Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 158 The Rebellion of Luxury Breaks Out
"kill!!!"

On the ninth day of October, accompanied by the sound of killing, the mighty chieftain soldiers and horses rushed to Bijie, Guiyang, Chishui, Zunyi, Xuzhou, Luzhou and other places.

The She'an Rebellion officially broke out. An Bangyan took the lead in launching the rebellion and called himself the "King of Luodian", but She Chongming was not to be outdone, and called himself the "King of Liang".

Under their call and private communication, in just five days, hundreds of chieftains responded, and the northeast, Zhengbei, southwest, and northwest of Guizhou were full of flames, and more than [-] rebels attacked all around.

Under such urgency, Zhu Xieyuan, governor of the five provinces, personally rushed to Luzhou County in the north of the Yangtze River before the war, and asked Sun Chuanting, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue and other departments to guard the pass and wait for reinforcements.

He also ordered the former Qin Liangyu to guard Zunyi, Sinan, Tongren, Chenzhou and other places, and Hong Chengchou went to Erlangba and Hailongtun in Zunyi.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan summoned Luo Gang, Long'an, Songpan and other Taoist forces to rush to help, and ordered the Guangxi capital to guard the pass, and ordered Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Guizhou, to quickly lead troops to garrison Qujing Mansion in Yunnan.

In addition, he adjusted [-] shi of grain and rewarded Mu Zeng who led the army in Dongchuan. He ordered Mu Zeng to go to Usa at the end of the month.

But no matter how proper the arrangement is, it is true that the Ming army outnumbered the rebels.

A number of urgent military reports from eight hundred miles were continuously delivered to his desk, and he handled them in an orderly manner, while the front line was full of fighting.

"put!"

At the head of Kaiyaoyi City, a tall Confucian general in armor waved his hand, and then dozens of Franc cannons aimed at the rebels who were constantly pushing the siege equipment in front of Kaiyaoyi City. stone bomb.

A catty of stone bullets pierced Lu's bus and turned into a ricochet, killing many rebels attacking the city. Among them, the Yi soldiers in iron armor carried sandbags and piled up soil as mountains in an attempt to fill up the moat of Kaiyayi.

"Governor, there are so many bandits and soldiers, let's call in the troops from the rear to support them!"

At the gate of Kaiyayi, a guerrilla bowed to the tall Confucian general, and this Confucian general was Sun Chuanting.

Right now, there are only [-] people in Kaiyayi, but what they are facing is An Xiaoliang's [-] Yi soldiers and [-] native soldiers under An Bangyan's command, a total of [-] people.

Faced with the situation of [-] against [-], and the enemy had follow-up reinforcements, Sun Chuanting not only did not panic, but also divided the [-] troops under his command into four groups.

Two teams went to Chishuiwei, one helped Chishuiwei defend the Chishui River, and the other went north to Mount Mani to resist She Chongming's southward march.

A team led by him came to guard Kaiya Station this morning, leaving [-] troops stationed at Qixing Pass.

It has to be said that Sun Chuanting is very courageous, even in the face of a disadvantage, he dared to divide his troops to help Chishuiwei and Pushi guards.

The most important thing is that the [-] troops of Kaiyayi were scattered among the four stone castles outside the city by him, and there were less than a thousand people in the city.

This situation represents the pressure he needs to face.

The six chieftains of Yongning Prefecture, Aminong, lead [-] troops to the north, and will arrive at Kaiyayi in six days.

At that time, they will need to use [-] troops to defend the onslaught of more than [-] people.

Right now, An Xiaoliang is just an appetizer, and Sun Chuanting is more worried about Guiyang Mansion...

Song Wanhua and An Bangyan led nearly [-] troops, attacking Guiyang from east to west, but as far as Sun Chuanting knew, Guiyang had no more than [-] troops. Under the onslaught of [-] troops, it is unknown how long they could last...

In addition, when She Chongming sent troops to Luzhou, Xuzhou, and Zunyi, could Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, and Hong Chengchou stop them?

Apart from these two issues, Sun Chuanting has nothing else to worry about. As for whether the rebels will invade Yunnan, Guangxi, and Huguang.

He wasn't worried about that at all.

Invading Yunnan and Guangxi, with the strength of the Ming army, as long as the reinforcements from Mu Zeng and northwest Sichuan arrive, they will be pacified soon.

As for Huguang, there are [-] troops under Qin Liangyu's command at Shizhu. I am afraid that the old general has already divided his troops to guard the main roads.

"How much military rations are there in the granary?"

Sun Chuanting asked about guerrillas at Kaiyayi, and the other party bowed in response:
"There are still [-] shi. In addition, Governor Zhu has transferred [-] shi of grain from Chengdu, and [-] taels of treasury silver will go south. We will arrive at Qixing Pass in five days."

"Okay!" Sun Chuanting cheered up a bit, held the long sword around his waist tightly, looked at the rebels below the city, and said calmly:
"As long as there is food and money, the rebels will not even think about taking a step beyond Kaiyayi!"

"put……"

"Bang bang bang-"

The Fran machine gun fired again, and the rebels all over the mountains and plains continued to attack the city. In the interval between defending the city, the tall Sun Chuanting almost broke the original view of the Kaiyayi defenders on civil servants.

In Sun Chuanting's hands, the four-foot-long saber is like a short knife, and the two-foot-long gourd hammer is like a short hammer.

With a tall figure of nearly two meters, he walked back and forth on the closed wall. Whenever a place was breached, Sun Chuanting swung his hammer, as if entering a land without people.

To the Yi soldiers who were about five feet tall, Sun Chuanting was like a prehistoric creature, he could knock down several people by himself without the help of the guards behind him.

The long sword on his waist is four feet long, like a sword that cuts a horse, it makes one's scalp tingle.

An Xiaoliang, the general of the rebel army outside the city, looked at the Yi soldiers falling from the top of the city, who had been wounded by artillery and Lu Gongche, who was pulled down by the ballista rope, was full of anger.

In less than half an hour since the start of the battle, the army has already lost nearly a thousand casualties, which is really unbearable pain.

"Mingjin retreats!"

As soon as An Xiaoliang opened his mouth, the sound of golden bells rang out all around, and the rebel army receded like a tide, leaving only a mess in the city and blood on the top of the city.

The burning Lv Gongcar, the moat filled with sand, the bloodstained faces of the soldiers at the top of the city, the corpses all over the city, and the smell of meat filled the air, making people sick.

An Xiaoliang retreated, and Sun Chuanting counted the casualties. A total of [-] people were killed and [-] were injured.

Fortunately, most of them were minor injuries, so they could fight with injuries, otherwise, they might really need to call in soldiers and horses from Qixingguan to support them.

Faced with such casualties, Sun Chuanting's heart sank, but he didn't care about rest. With several stab wounds on his body, he returned to the city and wrote a military report to Luzhou County.

When he was fighting, hundreds of miles away, the Qingxi River in Xuzhou was also experiencing a fight.

Like most civil servants, Yang Wenyue wore official uniforms and ordered orderly among the army on the north bank of the Qingxi River.

On the Qingxi River, thousands of soldiers and horses poured in from a pontoon bridge of Zhang Xu, and Yang Wenyue successfully blocked the [-] Yi soldiers under the command of Fan Long, the general of She Chongming, with defensive fortifications such as sheep horn walls, car camps, and earth pit spikes. .

The artillery on the chariot fired continuously, causing the Yi soldiers on the pontoon bridge to fall into the water.

Seeing that the army could not cross the river, Fan Long on the south bank also angrily said:

"Bring up the iron cannon!"

As he opened his mouth, thirteen thousand-jin Yongle iron cannons were pushed to the shore, and then began to ignite and fill with stone bullets, firing at the Ming army on the other side.

The howling stone bullets swept across the sky and hit the chariot, but it shook the chariot, but did not destroy it.

After all, the Yongle iron cannon was a product of two hundred years ago. Even if it is poured now, its range and power are not as good as the Francier and General Cannon.

Just waiting for Yang Wenyue to react, the Ming army's Frang machine artillery fired like a shower at the Yongle Iron Cannon position [-] meters away.

Several bullets ricocheted, and the gunner was killed and dozens were injured. Fan Long gritted his teeth and ordered the artillery to be withdrawn, and continued to send troops to attack to seize the crossing of the river.

After all, Yang Wenyue still wanted to return to Fangxuzhou County, and he would retreat when the gunpowder was exhausted, and he would not fight them to the death.

Thinking of this, Fan Long greeted: "Send the Han soldiers up, and withdraw the Yi soldiers!"

"Yes!" The lieutenant general responded, and immediately asked the Yi soldiers to be withdrawn and replaced with Han soldiers.

At this time, the gunpowder of the four thousand troops led by Yang Wenyue was exhausted, and seeing that the situation was unstable, he immediately commanded:

"Ming Jin withdraws the troops, the whole army retreats to the rear of the C-word sentry hall of the Jianwu Institute!"

"Yes!" The lieutenant general responded, and then led the C-word sentry of more than [-] people to the rear, while Yang Wenyue led [-] people to retreat northward.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the C post also began to retreat, the Han soldiers entered the fortifications and quickly stabilized their position, Fan Long also ordered the army to cross the river, set up camp on the spot, and march towards the Jianwu camp in the morning.

Yang Wenyue used the strategy of fighting while withdrawing, constantly using the terrain to consume Fan Long's soldiers and horses. Such a strategy made Fan Long suffer.

Compared with Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng refused to give an inch because Zhu Xieyuan was in Luzhou County, a hundred miles behind, and stationed [-] troops at Shihu Pass to resist the invasion of [-] soldiers led by She Chongming.

Shihuguan has become a Shura field, the moat has been filled with sand, and there are Lügong chariots and cloud chariots lying under the city.

The crashed car was burned at the gate of the city by the kerosene flowing from the Shihukou above the pass.

Cannons were fired from behind the horse-faced female wall. On the long pass, the rebels tried to climb the cloud car to the city wall, but were severely injured by wood and boiling water.

After finally getting to the top of the city, there was still a spike waiting for them.

Although it seems that this kind of guarding is very effective, compared with Qin Bangping's guarding of Shenyang City a few months ago, it can be said that it is far behind.

Qin Bangping directly built fortifications at the mouth of the moat, gathered troops outside the city and began to reduce the number of enemy troops, while Wu Aheng and Sun Chuanting only knew to guard the pass, but Yang Wenyue dared to go out of the city to spend a little time.

This is not to say that Yang Wenyue surpassed the two, but that the two sides have different information.

After all, Yang Wenyue is a Beijing official. He knows many cases of defending the city in Liaodong, and he also knows that defending the city will not work.

On the contrary, Sun Chuanting and Wu Aheng were county magistrates before, so they lacked this kind of experience.

However, this kind of behavior also shows in disguise that compared with Liaodong, the southwest battlefield is completely incomparable.

If it was Nurhachi who planned to raise troops, he would have to use a large number of internal responses first, and then show the enemy his weakness. He would use the characteristics of the Yi soldiers to fight in the mountains and fields, consume the vital strength of the Ming army, and then attack the city.

On the other hand, She Chongming, An Bangyan, and even Yang Yinglong still only want to fight steadily, and doing so will only consume their strength by the Ming army.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.

Once the passages, important towns, and passes that go out of Guizhou cannot be taken in a wave of offensives, She Chongming's uprising will not hurt Daming.

Wu Aheng is defending to the death, regardless of the casualties of soldiers, because as long as Shihuguan is breached, the whole of Sichuan will be massacred by the influx of Yi soldiers.

He is different from Yang Wenyue and Sun Chuanting. He has Zhu Xieyuan behind him, and Zhu Xieyuan is dispatching the chieftain in the northwest of Sichuan. Once the soldiers arrive, they will be able to counterattack immediately!

"kill!!!"

Wu Aheng raised his sword and roared, the voice resounded through the sky, and there were people hundreds of miles away who roared like him.

Fan Hu led [-] troops under She Chongming's command to invade Zunyi, but encountered the battle of Waterloo in Erlangba.

Just as eight thousand rebels forcibly crossed the Chishui River, they heard the roar of the sky. Dozens of stone bullets fell like a shower on the former army on the east bank of the Chishui River.

On a slightly flat mountaintop plain, Hong Chengchou was wearing an official uniform and a black cloak, overlooking the rebels.

The Ming army in mandarin duck battle jackets came down from the two mountains and broke through the formation while the rebels were not getting a firm foothold. White smoke came out of the blunderbuss in the hands of the bird guns, stone bullets were thrown out, and the Yi soldiers were severely injured.

"Withdraw to the West Bank!"

On the west bank, Fan Hu rode on horseback, causing Ming Jin to retreat, while the Yi soldiers on the east bank were already in chaos.

Hearing the sound of gold ringing, a group of people ran towards the floating bridge, but suddenly heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Looking sideways, hundreds of cavalry rushed to disperse the former army soldiers who were running without formation, and then the Ming army cavalry separated the front army and the pontoon bridge, poured kerosene, threw the torch into the pontoon bridge, and lit it.

Thousands of soldiers and horses were trapped on the east bank, Fan Hu's eyes were red with anxiety, and the leader was about to cross the bridge and kill them.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of killing from the top of the mountain not far from the west bank.

"There are also ambushes on the west bank! Withdraw!"

Fan Hu reined in his horse and immediately led the troops back.

Seeing Fan Hu retreating with more than [-] troops, Hong Chengchou laughed loudly and said:
"The first credit is mine!"

"Soldiers are wise, deploy ambushes to attack Fan Hu's front army, and then arrange suspicious soldiers to make Fan Hu think that reinforcements are coming from the west bank, and retreat in fear of being attacked by two sides!" The staff next to him looked at Hong Chengchou with adoring eyes, and said his arrangement.

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou smiled lightly and said:
"Okay, let's build the capital of the rebel lord on the east coast, and report the number of heads to the military department and the Ministry of war. It seems that the first achievement of the southwestern rebellion is in our hands."

"Yes!" The aides bowed back in admiration, and Hong Chengchou also walked away, as if the thousands of rebels on the east bank were already trapped.

It has to be said that he was indeed the first hero among the generals. In addition to the ambushes, the number of heads captured was immediately reported by the officials of the Chongqing Military Division.

The battlefield conditions in Northwest Guizhou and Northeast Guizhou were very good. Qin Liangyu, his son Ma Xianglin, nephews Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, daughter-in-law Zhang Fengyi and others guarded the road to Huguang like an iron bucket.

However, the Northeast Chieftain's offensive was repeatedly frustrated, so he could only retreat to Shiqian and Sizhou to wait for reinforcements from Song Wanhua and She Chongming.

But compared to the northeast and northwest, the south is not enough.

The chieftains in the south plundered Shengjing Pass in Yunnan in the west, and attacked Sicheng Prefecture and Liuzhou Prefecture in the south. It was difficult to resist the soldiers. Fortunately, the Guangxi Chieftain was recruited by the Guangxi Chieftain to resist, otherwise the two prefectures would be captured in just a few days.

In desperation, Zhu Xieyuan could only go to Shu, and asked Hu Yingtai of Guangdong and Guangxi to lead the army to resist the chieftain's southern invasion.

It's just that Zhu Xieyuan didn't know that Daming was suffering from one incident right now.

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"mother……"

"Mom... where are you..."

The water was steaming, and in the dense fog, a child covered in yellow mud was staggering in the water with bare feet and a head full of yellow mud.

There were corpses lying in the stagnant water all around and everywhere, attracting many flies and mosquitoes to coil around, and many crows also came from the sky.

The child was struggling forward in the yellow muddy water, surrounded by dead bodies. This scene was particularly terrifying.

After walking for a long time, perhaps feeling hungry, the child opened a door to find something to eat, but only saw the earthen wall that was washed away by the flood.

He could only climb onto a heavy wooden table, lie curled up on it, and slowly fell asleep.

In his sleep, he seemed to hear someone talking.

"There's a child here! Let someone take him down, and the others will continue marching to block the breach!"

A loud trumpet-like sound sounded, and the child frowned, opened his eyes dimly, and saw a rough cloth hit him, ravaged his face, wiped it clean, and then moved away.

"Son, where are your parents?"

The coarse cloth was removed, revealing a simple and honest face, this is a man in his early twenties, the mandarin duck battle jacket he was wearing showed his identity.

"I don't know." The child looked down at the water bottle on the soldier's waist. Seeing this, the soldier took off the water bottle, took out a big pancake from his arms and said:
"Eat this first, I'll send you to the short slope, there are people to take care of you, maybe your parents are there."

After saying that, the soldier picked him up, and then, with muddy water up to his knees, he took him out of the village with difficulty and slowly climbed up a low slope.

It's a pity that the child looked around and only saw the numb victims, but not his parents.

"Zhao Zhong! Leave the child here, hurry up and stop the breach with us, Sun Zongbing tells everyone to go."

Suddenly, a group of people in the distance shouted at the soldiers, and the soldiers also put down the children, and after telling the peasants to take care of the children, they followed the people, picked up two baskets of soil and walked towards the distance.

When they arrived at the site of the breach, they saw knee-high water pouring out of the opening that was one foot high and hundreds of steps long. The water was covered with thick mud and river sand, which made people very uncomfortable. .

"Wait for someone to find something to pile up the soil, and then throw sandbags and fill the soil later!"

The soldiers heard the familiar voice, looked up, and saw a crumbling earth wall, and Sun Yingyuan, the general of his own army, was commanding the soldiers and horses.

"The former army and the middle army filled sandbags!"

Following Sun Yingyuan's order, more than [-] people in the two guards pushed a cart with three people, and pushed it from both sides to the mouth of the Yellow River.

"The rear military used sandbags to fill the gaps under the car!"

Sun Yingyuan commanded twelve thousand households, and in an instant more than three thousand soldiers and horses filled the sandbags on the cart into the gap under the cart.

As the gap was filled with the sky, Sun Yingyuan yelled for the soldiers and horses on the left and right to fill in the soil, and everyone rushed forward.

In just a quarter of an hour, the breach was filled with carts, sandbags, and thin mud to form a flood embankment with a width of more than [-] steps and a length of more than [-] steps.

The water is slowly dissipating, but at the same time, the water in the river is also rising, and it is about to submerge the one-meter-high gap.

It's just that the army was already prepared, throwing sandbags up one after another, and then compacted it with sand and stone rollers, and added boiled glutinous rice and lime.

They raced against time, but within a quarter of an hour, everyone felt that their arms were heavy and it was difficult to lift heavy objects.

"Damn! You have to work as a soldier..."

"Stop the fucking nonsense, the work assigned by His Highness is over, and when you return to the capital, ask the chef to add two taels of mutton to shut your mouth!"

Hearing some soldiers cursing and cursing, some thousands and hundreds of households laughed and cursed.

But such laughing and cursing could not restore the physical strength of all the soldiers. When their physical strength was unsustainable, the water of the Yellow River gushed out.

Seeing this, Sun Yingyuan also took off his armor, and went off to carry sandbags on his back to plug the gap, but even so, the embankment was only two feet high, far less than the speed of the water rushing out.

"There! Hurry up!"

When the army was in despair, footsteps and shouts suddenly came from behind.

Sun Yingyuan, who was carrying sandbags, and some soldiers turned their heads to look behind them, and saw a mass of people dripping in muddy water, carrying mud on their shoulders, carrying sandbags, and a scale of nearly ten thousand rushed up.

"Master Jun, work harder! People from more than a dozen villages with a radius of a hundred miles are here!"

An old man who was over fifty years old picked up the soil and shouted in his mouth.

With the help of tens of thousands of people, the outflow of the Yellow River was quickly curbed, and the dam continued to be raised, bit by bit, until it was completely capped.

"ended……"

When the last stone roller was pressed down, the soldiers and people on the embankment were covered with muddy water, like clay figurines.

They looked at each other, then at themselves, and finally showed their big white teeth and smiled at each other.

For many years, the people and the officers and soldiers have never been so harmonious. For a while, the complaints against the people in the hearts of the soldiers disappeared, and the people's stereotyped image of the officers and soldiers in the past has improved a lot.

Sun Yingyuan lay in the muddy water, and as the water level of the muddy water slowly dropped, the breach was finally blocked.

However, Sun Yingyuan, who had been lying down for a stick of incense, had no time to rest, and immediately stood up and shouted to the surrounding Qianhu:
"The whole army buries pots and pans to make food, and head to Guirenji in half an hour. There are still three breaches there!"

"Yes!" Although the Qianhus were very tired, they also knew that time waited for no one.

On the fifth day after Sun Yingyuan led his troops southward, he received an imperial decree from the emperor, ordering them to go to Lingbi and block the breach along the way.

For this reason, Sun Yingyuan led the army non-stop, and it took ten days to arrive at Lingbi, and blocked four breaches in three days.

Right now, there are only three breaches left, and hundreds of thousands of people in Southern Zhili can be saved.

It's just that the life of the people in the future will be very difficult. Most of the grain hoarded in the autumn harvest has been swept away by the flood. I'm afraid the court will have to think about how to relieve the disaster.

"Chief soldier!"

Suddenly, a thousand households ran over, and Sun Yingyuan saw him coming, and dragged him to a place where there was no one nearby.

"How?" Sun Yingyuan frowned and asked, and Qianhu gritted his teeth and said angrily:
"This section of the embankment did not follow the imperial court's standards at all, and it was not properly maintained in the follow-up, which led to the breach!"

"What about other places? Is it the same as Lingbi?" Sun Yingyuan had a bad feeling in his heart, but fortunately, Qianhu shook his head and said:
"That's not true. Only the dams from Suzhou and Lingbi to Baiyangkou are not good. I am afraid that after the breach is blocked, the imperial court will have to send special personnel to repair the dams."

"What a bastard!" Sun Yingyuan cursed, furious in his heart.

When the Huaibei famine case happened, he lamented that corrupt officials would bring disaster to the country. He didn't expect them to go to the southwest to fight the rebellion, but they stopped for half a month because of corrupt officials.

The situation in the Southwest is dangerous, without their tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it is possible that hundreds of thousands of people in several counties in one prefecture will die at the hands of chieftains, and the court will spend hundreds of thousands more in salary.

Even if corvees are not used and wages are paid on a daily basis, the two hundred li dams will only cost five or sixty thousand taels of silver.

Right now, because of these five or sixty thousand taels, hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by disasters, and the amount of silver taels that will be spent to relieve these people in the future may need hundreds of thousands of taels.

"Should be killed!" Sun Yingyuan gritted his teeth and squeezed out these two words, and then said to Qianhu:
"Tell the matter to the Jin Yiwei who accompanied the army, and play Long Live and Your Highness."

"Kill some corrupt officials, it is impossible for the court to wipe their ass!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, Qianhu hurriedly told Jin Yiwei who was with the army, and Jin Yiwei got the news and sent someone to the capital quickly.

Half an hour later, Sun Yingyuan and others dragged their tired bodies and continued to march towards other breaches. The difference was that this time there were civilians who voluntarily followed them to fill the breach...

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This chapter is a bit complicated, so you need to look at the map. The map of the Southwest War is placed in the comment area.

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