Chapter 596: Dust and Smoke Rise

"Changbai Mountain's former Zhishilang, pure red Luo brocade crotch.

The long lance invades the sky and a half, and the wheel knife shines in the sun.

Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep.

Suddenly, when he heard the arrival of the official army, he raised his knife and swung forward.

For example, if Liaodong died, he was injured by beheading. ”

In the original history, with the loss of the support of the Guanlong Xianbei military aristocracy by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, coupled with his great achievements and great palace building, endless conscription and continuous failure of the three conquests of Goguryeo, the public resentment of the entire Sui Empire boiled.

When Wang Bo took the lead in rebelling against the rule of the Sui Empire in his first work "The Death Song of the Dead Waves of Liaodong Waves", he took the lead in raising the banner of rebellion of the entire Great Sui Empire, and began the great cause of rebellion and rebellion.

In Wang Ze's previous assumption, today's history has been changed by himself in a mess, although the Sui Empire will inevitably rebel because of Yang Guang's toss, but he didn't expect that the first person to raise the flag to rebel was still Wang Bo.

Because at the beginning, Wang Ze and Wang Yong, father and son, occupied the entire land of Sanqi, and tossed around for decades, and even migrated almost all the population of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, including Sanqi, to the Xia Kingdom, until now these areas are relatively sparsely populated places in the Sui Empire.

Wang Bo was originally a person from Changbai Mountain (Zhangqiu) in the land of Sanqi, and it is said that he should have migrated to settle in Xia during the great migration of Wang Yong's father and son to the local people, and eventually became a national of Xia Kingdom.

However, not everyone supported the rule of Wang Ze's father and son, because Wang Bo was not from a poor family, but from a local tycoon who occupied Changbai Mountain to illegally smelt steel.

Because the Changbai Mountain area is a very important iron smelting base in the land of Sanqi, after Wang Ze and his son seized the Changbai Mountain iron mine, Wang Bo's father and ancestor also fled to places outside Sanqi like other Sanqi heroes, and his father and ancestor fled to Huaiyang County on the north bank of Yingshui.

Wang Bo's father, who had more wealth and iron-smelting skills, quickly gained a firm foothold in the local area and slowly developed in the local area, but after all, they were still squeezed out by the Sui Empire government and local magnates to a certain extent.

Especially in the current situation that the Sui Empire is constantly increasing taxes in order to increase its military strength, not to mention the ordinary yeoman farmers of the Sui Empire, even the Wang Bo family, which is quite wealthy, has also been endlessly demanded, and most of the family property has been lost in just a few years.

Under a series of conquests and defeats of the Sui Empire, as well as the endless exploitation of Yang Guang, local officials, and local tycoons, the hearts of the people of the Sui Empire were already full of anger, and these anger would erupt only when they waited for an opportunity.

Although Yang Xuangan also rebelled before, he only represented the opposition of some vested interests within the Sui Empire to Yang Guang, and although Wang Bo was also born Haoqiang, in fact, it can be regarded as an outbreak of the grassroots people of the Sui Empire.

Wang Bo was the first to take the lead in rebellion in Huaiyang, claiming to be the Zhishilang who knew 500 years before and 500 years later, killed the county officials and the local grudges, and divided the land equally among the local people.

In just over ten days, it has more than 20,000 people, and as time goes by, more heroes who are unwilling to be lonely have come to join them, and this number continues to increase rapidly.

Wang Bo's strength was originally not strong, even if the county soldiers of any county could defeat him, but at this time, because of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Yang Guang was very worried about his safety, so he actually transferred most of the county soldiers from the surrounding counties of Luoyang to Luoyang, which caused the surrounding counties to become very empty.

This led to the fact that Wang Bo, who was not strong, was able to defeat the county soldiers of Qian County and Runan County who came to attack one after another, so that more people became famous and attached to him, and with Wang Bo's fame, various rebel forces also rose up.

After Wang Bo's uprising, Yang Guang didn't care at first, but just urged the counties to enter and suppress, and when Wang Bo became famous and became stronger, he wanted to exterminate it, but he was powerless to find that the entire Sui Empire had fallen into a dangerous situation.

At this time, the significance of sending a large army to encircle and suppress Wang Bo was not so great, not to mention that Wang Bo was no longer the most powerful group of rebels as time passed, and at this time, the largest rebel force south of the river was already the Wagang army led by Zhai Rang and Li Mi.

Originally, Zhai Rang served as Fa Cao (a petty official in charge of justice) in the eastern capital, and was imprisoned and beheaded for his crimes, but he was quietly released by the jailer Huang Junhan, so he led people to flee to Wagang (now Huaxian County, Henan) to start an incident, and fellow villagers Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji and others led people to defect.

Because Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji and others have the ability to lead the army, and most of the soldiers are from fishing and hunters, not to mention the strong and good at using weapons, so the combat effectiveness is second to none around, and the strength of Wagangzhai has expanded rapidly after defeating several groups of county soldiers who have entered the army.

At the beginning, Zhai Rang and others did not establish a foundation in Wagang, but plundered ships not far from Xingyang to obtain wealth, or were defeated one after another under Zhang Xutuo's repeated attacks, so they had to move to Wagang to seek development.

Soon assisted Yang Xuangan in the rebellion of Pushan Gong Li Mi after Yang Xuangan's death fled to Wagang to join Zhai Rang, because he was good at scheming changes, so that the small forces around Wagang have defected, so the strength of Wagangzhai quickly became a relatively powerful force in the anti-Sui army.

At the same time, Dou Jiande, who was north of the river, finally took refuge in his fellow villager Sun Anzu under the persecution of the local government, and became the leader under Sun Anzu's humility, and Gao Shida and Zhang Chengjin also quickly became a relatively powerful rebel army north of the river.

During the attack on Xia led by Yang Jian, the young Dou Jiande was conscripted into the army at that time and became the captain of the squad in command of 200 people.

Sun Anzu of the same county was also conscripted into the army at this time, but his wife just died and did not want to join the army, and was whipped by the county order, Anzu killed the county order in a rage, Dou Jiande persuaded him to gather people in Gaojibo to make a living, and there were Zhang Jincheng, Gao Shida and others in Gaojibo at that time.

In this way, after having acquaintances, when the local reckless came out to rob, they generally did not rob around Dou Jiande's house, and the government suspected that Dou Jiande had a connection with these thieves, so without any evidence, they sent someone to behead Dou Jiande's family.

Dou Jiande quickly fled after hearing the news, and soon after Sun Anzu went to Gao Shida, Gao Shida called himself the Duke of the East China Sea and appointed Dou Jiande as a soldier, and later Sun Anzu was killed by Zhang Jincheng, Dou Jiande took the thousands of people belonging to Anzu into his own possession, and his strength gradually grew to nearly 10,000 people.

In addition to Wang Bo, Zhai Rang, Li Mi, Dou Jiande and other rebel forces, Du Fuwei, who originally spanned the Jianghuai River in history, also rose in Lujiang County, while Li Zitong also started his rebel career in Jiangnan, and Xu Yuanlang rebelled in Pengcheng and swept the entire Huaisi region.

However, Wang Shichong, who should have shined in history, did not occupy a high position because of time, and now he is still honestly a general of the Sui army in Luoyang, so he did not appear in the forces opposing the army, so I don't know if he still has this opportunity.

In the face of the swarming of these anti-Sui armies, the angry and panicked Yang Guang ordered his two sons Yang Yu and Yang Tong of Yue to lead 150,000 Sui troops to quell the rebellion.

Yang Jun is a general of the clan, and Yang Tong is more respectful of adopting his opinions, but because Yang Yu, the acting king, is the son of Yang Guang, even if Zhang Xutuo has good experience in military operations, he is unwilling to listen to Zhang Xutuo's proposal to march into the army.

In particular, when the acting king Yang Yu heard that Yang Tong, the king of Yue, had made a lot of gains in suppressing Wang Bo, he was eager to make meritorious contributions, and under the strategy of Zhai Rang and Li Mi, he was first lost tens of thousands of troops by the Wagang army with the technique of water attack, and then was attacked by the Wagang army and the surrounding rebels.

Acting Wang Yang Yu was shot in the eye by a stray arrow and died, so more than 100,000 Sui troops were defeated and scattered, if it were not for Zhang Xutuo in a hurry to urgently lead his old troops to block the pursuit of the Wagang army, I am afraid that this army will be completely destroyed.

However, in this way, the Sui army, which originally had 150,000 people, only about 30,000 people left, and they could only retreat to Xingyang.

At this time, the morale of the Sui army was depressed, and there were constantly forcibly recruited soldiers fleeing secretly, and when they were about to retreat to Xingyang County, Zhang Xutuo was once again ambushed by the elite of the Wagang army led by Li Mi.

This time Zhang Xutuo did not have the previous good luck was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, most of the more than 30,000 Sui troops surrendered to the Wagang army, Zhang Xutuo only led dozens of cavalry to flee back to Xingyang County, so that if the army led by Yang Tong was wiped out, the army in Yang Guang's hands would only be left with more than 100,000 people in Luoyang.

Although there were still many generals in Guanzhong and other counties who still served Yang Guang, there were too many rebel armies, and they all relied on these armies to suppress them.

Of course, Li Mi also knew the current situation faced by the Sui Empire, but after all, the army led by Yang Tong had 150,000 people, and he couldn't take it with the current strength of the Wagang Army, so he used his old history in the Sui army to spread rumors, saying that Yang Jun would kill Yang Dong to seize power and establish himself as emperor.

This kind of crude method would only be laughed off in the eyes of other generals, but Yang Tong was only twenty years old after all, and he was so excited that he immediately killed Yang Jun, a veteran of his uncle's ancestors, in a fit of rage, so the generals of the Sui army turned away from Germany.

At this time, Li Mi contacted those angry generals on the one hand, and on the other hand, he united with other anti-Sui forces to launch an attack together, and after a big battle, Yang Tong was killed by his subordinates, nearly half of the Sui army was scattered, and the rest took refuge in Li Mi and other different forces, and the Wagang army took the opportunity to expand to nearly 100,000 people.

The impact of the defeat of Yang Yu, the acting king, and Yang Tong, the king of Yue, was huge, and the rapid defeat of hundreds of thousands of Sui troops gave more people the confidence to resist the suppression of the Sui army, and some generals who were already more and more disappointed in Yang Guang began to find their own way back.