Nong Zhigao, finally reversed, this is in Xu Deshan's expectations, but also in the planning of the long river of history, there is no way, when the interests of all parties are intertwined, there will always be an event to make these interests to achieve a balance, of course, force is the most brutal means, but he is also the most effective means.

This war against the Song Dynasty was initiated by Nong Zhigao is not accidental, Nong Zhigao is not an ordinary Zhuang people, his family has been one of the major families in Guangxi since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and his ancestors have been rewarded by Song Taizong, even his father, there is also an official position in the imperial court.

However, after Nong Zhigao's father occupied a state, he took the state as his home, mobilized the people in the state to attach allegiance, and there was a tendency to establish himself as the king, but the Song Dynasty did not beat him, but the Jiaozhi country looked at him unpleasantly, and the first war broke the Nong family and captured his whole family, and a few years later Nong Zhigao fled and returned to Andezhou.

Born in such a family, Nong Zhigao naturally will not live like an ordinary person, he is quick-witted, can be literate and martial, the family is rich and powerful, and more prestigious, soon, Nong Zhigao gathered a group of tribesmen and established the "Great Calendar Kingdom" in Fuyou Prefecture.

The country established by Nong Zhigao is naturally in the mountains, and the 100,000 mountains have never been the places that the Song Dynasty actually occupies, so Nong Zhigao's Great Calendar Country did not alarm the Song Dynasty, but gave the Jiaozhi Kingdom a lot of shock, and said that the power of this Nong family is not small, and it will be resurrected so soon, so they must be given a little power.

So the Jiaozhi Kingdom sent troops again, exterminated Nong Zhigao, and arrested Nong Zhigao, but this time, Li Dezheng, the king of Jiaozhi, thought that the Nong family was so powerful, what if he killed Nong Zhigao and provoked the hatred of the Nong family, so Li Dezheng not only did not kill Nong Zhigao, but put him back, gave him an official position, and asked him to live and manage.

However, this Nong Zhigao has some backbone, you know, he has a grudge against his father with the Jiaozhi State, how can he erase this hatred with a few fiefdoms, so after Nong Zhigao returned to Andezhou, he slowly began to recruit troops again, and broke with the Jiaozhi State again.

Li Dezheng was really angry this time and sent troops to attack again, but this time Nong Zhigao learned the lessons of the previous two times, and did not fight with the Jiaozhi team, but fought with them in the mountains, the mountains are so big, not to mention that the Jiaozhi country dispatched less than 10,000 troops, even ten times more, it is not much different in the mountains, and the Jiaozhi country has been dragged for four years.

Fighting guerrillas in the mountains, he couldn't be caught by the Jiaozhi country, but there was no food and no clothing in the mountains, Nong Zhigao's hard life was impossible to say, in order to fight the Jiaozhi country, he planned to defect to the Song Dynasty, and wrote a few surrender tables one after another, but they were all detained by Chen Heng, the governor of Yongzhou, and once or twice, the Song Dynasty did not respond, three or four times, Nong Zhigao really had no choice, so he decided to rebel.

The Nong family is a big family in Guangxi, Nong Zhigao has accumulated a lot of armed forces, even so, Nong Zhigao always feels a little insufficient, so he sent people to recruit ethnic minorities in the mountains everywhere, and raise things together, even Qinzhou is so far away that he has found it, and the effect is also obvious, even Xu Deshan has attracted more than a dozen villages before, there are four villages that are similar to each other and rebelled together, and Xu Deshan's village listened to Xu Deshan's advice, secretly did not move, and observed the development of things.

Because there has been enough food in reserve, enough for a year of cottage, then everyone will no longer go down the mountain to sell goods, under Xu Deshan's persuasion, the remaining villages, each village has ten young men with the strongest combat effectiveness, formed a team, united, in addition to going up the mountain hunting in groups every day, but also to carry out a military formation training together, in addition, Xu Deshan sent people to the bottom of the mountain, to find out the outside situation, must firmly control the situation in Guangxi in their own hands.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the news about Nong Zhigao to come in a steady stream, and after Nong Zhigao was ready, he raised troops in Guangyuan, and went down the right river east along the source of the Yujiang River, and captured the cottage defended by the Song soldiers in one fell swoop, and approached Yongzhou City.

It stands to reason that Nong Zhigao recruited troops and contacted everywhere before, and the officials at all levels in the Song Dynasty were not blind, so how could they not know at all, but these situations were reported to Chen Hui, but Chen Heng thought that Nong Zhigao was just a mountain village man, not worth mentioning, even if he waited until Nong Zhigao broke the cottage, Chen Heng did not take Nong Zhigao seriously, and was even more afraid that this war report would affect his official future, so he took the war report in his hand and kept it secret.

The result of this is that Nong Zhigao broke the cottage, all the way unimpeded, there is no hindrance, in order to gather people's hearts, Nong Zhigao is to kill the rich and help the poor, won the support of a large number of poor middle peasants, originally from Guangyuan when only 5,000 soldiers, and when they arrived at the city of Yongzhou, the number of teams has reached more than 10,000.

Chen Heng saw Nong Zhigao lead the army to the city, so he began to panic, and hurriedly ordered his generals to lead the army to defend the city, and ordered Zhang Li, the governor of Guangxi, to come to reinforcements, and Nong Zhigao was familiar with the art of war, set up an ambush on the way to Zhang Li's reinforcements, and led his soldiers to defeat most of the elite of Guangxi Road in one fell swoop, and Zhang Li died in battle.

Since then, Yongzhou has become a dead city, and on the night when the news of Zhang Li's death in battle first came to Yongzhou, Nong Zhigao was set up in the inner response of Yongzhou City early, and Nong Zhigao was in the army

should be combined with the outside, so that Nong Zhigao easily broke the gate of Yongzhou.

After breaking the city, Nong Zhigao's first thing to do was naturally to count the treasury and see what good things were left in Yongzhou City, other gold and silver treasures, money, food, silk brocade or something Nong Zhigao hadn't seen or cared, but of course, after taking out a few letters written by Nong Zhigao in the Song Dynasty, Nong Zhigao could be regarded as understanding why he was so sincere, but the Song Dynasty had no reaction to his sincerity, and it turned out that the matter was bad in the hands of this Chen Heng.

Nong Zhi is arrogant, there is no rut or rut, you say that Chen Heng shows his letter to the emperor, and the emperor can be indifferent to such a large piece of white land? I didn't ask the Song Dynasty to give anything, as long as I gave a name, a little grain and grass, I could defend the Song Dynasty against the Jiaozhi Kingdom, such a good deal, a fool wouldn't do it.

But now it's okay, he has been forced to rebel, and now he knows that the fault is Chen Hui's, what is the use, if it is useful to apologize, what do you want to do with the knife and gun in your hand, and now the emperor of the Song Dynasty is afraid that he has hated himself to death, and he can't tell it clearly.

Things have come to this point, it's too late to regret anything, Chen Heng died a hundred times can't solve the hatred in Nong Zhigao's heart, Nong Zhigao took his letter and came to the public to clarify the cause and effect, and then beheaded Chen Heng.

It was also an early rebellion, but Nong Zhigao was different from Wang Ze, Wang Ze was purely a soldier at the grassroots level of society, even if he was the head of Maitreya Buddhism, and his followers were all over Hebei, but Wang Ze had no experience in becoming a person in power, and when Wang Ze rebelled and occupied Beizhou and became the leader, he lost his direction, he didn't know how to lead his army, govern his people, and he was morally untenable.

But Nong Zhigao is different, he was born in the upper echelons of society, and his father thought that he had already been an emperor at the beginning, and Nong Zhigao himself was called the king, and he had experienced poverty and wealth, and his life was full of variety, so now after sitting in Yongzhou City, Nong Zhigao did not lose himself, indulge in power, and expand outward, but began to sort out his team with his heart, determine his own policies, and stabilize the situation in Yongzhou and its surroundings.

Nong Zhigao is very mature, he did not appoint cronyism, and all used the Nong family as officials, but accepted Huang Wei, Huang Shimi as the prime minister, Nong Jianhou, Nong Zhizhong as the general, both civil and martial, so as to lay down all levels of officials.

In terms of policy, Nong Zhigao is also very clever, he knows that he is now relying on the support of the vast number of ethnic minorities and the poor middle peasants in the Han nationality, so Nong Zhigao determined the central idea of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and sharing the wealth equally, and took out all the property of the rich households in Yongzhou City and distributed it to the poor.

Nong Zhigao's approach, there are his advantages, there are also his disadvantages, the benefits are obvious, he pleases more people, won the support of more people, but the disadvantages also follow, his Nong family is also one of the major families in Guangxi, now Nong Zhigao wants to rob the rich and help the poor, then his family will inevitably be affected, in this way, Nong Zhigao will offend the Yongzhou high-level society, including his own own.

The peasant uprising, naturally has its limitations, relying only on the peasants, there will never be a way to carry out the uprising, Nong Zhigao himself is also from the upper strata of society, naturally understands this truth, so Nong Zhigao in robbing the rich and helping the poor at the same time, but also to balance the relationship between various social strata within his sphere of influence, this is a very delicate, very meticulous work, and Nong Zhigao, so far it has been done well.

At this time, Nong Zhigao also has to face another problem, that is, his mass base comes from the fact that he gave the assets of the rich to the poor peasants, but the rich must be limited, Nong Zhigao cannot always have something to send to his people, and as long as there is nothing to distribute, then after a period of time, the people who support Nong Zhigao will slowly lose, so there is only one way for Nong Zhigao to maintain his prestige, that is, to continue to expand outward, and use new receipts to maintain the current rule.

Therefore, when Nong Zhigao repaired in Yongzhou for a period of time and consolidated his rule, Nong Zhigao marched eastward and approached Hengzhou.

So far, Xu Deshan has gotten so much news, Nong Zhigao's speed of marching has exceeded everyone's expectations, and the leader and Sha Qi have strange faces, I don't know if they regret not rebelling with Nong Zhigao at the beginning, and Xu Deshan locked himself in the house and didn't go out all day.

On the second day, after breakfast, Xu Deshan called Sha Qi and came to the leader's house, this was the first time Xu Deshan took the initiative to talk to them since Nong Zhigao got up in power, both of them were a little urgent, and they didn't know where Xu Deshan wanted to take the fate of the village.

"I ...... It's been a while. Xu Deshan said straight to the point.

Xu Deshan's first sentence frightened the leader and Sha Qi a little, you know, now their village, as well as other villages left in the mountains, are counting on Xu Deshan to live, and now that Xu Deshan is leaving, wouldn't he ignore them.

Sha Qi hurriedly said, "Brother Xu Deshan, how can you go, we are still waiting for you to guide us." ”

Xu Deshan said, "You guys."

I misunderstood, I'm just going out this time, I have to do something, and I'll come back when I'm done. ”

Sha Qi nodded and said, "I see, I don't know if Brother Xu Deshan has anything to do, can you use our brother to help?" ”

Xu Deshan said lightly, "I went out this time to talk to Nong Zhigao, and now that the war is in chaos, I naturally want to find two brothers in the village to help." ”

Sha Qi said in surprise, "Brother Xu Deshan, have you changed your mind and are going to defect to Nong Zhigao?" ”

Xu Deshan frowned and said, "Why do you think so?" ”

Sha Qidao "Now that Nong Zhigao is a large number of people, occupying Yongzhou, the momentum is like a bamboo, attracting countless people to respond, and it is normal for the Xu Deshan brothers to change their minds?" ”

Xu Deshan said: "Is this normal? The reason why Nong Zhigao can now be smooth sailing and unhindered all the way is entirely due to the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has always emphasized literature and light military force, and the chief officials in various places, regardless of whether they are in charge of the military or military positions, are all concurrently held by civilian officials, plus Guangxi has never been the focus of the Song Dynasty, so the officials sent here are all those mediocre and incompetent people, so it is reasonable that they cannot organize an effective defense against Nong Zhigao, but you can't just see now, now Nong Zhigao is more powerful, the more cities he occupies, Then the more intense the counterattack of the imperial court will be in the future, and when the imperial court reacts and mobilizes the Kaifeng forbidden army to come, Nong Zhigao will suffer, and now he will run with him, I am afraid that it is not the blessing that he will not enjoy, but will suffer with him. ”

Sha Qi said strangely, "Since you are not going to go to him, then what are you going to do with him?" ”

Xu Deshan said, "This ...... I have to say that Nong Zhigao's rebellion, although it is a heinous crime for the Song Dynasty court, but from the standpoint of the local people, especially a few of you, he can be regarded as a hero, so I want to leave him a way out, but I don't know if he can listen to what I say. ”

Sha Qi looked at Xu Deshan, who had a relaxed and serious face, and suddenly had an unreal feeling, Xu Deshan, a six-year-old child, can judge the affairs of the world before he leaves the cottage door, and he dares to say that he can leave a way back for Nong Zhigao, who is already sitting in Yongzhou, what kind of chaotic world is this.

However, Xu Deshan's magic has been seen by everyone, since Xu Deshan said that he wanted to go, it was necessary to go, in order to protect Xu Deshan's safety, ten people were selected from the elite team formed before as Xu Deshan's guards, and immediately set off, crossed the mountains and mountains, went straight to Yongzhou, and chased Nong Zhigao.

This time the time is pressing, in order to hurry, Xu Deshan is no longer lazy, he took out the foundation of the previous exercise, spread his steps, and ran all the way, walking not much slower than those elites.

By the time Xu Deshan and others came to Yongzhou, Nong Zhigao had already arrived in Hengzhou, and the Hengzhou prefect, supervising the army, worshipping, and other officials abandoned the city and fled.

Xu Deshan didn't dare to stay, chased again, and finally met Nong Zhigao's army in Guizhou, and at this time, after a little resistance in Guizhou City, it had also been taken by Nong Zhigao, and Nong Zhigao had already sat in the yamen of the Guizhou prefect and discussed the next move with his subordinates.

Xu Deshan and his entourage, except for Xu Deshan, are all dressed up in the Zhuang nationality, the language is clear, there is naturally no difficulty in coming to Guizhou City, and then come to the outside of the mansion, there are naturally Nong Zhigao's guards outside the mansion, Xu Deshan and others stepped forward and called the guards to say goodbye, saying that they wanted to meet Nong Zhigao, the guards thought that Xu Deshan and others were coming to defect, and they were not strange, and they went in to pass through, Nong Zhigao was naturally happy to see this situation, and asked Xu Deshan and others to come in and meet in the hall.

At this time, it was not early, and only Huang Wei, Huang Shimi, Nong Zhizhong, and Nong Jianhou were left in the hall, and these four people were Nong Zhigao's right-hand men.

The number of people who came to Xu Deshan was a bit large, more than a dozen people, a hall naturally couldn't enter, the guards only called one person in, and then found that the person who went in turned out to be the child wearing Hanfu, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, but as long as it was a person, the guards naturally wouldn't stop it, and called Xu Deshan to enter the hall.

Dealing with these ethnic minorities has one advantage, that is, there is no need to kowtow, after Xu Deshan came in, he just made a gesture to Nong Zhigao and the other four, so he could be regarded as having seen the number of courtesies, Nong Zhigao and others saw that it was a child who wanted to see him, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and he didn't know where Xu Deshan came from.

Nong Zhigao asked, "Little doll, where are you from, who are your parents at home, and why do you want to come to see me?" ”

Xu Deshan smiled and said, "The king may be a little strange, the kid is from Hebei, there are no relatives in the family, now in a Zhuang cottage, speaking of my name, the king may not know, my name is Xu Deshan, this time, there are some things to tell the king." ”

Nong Zhigao really hadn't heard Xu Deshan's name, and waved his hand, "If there's anything, just say it." ”

At this time, Huang Shimi, who was sitting next to him, stood up suddenly, pointed at Xu Deshan and said, "You are the Xu Deshan who killed Wang Ze in Hebei?" How did you get here! ”