According to the plan of the Privy Council, Qi Fang now needs to go south.

Before heading south, some troops were needed to stay behind to ensure the existence of Nancheng County as a logistics grain station.

Since the other party has firmly cleared the world and moved all the troublemakers away, the Song army cannot obtain supplies from the local area, so they can only ask for transportation from the rear.

So the Song army's requirements for logistics personnel and logistics ships became enormous.

Fortunately, it is only late October, and the weather is not cold. The rivers in Jiangnan generally do not freeze, and they will not be able to break the ice even if they are frozen. Unless it is really cold, when encountering that kind of extremely cold weather, it can only be said that the weather is not good, and it is not their problem.

Even so, the resettlement of logistics grain stations has greatly slowed down Qi Fang's advance.

But Qi Fang felt that this was necessary because the logistics and food route was really important. He learned from the previous experience of Tian Shizhong's defeat and death. He really attached great importance to logistics.

Finally, after the further advance was completed, Qi Fang was able to lead the main force along the river to launch an attack on Nanfeng County.

He felt that although the rebels here were very capable and could create a situation of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, facing the absolute advantage of the Song army, they would sooner or later fight against the Song army unless they retreated again and again.

Moreover, there is a limit to retreat. Now that you keep retreating, there is always a time when you can’t retreat, let alone so many troublemakers are taking back together.

Sooner or later he will catch up and kill him.

If he hadn't had many cavalry under his command, he would have really wanted to send cavalry to pursue quickly and open his eyes to the rebels and the local unruly people, so that they could know what the real army is and what the elite of the Song Dynasty is.

Very cruel!

But he didn't know that the "rebels" and the "troubled people" knew how cruel they were, so they were preparing to launch the bravest counterattack against them with full courage and perseverance.

On October 25, the Song army, led by Qi Fang, arrived ten miles north of Nanfeng County, and set up camp here.

According to observation, there are indeed troops stationed and defended in Nanfeng County, and there are indeed traces of rebels. Therefore, Qi confirmed that the rebels' solid walls and clearing the fields are also limiting.

A smile of [everything is in control] was drawn on the corner of his mouth, and he felt that he had reached the limit of the rebels.

It is obvious that the rebels were unable to continue to lead the unlucky people to continue to flee south, and they had to block them in Nanfeng County. Therefore, Qi Fang further confirmed that the unlucky people who had attacked him before were currently trekking south of Nanfeng County.

And as long as he conquered Nanfeng County as soon as possible, he could retaliate against those unruly people who were ignorant of life and death.

So he set up a formation and began to command the army to attack Nanfeng County. He first cleared all military obstacles outside Nanfeng County, and then forced the 20,000 cannon fodder recruited by Quzhou and Xinzhou and the two states of Xinzhou to carry sandbags to fill the pits and moats.

The 20,000 strong men recruited from Quzhou and Xinzhou were not effectively protected. The large wooden mantle protected the soldiers of the imperial guards and did not protect these cannon fodder at all. So they suffered heavy casualties and took three days and three nights to finally fill the trap.

And it is still a distance away from filling the moat.

But it doesn't matter. Qi Fang forced these civilians to fill a moat to ensure that they could pass. Then he began to use the passage that the strong men exchanged for their lives to transport war soldiers and siege weapons, and began to attack Nanfeng County.

Nanfeng County was just a small city. The wall was originally only two or three meters high. The peasant army urgently built it, increasing the city wall to five meters, greatly increasing its defense and greater lethality to the Song army.

However, some small casualties were not in Qi Fang's eyes at all. What he wanted was the final victory, the pleasure of the Song army fighting against the peasant army, and the pride of a general's success.

The number of peasant army defending the city is obviously not as large as that of the Song army, so it is quite difficult to resist.

After three days of besieging Nanfeng County, the Song army began the process of climbing the city with ant support. At this time, the peasant army was forced to fight with the Song army in close combat, fighting in blood, and relied on the advantage and courage of the defending city to repel Qi's attack again and again.

As time goes by, Nanfeng County becomes more and more dangerous.

The Song army's catapults destroyed the defense facilities on the city many times, and destroyed many military facilities in the city. They attacked the city many times. The peasant soldiers on the city even appeared and hugged the Song army soldiers and threw them down the city wall head down.

With such a tragic sacrifice, the peasant army was able to defend Nanfeng County under the siege of the Song army.

But despite this, the complete suppression of Nanfeng County by the Song army with its superior forces was still obvious, so the smile on Qi Fang's face became more and more obvious.

He felt that he had seen a bright future.

He felt that he was about to break through the place, and then launched a massacre against the unruly people south of the county town.

It must be bloody, but it will be very happy.

However, at this moment, on the first day of November, one day when the cold wind suddenly rose, Qi Fang suddenly learned that something was wrong with his home.

His food route was cut off.

How could the food road be cut off?

Seeing Nanfeng County, which was already shaking and could be broken with just one more effort, Qi Fang was immediately confused. He was a little confused about how he was cut off from his food route.

It was clearly a call all the way, but why did the food route be cut off?

In his opinion, the only thing that could threaten his food route was Linchuan County, Fuzhou. According to the pre-researching, there were troops stationed in Linchuan County.

However, it took four or five days to travel from Linchuan to Jinxi, and no matter how fast the troops marched, it would take four or five days. During this period, he would never find out the radius of fifty miles.

In order to protect the grain route, he even sent a navy to block the waterway from Linchuan to Jinxi, increasing the cost of the peasant army's journey.

He also arranged an elite army of 3,000 people to station in Jinxi County, responsible for the protection of food and grass. The person in charge was the most cautious officer in the imperial guards.

No matter how you look at it, it is a foolproof situation.

How could this happen?

Of course, things didn't happen for no reason.

In fact, the reason is not complicated.

He accepted Zhao Yucheng's order to guard Fuzhou and Jianchang Army. As the peasant army general responsible for the first line of defense against Qi Fang, he was the commander of the Second Division, Xu Tong, who led 20,000 people from the Second Division to fight against Qi Fang's army.

Naturally, he was not the only army, and behind him was the army of the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army.

However, Xu Tong felt that since he was the first line of defense, he should play the role of a line of defense. Wouldn't it be enough to kill the enemy on his own side as much as possible?

Qi Fang?

Is it the general who obviously surrounded them but took the initiative to do business with them?

Isn't this kind of general very difficult to deal with?

Xu Tong thought so.

Qi Fang didn't know who his opponent was, but the peasant army knew who his opponent was.
Chapter completed!