preface
Zanjun dared to be the first in the world, and fu ge angrily went to the tyranny before.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he did not choose to rest and recuperate, but began to build various projects. In our present view, these projects are meritorious and beneficial in the present, but in that era, they brought an extremely heavy burden to the people. Originally, due to years of war, the country's strength was not strong, and as a result, large-scale projects were built one after another, and people could not survive at all. In 209 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up in Daze Township and began a vigorous rebellion against the qin. However, later the movement was suppressed, but everyone only knew that Chen Shengbing was defeated and killed, but few people knew how Wu Guang's fate was, in fact, his fate was even more tragic than Chen Sheng's.
The vigorous Osawa Township Uprising
In 209 BC, a procession came to the land boundary of Daze Township, a procession of transporting people whose destination was Yuyang. However, the heavens were not beautiful, and a continuous torrential rain fell, destroying the way forward for this team and greatly delaying the time. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, once the construction period is delayed, then everyone must be beheaded. This team was well aware of its fate, instead of being beheaded later, it was better to fight hard now, under the leadership of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, first killed the guards, and then led 900 peasants who were suffering to rise up, sounding the clarion call for the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
The uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang was extremely smooth in the early stages, and wherever the peasant rebel army went, the peasants who could not survive responded one after another and joined the uprising team, and this team was also like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, and in just a few months, it had tens of thousands of people and captured several county towns. After that, Chen Sheng shouted out the slogan of "Great Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng", and received a large number of responses. After the turning point of this rebel army came, after taking Chen County, Chen Sheng became king here and established the historical "Zhang Chu" regime.
The Qin Dynasty organized an army to face the rebel army head-on
At this time, the situation was very good, Chen Sheng sent Wu Guang to attack Yingyang, sent Zhou Wen to attack Guanzhong, and the morale of the rebel army was high, and it was very likely to destroy the entire Qin Dynasty. At that time, Zhou Wen's attack was particularly smooth, defeating the Qin army along the way, and finally hitting the drama area that was only a hundred miles away from Xianyang. At that time, the morale of the rebel army was extremely strong, and according to this trend, it only took a few days to kill Xianyang, completely overthrow the Qin Dynasty, and complete their ideal of destroying the Qin Dynasty in the first place.
But then there was a change in development, and at first, the Qin Dynasty did not care too much about these peasant rebels, and they focused their main energy on suppressing the ranks formed by the nobles of the former Six Kingdoms. But now that this peasant rebel army had all been killed in Xianyang, the Qin Dynasty was eager to regard them as the most important opponent. After deliberation, the Qin Dynasty, on the one hand, asked the local armies to rush to the rescue, and on the other hand, formed the Lishan Army, ready to face the arrival of this rebel army head-on.
The Osawa Township Uprising, which ended helplessly
Later, under the leadership of Zhang Handan, the Lishan Army broke the troops led by Zhou Wen, and then marched to Chen County, the core of Zhang Chu's regime. If Chen Sheng could concentrate all his strength to meet Zhang Handan at this time, he would still be able to fight a dozen, although there was some lack of combat effectiveness, but Zhang Handan's labor division had lost its vigor during the expedition, and it was not necessarily impossible to fight with one. However, at this time, the Zhang Chu regime, which had just been established for a few months, actually had civil unrest, and several leading generals were vying for power and profit. When Zhang Handan killed Chen County, the rebel army was already in a state of semi-collapse, and he easily broke it, and Chen Sheng, who launched this uprising, also died here.
This uprising is quite lamentable, from the initial vigorous to the helpless end of the subsequent curtain, it only existed for six months. Chen Sheng was primarily responsible for the failure of this uprising, and he coveted enjoyment, and after capturing several counties, he did not think of distributing the wealth to the soldiers who followed him in the war, but took all this wealth to himself, and also built a royal palace. This not only depleted the rebel army's already small strength, but also made everyone turn away from him. After all, everyone followed him in the uprising to overthrow the violent Qin, but now that the Qin Dynasty has not yet been overthrown, the leaders of the troops have already embarked on the old path of the Qin Dynasty.
epilogue
Compared with Chen Sheng, Wu Guang was even more pitiful. Chen Sheng's death was not unjust, after the army was defeated by the Qin army, he fled in a hurry, only to be killed by his own coachman and taken to the reward. Wu Guang, on the other hand, died in a conflict between him and Chen Sheng, who at first became close friends, but after they developed and grew, Chen Sheng became king, and he also made Wu Guang a false king. After that, the conflict between the two broke out, and finally Chen Sheng killed Wu Guang. Dying at the hands of his most trusted brother, Wu Guang's life cannot be described as sad. Although this uprising failed, it also sounded the clarion call for the demise of the Qin Dynasty, and within a few years, Xiang Yu invaded Guanzhong and completely destroyed the Qin Dynasty.
Reference: Chronicle of History