Wenxi Village is the closest to Feishan, and the garrison is also equipped with a certain number of firearms, Yang Shengtai decided to be the first to pull out the stronghold of the Song army to reduce the suppression, and the eldest brother Yang Shengtian guarded the base camp of Feishan to prevent the official army from sneaking attack. So Yang Shengtai led 3,000 soldiers and horses to make a sneak attack and attack Wenxi Village (now southwest of Huitong County).

The dawn broke, and the Song army guards were still in a dream. A few cannon shots, the fence was shattered, and then Yang Shengtai ordered the crossbowmen to fire rockets at the Song army's camp tent, and before a few Wenxi Village burst into flames. Many Song soldiers didn't have time to put on their clothes, so they ran out of the tent and fled for their lives.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to have today, and I want you to taste your Grandpa Yang's power!" Yang Shengtai outside the village looked up to the sky and laughed on his horse.

After the panic, a general of the Song army gathered thousands of men, held an umbrella-headed snake-tail gun, stepped on the war horse, and shouted: "Firearms team, all obey the order!" Shoot! ”

The order was given for a long time, but no soldiers from the firearms team came out, and after a while, the firearms captain ran over sweating profusely and said, "Tell the general, the gunners are missing!" ”

"Damn, you don't know how to fire?" The general was a heavy whip at him.

"It's so heavy, how can I move it?" The captain of the firearms shouted.

"Where's the rocketeer?"

"General, all the rockets are burned."

"How did you become a captain?" The general gave him another whip.

Yang Shengtai answered outside the camp gate: "Without firearms, how can you still be majestic?" ”

"It turns out that the firearms team is all your people, you are ruthless enough!" The general was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.

"I'll let you die today! I'll tell you, the rockets were burned by my men, and the gunners were behind me. ”

As soon as Yang Shengtai waved his hand, more than 100 Song army artillerymen dressed in firearms team clothes ran out from behind, and the generals of the Song army were dumbfounded.

"Whether you surrender obediently today or fight to the death, it's up to you."

"I am a dignified Song general, surrendered to thieves, isn't it a laughing stock to spread out? It's a man, and you'll fight me out."

"Good! If you don't go to heaven if you don't take it, then I will fulfill you today! Yang Shengtai slapped his horse with a gun and rushed into the camp gate.

Yang Shengtai, who was extremely strong in arms, made one move of "chaos suppression" and another move of "overwhelming the mountains and seas", beating Song Jiang to the point that he was powerless and retreated several feet away.

"Sure enough! The Yang family's gun is worthy of its name. Song Jiang knew that he had met a master, and he praised him. General Song refused to admit defeat, and used eighty percent of his strength with his gun, and a "bloody battle in all directions" came towards Yang Shengtai.

Yang Shengtai used the trick of "not moving like a mountain" and flew Song Jiang's umbrella head snake tail gun, and the head of the gun pierced deep into his left shoulder. General Song immediately raised his hands to indicate that he was invincible and surrendered on the spot.

In this way, Yang Shengtai made a surprise attack on Wenxi Village and became famous. The rebel army won many battles, and Hu Tian, the commander of the Quyang army, panicked, and there was no good way to trap the Quyang army for a while.

The imperial court sent Tang Yiwen, a transfer envoy from Hubei, to conquest, and sent troops to Quyang to suppress it, and Hunan also increased troops to help, and the three roads (Jinghu North Road in northern Hunan, Jinghu South Road in eastern Hunan, and Guangnan West Road in northern Guangxi) were all shocked.

Tang Yi asked, the word Shixuan, was born as a civil official, and he was also a native of Jiangling, and he was good at writing. As soon as he arrived in the land of Chenghuizhou, he learned from Hu Tian's letter that the righteous army was only about 6,000 people, and the rabble was not to be feared, so he rashly took 5,000 soldiers and horses and drove into the Quyang army.

Tang Yi asked about Hu Tian's official office and stationed the Song army in the city. As a result, this news was soon learned by Yang Shengtai's subordinates, and Yang Shengtai led his troops and horses to take the Quyang army directly.

The rebel army destroyed the city gate with artillery outside the city, and defeated the Song army with lightning speed, and the official army was besieged in the narrow place of Quyang, and ran out of ammunition and food. The rebel army surrounded the Quyang officer Ya, and Hu Tian and Tang Yiwen became the turtles in the urn.

Hu Tian hurriedly sent a messenger to Yang Shengtai's camp, saying that "Tang Yiwen is writing a report asking the emperor to withdraw his troops, and also asking the emperor to reinstate the chiefs."

Yang Shengtai read the letter and said, "I believe you for the time being. So he took thousands of men and horses with him, and went with the messenger to the yamen.

Hu Tian saw that Yang Shengtai was really coming, and hurriedly handed the memo written by Tang Yiwen to Yang Shengtai: "Big hero, I am ashamed to bring so many people to the peace talks. ”

"What are you afraid of, as long as you are sincere, you are not afraid!" Yang Shengtai took the fold and read it carefully, and it was really the same as what Hu Tian said in the letter.

"Less gimmicky. When was that song sent to the imperial court? Yang Shengtai glared, and Hu Tian took a few steps back in fright.

"Am I not here? Big heroes. Now, right now. ”

"Then who will send the ...... out?"

Yang Shengtai didn't finish speaking, Tang Yiwen hurriedly said, "I'll go, I'll go." By the way, I didn't have my official seal, and I couldn't send it out without a seal. ”

"Well, there's Lord Laotang." Yang Shengtai asked Tang Yiwen to go to the army to get the official seal.

Not long after, the letter stamped with the official seal was sent to the Zhijun Yamen, Yang Shengtai verified it, and the two soldiers of the Song Army took the letter and rode out of the city on war horses, and galloped north along the post road.

"Hero, can I go?" Tang Yi asked and pretended to be trembling.

"Since you keep your word, then get out of the city with your men, but you have to disarm."

"What the good man says is very true, and I follow it." Tang Yi asked, "Then I'll go." ”

"Get out of here!"

Tang Yiwen took his remnants of the defeated army and hurriedly fled out of the city. Yang Shengtai believed Tang Yiwen too much, and when Tang Yiwen left for about an hour, he also withdrew the army.

As soon as Tang Yiwen returned to the base camp of the Song army, he immediately sent a few soldiers, rode thousands of miles of horses, caught up with the soldiers who sent the fold, and took the fold back.

The soldier who sent the fold was full of suspicion: "Lord Tang, why don't you let us enter Beijing again?" ”

"Yang Shengtai is a thief, his brain can't turn, it's so foolish, I don't use the golden cicada to get out of the shell, can I come back?"

"Congratulations to Lord Tang on returning to the camp, Lord Tang is not surprised, I admire him!" The whole battalion of Song troops said in unison.

"In the future, you will also learn a little bit when you encounter problems."

"Yes! Follow the teachings of adults. ”

Yang Shengtai waited for half a month, and did not see Hu Tian come to Feishan to convey the emperor's holy decree, only to know that he had been deceived by Tang Yiwen, an old fox, and was furious, so he sent troops to constantly attack Tang Yiwen's camp.

During this period of time, Tang Yiwen pressed the battle report of Yang Shengtai's attack on the Song army, reported good news but not bad news, and was anxious to mobilize troops to wipe out the righteous army, and the situation was very critical. Yang Shengtai had no choice but to connect with Xirong (Rongzhou, Guangxi) Mansu Ren to urge a group, and the rebel army grew rapidly, and the number of people surged to more than 20,000.

At the same time, Gao Taiwei, the secretary of the Song Dynasty, recommended to the emperor Long Yuguan, the deputy envoy of Nanchang Jiezhi, who was promoted to the pacification envoy of Huguang and transferred to Qianxiang to suppress the peasant uprising in Chengzhou.

Long Yuguan, the word Xiangcheng, was born in Yingtian in the ninth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1031), and later served as the inspector of Zhejiang Prefecture with his father Long Cailian. Later, he followed his grandfather into Taihe County, Ji'an, Jiangxi, and eliminated the peasant rebel army.

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Long Yuguan served as the deputy envoy of Nanchang Jiezhi, and he made many miraculous achievements in commanding the army. After Long Yuguan led the army to conquer Wuling County and Wuchang, Yuanfeng went out to Baoqing, Yuanzhou, Chengzhou, Jingzhou, Langxi, Suining, Guzhou (Liping Luoli), Wukai (now Liping) and other places in five years.

Long Yuguan, a native of Liping, Guizhou, was a murderous executioner who advocated a bloody suppression of the Miao uprising, but this time he met the opponent of Yang Shengtai, the chief of Feishan.

More than 20,000 rebel troops led by Yang Shengtai stationed troops on the border of Guizhou and Chu to attack Chengzhou, and the roads of Huguang and Jingzhou were in an emergency. Long Yuguan led his troops to drive Yuanshui from Changde, Hunan, and the troops were divided into two routes: all the way up the Qingshui River, pacifying some barbarian rebel leaders on both sides of the river, and marching to Wukai and Wunaozhai; All the way to Jingzhou, to Chengzhou Tanxi, Wukai, Wunaozhai advance.

When Yang Shengtai heard the news, he led the barbarian rebels to fight in Wunaozhai (now Liping City) and garrisoned the army camp. Long Yuguan led his troops to Xinhua and Tanxi, and Yang Shengtai's generals Yang Lin and Wu Tianyu each led 4,000 soldiers and horses, and reinforced, from Zhongchao and Jiasuo, to reinforce Wunaozhai to meet Long Yuguan of the Song army.

On the seventh day of the fourth month of the second year of Zhezong (1087), the two armies fought in the Wunao Village, and the actual battle lasted for five hours, and the corpses of the Wunao Village were everywhere, and the blood flowed like a river. Yang Sheng's generals Yang Lin and Wu Tianyu were killed in the battle, and the barbarian Yi Yi Yi army was defeated.

Officer Long Yu continued to quell the remnants of the rebel army in the Zhongchao, Yongcong, and Tonggu areas, and sent some officers and soldiers to garrison the local area to prevent the rebel army from rebelling. Yang Shengtai retreated to Miaojiang, and the uprising entered a low ebb, but the rebel army was not frightened and insisted on resisting.

After Yang Shengtai was defeated in Wunaozhai, he learned that Long Yuguan suddenly died of illness in Taoyuan, Changde, and immediately collected the rest of the 10,000 people of the righteous army, attacked Chengzhou, and invaded the border of Liping. The rebel army cut off the way to Quyang, and the Song army was not allowed to enter.

In the third year of Yuanyou (1088), Tang Yiwen saw that Yang Shengtai suffered heavy losses, and sent Wang An, the seventh general in the southeast, to lead troops to attack the righteous army. Wang An was proud to underestimate the enemy, rashly advanced, and entered the Feishan area.

The Feishan area is the base camp of the Yang family, which has been operating for more than 100 years, and every young and strong citizen is a regular army when he takes a weapon, and compared with the Song army, it can be said that there is a heaven and an underground.

When Wang An's army reached the mountainous area, the artillery could not play a role at all, and after the rebels lurking in the jungle shot the Song army for a while, they ran away without a trace and could not catch up with them at all, which made Wang An lose face.

Therefore, Wang An ordered the troops to stop advancing, and asked his staff to write a very challenging and sharply worded war letter, and sent it to Yang Shengtai's hands.

Yang Shengtai opened the war book, read it quickly, and got up: "What a Wang An, scolding me for being a thief, I don't care, I actually insulted my Feishan Taigong, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!" ”

So Yang Shengtai wrote a letter and asked the Song army messenger to carry it back, and the two sides agreed to fight for life and death on a flat ground, and the two dismounted and looked at each other.

Yang Shengtai said: "Wang An, you are a general, you speak rudely, and you don't have to make such a decision to compete with me." ”

Wang An said: "If I don't do this, will you come out?" To fight a war is to be above board, so why be sneaky? ”