A journey to the heavens starting from the Red Mansion

Chapter 159
The Song Army in Jiangning Prefecture had been completely crushed by Lin Yao's will to resist, reshaped their world view, and did not dare to engage in any further acts of resistance.

The rebel army captured many of the Song army without any effort.

So many people have been captured, and more materials have been captured.

Except for some of the supplies in the military camp that were seized from above and below, most of them were well preserved during this battle. All these supplies were captured by the rebels in one fell swoop.

Let’s not talk about food. Before the soldiers and horses are moved, food and grass go first.The civil servants of the Song Dynasty only suppressed the generals, and they still understood the common sense.

The ships coming downstream through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal reduced the number of people eating and chewing horses during transportation, causing grain reserves to pile up like mountains.

There are plenty of grains, beans, and fodder. This heavy sense of fulfillment made a certain general named Lin from the Song Dynasty envious.

There are countless weapons such as swords, guns, axes, bows and crossbows, most of which are newly built or look like they have never been used.

Those logistics officers who knew the importance did not use waste products to fool the front line, otherwise it would be another story.

There is also a lot of armor stored, but it is not as good as the ones ripped from the prisoners. The two together have more than 5000 pairs, enough to equip half a division of heavy armored infantry.

In addition to armor for humans, there are also armors for war horses.

This number is a little less than the former, and more than 800 pairs were seized. From this, it can be seen that the weakness of the Song Dynasty is indeed the lack of war horses.

What surprised the rebels even more was that there were several large warehouses filled with firearms and gunpowder. These were used by the Song army to blow up the city walls, but they did not expect that they were all accepted by the rebels without any movement.

The remaining seven or eight warehouses were filled with long arrows for bows and short arrows for crossbows. The large number made the rebel soldiers who had previously relied on Lin Yao for most of their supplies stunned.

Besides, there is money.

The warehouse contains more copper coins than ordnance supplies. According to speculation, it should be prepared to boost morale.

Feudal armies have this kind of virtue, and they fought hard to make money.

Lin Yao once heard in the military camp that soldiers from the Northern Song Dynasty said that some of their arrogant colleagues, except for fleeing for their lives after losing the battle, would always try to find ways to ask for rewards.

Before going on an expedition, before the official start of the war, and after winning a battle, holding the enemy's head in his hand are three common times to ask for rewards from the Lord.

If you don't give it, you will mutiny, and you won't contribute, and you won't even be able to fight.

They were quite arrogant in the face of the generals sent from abroad. These big-headed soldiers did not understand each other, but they all understood that these foreign ministers would leave as soon as the battle was over.

If you don't ask for good money in advance, your life will really be ruined, and you will have nothing if you die.

At this time, the Zhao Guan family's signs are not easy to use. They only care about gold and silver.

And this situation is often very normal, no one thinks it is abnormal, so everyone thinks that the army that can fight without reward is really abnormal.

Such an army must have been swayed. There is something wrong with the person leading the army. He wants to rebel. Get rid of him!
Yue Wumu was too idealistic and didn't know that Zhao Gou was the "Nine Sisters of Wanyan". In addition, he violated the latent rules of the Song Dynasty, so he was killed by Wanyan Gou and Qin Hui for no reason.

Except for Yue Wumu, an outlier, and Wang Jiefu, who died a few years ago and was unable to recover, the armies of the Song Dynasty in other periods were almost in a state of inferiority.

Lin Yao also heard from the eight friends of Hangu who had traveled far and wide before, that there were some more "smart" armies near the border with Xixia.

When the two armies are fighting, shoot the first round of arrows, and then the second round of arrows will be fired only if the coach promises a reward, otherwise it will be all in vain.

Lin Yao was thinking that these people would never dream about the fourth natural disaster before, and they would never do anything without rewards.

Thinking about it later, it’s not surprising. The original generals drank the blood of soldiers, and with the civil servants who came down from time to time, who knew how much normal military pay would be deducted?
In this situation of not having enough to eat, these big soldiers who are always bullied do not think about what will happen if they lose the battle, and they are not qualified to think about it.

Their only thought is that if they don't exchange their lives for a reward at this time, there will really be nothing.

One can imagine what it feels like to fight with such an army, and how much quality such an army itself can have.

However, this is very normal and very common among the Song army.The local army will do this, and the Bianjing Army will do the same, and even do it more perfectly.This imperial army was the guarantee for Zhao Guan's family to securely sit on the throne, so they naturally had to spend a lot of money.

If these forbidden troops are not fed and everyone shares the profits, those big shots will not be able to sleep peacefully.

If dissatisfaction is not vented, it will not disappear under the wash of time. Instead, it will accumulate more and more, and completely explode at the highest point.

It can be seen from this that Lin Yao's rebel army is an anomaly in this era and seems out of place.

This is precisely because Lin Yao gave them everything they wanted, the allocated land, a stable and prosperous life for his family, and the more precious dignity and honor.

The latter is something that the Song army will never have, and even the former cannot be guaranteed one by one.

As long as normal people have no problem with their discernment, they will know who to follow, and they will go through fire and water without hesitation without Lin Yao opening his mouth.

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The outside world is destined to be unstable during this period.

The news that the Song army was defeated in Jiangning City and that various martial arts sects suffered heavy losses was like a hurricane, sweeping the entire world.

It spread to every corner of the world and reached Song Ting's ears.

On this day, everyone in the world remembered these two people.

A young man who was barely in his prime, and a young girl who was as young as her hair. These two people were invincible in the world.

A drastic change in Jiangning Mansion led to the death of countless old people in the world, and the world of the Song Dynasty fell instantly.

On the eve of Song Tingzhi's complacency and preparation to eliminate the rebel army in one fell swoop, he swept through many masters in the world.

The daughter of the Wang family of Mantuo Villa, with her slender and soft catkins, all the masters of Zen Buddhism and the Beggar Clan were killed, and many people in the world did not dare to take a deep breath.

Even though Xuanci survived, he died on the spot without saying a few words after returning to Shaolin.

Soon after, Shaolin, who was in constant panic, announced that it would close the mountain for a hundred years.

According to rumors, Lin Yao, the leader of the rebel army, is even more terrifying. He can summon a giant thunder god with incredible power and can wipe out hundreds of elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty with one blow.

These two were both decisive people, and everyone in the world changed their expressions upon hearing this.

Even if people who have never seen it do not believe that mortals can master thunder and lightning, the fact that the normally arrogant and arrogant sects wear filial piety and have white banners everywhere shows how brutal this battle is.

This battle made everyone in the world tremble with fear.This battle directly shattered the Song Army's will to resist in Jiangning Prefecture.

After today, no one in the world knows about it.These two men are so famous that some ordinary people in the world feel that they have witnessed the rise of legends.

The rebels had no time to spare at this time and directly captured Jiangning, Yangzhou and other important towns in the Jianghuai region, seizing important locations in these plains.

Then, instead of rushing straight to Bianjing or the entire Huainan East Road as people thought, they instead directed their troops towards Jiangnan East Road and Fujian Road.

When various resistance forces failed to respond, they directly turned their guns and chose to use Jiangliu to directly capture Jiangnan East Road and Fujian Road, which are adjacent to the two Zhejiang Roads.

Keep your feet on the ground and increase the true strength of the rebel army step by step, rather than choosing a once-and-for-all approach in the pursuit of quick success.

Eating too fast will always lead to indigestion.

The same goes for expanding the sphere of influence of the rebel army. Trouble will lurk in the dark when you are strong. Once you are weak, it will drag you into the abyss of destruction.

(End of this chapter)