Gao County, the most remote county in the thirteen counties of Hongyang, the surname in the county is Gao, accounting for as much as half of the people, is named after this county.

It stands to reason that in a clan county like this, the clan has always helped each other, and unless disaster strikes from heaven and famine is full of land, they will be involved in the rebellion together in desperation in order to survive.

But now in the Northern Jin Dynasty Zhou, in order to appease the people, Hongyang was deliberately exempted from taxes for three years, plus there is no disaster, the people of Gao County should live a better life than in previous years, how can they not think of rebellion?

The problem arose with Gao Xinggong, the rebel commander of Gao County.

This Gao Xinggong, the patriarch of the Gao clan in Gao County, is fifty-one years old this year, and served in the Zhou Army in his early years, and served as the captain of the Sixth Rank when his official position was at its highest.

Later, he was injured and his right leg was disabled, and Gao Xinggong became a lame man with limited mobility and had no choice but to retire from the army.

Because of his many years of military career, this person was a diehard loyalist of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and because of his own injured leg, he hated the Northern Jin Dynasty to the core, and after Hongyang Mansion came under the jurisdiction of the Northern Jin Dynasty, he began to find a way to make trouble in Gao County.

Gao Xinggong served as the patriarch for many years, and had a great influence in the local area of Gao County, especially in the Gao clan.

Originally, at this time, although the situation in Gao County was a little tense, it was not yet the time to rebel, as long as it could be stabilized, the county officials kept comforting and comforting, and after a long time, these resistance of the people naturally dissipated slowly.

But he never expected that Li Ji would make an incident in Shou County, with great momentum, and also defeated the official army of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

Now it's good, the situation in Gao County is already unstable, and the Northern Jin Dynasty was defeated, and the dead party of the Western Zhou Dynasty led by Gao Xinggong began to act with bad intentions.

At this time, the new county official of the county government also realized that something was wrong, this person was a decisive person, and when he saw that the opportunity was wrong, he wanted to start in advance, so he secretly sent someone to transfer troops to the government to warn him of the suppression.

But he didn't want to keep things secret, so the news leaked out of the matter and let Gao Xinggong know.

After receiving the secret report, he immediately summoned the patriarchs of the various tribes of the Gao family, falsely claiming that he had received the news, and the officials and soldiers believed that the Gao family had contact with the traitor Li Ji, and was ready to use the Gao family to kill chickens and monkeys to deter the counties.

Now the county order has sent people to Fucheng to transfer troops, and as soon as the soldiers and horses in Fucheng arrive, they will immediately wash the Gao family in Gao County, and then the men will be killed, and the women will be slaves, and the Gao family in Gao County will be cut off from then on.

I don't know if the Gao clan is stupid, or Gao Xinggong is eloquent, but this set of flawed rhetoric actually made him really say that the people of the clan raised a flag to rebel with him.

Fortunately, because of the tense situation before, the county magistrate of Gao County had already secretly taken precautions in his heart, and after Gao Xing's meritorious deeds, he led people to attack the county office, but found that the county magistrate and other officials had already felt that something was wrong and slipped away in advance.

failed to kill a few dog officials of the Northern Jin Dynasty, Gao Xinggong was very sad, but the escaped Gao County County Commander was very happy, especially after he learned about the tragic end of the Hongshi County County Commander who rebelled with Gao County, he couldn't help but feel a little afraid in his heart.

If it weren't for his cleverness, I'm afraid the head on my neck would have moved now............

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After Gao Xinggong's uprising, like the Cheng brothers, he also gave himself a name, called the Generalissimo of the Ping Jin Dynasty, and made it clear that he was fighting with the Northern Jin Dynasty and his attitude was extremely rampant.

However, although Gao Xinggong's name is loud, the actual power of his subordinates is even inferior to that of the Cheng brothers.

The four brothers of the Cheng family still have some courage, and there are also some green forest murderers who dare to fight the battlefield.

However, most of Gao Xinggong's subordinates are from their own clansmen, ninety percent of them are the children of peasant commoners, and in the entire rebel army, except for dozens of people who have served as county government inspectors, only Gao Xinggong, a lame man over 50 years old, has touched a knife on the battlefield.

Such a rebel army, it is polite to say that it is a rabble, if it were not for the weapons and armor they got from the county government by Gao Xinggong in their hands, they would be almost the same as the homeless people.

However, the Gao County rebels are not without any advantages, otherwise Gao Xinggong would be blind, and he would not dare to lead this group of clansmen to rebel.

The location of Gao County is a gentle shape, surrounded by mountains, dense forests, and winding roads, and it is easy to get lost if you are not a local.

What's more, the climate of Gao County is humid and sultry, easy to produce miasma, and it is good for locals to get used to it, but outsiders will be affected by miasma and get sick if they are not careful.

This is also the reason why the Gao family in Gao County is dominant, because people with foreign surnames rarely live for a long time, and over time, the Gao family is flourishing, and the proportion of the population in the county is increasing.

The terrain is complex, unable to march on a large scale, prone to miasma, and even more intimidating.

When troops are sent to fight, they are afraid that a large number of soldiers will fall ill caused by the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, the epidemic, miasma, etc., and if this disease is raging, many more people will die than in the war.

There are not a few examples like this in the history books of war, when the army went out to fight, it was originally nine out of ten, but as a result, there was an epidemic, the troops suffered heavy losses, and they could not meet the enemy, and then they were defeated.

Therefore, any general who leads his troops to fight would rather lose several battles in a row than his subordinates are contaminated with the miasma of the epidemic.

If you lose the battle, as long as you don't lose the battle and strategize, you will have a chance to turn defeat into victory later.

But if it is stained with the miasma of the epidemic, it is dead or alive, it all depends on the heavens, and it cannot be left to people.........

Because of this, although he knew that the rebel army under his command was weak, Gao Xinggong was still not afraid, relying on these miasma around Gao County and the complex and changeable terrain in the territory.

He expected that the Jin army would not dare to attack in a big way, so he leisurely became his own soil emperor, planning to recapture Hongyang in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the future, and then welcome the "Wang Shi", he will be able to be rewarded and knighted.

Gao Xinggong's idea can't be wrong, if someone else leads the army to quell the rebellion, he may not dare to attack in a miasma, but the fault is that he ran into Yan Kui.

And I don't know if it's the destiny of Yan or the system's intention to help, Yan Kui drew back the prize some time ago, which happened to be used in the battle of Gao County.

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[Plague Shelter Flag] can block a series of pathological injuries to the army, such as epidemics, water and soil adaptation, poisoning, miasma, etc., and the number of people covered by radiation (5000)

It can protect 5,000 people from pathological damage at the same time, and this [Plague Avoidance Banner] will not be of much use if it is rampant in the army, at most it will protect the Chinese army commander from being harmed by the disease.

But right now, this treasure is too fit, as long as this flag is there, Yan Kui can make five thousand elites break through the miasma block, surprise attack Gao County, and take down the Gao County rebels in one fell swoop.

In fact, Yan Kui did just that.

In the sixteenth year of the calendar, February 19

On the fifth day after the Hongshi Rebellion, Yan Kui waited for the new officials sent by the Hongyang Mansion to make a handover, and after he made the handover, he left 5,000 men and horses to garrison temporarily, and then led the army straight to Gaoxian.

On February 22, the army arrived in Gao County, and because of the miasma, Yan Kui did not act rashly, but chose a suitable place at the border of Gao County for the army to set up camp.

Yan Kui asked his subordinates to cut down trees, open up roads, and make a gesture of preparing to send troops to attack Gao County, confusing the scouts quietly sent by the Gao County rebels.

Secretly, he was a tour guide who was familiar with the terrain of Gao County, and wanted to lead the way, so he secretly entered with the surprise attack team.

Although Gao County is sparsely populated, there are more than 100,000 people in the county, so it is not difficult to find a tour guide to lead the way.

But now that Gao Xinggong is pulling the Gao family to rebel, the Gao clan will definitely not help the government to pit their own families, and the rest of the people with the surnames in Gao County are almost all related to the Gao family, and they are unwilling to betray their relatives for the sake of reward, so as not to be poked in the back.

In order to prevent the tour guide from leading the way indiscriminately, Yan Kui did not dare to force it, and he spent a lot of money to find a few people from Linxian County who had enemies with the Gao family to lead the way.

These people turned out to be all people of Gao County, but later offended the Gao family, were driven out of Gao County, hated the Gao family to the core, and let them lead the way to exterminate Gao Xinggong, and they were very positive.

After getting the tour guide, Yan Kui began to deploy troops in the camp with great fanfare, making a huge momentum and attracting Gao Xinggong's attention.

Then, he personally led 3,000 white-robed troops to carry the [Plague Avoidance Flag], and under the leadership of the tour guide, quietly killed Gao County.

Originally, in a raid like this, Yan Kui, as the commander-in-chief, had no need to take risks in person, but Yan Kui was afraid that others would not be able to do this errand, and the [Avoiding the Plague Flag] was not easy to explain, so he could only go into battle by himself after thinking about it.

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On the night of February 24, Yan Kui successfully sneaked into the city of Gaoxian.

Although because of the approach of the army, the rebels in Gaoxian County were relatively well defended, but the quality of the rebels was not high, and the city defense defense was not considered qualified in Yan Kui's view, even if it was not full of loopholes.

Yan Kui took advantage of the night with the white-robed army to storm the east city gate, and under the insistence of thousands of rebels, Yan Kui only took half an hour to break through the city gate and enter the city, which shows the weakness of the rebels' city defense.

However, although the city defense of the rebels in Gao County is weak, the street fighting is quite good, after all, it is at the door of their own home.

But it's not bad, if it's an ordinary Jin army, it may suffer a little loss in the hands of the rebels, but what Yan Kui brought this time is all white-robed troops with clear water, such a peerless elite, how can these rabble resist.

As a result, the rebels' street fighting strategy did not last long before they were defeated by the white-robed army, and the rebels' defeat could never be recovered.

Because of the small number of people, Yan Kui was unable to accept the surrendered troops, coupled with the rush to catch the disappeared Gao Xinggong, he could only take the white-robed army around the city, and when he saw the rebels who still had the intention of resisting, he immediately killed them on the spot.

This night, Yan Kui took the white-robed army around the city several times, and even if he consciously restrained the killing, there were no less than a thousand rebels who died under their swords.

And that's not even counting the casualties caused by Yan Kui and their siege............

The entire Gao County was frightened by Yan Kui's ruthlessness, and in order to prevent Yan Kui from continuing to "bloodbath" Gao County, they caught the hidden Gao Xinggong and handed it to Yan Kui, and cried and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

It is hoped that Yan Kui can stop killing and let the Gao County Gao family live one by one.

Yan Kui agreed.

He arrested Gao Xinggong and some high-ranking rebel party officials and sent them to the camp for safekeeping, and then sent a small number of people to Gao County to appease the people and clean up the mess.

At the end of February, Yan Kui beheaded Gao Xinggong and other high-ranking rebel party leaders in front of the people of Gao County, and since then, Gao County has rebelled.

Then, Yan Kui called the county commander of Gaoxian County, who had fled before, to return to the county office, and led the army to leave Gaoxian and go to Shou County to face the real Hongyang rebel - Li Ji.