Qian Song

Chapter 57 The Terrible and Honorable Enemy

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After reading the secret letter sent by Zhang Chao in a hurry, Li Cun secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it is Tan Zhen, not Tong Guan."

Although Li Cun clearly remembered that Tong Guan started to lead the Western Army southward in the first lunar month, but if Li Cun's arrival changed history and Tong Guan led the Western Army southward in advance, then all of Li Cun's plans may be possible. It will all become fantasy, at least Li Cun can no longer be as calm as he is now.

Now, it's Tan Zhen, not Tong Guan, and Tan Zhen hasn't brought the Western Army here yet, so Li Cun has nothing to worry about. After all, history has fully proved that Tan Zhen is a man of great ambition and talent. For concern.

in fact--

Li Cun really wanted to lead the army to the north now, so as not to be so worried all the time.

But the problem is that now there is no condition for Li Cun to lead his army northward.

The first is the question of the number of troops.

With all the fighting and calculations, the Huben Army now only has more than 6 people, and half of them are recruits recruited in Hangzhou.

Without simple training for these recruits, it would be difficult to bring these recruits along the Yangtze River, let alone fight.

The point is, only these 6 people are not enough for Li Cun's current use.

You know, in history, Fang Qifo led an army of [-] to the Northern Expedition, and he returned in defeat shortly after leaving Hangzhou.

Of course, there are reasons why Fang Qifo and Fang Layi's army can't do it, but it also shows to a certain extent that it is simply not feasible to go north with 2 to [-] people.

Besides, Li Cun couldn't take all the Huben army away.

If Li Cun really did this, as soon as Li Cun left, someone would definitely come and steal Li Cun's home.

In addition, the current establishment of the Huben Army is also in a mess.

Moreover, as a person who aspires to overthrow Zhao Song and replace him, Li Cun must not let any of his generals become stronger and bigger. Therefore, Li Cun must control the number of direct troops under his generals.

Therefore, Li Cun must reorganize the Huben Army.

Then there is the armor.

A will not talk about it, if there is no one, then there will be no more.

But there must be a weapon, otherwise how would we fight this battle?
And Li Cun's goal this time is to recruit [-] troops.

As far as the weapons that Li Cun had saved before and the weapons he captured in Hangzhou were not enough for the 10,000+ Huben soldiers.

Now, Li Cun can only let the craftsmen hurry up to make the armor, and at the same time send people to attack the county towns and landlords in Hangzhou, and then transport all the captured armor to Hangzhou for unified distribution...

After reading the secret letter, Li Cun did not discuss Tan Zhen's going south with Zhang Chao, but asked Zhang Chao: "How are Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er preparing? Open the gates of Suzhou City and Huzhou City?"

During this period of time, Li Cun didn't bother to bury his head in development, he also started to send people to contact the heroes who led the crowd.

Lu Shinang from Taizhou, Qiu Rixin from Yuezhou, Huo Chengfu, Chen Kuutong, and Hong Zai from Chuzhou, Zhu Yan, Wu Bang, and Chen Miaozhen from Wuzhou, and even Li Cun, the Demon King Zheng from Quzhou, sent people to contact them. .

Of course, Li Cun did not forget to send someone to remind Fang La to go to the Jingxiang area as soon as possible, especially to occupy Xiangyang as soon as possible, so as to block the Song army from taking the middle road down the Yangtze River.

However, none of the above-mentioned people is the focus of Li Cun's current strategy. Li Cun's current strategy focuses on Suzhou Shisheng and Huzhou Lu Xing'er.

Suzhou and Huzhou are two important checkpoints for Li Cun to go north this time, and these two states are also the barriers of Zhenjiang and Jiangning Prefectures. If Li Cun can easily win, then it will be easy for Li Cun to go north.

fine--

As soon as Li Cun sent someone to contact, Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er, who were alone and lonely, immediately expressed their willingness to help Li Cun take down Suzhou City and Huzhou City.

Of course, this was also because Li Cun did not treat Shi Sheng and Lu Xing'er badly.

——Li Cun directly asked Su Sheng and Lu Xinger to send 1 taels of garlic gold to each of them, and let them use it as activity funds, and then promised that as long as Su Sheng and Lu Xinger could help him take down Suzhou City and Huzhou City, he would let Su Sheng and Lu Xinger win Each of the two commanded an army and became the senior generals of the Huben Army, and each of their men also received promotions.

Zhang Chao replied: "Both of them said that they have already made preparations. As soon as my Tiger's army arrives, they will immediately open the gates of these two cities for our Tiger's army and lead the army into the city."

Regarding Su Sheng and Lu Xing'er's words, Li Cun still believed them, because the two of them once rose up in Suzhou and Huzhou in history, and made a lot of noise, and now Li Cun gave them a lot of money to help them. You can also use Li Cun's banner. In this case, Suzhou and Huzhou should have no problem.

Li Cun asked again: "Is there really no hero in Xiuzhou who can win the city gate for our Tiger and Ben army?"

Regarding the road to the north, there is currently only one problem facing Li Cun.

This problem is Xiuzhou next to Hangzhou.

Historically, Fang La sent Fang Qifo to the Northern Expedition. Fang Qifo divided the army of the Northern Expedition into two, and sent a [-] side army to Huzhou, preparing to attack Jiangning Mansion, and then personally led an army of [-] to fight the show. State.

But here in Xiuzhou, Fang Qifo suffered a big defeat.

——Fang Qifo led an army of [-] to attack Xiuzhou for more than half a month, but failed to attack repeatedly. This gave the Zhao and Song Dynasty enough time to enable the reinforcements of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to cross the Yangtze River and enter the Zhejiang and Zhejiang regions , In this way, a turning point appeared in the war.

Moreover, there is another person in Xiuzhou that Li Cun is extremely afraid of.

This person is——Chen Yu, a famous anti-gold general in the Northern Song Dynasty.

When it comes to famous generals in the Song Dynasty, the first thing that people think of is Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Liu Kai, these famous generals in the Southern Song Dynasty.

But in fact, there were also famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty.

And Chen Yun is one of them.

What's even more rare is that Chen Yun is truly capable of both civil and military skills.

It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Yu was just unlucky, otherwise, his achievements would definitely not be inferior to those of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, and Liu Qi.

Chen Yun is a well-educated scholar who has become a Jinshi, and no matter where he is an official or what he does, his political achievements are extremely outstanding.

In history, Chen Yun also created "Jingzhimoney". In the seven roads of Huaihe, Zhejiang, Jianghu, Fujian, etc., he increased the income from selling wine, villiage, business tax, dental tax, deed tax, boss money, and building shop money. An additional [-] Wen was collected each time to be used for the scripture system, which raised enough military expenses for the Song Army to suppress the Fangla Uprising.

In addition, the water conservancy in Hangzhou was also repaired by Chen Yun.

The most important thing is that there were five epic defense battles during the Song Dynasty, two of which were fought by Chen Yun.

Everyone knows Zong Ze.

But few people knew that Zong Ze was only the deputy marshal, and Chen Yun was the marshal.

However, at that time Chen Yu was trapped in the Zhongshan Mansion to defend Zhongshan, and later the Jin State besieged Zhongshan. Let Zongze have the opportunity to control the soldiers and horses of the world.

After Jin Bing entered the city, he saw Chen Yu's corpse standing in awe, and praised him as "a loyal minister of the Southern Dynasty", and buried him in Tiezhu Temple.

It can be said that Chen Yun is the kind of talent Li Cun wants most.

Extremely loyal.

Extremely capable.

Extremely unwavering.

It's a pity that Chen Yun was not only Li Cun's subordinate, but also Li Cun's enemy -- an enemy that Li Cun might not be able to recruit even if he tried his best.

In Xiuzhou with Chen Yun, even Li Cun did not have the confidence to take down Xiuzhou in a short time without sufficient gunpowder weapons.

Unless there is a hero in Xiuzhou who can open the gate of Xiuzhou for Li Cun, or there is a traitor like Sha Zhen beside Chen Yun.

Based on this, Li Cun asked Zhang Chao to plan the matter early.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chao directly poured cold water on Li Cun: "Just as I was about to report to the general, Xiuzhou has enforced fortified walls and cleared the wilderness, and the whole city is under martial law."

After a pause, Zhang Chao took the initiative to say: "The people sent by the subordinates to Xiuzhou have not sent any news for two days. At this time, even if there is any news from them, the general must be cautious. "

Li Cun understood that Zhang Chao was reminding himself that the people he sent might have been captured by Chen Yun and the others, and the news from Xiuzhou was no longer reliable.

After Li Cun heard this, he sighed leisurely: "It seems that we can only send a large army to lock up Xiuzhou City, but...who can we send to keep Chen Yun in check?"

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(End of this chapter)