Chapter Forty-Eight: The Tragic Restoration

Hearing his nephew's hysterical roar and scolding, Gong Bo couldn't help but sigh and said: "It's useless to curse now, let's think about what to do in the future, you can't always be led by Liang Shanjun and take a fire for them, right?" You've always paid the most attention, so think more about how to break the game! ”

Since three months ago, Gong Bo surrendered to the Liangshan army with the twenty or thirty thousand people he had secretly gathered, and deceived a large number of weapons and armor from the Liangshan army.

Relying on their familiarity with Goryeo and the advantage of their long-term religious activities, Gong Bo's group quickly expanded their ranks to more than seventy or eighty thousand people.

Then this goods felt that the time had come, and decisively occupied the city, called the emperor the founding of the country, and the country was called Dawei, and called himself the loyal army sent by heaven.

Even changed his name and surname, and had been secretly engaged in religious activities to deceive people, and the monk Miaoqing, who was praised by many people as a saint, also jumped out at this time and became the emperor of the Great Wei Country.

Not only that, this Gong Bo, Gong Fu (Miaoqing monk) uncle and nephew even played the Wang family's immorality, brutalized the people internally, and could not resist the invasion of foreign people externally, and today ordered the sage Miaoqing to overthrow the tyranny, drive out the Song people, and restore the glory of Goguryeo.

As a result, this rabble of the Wang family, Goryeo, and Liangshan armies at the same time were naturally taught to be human beings on both sides.

Less than seven days after their so-called Heavenly Dispatch Loyal Army occupied Seoul in Goryeo, Nanjing, they were broken by the Yangsan army, and immediately began their tragic journey.

After being driven out of Seoul by the Liangshan army, the Tianpai Loyal Army had no territory, and it could not defeat the Liangshan army, so it could only go south to fight the local troops of Wang's Goryeo.

Fortunately, the threat of Goryeo has always come from the north, and it has never been attacked from the sea, so the troops in the south are quite weak and lightly armed.

Fighting all the way, their main enemies turned out to be not the official army, but the private army of those Goryeo nobles and landlords.

Because of this, how can a group of powerful private armies fighting separately be able to defeat their desperate group of 60,000 or 70,000 Heavenly Sent Loyal Righteous Army (robbers)?

Moreover, Gong Bo, Gong Fu's uncle and nephew also learned from the Liangshan army, every time they broke through the manor castle of a big landlord and a powerful manor, they released all the slaves and sluts, and even learned from the Liangshan army to take out a part of the grain and distribute it to the poor around to buy people's hearts.

To be honest, for most of the first half month, they did really well, relying on the robbery to stimulate the morale of the army; There is also the slogan of rescuing slaves and sluts and dividing the land equally, and they are invincible along the way.

In many cases, every time they went to a place and did not start fighting, there were poor people or slaves and sluts in the city who secretly opened the city gates and let them in, or sent them letters and information.

There is even a saying in various parts of the south, "Eat his mother, drink his mother, open the city gate to welcome the holy king, and the holy king will not accept food when he comes!" The slogan comes.

This can make Gong Bo and Gong Fu very happy, and the mood is agitated, feeling that the people's will is like this, occupying the entire peninsula, driving out the Song bandits, and reviving the glory of Goguryeo is just around the corner!

Unexpectedly, when the two of them were fluttering, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant!

First of all, the military discipline of the Heavenly Dispatch Loyal Army became worse and worse, although the military discipline was not much good at the beginning, but it was barely able to restrain and control it by relying on the prestige of Gong Bo and Gong Fu.

And at that time, the Tianpai Loyal Righteous Army was panicked like a lost dog, desperate, so they could only huddle together to keep warm, following Gong Bo and Gong Fu's uncle and nephew, hoping that the two could find a way out for them.

But later, when more and more territory was occupied, more and more property and women (mainly women from the landlord's family) were looted, life became better and better, and the career became more and more prosperous, but these soldiers began to be disobedient.

Why do you share so much of the money and property you robbed? Why do you hold the landlord's Haoqiang family and the delicate beauty every day, and we can only watch it?

So these soldiers began to attack the common people, small merchants, small citizens, and even poor tenants, who had been rescued and servants, robbed, forcibly annihilated, murdered, and did all kinds of evil.

By the time Gong Bo and Gong Fu found out, the situation had already become uncontrollable, and the officers below could not restrain these soldiers at all.

The two didn't dare to arrest these soldiers and behead them, and strictly enforce military discipline, because there were too many, what if they were forced to rebel?

Immediately afterwards, those landlords and powerful people in the south also began to unite, forming a coalition army led by the local garrison officers to put up stubborn resistance to the Tianpai Loyal Righteous Army, and even began to organize counterattacks.

At this time, the Liangshan army came to take advantage of the fire to loot again, raised troops to the south again, and defeated them without much effort.

And then the real tragedy began.

Every time they tried their best, they suffered heavy casualties and laid down a turf, and after a few days of rest, before they had enough grabbing, the Liangshan army would kill again and snatch away all the gains they had grabbed.

forced them to fight the landlords in the south again in order to survive.

Then they went back and forth like this, they worked hard in the front, and the dirty things were all done by the loyal and righteous army sent by heaven, but the Liangshan army was a good person in the back, maintaining order and appeasing people's hearts.

And this gang of Liangshan can really do it without committing any mistakes in autumn, and not take a stitch from the people; One day the loyal and righteous army was sent to burn and loot in front for comparison, and the Liangshan army was naturally quickly supported and appreciated by the local people.

In addition, the Liangshan army also distributed food to all the poor, made good food, and promised that as long as they submitted to them, they would become the Chinese Celestial Empire, the subjects of a great country, and be protected by the Han army;

Many ignorant fools actually regarded these foreigners, invaders, and robbers as saviors, and knelt on the ground with tears in their eyes, expressing their willingness to be Chinese citizens from now on, and only begging the father of the Han army not to abandon them.

It's infuriating!

Gong Fu continued to scold: "I can see that the Liangshan army has been calculating us from the beginning, that is, we want us to build a city for them, help them clean up the landlords in the south, and then they will snatch everything from us!" What a calculation! ”

Seeing that the two principals had no idea, Liu Min, a general under Gong Fu, said tentatively: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, instead of making wedding clothes for the Liangshan Army, we should make peace with those people in the south." We are all Koreans, but Liangshanjun is a Song ......"

Gong Bo shook his head and said: "No, most of the powerful landlords in the south are married to each other, and the relationship is complicated. We killed too many people in order to boost morale, and we have already formed a mortal enmity with those people in the south! Besides, they regard us as bandits and cowards, how can they be willing to make peace with us? ”

"What then? Can't you wait for death here? ”

"Uncle, why don't you restrain military discipline, buy people's hearts, find a way to hold a place as a foundation, and then plan slowly?"

Gong Bo shook his head again: "I can't hold it, the Liangshan army is too powerful, and he won't give us time at all......"

A hint of cunning flashed in Gong Fu's eyes: "We can send someone to buy time for the Liangshan army!" ”