Chapter 153: King Tai'an Takes Advantage of the Chaos to Advance The Xiangwu Prefecture Uprising Breaks Out

Moreover, at this time, Xiahou Co., the former Xiangwu King of the Western Zhao State, led more than 800,000 troops to attack Wuningfu, Wuping Prefecture and Wuyang Prefecture in the western part of Shanyoujiang North Province under the control of the Illuminati and the Guangming Army. Full of self-confidence, he thinks that if he leads a large army, he can completely take a piece of land from the Illuminati and the Illuminati Army. As a result, he was surrounded by the Bright Army and the Bright Army and the Civilian Army. However, his five sons did not hesitate to make a big move for the throne, but they completely ignored their father and allowed their father to be surrounded and annihilated, and finally their father Xiahou, the king of Xiangwu, killed himself.

On the second day of the fourth month of the first year of Guangming, the five sons of King Xiangwu learned the news of the annihilation of their father and the army of more than 800,000 people. Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, who was already salivating over the three prefectures of Xiangwu Prefecture, Anping Prefecture, Jing'an Prefecture and Anguo Prefecture under the control of Xiahou Co., the king of Xiangwu, who had died in battle, immediately led an army of 450,000 troops to attack the three prefectures of Xiangwu while the five sons of the Xiangwu King were fighting each other.

As a result, basically without paying much price, Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, captured a prefecture and three states, and killed the five unscrupulous sons of Xiahou Cuo, the king of Xiangwu, along with their entire clan.

However, what Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, did not expect was that when he was triumphant, a peasant uprising organized by the Illuminati suddenly broke out in the eastern part of Xiangwu Prefecture, which was close to the six counties of Longan-gun, Xingchang-gun, Yiguang-gun, Baoqing-gun, Fufu-gun, and Fuxing-gun in Shanyoujiangbei Province, which were under the control of the Illuminati and the Guangming Army.

In the six counties in the eastern part of Xiangwu Prefecture, because of the collusion between the local tycoons, wealthy merchants and local officials, the continuous looting of people's fat and ointment, the continuous increase of taxes under various names, and the continuous exploitation and oppression, the local peasants were all deprived of their land, and many of the people's taxes were received after 20 years. Unable to bear it any longer, Bai Qi, a peasant and Illuminati cultist from Bai's hometown in Gu'an County, Yiguang County, and his younger brother Bai Jiu organized local villagers to attack the mansion of the local inferior gentry Wang He and put him on trial.

The uprising of the brothers Bai Qi and Bai Jiu was like a little spark on a pile of hay, and the result began to show a trend of burning the prairies. Soon, countless people began to join the uprising.

In order to strengthen the leadership of the uprising, Meng Qian, the incense lord of Xiangwu Prefecture of the Illuminati, sent a large number of backbone forces with both ability and political integrity to organize the uprising.

However, the uprising in the six counties caused local officials who colluded with each other,

Fearful and hateful of the local gentry and wealthy merchants, they quickly paid out of their own pockets, formed an army, and appealed to Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, for help.

In order to strengthen his rule, Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, immediately sent his general Li Yaosheng to lead an army of 100,000 to suppress the local uprising.

On the ninth day of the fourth month of the first year of Guangming, in the battle of Jiuxi Mountain, the brothers Bai Qi and Bai Jiu fought with the enemy who came to encircle and suppress them, and they both died in battle. However, even though the two of them were killed in battle, the rebel team had completely smashed the enemy's encirclement and suppression under the leadership of the backbone of the Illuminati.

On April 12, the leaders of the large and small uprisings in the land of the six counties gathered at Long'an Mountain, Long'an County, and Meng Qian, the incense lord of Xiangwu Prefecture of the Illuminati, spoke first, and he preached the purpose and ideas of the Illuminati to these leaders, and advised all the leaders to seriously consider their future course of action. Most of the leaders present were Illuminati leaders, and those who had not been involved in the Illuminati had heard Illuminati propaganda. Naturally, the participants all agreed to form a joint team, and elected Meng Qian as the general of the joint team. However, Meng Qian was very opposed, but he hoped that Chao Junyi, who was famous for his love and righteousness, would be a general.

Chao Junyi is a native of Chao Village, Anchang County, Long'an County, and he is not a member of the Illuminati. However, Chao Junyi's martial arts are outstanding, fighting righteousness and squandering wealth, valuing love and righteousness, and righteousness is thin and cloudy. In this uprising, he almost responded to the call, and a large number of outstanding talents gathered under his command. Because of this, the rebel army under his command was also the largest of all the rebel armies, totaling 350,000. Because he was familiar with the art of war since he was a child and knew the importance of military discipline, the rebel army he led was highly disciplined and deeply supported by the people. Although he was not a member of the Illuminati, he was a confidant with Meng Qian and deeply agreed with the purpose and ideas of the Illuminati. In particular, after the fortunate trip to the area controlled by the Illuminati and the Bright Army, his mind began to rise massively. However, he was free by nature and had his own opinions, so he did not consider joining the Illuminati at the time.

However, at this Long'anshan Conference, he saw from Meng Qian the good character of a member of the Illuminati. And at this very moment, he was determined to join the Illuminati.

On April 15 of the first year of Guangming, after the end of the Long'an Mountain Conference, the rebel army led by Chao Junyi as the general and Meng Qian as the military advisor and supervisor was finally established. It was also on this day that the 100,000-strong army led by Li Yaosheng, a general under Xiahou Tai, the king of Tai'an, attacked a rebel army of 3,000 people in Lanxi County, southwest of Baoqing County, and captured the leader of this rebel army, Du San, and executed him to Ling Chi, in addition to this, he also ordered people to kill 1,000 prisoners. In addition, his army burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil in the local area. His atrocities aroused the indignation of the general Chao Junyi and Meng Qian, the military advisor and supervisor.

For the 100,000 fierce wolf-like army led by Li Yaosheng, Chao Junyi and Meng Qian, after a series of intelligence analysis, decided to lure them to the Jintai Mountain Grand Canyon area in Jintai County, eastern Lanxi County, and encircle and annihilate their entire army.

On April 18, the combined army of Chao Junyi and Meng Qian had moved their tents to the Grand Canyon of Jintai Mountain. However, at this time, Li Yaosheng was in the county seat of Lanxi County, accepting the celebration banquet jointly held for him by the officials, heroes and wealthy businessmen in the county, and also sent him a lot of beauties. For several days he indulged in wine, oblivious to the movements of the rebels, who were like a rabble in his mind.

On 19 April, the number of rebels who had arrived at the Jintai Mountain Grand Canyon had reached 500,000, and countless people who had been organized not only cleared the enemy's walls, but also transmitted information to the rebels who were ambushed in the Jintai Mountain Grand Canyon area and covered the whereabouts of the rebels.

On April 20, Chao Junyi ordered a rebel army of 3,000 people to attack the county seat of Lanxi County, but Li Yaosheng, who was still holding a beautiful woman and immersed in sleep, was woken up by his subordinates from his sweet dream.

After immediately putting on his armor and kissing the cheek of the beautiful woman, Li Yaosheng immediately led the army and launched an attack on the rebel army that attacked the county seat of Lanxi County. Soon, the attacking rebel army was quickly defeated and retreated to the Jintai Mountain Grand Canyon area within the jurisdiction of Jintai County.

However, Li Yaosheng did not doubt him, he insisted on catching up with the defeated rebel army, and also shouted encouragement to his soldiers: "Brothers, you have all seen that these rebels are all a rabble. Hear, all of you, cut off the head of a thief and give him three taels of silver, and cut off the leader of the thief and give him a tael of gold. Brothers, with the support of those officials, wealthy businessmen, and gentry, why don't we worry about getting rich? Brothers, rest assured that we will hunt down and kill thieves. ”

With Li Yaosheng's encouragement, his soldiers began to cheer like wolves, and quickly pursued the rebels who appeared to have fled.

However, the leader of this fleeing rebel army, which was pursued by Li Yaosheng's army, was named Su Yunwen, who rode on horseback and cut off the rear for his brothers. He was adopted by the Illuminati and is now only sixteen years old. However, he is a fierce general. Moreover, he was so clever that in just one year, he could memorize many military books, but what was even more commendable was that he was able to combine what was on paper with reality, and as a result, he continued to lead his army and won many wars in this large-scale uprising. In his heart, the Illuminati was his home, the home he swore to protect. This time, it was she who offered to lure the enemy.

Su Yunwen's archery skills were very exquisite, and while constantly pretending to be defeated, he also kept shooting arrows at the pursuing enemy, and because the arrows were not missed, the advance of the army led by Li Yaosheng suffered many casualties for a while.

Li Yaoqi, the vanguard general of the army led by Li Yaosheng, was very angry, as Li Yaosheng's half-brother, Li Yaoqi's cruelty was as good as Li Yaosheng's. He swore in his heart that after capturing the sharpshooter who had caused the casualties of his soldiers, he would make him suffer from ten thousand arrows piercing his heart.

At the beginning of the afternoon, the 100,000-strong army led by Li Yaosheng entered the Jintai Mountain Grand Canyon area where the rebel army was heavily ambushed without warning.

Jintai Mountain is a mountainous area with many gold mines, which were once monopolized by the government, local gentry and wealthy merchants, and countless miners dug out countless gold for these forces under the conditions of lack of food and clothing, food and salary, and a treacherous environment. Due to the brutal oppression of these forces, the miners began to resist when they could not bear it anymore. In the end, under the leadership of the backbone of the Illuminati and miners Cao Yikun, Feng Shangyi, Yan Anmin and others, 8,000 miners in Jintai Mountain revolted, and the rebel army captured the county seat of Jintai County, killing the unscrupulous county magistrates and those inferior gentry and profiteers. Jintai County also became the first county seat occupied by the rebel army.

And Li Yaosheng naturally also set his sights on this Jintai County, which is full of gold, and his idea is very simple, to use this encirclement and suppression of the rebel army to turn Jintai County into his own private gold mine. The so-called: greed is not enough to swallow elephants. Li Yaosheng naturally couldn't have imagined that his greed would lead him to death.

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