As mentioned in the previous article, Han Shantong, Liu Futong, and these people, taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty to build the Yellow River, began to gather the people on the banks of the Yellow River and actively prepared for an uprising.
At that time, there was a place on the bank of the Yellow River called Bailuzhuang, and Han Shantong and Liu Futong gathered more than 3,000 people and held a ceremony in this Bailuzhuang called "beheading the white horse and black cow", killing the white horse, killing the black cow, sacrificing the gods and immortals, and then leading everyone to gather together and call it unveiling the pole.
Everyone was very happy, such a big thing, so smooth, the people from all over the world flocked to it after hearing about it, and the team suddenly arrived with tens of thousands of people, and everyone was very happy.
However, at this time, he relaxed his vigilance and felt that things were too smooth, and the official government of the Yuan Dynasty sent people to suppress these rebellious peasants.
The rebellious peasants were unprepared, the people were still scattered everywhere, they could not be gathered, they were not organized, they were suddenly attacked by the government, Han Shantong was killed, and Han Shantong's son Han Lin'er fled in the chaos.
Liu Futong led a force desperately to break out of the siege, and the people who rushed out reconvened and reorganized, which triggered a large-scale peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
These peasants have a red scarf wrapped around their heads, and all the peasants, the peasants who revolted, take the red scarf as their name, so this army is a very famous one in our Chinese history, called the "Red Turban Army."
This opened the prelude to the Great Red Turban Uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when there were two Red Turban armies, one of which was that after the killing of Han Shantong, his sons Han Lin'er and Liu Futong, the one they led, this branch was mainly active in the east, so it was called the eastern branch, the eastern branch, and this red turban army believed in Mingjiao.
There is another branch in the west, its leader is called Peng Yingyu, we call him Peng Monk, you see in that martial arts novel, it is said that one of the "Five Scattered People" of the Ming Sect, Peng Monk, is actually not a Ming Sect, they are another secret religion, called Maitreya.
The rebel army of this Maitreya organization also joined the Red Turban Army, so it was also called the Red Turban Army, and they were the Red Turban Army of the West Branch.
Both Red Turban armies were joined by tens of thousands of peasants and people, and suddenly the whole country was filled with rebel armies of the Red Turban Army.
Please pay attention to [history fans] and continue to pay attention to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu.