There is no doubt that the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty were indeed an out-and-out troubled era; In a large area of land in the Jiangnan area, bandits are infested, and there are countless strongmen and thieves of all kinds.

As a result, there are good deeds to classify these bandits and thieves.

The first in line is, of course, the gold thieves: these Jurchens are extremely vicious, not only robbing money and food, but also guns, and they are the most terrifying existence.

In second place are the semi-official bandits:

What do you call a semi-official bandit? At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty court was weak, and some powerful thieves were recruited and given official positions; And these thieves are also officials and bandits, causing great trouble to the people.

Among the many semi-official bandits, the most famous is Li Cheng, who was driven to Jiangbei by Yue Fei

In third place is the Rogues: most of them are made up of displaced people from the north who have fled the war. These rogues live in no fixed place, wander around, and do not obey the rules of the imperial court, causing great harm to the local people.

Among the many rogues, the most famous is Liu Zhong in Hunan, but at this time Liu Zhong had fled to the north bank of the Yangtze River to join the puppet Qi regime.

At the bottom of the list are the bandits: they are all organized by the local population.

For the Tukou, the arrival of the northerners shattered their peaceful and beautiful life, so these locals organized their own armed forces to defend against all outsiders, even the Southern Song regime.

For Emperor Gaozong, among so many thieves, the bandits were the least harmful, because they would not leave their land easily for no special reason.

However, by the fifth year of Shaoxing, the foundation of the Southern Song Dynasty's rule had stabilized. The other thieves were also eliminated one after another. Emperor Gaozong's eyes were on Tukou.

For the largest bandit - the Dongting Lake rebels. Emperor Gaozong had already made up his mind to exterminate them

Speaking of the rebels in Dongting Lake, this was a small mistake of Emperor Gaozong when he was young.

At the beginning, after the Jingkang Change, Kaifeng fell, and when Zhao Gou fled to Nanjing to claim the title of emperor in Tianfu, he once ordered the king of soldiers and horses in the world. At that time, there was a small army of more than 300 people, trekking through mountains and rivers from the distant south bank of the Yangtze River to the little emperor's side.

The leader of this army is called Zhong Ziang, a native of Dingzhou, Jinghu North Road. Yijie cloth, and his father Zhong Xiang is a veteran country wizard.

It's a pity that the little emperor didn't look down on these peasant soldiers at all, so he ordered these people to be sent back to their hometowns and let them go back to be peasants honestly.

Zhong Ziang was full of blood, and he was actually poured on his head with a plate of cold water, which was really angry.

However, although Zhong Ziang was rejected, he also saw that the so-called emperor was just a young man in Yingtianfu.

The most important thing is. Zhong Ziang found that he was the dignified ninety-five. It turned out that there were only so many soldiers and horses under his command.

As a result, when Zhong Ziang went home and discussed with his father, he decided to stop being a farmer and become an emperor instead

Zhong Xiang's father and son made up their minds, and they did what they said, so they "gathered the militia at home, formed a team, and placed more flags and armor, intending to cause chaos."

Zhong Xiang proclaimed himself the King of Chu and changed his name to Yuan Tianzai.

Due to the original basis of the association to "worship the Lord", Zhong Xiangjun soon occupied the four counties of Wuling, Taoyuan, Longyang and Yuanjiang in Dingzhou; the four counties of Liyang, Shimen, Anxiang and Cili in Lizhou; Zhijiang, Songzi, Shishou, and Gong'an counties in Jingnan Prefecture, Yidu County in Xiazhou, Huarong County in Yuezhou, Yuanling County in Chenzhou Prefecture, and Yiyang, Ningxiang, Xiangyin, and Anhua counties in Tanzhou.

To put it simply, it is the lakeside area around Dongting Lake, and the establishment of a separatist regime.

Although Zhong Xiang, an old wizard, has not read many books, he has also heard a lot of folk stories. As a result, Zhong Xiang's army called itself "Ye'er", and everywhere he went, he announced that he would ensure the safety of the "husband of the old man", but he would kill five types of people, including officials, Confucian scholars, monks, witch doctors, and divination, which were called "practicing the law".

In addition, Zhong Xiang also called the Southern Song Dynasty regime "the national code is an evil law", "it is said that the robbery of wealth is equal, the sick are not allowed to take medicine, and the dead are not allowed to mourn, but to worship the lord".

All of a sudden, "everyone was happy to follow it, thinking that the principles of heaven were taken for granted." Under the influence of Zhongxiang's religious superstition, many local poor people became fanatical believers

Zhong Xiang's policy of "rich and poor regardless of the high and low" attracted a large number of poor peasants, but it also aroused the panic of the local government and rich households, so they invited a semi-official and bandit army - Kong Yanzhou.

Kong Yanzhou was originally just a scoundrel in Xiangzhou, killing people as thieves.

In the first year of Jingkang, in order to escape the pursuit of the government, Kong Yanzhou resolutely enlisted in the army, and was promoted all the way to the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses on Jingxi Road by virtue of his military merits.

Later, when the Jin army invaded Shandong, he led his subordinates to flee south, burning and looting along the way; Before long, he accepted the appointment of the Southern Song Dynasty court and was promoted to the envoy along the Yangtze River.

Kong Yanzhou began to fight several battles with Zhong Xiang, all of which ended in failure.

Later, he thought of a way, fought a few more battles with Zhong Xiang, and let his subordinates pretend to surrender, falsely claiming to "enter the law"; Whenever the sergeants who captured the bells were put in their hair with bamboo sticks and put them back. The inscription on the bamboo sticks says: "If the master is resting, I will also rest, and I will still take a boat to the east."

The inscription on the bamboo stick means, let's stop our two armies, I'm going to leave to the east.

Kong Yanzhou's plan was obviously a delaying tactic, but he also concealed Zhong Xiang.

After Zhong Xiang lost his vigilance. With the cooperation of the "people who entered the law", Kong Yanzhou's army broke through Zhong Xiang's village fence in one fell swoop, and Zhong Xiang, his wife Yishi, and his eldest son Zhong Ziang were captured.

Kong Yanzhou snatched a large amount of property from Dongting Lake, and sold the Xiang and Zhong Ziang and others to the Southern Song Dynasty court, and after taking a large bonus, he actually crossed the Yangtze River and took refuge in Liu Yu of the pseudo-Qi

After Zhong Xiang's death, the rest of the group continued to operate on the shores of Dongting Lake, the largest of which was Yang Tai in Longyang County.

Later, Mrs. Yang found Zhong Ziyi, the youngest son of the seed, and implemented "coercing the younger son to order the old department", and the result was. Mrs. Yang reunited the potential of Dongting Lake.

Mrs. Yang is not very old. The dialect in the Jinghu area calls the young. People used to call him Yang

Yang Mo's ability is very strong, and his luck is very, very good.

When he was in charge of Dongting Lake, Emperor Gaozong had just finished his embarrassing career of going up the mountain and going to the sea, and all the energy of the imperial court was concentrated in the direction of Fuping, Shaanxi, paying attention to and supporting Zhang Jun's battle of national fortune.

No matter how noisy Dongting Lake is, it is just a small wave. They looked through the roster of promotions and sent a powerful figure who also came from Jiangbei to recruit and suppress.

This adult is Cheng Changyu, the envoy of Dingzhou and the governor of Dingzhou.

I have to admit that Cheng Changyu is a very official with the characteristics of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Before the Jin soldiers went south. Cheng Changyu is just a small Caizhou governor; When the Jin army pressed the border, he did not have any resistance, and directly abandoned the city and fled.

Of course, just fleeing does not show Cheng Changyu's characteristics, and there are more officials who flee in despair. Cheng Changyu's strength is that before leaving, he whitewashed Caizhou.

Cheng Changyu not only cleared all the money and silver in the yamen treasury, but also ordered his soldiers to loot the rich in Caizhou City.

In this way, Cheng Changyu brought countless gold and silver treasures and a large number of troops, plus a happy woman named Careful Slave. Shi Shiran crossed the Yangtze River to the south.

Cheng Changyu's actions have completely subverted the definition of escape. even drew an equal sign between fleeing without a fight and returning home.

Crossing the river in this way and throwing into the arms of the new Song Dynasty made Jianyan Group look at it from top to bottom.

Take a look at the officials of the people, and recall that when Zhao Gou crossed the river, he was disheveled, and he was dressed in brocade clothes and Xiaomi and bodyguards. That's quality!

Considering that Cheng Changyu had both money and soldiers in his hands, the Southern Song Dynasty court decided to entrust him with the glorious task of exterminating the water bandits in Dongting Lake

Regarding the water bandits in Dongting Lake, Cheng Changyu didn't pay attention to it at all.

Of course, Cheng Changyu has his pride.

Whether it is military spending, food, equipment, number of troops, etc., Cheng Changyu is several times more than Kong Yanzhou; Since Kong Yanzhou can defeat Zhong Xiang, can't I, Cheng Changyu, defeat the remnants of Zhong Xiang?

The operation to conquer the Dongting Lake bandit army began.

Cheng Changyu divided his subordinates into two routes: the land route was for the general to walk with the soldiers, and the water route was composed of him, his wife, the careful slaves, and a large number of household attendants.

For Cheng Changyu, a northerner, the scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is like a dream, dreamy and beautiful, full of poetry and picturesqueness. He decided to start from the Youhe River in Gong'an County, along the Dingjiang River and through Longyang County to Dongting Lake, and complete the work while drifting down the river.

It's still the same old saying: the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

The scenery on this road is indeed very beautiful, but during the war, there is an extreme shortage of materials, and such a long fleet, at the end of a day, the supply of fresh water alone is a large number.

Along the way, both sides of the strait were full of bandit war zones, and no one could see a few, and even if they took money, they couldn't buy anything.

Finally approaching Dingzhou, several small villages and towns appeared, and the nobles on the boat saw a few live chickens, ducks and geese, and immediately sent people ashore to catch them.

Then there was an accident, the water bandits in Dongting Lake are booming, and the business scope is getting wider and wider, and these outsiders were targeted as soon as they got closer, and after observation, they were very fat and small, and they were worth grabbing!

A very comedic scene appeared like this, the bandit headquarters was robbed by bandits before the battle, and the entire fleet only escaped to Cheng Changyu's flagship, the reason was that the flagship was driving behind the most Lu, and when it saw that the situation was not good, it quickly turned around and fled.

This time, Cheng Changyu lost a lot, and a large amount of grain and gold and silver treasures fell into the hands of the Dongting Lake bandits, including the lovely little slave secretary

Cheng Changyu, who had escaped, was furious, and quickly joined up with the large army on the land route to start a war against the water bandits...... (To be continued......)

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