Chapter 43 Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji

Xu Beiyou suddenly remembered what Li Shentong's kid had said before, this kid has an aura brought out of his mother's womb in this regard, and he is far less than the self-recognition of being a master, is it true that this kid is right?

Wu Yu sighed suddenly, "It's me who lost my temper." ”

Xu Beiyou laughed dryly and did not make a sound.

Wu Yu said softly: "I'll go back first." ”

Xu Beiyou hummed, and watched her leap lightly, fly across the river between the two boats, and return to their building boat.

He turned around and returned to the cabin, and there were two columns of armor soldiers standing in the huge cabin, holding the handle of the knife at his waist, and the wall was hung with a map of Huzhou's public opinion, with cities, villages, roads, bridges, rivers, mountains, and lakes.

Yu Kuang sat on a Taishi chair and said softly: "Deputy Dutong Bai, introduce us to Huzhou to Xu Gongzi." ”

Bai Yu respectfully agreed to the promise and came forward to the public opinion map, and introduced: "Because it is close to the 800-mile Dongting, and the river runs through the whole state from west to east for more than 2,000 miles, moistening Chutian, the water is vertical and horizontal, and the lakes are dense, known as a thousand lakes, so it is called Huzhou." ”

"Huzhou is connected to Huizhou in the east, Xiangzhou in the south, Shuzhou in the west, Shaanzhou in the northwest, Zhongzhou in the north, Dachu has been operating here for many years, only in terms of wealth, looking at the whole Jiangnan, second only to Jiangzhou, and it is the place of a hundred battles, it is the barrier of Jiangnan, the hub of the north and the south. ”

Xu Beiyou suddenly interrupted her and said, "Speaking of this place of a hundred battles, I remember that Zhang Dudu and Wei Dudu are from Huzhou?"

Yu Kuang got up from his seat and said slowly: "In the first year of Zheng Jianwen in the previous dynasty, Taihu Lake was flooded, the governor of the river was greedy for ink, the forced labor was heavy, and the people were not able to make a living, so there were two White Lotus disciples Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji on the bank of Taihu Lake. The leaders Lu Lin and Zhang Fu killed the White Horse and the Black Bull to form an alliance uprising, with the Red Turban as the number, calling themselves the Red Turban Army, supporting Lu Lin as the general of Tianbu and Zhang Fu as the average general. ”

Xu Beiyou was silent.

Yu Kuang walked slowly and said: "In the last years of Dazheng, the armament was slack, and the three thousand Red Turban Army were actually soldiers under the city of Xiangfan, and the general soldiers in the city ordered to retreat from the enemy, but they were killed on the spot by their deputy general Li Cheng, who suddenly drew a knife and killed on the spot, and then Li Cheng opened the city gate and welcomed Lu Lin and Zhang Fu into the city. ”

Huzhou's political envoys and garrisons gathered the remnants of the army and retreated to the inner city, three thousand Red Turban Army and Li Chengbu entered the city, Lu Lin ordered a strong attack, Zhang Fu personally supervised the battle, and the two sides started street fighting. The street battle was fought from the hour to noon, the Red Turban Army killed more than 600 people, and finally Zhang Fu went to the battlefield in person, taking the lead, covered in blood, only the feather arrows in the body, there were more than a dozen arrows. ”

Finally, in the evening, the defenders in the city were completely dispersed, and the Huzhou city garrison was killed in battle, and died by the knife of the average general Zhang Fu, which pierced through the heart, and the Huzhou political envoy killed the whole family after killing the whole family in the case of knowing that there was no way to live, and hanged himself in the yamen of the political envoy, as for the governor of the river as early as when the city was broken, he had fled in a hurry. ”

While speaking, Yu Kuang had already come to the public opinion map, and Bai Yu took a step back and gave up his position.

Yu Kuang pointed to Xiangfan on the map and said softly: "After the city of Xiangfan was broken, Jiangnan was shaken, and Emperor Wuzu was the prime minister of the Dazheng court at that time, and he ordered the governor of the two lakes to be severely reprimanded, ordering him to rebel in the red turban within three months, and at the same time ordered the secret guard to arrest the governor of the river. But before waiting for the governor of the two lakes to transfer troops to quell the rebellion, Huzhou was already full of wolf smoke, and seven large and small rebel armies responded at the same time, respecting Lu Lin as the commander of all the heroes in the sea, and the seven rebel armies would join Xiangfancheng, and the strength had reached as many as 20,000. ”

At the end of July, Lu Lin and Zhang Fu led the army eastward, at this time, there were hundreds of thousands of victims all the way, but after more than a month, the Red Turban Righteous Army has been known as 200,000 people, sweeping the land of the two lakes and thirteen prefectures, and it can be said that the situation of the entire two lakes has been a piece of erosion. ”

At the beginning of August, the Yueyang garrison of Xiangzhou faced the Red Turban Army known as 200,000, and fled with a group of henchmen who abandoned the city, and the Red Turban Army invaded Yueyang City without waste, Lu Lin appointed Wei Xianji to lead the army to defend Yueyang, and at the same time sent Zhang Dingguo to lead 30,000 Red Turban Army to attack Jiangling, which was personally seated by Cao Ting, the governor of the two lakes. ”

"Huzhou is the world's grain production area, whether you can take Huzhou, Jiangling is the top priority, at this time Cao Ting is already exhausted, sitting in the city of sorrow, this battle, Jiangling lost, the governor of the two lakes Cao Ting only brought a dozen henchmen, and fled in a hurry. ”

This battle not only made Xiangyang an isolated city, but also made the situation between the two lakes completely erosive, and there was no possibility of recovery. After this battle, Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji became famous, and it can be said that they resounded throughout the south of the Yangtze River, and they were listed as the people who must be killed by the secret guard by Sun Ligong, the governor of the dark guard, and Lu Lin, Zhang Fu and others. ”

Yu Kuang squinted, seemed to remember a lot of bad memories, and said in a low voice: "Speaking of which, that year was really eventful, the Liao King Shepherd set his sights on Qin Zheng, Emperor Wuzu set out to arrange the eastern capital and Jiangnan, Qin Zheng, who had 200,000 Heavenly Son's pro-army but was like rootless duckweed, was like a trapped beast, while Emperor Taizu, who was located in the northwest, was focused on grassland counterinsurgency matters and internal purges. ”

"Internal cleaning?" Xu Beiyou wondered.

Yu Kuang smiled, his smile was a little infiltrating, and he said in a cold tone: "At that time, the metropolitan governor Xu Lin was in charge of the central capital, responsible for the overall planning and scheduling, and Lan Yu was ordered to reorganize the cabinet guards, and personally began to purge them on a large scale. ”

Yu Kuang said with a complicated expression: "I almost died in that turmoil, but fortunately I survived." ”

Xu Beiyou didn't expect that there would be such a grudge between Yu Kuang and Lan Yu.

"Don't talk about that. Yu Kuang waved his hand, "Then said that the Red Turban Army of the year, they were bullied under the perennial deserted local defenders, but when the first emperor marched south, it was devastated, and the Red Turban Army was defeated again and again, often tens of thousands of people were defeated by our thousands of people, and then the incident of the East Lake Courtyard happened, and the entire Red Turban Army was completely torn apart." ”

Yu Kuang didn't say what happened to the East Lake Courtyard back then, but Xu Beiyou was very clear, the White Lotus Sect, the Sword Sect, and the Ghost King Palace joined forces here to fight against Emperor Xiao and Jiangnan Daomen, but the result was a big defeat, the Ghost King died, Tang Shengyue, Tang Banyan Tree, and Zhang Xueyao were captured, and Lu Lin and Zhang Fu were also killed in that battle as the White Lotus Envoys of the White Lotus Sect.

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Yu Kuang sighed lightly and said: "After Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji each led a group of men and horses entrenched in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, to the fifth year of Jianwen, Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji were defeated and captured one after another, and then returned to the first emperor, and later became the first emperor's personal guard after several twists and turns, and were given the names of Wuji and Wuji, that is, today's sick tiger Zhang Wuji and the human cat Wei Wuji, Xu Beiyou finally figured everything out after listening to the cause and effect.

It is precisely because Zhang Wuxian used to be a member of the White Lotus Sect that he chose to convert to Buddhism after losing power, and it is precisely because of this that he insisted on coming to Jiangnan in the first place.

No wonder he can't forget Tang Shengyue, there is such a relationship between the two, it is really unpredictable.