Qiming 1158

Chapter 1253 The power of external intervention exists

Jiang Fu, as the Minister of the Ministry of Households, is enough to play the role of the scapegoat.

Although the courtiers who suffered losses and the courtiers who did not suffer losses all knew that this was the emperor's single-handed operation, can everyone still tear their faces now?
Obviously not.

The unfortunate Jiang Fu has thus become a sacrifice for the Chengdu court to regain consensus. On the surface, everyone reunites and unites to deal with the increasingly complex domestic and international situation.

But inside, in this court, between the ministers and the emperor, an unfathomable terrifying gully had already appeared.

And at the same time, Zhao Bunyi has not yet realized that his ruling foundation has been severely shaken, and almost only a part of the bureaucratic class can still accept his rule, and the important collaborators outside the ruling class - the landlords A considerable part of the gentry class had already been pushed back by him.

As for whether the remaining part was influenced by the army of the Chengdu court, it is really hard to say.

At the end of June and the beginning of July in the seventh year of Hongwu, when the aftermath of Jiaozire was still deeply affecting the society of Sichuan and Shu, Song Jun's actions were still relatively powerful.

Song Jun, who was rewarded with iron money, determined that the court was still rich and willing to pay, so they would continue to fight.

To put it bluntly, this is something that is willing to fight and suffer. Song Jun, who had been passively avoiding war and unwilling to contribute, has once again become vigorous and powerful.

From the third day of the seventh month of the seventh year of Hongwu to the sixteenth day of the seventh month, the Song army fought three consecutive victories in Suining Prefecture, Puzhou and Zizhou as a response to this wave of rewards.

The peasant rebel army was inferior to the Song army in terms of combat effectiveness and combat literacy. When the Song army was passively avoiding the battle, it was still possible to win, but once the Song army bravely advanced for the reward, the gap in the quality of the two sides was fully exposed.

Unless the city is defended or defended against danger, the rebel army can still support it, but if it is a frontal confrontation field, the rebel army is not an opponent of the Song army.

However, the early rebellion's unfavorable fighting mode gave them a lot of confidence, making them think that the Song Army was the kind of soft persimmon who bullies the soft and fears the hard. .

During this phase of the battle, Liu Zhuang, the largest general in Tongchuan Prefecture, suffered a big loss and suffered a big defeat.

Liu Zhuang's uprising army was the largest of the entire Sichuan and Sichuan peasant uprising army. In just one month, it had grown to the point where more than 1 people followed more than [-] people to fight for him. Before the Song army crusade, he even broke through Tongchuan The capital of the prefecture, and then attack the other counties of Tongchuan prefecture in all directions.

When the Song army came to attack, except for Shehong County, which was not broken because of the county magistrate's steadfast defense, all other counties were attacked by internal and external cooperation, and then his fighting team expanded to more than 5000 people, and the scale was even larger.

Then he began to fight and kill each other on a large scale with the local landlords. He wanted to hang the landlords on the southeast branch and seize their land, property and women, and the landlords did not want to die so easily, so he also gathered his own The armed forces fought bloody battle with Liu Zhuang.

Of course, in the face of a group of landlords and old fortunes, Liu Zhuang's crowd tactics were very useful. Before the Song army attacked Tongshan County and started the Tongshan Battle, Liu Zhuang had basically abolished more than 70.00% of the landlords and old fortunes in Tongchuan Prefecture, and gained A lot of wealth and food.

He gave a considerable part of these wealth and food to those who fought for him, and the rest became his own, but before he had time to enjoy himself, the Song army killed him and started the Battle of Tongshan with him. .

In the Battle of Tongshan, the Song army commander skillfully used Liu Zhuang's rebellion's underestimation of the enemy, and ordered the Song army to pretend to be defeated, attracting the rebel army to pursue him all the way.

When the insurgent army could not form a queue because of the pursuit, he let the army in ambush suddenly burst out, killing the insurgent army by surprise and suffering heavy losses.

Liu Zhuang himself was even surrounded by the Song army in this battle. Seeing that he was about to be killed by the Song army, Liu Zhuang's younger brother, Liu Shi, was in a hurry and ordered his subordinates to give all the property that the army had prepared to the soldiers after the victory. Throw it on the battlefield.

The whole box of iron coins, copper coins, silver gold, and Shu brocade were all thrown on the battlefield by Liu Shi. When the soldiers of the Song army saw this posture, they immediately forgot that the most important thing was to surround and wipe out the rebels, and immediately began to reckless. Looting property.

No matter how the general ordered the soldiers not to loot, many officers joined the looting.

In this way, Song Jun missed the opportunity to kill Liu Zhuang in one go, and Liu Zhuang took the opportunity to escape with the participating insurgents and returned to Tongshan County.

The furious general of the Song Army was very annoyed after the war, and executed more than 40 soldiers and officers who took the lead in looting property as punishment, and then led troops to besiege Tongshan County, and fought an offensive and defensive battle with Liu Zhuang.

Although the Song army failed to kill Liu Zhuang, they also won a victory and suppressed the rebel army in Tongshan County. .

At the same time, the bloody landlords who were beaten by the rebel army seized the opportunity to rise up and launched a counteroffensive, defeating many small rebel troops, and the situation in Tongchuan Prefecture took a turn for the worse.

After the Song army started to show its power again, it did bring a lot of pressure to the peasant rebels in the Chuan-Shu area. If there is no intervention and change from other forces, I am afraid that this wave of peasant uprisings in Chuan-Shu will soon fall into a trough and be suppressed.

Although the Chengdu court did not do personnel affairs, as long as they continued to provide rewards to the army, the Song army who used the money to handle affairs could maintain their rule until they exhausted all their wealth.

Of course, the power of external intervention exists.

The revolutionary army led by Xu Tong rose in Linjiang County, Zhongzhou, and gathered more than 800 people to conquer Linjiang County. After a wave of agrarian revolution, they won the support of local farmers, expanded the army to 1000 people, and changed four battalions into five Battalion, continue to fight.

Before the Song army dispatched to suppress the rebel army, because of the long distance, Xu Tong and others were not suppressed by any regular army from the Song army, so the development was very rapid. In mid-April, the entire county seat of Zhongzhou was captured by the revolutionary army.

Then came the vigorous land reform in Zhongzhou. A large group of peasants and tenants who had been mobilized by the old landlords were put on the southeast branch. The revolutionary army, which fully mobilized the people's power, suffered very little loss, and gained a large number of supporters through the land revolution. .

So in May, the revolutionary army established five county-level organizations and more than 80 village-level organizations, mobilized all the peasants in the conquered area, wiped out the old wealth of the landlords, established peasant associations at all levels, and let all levels The peasant association established a village self-defense force with a certain combat effectiveness and so on.

While organizations at all levels are flourishing, the revolutionary army also has a main combat force of 2000 people, initially having a reliable base area to rely on and continue to develop.

Immediately after that, the revolutionary army assisted the local agricultural production in Chungju to stabilize the production situation, and at the same time inquired about the news of the rebel army and the Song army suppressing troops in the surrounding areas.

In addition to this part of the news, in mid-April, Xu Tong learned that the Jiaozi conspiracy was taking place throughout Sichuan and Sichuan through the Skynet Army's network in Chengdu, and further learned some very important inside information, he immediately Hold a revival meeting to discuss.

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