Complex sentence: Accounts of the size of the revolt vary widely, from 5,000 to over 10,000; they were armed with farming implements, bamboo spears, swords, wooden cannon, and hunting muskets.
Split into simpler sentences: Accounts of the size of the revolt vary widely, from 5,000 to over 10,000. They were armed with farming implements, bamboo spears, swords, wooden cannon, and hunting muskets.