Qiming 1158

Chapter 740 The Infighting of the Uprising Army

Zhao Gou ran away again, leaving only 500 people in the prefect of Longxing.

What else can the prefect of Longxing do?

It is certain that I want to cry but have no tears, but I think again, no matter how small the shrimp is, it is still a shrimp, and the chick is also a chicken. There are 500 people anyway, and it will always come in handy.

Even with 500 people on the back?

So he chose to take the 500 people back to Nanchang to help.

But who would have thought that these 500 people didn't obey orders at all, and didn't want to die, so they ran away in the opposite direction from the prefect of Longxing before they set off.

No matter how the prefect of Longxing could stop him, he was overthrown by a big-headed soldier, spat and cursed, leaving him paralyzed on the ground, messed up in the wind.

The emperor ran away, let our brothers stay as scapegoats, you think so beautiful!
Pooh!who pays attention to you?
They ran away in a hurry, running faster than anyone else, and they felt ashamed when they saw Scud.

There is really nothing left in the Longxing prefect at this time.

Of course, although Zhao Gou is a real dog, he is not completely inactive. For example, before he escaped, he sent someone to rush back to Lin'an to tell Zhao Tan about Jiangnan West Road.

He also knew that at this time, he should still be able to command the Ezhou army under the jurisdiction of the Dongtian Division, and he could send them out to suppress the rebellion, but at this critical moment, he did not want to make trouble with Zhao Tan about this matter.

Military power is a very sensitive matter for the emperor. Zhao Gou was reluctant to leave because he heard that the Lin'an Imperial Army was crippled and his cronies had suffered a serious loss, so he was worried.

Moreover, during this period of time, Zhao Tan also recalled many ministers of the main war faction. He has his own political power in the DPRK. Seeing that Zhao Tan has grown rapidly, at this time, if he is dissatisfied with the matter of military power, he will be very dissatisfied. inappropriate.

That being the case, then Zhao Gou is also happy to do nothing, and simply put all the blame on Zhao Tan. Anyway, he is a supreme emperor who does not need to take any responsibility for the country. No matter what happens, the emperor should be investigated. not him.

Do nothing and nothing will go wrong.

Zhao Gou has a deep understanding of this.

So Zhao Yan learned the news on June 29.

He was working hard at that time, and was about to bury his head in ten years to meet the Ming Kingdom. When he heard that there was a terrifying rebellion on Jiangnan West Road, and even Nanchang was in danger, he was shocked and immediately called the ministers to discuss.

The ministers of the main war faction also did not expect that they have not yet made a grand plan, and something went wrong internally.

After a period of deliberation, they agreed that the situation was urgent. Jiangnan West Road was the rear of the Jinghu Theater. If Jiangnan West Road caught fire, the Jinghu Theater would be unstable. It was hard to say that there would be nothing wrong with the Henan Corps of the Ming Army guarding Kaifeng. action.

They felt that the Ming Kingdom would never forget that they should quickly let Tian Shizhong lead the Ezhou army to the south to quell the rebellion. If the Ezhou army is not enough, they need to dispatch Qi Fang's troops stationed in Jiujiang to help fight the rebellion together.

Zhao Tan faced a rebellion for the first time since he took the throne. He had no experience in dealing with it. Fortunately, the ministers were all experienced, so he followed their advice and ordered Tian Shizhong and Qi Fang to lead them. The army went south to suppress the rebellion.

With Tian Shizhong as the commander-in-chief and Qi Fang as the deputy commander, the two armies went south to suppress the rebellion together, with a total force of 7 troops.

Tian Shizhong had [-] troops and Qi Fang had [-] troops.

Although Lin'an heard that the rebel army had a size of more than 30 people, the court thought it would be good if there were 30 soldiers out of the [-] people.

As for the combat power, of course, it was a mess. Bullying and bullying the trash in the local area was okay, but it was still a little worse for the professional army on the frontier.

Therefore, it is not necessary to send too many troops to quell the rebellion.

There is no more money from the court.

Qi Fang received the order on the sixth day of the seventh lunar month, and Tian Shizhong received the news on the eighth day of the seventh lunar month. When they received the order, they had already heard of the rebellion on Jiangnan West Road.

There is no other reason. Because Nanchang fell, the magistrate of Nanchang and the prefect of Longxing Prefecture committed suicide when the city was broken.

The uprising army swept Nanchang, robbed Nanchang into an empty city, and then continued to attack outside, frantically venting their anger and pain.

The pain of being repressed and exploited, the pain of being oppressed and ravaged, all these pains add up to the pain of their lives.

And now that there is a way to vent, how can it not make them happy?

So they attacked cities everywhere, and the poor grassroots organization in the Southern Song Dynasty made it almost impossible for them to deal with these rebellions on their own.

When Tian Shizhong and Qi Fang were ordered to attack, the situation on Jiangnan West Road was already very rotten and could not be calmed down without great effort.

The number of the rebels is too large, the occupied area is very large, and the momentum is very rapid. It has gradually begun to attack other places beyond the Jiangnan West Road.

Can't go on like this.

Tian Shizhong led the troops to Tongcheng on the Jinghu Lake Road, where they had their first rest, while Qi Fang led the troops south to De'an County, Jiangzhou, where they were stationed for the first rest, and dispatched People continued to go south to investigate the specific news of the rebel army.

Then they were surprised to learn that infighting seemed to be taking place among the rebels.

This was unavoidable, because in the two months from mid-May to mid-July, the insurgents themselves had already had two infighting.

At the very beginning, this rebel army had no fixed leader. The dozen or so rebel units were independent and acted independently of each other. There was no high-level coordination between each other, and it was up to them to develop large or small forces by themselves.

The big forces quickly developed to 10,000+ people, while the small forces only had tens of thousands of people.

And the rebel army is not completely free from enmity with each other. For example, the 10,000+ rebel army that occupied Nanchang, its leader is known as Dadao Han Wu, and the leader of another rebel army that occupied Gao'an County, Yunzhou. personal enmity.

Before occupying Nanchang, he passed by Gao'an County on the way, and he annexed the rebel army and killed the leader who had a grudge against him in order to take revenge.

The other two rebel armies that controlled part of the Linjiang Army also fought for territory. The war between the two sides started in mid-June and ended three days later, because the leader of one of the rebel armies was killed by a stray arrow.

As a result, the Linjiang Army was completely controlled by the leader of the insurgent army known as Liu Laosan.

The situation in Fuzhou is similar. Two insurgent armies fought within each other, and one of them won the victory and occupied Fuzhou.

The situation in Ganzhou was the most intense, with three rebel armies gathered in Ganzhou, and a fourth rebel army composed of locals.

At the beginning, everyone sincerely united and cooperated for a win-win situation, and together they drove away the Southern Song Dynasty forbidden army stationed there.

Then the four rebel armies broke out in civil strife because of the uneven distribution of spoils. Except for one rebel army that went south to Nanxiong Prefecture, the other three were united.

In the end, the two rebel armies of foreign enemies united to fight against the local rebel armies in Ganzhou. The two sides fought fiercely for days and forgot to go out and fight against the Song army. The battle continued until mid-July, that is, Ganzhou, which each controlled half of it.

From June to mid-July, more than a dozen rebel armies fought with each other, and only seven remained, halving the number sharply.

And in the way of doing things, these rebels are gradually not so pure.

In the beginning, they did attack the Song army and officials of the Song Dynasty in order to oppose exploitation and oppression, killing them, and venting their ill-will for themselves.

And as they progressed, gradually, what they did was not simply anti-oppression and anti-exploitation, but took on a hint of robbery.

(End of this chapter)