Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

On June 15th, Prime Minister Zhong summoned all the elders of the White Lotus Sect to discuss the major issues of the rebel army.

"How much food and grass have you got these days?" Zhong Xiang looked at the elders below and asked.

"During this period of time, we attacked the prefectural capital, and captured some places, but we didn't get much food and grass! The state capital around Dongting Lake has already been robbed by us. If we go there, we won't get any food and grass." An elder said.

Zhong Xiang frowned.

"Master, at the beginning there were many people who took refuge in our Dongting rebel army, but now there are not many people who take refuge in us." Yang Mo said.

"Oh? Why is that?" Zhong Xiang said.

"We rebelled against the imperial court at the beginning! People from all over the country were oppressed by the imperial court. Many people couldn't survive, so they naturally took refuge in us! But in the past six months, we...we robbed houses every day, and outsiders said we were bandits. Those common people I am very afraid of us, so I don't want to join us." An elder stammered.

"Nonsense! We are a rebel army, and we are forced to do many things! It is the dog court, they have transported all the food and grass, so we have no choice but to rob those untouchables." Zhong Xiang said coldly.

"Boss, when we went to rob this time, we got some news." Another elder stood up and said.

"What news?" Zhong Xiang said.

"It is said that the imperial court issued an imperial decree to exempt more than 30 state capitals around Dongting Lake from taxation! The little emperor of the Song Dynasty also said that he would send people to the Dongting Lake area to provide disaster relief and distribute free food to the people!" said the elder.

"Oh? There is such a thing? This is impossible!" Zhong Xiang shook his head and said.

"I also think it's impossible. How could the court be so kind? How could the emperor be so kind? This is obviously deceiving the people around Dongting Lake, but those people are so stupid that some people believe the lie of the court! What should we do?" The elder said.

"These are trivial things! Even if some untouchables believe the lies of the court, so what? The world will be in chaos! The Jurchens are extremely powerful. They came from the north to the south, and the court is no match! At that time, we will join forces with the rebels in Lianghuai , There is no problem in winning Jiangnan! Don't worry about it! I'm thinking about a big thing these days." Zhong Xiang said.

"I don't know what is the big deal?" Yang Mo asked a little strangely.

"We've been in Dongting Lake for a long time. Dongting has been completely occupied by us for 800 miles, and some state capitals in the south of Dongting Lake have also been occupied by us. I think we should expand our territory." Zhong Xiang said a little excitedly.

"Expand the territory? How to expand the territory?" an elder said.

"This is what I think. Let's go west first and take down Wuling and Jiangling! We will also take down some prefectures and counties in the middle of these two places! Afterwards, we will formally establish a court centered on Wuling, Jiangling and Yueyang!" Zhong Xiangdao .

"What? Establish a court? Are these three places enough?" the elder asked in surprise.

"These three places are enough! With these three big mansions, dozens of states and counties in the middle of these three big mansions, plus eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake, our territory is already big enough! Once our court is established, At that time, heroes from all over the world will come to vote. At that time, we can occupy the entire Jiangnan without Jurchens." Zhong Xiang said excitedly.

"This..." The elders below looked at me and you, and didn't know what to say.

These elders are all disciples of the White Lotus Sect. They are all highly skilled in martial arts. They are all outstanding figures in the Jianghu, but if they are asked to fight and formulate strategies, they have no experience at all! Not to mention them, even Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo wanted to be one, and neither of them had any experience in governing the country! Of course, the White Lotus Sect knows some ways to confuse the people, this is their forte!

"Think carefully about how to attack Wuling, Jiangling and other places! Let's also formulate a strategy! Then attack." Zhong Xiang said.

Now these elders began to discuss, but only discussed for a long time, and did not formulate many strategies! In the end, Zhong Xiang could only make a decision, choose an auspicious day to worship the sky, and then lead hundreds of thousands of rioters towards the shore together, and then head towards Wuling regardless of everything! After the rebels occupied Wuling, they turned the people of Wuling into rebels, and then took more people to attack Jiangling.

"All of you are well prepared. By the way, Wang Boyan has provided us with a lot of food and grass recently. He said that there will be a batch of food coming tomorrow. Yang, you go and meet it." Zhong Xiang said.

Yang Mo nodded.

"Wang Boyan seems to really want to join us, his sincerity is enough! In this way, when you go to see him, Yang, let him bring the whole Yueyang City to surrender to us right now! He should agree!" Zhong Xiang said.

"Okay!" Yang Mo agreed.

When Zhong Xiang waved everyone away, he spread out a map and "meditated" there. He wanted to see what could be improved in the "strategy" of the rioters attacking Wuling and Jiangling! Can you use some tricks!

In the entire Dongting Lake Rebel Army, there were no literati or writers, no one offered advice, only these members of the White Lotus Sect were thinking hard! Historically, when Yue Fei rebelled against Dongting Lake, he took back Dongting Lake with little effort, mainly because these people in Dongting Lake were really bad! Moreover, these "rebels" in Dongting Lake were supported by the people at the beginning, but in the end they only knew how to burn, kill and loot. The people around only feared them, and no one was willing to support them anymore!

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Yang Mo was already striding towards the outside, seeing rebel soldiers constantly along the way.

"Have you heard that the emperor has decreed that Dongting Lake will be exempted from taxes for three years!"

"Your Majesty also issued an order to forgive all of our sins! As long as someone goes out and surrenders within two months, he will immediately forget the blame! Moreover, I heard that the emperor will send people to come to relieve the disaster! The emperor issued an order that if someone dies of starvation First of all, the local officials must be held accountable! More than a thousand people died of starvation, and the magistrates and magistrates will be dismissed and investigated! This is the Holy King!"

"When we rebelled, it was because Emperor Jianyan persecuted him too much! Now Emperor Jianyan has been killed by Emperor Xuanwu. Emperor Xuanwu is very different from Emperor Jianyan! Why don't we go back?"

"Hey! Back then when they rebelled with the White Lotus Sect, they said they could build a prosperous white lotus world, where everyone has food to eat, everyone enjoys happiness, and everyone doesn't have to work! But now? We can't live on this island anymore! As soon as the army comes, we will run around like rats! Moreover, many of our former relatives and friends were killed by our own people, and people outside Dongting Lake also called us bandits. After we die, we want to see our ancestors. No way! The White Lotus Prosperity is completely a lie! None of the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals of the White Lotus Sect has descended from the sky! It is said that some of the 'divine spells' performed by the elders of the White Lotus Sect are just tricks, and we are all deceived by them. Cheated!"

A few rebels were whispering there!

At this time, Yang Mo came over.

Yang Mo looked at these rebel soldiers and was furious in his heart. He kicked a rebel soldier viciously, and immediately the rebel soldier fell to the ground, clutching his chest and screaming miserably!

Several other rebel soldiers were angry and rushed towards Yang Me. Yang Mo sneered and walked over with a few feet. These rebel soldiers all fell to the ground!

"You pigs and dogs are not as good as you, dare to slander the Holy Cult! You spread evil words, and I will kill you now!"

Yang Mo had already pulled out the sword from his waist, at this moment, he suddenly felt something was wrong!

I saw the surrounding rebel soldiers coming towards here one after another, and many of them had anger in their eyes!

"What are you going to do? Are you all going to rebel?" Yang Mo said fiercely.

Those rebel soldiers stopped in fear, but they didn't retreat, someone came towards the fallen rebel soldiers and stood beside them, preventing Yang Mo from harming them.

"Things that are not as good as pigs and dogs! Hmph! If I didn't want to rely on these untouchables to conquer the world, I would kill them all now! Forget it, spare their lives today!" Yang Mo secretly said.

He strode forward, and the rebel soldiers didn't dare to stop him, they could only watch him leave.

"These elders are really disgusting! We live in poverty, but they eat hot food! A few days ago, how many people we starved to death, they didn't care at all!"

"They just asked us to rush up and conquer the city for them! Every time we suffered heavy casualties, they followed behind and never took the initiative to rush up!"

"Why do we still have to work for them? Following them, life is not as good as before! Emperor Jianyan is ruthless, but they are even more ruthless!"

After Yang Mo left, those rebel soldiers were all aggrieved!

At the beginning of the White Lotus Sect, it was "having fun with the people". When those elders and disciples bewitched the people to rebel, they behaved very kindly! But after the success of the rebellion, these elders and disciples of the White Lotus Sect have immediately become a new class, oppressing those ordinary rebel soldiers! Up to now, Dongting Lake rebel soldiers have changed from their respect and obedience to the White Lotus Sect at the beginning to their disgust now!

It's just that the White Lotus Sect has ruled them for so long, and they don't have the guts to rebel now! However, as Zhao Chen's imperial decree came here, many White Lotus Sect soldiers were already planning to flee here! This army has no combat power so far!

However, Zhong Xiang, Yang Mo, and the elders of the White Lotus Sect did not take the so-called "imperial decree" to heart.

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"Would you like to see Junior Sister Song?" Yang Mo asked suddenly after walking for a while.

Thinking of Song Qingyao, he was about to turn around and go to the bamboo house by the lake, but after thinking about it, he stopped.

"I'll go see her again when I come back from Yueyang! I've been too busy recently, but I still can't forget this trick of cooking raw rice into cooked rice! I must get her!" Yang Mo secretly said.

In the afternoon, he took more than 10,000 soldiers and headed north by boat, and arrived at the shore in the middle of the night.