隨著起事嘅壯大啲民眾跟著響應埋，黃蕭養由六月開始帶著啲人去攻打各縣城。到咗九月係集結咗成五百條船、幾萬嘅人馬，就跟著圍攻廣東省城廣州 ，擊殺埋鎮守嘅安鄉伯張安 。喺佔據咗五羊驛做行殿之後，就自稱順民天王 （或順天王  、 東陽王   ），年號東陽 ，仲授咗一百幾人官職 。到第二年，朝廷就派咗右僉都御史楊信民 、都督同知董興帶軍去鎮壓，調集埋兩廣同江西嘅官軍一齊去打黃嘅部隊。喺圍城八個月後，10月嘅時候黃喺白鵝潭嘅戰鬥度中箭身亡。
As the uprising grew, the people responded, and Huang Xiaoyang began to lead people to attack the county towns in June. In September, he gathered 500 boats and tens of thousands of men and horses, and then besieged Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, and killed Zhang An, the townsman who guarded the town. After occupying the Wuyangyi Palace, he proclaimed himself the King of Shunmin (or the King of Shuntian, the King of Dongyang), the year name Dongyang, and also awarded more than 100 official positions. In the second year, the imperial court sent Yang Xinmin, the imperial governor of the right immortal capital, the governor and the governor of Dong Xing to lead the army to suppress it, and mobilized the officers and troops of Liangguang and Jiangxi to fight the Huang army. After eight months of siege, Huang was killed in the battle of Baietan.