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Hearing Yu Daoan, he sat down, Cai still glanced at General Lu.

General Lu understood it and then asked Yu Daoan: "What's the situation with the rebel army now?"

Yu Daoandao: "I only know that the Song army rushed from Xinzhou to Quzhou and Wuzhou on the southern route; the northern route attacked from Shangyu on the southern route; the middle route attacked from Pujiang on the eastern route. Quzhou and Wuzhou were successively lost. Most of the rebel forces in Muzhou and Shezhou were retreated back to the Qingxi base. The Song army also surrounded from the east and west sides, forming a situation of encirclement."

General Lu knew that Cai still didn't care about the situation in Muzhou, so he asked: "What's the situation in Taizhou and Wenzhou?"

Yu Daoan said: "Taizhou Shinang led his men to attack Taizhou City several times in the early month, and in the late month they once captured Tiantai and Huangyan City. They fought bravely and tenaciously. Most areas of Wenzhou are under the control of our troops, and a small number of areas are under the control of Hu Long and Zhu Liang brothers."

General Lu asked again: "What about Yuezhou?"

Yu Daoan: "It is mainly under the control of Master Qiu."

After hearing Yu Daoan's words, Chen Zuotong concluded: "From the current situation, the main rebels in the area you are in charge of the Grand Commander are the Lu Shinnang troops, Hu Long, Zhu Liang troops, and Qiu Rixin troops. These troops are only about 200,000 troops together. If the Grand Commander sends troops to suppress them, it should not be difficult to wipe them out."

After pausing, Chen Zuotong said, "However, I do not recommend that the Grand Commander, send troops to suppress the enemy. Injure 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 to himself. Besides, the Grand Commander, you don't need to waste your precious troops for Zhao Song."

General Lu responded: "Also, we can also surrender the troops of their troops like Brother Yu."

Cai still asked: "Is it easy to surrender?"

Chen Zuotong said: "If they are willing to accept your surrender from the Grand Commander, they will surrender. If they are unwilling to accept your surrender from the Grand Commander, they can only fight."

Lu Jiang said: "I think the possibility of surrendering is still very high. After all, we still have some incense with them. Moreover, the situation in the Holy Lord is getting worse and worse. As long as they are not stupid, they will not have a way out."

Chen Zuotong said: "Yes, there is still a high possibility of recruiting the submission, but we must also pay attention to it. We cannot recruit the submission too quickly. Even if we recruit the submission, we must leave some people to continue to grow and grow."

General Lu added: "You can't surrender too slowly, otherwise you will give others an excuse to enter the governor's territory."

Chen Zhaotong said again: "How can there be no food when fighting with the rebel army? Grand Governor, you can ask for food from each prefecture and county on this ground. If any prefecture and county are not given, let the "rebel army" go to the siege."

Afraid that Cai would not be able to turn this turn, General Lu tactfully advised: "Grandmaster, you have hundreds of thousands of people to raise now. It is absolutely impossible to have no food, so you must not be stuck at this time!"

Cai still understood that Chen Zuotuo and Lu General meant to raise the thief and respect themselves.

Cai is still not that noble, and he is not that stubborn. He knows what he wants.

Therefore, let alone raising thieves, if it is really dangerous, even if Cai still robs him, Cai will still take this step resolutely.

If you don’t even have this determination, then Cai would just go home and take the child away, and chase away what deer, ask what kind of cauldron, and talk about saving the country and the nation?

Seeing that Chen Zuotong and General Lu took all the situation into consideration, Cai Shen waved his hand and said, "Then you two will be responsible for this matter. If you lack people, money, or other support, just ask me for it."

Cai still said again: "I don't look at the process, I only look at the result. As long as you two can handle this matter well, I will definitely reuse you."

Seeing that Cai still knew how to let go, Chen Zuotuo and Lu Jiang were happier, and then let go of their hands and feet to operate the matter.

More than ten days later, under General Lu’s personal lobbying, Hu Long and Zhu Liang led more than 20,000 rebel soldiers under his command to surrender to Cai Jian.

Cai Jian sent Li Bao to send the two brothers Hu Long and Zhu Liang to the city of politics and education, screening and reorganizing.

At the same time, Cai still sent Zhang Qing to lead the troops of the headquarters to pretend to be Hu Long and Zhu Liang's two brothers Fang La's rebel army to continue to recruit the rebel army under the banner of Fang La.

After receiving Cai Jian's order, Zhang Qing immediately took people to Lanxi County occupied by Hu Long and Zhu Liang brothers, and then raised the banner of recruiting troops and horses, set up the porridge distribution points, and recruited people openly.

Because of Cai Shen's order, Zhang Qing recruited people and greatly relaxed the requirements. Both men, women, young and old can do it, as long as it is an individual.

In this way, the "rebel army" of Zhang Qing's troops grew very fast, and in just over ten days, it grew to more than 100,000.

Afterwards, someone sent Zhang Qing's "rebels" to the beach in batches, and then Li Bao sent them to Taiwan and to the city.

At the same time, Chen Zaotong and General Lu asked for food and supplies to the prefectures and counties around the areas occupied by the "rebel army" of Zhang Qing's troops under the banner of suppressing bandits.

Later, Wu Yong found Cai Jian and suggested to Cai Jian: "The general's ambition is not in the bandit, nor in the southeast of a small area, but in the world. In this way, you should not be greedy for small profits and lose your reputation, leaving stains for the future of the world."

Wu Yong also said: "Using the strategies of Chen Jiyi and Lu Jiyi, although they can also get some food and supplies, most of the food and supplies are in the hands of the aristocratic families, not in the hands of the Zhao Song court. With the greed of those aristocratic families, unless they really confiscate their homes, they will never be able to take out too much food and supplies for nothing."

Cai still heard this and said, "Well, according to your plan?"

Wu Yong shook his feather fan and said, "Buy and use it together, and use it in both ways."

Wu Yong said again: "The general has dozens of ships of copper and iron coins in his hand. Although this is also money, for you, the general who has military tickets, these copper and iron coins are useless. The general has to send someone to take care of these wastes, and these wastes also occupy dozens of large ships. It is better to buy grain and use waste."

Cai Shen fought along the way and seized countless people, especially during the surprise attack on Hangzhou City, Cai Shen seized hundreds of ships of gold, silver, treasures and supplies.

Among the hundreds of ships of gold, silver and treasures, there were dozens of ships of copper and iron coins. Zhang Xu hurriedly estimated that there were tens of millions of coins.

The people of the Jinwu Army did not use copper and iron coins that were both bulky and unreserved. The people of the Jinwu Army used military tickets, and at most they used gold and silver in places where they did not recognize military tickets.

Therefore, as Wu Yong said, this copper and iron coins are really useless for Cai. It is tasteless to eat, but it is a pity to throw them away.

Therefore, it is indeed appropriate to use these copper and iron coins to buy grain.

So, Cai still adopted Wu Yong's suggestion and sent Zhang Qing to take the "rebel army" to the siege, while sending people to buy grain and supplies from prefectures and counties under the attack of the "rebel army".

On the one hand, the vast "rebel army" besieged the city.

On the one hand, Cai still used real money to buy food and supplies for those who could no longer eat.

In this case, all counties and counties finally chose to sell grain and supplies to Cai Jian as much as possible. Even those wealthy nobles tried to sell grain and supplies to Cai Jian, so as not to let go of them because they had no food and supplies, and even if the city they were in was captured by the rebels, they would have nothing left.

In this way, what Cai is most worried about is that there is not enough food, and it has not really happened.

At the end of April, the main force of the Song Army West Road led by Liu Zhen was the first to launch an offensive on Jianmenling (also known as Jianmen Mountain).

The terrain of Jademen Ridge is steep inside and slow outside, and once it breaks through the mountain pass, it will not be able to guard it.

Fang La only focused on putting heavy troops on the important roads in Lingbei, but ignored the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan - he only sent a small force to defend.

This made the cunning Liu Zhen take advantage of Confucius and send people to seize the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan.

Upon hearing the news, Fang La immediately led his troops to reinforce Lingnan, trying his best to drive the Song army of Liu Zhen troops back.

However, Fang La missed the fighter opportunity after all.

By the time he brought people to the hidden mountain pass in Lingnan, the Song army had already advanced.

The breakthrough of Lingnan Mountain Pass made Fang Layi's army more passive.

In order to defend the gang source, military advisor Wang Gong Laofo and thousands of Fang Layi soldiers dyed every inch of land here red with their own blood.

But after several bloody battles, Jianmenling finally fell into the hands of the Song army.

In the early morning two days later, the main forces of the Song army met and launched a comprehensive attack on Bangyuan and Yangtong.

Fang La personally led 200,000 soldiers of the rebel army to fight against the enemy, and regarded the forty-mile mountains, rivers, villages and cottages in Fangyuan, this area as the frontier position for fighting against the enemy.

The sound of killing shook the sky and struggled endlessly.

In the evening, most of Bangyuan and Yangtong's positions were occupied by the Song army.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Fang La led some soldiers to hide into a rarely visited cave in the cave source, preparing to break through in the dawn.

In the early morning of the next day, the Song army gathered the encirclement and began to search the mountains, causing Fang La to lose the opportunity to break through.

Two days later, Han Shizhong, the general of Wang Yuan's army of the Song army, discovered Fang La's whereabouts and raided the cave with all his strength.

After several battles, dozens of people, including Fang La, Fang Fei, Fang La's wife Qiu, second son Fang Hao, etc., were captured by soldiers led by Han Shizhong.

What a pity!

Before Han Shizhong and others could warm up this great achievement, they controlled Xin Xingzong to block the entrance of the cave and kidnapped Fang La and his group, causing Han Shizhong's brothers to jump up and fight against Xin Xingzong.

At this time, there were still many rebels in Bangyuan and Yangtong areas that were still under the risk of resistance.

but--

The news that Fang La and his gang were defeated, and Fang La and others were captured alive was soon spread.

After hearing the news, Lu Shinang and Qiu Rixin, who had been unwilling to accept Cai's surrender, finally began to actively contact Chen Zuotong and Lu Jiang.

Not long after, Lu Shinang and Qiu Rixin led the crowd to surrender one after another.

Cai Shen sent Lu Shinang and Fang Layi army from Qiu Rixin's army to the political and educational forces in the city to screen and reorganize them. At the same time, he sent Mu Heng and Hu Yanchuo to lead the troops of the headquarters to pretend to be Lu Shinang and Fang Layi army from Qiu Rixin's army to continue recruiting troops, and to purchase grain from prefectures and counties threatened by the former Lu Shinang and Fang Layi army of Qiu Rixin's army.

In early May, Cai still finally returned to his hometown, Chiling, Cixiaoli, Xianyou County, Xinghua Jun.

Cai still found the corpse of his ancestors and buried him with great difficulty. Then he claimed that he would be mourning for three months and would like to thank the guests in a closed door.

The day after the announcement of mourning, Cai still asked Lu to dress up as he was to keep mourning for himself, while he secretly traveled to Chen Cang to Taiwan...

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Chapter completed!