103 Taihu Lake Quelling Chaos (II)

After listening to Cao Xun's words, Yang Yan was also very satisfied, nodded and said: "After I returned to Jiankang this time, it was Xiao Gao who independently commanded in Western Xia and captured Xingqing Mansion. It's rare for us to meet here, let's go back to Wujiang after lunch, and let you compensate for the taste here. ”

Cao Xun said: "Then big brother, won't you go back to Wujiang with me?" ”

Yang Yan smiled slightly and said, "What am I doing in Wujiang?" This time, you have single-handedly commanded and completed the peace, and until now, you have done a very good job, and the credit is all yours alone. I'm sure you'll be able to do this last step well. So I'm here to hear your good news. After you put down the rebellion in Taihu Lake, I will celebrate your success with a drink in this lakeside restaurant. ”

Cao Xun couldn't help but be very grateful, and said, "Big brother, you ......"

Yang Yan patted him on the shoulder and said, "There is no need to say kind words between us." ”

At this time, the wine and food were all ready, brought up, and the dishes, chopsticks and cups were put down. While eating, Cao Xun asked about the rebellion. When he pressed the order to withdraw the army, he knew that the rebellion had occurred, but the Yijing was quelled, and the court's writing was very simple, just saying that Deng Wang Zhao Hong and Shi Miyuan, Zong Tianxuan and others were in chaos, but when the Yijing was quelled, he couldn't figure out what was going on, and now that the business was over, he asked Yang Yan.

In fact, Yang Yan also participated in the middle of the process, but Zhao Yueru, Zhao Qianru, Ye Muxue and others participated in the whole process, so they were very clear about the entire process of the rebellion, plus they later reviewed the rebels who were arrested, and understood the causes and consequences of this rebellion, so they also spoke to Cao Xun in great detail.

Only then did Cao Xun know the details of this rebellion, which turned out to be very complicated and dismantled, and it was very thrilling several times, so he was only stunned and kept exclaiming. After listening to this, he couldn't help sighing, and then said to Ye Muxue: "This time it's really thanks to the sister-in-law, it seems that the eldest brother is blessed, and every sister-in-law he marries is not an ordinary person." ”

Ye Muxue also smiled and said, "Don't praise me, Wenzhu has also made a great contribution this time, not only crowned the county lady, but also officially crowned the doctor of the guard, you still want to think about how to congratulate her after returning to Jiankang." ”

A few people ate and talked, and after eating, Cao Xun got up to say goodbye, Yang Yan sent him downstairs, and the two separated.

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When Cao Xun returned to Pingjiang Mansion, it was already dusk, and at this time, the large number of warships sent by Li Gongzuo arrived, and the main commander of the fleet, Zheng Sihai, was the remnant of the pirates who surrendered when Yang Yan pacified the southern pirates. After returning to the Great Song Dynasty, he was assigned to Li Gongzuo's water army, when the Jin army invaded the south, he also made a lot of contributions in the water war with the Jin army and the blockade of the Yangtze River.

Cao Xun arrived at Pingjiang Mansion, Zheng Sihai immediately came to see Cao Xun, the two discussed the plan to attack Taihu Lake, Zheng Sihai looked at the map, and basically agreed with Cao Xun's battle plan, but he was not familiar with the water situation around Taihu Lake, and he had to check it before he could decide on the final battle plan. Cao Xun also appreciated his cautious attitude.

Early the next morning, Zheng Sihai first drew ten warships each to Wu Xi and Yixing according to Cao Xun's plan to stop the rebels in Majishan. Then take a warship and check the water conditions along Taihu Lake, and look for the landing sites of Dongting East Mountain and Dongting West Mountain, as well as the water route. At the same time, two exploratory attacks were launched on Dongting East Mountain and Dongting West Mountain, respectively, to observe the rebels' reaction and response ability.

Two days later, Zheng Sihai also knew what to expect, so he commanded the warship and launched an attack on the rebels.

At this time, there were still 95 warships left in Wujiang, and the Song army first dispatched 60 warships, divided into three teams, each team had a large ship of 800 materials as the command ship, divided into three routes, and first launched an attack on Dongting Dongshan.

Guarding Dongting Dongshan was Pan Ren, who saw that this time the Song army attacked in a big way, not as good as the previous times, and did not dare to be careless, and dispatched all the ships left in Dongting Dongshan to meet the Song army.

Although the number of warships on both sides was very equal, most of the rebels' warships were fishing boats and cargo ships, many of which could only hold more than ten people. In addition, the soldiers of the Song army were elite soldiers who had been trained for a long time, and they were far from being able to compete with the rebels made up of fishermen and boatmen.

Therefore, as soon as the two sides started the war, the rebels were attacked by the Song army, and they were dazed and had no power to fight back. In less than half an hour, nearly half of the warships were destroyed. The rebels didn't have much fighting spirit, and this time they had no intention of fighting, and the other ships either fled back to the back of Dongting Dongshan or fled to the center of the lake. When Pan Ren saw it, he had to order someone to ask Chen Yichao, who was guarding the west mountain of Dongting, for help.

After defeating the rebel fleet, Zheng Sihai immediately ordered that the Song army's warships immediately spread out in a fan, forming a semi-arc, and approached the Dongting Dongshan Mountain, and launched an attack on the defenders along the shore with bows and arrows and firearms at a distance of about sixty or seventy paces from the shore. Moreover, Zheng Sihai ordered that a shore team composed of 25 warships, each with 40 soldiers on each boat, also began to set off, and at the same time, the sailors who had changed their water also went into the water and set off, following the landing fleet, approaching Dongting Dongshan.

The closest place to the shore of Dongting Dongshan is only more than 300 steps, and with the speed of the warship, it is only a moment to arrive, and it does not take much time to swim. At this time, Chen Yichao also led the reinforcements to arrive from the northeast. The fleet besieging Dongting West Mountain immediately turned its bow and went to meet the reinforcements. Give up your spot to the landing team.

However, the guards along the west mountain of Dongting had been beaten to pieces by a round of long-range attacks by the Song army just now, and before the rebels could reorganize the defensive line, the landing fleet approached the shore with a warp, and the Song soldiers on the boat waved their weapons and jumped off the boats one after another, wading through the lake, and killed ashore. The rebels on the shore could only fight, and the two sides fought on the shore.

The subsequent sailors also swam to the shore one after another, and they all went ashore from the water and joined the battle group. The fleet transporting the landed soldiers also immediately turned the bow of the ship and returned to the shore to pick up the next group of Song troops who had landed.

Under the command of the landing generals, the Song army quickly formed a consolidated position on the shore, and then gradually advanced towards the center of the island.

At this time, Chen Yichao's support fleet also fought with the Song army. But they were also not opponents of the Song army, and after a short time of fighting, the rebels were obviously unable to support them, and they were killed by the Song army. Moreover, Chen Yichao also saw that the landing troops of the Song army successfully climbed the Dongting West Mountain, so he had to order the fleet to reach the Dongting West Mountain, abandon the boat and land on the shore, and reinforce the defenders on the shore, hoping to take advantage of the geographical advantage on the island to repel the attack of the Song army.

However, after Chen Yichao led the army to land, the Song army's navy was immediately divided into two, leaving half of the warships to patrol the surface of the water to intercept the warships that escaped alone. The other half of the warships also docked in Dongting West Mountain, and the soldiers on board also went ashore one after another to reinforce the Song army on the shore.

Cao Xun and Zheng Sihai, who were watching the battle on the shore, were very satisfied with the current battle situation, knowing that the overall situation was now decided, and now the landing fleet was also reloaded with the Song army that had landed, and set off together with the naval army to capture Dongting West Mountain. And the strength of the rebels has been attracted to Dongting East Mountain, and the defense of Dongting West Mountain must be very empty, and it must be easy to capture Dongting West Mountain.

At this time, in Dongting Dongshan, the Song army that landed on the shore was about 26,700 people, and after Chen Yichao's rebels came ashore, the number of rebels was nearly 2,000. The Song army has a certain advantage in numbers, but the rebels occupy a geographical advantage, and at the same time, the rebels also know that this is the last moment, if they can't withstand the Song army, everyone will die, so they are all fighting desperately, and the battle on the battlefield has become fierce, and it is very difficult for the Song army to take a step forward. But the rebels were only able to resist the attack of the Song army, and it was even more impossible to drive the Song army off the island.

However, Cao Xun was not nervous, because on the whole, now the rebels have used all their strength, and there are no other reserve forces, but the Song army still has enough troops, and the surface forces of the rebels were basically swept away by the Song army, and they could only be trapped on the island, but the Song army could calmly transport the reserve forces to the island in a steady stream, so it can be said that it was only a matter of time before the Song army won the battle.

Therefore, Cao Xun immediately ordered that the Song army dispatched the remaining ten warships and sent a new batch of Song troops who had landed on the shore to Dongting Dongshan.

Although the Song army sent to Dongting Dongshan this time was only 500 people, it was enough to break the current deadlock on Dongting Dongshan.

At this time, Dongting Xishan was broken by the Song army, and this result also became the last straw that overwhelmed the rebels, and the rebels were finally defeated on all fronts. The Song army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, Pan Ren died in the chaos, and Chen Yichao saw that the general trend was gone, irretrievable, and killed himself. The other rebels also had no intention of resisting any longer, and seeing that there was no way out, they had to abandon and surrender one after another.

Just after the Song army broke through the Dongting West Mountain, in less than half an hour, it finally occupied the Dongting East Mountain, and the whole battle, starting from the morning and ending at noon, took less than three hours. Subsequently, the Song army continued to attack Maji Mountain, and in the afternoon of the same day, it captured Maji Mountain, so that the rebellion of Taihu Lake had been put down.

The good news spread to the Lakeside Restaurant, and the next day Yang Yan took Ye Muxue and Langying to cross the Taihu Lake by boat and came to Pingjiang Mansion to deal with the aftermath after the chaos.

In fact, there are a lot of aftermath affairs, and they can also be troublesome. But Yang Yan had pacified the entire Quang Nam back then, and the affairs of the club at that time were handled by Xin Qiji, but everything needed to be implemented through Yang Yan's commander, so he had very full experience in this area, nothing more than trying his best to appease the people, stabilize local security, restore production, etc., although there was no Xin Qiji's help here, the scope of the rebellion and the damage and impact on the society were much smaller than that of Guangnan, and the local officials were also very complete. And before that, Cao Xun also did a lot of work to stabilize people's hearts, so it was much easier than in Guangnan back then.

When Yang Yan arrived in Pingjiang Mansion, he immediately summoned the prefects of Yizhou and Huzhou, together with the prefects of Pingjiang, to arrange arrangements and formulate some temporary measures, first examining the captured rebels, except for a few people who had participated in the Jiankang rebellion to be imprisoned and subject to the disposal of the imperial court, the other people who were coaxed and coerced were punished lightly, and basically imprisoned and punished with hard labor in the local area. After serving the end of their sentence, they can also be released and returned home.

Then Yang Yan immediately ordered the lifting of the fishing ban and navigation ban on Taihu Lake, allowing fishermen to fish in Taihu Lake, and at the same time reopening the shipping lanes on Taihu Lake, and distributing the boats recaptured from the rebels to the fishermen, and then sent people to dismantle the fortifications on Maji Mountain, Dongting East Mountain, and Dongting West Mountain. More than 10 days later, the entire Taihu Lake region has basically returned to a stable situation.

Yang Yan repeatedly warned the local officials in these three places that they must be more considerate of the people, act impartially, and not expropriate and extort money and fish in the countryside. The three prefects and prefects also promised to agree.

At this moment, good news also came from another front, on Huaixi Road, Bi Zaiyu led the Song army to encircle and suppress Li Quan's rebels, and also achieved a complete victory.

After the defeat of Jiankang, Li Quan fled to Gwangju, but was immediately besieged on all sides by the Song army led by Bi Zaiyu. Li Quan led his army to attack, hoping to break through a gap, break through to the north, and flee to Jin. But they were defeated by Bi Zaiyu twice in a row, and the Song army under his subordinates was unwilling to rebel with Li Quan, and surrendered to the Song army one after another, and there were only more than 3,000 people left under Li Quan, basically the old troops of the Red Luo Army brought from Shandong that year.

Seeing that the general trend was gone, Li Quan could only make a desperate bet and give up Gwangju to break through again, this time he planned to break through to the south and hide in the Dabie Mountains. But when the men and horses fled to the foot of Muling Mountain, they were caught up by Bi Zaiyu's army, and the two sides fought a big battle, and the whole army of Guo Li was killed. Even Li Quan died in the chaos, most of his subordinates were killed in battle, and half surrendered, only Yang Miaozhen led a few people out of the encirclement and disappeared.

At this point, this time, starting from Jiankang, the rebellion that lasted for more than three months finally came to a perfect end.