It is true that the Northern Song Dynasty mobilized the whole country to build Kaifeng, and the Southern Song Dynasty mobilized the whole country to build Hangzhou.
The local tax revenue captured by Hangzhou was so great that the local area was impoverished.
Even some of the functions it should have cannot be performed. Normally, extermination of bandits requires help from other slightly wealthier places, let alone the recruitment of troops to rescue the king.
It can be seen that it is very meaningful for the army to establish a blockade immediately to prevent the news from leaking out. In this way, the time when the local people knew about the incident in Hangzhou was postponed for several days.
The news first spread in several areas around Hangzhou Prefecture, and then gradually spread outside.
When the local government heard the news, they were first shocked, then panicked. Then they sent people to investigate for more precise information, and then began to calculate the gains and losses and see what they could do to ensure their own interests to the greatest extent.
Is the Song Dynasty coming to an end?
Is the Ming army going south?
Is there any point in recruiting an army to help the king to rescue him?
The system of the Southern Song Dynasty would cultivate a group of refined egoists to the greatest extent. These refined egoists quickly came to some conclusions after weighing the pros and cons.
For example, the Ming army will definitely go south, and the Song Dynasty will really be doomed. The Ming Dynasty will completely occupy Jiangnan, and they will all be completely liquidated.
So the only way to survive is to run away quickly!
Almost no one of these local officials who still obeyed the Hangzhou court chose King Qin to rescue him. Most of them chose to pack up the gold and silver they had collected, and quickly took their families and ran south without looking back.
No more official position, no more power, no more honor.
Deadly.
But there are exceptions.
In addition to cultivating refined egoists, the system of the Southern Song Dynasty also produced a small number of nerds and foolish loyalists.
Xing Rong, the magistrate of Jiande County in Yanzhou, was very angry when he learned about this.
He believed that Jiangnan Kingdom was already a vassal state of the Ming Kingdom and had never disrespected the Ming Kingdom. However, the Ming Kingdom was still unwilling to let Jiangnan Kingdom go. This was a harsh and cruel act.
So he burned the flag of Jiangnan State, raised the banner of Song Dynasty again, spent all his wealth to recruit soldiers, and wanted to lead the troops to Hangzhou to rescue King Qin and fight to the death with the Ming army.
When Di Zizhen, the magistrate of Lanxi County in Wuzhou, learned of the sudden change in Hangzhou, he cried bitterly and gnashed his teeth in hatred of the cruelty of the Ming Dynasty.
So he dismissed his concubines and servants, dispersed his family wealth, recruited soldiers with his family, organized an army, and prepared for the northern expedition to Hangzhou. King Qin rescued him and fought a decisive battle with the Ming army.
Niu Yuanhua, the general magistrate of Chuzhou, was greatly distressed when he learned of the sudden change in Hangzhou.
After feeling the pain of losing his country and his family, he decided to spend all his wealth to recruit troops and go north to Hangzhou to fight the Ming army to the death. In this way, he showed the heroism of the Song Dynasty and let the people of the Ming Dynasty know that the Song Dynasty still had loyal ministers.
In stalls where local officials generally drag their families and families away southward, it is not that no one is swimming upstream.
Unfortunately, it can only be said that those who go against the current are brave, but their starting point may not be so in line with their own ideas.
Moreover, the bravery of a few people cannot change the overall situation. Their "Northern Expedition" was not in the eyes of the Ming army from the beginning.
A Ming army ranger under Zhou Zhi defeated the army organized by Xing Rong, the magistrate of Jiande County who first tried to attack Hangzhou.
A group of exhausted infantrymen were captured by Ming army rangers without any defense. The result was, of course, understandable.
As for the remaining Qinwang troops, they were quickly eaten by the Ming army defenders who were defending various transportation arteries under Zhou Zhi.
I couldn't help but eat what was served to me. If I didn't eat it, it would be a shame for their hard work and hard work.
The Qinwang actions of these people did not bring any threat to the Ming army.
As Su Yonglin led his army to the north bank of the Yangtze River on the sixth day of August in the eighth year of Hongwu and began to cross the river, the third and final Ming-Song war officially began.
The main force of the First Corps and the main force of the Seventh Corps respectively launched thunderous military operations under the leadership of Zhang Yuejing and Zhao Yucheng. After Su Yonglin led his army across the river, he quickly integrated the army and galloped towards Hangzhou.
Because Jiankang Prefecture and Zhenjiang Prefecture were ceded to the Ming Dynasty after the second Ming and Song Dynasty wars, Su Yonglin's main force crossed the river without any disturbance at all. It was very efficient and fast. The army completed the crossing on the eighth day of August, and then all the way Go south.
Su Yonglin held a military meeting in Jiankang Prefecture, divided the army into three parts, and took three routes to launch a storm-like sweep across the southeast.
The Right Army set out from Jiankang Prefecture, attacked Taiping Prefecture, Chizhou, Huizhou, and finally Quzhou, and then arrived at Xinzhou, where it met up with the friendly forces of the 21st Army of the Seventh Corps in Xinzhou. The two armies merged into one and attacked southward. Fujian Road Shao Wujun.
The Left Route Army set out from Zhenjiang Prefecture, attacked Changzhou, Jiangyin Army, Pingjiang Prefecture, and Jiaxing Prefecture, and then arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture.
The Central Army, led by Su Yonglin personally, set out from Jiankang Prefecture, attacked Guangde Army and Huzhou, and then arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture.
The Left Route Army and the Middle Route Army met up with the armies of Zhou Zhi and Zhang Shi in Hangzhou Prefecture, replenished their forces, reorganized them, and then split into two groups again.
The reorganized Left Route Army set out from Hangzhou Prefecture, attacked Shaoxing Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, Taizhou, and Wenzhou, and then went south to attack Fuzhou on the Fujian Route.
After being reorganized, the Central Route Army led by Su Yonglin himself will start from Hangzhou Prefecture, directly attack Yanzhou, Wuzhou, and Chuzhou in the south, and then continue southward to enter Jianning Prefecture on the Fujian Road.
After the three armies of the left, center and right passed through the two Zhejiang areas, they went directly to Fujian Road.
After the right army broke through Shao Wu's army, it directly attacked Tingzhou on the Fujian Road.
After the Left Route Army captured Fuzhou, it advanced southward to attack the Xinghua Army and relieved the danger in Quanzhou.
After the Central Route Army defeats Jianning Prefecture, it will continue to attack Nanjianzhou southward and then enter Zhangzhou. The Left Route Army and the Right Route Army will also meet up with the Middle Route Army in Zhangzhou.
After the three armies join forces in Zhangzhou, they can wait and see the situation to see if it is necessary to enter Guangnan East Road.
If there is, then cooperate with Zhao Yucheng's 7th Corps to fight. If not, then let's talk about it.
Anyway, Su Yonglin felt that he had already come here, so he naturally wanted to visit the southernmost territory of the country to see what this land, which was not fully taken seriously by the court until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, looked like, and to see how far this land had been developed. To what extent.
After the tactics were formulated, Su Yonglin issued a declaration to the entire army.
Go south, go south, go south!
Fight to Hangzhou, to Fuzhou, to Meizhou, to Leizhou, to the ends of the earth, until the exploiters in Jiangnan are wiped out!
The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, so the troops were divided into three groups. On the ninth day of August in the eighth year of Hongwu, they launched a fierce military operation and began a battle journey across the south of the Yangtze River.
On August 11, Su Yonglin led his army to capture Jianping County. On August 13, the army broke through Guangde County and entered Huzhou.
On August 15, the vanguard of the army broke through Wucheng, and on August 17, the vanguard of the army broke through Deqing and Wukang one after another.
Wherever the Ming army went, the bureaucrats and dignitaries of Jiangnan State fled in panic, and the powerful landlords scurried about. They occasionally encountered resisters. Under the charge of the Ming army's cavalry, they fell apart, collapsed and disintegrated. They had no strength to fight and lost completely.
Even without firearms, the resisters on the plains were no match for the Ming army's cavalry. The torrent of steel belonging to the cold weapon age was enough to crush them.
As a result, the Ming army's front line did not encounter any obstacles.
In this battle, the thirty-one-year-old Su Yonglin regained the pleasure and momentum he had lost for ten years. He personally led the cavalry as the vanguard of the army and defeated three small troops that tried to resist the Ming army. He also personally killed one of the soldiers under the protection of Su Yong. The Song general's head won the applause of the entire army.
On August 19, Su Yonglin personally led the cavalry army to the gates of Hangzhou City. With the support of Zhou Zhi, Zhang Shi and Su Changsheng, the two armies met ten miles north of Hangzhou City.
