According to the Privy Council's plan, Qi Fang now needs to go south.
Before going south, some troops need to be left behind to ensure the existence of Nancheng County as a logistics food station.
Since the other side has strengthened its walls and cleared the country and moved away all the unruly people, the Song army cannot obtain supplies from the local area, so it can only request transportation from the rear.
As a result, the Song Army's requirements for logistics personnel and logistics ships increased.
Fortunately, it is only late October, and the weather is not cold yet. The rivers in the south of the Yangtze River generally do not freeze, and the ice does not break. Unless it is really cold, if it encounters that kind of extremely cold weather, it can only be said that God is not responsible. Beauty is not their problem.
Even so, the placement of the logistics grain station also greatly slowed down Qi Fang's advance.
But Qi Fang felt that this was necessary because logistics and food routes were really important. Drawing on the experience of Tian Shizhong who died in defeat before, he really attached great importance to logistics.
Finally, after preparations for the further advance were completed, Qi Fang was able to lead the main force along the river to attack Nanfeng County.
He felt that although the rebels here were quite capable and could create a strong situation and clear the field, facing the absolute superiority of the Song Army, they would have to fight against the Song Army sooner or later unless they retreated again and again.
And there is a limit to retreat. Now that we are constantly retreating, there will always be a time when we can no longer retreat, let alone retreating with so many unscrupulous people.
Sooner or later he will catch up and kill him.
If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have any cavalry under his command, he would really want to send the cavalry to pursue them quickly and open the eyes of the rebels and local unruly people, letting them know what a real army is and what the elite of the Song Dynasty are. .
Very cruel!
But he didn't know that the "rebels" and "difficult people" were preparing to launch the bravest counterattack against them with full courage and tenacity precisely because they knew how ferocious they were.
On October 25, the Song army, led by Qi Fang, arrived ten miles north of Nanfeng County and set up camp here.
According to observations, there were indeed soldiers and horses stationed for defense in Nanfeng County, and there were indeed traces of the rebels. So Qi Fang confirmed that there were limits to the rebels' ability to clear the country.
A smile of "Everything is under control" appeared on the corner of his mouth, feeling that he had reached the limit of the rebels.
Obviously, the rebels were no longer able to continue to flee south with the unruly people, and they had to stop them in Nanfeng County. Therefore, Qi Fang further confirmed that the unruly people who had attacked his sentry before were now struggling south of Nanfeng County. Trekking.
And as long as he breaks through Nanfeng County as soon as possible, he can take revenge on those unruly people who don't know how to live or die.
So he set up his battle formation and began to command the army to attack Nanfeng County. He first cleared all the military obstacles outside Nanfeng County, and then withstood the attack of long-range weapons on Nanfeng County, forcing the troops recruited from Quzhou and Xinzhou to Twenty thousand cannon fodder carried sandbags to fill the pits and moats.
The 20,000 strong men recruited from Quzhou and Xinzhou did not receive any effective protection. The large wooden curtains were used to protect the Forbidden Army soldiers and would not protect these cannon fodder at all. As a result, they suffered heavy casualties and it took three days and three nights to finally finally Fill the pits.
There is still some distance to go before filling up the moat.
But it was not important. Qi Fang forced these civilians to fill in a section of the moat to ensure that people could pass through. Then he began to use this channel that the strong men had paid for with their lives to transport soldiers and siege weapons, and began to attack Nanfeng County.
Nanfeng County is just a small city. The original city wall was only two or three meters high, but the peasant army urgently built it and raised the city wall to five meters. The defense was greatly improved and it was more lethal to the Song army.
However, the small casualties were not in Qi Fang's eyes at all. What he wanted was the final victory, the pleasure of the Song army suppressing the peasant army and beating violently, and the pride of one general's success.
The number of peasant army defenders defending the city was obviously not as large as that of the Song army, so it was not easy to resist.
After besieging Nanfeng County for three days, the Song army began to invade the city. At this time, the peasant army was forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Song army. They fought bloody battles. Relying on the advantages and courage of the defenders, they were repelled again and again. Qi Fang's attack.
As time goes by, Nanfeng County becomes more and more dangerous.
The Song Army's trebuchets repeatedly destroyed the defense facilities on the city top, and also destroyed many military facilities in the city. They also stormed the city head many times. The peasant soldiers on the city wall even appeared holding Song Army soldiers. All the while he fell headfirst down the city wall.
Relying on such tragic sacrifices, the peasant army was able to defend Nanfeng County under the siege of the Song army.
But despite this, it was obvious that the Song Army had completely suppressed Nanfeng County with its superior force, so the smile on Qi Fang's face became more obvious every time.
He felt that he had seen a glorious future.
He felt that he was almost able to break through this place, and then launched a massacre of the unruly people south of the county.
It would be bloody, but it would be joyful.
However, at this moment, on the first day of November, when the cold wind suddenly rose, Qi Fang suddenly learned that there was a small problem behind his home.
His food route was cut off.
How could the grain road be cut off?
Seeing the already shaky Nanfeng County town that could be broken through with more effort, Qi Fang suddenly fell into confusion. He was a little confused as to why he was cut off from food.
We obviously fought all the way here, so why were we cut off from the food route?
In his opinion, the only thing that might threaten his food route was Linchuan County in Fuzhou. According to prior investigation, there were troops stationed in Linchuan County.
However, it is a full two hundred miles from Linchuan to Jinxi. No matter how fast the troops march, it will take four or five days. During this period, he will definitely not be discovered by the sentries who spread out within a radius of fifty miles.
In order to protect the grain road, he even sent the navy to block the waterway from Linchuan to Jinxi, increasing the cost of the peasant army's journey.
In addition, he also arranged for an elite army of 3,000 people to be stationed in Jinxi County, responsible for the protection of grain and grass. The person in charge was the most cautious officer in the Forbidden Army.
No matter how you look at it, it's a foolproof situation.
How did that happen?
Of course things didn't just happen for no reason.
In fact, the reason is not complicated.
Accepting Zhao Yucheng's order to guard the Fuzhou and Jianchang armies, the peasant army general responsible for the first line of defense against Qi Fang was Second Division Commander Xu Tong. He commanded 20,000 people from the Second Division to fight against Qi Fang's army.
Naturally, he was not the only army. Behind him were the troops of the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army.
However, Xu Tong felt that since he was the first line of defense, he should play the role of a line of defense. Wouldn't it be nice to kill the enemy on his side as much as possible?
Qi Fang?
Is that the general who clearly surrounded them but took the initiative to do business with them from behind?
Isn't this kind of general difficult to deal with?
Xu Tong thought so.
Qi Fang didn't know who his opponent was, but the peasant army knew who his opponent was.
After the Southern Song Dynasty made the decision, before the news was sent to Wu Gong, who was a little far away from Lin'an, Zhao Yucheng obtained intelligence from the Second Operation Group of the Skynet Army in Nanchang and learned that the Southern Song Dynasty was about to launch another attack. It was Shi Hao, the new Privy Councilor.
