Zhao Gou ran away again, leaving only 500 people in Longxing Prefecture.
What else can the prefect of Longxing do?
I'm sure I want to cry but I don't have any tears, but then I think about it, no matter how small a shrimp is, it's still a shrimp, and a chicken is still a chicken. If there are 500 people, it can always come in handy, which is much better than not being able to take any of them back.
Even with five hundred people on his back?
So he chose to take these 500 people back to Nanchang to help.
But who would have expected that these five hundred people did not obey the order at all and did not want to die. Before setting off, they ran away in the opposite direction with the Longxing Prefect.
The prefect of Longxing couldn't stop him no matter what, and he was pushed to the ground by a big-headed soldier. He spat and swore a national curse, leaving him paralyzed on the ground alone, messy in the wind.
The emperor ran away and asked our brothers to stay as scapegoats. What a beautiful idea you have!
Pooh! Who pays attention to you?
They ran away quickly, faster than anyone else, and Scud felt ashamed when he saw them.
At this time, the Longxing Prefecture really had nothing, nothing left.
Of course, although Zhao Gou is a real dog, he is not completely incapable of doing human things. For example, before he escaped, he sent someone to rush back to Lin'an to tell Zhao Min about Jiangnan West Road.
He also knew that at this time, he should still be able to command the Ezhou army under the Dongtian Division, so that they could be dispatched to suppress the rebellion. However, at this critical moment, he did not want to get into trouble with Zhao Min over this matter.
Military power is a very sensitive matter for the emperor. Zhao Gou was unwilling to leave because he heard that the Lin'an Forbidden Army was crippled and his trusted followers suffered serious losses, so he was worried. He understood the meaning of this very well.
Moreover, during this period, Zhao Hao also recalled many warring ministers and gained his own political power in the court. Seeing Zhao Hao growing rapidly, it would be very difficult for him to become dissatisfied because of military power at this time. inappropriate.
In this case, Zhao Gou was happy to do nothing and simply put all the blame on Zhao Hao. Anyway, he is the emperor who does not need to bear any responsibility for the country. No matter what happened, the emperor must be held accountable. instead of him.
Nothing can go wrong if you do nothing.
Zhao Gou has a deep understanding of this.
So Zhao Min learned the news on June 29th.
He was working hard to govern, preparing to work hard for ten years to meet the Ming Dynasty. When he heard that a rebellion on a terrible scale had occurred on Jiangnan West Road, and even Nanchang was in danger, he was shocked and immediately summoned ministers for discussion.
The ministers of the main war faction also completely did not expect that something went wrong internally before they could show their grand ambitions.
After a while of discussion, they unanimously decided that the situation was urgent. Jiangnan West Road was the rear area of the Jinghu Theater. If Jiangnan West Road caught fire, the Jinghu Theater would be unstable. It was hard to say what the Ming Army's Henan Corps guarding Kaifeng would be like. action.
They felt that the Ming Dynasty would never forget that they should quickly let Tian Shizhong lead the Ezhou army to go south to quell the rebellion. If the Ezhou army was not enough, Qi Fang's troops stationed in Jiujiang would need to be dispatched to help and quell the rebellion together.
Zhao Min faced a rebellion for the first time since he took the throne and had little experience in dealing with it. Fortunately, all the ministers were veterans, so he listened to their suggestions and ordered Tian Shizhong and Qi Fang to lead them. The army went south to quell the rebellion.
With Tian Shizhong as the commander-in-chief and Qi Fang as the deputy commander-in-chief, the two armies went south to quell the rebellion. The total number of troops dispatched was 70,000.
Tian Shizhong had 40,000 troops and Qi Fang had 30,000 troops.
Although Lin'an heard that the rebel army probably numbered more than 300,000 people, the people inside and outside the court thought that it would be good if there were 50,000 capable soldiers among the more than 300,000 people.
As for the combat effectiveness, of course it's a mess. It's okay to bully the local trash, but it's still a little worse than the professional troops guarding the border.
Therefore, there is no need to send too many troops to quell the rebellion.
The court won't be able to pay for any more.
It was the sixth day of July when Qi Fang got the order, and it was the eighth day of July when Tian Shizhong got the news. When both of them got the order, they had actually heard about the rebellion on Jiangnan West Road.
There is no other reason, because Nanchang was lost, and both the Nanchang County Magistrate and the Longxing Prefecture Magistrate committed suicide when the city was destroyed.
The rebels swept through Nanchang, turning Nanchang into an empty city, and then continued to attack, frantically venting their anger and pain.
The pain of being suppressed and exploited, the pain of being oppressed and ravaged, all these pains combined make them miserable.
And now that there is an outlet, how can we not make them feel happy?
So they attacked cities and territories everywhere, and the poor grassroots organization of the Southern Song Dynasty made it almost impossible for them to deal with these rebellions independently.
When Tian Shizhong and Qi Fang were ordered to attack, the situation on Jiangnan West Road was already very corrupt and could not be calmed down without great efforts.
There are too many rebels, they occupy a very vast area, and their momentum is very fast. They have gradually begun to attack other places beyond Jiangnan West Road.
This cannot continue.
Tian Shizhong led the troops to Tongcheng on Jinghu North Road and took the first rest and reorganization here, while Qi Fang led the army south to De'an County, Jiangzhou, garrisoned here, took the first rest and reorganization, and sent People continued to go south to explore the specific information of the rebel army.
Then they were surprised to learn that the rebels seemed to be fighting among themselves.
This was originally unavoidable, because in the two months from mid-May to mid-July, the rebel army itself had already had two internal fights.
From the very beginning, this rebel army had no fixed leader. More than a dozen rebel forces were independent and acted independently of each other. There was no high-level coordinated operations among each other. Whether they were large or small, they all developed on their own.
The large forces quickly developed to hundreds of thousands of people, while the small forces only had tens of thousands of people.
The rebels are not completely free of hatred between each other. For example, the leader of the hundreds of thousands of rebels who occupied Nanchang is known as Da Dao Han Wu, and the leader of another rebel army that occupied Gao'an County in Junzhou. There is a personal vendetta.
Before occupying Nanchang, he passed by Gao'an County and annexed the rebel army, killing the leader who had a grudge against him as revenge.
The other two rebel armies who each controlled part of the Linjiang Army also fought for territory. The war between the two sides began in mid-June and ended three days later, because the leader of one of the rebel armies was killed by Liu Ya.
As a result, the Linjiang Army was completely controlled by the leader of the rebel army known as Liu Laosan.
The situation in Fuzhou was similar. Two rebel armies fought among themselves, but one of them won and occupied Fuzhou.
The situation in Ganzhou was the most intense. Three rebel armies gathered in Ganzhou, as well as a fourth rebel army composed of locals.
At the beginning, everyone united sincerely and cooperated for a win-win situation, and together they drove away the Southern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army stationed there.
Then civil strife broke out among the four rebel armies due to uneven distribution of the spoils. Except for one rebel army that went south to Nanxiong Prefecture, the other three armies fought together.
The last two foreign enemy rebel armies united to fight against the local rebel army in Ganzhou. The two sides fought fiercely for days, but they forgot to continue to go out to fight the Song army. The fighting lasted until mid-July, when each controlled half of Ganzhou.
From June to mid-July, more than a dozen rebel armies fought with each other, and only seven remained, a sharp reduction in number by half.
Moreover, these rebels are gradually not so pure in terms of their acting style.
At the beginning, they did attack the Song army and Song Dynasty officials in order to fight against exploitation and oppression, killing them and venting their bad breath.
And as they progressed, gradually, what they did was no longer simply anti-oppression and anti-exploitation, but took on a hint of banditry.
