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- The general in charge of Tonglu County in Muzhou was Lu Shinang. After attacking and killing Fang Baihua, he took over the power alone. He also took advantage of the severe drought to seize more than a dozen state capitals. He was even more powerful than Fang La at the beginning. (Literature Hall Lu Shinang did not call himself the king, but called him General Pingnan.
Lu Shinang was not complacent. He knew that the real combat power of his troops was not as good as Fang La's original rebel army.
The main force of Fang La's rebel army is the Manichaeans who were trained privately. The leaders of the cult, Wang Yin, Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, Fang Qifu, Fang Jie and others, are also brave enough to be worthy of any man. At the beginning, Fang La divided his troops into two groups, intending to use the North Route Army to unify the Jiangnan East Road and then face Tong Guan's troops, so he put all the elite soldiers in the army into the North Route Army. The twelve gods in the south of the Yangtze River assigned to him were all second-rate figures in the religion. He later conquered more than a dozen state capitals. Although he also recruited some heroes, there were no strong generals who could compete with Shi Bao and Deng Yuanjue.
His troops were inferior to Fang La, Fang La was inferior to the Western Army, and the Western Army was inferior to Daliang. Therefore, when Lu Shinang heard that Daliang was sending troops south, he quickly mobilized 300,000 troops to Muzhou to prepare to resist Daliang.
The recruits under Lu Shinang were not as good as the recruits of the Southern Song Dynasty. There were some generals in the Southern Song Dynasty who knew how to train troops, but most of Lu Shinang's subordinates were Manichaeans. They were good at worshiping fire and praying to gods, but they were amateurs in military training. However, Lu Shinang was also luckier than the Southern Song Dynasty. The Jiangnan Bureau formed by Li Li was mainly active on both sides of the river. The state capital of the Southern Song Dynasty was close to the river, so it was heavily infiltrated by the Jiangnan Bureau. Under the encouragement of Xi Zuo, the Jiangnan recruits committed suicide without fighting. Collapse. Lu Shinang's territory was farther south, and the Jiangnan Bureau's forces had not penetrated yet, so Lu Shinang's military situation was better than Zongze's. When 300,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Muzhou, not many fled.
But after Daliang wiped out the Southern Song Dynasty with the force of autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, the number of deserters under Lu Shinang began to increase. Lu Shinang could only close the camp tightly and hope that Daliang soldiers and horses would arrive as soon as possible for a showdown.
When the detective horse came to report, Daliang soldiers and horses had already camped twenty miles outside the city. Lu Shinang summoned his generals to discuss, and finally sent 50,000 troops to attack at night, 20,000 veterans, and 30,000 new recruits. If he succeeds, it will be enough to defeat Daliang's soldiers and horses. If he fails, he still has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and it will not affect the overall situation.
After the soldiers and horses who attacked at night left the city, Lu Shinang could not sleep. He spent the whole night waiting for good news, even worshiping gods he didn't believe in from time to time. Although the destruction of all the troops sent would not affect the overall situation, if the night attack failed, he really did not have the confidence to defeat Prince Daliang head-on.
Overthrowing the Song Dynasty, defeating the Liao Kingdom, wiping out Xixia, and forcing the Southern Song Dynasty to surrender, these glorious achievements were all achieved in one year. Qin Huang and Han Wu could not do it. Neither can Tang Zong or Song Zu. Prince Daliang is the god of war who has not appeared for thousands of years. Maybe he is actually a god of heaven, but people like them who were born in the same era are destined to be supporting roles.
It wasn¡¯t until five o¡¯clock that I heard someone announcing outside the house.
Lu Shinang hurriedly called someone in.
The person who came was the Diao Ke Shen Fang who was in charge of the city's defense tonight. Fang also didn't sleep a wink all night, waiting for news at the west gate, and finally waited until a broken army came back. He hurried over to report the news.
The Prince of Daliang was like a big mountain pressing on their heads, making them unable to breathe. The more they knew about Prince Daliang's record, the more panicked they became. On the contrary, the soldiers who had vague knowledge were less frightened.
Lu Shinang looked at Fanchou's anxious expression and sighed. Said: "Failed?"
Fanchou nodded and said: "The soldiers and horses of Daliang were on guard for a long time. As soon as they entered the camp, an ambush arose in the camp and they were swept out of the camp. They escaped a few miles. Another ambush force came out and scattered them. There are only a few hundred soldiers who have just escaped. They are still brothers from our religion. Once the recruits disperse, I'm afraid not many will come back."
Lu Shinang nodded and said: "Be careful, don't let Liangshan spies sneak into the city."
Previously, Tong Guan massacred all the people in Muzhou in order to prevent the Manichaean believers who were mixed among the people from sneak attacks. After Fangla was destroyed, although people came to Muzhou to farm, Muzhou was still sparsely populated. The huge Tonglu County only had a few hundred households. After the news came that Daliang was going south to wipe out the Southern Song Dynasty and Lu Shinang, Lu Shinang had people strengthen the Tonglu city defense and expand the military camp. This time Lu Shinang raised troops to resist Daliang, and all his troops and horses were in the city.
"Follow your orders."
Wang Changchang hurried back to Ximen and mobilized his troops to take precautions.
Sheng Guanchang did not dare to open the city gate, but used hanging baskets and ropes to drag the defeated troops up to the city. Fortunately, it was daylight soon, and the situation outside the city was clearly visible.
Not only were there no soldiers and horses from Daliang within a few miles, but there were also no defeated troops returning to the city. Until the city gate was opened, only a few thousand defeated troops came back.
After Guan Chun handed over the city defense, he came to Lu Shinang again to report.
Lu Shinang didn't sleep all night and was a little tired, so he could only drink tea to refresh himself. When he saw the arrival of Fan Chou, he asked his soldiers to give him a cup of tea.
Ranchou couldn't wait for tea, so he said anxiously: "General, there are less than 5,000 troops and horses back, and none of the leading generals have returned."
Lu Shinang was also stunned and asked, "Zhang Jinren and Gao Keli haven't come back either?"
"The brothers who escaped from the sect said that Zhang Jinren was beheaded by a double-sword wielder, and Gao Keli was knocked off his horse by Fang Jie's halberd. It would be difficult to save his life even if he fell from his horse in the midst of the chaos."
Zhang Jinren and Gao Keli can be said to be the two with the highest martial arts skills among the Twelve Jiangnan Gods. Without these two, only the Six Jiangnan Gods are left in Tonglu County. Qingtian Shen Fuzhou Shen Gang and Liuding Shen Mingzhou Xu Tong led 50,000 troops to guard Fujian Road and guard against Li Gong on Guangdong Road. The Dunjia God Yingming is in Muzhou, and the Youyi God Pan Wende is defending Wulong Ridge.
Of course, there are many new generals. On that day, Lu Shinang instructed Qingtian God Shen Gang to attack and kill Fang Baihua and Fang Jie. Unexpectedly, Shi Bao broke through and rescued the two. Lu Shinang was worried that Fang Baihua would make the matter public and split his troops. Although Fang Baihua and the other three were talking nonsense, Lu Shinang still led his troops south to Fujian Road, away from Jiangnan Road where Manichaeism had the most eyes and ears. Later, the soldiers recruited were mostly heroes from various places instead of Manichaeans, to prevent Fang Baihua from suddenly jumping out to seize power.
Muzhou has 300,000 soldiers and horses. Except for the 100,000 soldiers and horses led by the ten gods of Jiangnan, the other 200,000 soldiers and horses are all led by heroes recruited later. In the past, Lu Shinang could be said to have relied on Manichaeism to conquer the world, but now it is Manichaeism that relies on Lu Shinang to preach.
When Lu Shinang heard Fang Jie's appearance, he ignored Zhang Jinren and Gao Keli and said, "Fang Jie is here? And Fang Baihua and Shi Bao are also here?"
"Shi Bao killed General Li Wu and didn't see the Holy Aunt. If the Holy Aunt was here, he would definitely not let them kill the brothers in the sect."
Li Wu was a foreign hero recruited by Lu Shibao. He bumped into Shi Bao. He didn't know that the wind-splitting knife in Shi Bao's hand was a treasured sword. After two hard blows, Shi Bao cut off the weapon in his hand with one knife and took it away with another knife. life.
Lu Shinang was relieved when he heard that Fang Baihua was not there. Fang Baihua is a holy aunt and has a very high status in the religion. If Fang Baihua comes forward to mobilize the Manichaean congregation. The Manichaean soldiers and horses of the Jiangnan Twelve God Leaders will definitely split. Although he appointed twenty new generals, the most powerful ones were the 100,000 veterans of Manichaeism. If the 100,000 veterans split, his strength would be reduced by at least one-third.
??Fang Changchou looked at Lu Shinang hesitantly and said, "I heard a piece of news. I don't know if I should tell it or not."
Lu Shinang said: "But it doesn't matter."
"Brothers in the church said that the general ordered Shen Gang to plan to attack Sheng Aunt and Fang Jie. Marshal Shi Bao hit him and killed Shen Gang's troops, but Sheng Aunt was shot to death. Fang Jie and Shi Bao came here to find Shen Gang and the general took revenge."
Lu Shinang's face immediately changed, and he patted the table and said: "Nonsense, Shen Gang told me that Chao Yong sent people to look for Saint Aunt, and Saint Aunt took Fang Jie north. They must have taken the initiative. Now I want to Helping Chao Yong to dominate the world, he deliberately undermines the morale of our army."
Shanchou hesitated and said: "If Saint Aunt is still there, then we can send people to ask for peace from Daliang. Daliang came to unify the north and wipe out the Xixia and Southern Song Dynasties. The morale of our army was not high to begin with. The failure of yesterday's night attack made it even worse. It¡¯s not easy to resist the enemy. The holy lady and I are both from Manichaeism, so we probably won¡¯t see our religion fall.¡±
But Lu Shinang knew that Fang Baihua was most likely really in trouble. That day Shen Gang was killed and retreated, and Fang Baihua was also seen getting hit by an arrow. I just don¡¯t know if the injury is serious or not. Now it seems that Fang Baihua must be dead, otherwise if Fang Baihua's temperament cannot persuade Chao Yong, he might fall out with Chao Yong and go to Jiangnan to protect the foundation of the education. Even if they don't come, they will definitely not let Fang Jie and Shi Bao help Daliang to kill the brothers in the sect.
"Daliang unified the north, destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, and was about to unify the world. Wouldn't it be humiliating ourselves to seek peace? Duke Sheng had previously preferred death to humiliation and refused the Song Dynasty's call for peace. How can we fall behind? There are still twenty in Tonglu. There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but the beam is only 80,000 strong, so we may not be defeated.¡±
When Daliang sent troops, Lu Shinang¡¯s subordinates had a proposal for peace, but most people did not agree. Everyone felt that Daliang could only go south with 100,000 troops. There were 200,000 troops from the Southern Song Dynasty ahead, and Lu Shinang still had 4 to 50,000 troops under his command. Most people felt that Daliang could go back in disgrace. It wasn't until Daliang defeated Zongze's 150,000 troops in the First Battle and forced the Southern Song Dynasty to surrender that the people who fought in the main battle began to feel that Daliang, which unified the north and wiped out Xixia, was not something Jiangnan's soldiers and horses could resist. The voices asking for peace became much louder, but Lu Shinang had something in his mind. He guessed that Fang Baihua might be in Chao Yong's army, so he insisted on talking about it after the battle.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The Song Dynasty¡¯s recruitment was before Tong Guan¡¯s army went south. When Tong Guan's army went south, the Western Army's proud soldiers gathered together, and the court spent a lot of money to arrest Fang La, but Fang La had no chance of survival even after he surrendered.?.
But it cannot be said that Fang La would rather die than be humiliated, and did not want Lu Shinang to think that he was timid, so he could only lower his head and drink tea.
The night attack failed. Lu Shinang also knew that Daliang would raise troops to attack within half a day, so he immediately summoned the generals in the city to discuss countermeasures.
Sure enough, after the generals in the city heard that the night attack failed and none of the five generals came back, the voices for peace became louder.
While everyone was still arguing, the general in charge of the sentinel came to report: "Daliang soldiers and horses have come out of camp and are coming to Tonglu."
Lu Shinang immediately suppressed the arguing generals and said: "Although the attack on the camp failed last night, the troops and horses of Daliang must be exhausted. Chao Yong will attack with exhausted troops, which will bring his own defeat. All generals obey the order and go quickly." Get your troops together and follow me out of the city to defeat the enemy."
"yes"
When everyone saw Lu Shinang¡¯s order, they all had no choice but to stand up and obey.
More than 200,000 soldiers and horses came out of the city to form an array. It took a full hour. The entire army was divided into the front army, the middle army, the left army, and the right army. With the Tonglu City at its back, each army had more than 50,000 people.
As soon as they formed their formation, the army of soldiers and horses appeared on the horizon.
Although there are only 80,000 soldiers and horses in Daliang, they are still boundless, and the lineup is much neater than that of Jiangnan soldiers and horses.
When the two armies faced each other, the Jiangnan recruits, who had never experienced a war, couldn't help but tremble in their legs. But under the myth of the prince's invincibility, few of the recruits in Daliang were timid.
As soon as Daliang soldiers and horses took up their positions, Fang Jie flew out. Shouted: "Where is the thief Lu Shinang?"
Many Manichaean believers knew Fang Jie, and when they saw Fang Jie scolding Lu Shinang in formation, they couldn't help but talk about it.
"Seeking death."
When the generals in the front army who didn't know Fang Jie saw that Fang Jie was just a young man, they immediately rushed out of the formation to take the lead.
Fang Jie was furious when he saw someone working for Lu Shinang. He waved Fang Tian's halberd in his hand and went to greet him.
The two horses crossed each other, Fang Jie turned sideways to avoid the attack, and Fang Tian's painted halberd in his hand stabbed out like lightning. Then he dismounted the general.
The mourning keeper Shen Peng rode out of the battle and shouted: "Fang Jie, you are also the leader of the sect, why did you help Daliang to kill my brothers in the sect?"
Fang Jie and Shi Bao sneaked into Tonglu County and only found some familiar middle-level brothers. He didn't dare to find anyone among the twelve gods in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Lu Shinang killed my aunt. Today I want to avenge my aunt. Who dares to stop me? Don't blame me for being ruthless with Fang Tian's painted halberd."
When Shen Peng heard Fang Jie say that Lu Shinang killed the holy aunt, he was stunned on the spot.
Fang Jie clasped his fists and said, "Lu Shinang killed the holy aunt and should be killed according to religious rules. Please don't stop me, General Shen."
Shen Bian was regretting his participation in the battle at this time. Now he was in a dilemma. After hesitating for a while, he said: "You said that General Lu killed the holy aunt, is there any evidence?"
Shi Bao, who was helping Fang Jie hold down the formation, heard this. He rode his horse out of the battle and said: "I broke out of Bangyuan Cave that day. After recovering from my injuries, I went to Wenzhou to find you. When I arrived outside the city, I happened to encounter Shen Gang and his men attacking Shenggu and Fang Jie. I killed Shen Gang and saved them. Fang Jie. But the saint was shot in the center and died."
Shi Bao's status in the church was slightly higher than that of Lu Shinang, and Shen Bian listened to Shi Bao's words. I believed it seven points in my heart.
"Master Lu, take out the bag."
"Master Lu, come out"
"Master Lu, take out the bag."
The Manichaean believers in front of the formation were talking a lot. One of the believers who had received favor from the Fang family shouted, and many Manichaean believers followed suit.
Seeing this situation, the Jiangnan recruits also started talking about it.
Lu Shinang was in the middle army and could not hear the conversation in front of the formation. When he saw the front army making loud noises, he hurriedly sent someone to check.
"Fang Jie and Shi Bao said in front of the formation that the general killed the holy aunt, and now the brothers in the church asked the general to go out and confront him."
Hearing this, the Manichaean generals around Lu Shinang also became suspicious.
On that day, Fang Baihua and Lu Shinang had already made a plan to alienate Tong Guan's soldiers and wanted to attack Huzhou to avenge the holy aunt. Within two days, Shen Gang suddenly said that Fang Baihua had taken Fang Jie north to find the little overlord Chao Yong. . Many people felt something strange at the time, but they did not expect that someone would kill the holy aunt.
At this time, when they heard Fang Jie say that Lu Shinang had killed Fang Baihua, they couldn't help but become suspicious. If Fang Baihua was here, the command of the Manichaean army would at least be divided into two. Without Fang Baihua, Lu Shinang would be able to monopolize power.
Lu Shinang glanced at the expressions of the people around him and saw that the Chinese army was also a little commotion, so he could only say: "Is this the kind of person this general is? Let me confront Fang Jie."
After saying that, he rode towards the front army.
When the Manichaeans saw Lu Shinang¡¯s flag moving, the noise gradually became smaller.
Lu Shinang??I also regretted the previous formation of troops. He put 20,000 teaching troops and horses in the front army, 10,000 in the left and right armies, and 20,000 in the center. Originally, he wanted the teaching troops and horses to suppress the formation, but now he let them All four armies were in chaos. If the soldiers and horses in the teachings cannot be quelled, there is no need to fight this time, and the plenary meeting of the four armies will be defeated.
When Fang Jie saw Lu Shinang coming to the front of the formation, he held Fang Tian's painted halberd tighter and tighter.
Shi Bao heard Fang Jie's fingers crackle and said hurriedly: "Don't be impulsive. It won't be too late for us to expose his villainous face and then kill him."
Hearing this, Fang Jie suppressed the urge to hit the horse.
Lu Shinang came out of the battle, clasped his fists and said, "Marshal Shi and General Fang, long time no see. You two are the leaders of my religion. How can you help Daliang to kill my brothers in the religion?"
Fang Jie's eyes widened and he glared at Lu Shinang and said: "If you hadn't killed my aunt, how would I have fought against all the brothers. A good man does what a good man should do. If you admit it, I will give you a pleasure. If you don't admit it, , when I catch him, he will be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.¡±
Lu Shinang frowned and said, "I heard from Shen Gang that day that the Little Overlord sent someone to see you, and then you went north. When did I kill the holy aunt?"
Fang Jie yelled: "The prince didn't send anyone at all. You ordered Shen Gang to trick us out of the city, and then ambushed the archers in the valley. They wanted to shoot us, but they didn't want to be defeated by Marshal Shi who came to meet us and killed us." Archer, but my aunt was shot to death. Do you recognize it?"
Lu Shinang ignored Fang Jie, turned to look at Shi Bao, and said, "Is what Fang Jie said true?"
Shi Bao nodded and said, "It's absolutely true."
Lu Shinang frowned and said: "Since Marshal Shi said this, there must be no lie in this matter. I didn't expect that Shen Gang was so crazy that he dared to kill the holy aunt. I will let people take down Shen Gang and let General Fang Handle it with your own hands.¡±
Fang Jie didn¡¯t buy it, and glared at Lu Shinang: ¡°Without your permission, would he dare to harm Saint Aunt and me?¡±
Lu Shinang shook his head and said: "I really don't know about this. If you don't believe it, we will confront Shen Gang face to face when we catch him."
Shi Baodao: "Where is Shen Gang?"
"He is on Fujian Road."
Fang Jie frowned and said, "He is your confidant, otherwise you would not have let him stay behind. How could you not know what he did?"
Shi Bao nodded and said, "I'm afraid that when you go to catch Shen Gang, he will have already run away, right?"
Lu Shinang really thought like this. Everyone knew that Shen Gang was his confidant. If he captured Shen Gang and asked Fang Jie to execute him, then who would be willing to follow him. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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