Qiu Xiaoyi and Cui Daocheng were chatting happily when they were suddenly interrupted by soldiers, both of whom looked unhappy.
"What's the panic?"
Cui Daocheng asked in a stern tone.
"Back to General Cui, people just outside the city ran in to report that a large number of warships were found at the mouth of the sea.
The flags flying on the warships clearly read the word "ji"," the soldier replied in a panic.
"What, how many warships are there in Jiguo?"
Qiu Xiaoyi asked hurriedly.
"The exact number is not yet clear."
"If you don't know clearly, go check it out quickly," Qiu Xiaoyi shouted loudly.
"Yes, yes" the soldier was frightened and nodded quickly and ran away.
Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi looked at each other, and then said at the same time, "Let's go to the city gate."
After the two of them finished speaking, they strode towards the city gate.
Hangzhou is not built near the sea.
There is still some distance from the city to the shore.
When Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi felt the city wall, smoke was already billowing from the shore not far away, and there were bursts of shouts of killing.
"It seems that the Jiguo bandits are attacking the port and the dock.
Should we send troops to rescue them?"
Qiu Xiaoyi asked, looking into the distance.
"It's too late, it's more important to defend the city."
Cui Daocheng shook his head helplessly.
Hangzhou City has only 30,000 defenders and no cavalry.
By the time the infantry arrives, the fire may have been burned out.
"Have the spies come back?
How many troops have come from Jiguo?"
Cui Daocheng asked the deputy general next to him.
"Three groups of spies have been sent out, and no one has returned yet."
The deputy general replied with a somewhat anxious tone.
"Immediately send a message to the Holy Duke, and then send people to ask for help from the surrounding areas.
All four city gates are closed, and no one is allowed to open the gates without orders.
By the way, immediately block the city gate with sandbags or giant trees.
It is said that there is a group of artillery in Jiguo that can blow up the city gate.
The city gate must be reinforced as quickly as possible, just in case."
Cui Daocheng ordered again.
Here Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi are making arrangements nervously, but the battle on the shore also has a winner.
Although there are some naval forces in Hangzhou, compared with the Liangshan navy, these naval forces are simply heaven and earth.
Li Jun commanded the warship to fire a round of rockets first, and then released the boat to attack directly.
The entire battle ended in only one hour.
On the largest warship in the middle, Li Jun, Shi Bao, Wu Yong and many other generals were there.
Shi Bao asked Wu Yong, "Wu Shangshu, what should we do next?"
Wu Yong already had a countermeasure in his mind and directly said, "First send the Ruan brothers to lead some warships to attack the north coast, burn down all the ports and docks on the north coast, including the fishermen's fishing boats, and try to cut off the connection between the north and south of Fangla."
After that, the troops were divided into two groups, attacking Hangzhou all the way, and then attacking Muzhou and Shezhou according to the situation.
These two places can be said to be Fang La's base camp.
After capturing these two places, Fang La will not be able to survive for long.
Another wave of people will go north to attack Xiuzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou and finally reach Shouchun.
However, in the process, they are likely to encounter Fang La's army returning for reinforcements.
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Therefore, when marching, they must not be greedy for success and advance rashly, but must fight steadily.
They don't seek a big victory, they just seek to hold Fang La off for a while.
Then wait for the other team to win, and then attack Fang La in turn."
"What Wu Shangshu said makes sense, so let's do it."
Shi Bao was Lin Chong's hand-picked coach for the Southern Expedition, so as long as he agreed, the matter would be settled.
Immediately Shi Bao made a distribution to everyone, with Li Tianrun as the commander and Wu Yong as the military adviser on the north route, commanding Pang Wanchun, Wu Yanguang, Dai Zong, Li Tianyou, Zou Yuan, Zou Run, E Quanzhong, and Xie Wu among the twenty-eight senior generals.
Pei Zhi, Gu Yongxing, Yu Decheng, Xu Wei, Li Gai, and Zuxing were sixteen generals in total, leading an army of 80,000 to march north to stop Fang La.
The remaining Shi Bao, Zhang Shuye, Qiao Daoqing, Shi Xiu, Ou Peng, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Si Xingfang, Wu Li, Shi Qian, Xue Dounan, Zhang Tao, Yao Yi, Ling Zhen, An Daoquan, and twenty Among the eight generals, Guo Yongchang, Gao Biao, Shunshou Gao, Guo Yongtai, Pan Yi, Lei Chun, Bian Junbao, Li Fu, Di Sheng and Bangur, a total of twenty-five leaders, led an army of 100,000 people southward.
Li Jun and Zhang Shun led 10,000 naval forces to guard the south bank, Ruan's three heroes led 10,000 navy to guard the north bank, and Zhang Heng led people to guard the ships at the entrance to the sea.
All personnel have been allocated, and each leads his troops to go north and south.
The three heroes of the Ruan family first led the navy to burn down all the port docks in Jiangbei, leaving only a smaller water village for Li Tianrun and others to land.
Although these port water villages in the north of the Yangtze River had already seen the fighting on the south bank and urgently mobilized the naval forces to come for reinforcements, they were still beaten and fled in the face of the attack of the three heroes of the Ruan family.
The battle came and went quickly.
The three men of the Ruan family who had defeated Fang La sent Li Tianrun and others to the shore.
After everyone was safely ashore, they commanded the navy to cruise up and down the river to guard the waters.
Shi Bao led the army non-stop to Hangzhou City to kill him.
Hangzhou City was Fang La's grain storage place.
If he could capture it, it would be like breaking Fang La's arm.
On the wall of Hangzhou City, Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi could not help but feel their hearts sinking as they watched the thick smoke billowing and the murderous Jigoku army approaching.
The spies sent out not long ago finally came back.
According to the spies, the river was already occupied by Ji Guo's warships, and they couldn't be counted at all.
Even a fool knows how many people can be carried by so many ships.
It's no less than hundreds of thousands.
The purpose of Jiguo's sending so many people here is obvious.
They want to take over Jiangnan.
"The city of Hangzhou is full of dangers," Qiu Xiaoyi glanced at Cui Daocheng and said.
How could Cui Daocheng not understand the meaning of Qiu Xiaoyi's words, so he just nodded to him without replying.
The two have known each other for many years, and they cannot be said to be in tune with each other, but they are so familiar with each other that they can understand each other's meaning with every look and movement.
"The thieves are coming, please brace yourself and get ready," Cui Daocheng shouted to the soldiers on the city wall.
Shi Bao and other generals led the army to the gates of Hangzhou City.
They watched the city gates tightly closed and the soldiers on the city with their bows and arrows strung in preparation.
They said to Si Xingfang, "Brothers, go and persuade us to surrender."
Si Xingfang took the order and left, came to the city and shouted to Cui Daocheng and Qiu Xiaoyi, "People in the city, listen, you have been surrounded by our army of 200,000 from Jiguo.
If you know what to do, you can still survive by opening the city and surrendering.
If we stubbornly resist and the city is destroyed, we will slaughter all the wise and foolish."
Si Xingfang deliberately overstated the number of the army by one hundred thousand, in order to demoralize the defenders and make them feel desperate.
After hearing this, Cui Daocheng smiled coldly and replied loudly, "Isn't Jiguo just a bunch of puddle bandits?"
Now that you have gained power, you not only don’t know how to restrain yourself, but come to attack the city.
I think you are tired of living.”
"Humph, you don't have to worry about whether you are tired of living or not.
I just want to ask you whether you will surrender or not," Si Xingfang asked in a contemptuous tone
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