Fang La's hand descended to Liangshan, and the five people Jia Linchong barely killed Wang Yin, and Liangshan tried his best
During the Northern Song Dynasty, a heroic figure from an ordinary background rose to prominence, and with his strong appeal and organizational ability, he led the common people to rebel against the Northern Song Dynasty court in just a few months, bringing great pressure to him.
This hero was like a spark that could set the prairie on fire and hastened the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later generations called it "the rise of Lazhi", which destroyed 52 counties in six prefectures, harmed 2 million civilians, and plundered a large number of women, resulting in many women who were forced to leave the thieves' mountain and hang themselves naked in the forest.
This heroic leader is the protagonist of this article - Fang La.
Fang La, formerly known as Fang 13, was born as an employee, has a bold personality, and has strong leadership and organizational skills. Due to the oppression of the imperial court, he became resentful and decided to launch an uprising.
He actively gathered forces, and soon occupied Hangzhou, established his own regime, and received a response from many places. However, the good times did not last long, in the third year of Xuanhe, he was exterminated by Tong Guan's troops, his family and wife were captured, and finally Ling Chi was executed in Tokyo, and his younger brother was also beheaded in public.
In the second year of Emperor Xuanhe of the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, he ordered the transportation of Huashigang to be stopped, and sent special personnel to inspect and supervise. However, this made the life of Fang La's family in a difficult situation, because the lacquer tree they relied on for the imperial court was privately charged by the court's subordinates to make huge profits.
This made Fang La feel deeply unfair, but he couldn't face the court because he couldn't do anything.
When the imperial court stopped the operation of Huashigang and seized it, a large number of civilians lost their economy**. Fang La, for his part, reached out and secretly gathered these poor, unemployed civilians to prepare for a future uprising.
When the hearts of the people were all in favor, he gathered more than 100 people to drink and gather together. At the party, Fang La shed tears and complained about the dissatisfaction of the imperial court: "The usual labor is already very busy, and they are being extorted and plundered by the bureaucracy, and the profits they extract from agriculture and mining can no longer satisfy them, and they have begun to look at us."
How can we civilians accept that we can only feed ourselves on our own sumac trees, and now we have to pay those inexplicable taxes without leaving any room for nothing? ”
Fang La's few words resonated with the civilians, and they applauded one after another. He said: "Now the government only cares about enjoying women, does not do business, and bribes the enemy country with the money of the people, thinking that in this way it can protect the peace of the country."
However, after receiving these bribes, the enemy country despised us even more, resulting in us being harassed by foreign enemies all year round. "These people in the court are so stupid that they think that they will keep the peace by contributing, and that this is a long-term solution.
But we civilians are suffering and starving all the time, and it is difficult to even have enough to eat, how can we endure this? Fang La's words raised the morale of the civilians and the atmosphere was warm.
He also said: "Those in power are all despicable and shameless villains, who will only use singing and dancing treasures to confuse the emperor's attention, and they don't care about the country's major affairs at all, even if the local *** is corrupt."
We civilians have been exploited many times, and this time even the flower stone and sumac trees have been infested, and this must not be tolerated. ”
Fang La began to announce his plan of rebellion to the crowd, saying: "All of you here have a righteous heart, and you will surely resonate with the oppressed people of the country, and we will gather thousands of people to put pressure on the imperial court."
The imperial court will eventually negotiate with us. We used tactics to delay time, wait a few months, and then attack the Jiangnan region directly. By the time the imperial court reacted, we had already gained a firm foothold in the Jiangnan region, and the situation had been decided. ”
Fang La continued: "We have occupied the Jiangnan region, which has undoubtedly cut off one of the arms of the imperial court, so that the imperial court cannot pay high protection money to the enemy country, so that they will definitely extend their claws to the Central Plains region, and the civilians of the Central Plains will start to resist because of this, and at the same time, the foreign enemies will also receive the news and start to join forces to attack." ”
Fang La finally said: "In this way, the imperial court will be embattled, and even those resourceful people will not be able to make big waves." By defeating the imperial court in one fell swoop, we can hold Jiangnan, reduce labor and taxes, attract civilians from other regions to worship and join us, and eventually we will rule the whole world. ”
In October of the second year of Xuanhe, Fang La, with religious beliefs as a call, launched a popular uprising, gathered those displaced civilians, and began to establish a peasant regime based on Bangyuantong.
In taking the oath, Fang La spoke of the oppression of the imperial court, and the inexplicable taxes they levied, resulting in the people not having enough to eat every day, and even their wives and children were cold and starving. They just crave a full meal, but it's so hard.
After this manifesto, Fang La proclaimed himself the Holy Prince, established Yuan Yongle, and used turbans to distinguish ranks, which soon attracted hundreds of thousands of people to join. Subsequently, Fang La's army went to Xikeng, successfully killed a Song general, and gathered more people in the area.
In November of the second year of Xuanhe, Fang La's army entered Xikeng again, successfully annihilated about 5,000 resident **, pursued into Qingxi County with victory, and successfully captured a local county lieutenant.
This was the first large-scale battle of the Fang La army, and they won the victory with lightning speed, which greatly boosted the morale of all the civilians.
In December, Fangla's army was like a bamboo, captured Muzhou, occupied Shouchang, Fenshui, Zhu'an and other places, and used this as a base to gradually approach Hangzhou. They took Shexian in the west, annihilated the third general in the southeast of the Song Dynasty, attacked Kefuyang and Xincheng in the east, and approached the city of Hangzhou.
At this time, the Fang La army was strong and established the power of six states and fifty-two counties, posing a huge threat to the imperial court.
Liangshan, a place known as a gathering place for heroes and heroes, is known as a den of thieves, but in fact, most of the members of the interior are people with serious crimes, such as robbers, murderers, and even human traffickers.
However, not everyone is willing to bear the name of a thief, and they all yearn for a peaceful life. However, the road to whitewashing is extremely difficult, and there are only two ways: rebellion or recruitment.
The rebellion was widely discussed, and some people believed that Liangshan had the invincible strength in the world, and as long as they rushed through it in one go, the imperial court would definitely change hands. However, from a practical point of view, this is not possible.
Although the people of Yangsan were heroic, they lacked talents who were good at politics and state governance, and once Yangsan defeated the imperial court, it would lead to the disharmony of the country, cause discontent among the masses, and possibly lead to an uprising.
Since rebellion was not feasible, Liang Shan could only choose Zhao'an. Most people have no objection to this, because no one wants to be a thief for the rest of their lives and live in the shadows.
However, Lu Zhishen and Wu Song were firmly opposed, and they were unwilling to enter the court as officials, nor did they want to serve as subordinates in the corrupt imperial court. But they are also reluctant to leave directly, because the Jianghu people pay attention to righteousness, and the court helps them restore their legal status, and they should be rewarded.
So, they entered the war, and Liang Shan, after paying a huge price, barely defeated Fang La's army.
Hangzhou fell, and Fang La's army received an enthusiastic response in the local area, and the people joined the war one after another. Song Huizong was furious, canceled the suspension of Huashigang, and asked the local government to reduce taxes to prevent the Fang La army from continuing to grow.
At the same time, Song Huizong ordered Tong Guan and Tan Zhi to lead troops to encircle and suppress the Fang La army, and sent Liangshan heroes to support and suppress the uprising of the Fang La army.
In January of the third year of Xuanhe, Tong Guan and Tan Zhi parted ways and went straight to Hangzhou and Shezhou, meeting in Muzhou on the way. At the same time, Fang La led the army on the Northern Expedition, captured Chongde County, entered Huzhou, met the Song army, retreated without defeat, and held Hangzhou.
Fang La spared no expense in recruiting and concentrating his troops to capture 52 counties in six prefectures in Zhejiang, Anhui, and southern Jiangsu. The eight famous generals under his command are the core strength of Fangla's army, killing many generals in Liangshan, and their strength is comparable to the five tiger generals of the imperial court, but in the end they were defeated by the imperial court.
In February of the third year of Xuanhe, the Song army besieged Hangzhou. Fang La's son sent Si Xingfang to the south gate of Deqing County to meet Lei Heng of Liangshan. Within dozens of rounds, the division directly killed Lei Heng.
However, he was immediately pursued by Lu Junyi and his troops, and finally fell into the water and died.
After a bitter battle, Fangla's army was forced to leave Hangzhou due to a shortage of food and munitions, which led to the fall of Hangzhou. In March of the third year of Xuanhe, Fangla's army launched another attack on Hangzhou, but was unable to resist the counterattack of the Song army and was defeated again.
The Song army divided into two routes and attacked Shezhou and Muzhou at the same time. When Lu Junyi led the army to attack Shezhou, Wang Yin set a trap, which led to the killing of two Liangshan heroes, Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo.
Although this incident could not stop the pace of the Song army, it still led to the fall of Shezhou, Wang Yin successfully escaped, and killed two Liangshan heroes in a row, barely resisting the interception of Sun Li, Huang Xin, Zou Yuan, and Zou Run, and was finally killed by Lin Chong, who came to support.
The Song army's attack was not over, and they attacked Dusong Pass. Fang La sent Li Tianyan to fight. This is Li Tianyan's first appearance, and he is bound to avenge his brother.
He successfully attacked the Song army and killed Zhou Tong directly with a single sword, while Li Zhong fled with his wounds in embarrassment. Subsequently, he killed several Liangshan heroes in ten rounds, and again killed a Liangshan hero without swords and arrows with the help of cover.
Dusong Pass was lost, and Li Tianyan abandoned the pass and fled. In the process of escaping, Lu Junyi followed, caught up with Li Tianyan and engaged in a fierce battle. Li Tianyan was defeated and was finally killed by Lu Junyi.
At the same time, the Song army encountered obstruction in the attack on Wulongling and could not break through. Deng Yuanjue decided to go to Fang La to ask for reinforcements, but was refused. In desperation, Deng Yuanjue led his troops to Muzhou alone.
The Song army did not directly attack Muzhou, but chose to capture Wulongling first, and unfortunately happened to meet Deng Yuanjue. Qin Ming and Deng Yuanjue engaged in a fierce battle, and finally Qin Ming was barely killed by Du Wei's flying knife, the Song army was defeated, Deng Yuanjue was attacked while pursuing Song Jiang, and was killed by the Song army after falling off his horse.
In April of the third year of Xuanhe, the Song army conquered Muzhou, and Fang La could only send Shi Bao to meet it.
Shi Bao encountered Guan Sheng, unable to last, and could only return to Wulongling. The Song army pursued closely and attacked from both sides. Shi Bao saw that his subordinates were defeated, coupled with low morale, the situation became unfavorable.
He did not want to be captured by the Song army and become a slave, so he killed himself on the battlefield. Muzhou was lost, and Fangla's army was forced to retreat to Qingxi County, preparing for the final decisive battle. However, compared with the current Fang La army and the Song army, there was a huge disparity in strength, and they were quickly defeated.
In the final battle, after Fang Jie and Guan Sheng fought for a few rounds, Song Jiang sent Hua Rong to fight. Under the attack of the two heroes of Liangshan, Fang Jie was not at a disadvantage, but became more and more courageous.
Song Jiang had no choice but to send two more Liangshan heroes to reinforce him. Facing the four chasing generals, Fang Jie was forced to retreat, but was intercepted by an undercover agent, so he could only dismount and escape, and was finally killed with a knife.
The Song army launched a general offensive and quickly captured Fang La.
Although the various parts of the rebel army continued to fight, Tong Guan once again led the troops to attack and went to the branch to suppress them. In May, Yu Dao'an joined up with Lü Shinang, and they successfully captured Tianxian Tong in Leqing County, Yiwu County, and Yuexi Tong in Shouchang County.
However, in the battle with the Song army, the Tianxian Pass and Yuexi Pass that they had just obtained were recaptured again. In June, Lü Shinang's Song army pursued and killed the rebels at Guillotine Mountain.
Lü Shinang put up stubborn resistance, making it impossible for the Song army to advance. However, the advisors in the Song army came up with a solution that broke the deadlock and succeeded in capturing Lü Shinang.
In July, Yu Daoan led the last of his forces to attack Wenzhou, but was unsuccessful and had to retreat. In October, Yu Daoan was besieged and killed by the Song army in the mountains.
The remnants of the Fangla army continued to fight, but were eventually completely crushed the following year.
When Fang La**, Han Shizhong led the army to successfully capture him, but the final merit was snatched away by Tong Guan. It wasn't until the right army returned and investigated clearly that Han Shizhong got the honor he deserved.
In August of the same year, Fang La was subjected to death in Tokyo. This former heroic figure, from his rise to his demise only experienced a short period of one or two years, but it brought a huge population deficit to the local area, destroyed many economic lifelines of the Song Dynasty, made the land environment full of holes, and the treasury was in trouble.