Chapter 26 the fifth Shujing

October 29, 2008 at 22:42 In the last years of Yongjia, officials sent by the imperial government to various places submitted secret reports, describing the ominous signs in the local area: some areas in the south of Yangzhou were covered with blood in the rain; Many earthquakes happened in succession; all the rice in Xiang County ripened overnight, and then all of them rotted suddenly; hundreds. The most urgent report came from Shu County.Local officials reported that an official in the area had become the center of the rebellion.The name of this official is Du Tao.At first, all he had was a weak and weak army, and the weapons were only wooden sticks and stone axes.On the march, they encountered a group of refugees.Soon, Du Tao became the leader among them, and organized everyone into the army according to his will.

Obviously, this is an army with little combat effectiveness, but Du Tao still marched outside Changsha City.Here, he made a high-profile oath, and then launched an attack on the city.It was Xun Tiao, the governor, who organized the defense in the city.This is a magistrate of noble birth but violent personality.Despite the superiority in equipment and training, the officer army was defeated due to lack of effective command.Xun Tiao became a prisoner of the rebels and was hanged on the tower of the South Gate of Changsha. Victory brought great honor and confidence to Du Tao.Refugees from all over the country joined him one after another, and the reserves in the city also brought room for development for the army.Du Tao challenged the emperors of the Jin Empire.He appointed himself consul of the central and western part of the empire, and began to use the title of "general of peace".The general commands his troops to resist the extermination actions from the empire.He broke up successive attacks from the east and west, and conquered many cities along the way south.

Soon, he sent his deputy to lead the army north to prepare to attack Wuchang.Tao Kan, the prefect stationed here, is different from other generals around him.He was not born in a wealthy family, and lived in poverty when he was young.After joining the army, he continued to build meritorious service in battle and was gradually promoted to the position of prefect.Tao Kan, who is familiar with the art of war, is unwilling to have a head-on conflict with the rebels who are in full swing.He ordered the army to evacuate the city, leaving the soldiers to protect the people who were withdrawing at the same time, and move east.The team did not settle down until they reached the border with Yuzhang.

However, a group of people among them did not stop and continued to move eastward.This is a group of priests.The leader is Wu Meng, who claims to have been instructed by Zhang Tianshi in a dream, so he has the supernatural powers of taking objects from space and transferring flowers to trees.He told his disciples that he had a feeling in his heart that there must be strange things happening all the way east. Sure enough, as soon as they set foot on the official road in Yuzhang, the Taoist priests felt the trembling of the ground.Soon, a big black snake appeared in front of them.The snake's eyes are emerald green, like four polished emeralds, and the snake's tongue is bright red, shining like a flame around its mouth.Two or three Taoist priests were so frightened that they fell to the ground, turned over, and crawled away.But the speed of the black snake was much faster than they imagined.It opened its mouth, and suddenly there was a whirlwind in the flat ground. The youngest Taoist priest couldn't hold it any longer, and was caught in the wind and sucked in by the snake.

When the snake's mouth closed, Wu Meng barely stood still.At this time, the black snake was swallowing the little Taoist priest, and the lower part of the snake's jaw bulged up and slowly slid down.Without further hesitation, Wu Meng stretched out the saber hanging from his waist, rushed to the black snake and chopped it down forcefully.The head of the snake fell at the sound, but the tail twitched everywhere, sending the Taoist priests standing in the front row flying. Afterwards, Wu Meng explained that the celestial master once told himself in a dream that the four-eyed black snake was a monster named Shu.It is also a symbol of Shu County.The appearance of the big snake means turmoil in the area, and only by killing the big snake can the land of Shu be finally pacified.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the prefect Tao Kan to command the army to return to Wuchang.The rebels chose to surrender without resistance.Under the joint attack of all parties, Changsha City was breached again, Du Tao was defeated and died in the chaos.