Rebel armies appeared in all four areas where the first batch of troops were sent, and they were very close to Chengdu.
According to the sentry reports, the four rebel armies vary in size.
The slightly smaller Huai'an Army rebels gathered around 30,000 people, with less than 2,000 and less than 3,000 combat soldiers.
The largest group was the Longzhou Uprising Army, which gathered more than 80,000 people and had more than 7,000 combat soldiers. It was relatively large in scale.
This rebel army started in December of the sixth year of Hongwu. It took more than two months to completely defeat the resistance of the Longzhou officials, killed more than 70% of the officials in Longzhou, and occupied all the counties in Longzhou.
Their leader called himself the General of Xingshu, and threatened to "despite all injustices in the world" and to do things with fairness and justice. Therefore, he received strong support from the people of Longzhou, and his power became stronger and stronger, which was equivalent to wreaking havoc under Zhao Buxi's nose. .
While he was fighting against the local landlord Lao Cai, he was also able to allocate troops to attack Guangdu, which shows his huge power.
Needless to say, Zhao Buxi did a good job of appointing landlords and wealthy people as commanders.
The landlords and wealthy people would not honestly disclose their property to the rebels, and they did not want to be made into pendants on the southeast branches. They always felt that they could still save something.
So they gathered the nursing staff and the tenants who didn't know how hard they were to fight for their lives against the rebels. They were very tenacious and had a fighting will that was no less than that of the rebels.
In many areas, the rebels have been fighting for almost three months and have not left the local area because the local landlords and wealthy people are powerful, have relatively strong combat effectiveness, and have relatively strong staying power.
The mutual fighting between them caused many rebels to fall into a fierce tug-of-war of attack and defense. The landlords and wealthy people stayed on their own farms and built defense facilities such as military fortresses based on the terrain to fight a protracted battle with the rebels.
The insurrectionary army had just started, and they did not know much about military issues. They often lacked offensive strategies. They only knew how to heap lives, and the offensive efficiency was not high. They were unable to wipe out these landlords' armed forces with combat effectiveness, and were unable to attack the state capitals to which they belonged.
This situation bought Wu Lin time to deploy his troops and generals to arrange tactics, and it was one of the few good things Zhao Buxi did.
He still had political ability, but in terms of military affairs, even Zhao Kuo was willing to bow down and be treated as a guest of honor when he met him.
So when the main force of the Song Army was dispatched, facing the insurgents fighting on two fronts, the Song Army got a good start.
The first was in the Guangdu area where the Longzhou Uprising Army took the initiative to launch an attack.
The Song Army in Guangdu defended the city and did not give the Longzhou Rebels a chance to break through Guangdu. The Longzhou Rebels maintained their offensive posture and besieged Guangdu City from all sides, spending a lot of power.
There were 10,000 Song troops who launched support towards Longzhou. The leader of the battle was Wu Lin's more courageous commander Lu Yu. After he led the army to the vicinity of Guangdu, he challenged the rebels with a small force and pretended to be defeated. Inducing some rebels to attack him.
Then the rebel army was ambushed by him and surrounded by elite troops under his personal command. After a bitter battle, he completely annihilated the rebel army.
The Song army won the first battle and their morale was greatly boosted. He immediately led his army to attack and defeated part of the Longzhou uprising army surrounding Guangdu.
The morale of the Song army defenders in the city was greatly boosted. They opened the city gate and attacked, cooperating with him inside and outside to annihilate all the rebels.
After Lu's victory, he allowed his army to rest for two days, and then led his army to continue southward to attack Longzhou.
The Longzhou Uprising Army was caught off guard by this sudden attack by the Song Army.
When the Song army broke into Longzhou to capture the city and quickly rushed into Renshou County to surround Renshou County, the main force of the Longzhou rebel army was led by [Xingshu General] Ma Long to fight against the landlord Lao Cai in the Guiping area. coalition forces.
Thirteen families including the local landlords Zhao, Liu, Jiang, and Wang had heard that the Longzhou uprising was powerful and that many people died for it. They were very frightened, so they sent people to contact Ma Long, hoping to make peace with them. He made a non-aggression pact.
If you don't come to attack us, we won't resist you. We'll give you gifts and pay taxes, just asking for peace.
But Malong was an oppressed peasant, and what he hated most were the landlords. He flatly rejected their proposals and decisively led the army to attack them, vowing to uproot them.
We have already rebelled, why are we still playing non-aggression with you?
What a joke!
Thirteen landowners were afraid of being killed by the rebels in Dongnanzhi. In order to survive, they abandoned their past grievances and unanimously decided to form an alliance. They elected Jiang Meng, the most combative among them, as the leader of the alliance and mobilized all the landowners. force to fight against the Longzhou Rebel Army.
They spent money and people, forged weapons, and assembled a combat-ready force in a short period of time. They then used the food saved by each family as military rations, striving to protect the homes of the thirteen families. Ye, vowing to fight to the death with Ma Long.
When Ma Long started his rebellion, he was unparalleled and invincible. The main reason was not that he and his peasant warriors were good at fighting, but that the incident happened suddenly. Many people were unprepared and were caught off guard. In addition, they lacked the courage to fight. So many people were taken away by Malong's wave.
Whether it was an official or a landlord, under his desperate attack mode, he punched the old master to death and died miserably.
However, these thirteen landlords and wealthy families were fully prepared and had the courage to protect their property. They took advantage of the geographical location and could not escape. Malone's attacks were thwarted many times, and for a while there was nothing he could do against them.
I originally thought that this was just a matter of one wave, but I didn't expect that these thirteen landlords were unexpectedly tenacious. Malone was unable to take them away in one wave, but was held back by them.
Because he didn't have enough troops, he kept adding more troops. Finally, the number of rebels gathered in Guiping County reached more than 4,000, and the main force was basically contained in Guiping County.
Under such circumstances, Malong divided his troops to attack Chengdu at the suggestion of his subordinates, because he felt that he had to move forward in order to call on more people to fight with him. Although the attack on Guiping was blocked, it did not mean that he could not The fight continued.
When the rebels rose up, they needed continuous victories to stabilize people's hearts. Although Malone was not a professional, when he was pushed to this position by the tide of the times, he instinctively realized the importance of victory to himself.
So he chose to expand his offensive area.
However this is not the right choice.
So when the Song army launched a large-scale attack on Longzhou, he seemed at a loss. When he learned that the base camp in Renshou County was surrounded by the Song army, he didn't know whether he should continue to attack the landlords and wealthy landlords in Guiping County, or return immediately to rescue them.
The subordinates talked to each other, saying that they would continue to attack the old riches to avoid worries. Some also said that they would immediately return to the division to rescue the Renshou base camp, because our family members were all there.
The two sides argued fiercely and couldn't come up with a plan. Ma Long thought about it and couldn't make a decision. In the end, he simply decided to leave a force to continue attacking the Thirteenth Family and rush back to rescue Renshou County with the main force.
There was no doubt that this was a wrong decision, but Malone didn't know it.
He was also very worried about his family, so he led his people to rush towards Renshou County, but he did not expect that the cunning Lu? had personally led his troops to ambush him on his only way.
Finally, more than thirty miles east of Renshou County, when his troops were exhausted and preparing to rest, the Song army ambushed and besieged his troops on all sides.
His troops were suddenly attacked by such an attack and collapsed quickly. They were quickly divided, surrounded and annihilated by the Song army.
Malone led his own soldiers to fight until the last moment.
All the soldiers around him died in the battle. He was surrounded by the Song army, but he still fought hard. In the end, he died together with a Song soldier, dying heroically.
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