Chapter 155 Swinging troops north to take three states II
Wu Song led 5,000 soldiers and horses to approach the 6,000 Ningzhou troops gathered in Dingping City. Zhu Wu, who was nearby in Pizhou, heard about it and sent people to rush forward with a plan that day. Wu Song camped eighty miles outside Dingping City. As soon as they set up camp, Zhu Wu's personal attendant arrived and handed over Zhu Wu's secret letter. Wu Song opened it and saw that there were not many words on it, only eight words written on it: "Gather and annihilate them, each one." Break".
After Wu Song read it, he ordered him to fetch a charcoal brazier and threw the letter into the brazier, but he remembered these eight words deeply in his heart.
On that day, Wu Song laid an ambush of 3,000 men thirty miles south of Dingping City, but he personally led 2,000 men and horses to Dingping City, scolding the formation and shouting, which aroused the Ningzhou soldiers and horses on top of the city into a rage. , urging his generals to come forward to fight, and once they set up their formation, they looked like they would fight to the death and fight to the death. At first, Zhang San came to fight with Wu Song, but Wu Song gave way to him, and then Li Si came up to help. The battle could not stop for a long time. , and Wang Wu came up to help, Wu Song was fighting one against three. Although he was not confused at all, he still looked like he was in a hurry. In the end, he just feinted a few moves and ran away quickly. At this time, the Ningzhou military supervisor standing on the top of the city took a look and didn't think much about it. He just felt that Wu Song was just wasting his reputation. In addition, when the supervisor saw that Wu Song's men were completely defeated, he He ran away very fast, discarding his helmet and armor one by one, and the traces of his carriages and horses were in a mess, but he didn't know that Wu Song deliberately acted like this to him.
The three generals didn't know if they were dazzled by "victory". They all chased after Wu Song like mad dogs and rushed forward. Each of these three generals took a thousand soldiers from Ningzhou with them. The soldiers and horses were chasing after Wu Song, but Wu Song was not prepared for the situation. He ambushed a small group of archers at several key points and hid in the woods to secretly shoot the officers and generals. The three generals were shot to death in the chaos. Two, including six of the leading generals, five died.
And just as they were following the crowd in pursuit, the officers and soldiers soon rushed into the encirclement that Wu Song had knitted for them. Just as they rushed into the valley, they suddenly saw the people who had just fled in a panic. The Green Forest Army suddenly seemed to have changed their appearance at this time. They stood still in front, stopped one by one and turned around. In a moment, the troops and horses changed from chaos to orderly, with clear lines and numerous swords and guns. The murderous spirit was due to the military system of the Green Forest Army and Wu Song's strict military training.
Just when the officers and soldiers had not recovered from the panic, Wu Song had already come over with his soldiers and horses with a knife in hand. Just when the officers and soldiers were urging a decisive battle, from the left and right wings of the officers and soldiers, At this time, two groups of men and horses came out and ran rampant, cutting the queue of officers and soldiers into several segments quickly and ruthlessly like a pair of scissors. Just when the officers and soldiers could not intersect, the limitations and disadvantages of a leaderless group were completely exposed. .
Wu Song led his soldiers and horses and quickly penetrated the ranks of officers and soldiers vertically. Along the way, he killed the officers and soldiers with overwhelming force and fled in all directions.
Wu Song defeated the three thousand soldiers and horses, but did not give up. He gathered the five thousand troops and horses in his hands. He ordered one of his subordinates, a general, and a thousand men to wear the silver helmets and armor of the officers and soldiers, pretending to be embarrassed. "Fleeing" back to Dingping City, Wu Song then led his 4,000 men and horses singing all the way to Dingping City, frightening the Ningzhou soldiers and horses supervisor so much that his face turned white and green, and he quickly changed his strategy and stood firm. Before he came out, Wu Song yelled and cursed for a while under the city. He looked at the officials in the city who were cowering like turtles. No one dared to answer. He immediately lined up his troops and horses, with the shield hand in front, followed by the construction machinery, and the Green Forest Army followed closely. Up above, under the shouts of killing that shocked the sky, Wu Song began to command his soldiers and horses to attack across the board.
At this moment, the Ningzhou soldiers and horses guarding the city were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. However, they only had 3,000 soldiers and horses in hand, and they were all sent to the city to garrison. This was originally going to be a fight. The fish-to-death posture actually facilitated the Green Forest Army. The officers and soldiers went to the top of the city to guard against the Green Forest Army rushing from the top of the city. However, the thousands of Green Forest Army who had sneaked into the city emerged from the officers and soldiers at this time. Led by Wu Song's subordinate generals, under the guise of "temporary dispatch of supervisors to guard the gates," these thousand people bullied the gatekeepers and suddenly attacked, killing less than 500 of them with one knife at a time. Because of the sudden and skillful attack of all the gatekeepers, none of the officers and soldiers on the city noticed when they opened the city gate. They were all concentrating on pointing their spears behind the arrow stacks, waiting at any time for the Green Forest Army to follow. Climbing up from below, however, they never expected that the Green Forest Army did not fight up from the top of the city. Instead, they went straight to their main entrance and poured in like a flood that burst a dike. When the Green Forest Army was in Wu Song's When he led the troops and fought all the way to the top of the city along the stairs in the city, the military supervisor of Ningzhou was dumbfounded and his heart was filled with despair. He had no fighting spirit for a long time and did not care about the gains and losses of the city. He followed the lead of the prefect. With a group of soldiers accompanying him, he galloped away wildly.
Wu Song saw it, but had no intention of taking their worthless lives. The battle had reached this point, the victory or defeat was decided, and the officers and soldiers were scattered. If they surrender, even if they surrender, the prefect and the supervisor will be captured and killed. It's of little value. It's better to escape with them. As long as they live, they will have to give an explanation to the court. And any explanation will never say that they are incompetent. It must be a publicity that the Green Forest Army is elusive and powerful, and this is impossible to guard against. The description will inevitably deepen the Song Dynasty's fear of the Green Forest Army. Whether this pair of wheels is a hidden advantage now or in the future, this advantage soon turned into a real benefit. When Wu Song set his sights on the next goal Fangzhou performed with great vigor.
Fangzhou is not a big area, with only two cities. The capital is called Fangzhou, and the companion city is called Yijun. In addition, there is another town called Shengping Town. This incident first happened in this inconspicuous Shengping Town in Chad. Where? The people of the Song Dynasty had long heard that they lived a comfortable life under the Green Forest regime, with plenty of land and plenty of money. As early as when Wu Song attacked Ningzhou, those Li Zhengmen who were supposed to prevent the people from rebelling in the Song Dynasty secretly colluded. They planned how to respond when the Green Forest Army invaded Fangzhou, but they never expected that the Green Forest Army would come so quickly, which really surprised the people of Shengping Town. And on the first night of Wu Song's entry, A solid surprise was given to Wu Song.
Just in the middle of the night, which was supposed to be the quietest hour of the day, a loud thunder suddenly erupted in Shengping Town. All the people in the town gathered together and rushed into Shengping Town with farm tools and weapons in their hands. In the government office, the Yamen was burned down, and after a night of fighting, the officers and soldiers were beaten to death. When the sky brightened, Shengping Town broke away from the shackles of the Song Dynasty regime and hoisted the Kowloon flag to the sky. , actively merged into the green forest.
Wu Song was naturally very happy, but he didn't know that it was in this inconspicuous little place that such an inconspicuous peasant uprising took place. If you stretched out the time axis and looked at it, it had extraordinary consequences. This not only kicked off the nationwide peasant uprising, but also because of such a small incident, it touched two people who would become more powerful in the future. Although these two people were currently among the people of the Song Dynasty, they would not But they have accomplished something, but no matter how you say it, their fate and destiny are invisibly closely linked to this uprising that seems to have nothing to do with them.
One of these two people is Fang La from Shezhou, and the other is Song Jiang from Yuncheng County.
They had retreated far away, and the peasant uprising in this small Shengping Town was first affected by Fangzhou City, the capital of Fangzhou. The people in Fangzhou City also took up arms and planned to rebel. The prefect of Fangzhou who defended the city Look, I thought to myself, there are powerful enemies outside and internal strife inside. If this continues, trying to control Fangzhou City with only a few thousand people is simply a fool's dream. I have spent half my life with pay from the court, but now this In the midst of the storm, there is no time to worry about so much. Instead of everyone using knives and guns to kill each other, and the city will eventually fall into the hands of others, why not everyone sit down, have a glass of wine, and hand over the city.
Everyone thought that what the Fangzhou magistrate said was just a joke, and the paranoid people also thought that he was testing the loyalty of the serving officials. Although they were eager to surrender as soon as possible, it was the same for them no matter where they were serving as officials. They would kill here and there. On the contrary, they were worried, but they did not dare to say it. It was not until the prefect posted the list to appease the people that day that everyone knew that the prefect's words were not a joke, and the official seal of the Song Dynasty on this list became the last official seal of Fangzhou. He used the official seal, but this last time, the government seal of the Song Dynasty was used to appease the people for the Green Forest Army. This seems to be an inevitable irony in some aspects.
The prefect reached a consensus with the military supervisor of Fangzhou, and soon hoisted the Nine Dragons flag in the sky, led all the city officials out of the city to surrender, and handed over the government seal, the household registration money, food, and military power of Fangzhou City to The magistrate was very open-minded about Wu Song. After the former officer had fully explained all these matters, the second officer resigned from his post and returned to the countryside. The reason was simple. He was not a disobedient minister. It sounded like this person was like that. The thing is, Wu Song did not treat him badly. He liked peace and quiet, so Wu Song set aside a small forest outside the city for him to live and work in peace and contentment. However, the military supervisor in Fangzhou was not so open-minded. He wanted to be ingratiated with him. The meaning couldn't be more obvious. He just wanted to continue to occupy his original position. However, Wu Song finally decisively gave him some money and land to let him go aside to cool off. The reason was also very simple. What Lulin needed was to be with the city. The righteous people who live and die together and those who are afraid of death will definitely not be able to eat this bowl of rice.