In mid-July, after the peasant army defeated Jizhou, they invaded Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army and Fuzhou, recapturing these three areas that were originally captured by the previous wave of rebels.

The combat process was very easy because after the attacks of the rebels in these places, local reactionary forces suffered heavy losses, and some even local officials had not yet been put back in place, and the power of the Song army guarding was almost no.

Some idle people were pulled over by new officials or small officials who temporarily acted as chiefs. When they were given some weapons, they became local security forces and wandered around the countryside all day long. I don’t know whether they were public security forces or gangsters.

Can this level of armed forces confront the peasant army?

Obviously it is impossible.

So the peasant army destroyed the enemy and became unstoppable, easily scattering all the so-called armed forces and achieving a brilliant victory.

On July 19, the third year of Hongwu, Zhao Yucheng personally led 10,000 soldiers to capture Nanchang County, the capital of Longxing Prefecture.

He successfully captured the Nanchang County bureaucratic system, Longxing Prefecture bureaucratic system and Jiangnan West Road bureaucratic system, which was located in Nanchang County. Jiangnan West Road became a mess and there was no possibility of integrating forces to resist the peasant army.

During the war, the peasant army fully abides by Zhao Yucheng's call to "strength ourselves while fighting".

While marching and fighting, they announced that they would divide the land to the peasants in the captured areas, protect their property, and crack down on local tyrants and evil gentry who own a large amount of land and have not been eradicated.

This is the simplest and most brutal way to attract farmers to support them. It can quickly gain the support of farmers, gain a foothold in the local area, and quickly launch a sabotage against local reactionary forces.

Although the previous wave of rebels launched a strong attack on the local tyrants and evil gentry, when the Song army made a comeback, some local tyrants and evil gentry who had escaped before also came back and became masters again.

And this time, the peasant army will not let them go again.

They led the farmers to defeat the military forces of the local tyrants and evil gentry, drove them away, and proved to the local farmers with practical actions that they would really divide the land for them and protect the interests of the farmers.

Through this commitment and action, the peasant army has gained the trust and strong support of local poor farmers, and has received great support from farmers in terms of food and manpower, and has smooth actions.

So the peasant army grew and grew while fighting, with a very fast development speed, which was comparable to the speed of expansion.

After the northern prefectures were captured by the peasant army, Ganzhou did not escape the capture of the peasant army.

However, unlike other places, the remnants of the two previous wave of rebels in Ganzhou were still insisting on fighting with the Song army and forming a confrontation with the local Song army. The arrival of the peasant army directly defeated the Song army and rescued these rebels who insisted on resisting.

So the peasant army and the uprising army completed the merger, and the remnants of the uprising army were incorporated into the peasant army, expanding the power of the peasant army and accelerating the peasant army's attack on Ganzhou.

By late July, most of the Longxing Prefecture, Yunzhou, Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army, Fuzhou, Jizhou, Ganzhou, Nan'an Army, Jianchang Army and other places were captured by the peasant army, and the peasant army had an offensive almost occupied the entire Jiangnan West Road of the Southern Song Dynasty.

During this period, the local Song army and local governments basically did not bring any effective resistance to the peasant army, and they were basically collapsed at once.

They would never have expected that the peasant army surrounded by Luoxiao Mountain would turn over, and instead annex the Song army by the way that snakes swallowed elephants.

Who could have thought of such a thing?

But that's the truth.

So they failed to establish an effective defense mechanism. Some county towns were even conquered by peasant troops while the county magistrate was on vacation. The county magistrate didn't know where his failure was, so he inexplicably became lonely ghosts.

During the process of conquering cities and territories, the number of peasant army also expanded to about 80,000, and its strength was greatly enhanced.

Zhao Yucheng re-armed the peasant army through the captured arsenal of the prefecture, and ordered the departments to maintain the original division-level organization and expand the brigade-level organization to accommodate more rebels to join the peasant army.

On July 29, Zhao Yucheng issued an army preparation order in Nanchang City.

With a clear mind, he did not continue to choose to conquer cities and expand territory, but realized that the current peasant army's weak military strength and lack of combat effectiveness, and realized that he could not attack excessively now.

He clearly realized that in the current state, the peasant army had no stronger place than the Song army except for its spirit and momentum, especially the peasant army had not completed the political construction and military law construction of the Ming army, and there were still many shortcomings.

Military rules, military laws, political thoughts, methods of action, etc. require time to sort out, and the military's combat effectiveness also needs training to consolidate. Therefore, the peasant army can no longer continue to expand.

Focusing on the dangerous terrain control around Luoxiao Mountain, building a base is the most suitable behavior at present. The peasant army needs to settle, accumulate, and build.

We must build this land that was tortured by war into the strongest base of the Southern Song Dynasty, so as to enhance the occupation of the local area, and make it essentially separate from the Southern Song Dynasty, and everyone is in the peasant army.

Once certain rules are established here, if the Southern Song Dynasty wants to regain this land, it will face not only the struggle of the peasant army, but also the resistance of thousands of peasants.

The peasants who own their own land and property will never want to return to the cruel exploitation of the Southern Song Dynasty. They will do their best to help the peasant army resist. The Southern Song Dynasty's offensive will face many difficulties and obstacles.

So Zhao Yucheng issued eleven orders for the establishment of the army in a row according to the method of establishing the army he learned from Su Yonglin, and sent staff from his side to various garrison sites to promulgate.

He needed peasant troops from all over the country to seize the time to carry out political and military construction, and to build an army that is not only powerful but must be cohesive before the next wave of encirclement and suppression of the Song army.

Judging from the current overall strength comparison, it is obvious that the Song army is still strong and the peasant army is weak. Unless the Ming army joins in, no changes will be possible in a short period of time.

However, there are fierce anti-corruption struggles and revolutionary actions in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhao Yucheng also knows about this.

He learned through the secret channels of the Skynet Army that Su Yonglin was launching a devastating attack on the superiors, which made him very happy, and he was also full of confidence in his actions.

Although the Song army was powerful, although there were many people, and they had strong oppressive forces, the peasant army was definitely not waiting to die.

Based on their understanding of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Song army, Zhao Yucheng estimated that it would take more than three months to launch the next military operation in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Just shirking responsibility and making noises will probably take a lot of time.

A huge failure requires people to take the blame. It is unknown who is the one who takes the blame, whether it is willing, and whether it will trigger a new round of court political struggles.

Su Yonglin told him that the Southern Song Dynasty was a standard civil war, internal and foreign war layman, and they were good at engaging in political struggles, but if they wanted to engage in external wars, they had to complete the internal political struggle first, otherwise it would be impossible.

Therefore, this period is the golden period for the development of the peasant army.

Zhao Yucheng was full of confidence, formulated plans, arranged personnel, and planned to build a Ming enclave on Jiangnan West Road.

The farmer's association system is built here, and the peasant army is connected to the peasant army, and the dual system of the previous Restoration Army and the peasant association is realized on this hot land, and the path Su Yonglin has taken.

At the same time, the Lin'an court was indeed trapped in an extremely fierce political struggle as Zhao Yucheng expected.

Of course, there is no controversy in the cause, it is the great defeat on Jiangnan West Road.

The news of the great defeat on Jiangnan West Road was sent to Lin'an eleven days after the official defeat. Some local officials quickly sent the news to Lin'an City. During this period, many difficulties and obstacles were eliminated. It was difficult to deliver the news. Some defeated soldiers arrived with the news.

The news was first sent to the Privy Council, and Zhang Jun happened to discuss matters with Zhao Sheng in the palace.
Chapter completed!