Chapter 1036 The Liangshan heroes are here

Author: Uncle Sanwa

Wang Yue didn't know what Lu Hongti was thinking. He was afraid that Lu Hongti would be worried, so he said calmly, "I'm sure! And there are many ways. I haven't even used my secret weapon yet."

His secret weapon is rather low-tech, it is a light cannon with little power, somewhat similar to a heartless cannon.

It's not that he doesn't want to take out the grenade, it's just that the current technology makes things too cumbersome. If he wants to make something lighter, he needs to upgrade his technology.

But it reminded him that the Wu Dynasty on TV even had firecrackers. He thought it was not a violation for him to take out this simple grenade, right?

As for guns, he has not studied them at all. He thinks that its improved crossbow is enough, but it is really not worthwhile to make it now.

Lu Hongti felt relieved when she saw Wang Yue was so confident, and she stopped talking about moving.

But she felt like she wanted to do something for Wang Yue, so she quickly asked, "I still owe you a favor, what can I do for you?"

Wang Yue looked at the female hero, thought for a while and said, "Help me train a group of female guards. My wives can't always have male guards around them. It's really inconvenient."

When Lu Hongti saw what Wang Yue said, she nodded in agreement. She was already good at martial arts, and she visited Wang Yue's guard training. After returning to Luliang Mountain, she tried it again. She was very experienced, and she was very good at training female guards.

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Not to mention that Wang Yue was preparing for war and was wary of Fang La and Wu Chao. Fang La's generals were indeed a little uneasy.

Bao Wenhan even proposed at the Yongle Dynasty meeting that he wanted to go south, just in time to conquer the Jiangzuo League's territory and expand his own strength.

The reasons he gave were also very tempting, and many generals supported him. After all, how could they, the generals, dislike having so many soldiers in their hands?

Moreover, if Shenggong granted the title of King of Wu, they would also have considerable official positions, and they would no longer be bandits.

The stronger you are, the higher the position you will probably get, which can be described as honoring your ancestors.

However, not only Fang La disagreed with Bao Wenhan's opinion, but even Fang Xifo also opposed it, so the others could only accept it.

However, Bao Wenhan took the opportunity to win over a group of people who were dissatisfied with Fang Lafang Xifo and strengthened his strength in the Yongle Dynasty.

For a time, the Yongle Dynasty had a tendency to split, and the whole city of Lin'an was in a state of unrest.

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Just when bandits were raging in Wu Dynasty, and even some powerful ones were ready to take action, Liangshan suddenly accepted the recruitment, causing an uproar in Lu Lin.

What Liangshan did even more excessively was that, in accordance with the requirements of the Wu Dynasty, after accepting the recruitment, they immediately led the Liangshan soldiers and horses to the south to wipe out the Yongle bandit army.

After receiving the news, Wang Yue immediately asked Liu Xigua to send a message to Shenggong and ask if he needed help from the Jiang Zuo Alliance.

Fang La was now sitting on the land of Three Continents and was so proud that he rejected Wang Yue's kindness without even thinking about it.

Of course, Wang Yue did not force this. He just took the opportunity to train his troops and build ordnance, preparing to clean up the mess.

Yes, just cleaning up the mess.

Wang Yue felt that there were people monitoring him inside Fang La, and the Liangshan army outside was cooperating with the Wu Dynasty army to attack. Under such circumstances of internal and external troubles, failure was impossible.

However, failure also takes time. After the failure of the last waterway sneak attack, the Liangshan army could only cooperate with the imperial army and attack Runzhou on the opposite bank from Yangzhou under the leadership of the injured General Dong.

In the direction of Runzhou, there was an elite Yongle army led by Fang Xifu to block it. The two sides were evenly matched, and the battle lasted for more than a year.

Originally, it seemed that the imperial army would not be able to attack for a long time, and other bandits also wanted to imitate Liangshan and capture a few county towns, and then ask for help.

Unexpectedly, at this time, news came that the imperial court had regained the six southern states of Yanyun's sixteen states.

This news gave the shaky Wu Dynasty a shot in the arm, and also made those who were ready to take action temporarily rest their minds.

This news also boosted the morale of the Wu Dynasty army that was fighting the Yongle army. When the Liangshan soldiers saw this situation, they began to fight desperately and even sent their leaders to take the lead.

Therefore, after five or six Liangshan generals were killed in Runzhou, they defeated Fang Xifo and successfully crossed the Yangtze River.

As a result, loopholes appeared in Yongle Dynasty's defense line. Wu Dynasty's army was divided into two groups. The main force chased Fang Xifu to Changzhou, and the other group went to attack Jiangning.

This continued until the beginning of the 11th year of Jinghan Dynasty, when the Wu Dynasty's army successively attacked Changzhou, Suzhou, Xiuzhou, Huzhou, Runzhou, Jiangning Prefecture, and Xuanzhou Guangde's army, and merged with Lin'an City.

By this time, more than thirty Liangshan generals had died, and the Yongle army had also suffered heavy losses. As a last resort, they had begun to ask for help from the Jiangzuo Alliance.

Of course, Fang La was not afraid, because there was the arsenal of the Wu Dynasty in Lin'an City, where there was a large amount of gunpowder. If he wanted to break through the city gate, General Dong and Liangshan's more than 100,000 troops were not enough.

Wang Yue didn't think so. When he got the news of the request for help, in order to show it to the Allies, he joined Liu Xigua's Ba Dao Battalion without hesitation and prepared to go to the rescue.

It's just that the situation changed too quickly. As soon as the Jiangzuo League's army entered the Yongle Dynasty's territory, they received news that Bao Wenhan of the Xuanwei Camp rebelled, Sheng Gong Fangla was captured, and the arsenal was controlled by Bao Wenhan, and there was no time to use it.

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Seeing that there was nothing he could do, Fang Xifo took his men and escaped from Lin'an City. He is currently recuperating in Muzhou and organizing defenses there.

Just after receiving the news that Shengdong had been captured, the generals of Yongle's army panicked and didn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, Fang Qiong and Liu Xigua, who followed the Jiangzuo League to the north, were relatives of the Holy Palace. They integrated Yongle armies from various places along the way and headed to Muzhou to join Fang Xifo.

Seeing Liu Xigua and Fang Qiong's behavior, Wang Yue didn't even want to take the territory anymore, so he immediately informed Yang Xiao and sent people to occupy these territories.

When the local people heard that the Yongle Dynasty army had left and that the new arrivals were from the Jiangzuo League, they were all very happy and were waiting to be divided into fields.

However, they also waited. Wherever the Jiangzuo League's army went, the teams responsible for dividing the fields also went. Not only could they get support from the local people, but they could also raise food and grass nearby.

This is of course and no exception. After all, this is Jiangmen's magic weapon that can quickly control the place. Of course, he cannot abandon it.

Wang Yue led his army to take over the territory while marching north. Instead of going to Muzhou to join in the fun, he divided his troops into two groups and occupied two fortresses to prevent the Wu Dynasty's army from moving south.

At the same time, Yang Guo had already led the Jiangzuo Alliance Navy, carrying 50,000 soldiers and horses, to raid Lin'an Water Village and entered Lin'an City.

Wang Yue originally wanted to rescue Fang La, but he never thought that Bao Wenhan was also a very hot person. When he learned that the Jiangzuo Alliance army had entered the city, he decisively cut off Fang La's head and fled north with the head.

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The order Yang Guo received was to capture Lin'an and cut off the retreat of the Wu Dynasty army, and he had no intention of pursuing it.

Of course, he might have done it on purpose. After all, when Fang La deliberately let Lou Shuwan's plan go, he had already offended Wang Yue.

He just sent the navy to attack along the waterway to clear out the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses along the way to buy Wang Yue time.

General Dong and the Liangshan troops who pursued Muzhou panicked after receiving the news. They were now alone and in a state of encirclement on three sides.

This three-for-one tactic was the most demoralizing tactic. Knowing that nothing could be done, they quickly withdrew their troops to the north.

At this time, the people in charge of the rear are of course the Liangshan soldiers and horses. After all, if the cannon fodder is not used at this time, there will be no chance in the future.

So, after hearing that Fang La had been killed, frantic Liu Xigua and Fang Qiong led the Yongle army to launch a frantic attack on Liangshan soldiers and horses.

However, General Dong was a benevolent and righteous man after all. Although he left Liangshan troops to die, he still left some gunpowder for the Liangshan people.

Relying on these gunpowder, the Yongle army did not dare to pursue the Liangshan soldiers and horses too closely, so they allowed the Liangshan soldiers and horses to withdraw back to Dusong Pass.

This side was so dissatisfied with the pursuit attack, while the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses over there withdrew to the Guangde Army's Xiuzhou line in Huzhou and organized defense on the spot.

It’s not that Wang Yue’s soldiers and horses are so powerful. In fact, fighting is all about logistics. The logistics of Yongle’s army are not very good. But in the south of the Yangtze River where there are waterways, the logistics of Wang Yue’s army are very guaranteed, and Yongle’s army is also very capable.

Not hungry.

The bows and arrows were fired as if they were free, leaving the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses who had no logistics and could only be beaten passively. If the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses had not had gunpowder, the losses might have been even more severe.

Seeing that the troops of the Wu Dynasty were preparing to stabilize the defense line in Guangde Army, Xuanzhou, and Huzhou Xiuzhou, Wang Yue felt that it was time to move out the artillery.

Otherwise, we don't know how long this battle will last when reinforcements from the other side arrive.

Therefore, before the troops of the Wu Dynasty could gain a firm foothold, Taihu Lake, which had been calm for a long time, suddenly came out with a troop of troops. In conjunction with the army heading north from Lin'an, they used artillery to easily capture Huzhou and Suzhou Xiuzhou.

After Xiuzhou soldiers and horses received the news, they had no intention of fighting at all. They quickly took advantage of the opportunity that the Suzhou Jiangzuo Alliance troops had not yet fully controlled and retreated from Xiuzhou all the way to the other side of the river.

After General Dong received the news, he did not continue to hold the Guangde Army in Xuanzhou, and decisively retreated from Runzhou to Yangzhou.

It was just a pity for the Liangshan army. When they got the news, all their escape routes had been blocked, and they could only continue to resist alone at Dusong Pass, relying on only gunpowder.

Recalling that during the Liangshan Uprising, they sent people south to contact the Jiangzuo Alliance. Later, after the uprising was put off, they also discussed forming an alliance, but in the blink of an eye they defected to the imperial court.

In this regard, Wang Yue was very happy to let the remaining troops of the Yongle army vent their anger, so he left this place to the Yongle army. He led the army to continue to pursue the Wu Dynasty's defeated troops.

Along the way, they regained Jiangning and returned the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses to the other side of the river, and then stopped the pursuit.

It's not that Wang Yue didn't want to cross the river to attack, but the battle was fought too fast and his follow-up troops could not keep up. The Wu Dynasty still had a large number of troops stationed on Huainan East Road, so it was really not a good time to attack.

The Liangshan soldiers and horses, who were unable to survive alone and lacked logistics, were surrounded by the angry Yongle army and were wiped out at Dusong Pass.

Their leader Song Jiang actually thought about surrendering, but the angry Fang Xifo didn't give them a chance. After all, Liangshan didn't notify them at all when he accepted the recruitment.

If Liangshan soldiers and horses were not too desperate, and the Wu Dynasty's useless soldiers and horses wanted to break through the defense line, we would have to wait another year or two.

Facing such an enemy, the Yongle Dynasty generals who were unable to avenge Fang La vented all their anger on them.

When Wang Yue returned to Lin'an and passed Dusong Pass, he happened to see Fang Xifo Fang Xigua and others executing Song Jiang and other Liangshan generals.

In Liangshan, which was at its peak, except for a few people who did not go south, there were two Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Yan Qing and others who were very capable and took advantage of the chaos to escape. The rest all died here.

Since then, a war has been fought for more than two years. Starting from the Jiangzuo Alliance's attack, the battle ended quickly.

In just a few months, the Wu Dynasty soldiers and horses were driven back to the other side of the river.

Of course, because it was too fast, Wang Yue's follow-up troops could not keep up, so there was no way to continue to expand the victory.

After Fang Xifu killed everyone in Liangshan, he looked at the uniform soldiers of the Jiangzuo League behind Wang Yue and knew that their Yongle Dynasty was over, so he decisively surrendered to the Jiangzuo League and became an army under the Jiangzuo League. In a host-and-guest situation

changed.

Wang Yue was also unambiguous. After taking over the Yongle army, he decisively screened according to the rules of the Jiangzuo League, eliminated all those who did not meet the standards, divided their fields, and let them go back to farming happily.
To be continued...