It was actually very difficult for the army to leave Sichuan. Zhuge Liang left Qishan six times. In fact, he was plotting the territory of Cao Wei in the north. Whether he took the Baoxie Road or the Ziwu Valley, he could reach Guanzhong, but this road had almost nothing to do with Yunzheng.
It was already very difficult to lead the army all the way to Yuzhou. If Liu Yucheng hadn't coordinated the boats, people would have been killed alive when they walked from Yuzhou to the two lakes. Not to mention the rugged road, high mountains and deep ravines, rampant wild animals, and smoke.
Miasma everywhere.
Fortunately, the Yangtze River was available, so Yun Zheng had to take a thrilling trip to the Three Gorges. When passing the Three Gorges, Yun Zheng had no intention of admiring the majesty of Kuimen, nor the precipitousness of Qutang Gorge. The cries of apes on both sides of the bank made him stop.
He was so agitated that he wished his subordinates would shoot all the noisy monkeys to death.
When people get on the boat, they are equivalent to handing over their lives to the boatman. In order to rush for time, the people in Shu have tried their best. More than 400 boats are like a long dragon on the Yangtze River. The space occupied by people is not big, but
The space occupied by the war horses and grain was very large. This was Yunzheng's first expedition, so he was very well prepared.
It was only with the secret report from Sanxia Xiaolin that the entire battle situation of Nong Zhigao's rebellion was shown to Yun Zheng for the first time. Looking at this large stack of battle reports, Yun Zheng felt that his scalp was numb.
In eight months, Nong Zhigao not only swept through the entire Guangnan West Road, but also entered Guangnan East Road many times, and besieged Guangzhou City for a full fifty-seven days.
In April of the second year of Huangyou's reign, Nong Zhigao led 7,000 tribesmen along the Youjiang River, one of the sources of the Yujiang River, and first captured Hengshan Village in the upper reaches of the Youjiang River. In order to stimulate fighting spirit and coerce more people to join his army, Nong Zhigao
Zhigao robbed the rich and gave to the poor, divided up large households to provide relief to the poor, and distributed all the land and wealth of the large households to the poor, which made him famous for a while.
After Hengshan stronghold was destroyed, Chen Gong, the magistrate of Yongzhou, knew that he had neglected his duty and concealed it. He organized the people and soldiers to prepare to return to Hengshan stronghold many times. After repeated defeats, the most precious time was wasted and the Song Dynasty lost its power.
It is possible to completely wipe out Nong Zhigao in the early stages of the rebellion.
The concealment of the magistrate of Yongzhou created favorable conditions for the smooth march of the Nong army. In May of Yisi of that year, Nong Zhigao came to the gate of Yongzhou City. Chen Gong saw that something was not going well, so he hurriedly deployed the defense troops and ordered the general judge Wang Qianyou to come.
At the far gate, acting governor Li Su guarded Da'anmen and ordered Wu Ji to guard Chaotian Gate. In addition, Guangxi governor Zhang Li also led troops from Pennsylvania for reinforcements.
As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Chen Gong rewarded the sergeants on the city. While they were happily drinking, Nong's army broke into the city with lightning speed. This is related to the fact that Nong Zhigao had placed internal responders in the city in advance to cooperate with the action.
, the secret report mentioned that "therefore, people in the city said that people in the city should respond internally" and "everyone in the city should respond."
At that time, Sihu, who was guarding the south gate, joined the army. Kong Zongdan personally wrote a recruitment notice and asked the people to actively fight, but in the end he could not save the crisis in Yongzhou. In a fierce battle, more than a thousand officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty died in the battle. Chen Gong and other
Important officials were captured and Yongzhou City was captured.
Nong Zhigao checked the military treasury and found the gold letter attached to his previous request. He angrily asked Chen Gong why he didn't submit the letter requesting his subordinates. Chen Gong argued that he had already submitted it, but the court disagreed. Nong Zhigao
Zhigao ordered people to search for the herbs for the memorial, but found none, so he pushed Chen Gong, the "sick-eyed" magistrate, out of the state and beheaded. After occupying Yongzhou City, Nong Zhigao established the "Great Southern Kingdom" here and called himself the "Benevolent Emperor".
The reign name was "Qi Li", following the system of the Song Dynasty, officials were appointed and established the government, strengthening their ruling power. At the same time, the tribes within the amnesty area developed greatly, and the number of soldiers increased to more than 10,000.
Not long after he settled in Yong, Nong Zhigao left the city to open up land and marched eastward along the Yujiang River. Since Lingnan Prefecture and County had no preparations at the time, once the troops were in a hurry and they didn't know what to do, Shou quickly occupied eastern Guangxi and Guangdong.
A large area in the west: In the fifth month of Guichou in the third year of Huangyou, the Nong army entered Hengzhou, Zhizhou, downstream of Yongzhou. Zhang Zhong, the prime minister in the palace, returned and took custody. In the east end, the official Wang Riyong abandoned the city and left. In the fifth month, Bingchen
, the Nong army invaded Guizhou and Zhizhou, Secretary Cheng Li Ju fled without a fight.
In the fifth month of Gengshen, Nong Zhigao led his army into Gongzhou, Zhizhou, and Zhang Xu, the prime minister in the palace, abandoned the city and fled. The next day, the Nong army entered Tengzhou, Zhizhou, and the prince Zhongshe Li Zhi fled. After that, the Nong army easily occupied
Wuzhou, the governor of Wuzhou, and Secretary Cheng Jiangbo refused to resist and abandoned the city to escape.
Later, Nong Zhigao stepped into the boundary of Guangnan East Road and stormed Fengzhou. He encountered resistance from the governor Chen Ye. The magistrate of Fengchuan County also led rural soldiers and archers to attack, but the Nong army had an absolute advantage of hundreds of times.
After advancing victoriously, Chen Ye was defeated and the local soldiers retreated. Zhizhou Zeng Jin led his troops to fight in a hurry. The battle could not be won. Zhizhou was captured. Zeng Jin preferred to die rather than surrender. He was burned to death by the riverside by Nong Zhigao, who became angry and angry.
After executing Cao Jin, Nong Zhigao continued to march towards Kangzhou. Previously, the prefect Zhao Shidan sent people to spy on the military situation. They also reported that all the state guards had abandoned the city and fled. Zhao Shidan asked sternly: "Are you planning to escape too?"
Immediately, they launched a large-scale search and captured three spies in Kangzhou. They beheaded all three of them. At this time, Nong Zhigao had already arrived at the city. Zhao Shidan had no choice but to lead only 300 garrison soldiers to open the door to fight. The soldiers were relatively capable, but Nong's army was
Dozens of people were killed and the battle lasted until dark, unable to enter the city. He was chased and retreated. Zhao Shidan knew in his heart that he could not resist Nong Zhigao's tens of thousands of troops, so he asked his wife to take the state seal and son to flee and hide, and he led the army
Soldiers fight.
After dawn in Renshu in May, Nong Zhigao relied on the crowd to attack and finally broke into the city. Zhao Shidan and his prisoner Ma Gui were executed.
After Nong Zhigao occupied Duanzhou, he continued to supervise the eastern expedition. In May Bingyin arrived at the city of Guangzhou and began the most arduous and longest siege since the uprising. Previously, Zhizhou Zhongjian did not believe that Nong Zhigao would attack Guangzhou.
, imprisoned those who came to report the emergency, and wrote a list of articles and posted them on the roadside, ordering the people to stay put, and anyone who instigated the rebellion would be killed without mercy. When Nong's army approached the city, Zhong Jian opened the city gate and ordered the people to stay put.
The people entered the city, and those who could not enter the city in time all joined the Nong army, making the army stronger. The city of Guangzhou was besieged and was besieged for fifty-seven days.
Wang Kai, the governor of Guangdong who was greedy for life and fearful of death, was so frightened that he actually killed Wang Shining, the maritime patrol officer who was the main battler. Later, there was another case where the exhausted guard tried to lure the soldiers to open the city gate and surrender to the Nong army. He served as the capital supervisor.
Yuan stopped.
As the city of Guangzhou was heavily fortified and the defenders received foreign aid, Nong Zhigao was unable to attack the city for a long time, giving the Song Dynasty time to concentrate its forces and move south. Faced with the increasingly tense situation, Nong Zhigao had no choice but to lift the Guangzhou army which lasted for more than 50 days.
During the siege, the Nong army withdrew from Guangzhou, but encountered Su Yan, the governor of Yingzhou, who had laid oak trees on the 40-mile-long road, and was blocked by huge rocks. They were forced to take a detour to cross the river from Shatou, go north to Qingyuan County, and march towards Lianzhou and Hezhou.
They continued to attack Hezhou and fought in this area for more than a month. They won the three battles of Baitian, Lutian and Taipingchang, and killed Song army leaders Zhang Zhong, Jiang Kai and others. After the Taipingchang battle, the Song army routed through the mountains and forests, plundering
To plunder the place. Tao Bi, the manager of Liuzhou who joined the army, was worried that these defeated soldiers would defect to Fu Nong, so he took several white flags, wrote "call for peace" on them, sent people to hold favors, and collected more than a thousand remaining soldiers.
Nong Zhigao was well versed in the art of war and knew that only by conquering the world could he obtain the greatest bargaining chip for himself, so he turned to the Northern Expedition. Nong's army annihilated Li Gui's patrol team from Gui, Yi, and Liu in Longxiu Cave, and then attacked Zhao.
On September 18th, Zhizhou broke through the city and Zhizhou fled.
Moved to Huangzhou, aiming directly at Guizhong and North Guangxi. The defenders there were defeated and invincible. Hezhou, Guangxi was quickly defeated. What is particularly worth mentioning is that Nong Zhigao achieved extremely brilliant results there: he killed many people one after another.
Two famous Song generals - Zhang Zhong, the commander of Guangnan East Road, and Jiang Kai, the commander of Guangnan East and West Road.
According to the original plan, Nong Zhigao planned to take the initiative to negotiate peace with the court after marching to Hunan and Jing. However, Nong Zhigao clearly realized that he was facing an enemy force that was nearly ten times stronger than the uprising troops.
, they simply could not compete with them. Therefore, after occupying Quanzhou, and after secret discussions with Huang Shimi and others, they resolutely made the important decision to return to Yongzhou. When Banshi went south, the Nong army's front was still very sharp.
, conquered Guizhou and Liuzhou along the way, and sent troops to attack Yizhou.
"Are you worried?" Yun Zheng asked Zhou Tong with a smile while sitting cross-legged on the deck facing the river breeze.
Zhou Tong's face was very pale and his body was trembling, as if he was very scared.
"People have never lost a single battle in a hundred battles, so it is normal to worry. We diverted from Dongting to the Xiangshui River, and then took the Lingqu Canal to arrive at the war zone Guizhou. The place has been captured. All we have to do is defeat the enemy." Yun said.
Zheng comforted Comrade Zhou.
"How could they do this?" Zhou Tong's face turned even paler, he punched the deck and roared at Yun Zheng.
"You mean Nong Zhigao?" Yun Zheng was a little confused.
"I'm talking about those bastards who abandoned the city and fled. What will happen to the people after they leave?" Zhou Tong's body trembled even more.
"Oh, you didn't hear from the battle report that more than 6,000 people died in Liuzhou City."
Zhou Tong screamed and yelled: "I'm going to catch all these bastards who are running away and peel them off!"
Yun Zheng said helplessly: "Calm down, you are not the person who appointed the punishment department, you are not the imperial envoy, you are just a small infantryman from the seventh rank. When we met, he was a Shangguan.
Maybe I will order you to be beheaded first to show the strength of the army."
Zhou Tong ignored Yun Zheng's sarcasm and turned to ask Peng Jiu, who was sitting behind him and eating pancakes: "Old Peng, how did you kill those bastard Shangguan officials in the past?"
Peng Jiu swallowed the cake and said with a smile: "There are many ways. For example, when the two armies go to war, you can stab the Shangguan's horse in the buttocks and let the Shangguan charge into the battle bravely. For example, after rushing up, don't rush to kill the enemy. First,
Go back and cover your Shangguan with a round of bows and arrows, or create a little commotion at night, then hack the Shangguan to death with random blades, and say that the enemy has stolen the camp or something like that."
Zhou Tong swallowed and said, "You wouldn't do this to me, would you?"
Peng Jiu laughed and said: "Both the officers and soldiers in our camp are all brothers. We feel bad if one of us dies. Who the hell would frame his own brother? Don't worry, I will cover your back when you go to the battlefield."
Zhou Tong nodded and said: "That's pretty much it. It's not in vain for me to take care of my brothers. You said I plan to use this method to deal with those bastard officials. What do you think?" (To be continued)