The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 282: Invite professionals to help

Of course, the reason why the Nan'an League was so successful was that many of the heroes in the League were somewhat sympathetic to the same problem, such as Wang Huan, Xu Jing, Mei Zhan, Yang Wen, and several Guangnan heroes, all of whom were lost. The experience of wives and concubines.

Everyone compared their own suffering experiences with each other, but discovered some unusual things. For example, the circumstances of Chen Xunjian's loss of his wife provided by Wang Huan and Yang Wen were that she was directly owned by a man on Meiling Road in Hongzhou. The monkey-faced monster with the ability to fly took it away.

However, the wives and daughters of Yang Wen, Mei Dalang, Xu Jing and several others were kidnapped by some guys with strange origins. The results of their investigations all pointed to Mei Ling without exception.

Speaking of which, Wang Huan and his group of heroes who gathered together were different from the Liangshan heroes more than ten years later.

The Liangshan heroes were basically desperate people who had been fed up with the perverse behavior of Huizong's monarchs and ministers for more than ten years and were finally forced to go to Liangshan. They were typical representatives of the suffering people who suffered from class oppression, so they were mostly full of hostility. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a tyrannical man and is called the Demon Star because of his behavior.

By the way, the real Liangshan heroes, especially Song Jiang, are not as focused on recruiting people for promotion and getting rich as described in "Water Margin". On the contrary, they are quite full of a firm spirit of resistance.

The real Song Jiang was at the end of his rope, and in order to save his brothers, he only accepted a recruitment. However, he soon rebelled again, and was eventually completely wiped out and killed by the officers and soldiers who had just put down the Fangla Uprising.

Wang Huan and others enjoyed the benefits of the wise kings and wise ministers of Zhezong's era, and their recognition of the Song Dynasty was extremely high. Therefore, they can only be regarded as embarking on the road of rebellion due to a strange coincidence. Unlucky guy.

It can be said that they never thought about truly rebelling against the Song Dynasty. They just did some things that others considered rebellious and unethical because of their respective demands and experiences.

Wang Huan's group of people, from the various leaders to the unknown soldiers, all have the most ardent expectations in their hearts for the future recruitment.

Of course, if you want to realize the "great ideal" of "golden belt of murder and arson", everyone still has to show their unique value.

Otherwise, how could the imperial court be willing to spend some high-ranking officials and generous salaries to recruit the big guys!

In September of the second year of Chongning, Wang Huan and others took up the banner of upholding justice for heaven. Wang Huan was appointed as the commander of the rebel army, and more than a dozen heroes with high martial arts skills, including Zhang Kai, Mei Zhan, Yang Wen, and Han Bao, were appointed as generals. More than two dozen heroes with less martial arts skills served as deputy generals and organized the "Zhennan Rebel Army", which had fourteen military battalions, each with a thousand men, and more than 20,000 auxiliary troops, totaling 35,000 troops.

At the beginning of October, Wang Huan and a group of leaders led 30,000 troops, including 13 battalions of soldiers. They falsely claimed that the army was 100,000, and sent troops northward to drive directly to Hongzhou.

From Nan'an Army to Hongzhou, there are three military prefectures of Jizhou, Linjiang Army and Fuzhou in between. Among them, Jizhou, which has a wider area, is a must-pass. Linjiang Army and the southeast area of ​​Fuzhou are sandwiched between Jizhou and Hongzhou. between.

This means that the Zhennan rebels need to defeat three or even four states before they can reach their destination, Meiling, Hongzhou.

The risks and difficulties involved here are simply endless, especially when the counter-insurgency coach He Zhizhongzheng leads the main force on the left, and local troops mobilized from Jiangnan Road, Fujian Road and other places are watching the flanks, and even the east and west sides of Guangnan Soldiers and horses on Jinghu Road and Jinghu South Road were also gathering, preparing to harass the Zhennan rebels from the rear.

I have to say that He Zhizhong's mind is relatively clear-headed, many times better than those of his colleagues or juniors. At least he knows how to listen to the opinions of capable generals.

In mid-October, the rebel army sent a group of soldiers and horses to pretend to be the main force and attack Suichuan County in the southernmost part of Jizhou, luring the main force of the Jizhou defenders to gather in Longquan Town (the seat of Suichuan County), while the main force of the rebel army first used a small force to capture Qianzhou. to Ganzhou City (most of the defenders were lost in the battle at Xiangshuitan), and then the main force took boats and took the waterway, heading north along the Gan River to Wan'an, and broke into Wan'an County.

The retreat of the Longquan garrison was cut off, and the generals panicked.

At that time, Yang Wen, the leader of the rebel army, followed Xu Jing's plan and secretly sneaked into Longquan with Xu Jing and Li Congji. He spread rumors and made noise among the soldiers. As a result, the defenders were in chaos. Some generals wanted to escape from the city. Yang Wen took advantage of the chaos to attack the city and stormed it. .

Most of the defenders surrendered, and a few dispersed. From then on, the main force of the local Song army in Jizhou disappeared.

The main force of the rebel army and the partial divisions joined forces in Wan'an County, then moved northward along the Yangtze River, breaking through Taihe and Ji'an counties, including Luling, the prefecture city of Jizhou, which was also captured.

The sharpness of the Zhennan Rebel Army frightened the military states in the south of the Yangtze River. The military states around Jizhou sent out several reports asking for reinforcements and reported to He Zhizhong.

He Zhizhong had no choice but to order General Liu Zhongwu to lead the main force of the Song army to attack Qianzhou Gan County and recover in a battle.

After Liu Zhongwu occupied Gan County, he did not pursue the main force of the rebel army. Instead, he sent his troops westward to attack Nankang County, the "home base" of the Nan'an Rebel Army.

Jia Jin, the rebel general who stayed behind, ignored the dissuasion of his deputy Jing Zhong and insisted on fighting the Song army. He was killed by Liu Zhongwu's formation at the foot of Nankang City.

As a result, the rebel army was defeated, and Jing Zhong led the remnants of the rebel army to escape and hid in Dayu Mountain.

Liu Zhongwu then divided his army into several groups and captured various counties in Nan'an, and regained Nan'an.

At the end of November, the main force of the rebel army defeated Linjiang Army in Xiajiang County, and then attacked Xinyu and Xingan separately, but defeated them all. Finally, they attacked Qingjiang (Linjiang Army Prefecture) fiercely, but both attacks were invincible.

After Liu Zhongwu received the military intelligence report, he was forced by He Zhizhong, so he raised his troops and went north to raid Wan'an along the Gan River.

There were only a few hundred rebel troops stationed in Wan'an. When he saw that the Song army was strong, they collapsed without a fight.

Liu Zhongwu was arrogant and brave, so he rushed his troops to attack Taihe County, but was frustrated at Taihe Town (the county seat). The vanguard general Zhao Xin was suddenly killed by the fierce general Zhao Xin in the rebel army.

Liu Zhongwu changed his mind after hearing the news and wanted to return to Wan'an to defend. Unexpectedly, bad news came from the rear army. The rebel army pretended to be a Song army and re-attacked Wan'an Town.

Liu Zhongwu was so frightened that he led his army to retreat to Yunzhou Beach, not far from Wan'an Town, but was surrounded by the main force of more than ten battalions of rebel soldiers.

It turned out that after Wang Huan led the main force of the rebel army to attack Qingjiang for the first time and failed, he had some thoughts. He waited for a second attack on Qingjiang to be defeated again, then left the auxiliary troops and the newly surrendered Song army's defeated troops pretended to be the main force and stationed themselves in Yongtai Town.

The real main force of the rebel army secretly went south, setting up ambushes in Wan'an, Taihe, and Longquan to lure Liu Zhongwu, who underestimated the enemy, into a trap. The arrogant Liu Zhongwu was indeed fooled.

At this time, Liu Zhongwu regretted his rash advance, but Yunzhou Beach was a place where he could not deploy his troops, and the main force of the Song Army could not be used. Liu Zhongwu led his troops to break through the encirclement several times, hoping to rely on his own bravery to break the formation. However, there were more powerful rebel generals, so Liu Zhongwu was blocked by the powerful rebel generals. He could not win in several battles and could not escape.

Liu Zhongwu was acquainted with Wang Huan's father, Wang Hou. Wang Huan made an appointment with Liu Zhongwu to persuade him to temporarily surrender.

Liu Zhongwu refused, but asked Wang Huan why his father and ancestors were all great ministers and famous generals of the Song Dynasty, so why did they rebel against the Song Dynasty.

Wang Huanju told the truth and said that when Pomeiling was mentioned, he wanted to recruit him.

Liu Zhongwu laughed when he heard this, and said to Wang Huan: "It is easy to recruit people, but it is difficult to break through Meiling. If you want to find your own wives and concubines with your army, it will be even more difficult."

Wang Huan asked anxiously why, but Liu Zhongwu just smiled and didn't answer.

Soon, Wang Huan ordered the rebels to withdraw from the siege, and all the generals agreed. After all, Liu Zhongwu was brave and the attack was not easy.

Only General Han Bao was not angry and said that Liu Zhongwu was his enemy!

Han Bao led his troops to challenge Liu Zhongwu. When he saw Zhongwu, he cursed: "Liu Ziwen (characterized by Liu Zhongwu)! You scumbag! Come and die!"

When Liu Zhongwu saw Han Bao, he laughed and said: "Who am I? It turns out to be the Han family's dog! Didn't you die in Luzhou?! Why did you come here to act like a monster? Could it be that you faked your death? Luzhou Man’s son-in-law?! Hahahaha!”

Han Bao was so angry that he almost went crazy and cursed angrily: "How dare you insult me! Han and I are incompatible with each other!" As he said this, he attacked Liu Zhongwu directly. Liu Zhongwu did not let his subordinates take action, and he fought with Han Bao fights together.

Liu Zhongwu's strength was obviously slightly higher than that of Han Bao, but he was able to fight with ease.

He accepted the challenge and said: "Han Cunbao, don't blame a certain family for targeting you. In the past, your grandfather Han Qi humiliated our frontier general and was extremely arrogant. Now the debt has been repaid. You came from the northwest and suffered injustice. You can't blame anyone else!" "

Han Bao was fighting madly while shouting: "Bitch thief! In the past, my ancestors never harmed Jiao Chu's family. If you only harmed me, I would be speechless. Why would you harm my children?"

Liu Zhongwu laughed when he heard this and said: "Idiot! Who told you that your wife and children were killed?"

Han Bao was stunned when he heard this.

It didn't matter that he was stunned, but he was knocked off his horse by Liu Zhongwu with the back of his sword, and then was captured by the Song Army. Wang Huan was unable to rescue him in time, so he had to retreat temporarily.

The two sides temporarily stopped fighting, and Liu Zhongwu met Han Bao, or Han Cunbao, in the camp, and asked with a smile: "Have you ever thought clearly, little Han family?"

Han Cunbao said angrily: "I don't believe you! Brother Chaogu will not harm me!"

Liu Zhongwu said: "That guy in Chaogu is a disciple of your Han family. He is on good terms with your uncle Han Zhang, so of course he will not harm you. He just wants to take away the [Evil Karma Orb] in your hand."

Han Cunbao said in surprise: "Impossible! When Brother Chaogu was by my side, the [Evil Karma Orb] never gave a warning!"

Liu Zhongwu laughed and said: "You are so stupid! Although the [Evil Karma Orb] is good, it cannot be fully trusted. As long as Chaogu does not have any ill intentions towards you and he has no evil aura, what about the [Evil Karma Orb]? It works!”

Han Cunbao frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "Leaving aside Chaogu, what about you Liu Zhongwu? Why do you want to put me to death?"

Liu Zhongwu smiled and said: "Who said I was going to kill you? Are you dead now?"

Han Cunbao said angrily: "You deliberately sent me to Luzhou to quell the rebellion, if not..."

Liu Zhongwu laughed and said: "If it's not what? Is it a sentimental barbarian? Hahaha——"

Han Cunbao said angrily: "Straight bitch! You are such a genius! I'm going to kill you!"

Liu Zhongwu smiled and said: "What an idiot! If I hadn't told that Luzhou Man's grandmother, you thought you could survive and become the son-in-law of Man's daughter! But you would have been fed by Chong Man!"

Han Cunbao was stunned when he heard this, and after a long time he asked, "Why...why do you plot against me like this?"

However, Liu Zhongwu's expression changed a little, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Straight bitch! Who taught you to be the friend of that bitch Chen Ergou? I can't help him, can't I punish his friend?! If I want to blame you, blame you. That scoundrel Chen Ergou just broke down!"

Han Cunbao let out a surprised sound, but said curiously: "My Ergou brother is far away in Xiangzhou, and he is a young boy. How can he offend a border general like you?!"

Liu Zhongwu twitched his cheeks and said in a deep voice: "That's all! Today Liu will make it clear to you, Han Cunbao! That bitch of the Chen family has made a magical salt essence, which is of great use to my Liu family. With this, that guy The things he bought made my family a huge amount of gold and silver, and made my ancestor Haichan Gong lose his position as the God of Wealth! Liu’s century-old savings were spent beyond his means.”

When Han Cunbao heard this, he laughed and said: "It turns out that you are greedy for money and can only take advantage of Brother Chen, but you have come to make me angry! What a villain! I only hope that Brother Ergou will be more ruthless and take away your family's wealth." All done! Hahaha——"

Liu Zhongwu also smiled and said: "Others lose money, but I, Liu Zhongwu, don't! I have to thank you, Brother Han, for Chen Ergou who gave you two pieces of salt essence. Now I can enjoy it without any expense! But it saves money." Spending tens of thousands of dollars!"

Han Cunbao just felt so angry!

He said angrily: "You are so shameless! I shouldn't have given you the salt essence in the first place!"

Liu Zhongwu laughed and said, "Who taught you that Han Cunbao doesn't know the goods? He only gave a pound of salt essence as a gift, but kept a hundred pounds for himself. I was greedy when I saw it, and I didn't want everyone in the family to know about it, so I had to come up with this trick to trick you!"

Han Cunbao said angrily: "Liu Zhongwu, if you can, kill me!"

Liu Zhongwu shook his head and said: "That's not okay! If I really kill you, and that fellow Chen Ergou finds out in the future, that bitch will not be able to tolerate me! So you have to live!"

Han Cunbao was so angry that he cursed loudly.

But Liu Zhongwu smiled and said: "Young son of the Han family, you can scold me as much as you like! I'll see how you can scold me when all your sworn brothers outside are dead!"

When Han Cunbao heard this, he stopped cursing and said: "Don't you dare to bully me! You are besieged here and are about to be destroyed. And the troops in the south of the Yangtze River are empty. If your troops are destroyed, how can you hold on to that in a short time?" I’m afraid it will be difficult to assemble a large army that threatens the rebels!”

Liu Zhongwu shook his head and said: "It is indeed difficult for the Song Dynasty to gather heavy troops to surround you and others in the south of the Yangtze River in a short period of time, but you are going to Meiling to trouble Duke Shen Yang. That guy is a stranger who descended from heaven. Only you and other ordinary people are really there." He has an army of 100,000, but there is nothing he can do, and all he can do is give away his head in vain!"

Liu Zhongwu stared at Han Cunbao's frightened eyes and said with a smile: "Han Cunbao, you are on good terms with Chen Ergou, and you are the barbarian son-in-law of Luzhou. You should be no stranger to strange people! That thing is not something that ordinary people can deal with. You must ask for help." Only a dedicated expert can take action.”

Han Cunbao looked at Liu Zhongwu blankly and asked, "How do you know this?"

Liu Zhongwu sneered and said: "Of course I know, because Che Ergou and I are the same kind of people. That greedy bastard has been selling good anti-evil treasures, which is simply... disgusting!"

Han Cunbao said in surprise: "Since you are also a demon suppressor, why don't you deal with the aliens entrenched in Meiling?"

Liu Zhongwu shook his finger and said: "First of all, I am a general in the army. Leaving the military camp without permission is a violation of military law! Furthermore, Hongzhou is not the place I guard, and my Liu family is not the family responsible for killing evil spirits. How can we deal with those evil spirits?" Duke Shen Yang!"

Han Cunbao asked again: "Are there no demon-suppressing people in Hongzhou to deal with that guy?"

Liu Zhongwu said: "If the Ouyang clan of Hongzhou can get rid of that guy, why can't he do such a big thing?! Looking at the world today, Chen Ergou can't get rid of this traitor!"

Han Cunbao said: "You don't have to lie to me! I know Brother Chen's ability. He may be better than me, but he can't beat the many leaders of our Zhennan Rebel Army!"

Liu Zhongwu laughed and said, "You know so much! When you first made friends with Chen Ergou, that guy was only a thirteen-year-old boy, but he already had extraordinary powers. Now that he is an adult, he has already acquired magical powers and martial arts four years ago. There is a world of difference between before and now, and there are countless talented people around him at this time, Bill and other ordinary heroes cannot be the same!"

Han Cunbao's heart was agitated and he said angrily: "You want to harm Brother Chen?!"

Liu Zhongwu laughed and said: "If the two dogs don't come out, why do you need Shen Yanggong?!"

(End of this chapter)