang County. She was also a heroine among women.

The three rebel armies in Wuzhou seem to be fighting independently, and they are not under each other's control, but they are not.

These rebel armies in Wuzhou actually have a common spiritual leader—Chen Miaozhen, the fourteenth lady.

The real Mrs. Chen Shishi was actually from Tang Dynasty.

This divine hero in folklore, because he is good at "healing diseases, eliminating demons, helping dangers, relieving misfortunes, saving births, protecting fetuses, delivering children, and resolving doubts", he has made countless meritorious deeds to protect the country and the people, and his miracles have spread far and wide. It is widely recited and worshiped in Southeast China and Southeast Asia and many other places.

And because Chen Miaozhen acted like this divine hero in folklore, she also had good medical skills and was merciful, so she became well-known in Wuzhou and even in the entire Liangzhe area, and people regarded her as the fourteenth lady Chen The incarnation of Chen Shishi even called her Empress Chen Shishi. Of course, this is also because she used the name Chen Shishi to save people everywhere.

At the beginning, Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo wanted to rise up, but the four of them knew that they did not have the ability to call on the people to revolt with them, so they found Chen Miaozhen, and then used Chen Miaozhen's name to revolt.

After the uprising, Chen Miaozhen didn't care about anything, and still ran around to save the suffering.

And the uprising team they pulled up at that time was divided into four, controlled by Li De, and they had been fighting against Xiang De, the jailer of Wuyi.

The two sides fought back and forth more than 100 times.

In the end, the four concentrated their elite team and killed Xiang De in one fell swoop at Huangguling, shattering Xiang De's plan to join forces with other Song troops to capture Yongkang.

During this process, the four of Li De and their rebel army got a certain amount of training.

But before these four people showed their strength, Fang Layi's army annexed Hong Zai's army, and then wanted to annex these insurgents in Wuzhou.

In other words, Wuzhou, the place of the Four World Wars, really wants to be annexed by everyone.

At the beginning, when Hong Zai was powerful, he wanted to marry Chen Miaozhen, and then annexed Wuzhou in Chen Miaozhen's name.

Fang La did not want to gain both people and land like Hong Zai, but Fang La also repeatedly sent people to persuade Chen Miaozhen, hoping that Chen Miaozhen could lead the heroes of Wuzhou to vote for them in the Yongle Dynasty.

But Chen Miaozhen declined on the grounds that she didn't care about these things.

Chen Miaozhen's reputation here in Liangzhe is so good that Fang La really didn't want to attack Chen Miaozhen's Wuzhou by force, so as not to damage his image.

Of course, this was also because Fang La didn't want to force Chen Miaozhen and the others to Li Cun.

But Wuzhou is really crucial here. It can be said to be a wall in front of Hangzhou. If Wuzhou is not taken down, Fang La will not be able to defeat Hangzhou at all.

——In the southern area of ​​Hangzhou, Mudong, Wuzhou, and Yuebei formed a tight protection circle for Hangzhou, firmly blocking Fangla's territory from outside Hangzhou.

At present, Li Cun's general Zhang Datie occupies the Mudong area, and Li Cun's general Huo Chengfu occupies the Yuebei area.

If Fang La wanted to attack Hangzhou from these two areas, it would be impossible for Fang La to attack by force.

In this way, Fang La's only choice was to take Wuzhou, and when it was time to fight Hangzhou, he would go straight to Hangzhou from Wuzhou.

Therefore, here in Wuzhou, Fang La is bound to win.

But Chen Miaozhen was not at all interested in Fang La's solicitation.

Fang La had no choice but to bypass Chen Miaozhen and recruit Zhu Yan, Wu Bang, Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, Wang Guo, and the Zhu family, and promised them high officials and rich salary, hoping that they would lead troops to join him.

These heroes in Wuzhou also know that Wuzhou is caught between two major forces, the Huben Army and the Fang Layi Army. If they don't choose one side to join, they will be wiped out sooner or later.

But you have to vote, but these heroes in Wuzhou are arguing endlessly about who to vote for, and it is still a quarrel among the various forces.

For example, Zhu Yan wanted to vote for Li Cun, but Wu Bang thought that Fang La was more powerful, and Li Cun was dragged to death in northern Zhejiang by the Song army.

Similarly, Li De wanted to vote for Li Cun, but Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo also felt that Fang La was more powerful. They also believed that Fang La's territory had already surrounded Li Cun's territory. , will gain the fisherman's profit in the future.

On the contrary, Zhu's attitude was a little unclear.

Later, these people joined forces to find Chen Miaozhen, wanting to see if Chen Miaozhen, the nominal leader, could help them make a unified choice.

After listening to the opinions of Zhu Yan and others, Chen Miaozhen said: "Recently, I went to the land under the management of Fang Shenggong. What worries me is that in the land of ten states, there is not one young crop in ten."

After a pause, Chen Miaozhen went on to say: "However, when I went to the prefectures and counties under the administration of Li Dadu, it was completely opposite. There were green grass everywhere, the roads were not picked up, and the houses were not closed at night. I have been to northern Zhejiang no less than ten times, and I have never seen such a scene. In half a year, Li The Metropolitan Governor’s benefit to one side is just in line with our original intention of the uprising.”

Speaking of this, Chen Miaozhen said solemnly: "If you choose for me alone, my temperament will mostly follow the trend. If you choose for tens of millions of people in Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and for the common people in the world, I will definitely choose Li Dadu."

When Zhu Yan and the others heard this, they were a little moved.

But most of Zhu Yan and others did not have the heart of a bodhisattva like Chen Miaozhen. To put it bluntly, the reason why they revolted was actually to change their poor fate.

Therefore, what Chen Miaozhen valued was not what they valued the most.

Although Chen Miaozhen said that she did not choose for herself, in fact she had already made a choice. Therefore, seeing Zhu Yan and others hesitated, Chen Miaozhen said bluntly: "You and others have no capital, so you must vote for a strong man Enjoy wealth and honor forever, my master once taught me the art of observing people, Fang Shenggong himself said that he has the emperor's life, but from my perspective, it is not true, and Li Dadudu, with the appearance of dragon and phoenix, is the expression of the sun."

God is pitiful, except for medical skills, Chen Miaozhen has never learned anything from her master, even whether her master knows the art of face-to-face, she doesn't even say.

But people in this era are like this. Sometimes, the art of ghosts and gods is really more effective than reason.

In short, under Chen Miaozhen's persuasion, all the heroes in Wuzhou finally unanimously decided to vote for Li Cun, and then Chen Miaozhen went to Hangzhou to express their votes on behalf of the heroes in Wuzhou.

Fang Baihua met Chen Miaozhen in person, and the two chatted happily, so Fang Baihua simply kept Chen Miaozhen by her side.

Soon, Li Cun sent a group of generals, military supervisors and officials to help Wuzhou heroes reorganize the army and govern Wuzhou.

Together with these generals, military supervisors and officials, there are also a large number of promotions and military salaries.

Wuzhou's army is determined.

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At present, Li Cun has [-] troops ([-] navy and [-] army) in Jiangning Prefecture, under the command of Niu Meng.

Zhenjiang stationed [-] troops ([-] navy, [-] army), under the command of Zhao Han'er.

Shu Town has [-] cavalry troops under the command of Han Bie.

The Guangde Army stationed [-] troops under the control of Su Dong.

Suzhou stationed [-] troops under the control of Liang Zhen.

Xiuzhou stationed [-] troops under the control of Sun He and Qi Fang.

Changhua and Yuqian stationed [-] troops under the control of Liang Jin.

The Mudong area (Jiande area) stationed [-] troops, under the control of Zhang Datie.

There are [-] troops stationed in Shanyin and Xiaoshan, under the control of Huo Chengfu.

There are [-] soldiers stationed in the Qiantang area, which are controlled by two poles.

Fifty thousand soldiers were stationed inside and outside Hangzhou, under the command of Fang Baihua.

Plus Wuzhou's [-] and Wenzhou's [-].

The above armies are all rounded up, and fractions are not counted.

Li Cun has a total of about 45 troops in the two Zhejiang provinces!

In terms of military strength, Li Cundu lost neither the Song Army nor the Fang Layi Army in terms of military strength in the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions.

This is Li Cungan's confidence to come to Fujian to develop.

Of course, Li Cun came to Fujian to develop because the two Zhejiang provinces had already become a deadlock before. Li Cun, Fang La, and Zhao Song couldn't move, and no one dared to act rashly, especially Li Cun and Fang La, who were in a criss-crossed territory.

In addition to this, Li Cun came to Fujian because he had no money to support the 60 troops.

Some people may say that whatever money is given in the early stage of starting a business, just use the ideal to fool around.

So did the leaders of the unsuccessful peasant uprisings.

As a result, their armies were all about going with the wind and waves, against the wind, and beheading their leaders when they were in a hurry.

The point is, no one is a fool. You can fool a person with your ideals for a while, and you can fool a person for a lifetime?
Besides, rebellion, big brother, this is a matter of putting your head on your belt. If you don’t give money, how many people can sincerely continue to do it with you?

Let alone those heroes in Wuzhou, if Li Cun hadn't paid them a military salary, would they have honestly accepted the reorganization of the people sent by Li Cun?
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to conquer the world without money.

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Add more, brothers.

The monthly pass is better, I won't sleep, and I will add another update to my brothers in the second half of the night!
(End of this chapter)