Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 449 A Thousand Miles Away (Please Subscribe!)

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The Jin army conquered Zhongjing, Emperor Tianzuo fled to unknown place, and Yeluchun proclaimed himself emperor in Yanjing. Zhao Ji and his ministers had already been informed of these three major events that happened one after another in Liao Kingdom.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Ji discussed repeatedly with Wang Fu, Zheng Juzhong, Cai You, Li Bangyan and other ministers.

Combined with Li Yan's "easy work", most of the cloud land was laid down.

Zhao Ji and his ministers came to a conclusion-the Liao Kingdom was doomed, and it was already vulnerable.

At the same time, this also gave Zhao Ji the illusion that Li Yan might not be that good at fighting, perhaps at the level of Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La. The reason why Li Yan was able to conquer most of the cloud so quickly was not because Li Yan was able to fight, but because It is because Liao is too weak.

As a result, Zhao Ji's already extinguished idea of ​​regaining the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun revived again, especially the situation on Tongguan's side was very good, seeing that Fang La's gang of rebels could be completely wiped out, which made Zhao Ji even more angry. Heartbroken.

In fact, it's normal for Zhao Ji to move his mind. After all, the Liao Kingdom is about to perish, who wouldn't want to take advantage of it?
However, while wanting to take advantage, Zhao Ji was still a little worried that Li Yan would go south, or that he had misjudged the situation in Liao.

Wang Fu suggested that the defenders on the border should continue to find out what was going on in the Liao Kingdom. If it was really vulnerable, they would continue to implement the strategy of uniting the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty, and take advantage of this opportunity to send troops north to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Cai You agreed with Wang Fu's suggestion.

However, Zheng Juzhong and Li Bangyan still opposed it—they believed that the Song Dynasty is now in troubled times, with internal and external troubles.

Two are in favor and the other is against, Zhao Ji is even more difficult to make a decision.

At this time, He Shen reported that two envoys sent by Yeluchun had arrived in Xiongzhou, and asked for instructions on how to deal with it?
Wang Fu believed that Yeluchun's proclaiming the emperor was an act of usurping the throne, and Song Dynasty would never admit it, and the two so-called envoys should be expelled from the country.

Cai You, Zheng Juzhong, and Li Bangyan supported Wang Fu's views.

Therefore, Zhao Ji wrote a letter to He Shen: "The Lord of Liao is still there, and the king of Yan is able to stand up? This is an unjust act. Song Dynasty refused to accept it, and immediately let the two so-called Liao envoys return."

Although Zhao Ji asked He Shen to drive Xiao Tabo and Wang Juyuan back, and did not make any statement, but in the face of the fragmentation of the Liao Kingdom, Zhao Ji had already moved his mind to send troops north to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

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For more than a month, Muzhou and Shezhou have been fighting fiercely.

How intense is it?
At the most intense time, one of the Song soldiers ascended first, and the two followed. That is, when one attacked, two followed behind. Go up, there is a tendency to not break the city and swear not to give up!
Yang Keshi, the mighty general in Shezhou, even risked his life to attack for six days and nights. The corpses of the Song Army piled up like a mountain, and the Liangshan Army and Fang Layi Army also suffered heavy casualties.

At the most critical moment, Yang Zhi and others almost had to abandon the city and retreat.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Hua Rong personally led troops to help, and only then repelled the Song army's attack.

Seeing that Song Jun was really playing with his life, Fang La was a little scared when he really didn't take people seriously.

So Fang La secretly ordered his second son Fang Hao to move the gold, silver and jewels he had looted from Hangzhou City and other places to Bangyuan Cave.

The terrain of Bangyuan Cave is dangerous, with dense forests and dangerous valleys. There are countless karst caves, large and small, deep and shallow. It can be said that the terrain is extremely complicated, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Obviously, Fang La was planning to occupy the Bangyuandong area and fight the Song army to the end.

It is fair to say here that although Fang La has many shortcomings, he has never wavered in the matter of opposing the Song Dynasty. You know, Zhao Ji has recruited Fang La countless times, but Fang La just ignored him. to the end.

It's okay to say that Fang La is going to continue to fight guerrilla warfare with the Song Army in the Bangyuan Cave area. He just needs to tell other people clearly that most people will understand Fang La and even support Fang La.

But Fang La was worried that his subordinates would not follow him. After all, they had a better choice, which was to escape to Wenzhou Port, and then take a boat to Li Yan's territory to live a happy life.

Therefore, Fang La wanted to hide gold, silver and jewelry behind everyone's back, so as to leave behind.

Actually, if Fang La does it a little more covertly, it's fine.

However, Fang Hao was not dexterous - when he was escorting the gold and silver treasures out of the city, because the horses were frightened, several carriages overturned, and the gold, silver and treasures were scattered all over the ground.

This was seen by many people.

Then a piece of news came out - Sheng Gong planned to escape alone.

Once spread to ten, ten to hundreds, the news spread more and more widely, and the more it spread, the more it changed.

The last version that came out had become that Fang La had run away with his family and gold, silver and jewelry, and then the whole Qingxi County panicked.

Later, even if Fang La heard the news and stood up to clarify the matter in person, he couldn't stop the news from spreading.

The most frightening thing is that the news reached Muzhou City.

The defenders in Muzhou City could barely hold on, but it was heard that Fang La had fled, and their morale plummeted to the bottom. Thousands of people escaped from Muzhou City that night.

Once the hole was opened, it was out of control—in just three days, nearly [-] people ran away, and the morale of those who didn't run away was extremely low.

Coincidentally, the Song army, eager to break through Muzhou City, launched a series of desperate attacks.

In order to boost morale, Fang Tian decided to fight against the city himself.

But how do you say that, if the earthen pot is not broken away from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle.

For some reason, it was just that inch, and a stray arrow just hit Fang Tianding's face, taking away the life of Fang Tianding, who was only in his early thirties.

As soon as Fang Tian hit the arrow, the already sluggish momentum in Muzhou City plummeted, and was then forcibly broken by the Song army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Bao Kang took over as commander-in-chief temporarily and led the defeated army to withdraw to Qingxi County.

Song Jun covered up and killed all the way, and chased him all the way to the city of Qingxi County. The corpses of rebel soldiers were all along the road.

The rebel army was defeated!

After finally escaping back to Qingxi County, Bao Kang and others hurried to find Fang La and asked what happened to the "Sheng Gong escaped" incident?

As a result, Chen Kuotong, Lou Minzhong and others who stayed behind told Bao Kang and others that Fang La, under the protection of Fang Wuxianggong and Fang Qifo's rebel army, brought his wife Shao, his second son Fang Bo (second prince), and prime minister Fang Fei. Waiting for the cronies to help Yuandong set up the defense line, there are now less than [-] defenders in Qingxi County.

When Bao Kang and the others heard this, they were furious: "Sheng Gong really ran away!"

Lou Minzhong explained for Fang La: "The Holy Duke didn't run away, but saw the defenders in Muzhou City fleeing back one after another. He expected that Muzhou City would definitely not be safe, so he took people to the back mountain to set up the last line of defense.", and then He also told Bao Kang and others that Fang La ordered Fang Hao to secretly transport gold, silver and jewelry and accidentally overturned the car.

After Bao Kang and the others listened, their expressions softened a little.

However, the outspoken Si Xingfang couldn't help but said: "In the final analysis, it's the Shenggong's selfishness that caused the trouble!"

When Bao Kang heard this, he immediately remembered that because of Fang La's selfishness and self-willedness again and again, their previous good situation disappeared. So he put his mind to one side, and said: "Everyone, should we discuss it, what should we do next?"

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(End of this chapter)