Qian Song

Chapter 96 Fang La: I have millions of soldiers (read more!)
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During the period of Li Cun's vigorous development, Fang La was not idle.

No.

To be precise, during the period when Li Cun helped Fang La block the main force of the Song army, Fang La's rebel army rose completely.

Fang La sent Fang Qifo to go north to capture Xuanzhou. Fang Qifo took advantage of Li Cun's busy fighting with the Song army and had no time to take care of Xuanzhou. Hangzhou border.

It can be said that in the north, Fang La threatened most of Li Cun's territory with Xuanzhou alone.

In addition, Fang Qifo was afraid that the rear would be unstable, so he sent troops to capture most of Chizhou, and pushed the rear to the edge of the Yangtze River, so that he could sit back and watch the Huben army fight the Song army and wait for an opportunity.

At the same time, Fang La attacked the area south of Muzhou with the troops of Fang Wuxiang.

Here in Quzhou, thanks to the help of the Manicheean Dharma Protector Zheng Demon King, Mr. Fang Wu quickly captured the entire territory of Quzhou.

Fang Wuxianggong, Zheng Mowang and other Fang Layi troops who attacked to the south did not stop their footsteps after they captured the whole territory of Quzhou—they joined forces and continued to go deep into Chuzhou.

After Huo Chengfu and Chen Kuutong left Chuzhou, Hongzai, who was originally active in the southern area of ​​Chuzhou, developed rapidly.

Hong Zai first captured Longquan, then went to Songyang, occupied the common city, and divided his troops to attack Suichang.

Songyang gentry Zhao Yucai and Deng Ying organized landlord armed forces to resist Hongzai's rebel army's northward advance in Mengshan.

Hong Zai personally led more than a hundred people in a boat to the rear of Zhao Yucai, Deng Ying and others. All of them tied a silk handkerchief on their heads and attached a mirror. , defeated Zhao Yucai and Deng Ying, and the officials, gentry and nobles in the nearby counties fled.

Hong Zai occupied the whole territory of Chuzhou in one fell swoop.

Hong Zai robbed and killed officials, gentry and nobles, robbed their money and food to distribute to the poor, and recruited brave men, which made his team rapidly expand, and he claimed to have 40 people.

It can be said that apart from Li Cun and Fang La, Hong Zai has almost developed into the third largest force here in Liangzhe.

In fact, Fang La knew that Hong Zai had been using his name to develop and grow.

Therefore, after Fang Wuxianggong and Zheng Demon King entered Chuzhou, Fang La sent Fang Wuxianggong and Zheng Demon King to threaten Hong Zai with a large army, and at the same time sent people to recruit Hong Zai.

Although Hongzai occupies the state of Chuzhou and has many troops under his command, Hongzai's geographical location is very bad.

——Fang La is on the left of Hong Zai, Chen Miaozhen, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang and others from Wuzhou are on the top, Fujian is surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea in the east, which is difficult to reach by land, and on the right is Master Lu, the protector of the Manichaeism It can be said that Hong Zai is completely surrounded by Nang and Yu Daoan (also known as Yu Daweng), who has recently risen and is developing towards Wenzhou.

Hong Zai once sought to unite with Chen Miaozhen, the soul of Wuzhou, and even wanted to marry Chen Miaozhen as his wife, so that the two families could become one family.

But Chen Miaozhen looked down on Hong Zai.

Chen Miaozhen said to the left and right that Hong Zaikong had ambitions but no great wisdom, so she must not be a person who can achieve great things. Therefore, not only did she not agree to marry Hong Zai, she was even unwilling to join forces with Hong Zai.

Hong Zai was completely trapped to death in Chuzhou.

If you choose between Fang La and Li Cun, Hong Zai is actually more willing to defect to Li Cun, because now everyone can see that although Li Cun has not been restructured in Jianyuan, Li Cun's structure is obviously bigger, and he is more likely to achieve great things On the other hand, Fang La, although Jianyuan has been restructured, but the structure is too small, and it is destined to have limited achievements.

But because Chen Miaozhen was in the way, even if Hong Zai wanted to vote for Li Cun, he couldn't vote. The key point is that Li Cun was dragged to the north of Zhejiang by the Song army. In Hong Zai's view, even if he accepted his surrender, Li Cun would take care Without him, he would still have to be eaten by Fang La, who was bound to win Chuzhou.

There is no other way, Hong Zai can only invest in Fang La.

After getting Hongzai's Chuzhou, Fang La not only harvested a large number of Hongzai's troops, but also naturally connected his territory with Taizhou's Lu Shinang's territory, and even with Yuezhou's Qiu Rixin's territory.

In this way, Fangla's territory surrounded the Huben Army and Wuzhou from the entire southern Zhejiang area.

Now, Fang La is actively contacting Chen Miaozhen, who he had met once, hoping that Chen Miaozhen can lead the heroes of Wuzhou to serve him.

If Fang La's goal can be achieved, Fang La will have completed the siege of Li Cun's stronghold of Hangzhou.

At the same time, Fang La has been attacking the cities and landlords' armed forces in its territory.

A considerable number of people in Fang Layi's army are followers of Manichaeism. After these believers with fighting spirit joined the battle, Fang Layi's army seemed to be unstoppable.

However, on the other hand, the participation of religion in the war also made the war more cruel and bloody.

——Fang Layi's army captured all the officials of Zhao and Song Dynasties and killed them all, and they did not kill them in general. Instead, they pulled out their intestines, cut off their limbs, put them in an oil pan, or shot them randomly with arrows, showing the The extreme character of religiously colored wars.

However, because Fang La's steps were too big, he didn't have time to attack the armed landlords in his territory one by one.

In this case, Fang Fei and Wang Gong and Laofo suggested that Fang La could ask the gentry and nobles in his territory for money for his life—that is, as long as he paid a certain amount of money to Fang La, Fang La would not beat these gentry and nobles. Once the men and horses break through the Zhuangzi of these gentry and nobles, they will torture and kill the entire family of these gentry and nobles.

In order to avoid a bad death, almost all the gentry and nobles in Fang La's territory accepted the blackmail of Fang La's army.

This life-buying money has now become the most important means for Fang Layi's army to make money.

Relying on this policy, Fang Layi's army made a lot of money in a short period of time, and became very rich.

In addition, in order to develop rapidly, Fang Layi's army used the name of ghosts and gods to confuse ignorant people and let them join the ranks of the rebel army.

Later, it gradually evolved into that as long as they attacked a place, Fang Layi's army would force the people in that place to join them. Therefore, Fang Layi's army enlisted a large number of people who were not willing to participate in the uprising to join the uprising.

You can say that Fang Layi's methods are somewhat despicable.

But you have to admit that this will indeed allow Fang Layi's army to develop and grow in the shortest possible time.

Today, the Fang La Rebel Army has grown to nearly a million, occupying Shezhou, Xuanzhou, Chizhou, Quzhou, Chuzhou, Taizhou, Yuezhou, most of Muzhou and a small half of Wenzhou. Its strength and territory are no longer unprecedented in history. Under Fang La, even on the surface, he is no longer under Li Cun.

This is actually quite normal.

After all, in history, Fang La in this period has been wiped out by the Song army, and the whole family is being escorted to Bianliang City in Tokyo to wait for death.

But now, with Li Cun helping Fang La withstand most of the pressure from the Song Army, Fang Layi's army has not yet been hit by the main force of the Song Army, and with the help of the Manichaeism, Fang La's army can naturally develop wantonly , grows savagely, and can even connect the areas controlled by Manichaeism.

It is worth mentioning that, judging from the current situation, there seems to be nothing wrong with Fang La's refusal to go west to capture the Jingxiang area.

You must know that Manichaeism does not have such a deep foundation in the Jingxiang area. Fang La went there, it is certainly impossible to develop and grow so fast.

Now, Fang La has a million soldiers, occupying almost the land of Kyushu, and his strength seems to be more than double that of Li Cun, and he has surrounded Li Cun's territory.

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(End of this chapter)