"The Emperor and the Empress are above you. Today, I, Jiang Ang, Jiang Xiong, Zhao Shan, Zhang Cong, Liu Fujin... are here to become brothers with different surnames. We share blessings and share hardships. We do not wish to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we wish to be born in the same year.
To die on the same month and on the same day is to be treacherous and ungrateful, to be killed by both heaven and man!"
Heaping earth for a table and rubbing grass for incense, eight people including Jiang Ang and Zhao Shan sworn sworn brothers with different surnames by the stream.
Jiang Ang was not the eldest, but despite repeated refusals, he was ranked first.
After sneaking into Hanchuan and occupying Qianchapu, Jiang Ang pulled more than 1,500 troops from his hometown of Dongzhou Island. There were thirty or forty leaders, but at this time only Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and six others were left.
Jiang Ang's old team.
Of course, when Jiang Ang first occupied Dongzhou Island, he only had one or two hundred men.
It was also after Chihu invaded the south that a large number of hungry people fled to Jingnan. In addition, Jingnan repeatedly increased taxes and assessments. The people at the bottom could not bear the exploitation and repeatedly resisted donations and taxes. Local conflicts became fierce. Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others saw an opportunity to take advantage of it and joined forces.
Various forces started revolting along the Dongting Lake, and Dongzhou Island grew rapidly in the past three or four years.
The early lake bandits and Jiang bandits were mainly fugitives, bankrupt farmers and daring people. Some were also fishermen and boat households who were coerced into joining the bandits. They did not have close blood or neighbor relationships with each other.
After the uprising, the lower class people in the prefectures and counties along Dongting Lake, mainly in clan or township units, dozens of people or groups of one or two hundred people, joined the coalition forces.
After the fall of Hehuai and other places, millions of refugees fled south. Basically, they were supported by fellow villagers from the same clan or hometown - they were grouped as single clans or townships, but on a larger scale.
Join |Allied Forces.
Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and other six people were either the clan leaders of the refugees going south, or the leaders of the prefectures and counties near Dongting Lake who brought dozens or hundreds of low-income people and their families who had no livelihood to defect to Dongzhou Island.
The teams they each led to sneak attack Hanchuan were broken up in Panlong Village this time. Even if Liao Liao escaped, he could still pull out two to three hundred brave men when they returned to Dongzhou Island. Many clans and townships
They are all related, and can even convince more people to continue to be loyal to Jiang Ang.
However, Dongzhou Island has expanded rapidly in the past three or four years. At this time, there are not many direct descendants left who were recruited by Jiang Ang in the past ten years.
However, before Jiang Ang had figured out the thoughts of Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others, and before everyone was further tied together, how could Jiang Ang dare to easily return to his hometown of Dongzhou Island?
Jiang Ang has a rude temperament, but he really doesn't have two brushes. He has been wiped out by other water village forces long ago. How can his brand names of Fanjianglong and Dongzhou Village exist among the Dongjing Alliance Army?
However, Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others would never refuse to become brothers with different surnames from Jiang Ang.
On the one hand, they were originally from Dongzhou Village. Jiang Ang was powerful in skills, rough in temperament, and his subordinates were also relatively kind, which was quite convincing.
On the other hand, they led their tribesmen. The Xiang tribe joined Dongzhou Island late, and their status was lower than that of the old boss who had been following Jiang Ang for more than ten years. This time, there was basically no old boss or big boss in Dongzhou Village.
If they were able to escape, they would become brothers with different surnames from Jiang Ang, and at least they would be the big bosses under the name of Dongzhou Village from now on.
Of course Jiang Xiong, Zhang Cong and others also patted their chests and vowed repeatedly to be loyal to Jiang Ang and never to be half-hearted.
In addition to Zhao Shan, Liu Fujin was a small leader who followed the people in Huangpi County to surrender after the Dongjing Allied Forces took hold of Panlong Village.
Liu Fujin was skilled in martial arts, but taciturn. The few people he and Zhao Shan had pulled out had long since been dispersed. They had no foundation at all on Dongzhou Island, and of course only Jiang Ang followed his lead.
At this time, Jiang Ang was all worried and had swept away the depression after the disastrous defeat. He stepped on the rocks in the creek and raised his head and said: "That Marquis Jingsheng is really powerful. Our defeat was not unjust, but in my opinion, it is not invulnerable."
My brothers and I will return to Dongzhou Island to reorganize our troops, and we will carefully consider Chushan’s flaws in the future, so that we can have a chance to recover our debt!”
"Brother, we still can't just go back to Dongzhou Island to reorganize our troops. This matter needs to be discussed in the long term..." Zhao Shan was afraid that Jiang Ang would get carried away and thought that the situation would be settled if the nine of them were twisted into a rope, so he hurriedly persuaded him.
"We really can't be careless. We can't show up rashly before we find out the situation!"
Jiang Ang's mind is still clear. If he had no other outstanding qualities except his tyrannical skills, he would not be able to gain a foothold in Dongting Lake these years.
He also knows very well the nature of other business leaders.
It still took them too long to escape.
If Sun Yanzhou had really placed Dongzhou Island under another brand, it would not be easy for them to get Dongzhou Island back.
If they head to Dongzhou Island rashly, there are only nine of them, and they might be detained and put in danger of their lives.
But this time Dongzhou Island's strength has been greatly damaged, even if he goes directly to Tiansheng General Sun Yanzhou, he may not be treated fairly.
Jiang Ang twisted his beard and discussed with everyone, and decided that Zhang Cong would pretend to escape from Nancai Prison alone and return to Dongzhou Island first. They sneaked near Dongzhou Island and waited for Zhang Cong to come and meet after he found out the situation.
Unlike later Dongting Lake, which was mainly located south of Jingjiang River, the current Dongting Lake was much wider.
In the east of Jingzhou and in the prefectures and counties such as Fuzhou (Mianzhou) and Hanyang located to the west of the Han River, there are vast stretches of lakes and swamps. There are 29 famous ones - the Jing River and the Han River are swallowed up during the flood season.
When water comes from the upper reaches, these lakes merge with Jingjiang River and Dongting Lake, and are also called water caves or cave mouths.
In earlier years, these water caves, together with Qianchapu and other lakes east of the Han River, as well as Dongting Lake, were part of the Yunmeng Daze, covering a wide area including Jingzhou, Fuzhou, Yuezhou, and Tanzhou.
Xiangzhou, Ezhou and other places.
Dongzhou Island, where Jiang Ang's lair is located, is located in Bailu Lake on the north bank of the Jingjiang River. It is a sandbar formed by the deposition of sediment from the Jingjiang River in the Bailu Lake from the upper reaches.
In the early years, Dongzhou was not qualified to be called an island. During the dry season, the sandbar exposed from the lake was larger, about three or four miles in diameter. However, in the flood season, only a little bit of land was exposed from the water. In years of heavy floods, it would even be
All were submerged in the lake.
I don't know when three or five families of poor fishermen settled on the sandbank, built a shack to raise their children, and slowly developed into a small fishing village in the lake.
For decades and hundreds of years, the small fishing village built embankments on the sandbank to resist the invasion of the lake. Only then did Dongzhou Island gradually take shape, and its area expanded to one or two miles in radius.
Jiang Ang occupied Dongzhou Island to pull the pole 16 years ago, and the small fishing village with only 60 or 70 people became his basic base.
However, in the early years, the territory of Da Viet was generally peaceful. Although there were many river bandits and bandits in Dongting Lake and Jing Lake, they did not dare to plunder the countryside too blatantly, so as not to provoke officers and soldiers to suppress them.
In the early years, they were mostly engaged in fishing or transporting goods, hauling boats and transporting commercial goods. They only secretly made a move when they occasionally saw red goods; they also maintained restraint in the surrounding villages and villages.
This situation is similar to the copycat forces in Tongbai Mountain.
Under Jiang Ang's management for more than ten years, embankments and village walls were built, and many courtyards were built in the village, becoming the famous Dongzhou Village between Fuzhou and Jingzhou——
Even when Sun Yanzhou plundered the official ships of Jingnan in Dongting Lake, Kong Changyu, then the magistrate of Jingzhou, was still thinking of incorporating Dongzhou Village into the state army. At that time, he sent people to Dongzhou Island and promised to recommend Jiang Ang.
He served as battalion commander at the State Military and Horse Supervisory Department.
However, Jiang Ang never forgot the tragic situation of his youth, refused Kong Changyu's recruitment, and finally came together with Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others.
Dongzhou Village initially had only five or six hundred people including the family, but in the past three or four years, the number of people has expanded to more than 2,000, and the total number of people including the family has reached seven to eight thousand. The village has been expanded again and again, and it also occupies two nearby areas.
A village was built on a sandbank, but it was still overcrowded.
Whether Jiang Ang can successfully return to Dongzhou Village is the key to whether Jiang Ang can make a comeback.
Jiang Ang, Zhang Shan and others first lurked somewhere on the north bank of Bailu Lake. Zhang Cong returned to Dongzhou Village alone to inquire about the news. After suffering for three days in an uneasy mood, Zhang Cong found the opportunity to cross the lake to see:
"The three leaders, Hu Dangzhou, fled back to Tiansheng Island half a month ago. Chishan Village also suffered heavy losses this time, about two thousand men and horses. General Tiansheng thought of his hard work and merit, and decided to transfer Dongzhou Village to Chishan Village.
To replenish our strength, Hu You, the eldest son of Hu Danzhou, entered Dongzhou Village with 200 troops ten days ago, preparing to move all the men, women and men in the village to Chishan Village!"
"Fuck him!"
Zhang Cong returned as scheduled, which made Jiang Ang relieved, but the news Zhang Cong brought back made him angry and cursed,
"This grandson of Hu Dangzhou doesn't want to send troops to break into Nancai Prison to rescue us, but he is as anxious as a rabbit to escape back and annex Dongzhou Village..."
Tiansheng Island is located in the west Dongting Lake. It is the home base that Sun Yanzhou has occupied for many years. At this time, it was also the headquarters of the Dongjing Alliance Army.
There are five to six hundred miles of waterway from Ezhou to Tiansheng Island in West Dongting Lake.
Calculating the timing, Hu Dangzhou should have escaped to Xundu or Meidu on the day Panlong Village was breached, but he rushed back to Tiansheng Island without stopping at Xundu or Meidu.
At this time, a large number of Dongjing Allied Forces were entrenched to the west of the Han River and north of the Jingjiang River. They were fighting against officers and soldiers from Jingling, Mianyang, Hanyang and other places - Hu Dangzhou's hometown, Chishan Village, was located west of Fuzhou.
Wazi Lake is located at the bay where Jingjiang River connects to the south.
Hu Danzhou did not return to Chishan Village to reorganize his troops, and did not stay in Xundu, Meidu or Fuzhou. Instead, he went directly to Tiansheng Island to see Sun Yanzhou. It was clear that he wanted to annex Dongzhou Village and make up for the loss of Chishan Village.
Loss.
Panlongzhai was defeated miserably because Hu Danzhou and others were instigated by Tian Rusheng to occupy Qianchapu and refused to retreat. Jiang Ang objected several times with an eye roll, but to no avail. He was already very angry and wanted to arrest Hu Danzhou.
Come and have his ears scraped, and ask him if he is satisfied with the way he looks now.
Jiang Ang didn't expect that Hudang Pan didn't think about his own mistakes, and after escaping, his first thought was to annex his Dongzhou Village. How could he be calm?
