Chapter 234: A Sharp Turn and a Great General

Shandong Liufu, Jinan, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Dongchang. According to the current administrative division, it is north of Jinan to Hebei, which is the place bordering Beizhili at that time. There are four prefectures in Jinan, Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou, while there is only one big mansion in Yanzhou in Lunan.

The rest also has the ground under the jurisdiction of the vassal king of Linyi, and the area of the Confucian family of Qufu. However, in the direction south of Jinan, except for Dongchang Province, which is close to the canal, there is no too strong official power.

The small Mengxian rebellion almost exceeded the speed of information transmission in that era, and the various administrative offices under the jurisdiction of the Yanzhou government seemed to be like a spark on fire, and they quickly became turbulent.

In modern times, around the Spring Festival, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will be the season of robbery, theft and even more vicious cases. The widening gap between the rich and the poor and the rush to go home for the New Year are two things that are not related, but they are really the main reasons for the high incidence of such cases.

After returning to Shandong in the eighth year of Jiajing, after a year of drought that was not too small, many yeoman peasants who had maintained food and clothing went bankrupt one after another, either becoming displaced people, or becoming tenants of large households or dependent on serfs. If this drought is a major drought, it will also involve the big families and wealthy families.

However, the situation of this year was only the bankruptcy of the peasants and the loss of their fields and houses, and the powerful and wealthy gentry and wealthy families took advantage of the opportunity of a sharp drop in land prices and desperately bought land. In fact, these peasants have no other way out and no choice.

The landlords are swelling more and more, and these peasants who have suffered from the disaster have received insufficient relief and hard support, hoping to wait until the spring of the next year, so that there may be a better situation, or in other words, they can only wait until the spring of the next year to see what can be changed at that time.

As the Spring Festival of the ninth year of Jiajing approaches, the undercurrents lurking in the lower layers of Shandong are becoming more and more turbulent, and these need an opportunity to vent.

As a result, when recruiting workers in Chenjiazhuang, Mengxian County, it immediately broke out. When more than 1,000 poor people rushed to the county seat, they had already become thousands, and when they rushed into the county seat, the situation began to get out of control.

What's more, there are hundreds of people under Chen Deaf who were "forced to go to Liangshan", Chen Deaf also knew that he had to do this, if it wasn't for messing up the situation, the five officials who died, and the things that happened at the door of his Chenjiazhuang, no matter how they were investigated, it would be a big crime to kill their heads and destroy the door.

I can't stay here anymore, so I simply coerced the mob to collapse the county seat together, the more chaotic the better, and it's a big deal to find another place to start over.

However, Chen Deaf didn't expect that once the thief nature of his subordinates was stimulated, it would be even more uncontrollable. The county town did not close the city gate at noon, and when the mob poured in, it was too late to close the gate. In this situation on weekdays, the people of all large households will come out to suppress it, because once there is a rebellion, it is these rich and food families who are unlucky, but this time is different from the past.

It was not only the unarmed mob that caused the rebellion, but also the well-equipped Chen family bandits, and the sophistication of the weapons and reserves in their hands greatly exceeded that of the local government servants and guards, and the degree of training and toughness was even more exceeding.

With such a force as them joining, Mengxian County did not even have any real resistance, and the county ordered all the yamen and the whole people to be killed, and none of the gentry and wealthy families were spared.

If there is still some smell of conspiracy in this turmoil in Mengxian County, then the other places in Yanzhou and the borders, villages, towns, and counties of Yanzhou, which is close to Dongchang, have begun to be chaotic. Two-thirds of the more than 30 counties in Yanzhou were plunged into chaos at the same time on the second and third days.

It seems that the popular opinion in Shandong has long become a big powder keg, and it only needs to be ignited from the beginning, and a big explosion will occur immediately.

Now it is completely out of control, Dengzhou and Laizhou have always been military towns, Jinan is where the three divisions of the yamen are located, Qingzhou is still the mansion of the vassal king, and the entire Yanzhou Mansion is Jining, which is considered stable, because the canal passes through the city, and the soldiers upstream and downstream can be quickly arrived.

Half of Shandong was completely in chaos in five or six days. Large families and officials from all over the country fled to Rongyang with their families, and this is where the Yanzhou Mansion is located. There are two guards around it, and it can be regarded as safe.

In addition to the reason in Mengxian County, the reason is that Chen Deaf is behind the trouble, but the affairs in Yanggu and Cao County are initiated by the White Lotus Sect, and when the people's will is fluctuating, it is a good opportunity for the cult to get their hands on it.

Chen Deaf never expected that he would suddenly gather a team of twenty or thirty thousand people, although the core was still five or six hundred people under his command, but there were also five or six thousand strong among the two or thirty thousand people. Wen Dao led a group of people to pacify these displaced people.

And with the people among them who can fight with weapons, there are some reserves in the big families in the county, and Chen Deaf now has a lot of silver and grain in his hands, plus the money and food of the officials and big families in the county town, which can still support it for a while.

On the third day of the rebellion in Mengxian County, the Yanzhou garrison led 3,000 soldiers to encircle and suppress it.

Chen Deaf, who had no preparation at all, was suddenly panicked, in the past, when he was doing the trading of green forest ringing horses and the protection of private salt, everything was planned and arranged by Dengzhou sent people down, and weapons were also sent from secret channels in a steady stream, so there was no need to worry about everything.

To be honest, from the landlord who recruited Zhuang Ding arrogantly in front of Chenjiazhuang, to now he has suddenly become an anti-thief leader who is openly entrenched in Meng County. Although he was originally born as the leader of horse thieves, the gap in his heart was still too big, and he was at a loss at all.

It was not Wen Dao who came up with the idea this time, but the old brothers below said:

"Let's put everything on our horses and go out of the city, if we can't fight, we will run, there are so many of our horses in the officers and soldiers, we will definitely not be able to catch up."

The next day, the two sides set up a formation outside the city, and the Yanzhou garrison looked at the crowd of more than 10,000 black oppressors opposite, and couldn't help laughing there, followed by a thousand households around him and said with a smile:

"God has given us military merits, these Diao people, they can withstand the rush, and they will cross at once."

These people, whether they are soldiers or officials, think so, not that they have the confidence and courage to win more with less, but there are more times when the White Lotus in Yanzhou is in turmoil, and this kind of team that gathers a large number of ignorant and foolish people also rushes across, so they don't take the other party in their eyes at all.

The situation of Chen Deaf on the other side is not too much, last night it was more than half of the people who dispersed, and when he went out of battle this morning, it was still his subordinates who were holding knives and guns in the back to threaten them, which was what coerced these people out of the city, but how did five or six hundred people control more than 10,000 people, that is, they were just putting on a show there, and many people were already looking left and right to escape.

Wen Dao looked at this scene, and reminded Chen Deaf with some concern:

"Big boss, if the officers and soldiers rush and these people in front of us are in chaos, won't they crush us ourselves, let's put those of us who can fight in front of us!"

Chen Deaf looked at the big burden bulging on horseback behind him, and then looked at the officers and soldiers in the distance, and shook his head very firmly. A strange look flashed in Wen Dao's eyes, and he made a resolute look on his face there, and said:

"Otherwise, I will lead the brothers to stand at the front, and it can be regarded as a resistance for the big boss!"

The Yanzhou garrison looked at the team behind them, and followed the two thousand households under him and said:

"There's no need to set up any formations, rush over and kill, and after killing everyone, go into the city and have fun, just don't care about it for a day."

When this sentence was put down, the morale of the soldiers suddenly rose, which clearly showed that after everyone entered the city, they could burn, kill, and plunder, which was amazing.

At the command of the thousands of households, the soldiers who were already stimulated with red eyes rushed over with shouts, and the officers with horses took the lead and rushed to the front, these people were already feverish from heavy rewards and military merits, and they also saw that the black crowd on the other side was already a little restless.

The two sides are getting closer and closer, and the Qianhu official at the front suddenly feels that something is wrong, why are there hundreds of knights at the forefront of these homeless grass robbers, and seeing that this posture is not the kind of rabble that has been prepared in a hurry, and now the speed of this charge can no longer be stopped. If you stop or turn around, you will be trampled to death by someone behind you.

Two hundred knights drew their bows and arrows on their standing horses, and fired them at the same time as they entered a distance of about fifty paces.

The strong bows in the army from these grass cowards, there is such a drill school, the dozen or so officers on horseback at the front and the soldiers who rushed to the front were suddenly knocked down by the strong bows at close range, and the Ming soldiers in the back all have an instinctive sensitivity to danger.

The front row fell to the ground, and more than 200 cavalrymen drew their swords and rushed over, and the menacing queue of the Ming army suddenly became extremely chaotic.

The Yanzhou garrison led 3,000 soldiers to encircle and suppress the chaotic people in Mengxian County, the soldiers were unbearable, and the Yanzhou garrison was only spared, and the Yanzhou Mansion fell into the hands of the chaotic people except Jining and Rongyang, and the chaotic people from all walks of life were mainly based on Chen Long, number: General Pingtian.