Chapter 173 Lingnan Rebellion, Fan Gong's Pawn
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Zhong Hao has been busy with the expansion of various workshops in Jingqiang Village recently, especially the brewing workshop, which must be expanded. The soju of Jingqiang Village is not worried about selling in Western Xia, and if you brew more, you can make more money.
Now Jingqiang Village is short of money, and the cost of building a village in Qingyang Village is too great, and it is really difficult to use it if you don't work hard to make money.
In addition to being busy making money, Zhong Hao also urged Cui Feng to strengthen the training of the Pingxi Army and prepare for the battle in the Lingnan area, which may come in the near future.
Zhong Hao strictly demanded that the equipment and weapons of the soldiers in the middle battalion of the Pingxi Army should be repaired and maintained, and only in this way can they better ensure combat effectiveness and reduce casualties.
We should not slack off in our daily drills, and we should train more in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime.
In addition, Zhong Hao didn't think of some things that he needed to pay attention to when going south to Lingnan, such as the precautions such as never drinking raw water in Lingnan, and wrote a manual for Cui Feng to convey to the soldiers of the middle camp during training.
The news of Jingqiang Village is blocked, and Cui Feng naturally doesn't know much about the affairs of Lingnan, and naturally he doesn't know that the Pingxi Army may go south with Yang Wenguang in the future, so he is just a little strange to Zhong Hao.
But this kind of thing, although Zhong Hao, as a traverser, knew that it was very likely to happen, but he couldn't talk nonsense, so he only gave some vague explanations to Cui Feng.
However, although Cui Feng's instructions to Zhong Hao were a little strange, he still carried them out very seriously.
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Yang Huaiyu returned to Jingqiang Village in June, and brought two very bad news along the way.
The first one is about Lingnan. This time, Nong Zhigao has completely made a big move, and Lingnan is completely in chaos. The other is that Fan Xianggong died in Xuzhou on May 20.
On the first day of the first day of May, Nong Zhigao led his army to break through Yongzhou, the first important town in the southwest and where the Luzhi of Guangnan West Road was located. More than 3,000 Song soldiers in Yongzhou were killed, and Yongzhou officials were killed.
After Nong Zhigao captured Yongzhou, he formally established the Great Southern Kingdom in Yongzhou, proclaimed himself Emperor Renhui, set the year name Qili, and sealed the civil and military hundred officials. At the same time, Nong Zhigao also granted amnesty to the people in the territory he occupied, and also opened a warehouse to help the people, and his troops have been greatly developed, and the number of soldiers has suddenly increased to nearly 20,000
After the establishment of power in Yongzhou, Nong Zhigao led the army eastward, and his troops passed all the way like a bamboo, and many states and counties in the imperial court fell, and the victory of the soldiers was unstoppable for a while.
On the ninth day of the first month of May, Nong Zhigao's army entered Hengzhou in the lower reaches of Yongzhou, and Zhang Zhonghui, the governor of Hengzhou and the palace, abandoned the city and left the city with the detention and worship official Wang Riyong in the east.
On May 11, Nong Zhigao's army entered and occupied Guizhou, and Li Ju, the governor and secretary of Guizhou, fled without a fight.
On May 14, Nong Zhigao led the army into Gongzhou, and Zhang Xu, the governor of Gongzhou and the palace, abandoned the city and fled.
On the 15th, the Nong army entered Tengzhou, and Li Zhi, the governor of Tengzhou and the prince of Tengzhou, fled. Two days later, the Nong army easily occupied Wuzhou, and the governor and secretary of Wuzhou, Cheng Jianglu, did not resist and abandoned the city and escaped.
Subsequently, Nong Zhigao stepped into the boundary of Guangnan East Road, stormed Fengzhou, and encountered Chen Ye, the supervisor of Fengzhou's soldiers and horses, and Zhizhou Zeng Zhen led his troops to resist, but the Nong army crushed the Fengzhou resistance force with an absolute advantage of hundreds of times, and the Fengzhou City resisted for less than a day and fell.
After breaking through Fengzhou, Nong Zhigao continued to march to Kangzhou, and Zhao Shidan, the governor of Kangzhou, knew that he could not resist Nong Zhigao's tens of thousands of troops, so he asked his wife to flee and hide with his Zhizhou seal and son, and led the troops to fight by himself. After dawn on May 18, Nong Zhigao attacked the crowd and finally broke into the city, and Zhao Shidan, the governor of Kangzhou, and Ma Gui, the prisoner of Kangzhou, were executed by Nong's army.
On May 19, the Nong army entered Duanzhou, and Ding Baochen, the governor of Duanzhou, was frightened, regardless of the state city, and fled for his life in a hurry.
In just 20 days after Nong Zhigao Yongzhou became emperor, Nong Zhigao's army passed all the way, like a bamboo, occupying most of the areas of the east and west roads of Guangnan, and the rule of the government on the east and west roads of Guangnan was completely eroded. Wherever Nong Zhigao's army passed, the states and counties on the east and west roads of Quang Nam basically couldn't resist even a day. The officials of the states and counties "are either dead or not, and none of them can defend their states." "The city of Gev is not set up, and the soldiers are not precepted, although they are wise and brave, they still can't win a day's change."
After Nong Zhigao occupied Duanzhou, he continued to supervise the army's eastward crusade and arrived at the foot of Guangzhou on the East Guangnan Road on 20 May.
The 800 miles of military states in Lingnan are full of urgency: "The thieves and the army use brute cards and twist guns, each person holds a license to hide himself, and two people hold guns and cards to kill people, and the crowd is like a block, and the bow and arrow can not be added." "The thief army is thousands of miles away, and the soldiers are safe, and none of them can refuse, and the insects and flies are not scattered. This official is indiscriminately restrained and invites him to invade", which was already shocked by the Great Song Dynasty.
Now the rebellion of Nong Zhigao can no longer be regarded as the plague of moss, the soldiers and horses on the east and west roads of Guangnan have proved to be unusable, and the imperial court is selecting generals to transfer troops to the south to quell the rebellion.
As for Guangzhou City, whether it can be defended or not, Yang Huaiyu has not received accurate information so far, but it is only the prefectures and counties that Nong Zhigao attacked in front of him, which is enough to shock the people of the Great Song Dynasty, who have been stable for a long time.
Although the Lingnan Rebellion was indeed great bad news for the Great Song Dynasty, it was not too sad for a militant like Yang Huaiyu. After all, military generals are those who go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and it may not be a bad thing to have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions to them! The imperial court selects generals to transfer troops, and the southern counterinsurgency will inevitably give priority to the Western Army, which is the time to reflect the value of the Western Army, and it is estimated that in the eyes of those Western Army officers and soldiers, it may not be a bad thing.
Of course, for Zhong Hao, Lingnan is too far away from him, there is no personal pain, and the relationship is not too big.
The Lingnan Rebellion did not bring much sadness to Zhong Hao, but Fan Zhongyan's death was definitely bad news for Zhong Hao.
According to Yang Huaiyu, in May this year, Fan Zhongyan changed from Qingzhou Zhizhou to Yingzhou, and he took office to Xuzhou, where he passed away.
Although Zhong Hao listened to his old Taishan talk about Fan Zhongdrun's serious illness on Chinese New Year's Eve during the New Year's Eve, he was still prepared for his death, but when he really heard the news of his death, he was still quite sad.
Although the intersection between Zhong Hao and Fan Zhongyan was only a little more than a month of getting along in Qingzhou, it was only a month of getting along, but Zhong Hao admired Fan Zhongyan's virtue even more. Fan Zhongyan also gave Zhong Hao advice during that time, and treated him like a nephew because Zhong Hao was very sad about Fan Zhongyan's death.
According to Yang Huaiyu, after the imperial court set Fan Zhongyan's name, there will be a public memorial meeting in Linzhou to worship Fan Zhongyan remotely. According to his estimates, there will be places in the Great Song Dynasty that have received Fan Zhongyan's favor, and public memorial meetings will be held for him to see him off.
His father-in-law Taishan and Fan Zhongyan have been comrades-in-arms for many years, and Fan Zhongyan has also served as a pacification envoy in Hedong, and I am afraid that the gentry officials of the state will inevitably see him off for the public sacrifice.
Zhong Hao felt that after being busy for the past two days, he should go to Bingzhou to see his Taishan father-in-law, and it was estimated that he, the Taishan father-in-law, would be very sad if he lost Fan Zhongyan, the big brother and old comrade-in-arms. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.