The 100,000 peasant army set up camp on three sides and surrounded the city of Laizhou, leaving only the seaside side.

In the camp, the second leader of the Wenxiang Sect, "Ma Wangye", was gathering the leaders of the army and distributing tasks, and the Holy Maiden Bai Gu of the Wenxiang Sect sat on the main seat and listened quietly.

The entire peasant army knew that the saint did not care about anything, and everything in the army was decided by the "Lord Ma".

"Ma Wangye" is Ma Yilong, who did not dare to reveal his real name in order to avoid bringing ruin to the family, so he took such a nickname.

At the beginning, Ma Yilong supported the Holy Maiden Baigu of the Wenxiang Sect because he wanted to hide behind the scenes, because he knew that the possibility of a successful rebellion based on the remnants of Wenxiang alone was too small.

However, Bai Gu has lived in seclusion in the nunnery for many years, saying that she is the saint of the Wenxiang Sect, but in fact she is a nun who doesn't know anything, although some old people of the Wenxiang Sect survived, but they are all reckless men who only know how to do it, Ma Yilong had to come forward to deal with things for the saint.

The whole rebellion went very smoothly. At the beginning, relying on the thug house slaves who were secretly bought, the inside and outside cooperated so that the Wenxiang Sect easily took Zhucheng County. Ma Yilong ordered to open the county warehouse and take out money and grain, and recruit poor people to join the army, and the urban and rural people in Zhucheng and County came to vote one after another, but there were too many people who could not eat in this era, and in order to fill their stomachs, who cared if they rebelled or not.

After conquering Zhucheng County, Ma Yilong led the army to the east to attack the Laizhou Mansion, and the march was also very smooth, often as soon as the peasant army arrived outside the city, someone in the city took the initiative to open the city gate. And these people are not peasants who do not have enough to eat, and there are many shadows of gentry and officials behind them. Naturally, an official of the imperial court like the county governor will not surrender to the Wenxiang Sect and rebel against the thief, but the officials in the state and county don't care so much. The situation in Yanzhou Mansion in Jinan Prefecture has spread to Jiaodong, and many officials are in danger.

If you don't raise something, wait until the emperor sends someone to come, it will be the end of the dismissal and dismissal of the official and the death of the family, but you can fight a fight, and you can resist the crusade of the imperial army, and the enemy can't resist anyway, there are Wenxiang sect anti-thieves in front, and the big deal is that when the imperial court army kills, they will return to the court, and hand over the people of the Wenxiang Sect, maybe they can change to an official and a half-post.

The officials thought so, and the gentry thought similarly, and they were afraid that the emperor would send someone to raid the family and divide the land.

As a result, the entire upper echelons of Jiaodong were antipathetic, how could the Wenxiang Sect march not go well? This is also the reason why the Smelling Fragrance Sect was able to gather more than 200,000 people and build more than 10 cities in just over a month. In fact, these more than a dozen cities were all sacrificed by themselves, not by the thieves of the Wenxiang Sect.

And this has also caused many internal mountains and factions within the anti-thieves. There are more than 200,000 rebels, and there are more than ten forces, some of these forces obey the call of the Wenxiang Sect, and some ignore the Holy Maiden and Ma Yilong at all.

As the first person to do the trouble, Ma Yilong and the holy woman have the most army and the greatest strength, plus Ma Yilong is quite strategic, and his ability is much stronger than those small officials and brainless reckless people, relying on the forcible annexation of several rebels, relying on plundering the countryside, Ma Yilong's army reached 100,000 people, accounting for almost half of all the rebel army. Of course, there are more than 100,000 people, and there are only 30,000 or 40,000 real young men, and most of them are farmers who have just put down their hoes, and they don't know how to fight at all.

Ma Yilong has been carefully training his subordinates, according to the military book to the subordinates, the preparation of spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, two types of troops, another 200 archers, 50 firearms, bows, arrows and firearms are captured from the defenders of various counties.

Ma Yilong drilled his subordinate soldiers, taught them to read the flag, and could understand the sound of gongs and drums for attacking and retreating. More than a month has passed, and although these peasant soldiers have not yet been able to carry out the order and prohibition, the basic queue is still similar, and the march will also be divided into forward and rear guards, so that there will be no confusion after walking for a few miles. And just like that, it is already a rare strong army among more than a dozen anti-thieves.

And what really made Ma Yilong's ambition swell was that half a month ago in Pingdu Prefecture, he commanded his subordinates to defeat the official army of Laizhou Mansion, and killed Zhang Dake, the general soldier of Laizhou, and fled.

This battle made Ma Yilong's ambition swell, and he thought that the official army was nothing remarkable. With an army of 100,000, it is not impossible to capture the whole of Shandong. As long as the whole of Shandong can be captured, the Beijing division can be peeped into according to the northeast of Shandong, and it is unknown whether it can capture the Daming Dynasty......

Therefore, Ma Yilong began to plan to capture Laizhou City, and then attack Qingzhou from the west of Laizhou City, and then attack Jinan. What can the emperor do in Jinan, if the emperor does not leave, then he will capture the emperor and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes!

After Pingduzhou, Ma Yilong's methods became tougher, and he no longer had any scruples, and he originally had affection for the gentry from all over the country, but now he didn't give face at all. Everywhere they went, the thieves of the Wenxiang Sect ransacked the countryside and plundered money and grain, and brought the people to join the army, and the team expanded rapidly, and when they attacked outside the city of Laizhou, the army had exceeded 150,000.

From the beginning of the incident, Ma Yilong has not encountered great difficulties, and everywhere the army arrives, there are always people in the city who rebel and respond, and the city gate always takes the initiative to open. When fighting with the officers and soldiers, they just ordered the whole army to attack, and the officers and soldiers fled in fear.

It has been smooth, so Ma Yilong thinks that it will be easy to capture Laizhou City.

However, under Laizhou City, he hit a hard nail, and Laizhou City did not take the initiative to open the door and surrender.

According to intelligence, the defenders of the city were Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, and Zhang Keda, the defeated general of Laizhou. This Zhu Wannian is a diehard, knowing that the emperor is trying to deal with the officials and gentry, but he doesn't think about himself at all.

In Laizhou City, there were officials from the prefecture and county who were in tandem with each other to try to surrender to the Wenxiang Sect and the thieves, and after Zhu Wannian knew about it, he pretended to be willing to surrender together. The prefect was willing to take everyone to surrender, and those officials were naturally happy, who knew that Zhu Wannian turned his face, so he colluded with Zhang Keda to raise a butcher's knife to these officials, and killed more than 50 officials in a row. also took advantage of the situation to copy the gentry Liu Peng's family in the city, saying that Liu Pengju colluded with the Wenxiang Sect to rebel and wanted to lead the slaves to sacrifice the city.

Then, Zhu Wannian recruited young people in the city with the money copied from Liu's family, with the officials and troops in Zhang Keda's hands as the main force, and tens of thousands of young people assisted to guard each section of the city wall.

Believing the remaining officials in the county, Zhu Wannian actually selected Xiucai from the government school, especially those from poor families, and let them be responsible for leading the young and strong to guard the city.

Even if the emperor comes to Laizhou Mansion, he will only deal with the officials and gentry, and these poor talents will not have any loss, but will get the opportunity to be officials, so these shows are the most unlikely to rebel. Although these talents don't know how to fight, in the eyes of ordinary people, they are learned and respected. With them on the city wall, at least the young and strong people have the backbone.

And Zhu Wannian's arrangement made Ma Yilong's 100,000 incense sect thieves hit a big nail, and Ma Yilong tried to attack the city several times, but he couldn't attack the city wall.

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