Chapter Twenty-Five: The Two Ends of the First Mouse
The leader of the Red Turban Army in Yingzhou, Marshal Liu Futong, has been in a good mood recently.
Mengyuan has no road, the Yellow River bursts, the Huai River drought people are not living, and the people's hearts miss the prosperity and wealth of the old Song Dynasty more and more. In the eleventh year of Zheng, he and Du Zundao and others raised the anti-Yuan Yi banner for the first time on Ying, and the defeat was also Timur first, broke the Gong Buban, conquered the city, and occupied a large area of land in Huaixi, the world was shaken, and the heroes bowed down for it, which can be described as a moment of glory. Once upon a time, he was full of confidence. The expulsion of the Tartars and the Bianliang are just around the corner.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long!
Although the local officials of Mengyuan were pampered, after a year or two of panic, they finally understood that the Red Turban Army wanted to subvert their rule, and that would not work.
The Mongol and Yuan courts began to mobilize their armies and launch a frantic counteroffensive in an attempt to extinguish the flames of this rebellion.
Prime Minister of the Great Yuan took off his own command and went out in one fell swoop, exterminating the Xuzhou Red Turban Army, which echoed the Yingzhou Red Turban Army, and the leader Sesame Li Er was captured and killed, slaughtering 400,000 soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou.
Pingzhang of Sichuan Province bit the gang and participated in the governor's affairs to answer the loss of Badulu, captured Jingfan, and the "North and South Lock Red Army" Red Turban Army Buwang Sanwangquan and Meng Haima were defeated one after another.
Xu Shouhui's old man who sold cloth, because he was handsome and was elected as the emperor, since the opening of the Tianwan regime, the business was once very prosperous, and he divided his troops to attack Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, occupying a large piece of land, but unfortunately the past two years have not been bright, the land has been lost, and this old man seems to have been lost, his life and death are unknown, and there is no news.
Fang Guzhen on the southeast coast rebelled, rebelled, rebelled and rebelled, and now surrendered to Meng Yuan.
The land of Luoshan and Qushan was conquered by the militia organized by the Red Horse Expedition of Chahan Timur and the landlord armed Li Siqi, etc., and he himself was defeated many times under the joint attack of the Prime Minister of Henan Province Taibuhua and Dashu Balu, and lost a large area of land, and the situation of the Red Turban Army in the world entered a low ebb, and Yingzhou became a big hole to fill the discontent, six bloody battles, countless casualties, and the Yingzhou Red Turban Army kept two cities in Yingshang and Yingzhou.
Zhang Shicheng, who sells smuggled salt, has been mixing well recently, occupying Gaoyou and blocking Cao Yun, which can be regarded as the biggest blow to the Mengyuan court.
Now the form is finally developing in a good direction.
Xiao Ming Wang, although he is only a twelve-year-old child, is from a rebel family, but is the son of Han Shantong of the White Lotus Sect, and his arrival has brought unimaginable influence to the Yingzhou Red Turban Army.
Han Shantong was born in a rebellious family, enjoys a high family status in Mingjiao, since he was born, he is committed to overthrowing the Great Yuan, using Mingjiao to organize the people, self-proclaimed King Ming, disciples, old people, disciples are all over the Huanghuai River, in order to take advantage of the psychology of the people to think of the Song Dynasty, self-proclaimed as the eighth grandson of Huizong of the Great Song Dynasty, put on a legal coat for himself, both sides of the Huanghuai River, and the hearts of the people are attached.
Han Lin'er has such a father with multiple titles, and naturally inherits the title of the leader of the Ming Sect, as well as the honorary halo of the "ninth grandson" of Huizong of the Great Song Dynasty.
Du Zundao, a native of Yingzhou, who was born in Guozijian, saw that the people's hearts were available, and it was the only way to find the way to bewitch the people, and the old technique of "one eye of the stone man" was staged again, he made full use of Hao Shisan's explanation of the "Tui Bei Tu", and distributed the two images of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty in the "Tui Bei Tu", and distributed them everywhere on a large scale, preaching that the ten emperors of the Meng Yuan Dynasty died in the country, and Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, was the return of the sky, Yunyun.
With the arrival of King Xiao Ming, it created a powerful momentum for the Yingzhou Red Turban Army, and people from all over the world came in an endless stream, which can be described as a good form.
However, the problem of overcrowding has also come, and there is a shortage of food!
Liu Futong stood in front of the map planning the world, full of ambition, it was time for the army to go north, capture Bozhou, and move towards Kaifeng, realize his long-cherished wish with the former sect leader Han Shantong, and return the capital to Bianliang.
Although the vision is good, with more than 100,000 troops under his command, he can't go hungry to fight!
Luo Wensu quietly walked into Liu Futong's Chinese army tent, and saw that Liu Dashuai was falling into deep contemplation, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.
"Is there something wrong with Lao Luo?" Liu Futong spoke first.
"Dashuai, the good news of Shouzhou's victory has been sent to the Young Sect Master and Du You's Envoy, and two large boxes of gold have also been sent to the Young Sect Master!" Luo Wensu said.
"Good news? What's the good news? Liu Liu didn't have a ward for me, did he use troops without authorization? Liu Futong asked in surprise.
"Did you forget? It's Hao Shisan, the master of the Ming King, you gave him the head of Anfeng Road, and now you have led people to conquer Shouzhou, the governing place of Anfeng Road! Luo Wensu reported.
"Huh?" If it weren't for Luo Wensu's reminder, Liu Futong almost forgot that there was such a person as Hao Shisan.
Under the double pressure of Han Lin'er and Du Zundao, he sealed a marching manager of Anfeng Road, a person who didn't know his identity, neither a person from Mingjiao nor his brother Liu Futong.
Now Hao Shisan is actually able to conquer the city, he Liu Futong is the generalissimo of the Yingzhou Red Turban Army, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he is still trapped in Yingzhou City, which makes him embarrassed.
"Did he defeat the 10,000 An Feng Yuan army of Yesutai? How many men did Liu Liu give him? Let him take such an important city as Shouzhou in less than three days. "Liu Futong had also sent people to attack Shouzhou before, but they all returned with a feather, and Hao Shisan had just arrived, and he was easily captured.
According to the description of the messenger of the victory, Luo Wensu told the story of Hao Shisan's 700 horsemen who paid Youde, abandoned the dry road and took the waterway, bypassed the Xia Ji Village defended by the heavy troops of Yesutai at night, added the river with horse dung, scared the enemy's courage, and beheaded Anfeng Road Daru Huachi Asu Nayan at the city gate.
"It seems that there are still a lot of talented people under Xuzhou Li!" Liu Futong exclaimed.
Fu Youde, who followed Li Xixi from Xuzhou to join the Yingzhou Red Turban Army, was dismantled and placed on Yingshang, "Hao Shisan's ability to kill the three products of the imperial court in front of the battle Daru Huachi, it seems that he is also a brave and resourceful person, I underestimate them." ”
"Dashuai, Hao Shisan is not our person after all, and now he has occupied a rich city, even if he promises to give us 50,000 stone of grain, but after all, Xia Jizhai still has 10,000 An troops in Sutai, what should we do now?" Luo Wensu also had no charter at this time, he could only put forward his own ideas, and it was his master Liu Futong who finally decided the problem.
In Luo Wensu's view, what Hao Shisan occupied was just a lonely city, Xia Jizhai was in the middle, and it was difficult for the Yingzhou Red Turban Army to get in touch with Shouzhou.
Liu Futong said pretendically: "Do you think that Hao Shisan is lucky to occupy a big city like Shouzhou, with 700 horsemen, can he resist the counterattack of 10,000 elites in Yesutai?" ”
"This ...... Dashuai, what do you mean......" Luo Wensu didn't know what Liu Futong was trying to express, 50,000 stone of military rations, do you want it or not? At this point, it's a bit of a chicken.
If you want to get the 50,000 stone military rations, you must open up the road connection between Yingzhou and Shouzhou, and you must break through the Xia Ji Village garrisoned by 10,000 troops in Yesutai.
Liu Futong is a hero at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and there are two theories about the cause of his death, one is that he died at the hands of Zhang Shicheng, and the other is that he died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang.
King Xiao Ming summoned Liu Futong, and saw the good news sent by Hao 13, and his name was also mentioned on Hao 13's good news, although it was only listed after Han Lin'er and Du Zundao, it can be seen that Hao 13 still attached great importance to the actual leader of the Yingzhou Red Turban Army, and in the good news, Hao 13 did not mention the fact that Liu Liu only gave 700 horsemen, and the good news was written like this, "It depends on the tiger generals on Yingshang, not the thirteen good soldiers."
The most important thing is that Zhang Qi, Hao Shisan's subordinate, sent a picture of Wu Daozi's "Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts", although it is not a gold leaf beauty, it can be seen that Hao Shisan still respects him, or in other words, Hao Shisan is still more good at being a person and will come to things.
The reason why Liu Futong did not lead the main army to go in person is very simple, the south is not the direction of his key attack, his military goal is not all the way to the west, but all the way to the north, all the way to the north, to occupy Kaifeng Bianliang, to realize the long-cherished wish of the Southern Song Dynasty to return the capital to Bianliang, capture the capital of Yuan, overthrow the Mengyuan court that dug up his house, to put it bluntly, is to avenge the family.
When Bailuzhuang was in the world, Han Shantong recognized an ancestor with a different surname, Song Huizong Zhao Ji, and he Liu Futong himself also recognized an ancestor - Liu Guangshi, one of the "Four Masters of Zhongxing", as the descendant of Liu Guangshi, a famous anti-gold general who was as famous as Yue Fei and Han Shizong, he should assist the "Zhao orphans" to rebuild the Great Song Dynasty and Bianliang.
Just like the storyline in the movie "Shut Up", Montaki Steel Egg has to open a tavern, which is not within the scope of the rupee plan, and marching south is not in Liu Futong's plan!