There were originally 2,500 officers and soldiers under the mountain, but after being taken away by Deng Zhiping, there were less than 1,500 left, and more than half of the villagers and officers and soldiers were still wounded.

At this time, the peasant army, which had been recuperating on the mountain for a long time, swooped down the mountain, and instantly caught the officers and soldiers who were resting at the bottom of the mountain by surprise.

But it was not the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain who fled first, but the people at the back of the line.

When the three thousand men saw that the thieves had swooped down from the mountain, they didn't even want the food and the flat burden that they were sitting on under their buttocks, so they ran in the direction of Fucheng.

Tian Younian, with the help of Qian Dayou and a group of officials, finally rode his not very tall horse.

"My lord, run, I will cut off my duties for you!" Qian Da slashed at the horse's buttocks, and the war horse glared at his legs in pain, and ran in the direction of Fucheng with Tian Younian.

The prefect has horses to ride, and the lives of the other three prefects are not so good.

Cao Guoqi of Fenyizhi County rode this time not by a horse, but by a buffalo.

Cao Guoqi finally climbed onto the back of the buffalo, but the buffalo couldn't fight because of the hot weather.

This time Cao Guoqi was in a hurry, and he didn't care whether he could ride a bull or not, so he planned to jump off the back of the cow and run away.

It's a pity that his movements are too slow, and as soon as he gets off the back of the ox, he is surrounded by dozens of peasant troops led by Yi Jiu.

"Big brother, catch an official!"

A subordinate tied Cao Guoqi to Yi Jiu as if he was invited.

Yi Jiu glanced at Cao Guoqi in his official uniform, couldn't help laughing, and said, "Come, tie up this dog official for me and send it to the king!" ”

Cao Guoqi didn't run away, and Cheng Zhidun, the magistrate of Pingxiang, didn't get much better, he rode the horse he brought, but at this time the entire official army was already in chaos, and there was a mess at the foot of the mountain, and he couldn't run out on a horse.

Cheng Zhidun looked at the Xiang Yong who fled one after another, and suddenly scolded angrily: "A group of rats! ”

Shi Guozhu of Wanzaizhi County is the most clever, he is in the middle of the team, responsible for controlling the people who carry grain in the rear.

When the shouts of the peasant army on the mountain just came, he took a few of his right-hand men directly into the ox cart and ran away, faster than the prefect Tian Younian.

At this time, Wang Bingzhong, who was watching the battle on the mountainside, couldn't help but scold angrily after seeing the rout of the officers and soldiers: "Tian Younian is a waste, this official must go to the court to impeach him!" ”

Meng Daohong was also angry, thousands of officers and soldiers were defeated by a peasant army with only 1,000 men, and the consequences were unimaginable.

After this battle, there was no strength in the four counties of Yuanzhou Mansion to deal with Mo Thief.

Thinking that the dignified Yuanzhou Mansion was going to be occupied by a thief, Meng Daohong didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Mo Qian saw the tragic situation of the official army under the mountain fleeing all the way, and knew in his heart that this battle had been won steadily.

He came to Wang Bingzhong and the three of them and said: "What about the three adults, what I said is right, within an hour, the officers and soldiers will be broken by me, and now there are still two incense sticks left before an hour." ”

Wang Bingzhong looked at Mo Qian's smug appearance, and couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.

He said unconvinced: "Hmph, it's too early for you to be happy now, if you are defeated here, Governor Xie will inevitably lead a large army to come, and it will be up to you to resist when the time comes!" ”

Mo Qian laughed, "Are you talking about Jiangxi Governor Xie Xuelong?" ”

"Of course, Lord Governor is wise and powerful, and he will definitely wipe out you, the thief!"

What Wang Bingzhong said was righteous and awe-inspiring, but Mo Qian didn't take these words to heart.

He has already defeated all the officers and troops in Yuanzhou, and in the next two or three months, Yuanzhou's capital and four counties will basically be in a state of defenselessness, and he can go wherever he wants.

However, Mo Qian did not plan to learn from Shaanxi Li Zicheng, Gao Yingshen and other thieves to be rogues.

Being a rogue, instead of helping his own rebellion, will push the people to the opposite side of himself.

Historically, Chongzhen reused Yang Sichang, adopted Yang Sichang's strategy of opening a net on four fronts, six corners and ten sides, and used Hong Chengchou as the governor of five provinces and Xiong Wencan as the prime minister of five provinces, and almost wiped out Li Zicheng and other thieves.

If it weren't for the internal discord in the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid that Li Zicheng would have been destroyed.

Of course, Mo Qian would not give the Ming Dynasty such a chance to encircle and suppress him.

He doesn't need to be a rogue, he just needs to quickly digest and consolidate the land he occupies, and use Juntian's strategy to completely tie the people in his base area to his rebellious ship, and then no matter how many people Xie Xuelong brings here, he will have the strength to fight.

The officers and soldiers were defeated, and General Lu Zhaosi led the peasant army to attack the city directly.

The officers and soldiers fled all the way and died all the way, and some of the villagers didn't even want the weapons issued by the government in order to run faster, and the peasant army chased all the way and picked up all the way, and when they arrived under the city wall, almost everyone in the peasant army had weapons.

After chasing until the city wall of Yuanzhou Mansion, the peasant army stopped pursuing, because Tian Younian had already entered the city and closed the four gates.

Lu Zhao and others led their troops to chase too quickly, and they had no siege equipment in their hands, so they could only look at the city and sigh.

Mo Qian saw that his subordinates were already chasing after him, so he hurriedly sent someone to call Lu Zhao and the others back.

Lu Zhao led his troops back to the town, and when he saw Mo Qian, his mouth was about to smile crookedly.

"King, this time we have won a big victory, killing hundreds of enemies, capturing more than a thousand, and thousands of stones of grain!"

"It's just a small victory, has Tian Younian caught it?"

Lu Zhao shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "That dog official ran too fast and went back to the city and shrunk." ”

"Don't be discouraged, Tian Younian can't run, you immediately integrate the team now, go after the team of officers and soldiers left, if you don't eliminate them, I'm afraid there will be variables."

"Order!"

The peasant army won a great victory, and the morale was very strong, Lu Zhao organized another 1,000 men, everyone equipped with long knives and spears, tied Pingxiang Zhixian and chased straight in the direction of Hongjiang Township.

In the evening, Lu Zhao sent someone to send a battle report, and the thousand villagers led by Deng Zhiping, a thousand households in Pingxiang, saw that Cheng Zhidun, the county governor, had been arrested, and surrendered on his knees without thinking about it.

The peasant army did not waste its efforts to absorb these thousand townspeople.

In the evening, the army held a grand banquet in the town of Wentang to celebrate the victory of the great battle.

During the banquet, Mo Qian not only invited the four generals and more than a dozen hundred households of this operation, but also invited Cao Guoqi of Fenyizhi County, Cheng Zhidun of Pingxiang Zhixian County, and Shi Yansheng of Yuanzhou Mansion to the dinner.

After these three people were arrested, Cheng Zhidun and Cao Guoqi scolded Mo Qian, only Tongzhi Shi Yansheng did not scold Mo Qian, but took the initiative to scold him.

Shi Yansheng is a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, and he was born in Jinjiang, Fujian, and his position as the governor of Yuanzhou Mansion was bought by his family with money.

Since he took office, he has tried his best to embezzle in Yuanzhou Mansion, after all, the money from the family to buy an official must be earned, otherwise the official will lose money.

Tian Younian, like Shi Yansheng, is from a high background, and if you want to be an official, you have to spend money to buy it, and the two of them are almost notorious in Yuanzhou Mansion in order to recover the cost.

At the banquet, Shi Yansheng took the initiative to bring a glass of wine to Mo Qian and said, "Congratulations to the king for breaking the official army, I don't know when the king plans to capture the palace?" ”

Mo Qian smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, let Governor Tian live in Fucheng for a few days!" ”

Cheng Zhidun, Cao Guoqi, Wang Bingzhong and others saw Shi Yansheng's flattering appearance, and they couldn't help but want to vomit in disgust.

"To grovel and betray the court is really in vain to read the book of sages!" Cao Guoqi couldn't help but scolded directly.

The rest of the crowd agreed.

Cheng Zhidun even stood up directly and pointed at Shi Yansheng's nose and scolded: "Shi Yansheng, you are so shameless!" ”

"Why am I shameless?" Shi Yansheng asked with his chest straight.

"The eldest husband is dead and dead, in order to live, you actually grovel to a thief, do you forget, you are an official of the Ming Dynasty, you bathe in heaven, eat the emperor's food, wear official clothes, and now, in order to live, you are so flattering to a thief, it is really a loss of face of your ancestors."

Shi Yansheng was scolded by Cheng Zhidun, and immediately blushed and had a thick neck, but he couldn't refute Cheng Zhidun's words, so he could only return to his seat with a red face.

Mo Qian saw Cheng Zhidun insulting Shi Yansheng, and he didn't bother to stop it, on the contrary, he admired Cheng Zhidun a lot.

The official army was defeated and he was captured, but he didn't look scared at all, but wanted to deliberately provoke himself and force himself to kill him.

Mo Qian knew that these few of them wanted to seek death, and then Bo would rather die than give in, and be loyal to the reputation of the country.

But Mo Qian didn't plan to make them so comfortable, he had to let this group of officials follow him every day to see how he governed the people and how he incited the people to rebel.

Early the next morning, Mo Qian summoned all his subordinates to his office.

This is an ancestral hall in Wentang Town, I don't know which family's, the ancestral hall has long been dilapidated.

After Mo Qian asked someone to repair the ancestral hall, he used it as his office place.

In the ancestral hall, Mo Qian gave the latest combat instructions to Lu Zhao and the four of them.

In the next half month, the peasant army will no longer have major military battle plans, but will focus on capturing the towns and villages below the Yuanzhou capital.

Mo Qian instructed to integrate those villagers and destroy all the establishments.

Mo Qian demanded that within three days, he would turn this group of villagers into an armed force that he could use.

And he also asked that all the literate people around him be gathered in the town, and he would teach them in person.

The place where the class was held was in the ancestral hall where he worked in the town.

After visiting, there were 34 children in the town, and two were talented.

Mo Qian gathered all the thirty-six people, and also called all the officials who were arrested by him to the ancestral hall to listen to his lectures.

The content of the lecture was very simple, Mo Qian first talked about how the imperial court was unreasonable, how the landlords and gentry exploited the peasants, and how the government was brutal and corrupt.

After the people present were moved by his speech, Mo Qian talked about his rebellious ideas.

The core idea is the same: land, human rights!