Xu Tong led the soldiers all the way, eating pancakes and salty cheese all the way, obtaining a lot of carbohydrates, proteins and extremely high calories, so that they can quickly replenish their energy.

In this way, it is no problem to cross mountains and ridges, and the overall physical fitness of the army is maintained at a good level.

After the entire army gathered smoothly at the scheduled location on March 13, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, Xu Tong also gave them a day of cultivation, allowing them to continue eating pancakes and salted cheese, and collected some wild fruits they encountered on the road to replenish the various nutrients needed by their bodies and accumulate physical strength.

After a day of rest, the entire army's physical fitness returned to a state where they could fight smoothly. So on March 15, the fifth year of Hongwu, Xu Tong led the warriors who followed him to check the ordnance, adjust their status, and initiated a battle.

At the end of the 15th March, the sky was just dawn, and Xu Tong led the warriors to dig out the Jiangxia Mountains and attack Ezhou City.

When they arrived near Ezhou City, it happened that the Ezhou City Gate was opened. Xu Tong decisively ordered the three hundred knights to sacrifice their lives to attack the city gate, and rushed into the city gate with resolute courage, killing all the Song army in the city gate.

Then Xu Tong rushed forward with a fierce shout of killing, and the peasant army swarmed into Ezhou City and launched a decisive attack on the Song army and the government in Ezhou City...

In a very short time, the Song army in Ezhou City suffered a devastating blow.

Before dawn, Ezhou Governor Song Chen was attacked by the peasant army in his mansion. All the guards were killed in battle. He hid in the toilet by himself, and was then searched by the peasant army and captured with his family.

Wang Shun, the chief general of the Ezhou army, originally lived in the military camp outside the city, but last night happened to enter the city to ask Song Chen for more weapons. The two of them quarreled until midnight and left, so Wang Shun did not go back and planned to continue to moan with Song Chen today.

As a result, the peasant army attacked Ezhou City.

The guards beside him wanted to escape. They fled to the city gate and were attacked by the peasant army who had already controlled the city gate. Most of the guards were killed and injured. He fought with his own sword, but his fists were hard to defend and he was soon captured.

All four gates of Ezhou City were quickly controlled by the peasant army, and the military and political officials in the city became turtles in the jar, dead, wounded, and caught. Not only civil officials in the government, but also a large number of military generals from the Ezhou army were beheaded and captured by the peasant army in the time of chaos.

In fact, they are also blamed.

Of course, the soldiers did not dare to disobey the military orders for the entire army to prepare for war, but the middle and senior officers had many privileges. They felt that the barracks were not fun, and they lived in the city of Ezhou. Isn’t it happy?

So I ran to Ezhou City to eat, drink and have fun, usually going back in the evening and spending a night of ecstasy.

Then he ran into the peasant army and attacked Ezhou City.

Who can blame this?

The officers were devastatingly hit, and the troops stationed in the city also lost their organization in the chaos and fled in scattered areas. Some even set fires, burned, killed, looted, tried to fish in the muddy waters to get benefits, and then went straight back to their hometown.

The Song soldiers without the control of the officers were like the king of destruction. The peasant army was attacking rapidly, but they did not want to defend themselves. Instead, they took advantage of the chaos to burn, kill, loot, further intensified the chaos in the city.

So much so that the peasant army did not exert much force, and Ezhou City completely collapsed.

So the surprise attack ended soon.

At four o'clock, Xu Tong entered the governor's mansion and looked at the military and political officials of the Southern Song Dynasty who were kneeling all over the room, with a look of mockery on his face.

"What else can I say if the generals are not with their own army, but live in the city to enjoy themselves and are now captured by me?"

Xu Tong ordered all these people to be imprisoned, leaving a small number of troops to control prisoners of war, appease the city, and then quickly led the main force out of the city to attack the main force of the Ezhou army in the Song army camp, trying to defeat them with decisive impact while their leader was left.

There is only one opportunity. If you cannot seize this great opportunity to win with less and more, once the soldiers react, he will trap Ezhou City and wait for Zhao Yucheng to come to help.

Xu Tong boldly and decisively led his army out of the city to attack the Song army camp on the hills and high ground outside the city, but was surprised to find that the Song army camp outside the city had already soared into the sky and fell into civil strife.

What's the situation? Haven't I been fighting yet?

Why are they getting messed up by themselves?

Xu Tong couldn't figure this out and once suspected that it was the Song army's plan to lure the enemy, but he felt that so many people caught in the city would not lie. How could these Song army have the brain to lure the enemy?

So Xu Tong decisively led his army to attack and attacked the Song army camp outside the city in one fell swoop. Only then did he realize that the Song army in the camp was indeed disintegrated and killed each other, and in a very tragic state.

Blasting a camp?

Xu Tong didn't have time to think so much, and his head was full of excitement of winning. He rushed his army to cover up the killing and joined the battle, killing the Song army in a mess, and the bodies killed by the Song army were covered in blood and blood.

The battle finally ended at the beginning of noon. The Song army was defeated and almost wiped out. All the Song army strongholds outside the city were captured by the peasant army.

After that, Xu Tong realized why the Song army camp outside the city collapsed before he launched an attack.

Because there are people in the Song army.

Previously, the Lin'an imperial court recruited new recruits, and the plan to recruit 70,000 and 80,000 people needed to be realized, so the standards were lax.

Basically, he is a man, and he can join the army without having a white hair, no matter where you are.

If you really want to worry about this, who is willing to join the army?

I'm afraid that it wouldn't be enough to capture everyone around Lin'an City to serve as a soldier.

Therefore, Su Changsheng was able to arrange a group of more courageous Skynet Army spies to enter the new Song army to lie dormant.

Because this group of spies had high quality, bravery, and knew not many words, they were soon appointed as grassroots officers in the army through the Special Science and Technology Military Academy, controlling a team of fifty people.

This group of spies was later dispersed and incorporated into different armies. Seven or eight of them were arranged to be under Wang Shun's command and came to Ezhou to become a member of the Ezhou army.

When the peasant army launched a surprise attack on the city, because the momentum was too strong, the military camps outside the city also noticed it, and they all felt strange and frightened, not knowing what had happened.

Because the senior officers in the military camp basically lived a ecstasy life in Ezhou City, there was not even a senior officer in the military camp who could obey everyone. Several intermediate officers gathered together to discuss the matter, but were attacked by their own people in the military camp outside the city.

Because of the strict hierarchy system in the Song army, not only soldiers will be severely beaten, scolded and humiliated, but even grassroots officers will inevitably be bullied and attacked by superior officers.

At the critical moment when there was a change in the city of Ezhou and there was no one to do anything about the military camp outside the city, the three spies who stayed in the camp discovered the opportunity.
Chapter completed!