Zhang Xianzhong had discussed this revolt with Luo Rucai and others in advance, originally scheduled for the fifth day of May. Moreover, both Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing knew "qngren", but they did not bother to go back on their word and did not participate. Reading in 88 years,...o thought of the past relationship, but did not report it.
The original plan was for the "Eight Kings" to lead their troops to attack first and send the soldiers stationed at Baishazhou in Gucheng to Fang County and other areas.
The "Little Five Camps" who were "pacified" in Junzhou - Wang Guangen, Hui Dengxiang, Chang Guoan, Wang Guoning, and Yang Youxian - immediately rose up and responded.
The upper reaches of Junzhou is Yun County, which is the defense area of Luo Rucai and the four groups of "Yi Zhang Qing", "Xiao Qin Wang" and "Yi Long". Once the uprising succeeds, the rebels can quickly control the northern part of Yunyang Prefecture and Xiangyang. The vast area in the northwest of the government.
However, the plan did not change quickly. The rebels did not expect that the imperial court had already formulated a highly targeted attack plan. Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou led the main force of the army to attack separately.
Due to the careful planning and proper secrecy, the troops marched quickly and there was no delay on the road. The march time was almost the same as estimated. By the time the "Eight Kings" heard that the Hong bandit army had entered Xiangyang City, it was already April 24th.
The other party was aggressive and obviously came after him. Now the "Eight Kings" could not resist, and it was a full ten days earlier than the time agreed upon by the leaders of the rebel army.
Seeing that Hong Chengchou's arrival was unkind, Zhang Xianzhong was extremely cunning and did not implement the plan he had made with other leaders, but instead captured Gucheng first.
Then he used a "cunning rabbit with three caves" strategy and ordered his two adopted sons, the eldest son Zhang Kewang and the second son Zhang Dingguo, to lead 3,000 troops and horses in two directions: north and west.
As long as Hong Chengchou fell into the trap, the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers would go to attack other colleagues, and he would be able to sit back and relax. Even if he didn't fall into the trap, he would not be able to figure out his own route to the army.
The "Eight Kings" first unilaterally broke the agreement with other rebel leaders, which was equivalent to selling the other nine people. The "buyer" was Hong Chengchou, which was the so-called "draining the trouble to the west."
Zhang Xianzhong has no control over whether they curse in the streets after hearing the news. If his troops go to Junzhou, with tens of thousands of Hong Chengchou's officers and soldiers behind them, these people will still curse.
Zhang Xianzhong's choice to avoid his sharp edge was extremely correct. If he were to face the army with a large number of rapid-fire new guns in formation, I am afraid that his 30,000-strong army would no longer exist in a day...
After Wang Guoning heard about Zhang Xianzhong's uprising in Baishazhou, he was extremely happy and immediately sent someone to tell the other four leaders of the "Little Fifth Battalion" the good news.
However, the reactions of these four people were different. The attitudes of Yang Youxian and Chang Guoan were more consistent with Wang Guoning. As long as the "Eight Kings" rebelled, they would dare to follow suit.
However, Prime Minister Huiden did not express his position immediately, and was somewhat wavering and ambiguous. The court did not harm him, but suddenly participated in the rebellion, which was a bit unkind.
Wang Guangen said, "I am loyal to you now, but we are also rebelling. It's just under my pants, and I won't do it!"
After the "Eight Kings" really took the lead in raising the flag of justice, he still thought so.
What this means is, do whatever Zhang Xianzhong asks you to do. Are you the object in his crotch? If you really want to do it, you should do it, I won’t do it.
In addition to watching the actions of the "Eight Kings", everyone also wanted to listen to the opinions of their big brother, Luo Rucai. Only when "Cao Cao" nodded could this matter be completely successful.
After accepting the recruitment, Luo Rucai was only willing to live in farming and did not accept the money, food and property rewarded by the court. However, he secretly flirted with other leaders, had plans in mind, and agreed to the suggestions of the "Eight Kings". Eighty-eight years of reading,
It's just that his former soldiers were scattered in Shangjin, Zhushan, Nanzhang, Baokang, Fangxian and other areas. Although the number of troops was no less than six or seven thousand, it was very time-consuming and laborious to assemble them.
If discovered by the court, it will definitely be regarded as a rebellion, so we are determined not to gather in advance. We can only wait for the "Eight Kings" to make news before openly recruiting old subordinates.
Not only was Prime Minister Huiden watching the crowd, Luo Rucai was also doing the same, because the inside of the rebel army was no longer what it was in its heyday a few years ago.
Nowadays, the "Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo" has gone far away from the Dabie Mountains and is far away from the rebel forces in northwestern Huguang. It will not be possible to join them in the short term.
What's more important is that Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, two of the top three leaders in the group, have no intention of participating in the operation, which means that the rebel army has lost nearly one-third of its troops.
Zhang Xianzhong had a large number of troops, as many as 32,000. But Liu Guoneng had 28,000 troops, and Li Wanqing had fewer, but there were still 18,000 troops. These two people were dedicated to serving the imperial court, so Luo Ru would not fail to think about it carefully.
The total number of these nine troops in Junzhou and Yunxian is only 50,000. If Wang Guangen and Hui Dengxiang did not participate in the uprising, it would be equivalent to not counting the "Eight Kings" troops. The total strength of their seven divisions was only more than 40,000.
If "Cao Cao's" old troops were discovered by the army on the way and intercepted and killed, the number of troops in the rebellion might only be 40,000. Whether it can become a major event needs to be considered separately.
If the leaders from all walks of life respond positively, then the nearly 130,000 rebels will suddenly rise up, and they will definitely be able to defeat the government troops who come to suppress them, and they may break the soil and become king in the future.
Nowadays, everyone has their own selfish motives and cannot be unified at all, and it is difficult for his troops to assemble quickly and be on standby, which makes Luo Rucai have a headache.
As for Li Zicheng, I heard that the "Eight Kings" gave him three thousand taels of silver and fifty horses some time ago, which shows how miserable he was...
For the leaders, there was bad news and even worse news. The former was that both Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were promoted to chief military officers by the imperial court, which meant that they would never join the gang again.
The latter one was even more explosive. Hong Chengchou led an army of 100,000 people to suppress the rebellion. The reason was that the news of the uprising was leaked in advance, and the court had already learned that everyone planned to rebel.
After hearing the news, Wang Guoning hurriedly found Yang Youxian and Chang Guoan to discuss countermeasures. The three of them drank for a long time and finally decided to implement the original plan and echo the "Eight Kings".
First, pull the troops to Yun County, away from Hong Chengchou's army, wait until they meet up with the four groups stationed there, and then wait for an opportunity to advance in other directions.
However, Wang Guangen and Prime Minister Hui Deng still stood still. The former had a clear attitude and would not join the others, while the latter continued to consider and weigh the pros and cons without any response at all.
The three groups who decided to start the uprising were unable to teach these two unscrupulous bastards a lesson due to their limited strength. They could only abandon them and go upstream first.
These three leaders are very afraid that the imperial court will liquidate them for their past actions and their current secret collusion and planning for rebellion. If they are caught by the government and the army, they will definitely be punished like Gao Yingxiang...
Everyone waited for two full days in Yun County, and the seven of them drank together. However, instead of waiting for the "Eight Kings", Sun Chuanting's army came.
Sun Chuanting's Qin army wiped out the rebellion in the capital camp in the capital, and after Gao Jie sent out nearly 5,000 troops, there were still 20,000 troops left. However, a certain prince directly transferred Bai Guangen's troops there, which restored the strength of the troops under his command to More than thirty thousand.
Considering that Sun Chuanting was under a lot of pressure and the force of the attack was far less than that of Hong Chengchou, a certain prince added some helpers to the commander-in-chief.
Six generals, Li Shourong, Sun Xianzu, Xue Minzhong, Jiang Rang, Zu Dabi, and Zhao Guangyuan, were ordered to rush to support Sun Chuanting's Qin army. Yulin general Jiang Rang and Qianghan general Zhao Guangyuan were far away, and it would take a few days to arrive. .
After receiving the order, the remaining four generals led their troops to join Sun Chuanting in Shangnan. The main reason for the rapid advance of troops was that a certain prince said that all previous salary arrears should be settled with Sun Chuanting...
The Dushuai now also had this financial resources. King Fu's family, who lived in Luoyang, was invited to the capital by the factory guards, leaving Sun Chuanting with 600,000 taels of salary and 100,000 shi of military rations.
After Sun Chuanting arrived, he was ordered to kill the guard general Wang Shaoyu. The two thousand soldiers and horses under his command were sent to various departments of the Qin army. He took these people to deal with the rogues, so that he would not be afraid that Chen Yongfu, who took over Luoyang city defense, would not be able to control them. .
After joining forces in the Shangnan area, Sun Chuanting's troops were considered to be strong. Under his command were ten men, including He Renlong, Li Guoqi, Zuo Guangxian, Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu, Bai Guangen, Li Shourong, Sun Xianzu, Xue Minzhong, Zu Dabi and so on. Chief military officer.
The total strength is about 45,000. Although the number does not seem to be much, it is a real amount. It is not like the previous days of empty pay. If it is mixed with water, it can be converted into the previous 100,000 troops.
After receiving the pay, the morale of the officers and soldiers naturally increased, and a lot of huoyao were replenished in the capital and Luoyang. Various types of old fire blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss equipped by the troops were also replaced in time, and the combat effectiveness was stronger than before.
Troops often marched from Shangnan, crossed Danshui, and walked dozens of miles before entering Yunxian County in Huguang. When the official army appeared on the border of Yunxian County, many leaders who had revolted finally began to become restless after hearing the news.
Although Hong Chengchou's army was large, it was far away in Xiangyang, and there were "eight kings" in the middle leading his troops to resist. It would take some time to reach Yun County, but Sun Chuanting's troops were approaching, and it seemed that they had to fight.
According to the original plan, Luo Rucai planned to go to Fang County to recruit his old troops, where he would join Zhang Xianzhong's men, and then the two families would join forces to sweep through the surrounding cities.
Now that the "Eight Kings" have disappeared since the uprising in Gucheng, Hong Chengchou's army must choose to go north. If they cannot capture Zhang Xianzhong's troops, they will come to fight with these rebels.
The top priority is to repel the officers and soldiers led by Sun Chuanting first, and then we can worry about it later. Otherwise, with Hong Chengchou in the south and Sun Chuanting in the north, the rebel army would be attacked from both sides.
The other six people greeted dozens of generations of Zhang Xianzhong's ancestors, but almost all of Zhang Xianzhong's once living relatives were dead.
The "Eight Kings" who became de facto orphans didn't care at all. Selling their teammates was something they had to do in order to save their lives at a critical moment.
Sun Chuanting was particularly good at fighting against the rebels, and his record was more victories than losses. It seemed that this was a countermeasure that the imperial court came up with after the death of the Dog Emperor. Luo Rucai noticed this in the "Jingshi Daily" sent from thousands of miles away.
The prince is young, and supervising the country's governance is just a formality. If Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are really released, the situation for the rebels will be much more serious than before they were recruited.
But the leaders of the rebel army were not in vain. They conquered Junzhou first, and then captured Yun County. They defeated the official army in a row and captured Yunyang Governor Dai Dongmin, which made Long Zaitian, the commander-in-chief who was responsible for surveillance, not dare to act rashly.
Xiong Wencan has four general soldiers under his command. Zuo Liangyu and Zhang Renxue still don't know the news about their troops. Chen Hongfan, who is responsible for monitoring the "Eight Kings" in Gucheng, has probably been eliminated by Zhang Xianzhong.
With only Long Zaitian's troops behind him, the rebels would not worry at all. They could just separate some of them for surveillance and defense. The main thing was to concentrate their forces to deal with the main force of the official army led by the murderous Sun Chuanting.
After some reconnaissance, it was estimated that there were only about 50,000 officers and soldiers coming to attack, and everyone brainstormed and finally decided on the suggestion made by "Cao Cao" Luo Rucai.
That is to occupy the county seat of Yunxian County and form an array in front of the city. This way, you can wait for work and have an absolute advantage in physical strength when fighting against the officers and soldiers coming from afar.
As long as it is severely damaged, the main force of the rebel army can go south to Zhushan and then enter Sichuan before Hong Chengchou leads his army north to Yunyang, and quickly occupy this very fertile area.
The strength of both sides was equal, so Luo Rucai felt that there was no need for his side to run away immediately, and he also wanted to go south to recruit his old troops.
Otherwise, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses following Sun Chuanting might attack him at any time, and it would be impossible for him to gather the previous soldiers.
Other leaders also agreed with Luo Rucai's suggestion, or take advantage of the exhaustion of the officers and soldiers to kill them and retreat. When they regain their strength, they are afraid that the rebels will flee as usual, and finally be killed to the point of collapse and scattering.
Using 40,000 elite troops to defend the enemy on the spot and block the 50,000 exhausted troops coming from afar, the rebels had no reason to turn around and flee without even fighting.
These people have been working hard for a long time, and Sun Chuanting has just been released from prison. Whether he can have the same courage as before is another matter.
If we can annihilate this army in one fell swoop, then it won't be a problem to go north to Shaanxi and west to Sichuan and Shu.
On April 28, Sun Chuanting's army finally appeared in Yun County Wawei, and encountered the rebels who had been "waiting for a long time" here.
After seizing many firecrackers equipped by the government and army, the rebels also had the capital to fight.
So I plan to get rid of this old enemy that has been difficult to defeat several times over the years here once and for all.
As long as Sun Chuanting underestimates the enemy's carelessness, does not allow the officers and soldiers to make corrections, and comes to fight directly, the rebel army's chances of winning will greatly increase.
The situation was just as the leaders expected. Sun Chuanting led his troops to kill directly, intending to regain the city of Yun County in one go.
Everyone was also holding their breath, hoping to show Zhang Xianzhong that they would not dare to cause trouble without the "Eight Kings", and that they could eliminate the scourge of Sun Chuanting in one fell swoop.
When the two groups of people meet again, he, the "Eight Kings", will have to treat them differently. Everyone has had enough of turning around and running away.
Now, taking advantage of the God-given opportunity provided by the death of the Dog Emperor and the crown prince's supervision of the country, the rebel army is about to create a new world.
If in the end it is enough to kill Bao Ming and drive out the old Zhu family, then the most popular Luo Rucai will be elected as the emperor, and the other leaders will be kings.
Each person can be assigned a chief secretary, who has soldiers, money and power. He can be regarded as a vassal king of one side, and it is much more powerful than the nameless vassal king of the Ming Dynasty.
Many people have even thought about their future fiefdoms, and want to drive the "Eight Kings" back to their hometown in Shaanxi. None of them want to go to that poor place anyway, so it would be best to give it to Zhang Xianzhong. 11... Friends who read books, you can search for "Blue Chinese Network" and you will find this site as soon as possible.
