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This is the first civilian uprising in the history of China. In July of the first year of Qin Ershi (the first 209 years), a Yuyang garrison group consisting of more than 900 people went to osawa Township (now southeast of Suxian County, Anhui Province), but it was blocked by heavy rain and failed to reach the garrison as scheduled. According to the Qin law, when the deadline is lost, everyone is afraid. There are two captains on guard against a stroke. One is Chen Sheng, a native of Yangcheng (now southwest of Henan Shangshui); One is uncle Zi, a native of Yang Xia (now Taikang, Henan). They used "fish-bone brushwork" and "singing with flaming mountains" to instigate the garrison uprising, and put forward the slogan of "Great Chu Xing, Chen Wangsheng" to rise up against the State of Qin.

The rebels soon occupied several counties. Due to the continuous participation of the people, the army has developed rapidly. When they captured Chen County (now Suiyang County, Henan Province), they had tens of thousands of infantry, more than a thousand cavalry and six or seven hundred chariots. Chen Sheng established himself as the king, and Zhang Chu appointed Guangwu as the false king, and led the army to attack Xingyang (now Henan Province) to the west, and ordered and Liu. In the whole country, especially in the old Chu State, the people and the old nobles also rose up against the State of Qin.

When Xingyang was besieged, Chen Sheng sent General Zhou Wei to attack the State of Qin to the west. When Zhou arrived at the stage (now northeast of Lintong, Shaanxi Province, only 100 mile away from Xianyang), he hurriedly ordered Shaofu to organize the torturers and slaves who built the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor into an army to fight. Due to the lack of combat experience, the insurgents went deep alone and suffered setbacks one after another. Zhou Wen committed suicide.

With the development of the anti-Qin war, the weaknesses and contradictions within the rebel army gradually emerged. Chen Sheng became proud, listened to rumors, killed old friends, and became increasingly alienated from the uprising masses. The generals sent to various places no longer obeyed his constraints. Guangwu, the fake king who besieged Xingyang, also disagreed with Tian Cang, the rebel general. Tian Cang killed Guangwu under the wrong command of Chen Sheng, which led to the collapse of the whole army. Won Xingyang and pounced on Chen County. Chen Sheng failed to fight, and escaped to the city father (now northwest of Mengcheng, Anhui Province) and was killed by the traitor Zhuang Jia. Since then, although Chen Sheng led the Cangtou Army led by Lv Chen to recover Chenjun twice and died, the Zhang Chu regime has ceased to exist. Although Chen Sheng and Guangwu Uprising failed in less than a year, they ignited the fire against Qin in the whole country and quickly overthrew the rule of Qin Dynasty.