Qi Fang was really happy this time when he went out.

Although he needs to send troops to fight according to the Privy Council's plan, he can turn the blame on the Privy Council even if the situation is not good. He does not need to bear all the responsibility himself. Isn't it beautiful?

As the saying goes, the older the world, the less courageous you are. Qi Fang has been rampant for decades, and it is time to be timid and conservative.

Faced with the ups and downs, the first thing he thought about was no longer to fuck him up, but how to cleverly turn the blame and not take responsibility.

As long as you don’t take responsibility, you can do anything, or determine the responsibility before doing things, so that it will be convenient for you to pass the blame later.

Since the Privy Council was so stubborn that everyone dreamed of playing the formation map in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty and took the main responsibility, then Qi Fang was so happy that he did not take the responsibility and followed the Privy Council's plan to do it step by step.

In his opinion, although the Privy Council's plan is a bit pedantic, it is successful in being stable and taking every step forward, and no matter what, there will be no major problems.

More importantly, although he was arrested, lost his army, and almost lost his life, he survived. Not only that, he also gained a more powerful position.

Not to mention that the two people he hated the most were dead.

Shao Hongyuan is dead.

Zhang Jun is dead.

He's simply winning.

Now he has nothing to do, and he can still lead his troops to continue fighting. After winning the battle, he may not be sure to have his own future and higher status.

It seems that the most important thing in a person’s life is not to achieve success, but to succeed in taking the team.

Qi Fang proudly led his troops to the front line of Xinzhou from Lin'an. He was so relaxed and happy along the way.

Of course, he would not care what the army did when passing by the place during this period.

When the soldiers passed by the farm, they stole whatever they stole, teased whom women, and beat up whom men, he didn't care.

As long as the soldier obeys the order and arrives at the destination at a certain speed, some of the small episodes that occur during the process can be regarded as a pressure relief game for the soldiers and let them play it. There is no content in the military regulations and laws that prevent them from doing this.

After the army arrived in Quzhou and Xinzhou in mid-October, local officials had already handed him 20,000 strong men very hard, and provided him with enough food and a relatively strong military camp.

Local officials did not have high demands on him, but they just hoped that he would restrain the army, not enter the city, and not damage their political achievements.

They were casual in the countryside, but they were poor here. The two months of food and fodder had drained the poor. The tax was levied until six years later, and they could not squeeze out any oil and water.

Then it is to resolve the battle as soon as possible.

It is not easy for them to provide two months of food here. Of course, if Lin'an can still reclaim food and grass, we will pretend that we didn't say it, but we can only give it two months.

Qi Fang laughed.

"Don't worry, the thief army is just a mob. It's because Shao Hongyuan is too incompetent, so he lost a lot. Now the Privy Council directly designated a plan and it doesn't take much effort to solve all the rebels! Why do you need two months? One month is enough!"

Qi Fang seemed to have completely forgotten the failure of the two attacks launched by Shao Hongyuan alone, and did not figure out how many troops the peasant army currently has. He just sent someone to investigate the front line of the Jianchang Army and learned that the peasant army had no other actions except to strengthen the walls and clear the fields.

The whistle cavalry advanced all the way south, and what they saw was empty villages and empty mountains and rivers, and there was no trace of anyone's life. Therefore, it was judged that the peasant army had implemented the tactic of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

And when they moved further towards the south city, they finally encountered obstacles.

It just prevents them from not being the main force of the peasant army, but a group of "unlucky people" who look like ordinary people.

These "troubled people" have a lot of power. They gathered around and beat them up when they saw them, caught them off guard, and several of them were beaten to death on the spot.

Only a small number of whistle riders fought back and killed the "troubled people" because of their good luck or high force. They escaped successfully. They came to report the news and told Qi Fang about this matter.

Qi Fang was very angry and felt that these unruly people were really brave and ignorant of life and death. They became enemies and not only did not want to repay the Song Dynasty, but they also swear to resist to the death, but they even followed the thief and killed the Song Dynasty army?

Could these unruly people want to go to heaven?

"It is said that poor mountains and rivers are coming out of troubled people. It seems that this is true or not. These troubled people will not be used by me anymore. If you pass the orders, once the army passes along the way, if you encounter troubled people, you will kill them all. The stones need to pass the knife and the people need to change their seeds!"

"Here!"

The subordinates immediately went to pass the order.

As soon as the news reached, his soldiers became happy.

Qi Fang himself has no talent for training troops, but this imperial guard was trained by Yang Cunzhong.

As Zhao Gou's direct confidant, Yang Cunzhong had certain military talents. His military training skills were not inferior to those of the Wu generals, and he also knew a lot about the fear cycle, so he also adopted this method when he was practicing the imperial guards.

Although these imperial guards did not go through many wars and did not have much results, they were full of beastly nature and did not obey Qi's commander. However, when they heard Qi Fang allow them to do whatever they want, they were collectively ecstatic and shouted thanks to the general.

Apparently their steel knives were already thirsty.

He dared to attack and kill the official army, and he was simply ignorant of his life!

Qi Fang was only responsible for quelling the rebellion. As for how many people died during the rebellion, it was not within his consideration, and who died was not within his consideration.

The court only needs results, not processes.

Based on the news brought back by the whistleblowers, Qi Fang confirmed that the peasant army gave up the vast area north of Nancheng County and gathered the main force to deploy defenses on the Nancheng line, so the north of Nancheng could be safely marched.

Qi Fang then occupied Jinxi County, Fuzhou on October 16, set up a logistics base in Jinxi County, and then further led 40,000 infantry and cavalry southward to advance towards Nancheng County.

There is a branch of Rushui that is Jinxi River. The Song army in Jinxi County entered Rushui through Jinxi River and followed Rushui and went south to the south. There was no obstacle in the middle, allowing ships carrying baggage and some soldiers to pass through easily and could not be stopped.

Unless the peasant army dispatches the main force to fight against him.

That's great, he couldn't ask for anything, and he really hoped to compete with the peasant army with a face-to-face strength.

He felt that he could study his post-war development issues based on his strength and status.

On the way south, he found that the situation was indeed similar to the spy of the sentry detectives.

I didn’t meet unruly people or find anyone in the village, but I encountered many empty villages.

If it is simply empty, it would be fine. There are actually mechanisms left in these villages. Many swaggering Song soldiers were either dead or injured.

There was no grain in the empty village, the wells were blocked by stones, and no materials could be found in the low and dilapidated houses.

It is obviously the season of autumn harvest, but the grain in the fields has been completely harvested, and there are no few broken grains on the ground.

The march road was damaged and people were reluctant to go, so it was very difficult for vehicles and horses to move forward.

Bridges on some rivers were also destroyed and ferries were also destroyed. It was difficult to continue moving forward without repairing them.

All these greatly affected the speed of Qi Fang's troops' advance.

Qi Fang felt unhappy, but also felt that these traitors were very extraordinary. It was not easy for them to implement such a thorough plan to clear the world.

This reminded him of Shao Hongyuan's two defeats before, so he secretly became a little vigilant in his heart and became more careful in the process of the march.

As a result, when he arrived at Nancheng County, he was surprised to find that it was also an empty city.

All the food, drinking, and using are moved away, leaving only houses made of wood, stone and mud that have no purpose except shelter from wind and rain.

No one, not even animals, the two-legged ones and four-legged ones were gone.

Has the solid walls cleared the wilderness reached this point?

Qi Fang was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, there was no other way, so he could only order the entire army to rest for a day in the county town, and then continue to send people to spy on military information.

He did not think that the rebels could strengthen their walls and clear their fields to this extent.

But that's the fact. He sent a whistleman to spy on the news and encountered no obstacles on the way to Nanfeng County. However, when approaching Nanfeng County, he encountered obstacles. He was discovered and attacked by the armed peasant army. Several people died and the rest ran away.
Chapter completed!