At that time, the world was a feudal system. The supreme ruler was the emperor of the empire, and below him were the various vassal states.
These vassal states have existed for a long time, and most of them were granted by the founding emperor after he unified the world. Although they respected the emperor as the common ruler of the world, no country sent troops to this rebellion, and they all watched from the other side.
In other words, this turmoil occurred in the territory directly under the emperor's jurisdiction.
The Imperial Court Meeting Hall.
At this time, Emperor Shang Rui was losing his temper:
"These princes and kings were originally granted the title of the empire! Now that the rebels are rebelling, the other countries turn a blind eye and do not send troops. It is really hateful!"
He is in his twenties, and when he loses his temper, he is like a prodigal who smashes things.
In the past few years, there have been many conquests between various countries, and now they are all busy with matters in their own fiefdoms, so who will pay attention to him.
In the final analysis, this rebellion was caused by himself. The gradual weakening of imperial power was directly related to the increasing ignorance of the emperors.
After he lost his temper, Prime Minister Dong Hua stood up and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the most important thing right now is to quell the rebellion. As troops are raised in various places to suppress it, the rebel forces have become smaller and smaller, but the leader Wu Yuan, however, led his troops to attack the imperial capital, hoping to defeat the imperial court to the death!"
"What...what!?" Shang Rui's eyes widened when he heard this: "Where's Lu Bolin! Why didn't Lu Bolin stop him!?"
"Lü Bolin has been restrained by the main force of the bandit army. In terms of time, it is too late to return for reinforcements." Dong Hua explained: "And the bandit leader Wu Yuan has gathered tens of thousands of thieves and is less than two hundred miles away from the imperial capital."
"Oops!" Upon hearing this, Shang Rui panicked and immediately became like an ant on a hot pot: "It's been two hundred miles! What should I do?"
He was so scared that even his tone changed. There was no trace of the majesty of the emperor.
Upon seeing this, all the ministers stood below and looked at each other with their heads slightly lowered.
Dong Hua pondered for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, for the current plan, we can only leave the capital temporarily and move to Yuyang. After the war is calmed down, it will not be too late to return."
Due to the many wars in the north, the emperor had no choice but to flee south, and Yuyang was the best choice.
When Shang Rui heard this, he didn't even think about it. He said repeatedly: "Okay, okay! Just do as Aiqing said and send the order quickly. If it's too late, it will be too late..."
At the same time, Fengcheng.
Xiao Yuan exchanged all the results of Fengcheng's battle for half a month of food and grass, and has been away from here for several days.
Now, after learning the news, Yu Anmin was furious. He slapped Yu Ze hard on the face and yelled angrily: "Who asked you to give him half a month's food!"
"Dad..." Yu Ze covered his cheek and said with grievance: "Xiao Yuan gave me the entire Fengcheng victory. How can I not take such credit?"
"Stupid!" Yu Anmin was furious: "I told you a long time ago to control Xiao Yuan with food and grass and let him attack the city for us. If we don't have food, we won't give him food! But you just gave him half a month of food and grass. Now , are you going to hit Shangling?"
Yu Ze was silent, and military advisor Jiang Xing also sighed and said: "The matter has come to an end, sir, there is no need to blame the young master anymore. Although Xiao Yuan has great ambitions, he only has four thousand troops left, so he can't accomplish anything. Yes, let’s think about what to do next.”
He came out to persuade him, but Yu Anmin could only snort at Yu Ze again before giving up.
The next day, at Jiang Xing's suggestion, Yu Anmin personally led 50,000 county troops and prepared to capture Shanling in one go.
The rebels in Shangling were similar to those in Fengcheng, only 10,000. In Yu Anmin's eyes, Xiao Yuan defeated Fengcheng in a few days with only 6,000 people, but his own army now had 50,000. Dajun, he is full of confidence in Shang Ling.
You must know that Yu Anmin's ordnance is very sufficient and very sophisticated. It is far from comparable to the rebels. The 50,000-strong army marches and stretches with no end in sight. Along the way, flags are fluttering and halberds stand in many places. The scene is quite staged. Very big.
But the army had just passed halfway. At this moment, a county soldier also rode over on a war horse and ran over in a panic.
"Report~~~~" As soon as they got closer, the county army dismounted, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said, "Sir, the enemy has been spotted ahead!"
"What!?" Yu Anmin was surprised when he heard this, and then said: "We will investigate again and report again!"
"No!" The spy saluted and left.
After he left, Yu Anmin, riding a tall horse, turned sideways and looked at Jiang Xing beside him, and said with a chuckle: "Sir, I also said that I would go to Shanling to attack the bandit army, but I didn't expect the bandit army to come to my door myself. coming."
"Haha, isn't this better? You can annihilate them in one fell swoop and avoid our army from engaging in siege warfare." Jiang Xing laughed.
"Yes." Yu Anmin nodded, and then shouted loudly: "Send the order! Get ready to meet the enemy!"
"Get ready to meet the enemy -" Following his order, the messenger began to gallop on horseback.
The group of enemy troops in front were indeed bandits from Shangling. When their general heard that Fengcheng had been lost and Zhou Qi was captured, he specially led his army to take back Fengcheng.
Now, the two armies met in the wilderness, and before long, they had formed a formation on a plain.
Yu Anmin's side was well-equipped. On the surface, it seemed that he was more powerful than the rebels and had the upper hand.
But the rebel general was not afraid at all. After the two armies encountered each other, without saying a word, he directly drew out his sword, pointed it forward, and shouted in a loud voice: "Kill——"
With a loud shout, he also took the lead on horseback and rushed out. The 10,000 rebels behind him, all holding spears and wearing cloth towels on their heads, began to charge with crazy shouts.
In such a situation, when they came up to fight, Yu Anmin panicked immediately, and then repeatedly commanded: "Fire the arrow! Quickly fire the arrow -"
Following his order, the soldiers in the front row began to draw their bows and load arrows, and fired arrows at random, but the rain of arrows was sparse and weak.
The hard bows at that time were not like today, but the corners were curved and extremely tensile. The bows used in the army could not be fully drawn without a person with more than 100 kilograms of strength.
The county army's military discipline was lax, they drank and gambled all day long, and lived a carefree life. They were used to being lazy, and their soldiers had never experienced any war.
Yu Anmin thought that with an army of 50,000, he could wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop, but when he actually went to the battlefield, the situation was completely different!
This was a complete mob. Facing the charge of 10,000 rebels, their formation was instantly disrupted. Many soldiers had never seen such a bloody scene. They were even more frightened when they saw the blood-spattered battlefield. With a cry, he threw away the halberd in his hand and ran away like crazy.
Yu Anmin panicked and started shouting: "Quick! Protect me! Protect me quickly -"
As the saying goes, if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging. This also shows what kind of waste the county army is.
This encounter did not last long at all. The county army, which had never been on the battlefield, had no fighting power at all. Under Yu Anmin's greed for life and fear of death, he quickly abandoned his armor and was defeated by the rebels. In the end, , fled back to Fengcheng in a hurry.
Seeing the retreat of the 50,000-strong army, the commander of the Shanling Rebel Army smiled on his face and then said:
"The enemy's army is several times larger than mine, but they are so vulnerable. I really don't know how Zhou Qi lost Fengcheng!"
