Chapter 241: The Great Change

The officer escaped death, and when he heard Guo Zhiyuan's words, his eyes rolled even more, and he bowed his head to Guo Zhiyuan, kowtowing again and again like pounding onions: "Uncle spare your life, uncle spare your life!" As long as the uncle is willing to spare the villain's dog's life, the villain will definitely tell the uncle everything the villain knows! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan glanced at the officer, knowing that this guy was very cunning, and it was not so easy to get reliable information from this guy's mouth, so he pointed to the corpses of the people who were tortured and killed by the rebels on the tree at the entrance of the village, and snorted coldly: "You are not qualified to tell me the conditions, whether you can survive depends on your performance, you can also try not to say it, or fool me with lies, I just let you taste the taste of life is better than death!" ……”

The officer shuddered, knowing that Guo Zhiyuan was not joking, he didn't want to be skinned and hung on a tree, so he quickly and honestly told the ins and outs of the matter. It turned out that there was a Xuan Sheng (that is, Xiucai) in Zhangpu County called Zhao Bingjian, who claimed to be a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty, and organized a group of people to launch a rebellion, which was originally a small event in the original history, and the record was not very detailed.

The thirty-fourth year of Wanli is 1606 A.D., but I don't know if it's because of Guo Zhiyuan's little butterfly, this historical event that was supposed to happen next year actually happened a year in advance, it doesn't matter if it happened in advance, the development of key events has also changed a lot, in the original history, this matter is more like a farce, this self-proclaimed descendant of the Great Song Dynasty Zhao Bingjian is not very lucky, originally agreed with the same party to sneak attack Zhangpu County, but before the incident, Zhangpu County rained heavily for four consecutive days, Zhao Bingjian's comrades felt that the omen was not good, and they retreated a little, so they sold Zhao Bingjian, and Zhao Bingjian was arrested by Huang Yingju of Zhangpu County without even turning up a wave.

Many things in this world are so bizarre, a small change may make things develop in a completely different direction, although I don't know what caused Zhao Bingjian to launch a rebellion a year in advance, but he did not encounter heavy rain for days this time, and successfully captured Zhangpu County, and even Huang Yingju, the county governor, was also arrested by him!

There are a lot of lawbreakers smuggling along the coast of Fujian, these people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, so Zhao Bingjian captured Zhangpu County, officially raised the flag of rebellion, these people came to take refuge, and gathered more than 5,000 rebels in a short time, and at this time the Ming Dynasty's decaying ills were also completely exposed, it is said that even the county town was captured in the event of a rebellion, and the government should definitely send troops to suppress it as soon as possible, but at this time the Zhangzhou prefect was a timid mediocre official, I heard that there was a rebellion in Zhangpu County, His first reaction was not to send troops to suppress it, but to quickly pack up and run away with his wife and concubine!

Even the prefect ran away, not to mention other officials, the entire Zhangzhou Mansion was completely messed up, although Zhao Bingjian had some secondary two illnesses (not secondary two would not have daydreamed of restoring the Great Song Dynasty at this time), but he was not stupid, knowing that his opportunity had come, he immediately changed his plan and took more than 5,000 rebels to attack other counties in Zhangzhou Prefecture.

And the power of the rebels has grown like a snowball, expanding from 5,000 to 20,000! Many of them are surrendered officers and soldiers, as well as pirates, bandits, and even many county officials have joined in, such a team naturally has no military discipline, burning and looting all the way, turning the entire Zhangzhou Mansion into a Shura battlefield, and the lives of the people are devastated, which is why Guo Zhiyuan encountered rebellious soldiers here!

After listening to the officer's narration, Guo Zhiyuan was also stunned, he hadn't taken office yet, and such a big change had happened in Zhangzhou Mansion, which really caught him off guard, how should he deal with it?

Of course, the safest way is to immediately board the boat and return to Penghu Island, wait for the situation to change, and wait for the imperial court to send an army to quell the rebellion and then come to Zhangzhou to take office, but this is not in line with Guo Zhiyuan's style of doing things, as the incoming Zhangzhou general judge, although he is extremely reluctant to be this general judge, but he can not stay out of the matter at this time, and with Xu Xueju's character, Fujian has such a big mess, he, the governor, must give an account to the imperial court, Xu Xueju must find a scapegoat to shirk the responsibility, and the general judgment has the responsibility of being in charge of defense, If Xu Xueju wants to use the topic to play, it is very likely that he will be held accountable for deliberately delaying his failure to take office and let him come to the top cylinder!

But even if Guo Zhiyuan stays, what can he do? The rebels have a full 20,000 people, but he only brought 50 regiments to train the villagers, 50 to 20,000, even if he is an immortal, it is impossible to use 50 regiments to train the villagers to quell the rebellion of 20,000 people!

Guo Zhiyuan patted his forehead with a headache, and he didn't know how to make a decision for a while. At this time, the regimental training township soldiers have completed the encirclement and suppression of the rebels, more than 50 chaotic soldiers, killed more than 20, the rest have disarmed and surrendered, none of them have run away, it is a complete victory, to achieve such a result, in addition to the regimental training township soldiers themselves The strong combat strength of the factors, more importantly, the tactics are appropriate, and the tactics of two-end attack are adopted, Guo Zhiyuan thought that it was the battle commanded by Li Jin, so when Li Jin came to report the results of the battle, Guo Zhiyuan specially patted him on the shoulder and praised: "Li Jin, not bad!" This battle was won, and none of the rebels ran away, so you should be credited! ……”

Li Jin scratched his head a little embarrassed and said: "My lord, the villain doesn't dare to take credit, the two-end attack is the idea of the national aid son, originally the villain was going to bring people to rush over directly from the end of the village to support the adult, and then the national aid son said that the rebels may still have accomplices, if the rebels escape a few, it will be troublesome to call the accomplices to support, so the national aid son took half of the regiment to train the township soldiers around the head of the village, and we attacked at both ends, so we didn't let the rebels run away!" ……”

"Oh!" Guo Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows, and looked at Li Guozhu who was commanding the regiment to train the township soldiers to clean up the battlefield in the distance, and a fine light flashed in his eyes, he kept Li Guozhu by his side because he knew that in the original history, Li Guozhu could continue to crisscross the sea after Li Dan's death, and he must have something extraordinary, but he didn't know what specific talents Li Guozhu had, and he was busy with the construction of Penghu Island some time ago and didn't care about him, but he didn't expect Li Guozhu to mingle with the regimental training township soldiers so quickly and establish his prestige. In the battle, he showed his cool head and excellent command skills, which is worth cultivating.

(PS: Start paying off your debts!) )