Wanli Xinming

Chapter 172

Although the Yao people have become a problem for the stability of Guangdong and Guangxi, they have never been a disease of the imperial court because of their loose organization.Living in the mountains, there are thousands of stockades, and there are spontaneous mutual aid organizations such as "Bayin" and "Youguo" in the stockades. The elderly in each house are democratically elected - well, it is not surprising that the organizational skills are low.

According to the legend of the ancestors of the Yao people, it is the "Juli" branch in the east.During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Yao people lived in most of Hunan and were called "Wuling Man"; in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most Yao people lived in Hengyang and Lingling, and they were called "Mo Li Man". In the Yuan Dynasty, most of the Yao people entered the hinterland of Guangdong and Guangxi; in the middle and late Ming Dynasty , moved into the mountainous areas of Guangdong and Guangxi and some areas of Yunnan - the essence of this migration is that the Yao people's productivity has not been effectively developed, and the living space has been squeezed by the Han people.

The largest rebellion against the ruler in the history of the Yao nationality was the Great Uprising of the Yao People in Dayengxia, Guangxi. It began in the fourth year of Hongwu and lasted for more than 100 years. The number of soldiers exceeded 20. By the Tianshun period, it had spread to Gaozhou, Lianzhou, and Leizhou, and threatened Guangzhou, shaking the Ming court.

Chenghua Quan's eunuch Wang Zhi and Xiaozong's biological mother, Empress Xiaomuji, were both from Datangxia and entered the palace as prisoners.Therefore, Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty both had the blood of some Yao people.

The large-scale Yao uprising in Guangdong at the beginning of the fifth year of Wanli was actually the result of the unprecedented intensification of ethnic conflicts among the Yao, Zhuang, Dong and other ethnic minorities in the southwestern part of the empire.Because the Ming court has always adopted the rule of high pressure and repression against the barbarians in the southwest, this kind of uprising has hardly been interrupted since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but it has only been big and small.

Only from the six years before Zhu Yijun crossed over: in the early years of Longqing, the Zhuang uprising in Gutian followed closely by the Yaomin uprising in Fujiang; in the first year of Wanli, there was another uprising in which the Dong and Zhuang nationalities united in Huaiyuan; in the third year of Wanli, Luo Pang The Yao people in the mountains have already killed officials and rebelled—this time, it was the biggest one since the Dateng Gorge Uprising.

On the [-]th day of the fifth month of the fifth month of Wanli, that is, the day Ling Yunyi and Liu Xian took the new army to Xinyi, the battle of Luo Pang had already begun.

Zhang Yuanyi, the commander of Guangdong, commanded six sentries, namely Luopan, Takishui, and Cenxi; and Li Xi, commander of Guangxi, commanded the remaining four sentries, including Deqing and Nanxiang.

In addition, in order to prevent the Yao people from crossing the north, Ling Yunyi fortified [-] troops along the river in Deqing, and set up [-] troops in Guangxi to prevent the Yao people from running west.

In the original time and space, the battle of Luopan was officially launched in the first month of the fifth year of Wanli. It lasted for four months and ended just in time to avoid the rainy season. Ling Yunyi took the initiative to choose to go out. And looting the county treasury—Ling Yunyi was able to take revenge and go back in May, which was already extremely efficient.

In the face of the behavior of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi who only talked about politics and not military science, Chen Lin and the two generals tried to persuade them.To advance in May, unless you can play "Eagle Suppression" - that is, when the information is clear, the army will come in and out suddenly, like an eagle fighting a rabbit.Otherwise, once the mountains enter the rainy season, flash floods and diseases that break out at any time may wipe out the army.

However, the looting of Gaoyao County had driven Ling Yunyi to a dead end.Gao Yao is not far from Zhaoqing, the Yao people are equivalent to slapped the court under the eyes of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. If Ling Yunyi does not immediately annihilate them, the position of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is not stable, and he is likely to be convicted.

Therefore, different from the steady and steady deployment of the original time and space, although the plan used in this encirclement and suppression was formulated long ago by Yin Zhengmao and Ling Yunyi, the advance speed of Ling Yunyi is extremely high-a lot of time and space in the original plan was redundant. The remainder is compressed to the extreme.

Any military operation that engages in this method cannot go smoothly-Zhang Bin, a general under the command of Li Xi in Guangxi, led an army of 50, entered Luopang from the direction of Nanxiang, and was responsible for capturing more than [-] villages including Aoshan Yaozhai.The initial stage was very smooth, and the Yao people never expected that the officers and soldiers would attack the village before the Zuniang Festival—they were killing chickens and geese for the festival.

When Zhang Bin led his army to attack Aoshan and other villages, they captured and beheaded more than 2 Yao people.However, when we went deep into Luobang, when we attacked Huangjiangdong, we encountered a heavy rain.Huangjiangdong is close to the stronghold of Luo Pang Yao people, and its eldest son, He Zhuangzi, has a high prestige in the surrounding villages, so more than [-] troops were gathered, and Mao Yu and Zhang Bin's men fought desperately.

Although the Yao people have little armor and little iron.But the desperate spirit in his heart was much higher than that of the official army, and the Ming army could not fire firearms in the heavy rain, and the vision was not good. In the end, the two sides fought without rules, like two groups of people fighting with weapons. .The advantages of the army and armor were not brought into full play, and they were beaten and retreated. When the rain stopped, Zhang Bin's group had already been surrounded by a mountain near Huangjiangdong.

When Zhang Bin was in retreat, he urgently dispatched messengers to the rear to ask Li Xi for support.Li Xi received the report, worrying about losing a lot of hair - all the troops and horses were attacked according to Ling Yunyi's plan, and he had less than [-] reserves in his hand, how could he rescue Zhang Bin?

When he was at a loss, Ling Yunyi and Liu Xian led the army to Xinyi, and Li Xi quickly pushed the matter of Zhang Bin being surrounded in Huangjiangdong to Ling Yunyi.Ling Yunyi had received the report long ago, and was so scared that he was sweating, so he hurried on the road - if Zhang Bin was wiped out, he would have killed all the Yao people in Luo Pang, or he would have been ordered by the capital to go to prison.

In a hurry, Ling Yunyi will change the original plan. Instead of attacking Xishan Datong, the core of Luopan, he will send Chen Lin to lead the soldiers to attack Huangjiangtong first, and then rescue Zhang Bin first.

Liu Xian dissuaded him: "The rainy season is coming soon, and before the end of June at the latest, all the ministries must complete the invasion and withdrawal of troops. The Datong Mountain in Xishan is high and the road is dangerous, and there are many Yao thieves. It must be the main force of General Chen - this Huangjiangtong, give it to New army."

Ling Yunyi immediately took Liu Xian's hand and said, "My servant called Liu Shuai a big brother! I am fortunate. If there is no new force from the big brother, I have to be sloppy this time!" It's gone!"

So Liu Xian and Ling Yunyi sat in Xinyi and sent Deng Zilong to lead a new army of [-] to attack Luopan from the route that Zhang Bin had already cleared.Tong Chizhong's horse team had to go to Yunnan to be re-formed, so more than a thousand people led by him were left in the headquarters led by Liu Xian, and then trained in mountain combat.

Deng Zilong led the troops under the leadership of the local guide, and finally entered Huangjiangdong [press: Yunfu City, Guangdong] on the tenth day of June.When he entered Huangjiangdong, Zhang Bin had been surrounded for nearly nine days. Fortunately, the food and grass he brought with him when he retreated was not lost—the mountain was covered with a lot of grass roots and bark, and the entire army had not collapsed.

　In an hour, maybe there might be another chapter.

　　
　
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