Qian Song

Chapter 97 Destiny? ! (Please follow up!)
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Muzhou, Jishan Zitongyuan.

This is not the first time Fang La has come to Zitongyuan.

Fang La is already very familiar with the relics "Tianziji" and "Wannianlou" left by Chen Shuozhen here in Zitongyuan.

But this time Fang La's mood was quite different from before.

Because Fang La felt that the "Tianziji" and "Wannianlou" that were close at hand were really very close to him. As long as he waited for a while, and when one side of the Song Army and the Huben Army defeated the other, he could lead the An army of one million wiped out the other side with the force of thunder, and then he could monopolize these two Zhejiang regions, ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, and then he led an army of one million to sweep the entire Jiangnan. Then you can go to the Central Plains to completely defeat Zhao Song and rule the world!
Bao Kang, who was very close to Fang La, saw Fang La's chest heaving violently, and knew that Fang La was living his big dream again.

There was a trace of sarcasm at the corner of Bao Kang's mouth.

Ever since Bao Kang persuaded Fang La to strictly control spring farming like Li Cun, and not put all his thoughts on grabbing land and money, and Fang Layang obeyed, Bao Kang has completely broken with Fang La, who is ambitious and talented.

Now, the reason why Fang La takes Bao Kang with him everywhere is to let Bao Kang see how beautiful he is now, and to tell Bao Kang that if I listened to you and went to the Jingxiang area where the birds don’t shit, How can there be such a land of millions of soldiers and Kyushu?
And Bao Kang also wanted to watch Fang La set up the Zhulou, watch Fang La feast the guests, and watch Fang La's building collapse.

Therefore, Fang La and Bao Kang have formed a tacit understanding. It can also be said that the two have completely competed. They all want to see how far Fang La can go in order to conquer the world according to his own ideas.
Hong Zai also saw Fang La's excitement, and he suggested: "Why don't you go upstairs and sit on the dragon chair?"

Fang La said with a confident smile, "No rush."

Yes.

Fang La is in no hurry.

Fang La still has this bit of patience.

Fang La also firmly believed that he could win the final victory.

At that time, Fang La will walk up to the "Tianziji" and "Wannian Tower" in a dignified manner, become the emperor, and fulfill his lifelong dream.

Seeing that Fang La was unwilling to climb the "Tianziji" and "Wannian Tower", Hong Zai did not persuade him anymore, but said again: "Shenggong, I have a million soldiers in the Yongle Dynasty today, even if Song Jun and Li Cun join forces In one place, it’s not as strong as my Yongle dynasty’s soldiers and horses, when the rapids bravely advance to seize Hangzhou in one fell swoop, and then use Hangzhou as the capital to sweep the entire southeast.”

Fang La was very moved by Hong Zai's proposal, but Fang La still shook her head firmly.

Fang La really wants Hangzhou and Wu, but he can't touch Hangzhou yet, even if he knows that Li Cun has snatched countless gold, silver, jewels, food, grass and supplies from the entire northern Zhejiang area in Hangzhou, as long as he wins Hangzhou, he may For three years, there is no need to worry about food and clothing. At that time, there is no need to worry about persuading farmers to cultivate.

Hangzhou is Li Cun's base camp, as long as Fang La dares to touch Hangzhou now, Li Cun will definitely come back to help.

If that's the case, no one will help Fang La stop the 50 Song army.

Speaking of this incident, Fang La was secretly lucky.

Fortunately, Li Cun went to Hangzhou first, and then led his troops north without stopping, otherwise, once the Song army was allowed to cross the Yangtze River, it would be really troublesome.

It was not long ago that Fang La learned that 50 Song troops had gone south and gathered in the Yangzhou area to confront the Huben army across the river. Fang La finally believed that what Li Cun had repeatedly sent to him said before, that the Song army gathered in the Daming Mansion in Beijing had a purpose. The 15 elite Western Army may be true.

In this regard, Fang La could only be more sure that he could be the emperor, without the slightest gratitude to Li Cun.

——Fang La felt that the reason why he was able to escape this catastrophe was that he was destined to be the emperor. Therefore, even if any disaster came, someone would help him stop it, and Li Cun was The person sent by God to help him ward off disaster.

As for the west side?

Fang La did not believe that the 50 Song troops brought by Tong Guan did not include the 15 elite Western troops that Li Cun said were ready to go at Daming Mansion in Beijing.

Look.

It seems that all the difficulties may have fallen on Li Cun's head.

As for Fang La, as long as he quickly attacked the city and occupied the territory, he would continue to gather his own strength, and when the time came, he would lead a million troops to sweep the world.

Compared with Li Cun who racked his brains and money to fight the Song army, Fang La can develop freely, grow rapidly, and change with each passing day, which is really not smooth.

Therefore, in Fang La's view, people's fate is determined by the sky, and it is not in the slightest.

Fang La smiled and vetoed Hong Zai's proposal: "Hangzhou is destined to be the capital of the Yongle Dynasty, and I will borrow Li for a period of time, so what's the problem?"

Fang La speaks grandly, but Hong Zai is worried.

How can Hong Zai really advise Fang La? He doesn't want to be trapped in Chuzhou anymore, otherwise he will always have to rely on Fang La's breath.

But now the situation is here, Li Cun and Song Jun are fighting with snipe and clam, Fang La just needs to lie quietly and win, unless his head is kicked by a donkey, he will attack Li Cun at this time.

If Hong Zai forced Fang La to attack Li Cun, it would easily arouse Fang La's vigilance.

There is no way, Hong Zai can only follow Fang La's words and say: "That's right, if you offend Li Cun and ask him to surrender Song Dynasty, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing for my Yongle Dynasty."

Fang La nodded: "Yes, this is why I don't use troops against Li Cun for the time being."

Just when Hong Zai thought he came to see Fang La for nothing this time, Fang La suddenly said: "I want to take Xinzhou and Raozhou, and then station troops in Hongzhou to prevent the Song army from advancing eastward. Would Hong Aiqing be willing to take on this important task?"

Fang La is unwilling to go to the Jingxiang area, but this does not mean that Fang La will do nothing and let the Song army in the west enter the Liangzhe area, even if Fang La does not think that Zhao Song can send a large army from Jingzhou to the two Zhejiang areas in a short time. Zhejiang area.

In order to prevent the Song army from advancing eastward, Fang La had to go westward to seize the two important military towns on Jiangnan West Road-Jiangzhou and Hongzhou, namely Jiujiang and Nanchang in later generations.

Jiangnan West Road is bounded by the Yangtze River and Fanyang Lake in the north, the hills of southern Anhui in the northeast, Wuyi Mountain in the east, Dayuling and Jiulian Mountains in the south, and Luoxiao Mountain, Jiuling Mountain and Mufu Mountain in the west. It is definitely a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. .

Under such terrain, if the Song army wanted to enter the Liangzhe area through Jiangnan West Road, there were only two roads to go, one by water and one by land.

The waterway enters the Suhu Plain along the Yangtze River, and then enters the Liangzhe area from the Suhu Plain.

On this waterway, Jiangzhou is exactly located at the west boundary of Jiangdong. As long as Jiangzhou's special geographical location is used for solid defense, the Song army can be prevented from entering the Liangzhe area from the waterway.

If anyone wants to separate the Jiangdong region, Jiangzhou, without exception, must be an important military town in its upper class.

Once Jiangzhou cannot be defended, Jiangdong will be in danger.

Historically, the Sui eradicated Chen, the Northern Song eradicated the Southern Tang, and so on.At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Cheng was entrenched in Jiangzhou, scaring the small Southern Song court to death, and wanted to take it back at any cost.In addition, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River controlled Jiangzhou, which posed a great threat to Zhu Yuanzhang in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Fang La handed over the task of guarding Jiangzhou to Lu Mai, the Eighth King of the Titans under him, and planned to use Lu Mai's tribe as the back-up of Fang Qifo's tribe. The people and horses took the water route down the south to enter the Suhu Plain, and cooperated with Fang Qifo to capture Jiangning Mansion and Zhenjiang.

The land route directly enters west Zhejiang via Fuzhou, Yingtan and Shangrao.

This road is the famous Zhejiang-Jiangxi Corridor.

The western boundary of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Corridor is Hongzhou.

Fang La felt that Chuzhou was an important area surrounding Hangzhou, and it could cut off his territory, making it impossible for him to look at each other from head to toe. Zai was transferred from Chuzhou, let Fang Wuxiang sit in Chuzhou, and let Hong Zai, who was not weak in troops, guard the entrance of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Corridor.

This is Fang La's plan to kill two birds with one stone.

Hongzhou is not only the entrance to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Corridor to the east, but also the entrance to Jingzhou to the west.

Jingzhou is the treasure land of Longxing, Fang La doesn't want to go, but Hong Zai is so hungry that he is almost dying of hunger.

Let's put it this way, if Fang La hadn't blocked Hong Zai's westward path, Hong Zai would have gone to Jingzhou a long time ago.

What Hong Zai never expected was that this pie fell on his head so easily.

Hong Zai, who was trapped in Chuzhou and could not continue to develop, was worried. Hearing that Fang La asked him to station in Hongzhou, he almost died of joy. He returned to Chuzhou on the same day, and took his troops westward in a few days... …

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(End of this chapter)