To Schwaben, Franken, Alsace, Thuringia, Saxony, Salzburg and Tyrol. More than 654.38 million peasants took part in the war.
Generally speaking, the peasant war experienced two periods: rising (1524.5 ~ 1525.7) and falling (1525.8 ~ 1526.7). In the rising period, the peasant war formed three centers: Schwaben, Franken and Thuringia. In Schwaben area, after the Black Forest and Stringen Uprising, it spread to Clay, Hoai, Bryce and Barr, sweeping the northern part of Schwaben. The Franken Uprising was concentrated in Nordlingen, ansbach, rothenburg, Wü rzburg, Bamberg and Bildehausen, and Thuringia was the center of the peasant movement in northern Germany. On March 17, 2007, the civilian groups and citizens of Milgezeng overthrew the aristocratic parliament of the city and elected a permanent parliament actually led by T. menzel, in order to build a society without exploitation and class. 1525 From April to May, riots broke out in many cities in western Germany.
The peasant uprising put forward many programmatic clauses in the war. In the "Twelve Clauses" formulated in early March of 1525, the northern agricultural army of Schwaben stated its desire for freedom: abolishing serfdom; Abolish tithes and inheritance taxes; Village communities can freely carry out religious activities, elect missionaries and realize freedom of hunting, fishing and logging; Cancel/kloc-taxes such as excessive labor and land rent imposed on farmers at the beginning of the 6th century. /kloc-at the end of 0/524, the letter written by T. menzel's disciples was the program of the radicals in the peasant movement in North Germany. Its core is to oppose the oppression and violent revolution of the people's court, point out that courts, temples and churches are the power base of feudal lords, and advocate the execution of oppressors and traitors, the burning of castles and the confiscation of temples and churches.
From May 1524 to July 1525, the peasant war reached its climax. Thousands of peasants became masters of their own land, and some nobles and knights also took part in the uprising. Uprising peasants burned thousands of noble estates, churches, temples and courtyards, and established their own political power in the vast areas of southwest and central Germany. At that time, the armies of the German lords were basically fighting the Italian and French armies, and there was no time to turn around and immediately suppress the peasant army. Therefore, the feudal lords adopted the strategy of fighting while discussing, wooing and buying the powerful insurgents, and brutally suppressing and cracking down on the weak insurgents. Shortly thereafter, the Lord's army came back from Italy, and the mercenaries hired by the Lord from Switzerland at a high price also went to Germany. The Lord turned to wage an all-out war against the peasant army. At this time, the feudal lords had more than 1 10,000 troops, among which the elite Bavarian Army, the Schwartz Allied Forces and the mercenaries of the Archbishop of Salzburg had more than 3,000 elite cavalry and were equipped with a large number of artillery, all of which were well-equipped professional soldiers. Although the number of peasant troops reached 6,543,800+,their stations were scattered, lack of contact, and their equipment was very backward, so that the peasant troops in Thuringia, Saxony, Alsace, Franken and Schwaben were crushed one by one under the suppression of the joint vassal army. 1525, 15 In May, when the main force of the peasant army led by menzel joined forces with the main force of the Schwartz Coalition in Frankenhausen, although the peasant army fought bravely for more than three hours under the slogan of "swear to the devil to the end", it was still defeated by the aristocratic Coalition forces, and more than 5,000 peasants were killed and menzel was wounded and captured.
In the period of decline, the peasant war continued in Tirolzburg. The uprising was led by M. Geismaier. 1526 from may to June, the Salzburg peasant army defeated the mercenaries of the Bavarian army, the Austrian * * * and the national army, the schwaben Coalition forces and the archbishop of Salzburg. Finally, surrounded by superior enemy forces, they had to retreat to Venice in July, and the peasant war finally failed.