Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 738: A spark of fire ignites the prairie fire in the south of Jinzhong (Part )
"General Yang, the Qing army may enter the mountains to pursue us. Please prepare as soon as possible," Damuding said to Yang Fanglin the next day.

"Thousands of households don't know anything. The terrain of Jiaoshan Mountain is steep. The Qing army suffered many losses and did not dare to go deep into it after repeated encirclement and suppression campaigns. Guess Xu Changchun did not dare to enter the mountain to pursue. If they really dare to come, the rats will be able to come. "Return", Yang Fanglin was very confident.

Seeing him like this, Damuding couldn't say much and changed the subject: "Where is General Hui Chongde now?"

Hui Chongde was the former general of Jiang Quan. After Jiang Quan's defeat, he led his troops to wander in the Jiaoshan area. Not long ago, he was recruited by Elinqin Batur and was appointed as a guerrilla in Lan County.

When he asked Hui Chongde, Yang Fanglin felt a little uncomfortable on his face. He really wanted to defect to the Kingdom of Wei. He heard that the Wuyiwei was a minion of the Great Khan of the Kingdom of Wei, and Damuding was a first-level thousand-household chief and a regular official. A high-ranking official of the third rank wanted to curry favor with him and did not want other bandit leaders to compete with him for favor. But when Shangguan asked, he had no choice but to answer, so he had to say: "Chief Hui is also not far from Zucchini River. Since you want to see him, I will send someone to invite him immediately."

"To be honest, Master Hada of Ten Thousand Households ordered me to launch an uprising behind the Qing army and coordinate the army to take control of Shanxi. I thought that in order to achieve this, I must unite the efforts of the leaders. I also ask Brother Yang to help me." Damuding said sincerely, and deliberately changed the title of Yang Fanglin from "General Yang" to "Brother Yang".

Yang Fanglin's face suddenly became brighter, and he enthusiastically analyzed the situation of the various rebels, "Chief of Qianhu, there are many large and small villages here. The most powerful ones are the generals and Hui Guerrilla, and Ren Liang from Donghuluchuan. , Zhong Dou and Shen You from Lian Yin Mountain, and Li Zongsheng from Zhou Gong Mountain. The fathers of Zhong Dou and Shen You were both killed in the battle with the Manchus. They had sworn hatred with the Manchus, and the final general was willing to repair a book. Feng persuaded them to surrender. It’s just~”

"Just what?" Seeing him pause, Damudin asked with concern.

"It's just that Ren Liang of Donghuluchuan is a local. He occupied Donghuluchuan and the three cliffs in the sixth year of Tianqi. Although he also surrendered to Li Chuang and was even recruited by the Qing court, it was all superficial. In fact, whose He didn't buy the account either. His two sons, Ren Guoxuan and Ren Guozhen, were both wise and brave men, helping their father to separate one side. This man just wanted to be a free mountain king, and he had the most troops among the leaders. If you want to recruit him, you will probably refuse; Li Zongsheng of Jingle County is stubborn and pedantic, and stubbornly insists on defending against Huayi. He often calls the Qing government a barbarian, saying that 'barbarians are alien to China'. It is estimated that David will not be surrendered."

After hearing this, Damuding fell into deep thought, and after a while he made up his mind and said: "Brother Yang, please write a letter to the four leaders, and be sure to try to recruit Zhongdou and Shen You. For Li Zongsheng and Ren Liang, you can only cooperate without recruiting. Since Ren Liang If we want to dominate one side, we will do what it wants, establish the Jiaoshan Anti-Qing Alliance, and respect Ren Liang as its leader."

"Establish an anti-Qing alliance and respect Ren Liang as the leader?" Yang Fanglin thought for a moment and nodded repeatedly, "If this is the case, I guess Li Zongsheng and the old gourd are probably willing."
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Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there are people who are willing, the matter of uniting the rebel armies from all walks of life turns out to be extremely smooth. Zhong Dou and Shen You had enemies with the Qing court and had always been on good terms with the Yang brothers. After seeing the letter written by Yang Fanglin, they agreed to accept the invitation and became the Wenshui and Qingyuan governors of the Wei Kingdom. Although Li Zongsheng insisted on the Huayi rule, However, he did not have much dislike for the Kingdom of Wei who did not engage in shaving and changing clothes, and he hated the Manchus to the core. He regarded cooperation against the Qing Dynasty as a good opportunity to restore China, and he readily agreed; Ren Liang was still somewhat ambitious, and saw heroes from all walks of life. I am willing to recommend him to be the boss, my heart is beating. However, he was wily and scheming and made a request: "Since you have elected me to be the master, please invite the three cliffs of me to make a blood alliance."

The news spread back to Zucchini River, and everyone was waiting for Damuding to make a decision. Everything else is easy to say, the terrain of those three cliffs is extremely dangerous, and they are Ren Liang's territory. The Gourd King is very cunning, and if you go there, you will have unpredictable luck.

"Go! We must go!" Damuding made up his mind, "Our army is defeated and we must rely on the strength of Ren Liang and others. If we don't go, we can't let Ren Liang rest assured. Ren Liang just wants to dominate Jiaoshan, not There is no risk in offending fellow Green Foresters from all walks of life."

"Head of a thousand households," Zhao Yi and Liu Yan'er wanted to say more.

Damuding waved his hand, "Brother Yang and I can only take some of our close followers with us, and the rest will stay in the Zucchini River. If Ren Liang has any evil intentions, you will go to the three cliffs to avenge Brother Yang and me. ".
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Jiaoshan has the East and Zucchini Rivers, and between the two rivers stands the Hulu Mountain. Three cliffs are located on the top of Calabash Mountain. The famous Calabash King Renliang's headquarters is stationed on the three cliffs. At this moment, Ren Liang, a great thief of the generation, was standing on the cliff watching the scenery. His two sons, Ren Guoxuan and Ren Guozhen, and his three nephews, Ren Guoquan, Ren Guohai, and Ren Guofu, were waiting beside him.

"Father, do you think that Weiguo Qianhu and other people in charge will come?" Ren Guoxuan couldn't help but ask.

"Look, what is that?" Ren Liang suddenly asked, pointing to an eight-nine-foot-long stone strip rising naturally from the edge of the cliff. This stone strip has a great origin. Standing on it, you can overlook the rolling hills and unfathomable valleys. If you lose your footing, you will be shattered into pieces. The rebels called it the "heart-testing stone". If successive leaders admired a person who was highly skilled in martial arts and courageous, they would ask him to go to the end of the "Heart-Testing Stone", burn incense in the sky and swear an oath, kneel and kowtow, and then return to the main village to appoint officials and select generals. The "Heart-Testing Stone" tests not only courage, but also loyalty to the leader.

"You mean~" The nephews understood somewhat.

"That's right, I just want to test whether the Weiguo Qianhu and other people in charge really want to recommend me as the big boss of Jiaoshan. If they are willing to come, they are sincere; if they are not willing to come, hehe ~" Ren Liang snorted coldly, with a fierce look in his eyes. As an old rebel who started his rebellion much earlier than Li Zicheng, he is naturally cruel and ruthless to be alive to this day.

"The bosses are here, thousands of households in Weiguo and all the bosses are here." While everyone was talking, the leader guarding the gate of the village came to report excitedly.

"Are they all here?" Ren Liang was stunned and asked, "Is Li Zhangpan from Zhougong Mountain here?" Among the leaders, only Li Zongsheng's village is the farthest away, located in Zhougong Mountain in Jingle County, north of Jiaocheng. .

"Li Zhangpan is also here. The younger ones heard that they gathered at the foot of the mountain and went up the mountain together."

"Well, I do mean it. It seems that I sincerely recommend you!" Ren Liang laughed loudly and suddenly yelled at his subordinates: "What are you still doing? Prepare the wine, food and incense table quickly, and follow you to the gate of the village to greet the distinguished guests." .
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Exactly as Yang Fanglin expected, Xu Changchun, deputy general of Puzhou Association in the Qing Dynasty, led his troops to the edge of Jiaoshan and did not dare to pursue anymore. He reported the victory to Shanxi Governor Bai Rumei and Taiyuan Town Commander Li Haoxian, and wrote a thick petition book. , saying that he had wiped out 30,000 enemies, and only a few fish that slipped through the net escaped into Jiaoshan. After reporting the victory, he returned to Pingyang and Qinzhou to wait for the reward from the Qing court.

Seeing the word "Jiaoshan", Bai Rumei and Li Haoxian chose to ignore it tacitly, and happily reported their victory to Emperor Shunzhi. They boasted that they had good command, and quickly eliminated the Zelu rebels, annihilating 50,000 enemies, and the leader of the thieves escaped. Mountains and forests, missing, and so on.

Just as Baifuyuan and Mr. Li Town were singing triumphal songs, news came one after another that the Jiaoshan bandits successively attacked the two county towns of Jiaocheng and Wenshui. After a great robbery, they continued to harass Qingyuan, Taigu, and The areas around Qixian, Pingyao, and Fenzhou turned the fertile land of Shanxi into a pot of paste; bandits active in the Zhougong Mountain area of ​​Jingle County also went down and captured Loufan Town, harassing Jingle and Lan counties. Jinzhong, which was originally relatively peaceful, became as chaotic as Jinnan during the Oroto riot.

(End of this chapter)