Section 607 The beast of the heart
More than 100,000 rebels shouted 'surrender and share happiness' at the top of their voices, and you can imagine the majesty of that kind of sound. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In order to show their sincerity, they not only shouted for me to surrender, but also waved their hands and began to slaughter the rotten officers who drank too much blood and made them suffer too much.
The officers of all sizes, who were accustomed to relying on power in the army, were already scared to death, and they were desperately trying to escape for their lives in the chaotic army, and now they became the target of public criticism, and they were even more panicked and desperate.
They never expected that the formation and combat skills that they usually taught the soldiers to train roughly in order to cope with official affairs were not used to kill the enemy, but were used to clean up themselves today.
Nearly 200,000 men participated in the war, and this battle, which should have been bloodied, ended quickly before the battle was officially engaged.
The vast majority of those who died were the greed and shamelessness of the officers and the military, and the hatred of the officers was recruited. Even the general of the general who was the first to beat the horses and flee died in the chaos.
For such a large-scale battle, the loss is equivalent to zero, but the harvest is 40,000 or 50,000 officers and soldiers who at least know how to fight, as well as the most important materials for the Eastern Expedition such as food, grass, weapons, tents, chariots, and horses.
More importantly, this battle virtually clearly exposed the decay and absurdity of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and the nature of the people's deviance and vulnerability, after the news spread, let the world see the Song people's desire for the legendary pirate empire, and dealt a heavy blow to the faith and confidence of those who defended the Great Song Dynasty, causing a national controversy, some people scolded the people who deviated from the heart and thought that the pirates were disloyal and patriotic, they forgot their ancestors, they were disloyal and unfilial to abandon their ancestors and their homeland, they were shameless and immoral....... and some people secretly rejoiced and secretly scolded those who supported the Song Dynasty for being conservative and pedantic, shameless and ridiculous.
The overall effect is unprecedented, which invigorates the spirit of those who cherish its aspirations in the Song Center.
Tian Hu, Wang Qingzhi and others seem to have found a reasonable basis for their rebellion, hyped up their righteousness and conformity with the will of the people to resist the Zhao and Song dynasties, and encouraged the army to attack the nearby state capitals occupied by them, hoping to take advantage of the turmoil in the hearts of the people, the bureaucracy and the army's lack of loyalty, to take advantage of the momentum of the people's turmoil, the bureaucracy and the army's will to defend the city, and take advantage of the opportunity to occupy more territory and population, and vigorously expand their power.
As a result, the general trend is that the people of the attacked state capitals took advantage of the war and banditry to escape from the various monitoring, restraint and restraint of the local rulers, and fled to the coast in large numbers, trapped in the city and could not escape, but did not actively surrender to the anti-thieves, but actively supported the officers and soldiers to defend the city, and bravely exposed the fornication and anti-thieves, as if the loyalty and enthusiasm of the people to support the imperial court were unprecedentedly high, so that the local civil, military, bureaucratic officers and soldiers who were originally half-hearted and only wanted to protect their officials, save their lives, be decent and reasonable, and abandon the city and flee were encouraged.
Tian Hu, Wang Qing and other rebels not only failed to take the target state capital lightly, but suffered heavy losses and returned in vain, and the people who had already ruled the land and the people who were forcibly recruited to serve as soldiers also stole a lot. Instead of rapidly increasing the strength of the army and population, it has been greatly weakened. It can be said that stealing chickens is not successful, but rice is lost. Tian Hu and Wang Qing were so angry that they scolded the pirates.
On the one hand, Fang La, who was in the south of the Yangtze River, was excited about the decline and death of Zhao and Song, but on the other hand, he had a clearer understanding of the influence of the pirate forces, and became more and more jealous, hateful, hostile, and vigilant.
These effects are a story for later. Not much more.
For the protagonist of the triggering effect, the Halal Mountain Anti-Army, the immediate harvest is immediately visible.
When the people of the surrounding state capitals heard about the light victory in this battle, they were in an uproar, and the reaction was unprecedentedly fierce.
It turns out that the army of the imperial court is so easy to fight!
It turns out that the vast majority of the imperial army's army also wants to join the pirates!
Then, I (my family) took the opportunity to follow the rebels and defected overseas, although it was a long way to the East China Sea, but the officers and soldiers of the imperial court could not stop it, what else was there to fear?
Originally, they wanted to protect and take care of the desperate families who defected to the pirate empire but could not afford to escape to the East China Sea through the anti-army, so they let go of their worries and frantically defected to the anti-army, and were warmly received and cared for by the people under the command of Zhou Chuan. Many of the people who had some land and livelihood to live on were also running with their families.
Ordinary people have little knowledge and insight, but they do not lack the wisdom of survival, and they do not know how to speak but also understand the truth that the opportunity cannot be lost and the time will never come.
The pirate empire is a new country of the Han people, that life is much stronger than in the Great Song Dynasty, there is a way out and hope for safety and stability, different from the anti-thief puppet regime in China, if you don't leave at this time, when will you wait?
If you have a good opportunity, you are still hesitant and nostalgic and do not leave, will you continue to be exploited and bullied by corrupt officials, corrupt officials, landlords, and powerful ruffians and bullies?
This battle stimulated Ma Yuan and other Halal Mountain Six Pythons too much.
They had complete confidence in their own future, no longer feared that the officers and soldiers would join forces to pursue them, and they had the ambition of occupying islands overseas and establishing an independent state.
Originally, the Halal Mountain rebels had no idea of fighting the surrounding state capitals and cities at all, for fear of being entangled and falling into a mud pit and delaying the opportunity to flee eastward.
However, the coalition of officers and soldiers dreamily failed to fight but was defeated and became a rebel army, and with the influence of the defectors, they recognized the situation, and from the expedient measure of surrendering only to save their lives, they would flee at any time, and became more and more rebellious, and the vast majority of the troops in the surrounding state capitals were under my command, and there were few soldiers guarding the city.
Dare to send troops to chase after you?
Hmph, I am looking for a dead end, and I need to spare you.
If we don't kill them hard and teach the officials on the road behind a bloody and terrifying lesson, I don't know how many bureaucrats will want to suppress thieves and invite merit to be promoted to make a fortune and transfer troops to obstruct the eastward movement.
Beat.
The state capitals that are guarded around are empty, and no one can be spared.
If you don't take it, you will be corrected. If we don't kill all the corrupt officials and villains in the state capital, they will take all the wealth and materials to benefit the Eastern Crusade, and God will punish us.
Ma Yuan made a war mobilization order according to Zhou Chuan's intentions, and won the hearts of the military and the people of his followers.
There are a lot of state capitals to fight, and it is not possible to come one by one, and the dog officials cannot be allowed to have time to breathe and prepare.
Division of troops.
There are 60,000 or 70,000 original officers and soldiers, plus tens of thousands of people who have gradually learned to fight and have skills to make siege equipment, and there are conditions for dividing troops to attack the city.
Anyway, there were no forces around that could threaten the people who followed in a short period of time, and there were no worries, so the six pythons of the Halal Mountain were all dispatched with the staff and support of Zhou Chuan and others, and led the troops separately, each with more than 20,000 people, and rushed to the state capitals.
This crazy and adventurous move was the right bet and was a huge success.
Although the prefecture capitals and cities were desperately trying to strengthen their positions urgently under the fear of the prefect and other bureaucrats, they were all vulnerable.
The defenders of the city, the few officers and soldiers left behind, saw the black oppressive rebels coming, some turned around and fled, and some took the opportunity to rebel, killed the civil and military officials who supervised the war, and put the drawbridge to open the city gate to welcome the rebels into the city. The vast majority of the people who were forcibly arrested to participate in the defense of the city dispersed in a hurry at the first time. There were brave soldiers and civilians who also fought against the defenders of the city.
The gentry and powerful men who participated in the defense of the city were all willing to be slaves to the powerful and wanted to have a good life and live happily, but they were not brain-dead and unconditionally sent to death for the main family, most of them were cruel forces who lacked human conscience.
As soon as these people, who were quite numerous and not weak, saw this situation, they immediately became the second group of people who dispersed in a hurry.
There are only a few people left in the city who are loyal to the monarch, honest and obedient to the people, and thugs and minions who are loyal to the master's family, so what's the use of trying to resist desperately?
The cities have fallen.
In the past, the majestic, arrogant, and disdainful of the poor and lowly people with high status, status, and authority have become pigs and dogs to be wantonly slaughtered, and have become sacrifices to the rampant ruling order on which they depend.
Zhou Chuan and Ma Yuan estimated in advance that the city would not be difficult to attack, but they never expected it to be so easy to take.
easily swept and ransacked the cities, obtained mountains of money, food, materials and equipment, and also took back the old headquarters of the original mine army that was kicked back to his hometown by taking the initiative to defect from all over the country.
The victory also further strengthened the influence and persuasiveness.
Defecting to pirates has become a rolling trend in this area in a blink of an eye, and it has led many people who are still alive to blindly follow the trend and join ........
With more abundant money and food, and more reliable and strong discipline and combat effectiveness, Ma Yuan and the others looked at the rapidly growing followers, and their ambitions skyrocketed.
Originally, they just called on the mines to follow them under the banner of taking everyone overseas to live independently and freely, but now they feel that they have a foundation and really want to be the king independently.
Their first choice to join the pirate empire was abandoned by them.
However, the six pythons and their cronies did not publicize their inner plans, and also concealed Zhou Chuan and others, and continued to use the influence of pirates to attract people to follow and deter and intimidate the government and the imperial court along the way.
Rolling up the blind crowd, waiting to the beach, getting a boat to overseas caused a fait accompli, and the followers, including Zhou Chuan, had to admit that the reality was obedient, and everything was easy to do.
But there will be advantages.
In order to conform to the image of the pirate army in the hearts of the Song people at the bottom of the Song people, strengthen the attractiveness, unite the people, and respond to Zhou Chuan's requirements, and use the prestige and management ability of Zhou Chuan, who is indispensable at the moment, to continue to actively and loyally take care of the increasingly large defection group, the six pythons also had to forcibly suppress the increasingly strong tyrannical greed **** that was not bound by the king's law and formed with the battle and looting, and used the immigration policy of the pirate empire not to accept the cruel criminals to deter and restrain those who were bent on the pirates, and prohibited his subordinates from doing evil wantonly.
It is forbidden to kill and rob indiscriminately in the wandering, and wantonly rape and plunder silver, which is also a back road prepared for themselves by the six pythons of the Halal Mountain and their cronies.
What if you don't succeed and have to turn to pirates to escape overseas?
No one's way can cut off one's own way. Don't be desperate and die with no place to bury yourself for the sake of momentary pleasure.
Of course, in taking the advantage and grasping the initiative, *** attack, Li Lingzhi fainted, there are too many soldiers who can't control their butcher's knife and the worm under their crotch in their impulses. Including Wang Bochao and other backbone leaders, they can't control themselves if they drink too much or have sex.
has become a de facto robber and a rioter, how many people can rationally control people's inferior nature?
When you see people and things that you can't even see in the past, not to mention the gold, silver, treasures, beauties, and beautiful dolls, how many people don't take the opportunity to be evil?
After robbing and occupying the adultery, let's talk about it. Who cares if it's not later. Later, if you talk about the future, you will have a good time first. It's not unjust to die.
This is a hastily formed riot, lacking a clean and effective management and leadership, and the inevitable bad psychology and consequences.
This phenomenon would not have occurred in the later generations of the Red Army, which had great revolutionary ideals and integrity.
In any case, Chinese people with a conscience should pay high respect to the martyrs.
It is the supreme discipline of selfless dedication, the most brilliant and shining quality of human nature, which will forever illuminate the annals of human history.
The Halal Riot Army is fortunate to have a strong, firm and prestigious soul like Zhou Chuan to lead the core of the group - the power of the mine people.
This core group has weapons and strong power and high status, insists on and maintains human conscience, in order to finally be accepted by the pirate empire smoothly and live a stable life of dreams as soon as possible, it has effectively deterred the fierce heart of the army and won the strong support of the people who followed, and simply and decisively slaughtered and suppressed those rotten generals who want to be willful and happy for a while, and some people are not allowed to destroy the life of the entire huge group with selfish desires, which shocked the army and threatened to restrain Ma Yuan.
In the final analysis, it is the overall desire of this group that suppresses the hearts of the soldiers of the army******* the army as a whole does not wave the sword at the people who restrain them, and it is also because their families are also opposed to them turning into beasts, endangering the future and fate of the entire family and even the family.
The Liukou army finally did not turn into a remnant of the people like Tianhu Wang Qingjun, and continued the mighty eastward crusade, and also tasted the sweetness of establishing a good image.
Most of the state capitals and county towns that blocked the way were taken lightly by the cooperation of the city soldiers and common people who secretly wanted to join the pirate empire in their hearts, and the evil families they passed through were swept away.
The rebel ranks grew larger and larger, and not only did nearly a million people join in fanatically, but even the army of surrendered officers and soldiers quickly approached 100,000.
If this army is only brave and good at fighting, then this military force is enough to endanger the capital of the Great Song Dynasty like the Jin army in history, and it may be easier to capture the capital than the Jin army.
Because this army is a Han army, not a beast army of barbarian aliens that are specially designed to burn and loot, it is easier to get recognition and support, and the will of the Beijing army to resist may not be very firm.
Of course, Ma Yuan and these people didn't even think about attacking the capital to overthrow the Great Song Dynasty.
They knew very well what kind of group of the officers and soldiers under their command were, and the ruffians of the past, despite their bravery for their livelihood and future, were still a rabble. It's okay to fight a good fight, but when you encounter a tragic and tough battle, you will reveal your unbearable nature.
There are 800,000 forbidden troops in the capital and its vicinity, well-equipped, most of them are strong young and strong, and they have the advantage of geography, and they can crush this rogue army by relying only on their numerical advantage.
Ambitious but with a clear understanding, Ma Yuan and the others just wanted to run to the beach as soon as possible.
An anti-thief team that is more terrible than the bandit army in Shandong is coming.
The state bureaucrats who may be passed by the thieves to the east are all frightened, not to mention the idea of blocking and chasing, even if they have no bottom to defend the city, they are scared to death from top to bottom, and they just hope that they will not pass through here. The army of rogues swooped down unstoppably to the east.
The twists and turns of reporting to the capital were piled up like snowflakes on the desks of the important people in the capital.
After Bai Juzhong got the letter, his first reaction was that it was a pity that the oil and water in the Halal Mountain Mine could not be cheapened, and he hated the cheap old man Ram was not enough to succeed and more than he could lose, and he looked at him as a very shrewd and capable person, but he was an old bastard who did big things but was a straw bale and a bad thing, and he wasted a lot of hope and thought, causing big trouble and trouble, it was really damned.
He wasn't too worried about his official career being implicated because of the Ram's affairs. All the means of avoiding suspicion in advance are to prevent today.
Prime Minister Cai Jing was taken aback and sneered several times.
This old man had already seen Bai Juzhong's intentions for the Halal Mountain Mine, and had expected that the Ram would have an accident sooner or later and lose his life, but he didn't expect such a terrible consequence.
The emperor kept his eyes on the Halal Mountain Copper Mine. Lao Cai was greedy in his heart, but he kept suppressing it and didn't dare to stretch out his black hand. Bai Juzhong is obsessed with money, and if he dares to intervene, he is purely dead.
Cai Jing didn't stop it in advance, and he didn't plan to expose the inside story afterwards, just to take Bai Juzhong's handle to control his ambitions, so that Bai Juzhong, who was getting more ambitious, listened honestly.
It's just that the anti-thieves in the mine made such a big fuss, swept all the way, caused huge damage from west to east, and caused an extremely bad impact, which simply shook the popularity of the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty. The consequences are too heavy. The loss of money and food alone was a big headache for the imperial court. And this burden is mainly on the head of Cai Jing, who is in charge of the country's finances.
Bai Juzhong, a conceited, shrewd, capable and talented fool, really deserves to die, he should be cut with a thousand cuts, but he can't let him die.
This kind of major event that directly endangered the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, Cai Jing did not dare to hide it, and after thinking about it, he hurriedly entered the palace to report to the emperor.
When Emperor Zhao Ji heard this, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the spot, and he didn't care about it when he peed on his crotch, and only asked Cai Jing and a few other prime ministers in front of him, what should I do?
Lost officers are not a problem.
The Great Song Dynasty officialdom stacked bed structure, and some officials could fill the vacancies.
The loss of population is also not very tight.
The most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty is people.
What Zhao Ji was afraid of was that the influence of this rogue was so great, the appeal was so fast, the speed of the march was so fierce, and the troops were so strong, it was much more powerful than the anti-thief Tian Hu Wang Qing he knew, which directly endangered his throne. The ghost knows whether this group of daring rebels and outlaws will call the capital directly when their brains are hot.
Just like when the Jin army called in history, under the fright, he forgot to care about the loss of the copper mine and ask for the guilt, looking at the prime ministers in front of him, the first person who came to mind to save the country was actually Wen Chenghou who secretly pondered that he could abandon and ask the guilty family if there was a suitable person to replace him for a period of time.
Rotten world, Sneengchen; National disaster, Siliang general.
Treating his subjects like ants, the arrogant Flower and Bird Emperor who was a dog-toothed lackey driven and slaughtered by the royal family at will also had a beast hidden in his heart, and only at this time did he pay attention to the value and importance of Zhao Gonglian.