Qian Song

Chapter 54 Envy, Jealousy and Hate

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Just as Li Cun was trying to make Hangzhou his own solid rear and prepare for the northward movement in the shortest possible time, Fang La, who was still in Qingxi, also learned that Li Cun had captured Hangzhou City.

This news was brought by someone who came to vote for Fang La.

——The visitor was quite puzzled, wondering why Fang La didn't go to Hangzhou City, the political, economic and cultural center in the southeast, to call for an uprising from the heroes of the southeast, and nestled in the small county town of Qingxi?

Knowing that Li Cun had brought down Hangzhou City, Fang La regretted it!
After so many days, Fang La and his group finally realized that the five thousand forbidden troops led by Cai Zun and Yan Tan were the only combatable soldiers in the direction of Hangzhou. As long as this combatable soldiers were eliminated, Hangzhou could be said to be Easy to get.

In other words, the most difficult battle was fought by Fang Layi's army, but the biggest benefit was taken away by Huben's army.

After his subordinates analyzed this possibility, Fang La hid in Chen Guang's room alone, and smashed all the furniture inside with a sword.

gas!
So pissed!
Fang La was almost pissed off!

Back then, when Li Cun went to the East, almost everyone thought that Li Cun was courageous and dared to be the first in the world, a great hero who stood up to heaven and earth, and even Fang La couldn't help admiring Li Cun's courage.

Who would have thought that the reason why Li Cun dared to march so decisively was because Li Cun judged that Hangzhou was empty, and that he could almost take over all of Hangzhou without bloodshed.

The good reputation and benefits were all taken by Li Cun, but the battle was fought by Fang La at a huge price of [-] to [-] casualties.

May I ask, in this situation, can Fang La not be angry?

Some people may want to ask, is Li Cun really calculating like this?
There are indeed reasons for this.

Don't look at Li Cun's usual use of a few Zhuangzi to gain experience for the soldiers of the Huben Army regardless of casualties, you think Li Cun doesn't care about the life and death of the soldiers of the Huben Army.

That's just the opinion of dumb people.

The Huben Army was trained by Li Cun bit by bit, even if he lost any of them, Li Cun would definitely feel distressed.

But then again, how could it be possible not to die in a war?Especially in the era of cold weapons, wars must be based on human lives, even if you are the winning side.

In order to reduce the number of deaths in real wars, Li Cun can only let the soldiers of the Huben Army hone their fighting skills with life and death.

but--

Although Li Cun is going to use war to train the Huben army, it doesn't mean that Li Cun will fight any kind of war.

For example, in a head-to-head confrontation with the Song Army's Forbidden Army, Li Cun would definitely not fight if he could not fight at this stage.

Li Cun has never been conceited to think that with a new army that has only been trained for more than a month and is short of troops, it is easy to defeat an imperial army that is armed to the teeth and has many real cavalry, even if the number of its own is Six times that of the opponent.

In fact, if Li Cun was allowed to fight in the Xikeng, without using firearms, the results of Li Cun's battles and the final casualties of the soldiers of the Huben Army would never look much better than Fang La and the others.

After all, Li Cun really couldn't give the order to use the lives of the old and the weak, women and children to consume the stamina of the imperial army, and Li Cun didn't have the ability of the Manichaeism to fool people into dying one after another.

Just imagine, at that time, there were only more than 3 Huben troops, and more than 1 were killed and injured at once. Then Li Cun could rush to the Yangtze River in time, and after arriving along the Yangtze River, he would still have enough troops to prevent the more powerful Western Army from going south ?

So Li Cun decisively surrendered the five thousand imperial troops led by Cai Zun and Yan Tan to Fang La.

To this day, although the mystery has been revealed, no one still thinks Li Cun is despicable. People only think that Li Cun has precise strategic vision and far-reaching plans, and they are even more in awe of Li Cun.

But Fang La was not on this list.

Fang La has no admiration for Li Cun, only envy and jealousy that are becoming more and more difficult to suppress, especially after hearing that Li Cun has captured Hangzhou City.

Fang La looked at Bao Kang with cold eyes.

——Fang La felt that if Bao Kang hadn't been lobbying him to go to the Jingxiang area, making him unable to make up his mind to go east, Hangzhou might be his.

Bao Kang knew what Fang La meant by looking at himself.

Regarding this, Bao Kang felt that Fang La was making trouble for no reason.

Not to mention that Li Cunben took the lead, even if they moved eastward, they would definitely not have Li Cunkuai.

I just want to say that Li Cun can see through the emptiness of Hangzhou and his strategy of resolutely surrendering the [-] forbidden troops to them in the first ten days. Even if they follow Li Cun to Hangzhou, Li Cun must have a way Let them get nothing.

You Fang La and Li Cun are obviously not in the same order of magnitude, okay?

In this case, of course, you have the opportunity to separate, and you still have to ask for trouble, isn't this a disease? !

Bao Kang took a deep breath, and then continued to suggest to Fang La: "Now that the tiger and cardinal army has occupied Hangzhou, the Zhao and Song courts will definitely send troops to the southeast soon. I can no longer stay in this dead place of Qingxi. I should go to Jingxi as soon as possible." Xiang is."

Fang La was furious: "Go west! Go west again! Brother, don't you know that Shezhou is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River. There are Guo Shizhong and five thousand forbidden troops stationed there, and their troops have already been fortified, blocking our army's way to go west!"

Bao Kang also couldn't suppress his anger a bit: "How can there be an uprising without fighting? How can the whole world be enshrined in the hands of the Holy Duke for nothing?"

Fang La said in a loud voice: "Why should our army fight hard, while Li Cun is sitting back and enjoying the success, and he still has a good name, Hangzhou?"

Bao Kang almost blurted out: "It's just because Li Cun has far-reaching schemes than Fang La!"

Fortunately, Bao Kang held back at the last moment, and then swallowed back the words that would greatly weaken Fang La's prestige, and changed it to: "Now Li Cun occupies Hangzhou, and there are [-] tigers and tigers. The struggle between advancing and fighting is no different from hitting a stone with an egg, and if we compete with Li Cun's snipe and clam, it will definitely benefit the fisherman of Zhao and Song Dynasties. If we don't move, we will be trapped and die in Qingxi. Where do we go? Public decision."

After Bao Kang kicked the ball to Fang La, Fang La was speechless like a duck whose neck was pinched.

It's not that Fang La doesn't want to say it, but that Fang La really doesn't know what else he can say?
Fang La wants to go to Hangzhou, the kind that he really wants to go to.

But the situation is just like what Bao Kang said, Li Cun now occupies Hangzhou and has become stronger and bigger. He can't beat Li Cun even if he goes to Hangzhou. It was wiped out by Zhao Song.

I was aggrieved for a long time.

Fang La suddenly pulled out his sword and split Chen Guang's case in half, then gritted his back teeth and said two words: "Western Expedition!"

December fourteenth of the second year of Xuanhe.

Fang La led the rebel army to march west to Shezhou.

Although Guo Shizhong had already set up defenses in an attempt to block the way of Fang Layi's westward advance.

But Shezhou also has oppressed people everywhere.

As a result, as soon as Fang Layi's army arrived, they immediately received their active cooperation.

So in the first battle of Fangla, the middle part of Guo Shizhong was wiped out under the city of Shezhou, and even Guo Shizhong himself was killed in battle.

The people in Shezhou City could no longer bear the dark rule of the government, so they rose up in the city. After killing the state officials and county lieutenants, they opened the city gate to welcome the Layi army into the city.

Soon after, with the help of the downtrodden people of Shezhou, Fang Layi's army conquered all of Shezhou.

The westward march was so smooth, which made Bao Kang feel that their westward march to the Jingxiang area was a very correct strategy.

On the other hand, Fang La, although he took over the land of Yizhou so easily, he still misses his Zheshui and his Wu land...

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(End of this chapter)