Fang La left Kaifeng Mansion with 5,000 soldiers of the Zhenguo Army, turned around and began his rebellious activities. Now, they have another resounding name, called the Great Righteous Gang.

Since Tang Ning was taken away by the people of the Criminal Department, Fang La had never seen him again. Although he asked around, he was still able to find out about him, but Fang La felt that the reason why Tang Ning resigned from his official position was completely coerced.

Maybe he was tortured in prison, and the Dog Emperor threatened his family to blackmail Tang Ning into giving up the Zhenguo Army he brought out?

Originally, this was just a small conjecture, and it wasn't until Cao De entered the Zhenguo Army that Fang La began to be steadfast in this idea.

followed Tang Ning all over the world, and he also saw the true face of most of the officials in the world who were extremely greedy behind the mask of incorruptibility.

If Shi Shiru just thinks that it is unreasonable to give the big-headed soldiers such a good meal, then Cao De is completely here to pay the salary of the national army in Mozhen.

The case of Yan Zhigang, which was cracked some time ago, is a trivial matter in front of Cao De and others. Cao De's methods are more ruthless than theirs, and his greed is even greater than Yan Zhigang's.

So after a month of patience, Fang La finally couldn't bear it anymore. One day, when Cao De was routinely inspecting the treasury and preparing to take some things along with his subordinates, Fang La and seven or eight like-minded soldiers of the Zhenguo Army blocked him in the warehouse.

The two guards accompanying Cao De were killed on the spot, and Cao De almost died. At the critical moment, it was the appearance of the small stone that stopped Fang La's further behavior.

Although the two have been friends for many years, they have played together since childhood, Rao is like this, but they still can't make Fang La identify with the current little stone.

In a sense, Fang La is very similar to Tang Ning. He was extremely loyal, but his loyalty was dedicated only to the individual, not to a certain regime.

He was loyal to the Lord, but he didn't have much affection for the country. And Xiao Shi chose the latter between loyalty and patriotism.

Because he did not grow up with Tang Ning's education since he was a child, but Zhou Huai and Wang Zhongxian directly influenced his childhood.

Like scholars like Zhou Huai and Wang Zhongxian, they were the standard literati of the Great Song Dynasty. Caring for the world and compassionate. They don't care much about who is sitting on the dragon chair, they only care about whether they can contribute to the people of the world.

Under the influence of this mentality, the world is peaceful, and stability in the four seas is naturally the first priority they pursue.

Through his own conjecture, Fang La was sure that Tang Ning was threatened, so he resigned and left Kaifeng Mansion in a hurry with his family. Coupled with the unscrupulous behavior of Cao De and others, Fang La was even more furious.

He was very disappointed in this court, and Tang Ning still had a large family to worry about. So he simply didn't do anything, and he tore off his military robe and tore the flag to rebel.

Of course, there are not many people in the Zhenguo Army who choose to follow him, and only the veterans who survived the Battle of Xiaoguan that year followed Fang La without hesitation.

Because most of them have the same idea as Fang La, if there is no Tang Ning, the Zhenguo Army is just an empty shell. For so many years, under the relatively strict system of dividing generals in the Song State, only the Zhenguo Army was led by Tang Ning to fight in the south and in the north.

This is one of Zhao Xu's measures to enhance his combat effectiveness based on Tang Ning's loyalty, but this has buried a hidden danger, that is, the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army only recognize Tang Ning.

Five thousand men are a very interesting target wherever they go, and their ranks are growing day by day.

In the rumors of the heroes of the green forest, the Zhenguo army is the killer of the green forest in the real sense. There are countless fellow green forest people who have died in their hands, and now they have become fellow green forest people, and these green forest heroes are terrified.

However, there are also well-informed people who know the inside story. As soon as they heard the news, they took refuge in Fang La.

In less than half a month, the scale of 5,000 people has become 10,000. They entrenched themselves in the western part of Beijing, capturing the state capital, but did not hurt the people.

Because of the persecution of Cai Jing and Yang Jian, the people in western Beijing have long been miserable. The righteous gang led by Fang La did not encroach on the property of the people, nor did they take any of the people's property, they only plundered the wealth of the landlords and bureaucrats, or attacked the granaries in the local state capital.

It just so happened that there was a bumper harvest in western Beijing this year, and the plundered grain was enough for the Great Righteous Gang to spend half a year. Moreover, in Puzhou, where the Dayi Gang is entrenched, the people call it the Righteous Army, and many people who can't live their lives have come to defect, and there are even local landlords and old fortunes who take the initiative to send money and grain to the Dayi Gang.

It was like a storm that swept through the entire western part of the country, and the imperial court was furious.

The Shenwu Army and the Jingxi Xiang Army, a total of 200,000 people, were ordered to go to the crusade, and Cao De led the troops to the suburbs of Puzhou, but they were ambushed by the Great Righteous Gang.

Suddenly, the righteous gang that screamed and killed the general of the Jingxi Xiang Army, which opened the way in front, was caught off guard, and the Xiang Army collapsed in an instant and fled in all directions.

The general of the Xiang army died on the spot, and by the time the Shenwu army arrived, the Great Righteous Gang had already withdrawn, and all that was left was corpses everywhere.

Cao De was furious, pointing at the deputy general of the Xiang army who had fled back and scolded. After flogging, they sent men to clean up the battlefield.

However, at this moment, the rear army of the Shenwu Army was suddenly attacked, and the gunpowder exploded in the dense military formation, which severely defeated the Shenwu Army in an instant.

The Shenwu army, which had tasted the power of gunpowder for the first time, suddenly collapsed, and at the same time, pretending to retreat, in fact, the ambush soldiers of the Great Righteous Gang lurking on both sides of the road were killed again.

Cao De had no choice but to flee for his life in a panic, and the so-called 200,000 army was completely disintegrated by Fang La in less than a day.

And this is in the eyes of the discerning man

It is not surprising that the Shenwu Army, which has no actual combat experience, and the Xiang Army in the western part of Beijing are like 200,000 ants, and the members of the Dayi Gang are either murderous green forest heroes or veterans of the Zhenguo Army.

If 10,000 elephants roll on the ground, the 200,000 ants will be wiped out.

In this battle, the righteous gang beheaded more than 3,000 Shenwu troops and captured 40,000 prisoners, and he only paid the price of a few hundred people.

After this war, Fang La was even more convinced by everyone. If his position as the leader of the Great Righteous Gang was still a little doubtful before, then since this war, he has been the leader of the Great Righteous Gang.

The defeated Shenwu army completely lost the face of the imperial court, in fact, they only sent 80,000 people, counting the van soldiers, it was only 100,000.

The 200,000 army that he boasted of was defeated so easily, not only the people, but even the other green forest heroes who were in a wait-and-see attitude were also very surprised.

Unconsciously, they gave birth to the idea that the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were also capable of this, so in the next half a month, within a month, due to the influence of the Great Righteous Gang, the world was full of smoke.

Bandits and bandits from all over the country began to raise troops to attack the local state capital, and various places were in a hurry.

The world is in turmoil, and Zhao Ji's rule is in jeopardy.

At this time, Zhao Ji never thought that things would develop to this point.

However, he followed Cai Jing's advice and once again pushed the Song Dynasty into the abyss.

Cai Jing said that if there is chaos today, there are rebels and thieves everywhere, and the soldiers of the local states and counties cannot fight the enemy. It's better to transfer the Western Army back, anyway, there is no war in the northwest, so it's not right for them to calm the chaos?

The Privy Council is extremely opposed, although the Tangut people have no longer been able to fight since the first battle of Pingxia City, but this has been almost ten years, and the Tangut people who have recuperated and recuperated are now not to be underestimated.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji trusts his friend Cai Jing more than the Privy Council.

So the Western Army stationed in the northwest received an order for them to enter the interior to quell the rebellion.

Chong Pu is in his fifties this year, and there is a general named Zong Ze under his command, who was personally promoted by Zhao Xu in the Zhao Xu era.

At first, Chong Pu didn't know why Zhao Xu wanted to name this person personally, but when he arrived under his command, Chong Pu found that this person was both civil and military, and he was indeed worthy of the name of a good general.

So he called Zong Ze to discuss with him, and Zong Ze said: "Today, the country is in turmoil, the world is full of wolves, and there are many bandits in various places, and it is impossible to do it.

His Majesty wants to transfer the Western Army to quell the rebellion, which is really foolish. The party members have been recuperating for several years, and now they are gearing up and ready to go. If the Western Army is not there, it may be difficult to hold the northwest land. ”

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