Qiming 1158

Chapter 1008 Xixia's Last Rebellion

Because of Zhao Tan's full support, Chen Kangbo has a lot of power, and he is very grateful to Zhao Tan for handing over this power to him.

Although two Privy Council chiefs had lost their lives before him, at least the third Zhou Linzhi survived safely, so Chen Kangbo felt that he was almost safe.

As soon as he took office, he made an ambitious plan. In order to support Zhao Yan's plan to recruit 8 troops, he organized a meeting of the Privy Council to discuss. After working for several days, he came up with a detailed recruitment plan, which was approved by Zhao Xuan.

In terms of the selection and absorption of military talents, he supported Zhao Tan's martial arts and internal selection plan for officials, and was willing to promote talented officials in the Privy Council to higher positions and give them greater power.

For example, he decided to recommend Yu Yunwen as the deputy privy envoy and become his deputy, because he felt that Yu Yunwen had very good military talents.

Yu Yunwen was very happy and recommended Yang Wanli backhandedly, thinking that Yang Wanli also had strong military capabilities and should hold a high position, so Yang Wanli was also promoted to a privy straight bachelor.

With the addition of more and more military talents, Chen Kangbo became more and more happy.

He felt that the military talents of the entire Song Dynasty were recruited by the Privy Council. The Privy Council was full of talents. He spoke well and had strong skills.

Under this wave of excitement, Zhao Tan gave the Privy Council a lot of power, and to a certain extent restored the situation in which the emperor discussed military affairs with the Privy Council alone in the early Northern Song Dynasty and abandoned the civilian government, making the Privy Council more and more powerful.

The military of the Southern Song Dynasty was also stimulated to a certain extent. The newly recruited soldiers practiced day and night in the military bases around Lin'an City, which was a bit like the rejuvenation of the Song Dynasty.

In the stall of "working hard" in the Southern Song Dynasty, in October of the fourth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin received news from Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping, who were sitting in Xixia.

The last remaining forces in Xixia launched a wave of rebellion.

It is said that because she was unwilling to sit back and watch Xixia fall under the control of the Ming Dynasty and was eventually annexed by the Ming Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Ren of Xixia secretly colluded with a group of Xixia officers who were still in control of the army, trying to get them to lead the troops to King Qin of Xingqing to rescue him. The independence of Xixia is a last-ditch effort.

However, Su Yonglin felt that something was wrong, and that it was impossible for Ren to do such a thing, but it was still necessary to quell the rebellion.

So at the end of December in the fourth year of Hongwu, after the Ming army quelled this wave of rebellion and executed a large number of old officers and bureaucrats in Xixia, it was found through interrogation that it was indeed not led by Ren.

Mrs. Ren didn't have the courage. She was just a woman in the deep palace. She didn't dare to do anything while guarding her youngest son.

Those who really do this are the old officials, old nobles, old officers, etc. of Xixia who are unwilling to hand over their power and interests.

A series of revolutionary actions and reforms carried out by the Ming State in Xixia deeply violated their interests, and almost destroyed their interests and ceased to exist.

So with a deep resentment against the Ming Kingdom, they hid their anger, kept connecting and colluding in private, and finally formed a large-scale rebel gang.

This rebel group was mainly composed of chief executives and military chiefs from some of the more remote areas in Xixia at that time.

Because the essence of Xixia is the Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain, the Ming Dynasty also focused on these two areas, and carried out major transformations in these two areas.

As a result, those local military and political chiefs were afraid and felt that they must be in danger and their future was not good. It is better to launch a counterattack when the Ming Dynasty is not free, eradicate their power in one fell swoop, and restore the rule of the Western Xia Dynasty.

So under the banner of the Queen Mother Ren of Xixia and the little king, they called on the [loyal and patriotic people] in Xixia to rise up to resist and expel all Ming people from the territory of Xixia.

The slogan was still loud.

The reason why this gang was able to form is mainly because the Ming Dynasty's Qing Dynasty against the counter-revolutionary forces in Guanzhong has transferred almost the entire western intelligence force, so that the intelligence force against Xixia is insufficient, so that this group of people can be connected.

However, as the situation in Guanzhong slowed down and the intelligence power gradually returned, the conspiracy of these people was discovered, although when they were discovered, they were already in a state of having to send arrows on the string.

However, when Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping heard the news, they didn't feel very flustered, but felt that it seemed not bad.

To be honest, these military and political chiefs in the Xixia frontier have always been a problem for Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping. If they are honest and don't mess around, it is really not an easy task to clean them up.

Su Yonglin's goal is to annex Xixia and turn it into the Hexi province of Daming, and the existence of these frontier military and political chiefs is a huge obstacle. Although they are safe for a while, they dare not guarantee that they will be safe in the future.

It's good now, they are messing around, messing around, and doing everything, then cleaning them up is a logical thing to do, and in this way, Daming's Hexi Province can officially be established.

Before the rebellion was launched, Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping had basically figured out their rebellion plan, and then they made targeted arrangements.

The number of the Hexi Corps being formed is not too large, and the training is not perfect, so the Qilu Corps stationed in Guanzhong provides military assistance to the Hexi Corps.

And Su Yonglin felt that the opportunity was rare, so he sent the Shenji Battalion, which had just been rectified, to Xixia to assist the Hexi Corps in killing the Xixia rebels.

After He Feihu led the Shenji Battalion into Xixia, he also appeared in the Hexi Corps.

Different from the previous armed forces that killed rebel landlords, this time He Feihu was not facing an elite division, but it was a good professional army.

The two sides fought on the Ningxia Plain. Facing the Xixia rebels with complete cavalry, infantry, and bowmen, Shenji Battalion showed quite good field ability.

Before the cavalry of the Xixia rebels launched an attack, He Feihu had already ordered the cavalry generals to start firing.

Although the general cannon of the chariot and cavalry can't hit the blooming bullets, the solid bullets can also cause losses to the Xixia rebels, especially when facing a tight army formation.

When a solid bullet hits at a direct angle, it is like reaching out and drawing a line on a flat sand surface, giving a military formation to [marked a line], and directly smoothing the solid bullet on the way forward. All "obstacles", that is, rebel soldiers.

This terrifying weapon that the Xixia rebels had never seen before instantly collapsed the army formation of the Xixia rebels.

Dozens of artillery pieces were fired in unison, and dozens of solid bullets crashed in intense heat waves, drawing bloody "straight lines" from their army formations like lightning and thunder.

Not only the infantry formations were bombarded by the cannonballs of the cavalry generals, but the cavalry was almost the same, and the cavalry formations were also bombarded by artillery shells.

One by one, the hot iron bullets arrived in an instant, smashing to the ground, some directly embedded in the ground, and some bounced up to cause secondary damage to the Xixia rebels.

Although the actual hit rate is not high, the power of the shells is still powerful.

In one shot, the men and horses were all shattered.

Under the power of a cannon, the broken corpses of humans and horses were scattered all over the ground, and the whole battlefield was covered with bright red and foul smelling things.

After five consecutive salvos of fifty chariots and cavalry artillery, the Ming cavalry resolutely attacked, and the firearms phalanx and the normal infantry phalanx also attacked.

(End of this chapter)