The Northern Song Dynasty court sent a garrison in Shezhou named Guo Shizhong. Because Guo Shizhong was extremely skilled in martial arts and was unstoppable among the generals in the southeast, tigers would feel anxious when they saw him, so he was nicknamed "Sick Guansuo".
Bingguansuo Guo Shizhong heard that Fang La was revolting and captured Qingxi and Muzhou. Already filled with anger. Now, knowing that Fang La's tribe was coming to capture Shezhou, he immediately became anxious and hurriedly mobilized his troops and led his troops out of the city to meet Fang La's southern army.
Fang La's army beat drums and advanced, and Guo Shizhong came towards them.
As soon as the two armies faced each other, a group of figures with loose hair and swords suddenly appeared in Fang La's army. They pointed their swords in the air, then charged at the officers and soldiers with their swords horizontally, and rushed in with all their strength.
Because peace has lasted for a long time, the officers and soldiers did not know how to fight, and they were not alert to the evil tricks of Fang La's army. Who would dare to stop them? In an instant, the flags were in chaos, like birds and beasts scattered. When Guo Shizhong saw this, he couldn't help it. In the chaos, Nan Xiang, who was galloping over from the chaotic army, shouted: "Look at the sword!" With a click, he cut Guo Shizhong under his horse. Poor Guo Shizhong, who was known as a "sick man", died in an instant.
The Confederate army rushed towards Shezhou like a tide. The officers and soldiers who stayed behind in Shezhou were horrified when they saw their general killed in battle. They collapsed without a fight and saw that Shezhou was trapped.
After occupying Shezhou, Lu Shinang left troops to garrison, and then led his troops to march eastward. Lü Shi's Nang Division was heading in an unstoppable direction, conquering Fuyang and Xincheng, approaching the city walls of Hangzhou and approaching the city walls, threatening Hangzhou, the center of Zhejiang's rule in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Hangzhou was the capital of the Liangzhe Road in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was also the seat of the Zaozuo Bureau and one of Zhu Meng's former command centers for scrapping flowers and stone gangs. It was home to a large number of officials, wealthy businessmen, and landowners.
Because of its strategic location and flourishing flowers, the city of Hangzhou is vast and densely populated. It is surrounded by dry roads to the north, rivers to the south, and lakes to the west. The defense is very strict.
Lu Shinang's troops gathered at the foot of Hangzhou City to prepare for the attack.
In order to assist Lu Shinang in conquering the city of Hangzhou, Fang La urgently sent Crown Prince Fang Tianding to lead his troops to help. Together with Lu Shinang's troops, they besieged Hangzhou and waited for an opportunity to conquer it.
Fang Tianding led 20,000 soldiers and horses to gallop through the starry night and met up with Lu Shinang under the city walls of Hangzhou. The two secretly planned to attack Hangzhou.
Zhao Ting, the magistrate of Hangzhou, climbed to the city and looked westward. He saw the bandits coming in the distance, and he was very alarmed.
Zhao Ting was watching from a distance when he suddenly saw several tall men rushing out of Fang La's army formation. They were about ten feet tall, wearing divine helmets and cloaks. They held spears in their left hands and flags in their right hands. Their faces were ferocious and terrifying. Zhao Ting was immediately frightened out of his mind and panicked.
In fact, this kind of tall man is generally carved from big wood, with a mechanism in the middle and restrained by people. Therefore, when you move your hands, you can see from a distance as if you were alive. Zhao Ting was as timid as a turtle and knew what was true and what was false, so he immediately went to the city to return the letter.
In Zhizhou Mansion, Zhao Ting was uneasy and hesitated.
After hesitating for a while, Zhao Ting made up his mind. Thirty-six moves, escape is the best move.
Zhao Ting actually packed up his belongings, grabbed his wife and concubines, took advantage of the disturbance in the city, modified his office, and rushed out of the city to escape for his own life.
Chen Jian, the Zhizhi envoy in Hangzhou, and Zhao Yue, the honest visiting envoy, saw the bandits surrounding the city. They hurriedly entered the state office and wanted to discuss the defense matters with Zhao Ting. Unexpectedly, the office was empty and there was no one. When the two saw this, they were so anxious that they stumbled; in desperation, they hurriedly exited the department door.
At this moment, the Fang La bandits had broken through the city gate, swarmed into the city, and attacked the Zhizhou Mansion.
Chen Jian and Zhao Yue had just come out of the gate of Zhizhou Mansion when they encountered the noisy bandit army. They were unable to escape and were both tied up.
Not long after, Fang La's army also entered Hangzhou city. The former army presented Chen Jian and Zhao Yue. Fang La ordered Chen Jian and Zhao Jun to be beheaded in public. Chen Jian and Zhao Yue were beheaded and their heads were hung on the city gate.
Fang La's fellow was very fierce. Once he entered the city, he ordered his followers to arrest the officials. The Fangla bandit army then searched the whole city and captured several of them, and tied them one by one in front of the state office.
Fang Lagao sat in the hall and drank wine.
Fang La glanced at the officials tied up in front of the state office, and then sent an order: "I have a drink, and you will kill one of the officials you got. You can behead him or chop him with a knife. It must be interesting."
Immediately, Fang La drank in the lobby.
Every time Fang La drank a cup, the soldiers pushed someone out from the group of officials who were tied up in front of the department door. They either beheaded or chopped up with knives. They used different methods to kill people. The most ferocious thing was not leaving the whole body intact, or cutting off the limbs, or gouging out. The lungs and intestines are either boiled with ointment or shot with disprosium indiscriminately, which is extremely cruel.
When Fang La saw this, he was very excited and said loudly: "That's it! As soon as I come to power, I want to eliminate harm for the people. This is enough to alleviate public anger."
It was Zhu Meng who aroused public anger. When the people saw this, they all cheered loudly and showed no mercy.
Fang La also ordered his gang members to set fires everywhere and massacre and loot the city. Except for the beautiful women who had sexual pleasure, most of the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed. They killed them for six days.
In addition, Fang La also ordered the bandits to collect money to prepare military supplies.
Lu Shinang learned that Fang La had entered Hangzhou, so he came to see Fang La.
Lu Shinang looked at Fang La and said, "My lord is here. I have something to say."
Fang La glanced at Lu Shixiang and said, "If you have anything to say, just tell me!"
Lu Shinang then reported: "My lord, Zhu Meng's evil deeds were all caused by the treacherous minister Cai Jing. It was Cai Jing who supported Zhu Meng and caused Zhu Meng to harm the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that the tomb of Cai Jing's ancestor is in Hangzhou, but Send people to search, exhume the remains of that ancestor, and expose them to broad daylight to vent the public's anger."
Fang La heard the memorial and greatly appreciated it, so he sent soldiers to search for Cai Jing's ancestral tomb.
Fang La's gang members made inquiries and found the tomb of Cai Jing's ancestor. They destroyed the tomb of Cai Jing's ancestor and dug up the remains of Cai Jing's ancestor and threw them on the street to vent their anger.
After Hangzhou was destroyed, there was a huge earthquake in the southeast, and an emergency warning sounded like snowflakes flying into Beijing.
The prime minister at that time was Wang Fu, who had just squeezed out Cai Jing.
At this time, Wang Fu and Tong Guan were working together and were preparing to carry out the northern expedition to recover the sixteen states of Yunyan according to the agreement reached with the Jin people, so they had no time to take care of Xiao Kou.
Wang Fu was afraid that Huizong would be blamed, so he put the alarm aside and did not play it. Therefore, Emperor Huizong, who lived deep in the palace, did not know about the banditry in the south of the Yangtze River.
At that time, Chen Fu, a shipping envoy from Huainan, came to the capital to do business. He saw the bandits in distress. Prime Minister Wang Fu still concealed the situation. He was so angry that he avoided Wang Fu, entered the palace, and directly reported to Chen Huizong. At this point, Huizong became aware of the chaos.
Huizong was shocked when he heard Chen Tuo's report. He urgently ordered Tong Guan to be the envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, and Zhejiang, Tan Zhen to be the envoy to the two lakes, and Wang Zhen to be the commander.
Moreover, because Chen Yu was sparse, he said that Zhejiang's troops were useless, so foreign brigades must be mobilized to quickly quell the bandit rebellion. Huizong was convinced of this, so he resumed his duties and ordered the elite soldiers of the Six Routes of Shaanxi to march southward at the same time.
So the border generals Xin Xingzhong and Yang Weizhong commanded the Xihe soldiers, Liu Zhen commanded the Jingyuan soldiers, Yang Keshi and Zhao Ming commanded the Huanqing soldiers, Huang Di commanded the Yanyan soldiers, Magong Zhi commanded the Qin Feng soldiers, Ji Jing commanded the Hedong soldiers, and the six armies were all returned to the capital to control Liu Yanqing's control. . A total of approximately 150,000 troops from all internal and external armies were mobilized to the southeast.
The armies moved southward one after another, which would inevitably take time and days.
By the time Tong Guan and others led their troops to Jinling, it was already the middle of Meng Chun Yue in the third year of Xuanhe.
At this time, Fangla fell into Wuzhou and then into Quzhou. Peng Rufang, the governor of Quzhou, was arrested and taken to Fangla. Before Fang La could interrogate him, Peng Rufang started to curse. On the left was a thief, and on the left was another bandit, scolding him angrily. Fang La was furious and ordered Peng Rufang to beheaded in public. Peng Rufang was then pulled out of the hall by Confederate soldiers and beheaded in public display.
A few days later, Fang La's army captured Chuzhou again. Jinyun Lieutenant Zhan Liangchen led dozens of people out of the army and were captured by thieves. They refused to surrender and were killed.
Immediately, Fang Lasi ordered the Hangzhou garrison Fang Tianding to lead 60,000 people to capture Chongde County and then attack Xiuzhou.
Fang Tianding received the order and led 60,000 Southern troops. After capturing Chongde County, he drove his troops to the foot of Xiuzhou City, surrounded it and attacked day and night. Fortunately, Wang Ziwu, the commander of the Xiuzhou army, was brave and good at fighting. He called on the soldiers and people to climb the Pipi to defend the city. The Xiuzhou city was defended by the Confederate army and was not breached.
Tong Guan led his army to Jinling and rested for a while. He left Liu Zhen to guard Jinling. He led his army to advance rapidly. After arriving in Zhenjiang, he heard that Xiuzhou was besieged and urgently called the king to rush to rescue Xiuzhou. It happened that Xihe generals Xin Xingzong and Yang Weizhong also arrived with troops, and the two armies attacked Fang Tianding. Fang Tianding could not hold on, so he had to retreat and Xiuzhou relieved the siege.
Fang La failed to attack the east, so he turned to the west and fell into Ningguo and Jingde counties. The official army was restrained by it, and he could only divide the army to help from the west, and could not take care of western Zhejiang for a while.
Tong Guan led his troops and arrived in Suzhou. Knowing that Hua Shi Gang had caused too much public anger, he immediately privately issued an edict in the name of Song Huizong, admitting his mistake, revoked the "Yingfeng Bureau" that was responsible for handling Hua Shi Gang, and sent Zhu Meng to justice. Removal.
When the people in the southeast saw that the imperial court had canceled the Hua Shi Gang, Emperor Huizong also issued an imperial edict, admitted his mistake, and dismissed Zhu Meng, they finally felt bad.
At this time, Tong Guan used two methods: peace talks and conquest. First, he sent people to deliver a letter to Fang La, promising that as long as Fang La surrendered to the court, he would not kill him and give him a certain official position; Fang La.
The messenger flew a pennant with the word "messenger" written on it, searched all the way to Fanglaxing camp, and issued a surrender letter.
That Fang La is nothing like the Songjiang River in Liangshan. Fang La sternly refused the imperial court's offer of surrender, tore the surrender letter into pieces, threw it on the ground, ordered the messenger to be killed, tore the messenger over, pressed it to the ground, beat him on the butt with a stick, and drove him out.
The messenger sent by Tong Guan was beaten to pieces on his buttocks. He endured the pain and limped away.
The messenger returned to Tong Guan's tent and reported to Tong Guan that Fang La was beaten with a stick instead of trying to recruit him. When Tong Guanwen heard this, he was furious and ordered his subordinates to prepare for war and prepare to conquer Fang La.
After the war preparations were completed, Tong Guan set off again to suppress the Fangla bandit army.
Although Fang La's uprising was quite loud, if a war really broke out, he would be far from a match for well-trained officers and soldiers. Therefore, under the attack of Tong Guan's army, Fang La retreated steadily, all the way to Bangyuan Cave.
Tong Guan commanded various reinforcements, totaling 300,000 troops, and surrounded Bangyuandong.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Fang La urgently ordered his subordinates to lead a large force to break out. He himself led a small group of people to contain the officers and soldiers.
Fang La's several marshals disagreed and said one after another: "Your Majesty, you lead the troops to break out, and we will cover you."
Hearing this, Fang La urgently ordered: "The situation is critical, stop fighting. Compared with you, my goal is bigger. That sycophant Tong Guan is targeting me, not you. As long as you can break out of the encirclement safely, you can stay." Once you have the green mountains, why worry about not having firewood? You must preserve your strength and continue fighting."
After saying that, Fang La dragged his injured body, led a small group of people, and suddenly attacked the officers and soldiers, so as to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers and cover the others' breakout.
Fang La, who rushed to the formation of officers and soldiers, brandished a broadsword and hacked dozens of officers and soldiers to death one after another.
Fang La's blade curled up after cutting and could no longer be used. So Fang La jumped off his horse, lifted up stones and threw them at the officers and soldiers.
Some of the officers and soldiers recognized Fang La and shouted: "This thief is Fang La!"
When the officers and soldiers heard that the other party was Fang La, they were eager to take credit. They waved their swords and guns and surrounded him. Fang La had also finished throwing the stones around him, and could only fight with the officers and soldiers with his bare hands. Seeing that Fang La was a trapped beast, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court rushed forward one after another, rushing to chop off Fang La's head so that they could go back and claim credit.
Unfortunately, Fang La did not have the same luck as Chen Shuozhen. At this time, except for the surging officers and soldiers, no phoenix flew to his side, so he rode the phoenix and left. At that time, Fang La was surrounded by people and was outnumbered. He was chopped into pieces by the officers and soldiers with swords.
Since then, Fangla's uprising has been wiped out, and the remaining people have been exterminated one after another.
Regarding Fang La's death, this is a way of saying it, which doesn't seem very interesting.
Another theory comes from "Xu Zi Zhi Tong Jian".
It is said that in April of the third year of Xuanhe, Wang Yuan's general Han Shizhong sneaked to Qingxi Valley and asked a woman for directions, saying that he wanted to enter the cave to capture Fang La. The local people also hated Fang La for killing innocent people indiscriminately, bullying men and dominating women, and doing evil things. The woman then pointed out the way to the cave for Han Shizhong.
Han Shizhong led more than thirty soldiers under his command and rushed into the cave.
In the cave, Fang La was having fun hugging a woman.
When Fang La saw Han Shizhong approaching, he pushed away the beautiful woman in his arms and jumped up to fight with Han Shizhong.
Then Han Shizhong is also a powerful man. When he was young, Han Shizhong was swimming in the river. When a python tried to eat him, he was stunned and grabbed the upper and lower lips of the python with both hands, and finally killed the python with a trick.
No matter how fierce Fang La is, he can't be stronger than a big python!
Now, Han Shizhong and Fang La are fighting together.
During the fight, Han Shizhong turned around suddenly, and when Fang La came to attack him, he stretched out an arm and strangled Fang La tightly. Fang La was strangled so hard that he almost choked, so Han Shizhong tied up Fang La and escorted him out of the cave.
Waiting at the entrance of the cave was Han Shizhong's immediate boss, Xin Xingzong. When Na Xin Xingzong saw that Han Shizhong had arrested Fang La, he ordered his subordinates to take him in and take credit for his arrest.
This statement is also not very interesting.
There is also a folk saying.
It is said that before Fang La launched his army, his whereabouts were learned by Fang Youchang, his former laborer, and Fang Youchang planned to report to the county government. Unexpectedly, Fang La found out that Fang Youchang wanted to report Fang La's uprising. Fang La then killed six members of Fang Youchang's family. Only Fang Youchang's youngest son Fang Geng was spared because he was out.
Fang Geng heard that the army was here to avenge his family, so he led the army into Bangyuan Cave and captured Fang La.
The above statements are too simple. The most interesting one is what Mr. Shi Naian said in "Water Margin".
Because the next part of this book will tell about the conquest of Fangla after the Shuibo Liangshan Recruitment, therefore, the book mentions Fangla because it is said that the monk Lu Zhishen was captured by Hua Monk.
Nalu Zhishen was the infantry leader under Song Jiang. He followed the verses of his master Zhizhen, the elder Zhizhen, who said: "Capture in summer, hold on to La, listen to the tide and become round, and see faith and fall silent." When chasing Fang La's remnant army, he chased into the mountains and forests. Road.
At this time, an old monk appeared and took Lu Zhishen around in the mountains. Finally, he went outside a thatched house and settled Lu Zhishen to rest.
The old monk told Lu Zhishen: "We have prepared all the food and lodging for you in this house. Just stay here. If you see a strong man emerging from the woods in the next two days, there is no need to say anything. Just call him." Just catch it if you turn it over." After saying that, the old monk left on his own, leaving only Lu Zhishen alone in the forest.
Lu Zhishen watched the old monk leave and went into the house to rest.
The next day, Lu Zhishen got out of bed and lay on the grass outside the house to rest. Sure enough, he saw a strong man emerging from the woods. Lu Zhishen remembered the old monk's advice and didn't say anything. He just raised his Zen staff and knocked the man to the ground with one blow, tied him up, and then picked up the man. A closer look showed that the man who was knocked down and tied up was Fang La.
