Let's say that Liang Min of Laofan County West Street, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong Province is a martial artist, he opened several fields to teach martial arts, and took this opportunity to visit friends and gather people, make friends with heroes and heroes, and prepare to pull the pole to revolt. He heard that there was a butcher Zhang Qi on the Jindi Bank, who was a good martial artist and a straightforward friend, so he went to find him. On this day, Liang Min came to Zhang Qi's meat case to buy two catties of meat, Zhang Qi cut him a piece of meat with a knife, and reached out to ask for money, Liang Min took out a long time and gave him a copper coin.

Zhang Qi was furious: "You cut two catties of meat, why do you only give one penny?" ”

Liang Min deliberately found fault: "I buy two catties of meat, why do you only cut one knife?" ”

"Who on both sides of the Jindi River doesn't know Lao Tzu's nickname Zhang Yidao, and he never cuts three times." "Who in the world doesn't know that I will dig out the beam, and I will never dig it out twice, this is called a knife and a dig, and two offsets."

Zhang Yidao was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "You are that wild seed, dare to come to your Uncle Zhang to show your power, and let you taste Lao Tzu's power!" Before the words fell, the fist arrived, Liang Min raised his fist to return, and the two sides did not give in to each other, and fought for a few rounds. Zhang Qi's buddies helped each other, and Liang Min fought with one hand and two feet.

was fighting hotly, when I suddenly heard someone shouting: "The two virtuous brothers, they are all from their own family, there is no need to tear up!" Come on, come to my shop for a drink. ”

The two stopped and saw that it was a red-faced man with five big and three thick, and both of them recognized him as Liu Shaowu from Yuyuan Village, so they went to drink with him. It happened that Wu Xiucai Ma Ying and Li Qingshan also passed by here, and the five of them gathered together to drink.

"Shopkeeper, clean out the room and table, I want to drink for fun." It was the local bully who spoke, surnamed Tie Mingjiu, and was nicknamed "Tuqin Juniper".

Shopkeeper Liu Shaowu said with a smile: "Iron boy, there are already friends drinking in the upper room, please choose another house." ”

"No! Let them dodge quickly, slow me want his head! Tu Qin Hui quarreled.

Liang Min and Zhang Qizao hated Tu Qinhui to the core, and when they saw him speaking ill of him, they couldn't bear it, so they said: "Grandpa came early, so it's natural to occupy the table." What a scoundrel you kid are playing. Tu Qin Hui was arrogant, how could he suffer a loss, and shouted "Fight!" The family rushed up. They are the opponents of a good man, and after a while, they fell to the ground one by one, crying for their father and mother. Tu Qinhui hid around and was knocked down by Liang Min on a bench, Zhang Qi went up, and a knife killed them.

Liang Min, Liu Shaowu, Zhang Qi, Li Qingshan, and Ma Yingxuan discussed together: "In this kind of world, it is difficult for the poor to mix, and it is not a small disaster for us to kill Tie Jiu." Instead of hiding in Tibet, it is better to pull the flag and rebel! So they temporarily took the black cloth curtain as a flag, and raised poles to gather the poor people against the government. Liang Min knew that his team was lonely and that it would be unpleasant to confront the government head-on, so Liang Min led the team into an elm forest known as "Yuyuan" by the locals.

The area of Yuyuan as a den of various "thieves" can be traced back to the Wanli period, due to the continuous natural disasters and man-made disasters in Shandong in the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a large area of cultivated land was abandoned, "elm money landed, and it became a big tree for a long time", and the hungry people who could not survive entered Yuyuan in groups, on the one hand, there are elm leaves that can be used as food, and relying on the dense elm forest, they can roar in the mountains and forests, not only to avoid the taxes of the government, but also to rob some large households. Yuyuan is very large, with the current Yancunpu Township after the Jade Emperor Temple as the center, east to Yuji, south to Yulou, west to Yulintou, north to Yuzhuang, a radius of more than 10 kilometers. The trees in the elm garden are densely forested, covering the sky and the sun, sparsely populated, the roads are complicated, you can't pass the car, you can't run the horse, and outsiders don't dare to enter. The Yuyuan thieves in the Wanli period did not last long, and when they encountered a good year, the Yuyuan thieves would disperse and become good citizens again.

Under the leadership of Liang Min, the Yuyuan Army not only used the dense Yuyuan as a cover, but also created tunnel tactics, they dug criss-crossing passages underground, hundreds of miles long, and the current sphere of influence has expanded from Puzhou and Fanxian to Chaocheng, Guancheng, Yuncheng, Chengwu and other counties, and the momentum is quite huge.

The prefect organized local troops to encircle and suppress many times, but they all returned with a big defeat, and in desperation, he had to report truthfully to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to send a large army to encircle and suppress.

At this time, Fu Zonglong, the new secretary of the military department recommended by Yang Sichang, had not yet arrived, and Yang Sichang was still the secretary of the military department. He was opposed to Chongzhen's promotion of Song Youliang, and now Chongzhen used Song Youliang to spur the ministers fiercely. Although it is not aimed at himself, it always makes Yang Sichang very depressed, coupled with Song Youliang's stubborn defense of Jinan, which makes Yang Sichang borrow the hand of the Tartar to get rid of Song Xuezhu's attempt to kill people with a knife, and the new hatred and old hatred are added together, making Yang Sichang more and more unwilling to see Song Youliang.

So Yang Sichang issued an official document and dispatched the guerrilla general Song Youliang to Jinan Mansion to report, and together with other soldiers and horses, they encircled and suppressed the Yuyuan bandits.

The official document soon arrived in Haiyangwei. Unlike in the past, when the soldiers heard that they were going to be dragged to war, it was no different from sending them to their deaths. Now, the military households, especially the recruits, have a kind of excitement that they are happy when they hear the battle. Because according to the rules of Haiyangwei, there are twice as many people in wartime as in peacetime. Moreover, when fighting, there is also a reward for winning the first rank, which is really the fastest way to get rid of poverty and become rich.

Although the emperor rewarded himself with the possibility of expanding his army to 5,000 men, the recruitment of new recruits was not yet complete. Among the old five battalions, two more battalions have suffered a large attrition. Therefore, Song Youliang decided to bring only three integrated battalions of soldiers and horses, namely: Liangzi Battalion, Xu Zi Battalion, and Panzi Battalion. Coupled with the work of three battalions, Song Youliang actually sent 1,800 troops. An integrated battalion is divided into 50 small flags, 10 general flags, and 5 leaders, with a total of 505 people. According to the original calculation of military salaries in kind, ordinary soldiers need 2 stone of grain per month, 3 stone of small flags, 4 stone of general flags, and 4 stones of team leaders, and a battalion needs to distribute 1,090 stone of food a month. Later, due to the prosperity of Haiyangwei's business and the low price of Haiyangwei's grain, the soldiers should be paid in currency at the request of the soldiers. If according to the market price at that time, one stone of grain and one tael of silver, then a battalion needs to be paid 1,090 taels of silver a month. But fortunately, Song Youliang calculated according to the price of grain in Haiyang, so he only needed half of the price, that is, 545 taels, so the monthly military salary of the third battalion was 1,635 taels. In addition, the military salary of the labor is eighty percent of that of ordinary soldiers, and 300 labor requires 240 taels per month, and because it is wartime, the military salary is doubled, that is, the military salary needs to be paid 3750 taels per month. If there is a great gain, then there is a considerable reward to be given.

According to the practice at that time, Song Youliang was ordered to send troops, and the government along the way, of course, had to supply the marching grain and grass, but Song Youliang knew that the area around Jinan Mansion had just been burned by the Tartars, and it would be difficult for them to produce grain and grass again. Therefore, Song Youliang did not plan to trouble the government along the way, and solved the grain and grass problem by himself. At the same time, Song Youliang also prepared a batch of grain seeds mixed with a certain amount of high-yield wheat seeds, and planned to distribute them to the villages, towns, prefectures and counties along the way. Far from eating your bread, I have given you seeds. The so-called cannibalistic soft-mouthed, I'm not afraid that you won't say good things for me Song Youliang in the future

On this expedition, Song Youliang still wore an auspicious cloud iron sash with red cherry blossoms on his head, wore mountain armor, wore foot guards and short boots on his feet, covered his armor with a wide robe with shoulders, and a goose feather knife pinned to his waist, riding a high-headed horse with a red date. It's just that there is an extra long-handled broadsword in his hand, which is somewhat similar to Guan Yunchang's Qinglong Yanyue Knife, although it may not be used, but the power frame must be sufficient. Dressed like this, Song Youliang looked more and more powerful. A posture of people blocking and killing, and gods blocking and killing gods

1,500 combat units have completed the overall rearmament, hand-to-hand infantry uniformly wear plate armor, musketeers and artillerymen wear scale armor, and Gongfu wears traditional armor. Hand-to-hand infantry is divided into spearmen and sword soldiers, spearmen wear full-body plate armor, equipped with spears, the spearhead is a triangular pyramid design, the lethality is amazing, and a short sword. The brand knife soldier wears half-body plate armor, equipped with a bayonet (straight knife, the head of the knife is 15 cm double-edged), a 40 cm diameter iron-clad shield, and a dagger. The musketeers wore scale armor and were equipped with a musket and a short knife.

Haiyang Wei also had 500 cavalry, and the war horses were also equipped with horse armor. This kind of vest, the structure is reasonable and complete, the front is covered with iron, the back is leather, including the curtain, chicken neck, swinging chest, horse body armor and back, wrapped on the body of the war horse, can effectively protect the head, neck and torso of the war horse, only the eyes, mouth, ears, limbs and tail are exposed, and finally the vest is also covered with black lacquer. In addition, the cavalry was also equipped with a round cavalry shield, which was made of wood, but covered with iron sheets, and the area was not large, which was put on the left arm of the cavalry during combat to defend against flying enemy arrows. Since the cavalry was still in the training stage, Song Youliang did not plan to let them participate in the battle for the time being