Although it was an emergency, the members decided to launch this action after emergency consultations and moved the rebellion forward.
Originally, they planned to expand the number of members and the base of the rebels before rebelling. In that case, they could quickly expand the power of the uprising and directly build a strong team.
But now it's too late. Now that we've decided to rebel, we can't just sit there and we have to take the stage.
So Zhao Yucheng urgently decided to launch a large-scale traditional rebellion.
After gathering a certain size of rebel army, they will directly move into the Luoxiao Mountain area and develop and strengthen themselves while fighting guerrilla warfare. Using war as a catalyst, this revolutionary force will take shape faster.
Ideological education and other things will be better carried out when all the farmers have joined the army and are gathered together. Centralized education is much better than spreading out to do work one by one.
"The Chairman often says that plans cannot keep up with changes. Since we encounter changes, we should simply face the changes head-on. Opportunities will not hit people's heads. We must give full play to our subjective initiative and give it our all!"
After Zhao Yucheng made this decision, every member rushed to the villages they were familiar with to call on everyone to rebel together, and told each other who had rebelled and how many tax collectors had been killed.
The first war between the Ming and Song dynasties had just begun, and the Jiangnan West Road branch of the Renaissance Society had already set off a wave of rebellion in the Luling area.
It was the first day of April in the second year of Hongwu when Zhao Yucheng killed the tax collector and led the rebellion.
By the fourth day of April, thirty-eight villages under the jurisdiction of Luling County had decided to rebel.
Zhao Yucheng sent an order to members in other villages, asking them to lead everyone closer to Luling County. While attacking the county seat, they gathered manpower for reorganization.
By the time everyone gathered in Luling County on April 6th, Zhao Yucheng counted the number of people and found that the peasant army already numbered more than 4,000 people.
Then without saying a word, he ordered the attack on Luling County.
He needed the supplies in Luling County and the lives of the dog officials in Luling County to declare that he was officially rebelling.
When he launched an attack on Luling County, the officials of Luling County, who were fierce and indomitable, had no preparation or response strategy. They didn't know what was going on, why the rebellion was aroused, and how the rebels besieged the county so quickly. .
They don’t know how many people there are in the peasant army, who is leading the peasant army, what the purpose of the peasant army is, and how things will develop.
They failed before they could even muster an effective military defense.
Facing the surging peasant army, Luling County was quickly captured by the inside and outside cooperation - Deputy Director Du Qi led more than 30 members to lurk in the city early in the morning, waiting for Zhao Yucheng to lead a large force to rush over.
The large army began to attack the city. Du Qi, who was in the city, suddenly rushed out with more than 30 members. After a fierce battle, he killed dozens of government servants who hurriedly came to guard the gate and successfully captured a city. The city gate was opened, welcoming the peasant army to enter.
On the sixth day of April, Luling County was captured.
When the county seat was captured, the officials in Luling County didn't know anything. They didn't know how the peasant army entered the city, or whether it had wings and flew in...
But they knew very well that they were finished and the farmers would never let them go.
Of course, although the rebellion led by the Renaissance Society is relatively hasty, its essence will not change. It is a highly just anti-oppression and anti-exploitation struggle initiated by farmers as the main body.
The peasant army basically wiped out all the officials in Luling County, including a series of high-ranking local officials such as the Luling County Magistrate and the Jizhou Army Commander.
This group of dog officials worked together and colluded, driving the farmers to death, and adding fuel to the rebellion plan of Zhao Yucheng and others. Now the fire is burning fiercely, and has already burned them. .
As the chief culprits, Jizhou Zhijun and Luling County Magistrate were naturally unforgivable and must die, but they could not be allowed to simply die.
The farmers' violent anger needs an outlet, and these bastards are the best outlet.
Zhao Yucheng set up a high platform and pulled them up to the high platform to judge them in front of everyone, humiliating them and losing all their face, so that all authority and oppression no longer existed.
They knelt, cried, repented, and begged for mercy. All their actions severely destroyed the invisible shackles in the hearts of the farmers.
After the trial, the Luling County Magistrate and Jizhou Zhijun were the first to be sentenced to death, because they were the ones who started everything. It was their corruption that led to the financial deficit, and they planned to make up for the deficit with the help of the court's tax-free policy. What's more, They directly ordered tax collectors to go to the countryside to impose taxes.
It was they who caused the peasants to lose their wives and families.
So they must die.
Zhao Yucheng pushed the fat-headed and big-eared Luling County Magistrate and Jizhou Zhijun into the peasant army group.
The two people fell from the high platform in despair. Before they could scream, they were overwhelmed by the surging crowd. The angry farmers swarmed up and kicked the two people to death, beating them beyond recognition.
Next are the captured officials in Luling County.
Zhao Yucheng set up dozens of high platforms, and arranged a captured official on each high platform to ask them to confess their sins and how much money they had embezzled. The one who confessed best would be pardoned.
So these officials who saw the tragic death of the magistrate and the county magistrate immediately started fighting each other. One said that the other had embezzled thousands of taels of silver, and the other said that the other had embezzled hundreds of taels of gold.
Gold, silver, copper coins, silk cloth, jade, treasures, antiques, and so on.
They were all extremely rich, yet they were still greedy.
Zhao Yucheng made their crimes public, while the farmers watching in the audience, led by the revival members, shouted slogans demanding their lives.
In the end, Zhao Yucheng decided to behead all these evil bastards in public, then ransacked their homes and confiscated all their property, which was used to fund the rebellion.
All the warehouses in Luling County were swept away by the peasant army.
Zhao Yucheng saw that it was almost done, so he ordered to leave Luling County, and the large troops dragged their families and moved towards Taihe County in the south.
In Taihe County, they repeated their old tricks, because Taihe County did not have the military strength to resist the peasant army. The peasant army soon swarmed up and captured the county seat. All officials were executed, the warehouses were swept away, and all supplies were taken away.
After sweeping through two counties, the peasant army already had enough weapons for each man, more than 200 pairs of armor, and more than 300 bows and crossbows, and it began to look like an army.
But this is not enough. For general local armed forces, such an army is enough, but for regular armed forces, such an army is equivalent to death.
So Zhao Yucheng led them to continue south, to Wan'an County, and captured Wan'an County again, sweeping away Wan'an County's supplies.
Then there is Longquan County.
After conquering four county towns in a row, Zhao Yucheng stopped the attack, gathered an increasingly large and mixed team, and began to advance towards the mountainous area where they had been prepared.
Zhao Yucheng planned to station in the mountainous area as his base camp to do two things.
First, train the farmers' combat effectiveness as soldiers as soon as possible, build defense lines in mountainous areas, protect the base camp, and be ready to welcome the Southern Song Dynasty's crusade troops at any time.
Second, continue to send revival members to villages in various places to call on farmers to rebel, and then take them all to the mountains.
The long and winding Luoxiao Mountains are the cradle of their development and growth. Here, they need to use constant battles to train a team that is good at fighting, from weak to strong, from few to many, and gradually grow into a strong team. Team.
With this as the core, they will spread to the surrounding areas and grow stronger. When the Ming army goes south to destroy the Song Dynasty, they will become an important supporting force.
During this period, once they gained a foothold, they could continue to send people to various places to instigate more bottom peasants to rebel and break with the Southern Song Dynasty.
The more struggles there are and the more frequent the struggles, the more exhausted the Southern Song government will be.
As long as it goes through the most difficult period, the Southern Song government will definitely be unable to hold on, and by then it will be the moment of decisive battle.
So Zhao Yucheng waved his hand and led a huge team of tens of thousands into the Luoxiao Mountain area.
This is just the beginning of the hard struggle.
