Under the scorching sun, the Song army, who was hiding in the woods, saw that the rebels were late, so they simply lay down in the shade of the trees and fell asleep, leaving only some sentries as a warning.

Two hours passed, and the Miao people, armed with bows and arrows, broadswords, and spears, marched to the bottom of the narrow valley, and at a glance, they looked like ants moving rapidly.

Guo Kui, the leader of the Song army, waved the flag, and the "boom" artillery fired a salvo at the endless rebels, and the shells exploded in the crowd, and the rebel soldiers with broken arms and legs could be seen everywhere, and the cries were endless.

The rockets hit the men and horses, the grain and grass, the fireballs scattered on the ground, and the narrow road was a sea of fire. The war horses were frightened, and they trampled everywhere, and the rebels also trampled on each other, and they were in chaos without a fight. The rebel soldiers, who were on fire, had nowhere to flee and jumped into the river. The fire grew fiercer, and the smell of charred corpses permeated the entire canyon.

The rebels in Wugang City saw that there was a large group of Song troops chasing behind the leader Yang Changjin, and they were less than five hundred meters away, so they wanted to open the city gate and rush out to rescue.

"Brothers, don't open the gates, you will die if you come out. Find your own way to break through! Yang Changjin shouted anxiously, "Today we have been tricked!" ”

Yang Shengtian, the leader of the rebel army at the head of the city, learned that Guo Kui used the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, defeated the rebel army's rescue people, and decided to fight to the death with the Song army and live and die with the city. The besieging Song army launched an attack on the rebels in the city, and rockets flew up to the city, and the head of the city was on fire......

Yang Changjin understood that it was futile to continue running, and it was better to fight back, so he took a thousand people to break the queen and ordered the other 2,000 people to enter the mountains and forests as soon as possible: "Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." Brothers, get into the mountains! ”

When the 2,000 men and horses were far away, Yang Changjin grabbed the reins in the open area on the south bank of Wushui, turned the horse's head, carried the Yang family's big gun, and waited for the chasing Song army to come forward.

Guo Kui stopped less than 50 steps away from Yang Changjin and said with a smug smile: "Traitor, where are you fleeing?" ”

Yang Changjin said: "Damn, you wantonly killed my Miao people to invite merit and receive rewards, I won't take your dog's life today, I won't be surnamed Yang!" ”

"You quickly descend to me, if I am happy, I can reward you with a position as a commander." Guo Kui shouted.

"My father, Yang Guangbin, is a servant of the Ministry of Officials, a marshal of the capital, who has guarded the Quhe River for many years, has been aware of the people's feelings, and has never killed the Miao people indiscriminately. Isn't it tarnishing my reputation to be an eagle dog of the court, to kill my people, to invite merit and rewards, and to be with you? Yang Changjin pointed a gun at the tip of Guo Kui's nose.

"Once a son of heaven and a courtier, the past can only represent the past, and now the saint has ordered the barbarians to be killed, and I am just acting according to orders." Guo Kui sneered.

"Then why don't you play the Ming Sheng, cancel the ridiculous order, and return me to the peace of Miao Jiang?" Yang Changjin blamed Guo Kui.

"That's a civil servant's business, and I don't care about it. Disarm and surrender if you know each other! The corners of Guo Kui's mouth hooked.

"There's nothing to talk about, it's a big deal, come on!" Yang Changjin said angrily.

"Then I will fulfill you!"

Guo Kui waved his hand, and a deputy general with a crescent shovel rushed over and fought against Yang Changjin. In less than twenty rounds, the deputy general was not an opponent at all, and was knocked away by Yang Changjin, Yang Changjin's gun flickered, and pierced his chest, and then picked it up with one hand and threw it into the sky, and the deputy general fell to the ground and died immediately.

Guo Kui was shocked when he saw this, and sent another deputy general to fight, this deputy general was Guo Kui's cousin Tang Hao, who had always been famous in the army for his bravery and good fighting, and I saw him shoot Yang Changjin with a piercing armor.

Yang Changjin clamped the war horse between his legs and remained motionless, just waiting for him to approach. Tang Hao used the "Jiaolong out of the hole" to penetrate Yang Changjin's armor with one move, and Yang Changjin "turned the tide" to resolve his fierce offensive.

After the thirtieth round of the battle, Yang Changjin used the rain to scatter the pear blossoms, and in an instant, the silver light flashed, and the cold stars were dotted, which dazzled Tang Hao, and he couldn't cope with it, and retreated step by step.

Yang Changjin "smashed the Yellow Dragon", the head of the gun went straight through Tang Hao's throat, Tang Hao's hands hung down, the armor-piercing gun in his hand fell off the horse, and he was ordered to go to Huangquan.

Guo Kui lost two generals in a row, and scolded angrily: "Yang Changjin, today is either you die or I die!" "Raise the green dragon halberd and urge the horse to fly in, and directly take the head of Yang Changjin Xiang.

Yang Changjin became more and more courageous, and he was not enjoying the fight, and another one came to die, and when he saw Guo Kui coming up, he ran away with his horse, and Guo Kui chased after him.

Yang Changjin suddenly returned the rifle and cut off most of Guo Kui's right ear. Guo Kui knew that if he continued to fight hard, he might be Tang Hao's end. So he slapped his horse and retreated into the army, drew a fire gun from a soldier of the firearms team, and aimed at Yang Changjin, who came from Pegasus, was a gun, Yang Changjin was defenseless, was hit in the right chest, and blood stained the battle robe.

"Guo Kui, you brute, you actually made a trick, brothers, fight with them, kill-" Yang Changjin was furious.

So Yang Changjin took the lead in rushing into the enemy formation, smashing left and right, one shot at a time, and the thousand righteous troops behind followed suit, full of anger, brandishing Miao knives and slashing at the Song army, and the two sides fought together. After a period of fighting, the Song army suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

Guo Kui hurriedly ordered the 10,000 horses besieging the city to come back and surround Yang Changjin's troops. The rebels in the city took the opportunity to fight their way out of the bloody road and ran southwest.

Seeing this, Guo Kui did not chase after him, and did not care about the Song army that was fighting, so he ordered the Song army's crossbowmen and artillery men to fire with all their strength at the Song army and the rebel army crowd who were fighting together.

Half an hour later, a thousand righteous troops were defeated, all of them died heroically, and those Song troops who died in their own artillery fire did not understand until they died, Guo Kui would use them as cannon fodder.

In the woods in the distance, there was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy lying on his stomach, watching his father and brothers being killed by the Song army, and slammed his fist on the ground: "This revenge is not a gentleman, these damned officers and soldiers, one day I want you to pay back with blood!" ”

This young man is Yang Shengtai, Yang Changjin's youngest son. Witnessing his father's death on the battlefield, Yang Shengtai's eyes burst with anger, he wiped away his tears, and walked back to Gutian Mountain overnight......

Guo Kui was cut off half of his ear by Yang Changjin, and his cousin Tang Hao was also killed, so he took revenge on the rebels. Guo Kui ordered a bloody baptism of the village in the Wuxi area, all men over the age of 15 were executed, and the Miao people of the ninety mountains fled their homes one after another, hiding from the pursuit of the Song army, and the land of the Miao people was occupied by Guo Kui for military reclamation.

Soon Guo Kui was transferred out of Shaozhou, and with his military exploits, he moved to Rongzhou to observe the envoy and the deputy capital of Jingyuan Road. Gutian's rebel army had only 5,500 people left, so it had to withdraw to the border with the Feishan area, so that it could echo the Yang family forces in Chengzhou at any time.

After Yang Changjin died in battle, the two brothers Yang Shengtian and Yang Shengtai hated the Song army to the core, practiced martial arts day and night, and used the Yang family's century-old influence in Chenghui to secretly organize a Yang family armed force of 3,000 people in less than ten years.

The imperial court was busy dealing with the Western Xia and Liao, and the troops were seriously insufficient, so the Hunan Road and Hubei Road had to recruit soldiers from the indigenous barbarians and send them to the northwest and north to fight.

In order to find out the secret of the firearms of the Song army, Yang Shengtai sent more than 500 of his men to take advantage of the opportunity of recruiting soldiers from the garrisons in Wenjiabao and other places to break into the Song army.

These soldiers were shrewd and capable, had good martial arts, and endured hardships and stood hard work, and soon took up important positions in the army, and they secretly sent the method of making firearms back to the Dong village in Yang Shengtai. So Yang Shengtai hired craftsmen with a lot of money, and in the caves deep in Feishan, he stepped up the casting of artillery, rockets, fireballs and other firearms.

In 1068, the Northern Song Dynasty appointed the politician and thinker Wang Anshi to carry out political reforms and implement the Baojia Law throughout the country.

The Law stipulates that rural households shall have one guarantee for every ten households, five guarantees for one big guarantee, and ten guarantees for one metropolitan guarantee; The richest of the households were appointed as the chief of the household, the chief of the chief, and the chief of the capital, in order to prevent the peasants from revolting and to save military spending. The last time there was a lot of compulsion, Bao Ding "fled privately, the rod was sixty, and the escape day was filled in." If you don't get it, you won't go to the teaching, and you won't be able to go over seventy."

However, the most important thing for the imperial court is to teach and read, which has brought very deep suffering to the Baoding, not only seriously affecting the agricultural production of the family, but also being bullied and blackmailed by the Baozheng, the Baochang, the inspection and inspection subordinates, the instigation of the Baojia Division, and the official business. Some of the guards destroyed their limbs in order to avoid being educated, and there were even more incidents of escape.

In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), Shaozhou (now Shaoyang) Zhizhou Guanqi, please choose key places in Hui and Chengzhou to build a walled city to prevent border troubles. The imperial court ordered Hunan to pacify Xie Jingwen and other merchants, thinking that it was appropriate to build Qianyang County, and set Tuokou Village (now Qianyang Tuokou) and Guanbao Village (now Jingzhou North).

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), a small village was placed in the middle of today's Huitong territory, and Feng Cottage was set up in the central and southern parts of the country. In this year, the imperial court officially placed Chengzhou, and ordered Zhou Shilong, the governor of Yuanzhou, to be the governor of Chengzhou.

In the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), Quyang County was built in the territory of Chengzhou, which belonged to Chengzhou......

The fiefdom of the Yang family in Chenghui Prefecture is being encroached upon by the imperial court step by step, and the Baojia Law is also being implemented, and the Miao people are unbearable, and an uprising to protect the "sealed land" has begun to brew quietly in the Feishan area.

In the ninth year of Yuanfeng (1086), Song Shenzong fell ill and died. After Zhezong came to power, he appointed Sima Guang as the prime minister, he abolished Wang Anshi's reform policy, and only left the Baojia Law, and the imperial court once again fell into a serious financial crisis.

In July 1087, in order to facilitate the military control of the land of Wuxi, the imperial court abolished Yuanzhou and Chengzhou, removed the soldiers and horses of the two states and guarded the people, and changed it to the Quyang Army.

In July of the same year, in order to resist the clamping of the imperial court, Yang Shengtai (the sixth grandson of Yang Zaisi and the fifth grandson of Yang Zhengxiu), the leader of the Miao and Dong tribes in Huizhou, gathered a crowd in Feishan, gathered five or six thousand rebels, and launched a fierce attack on the Song army.