The rebellion in central and southern Guanzhong was divided into three parts.

The Eastern Fucheng Rebels, the Central Rebels, and the Southern Lujiu Rebels.

Among them, the most powerful is the Fucheng series, the main force is more than 5,000 people, and the equipment is relatively sophisticated, mainly because the drought in the eastern region is relatively light, and with the support of local landlords, there is plenty of money. Because of the food in Phuoc Seng, many of the victims in the central region heard the news and gathered in the east to join the rebels in Phuoc Seng. The size of this rebel army is also gradually growing. However, because of the ferocity of the Fucheng rebels, they often killed landlords and civilians, so many landlords moved north with their families as if they had redeemed themselves after paying for food.

The central region is the largest, and the rebels have many branches, but the strength is small. Mainly because it has not formed a system, there are many people who attack the county under the banner of Fucheng today, but maybe tomorrow they will change to the banner of famous local mountain bandits to loot the landlord's manor. This part had four or five thousand rebel troops, scattered over an area of several hundred miles in the middle.

The rebels of the Southern Lu Jiuyi faction had the smallest number, about two or three thousand, but they were the strongest of the three rebels. Mainly because Lu Jiu himself is a captain of the local regiment and has the ability to govern and train the army, so under his rule, this rebel army has strict discipline and does not kill the old and weak, women and children is very popular with the locals, which is also related to the most serious drought in the southern region.

The Fucheng rebels mainly faced the suppression of the Dongshui Camp army, while the southern rebels were blocked by the new army of Qi Zhang Wuzhu. In terms of imperial repression, the mixed rebels in the central part were relatively comfortable, and they mainly faced the nuisance of the landlords' armed forces. The first thing Liu Yu wants to consider now is which side of the rebellion to quell first, and it is unrealistic to think of a three-pronged approach.

The rebels in the center are mixed. It is not suitable for immediate pacification. The first thing to be done in counterinsurgency is to fight steadily and steadily. The main force of the rebels is the outcasts. These people usually mingled in the refugee pile, received porridge in the porridge field set up by the imperial court, and once there was a leader, they would rob and even attack the government and the army. If we go to pacify the rebels in the central part of the country first, it is very likely that there will be a situation in which the army in the area that has just been pacified in front of us passes, and many displaced people will have to rebel if they can't eat. Looking before can't look back.

Because of the uncertainty about the situation of the rebels in the south. Liu Yu decided to first march the three armies to the eastern area where the Fucheng rebels were located, and slowly advanced with the food for disaster relief.

On the seventh day of the ninth month, the army entered the first county seat in the eastern rebel area, Weicheng, which was the northernmost city occupied by the Fucheng rebels.

Red Turban Army?

Liu Yu smiled bitterly, and in front of him was a city that seemed to be a pass. Easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The city wall is high and dangerous, and it is not like the castle tower of the county town at all, and it is more majestic than the city wall of the general county town. Liu Yuxin said that it is difficult to become a blessing and have the ability to reach the sky. Can you raise the walls in a short time after the rebellion?

When I asked, I realized that the county lieutenant of Weicheng was a person who was very happy. After becoming a county lieutenant, in order to be able to get political achievements as soon as possible. In recent years, many people have been recruited to build the city wall, the local people complained, when the Fucheng rebels came, the towering city wall did not form an obstacle, the people in the city could not survive, and directly opened the city gate to join the enemy. The county lieutenant also died and had no place to be buried.

The sins of heaven are forgivable, but the sins of oneself cannot be lived.

Liu Yu's men were all infantry and lacked baggage, so it would be very difficult to attack the city. The siege of the city could not be carried out, and Liu Yu did not dare to advance, and the 8,000 army was stationed outside the city of Weicheng, waiting for the 4,000 troops of the Dongshui Camp on the one hand, and waiting for news from the south on the other hand.

On the seventh night of the first month of September, in the big tent of the Chinese army of the counterinsurgency army, Qi Fang rushed through the central area under the escort of dozens of guards and arrived here. He also brought the latest news from the South.

"It seems that the king of Shu has sent people to unite Lu Jiu's people, not only in the transport of grain from Hanzhong, but also many generals dressed as civilians in the past, and now the new army is stationed in Kaesong, and it is not allowed to go south." Qi Fang couldn't wait to say when he saw Liu Yu.

The king of Shu supporting the rebels should not be a rare thing.

The southern part of Guanzhong is connected to Hanzhong, and Hanzhong is connected to Shu, and a part of Hanzhong is also under the rule of the King of Shu, and Shu itself is only a vassal state of the imperial court, and the degree of autonomy is more than that of Huaidi. It is difficult to form restrictions on the political power of such a country, and now it is on the eve of the official war between the imperial court and the vassal king, and the king of Shu only wants to open a channel to face Guanzhong to support the rebels.

"How many people are you recruiting for the new army now?" Liu Yu asked.

"More than 1,300 people, all stationed in Kaesong. Now there are a lot of homeless homeless people gathered outside Kaesong, and we have also gone out many times to find Lu Jiu's main force to fight a decisive battle in one fell swoop. But in the land of Guannan, Lu Jiu's main army seems to have disappeared out of thin air, as long as we divide our troops, they will gather a group to fight more and fight less to catch us off guard, after the last few explorations, now we basically dare not go out of the city. ”

Liu Yu looked at the terrain of Guannan, there are no major mountain obstacles here, and the rebels of the Lu Jiuyi family will not have any stealth skills, to put it bluntly, they are hidden in the pile of displaced people, and they can see the opportunity to give the new army a blow at any time.

Liu Yu sighed and said: "The rebellion of the displaced people, in the final analysis, is the failure of the imperial court to provide disaster relief, and no one wants to risk killing their heads and exterminating the clan to become enemies of the imperial court. Brother Qi might as well go back first and continue to provide disaster relief around Kaesong first. Beware of the raid of the Lu Jiu rebels. ”

Qi Fang nodded and took the order. Now that the rebellion in Guanzhong is intensifying, we can only take one step at a time.

"General Liu, are you going to use the Fucheng rebels as a breakthrough first?" Qi Fang saw that Liu Yu had been looking at the map around Weicheng, and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, what does Brother Qi think?" Liu Yu looked at Qi Fang.

Qi Fang said with a heavy face: "The rebels led by this Fucheng are notoriously cruel. And Fu Cheng is a mountain bandit, cruel and murderous. I'm just afraid that if I push him into a hurry, he will take the knife on ordinary people. Qi Fang's words changed, "Why didn't General Liu first consider putting down the other scattered rebellions?" ”

Liu Yu thought about what Qi Fang meant, and roughly understood that the utilitarian heart of the soldiers was more important, and the priority was a whole. The central region is large, and it is easier to reassure the people after the pacification, and then the Fucheng will be pacified when the overall situation is stabilized.

"It is precisely because of the ferocity of Fucheng's rebels that they must be pacified as soon as possible." Liu Yu pointed to the military map and said, "If we avoid it going south, the only way out for Fucheng is to go north, and now the defense of Chang'an City is empty, and it is easy for him to take advantage of it." It is no longer a counterinsurgency, but a self-inflicted disaster. ”

For counterinsurgency, Qi Fang thought about it as soon as possible, and Liu Yue wanted stability.

This is the backyard of the Dashun Imperial Court, and it affects the whole body. Catch mice in the rice barn, and you can't destroy the rice.

The night was peaceful, but Liu Yu never slept, staring at the military map and the sand table to consider the feasibility of various counterinsurgency strategies. Xu Xuanzhu also stayed up late with him, maybe he was used to being a woman at home, and he had already fallen asleep on the desk in the second half of the night.

After watching the fourth watch, Liu Yu was about to squint for a while, when he heard a noise outside. Then there was the beating of gongs and drums, which was a warning that something was going to happen in the camp. Lu Chu'er hurriedly ran in, her eyes were red because she stayed up late, like a little female leopard.

"Uncle, uncle, out of ...... Something went wrong. ”

Liu Yu opened the curtain and looked out, the noise came from the east of the camp, and when the fire started, he instinctively thought that it was the Fucheng army coming to attack the camp at night. I chuckled in my heart, but when I thought about it, the grain and grass in the army were not stored in the eastern part of the camp.

"Just say something!" Liu Yu glanced at Lu Chu'er and shouted.

"Oh, so, I saw a few arrows whizzing in the distance, and then several tents were burned. That's about it. ”

Liu Yu glared at her: "And then?" ”

"And then?" Lu Chu'er was stunned, "Then my subordinates came to report to my uncle." ”

Liu Yue really wanted to kick her, this girl was sometimes so reckless, let her keep vigil all night, and when the rebels attacked the camp, she didn't know how many people came, whether they went out of the camp to pursue, whether they moved the tiger away from the mountain, etc., so they came to make a fuss.

Liu Yue knew that it was futile to ask her anything again, and immediately took the guards to the place of the incident with Xu Xuanzhu, who had just been woken up, and at this time, the guards also escorted a few thin little people over.

There were a total of four people in the attacking camp, except for one who was a little bit, and the other three were estimated to have just taken off their open crotch pants. Together with the tall boy, the four of them together may not be thirty years old. The young man had a look of shame on his face, his hands were tied behind his back, and he was still swearing and swearing. Listening to the accent is local.

"Get on your knees!" The young man's leg was kicked by the sergeant, and the whole person fell to his knees. A few little ghosts next to him knelt down when they saw him, and hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Commander Liu, grab a few boys who attacked the camp at night." Yang Lie was in charge of the vigil, and he also brought people back.

Liu Yu frowned, he clearly remembered that in the deployment of the camp, there were sentry scouts for four or five miles outside, and one or two miles outside the camp was even more than ten steps and one sentry. This makes the experienced sentry scout come over and shoot two arrows, so a few little devils can also come over?

"Commander Yang Zuo, what the hell is going on?" Liu Yu pointed to the four boys kneeling on the ground in surprise.

"No need to ask, it's all Lao Tzu's doing!" Yang Lie didn't speak, but the older young man spoke, "You soldiers who don't care whether the people live or die, don't forget that you also came out of the people. Now they are going to kill the people, it's really better than pigs and dogs, beasts! ”

There was a lot of scolding, but the person was immediately pressed to the ground by the guards and could only struggle.

Liu Yu pointed at them again and looked at Yang Lie: "No one else?" ”

Yang Lie smiled bitterly: "No, just these four daring, the only one in charge is that kid." The arrows were also his, and after shooting three rockets, they ran away, and the archery was good, and they shot very quickly. Fortunately, there were soldiers who were keeping vigil outside the camp tent, and they were found early, and there were no casualties. Just burned down three tents. (To be continued......)