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Qianlongzhai is also in the valley.

There was a lot of fighting here in Guangxi, but there were basically no major battles, and the mountains were encircled and suppressed all year round.

Those civilian officials in the Ministry of War didn't know to look at the terrain by themselves.All day long, I only know how to urge and urge, and say that I will win the whole territory of Guangxi this year.Damn it, the rest of the land is all mountain roads, it would be hell if it could be done this year.

Chapter 481 [Wonderful General]

Going around, the four divisions in Sichuan and Guangxi went back to the way of the rattan armored soldiers.

Each division trains 3000 rattan armor soldiers, equipped with the weapons of Shi Jiebai soldiers.Of course, just learning from the style of the white gun, the specific material is definitely better than the white gun.

Qin Liangyu's Shijie chieftain was very poor, and if he wanted to equip soldiers on a large scale, he could only use the cheapest weapon materials.

Today, in the mountain camps of the Datong Army in Sichuan and Guangxi, the cost of one long gun is roughly equivalent to six white guns.Both wood and iron materials are of higher quality, but the iron hook design at the head and tail of the white gun is retained.

Send dozens of vigorous soldiers to climb, the spears are connected to each other, and the ropes are not needed, so they can climb up with the spears all the way.

In addition, rattan armor is impenetrable by water and fire, and can float when crossing a river.

With such a combination of weapons and armor, it is very suitable for fighting in the southwest region.

Guangxi not only has many mountains, but also many caves.

Especially those karst caves, warm in winter and cool in summer, with abundant water sources, are very easy to hide soldiers.As long as you prepare food in advance, you can hide in the mountains for a year, let alone go to the mountains to conquer, and you can't even find it.

In the mountains to the west of Xinningzhou City, Cen Cha led his troops to hide in the cave.

The mood of the soldiers was not very high, and all of them were frowning.They don't want to work for Dongzhu anymore, because they have already heard that the Datong army will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and will also distribute land to ordinary people.

Regardless of the Zhuang and Yao people, they can share the land!

A spies from the soldiers ran into the cave, walked up to Cen Cha, and said in a low voice, "There is news from the foot of the mountain that the Han army captured Qianlongzhai a few days ago. There are also a large number of Han troops in Xinningzhou City, but they haven't reported yet." Send troops to the mountains here."

Cen Cha breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Go and investigate again. Once the Han army enters the mountain, come back and tell us immediately. Let's find a good place to set up an ambush."

"Yes!" The spies of the soldiers left immediately.

Cen Cha glanced at the soldiers under his command and felt that he should say something.He walked to the middle of the cave, and he was groping in the dark when he opened his mouth: "Everyone knows what the government of the Han people and the army of the Han people are like. As long as we children are disobedient, we will be slaughtered at every turn. Even if we children are obedient, we will suffer. The Han officials exploited. This Guangxi is the Guangxi of our children, and the Han people cannot be tolerated. Although the firearms of the Han people are powerful, they are like lost lambs in the mountains, and they will definitely not win."

This set of rhetoric has been said countless times, but it has not aroused any positive reaction.

Cen Cha continued: "Don't think about surrendering. Even if you surrender, the Han people will kill us all and take away our wives and children as slaves..."

"Master..." A soldier couldn't help but interrupt, "I heard that the Han army gave the soldiers all the land. If we can win the Han army, can we also share the land? Can we keep some more of the food we have produced?"

Cen Cha was furious: "That's a lie, it's a lie made by the Han army! Don't you know how virtuous the Han people are? Even if the land is divided this year, it will be taken back in a few years. Even if the tax is not heavy this year , It will change back to the old way in a few years. Some of you have fields to cultivate in your homes, why are you still thinking about dividing the fields?"

The soldiers didn't dare to speak anymore, but they were all slanderous, thinking that the master was not as good as a Han official.

At the same time, they did not trust the Han officials, because the Ming officials left too many bad impressions on them.

The Han officials will deliberately exploit and oppress them, and will provoke their relationship with the Yao people, and then let the soldiers and the Yao people fight, and the Han officials will be happy if they lose both.When there was no war, the Zhuang and Yao people were forced to serve. The forced conscription alone forced Zhuang Yao to rebel several times.

After Zhuang Yao rebelled, Han officials would recruit other soldiers to suppress these rebellious people.

Anyway, it is to let the ethnic minorities fight each other. After the suppression, the villages are often slaughtered, some land is allocated to the meritorious soldiers, and most of the land is privately swallowed by the Han officials.

Of course, there are also Zhuang officials who are playing tricks, because the leaders of the soldiers can also gain benefits through conquests - they are equivalent to Ming's mercenaries.

These low-level soldiers and soldiers hide in the caves and live their lives.They miss their families, and they don't know why they are fighting, and they have already collectively fallen into a diffuse state.

"Boom!"

After nightfall, there was lightning and thunder outside the cave, and the soldiers all put on blankets.

Cen Cha was also very anxious, he was just a lord before, and he took advantage of the chaos in Daming to make trouble.As the Datong army pressed forward step by step, many forces like him gradually huddled together to keep warm and defend against the enemy together.

Among them, there are also the Han landlord forces, who are unwilling to lose their land and power.

Over the past few years, the local coalition forces in Guangxi have been defeated many times, and have been beaten into a mess by the Datong Army.Since two years ago, the local army has not dared to fight head-on. When they encounter the Datong army, they will abandon the city and flee, hiding in the mountains to play hide-and-seek with the Datong army.

They didn't expect to win, they just wanted to wear down the patience of the Datong army, and surrendered on the condition of being named chieftain.

In the eyes of people like Cen Cha, when the dynasty changes, it is normal to surrender and become a chieftain.

Da Yuan was so powerful, and Da Ming was so powerful, and when they pacified the southwest, they didn't kill them all.As long as you are willing to submit and surrender, you can get the position of chieftain and become a local emperor who owns a piece of land.

But these Datong troops not only refused to serve as chieftains, but also took away their land and distributed it to the bottom-level peasants of all ethnic groups. Why should they be allowed to surrender?

A few days later, the spies of the Cu soldiers came back and reported: "The Han army is about to enter the mountain!"

Cen Cha immediately walked out of the cave in person, led elite soldiers to investigate the enemy's situation, and then chose the location of the ambush.He wants to beat the Datong army in one battle, and then ask for surrender, and ask for a chieftain to do it.

On the other side of the mountain, the Sanqian Datong Mountain Camp is also hiding in the cave.

A soldier dressed as a soldier ran into the cave quickly: "General Chi, General Qin, the bandits have appeared, and they have found their hiding place!"

"Night attack tonight!" Chi Huchen stood up and said.

The mountain battalion of the No.13 Division is actually composed of two regiments.And the leading general, Chi Huchen, is the major general brigade commander.Lieutenant General Qin Gongming's position is the head of the colonel.

With Chi Huchen's qualifications, he is actually qualified to be a teacher!

He was originally a soldier of Zhu Xieyuan, governor of Jiangxi, and then became a soldier of Zhao Han. Finally, with two thousand Tengjia troops, he followed Zhang Tieniu to Hunan and fought all the way from Hunan to Guangdong.

Moreover, Chi Huchen served as a soldier under Huang Yao, and his rattan armor soldiers were reorganized by Huang Yao.

It can be seen from the "Major General Brigadier Commander" that Chi Huchen must have serious flaws.He has made countless meritorious deeds and made many mistakes. His educational level is not as good as that of elementary school students, and he is simply unwilling to learn to read.

As for Qin Gongming, he was Qin Liangyu's nephew. He had been the deputy commander of Ming Dynasty as early as the Tianqi period, and he was almost 50 years old now.

He was transferred to Guangxi to teach the white-armed soldiers the mountain warfare.In the battle of the surprise attack on Chengdu, he was also a deputy general, and he led the white soldiers across the mountains and ridges, driving directly outside the city of Chengdu like a divine soldier descending from heaven.

Chi Huchen and Qin Gongming led their troops around the mountain and climbed the mountain wall from the opposite direction.

I saw dozens of mountain soldiers, took off their rattan armor and shoes, and climbed the cliff like apes.When they found a stable tree on the mountainside, they tied up the spears, and then connected the guns to the end, extending all the way down the mountain.The rest of the soldiers climbed along the spear at night, not paying attention to the cliff at all.

In a blink of an eye, 3000 people climbed the mountain successfully, and none of them stumbled and fell.

Cencha's thousands of soldiers and Yao soldiers went to set up ambush points during the day, and carried rolling stones, rolling logs and the like.Since the main force of the Datong army was still at the foot of the mountain and did not really enter the mountain, they returned to the cave to rest at night.

Unprepared!

Because their hiding place was very secretive, they never expected it to be exposed, let alone the Datong Army.

Even the soldiers in charge of sentry were dozing off one by one.

After killing several sentries one after another, until a distance of several feet outside the cave, a sentry sentry finally woke up, and hurriedly picked up the bamboo whistle and blew it wildly.

Thousands of soldiers in the cave are very crowded, not to mention there are food and supplies, so ordinary soldiers did not bring their families.

Cen Cha brought his family and was sleeping with his concubine in his arms.

Hearing the whistle, Cen Cha hurriedly got up, and there were already shouts of killing outside the cave.

Cen Cha picked up his weapon and shouted: "Kill the thief, kill the thief, get out!"

These soldiers are really fierce. Although their morale is low and pervasive, they actually rush out to kill the enemy when they encounter a night attack.

However, Cen Cha planned to escape, the karst cave extended in all directions, and there was still a way out of the mountain if he went inside.He took his wife, concubine and children, and ran in the opposite direction in a panic. Because he didn't light a torch, he fell several times in a row.The wives and concubines were even more embarrassed. One of the concubines could not run with her legs sprained, so she was directly abandoned there by Cen Cha.

"Surrender without killing!"

As the main general of the night attack, Chi Huchen was simply incompetent.After he stabbed the sentinel to death, he rushed fast alone, with only a dozen people around him, and the rest of the troops were left behind.

Instead, Deputy General Qin Gongming was in charge of organizing the attack.

Fortunately, although the soldiers were brave, they were attacked at night after all, and there was no organization at all.Relying entirely on blood and bravery, they rushed towards the entrance of the cave in a mess, and they couldn't figure out the situation.

Chi Huchen led a dozen of his men and rushed into the cave first, and stabbed at the enemy when he saw them, knocking over several in a row.

He is also a standard military marksmanship, not good-looking, but practical, and he only knows the most basic moves.However, Chi Huchen's marksmanship is far more powerful than Wu Yong's, and his strength is even more incomparable.

More and more soldiers came rushing over, Chi Huchen was not afraid, and continued to charge in rattan armor, and finally entered the pile of soldiers alone.

"The Lord is gone, the Lord is gone!"

Inside the karst cave, the desperate cries of the soldiers could be heard.

The soldiers who were fighting bravely finally began to lose their morale, and they knelt down and begged for surrender.

Chi Huchen, who shouted "surrender" all the way and did not kill, killed several surrendered soldiers in succession.He didn't continue to charge until he was sure that the enemy had really surrendered. As the chief general, he wanted to chase the fleeing enemy general alone.

Then, the thing got lost.

Because the karst cave is like a maze, there are no torches in the twists and turns, so I don't know where to go around.Even with torches, there is a high chance of getting lost.

It was not until five days later that Chi Huchen was found. The general was starving to death.

Looking at the dying Chi Huchen, Qin Gongming didn't know what to say, so he turned around and urged, "Hurry up and get some food!"

Chapter 482 [Single-out before the formation]

In history, when the Qing army went south, Guangxi also launched a vigorous anti-Qing movement.

As far as Han gentry are concerned, they are mainly concentrated in northern Guangxi.

In the fourth year of Tianqi's promotion of Li Yingpin, he first dispersed his family wealth to recruit soldiers, and went to Hunan to fight against Li Zicheng's remnants.In the face of the Qing army's attack, the central and northern parts of Guangxi were completely lost, but Li Yingpin was still able to stand firm in the northeastern part of Guangxi.

The reason why Li Dingguo was able to regain Guilin and forced Kong Youde to be defeated and self-immolated, Li Yingpin contributed a lot.First, Li Yingpin restrained the main force of the Qing army, leaving Guilin empty of troops; second, Li Yingpin notified Li Dingguo, suggesting that Li Dingguo seize the opportunity to attack Guilin.

It's a pity that when the Qing army counterattacked, Li Dingguo was forced to withdraw, and Li Yingpin fought alone again.

The base area laid down by Li Yingpin was surrounded by the Qing army from three directions, and wherever they passed, "they killed everyone, regardless of age."

Li Yingpin was defeated and fled without a trace.The three sons obeyed their father's order and remained in the Qing Dynasty for life.

In this time and space, when the Datong army invaded the northeast of Guangxi, Li Yingpin also recruited troops to resist.But there was no battle after the recruitment. Li Yinpin was said to surrender by his former classmates, and he also helped the Datong Army to recruit and surrender the entire Lingchuan County Township Army to train troops.

Today, Li Yingpin has been transferred to Sichuan and is serving as the magistrate of Longchang County.

Under the persuasion of Li Yingpin, Chen Jingyou, a talented scholar whose whole family fought against the Qing Dynasty, chose to lead his troops to surrender to the Datong Army. He is currently serving as the county magistrate in Liucheng, Guangxi.

The two brothers Zhu Shengnong and Zhu Shengtian from the clan of the Ming Dynasty fought against the Qing Dynasty for ten years, cooperated with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo in the battle, and won the loyalty of a large number of Zhuang and Yao forces.And in this time and space, they were respected as co-lords by the Guangxi resistance forces, and they formed a coalition army to block the advance of the Datong army.

After two defeats in a row, Liao Mingyue, the leader of the Yao tribe, joined the Datong army with his entire clan. Brothers Zhu Shengnong and Zhu Shengtian were disheartened.

Just last fall, the two secretly contacted Liu Xinyu, and Liu Xinyu reported it to the Ministry of War and received Zhao Han's personal approval: Since the Zhu brothers did not do any evil, and they were only the nominal leaders of the Guangxi coalition forces, their surrender can be counted as meritorious service.After the surrender, if you want to be a civil servant, you must first go to Nanjing to study for three months, at least you can start as a county magistrate.

The Zhu brothers immediately surrendered and arrived in Nanjing at the end of spring this year, turning the Guangxi coalition forces into a mess.That's why the Ministry of War ordered to win the whole of Guangxi within this year!

Zhu Minru, a martial artist, surrendered in the winter of the previous year.

After this person was admitted to the martial arts examination, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty conferred the post of General Manager.But he didn't catch the real shortage, and it is estimated that the money was not enough, so let him go back to his hometown and wait slowly.

Historically, Zhu Minru spent all his wealth to recruit soldiers and had the strongest cavalry unit among the Guangxi Rebel Army.He has repeatedly made military exploits, and he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, and he was given the seal of General Zhenxi.When the Qing army broke through the city, Zhu Minru killed his wife and children, burned the seal, took off his armor, put on a virtuous crown and a big crimson robe, and committed suicide by slaying himself in the direction of the Nanjing court.

This year, with the expansion of the Guangxi Datong Army, Zhu Minru has been promoted to the head of the cavalry regiment. When he surrendered, he not only disbanded more than 3000 troops, but also donated more than 800 southwest war horses.

Zhao Han attached great importance to this. Although he took away [-]% of the Zhu family's property, he gave him an iron mining license and allowed his family to operate a salt shop in Lingui County.

Anding Town.

This town is located on the north bank of the Nijiang River (Hongshui River), which is twenty miles south of the later Du'an Yao Autonomous County.

The leader of the Yao nationality occupies a radius of hundreds of miles, and takes Anding Town as the core of rule, and builds a wooden city wall outside the town.

Zhu Minru, as the vanguard of the Guangxi North Route Army, led the cavalry along the river.He didn't set up camp at all, and ran out of the town single-handedly, shouting loudly: "Surrender quickly, or this place will be flattened!"

The missionary officer Shi Kehuai also rode up to follow, and led a group of missionary officers, shouting in Chinese and local Yao dialect: "All the people in the town listen, Your Majesty the Emperor of Datong, please marry the Yao Pan Niangniang as your concubine. Han, Yao They are both brothers and in-laws. In Anding Town, there are Han people and Yao people. As long as you put down your weapons and surrender, you will celebrate the festival before and forget the past. Go to the Yao elder Liao Ande and tell him that Liao Mingyue, the elder of the Yao nationality, has surrendered. Can the little leader of the Yao tribe still withstand the advance of the Datong army?"

Not long after, Yao Lao Liao Ande appeared in person: "If I surrender, I don't want to be a chieftain, but my land is not allowed to be taken away, and it is not enough to take away my soldiers and slaves!"

The Yao people not only have a variety of languages, but also their systems.

Ba Pai Yao, who was born as Pan Qimei, implements a democratic election system.The Yao people here belong to the dictatorship, and there is still slavery.

Zhu Minru was furious immediately: "You don't know what's good and what's wrong, you've occupied Anding Town presumptuously, and even captured the Han people as slaves. It's a great kindness for you to surrender, but you still want to keep the soldiers and slaves! Hu Zun Pull out the cannon and immediately attack the city!"

The Datong Army in Sichuan and Guangxi not only has mountain troops, but also has cavalry equipped with tiger squatting guns.

The tiger squat gun belongs to the original mortar, the gun body is very light, and it mainly uses curved fire, which is very suitable for fighting in mountains and forests.

That is, the range is very short, and the effective range is less than 500 meters.

The tiger squatting cannon was slowly carried to the outside of the town, and the missionary officer continued to shout: "Brothers of the Han and Yao nationalities, the Datong Army is for the poor. You work hard for the old Yao. Life and death are unpredictable, and you can get it in exchange." What? As long as you surrender to the Datong army, households will be divided into fields immediately, there will be no heavy corvee, and there will be no excessive taxes. This year, Liuzhou has a bumper harvest, and every household is well fed... I don’t want you to defect, Datong’s heavenly soldiers break through the wooden wall, just put down your weapons. Just put down For weapons, you can kneel or squat, and the Datong Army promises not to kill the surrendered soldiers!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The tiger squatting gun was pulled to a distance of 300 meters, aimed at the wooden wall and started firing continuously.

This place belongs to the jurisdiction of Sien Mansion, and there are only two cities in the entire Sien Mansion.One is Si'en Fucheng, and the other is Wuyuan (Wuming) County. There are only two prefectures in the city, but the real control area is very large. One can imagine how remote and backward it is.

They have no artillery, let alone firecrackers, and the only long-range weapons are homemade clay bows and javelins.