Rebirth of the deer dragon, the leader of the dragon

Chapter 740 Uprising
Three years passed in a flash, neither too long nor too short. Many things happened in three years, both good and bad.

Let me talk about the bad things first. The Red Turban Army led by Liu Futong and Han Shantong once expanded its power to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi provinces. The size of the army reached 70 at most. Even King Ruyang took command in person, but he failed to annihilate him in a short time as Yuan Shundu wished.However, after all, Liu Futong and Han Shantong are not the ones who can achieve great things, and they have no generals who can be entrusted with important tasks. There is only one Xu Shouhui, who was squeezed out and led troops south to Hubei. Therefore, in three years, the Red Scarf Army went from 70 Ten thousand gradually decreased to 30, and newly recruited soldiers accounted for one-third.The Yuan army's offensive is still so powerful, the sphere of influence of the Red Turban Army has been reduced to a place in Henan, and it will only be sooner or later that they will perish.

Another bad thing is the matter of Xie Xun. After the battle of Guangmingding, Xie Xun joined Shaolin, Yang Xiao was killed, and the rest were recruited by the Dragon Sect. On the surface, the six factions and gangs have achieved brilliant results. After the Battle of the Top, Shaolin Temple immediately became the public enemy of martial arts all over the world because Xie Xun was taken in and got the Dragon Slaying Saber.After all, Shaolin Temple has been famous for thousands of years, with great martial arts spirit, and there are so many masters in the temple. It is really a place where dragons and tigers den.

Few people who dare to come to make troubles does not mean that the Shaolin Temple is calm, because most people choose to make trouble secretly, set fire, poison, and kill monks with low martial arts. The Shaolin Temple suffered from extreme headaches and injured as many as 40 disciples in three years.Moreover, a lion-slaying alliance is being secretly organized in the martial arts. Once the alliance is established, they will go to Shaolin Temple to ask for punishment. I don't know who the leader of this lion-slaying alliance is. He couldn't support ten strokes in his hands.

There are many good things, and I will briefly mention two of the most representative ones. One is that the various preparations for the Dragon Sect have been completed, the training of the army has been completed, and the time for the uprising is ripe; second, Zhang Wuji, Zhou Yude, Zhou Zhiruo, Xiao Zhao, Zhongli, Ji Junlan and other younger generations are all adults (in ancient times, adults were 15 years old, Zhang Wuji was [-] or [-] years old, and Zhou Zhiruo was [-] or [-] years old).

Originally Hong Tianxiao thought that Zhang Wuji was an honest man, but he didn't expect this kid to have Zhou Zhiruo's idea. After all, among all the girls, in terms of appearance, even Xiao Zhao was a little inferior, not to mention Zhongli and Ji Junlan.Of course Zhang Wuji didn't know that Zhou Zhiruo was one of Hong Tianxiao's wives by his side, so he went to beg Ji Xiaofu, hoping that Ji Xiaofu could decide to marry Zhou Zhiruo to him. It happened that Hong Tianxiao and Ji Xiaofu were together, so Zhang Wuji naturally He was scolded by Hong Tianxiao.Hong Tianxiao also found out that Zhang Wuji's marriage could not be delayed any longer, so he decided to betroth Xiao Zhao and Ji Junlan to him. With these two girls watching him, Zhang Wuji naturally didn't dare to think about other women.In addition, Hong Tianxiao was afraid that someone would try to trick Zhou Zhiruo, so he took her away from Ji Xiaofu. In this way, those who wanted to trick Zhou Zhiruo stopped, who would dare to compete with Hong Tianxiao for a woman? Unless you want to die.

Another thing, of course, is the fact that the head of the Emei sect Jue Jue Shitai and his junior sister Jiu Nan Shennen both resigned and returned to vulgarity at the same time. This incident shocked the people in the martial arts no less than Hong Tianxiao's rebellion three years later.Of course, there are many speculations in the martial arts world as to why Fang Qian and Zhu Shuxie returned to vulgarity, but the most common one is that the two of them cannot stand the Buddhist precepts.Of course, some people also speculated that the two had a man, but no one could guess who that man was. Most of them guessed that the two had an affair with a certain male disciple of their sect, but this was all speculation after all. There was no evidence. It is not credible, and since the two announced their disenfranchisement, no outside man from the Emei Sect has ever visited, which makes the reason for their disenchantment a strange martial arts incident.

In the autumn of 1354 A.D., Hong Tianxiao raised the banner of righteousness in Qingcheng Mountain, and officially began to resist the Yuan court. He quickly occupied Sichuan and Yunnan, and established the Ming Dynasty. Hong Tianxiao called himself the King of Ming. The world was shocked.After Hong Tianxiao occupied Sichuan and Yunnan, he was not in a hurry to expand outwards, but instead stockpiled food and trained troops to consolidate his territory.

Sure enough, as Liu Bowen expected, after Hong Tianxiao rose up, Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others rose up one after another. In just half a year, in addition to the Red Turban Army, there were more than a dozen more regimes across the country. They were Hong Tianxiao, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng.

The difference from Hong Tianxiao is that the two regimes of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng developed very fast. The two of them echoed each other from afar, which made the Yuan court a headache and had to send two more armies to exterminate them. Hong Tianxiao's Daming regime But it was coldly received by the Yuan court.

Facing this situation, all the masters of the Dragon Sect were greatly puzzled, and they all came to Hong Tianxiao to ask for a fight, but Hong Tianxiao refused.However, although Hong Tianxiao did not expand abroad, he did a benevolent policy for the two provinces under his rule, abolishing all the bad policies of the Yuan court, and won the praise of the people in the two places.People in Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi and other places moved their families to Sichuan and Guizhou. In just half a year, the population of the two places increased by 30.

After the Ming regime was recognized by the people of the two places, Liu Bowen sent people to spread rumors, saying that the Yuan court was about to use troops against the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to wipe it out at a time when the Ming Dynasty was not stable and its troops were insufficient.Ordinary people are ordinary people after all, how could they know that the Yuan court was having a headache to exterminate Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and the Red Turban Army, and as long as it was true, they signed up to join the army one after another, which expanded the strength of the Ming army to 30.Hong Tianxiao was secretly delighted, and ordered his subordinates Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, etc. to drill the army every day, and only waited for the Yuan court to win or lose with other rebels, so he took the opportunity to make trouble.

After Hong Tianxiao's incident, Fang Qian immediately responded with all his disciples, becoming the first one among the martial arts sects to respond to the call of anti-Yuan, and then the Diancang sect in Yunnan also responded.The Beggar Gang also formed a gang to respond to Chen Youliang's uprising. The Beggar Gang's disciples spread all over the world, which was enough to form a huge intelligence network for Chen Youliang. Only Zhang Shicheng's sphere of influence did not respond to the Jianghu sects.

In 1356 A.D., after accumulating strength for two years, Ming Wang Hong Tianxiao sent General Xu Da to lead an army of [-] eastwards into Guangxi. It has been included in the sphere of influence of Ming Dynasty.Although the Yuan court also got the news, its main force had been restrained, and it could no longer spare its troops to go south to deal with the Ming army.

In fact, in the past two years, the small-scale rebel army was wiped out by Yuan soldiers one after another, and only Hong Tianxiao, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and the Red Turban Army remained in the whole country.It is said that there are four places, but it is actually three places. At this time, Han Shantong is dead, his son Han Liner succeeds to the throne, Liu Futong is in power, and the strength of the Red Turban Army has been almost wiped out by the Yuan army. In Shangqiu and Kaifeng, death is only a matter of time.

The two anti-Yuan forces, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, were evenly matched against the main force of the Yuan army. The two relied on each other, and even resisted the main force of the Yuan army with a million.Although they resisted, it was quite difficult. They wrote letters to Hong Tianxiao one after another, hoping that he could send troops to the north and wipe out the main force of the Yuan Dynasty together.

Chen Youliang's sphere of influence is Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shaanxi and other places. Zhang Shicheng's sphere of influence is Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places, all of which are in the north of the Yangtze River. Only Hong Tianxiao's sphere of influence is all in Jiangnan.Hong Tianxiao is not a fool, and with the help of Liu Bowen, how could he lead the army northward across the river to fight against the Yuan army? If the army sends a large army across the Yangtze River, it will put the Ming army in the north of the river in a desperate situation.

However, the rebel army's request for help still needs to be heeded. Under Liu Bowen's suggestion, Hong Tianxiao divided his troops into two groups, with Xu Da as the commander, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu and Mu Ying as the generals, leading an army of [-] to the east to Guangdong, and then to attack the northeast In Fujian and Jiangsu south of the Yangtze River, in order to prevent the Yuan Dynasty from sending martial arts masters to assassinate the commander-in-chief, Hong Tianxiao sent Hejian Shuangsha, Fang Dongbai, the eight-armed sword, and Wei Yixiao, the green-winged bat king, to protect Xu Da's safety. It was Hong Tianxiao who took command in person, with Liu Bowen as the military adviser, and Tang He and Hua Yun as generals to lead an army of [-] to attack Hunan, then northward to Hubei, and finally eastward to the land of Anwei in the south of the Yangtze River. All the land will belong to Hong Tianxiao.

For Hong Tianxiao, this battle was a crucial one. Whether Hong Tianxiao could achieve supremacy depended on it.Once this battle is successful, Hong Tianxiao will not only own all the land in the south of the Yangtze River, but also double his strength. Stand guard in danger, wait for the opportunity, and send troops to the Northern Expedition. Therefore, as long as this battle can be successful, Hong Tianxiao will be in an invincible position.Once the strength of the Yuan court is lost, it is equivalent to helping Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, and the battle between the two of them and the main force of the Yuan army will continue to be postponed. This is not good for the Yuan court, and it is also not good for Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, but for Hong Tianxiao And no harm.

Although the two armies are both [-], Xu Da's pressure is much greater than Hong Tianxiao's, because Hunan and Hubei have branch altars of the Dragon Sect, and the sub altar owners are Cheng Qingyi and Zhang Xun, but Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu does not have a branch of the Dragon Sect, so naturally there is no internal response.

Naturally, the Yuan court soon learned that Hong Tianxiao's 20 troops were attacking the southern regions, but the main force was dragged down by Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, and they could no longer send any more troops, so they had to urgently order the guards in the southern regions to recruit as soon as possible. The army, to resist the invasion of Hong Tianxiao's army.

However, after Hong Tianxiao ruled Sichuan and Yunnan for two years, the name of benevolence and virtue had spread throughout the world. Wherever the Ming army went, they encountered little resistance. The general killed the leader of the Yuan army in the defending army and surrendered the city. In just one month, Hong Tianxiao's army had already advanced to the foot of Wudang Mountain in Hubei.

(End of this chapter)