Chapter 54: Go north to find someone!
Thank you for your monthly tickets from Tianyu Suixiang and Changwei Jinghu! Thank you for your support!
The golden sun that appeared out of thin air suddenly made Chen Xiang's image mysterious and tall! This is definitely a manifestation of the revival of Emperor Song! No one has ever seen such a magical celestial phenomenon! Today it appeared on this little emperor. Isn't that golden sun a symbol of the emperor?
In the crowd, some people were eagerly looking at the special scene on Chen Xiang's head in the sky. They murmured: "The Golden Body of the Holy Fire of Light!!! Where is the Heaven! This is the Golden Body of the Holy Fire of Light!!! This little emperor is actually the venerable of my God Cult! You must report this matter to the leader as soon as possible!" These people are actually those who know the Venerable of the Light of Light! They must be disciples of the Ming Cult, because only the people of the Ming Cult in the world know this classic, and the Sun and Moon Divine Sect is a descendant of the Ming Cult!
Standing on the high platform, Chen Xiang felt everyone's thoughts widely, and naturally felt the thoughts and ideas of these people. However, he ignored them. He just communicated and understood the prayers and wishes of his subjects wholeheartedly, and tried hard to guide them, so that their minds would be towards the prosperous emperor Song. The negative emotions in his heart were less and less, and the positive energy was more and more. In this way, the suppression and burden of the end-of-life dragon energy on Chen Xiang's body also reduced a lot, while the dragon energy on Chen Xiang's head became more and more lively.
Then, Chen Xiang announced the change of the year name to the first year of Zhongxing! He began to take the oath of the Northern Expedition!
After holding this massive and unprecedented victory oath-taking meeting, Chen Xiang brought the newly reorganized 30,000 troops and 6,000 Imperial Guards, and 60,000 after simple training. The Li and Miao slave army, which only distributed equipment during battles, swore to the Northern Expedition. After careful training, the combat effectiveness of these troops was also very considerable. In addition, there were wars in the south of the Yangtze River, and no strong force was occupied by the Leizhou Peninsula. Therefore, they occupied the unattended Leizhou Peninsula in one fell swoop, established a bridgehead, and quickly forced their way to the Pearl River Triangle.
At this time, Jiangnan was already in chaos. Xiangyang was once again captured by the Mongols, Zhang Hongfan's family was massacred, and the Mongols occupied the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River again. Li Heng's army also suffered several defeats, and the front line was compressed a lot. In the Ganchu generation, relying on mountains and hills, they struggled to deal with the Mongolian cavalry. Other Han troops were annihilated or surrendered by the Mongols one by one. It was obvious that in a year, Jiangnan was about to be pacified by the Mongols. However, the difference is that in this year, the small court of the Song Dynasty had recovered from the hands of a legendary eight-year-old emperor, and even wanted to turn around and bite the Mongols hard!
It was in this situation that the Song army came from the south before the enemy could react and surrounded Wuyang City. The 60,000 Li Miao people's death camp had already surrounded the city wall with the siege equipment that had been prepared long ago. It even began to compete on several sections of the city walls.
In Wuyang City, a leader of the Han army named Che Guan was occupied by him. He was once a side general under Zhang Hongfan, with three or four thousand people under him, but he was not very important even when he was under Zhang Hongfan. After Zhang Hongfan acted strangely and announced his rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty, he was suspicious and fell behind. When Zhang Hongfan and his friends arrived in Jiujiang, he turned around and occupied Wuyang City. He became his own local emperor.
In the past year, he had gathered more than 15,000 soldiers, which was considered a powerful man. However, he did not expect that he would suddenly be attacked by the Song army!
During the Battle of Yashan last year, the car manager also participated in the battle. The Song army was short of food and clothing, and had no food or food to drink. They were as weak as ants. They could kill them as long as they reached out. Zhang Hongfan deliberately let the Song army go for his ambition and allowed them to go to Qiongzhou Island where Li Miao was in chaos. However, he did not expect that a year had passed and they were still willing to stroke their beards?
When the surprise and suspicious car manager saw the simple equipment of Li Miao slaves, he smiled happily. Just like a refugee-like army, even a bandit, he still wants to seize the city? It's simply delusion!
He easily commanded the troops to kill the enemies that were attached to the ants one after another, believing that this battle would definitely be his final victory!
But he did not notice that a team of well-equipped Song army engineers had already approached the Wuyang City wall with a special engineering giant oar that had been prepared long ago, and quickly dug a huge pit under the city wall. Then, after burying something, he quickly left the city wall.
After a moment, there was a loud bang. The car manager felt his head mist and could not hear any sound. Everyone on the battlefield stopped their movements and looked foolishly at the place where the loud noise was made. The car manager looked at it and was so scared that his soul was about to fly out! The large piece of city wall actually fell! And the well-equipped Song Jun was rushing in from the cut-off wall as fast as possible!
Someone from behind put down the bamboo rack, took the black iron box the size of a lunch box, pressed it hard on the special bamboo rack, lit the leads on it, and let it go suddenly. The bamboo rack jumped up and shot the black iron box into the camp of the defenders. Then there were a few more roars. The black iron boxes exploded one after another, and countless iron pieces and flying thorns were shot out, and dozens of lives were harvested. Fires and smoke were everywhere, and the defenders' defensive formation was disrupted! However, the enemy was prepared, and rushed in with one go, seizing the control of this section of the city wall! Almost in an instant, Wuyang City was broken!
The first thing that broke the city wall was Chen Xiang's special guidance and carefully made by the craftsmen.
This city-breaking cannon is extremely powerful, but if you want to break a strong city wall, it is also extremely large in size and weight. You must use it unexpectedly to achieve miraculous effect. This time, the vehicle manager has never heard of such things, let alone seen it, and once it is used, it has achieved miraculous achievements.
Another black iron box used to fire after the city wall collapsed is actually the most earthy mortar. The black iron box that was deliberately cast is not particularly reliable, and it is stuffed with messy iron sheets and black gunpowder, with leads on it. Once it explodes, the iron sheets in it will turn into a flying knife that takes lives and harvests a piece of human life.
Bamboo is everywhere, with good elasticity. After special processing, it can even eject about ten kilograms of objects 150 steps away, which is quite good.
The siege cannons that concentrated explosions, black gunpowder iron box and bamboo catapults became the killer weapon for the Song army to win by surprise.
This is also very simple. Since the Song army is not as good as the Mongolians in military skills such as cavalry and shooting, it is far superior to the Mongolian army in terms of engineering and technology. The powerful bow and crossbows they make are a killing weapon recognized by everyone. The magic arm crossbows, bed crossbows and other sharp weapons are even more shocking!
However, this weapon is not very lethal, has poor mobility, and it consumes much material and time to manufacture, so it is not as effective as riding and shooting.
In the end, the chariot manager fled Wuyang City with three or four hundred defeated troops, gathered the chariots all the way, heading north, and fought with several other Han army leaders for a few battles, and finally occupied another small city and settled temporarily. Before the rest of the day, the Song army actually appeared again! This time, the chariot manager no longer had the intention of fighting hard! He directly abandoned the city and fled, but instead took advantage of the Song army and got a small city in vain! The same was true for the next few times, as if as soon as he stopped, the enemy would rush out to pick the fruits of victory!
Lingnan was not well developed at this time in the Song Dynasty, and it was still a barbaric land. The number of Han people was very small. Usually, there was not necessarily a village if it ran hundreds of miles. Although the gang of chariots was small, they were already a force that could rush the countryside! The Song army drove all these chaotic forces outward, squeezing the space of other Han army leaders and separatist forces. They fought more than a dozen battles, and finally laid the foundation for a strong army.
In such a not-so-intensity battle, three months later, the Lingnan area became the territory of the Song army! This was the first time that the Song army had such a brilliant victory!
After occupying several important passes in Lingnan and determined to take control of the entire Lingnan land in its own hands, the Song army stopped and no longer advanced north. The Song army is now only a unit of less than 50,000 people, and needs to defend three important passes separately. The Han army going north usually fights 100,000 people, which is not enough for the soldiers of the Song army to consume!
Chen Xiang didn't want to rush out and be the first bird when the Mongolian army was still very powerful. He worked overtime for 18 hours a day and discussed the national affairs with Wen Tianxiang, Su Wanghai, Zhang Shijie and others. Finally, he established the system and system of the Lingnan land. After all, he only needed to be improved, and he was ready to leave here and look for the legendary Guo Xiang and Guo Polu.
With Chen Xiang's persistence and personal implementation, the new system and new atmosphere of the Song Dynasty court had been formed. Chen Xiang occupied a sedan chair into his own cave system, so that he could come back instantly at any time. He then took a big master named Huang Ba and Su Huaiyuan to disguise themselves and walked north.
Not long after leaving the city, Chen Xiang found a group of people following her from afar. After probably knowing the identities of those people, Chen Xiang didn't pay much attention to it and just walked forward.
Not long after walking, those people seemed to have confirmed that the person who left the city was the person they were looking for, and there were no other pedestrians around, and they quickly followed.
After a while, the guard Huang Ba had already felt the person behind him and reported to Chen Xiang: "Your Majesty! There are a group of people following you!"
Chapter completed!