A journey to the heavens starting from the Red Mansion

Chapter 144 Song Ting’s reaction

After Lin Yao defeated the Jianghuai Song Army, completed the occupation of major cities step by step, and mastered the main checkpoints of the two Zhejiang Roads, cutting off the connection between the two Zhejiang Roads and the outside world.

It has been nearly half a month since the defeat of the Song Army. The matter was so big that the disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect of the Intelligence Department had intercepted more than a dozen letters, not to mention others that had not been intercepted.

There were also many people who successfully arrived in Bianjing. The Song Dynasty court might have already learned about the surname change of Jiangshan on the "Two Zhejiang Roads".

However, there should still be some time before the next battle, which could be as short as three months or as long as half a year, and facing the Song Dynasty, which no longer held contempt, Lin Yao understood that the war would become more and more intense.

Lin Yao must seize this precious time and must not waste it.

With such an idea in mind, Lin Yao quickly completed the strategic plan with the assistance of the Chief of Staff and assigned the tasks to each unit.

Then the First Division of the Rebel Army completed the frontline defenses in Runzhou and Changzhou to guard against the Song Army on the other side of the Yangtze River.

The second division was so powerful that it successively captured Longyou, Jiangshan and Kaihua counties in Quzhou on the two Zhejiang roads.

On the fifth day, Wuyazi's troops divided into two groups, one going to Chuzhou and the other to Wuzhou.

The rebel army's front line was unstoppable, and there were almost no enemies in Wuzhou, Chuzhou. By the autumnal equinox, the Second Division captured Wenzhou and reached its final state.

The army advance plan, which was expected to be completed in three months, was completed in only one month.

The farther back they went, the more the local city defense garrison collapsed.Cities everywhere were destroyed without attack.

Originally, the local powerful people started to resist, but the rebel army advanced very slowly, and even suffered a small number of casualties.

Lin Yao went directly to the scene personally, using "Dragon Explosion" and the mysterious Black Shadow Corps to clean up the past.

With Lin Yao personally taking action, the rebel army even achieved a brilliant record of defeating two cities in one day, leaving a great reputation in the two Zhejiang roads.

When Lin Yao captured the entire Liangzhe Road, in addition to the main rebel army, he recruited 5 auxiliary troops through the land distribution policy, and his military strength exceeded [-].

The situation is excellent. The next thing that needs to be done is to carry out the policy of dividing the fields, unite the forces that can be united, establish a real rear area, and protect the results.

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The rebel armies sent out troops from both directions to attack the city and achieve brilliant victories, and all parts of the Jianghuai River were plunged into violent turmoil.

In the increasingly turbulent Jianghuai, even if it has begun to block information, there is still a large amount of intelligence showing that it is caused by rebel attacks from the two Zhejiang roads.

A behemoth was born on the Liangzhe Road. Bureaucrats from all over the Jianghuai River were so frightened that they could no longer turn a blind eye, so they all asked Bianjing for help.

Although the elite disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect dispersed to various places, these members of the intelligence team tried their best to stop them, trying to continue to mislead Song Ting in terms of information warfare and buy more time for the rebels.

However, due to the large number, they were unable to intercept them all.

Finally, as the Mid-Autumn Festival approached this year, two months after the uprising took place.

To be more specific, two days before Lin Yao captured Wenzhou and completed the general occupation of the two Zhejiang roads, the Song Dynasty court finally learned that the Jianghuai bandit rebellion was out of control.

When Fan Cunren, who was in the Privy Council, just heard the news, he was very surprised and couldn't understand. Why was such a big Liangzhe Road gone?
Are all the Jianghuai Army losers?

However, more and more reports for help entered Bianjing and landed on his desk, letting him know that this matter was not a false report of military information, but was absolutely true news.

Where is Lin Changliang?Why is the situation so bad?
Fan Cunren was confused and suddenly remembered that he had received a report about Suzhou not long ago.

He said that there was a rebellion in Suzhou City, but it was within a controllable range. He didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Instead, he paid attention to Su Dongpo who was far away in Hangzhou and the New Party who were demoted in various places.

With the advice and support of the Empress Dowager, Lin Changliang went to the Jianghuai Army garrison and dispatched troops to carry out an extermination operation. How could the thieves be allowed to grow stronger?
At that time, the Empress Dowager seemed to have mentioned that he would report to her after the war was over, but there was no news afterwards.

Fan Chunren is old and frail, and has run out of energy.And recently, they are busy cleaning up the influence left by Wang Jiefu and other new parties, and continue to implement Sima Junshi's ideas.He was so miserable with all kinds of government affairs that he forgot about it.What's more important is that no one mentioned this matter to him at all.

After Fan Chunren was puzzled, he became extremely angry. Fortunately, he did not want to bear this blame in his later years.

He immediately sent someone to call other members of the Privy Council, and they went together to see the Empress Dowager and Emperor Song.

After hearing the information, Mrs. Gao's face turned pale and asked.

"Where's Lin Changliang? Didn't he say that the traitors were easily wiped out?
The Privy Council on the side accepted the order and Xie Shihua hurriedly stepped forward to answer.

"To report to the Queen Mother, from the news we have received, General Lin died in the rebellion."

"This……"

There was a commotion among the people, and most of the scholar-officials had a bit of contempt in their eyes. They were worthy of being warriors, and they didn't even understand the principle of "a son with a lot of money cannot sit down in the hall".

Gao's face became more and more gloomy. In fact, Lin Changliang had been reporting to her continuously before. The military report talked about the scale and extent of the rebellion in Jianghuai, which gave her a sense of certainty.

So she knew that the scale of Jianghuai's rebellion was not small, probably as large as one or two Suzhou Prefectures.

Originally, Lin Changliang would receive news from her side every once in a while, causing her to be in trouble with Jianghuai thieves, but some time ago, such reports suddenly stopped.

This made Mrs. Gao a little confused. She thought something had gone wrong, so she took the initiative to send someone to inquire, but the person she sent had no news and did not come back.

Just when she felt something was wrong, she heard the Privy Council's report that many places in Jianghuai had fallen. Several prefectures along the two Zhejiang roads could not resist and fell into the hands of the enemy.

Only then did Gao realize that something big had happened.

So half two months after the uprising occurred, the Song court finally realized that this uprising was not a trivial matter, but a major event that swept through the prosperous land of the Song Dynasty.

As for what happened this time, Fan Chunren had begun to suspect that local officials were colluding to conceal the matter from the court. He was forced to report it until the matter could no longer be dealt with.

If they deliberately concealed it, it would be difficult for the court to do anything more without knowing it. It is indeed unjustifiable to blame all the problems on Lin Changliang alone.

Zhao Xu saw Fan Chunren's expression was different and spoke to break the heavy atmosphere in the palace.

"Fan Xiang, do you have anything to say?"

This childish voice attracted the attention of everyone present. At this time, they paid attention to the emperor who had been ignored by them because of his youth.

Seeing how smart Emperor Zhao was, Fan Chunren quickly stepped forward and spoke.

"Your Majesty, Lin Changliang failed to resist the enemy and died on the battlefield. He was unable to deliver the news back in time.

If the local officials deliberately concealed the matter between Jianghuai and Zhejiang, he, a general who died in battle, would not be able to change anything.Now we must first find out what happened to Jianghuai? "

After Fan Chunren finished speaking, Mr. Gao, Emperor Song and everyone were silent for a while.

They felt that what Fan Chunren said made sense. An official sent from above to below could easily be betrayed and be killed on the battlefield.

Lin Changliang was indeed a business person before. Although his official reputation was not good, he was still loyal to the Song Dynasty and his abilities were acceptable. At least there had not been any major troubles in these years.

“Okay, we’ll discuss Lin Changliang’s matter later, and now we’ll immediately send someone to figure out what’s going on with the chaos in Jianghuai and Zhejiang.

At the beginning of autumn, there was news that there was a rebellion in Suzhou. Almost two months have passed. Not only has the rebellion not ended, but it has become stronger. What on earth are the Jianghuai Army doing?Your Privy Council will give the Ai family a thorough explanation! "

(End of this chapter)