Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty
Chapter 449 Chaos is coming
Chapter 449 Chaos is coming
Something happened in Fugu, Shaanxi.
Due to famine and food shortage in the area, a man named Wang Jiayin gathered a group of people to start an uprising.
Wang Jiayin's fellow villager Wu Yangui first led a group of villagers to rob the houses of local wealthy businessmen, kill people and seize food, open warehouses to provide relief, and soon gathered nearly three thousand rioters.
Then, a man named Wang Er learned about Wang Jiayin in Baishui County, and he also led people to rush into the homes of local wealthy families. After looting, he left. Then he led his people north to Fugu to meet up with Wang Jiayin. The two groups merged, and their number reached 6,000.
Fugu is located in the northeast of Shaanxi, not far from Shenmu. Further northeast across the Yellow River is Hequ, Shanxi.
Shortly after Wang Jiayin started the rebellion, the imperial court received urgent news from local reports, but the court's response could not keep up with Wang Jiayin's actions.
Because Wang Jiayin's development was very fast and his momentum was fierce, in less than a month, his team grew from the initial 6,000 people to more than 10,000 people. He even called himself "The One-Character King of Hengtian" and appointed his confidant Wang Ziyu as the left prime minister and military advisor, and initially established a "political regime."
At this time, the imperial court had not yet come to its senses. The bigwigs in the capital had just received the news and had not yet come up with a specific plan on how to deal with Wang Jiayin's rebellion. They simply ordered the local garrison troops to dispatch troops as soon as possible to encircle and suppress Wang Jiayin and put down the rebellion.
But you have to know that the current garrisons have long been rotten. How can the current garrisons have any combat effectiveness? Those military households are soldiers in name only, but in reality they have become tenants under the garrison commanders and the Tongzhi. Most of the young and strong have fled, and the remaining old and weak can't even get enough food, so how can they go to the battlefield to suppress bandits?
The only real fighting force in the Ming Dynasty was the border army. If the court decisively mobilized the border army to encircle and suppress Wang Jiayin, it would be easy to suppress Wang Jiayin even if he had tens of thousands of people. However, no one in the court took this matter seriously, especially the bigwigs in the capital, who thought it was just an ordinary rebellion and could be solved by sending troops from the local guards.
The reason for such a reaction lies in the allocation of military funds and food and fodder. Once the imperial court wants to mobilize border troops to encircle and suppress the rebellion, it must not only allocate "departure expenses" in advance, but also be responsible for the supply of military pay and food and fodder for the border troops during combat.
The imperial court didn't have that much money at the moment, so it was good enough to barely maintain the garrison at the border. However, there was no such problem when using the garrisons, so the capital didn't even consider mobilizing the border troops at the beginning, but just let the local areas solve it themselves and wipe out Wang Jiayin's troops as soon as possible.
But after the imperial court issued the order, the local garrison pretended to besiege Wang Jiayin, but in fact they had no intention of fighting Wang Jiayin. Because the officers of the garrison knew the situation, they were afraid that they would not be Wang Jiayin's opponents if they really fought, so as long as Wang Jiayin did not take the initiative to attack them, they would not take the initiative to attack him, and the two sides formed a very subtle and short "peaceful confrontation".
Wang Jiayin caused chaos in Fugu, but Fugu was not a place to stay for long. In addition, Shaanxi had been suffering from drought and food shortage in recent years. After careful consideration, Wang Jiayin decided to cross the Yellow River and enter Shanxi from Hequ to develop in Shanxi.
Taking advantage of the fact that the local government had not reacted, Wang Jiayin led his troops across the Yellow River and headed straight for Hequ, intending to capture Hequ in one fell swoop.
Once Hequ is taken, the door to Shanxi will be opened by Wang Jiayin. As long as he enters Shanxi, Wang Jiayin can use Hequ to gain a foothold and obtain a large amount of material supplies.
It must be said that Wang Jiayin's strategic vision was good. Once Hequ was taken, not only would the situation be opened up, but there would also be room for maneuver. But the problem was that Wang Jiayin overestimated his mob.
When Wang Jiayin led his army across the Yellow River and arrived at Hequ, Hequ County Magistrate Zhang Tiande quickly summoned the soldiers, yamen runners, and civilians in the city to fight desperately. The two sides fought a "battle" under the city of Hequ. In this battle, Wang Jiayin's army of tens of thousands suffered hundreds of casualties, while Hequ side only suffered a dozen casualties.
If we look at the number of people in Wang Jiayin's team, a hundred casualties in a battle among a team of tens of thousands is simply insignificant. But you have to know that his team is not a regular army at all, but a group of rioters composed of hungry people. Most of these people don't even have weapons. They may be okay in group fights, but they are completely useless in real battles. They are fighting like crazy, and the tragic scene makes everyone's legs weak. How can they still have the idea of fighting to the death?
Wang Jiayin had only a few capable fighters, including his old brothers and the young and strong men drawn from the rioters. These people were not numerous, only a few hundred people, and in this battle of Hequ, in order to ensure that Hequ could be captured in one fell swoop, Wang Jiayin sent his "elite" troops, thinking that when he arrived with an army of 10,000 people, Hequ would definitely flee upon hearing the news, and it would be easy to capture Hequ.
But what Wang Jiayin never expected was that the Hequ County Magistrate Zhang Tiande would organize the people to put up a desperate resistance, forcing Wang Jiayin to run into a tough obstacle right outside the city.
After the battle, his elite troops suffered more than a hundred casualties, especially Wu Yangui, a fellow villager who followed Wang Jiayin in the uprising, and Wang Erquan, who had come to surrender to him before, died under the city of Hequ, which made Wang Jiayin very sad. It was impossible to continue fighting Hequ. Although Wang Jiayin had many people, they were all a mob, with only so many elite troops. In addition, he had no siege equipment, and he could not climb the city wall by manpower.
If they continued to fight, not only would they fail to take Hequ City, but their side would collapse first. After all, Wang Jiayin had been a soldier, and he knew that this situation could not be forced. Seeing that he could not take Hequ, he had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw, cross the Yellow River again and retreat back to Shaanxi, and then go south from Fugu, and lead the rioters to attack Shenmu, which was the closest to Fugu.
It was a week after the Battle of Hequ that Zhu Shenzui learned the news. When he heard this, Zhu Shenzui frowned, sighed, and felt very heavy.
It’s here, it’s finally here…
Wang Jiayin's uprising was completely different from the previous White Lotus Rebellion, because Wang Jiayin's uprising marked the official opening of the curtain of the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty that Zhu Shenzui knew about. In addition, the previous abolition of the imperial post stations was a catalyst. Coupled with the natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, chaos in the Ming Dynasty had already occurred.
Not long ago, Zhu Shenzhui received news from the capital that the court was going to increase the Liao salary, which made Zhu Shenzhui even more alert. The current situation in the Ming Dynasty was already very bad. Once the Liao salary was levied, it would add fuel to the fire and the situation would inevitably get out of control.
This time when Wang Jiayin started an uprising in Shaanxi, Zhu Shenzui knew clearly that a great chaos was coming. However, he did not expect that the rebel army did not move south after the uprising. Instead, they intended to cross the Yellow River to the northeast and planned to take Hequ and enter the territory of Shanxi. This surprised Zhu Shenzui greatly.
Zhu Shenzhui, who had only known a little about the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, was clear that it started in Shaanxi. Later, various rebel armies rose up one after another, sweeping across nearly ten provinces including Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan, Huguang, etc. Compared with the Northwest and Central Plains regions, the situation in Shanxi was much better. Although there were also rebel armies invading in the later period, especially Li Zicheng who finally captured the capital by passing directly from southern Shanxi and attacking northern Zhili, but in fact, the entire Shanxi suffered not much damage in the late Ming Dynasty, and the scope of the rebel army's activities in Shanxi was also limited.
The reason for this is that the northern part of Shanxi is the Nine Border Town, and half of Xuanda's main forces are in Shanxi. In addition, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, known as the Big and Small General Cao, are from Shanxi. After the uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, Cao Wenzhao led the government troops to beat the various rebel armies and fled, stabilizing the situation in Shanxi and preventing Shanxi from suffering too much war.
In addition to General Cao, there is another person who must be mentioned, that is Wang Jinwu's brother-in-law Sun Chuanting. He is a famous figure in history and is known as the most capable general in the late Ming Dynasty.
However, Sun Chuanting is still staying in his hometown to study and cultivate his character. Although Wei Zhongxian has fallen, officials like Sun Chuanting who resigned in anger because of the eunuch party should be reinstated. However, Sun Chuanting has not been reinstated. It seems that the court has forgotten him.
Sun Chuanting was not in a hurry about this, nor did he take the initiative to inquire about the news or think of finding connections. He spent every day at home reading books, practicing martial arts, and planting crops with a hoe, with a leisurely attitude like picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely looking at the southern mountains.
The news of the uprising of the rebels in Shaanxi made Zhu Shenzhu feel very complicated. He knew very well that if this rebel army was not put down quickly, rebel armies in various places would soon emerge like bamboo shoots after rain. By that time, the whole Ming Dynasty would be in complete chaos. The rebel armies were so powerful that even if the court dispatched elite troops to encircle and suppress them, they would still grow like leeks after being cut. The more they were suppressed, the more they would emerge.
As time went by, after continuous baptism of war, the rebel army became stronger and stronger, and it became more and more difficult for officers and soldiers to deal with it. Just like the principle that quantitative change leads to qualitative change, when it develops to a certain extent, the rule of the Ming Dynasty will collapse under this force, thus causing huge changes.
As a member of the Ming royal family and a person with a vision for future generations, Zhu Shenzui has been secretly preparing over the years. He has done so much and spent such a huge amount of money on the layout, with the purpose of being able to protect himself before the chaos comes and at the same time prevent the ultimate tragedy from happening.
Originally, Zhu Shencui thought that he could look at everything soberly from the perspective of an outsider, but when the time really came, Zhu Shencui found that he could not do that at all, and became even more worried.
The world was in chaos, people were living in misery, corpses were everywhere, blood flowed like a river...
This is not a video game but real reality. No matter whether the dead are refugees, soldiers or innocent civilians, they are not just cold numbers recorded in words but real people with flesh and blood!
Zhu Shenzhu even had an impulse. He suddenly wanted to mobilize his own forces to help the court suppress the newly emerged rebels and put down the rebellion. But as soon as this impulse came out, it was suppressed by reason. Zhu Shenzhu smiled bitterly and shook his head. He couldn't think of how he could have such a naive idea.
(End of this chapter)
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