Qian Song

Chapter 37
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"That guy Li Cun told me to go to Jingxiang?!"

Fang La seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world.

"Add a little to ten thousand, and you will be honored at the end of winter. Across the Zhejiang River, it will appear in Wuxing!"

"The place where Fangla made his fortune is in Wudi, in Liangzhe, not in Jingxiang!"

"That guy is obviously afraid that I will go to Wu to compete with him, so he casually points at me and deceives me. This is the guy's plan to slow down the army!"

Bao Kang knew that Fang La didn't read much, so he probably didn't know where Jing Xiang was, so he patiently drew a map and explained to Fang La:
"Jingxiang, also known as the Seven Counties of Jingxiang, was the place under the rule of Liu Biao during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was also the place where Emperor Liu Bei of the Shu Han Dynasty made his fortune. Here, there are three counties in the north of Jing, namely Nanyang County, Nan County, and Jiangxia County. There are four counties in Jingnan. , are Wuling County, Changsha County, Guiyang County, and Lingling County. If you go west from here, you can enter Bashu, and if you go east, you can enter Jiujiang and reach Jiangdong.

Bao Kang continued to explain to Fang La:
"Since ancient times in China, the boundary between the north and the south has been the line of the Qinling and Huaihe Rivers. The Qinling-Huaihe River is not only the division between the north and the south, but also the military division between the north and the south."

"The Qinling Mountains, starting from the border of Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, and ending in the west of Henan in the east, are the dividing line between Guanzhong and Bashu. It is extremely inconvenient to travel between the two places through the mountains."

"The Huaihe River starts from Tongbai Mountain in the west and ends at the sea in the east. It has many river basins and is also a natural dangerous place. Although the great river is dangerous to the south, the great river is the core of our Southern Dynasty. If it is lost, the general trend will be lost. Therefore, to guard the river, we must guard the Huaihe River. .”

"The combination of the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River forms a natural line of defense across the east and west."

"However, there is still a mouth between the two lines, which is Nanyang."

"If the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River are the two gates, the Nanyang Gate is also the axis."

"Nanyang is connected to Heluo in the north, passes through the customs in the northwest, and Jianghan in the south. It has been a place that military strategists have fought for since ancient times."

"If Nanyang is owned by our dynasty, the north can threaten the Central Plains, the south can control Jianghan, the west can seize Sichuan and Shu, and the east can return to Jiangnan."

"If I want to gain a foothold in the south, then Jingxiang must fight."

"Today, Zhao and Song Dynasty will surely decide that I will attack the south of the Yangtze River from the east, and I will attack the west from the east, and I will go down to Jingxiang in one battle, and seize the land of great prosperity!"

After listening to Bao Kang's detailed explanation, Fang La felt that Jingxiang was so interesting, so he hesitated and said, "Is Jingxiang really a place of great prosperity?"

Bao Kang shook his head secretly: "Li Zi is so generous and talented. If he is in Qingxi, he can choose Jingxiang to send to Fang La, but Fang La..."

Bao Kang really wanted to say that Fang Lashu was short-sighted and had no understanding of the general geography of the world.

It can be imagined that Fang La is the person he chose to overthrow the dark rule of the Zhao and Song Dynasty. Bao Kang swallowed back the words of cursing Fang La secretly, and at the same time comforted him: "Li Zihou knows everything, and he is omnipotent in civil and military affairs. He may not need me." As the assistant of my generation, although Fang La has some deficiencies, she can really make my generation show its strength."

After comforting himself, Bao Kang told Fang La in detail how good Jingxiang is. Li Cun didn't just find a place to fool him or harm him.

At the end, Bao Kang also added a sentence: "Jingxiang is also a land that produces grain. If there is food, it can support people, and if there are people, it can raise soldiers. Chu destroyed Wu, Qin conquered Chu, all based on Jingxiang, so Jingxiang has been obtained since ancient times. Those who win the world."

"Whoever wins Jingxiang wins the world?!" Fang La's eyes lit up.

Bao Kang knew that if he didn't make it clear to Fang La, Fang La would definitely go to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to compete with Li Cun for territory and cause internal friction, and then the Zhao and Song Dynasty would take advantage of it.

Moreover, Bao Kang also heard the prophecy about Fang La in "Tui Bei Tu".

——In fact, all the members of the Fang Layi Army know the prophecy about Fang La in the "Tui Bei Tu".

This is one of the reasons why Fang La has so many followers.

So Bao Kang knew that Fang La especially wanted to go to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

In order to dispel Fang La's thoughts, Bao Kang continued to draw a map on the ground with stones, and said: "If there is no Nanyang, there will be no Huai. If I occupy Nanyang, I can go directly to the Dajiang River along the Han River, and then go downstream along the Dajiang River to avoid it." The defense line of the Huaihe River went straight to the south of the Yangtze River."

Fearing that Fang La still couldn't understand, Bao Kang explained in detail: "At that time, my army can go to Xiangyang, Ezhou, Huangzhou, Shuzhou, Wuhu, and Jiankang, and then go directly south, approaching the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions."

Pointing to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, Bao Kang continued: "At that time, if Li Cun was the one controlling the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, our army would fight Li Cun decisively; if the person controlling Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions was Zhao Song, our army would fight Zhao Song decisively. , if we win, we can occupy all the south of the great river.”

Bao Kang added another sentence in his mind: "If you can't afford it, and Li Cun's momentum rises, Li Cun will also go up the river to snatch the land of Jingxiang."

"Whether you two win in the end, Zhao Song will die."

"This is Li Cunyang's plan, I will help it."

Naturally, Fang La couldn't decide on such a big matter easily, and now is not a good time to decide on it.

The sky is bright.

The sun shone bright red on the severed heads, arms, legs, and arms in the death pit.

The horses and mutilated corpses lying on the ground were scattered all over the place, and the blood-stained appearance was frightening. The dead Rebels and Song soldiers were lying together, and they could only be distinguished from their clothes.

There was a thick, sickening smell of blood in the air.

At this time, there were less than a thousand soldiers left in the Song Army under the leadership of Cai Zun and Yan Tan, fighting and retreating, while the rebels were still all over the mountains and plains, as if they would never be able to kill them all.

suddenly!

An arrow flew from nowhere and hit Cai Zun in the face.

Cai Zun fell down in response.

Seeing this, the Song army no longer resisted stubbornly, but under the leadership of Yan Tan, they broke a bloody road regardless of casualties and rushed out of the pit.

In the end, there were only less than [-] remnants of the army, and they kept running for more than ten miles.

Seeing that there were no pursuers, Yan Tan suddenly squatted on the ridge of the field and cried loudly, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers also followed Yan Tan to wipe their tears.

Yan Tan felt that he would definitely die if he went back, and he had no face to see Shangguan, let alone see relatives and friends.

The more Yan Tan thought about it, the more ashamed he became, he suddenly pulled out his sword and wiped his neck.

Seeing this, Zeng Sheng was about to go to stop it, when the locust-like rebels chased after him.

Zeng Sheng was so frightened that he quickly left Yan Tan's body and ran for his life.

When the rebels caught up and saw Yan Tan's body, they stopped chasing him—they soon went back to Qixian Village to find Fang La to receive the reward against Yan Tan's body.

Seeing that Yan Tan was also dead, Fang La was sure that the Song army was over, so he immediately led [-] rebels to attack Qingxi County.

Chen Guang and other officials and landlords in Qingxi heard from Zeng Sheng who had fled back that Zhao Song's [-] elite forbidden troops were wiped out by Fang Layi's army, and they hurried out of the city to flee for their lives.

Fang La broke into Qingxi County without any effort...

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At the same time, Li Cun also led the Huben army to Jiande City.

Jiande is the capital of Muzhou and a strategic hub of Liangzhe Road.

The Xin'an River flows from the west, joins the Xin'an River from the south through Quzhou in Jiande City, and then flows northeast until it reaches Hangzhou - the Fuchun River and the Qiantang River are downstream.

If Li Cunneng can occupy Jiande, he can go east along the Fuchun River, capture Hangzhou, and go straight to the ruling center of Zhao and Song in Zhejiang and Zhejiang; he can trace the Xin'an River westward, capture Shezhou, and enter Huainan; he can go south along the Xin'an River to capture Quzhou, Control the south and enter Jiangnan West Road, that is, attack Jiangxi.

Such a strategic point that can be advanced, attacked, retreated, defended, and extends in all directions, Li Cun is bound to win...

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(End of this chapter)