The meeting was a great success.

The biggest hero was Wen Huaguo, who was the first to play and completely mobilized the enthusiasm of the soldiers. Standing on the platform he had built, facing the soldiers who were sitting all over the wheat field, he said, "Brothers, we haven't been together for long. Many of you should already know me. ”

He paused, and said angrily: "Brother's surname is Wen, the literati's Wen." ”

People who are fat and strong and have a rough appearance say this sentence, which has a very comedic effect. The audience burst into laughter. When the laughter fell, Wen Huaguo continued: "In the tenth year of Zheng, the Yellow River burst and could not be blocked for five years, and it flooded thousands of miles. Of the eight members of the brother's family, seven died of starvation. ”

The field gradually quieted down, and Wen Huaguo asked, "I wonder if there are any Jiaozhou people here?" ”

A few hands were raised. Wen Huaguo clenched his fists and said, "We are half a fellow countryman." You know, the brothers and the old masters, who have been horse thieves, have ten brothers, and the old ten are from your Jiaozhou. "But he's dead, he's been ambushed by the Tartars, his stomach is broken, and he's still desperate!" You Jiaozhou people are all good, he is the same as you, very brave, he is a man! ”

The audience was silent, Wen Huaguo stopped, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "We don't talk about this." He only talked about the great water of the tenth year, and he told me that he saw people on the street in your Jiaozhou city with his own eyes, stealing the corpses of starvation to death in the middle of the night, and cooking them. But despite this, the grain that should be levied is the same, and the taxes that should be paid are the same, and it doesn't matter if there is no food or money, sell your children and daughters. Sold out, sold out, sell yourself! Brothers, why are we rebelling? It's not because I can't live this dog day! Tartars make people unable to live? ”

Several Jiaozhou people feel the same way, not only them. Most of Mr. Guan's subordinates are from Anhui and Henan, and most of Wang Shicheng's subordinates are from Shandong, and the localities are bordering each other, and the Yellow River collapsed.

"Tartar of dog day!" Some cursed in a low voice, and many more cursed together; The sound is small and loud, deafening.

Wen Huaguo suppressed his scolding: "Brothers, to tell you the truth, it started from entering this village. I felt very familiar. This village is good, it's almost exactly the same as my hometown Wenjia Village, oops, that's almost exactly the same. ”

How different can there be between the villages in the north? Almost all the soldiers nodded their heads again and again. I deeply agree with what Wen Huaguo said.

Hearing this, Deng She was relieved. Wen Lao Si is coarse and fine, blindly full of Sven like a rude man, and he will not live today. When he was a horse thief, he robbed a rich man, and nine times out of ten, he stepped on the horse, and a few times he mixed in, and the inside and outside should be combined. Let him be the first to speak, choosing the right person.

Wen Huaguo then substituted from this village into Wenjia Village without a trace, recalled the voice of his father, let go again, and cursed the Tartar; Then he turned around lightly and delicately, and sighed at the ruin of the village in front of him. In a few words, the soldiers were so provocative that the soldiers cursed the Tartar with him again. Turning around again, imagining what Wenjia Village will become now?

When the soldiers fell into memories and missed their hometown, they put it back in the present. The war is in chaos, please God bless, don't let the village mess with the military disaster.

After saying this, he stepped down. The next person will come up and talk about it. The soldiers were in high spirits and enthusiastic. It will be opened in the morning and will be held in the afternoon. It wasn't until twilight that everyone did their best, and many of them cried like glass trumpets. And the way they looked at Deng She was very different.

This first wave of infighting seemed to be easily suppressed. Deng San praised Deng She for his good brain, and some generals in the red scarf spontaneously used the trick of remembering the bitter meeting. However, the purpose of their meeting was to unite the morale of the army and strengthen the soldiers' hatred of the Tartars, and basically did not lead to the road of restraining military discipline.

The effect of doing the same thing spontaneously and consciously is completely different. However, both Deng San and Deng She knew that Monk Li's matter was by no means finished. He's the most volatile factor in this team right now. Like a poisonous snake in the grass, it can jump out again at any time.

How to solve it completely? Both of them were thinking.

It's nightfall. The soldiers were in teams of ten, and they lined up to serve food in front of the improvised men. More than a dozen villagers were locked up in a large courtyard and guarded by special personnel. Deng She gave an order to ask his soldiers to bring them some food. As for the woman sent by Deng San, she was also sent to that courtyard.

The night air was bone-chilling, and the snow on the village road was mixed with mud under the trampling of people and horses, and it was full of mud when you stepped down. On both sides of the road, the houses on one side were swarthy, and the other side showed a slight silhouette in the cold moonlight. The eaves of the house, the flying corners, and the silhouettes were dim, mixed with weeds and the like, and each moment it became darker and darker.

Nothing but the noise of the soldiers and the neighing of the horses broke the silence of the night.

Dunshe stood in the courtyard and took a deep breath. It's been a long time since I've felt such a quiet night, the killing, the blood, the busyness and intrigue of the day, at this moment, are blown away by the night wind, and he can't help but fall into a kind of contemplation. What are you thinking? He himself didn't know.

But he enjoyed the trance.

Until the sound of horses' hoofs woke him up. The sound of horses' hooves coming from outside the village should be a sentry set up outside the village, or a ranger released from the village. Deng She listened attentively, the sound of horses' hooves was very urgent, and his first reaction was that the Yuan soldiers were coming. He grabbed the spear beside him, and without waiting for a greeting, the soldiers in the courtyard quickly draped him neatly with their hands and feet.

Roll over your horse and ride straight out of the yard. He saw that Deng San, Wen Huaguo, and Second Brother Guan had rushed out of the farm where they were staying.

In the moonlight, the armor was dim, and even more faint were clumps of blood. The blood stains on their armor, including Dunshe's, had been precipitating for too long. Deeply embedded in the armor, no amount of careful cleaning can erase the traces of their existence.

"What's going on?" Deng Sanyi took the lead and was the first to meet the rangers who rushed into the village.

The Ranger is an old brother and his horse is fast. In front of Deng San, who was about to arrive, he pulled the reins unhurriedly and skillfully controlled the mount, fast and slow, and stopped steadily. He jumped off the horse: "Eighth Master Chen is back." ”

Chen Hu didn't come back alone, he not only brought about 200 cavalrymen, but also brought an important figure in the red scarf.

The cavalry and important figures remained outside the village, and Chen Hu rode into the village alone. didn't have time to talk about his experience, he looked hasty: "Old master!" Gather the team and go. Behind the buttocks, a thousand-man team of Tartars fell! When crossing the Black River, I burned the bridge, delaying them for two hours at most. ”

After joining the red scarf, he generally called Deng San "Thousand Households" and "villain" to call himself. This has nothing to do with intimacy, they are still brothers who worship their sons, brothers who can't live together in life and can die together. But the introverted, cautious, serious, and more sincere character makes Chen Hu always do things, and he has always been Ding is Ding and Mao is Mao. If one day in the future, Deng San takes them back to his old job, he will not change his mood and change back to his original title without hesitation: old master.

And now. Those who are familiar with him know that only when the matter is extremely urgent, he will panic and call Deng San the old master and call himself me.

Deng San immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, the horn sounded, the banner was erected, and the heralds galloped through the village. didn't have time to say hello to Chen Hu, only smiled hurriedly, Deng She, Wen Huaguo, and Second Brother Guan hurried to convene the headquarters. After doing all this, he took advantage of the time when the team was assembled and asked what was going on.

Chen Hu took a breath and calmed down a little: "There are a total of two hundred and twelve cavalrymen who came with the villain, all of whom are subordinates of Dongshengzhou's ancestors and thousands of households. Among them was an important person, the wife of Marshal Wang. ”

Why is Wang Shicheng's wife in the camp of the successor? This starts with the origin of the ancestor and Wang Shicheng. To put it simply, Xu Jizu is Wang Shicheng's brother-in-law, these two people are not Liu Futong's eastern red scarf, but were born in Xiao County (Yuan belonged to Xuzhou, now belongs to Suzhou, Anhui) Sesame Li and Zhao Junyong.

In the twelfth year of Zheng, Sesame Li was defeated by the Yuan army and died in battle; Zhao Junyong switched to Haozhou, and his power was much worse than in the heyday, so he had to nominally serve King Xiaoming as the main and obey the orders of the Great Song Dynasty.

Among Liu Futong's Northern Expedition to the Third Route Army, Mao Gui, the Western Route Army from Shandong, was Zhao Junyong's subordinate. And Wang Shicheng and Xu Jizu are Mao Gui's generals. In other words, Wang and Xu are not Liu Futong's descendants, nor are they Mr. Guan's subordinates. At best, they resemble the status of a guest army in a cooperative operation.

This is also why, in the previous military discussion in the ancestral hall, Brother Huang Donkey would rather Deng San be a thousand households than Monk Li be a thousand households.

These twists and turns, Deng San, who is an old red scarf, is naturally clear, he didn't care about this so-called Mrs. Wang, but asked about the situation of Yunnei and Dongsheng.

Chen Hu sighed: "The two states are broken, and when passing by Yunnei, the Tartars are slaughtering the city. Thinking about the fate of Dongsheng City after it was broken, it was not much better. He smiled bitterly, "If it weren't for the fact that he was busy slaughtering the city and grabbing things, the Tartars would not have time to pursue, so they only sent a team of 1,000 people, and they were afraid of villains, and they would never see the adults of a thousand households again." ”

"How did you escape?"

"After the grove, I went to Yunnei first and reported to Wang Shicheng; Then he sent a few men and went with me to Dongsheng. The ancestors were also moving quickly, but the Tartars came faster, and soon after the army gathered out of the city, they encountered the Tartar cavalry. Collapsed in one go. At that time, I was in Dongsheng Prefecture, and my step-grandfather arranged for me to rest in the Zhongjun tent.

Therefore, the information was obtained relatively early, and the soldiers who protected Mrs. Wang and the family members of the heirs broke out of the siege. I speculate that Yunnei and Dongsheng are broken, and Fengzhou is afraid that it will not be able to be saved. There is no way to go, and I don't know where the thousands of adults are. I had to choose to go to Shangdu. It just so happened that I met my brother sent out to look for me by Lord Chihu on the way, so I came all the way. ”

He added with trepidation: "The family of the next step-ancestor was not with the villain, and they broke through when they broke through, and the cavalry of the Tartars was too fierce. At the time of the breakthrough, there was a thousand people, and now there are only about 200 people left, and now the highest commander of this cavalry is a thousand households, who was seriously wounded, and on the stretcher outside the village, he couldn't move, but he was afraid that he would not live long. ”

The cavalry that defeated the ancestors of the successor was most likely the cavalry that Deng San encountered.

Deng San sighed, not paying attention to this message: "Whose subordinate is the Tartar chasing you?" ”

"I can't see it, I didn't play the flag." Chen Hu paused, and said solemnly, "Once I had a confrontation with their front team, they were all Mongolian Tatars, maybe it was the Tanma Red Army." ”

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1. In the ninth year of Zhengzheng, in March, there was a great hunger in Jiaozhou, and people were cannibalistic.

2, in the eleventh year of Zheng, Sesame Li, Lao Peng, Zhao Junyong, etc., took the important town of Xuzhou with eight people. Tree flag recruits, and in one day, 100,000 people are earned.

On August 10, he pretended to be a river picker and threw himself into Xucheng at night. Staying in the city, the doorman refused, saying: "I will pick the river husband." What does it hurt to spend the night? "Half of it is because of the intrusion, and half of it is outside. On the fourth watch of the night, there were four fires in the city, and there were also four fires outside the city. Since they are reunited, the shouts inside and outside the city are corresponding, the four people in the city seize the army and cut the pass, and the four people outside the city break in and shout in unison. The people are bound to their fate.

In the morning, the tree banner recruited people for the army, and nearly 100,000 people followed. Build pontoon bridges out of the four out of the land, there are Xuzhou near the county and Suzhou Wuhe, Hongxian, Feng, Pei, Lingbi, west and Anfeng, Hao, Si. Upon hearing of the incident, the provincial officials of the imperial court held the title and said "conspiracy against the rebellion". Detached from his view, he changed the title and said: "The Han people in Henan are plotting rebellion." "Those who know know the yuan can no longer have the world! The Han people in Henan can be punished!

3. In the twelfth year of Zheng, Prime Minister Yuan Cheng took off the army and attacked Xuzhou in person.

"Yuan History": Tomorrow's city will be broken, and Sesame Li will escape. obtained its yellow umbrella, burned its accumulation, chased and captured dozens of pseudo households, and then slaughtered its city. The edict is the army in the addition of the detachment of the Taishi, and the fun is still in the court.

——Xuzhou, known as Pengcheng in ancient times, is the first prosperous place at the intersection of Shandong, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces today, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and is an important town for ancient and modern soldiers. The slaughter of the city, Xuzhou men, women and children were not spared, so that sixteen years later, the Ming Empire declared the establishment of the country, here is still "white bones cover the ground, the grass is reckless", the remnants of bricks and tiles are barren and grassy, infested with foxes, squirrels and jackals.

4, Zhao Junyong, a native of Xiao County, Huaibei, and the local president. In 1351, he rebelled from Zhima Li, and then went to Haozhou, and was at odds with Guo Zixing. In 1356, Huai'an was conquered, and King Xiao Ming ordered the province to be Pingzhang, crisscrossing Huai and Sijian for several years, and in 1357 he was called the King of Yongyi.

"Emperor Ming Benji": Xu Shuai, Peng Da, Zhao Jun led the rest of the people to Benhao, and Deya waited for it. In the event of the defeat of Xuzhou, its remnants tended to be Liangliang and defended together. When the remnants of the male power were controlled, but Yu, Lu, Sun, Pan, and Guo were restrained by the rebellion, and everything was fateful, and everyone was subject to the constraints before the end of the month.

5, Tanma Red Army.

Beginning with Polo Timur's father's loss of Badulu, it can be traced back to his father's grandfather, who has been an officer of the Tanma Red Army for generations. Attacked Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty and suppressed ethnic minorities in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.

"Tanma Chi" means "Tanma Officer". It can be understood as the meaning of "tanma" in Chinese, that is, pioneer. It seems that it also has the meaning of being a high-ranking official and a subordinate official.

During the Mongol period, soldiers were selected from thousands of households, hundreds of households and tribes to form elite troops, which served as pioneers in field battles and sieges of castles, and were stationed in conquered areas after the war, known as the Tanma Red Army.

Also known as the Mongolian Army, there are four major Mongolian armies stationed in the north, Wanhufu, each with a unified army of 1 or 20,000 troops, with a total of more than 50,000 people. In addition to the Mongols, its members also included the Semu people and the small number of Han Chinese.

By the way: the hundred households of the Tanma Red Army can be a thousand households in the Han army and the new annex army (the army surrendered in the Southern Song Dynasty), and their children can be a hundred households.

In the Yuan generation, the Han army and the new annex army could only hold weapons when fighting, and the Mongolian army and the Tanma Red Army were not in this case. And even in the Tanma Red Army, the Han people could not carry bows and arrows and weapons, and only the Mongols and Semu people could carry them with a license.

The Mongols repeatedly confiscated the weapons of the Han Chinese and handed them over to the Tanma Red Army for safekeeping, which was a sign of trust in them.

If it weren't for the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian cavalry was so degenerate and corrupt that it was useless, and the Han people who joined the Yuan army still had no chance to take weapons except when they went into battle to sell their lives.

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1, Haozhou.

At that time, Guo Zixing and others were in Haozhou.