The Northern Song Dynasty used the whole country to build Kaifeng, and the Southern Song Dynasty used the whole country to build Hangzhou. This is true.

The local taxes seized by Hangzhou were too much, so they were so poor that they were in poverty.

Even some of the functions that should have been possessed cannot be fulfilled. Usually, the anti-bandits and other places need help from other slightly richer places, let alone recruiting troops to serve the king and rescue the emperor.

It can be said that it is very meaningful for the army to establish a blockade line as soon as possible to prevent information from flowing out. In this way, the local government pushed the time when something happened in Hangzhou for several days.

This news was first spread in several areas around Hangzhou Prefecture, and then gradually spread to the outside world.

When the local government heard the news, it was shocked and then frightened. Then it sent someone to investigate more accurate news, and then began to calculate the gains and losses of interests and see what they should do to ensure their own interests to the greatest extent.

Is the Song Dynasty going to be over?

Is the Ming army going south?

Is it meaningless to recruit troops to help the king and rescue the emperor now?

The Southern Song system would cultivate a group of exquisite egoists to the greatest extent. After weighing the pros and cons, these exquisite egoists quickly came to some conclusions.

For example, the Ming army will definitely go south, the Song Dynasty is really going to be over, and the Ming Congress will completely occupy Jiangnan, and they will be completely liquidated.

So the only way to survive is to run away quickly!

Almost no local officials who still obeyed the orders of the Hangzhou court chose to serve the king and rescue the emperor. Most of them chose to clean up the gold, silver and fine materials they had looted, and quickly took their families south and never look back.

I don’t want official positions, power, and honor.

Horrible.

But there are no exceptions.

In addition to cultivating sophisticated egoists, the Southern Song system also cultivated a few nerds and foolish loyal people.

After learning about this, Xing Rong, the county magistrate of Jiande County, Yanzhou, was very angry.

He believed that Jiangnan Kingdom was already a vassal state of Ming Kingdom, and he had never acted to disrespect Ming Kingdom, but Ming Kingdom was still unwilling to let Jiangnan Kingdom go. This was a harsh and tyrannical act.

So he burned down the flag of Jiangnan Kingdom, raised the banner of Song again, scattered all his wealth and recruited soldiers, and wanted to lead troops to Hangzhou to serve the king and rescue the emperor, and fight to the death with the Ming army.

Di Zizhen, the county magistrate of Lanxi County, Wuzhou, learned that Hangzhou had changed in shock, cried bitterly, gritted his teeth and hated the brutality of Ming Dynasty.

So he sent off his concubines and servants, spent all his family's wealth, recruited soldiers with his family, organized troops, prepared to attack Hangzhou, serve the king and rescue the emperor, and fight to the death with the Ming army.

When Niu Yuanhua, the Tongji of Chuzhou, learned that Hangzhou had changed in surprise, he felt very painful.

After feeling the pain of the country's destruction and family destruction, he decided to disperse all his family's wealth and recruit troops, and go north to Hangzhou to fight to the death with the Ming army, so as to show the heroic spirit of the Song Dynasty and let the Ming people know that there were loyal ministers in the Song Dynasty.

At the stall where local officials generally lead their families to escape south, there is not a single person going upstream.

Unfortunately, I can only say that those who go against the current are brave, but the starting point may not be as consistent with their own ideas.

Moreover, the courage of a few people cannot change the overall situation. Their "Northern Expedition" was not in the eyes of the Ming army from the beginning.

Zhou Zhi's command of a Ming army ranger defeated the army organized by Xing Rong, the magistrate of Jiande County, who was the first to attack Hangzhou.

A group of exhausted infantry were captured by Ming Rangers without any defense. Of course, it is understandable how the result was.

As for the remaining few troops who were supporting the king, they were soon eaten by the Ming army defenders under Zhou Zhi's subordinates who defended various major traffic routes.

I couldn't stop eating when I brought it to you. If I didn't eat it, I would be too sorry for their efforts to come here.

These people's actions to serve the king did not bring any threats to the Ming army.

With Su Yonglin leading his army to the north bank of the Yangtze River on the sixth day of the eighth year of Hongwu and beginning to cross the river, the Third War of the Ming and Song Dynasties, and the last war of the Ming and Song Dynasties officially began.

The main force of the First Corps and the main force of the Seventh Corps carried out military operations like thunder and rain under the leadership of Zhang Yuejing and Zhao Yucheng. After Su Yonglin led his army across the river, he quickly integrated the army and rushed towards Hangzhou.

Because Jiankang Prefecture and Zhenjiang Prefecture were ceded to the Ming Kingdom after the Second Ming and Song War, the main force of Su Yonglin's troops had no trouble at all, and were very efficient and fast. The army completed the crossing of the river on the eighth day of the August 19th, and then headed south all the way.

Su Yonglin held a military meeting in Jiankang Prefecture, dividing the army into three parts, and taking three routes to carry out a storm-like sweeping operation to the southeast.

The right-road army set out from Jiankang Prefecture, attacked Taipingzhou, Chizhou, and Huizhou, and finally attacked Quzhou, then arrived in Xinzhou, and joined forces with the 21st Army of the Seventh Corps in Xinzhou. The two units merged into one and attacked the Shaowu Army of Fujian Road to the south.

The left army set out from Zhenjiang Prefecture, attacked Changzhou, Jiangyin Prefecture, Pingjiang Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, and then arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture.

The Central Army was led by Su Yonglin himself, set out from Jiankang Prefecture, attacked Guangde Army and Huzhou, and then arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture.

The left and middle route army met Zhouzhi in Hangzhou Prefecture, and Zhang Bai's army replenished its troops, organized them, and then divided the troops into two groups again.

After the formation, the left army set out from Hangzhou Prefecture, attacked Shaoxing Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and then headed south to attack Fuzhou on Fujian Road.

After the reorganization, the Central Army led by Su Yonglin personally set off from Hangzhou Prefecture and directly attacked Yanzhou, Wuzhou, and Chuzhou to the south, and then continued to go south and entered Jianning Prefecture on Fujian Road.

After three armies on the left, middle and right were killed through Liangzhe area, they directly entered Fujian Road.

After the right-road army broke through the Shaowu army, it directly attacked Tingzhou on Fujian Road.

After the left army captured Fuzhou, they advanced southward to Xinghua Army and relieved the dangers of Quanzhou.

After the Central Army defeated Jianning Prefecture, it will continue to attack Nanjianzhou southward and then enter Zhangzhou. The left and right armies will also meet with the Central Army in Zhangzhou.

After the three armies of the army met in Zhangzhou, you can watch the situation and see if there is any need to enter Guangnan East Road.

If so, then cooperate with Zhao Yuchengzhi's 7th Corps. If so, then let's talk about it.

Anyway, Su Yonglin felt that he had come, so he naturally had to go to the southernmost territory of the country to see what this land that was completely valued by the court until the Ming and Qing dynasties was like, and to see how much it had been developed.

After the tactics were formulated, Su Yonglin issued a declaration to the entire army.

Go south, go south, go south!

Fight to Hangzhou, to Fuzhou, to Meizhou, to Leizhou, to the ends of the world, until the exploiters in Jiangnan are destroyed!

The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and the troops were divided into three groups. On the ninth day of August 18, the eighth year of Hongwu, they launched a fierce military operation and began a battle journey sweeping across the south of the Yangtze River.

On August 11, Su Yonglin led his army to capture Jianping County. On August 13, the army broke through Guangde County and entered Huzhou.

On August 15, the army vanguard broke through Wucheng, and on August 17, the army vanguard broke through Deqing and Wukang one after another.

Wherever the Ming army went, the bureaucrats and powerful men of Jiangnan fled in a panic, and the landlords and powerful men fled in a panic. They accidentally encountered resistance. The Ming army's iron cavalry charged and collapsed and collapsed. They had no power to fight and lost all their losses.

Even if there is no firearm, on the plains, the resisters are no match for the Ming cavalry. The torrent of steel belonging to the age of cold weapons is enough to crush them.

Therefore, the Ming army's military front was not hindered.

In this battle, the 31-year-old Su Yonglin regained the pleasure and motivation that had been away for ten years, and personally led the cavalry as the vanguard of the army, defeating three small troops trying to resist the Ming army in a row, and also personally killed a Song army general under the escort of Su Yong, winning applause from the entire army.

On August 19, Su Yonglin personally led a large cavalry army to the city of Hangzhou, and was supported by Zhou Zhi, Zhang Feng and Su Changsheng. The two armies met ten miles north of Hangzhou city.
Chapter completed!