Chapter 11 A hero dies in Zhuizishan

Going northwest from Yaozhou City, through heavy clouds and mists.After many meanderings, crossing ditches, beams and ravines, crossing river bridges, villages and towns.After traveling for about 60 kilometers, I was blocked by a sharp and steep mountain. This mountain is Baozi Mountain.It is the southernmost end of a dragon-like mountain ridge piled up by Changsheling in the Ziwuling section of the Qiaoshan Mountains.This mountain ridge runs north-south, stretches between Zhaojin Street and Wentang Village, and divides the road into two trunk lines that go around the ridge, one leads to Zhaojin Street and the other passes to Wentang Village.At the north end of Wenteng Village, there is a funnel-shaped hillside slope leading to Tianyu Village.Wentang Village is backed by a peak that is as sharp as a cone, which is the barrier to the east of Zhaojin. This is Zhuizi Mountain.According to historical records, in the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1631 A.D.), Hao Linan, the hero of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, Lone Wolf and more than 400 of his subordinates were "encircled and suppressed" by Hong Chengchou here.

According to "History of Ming Dynasty Volume 268".In the second year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty: "In July, the thieves in Shaanxi are blazing." It can be seen that Shaanxi is the place where the peasant uprising first broke out and formed a prairie fire.There are several reasons for this: First, the land in Shaanxi is barren and the people poor.The mode of production is backward, but feudal exploitation is not lighter than other places, on the contrary, it is more serious.For example, in the case of the most severe tax increase for the people, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty only stipulated that taxes should be increased according to the acre of land, but there was no distinction between the rich and the poor in the provinces, and there was no distinction between the barrenness of the land.Shaanxi has a large land area and a sparse population, especially in northern Shaanxi. The increase in taxes and taxes is actually heavy due to the large area. The people are overwhelmed and their lives are extremely difficult.Secondly, various natural disasters occur frequently in Shaanxi, especially in northern Shaanxi.Droughts raged and the land dried up.For example, in the forty-eight years of Wanli (AD 157311620), there were 25 records of famines.In the years of Tianqi (AD 162111627) and Chongzhen (AD 162811644), there were continuous famines and even rare famines.For example, in Yan'an Prefecture in northern Shaanxi, there was no rain in the first year of Chongzhen (AD 1628), and even the grass withered and the trees burned.During the eighth and ninth months of that year, the common people had already eaten the grass in the mountains.After the tenth month, the grasses were exhausted, and the common people had no choice but to peel and eat the bark until the end of the year.The bark was gone, and the people had no choice but to dig up rocks from the mountains to eat.If they did not eat for a few days, most of the people would suffer from abdominal distension and fall to death.Hunger is everywhere, and the dead are bibi, sleeping in the valley, their appearance is horrifying and horrifying.Crowds of hungry people were unwilling to wait to die, so the famine became the fuse of the uprising.In addition, Shaanxi is also an important border defense area. The Ming government has heavy troops stationed here, and there is a shortage of soldiers' pay, and rebels often appear.Apocalypse years.No pay for a few days or years.In the early years of Chongzhen, some garrisons were short of pay for as long as 36 months.Incidents of fleeing or gathering people to rebel due to the leadership of the prime minister emerged one after another.These rebel soldiers usually engaged in looting, and when the peasant uprising happened, they rose up one after another.The first uprising in Shaanxi included Wang Jiayun of Fugu, Gao Yingxiang of Ansai, Daliang of Hannan Wang, and Fushi (now Yan'an) Zhang Xianzhong.There are also Dian Dengzi, Shuang Lao Chai, Lone Wolf, Hao Lin'an, Liu Daojiang, Red Army Friends, Li Dusi, Du San, Shen Yikui, etc., with tens of thousands of people, haunting Shaanxi and Shanxi for a generation.At this time, the uprising army had no unified organization in the base city, and aimed at chasing food. They fought on their own, and there was no set division.

According to "History of the Ming Dynasty Volume 268": In the fourth year of Chongzhen, "Li Laochai and Lone Wolf fell into the central part. The governor practiced state affairs and Yansui commander Wang Chengen surrounded them. In May, the Qingyang thief Hao Lin'an. Liu Daojiang assisted them." From this record, we can see that Lone Wolf and Twin Old Zi were an insurgent army in the Guanzhong area at that time.And Hao Lin'an is a rebel army guarding Qingyang.The two rebel armies often cooperated in operations.And help each other.It also contains: "Ke Tianfei, Hao Lin'an, and Liu Daojiang were defeated by Wang Chengen, and they retreated to Iron Corner City. Lone Wolf and Li Dusi went to Taiwan, but Ke Tianfei and Liu Daojiang surrounded the water."At this time, because the various rebels were chased and suppressed by the Ming army, they walked together together at this time.A group of Taiwan soldiers acted in unison to attack Taishui County. "The thieves hid the elite, fought back with thousands of horses, lured them to Nanyuan, and rose up." "Seeing from all corners, they attacked, and the thieves were defeated. Zombies covered the field, and the rest walked to Tongchuan Bridge." It can be seen that the coalition forces of the uprising ministries were attacking the platform. They strayed into an ambush when they were in the waters, and were killed by the Ming army to cover the field with zombies. The remaining rebels had to retreat to Tongchuan. "...Catch up with it, the battle will fall, and the thief will be defeated again."The Ming army pursued this uprising coalition force closely.Chasing and besieging them all the way has the meaning of suppressing the rebel army. "...the pursuit of the bandits Ankou River, Chongxin Kiln, and Baimao Mountain was a big success. Governor Hong Chengchou killed Ke Tianfei, Li Dusi Yu Huliang, sent his general Bai Guangen, and the rest of the bandits fled. Until the Ming army pursued to Pingliang , Hong Chengchou captured and beheaded Ke Tianfei and Li Dusi, two rebel generals, and surrendered Bai Guangen, a rebel general. The rebel coalition army was almost defeated today, and fled in all directions. Ping and Fengjian. In October three battles and three defeats, there was a Zhaojin bandit in Yaozhou Zhuizi Mountain in the north. His party killed the lone wolf and surrendered after Hao Lin'an. Chengchou killed 400 people, and the rest were scattered. The giant bandits in Guanzhong were slightly flattened." The remaining rebel coalition forces were pursued and beaten by the Ming army, and they traveled around Longzhou, Pingliang, and Fengxiang.

In the north of Zhuizi Mountain, Tianyuxun and Changsheling Zhanglei Laoya face each other across the river, and in the west, Leishenmiao River and the remaining veins of Changsheling alternate with each other. The mountains stretch for more than 40 kilometers, and reach Jiulipo and Azi in the south. Township.The ravines in the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the streams are densely covered.Different from the Changsheling Mountains, the Zhuizi Mountains have deep soil accumulation, fertile soil and lush forests, making it easy to hide.Hao Lin'an, the Lone Wolf led his troops into Zhuizi Mountain and hovered in the forest.Wandering among the mountains also caused the Ming soldiers to suffer a lot.Due to almost running out of ammunition and food, the soldiers were not fully clothed, and they had to suffer from hunger, resulting in a significant decline in the overall combat effectiveness of the uprising coalition forces.In view of the fact that the backbone of the rebel army came from robbers and bandits scattered all over the country, and they were full of banditry. After fleeing embarrassingly in Zhuizi Mountain for more than a month, it was difficult to control the extremely difficult life of fleeing. At night, taking advantage of the dark moon and high winds, he attacked and killed the sleeping rebel leader Hao Lin'an and Lone Wolf in Laohugou, Zhuizi Mountain.After that, two cruel little chieftains led five or six hundred people to surrender to Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides.Hong Chengchou, who was dragged down by the peasant army, hated the uprising team.I can't wait to kill it and hurry up.Hong Chengchou then brutally killed more than 400 bandit-like people from the rebel army in Laohugou where Hao Linan and Lone Wolf were killed, and especially killed the two little leaders who assassinated Hao Linan and Lone Wolf.Gouged out the heart and gouged out the eyes, and dumped the corpse beside the mound where the two contending heroes lived.The snobbish man who asked for credit and rewards also failed to live by idling. Facing the cunning and treacherous governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, he became a hearty meal for the tigers and wolves haunting the Tiger Valley.According to folklore.Hong Chengchou buried the corpses of Hao Linan and Lone Wolf in Laohugou grass in the middle of Zhuizi Mountain, and built a tomb. The soul of the hero is also resting here, but the exact location of the tomb is no longer available today.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen (AD 1643), Li Bai used Gu Junen's suggestion and decided to use Guanzhong as his base, then occupied Shanxi and then entered Beijing.Li Bai married and led the army from Jingxiang to the north. In September, he fought against the Ming army in Jiaxian County, Henan Province.It rained continuously for ten days, and the rebel army cut off the enemy's grain road with light cavalry. Taking advantage of the Ming army's lack of food and self-disorder, they attacked and killed more than 40,000 people. They defeated Sun Chuanting, who was then governor of Shaanxi. In short, Xi'an was conquered in November, and the entire territory of Shaanxi was occupied like a broken bamboo.Li Zicheng then established the Dashun regime, with the reign name Yongchang.Since then, the rebels have been on the offensive.Yinchuan in Ningxia, Lanzhou in Gansu, Wuwei, Zhangye and other places are also under its rule.According to the "Yaozhou Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty, this year, Li Zicheng's rebel army "conquered Yaozhou City and appointed Yang Dingrui as Yaozhou Shepherd".There used to be a "Chang Dingrui Poetry Stele" in Yaowang Mountain, which was later signed by "Yaozhou Shepherd Yang Dingrui", and two seals of "Dingrui" and "Dingtongyin" were placed.Judging from the inscriptions, Yang Dingrui was from Jinming (now Ansai), Shaanxi.According to folklore, in the first year of Yongchang in Dashun, Yang Dingrui, the shepherd of Yaozhou, took all the officials of the state to Laohugou in Zhaojinzhuizi Mountain in the north of Yaozhou to mourn the soldiers of the civil army who died against the Ming Dynasty.Of course, after looking through various historical records, there is only one word recorded at the end.All of this is nothing more than generations of residents of Sri Lanka, remembering the great achievements of the peasant uprising army in fighting the world for the poor, and interpreting the beautiful legend...