Chapter 189 Zhu Li rebelled

In Shu County, the closed basin climate made this summer particularly hot and the air was almost non-flowing. The restless cicada sounds began to sing wildly since June and continued until the end of August. The dogs lay listlessly in front of the door, spitting red tongues. There was no one on the head of the village. All the people and animals stayed in the house and kept still, minimizing the heat evaporation in their bodies. Only by the river were filled with children with bare butts and playing in the water, the noise reached several miles away.

This is a village called Yangzi Village. There are more than 200 families, located twenty miles north of Chengdu. The farmers in this village work from sunrise to sunset. At the east end of the village is a large dense forest, with a radius of dozens of miles. There are more than a dozen large and small villages distributed around this forest. Yangzi Village is just one of the most common ones. Its only special thing is that it is close to the official road, and the nearest row of houses is less than thirty steps away from the official road.

From two days ago, a tense atmosphere filled the forest in the east of the village. Occasionally, a chaotic shadow flashed, and the neighing of horses came faintly. A few brave people in the village went in and saw it, but they never returned. At noon, several dogs suddenly stood up alertly and stared at the forest at the east end of the village. For a moment, they started to scream and die. A large number of fully armed soldiers rushed out of the dense forest and rushed into Yangzi Village. There was a chaotic chaotic sound in Yangzi Village. A moment later, the whole village became silent, and it was deadly silent.

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Two hours later, an army slowly walked along the official road from the north. Cui Wushang, the chief censor who came from Chang'an to investigate the Yang family's family destruction case, and more than a thousand Jinwu guards protected their safety. They came from Chang'an and stopped and walked. After walking for a full half month, they had no trouble all the way and had already relaxed their vigilance.

On this day, the large group of people was less than twenty miles away from Chengdu. The weather was extremely stuffy and the team was not excited about to arrive at their destination. The soldiers were all listless. Cui Wushang and more than a dozen officials were hiding in the carriage and were too lazy to ask about the soldiers.

The army slowly approached Yangzi Village. Along the way, they passed through the prefectures. There were many such villages. The weather was stuffy. Who would stand under the sun and watch them without any trouble, but even a dog did not come out to bark. This was the first time I saw it, but no one would pay attention to these. Everyone just walked forward numbly, and some bold soldiers quietly ran to the river to water and cool down when the commander was not paying attention.

Cui Wushang is one of the next generation of the Cui family who is highly valued by Cui Yuan. He is the second son of Cui Chu, the governor of Shaanxi County. Although he is a concubine, he performed very well. He passed the Jinshi at the age of seventeen. He became the chief censor at the age of twenty-eight. He supervised the words and deeds of all officials and had great power.

Cui Wushang did not disappoint Cui Yuan. After taking office, he did not show favoritism, he cleaned up a group of unqualified inspectors and handled several major cases, including his sixth uncle and the chief of Jining County, Shi Cui Yan, who was sentenced to prison. Cui Yan was therefore lost to his post and was famous for a while. This time, Cui Yuan sent him to investigate the Yang family's family destruction case. The key goal of handling the case has long been clear, that is Zhu Wu, who was sued by many people. Who was he?

Just as he was thinking, a scream suddenly came from behind, interrupting Cui Wushang's thoughts. He pulled up the curtain and looked back. Seeing that many soldiers by the river were exploding, his face sank and asked unhappily: "What's wrong? Why are you yelling?"

A soldier stumbled and ran towards him, his face full of panic, and shouted from afar, "Eunuch, the river is full of children's bodies!"

Cui Wushang was shocked. Before he could react, a clapper sound came from the village beside the road, and millions of arrows shot in densely like raindrops. The soldiers on the official road caught off guard and large areas were shot and fell to the ground.

Cui Wushang couldn't dodge, and was shot in the door with an arrow. He screamed and fell on his back in the car.

At this time, thousands of soldiers in armor rushed out of Yangzi Village. They waved their swords and hissed and roared, and rushed to the official road, blocking all the way out for the officers and soldiers. The swords and swords on the official road were shaking and shouting to kill the sky. Although the soldiers of the Jinwu Guard fought to the death, their number was far smaller than that of the other party. In addition, these ambush soldiers were extremely fierce and refused to accept surrender. Everyone was killed. Even those who jumped into the river to escape were chased and shot to death in the river.

Gradually, the shouts of killing became less and the corpses on the official road were piled up like mountains and blood flowed into rivers. More than a thousand officers and soldiers were killed, not even a single injured person, and hundreds of ambushers died. At this time, a young man with cold eyes and silver hair came out of the village surrounded by dozens of people.

He slowly came to Cui Wushang's carriage. Cui Wushang was not dead at this time. He was covered in blood, an arrow was still stuck in his face, lying on his back on the ground, his chest was dripping sharply, and a man with silver hair slowly fell into his eyes.

"So it's you!" Anger gradually ignited in Cui Wushang's eyes. He pointed at him with a trembling finger and cursed: "You are ungrateful, Cui Xiang will not spare you!"

A head of silver hair was Zhu Xiao's signature. He stepped on Cui Wushang's head, bent down and stared at him with a grin and said, "Cui Xiang is nothing. Since I have rebelled, I have to taste the taste of being an emperor. If you surrender to me, how about I let you be Cui Xiang?"

"You actually want to be the emperor too?" Cui Wushang suddenly laughed, "If you don't urinate and look at your face, you father and son are both slaves of the Cui family, and slaves also want to be the emperor. It's really a strange story in the world."

Speaking of this, Cui Wushang suddenly pulled out the arrow on his face, and used all his strength to stab Zhu Li hard on his legs. Zhu Li couldn't hold his legs in a short time. With a "crack!", the arrow pierced Zhu Li's calves and blood suddenly flowed out.

Zhu Li slowly drew out the sword, with a cruel smile on his face. He chopped off Cui Wushang's head with one sword, kicked him to his subordinates, and said coldly: "Put it in a box and send it to Cui Yuan, remember! After taking Chang'an, he will take this man's wife and daughter for three days."

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At the end of August of the second year of Xuanren, Zhu Li killed Cui Wushang, the chief censor who came to investigate the Yang family's destruction case, and officially launched an army to rebel in Luo County.

On the tenth day of September, on the plain west of Luo County, Zhu Li led the 40,000 slave army gathered from manors in various parts of the Yang family to fight against nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers of Jiannan Jiedushi Xian Yu Shuming who came to suppress the bandits.

The wind began to rise in the sultry sky, and dark clouds were rolling in the distant sky, as if a huge mountain of black clouds was slowly pressing down on the earth.

The two armies were less than two miles apart. The Tang army was bright in armor, with swords and guns, and the formation was neat and majestic. It was divided into two pieces in the middle. The front part was three thousand crossbowmen, and the back part was five thousand swords and shields, and the formation was dense like iron plates. This was the central army protecting Xian Yu Shuming. There was a square formation of three thousand spearmen on each of the wings of the central army.

There were not many cavalry in Shu, only one thousand-man cavalry on the outermost periphery of the two wings. Their mission was to hunt fish that had escaped. Hundreds of flags were flying in the wind, and the army was ready to go.

Zhu Li's army was much more chaotic and had no formation. Tens of thousands of people were like wheat in a large wheat field, with varying lengths and shortnesses. The team was mixed with various weapons. Some were wearing armor, while some didn't even have shoes. Some were holding horizontal swords and crossbows, while others stood with hoes. They stood at will, and some even sat. The team was noisy, laughing and scolding, as if they were like a huge town and grass market.

This is a team that is a mob, which is in sharp contrast to the majesty and order of the Tang army.

Xian Yu Shuming was Cui Yuan's confidant. At the beginning of the year, he was appointed as the governor of Jiannan from Jingzhao Yin. He was a Jinshi in the Tianbao period. He was almost sixty years old and had rich political experience, but he had no experience in leading troops to fight. However, the civil officials of the Tang Dynasty were not as weak as civil officials of the Song Dynasty. They all knew a little about leading troops.

Seeing that the bandits and soldiers were not in a mess and their formation was in chaos, Xian Yu Shuming couldn't help but look down on him. He smiled at the generals next to him and said, "I really don't know where he found these tens of thousands of people? Why do I need to bring 20,000 people? I can wipe them out with only 5,000 people."

The generals beside him laughed and shook their heads at Zhu Li's army. They were all soldiers. At a glance, they could see that the other party was a vulnerable mob. A general who knew the inside story smiled and said, "The Xianyu envoy didn't know anything. These people were actually slaves from the Yang family manor. After only training for a few months, how good can they be?"

Xian Yu Shuming nodded slightly, thinking about how to write the memorial of today's battle, "I personally led the army of tigers and wolves to kill bandit leaders and captured tens of thousands of enemies, and the battle will be settled.

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Zhu Li rode on the horse and looked at the black soldiers coldly. He knew that the other party was mocking him, but this effect was exactly what he wanted. If the other party had the heart to underestimate the enemy, he would have a chance. More than 40,000 slave troops were indeed a mob in front of the other party, and more than 10,000 temporary recruitment of farmers. But behind these people, there was more than 20,000 neatly equipped slave troops. This was an army he had equipped for millions of staggering stagnant. They were all strong young people. They had been training for nearly half a year.

But this is not a real killer. Zhu Li's real backbone troops were his father's five thousand old subordinates. These were the elites of the Qingzhou army, three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry, one can fight three. They were hidden in the center of the team and led by Zhu Li himself.

The war drums of the officers and soldiers rumbled, and the formation began to change. The cavalry on both wings emerged first, surrounding the sides like a net, while the central army and the two wings were dispatched together. They gave up the archers, and the crossbowmen retreated to the back formation. The infantry formed a large formation and pressed on the entire line. They were full of disdain for the bandits, and all kinds of tactics were cancelled. They just wanted to use the simplest method to defeat the bandits in one attack.

The officers and soldiers were getting closer and closer, less than a mile away. Zhu Li suddenly turned around and shouted loudly: "Listen to all the soldiers, if this battle fails, everyone will not survive. Kill an officer and soldier and reward a hundred stalemate. Those who escaped at the battle will be killed without mercy!"

Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men, especially soldiers who have left slaves. They are grateful to Zhu Li. Zhu Li not only distributed the land of the manor to them, but also exempted them from all taxes. Each of them knew very well that once Zhu Li failed, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they and their wives and daughters would become slaves of miserable fate again.

"Kill!" More than 40,000 people burst out with a loud roar and took big steps towards the officers and soldiers. These large dark clouds covered the sun. The sky was already a little dark. The frequency of drums among the officers and soldiers suddenly increased. At this time, the signal of the attack, the officers and soldiers began to run, a hundred steps.

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Fifty steps.

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Thirty steps.

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Many newcomers in Zhu Li's army began to become scared. The courage that had just been inspired by the reward disappeared. Nearly a thousand people in the front turned around and fled first, but the team was too dense and they had nowhere to escape.

‘Boom!’ The two armies collided like two mountains, shouting, begging for mercy, and wailing suddenly. The bandits who had no intention of fighting and were trying to escape became victims of the first round. The officers and soldiers stabbed the bandits in the dense bandits. The entire battlefield was filled with the sound of crying for mercy. Thousands of farmers who were temporarily recruited were frightened by the bloody scene. They threw away their hoes, threw away their forks, or knelt down and begged for mercy, or turned around and fled to both sides.

The officers and soldiers were already killed by their hands and their eyes were red. They were ruthless, as if they were peeling bamboo shoots, peeling off the ragged outer skin layer by layer. They began to encounter slave soldiers. These soldiers were much stronger than the recruited farmers. They were neatly armored, sharp weapons, and high morale, which made the officers and soldiers' attacks difficult.

At this time, the two armies had strangled together and were hard to separate. The sky began to rain moderately. The rain made the ground muddy and slippery, making the two armies more difficult to fight.

Xian Yu Shuming frowned. Things did not seem to be progressing as he imagined. The other party was not as vulnerable as he thought. It was much quieter than the sound of begging for mercy at the beginning. Moreover, the enemy seemed to be well-equipped and well-trained, which did not quite meet the definition of a mob.

Although Xian Yu Shuming had already realized that something was wrong, he could no longer control the army. The two armies were like fighting in a group in the field, with no rules at all. The two lines were fighting in a front line, and were twisted and no dispatch could play a role.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Time passed little by little. Two hours of battle had been fought. The plains were full of corpses, and the soldiers were still fighting on the bodies. The officers and soldiers had strong combat effectiveness, but the number of bandits was superior. The two armies were hard to solve and their physical strength was seriously overdrawn.

But at this moment, a new force suddenly broke out from the bandit army. They had not entered the battle since the beginning and were full of energy. This army was completely different from the slave army. They were extremely brave and violent as a storm, and had clear goals. They rushed straight to the central army occupied by Xian Yu Shuming, and in a moment they broke out a bloody path. They trampled on everything on this bloody path, overwhelmed everything, and were invincible.

Xian Yu Shuming caught Shuming off guard and made the five thousand new force suddenly come to his sight. It was less than twenty steps away from him. His hundreds of his personal soldiers could not resist it. Shuming Xian Yu was so shocked that his heart was about to stop beating. He turned around and fled. Zhu Li sneered, and pointed the bow at the back of Shuming Xian Yu.

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At this time, five thousand people shouted together, "The officers and soldiers were defeated! The officers and soldiers were defeated!"

With Xian Yu Shuming's lead in escaping, the crossbowmen behind could not resist the elite bandit army like tigers and wolves. In a moment, the officers and soldiers' central army collapsed first.

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In September of the second year of Xuanren, officers and soldiers suppressed bandit Yu Zai Luo County and were defeated because of underestimating the enemy. Countless people were killed and surrendered. The Jiedushi Xianyu Shuming was also shot by the bandit leader Zhu Li with an arrow and died in the chaos.

Three days later, Zhu Li's troops were at the city, and the governor of Shu County, Yang Zilin, surrendered in Chengdu. Zhu Li led a large army into Chengdu. At this moment, a messenger who came from Longyou handed over a handwritten letter from Zhang Huan to Zhu Li.

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Chapter completed!