October fifteenth.

It should have been an ordinary day after the autumn harvest, but it left a brilliant mark in history.

On this day, news of the huge changes in Jiangnan began to spread across the country.

In Bangdongyuan, northwest of Qingxi County, Muzhou, Fang La gathered more than a thousand poor people and called for the killing of Zhu Xie to announce the uprising.

With the Manichaeism layout and Fang La's reputation in Qingxi, the people responded to the rebel army wherever the rebel army passed and joined the rebel army.

The rebel army first occupied Qingxi County. With the response of the Manichaeans in the city, the rebel army entered the city without any effort, and opened the county magistrate, chief clerk and other officials in the city to tear their stomachs and hang their bodies in the public.

Most of the elite soldiers in the uprising army were peasants dressed in Manichaeus and were Fang La's confidants. They could not only kill the enemy, but also bewitch people's loyalty to Fang La, and their belief that the uprising army would win.

After the rebel army occupied Qingxi, the number of soldiers increased sharply to 5,000 in less than three days. In addition to the people who responded to the wind, there were also forces from Fang La clans, support for Fang La aristocratic forces, local forces suffering from the Flower and Stone Gang, and other forces gathered.

It includes Fang Qifo, Si Xingfang, Li Tianrun, Shi Bao, Wang Yin and other core members who have been co-conspired for a long time. As soon as they joined, they were valued by Fang La.

In less than two days, the news of Fang La's uprising quickly spread to Muzhou City with the help of the Manichaeans. Zhang Hui, the governor of Muzhou, was shocked. In order to prevent the rebel army from growing rapidly, he hurriedly ordered Cai Zun, the chief of the army and horses of the two Zhejiang provinces, to lead the army to suppress it.

Cai Zun commanded the wing army stationed in the places and some of the rural troops, and his combat effectiveness was no different from that of ordinary bandits. He also heard of Fang La's reputation. He heard that it was Fang La's uprising, so he did not dare to lead the army at first. It was not until the governor Zhang Hui ordered that Fang La had only more than a thousand people, and most of them were poor people that he felt relieved and led the army to challenge him.

On October 20, the Five Thousand Chamber Army, led by Cai Zun, set off from Jiande and headed for Qingxi. After three days of walking, the army approached Qingxi County and collided with Fang La's army in the valley, which was leading the army. It can be said that they met on a narrow road.

When Cai Zun saw that Fang La's army was indeed only more than a thousand, but there were still no soldiers, armor, bows and arrows, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered the entire army to attack, trying to defeat Fang La in one fell swoop.

Seeing the official army stretching to the foot of the mountain, Fang La's army was in chaos and the formation was dispersed by the official army, and the casualties were counted. Fang La hurriedly ordered the front and rear of the army to retreat. After Fang La led the army away, the three hundred rebels left were slowly surrounded and killed by the official army.

Cai Zun has also read some military books and knows the truth that when he meets the forest, he does not pursue the enemy. He saw strange rocks behind the valley ahead, with trees growing in the forest, and the terrain was very complicated. He wanted the army to rest on the spot and explore the road before embarking on the road.

However, the deputy general next to him pointed at the rebel corpse on the ground and told him: No matter how strong Fang La personally is, he is leading only people without force. He had rubbed his majesty before, and he should take advantage of the victory to pursue him.

Cai Zun pondered for a long time and felt that what the deputy general said was reasonable, so he ordered the entire army to continue to advance and pursue Fang La.

No matter how ineffective the Xiang army was, it was better than the ordinary people. The official army did not chase after the winding mountain road for a long time, and saw Fang La's defeated army in front of him from afar. They stopped every three steps, as if they were not in accord with strength.

When Cai Zun saw this, he was very excited and asked the entire army to speed up, and he would definitely wipe out all the rebels before dark.

After another half an hour of pursuit, the government army was less than fifty steps away from the rebel army. The closer they were, the fatigue and riots of the rebel army became more obvious.

After Cai Zun saw the state of the rebel army, he gradually felt a little bad. The rebel army's fatigue seemed to be too neat. How could there be no one with outstanding physical fitness among hundreds of people?

With doubts, he looked around and found that the army had already walked into the deep ravine and dense forest. The road was rugged and narrow, and the surroundings were full of trees covering his vision. He felt chill and hurriedly ordered the entire army to stop.

However, just as he gave the order, the rebels in front suddenly stopped and turned around.

"Long live the Holy Lord!"

In the woods on both sides, shouts suddenly sounded, and countless rebels surged out of it. Fang La's "defeated army" in front also began to charge towards the official army.

Due to the narrow terrain, the formation of the official army was long snake-shaped. The rebels in the woods on both sides killed their generals and immediately divided the official army into several sections and slowly eroded them.

Cai Zun was extremely frightened and was about to retreat, but he saw that the official army in the rear had been cut off by the rebels, and the rebels around had surrounded him. Fang La in front was rushing towards him, and all the officials were flying in close proximity.

However, before Fang La got close to him, the rebels in the woods on both sides had already reached him. Among them, a sturdy man was extremely conspicuous. He took a sword to cut horizontally and vertically, and tore a hole from the official army.

Cai Zun's martial arts are ordinary, and he is not yet at the level of entering the house. Seeing that the man is so brave, he hurriedly called on the soldiers around him to take over, and ran backwards.

Seeing that Cai Zun was hiding in the crowd, the man simply put down his big knife, took out the meteor flying hammer tied around his waist, held it in his hand and pretended to be used to fight. After hammering several officials and soldiers, he shook it a few times above his head and threw it towards Cai Zun.

Cai Zun, who was standing behind the official army, saw a black shadow flying out of the crowd. Before he could react, he heard the nearby soldiers shouting "General, be careful". Then the flying hammer hit his head, smashing his huge head to pieces.

When the surrounding rebels saw Cai Zun being killed by a blow, they howled: "General Shi Bao is mighty!"

As soon as Cai Zun died, the scene immediately became chaotic. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, many officials threw their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

The fear spread quickly among the official army. In less than half an hour, except for the rebels who fought stubbornly, the rest were all kneeling on the ground.

At Wang Yin's suggestion, Fang La ordered the surrendered official army to take off the armor, let the rebels put on it, pretend to be an official army to attack Muzhou City.

The Liangzhe Military and Horse Commission Office commanded important garrison troops in Zhejiang. After Cai Zun's death, all prefectures and counties were completely exposed to the attacks of the rebels.

In order to expand the results of the battle, Fang La immediately ordered his troops to divide into three groups and lead his army to attack Muzhou City, the capital of Muzhou. Fang Qifo and Wang Yin each led a thousand rebels to attack Sui'an, Shouchang, Fenshui, Tonglu and other counties in the north and south. After completing the task, it was agreed to join forces in Qingxi County and then join the army to capture Shezhou in the west.

Lian Zhan won, and the army of peasants with faith was full of enthusiasm. They set off again in less than a day of rest. Most of the poor villagers along the road joined the rebel army. If they had no weapons, they would use shovels, steel forks and other farm tools at home as weapons.

Three days later, under the city of Muzhou, thousands of "official troops" slowly approached.

The school guarding the city gate thought it was Cai Zunjun who had returned victoriously, so he ordered the city gate to be opened. After the order was given, the school looked at it for a while and did not see Cai Zun. Suddenly, he realized something was wrong and hurriedly ordered not to open the city gate.

However, at this time, the city gate was half open, and the official army represented by the rebel army also approached the city gate. The defenders who heard the order hurriedly pulled them back to the city gate, but saw two people suddenly flying out of the rebel army - Fang La and Shi Bao.

The two ran away and used all their strength to hit the two city gates. Several defenders who were returning to the city gate were directly knocked out, and the half-open city gate was also knocked wide open. The rebels took advantage of the situation and the already weak guards of Muzhou City were attacked after several encounters.

Fang La, Shi Bao and others quickly led their troops to surround the Muzhou Prefecture Office, tied the governor Zhang Hui out like a cattle and sheep, and marched in front of the people who were deeply exploited by him. Finally, Shi Bao cut off his head with a knife and hung it on the city gate.

The other court officials were also arrested and beheaded and displayed in public. In addition to women, all of their families were killed. The beautiful women and women were rewarded with trophy to soldiers. Any wealthy families in the city who were involved in the government and bullied the people were also confiscated by the Manichaeans and plundered their property.

After occupying Muzhou City, the power of the rebel army grew rapidly, most of which were poor people inspired by Manichaeism. However, there were also people with incorrect minds who saw that the rebel army was in great power and pretended to join for welfare.

In less than a day, Fang La received several news from the Manichae tribe, saying that someone was plundering wealth in the city under the name of the rebel army and insulting women. However, most of the people who dared to do these things were smart people. They knew that it would be a dead end to collecting personal gain, so they presented most of the plundered wealth and handed over to the rebel army for disposal.

Fang La also acquiesced to their small actions, and as long as it is not too much, he would rarely pay attention to it. You must know that relying solely on the food, grass and money robbed by the government and wealthy families is far from enough to maintain an increasingly large number of troops.

A few days later, Wang Yin and Fang Qifo's good news spread to Muzhou City. They gathered villagers to strengthen their forces along the way. Before they could approach the county town they were about to attack, the officials in the city fled with their families and other prefectures and counties. They were almost unresisted and easily captured the four counties including Sui'an, Fenshui, Shouchang, and Tonglu. At this time, they were following the previous plan and leading the army to Qingxihui.

This day was the second day of November. In less than half a month, the rebel army took the entire territory of Muzhou. Fang La appointed Lou Minzhong as the main general and Shi Bao as the deputy general to guard Muzhou City, and he led the army to Qingxi County.

On the fifth day of November, Fang La, Fang Qifo, and Wang Yin's army had been assembled in Qingxi County. When he left Qingxi, the rebel army was only about 5,000, but now it has reached more than 12,000 people, even though half of them did not even have decent weapons.

As the number of rebel soldiers increased, food and grass became a big problem. Even though Fang La, Zu Shiyuan, Shen Tao and others had predictions and plans before, when the war really started, the transfer of food and grass became a big problem.

Fortunately, rivers pass by Muzhou City, Qingxi County, and Shezhou City, which can use waterways to increase the efficiency of grain and grass transportation. So Zu Shiyuan and Shen Tao divided the work and cooperated, one person in charge of water transportation and the other person in charge of car transportation, and continued to transfer grain and grass to the rebel army on the front line.

On the tenth day of November, Fang La's army rushed to Shezhou and headed straight to Shezhou City.
Chapter completed!