Chapter 365: A Spark of Fire (1)
Fang La's uprising was perfectly powerful. What is "a spark that can start a prairie fire".
However, in just a few days, one hundred subordinates incited a thousand villagers, and then expanded from one thousand villagers to more than ten thousand bandits.
The total number of yamen runners in Qingxi County was only a hundred, and they could not stop the rioters at all. As long as they were caught, they would die. Many local officials fled when they heard the news. The lower-level yamen runners were also targeted for exploitation. Some even took off their clothes, wrapped a headscarf and pointed their knife at their former boss, escorting people to the rebels to get rewards.
In this case, the towns and villages were unable to defend at all. Not only were the rebels rushing in outside, but there were also oppressed poor people inside. Sometimes, before the rebels arrived, the large households in the village were caught and beaten to death by crazy villagers, robbing money, grain, swords and guns. When the rebels arrived, they burned their houses and forced out the hiding people, and had to follow them in order to eat.
The rebellion did not grow gradually with Fang La's team as the center, but Fang La raised his arms and heard the whole country blooming in all directions, and even extended to several nearby counties.
Qingxi County is relatively wealthy and is considered a big county. It has not been destroyed by the rioters for a while, but it will be a matter of time before it develops according to this momentum. The first target of the rebel army is Weiping Town. The 5,000 imperial guards dispatched by the court also went to intercept and suppress the military commander Yan Tan, led by the military commander of the military commander.
Until this time, the officials in Jiangnan still did not feel the seriousness of the matter. Five thousand soldiers rushed to camp during the day and went to Qingxi County without any rush. The Mid-Autumn Festival was about to come, and the day for family reunion was almost the day for the army to be reunited. Yan Tan said, "The bandits can be quelled before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the brothers can still catch the reunion dinner at that time." This made the soldiers' morale a little. Even so, it was ten days after the rebellion occurred when it arrived in Xikeng area of Qingxi County.
The words are divided into two ends.
Cao Hua led 80 Black Feather Guards to Qingxi County, two hundred miles away. As one of the most elite people in the Song Dynasty, the Black Feather Guards were all good horses, but they could not run to death. It would take at least three days to go day and night.
After leaving Hangzhou City, there was one more person in the Black Feather Guard team. They were also wearing the Black Feather Guard's fish scale armor, holding a spear, black face armor on their face, long hair and crowned crowns, and a slender figure and look like a heroic young player. They were more heroic than Cao Hua, who was wearing a white robe.
Cao Hua went straight in, and no one was worried. Xie Yijun, as a good player as famous as him, naturally brought him with him. Concubine Zhu Qu originally wanted to help, but Concubine Zhu Qu was only good at lurking assassination, and was a cannon fodder in charge, but was stopped by Xie Yijun.
Xie Yijun rode a fierce horse, rushing to the front to lead the way, and no one showed dissatisfaction with the Black Feather Guard. After all, they had seen Xie Yijun's ability to defeat Xu Ning with three shots. If they followed the rules of the Black Feather Guard, they would be the legitimate deputy envoy, and no one would dissatisfied.
Cao Hua walked beside Xie Yijun and asked softly:
"Yijun, you know Fang La. Our 80th person went straight in one shot. How much is the chance to kill Fang La?"
Xie Yijun lifted up her face armor and looked back at her:
"The battle formation is not very important for personal courage. Fang La has many masters under his command, and he is also a hero. He is currently winning over thousands of people and his combat power cannot be underestimated. If you transfer all the Black Feather Guards over, you still have a chance to quell the rebellion, and we, the No. 80, will not rush in."
Xie Yijun himself commanded the troops of Western Shu to fight against the court, and his understanding of the battle formation was deeper than Cao Hua. Seeing Cao Hua's attention when he fought to capture the king and beheaded, Xie Yijun said seriously:
"Don't underestimate the barefoot refugees. The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty had no intention of fighting and would be distracted when they encountered problems...
......I once said, "I can defeat the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty with a hoe." This is because the Song Dynasty is "incompetent and brave, and has only a piece of armor and weapons, but it is difficult to play its advantages after looking forward...
...Although the hungry people were holding hoes, they had no way to retreat and died without fighting. Even a ten-year-old child dared to go to the battlefield and kill people with hatchets when they were forced...
...The previous rebellions were quelled because the leader was incompetent and difficult to dispatch more than a thousand people. Once there were too many people, they became in chaos. After robbing enough food, the people thought of going home to hide and no longer fighting desperately. The gathering team naturally dispersed...
...Fang La burned the house and abducted the food in order to make the gathered people have no way out. Moreover, Fang Qifo, Fang Fei and others dispatched troops and generals, so they could control the direction of their teams. As long as they fought a few victories, the refugees became warable soldiers and seized weapons, armor, bows and arrows..."
Xie Yijun patiently told her, and Li Bairen and others nodded slightly. They just killed the thief, and their ability to rebel was really not as good as that of the rebel leader of Western Shu.
After listening to this, Cao Hua sighed softly: "If this fire is burned, I don't know how many people will die in Jiangnan... Let's go to Yan Tan's military service first. It's best to defeat Fang La in one fell swoop. If you can't, you can immediately take Princess Zhao Fei back to Hangzhou."
"promise!"
The Black Feather Guard responded in unison.
Xie Yijun covered her face, was silent for a little while, and then said:
"Actually... Fang La made no harm in rebelling against me. He disrupted Jiangnan. Western Shu would definitely not be able to take care of it. I took advantage of the situation at this time, maybe..."
Cao Hua shook his head: "The power of the Song Dynasty is still there, and Fang La cannot accomplish anything. If you take advantage of the situation and go back and cannot withstand the clearance, you will still stay calm and develop safely."
Xie Yijun frowned gently: "When will you stay?"
Cao Hua calculated in his heart and shook his head: "If nothing goes wrong, it will take about six or seven years... If the Song Dynasty was not broken by the Jin soldiers, I will recruit you here. If the pass is broken, it will be easier to raise a military army in the world."
"Six or seven years..."
Xie Yijun looked at the autumn scenery all over the mountain and muttered: "I was almost thirty years old at that time, maybe I had children..." This sentence suddenly appeared, and Xie Yijun was stunned for a moment, then his face turned slightly red, and he coughed as if nothing had happened.
Cao Hua heard it funny and said seriously: "Yes, it would be troublesome if the child looked exactly the same as me. How can he explain it to the people of the world?"
Xie Yijun snorted lightly, thought for a while, and replied:
"Wouldn't it be even more troublesome if it looks different?"
This sentence made Cao Hua speechless, and he nodded and gave him a thumbs up.
The group rushed to Qingxi County and rushed to learn that the imperial army had gone to Weiping Town, and then rushed to the Xikeng area of Weiping Town.
Chapter completed!