Qiming 1158

Chapter 735 Entering the Luoxiao Mountains
Although it was an emergency, the members decided to launch this operation after urgent consultation, which brought the rebellion ahead of schedule.

Originally, they also planned to expand the number of members and rebel against the basics, so that they would be able to quickly expand the uprising force and directly pull up a strong team.

But now this situation is too late. Since it is decided to rebel, it is impossible to continue to live, and it must be on the stage.

So Zhao Yucheng urgently decided to start a large-scale traditional rebellion.

After gathering a certain size of the uprising army, they will directly transfer to the Luoxiao Mountains, and develop themselves while fighting guerrilla warfare. With the help of war as a catalyst, this revolutionary force will take shape faster.

Ideological education and so on, when all the peasants have joined the army, it will be better if they are gathered together. Centralized education is much better than scattered work one by one.

"The chairman often said that the plan can't keep up with the changes. Since we encounter changes, we should just face the changes head-on. Opportunities will not fall on people's heads. We must give full play to our subjective initiative and give our best!"

After Zhao Yucheng made such a decision, each member rushed to the village they were familiar with and called on everyone to rebel together, and told each other who had rebelled and how many tax collectors had been killed.

As soon as the first war of the Ming and Song Dynasties started, the Jiangnan West Road Branch of the Renaissance Society had already set off a wave of rebellion in the Luling area.

When Zhao Yucheng killed the tax collector and led the rebellion, it was the first day of April in the second year of Hongwu.

By the fourth day of April, 38 villages under the jurisdiction of Luling County had decided to rebel.

Zhao Yucheng sent an order to the members of other villages, asking them to bring everyone close to Luling County, while attacking the county, while gathering people to organize.

When everyone gathered in Luling County on the sixth day of April, Zhao Yucheng counted the number of people and found that the peasant army had more than 4000 people.

Then, without saying a word, he ordered the attack on Luling County.

He needs the supplies in Luling County, and he also needs the lives of those dog officials in Luling County to declare that he has officially rebelled.

When he launched an attack on Luling County, the officials of Luling County, who were in the dark, did not have any preparations and countermeasures. They didn't know what was going on. .

They don't know how many people there are in the peasant army, who is leading the peasant army, what the purpose of the peasant army is, let alone how things will develop.

They failed even before they could muster an effective military defense.

Facing the turbulent peasant army, Luling County was quickly attacked by internal and external cooperation. The deputy director Du Qi led more than 30 members to lurk in the city early in the morning, waiting for Zhao Yucheng to lead a large force to rush over.

The large army began to attack the city, and Du Qi in the city rushed out with more than 30 members. After a fierce battle, he quickly killed dozens of government servants who came to guard the gate in a hurry, and successfully captured a city gate. , opened the city gate, and welcomed the peasant army to enter.

On the sixth day of April, Luling County was breached.

When the county town was breached, the officials in Luling County didn't know anything, they didn't know how the peasant army got into the city, or how they grew wings and flew in...

But they know very well that they are finished and the farmers will never let them go.

Of course, although the rebellion led by the Renaissance Society was rather hasty, its essence will not change. This is a very just anti-oppression and anti-exploitation struggle initiated by farmers as the main body.

The peasant army basically wiped out all the officials in Luling County, including a series of local high-ranking officials such as the Luling County magistrate and the Jizhou Army Zhijun.

This group of dog officials colluded and drove the peasants to death, and also added a fire to the rebel plan of Zhao Yucheng and others. Now the fire is burning fiercely, and the people who set them on fire are screaming. .

As the culprits, Jizhou Zhijun and Luling County magistrate are naturally unforgivable and must die, but they cannot simply die.

The wild anger of the peasants needs a way to vent, and these bastards are the best way to vent.

Zhao Yucheng set up a high platform and pulled them to the high platform to judge in front of everyone, disgracing them, making them lose face, and making all authority and oppression no longer exist.

They kneel, cry, repent, beg for mercy, and all their actions are destroying the invisible shackles in the hearts of the peasants.

After the trial, the Luling County magistrate and the Jizhou Zhijun were the first to be sentenced to death, because everything started with them. It was their corruption that led to the financial deficit, and they planned to use the court's tax-free policy to fill the deficit, and even more so. They directly ordered tax collectors to go to the countryside to impose taxes.

It is they who let the peasants lose their wives and families.

So they must die.

Zhao Yucheng pushed the fat-headed and big-eared Luling County magistrate and Jizhou Zhijun into the peasant army.

The two fell from the high platform in desperation, and before they could scream, they were drowned by the surging crowd—the angry farmers rushed up and kicked the two to death beyond recognition.

Next is the captured officials in Luling County.

Zhao Yucheng set up dozens of high-level platforms, and each high-level platform arranged for a captured official to explain their sins and explain to each other how much money they had embezzled. The best one could be forgiven.

So this group of officials who saw the tragic death of the Zhijun and the county magistrate immediately began to bite the dog. One said that the other had embezzled several thousand taels of silver, and the other said that this one had embezzled several hundred taels of gold.

Gold, silver, copper coins, silk cloth, jade, treasures, antiques, and more.

They're all rich, yet greedy.

Zhao Yucheng made their guilt public, and the peasants onlookers, led by the revival members, shouted slogans that would kill them.

In the end, Zhao Yucheng decided to behead all these wicked bastards in public, then seized their homes, confiscated all their properties, and turned them into funds for this rebellion.

All the warehouses in Luling County were swept away by the peasant army.

Seeing that it was almost done, Zhao Yucheng ordered to leave Luling County, and the main force dragged his family and led their way to Taihe County in the south.

In Taihe County, they repeated their old tricks, because Taihe County also did not have the military strength to resist the peasant army, and was soon swarmed by the peasant army to attack the county seat, all officials were executed, the warehouse was swept up, and all the supplies were taken away.

After sweeping through two counties, the Peasant Army already had enough weapons to hold one hand, more than 200 pairs of armor, and more than 300 bows and crossbows, initially taking on the appearance of an army.

But this is not enough. For general local armed forces, such an army is sufficient, but for regular armed forces, such an army is equivalent to death.

So Zhao Yucheng led them to continue south to Wan'an County, where they attacked Wan'an County and swept away the supplies of Wan'an County.

Then there is Longquan County.

After conquering the four county towns in a row, Zhao Yucheng stopped the attack, gathered an increasingly large and mixed team, and began to advance towards the mountainous area that they had prepared for a long time.

Zhao Yucheng is planning to enter the mountain area as a base camp to do two things.

First, train the peasants as soldiers as soon as possible, build a defense line in the mountains, protect the base camp, and be ready to meet the crusade troops of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Second, continue to send revival members to various villages to call on the peasants to rebel, and then bring them all into the mountains.

The winding Luoxiao Mountains are the cradle of their development and growth. Here, they need to use constant battles to train a team that can fight well, from weak to strong, from less to more, and gradually grow into a strong team. team.

With this as the core, they will spread to the surrounding areas, develop and grow, and when the Ming army goes south to destroy the Song Dynasty, they will become an important coping force.

During this period, once they gained a firm foothold, they could continue to send people to various places to instigate more low-level peasants to rebel and break with the Southern Song Dynasty.

The more struggles and the more frequent the struggles, the more exhausted the Southern Song government was.

As long as the most difficult period of time is passed, the Southern Song Dynasty government will not be able to hold on. By then, it will be the moment of decisive battle.

So Zhao Yucheng waved his hand and led a huge team of tens of thousands of people into the Luoxiao Mountains.

This is just the beginning of an uphill struggle.

(End of this chapter)