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Chapter 863 The defeat of Mingjiao

The battle changed quickly. Once the city of Suzhou was broken, the officers and soldiers went straight to the outside of the city of Hangzhou.

Unlike the Mingjiao, the officers and soldiers only knew how to charge with their lives. Catapults, bed crossbows, and artillery all greeted them. A dozen fortresses outside Hangzhou were all destroyed.

Then came the siege, the officers and soldiers knew that Fangla people were in Hangzhou, like a beast smelling blood, Tong Guan personally supervised the battle, and the officers and soldiers attacked the city of Hangzhou frantically with their weapons.

After all, Fang La was no match for the government army, and suffered heavy casualties after several battles.

Fang La didn't dare to stay in Hangzhou City, so he led the army to the direction of Bangyuan Cave at night, where the road was winding and surrounded by mountains, which could resist the army.

Tong Guan took advantage of the situation and captured Hangzhou, and commanded an army to attack Muzhou, Yuezhou, Kuaiji, Yuhang, Lin'an, Yuqian, Changhua, Fenshui and Xincheng in batches.

After Han Shizhong was captured in Hangzhou, he led his troops back to Liu Yanqing's command.

In order to compete for military exploits, Xin Xingzong took the initiative to take on the task of attacking Yuhang, Yuqian, Changhua, Fenshui, Xincheng, and Lin'an counties.

The hard bone of Muzhou was handed over to Liu Yanqing, and Zhao Tan was responsible for attacking Yuezhou and Kuaiji.

Xin Xingzong is Tong Guan's confidant, and Tong Guan naturally has his heart for him, so he agreed to Xin Xingzong's suggestion and stayed in Hangzhou himself.

"Muzhou!"

Liu Yanqing frowned while looking at the map. The terrain of Hangzhou is relatively flat, but Muzhou is completely different. The mountains here are undulating, and there are countless steep mountains. The army cannot use its strength. It is not easy to capture Muzhou in a short time.

"Father, the trebuchet can't be used in this kind of terrain, I'm afraid we can only use artillery!"

Liu Guangshi looked at Liu Yanqing and said, the terrain in Muzhou is really difficult to fight.

"To control the capital, the last general is willing to lead troops to attack the city!"

Wang Yuan clasped his fists to ask for a fight.

"Well, you take three thousand pioneers to test the guards first!"

Liu Yanqing nodded.

Wang Yuan was overjoyed and quickly took Han Shizhong to attack the city.

"It's not easy to fight!"

Han Shizhong sighed and said.

"We have broken Hangzhou City, what a Muzhou is."

Wang Yuan said with a smile.

"It's different. From Hangzhou to Muzhou, they are all mountainous places, and it is difficult to march, let alone attack the city!"

Han Shizhong shook his head, mountains and plains are completely different.

"Besides, it's raining in the south of the Yangtze River! It's even more difficult to march in the upper forest. If the bandits use the weather to create floods, no matter how large the army is, it will be useless!"

Han Shizhong pointed to the gloomy weather and said, the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is coming.

"This!"

Wang Yuan's face became bitter again. He didn't expect so much. In the past, spring and summer were the best seasons for fighting in the Northwest. There was no autumn in the north. Hu Tian said that it was snowing in August, and snowing was equivalent to The mountain is closed.

Sure enough, as Han Shizhong said, Fuyang was successfully won, but it ran into trouble when it reached Baifengling.

Bailing Peak has high mountains and dense forests, steep terrain, winding mountain roads, and hundreds of feet of cliffs outside the road, which is daunting. There is only one plank road that clings to the mountain wall for passage.

And guarding Baifengling is Fang La's Marshal Tan Gao, who is in command of Bai Qin and Jing De.

The attack for three consecutive days was not going well, which made Liu Yanqing unable to sit still, and came directly with the army, but seeing the plank road where only one carriage could pass, and the nearby cliff, his expression was gloomy.

"No wonder Xin Xingzong didn't come to fight Muzhou!"

Liu Yanqing looked helpless, this kind of terrain was not something that could be conquered by a strong attack.

"Father, although the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are undulating, they are not very tall. I see that there are many villagers in this mountain. Why don't you find the mountain road and go around to the back!"

Liu Guangshi said, the terrain like plank road must not be attacked by force.

"Okay, send someone to ask the villagers!"

Liu Yanqing was overjoyed and hurriedly spoke to the soldiers.

"Liu Du is in control! This place is still hundreds of miles away from Muzhou, and the road is steep and steep. It may take a month to reach Muzhou if we fight like this!"

Han Shizhong spoke to Liu Yanqing.

"Do you have any idea?"

Liu Yanqing looked at Han Shizhong and asked.

"The final general heard that Fang La was fleeing from Lin'an to Bangyuan Cave, and the final general wanted to lead an elite army across the mountains to rob him!"

Han Shizhong said.

"Hit Fang La!"

Liu Yanqing frowned, he had heard about it, Fang La originally wanted to fight in Lin'an, but once Tong Guan's army arrived, a small town like Lin'an couldn't stop it.

"Okay, you take a thousand elites over the mountain!"

Liu Yanqing nodded and said, if Fang La was allowed to escape back to Bangyuan Cave and defend the mountain, the battle would have to drag on for a long time.

"Thank you Liu Du for controlling!"

Han Shizhong was overjoyed, bowed to Liu Yanqing and left with his troops.

"General, is it inappropriate to do this?"

Wang Yuan looked at Liu Yanqing and asked, Tong Guan's order was for them to fight Muzhou, and now it's crossing the line to divide troops to help Yuandong, Tong Guan's heart is also very small.

"A thousand soldiers and horses!"

Liu Yanqing shook his head and said, he also has selfish intentions, Fang Lana is the greatest credit, the emperor has said that "the one who wins the wax head will be awarded the two towns."

The two towns of Jieyue are the two towns of Jiedushi. Although the Song Dynasty emphasizes literature and suppresses martial arts, the Jiedushi is in charge of the soldiers of one town. Not jealous?
Valley.

Sun Lei is leading people to wait on a mountain, this is the only way back to Bangyuan Cave.

"Brother, Fang La will arrive at dawn."

Shi Qian came to report.

"Everyone has arrived. The Jiangnan incident should be over. The rainy season is coming soon. It's better to go back to Liangshan to feel more comfortable!"

Sun Lei nodded and said, he went out in February, now it is April, Jiangnan has entered the rainy season, and the weather will soon become rainy and humid.

"Brother, it's all here!"

Du Po, Wang Jin and others said with a smile that they had arrived secretly.

As the sky was getting brighter, Fang La and his party finally appeared.

"Your Majesty, Fuyang is broken, and the army is preparing to attack Muzhou."

Lou Minzhong went to report to Fang La.

But Fang La couldn't listen to these things at all, his face was livid and he was in a very bad mood.

Seeing this, Lou Minzhong could only keep his mouth shut silently. Since losing Hangzhou, Fang La thought about fighting to the death in Lin'an, but the result was still a disastrous defeat. The successive defeats had already made Fang La lose an inch.

"How many soldiers and horses do we have?"

It took Fang La a long time to speak.

"Shezhou and Muzhou have not yet been broken. Including Bangyuan Cave, there should be 10 people!"

Lou Minzhong said, this is the last strength of Mingjiao.

"10 people! 10 people!"

Fang La murmured, when his Mingjiao was at its peak, there were 52 counties in eight states, with millions of believers and 30 troops, but now there are only two states and [-] followers.

"Am I so inferior to Sun Lei!"

Fang La gritted her teeth in her heart and said, he only occupied eight states, but Sun Lei occupied twenty states!The court couldn't beat Sun Lei, so they came to bully him?Picking soft persimmons?
"Your Majesty, as long as we stay until next month and when the rainy season comes, we promise to drive away the government troops, Jiangnan will still be ours!"

Li Tianrun looked at Fang La and assured him.

(End of this chapter)