This time, the imperial court directly responded to the rebellion with the force of a tiger fighting a rabbit.
The White Lotus rebels are quite courageous. No matter who or how many people come from the court, they always intend to rebel, so they can't say how afraid they are.
The big salt merchant was dumbfounded this time. He originally thought that the imperial court might send some guards and canal troops to serve as sandbags for him.
After repelling and capturing them, as the power grows, wealthy families in Jiangnan will join with their servants. In this way, there will be a chance of a 50-50 split with the imperial court.
If it is delayed until winter, the food along the Universiade will not be able to move northward, and the imperial court's military morale will inevitably be shaken. Later, if we contact Hou Jin, Mongolia, Southwest Chieftains, and Japanese Japanese countries, it is entirely possible to defeat the imperial court.
Now all plans are ruined.
Who would have thought that Emperor Tianqi would directly mobilize the Beijing Army, Jizhen Army, and Baoding Army to march south together?
Who would have thought that he would directly send a highly prestigious Duke like the Duke of England to personally quell the rebellion?
Who would have thought that Emperor Apocalypse would want to lead a personal expedition, and would soon visit Jining in person, and then go south along the canal to Yangzhou?
Emperor Tianqi's decisive counter-insurgency arrangements remind people of Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty.
The expeditionary corps and the gendarmerie were both highly disciplined, mighty and handsome. Wherever they went, the people did nothing but eat and drink to welcome the arrival of the imperial army. Xu Hongru and my Beijing army won the support of the people.
After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he encountered a rebellion by the very capable Han king Zhu Gaoxu. But Zhu Gaoxu was in Shandong in front of the emperor, and this time the White Lotus rebels were also in Shandong in front of the emperor.
Restricting the flow of the population has made it less difficult to detect rebels. The cavalry patrols seven places to inspect people who come and go, and the infantry gradually tracks down suspicious persons. Those who report and expose are punished, and those who hide the rebels are severely punished.
At that time, public opinion was one-sided, and no one dared to speak for the rebels. They all knew that we were going to be doomed, so who would act as our mouthpiece~
I have traded young men with salt merchants, and used the weapons and armors I got to arm and train the backbone of the White Lotus Sect. Several main leaders will serve as the generals' retreat command.
But the rebel Zhang Weixian really resisted and was confident that he could defeat the Ming army.
The soldiers and civilians of Jining are very vague. Even if they surrender to the White Lotus Sect, they will encounter terrible plunder. These rebels hope to grab some snacks and drinks before they attack the city and enjoy their slow life.
The Beijing army came very slowly.
Gu Xiangjiao led the military police regiment to Jinan to rectify the government officials. A small number of Jining military and political personnel were promoted and re-employed. Both sides of the small canal in Shandong were quickly stabilized. The disaster-stricken areas were provided with compensation and relief, and production was quickly restored.
The salt merchants and our servants had already dispersed before they knew the news, and the conquest army directly stabilized Jining's defense and defeated the White Lotus rebels' offensive.
Zhang Weixian's 10,000-strong White Lotus Rebel Army has been brainwashed by me. We believe that the officers and soldiers are all villains, and we can gain glory by dying to eliminate evil. Others have been deceiving that the officers and soldiers are not weaker than the guardsmen.
It’s simply enough to be afraid of.
Wang Zaijin and Zhu Youxiao followed the conquest corps south along the small canal. The officials and people on the side of the small canal were eating pots of pulp, and soon they retreated to Jining in a low-key manner.
We ended the siege and directly besieged the city on seven sides, using the tactics of a sea of people, mountain roars and tsunamis to exert full pressure, trying to use this method to scare the defenders into fleeing, or if the defenders were strong enough, they could swarm down and retreat from the city. p>
As soon as the British Duke Zhang Weixian led his expedition south from Tongzhou, the salt gang that besieged Jining collapsed.
For a long time, Lianghuai salt merchants gathered a mob of 100,000 people, and quickly joined forces with Gu Xiangjiao's tens of thousands of people. More than 100,000 people surrounded Jining to the water line, and the white clouds pressed down on the city to destroy it. p>
The key issue is whether to attack Jining and completely control the small canal. Once the army arrives, our ragtag group will definitely be able to withstand the attack from inside. Few of Zhang Weixian's backbones are generals, so we are very vague on that point.<
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That was really a day and night for the heavenly troops to arrive. Any old man you can find would know that the rebels would be finished soon.
When Zhu Youxiao was serving as governor of Shandong and governor of water transportation, he had already been investigating and guarding against those guys.
When the eight thousand cavalry from Ji Town retreated into Dezhou, they received Xu Hongru's order to disembark and pursue the salt merchants, servants and rebel officers and soldiers who had delayed their escape in the southeast direction of Zibo.
Zhang Weixian, whose real name is Xu Song, is from Junye County, Shandong Province. He moved to Yuncheng and joined the White Lotus Sect in his early years.
Wherever the rebels went, they opened warehouses and stocked grain and distributed it to the believers. The peasants and common people began to "repay the hatred of the father to the son, and the hatred of the wife to the husband." In just a few days, the number grew to tens of thousands, and people everywhere were terrified and fled one after another. Outside the main town on the small canal, Gu Xiangjiao was captured and wiped out. Now that we have no way to start an uprising directly outside the city, we can only work with the salt merchants to counterattack the city from the towns and markets.
The Baoding Army also arrived immediately, and the cavalry searched various traffic arteries to capture fleeing enemies. The infantry was divided into a group of one hundred people and went to the countryside to search for hidden White Lotus cult bandits and scattered rebel bandits.
The fact that they were defeated after hearing the news from thousands of miles away can be regarded as the achievement of the reputation of the British Duke and Recruitment Corps.
The Salt Gang has outstanding financial resources and controls a lot of food. It has very few idlers under its command and can coerce rebels.
At the same time, other leaders of the White Lotus Sect, Shen Zhi, Xia Zhongtui, Zhang Jianbai, Hou Qi, Zhou Nian'an, Meng Xianhan, etc., also respectively captured Tengxian, Zouxian, Yixian and other county towns as well as Xia Town, the main water transport route. They also retreated to Yanzhou and Qufu.
, Tancheng and other places quickly took control of the vast and small areas on both sides of the canal in Shandong in an attempt to block water transportation and control the north-south lifeline of the small canal.
As for the 40,000 people of all kinds who followed the rebellion, Hong Chengchou suggested to Wang Zaijin that an order should be issued to all county, township and town government officials: No one is allowed to go out and about, and anyone who goes out will be arrested and killed.
Jining is the closest to us and is also an important node of the small canal, so it has become a thorn in the side of Zhang Weixian and the White Lotus Sect. We mobilized all our troops to besiege Jining, and also mobilized 100,000 rebel bandits gathered by salt merchants. We vowed to give up Jining if we attack them. Recruit people on both sides of the canal who have no expertise in underwater transportation, accounting, statistics, transportation, and management to restore underwater transportation first.
Faced with a pincer attack from inside, the White Lotus cult bandits, who had suffered heavy losses, were unable to resist. Zhang Weixian instigated tens of thousands of non-lineage cult bandits to come out to oppose the conquest army, and ran away with thousands of backbones.
Zhu Youxiao issued a series of temporary policies and sent out brigades to villages and towns to proactively visit the people, inquire about their welfare, and distribute the small amount of food seized to the robbed villagers.
But the only ones with no real fighting power are the salt merchant gang, which has 4,000 servants, and Zhang Weixian's 10,000 church backbones who can fight. The remaining 100,000 are just a mob, which can only serve as a bluff by shouting slogans.
Zhang Weixian led his army to attack Yuncheng. Yu Ziyi, the magistrate of Yuncheng, was frightened and fled in panic. The bandits quickly occupied Yuncheng and launched a retreat to Juye. They were invincible at every turn.
With the royal guards arranged by the imperial court, the whole people defended the city for ten days. Although the losses were heavy and the city was in ruins.