Qian Song

Chapter 131 Step by step (ask for a monthly pass!)
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In the decisive battle between the Song Army on the Western Front and the Fang Layi Army, the winner is undoubtedly the Song Army on the Western Front.

However, although the Song Army on the Western Front won this decisive battle, they suffered heavy casualties and were unable to fight in a short period of time, and were even unable to continue to encircle and suppress the remnants of Fang Layi's army.

So the main force of the Song Army on the Western Front was stationed in Shezhou, cleaning the battlefield, counting the trophies, resting the army, and reorganizing the prisoners...

Ordinarily, during this period when the Song army on the western front was licking his own wounds, Li Cun could not worry that the Song army on the western front would suddenly come to the east of Zhejiang, but Li Cun still strengthened the defense line centered on Jiande to guard against the Song army on the western front Abruptly giving up the purge, the remaining [-] Fang Layi troops entrenched in Qingxi went straight to Hangzhou.

Because there is a decisive battle with the Song army on the northern front and defense against the support of the Song army on the western front, you have to be careful when dispatching troops.

Li Cun discussed with his advisers and staff for a long time, and considered for a long time, and finally decided:
Don't move Zhang Datie's Huben Army. After all, Zhang Datie's soldiers are familiar with the front line of Muzhou.

Huo Chengfu's Huben Army, which was deployed in the lower half of the Xin'an River, could not move either. This department must beware of the Song army on the western front detouring from southern Zhejiang to attack Hangzhou.

The Huben Army of the Liangjin Division in Changhua and Yuqian cannot move. For the same reason, this division must guard against the Song Army on the Western Front detouring north of Zhejiang to attack Hangzhou.

Of course, if the Song army on the western front goes to Xuanzhou or Chizhou and directly enters Jiangning Mansion to merge with the Song army on the northern line, then Li Cun can't control it-this is not the area controlled by Li Cun, Li Cun just wants to control it, and he can control it. no.

But if that's the case, that might be a good thing. Li Cun puts his best effort, maybe he can take advantage of the Song army's lack of understanding of firearms, and defeat the two Song armies together once and for all, saving him from having to work hard twice in the future.

The [-] troops guarding Hangzhou could not move.

——Hangzhou is the basic base of the Huben Army, and it must be guaranteed that there will be no mistakes.

However, Fang Baihua is about to give birth, so she must not be allowed to lead the army at this time, at least she must find a deputy.

In view of Niu Meng's incident, Li Cun put his abilities back in the choice of the generals who stayed behind. Li Cun didn't want to be like Liu Bang, whose hometown was occupied by Yongchi, and he didn't want his wife and concubine to stay with the enemy for three years .

Therefore, Li Cun selected among his generals, and finally chose to transfer back Zhang Goudan, who had successfully conquered Beifenshuiguan and Xianxiaguan, and basically pacified the Fubei area.

The first reason why Li Cun chooses Zhang Goudan to guard his house is that Zhang Goudan's loyalty is absolutely no problem;
The second reason is that in the past six months, Zhang Goudan has gained a lot of training with Li Cun in the South and North Wars, especially some time ago, Zhang Goudan led the army alone to fight in the Fubei area. It is not comparable to those who have not fought a big battle yet;

The third reason is that Zhang Goudan is not as impulsive as Kong Lianzi, which is similar to his name. This guy likes dogs when he is fighting, so he is more suitable for guarding the house.

Along with Zhang Goudan, there were also the remaining troops left in Fujian by the Front Guard Army and the Rear Guard Army.

Although Li Cun had already created two types of firearms, the Thunderbolt and the Unconscionable Cannon, and for the sake of safety, he also equipped some important troops with them, allowing them to be used as killer weapons.

However, due to the constraints of materials, technology, and productivity, the output of firearms has been unable to increase.

This makes all the troops on the front line not really equipped with firearms. Only some flagships of the navy and Jinling City and Zhenjiang City have a certain number of thunderbolts and heartless cannons, but they only have them, but they are not familiar with them. Two kinds of weapons, because Li Cun had issued a strict order not to use these two secret weapons unless it was absolutely necessary.

At the current stage, there are actually only two armies that have truly mastered these two types of firearms—the front guard army and the rear guard army.

Only the soldiers of the Shenji Front Battalion and the Shenji Rear Battalion in the Front Guard Army and the Back Guard Army had the luxury of using these two firearms for live ammunition training, and they had completely mastered the use of these two firearms.

The soldiers of the other battalions of the Front Guard Army and the Rear Guard Army know how to cooperate with the special style of play of these two battalions.

Therefore, on the occasion of this crucial battle, the other battalions of the Front Guard Army and the Rear Guard Army must be brought back—the Shenji Front Battalion and the Shenji Rear Battalion have been by Li Cun's side, and Li Cun will take them wherever he goes. Well, when Li Cun came back from Fujian, he naturally brought back these two Shenji battalions.

By the way, although the god-level battalion is named after "battalion", it actually has 500 people, which is equivalent to an army.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered Kong Zhong (Kong Lengzi) to be the governor of the capital of Fujian, and to manage all the troops and military operations in Fujian.

The position that Niu Meng couldn't get at the beginning, is now easily obtained by Kong Lianzi.

But Kong Lianzi didn't appreciate it, and wrote seven memorials to Li Cun, requesting to go to the front line to participate in the war, and "kindly" recommended Li Cun to guard Fujian, saying that the second pole had rich experience in guarding the house and was suitable for guarding the home. , he is suitable for charge.

Kong Lengzi's request was directly ignored by Li Cun.

On the other hand, after Er Ganzi heard about it, he asked his wife to write, he dictated, and wrote a letter to Kong Lengzi.

The specific content of this letter is unknown to outsiders. Only Li Cun learned from Hu Tu and Zhang Chao respectively that the second pole sent greetings to all the women in Kong Lengzi's family.

After learning about this, Li Cun really wanted to see what the letter written in beautiful fonts and full of vulgar language looked like.

In the end, Li Cun transferred Yu Dao'an's department to Quzhou as a firefighter for Zhang Datie's department and Huo Chengfu's department, just in case.

After making his territory solid, Li Cun began to mobilize the army to go out with him.

Li Cun first mobilized the six armies of Zhu Yan, Wu Bang, Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, Wang Guo and Zhu from Wuzhou.

The reason why Li Cun was the first to focus on the [-] troops in Wuzhou was that they were still an unstable factor.

These rebel armies in Wuzhou were relatively late to vote for Li Cun. Although all of these rebel armies were reorganized by the Huben Army, the Huben Army also placed a large number of supervisors in these six armies.

However, the secret agents of Wu Desi and the supervisors of these rebels all reported that Zhu Yan and others like to do small tricks, such as always showing kindness to their subordinates, and always having small private gatherings and so on.

Of course, Zhu Yan and the others haven't made any major moves yet.

In this regard, Li Cun can also guess some of Zhu Yan's psychology.

It's nothing more than that, I'm used to being a small warlord, and I always feel that when there are heroes in troubled times, some people are the straw kings.

In addition, Zhu Yan and others have not met Li Cun since they voted, so it is inevitable that they still do not have a sense of belonging to the Huben Army.

Therefore, Li Cun is going to let Zhu Yan and others get to know him well, and completely accept the hearts of the six armies in Wuzhou, lest they make wrong judgments in the future, let him useless, and harm their wealth and lives .

Of course, the reason why Li Cun brought the six armies in Wuzhou was also because these six armies were the largest armies he could currently draw.

In addition to the [-] troops from Wuzhou, the [-] troops from the Second Pole Department, the [-] troops from the Eastern Soviet Union, the [-] troops from the Sun He Department, and the Liang Zhen Department were among the troops that went north with Li Cun to fight the Song Army on the Northern Front. [-] troops.

Plus [-] guards and nearly [-] guards.

Total: Li Cun brought 25 troops to the decisive battle this time.

In addition, Li Cun brought another 20 civilian husbands.

Most of these 20 civilians are composed of the defeated Fang Layi army. They actually have a certain combat effectiveness, and their combat effectiveness may even be stronger than some Huben armies.

However, on the one hand, these Fang Layi troops have just experienced a major defeat, their hearts are unstable, and they cannot be reused; second, the organizational systems of these Fang Layi troops have all been disrupted and cannot be used, of course, even if their organizational systems have not been disrupted Li Cun can't trust them now; three times, there are many Manichaeans in these Fang La rebels. These people are elite soldiers in Fang La, but they are unstable factors in Huben Army. military.

Therefore, Li Cun can only use these Fang Layi troops as civilian husbands first, and at the same time let Zhang Shi personally lead the team to identify, educate, train, and reorganize these Fang Layi troops.

Lian Zhanbing Jiaminfu plus the navy army helping to transport food, grass and supplies, the total is less than 48, and it is claimed that there are millions of soldiers.

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After several days of mobilization and marching, all six Wuzhou armies arrived at Yuhang, the place where the Northern Expedition was assembled.

The six Wuzhou armies were not evenly distributed.

The army led by Zhu Yan and Wu Bang is about [-] in total. The strength of the army led by the two can be regarded as the strongest in the Wuzhou army.

Among Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo, Li De's tribe is the most powerful, with 2 people, and the remaining three have [-] each.

The Zhu family has almost 2 people.

These have already eliminated the old, weak, women and children. Before that, only Zhu Yan and Wu Bang had declared that they had [-] troops.

After the six Wuzhou armies arrived in Yuhang, there were special personnel to meet them immediately, and professionally led the armies to their garrisons.

In order not to put all eggs in one basket, there is one camp for each army here.

The tents are for ten or 50 people, and they set up camps in the shape of a character. The distance between them is not far or close, so that they can support each other without affecting each other.

In the camp, the convoys of baggage, those carrying food, those carrying armor, those carrying tents, and those carrying the wooden fences of the camp, made sword carts and formed a circle, dug ditches outside the camp, set up horse-repelling formations, antlers, Dig a sinkhole.

More than a dozen watchtowers have been erected, evenly distributed in places with good visibility, to ensure that the army will not be stolen by the enemy.

There are also countless braziers densely distributed in the village-this is mainly prepared to avoid being stolen at night.

The rice is all this year's new rice, and the dishes are thick fish soup and seasonal vegetables stir-fried in a large pot. One meat and one vegetable, the tangy fragrance can be smelled from a long distance.

Moreover, temporary toilets have been set up in each camp.

On the whole, although the environment is not very good, it is clean and hygienic. Although the food is not as good as the meat that Li Cun promised at the beginning of the uprising, at least it can meet the meat every time.

The key is professionalism. Living in such a camp, you can sleep at night with peace of mind.

As soon as the soldiers of the Wuzhou Army arrived here, they were very satisfied.

Zhu Yan and the others got together again after seeing their respective camps.

Wu Bang said: "Don't look at other things, just look at this camp, and you will know that the governor must know the soldiers."

Wang Guo said: "During this time, it's okay to sleep in the wild for a few days. Go to the front line as soon as possible."

Zhu Yan said: "What do you know, the governor is always step by step, decisive battle, but not in a hurry, Fang Shenggong suffered from this."

Zhu asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Zhu Yan said: "If Fang Shenggong didn't rush to find a battle, but instead occupied the fortified city and used defense instead of attack, and fought step by step with the Song army, and dragged the Song army in the two Zhejiang provinces to slowly consume them, it may not be known who will win the battle."

Dong Ju said: "That also needs to be consumed by Fang Shenggong. He is not afraid of fighting a protracted war like Dadu Du, who has countless provisions and supplies."

Jiang Cai said: "Now that the Song army has entered Zhejiang and Zhejiang, there is no shortage of food."

What Jiang Cai meant was that the people in northern Zhejiang had food, and the Song army could grab the food from the people in northern Zhejiang.

Zhu Yan said with a smile: "Seizing food loses the hearts of the people, and winning the hearts of the people is short of food. The general governor is not rushing forward, and has already won the first place. He has planned a strategy and won thousands of miles. It is said that my family's general governor is a master of tactics."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yan got up: "Let's go, everyone, let me see with my own eyes how heroic this great governor of my family is?"

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(End of this chapter)