Zhangzhou Prefecture, Liuao Instrument.

As one of the five guards and twelve institutes seen along the coast of Fujian during the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ao Suo was entrenched on the hillside. There was a green mountain in Qianhu Suo city. The huge rocks on the mountain were piled up. From a distance, it looked like a giant turtle leaning over, hence the name.

On the city wall of Qianhusuo City, Bai Rongan, a Qianhu, a green camp on the left side of Fujian, walked up wearing a hat and a straw raincoat. The waves in the distance were surging, dark clouds covered the sky, and heavy rain fell. The inside and outside of the city wall were in a mess because of the typhoon last night. Although it was June, Bai Rongan still felt terrible cold. The storm wrapped in cold rain and poured into his clothes, and Bai Rongan shivered.

"Master Qianhu, let's go down. You don't have to stand at this moment." A soldier's lips were purple in the wind and rain, and he said tremblingly.

"You know, now there are traitors around hundreds of miles away. If you are not careful, we will all die here." Bai Rong'an cursed. The ban on the sea has been implemented for half a month. After the Southeast chaos, the coast of Zhangzhou Prefecture, which finally recovered from peace, is now in chaos again. Unlike the pirates who used to harass, the coast is now a hell. A bite of porridge and a field mouse can trigger a fight. Because the Eight Banners and Green Camps of other provinces attacked everywhere, there was no order here. The timids ran to the mainland and organized various teams boldly. Bai Rong'an was originally part of suppressing the people outside the boundary, but he did not do it on the excuse of a typhoon, and he shrank in Qianhusou and other people and the guest army decided to win.

Bai Rongan stood on the city wall. The wind gradually weakened, but the dark clouds were still there. It was originally noon, but it was impossible to see clearly even a hundred steps away. Seeing the land outside the city full of mud, Bai Rongan was about to go down to change shifts, but he saw a flame lit up in the northeast direction. He thought he was dazed, but rubbed his eyes and looked again. The flame had turned into a line, and then turned into a fire dragon.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Bai Rongan rolled and crawled down from the city wall, roaring loudly.

In this kind of weather, those who will come to Liu'aosu must be those mud legs who have no place to live and have no food. These honest villagers now have no land and become chaotic people and can no longer be treated by farmers. They ambush the Eight Banners and resist the Green Camp. They are anxious and dare to kill anything. They are extremely hungry and can stuff human flesh into their mouths. Bai Rong'an heard that more than ten years ago, there were such thieves in the Central Plains. He did not expect that today it was the turn of the rich land of Eight Fujian.

The gunpowder barrel was opened, and the gunpowder and lead were distributed. Under the drizzle, more than 200 soldiers from the Thousand Households and hundreds of Ding Zhuang all rushed to the city wall. Bai Rongan also saw the general situation of the besiegers. On the gentle hillside, two or three thousand people spread out. Standing in front was a man wearing a red scarf, holding a shovel and a hoe. Behind the hillside, there were still people coming, endless.

The soldiers of Qianhukou were already panicked. Haven't seen such a situation? A group of people looked at Bai Rong'an. Bai Rong'an had no choice but to poke his head out of the female wall and asked loudly: "This is the Six Ao Instruments of the Daqinghai Defense Institute. Where are you from? I am Bai Rong'an, Qianhukou. These days, we have never left the city to kill. Gods and Buddhas in the sky can testify. If there is any retribution, we cannot repay them."

"The Tartars are as tyrannical as tigers. The coastal gentry and civilians cross the street, picked up bamboo guns and formed a team, killed the Tartars and sued their ancestors!"

The loud singing was sung by thousands of people, and the riots around the Six Ao Suo agreed. The song echoed between the surrounding mountains, and even the storm outside the Six Ao Suo City was suppressed. After the hillside, there was another echo, and the momentum was even more terrifying. Bai Rong'an's face turned pale. At this time, more than thirty people ran to the Six Ao Suo, and one of them shouted loudly: "We are the rebels who resisted tyranny. Listen to the people in the city, do you want to be the rebels or the rebels? Open the city gate and let us in. Apart from the weapons and wealth in the treasury, we will not be in any way. If we want to be the rebels, we will tell you and fight the generals in a while. After the city is broken, we will not be left behind."

Bai Rongan defended: "A good man under the city, this time we moved to the boundary and banned the sea, but we have not yet issued a single arrow. Why did we blame our Six Aoku? Please forgive me. I will send someone to send 400 stones of grain, rice, and twenty jars of good wine to treat it."

"So, are you going to continue to help the evil and be determined to be a Tartar?" the man under the city asked immediately.

"I dare not, I dare not, I just..." Bai Rongan didn't expect that the other party was so unreasonable.

"Either open the city and surrender, or break the city and die. You choose the same thing yourself. In a quarter of an hour, choose it yourself." The man threw down his words and left.

Bai Rongan looked at the panicked soldiers and family members in the city, sighed, pointed to the ignited beacon, and said, "We are worthy of the little money paid by the court. We can't die here, open the city."

The east gate of Qianhushou was wide open, but the rebels outside the city did not robbery. Only the rebels wrapped in red scarves entered the city, controlled various key points, moved rice and grain from the treasury, and brought pots and utensils out of the city to eat food. The rebels surrounded the bald man in the head and entered the garrison yamen. Bai Rongan was pulled in and beaten Qian, looked up at the leader of the rebels, was slightly stunned, and then he spoke in confusion: "Brother Bai Qi?"

The leader of the rebel army, Bai Qixin, glanced at Bai Rong'an aloud and asked, "Bai Dog?"

Bai Rongan was overjoyed when he heard this familiar nickname, and ran over, pointed to the scar on Bai Qixin's forehead and said, "Brother Qi, if I hadn't left this scar on your forehead when I was a child, I wouldn't have recognized it."

"Why are you here? Didn't you go to sea to join the army?" Bai Qixin asked.

Bai Rongan sighed and said, "It's hard to describe it. I wanted to find a way out and joined the army of the State Regents, but I never thought I would become a Tartar. Brother Seven, did you join the Juren's house as a servant that year?"

Bai Qixin said: "Haha, the way of heaven is good for reincarnation, and the sea is forbidden. The juren has no choice but to bring gold, silver and soft materials to the sea and invest in the east. The rice, grain and goods at home are given to me. I am alone, not afraid of the Tartars coming to kill, so I simply gathered a team to fight with the Tartars. They killed our brothers, destroyed our fields, and burned our ancestral halls. It's really damn!"

After saying that, Bai Qixin said to several small leaders around him: "This is Bai Rong'an, his nickname is Gouzi, and he is my childhood friend, so there is no need to be a taboo."

After everyone left, Bai Qixin asked someone to bring food. Bai Rong'an ate a few bowls of rice and asked, "How did Brother Qi come to this Liu'ao Station?"

Bai Qixin said: "I heard that overseas Eastern Bands are helping the rebels, so I thought of finding a sea outlet first, so I could get some rice, grain and weapons. If it is really as others say, I can arrange for the rebels' families to go to sea to settle, that's also good. It would be better to take these people around and die halfway through the road."

Bai Rongan slapped his thigh: "Brother Seven is so confused. If you contact Dongfan, what are you doing in these Liuao? Going east through Zhangpu and Zhao'an, it is Chaozhou. Now Chaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong has already become the world of Dongfan. Why do you need to use ship transportation?"

Bai Qixin is also a native bun, so how could he know the general trend of the world? The Red Turban Army under his command is known as 50,000, but in fact it is mostly old, weak, women and children, and strong men only have five or six thousand. How could he know the situation like Fujian and Guangdong? Even though the Liu Ao Suo and Chaozhou are only 200 to 300 miles, it is also a gap for Bai Qixin in the past.

"If this is the case, it would be convenient. However, Zhangpu is a county town and there are many Dingkou. I am afraid that my army will not be able to be defeated." Bai Qixin thought for a while and said.

Bai Rong'an said: "You can contact Chaozhou first and let it send troops. Dongfan has always been sharp guns and cannons, and it is no problem to attack cities. However, if the Seventh Brother can conquer Zhangpu or even Zhao'an, that's different. Your rebel army is worth a few in Zhangzhou Prefecture.

Actually, Zhao'an is nothing. The county is outside the boundary, and the people in the city have already run away. There are more than 2,000 green camp soldiers from Jiangnan in the city. If Brother Seven had believed in his brother, I would be willing to pretend to be defeated and seize the city gate for my brother first, and then lead the troops into the city, okay?"

Bai Qixin thought about it and felt it was a good idea, and said, "It's good, but you are still a Tartar today and will go on the battlefield for the rebels tomorrow. I'm afraid that the brothers will not believe it."

Bai Rongan cut his braid and said, "No one can believe me, my brother must believe me. I only choose brothers from all families in thousands of households, how about it?"

Seeing that he was so sincere, Bai Qixin said, "Okay, I will pick another hundred brothers with blood on my hands to help you."

Just as Bai Rong'an planned, when he showed up with more than 300 people outside Zhangpu City, the defenders of Zhangpu had no doubts at all and directly let them enter the city. Bai Rong'an suddenly launched an attack and attacked the soldiers guarding the city, directly blew up the city gate, causing the rebels outside the city to swarm into the city. The city was in chaos. The green camp soldiers from Jiangnan fled directly to Haicheng. Bai Qixin occupied Zhangpu City, raised the Yiqian flag, distributed rice and grain relief in the treasury, summoned the people to hide, and formed a village to come. When he set out from Zhangpu to Zhao'an, there were already 100,000 people. At this time, Bai Qixin was only in contact with the First Division of the Chaozhou Prefecture. The division commander Li Shan had just received the order to send troops from the commander-in-chief, and the Red Turban Rebel Army had already gone to Zhao'an in a mighty manner.

Zhao'an Ke is not Zhangpu. This is the front line of the confrontation with the United States Army. It is stationed in the Eight Banners and the Green Camp is more than 20,000. However, the army is in charge of the rebel army in Chaozhou. Zhao'an Qing army dare not act rashly, for fear of being trapped by the United States to lure the tiger out of the mountain. When the United States Army crosses the Fenshui Pass and enters Fujian, and joins the rebel army, Zhao'an Qing army dares not delay any longer. They go north and flee to Zhangzhou Prefecture City. Li Shan sends Bahai and Duoya to lead the cavalry to chase after him, fight for several consecutive battles, killing more than 6,000. The other Qing army bypasses Zhangpu and flees to Zhangzhou Prefecture.

The rebel army and the army successfully met in Zhao'an. The two sides joined forces and withdrew more than 100,000 rebel families to Chaozhou. Erbai led more than 20,000 Ding Zhuang to accept Li Shan's command and sent troops to Zhangzhou Prefecture together.

By the end of June, the army, the rebel army and Huang Fei, who had already captured Kinmen Island, and Suli's troops besieged Haicheng, the gateway of Zhangzhou Prefecture, and Zhenhaiwei surrendered first. The defenders of Xiamen Island fled. Haicheng chose to surrender after five days of trapping. All the defenders in Zhangzhou Prefecture retreated to the prefecture. The rebel forces expanded again and quickly occupied six county towns, one acropolis and five thousand households within ten months, with an instant momentum.

Inland cities are still within the boundary, and the gentry and officials in the city are insensitive. Officials also place relief and exploit and extort the people who have moved to the boundary. The gentry and robbery and buy fugitive gentry and people as slaves. Therefore, whenever the cities in the boundary are destroyed, all gentry and officials will confiscate their homes and slaves without mercy. The cities along the boundary are where refugees gather outside the boundary. Once the rebel army arrives, they will assist in capturing the city and joining the rebel army. In addition to Erbai, more than ten rebel armies were ordered in Zhangzhou Prefecture. The leaders of the rebel army swear to resist the Qing Dynasty, collectively known as the Red Turban Army. The momentum is tremendous, and there are more than 100,000, if the elderly, weak, women and children are counted, the rebel army will not be less than 500,000.

Zhangzhou Prefecture City was trapped, and Fujian and Zhejiang were shocked. Prince An Yue Le asked for help while organizing the elite troops from Fujian and Zhejiang to go south to fight. However, the Marine Corps had already begun to work together. Wu Mu personally led more than 10,000 people to land on Wan'an Station from Pingtan Island, besieged Zhendongwei, contacted the rebels of Fuzhou and Xinghua Prefectures, and threatened Fuzhou, the provincial capital. The rebels gathered in a tide, claiming to be 200,000. Yue Le led his army to Fuzhou, but did not dare to advance again. At the same time, Zheng Fan, who had not opened up in Zhejiang, landed in Shacheng, and attacked Funingzhou in northeastern Fujian, conquered the city and occupied the territory. All Fujian were shocked.

In July, two rebels in Zhangzhou and Fuzhou were mixed with the United States troops and divided their troops to attack towns in Fujian. The rebels rolled over with the elderly and young people like tides, and locusts plundered. Wherever they entered, they would eat. If they broke into towns, they would occupy them. The people in the world originally lived a stable life. Now their family wealth was occupied by the rebels, and their houses were burned by the rebels. They had no place to live and had no place to eat. They had to join the rebels. The rebels rolled over like snowballs. When they set out from the two palaces, they were often only thousands of people. However, if they captured several cities in the mainland, they could expand to tens of thousands of people, just like in the Chongzhen year, when Li Chuangxian rebelled.

The United States and the Rebel Army had not been able to use military discipline to restrain them, and they had to use the power of the Rebel Army to attack the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, they did not care about the actions of the Rebel Army. As long as the Rebel Army did not massacre the city, they pretended not to know. However, although the Rebel Army was terrifying, there were no elite troops in the army and could not attack the city. Even some counties with strict defenses could not succeed. The Rebel Army never attacked and fought hard. Anyway, there were wealth and goods everywhere in the Fujian area, so why bother to be obsessed with it? For such cities, the United Army should set up heavy artillery to shell the city under the city, threatening the gentry and civil officials in the city to pay the redemption silver. Just like in Shandong, the Fujian area was rich, and the county town needed to pay 300,000 to one million yuan, and the prefectures had to pay 50,000 to one million yuan. In addition to the redemption silver, there were also 500,000 to 200,000 to the rebel army.
Chapter completed!