Zhao Yucheng rushed west with excitement, and ordered a navy army to advance to the port north of Dehua County, to take down the last Southern Song military port, destroy all the nearby Southern Song navy, and cut off the possibility of the Song army escaping through water.

On March 16, Zhang Xiaohu's vanguard army arrived outside Dehua County. He led his army to sweep the Song army's military strongholds outside Dehua County. He found that these military strongholds were not reliable, and most of the defenders had no fighting will, and they were about to collapse.

Soon, Zhang Xiaohu flattened the Song army facilities around Dehua County, and immediately marched westward according to Zhao Yucheng's order, quickly captured Matou Shou, and guarded the important river defense area.

At the same time, Zhao Yucheng also led a large army of peasant troops to outside Dehua County, surrounded Dehua County on three sides, and began to prepare for the siege.

On March 17, when Zhao Yucheng led his army to attack the city, the peasant navy rushed to Dehua Military Port in the early morning, destroying and capturing more than 30 Song army warships in the port.

At this point, the Song army in the Jiujiang area was in the inland rivers, the naval patrols and warships in the river were wiped out, and the peasant army gained control of the Yangtze River system in this section.

Then the peasant navy unit marched westward and arrived at Matou Shou. Here, they cooperated with Zhang Xiaohu's troops to block this section of the Yangtze River waterway to prevent the Ezhou army that might have attacked before the army had captured Dehua County...

However, Zhao Yucheng and Zhang Xiaohu were obviously thinking too much about this.

On March 16, Zhou Yun's request for help was sent to Ezhou and to Wang Shun. Wang Shun was shocked when he learned that the peasant army had taken the initiative to launch a war.

"The bandit army took the initiative to attack the Jiujiang army? Is there such a thing?"

"This matter is absolutely true! Moreover, there are many bandit soldiers. The Zhou Dynasty needs the help of Wang Tongzhi very much. Otherwise, once the Jiujiang army is defeated, the bandit army will inevitably come to attack Ezhou. At that time, how can the Ezhou army be safe? Please send troops to help!"

Wang Shun hesitated for a while and nodded slowly.

"Okay, I understand. I will arrange the army to support immediately. You will go back immediately to inform Zhou Tongzhi, and ask him to stick to it and not give up!"

"Thank you for your ruler!"

The messenger was very grateful and immediately set off for Dehua under the protection of the cavalry arranged by Wang Shun.

After the messenger left, Wang Shun did not immediately arrange troops to support Zhou Yun, but thought of another thing.

How could the peasant army suddenly take the initiative to launch a war?

Shouldn't they be on the defensive side?

Why did you suddenly take the initiative to attack?

Moreover, it sounds like they have a lot of troops, so that Zhou Yun cannot fight independently, so he needs to send troops to support to fight against the peasant army.

Why did the peasant army suddenly become so strong?

Wang Shun thought about the current situation and thought of the not-so-strong new army in his hands.

A soldier has just formed a military force for several months and has trained for several months. Some soldiers cannot master the method of cooperating with military formations, and cannot even use weapons very little.

Especially for crossbowmen, crossbowmen are easy to train, and it is really difficult to fight in a military force after two or three years.

But the problem is that he now has more ordinary longbows, but he lacks strong crossbows and divine arm bows.

Although some supplies were obtained by bribing Ezhou officials, the number of important crossbows and divine arm bows was still very small. Therefore, the Ezhou army is currently facing an extremely insufficient long-range shooting force.

He told the Privy Council this kind of thing long before he led his army to Ezhou to garrison, but the Privy Council was indifferent to this and just told him that there would be a way before the car arrived at the mountain, and there would be a solution when he arrived at Ezhou.

Then Wang Shun discovered...

There will be a dead end before the car arrives at the mountain.

The weapons he hoped to make up for would become a means for local bureaucrats to earn extra money.

A group of new recruits who could not even form and change the formation quickly, as well as archers and crossbowmen with a total of less than two thousand, were his 30,000 troops.

But despite this, as a general with professional qualities, Wang Shun was still not desperate.

If he had given him another year, he would have some confidence to be able to pull up a more formal army with certain combat effectiveness.

He will work hard to train the army, making the army more professional, more combat-effective, and able to win battles.

But at present, his army is just pretending to behave, with silver-shaped gun tips, which looks good, but is actually useless.

So when the Privy Council was preparing to launch the fourth encirclement and suppression war, Wang Shun conveyed his suggestions to the Privy Council, thinking that it should be postponed for a while so that the new recruits could be trained more fully. For those months of training in Lin'an City...

It really underestimated the amount of training required by professional army.

However, the Privy Council did not take it seriously at all, but told him that this kind of thing should be decided by the Privy Council, the court ministers and the emperor. He was just a military officer and did not interfere in the court decisions.

Otherwise, the outcome is hard to say.

Wang Shun, who is well versed in this truth, can only choose to shut up.

But the problem at the moment is not something that can be solved by shutting up. He doesn't want to cause trouble, but he takes the initiative to come to him.

The Jiujiang Army formed a relatively early army and had a large number of veterans. Wang Shun believed that the combat effectiveness of the Jiujiang Army was higher than that of the Ezhou Army. Now the Jiujiang Army could not handle the peasant army. Even if the entire army was dispatched on his side, he would probably be defeated by the peasant army against the attack.

It is incorrect and unwise to send troops even if you know you will be defeated.

At this time, the wise general should understand his shortcomings, choose the right way to avoid being passionate, so Wang Shun made a decision

If you have fucking support, I won’t die.

When the army is not trained enough, the best way to offset the disadvantages and play to its advantages is to defend the city, use the city to offset the gap between oneself and the elite army, delay the time as much as possible, and then...

Ask for help from the Xiangyang army!

The Xiangyang army was basically all the hobs from the battlefield, and a considerable number of them were veterans who had fought face to face with the Jin people. They were very strong in fighting and were the absolute elites among the Song army. They didn't need to come, even if only ten thousand people came, they were enough to deal with the peasant army.

But then again, if his colleagues asked for help, if he didn't send any troops out, it wouldn't be nice to spread the matter to the court in the future, so Wang Shun decided to adopt a compromise plan.

That is, the goal is to support the Jiujiang army and it will not change, but the speed of marching is...

It's more particular.

It is difficult to walk when it rains, it is difficult to walk when it is windy, it is difficult to walk when it is thunder, it is difficult to walk when it is too strong, and it is difficult to distinguish the direction if it is cloudy, and it is difficult to walk.

Therefore, the marching speed will be very slow.

As for when will we arrive in Dehua County to support Zhou Yun...

We've been on the way!

Wang Shun quickly made a decision that was very in line with his own interests.

As for Zhou Yun, although there was no holiday, there was nothing worthy of his risk to help.

Moreover, he had heard that Zhou Yun and the peasant army were doing business, which made him very upset when he was a newcomer who had no foundation and could not operate business.

It's time to suffer.

I just need to manage my own acre of three-point land.
Chapter completed!