As the Minister of Household Affairs, Jiang Fu was in a position sufficient to play the role of the scapegoat.
Although the courtiers who suffered losses and the courtiers who did not suffer losses knew in their hearts that this was a matter handled by the emperor, but now, can everyone still fight against each other?
Obviously, no.
The unlucky Jiang Fu became the sacrifice for the Chengdu court to regain consensus. On the surface, everyone reunited and united to deal with the increasingly complex domestic and international situations.
But inside, in this court, an unfathomable and terrifying gap has appeared between the ministers and the emperor.
Moreover, at this moment, Zhao Buxi had not yet realized that the foundation of his rule had been seriously shaken, and almost only a part of the bureaucratic class could still accept his rule. Important collaborators outside the ruling class - landlords A considerable part of the gentry class has been forced to rebel by him.
As for whether the remaining part was due to the influence of the Chengdu imperial army, it is really hard to say.
In late June and early July of the seventh year of Hongwu, when the aftermath of Jiaozi fever was still deeply affecting Sichuan and Shu society, the Song Army's actions were quite effective.
The Song army, who had been rewarded with iron money, was sure that the court was still rich and willing to send money, so they were willing to continue fighting.
To put it bluntly, this is a matter of fighting or suffering. The Song Army, which had previously passively avoided fighting and refused to contribute, became more energetic and full of combat effectiveness.
From the third day of July to the sixteenth day of July in the seventh year of Hongwu, the Song army fought three victorious battles in Suining Prefecture, Puzhou and Zizhou in response to this wave of rewards.
The combat effectiveness and fighting qualities of the peasant rebel army were not as good as those of the Song army. They could still win when the Song army passively avoided fighting, but once the Song army moved forward bravely for rewards, the gap in quality between the two sides was fully exposed.
Unless they defend the city or defend against danger, the rebel army can still sustain it, but if it is a frontal confrontation in the field, the rebel army is no match for the Song army.
However, the early uprising army's invincible fighting style gave them a lot of confidence, making them think that the Song army was the kind of soft persimmon who bullied the weak and was afraid of the strong, and was easy to control. However, they never expected to hit a rock and lost miserably. .
In this phase of the battle, including the previously largest Tongchuan Prefecture Bashu General Liu Zhuang, all suffered heavy losses and suffered a major defeat.
Liu Zhuang's rebel army was the largest of the entire Sichuan-Sichuan peasant uprising army. In just one month, it grew to the point where more than 100,000 people followed more than 10,000 people to fight for him. Before the Song army's crusade, he even captured Tongchuan. The capital of Tongchuan Prefecture was attacked from all sides, and then attacked other counties in Tongchuan Prefecture.
By the time the Song army came to attack, except for Shehong County, which had not been breached because the county magistrate insisted on defending it, all other counties had been breached by Li Ying Wai He. Then his fighting team expanded to more than 15,000 people, which was even larger.
Then he began to engage in large-scale attacks against the local landlords. He wanted to hang the landlords on the southeast branch and seize their land, property and women. The landlords were not willing to die so easily, so they also gathered their own The armed forces fought a bloody battle with Liu Zhuang.
Of course, facing a group of landlords and wealthy people, Liu Zhuang's human wave tactics were very useful. By the time the Song army attacked Tongshan County and started the Battle of Tongshan, Liu Zhuang had basically eliminated more than 70% of the landlords in Tongchuan Prefecture. Lao Cai gained a lot of wealth and food.
He gave a considerable part of the wealth and food to the people who fought for him, and the rest became his own. But before he could start enjoying himself, the Song army came over to kill him and started the Battle of Tongshan. .
During the Battle of Tongshan, the Song army commander cleverly took advantage of Liu Zhuang's rebel army's underestimation of the enemy and ordered the Song army to pretend to retreat, attracting the rebel army to pursue them all the way.
When the rebels were unable to form a formation due to pursuit, he let the ambush troops suddenly rush out, catching the rebels by surprise and suffering heavy losses. A considerable part of the rebels were divided and surrounded by the Song army and were completely annihilated.
Liu Zhuang himself was even surrounded by the Song army in this battle. Seeing that he was about to be killed by the Song army, Liu Zhuang's younger brother Liu Shi came to his senses and ordered his subordinates to take all the belongings they carried with the army to reward the victorious soldiers. Throw it on the battlefield.
Boxes and boxes of iron coins, copper coins, silver, gold, and Shu brocade were all thrown onto the battlefield by Liu Shi. When the Song soldiers saw this posture, they immediately forgot that encircling and annihilating the rebels was the most important thing, and immediately began to fight desperately Robbery of property.
No matter how the general ordered the soldiers not to loot, it didn't work, because many officers joined in the looting.
In this way, the Song army missed the opportunity to kill Liu Zhuang in one go. Liu Zhuang took the opportunity to escape with the participating rebels and returned to defend Tongshan County.
The furious Song generals were very angry after the war and executed more than 40 soldiers and officers who took the lead in looting property as punishment. Then they led troops to besiege Tongshan County and started an offensive and defensive battle with Liu Zhuang.
Although the Song army failed to kill Liu Zhuang, they still won a victory and suppressed the rebel army in Tongshan County. After being defeated in a frontal battle, the rebel army did not dare to attack rashly. They could only defend the city and lost all their vigor. .
At the same time, the landlords' armed forces, who had been badly beaten by the rebels, seized the opportunity and launched a counterattack, defeating many small rebel units. The situation in Tongchuan Prefecture took a turn for the worse.
After the Song Army resumed its power, it indeed put a lot of pressure on the peasant uprisings in the Sichuan and Sichuan areas. Without the intervention and change of other forces, I am afraid that this wave of Sichuan and Shu peasant uprisings will soon fall into a trough and be suppressed.
Although the Chengdu court did not do human affairs, as long as they continued to provide rewards to the army, the Song army who used money to do things could maintain their rule until they exhausted all their wealth.
Of course, external intervention forces exist.
The revolutionary army led by Xu Tong rose up in Linjiang County, Chungju, and gathered more than 800 people to conquer Linjiang County. After a wave of agrarian revolution, they won the support of local farmers and expanded the army to 1,000 people, turning four battalions into Five battalions, continue fighting.
Before the Song Army was dispatched to suppress the rebel army, Xu Tong and others were not suppressed by any regular troops of the Song Army due to the long distance, so they developed very rapidly. In mid-April, the entire county town of Zhongzhou was captured by the revolutionary army.
Then came the vigorous Chungju land reform. A large group of landlords and old wealth were mobilized, and farmers and tenants joined the Southeast Branch. The revolutionary army, which fully mobilized the people's power, suffered very little losses and gained a large number of supporters through the land revolution. .
So in May, the revolutionary army established five county-level organizations and more than 80 village-level organizations, mobilized all farmers in the conquered areas, wiped out the landlords, established peasant associations at all levels, and allowed all farmers to Level peasant associations have established villagers' self-defense forces with certain combat effectiveness, etc.
While organizations at all levels are developing vigorously, the revolutionary army also has a main fighting force of 2,000 people, and initially has a reliable base to rely on for continued development.
Immediately afterwards, while assisting Chungju local agricultural production and stabilizing the production situation, the revolutionary army also inquired about information about the rebel armies and Song Army suppressive forces in the surrounding areas.
In addition to this part of the news, in mid-April, Xu Tong learned through the Tianwang Army's network in Chengdu that the Jiaozi conspiracy was taking place throughout Sichuan and Shu, and further learned some very important internal information. He immediately A revival meeting was held to discuss.
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