In late February, in Fuliang County at the western foothills of Yishan Mountain, two woodcutters, one old and one young, carried two heavy bundles of firewood into the city from the east gate. They were intercepted by the city guards, and each of them had to pay a 20 yuan entrance tax.
After Xu passed and entered Dongcheng, they started shouting along the street.
Shopkeepers along the street saw people selling firewood in the city, and people inquired from time to time. The young people remained silent, while the old people stood on the street and bargained with people. However, two bundles of firewood, old and young, cost 400 yuan. Everyone shook their heads and asked for the price.
Sell firewood to others.
Passing by a tea shop, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man. Hearing the shouts of the firewood seller, he opened the curtain and walked out. When he asked about the price, he frowned and said, "Brother, this firewood has more than doubled compared to last month."
Ah, if this continues, we won’t even be able to light a fire at home.”
The old man replied in a hoarse voice: "All the kiln workers in Qimen rebelled and flooded the mines. The supply of coal was temporarily cut off. The officers and soldiers went into the mountains to redress. We don't know when we can stop.
It’s not easy to get into the city, and the capitation fee has doubled compared to last month. Shopkeeper, how can the price of firewood not increase? If the price does not increase, our family will have no choice but to drink from the northwest wind..."
The tea shop owner continued, "The kiln workers in Qimen have rebelled, but the charcoal boats in Changhe have not been scuttled yet. Brother, do you want to lower the price of firewood?"
"It's coming, it's coming. The charcoal boats in the Changhe River have stopped jumping in a few days. Shopkeeper, haven't you seen that the boats in Poyang Lake have capsized one after another these days?" The young firewood seller, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke out.
When the code was picked up, his Fuliang dialect was still a bit jerky.
After hearing the signal, the tea shop owner's eyes lit up. Afraid of attracting the attention of the patrolmen on the street, he said calmly: "Okay, okay, you can carry the firewood to the backyard for me..." He opened the curtain.
He called the young and old man selling firewood to enter the shop, and then gave a look to the two waiters behind the counter, asking them to watch the door, and then directly led the old and young man selling firewood into the backyard.
"May I ask what you call me, sir?" the tea shop owner asked, looking at the young man.
The old man smiled slightly and asked: "They say that Huo Yao Huang Bin has poisonous eyes. Is that true? How did you guess Hu Tou's identity?"
"There are many disciples from Fuliang and Yongshan in the army. If the Privy Council wants to send ordinary hidden stakes, they will not send someone who speaks Fuliang dialect and is unfamiliar," Huang Bin, the Fire Harrier, said with a smile.
"I am Hu Qiaozhong, how can I meet Yu Wencheng, Yu Wenbei, and Uncle Pan Wen as quickly as possible?" Hu Qiaozhong said.
"It turns out it's Mr. Zhijun. Huang Bin, the Camp Commander of the Gandong Division of the Military Intelligence Department, has seen Zhijun!" Huang Bin was startled when he heard Hu Qiaozhong reveal his identity and hurriedly saluted.
The strength of the traditional town army ranges from more than ten thousand to tens of thousands. Except for the chief general, the deputy generals are proportional to each other by the number of generals and generals. The division of general positions is not strict. The armies in Huaidong are promoted from battalions to troops, and they are equal to the town.
A town often had jurisdiction over ten brigades, so Lin Fu set up a new division level between the towns and brigades, with jurisdiction over two to four brigades, to control the army and lead them.
Hu Qiaozhong, Chen Enze and other Chongzhou boys were already the backbone of Huaidong. They served as military commanders and city captains, as officials, or as governors of prefectures and counties.
No wonder Huang Bin was shocked. Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei who came to Ganzhou to sneak into Ganzhou were already brigade generals. Hu Qiaozhong even entered Gan as an army commander, not to mention that east Ganzhou always had to use tricks.
A big fight?
Huang Bin couldn't restrain his excitement and asked in a low voice: "Are we going to have a big fight soon?"
Hu Qiaozhong answered with a slight smile.
Huang Bin went on to say: "Wu Jingze led the kiln workers' riot in Qimen and defended the Huangtian mountain stronghold, attracting the rebels from the surrounding counties. Uncle Pan Wen was in Yongshan, but the two Yus were in Fuliang, waiting for the Privy Council.
Instructions for a big fight!"
Hu Qiaozhong didn't say much. He had to meet Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei to discuss many matters in detail. He put down the firewood and left the city separately with Huang Bin. They met in the small peach forest outside the south city and rushed to Liang Ziya in the south of the city to join his troops.
We met Yu Wencheng who was lurking there.
It has been three months since Yu Wencheng led his troops to Liangziya. Originally, a remnant of the Ganzhou Army of more than a hundred people had taken up residence in the mountains and became bandits. They occupied dangerous territory. On the one hand, they were far away from Fuliang Avenue, and on the other hand, this remnant maintained a low profile.
, did not attract the attention of Fuliang County.
After Uncle Pan Wen went north, he contacted Pan Qifeng's old troops who had been defeated in Shangrao and fled into the deep mountains and old forests. Yu Wencheng came over to collect the remnant troops, and recruited his father and brother's old troops from Yongshan and Fuliang. Now there are already soldiers and horses in Liangziya
Six hundred people were gathered together, surpassing the garrison in Fuliang County.
It was warm and cold in early spring, but fortunately people in the mountains used to burn fire pits, and everyone sat around the fire pit. The Privy Council sent Hu Qiaozhong to sneak in, and Yu Wencheng also knew that this meant that a big fight was about to happen.
"Wu Jingze led the rebels from surrounding counties into Huangtian, and two thousand rebels were circling in the deep mountains of Huangtian," Yu Wencheng said. "Uncle Pan Wenwen was able to gather nearly two thousand people in Yongshan, and the Wenbei army was in Daishan Mountain in the north.
More than 700 people, plus the manpower from Duchang and Poyang in the periphery, can almost immediately gather 4,000 troops, enough to completely wipe out the rebels who entered Huangtian. As long as there is an uprising, Qimen, Fuliang, and Yongshan Fengyun
If we move forward, it will be easy to recruit more soldiers, including 30 to 50 thousand soldiers!"
"Your Excellency has gone to Quzhou to supervise the war. The war in Shangrao is about to intensify, but it is still difficult to say in Jiangzhou. Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu may leave some spare strength so that Shewenzhuang can mobilize a large number of troops to enter Jiangzhou.
"Dong Jiangxi," Hu Qiaozhong said, "we can't use all our strength to annihilate the enemy in Huangtian. At least we can't ask the She family to separate more than 10,000 troops from Jiangzhou for the second time to quell the rebellion. Otherwise, it will be difficult to form a prairie fire."
, the development of the situation in eastern Jiangxi will also be difficult. If we only use an ambush along the way, are we sure that we can defeat the enemies of Huangtian?"
Uncle Pan Wen's troops were stationary, and they could only move all the way to Daishan and Liangziya, with only six to seven hundred men. Together with Wu Jingze's troops who had entered the deep mountains of Huangtian, the enemy had only a little over a thousand men - this time only one man was mobilized.
Thousands of people, but they are not afraid of attracting too much attention from the She family.
Yu Wencheng thought for a while and said: "Most of the troops stationed in Fuliang counties are recruited from the local areas by the She family and are greedy for the money and food they give. However, there are not many who actually follow the She family and are willing to fight hard. To be prepared to attack the unprepared, a thousand people are enough."
, it’s just difficult to annihilate them all!”
"Don't always think about annihilating them all," Hu Qiaozhong said with a smile, "leave some of his troops out of the mountains to attract your second troops to come in. At that time, all the tribes will unite to give him a serious beating!"
"Okay, Daishan, the Yongshan side won't move for now, and the Liangshanya side will go first, which can be regarded as the first to win." Yu Wencheng said.
Hu Qiaozhong also asked about the situation of soldiers and armors at Liang Ziya——
In the past four months, through the wild trails between Huaiyu Mountain and Yishan Mountain, the Privy Council has successively imported thousands of weapons to the eastern Jiangxi region, mainly swords and spears. After all, the spearheads are light in weight and occupy an area of
Less, after it is shipped in and installed with wooden poles, it becomes a killing weapon.
There is no shortage of qualified knife handles and gun handles in the mountains and forests. Even fine steel sword heads can be smuggled in hundreds by three or five people. However, it is much more difficult to bring in armor. Only six hundred have been shipped in so far.
Deputy Yu.
Soldiers and armor are smuggled in, and how to distribute them is a matter here. Hu Qiaozhong is worried that the distribution will be too even, which will weaken the combat power of Yu Wencheng's troops in Liang Ziya...
Yu Wencheng pursed his lips, laughed, and said: "Coming from Qimen is Liangziya. I am afraid that other tribes will be too ostentatious and pretend not to be like mountain bandits. They use walking bows and crossbows. Most of their scales are hidden in Liangziya. Waiting.
The official start of the war will then be divided up. This time we really took the lead. Wen Bei and Uncle Pan Wen want soldiers and armor, so they can only wait until they are captured..."
This time, it was impossible for Yu Wencheng's troops to hide the troops who had entered the mountains to quell the rebellion in the official counter-suppression campaign - as long as they officially launched the attack, the She family would definitely guess that Yu Wencheng's troops were sent by Huaidong.
What we are trying to do at the moment is to make the She family underestimate the scale of the infiltrated troops and the source of the troops, so as to prevent the She family from sending a large army to suppress the situation for the second time.
As long as the soldiers and horses sent by the She family to the nest can be defeated twice in a row, on the one hand, it can create a greater momentum in eastern Jiangxi, on the one hand, it can give the She family a greater blow, and on the other hand, more seizures can also
Organize more people to join the resistance army in eastern Jiangxi, and you don't need to rely on Jiangning for supplies from Yishan.
It is not that Shewenzhuang has not noticed the abnormal banditry in Jiangxi since the beginning of spring.
At the beginning, She Wenzhuang tried every possible means to encourage Liu An'er and other Hongzepu water village forces to launch a civil uprising in the Huaisi area. In fact, it was to let the refugee army disrupt the heart of the Hehuai River and restrain the Vietnamese troops on the southern front from moving northward.
Create powerful conditions for the northern invasion of Zhejiang and Zhejiang.
At this time, Huaidong Yu was practicing the old plan of the She family. How could Shewenzhuang not notice it at all?
It's one thing to be aware of it, but it's not easy to put an end to banditry everywhere!
At the invitation of Wu Jingze, Uncle Pan Wen led the remnants of the Ganzhou army to go north in batches. However, after Uncle Pan Wen left Gannan, the resistance movement in southern Jiangxi not only did not stop, but intensified under the banner of Uncle Pan Wen.
The She family's military strength in southern Jiangxi is already extremely weak, and more than 4,000 soldiers and horses are gathered in Ganzhou City on the lower reaches of the Gan River to guard this important and important place in Jiangxi.
She Wenzhuang's idea is no different from the Privy Council's previous prediction: as long as Ganzhou is defended and civil unrest is prevented from spreading to the lower reaches of the Gan River and both sides of Poyang Lake, even if it temporarily gives up control of more than 20 counties in southern Jiangxi, it will not affect
The overall situation of Jiangxi.
The She family's retreat in southern Jiangxi made the people's resistance movement in southern Jiangxi become more and more fierce. In just three to five months, the resistance army grew to a scale of ten to twenty thousand people. Although the She family was not afraid of being short of soldiers and armor, they took care of their children.
The 20,000-strong female resistance army was able to break through Ganzhou's blockade, but they never dared to take it lightly.
In addition to southern Jiangxi, banditry in western Jiangxi is becoming increasingly serious and has the potential to start a prairie fire, seriously affecting Jiangzhou. The contact between Yuzhang and Yuanzhou - Shewenzhuang considers that the center of gravity of Huaidong's plot is likely to be in
Eastern Jiangxi, but the situation in western Jiangxi also made him unable to take it lightly!
Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou were in Yuanzhou, and they always worried Shewenzhuang. If Huaidong sent people to contact Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou, there was no guarantee that they would not have the same intention.
It is unlikely that Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou will immediately switch to Jiangning, but the banditry in western Jiangxi has become a prairie fire, and Huang and Chen must be conniving behind it. Once the rebels isolate Yuanzhou from Yuzhang, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou can
They openly established themselves in Yuanzhou and did not listen to the orders of the She family. In the end, the two of them had bargaining chips with Jiang Ning and did not have to hang themselves on the tree of the She family.
In comparison, although there was some movement in the mountainous areas of eastern Jiangxi, Shewenzhuang also noticed that the movements in the mountainous areas of eastern Jiangxi were more susceptible to Jiang Ning's direct leadership, but there was no spare force to send more troops to guard the eastern Jiangxi area.
Jiangxi is surrounded by crises and internal and external difficulties - Jiangzhou faces the offensives of Chizhou and Jinghu and Shangrao faces Huaidong. These two are difficulties that the She family must overcome. She Wenzhuang has not yet realized that Gan
Civil unrest in the eastern region will soon spread like a prairie fire.g@.