Shen Tang, Liu Xiangling, the iron-blooded traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty Chapter 1449: The rebels encircle Tanzhou, Shentang passes through the Dongting
Chapter 1449: The rebels encircle Tanzhou, Shentang passes through the Dongting
Chapter 1449: Rebels surround Tanzhou, Shen Tang passes through Dongting
Two days later, military reports from Nan'an also came! Nan'an's troops, Gu Qing and Wang Yi, each led two thousand soldiers and horses, heading one way to Shaozhou and the other to Binzhou!
However, Gu Qing's troops were blocked by General Yin Kuan under the command of the rebel leader Li Jin in Shaozhou! The two sides fought for three days, but Gu Qing was defeated and led his troops to push back! On the other hand, Wang Yi's troops marched to the Mangshan area of Binzhou and encountered The local Yao tribe attacked! The leader of the Yao tribe, Li Angxiao, led the central tribe to take advantage of the terrain to defeat Wang Yi's tribe!
These two groups of soldiers and horses never encountered the enemy's main force, but they were all defeated!
However, the Changde army, which Liu Gong had high hopes for, was trapped in Shaozhou!
Li Jin expected that the imperial court would send Changde's army, so he sent people to Shaozhou first to convince many local villages! When Changde's army arrived, Tuoxi Village, Tengxi Village, Yunxi Village, Xixi Village, Shenxi Village Xizhai and many other villages cut off all roads, and sent small groups to harass Changde's army, making it impossible for Changde's army to move forward in Shaozhou!
And the situation in Tanzhou is getting more serious!
At first, the rebels outside the city were relatively orderly and did not attack the city with all their strength.
However, a few days later, Li Jin ordered all the soldiers and horses under his command to attack, and sent his personal guards as supervisors to attack Tanzhou City to the death!
The number of rebels is more than ten times that of the Tanzhou defenders. Although most of these so-called rebels are just ordinary people who have put down their farm tools, their numerical advantage makes them unscrupulous! Furthermore, these ordinary people naturally do not have much fighting power. , but what about the defenders in the city?
The original two thousand defenders were considered serious officers and soldiers, but weren't the ones recruited later also civilians?
Fortunately, Tanzhou City is tall and the rebels outside the city lack siege equipment. Otherwise, Tanzhou City would have fallen long ago!
Shen Tang and his party took the big boat and moved forward leisurely. When they arrived at Baling, the big boat docked. Shen Tang and Murong Yu changed to a smaller boat and spent a day playing in Dongting Lake!
Dongting Lake, known as Yunmengze in ancient times! It is also known as the Dongting Lake of 800 miles!
In addition to visiting Dongting Lake, Shen Tang also saw the long-famous Yueyang Tower! At this time, it was only a few decades after Teng Zijing rebuilt the Yueyang Tower. Shen Tang could almost imagine that many literati and poets were writing on this Yueyang Tower. Splashed with ink, there were even famous stories like "The Story of Yueyang Tower" that have been passed down through the ages.
I remember that back then, Fan Zhongyan, a literary giant of the generation, was demoted and lived in Dengzhou because of the failure of the Qingli New Deal! Therefore, this Yueyang Tower is both a description of the scene and a work of clear ambition!
People have to lament that although the Song Dynasty was not strong at that time, both the emperor and the ministers had gaps in their chests! Looking at today, it is only less than a hundred years ago, and only half of the Song Dynasty is left! The Yueyang Tower is still the same, But in the Song Dynasty, the minds of the courtiers in the court had already changed!
After a whole day of playing, Murong Yu was also tired, so after returning to the boat, he simply ate something and then went to sleep!
Shen Tang sat quietly in the room. After a while, the maid outside the door said softly, "Master, someone wants to see you!"
Shen Tang stood up, looked at Murong Yu who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and then walked out of the room alone! When he came to another room on the side of the cabin, there was indeed a person waiting.
"Dark Night Pavilion Weiyuan, meet the Pavilion Master!"
"This is the news the Pavilion Master wants!"
Shen Tang took the letter, opened it and read it. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Are there any of our people among the rebels?"
"Pavilion Master, Li Jin's subordinate Cao Yan is one of ours!"
Shen Tang pondered again, and after a long time said, "In three days, I will lead my troops to directly attack Li Jin's main force, and directly behead Li Jin! After that, you ask Cao Yan to cooperate to appease the people! In addition, I will let people Report to the imperial court to resettle the people and transport food and grass to fight the drought! Send someone to keep an eye on it. If any local officials dare to corrupt the situation, let me know at any time!"
"Subordinates take orders!"
"Also, the magistrate of Yizhang County escaped before the city was breached?"
Seeing Wei Yuan nodding, Shen Tang sneered, "Find him! If the others don't tell him, this culprit doesn't deserve to live anymore!"
"As you command!"
"Okay, go ahead. If anything happens, I will send you a message!"
"Master, take care!"
Wei Yuan saluted and left. After he left, Shen Tang looked at the message in his hand and sighed!
This Li Jin is indeed unjust! Speaking of which, he can be regarded as a small official in the county! Since last year, Yizhang County has suffered from drought and the harvest has been extremely poor! It is naturally difficult for the people! However, in this situation, Not only did the local government not appease the people, but they still forced the people to buy the frankincense used by dignitaries to worship Buddha and burn incense, and to pay within a time limit.
As a minor official, Li Jin was assigned a lot of quotas! However, he thought that it was difficult for the people in the same village to force him, so of course he would not be able to complete the task.
Because of this, he was beaten by his superiors! In anger, Li Jin called on the people to resist! The local people were in dire straits. Li Jin's voice of resistance almost started a prairie fire, and soon tens of thousands of people followed him.
However, the peasant uprising also has its limitations! Like other peasant uprisings, at the beginning, Li Jin led the people to capture surrounding cities and drive away the local officials to open warehouses and release grain! Even the Guiyang army was defeated by him! However, with the expansion of territory, the increase of soldiers and horses, and the growth of power, Li Jin also began to indulge in pleasure!
There is a saying that goes, the hero who slays the dragon eventually becomes the evil dragon! After Li Jin took the city, he allowed his subordinates to burn, kill and loot without caring about the life and death of the people. I am afraid that he also forgot the purpose of the original uprising.
However, the local officials and soldiers were corrupt and no match for them, which made Li Jin even more arrogant!
Now he is attacking Tanzhou with the purpose of taking over the entire Jinghu area!
Therefore, Li Jin is the person Shen Tang wants to kill, but it is impossible to kill all the tens of thousands of people! The guilty ones among them will naturally be severely punished. As for the majority of the people who blindly follow him, the main purpose is to appease them.
As for Li Jin's main force, Shen Tang doesn't care! The number of troops does have the power to determine the outcome, but this is by no means absolute!
In three days, Shen Tang's fleet crossed Dongting Lake and finally arrived at the side of Tanzhou!
"Yu'er, just wait on the boat! My husband will pick you up and disembark later!"
Murong Yu tidied the armor leaves on Shen Tang's body with some worry, "Brother-in-law, I heard that the rebel army numbered tens of thousands, why didn't you let the imperial court dispatch a large army?
Although my brother-in-law is powerful, he only has less than a thousand people!"
Shen Tang smiled faintly, "It's just a piece of shit, how can he be my brother-in-law's opponent?
Don’t worry, you can feel at ease here, my brother-in-law will be back soon!”
Murong Yu nodded vigorously, and then said reluctantly, "Then Yu'er wishes my husband a great victory!"