In the afternoon, the two sides marched together towards Jiujiang Army Headquarters and Dehua County.
On this war day, Song Jun didn’t win. In the face of the peasant army’s active attack on the Song Jun step army and the water army’s defeat, the peasant army’s offensive was swift and sweeping.
Song Jun didn’t expect the peasant army to launch this wave of strategic attacks. They didn’t know that the peasant army had started to attack until the peasant army started.
However, the actual peasant army’s preparations for a series of wars are not absolutely secret, nor are they absolutely secret these days. The high-level officials in Song Jun have long known about the peasant army’s preparations for war.
When did Zhou Yun, commander-in-chief of Jiujiang Army, know that the peasant army had started to act?
The answer is that in mid-February, shortly after the peasant army began to prepare.
At that time, he heard from businessmen doing business with the peasant army that the peasant army began to buy a large number of munitions such as ordnance and cloth, and began to take over ships, and there were signs of mobilizing troops.
But Zhou Yun didn’t take it seriously.
Because at that time, the news that the imperial court was going to launch the fourth encirclement and suppression campaign had already spread around here.
The Southern Song Dynasty imperial court had nothing to keep secret, and military intelligence was watched by people like Sie. The well-informed businessmen knew the news as soon as the imperial court decided to start fighting there.
It is normal for businessmen to know about the peasant army.
When businessmen found that business opportunities began to seize, they raised prices and sold things to the peasant army in large quantities. The peasant army also began to open its belly to sweep goods and throw money in large quantities.
Businessmen make a lot of money, and the boss behind them, Zhou Yun, and Jiujiang officials also make a lot of money.
Ordnance is not something that ordinary businessmen can touch and engage in this kind of business. If there is no official background, it is impossible to think about it.
It seems to him that the peasant army closed the ship and the army changed. They are preparing to resist in response to the fourth encirclement and suppression campaign of the imperial court. It is normal to do so for defense. It is no big deal.
In previous attacks, the peasant army occasionally fought back, but Ji was passively beaten and waited for Song Jun to hit them. This time will be no exception.
Zhou Yun didn’t think that the peasant army closed the ship and the army moved to prepare for the attack.
It’s a pity that it became difficult for him to make money as soon as the war started.
Then we will step up efforts to sell some things that we were reluctant to take out and sell to the peasant army. By the way, the price will rise and fly. Anyway, no matter how high the price is, the peasant army will buy it
be very pleased with oneself
As a matter of fact, Zhou Yun, an official in Jiujiang area, and the peasant army paid back water until the fifth day of March, the day before the war, and talked with businessmen in the Southern Song Dynasty about ordnance business, and kept saying that no matter how much the price was, they would accept it if it was good.
Businessmen brought news back to Zhou Yun and others, who were carried away by golden gold bars and wanted to make money regardless of him.
Some businessmen in the Southern Song Dynasty found that the peasant army was mobilizing civilian workers and collecting carts, and other important news was also regarded as business opportunities by Zhou Yun and others.
The coping strategy is to raise prices.
Want ordnance?
Yeah!
Need to increase the money
As a result of the more difficult things, the peasants’ army did not say what the price was, and the profit of 2300% drove the businessmen and officials crazy, and they were so intent on making money that they didn’t care about anything.
But they didn’t think that they had sold all their weapons to others. What would they resist when they came with weapons?
Money?
Zhou Yun paid no attention to making money, turning a blind eye to more and more pre-war warnings or making money.
It was not until March 12 that Zhou Yun received the exact front-line military report that the peasant army had launched an attack on the area controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty, and Dean County had been breached.
Zhou Yun was shocked when he heard this, but at the same time he felt incredible and believed in it.
I was talking about business before. Why did the peasant army suddenly go to war?
His side is preparing for the ordnance agreement reached between the two sides on March 5 to make a fortune for him, and now the peasant army has called?
Is this what you want to buy if you don’t want to pay?
Zhou Yun couldn’t believe that this Junbao doubted whether it was a false alarm. At the same time, he sent people to let the main army start to rectify and prepare for war, and at the same time sent people to continue to inquire about the news in the south.
It didn’t take long, and less than a day later, Zhou Yun was extremely shocked to learn that tens of thousands of farmers’ main forces were marching in the direction of Dehua County to see that the number was more than the number of Jiujiang troops
At the same time, he got an urgent military report from two ports in the east of Dehua County, saying that the peasant army navy had conquered their port and blocked it. Now the port has been defeated by law.
That is to say, he has just confirmed that the peasant army has launched an attack and is facing a situation that can be called hell mode.
He has one port left, a water army that can be mobilized, and the main force of the peasant army is approaching Dehua County step by step.
How come…
How can the peasant army take the initiative to attack?
There is no sign that they will take the initiative to attack!
Never before!
In a panic, Zhou Yun forgot that he should be alert before, but he was not alert. He quickly called a military meeting to ask the generals what to do.