The army out of Sichuan, in fact, is very difficult, Zhuge Liang six out of Qishan, in fact, the plot is the territory of Cao Wei in the north, whether it is to take the Bao slope, or to take the Meridian Valley can get to Guanzhong, but this road and Yun Zheng almost have nothing to do with it, he took the army all the way to Yuzhou It is already difficult, if it is not for Liu Yucheng to coordinate the boat, from Yuzhou to the two lakes will kill people alive, the road is rugged, the mountains are high and the ravines are deep, wild beasts are rampant, and there is a miasma of smoke all over the place.

Fortunately, there is the Yangtze River to use, Yun Zheng had to take a thrilling trip to the Three Gorges, when crossing the Three Gorges, Yun Zheng did not have the heart to appreciate the majesty of Kuimen, nor did he have the heart to see the steepness of Qutang Gorge, the ape cry on both sides of the river made him irritable, and he wanted to let his subordinates shoot all the monkeys who were clamoring to death.

When people arrive at the boat, it is equivalent to giving their lives to the boatman, in order to hurry, the people in Shu can be said to have done their best, more than 400 ships on the Yangtze River are mighty like a long dragon, the place occupied by people is not large, but the place occupied by war horses and grain is very large, this is Yun Zheng's first expedition, so he is very well prepared.

Out of the Three Gorges Xiaolin to get the secret report for the first time to show the full battle situation of Nong Zhigao's rebellion in front of Yun Zheng, looking at this large stack of war reports, Yun Zheng felt that his scalp was numb, in just eight months Nong Zhigao not only swept the entire Guangnan West Road, but also repeatedly entered the Guangnan East Road, of which the siege of Guangzhou City was full of fifty-seven days.

In April of the second year of Huangyou, Nong Zhigao led 7,000 tribes to go east along the Youjiang River, one of the sources of the Yujiang River, and first captured Hengshanzhai in the upper reaches of the Youjiang River. In order to stimulate the fighting spirit and coerce more people to join his army, Nong Zhigao robbed the rich and helped the poor on the spot, divided the large households to help the poor, and scattered all the land and wealth of the large families to the poor, which was a great shock for a while.

Hengshanzhai was broken, and Chen Heng, the governor of Yongzhou, knew that he was derelict in his duties and concealed it and did not report it. He organized the people and soldiers to prepare to return to Hengshanzhai many times, and under the repeated defeats, the most precious time was delayed, so that the Great Song Dynasty lost the possibility of completely exterminating Nong Zhigao in the early stage of the rebellion.

The concealment of the Yongzhou Zhizhou created favorable conditions for the Shun Lì march of the Nong army. It was May of the year. Nong Zhigao came to Yongzhou City, Chen Heng saw that things were not good, hurriedly arranged the defense army, and ordered Wang Qianyou to guard the far gate, the acting capital supervisor Li Su to guard the Da'an Gate, and instructed Wu Ji to guard the Chaotian Gate. In addition, Zhang Li, the governor of Guangxi, also led troops from Pennsylvania to reinforce him.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Chen Heng rewarded the soldiers in the city, and while they were drinking happily, the Nong army was lightning fast. Break into the city. This is related to Nong Zhigao's pre-emptive placement of internal responders in the city to cooperate with the action, and the secret report mentions that "the people in the cloud city are the internal responses" and "the city should be the ones".

At that time, Sihu, who was guarding the south gate, joined the army Kong Zongdan and personally wrote a recruitment proclamation. asked the people to actively respond to the war, but in the end they could not save the crisis in Yongzhou. In a vicious battle, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty were killed, and a number of important officials such as Chen Heng were captured. Captured the city of Yongzhou.

Nong Zhi looked at the military treasury and found the golden letter he had asked for in the past, so he angrily asked Chen Heng why he did not submit the letter requesting his subordinates, and Chen Heng argued that it had already been played. But the imperial court disagreed. Nong Zhigao immediately ordered people to search for the herbs of Songshu, but he did not see them, so he pushed Chen Hui, the "sick eye", out of Zhizhou and beheaded him. After occupying the city of Yongzhou, Nong Zhigao established the "Great Southern Kingdom" here, proclaimed himself the "Benevolent Emperor", and the year name was "Qili". Following the Great Song Dynasty system, the government was sealed and the government was strengthened. At the same time amnesty within the territory. The tribe has developed greatly, and the number of soldiers has suddenly increased to more than 10,000.

Soon after living in Yong, Nong Zhigao left the city and went east along the Yujiang River. Because Lingnan Prefecture and County did not have any preparations at that time. Once the troops were in a hurry and did not know what to do, the guard soon occupied a large area in eastern Guangxi and western Guangdong: in May of the third year of Huangyou, the Nong army entered Hengzhou, Zhizhou, and Dianzhong in the lower reaches of Yongzhou, and Zhang Zhonghui, who was imprisoned and enshrined in the east, abandoned the city and left. On the morning of May, the Nong army entered and occupied Guizhou, and the governor and secretary Cheng Li Ju fled without a fight.

In May Gengshen, Nong Zhigao led the army into Gongzhou, and Zhang Xu, the governor of Zhizhou and the palace, abandoned the city and fled. The next day, the Nong army entered Tengzhou, and Zhizhou and the prince Zhongshe Li Zhi fled. Subsequently, the Nong army occupied Wuzhou lightly, and the governor and secretary Cheng Jianglu did not resist and abandoned the city and escaped.

Subsequently, Nong Zhigao stepped into the boundary of Guangnan East Road, stormed Fengzhou, encountered the resistance of the capital supervisor Chen Ye, and the county order of Fengchuan County also brought township soldiers and archers to meet the attack, but the Nong army with hundreds of times the absolute advantage, the victory and forge ahead, Chen Ye was defeated, the township soldiers retreated, Zhizhou Zeng Ji took the box soldiers to fight a decisive battle in a hurry, the battle could not be won, Zhizhou was captured, Zeng Jinning died rather than surrender, and was burned to death by the angry Nong Zhigao by the river.

After the execution of Cao Ji, Nong Zhigao continued his march to Connecticut. Previously, Zhao Shidan, the governor of the state, sent people to spy on the military situation, and they also reported the news that the state guards had abandoned the city and fled, Zhao Shidan sternly asked: "Do you plan to escape?" ”

Immediately searched for it, captured three spies in Connecticut, and beheaded all three of them. At this time, Nong Zhigao had already approached the city, Zhao Shidan had to lead the only three hundred defenders, open the door to meet the battle, the soldiers were still effective, Nong's army lost dozens of people, fought until dark, could not enter the city, and 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 flee with the state seal and his son to hide, and led the troops to fight by himself.

After the dawn of May, Nong Zhigao attacked the crowd and finally broke through the city, and Zhao Shidan and the prisoner Ma Gui were executed.

After Nong Zhigao occupied Duanzhou, he continued to supervise the army's crusade to the east, and in May Bingyin arrived at the city of Guangzhou, beginning the most arduous and longest siege since the uprising. Previously, Zhizhou Zhongjian did not believe that Nong Zhigao would attack Guangzhou, imprisoned the people who came to report the emergency, and wrote a list and posted it on the side of the road, ordering the people to stay put, and if there was any instigation to escape, there would be no forgiveness. When the Nong army approached the city, Zhong Jian opened the city gate to order the people to enter the city, and all those who did not have time to enter the city joined the Nong army, making the army stronger. The city of Canton was besieged for fifty-seven days.

Wang Kai, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, was even more afraid, and even killed Wang Shining, the main maritime inspector. Later, there was also an attempt by a tired guard to lure the soldiers to open the city gate and surrender to the Nong army, which was stopped by the capital supervisor Qiyuan.

Due to the strong defense of Guangzhou City and the foreign aid of the defenders, Nong Zhigao could not attack the city for a long time, giving the Great Song Dynasty time to concentrate his forces south, and in the face of the increasingly tense shape, Nong Zhigao had to lift the siege of Guangzhou that lasted for more than 50 days. The Nong army withdrew from Guangzhou, and was forced to cross the river from Shatou by Su Mian, the governor of Yingzhou, who had laid up trees and boulders on the 40-mile-long road, and was forced to cross the river from Shatou to Qingyuan County in the north, and march to Lianzhou and Hezhou. The attack on Hezhou continued, and he fought in this area for more than a month, won the three battles of Baitian, Lutian, and Taipingchang, and killed Zhang Zhong, Jiang Kai, the leader of the Song army. After the Battle of Taipingchang, the Song army broke through the mountains and forests and plundered the place. Tao Bi, the manager of Liuzhou, who joined the army, was deeply worried that these defeated soldiers would defect to Nong, so he took several white flags, wrote "Zhao'an" on them, and sent people to hold favoritism, so as to collect more than 1,000 remnants.

Nong Zhigao was well versed in the art of war, knowing that he could get the biggest bargaining chip for himself by fighting the world, so he turned to the Northern Expedition, and the Nong army annihilated the team of Gui, Yi and Liu Sanzhou to inspect Li Gui in Longxiu Cave, and then attacked Zhaozhou, breaking the city on September 18, and Zhizhou fled.

Transferred to Huangzhou, pointing directly to central and northern Guizhou. The defenders there were overwhelmed and invincible. Guangxi Hezhou was quickly destroyed, and it is particularly worth mentioning that Nong Zhigao achieved extremely brilliant achievements there: he killed two famous Song generals in succession, Zhang Zhong of Guangnan East Road and Jiang Kai of Guangnan East and West Road.

According to the original plan, Nong Zhigao planned to negotiate peace with the imperial court with the initiative after marching to Xiangjing, however, Nong Zhigao clearly realized that in the face of an enemy army nearly ten times stronger than the rebel army, they could not compete with it at all. Therefore, after occupying Quanzhou, after holding secret discussions with Huang Shimi and others, he resolutely made an important decision to return to Yongzhou. When the squad went south, the Nong army was still very sharp, and it broke through Guizhou and Liuzhou all the way, and sent troops to attack Yizhou.

"Worried?" Yun Zheng sat cross-legged on the deck and asked Zhou Tong with a smile facing Jiang Feng.

Zhou Tong's face was very pale, and his body was trembling, as if he was very scared.

"People have not lost a single defeat in a hundred battles, and it is normal to worry, we turned from Dongting to Xiangshui, and then took the Lingqu, and then arrived at the war zone Guizhou, where it has fallen, what we have to do is to defeat the enemy." Yun Zheng comforted Zhou Tongdao.

"How can they do that?" Zhou Tong's face turned even paler, and he hit the deck with a punch and roared at Yun Zheng.

"You say Nong Zhigao?" Yun Zheng was a little puzzled.

"I'm talking about the bastards who abandoned the city and fled, and when they're gone, what will happen to the people?" Zhou Tong's body trembled even more.

"Oh, didn't you hear the war report that more than 6,000 people died in Liuzhou City."

Zhou Tong screamed and yelled: "I'm going to arrest all these escaped bastards and pick up the skin and cramp!" ”

Yun Zheng said helplessly: "Stop a little, you are not the person who raised the criminal department, and you are not a Qincha, you are just a small infantry from the seventh grade. ”

Zhou Tong ignored Yun Zheng's taunt, turned his head and asked Peng Jiu, who was sitting behind him eating cakes: "Old Peng, how did you kill those bastard Shangguan before?" ”

Peng Jiu swallowed the cake and said with a smile: "There are many methods, such as when the two armies are fighting, poke a knife in Shangguan's horse's buttocks, so that Shangguan can rush into battle, such as not being busy killing the enemy after rushing up, first turn back to his Shangguan to cover it with a round of bows and arrows, or create a little disturbance at night, and then hack Shangguan to death with a random blade, just say that the enemy army steals the camp or something." ”

Zhou Tong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "You won't treat me like this, right?" ”

Peng Jiu laughed and said: "Both officers and soldiers in our camp are brothers, and it hurts to die one, who the hell will frame your brother, don't worry, Lao Tzu will cover your back on the battlefield." ”

Zhou Tong nodded and said: "It's pretty much the same, it's not in vain that Lao Tzu takes care of his brother, you said that I plan to use such a method to deal with those bastard officials, what do you think?" ”

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