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The Long family is the most powerful and is vacillating, neither wanting to help Sha Dingzhou nor surrendering to the Datong Army unconditionally.

"Fu Zun, take this opportunity to cut off the Yi tribe of Long and An!" Lu Huaichu suggested.

Gong Yi shook his head: "Don't act rashly."

Lu Huaichu's ancestral home is in Jiangxi. In the Ming Dynasty, the salt system was implemented, and Yunnan is also one of the salt-producing areas.Lu Huaichu's ancestors moved from Jiangxi to Kaizhong, Yunnan, and became the most prominent Han family in Yao'an, and their descendants also extended to Chuxiong.

There are four peoples in the state, and industry and commerce occupy the second.

This sentence means that half of the Han people in Yunnan are engaged in industry and commerce.

Moreover, the vast majority of these foreign businessmen came from Jiangxi, followed by Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan.

Jiangxi is the land of Zhao Han's Longxing. The Yunnan merchants who were originally from Jiangxi, naturally feel friendly - no matter what, they can take the opportunity to build relationships and keep their own family business as much as possible. After all, many generals of the Datong Army are also from Jiangxi.

Sha Dingzhou's frenzied exploitation of Yao'an salt merchants has already angered the merchants headed by the Lu family.

Gong Yi's campaign in Chuxiong went so smoothly this time because of the help of Yao'an salt merchants.

Lu Huaichu analyzed: "Sha Dingzhou's soldiers are strong, and we can't compete with him head-on. And the Yi tribe's four surnames have now won the second, and the remaining two are uncertain. We must send troops, first cut off one family, and one family Come to stand up for our army, second to stabilize the situation in Chuxiong, and third to share benefits with the coalition forces!"

Gong Yi thought over and over, finally nodded and said, "That's it!"

Ever since, Gong Yi released the news that he was going to attack Kunming, and led the Han army and the Yi soldiers of the Lu and Luo two tribes, marching towards the east in a swaggering manner.

The Yi tribe, with the surnames of Long and An, completely relaxed their vigilance, and even wondered if they could take the opportunity to plunder Fucheng. Anyway, the defenders in the city have all gone to Kunming.

Gong Yi led his troops to retreat westward at night, and ran for tens of miles to attack the chieftain of the Long family.

As early as the fifth year of Jiajing, this place has been reformed and returned to the people.But the Yi people refused to accept and made various troubles. In the ninth year of Jiajing, the officials had to be dismissed, and the chieftain of the Yi nationality was allowed to be the local magistrate here.

Most of the time, the prefect of Chuxiong was named Long.

Before the Long clan had time to gather their troops, Gong Yi led his troops to kill them, unable to resist in a hurry.The wealth accumulated by the Long family for more than 200 years was divided up by Gong Yi and his people. The Han army soldiers, accompanying merchants, and the leaders of the two Yi tribes, Luo and Luo, all had a share.

For a time, the morale of the coalition forces was greatly boosted.

An's chieftain was terrified, and hurriedly brought the soldiers to vote, and followed Gong Yi to attack Kunming.

At this moment, Huang Yao's army had already approached Yiliang City, and Sha Dingzhou led tens of thousands of soldiers to fight.

Gong Yi led a group of mobs, and soon arrived in Lufeng after poking chrysanthemums.The Han people in Lufeng City spontaneously responded to seize the city, and they cooperated inside and outside to kill the soldiers defending the city.

Since Lufeng is in control, there is Anning in front of it, and Kunming is tens of miles northwest of Anning.

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Yiliang Mountains.

Coming galloping on a fast horse, Sha Dingzhou was shocked when he heard the news, and muttered to himself, "How did Lu Feng lose it so quickly?"

Very simple, unpopular.

Although Shadingzhou wooed Han gentry, it was only limited to the surrounding area of ​​Kunming.In farther places, the Han people were exploited excessively, and the Han people in various states and counties had long waited for the opportunity to rebel.

After thinking about it, Sha Dingzhou called his confidant and ordered: "Go back to Kunming immediately and tell the mistress to move the goods. Go straight to the south and wait in Xinxingzhou (Yuxi). .”

The Mu family in Yunnan has accumulated 300 years of savings, and there are countless gold and silver treasures. Even if Sha Dingzhou wants to run for his life, he must take these treasures with him.

A few days later, the Datong army captured Yiliang.

Sha Dingzhou did not go to rescue, but guarded the lion's mouth.It is of course best to be able to ambush. If the ambush fails, you will fight against the Datong army in the mountains.

But Huang Yao's army seemed to be tired from the battle, so they stayed in Yiliang City, and Sha Dingzhou waited lonely in the valley.

"How far ahead?" Zhao Mingzheng asked.

Wang Feng replied: "Out of this valley, you can see Haimu Mountain."

Zhao Mingzheng said: "Before leaving the mountain, let me know and rest until dark before leaving."

The Datong army has mountain troops and a local guide like Wang Feng, so how could it be possible to fight head-on honestly.

Those remnant soldiers from Yunnan also selected [-] people who were good at mountain climbing, and together with Wang Feng, they made a surprise attack with the mountain troops.

Their marching route, the army's baggage cannot pass. More than 3000 people brought dry food and drinking water, but they walked directly over the mountain and headed towards Kunming like walking on flat ground in the mountains.

Estimating the time, Huang Yao's army dispatched and marched slowly to the lion's mouth.

Then, he stopped again and sent a search team to the valley to investigate the situation.Six people were killed or injured in the search team, and it was confirmed that there was an ambush in the valley, and the two sides began to confront each other.

"Headquarters, the Han army only has more than [-] people, I will lead the troops out to take the lead!" Iron Tiger took the initiative to ask for a fight.

Li Achu also said: "General Mansion, gather all the soldiers from the camp outside the valley. We have [-] to [-] troops. The Han soldiers only have [-] to [-]. Let's fight one in four or five. Are we afraid that we will not be able to win this battle?"

Sha Dingzhou shook his head and said: "Don't be impatient, the Datong army is not that easy to deal with. Our army guards the valley, takes advantage of the terrain, and waits for the enemy to attack and die. At this time, don't try to be brave, a fool will give up the advantage Kill the terrain."

These local soldiers and generals were all a little unhappy.

Obviously I have a lot of soldiers, so I should go out to fight as soon as possible. Is it possible to wait for the enemy to continue to increase troops?

After a day of confrontation, Huang Yao still didn't appear to be attacking, but set up a big camp outside the valley.

Sha Dingzhou was worried about the safety of the rear, fearing that the Mu family's property would not leave.He called some of his confidantes over and said, "The tiger will go out of the valley tonight to attack the camp. Achu, you lead five thousand troops and cross the mountain from the south to see if you can capture Yiliang again. If you can capture Yiliang, don't think about it." Defend the city and set fire to the enemy's food and grass in the city!"

The "rebels" in the Chuxiong Mansion acted too quickly and completely disrupted Sha Dingzhou's deployment. He knew that it was impossible to gain a foothold in Yunnan, so he had already made up his mind to lead troops to join Vietnam.

But before going south, the Datong army must be beaten, otherwise it will definitely be followed all the way.

That night, Iron Tiger led the local soldiers and warriors to attack the Datong barracks in the dark.They were discovered as soon as they approached. Hundreds of soldiers were killed and injured, and the iron tiger almost became a dead tiger.

The night attack failed, and Sha Dingzhou could only wait. Perhaps a surprise attack on Yiliang over the mountains could burn the food and grass of the Datong army.

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Zhao Mingzheng and Wang Feng led the troops day and night, bypassing Minghu Lake (Yang Zonghai) and headed straight for Kunming.

They rested in the mountains a few miles southeast of Kunming City, recovering their strength while waiting for dawn to steal the city.

However, something went wrong in the middle of the night.

In the evening, the Wan family received a summons from Sha Dingzhou, and immediately took people to ship the treasure of the Mu family.

Sha Dingzhou sent [-] soldiers back to escort them, but it was impossible for those soldiers to do things like moving the goods, and there were not enough vehicles to carry the goods.

Ever since, [-] chieftain soldiers were dispatched to arrest the people as husbands everywhere, and collected the livestock and vehicles in the whole city.

Although it was rude and unreasonable at the beginning, the chieftain soldiers were at least carrying out military orders.Gradually, it evolved into a large-scale robbery, and the chieftain soldiers began to burn, kill and loot the city of Kunming.

A large number of people in the city fled, and in the chaos, they even opened the city gate, because the guarding soldiers also went to rob.

"Head, I met some people down the mountain and said that Kunming is in chaos." The sentry who went down the mountain to inquire about the news came back with a few Han people.

Those people managed to escape from the city and were planning to take refuge in the mountains, but they were arrested on the way into the mountains.

Seeing Zhao Mingzheng now, everyone was so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy.

Zhao Mingzheng said: "Don't be afraid, folks, we are the Datong Army, specially here to wipe out Shadingzhou. What happened in Kunming?"

These common people couldn't answer this question. They still haven't figured out why the chieftain soldiers suddenly attacked the civilians.

But one thing is certain, the city of Kunming is in chaos, even the soldiers guarding the city gate have joined the ranks of looters, and the people in front of them ran out of the city gate taking advantage of the chaos.

"General, don't miss this opportunity, please send troops quickly!" Wang Feng was very excited when he heard that.

Zhao Mingzheng said: "The whole army set off immediately and rushed to Kunming as quickly as possible."

Three thousand Datong troops and two hundred Yunnan remnant soldiers seized the opportunity and went down the mountain overnight.When they were two li away from Kunming city, they saw flames in the city bursting into the sky. They didn't know whether it was the chieftain soldiers who set the fire or the gangsters in the city were taking advantage of the fire to loot.

Mu Family General Mansion.

A Han official was begging bitterly: "Mistress, there is chaos in the city, please send troops to suppress it!"

Wan Shi said with a smile: "If the soldiers don't let them have a good time, why are they willing to go with me? Anyway, we have to leave Kunming. Whether the city is chaotic or not has nothing to do with us. Don't worry, I will take people with me early tomorrow morning." It’s time to go to the south, and then you can post a notice to comfort the people.”

This woman is really a snake and a scorpion, and she doesn't take the life and death of the people seriously at all.

Chapter 588 [Death for money]

The Datong army and the remnant soldiers from Yunnan entered through the gate of the city taking advantage of the chaos, but they did not attract the attention of the defenders.

On the contrary, the fleeing people, seeing the soldiers entering the city, turned around and fled into the streets in fright.

Zhao Mingzheng ordered that a group of 50 people be dispersed throughout the city. .When you see someone burning, killing and looting, you don't need to ask for their identity, just kill them on the spot!

Zhao Mingzheng led 50 people by himself, and Wang Feng also led 50 people, heading straight for the Mu's mansion.

Soon they found a group of native soldiers, holding torches and smashing the door.The people living in it should be rich families, and they took their slaves to block the door, trying to prevent the soldiers from entering, and the soldiers got a ladder from nowhere and planned to climb over the wall.

"Kill them all!" Zhao Mingzheng ordered.

Wang Feng immediately pulled out his waist knife, led the soldiers under his command, and rushed towards the local soldiers in Shadingzhou.

His whole family was chopped off by Sha Dingzhou, and he bears a deep hatred, and now is the time for revenge.

Those soldiers, seeing the army coming, couldn't see clearly in the dark, and thought it was their own people.Immediately yelled in local dialect: "Don't come to rob, this household belongs to us, you go find another rich person!"

It wasn't until Wang Feng approached with a saber that the soldiers saw that something was wrong, and just as they were about to open their mouths to warn, a ray of saber light had already cut through.

Wang Feng didn't stop after the murder, and rushed to the second soldier in the blink of an eye.The soldier raised his spear to stab him, but Wang Feng blocked it with a wrong step. The edge of the knife pressed down along the shaft of the spear and cut off the enemy's thumb.

"what……"

As soon as the soldiers had time to scream, Wang Feng had already raised his knife and cut the enemy's throat quickly and accurately.

Nope, the battle is over.

The rest of the native soldiers were all dealt with by the Datong Army, and they had no resistance under the surprise attack.

When Zhao Mingzheng and Wang Feng left with their troops, the family still hadn't reacted.The master took the servants, stepped on the ladder, climbed to the top of the wall, and watched quietly for a long time before he was sure that they were really safe.

"Father, a group of soldiers came and killed the chieftain soldiers. After killing them, they left. I don't know where they went." The middle-aged man at the top of the wall shouted at the old man inside the wall.

The old man bowed to the sky, and folded his palms together: "Amitabha, God bless you. My Ye family has done good deeds for generations, and it must be the sinful virtues accumulated by our ancestors, which moved the Jade Emperor to send heavenly soldiers and heavenly futures to rescue him."

Such battles were quickly staged throughout the city.

Thousands of chieftain soldiers lost their organizational system due to robbery, and they were basically in a group of more than a dozen people-too many people is not beautiful, and disputes will inevitably arise when dividing the spoils.

The Datong army, which consisted of 50 people, encountered a group of chieftain soldiers with a few or a dozen people, and the casualties were negligible under night raids.

"The Han army has entered the city!"

Finally, some fish that slipped through the net ran so fast that they were not killed, shouting and rushing all the way to report the news.

It is easy to throw out soldiers, but difficult to get them back, not to mention that it is still at night.

This kind of shouting and warning, not only failed to make the chieftain soldiers gather to resist, but also caused the chieftain soldiers to flee before encountering the enemy.

The chieftain soldiers along the way heard that Han soldiers had entered the city, but they didn't ask where the Han soldiers were from.They carried large and small bags, all of which were looted goods, and subconsciously fled towards the nearest city gate.

"The reinforcements are here, Erlang Han, follow me to kill the thieves!"

A young man in a Confucian shirt led a few house slaves to fight out. Many people with broken families picked up sticks out of hatred and joined the hunt.

After chasing and killing two streets, hundreds of people gathered around the boy.

"It's right in front, don't let them run away!" a house slave shouted.

But it was a few chieftain soldiers who were chased and killed by angry people, and they were reluctant to throw away their belongings.

He was so desperate for money that he was quickly caught up and beaten to death by the people.

"my money!"

"Don't grab it, it's my money!"

The people who had been working together just now became confused in an instant, rushing to grab the property left behind by the chieftain soldier after his death.

The young man scolded angrily: "You don't continue to chase the enemy, but you fight with each other here. Are you worthy of your dead relatives? You are a hero, so follow me to kill the enemy...Kill!"

The boy ran for a while, and when he looked back, there were only two house slaves left beside him.

Not to mention the common people, even his own domestic slaves, several of them robbed money there.

The young man was so angry that he stomped his feet, but he had no choice but to take two loyal house slaves with him, and the three of them continued to chase and kill the chieftain soldiers.

"Good boy, I'll help you!" Another young man followed, about 20 years old.

The young man said as he ran, "I am Yang Zhenxian, whose name is Rulin."

The young man said: "Chen Zuocai, whose name is Uncle Ji."

The boy did not leave a name in history, and he probably died in the chaos of war.

The young man is somewhat famous, he first voted for Mu Tianbo, and then for Li Dingguo.After the fall of the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Chen Zuocai still kept his hair and beard, and lived in seclusion in the mountains. He always wore a bamboo hat and rode a donkey when he went out, to show that he was inseparable from the Qing Dynasty and would never step on the land of the Qing Dynasty for life.