Chapter 810: Ignorant Mortals
Wang Baobao's active attack not only did not stop Chen Youliang's Northern Expedition, but suffered a crushing defeat and gave away tens of thousands of valuable horses to the latter......
Cavalry has always been Chen Youliang's weakness.
He is not Zhu Yuanzhang who has the elite cavalry of Huaiyou, he has been fighting in the Jianghan region, his naval army is strong and the cavalry is weak, this time Wang Baobao made up for this shortcoming, and in fact Wang Baobao is no longer able to stop him from marching into Luoyang, the current number one general of the Yuan Dynasty even gave up Henan, and his remnants fled back to Guanzhong by Shangluo Road, and then went directly north to return to Hebei.
As for Polo Timur, of course, it was impossible for him to really go south to attack Hanzhong.
He's not stupid.
At this time, he was more willing to fight the water dogs, so he immediately led his troops to the north to seize Taiyuan, which was originally controlled by Wang Baobao, and realized his control over the west of Taihang Mountain, but he also took Li Siqi and others helplessly, these warlords did not listen to Wang Baobao before, and of course they will not listen to him now, and even Li Siqi, Zhang Liangbi, Kong Xing, and Tuoliebo quickly united again, and on the site of the Daming Palace outside Chang'an City, they made a union of four families to divide Guanzhong to jointly resist Polo Timur.
In short, Wang Baobao was out at the table west of Taihang Mountain.
In this regard, although he was angry, he was helpless.
His losses were too great, and he no longer had the confidence to compete with Polo Timur for Shanxi.
And at the same time, Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang also began the Northern Expedition, especially Zhang Shicheng increased his troops in Xuzhou, Lu Zhen was appointed as the commander of the Wuyue Northern Expeditionary Army, and Zuo Junbi led 100,000 elites to quickly complete the control of Pihai and Shandong, although there was no real attack, but it was only a matter of time. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, who went north from Anfeng, also began to march north along the Yinghe River, aiming directly at Kaifeng, plus Zhang Dingbian's Northern Expeditionary Army, the three Northern Expeditionary armies of Han, Wu, and Wuyue almost went hand in hand. Nearly 300,000 veterans, all of whom were elite veterans of a hundred battles, with more and more cannons and flintlock pistols day by day, surging forward with the belief in the restoration of China and the hatred accumulated for a hundred years, crushing any resistance like withering and decaying, and sweeping away the bloody flesh that had permeated this land for more than 200 years.
Wang Baobao didn't have the courage to fight.
All he could do was to recover his strength to the maximum before this torrent swept through Hebei, and then defend the capital behind him.
Fortunately, he still has enough time.
After all, these three Northern Expeditionary armies were also limited by materials, whether Chen Youliang repaired the road from Nanyang to the north to ensure the land transportation of four-wheeled carriages, or Zhu Yuanzhang dredged the water transportation line from the Huaihe River to the Yinghe Cai River to Kaifeng, and Zhang Shicheng reopened the Xuzhou Li Guojian, all of which took a certain amount of time, so Wang Baobao had enough time to prepare......
In fact, he didn't have much to prepare.
After all, at this time, the Yuan Dynasty was also a plate of scattered sand, and it was a miracle that Polo Timur didn't stab him in the back, and even Li Siqi, who was allied with him, was watching from the wall in Guanzhong, and the four warlords in Guanzhong were all like this, he didn't have any support at all, and it could be said that he was fighting alone, and from this point he could be regarded as the last loyal minister of the Great Yuan Dynasty.
As for the others......
They don't care if the Yuan Dynasty will fall, these guys are big deals, especially Li Siqi, Zhang Liangbi, and Kong Xing's three families are not Mongols in the first place, and their attitude towards the Northern Expedition in the south is also very ambiguous, although they are loyal to Dayuan, after all, they all started with the suppression of the Red Turban Army, and their hands are stained with the blood of the Red Turban Army. They didn't dare to surrender, for example, Zhang Liangbi and Kong Xing didn't surrender in the end, one ran away to go home as a peasant, and the other wanted to counterattack Datong but was cut down by his subordinates and surrendered, it should be said that they still have feelings for the Yuan Dynasty, but even if they have feelings, it is still too naïve to let them take the initiative to attack.
How good it is to be a warlord separatist!
Besides, they may be able to live longer in Guanzhong, and if they really want to get out, they will basically commit suicide.
Calling people from the northern steppes?
Just kidding, the rebellious Yang Zhai King Aluhui Timur the year before last was almost in the capital!
Well, the northern compatriots are not restless either!
"The ancestors paid you with the world, why did you lose half of it? I should be given the seal of the country, and I should do it! ”
Listening to this snatching of the throne is so justifiable, can Emperor Yuan Shun still count on those compatriots on the northern grasslands at this time? Don't say they don't have the ability, if they have that ability, the first thing they do when they go south is to kick him aside, and then take the jade seal to do it myself, but pity Emperor Yuan Shun at this time, although he theoretically rules a huge empire of more than 10 million square kilometers, but in fact, his will may not work in the capital, and the only one who can protect him is Wang Baobao, a warlord.
Of course, Yang Feng has no interest in caring about these things in the north, he has his own things to do.
Fuzhou.
"Here we go again!"
Yang Feng looked at the ancient city in front of him with embarrassment.
The last time he came was to send bandits to commit Fuzhou, more than 400 years later, Fuzhou City and the front of this is a little different, the Fuzhou City is actually built in the early years of Hongwu, the front of this is the Song City, but the two cities are essentially overlapping, but the Song City slightly expanded to the south and the Ming City is in the north of the city towards Pingshan with a small protrusion, the main part of the two cities is no different, they are all Pingshan, Wushan, Yushan three mountains of irregular triangles.
The former is outside the city, and the latter two mountains are inside.
"This is the Hesha Gate, when the Tatars invaded the south of Duanzong after the city wall of Fuzhou was destroyed, this was rebuilt by Saiputin a few years ago, most places are still pure rammed earth, and it is easy to blast open with cannons."
Fang Guoying said cautiously.
The defenders of Fuzhou are not Chen Youding, he is actually in Yanping at this time, and the main force of the department is also in Shanguan to resist Zhu Yuanzhang's Southern Expeditionary Army, Tang He led He Wenhui, Hu Meizheng led a Wu army to attack Shanguan, and to be precise, Fujian was not Chen Youding's at this time, he was just one of the Fujian warlords, and at this time it was Pingzhangyan of Fujian Province of the Yuan Dynasty who guarded Fuzhou, and he had just recaptured the city......
Recaptured from the Lustmu rebels.
Few modern people know that Fujian in this era was almost green.
At the same time as the rebel army swarmed up, Fujian's Semu merchant group also launched a rebellion, initially in order to resist the attack of the Red Turban Army to Fujian, the Yuan Dynasty encouraged the local Haoqiang to organize armed forces at the same time, but also encouraged the second-class people to organize their own armed war, so the Semu people in Quanzhou quickly formed the Yisi Baxi army with Saifuding and Amiliddin as ten thousand households. But these two armed forces soon had ambitions to turn Fujian into their world, after all, they always would not let go of any such opportunity, even if they were already second-class people, and at this time the internal fighting of the Yuan Dynasty also spread to Fujian, taking advantage of the factional struggle between Mongolian local officials in Fujian, the Semu armed forces quickly attacked the city in Fujian and plundered the land to massacre the fourth-class people, and even slaughtered the city directly in Putian, and then the landlord armed forces who originally resisted the Red Turban Army began to defend their homeland, and it evolved into a big melee in the whole of Fujian.
This is also the main reason for the sharp decline in Fujian's population at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
The war almost destroyed Fujian, which was originally the third richest province after Jiangxi and Zhejiang.
The rebellion lasted for nearly a decade.
During the period Saifuding captured Fuzhou, but last year by the Han landlords armed support of the theory of Fujian supreme governor Yan only did not spend to recapture, but during the siege of the city continued for three months caused the city to eat people, and Amiridin occupied Quanzhou after being killed by his subordinate Na Na, at this time Na Wu Na still occupied Quanzhou with the support of the Pu family, and finally it was not until three years later that these guys were wiped out by Chen Youding one by one.
This is also the reason why Yang Feng is coming.
Of course, the Fuzhou defenders who had just experienced the cannibalistic siege of the city were not capable of facing the Southern Expeditionary Army at sea, so they could only retreat to Fuzhou City and wait for Chen Youding's rescue.
The latter will not take more than a few days to go down the river in Yanping.
However......
"No need to be that trouble!"
Yang Feng said indifferently with his hands behind his back.
"Pass the order, all armies are on standby outside the city, and they are not allowed to attack without my orders."
After he finished speaking, he walked towards the Hesha Gate.
Fang Guoying and Fang Mingshan looked at each other, but since the immortal master gave the order, then they had no choice but to comply, they and the 20,000 troops behind them just watched Yang Feng slowly walk towards the Hesha Gate, and then the bed crossbow on the city wall shot out huge arrows, and then these giant arrows disappeared in front of Yang Feng in an instant, and he continued to walk leisurely with his hands behind his back, the uncle and nephew of the Fang family glanced at each other, and without hesitation, they commanded all their subordinates to kneel, looking at their immortals with religious fanaticism.
The swallows on the city wall are stupid if they don't spend?
He and those Mongolian generals looked at each other in confusion, and at this moment, the second round of bed crossbows was fired, and as a result, those giant arrows still disappeared in front of Yang Feng and Yang Feng out of thin air.
"Ignition!"
Yan just didn't take a bite and said.
Dozens of small cannons on either side of him immediately erupted into flames.
These short and thick copper cannons can also play solid bullets, but the tube is short and the gunpowder quality is poor, so the range is very close, far less than the bed crossbow, the accuracy is also very tragic, the actual combat value is more scary, dozens of small cannon shells around Yang Feng hit the mud splash, but none of them appeared within a radius of two meters around him, but at this time the bed crossbow was more accurate, not even a single one fell to the ground, all disappeared out of thin air in front of Yang Feng.
Yan just didn't spend a lot of time rubbing her eyes subconsciously.
It did disappear out of thin air.
It disappears like a stone sinking into the sea, and as long as it is about to hit this demon, it will disappear immediately.
He was at a loss.
This strange scene made everyone on the city wall creep.
Soon Yang Feng entered the range of the bow and arrow.
'Let's go!'
A Mongolian general shouted.
Those archers who had been waiting for a long time released their bowstrings at the same time, and the dense feather arrows crashed into Yang Feng like a cloud, and then all disappeared out of thin air in an instant, but at this time, Yan Buhua saw something abnormal, and when those feather arrows disappeared, a black mist seemed to fall in front of this demon.
"Demon law, absolute demon law, immediately go and invite the masters of Kaiyuan Temple to come over, don't worry, we still have a moat and a city wall......"
He said confidently.
However, at this moment, he subconsciously leaned forward, and looked in disbelief at the demon who walked on the surface of the moat, as if he was stepping on the beach of the sea, and the demon was also looking at him with disdain, and at the same time the cannons on both sides of him spewed flames again, such a distance was accurate, but just like those arrows, the cannonballs also disappeared in front of the demon out of thin air. Poor Yan Buhua watched blankly like Xiao Jingba facing the Tyrannosaurus Rex, watching him walk across the moat and go all the way to the city wall under the futile attacks of countless bed crossbows, bows and arrows, and cannons.
A Mongol warrior broke down and picked up a large rock and smashed it down.
Then the big stone was gone.
At the same time, the one-foot-wide city wall began to flow strangely downward like mud, and in the flow it turned into a step that extended to the demon's feet, and he still walked calmly to the top of the city wall. Several brave soldiers immediately took their spears and stabbed, but their spears still disappeared within two meters of the demon, and even one unlucky soldier even disappeared half of his right arm because his arm was stretched too long, and in his screams, including Yan Buhua, everyone watched the demon walk to the standing city wall, and then walked all the way to Yan Buhua.
"Ignorant mortals!"
Yang Feng looked at him and sighed disdainfully.
Yan's legs trembled.
Yang Feng's right hand slowly raised, and at the same time, the Arabian scimitar that Yan Buhua originally wanted to raise in his hand automatically flew out of his hand, quietly suspended between the two of them, and then the handle of the knife automatically fell off, and the blade that was already very curved continued to bend backwards like a bent bow, and soon turned into a real crescent, and it was smoother than before to reflect the dazzling sunlight.
Yan just looked blankly.
Yang Feng suddenly showed a warm smile.
Almost at the same time, the full moon scimitar flashed with cold light, and reached the other side of Yan Buhua at a speed that could not be distinguished by the naked eye, and a drop of blood on the blade slowly dripped out, Yan Buhua opened his mouth to say something, but with a gust of wind, his head fell from his neck, and then the blood rushed into the sky like a fountain. At the same time, Yang Feng stepped forward, and the full moon scimitar, which was still suspended in mid-air, quickly circled around him like life, and the heads of all the Mongolian officials and soldiers around him fell in an instant like a swallow without flowers.
At the sound of the dead body falling, Yang Feng continued to walk forward.
The full moon scimitar continued to swirl around him.
Then with its rotation, more officials and soldiers' heads fell, and the next moment the entire city wall was in doomsday chaos, all the officials and defenders were screaming like crazy, desperately crowding each other and trampling each other to try to escape from this terrifying enemy, and some even jumped directly despite the towering city wall, and behind them Yang Feng continued to walk leisurely, the full moon scimitar continued to rotate around him to harvest one head after another, and the corpses that spurted blood fell with his forward steps......