A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 259 The chaos continues and the situation collapses

Lu's mother rushed into the county government office and found the county magistrate who had unjustly killed her son. He was about to escape, but Lu's mother's army came too fast and he didn't have time.

"Traitor, where are you running!" Lu's mother saw from a distance the county magistrate who was packing up the belongings and putting them on a cart.

When the county magistrate saw dozens of thieves approaching, he had no time to move any more things, so he hurriedly got into his car and ran away.

Seeing this, Lu's mother dropped her sword, raised her bow, held her breath and concentrated, and shot away with an arrow, hitting the county governor's heart right in the heart.

The cart lost control and slowly stopped. Lu's mother ran up, looked at the county magistrate lying on the ground, and decapitated him with a sword. She wanted to carry him back to pay homage to her son.

Then he sent people to kill all the county magistrate's family, and then went to the center of the county town.

Seeing the refugees frantically destroying their homes and looting, Lu's mother immediately asked people to suppress them and sent people to open warehouses to stock up on food.

Because Lu Mu's army obtained the county's arsenal, its equipment was suddenly upgraded to a higher level, and some county soldiers were recruited from the county. The number of people Lu Mu directly controlled came to thousands.

The chaos was quickly stopped. Lu's mother asked people to give porridge, and the refugees lined up to receive it.

She also asked people to cook a pot of dry rice and meat, and said that those who wanted to eat meat should join her team.

Because Lu's mother knew very well that the food in Haiqu County alone was not enough for them to eat all the time, and Langya County would soon get the news, and the counter-rebellion army would arrive soon.

When the number reached 3,000, after a simple training, Lu Mu asked her men to divide their troops according to the list to attack the powerful people in the county who were unwilling to defect to them, and take their food and grass for their own use.

October
Lu Mu's army cleared Haiqu County, and all those who opposed him in Haiqu County were wiped out. After breaking through those powerful forts, they obtained a large amount of food, grass, and money, enough to sustain an army of three thousand for two or three years.

But Lu's mother was not satisfied and began to recruit soldiers again.

October 15th

Langya County had received the news that Haiqu County had been breached, and sent the Langya County Captain to lead five thousand soldiers to Haiqu County to quell the rebellion. Another five thousand county troops raised from various counties are gathering for support.

October 17

Lu Mu had already gathered ten thousand people in Haiqu County, and later claimed to be a general, but among them, one thousand had Jiawei (leather armor) and five thousand had weapons.

However, during this period, he asked Lu's mother to form a female guard of 100 people for her own safety. There were as many as 3,000 female soldiers in the uprising team, and a special Changle Club was set up, led by her niece. Led by Lu Shan.

Because Lu's mother had read in the books at home that Empress Gao and Empress Ren once lived in Changle Palace in Chang'an, and Changle Palace also had a female guard force of 3,000 people.

October 19

Langya County's counter-rebellion army had already passed Zhequan, landed on Zhequan, and headed south onto the official road of Haiqu County.

At this time, Lu's mother had already sent her nephew Lu Hu to lead 5,000 people to attack Bai County in the west. However, they were ambushed by the county captain of Bai County and were defeated. Seeing that the imperial army was about to arrive, Lu's mother had to let Lu Hu lead the army. Return with the remaining three thousand people.

After getting the news, the imperial court has five thousand regular troops, each of which has been trained for one or two years, and has complete armor and bows and crossbows. However, only half of his own army has weapons, and the armor rate is only 10%. After only fighting a few small battles, it was impossible to stand up to the challenge.

Lu Shan, the general under his command, said: "General, the Langya army has come a long way, and they must be exhausted. It is better to set up an ambush along the line, maybe we can defeat them."

After thinking about it, Lu's mother said: "No, the Langya army is elite, our army is still insufficient in armor, and the soldiers are hungry people who have just picked up sticks. Even if the Langya army falls into chaos for a while, it can quickly adjust. By then, we want to I can’t run away anymore.”

Lu Hu, who had just returned from Bai County at this time, said: "Auntie, we now occupy the city and have a good location. It is better to defend the city. The Langya army has been unable to attack for many days, and other areas are now flooded with refugees due to rivers.

As long as we persist long enough, we will be able to wait until a fire breaks out in its backyard, and by then, our crisis will be over. "

"No, the walls of Haiqu County are low, making them easy to attack and difficult to defend. In addition, the enemy's elite army can only attack one part of it. Our army will soon collapse and we won't be able to defend it for long."

Mother Lu still refused.

"That···"

The two of them really had no choice.

Empress Lu looked at the crowd and said: "Let's go to sea. Haiqu County is close to the sea and has plenty of ships. We make a living at sea all year round, and operating ships is commonplace. Almost everyone is accustomed to water. We can't beat them on land. At sea, they The equipment advantages cannot be fully utilized. We have great advantages.

Moreover, there are many islands in the sea. We occupy them, cultivate fields, and go ashore to harass them from time to time. Are we worried that they will not be preserved? "

When everyone heard what Lu Mu said, their eyes lit up and they all agreed.

So Lu's mother immediately mobilized the people to follow them to the island, saying that wherever they went, there would no longer be any excessive taxes and levies from the court, and Lu's army would protect them.

On that day, Lu's mother took command of the rebel army. Some took boats to evacuate southward along the Guhe River, while others evacuated on foot along both sides of the Guhe River. Come and settle on the island together. October 22
When the Langya army arrived at Haiqu County, they saw the city gate of Haiqu County wide open. The captain who led the team thought it was a fraud and sent an advance team into the city to find out. However, the advance team came back and said that the rebels had fled to sea.

The captain had no choice but to go into the city to maintain order, and then reported all this to the prefect.

Seeing this, the prefect of Langya had no choice but to ask him to leave a thousand men to prevent the rebels from attacking the city again. The rest were withdrawn, and the five thousand county soldiers who were still gathering ordered them to disperse.

This time the rebellion was suppressed, but Lu Mu's rebels were not eliminated, causing Lu Mu's reputation to spread throughout Langya County.

The fierce conflicts between the government and the people in Haiqu County are not unique, but are more or less common in every county. After Lu Mujun came to the island, he not only cultivated wasteland on the island, went to the sea to fish, lived frugally, and lived in hardships day.

They will also continue to send troops to harass the counties along the coast, on land and at sea, erratically. Whenever the opportunity is favorable, they will go ashore to attack the officers and soldiers.

The desperate poor people nearby came to seek refuge with Lu Mu. Soon, the number of Lu Mu's army grew to tens of thousands. Moreover, due to continuous attacks on officers and soldiers from various places and purchases, the armor coverage rate reached 30%. The weapon ownership rate reached 70%.

The eleventh year of Xinmang (the fifth year of Tianfeng)

Lu Mu, who led the rebel army to continuously harass various places, was ambushed by officers and soldiers. Although most of the people broke out, Lu Mu was shot, and the island's hygiene was extremely poor, so she died soon after.

For a time, Lu Mu's army was leaderless.

It happened that Fan Chong, a member of the Langya Ling sect, in order to survive, teamed up with the poor and some young and strong farmers to start a rebellion in Ju County.

However, they were surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers of Langya County and were defeated. Fan Chong led more than a hundred defeated soldiers and fled into Mount Tai, calling himself the Three Old Men.

At this time, the famine caused by last year's floods began to show its power, and powerful people from all over the country were interested in hoarding grain and grass. There was a great famine in Qingxu and Xuzhou, and thieves appeared in droves. Robbers were robbing homes and houses everywhere.

The Langya County soldiers and the county soldiers were not good enough to deal with the refugees, and they really had no energy to deal with the thieves in the mountains. In order to protect themselves, powerful people from all over the world also built forts one after another. Bandits from all over the country began to unite when they saw that they could not break the forts.

Fan Chong was considered brave by the thieves because of his righteous deeds in Ju County, so they all joined him. In one year, the number of people increased to more than 10,000.

The former Lu Mu's army, who were seeking survival at sea, began to separate because there was no one in charge. Lu Hu and Lu Shan had a disagreement. Lu Hu believed that the only way to survive was to go out, while Lu Shan believed that Lu Mu's army should be guarded. On the basics, the two were at loggerheads.

In the end, the two decided that Lu Hu would lead the people to join the rebel army, while Lu Shan would lead the people to continue the business. When Lu Hu led the army, they would attack from both front and back, and conspire to achieve great things.

So Lu Hu took 7,000 people and quietly bypassed the county town and officers and soldiers, and defected to Fan Chong, the largest rebel force in Qingzhou.

When Fan Chong saw that Lu Hu had brought money into the group, he immediately appointed him as a manager, second only to himself.

With the help of Lu Hu, Fan Chong's strength greatly increased, and he immediately began to plunder everywhere. Military discipline was extremely poor. Seeing this, Lu Hu quickly suggested: "There is no rule without rules. If our rebel army wants to grow, we must have military discipline, otherwise He will eventually be abandoned by the people."

Fan Chong agreed, but asked him what to do? Lu Hu was limited by his knowledge and didn't know what to do. After discussion, the two decided to use words as a restraint.

Gather all the soldiers, kill chickens and cows, and make a blood oath with all the soldiers, making an agreement: Anyone who joins his subordinates will treat civilians, those who kill will be put to death, and those who injure will be punished with wounds.

Then smear the blood on your forehead.

Lu Hu then suggested that in order to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy when fighting the imperial army, orders and signs needed to be corrected.

Fan Chong looked at Lu Hu who had just been smeared with blood. The blood was flowing down and his eyebrows were dyed red. He said: "Why don't we call them Red Eyebrows and order all the soldiers to dye their eyebrows red. From now on we will be called Red Eyebrow Army."

After reorganization, the Red Eyebrow Army was bound by the oath of alliance and had strict military discipline. When they went out to attack the county, they rarely plundered the people. Therefore, the name of the Red Eyebrow Army gradually resounded throughout the land of Qilu.

At this time, Xu Xuan, Xie Lu, and Yang Yin from Donghai County also raised their own troops in Donghai County, totaling tens of thousands of people. They suffered from encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, and when they heard the name of the Red Eyebrow Army, they led their troops to defect.

The Red Eyebrow Army had nearly 100,000 troops in an instant, with Mount Tai as the center, attacking the government everywhere, grabbing food and providing disaster relief. There is a balance between rich and poor everywhere, so that the army has mountains of food. The surrounding officials and prefects were unable to cure him.

In addition to the Red Eyebrow Army that stirred up the storm in the land of Qilu, there is also the Green Forest Army led by Zhang Xiang from Nanjun, Yang Mu, Wang Chang, Wang Feng, Wang Kuang and others from Jiangxia, centered on Green Forest Mountain in Yundu County in Jingzhou , their number reached 10,000, and the local counties could not control them.

In Hebei, because it was less affected by famine, there was not a large insurgent force. There were only dozens of small insurrectionary armies with hundreds of people scattered across the vast Hebei area.
The largest of them is the Heishan Army, which is located in Changshan County and around the Heishan Mountains at the northern foot of the Taihang Mountains. It has a history of hundreds of years of uprising.

There are several thousand of them, and the rest of the tribe, such as the Tongma Tribe, the Qingdu Tribe, the Shangjiang Tribe, and the Chengtou Zilu Tribe, are all vaguely headed by the Black Mountain Army.

In general, in the new dynasty, there were hundreds of thousands of elite border guards in the north to guard against the Huns and other tribes, and tens of thousands of elite border guards in the south, scattered to guard against the barbarians and Yue people in the south.

The second is the tens of thousands of foreign troops in Yangzhou who are suppressing the rebellion, and the last is the county soldiers from various states and counties.

As for the rebel army, in addition to scattered small rebellions in various places, there are mainly three groups. The largest is the Red Eyebrow Army located in Qilu, with nearly 100,000 people, followed by the Green Forest Army located around Yunmengze in Jingzhou. The remaining people are again the thousands of Black Mountain troops located in Hebei.

At this time, the new dynasty had a huge advantage and held a large number of troops. Almost all the prefectures and counties in various places were still in hand. Not a single county was captured, and the rebels were trapped in the local mountains and forests.

(End of this chapter)