It’s as simple as a large number of farmers and a small number of loyalists
So at the end of May, the loyalists in Jizhou were completely defeated, and local officials and loyalists were almost killed by the insurgents. Jizhou completely became the sphere of influence of the insurgents, and the scale of the insurgents in married with children also expanded to 300,000 levels.
Jizhou will not stop moving forward without the Song Jun Rebels.
Their southern Nan ‘an army, northern Yuanzhou, and Linjiang army’s eastward expedition to Ganzhou are huge, and their posture of sweeping Jiangnan West Road is terrible in the whole southern China.
At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was slow to respond and did not come up with a major response plan.
When the uprising just broke out on the main side, the Southern Song Dynasty devoted all its energy to dealing with the Song War, and all its attention was diverted, even the local government was absorbed in waiting for the result of the Song War.
The Central Committee of Southern Song Dynasty didn’t even know that there had been an uprising here when the second wave of insurgents in Jizhou went out on a large scale to set off a revolt.
After they surrendered, they brought a series of problems and quarreled endlessly.
Without reporting the news to Jiangnan West Road, it is natural to deal with people’s anger alone. Hundreds of thousands of people’s anger pressure Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army Song Jun losing ground and losing the city fortress.
The Nan ‘an Army is similar. Song Jun can’t cope with losing ground.
There was a garrison in Ganzhou that barely had the strength to cope with it, but the garrison in Ganzhou fought a few wars with the insurgents and didn’t take advantage of it. It was found that there were still a steady stream of insurgents coming after it, so it was afraid and simply ran away.
All over the country, the message was completely ineffective, and the local government was wiped out by the rebels without knowing what had happened.
They don’t know to their death what the uprising situation on Jiangnan West Road has reached. They can ask for help everywhere, but they can’t wait for reinforcements to arrive.
Local officials know that the news is different, and some even know that the rebels have attacked the county gate, but they don’t know exactly where the anti-thief rebelled.
In addition to the unlucky places of the government, the local tyrants and evil gentry who oppressed the people and seized the land were also thoroughly liquidated and retaliated by the rebels. The peasants embraced them and defeated them. The hospital killed them and burned all their property and land, and the rebels seized them.
So more farmers followed the insurgents and launched a battle, retaliating against the government, local tyrants and evil gentry and liquidating all those who bullied them, pouring their anger crazily.
By mid-June, Yuanzhou, Linjiang Army, Nan ‘an Army and Ganzhou had been occupied by insurgents, and the insurgents had even begun to threaten Nanchang County, the capital of Jiangnan West Road.
By this time, the bureaucrats on Jiangnan West Road realized that the situation was wrong, so they turned to the central authorities for help regardless of the fact that the end of the Song War had just been settled and there were still many things to be handled in Lin’ an.
Although it’s a little late
What’s more, Zhao Gou is just a lake away from Longxing House, Poyang County, and Zhao Gou didn’t know that there was some "small-scale rebellion" in the southwest of Jiangnan West Road at this time, but the specific situation is still unknown. It is still very common that you can press your fingers to talk about rebellion.
It was not until June 21, when Xin Qiji arrived in Lin ‘an, that Longxing government finally determined that the rebellion had been carried by less than half of Jiangnan West Road, and the situation was already very dangerous, so it was necessary to dispatch an army to deal with it.
But at this moment, it is far from the nearest army, Ezhou and Jiujiang.
There is an elite force of 10,000 people around Zhao Gou, but this army can’t be dispatched to counter-insurgency Longxing House, nor can it mobilize Ezhou Army and Jiujiang Army to wait for Lin’ an’s response.
In this period, the insurgents continued to sweep across Jiangnan West Road, and their forces continued to expand outward, which has expanded to 500,000 people.
Local officials, loyalists and local tyrants and evil gentry are shivering more than many officials, loyalists and local tyrants and evil gentry married with children have fled abroad for fear of revenge and liquidation by crazy insurgents.
How many unethical things they have done in the past? They know that they bully ordinary people at ordinary times and think they are easy to bully and reckless. When ordinary people really become tigers, they finally know that they are afraid.
But it’s a little late.
What’s more, when the magistrate of Longxing Prefecture knew that a rebel army with a scale of more than 100,000 people was coming to Nanchang, he was directly scared to pee his pants and quickly crossed Poyang Lake to ask Zhao Gou for help.
Zhao Gou learned about the scale of the rebellion on June 23rd, and then learned that the rebellion had threatened Nanchang. Once Nanchang failed to cross Poyang Lake, it was Zhao Gou’s place.
Zhao Gou was scared again.
Come on, he was scared out of his wits by the overwhelming attack. After leaving Lin ‘an, he ran to the Poyang Lake and settled down here to continue to inquire about Lin ‘an’s news.
I finally found out that the army had left, and he was ready to go back, but I heard that Lin ‘an City in Zhao Shen had eliminated dissidents on a large scale, constantly denouncing the Lord and sending officials to attract hawk officials to take over their positions, and my strength suddenly became indecisive.
Zhao Gou is a little worried about Zhao Shen. This is to take advantage of his untimely coup to get rid of his foundation and replace it with Zhao Shen’s own. So he is a little angry and a little afraid that it will be dangerous to go back like this.
He continued to stay here. Zhao Shen sent someone to call him back several times. He didn’t dare to go back and continue to wait and see the situation. Until these days, he heard that his cronies loved Yang Zhong to be the head coach of the Qiandian Division again and lead the 40,000 Qiandian Division Army. He was only slightly relieved.
This means that although Zhao Shen is constantly moving, it will not be bad for him. Yang Zhong has 40,000 soldiers. This is Zhao Shen’s guarantee to Zhao Gou.
Zhao Gou thought about it for a while and asked him to come with him and ask him if he should go back.
To tell the truth, life in Poyang Lake is still good. There are abundant aquatic products and many delicious fish near Poyang Lake. It is also a good life to go boating in Poyang Lake when he is free.
The only pity is that the little brother who came to Lin ‘an in the south of the army has a tendency to revive again has no movement. No matter how hard he tries, he can endure it.
So Zhao Gou can die, relax and go boating to cultivate his sentiment, and continue to test Zhao Shen’s attitude towards him. If possible, he wants more protection from Zhao Shen.
As a result, it is a bit impossible to escape from Xanadu now. The rebels have a great momentum and more than 100 thousand people attacked Nanchang. This is a deadly scale!
Zhao Gou was so scared that he set off on June 25 and began to run towards Lin ‘an.
Before leaving, Longxing magistrate kowtowed and begged Zhao Gou to leave some troops to help Nanchang Zhao Gou, and left 500 people to take away for himself, leaving 9,500 people.
Longxing magistrate looked at five hundred troops and wanted to cry.
Chapter 73 Rebel fighting
Zhao Gou ran away again and left it to the Longxing magistrate of 500 people.
What else can Longxing magistrate do?
I’m sure I want to cry, but then I think that no matter how small the shrimp is, it’s also shrimp and chicks. It’s better to have 500 people who can always send a show than not to bring it back at all.
Even with 500 people?
So he chose to take these 500 people back to Nanchang to help.
But who knows that these five hundred people didn’t listen to orders at all and didn’t want to die. Before leaving, they fled directly with Longxing magistrate in the opposite direction.
Longxing magistrate couldn’t stop it, but he was spat out by a soldier who overthrew him and scolded him for leaving him alone in the wind.
The emperor ran away and let our brothers stay as scapegoats. How beautiful you think!
Bah! Who cares about you?
They ran away faster than anyone else, and they all felt ashamed when they saw them.
This Longxing magistrate really has nothing left.
Of course, although Zhao Gou is a real dog, he didn’t finish his work. For example, before he fled, he sent someone to rush back to Lin’ an to tell Zhao Shen about Jiangnan West Road.
He also knows that at this time, he should still be able to command the Ezhou army under the jurisdiction of Dongtian Division, so that they can be dispatched to counter-insurgency, but at this critical moment, he doesn’t want to have an unpleasant affair with Zhao Shen.
Soldiers are very sensitive to the emperor. Zhao Gou was reluctant to leave before because he was worried about hearing that Lin ‘an imperial army had been beaten and his cronies had suffered serious losses. He was very white here.
Moreover, during this period, Zhao Shen also recalled many war ministers, and the DPRK has its own political forces. Seeing that Zhao Shen has grown up rapidly, it is very inappropriate to make him dissatisfied with the military affairs at this time.
In that case, Zhao Gou is happy to do nothing, and simply push the pot department to Zhao Shen completely. Anyway, he is an emperor who doesn’t need the state to take responsibility. No matter what happens, he will be investigated by the emperor instead of him.
Nothing can be wrong if you do nothing.
Zhao Gou has a deep understanding of this.
So Zhao Shen learned the news on June 29th.
At that time, he was making great efforts to prepare to bury himself in the country for ten years. When he heard that there was a terrible scale rebellion on Jiangnan West Road, which was more dangerous than Nanchang, he immediately called the ministers to discuss it.
So did the ministers of the hawk faction. I didn’t expect that the Ministry would go wrong before they made great achievements.
After a discussion, they unanimously decided that the situation was urgent. Jiangnan West Road was the rear area of Jinghu War Zone. If Jiangnan West Road caught fire, Jinghu War Zone would be unstable. It is hard to say that the Henan Corps guarding Kaifeng Army would not take any action then.
They think that China will never forget to let Tian Shizhong lead the Ezhou army to rebel in Nanping as soon as possible. If the Ezhou army is not enough, it needs to be dispatched to Jiujiang Qifang Department to help counter the rebellion together.
Zhao Shen faced the rebellion for the first time since he succeeded to the throne, and he had little experience in dealing with it. The ministers were all veterans, so he listened to their suggestions and made Abel Tamata Normal School and Qi Fang let them lead the army to rebel in Nanping.
Tian Shizhong’s commander-in-chief Qi Fang, deputy commander-in-chief, and two armies together rebelled in Nanping with a total force of 70,000.
Tian Shizhong’s 40 thousand and Qi Fang’s 30 thousand
Although Lin’ an has heard that there are almost more than 300,000 soldiers in the chaotic army, it is good to have 50,000 soldiers among the more than 300,000 people inside and outside the imperial court.
Of course, the fighting capacity is also a mess, bullying the local waste is ok, but it is still a little worse against the professional army guarding the border.
It is not necessary to send too many troops to quell the rebellion.
More court also can’t take money.
When Qi Fang got the order, it was in early July when Liutian Normal School got the news. When they got the order, they had already heard about the rebellion on Jiangnan West Road.
The reason is that he committed suicide because Nanchang lost the Nanchang county magistrate and the capital of Longxing Prefecture.