Chapter 599: Wang Qing is called the emperor

Originally, it was just like this, and everyone endured it, but the local corrupt officials and corrupt officials were rampant, and the expropriation and extortion continued, so that a large number of people could not bear the suffering, and they either became homeless people, or simply went up to the mountains to become thieves.

Wang Qing took advantage of this shareholder wind to develop rapidly, Wang Qing once stayed in Tokyo, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, and seeing the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty has fueled his ambitions.

Especially Tong Guan's defeat, the army was stationed in Tongling, and the entire Huaixi Road was in dire straits, not only the tax revenue increased exponentially, but the conscription also increased several times, if you win, everyone will not say anything, you will lose the battle and still be like this! So a wave of resentment accumulated on the land of Jianghuai.

Wang Qing knew that his opportunity had come, and on the one hand, he ordered people to spread the news that the Song army had lost hundreds of thousands of troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and that he wanted to arrest the people of Huaixi to fill the army, and on the other hand, he said that Tong Guan would increase the taxes for the next ten years to train the water division again, and the people in the Jianghuai area were panicked for a while.

Originally, there were no rumors at all, but I was afraid that some places were full of fat moths, they actually saw an opportunity from the rumors, yes, I don't know what strange brain circuits they have, in short, the Shou County Order really began to levy a special tax on shipbuilding.

In order to achieve the goal of collecting money, the county order put a large number of people who were unwilling to pay the money into the prison cell, and finally caused the cell to be closed and directly locked in the county office.

That night, Wang Qing sent the inner should be mixed into the county seat, open the city gate, thousands of thieves killed into Shou County, Wang Qing announced that he was the emperor in Shou County, and the country was called Great Wei, needless to say, he must have heard too much about the Three Kingdoms, and Cao Cao was the idol.

It's not strange to dare to call the emperor when you hit a county, and there are three or five people who dare to call the existence of the emperor, to say that thousands of thieves are just a trivial matter, and when it is normal, you can easily exterminate it by sending a three or five thousand forbidden army, but it is not normal at this time.

Most of the troops on the entire Huainan West Road were stationed on the Yangtze River to prevent Fang La's attempt to cross the river, so the rest of Huaixi either had a small number of Xiangyong stationed there, or there were only a few government servants.

Wang Qing, who was known as the emperor, quickly took the entire Shouzhou region and began to attack Luzhou, trying to go south to Luzhou and join Fangla, and to the north he sent troops to take the south bank of the Huai River, with the river as the boundary, and to the west to take the Gwangju Jinzhai Pass with the intention of blocking the enemy from Tokyo there.

To the east, he planned to lay the Huainan East Road directly to the sea, because the Ryukyu envoy once said that as long as he could hit the Yangtze River or the seaside, he could get more support from the Ryukyus, so Wang Qing planned to fight mainly to the south and east.

It should be the Great Song Dynasty's rampant conquest, which led to Wang Qing's army rapidly swelling to tens of thousands, and Wang Qing invited bandits from Huaixi and other places to participate in the grand event, resulting in him gaining tens of thousands of troops with robbing experience in a short period of time.

The Great Song Dynasty had to demolish the east wall to make up the west wall and began to mobilize troops to encircle Wang Qing, but there was a major mistake in the transfer, Jiangbei was empty, Fang La seized the opportunity to take Hanshan County in one fell swoop, and the main force hit the Chaohu area.

In the end, Luzhou City was quickly broken under the joint dispatch of troops from both sides, Wang Qing and Fang La shared Chaohu, and the two parties finally united together, and the Great Song Dynasty also encountered an unprecedented crisis.

By this time, the time had entered July, and the Great Song Dynasty finally decided to send the Western Army to quell the rebellion, and when Zhang San got the news, he immediately surrounded the two and worried, and it was not for nothing that the Western Army claimed to be the strongest army in the Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia fought for many years, and the Western Army bore the brunt of the battle, which can be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, such an army may have some difficulty in the face of the Western Xia, but in the face of these rebels is indeed like chopping melons and vegetables.

Zhang San was worried that Wang Qing, the combat strength of the Western Army, might not be able to hold out until the end of the year, and Fang La might also be killed next year.

Although there was a surplus of the oil bombs that Fang La bought last time after the last battle, it did not have an effect in the face of the Song army, which was advancing by land and water, and the two sides started a tug-of-war under Wuhu City.

At this time, Duan Jiangliu also encountered a huge challenge, that is, the Great Song Dynasty saw that the rebels could not be eliminated for a long time, and sent the Dengzhou Naval Division to enter the Yangtze River by sea to open up a second battlefield, and the main force of Duan Jiangliu's fleet had to be transferred to the mouth of the Yangtze River to deal with the Dengzhou Naval Division.

The newly built Dengzhou Naval Division can be said to be the last ace of the Great Song Dynasty, this unit was newly built after the Ryukyu Campaign, and the manufacture of the new ship still used a little brain, although it is still the foundation of the lucky ship, but in the process of construction, a lot of fireproof design was added.

And in order to deal with the Ryukyu warships, the new ship is equipped with a lot of three-bow bed crossbows, although it can't deal with the current Ryukyu Navy, but it is definitely a strong enemy of Duan Jiangliu, Zhang San has imagined whether it can be directly annihilated while the other party is at sea.

But in the end, after thinking about it, he still didn't do it, it should be because this section of the river may not be lost, the Song army has more than 100 large and small warships, Duan Jiangliu has more than 30 new warships, and the old warships have also mobilized more than 30 ships.

Although the Song Dynasty had an advantage in the number of ships, Duan Jiangliu did have an advantage in the number of bed crossbows, and the Song army had more than 100 ships with seven or eight hundred three-bow bed crossbows, but Duan Jiangliu did have more than 1,200 bed crossbows in his hands.

Moreover, Duan Jiangliu's new ships have been improved to have more advantages in speed, and even if they can't defeat the main fleet, they will not lose too much, and this battle will inevitably lead to huge losses for the Great Song Dengzhou Naval Division.

And without this hole card of the Great Song Dynasty, if he wants to gain the advantage of water warfare, there is a need to purchase weapons, and Zhang San will be able to do the weapons business in the Great Song Dynasty, such as selling a batch of East China Sea warships and the like.

In the end, the fleets of the two sides met in the sea off Chongming, and both sides were full of confidence and tried to decide the outcome of a war, but the result of the war was unexpectedly tragic, and the Dengzhou Naval Division was newly built, and the hypothetical enemy was the Ryukyu Naval Division.

Therefore, the recruits are all the children of good families on the Shandong East Road, and they have been training very hard for more than a year, so they have to win a lot in training against Duan Jiangliu, Duan Jiangliu used to be a businessman after all, although the ships have the advantage of weapons, but the soldiers' will to fight is indeed lost.

The two sides fought from morning to evening, each losing half of their ships, and finally had to withdraw from the battlefield because of the weather.

The Dengzhou Navy Division sent the news to Tokyo and listened to the will of the imperial court, while Duan Jiangliu was afraid that if his fleet was finished, he would be useless, and his ending might be the same as the Ding family.

The Jiujiang Ding family has now completely declined, and the remaining fleet has also been trapped in Poyang Lake because of the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court.