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Southern Zhejiang, Wenzhou.

Yu Dao'an of Yongjia Nanxi was one of the late uprisings among the heroes in the two Zhejiang regions.

At the time of Yu Dao'an's uprising, the major forces in the two Zhejiang regions had almost been formed, and the two most powerful groups, the Huben Army and the Fangla Righteous Army, already had hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

At this time, Yu Daoan was less than a hundred.

But Yu Daoan is a rare general who is good at fighting among the generals of the rebel army, and not long after he revolted, when he was from Nanxi to Gutian, he defeated the 300 Song troops led by Chen Shu, the border inspector who guarded here.

In May, Yu Daoan led his troops to Yueqing, stationed troops in Baihe Temple, recruited bravery, and prepared for rapid development and growth.

But at that time, Fang La's righteous army annexed Hong Zai's army and gained Chuzhou, and its territory was linked to Lu Shibao in Taizhou.

Lu Shisang and Yu Daoan are old friends, and they want to unite with Yu Daoan, and they also say that they are willing to send troops to help Yu Daoan conquer Wenzhou.

But although Yu Daoan respected Lu Shinang's personality, he felt that Lu Shinang's boss Fang La was not a person who could achieve great things, so he refused to join forces with Lu Shinang.

History changed a little at that moment, because of Fang La's intervention, Yu Daoan did not go north to join forces with Lu Shibao to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Song army and the landlord's armed forces as in history, but knew that Wenzhou was a dead land, and led the people to conquer the entire territory of Wenzhou.

After this, Yu Daoan made an amazing decision!

- Yu Daoan actually sent someone to Hangzhou by water, saying that he was willing to vote for Li Cun.

Yu Daoan's decision is indeed amazing, because judging from the current situation, Wenzhou is an enclave - an enclave surrounded by Fangla's territory.

To be honest, that is, Fang La did not attach importance to the development of the navy, and was bent on grabbing territory with Li on land, plus Wenzhou did not have much strategic value here, otherwise Fang La could have included Wenzhou in his territory by sending a partial division at that time.

As a result, Wenzhou cheapened Yu Daoan, and then cheapened Li Cun.

But—

In order not to stimulate Fang La, change the situation of the two sides at that time, and catch Fang La off guard in the future, Li Cun did not announce that Wenzhou was his own, and he did not even garrison troops in Wenzhou.

- Li Cun only secretly sent a group of generals, supervisors and officials to Yu Daoan to help Yu Daoan train the army and govern Wenzhou, and at the same time, Li Cun paid Wenzhou's Huben army for three months.

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The situation is similar to that of Wenzhou, as well as Wuzhou.

It's just that there is not one hero here in Wuzhou, but several groups of heroes.

Captured Zhu Yan and Wu Bang in Shouchang County.

Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo, who were active in Wuyi and Yongkang.

Zhu Shi, a female general of the righteous army who was active in the Dongyang area, although this person was a female general, killed Sun Chen with a trick and captured Dongyang County, and she was also a heroine among women.

The three rebel armies in Wuzhou seem to fight separately and do not belong to each other, but in fact they are not.

These rebel armies in Wuzhou actually have a common spiritual leader - Chen Shishi, Niangniang, Chen Miaozhen.

The real Chen Shisi Niangniang is actually a native of the Tang Dynasty, with the big name "Chen Jinggu", and her honorific titles are: Lady Linshui, Our Lady of Shuntian, Our Lady of Tianxian, Mrs. Tzu Chi, Bixia Yuanjun, and Zhusheng Niangniang.

This divine hero in folklore, because he is good at "healing diseases, eliminating demons, helping dangers, relieving misfortunes, saving births, protecting fetuses, sending children, and resolving doubts", protects the country and the people, and has immeasurable merits, and the holy miracles are spread far to southeast China and Southeast Asia and many other places, and are widely recited and worshipped.

And Chen Miaozhen because of her behavior is very similar to this folk legend of the divine hero, also has a good medical skills, compassion, and then in Wuzhou, and even in the entire Liangzhejiang region is very famous, people regard her as the incarnation of Chen Shishi Niangniang, and even call her Chen Shishi Niangniang, of course, this is also because she herself used the name Chen Shishi to apply medicine everywhere to save people.

At the beginning, Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guoren wanted to rise up, but the four of them knew that they did not have the ability to call on the people to revolt with them, so they found Chen Miaozhen, and then revolted in the name of Chen Miaozhen.

After the uprising, Chen Miaozhen didn't care about anything, and still ran around to save the suffering.

And the rebel team they pulled up at that time was divided into four and controlled by Li De and the four of them, and they had been fighting against Xiang De, the jailer of Wuyi.

The two sides fought more than a hundred times.

In the end, the four concentrated their elite team to kill Xiang De in one fell swoop under the Huanggu Mountains, crushing Xiang De's plan to join forces with other Song troops to capture Yongkang.

In this process, Li De and the rebel army under them have been tempered to a certain extent.

But without waiting for these four people to show their strength, Fang La's righteous army annexed Hong Zai's army, and then wanted to annex these rebel armies in Wuzhou.

In other words, Wuzhou, the land of four wars, really wants to be annexed by everyone.

At the beginning, when Hong Zai was powerful, he wanted to marry Chen Miaozhen, and then annexed Wuzhou in the name of Chen Miaozhen.

Fang La didn't want to get both people and land like Hong Zai, but Fang La also repeatedly sent people to persuade Chen Miaozhen, hoping that Chen Miaozhen could lead the heroes of Wuzhou to join them in the Yongle Dynasty.

But Chen Miaozhen politely refused on the grounds that she didn't care about these things.

Chen Miaozhen's reputation here in Liangzhejiang is really good, so good that Fang Lazhen really doesn't want to attack Chen Miaozhen's Wuzhou, so as not to damage his image.

Of course, this was also because Fang La didn't want to force Chen Miaozhen and them to Li Cun.

However, Wuzhou is too critical here, it can be said to be a wall in front of Hangzhou, if you don't take Wuzhou, Fang La can't hit Hangzhou at all.

-- In the southern part of Hangzhou, the Mudong region, Wuzhou and the northern part of Vietnam formed a tight protective circle against Hangzhou, firmly blocking Fangla's territory from Hangzhou.

At present, it is Zhang Datie, a general under Li Cun, who occupies the Mudong region, and Huo Chengfu, a general under Li Cun, who occupies the northern part of Vietnam.

If he wants to attack Hangzhou from these two areas, it is impossible for Fang La to attack it unless he attacks it.

In this way, Fang La's only choice is to take Wuzhou, and when he wants to fight Hangzhou, he will go straight from Wuzhou to Hangzhou.

Therefore, here in Wuzhou, Fang La is bound to win.

But Chen Miaozhen was not interested in Fang La's solicitation at all.

There was no way, Fang La could only bypass Chen Miaozhen to recruit Zhu Yan, Wu Bang, Li De, Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, Wang Guo, and Zhu, and promised them high-ranking officials, hoping that they could lead troops to join him.

These heroes in Wuzhou also know that Wuzhou is sandwiched between the two major forces of the Tiger Ben Army and the Fang La Yi Army, and if they do not choose one side to take refuge, they will be exterminated sooner or later.

can vote is to vote, but for who to vote for, these heroes in Wuzhou are quarrelling, and it is also a quarrel within various forces.

For example, Zhu Yan wanted to vote for Li Cun, but Wu Bang thought that Fang La's power was greater, and Li Cun was dragged to death by the Song army in northern Zhejiang.

Similarly, Li De wanted to vote for Li Cun, but Jiang Cai, Dong Ju, and Wang Guo also felt that Fang La's potential was greater, and they also believed that Fang La's territory had surrounded Li Cun's territory, and now Fang La was sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, and he would definitely benefit from the fisherman in the future.

However, Zhu's attitude is a little unclear.

Later, these people jointly found Chen Miaozhen to see if Chen Miaozhen, the nominal leader, could help them make a unified choice.

After listening to the respective views of Zhu Yan and others, Chen Miaozhen said: "Recently, I went to the place under the jurisdiction of Fang Shenggong, which was full of devastation, corpses were everywhere, the people were not happy, bandits were rampant, and I was almost caught by thieves to be the wife of the village. ”

After a pause, Chen Miaozhen then said: "However, I went to the prefecture and county under the jurisdiction of Governor Li, but it was the opposite, all over the field, the road was not forgotten, and the night was not closed. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Miaozhen said very solemnly: "If I am chosen alone, most of my temperament will go with the flow, if I am elected for the tens of millions of people in Zhejiang Province and the people of the world, I will choose Governor Li." ”

When Zhu Yan and the others heard this, they were a little touched.

But Zhu Yan and others, most of them do not have the heart of Chen Miaozhen, to put it bluntly, the reason why they revolted was actually mainly to change their poor fate.

Therefore, Chen Miaozhen's fancy point is not what they value the most.

Although Chen Miaozhen said that she did not choose for herself, she had actually made a choice, so, seeing Zhu Yan and others hesitating, Chen Miaozhen said bluntly: "You and others have no master's capital, and you are bound to invest in a strong person to enjoy wealth forever. ”

God can see mercy, Chen Miaozhen has never learned anything from her master except for medical skills, and even whether her master will meet each other.

But the people of this era are like this, sometimes, the art of ghosts and gods is really more effective than reason.

In short, under Chen Miaozhen's persuasion, a group of heroes in Wuzhou finally unanimously decided to vote for Li Cun, and then Chen Miaozhen went to Hangzhou to express their participation on behalf of the heroes in Wuzhou.

Fang Baihua personally met Chen Miaozhen, and the two talked happily, Fang Baihua simply left Chen Miaozhen by his side.

Soon, Li Cun sent a group of generals, supervisors and officials to help Wuzhou heroes reorganize the army and govern Wuzhou.

Together with these generals, supervisors and officials, there were also a large number of rewards and salaries in Wuzhou.

The Wuzhou army is determined.

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At present, Li has 40,000 troops (20,000 sailors and 20,000 armies) in Jiangning Prefecture, which is under the command of Niu Meng.

Zhenjiang garrison 40,000 troops (20,000 sailors, 20,000 army), under the control of Zhao Han'er.

Shuzhen garrison 3,000 horse army, controlled by Han Bei.

The Guangde army garrisoned 50,000 troops and was under the control of the Soviet Union.

Suzhou garrison 20,000 soldiers, under the command of Liang Zhen.

Xiuzhou garrisoned 30,000 soldiers, which were controlled by Sun He and Qi Fang.

Changhua and Yu Qianqian stationed 20,000 troops, which were controlled by Liang Jin.

There were 20,000 soldiers stationed in the Mudong area (Jiande area), which were controlled by Zhang Datie.

There were 20,000 soldiers stationed in Shanyin and Xiaoshan, which were controlled by Huo Chengfu.

There were 30,000 soldiers stationed in the Qiantang area, which were controlled by two poles.

There were 50,000 soldiers inside and outside the city of Hangzhou, which were controlled by Fang Baihua.

plus 100,000 in Wuzhou and 20,000 in Wenzhou.

The above armies are rounded up, and no fractions are counted

Li has a total army of about 450,000 in the two Zhejiang regions!

In terms of military strength, only the troops in the two Zhejiang regions, Li Cundu did not lose to either the Song army or the Fangla Yi army.

This is the confidence of Li Cun to dare to come to Fujian for development.

Of course, Li Cun came to Fujian to develop, also because it had become a dead end in the two Zhejiang, Li Cun, Fang La and Zhao Song, the three parties could not move, and no one dared to act rashly, especially Li Cun and Fang La, who were staggered in their territory.

In addition, Li Cun came to Fujian because he wanted to support this 600,000 army, and it was really impossible to have no money.

Some people may say that whatever money is given in the early stage of entrepreneurship, just fool around with ideals.

The leaders of the unsuccessful peasant rebels thought the same way.

As a result, their armies, all of them, went with the wind and waves, went against the wind, and cut off the leaders in a hurry.

The point is, no one is stupid, you can fool a person with your ideals for a while, and you can fool a person for a lifetime?

Besides, rebellion, big brother, this is a matter of pinning your head to your belt, if you don't give money, how many people can really do it with you all the time?

It's far away, let's just say that those heroes in Wuzhou, if Li Cun hadn't paid them military salaries, would they have been able to honestly accept the reorganization of the people sent by Li Cun?

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to fight the world without money.

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