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When Fang Baihua and Chen Jingu arrived at the temple, many people had already arrived.

One of these people is counted as one, and all of them are heavy-faced.

Only Fang La's face was not like this.

Although Fang La tried his best to control his own emotions, those who were familiar with Fang La could still see that Fang La's face was filled with embarrassment and annoyance, and even regret!

In fact, Fang La also has reasons to be embarrassed, annoyed, and regret.

Not long ago, Chen Zuotong proposed a bold offensive plan to "drive across the river for a long time";

After the rebel army conquered Hangzhou, General Lu proposed the suggestion of "taking directly on Jinling and establishing a foundation first", advocating that Jinling, which was not heavily guarded, guarding the Yangtze River, and then taking advantage of the situation to seize the southeast prefectures and counties.

Later, Chen Zuotong and General Lu urged Fang La many times to seize Jinling without heavy troops, believing that this was an important move to establish a southeastern base.

But Fang La was too optimistic that the corrupt Northern Sect dynasty could not send heavy troops quickly, and the rebel army could calmly seize Jiangnan.

Therefore, under Fang La's arbitrary behavior, most of the main forces of the rebel army only focused on capturing the two Zhejiang prefecture counties, and in the north where they were fighting alone, they only sent a side army of Fang Qifo.

In this way, the fighter opportunity to seize Jinling for greater development was lost, and the troops were dispersed, so that the rebels were in a passive situation from the beginning in the face of the Song army's massive counterattack. The key is that the Song army could use Jinling as a pedal to cross the natural danger of the Yangtze River without any pressure.

It can be said that Fang La has a major responsibility that he cannot shirk to this passive situation today.

Such a big mistake cannot be completely shirked away.

So, after the whole person was fully prepared, Fang La first reviewed: "It was my fault to lose Jinling. I blindly followed some people's analysis of Zhao Song and made the wrong decision..."

As soon as Fang La said this, Bao Kang's face suddenly became unfavorable.

That's right.

It was precisely the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty that Bao Kang analyzed to Fang La. Fang La believed in Bao Kang's analysis and formulated the strategic policy of the Fang La uprising army. Even the reason why Fang La dared to ascend to the top and lead the uprising was closely related to Bao Kang's analysis of the Northern Song Dynasty.

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Bao Kang had left the Northern Song Dynasty for two or three years. He did not know that during this period, the Northern Song Dynasty was planning to go north to recover Yan Yun, so he transferred the Western Army, which was originally stationed in the northwest, to Daming Prefecture, Beijing. He was even ready to go to the front line, and he did not know that the variable of Cai Shen had emerged in the past two or three years.

But then again, I can't blame Bao Kang for this matter.

After all, current affairs cannot be constant, but are constantly changing.

To grasp the current situation, universities need to continuously collect information with an accurate intelligence system, and then a large number of staff members analyze and summarize the information, rather than blindly making decisions based on the knowledge of one or two people.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai still develops intelligence systems and staff systems at no cost.

After he turned the blame to Bao Kang, Fang La criticized himself for a few more words without any pain, and then said to the person sent by Fang Qi Buddha: "Tell everyone about the situation of the Song Army in Jinling."

The man said, "The one who came to help was the Central Imperial Army of Zhao Song. The army was called "Jinwu Army". The leader was named Cai, named Cai Jian, and his troops were about 30,000 to 50,000."

The man said so vaguely that Fang Baihua and others couldn't help but look at each other.

Chen Zuotuan frowned even more and said, "Is it 30,000 or 50,000? The difference between the two is not an ordinary big one."

The man said, "This news was brought back by the people of Jinling who went south. They had no idea how many people came. One or two could only say one side and not know the generality. My marshal asked more than 100 people to ask, and then it was decided that some of the Jinwu army had come by water and some came by land. There were four batches of Jinling. The first two batches arrived around the first day of the lunar month. They blocked Jinling City as soon as they arrived and did not allow any people to go south. The third batch arrived on the night of the second day of the lunar month. As soon as they arrived in Jinling, they occupied various important roads in Jinling. The fourth batch arrived on the seventh day of the lunar month. It is said that there were more than 100 large ships with 5,000 materials alone."

Zheng Demon King said: "A large ship with five thousand materials can carry five or six hundred people. If these more than 100 large ships are all used to transport troops, it is not an exaggeration to have 30,000 to 50,000 people."

General Lu said: "These more than 100 large ships cannot be loaded with soldiers, at least half of them should be loaded with food and supplies. In this way, the maximum number of soldiers transported by these more than 100 large ships is 30,000."

Huo Chengfu said: "In addition to the three groups of people who arrived first, there are still 30,000 to 50,000, so there should be no problem with the news about the North Road Marshal."

Bao Kang did not ignore the serious matter because Fang La gave him the blame. He calmly analyzed: "The rule of Zhao Song sending troops is to send an imperial army soldier, two soldiers in the wings should be assigned to escort food, grass and supplies. Therefore, the main force coming to aid may be more than 10,000. Considering that Zhao Song sent troops, they have always been divided into front, back, left, right, and middle five armies, and combined into one armies. From this, it is inferred that Zhao Song probably dispatched five generals. Cai Shen is either one of the five generals or the commander of the people in this armies."

Fang Baihua analyzed truthfully: "Most of our troops have not received training, so their overall quality is worse than that of the Song army. Conservatively estimated that one of the Song army's soldiers can reach about two of our soldiers, and one of the Song army's imperial soldiers can reach about four to five of our soldiers. In this way, to annihilate the Song army in Jinling, we must send at least 100,000 troops to prevent accidents. I think we should send 200,000 troops to defeat the Song army in Jinling with the force of Mount Tai, then seize Jinling, and then use Jinling as the basis to defend the Yangtze River natural barrier."

"Two hundred thousand army?"

No one expected that Fang Baihua would attach so much importance to the reinforcement army in Jinling.

Although Jinling was lost, Fang La actually didn't want to go north, but wanted the more than 100,000 troops led by Fang Qifo were blocked by the Song army's southward movement, and then he continued to seize the territory in the southeast.

As Fang La said to others, he believed that the larger the territory, the more troops he had and the greater the strategic maneuver space.

Moreover, Fang La felt that his idea was feasible. As long as Fang Qifo could successfully capture Huzhou and Xiuzhou, he could arrange a line of defense with that line and then block the Song army heading south to the north. As long as he was given two or three months, he could seize the southeast. Then he could not only gain a stable rear, but also rely on this stable rear to fight the Song army to a decisive battle.

In fact, there is another reason why Fang La wanted to go south instead of north so firmly.

This is the Tuibei Picture.

There is a sentence on the Tuibei Picture, "Through the Zhejiang River, it shows its traces in Wuxing."

According to the literal meaning, although Fang La was able to be the emperor, the land of Longxing was only in the southeast and the land of the old Wu.

This is also one of the reasons why Fang La has always opposed going north and is reluctant to send a large army to the north and only seized the southeast territory.

Based on this, Fang Ladao: "Don't over-enhance the combat power of the Song army and underestimate our combat power. We have never fought with the Song army. How come we beat them to pieces?"

General Lu said: "The combat power of the Zhao Songxiang Army is incomparable to that of the Zhao Song Imperial Army, and the two cannot be compared."

Chen Zaotong also said: "There has been no war in the southeast for a hundred years, so the combat power of the Song army in the southeast is limited. Moreover, the Song army in the southeast is mostly the Xiang army, not the main imperial guards of the Song army, so the previous wars were not of reference value."

Chen Zuotong then suggested to Fang La: "Shenggong, I suggest that the Eastern Marshal lead the troops of this route, the Yongkang army led by Chen and our Chuzhou army heading north to join the Northern Army, and then look for fighters to fight with the Song army in Jinling and win, and then set up a defense line based on the Yangtze River natural barrier to prevent most of the Song army from moving south."

Although Fang La nominally had more than one million troops, in fact, Fang La could only control more than half a million troops.

The 500,000 troops controlled by Fang La were divided into four routes - the Northern Army led by Fang Qifo, the Eastern Army led by Fang Baihua, the Southern Army led by Fang Wuxianggong, and the Central Army led by Fang La himself.

Fang La's plan has always been to use the Northern Army led by Fang Qifo to defend the north. He personally commanded the Eastern Army, the Southern Army, the Central Army and other rebels to quickly seize the territory in the southeast with Hangzhou as the basis.

Therefore, Chen Zuotuan’s suggestion runs contrary to Fang La’s plan.

The key is that if Fang Baihua and his troops who were the ones who could fight to the north would not only greatly delay Fang La's speed of seizing territory, Fang La was not sure to overwhelm other rebel leaders, but would then sit down and watch other rebel leaders seize the territory that he should have occupied and become stronger and bigger, leaving hidden dangers for the future.

Therefore, although I knew that Chen Zoutong had no selfish intentions when he took the initiative to lead the Chuzhou army to the north, Fang La still said: "Not all imperial guards can fight, only the Northwest imperial guards can fight. Many central imperial guards and Hebei imperial guards have combat power even worse than the Xiang army. By the way, the Jinwu army in Jinling is the central imperial guard of Zhao Song. The northern army has more than 100,000. As long as we capture Huzhou and Xiuzhou, we set up defenses on the front lines of Huzhou and Xiuzhou to block

It will be fine if we live there for two or three months. Besides, facing our million-strong army, most of the 30,000 to 50,000 people will not dare to go south. They should just want to defend the Jinling passage first and wait for the Zhao Song court to mobilize its troops. If this is true, it would be very unwise for us to go north to fight the 30,000 to 50,000 Song troops. We should seize this precious time, step up our pace to clear the Song army in the southeast region, completely occupy the southeast, and then go north to fight the Song army."

Before others could speak, Fang La said again: "Apart from that, if it were Tong Guan and famous generals like Zhong Shidao, it would be okay if we were so cautious. That Cai Ding, I have never even heard of it, and it is not worth it if we face a great enemy..."

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Chapter completed!