Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 416 Yiling Rebellion 4
In Yiling city.

Huang Fuchun, the magistrate of Yiling, was happily counting the silver.

He is over 50 years old this year. He passed the Jinshi examination in the seventh year of Tianqi. It was not until last year that he found a way to come to Yiling and become the magistrate.He didn't know how much money he had spent in order to take the imperial examination and find a job these years. He finally got through, so of course he had to make a fortune.It's just that Yiling is a small place, very poor, and there aren't many places where you can make money. All the successive county magistrates left their posts after a short time, so there isn't much money!But Huang Fuchun caught up with the good times. The great development of Nanyang made the Yangtze River waterway extremely busy. Every day, a large number of ships loaded with various goods and ores came and went on the Yangtze River waterway. These were all money!Tax cards have sprung up like mushrooms on the waterway. The Nanyang prefect came to him many times and asked him to take charge of them, but he ignored them. He would also get a share of the taxes collected by these tax cards. Why should he take care of them?Similarly, Jiang bandits are becoming more and more rampant, and murders and smuggling of goods are happening from time to time. Nanyang is complaining endlessly, but he is also too lazy to take care of it. Even if he wants to, many of those river bandits are simply officers and soldiers, and they will be indispensable after they succeed. He paid a huge tribute, why should he have trouble with his own money bag?
What he is counting now is the money sent by someone from Prince Xiang's Mansion.At the end of last year, he cooperated with King Xiang and deceived the court by saying that the Yiling mining area was a barren mountain. The court gave the entire mining area to King Xiang without knowing it. Then he spent great efforts to drive away the poor people and robbed all the mines and everything else. It can be said that he has put in a lot of effort, and now King Xiang has given him the reward he deserves, a total of 1000 taels of silver, which makes him very happy!If he continues like this, he will be able to collect tens of thousands of taels of silver in less than three years. Not only will he be able to make his money back, but he will also make a huge fortune!Master Zhizhou was so happy that he started to sing.

Extreme joy begets sorrow, just when he was intoxicated in the dream of rolling in wealth, the master rushed in with a panicked expression, calling: "My lord, it's a disaster, it's a disaster!"

Huang Fuchun quickly hid the money, frowned and said, "You're in a panic, what do you look like!"

The master shouted: "Those mud-legged...those mud-legged people rebelled!"

Huang Fuchun jumped up as if someone had stabbed his butt, and screamed: "What? What did you say!?"

The master shouted: "Those mud-legged people rebelled! They ambushed the officers and soldiers who were escorting the miners into the mountain to mine, let the miners go, and killed hundreds of officers and soldiers to pieces! They really rebelled!"

Huang Fuchun felt dizzy for a while and almost fell down.He grabbed the master's sleeve and cried in a crying voice, "When did it happen?"

The master said: "Today is today... there are hundreds of people, let them kill them all!"

Huang Fuchun was trembling all over, and murmured to himself in bewilderment: "What should I do? What should I do? If the court knows that such a disaster has happened in my Yiling area, I will have to move my head... Those muddy legs The son is really disgusting, why don't they go to other places to make trouble, and insist on making life difficult for me in the poor mountains and rivers of Yiling, damn it, really damn it!"

——Master Huang has never thought about why those ordinary people rebelled. In his opinion, the duty of those ordinary people is to hand over all their belongings to him, and then stay at home and starve honestly. They are the good people!

The master said: "According to a hundred households who escaped, many miners joined the rebels on the spot. The rebels have greatly increased their strength. What should we do?"

Huang Fuchun's face was pale, and he shouted tremblingly: "Quick, quick... Hurry up and order the city gates to be closed, no one can wait to come in, so as to prevent the rebels from entering the city! Also, send someone to report to the Governor, and ask him to send troops to come quickly to support !"

The master responded and quickly went to make arrangements.

The lovely Huang Zhizhou probably devotes all his attention to making money, searching for people's fat and people's ointment like a wolf and a tiger. Once a civil uprising is stirred up, he will immediately turn into an ostrich, and he can't wait to shrink into the cracks in the ground.From the beginning to the end, he never thought that he should summon those officers and soldiers who had escaped from the rebel army and retrieved their lives from the knife of the rebel army, so as to understand the strength of the rebel army. He only cared about closing the city gate, lest the rebel army take advantage of it In, it can be called a pig-like opponent.The saddest thing is that opponents like this pig abound in Huguang!

This is doomed to the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty.

When Huang Zhizhou panicked, Wang Rui had already led his troops back to Longshou Village.The troops he sent out to attack and escort the miners into the mountain for mining also came back one after another. They all won a complete victory.Many miners asked to join their ranks, more than doubling their ranks.In fact, according to the standards of the Heluo New Army, not many enemies were wiped out in this battle, and most of the captured weapons were unusable, which is really not worth mentioning. The army was defeated under their own attack, and many rebel soldiers who were quite nervous in their hearts had their morale boosted, thinking that the officers and soldiers were nothing to be afraid of. This psychological advantage was very important for them in the next battle.

Wang Rui didn't say much. After returning to Longshou Village, he ordered all the captured weapons, shackles and other things to be melted down and the weapons to be rebuilt to prepare for the next battle.At this time, a smuggling ship brought them four thousand kilograms of fine iron, five hundred daggers and five hundred gun heads. These weapons made the rebels cheer. What they lack now are weapons!Some officers and soldiers recorded the names of new recruits, registered them, issued weapons, and started simple training. In short, they were very busy.Wang Rui, Qin Mai, Peng Zhuang, Sun Xiucai and others gathered together to drink soup made from wild vegetables and discuss the next action plan.

Peng Zhuang said: "The boss is like a god with his troops. Our rebel army attacked in four directions and won a complete victory in all four directions. We killed nearly 300 officers and soldiers and rescued more than 4000 miners! I think Huang Fuchun, the dog officer, must have been frightened by this news. The first and second masters, should we take advantage of the opportunity to march directly to Yiling City and kill the dog officer? If we wait too long, it will be difficult to fight if the officers and soldiers are prepared!"

Qin Mai turned his attention to Wang Rui, who always had more ideas than him: "What do you think?"

Wang Rui shook his head: "No, although we won a battle, most of them are not qualified soldiers. Letting them attack a fortified city like Yiling is simply sending them to their deaths!"

Peng Zhuang was anxious, and said: "But now there are more than 4000 rebels, plus the miners who escaped from various mining areas, there are tens of thousands of people in Longshou Village! There are so many people who have to eat every day, and there are no plants on the mountain. If we don't take down Yiling City as soon as possible, without the officers and soldiers coming to fight, we will starve to death on the mountain!"

Sun Xiucai murmured and said, "The boss is concerned that our foundation is still shallow, and a rash attack on Yiling City will easily provoke a violent counterattack, right?"

Wang Rui said: "Yes! Now our foundation is too shallow, with only a few people and not enough weapons, and the common people don't know whether we are good or bad. If we rush to attack Yiling City, the common people will easily regard us as bandits. , In order to save his own property and life, he desperately defended the city, and he would neither be able to defeat nor retreat, and the loss would be too great!" He drank the wild vegetable soup in the bowl and said loudly: "Huang Fuchun loves to hide in the city. In the city, let him hide and leave him alone! Let's wipe out the local tyrants and evil gentry around Yiling City first, and wait until the common people are on our side, and then deal with this big corrupt official who does nothing. !"

This decision brought bad luck to the local tyrants and evil gentry around Yiling City.

After several years of service in the Heluo New Army, Wang Rui knew that soldiers are more expensive than good soldiers. Facing the large number of miners who are willing to join the rebel army, he did not rush to expand the army, but only selected among them. Six hundred young and strong men aged 25 to [-] were incorporated into the combat force, and the rest were arranged to continue mining in the mining area.He explained: "Wars are fought with money. Without money, this battle is bound to be lost. We have no source of income. Where does the money come from? It can only come from this mine. Only by digging out more ore can we get Get more weapons and destroy more enemies!" After a pause, he emphasized his tone, and said to those miners who were not very satisfied with his arrangement: "After the battle is over, we will build a few statues in Yiling The same phosphate fertilizer factory in Nanyang, produces phosphate fertilizer, so that the crops can have a good harvest, so that everyone no longer has to go hungry!"

No need to go hungry anymore!
These simple seven words have an irresistible attraction to these simple and honest miners. They happily accept the order, enter the mining area with tools, and start mining against the clock.

As for the rebel army whose number exceeded 2000, Wang Rui left 500 of them to stay at the base camp, and personally led 500 of them down the mountain to seek the bad luck of those landlords.He still doesn't have the ability to capture a big city like Yiling, but he has no problem at all in attacking those landlords' Wubao, okay, let's get you experience points first!He didn't dare to spread out the troops like attacking the officers and soldiers who entered the mountain. His troops were not strong enough to gather and disperse freely, so it was better to hold them in his own hands first.

The troops drove out from the mountains mighty and mighty, and rushed towards the towns in the distance.Looking at this spectacular scene, Qin Mai felt a little satisfied: "I never thought we could command such a large army across the battlefield..."

Wang Rui chuckled: "What is this? It won't be long before our troops will expand to thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands, until we can't command them!"

Qin Mai asked: "Then do you think we can succeed?"

Wang Rui said: "If you don't succeed, you will succeed!"

(End of this chapter)