In China's thousands of years of history, peasant uprisings have emerged in an endless stream, and the first nationwide peasant uprising occurred in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, which directly inspired future generations. In the agricultural society, the people pursue a stable life, rely on the sky to eat the sky, if not really can not survive, most people are not willing to leave their homeland to fight, so no matter how great the merits of Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, we can not ignore the Qin Dynasty's severe punishment, heavy labor and taxes on people's heads.
During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the anti-Qin undercurrent was already surging, Zhang Liang dared to stab Qin, Xiang Yu dared to say the words to replace it, these noble descendants felt that qin existed unreasonablely, most of them had the influence of the mind to restore the old country, but if Qin's rule was not so difficult to breathe, the resistance would not be a little bit, so quickly burned all over the country, so that chen Sheng, Wu Guang and other commoners shouted out the slogan of "cutting down the road, cursing qin".
Chen Sheng Wu Guang's uprising was in the autumn of 209 BC, Qin II Hu Hai was only a year on the throne, Hu Hai was not a benevolent prince, and his ability was not as good as Qin Shi Huang, but he liked to learn from Qin Shi Huang to go on a tour, and he dispatched 50,000 crossbow shooters to guard Xianyang, and the grain produced around Xianyang was first supplied to the palace, and those who served for his pleasure actually needed to bring dry food to eat themselves, the peasants' income from growing grain was not high, under Hu Hai's violent operation, it was fortunate that he could keep a third of his life hanging, and no one could live a peaceful life.
Chen Sheng has the "ambition of the great crane", when he was hired, he was not willing to be driven by people for a lifetime, and Wu Guang was different, Wu Guang's personality was more like a ranger, and when the two and more than 900 poor people were rushed to the Yuyang border to guard the wrong time, a continuous autumn rain made people feel desolate in their hearts, and could not help but think about fate. Wu Guang was informal, always caring for those around him, and had prestige among the pawns, but Chen Sheng was more courageous than him and took the lead in proposing the idea of an uprising.
Therefore, after the two plotted a series of superstitious events such as "fish belly books collection" and "bonfire fox singing", Chen Sheng became the central figure of the "destiny of heaven", Wu Guang served as an assistant, and did not hesitate to deliberately provoke the Qin officers escorting him, so that he could be whipped and provoke the mood of the guards. Chen Sheng Wu Guang was not a friend of Mo Rebellion from childhood to adulthood, he had not known each other for a long time, Wu Guangken had achieved such a point as nothing more than admiring Chen Sheng's bravery, but he had not found the deepest thought in Chen Sheng's heart.
Chen Sheng summoned more than 900 people to a meeting and shouted out the famous words "The prince will have a kind of Hu", and the resentment of the guards was aroused by Chen Sheng's words. Chen Sheng is very good at analyzing people's hearts, and the anti-Qin reasons he talked about when he planned the uprising with Wu Guang were also from the perspective of the hearts of the people in the world, such people often hide conceit, and once they get the stage, they are easily confused by short-term achievements.
Sure enough, Chen Sheng's subsequent fate was very bleak. The dazexiang rebel army was initially overwhelmed, taking The County, The County, the County, the Bitter County, the Gar County, and the People of These Places even took the initiative to kill the county lieutenants and defect to the rebel army, Chen Sheng's initial prediction was accurate, "the world is bitter for a long time", just wait for a little fire to ignite the forest, and then Chen Sheng aimed at Chen County, which is now Huaiyang District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province.
At this time, the size of the rebel army was already very large, with tens of thousands of infantry, thousands of cavalry, 600 to 700 military vehicles, Chen Sheng was quite satisfied, not to mention that the important town of Chen County in the Central Plains was also taken by the rebels because of insufficient guards, which further encouraged Chen Sheng's pride. Chen County is the old capital of the ancient Fuxi clan and the Shennong clan, but also the old capital of the Chen State and the Chu State, the Qin Dynasty County, the geographical location is very important, Chen Sheng held a meeting of heroes here, did not listen to the persuasion of Zhang Er and Chen Yu, and established Zhang Chu as king.
In the land of the former Chu state, the anti-Qin sentiment was strong, and Chen Sheng's uprising was in the name of restoring the Chu state, but he soon forgot this; because he was born low and did not have professional military education, Chen Sheng did not know how to control the army for his own use, he sent ten roads of soldiers and horses to attack Qin, and Wu Guang led the northwest to attack Xingyang, a major area of the Qin Dynasty, and if Xingyang was broken, it would be a fatal blow to the Qin Dynasty.
However, Wu Guang met Li You, the son of Li Si, and Li You did not dare to easily abandon the city as a sinner of the country, and with his professional knowledge and grassroots Wu Guang's confrontation, the isolated city was defended for several months, while the internal changes in the rebel army changed. The Zhou Wen troops sent by Chen Sheng to bypass Xianyang and go straight to Hangu Pass were defeated by Zhang Handan, and seeing that the Qin army was about to encircle and kill them, the general Tian Zang and others in Wu Guang's army believed that only by sending a small number of troops to monitor Xingyang and the main force to meet Zhang Handan could they solve the siege.
However, Wu Guang did not defeat Xingyang for several months, and many people thought that he had a problem with his ability, so the undercurrents, including Tian Zang, planned to kill Wu Guang, and even gave Wu Guang's head to Chen Sheng. The good brothers of the past did not avenge Wu Guang, but recognized Tian Zang's position as Wu Guang's replacement, made him a general, and was fully responsible for the army. Regardless of whether this matter originally belonged to Chen Sheng's command or Tian Zang's own initiative, Chen Sheng's approach was undoubtedly chilling.
Wu Guang's fate was actually linked to Chen Sheng, after Wu Guang's death, Tian Zang could not deal with The Zhang Handan army at all, and it was no longer a ragtag army like the rebel army, but a daredevil army commanded by the professional general Zhang Handan, Zhang Handan went straight to Chen County, the center of Zhang Chu, Chen Sheng personally commanded the battle, still lost to Zhang Handan, and finally Chen Sheng's ending was surprisingly consistent with Wu Guang, all after the defeat, the people at the bottom did not have hope for him, and thus died at the hands of their own people - the only person who killed Chen Sheng was the coachman, his name was Zhuang Jia.
The mighty Osawago Uprising is over, but the story of the two rebel leaders has been passed down for millennia, and their courageous spirit of resistance has inspired generations of people. There were many reasons why Chen Shengbing was defeated and killed, the most important of which was that he was too "arrogant" and completely forgot about human feelings before vested interests, so that his good brother Wu Guang died miserably, and Chen Sheng's defeat and death were already doomed from the moment Wu Guang died.