Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 169 Annihilation of She Chongming

"Boom!"

In the twelfth lunar month, muffled thunder sounded in the southwestern land, and with the firing of artillery, a city located among the mountains and hills was being violently attacked by artillery.

Looking around, the city has been surrounded by the Ming army like a red tide, and the people in the city are the chief culprits who set off the She'an Rebellion, She Chongming.

At this moment, he is in a panic, and only this Yongning Acropolis is left in the huge Yongning Xuanfu Department.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Xieyuan, governor of the five provinces, ordered the siege of Yongning to wipe out the rebels.

On the same day, Du Wenhuan and Cao Wenzhao met at the Weihui in Luzhou. Under the command of Cao Wenzhao, the [-] cavalry of the Duogan Camp defended Zang, with the officials of the Siyi Pavilion as interpreters, advancing as the vanguard of the army.

To the northeast, Wu Aheng led troops to attack Shizhai on the northeast mountain range of Yongningwei.

To the southwest, Yang Wenyue led [-] troops and continued to besiege the Taiping Division with [-] rebels.

In the south direction, Sun Chuanting arrived at Mani, left [-] soldiers to garrison Mani, commanded [-] infantry, and [-] cavalry went to Pushi to garrison, and successfully repelled the siege of more than [-] rebels from Fan Long.

Dongfang Hong Chengchou left [-] people to garrison Erlangba, commanded [-] troops to cross the river, and marched towards Linzhou City.

At this time, the strength ratio between the Ming army and the rebel army was 27200 to 25700.

Such a small difference in troop strength, if it was Nurhachi, he would definitely stick to the Yongningwei Sifang Stone Fortress, and then send people to support Fan Hu in Linzhou City, seeking to defeat Hong Chengchou, who is far away from the other three sides of the Ming army, and then detour Cut off the Ming army food road.

But She Chongming did not have the general talent of Nurhachi. He chose the most stupid way, which was to stick to it and wait for the support of An Bangyan and Song Wanhua.

Such stupidity gave Zhu Xieyuan time to integrate the army and the Ming army to capture Yongning.

On the morning of the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Du Wenhuan set up more than [-] cannons, large and small, and shelled Shangkan Fort.

Shangkan Fort, where only [-] people were stationed, was breached that afternoon. Cao Wenzhao led the Duogan Battalion to ascend first, and cut down the rebel defense of Shangkan Fort.

The northwest was broken, and the Ming army with nearly [-] main and auxiliary soldiers approached Yongningwei. She Chongming was terrified and ordered Fan Long, who was in Pushi, to attack and return to the defense.

Sun Chuanting seized the time when Fan Long returned to the defense, went out of the city to pursue and pursued, and gained a lot. After Fan Long left [-] men to garrison the land ridge, he hurriedly led his troops back to defend Yongning.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Du Wenhuan and Cao Wenzhao led troops to Yongningwei. She Chongming, whose total strength exceeded [-], chose to stick to the city, and Du Wenhuan ordered artillery to attack the city.

Four hundred cannons of different sizes continued to fire, bombarding for three days in a row, but they couldn't take it because they didn't have enough powerful cannons.

Seeing that the gunpowder was about to run out, Du Wenhuan wrote to ask for help. Zhu Xieyuan, who was at Shihuguan that night, immediately led two thousand soldiers and ten thousand civilians to transport grain, grass, stone bombs, and gunpowder to Yongningwei.

On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Taiping Division, which was attacked by Yang Wenyue for seven days, fell. All [-] rebels in the city were killed, and more than [-] stones of grain and grass, and more than [-] taels of silver were seized.

According to the amount of food and grass in the Taiping Department, Yang Wenyue judged that the rebel army was short of food and fodder, so he wrote to Zhu Xieyuan.

Zhu Xieyuan, who rushed to Yongningwei, heard the news and immediately ordered Yang Wenyue to go to the land ridge to attack the city, and ordered Sun Chuanting to leave the pass to attack the land ridge.

At noon on the same day, Fan Hu led [-] troops out of the city and confronted Hong Chengchou on the south bank of the Gulin River. Defeat Fan Hu.

Fan Hu led the remnant soldiers back to Linzhou City. Hong Chengchou's troops beheaded [-] people and captured [-] people, not counting the confiscated luggage.

After the war, Hong Chengchou ordered his troops to behead all the prisoners. From this, he won [-] beheads in the first battle, which was the first achievement in the battle of Yongning.

Hong Chengchou sent people to besiege the city with the method of besieging three and missing one, but there was no Ximen who could escape.

At the same time, he ordered people to attack the city with artillery, and passed the good news to Zhu Xieyuan.

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Aheng successfully captured Shizhai with twelve cannons in his army and beheaded [-] people. As a result, the northern and western gates of Yongningwei fell completely.

In the afternoon, Wu Aheng led [-] soldiers and horses to Yongningwei after the battle. The number of Ming army soldiers on the periphery of Yongningwei reached more than [-], more than [-] auxiliary soldiers, and a total of [-] artillery pieces.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan, who learned of Hong Chengchou's great victory, did not rush to attack the city, but continued to let people bombard Yongning Acropolis with artillery.

The timing came when Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue captured the southern gate of Yongningwei on the morning of the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month. On the [-]th, they joined forces with Zhu Xieyuan at Yongningweicheng.

At this time, the strength of the Ming army in Yongning Weicheng reached [-], the auxiliary soldiers were [-], and the artillery of the generals and Franji reached [-].

It was night, Zhu Xieyuan issued a general attack, and the Ming army also began to use various siege equipment and artillery such as Lugong chariots, ladders, and crash carts to attack the camps outside the four city gates.

Before early morning, the fortress of Yongning Weicheng was broken, and the rebels withdrew to Yongning Weicheng. Zhu Xieyuan ordered to rest for an hour, and then launched an attack again in the early morning!

"Boom!"

More than [-] cannons fired in unison, and the entire Yongning Acropolis was shrouded in the dark clouds of war.

The moat was filled up, and the crimson Ming army came pushing all kinds of siege equipment, while the defensive equipment at the top of the city had been smashed by artillery.

War has returned to its original nature and has become a game between people.

"kill!"

clang……

At the head of Yongning Guard City, accompanied by a roar, Cao Wenzhao, who was fighting bloody battle, rushed to kill at the head of the city. Behind him, soldiers of Wei Zang, dressed in brand-new cloth armor of the Ming army, with high eyes, deep nose and dark skin, poured out from the Lu public car. .

At the top of the city at this moment, with the first boarding of the Tibetan guards from the Duogan camp, a hole was torn open in the originally solid city defense.

When a hole appears, it is not so easy to block it.

Fan Long, who led the supervising team, came from the city road. Seeing this, Cao Wenzhao rushed to Fan Long immediately.

The Zang soldiers in the Duogan camp did not understand Chinese, but they could understand the behavior of the general.

Seeing Cao Wenzhao charging, they also rushed and fought, and soon the two sides fought on the two-foot-wide city road.

This scene was seen by Zhu Xieyuan, who was in charge of the city, and immediately ordered: "Order all the troops in front to increase their offensive, and the city wall at the west end has been breached."

"Yes!" Du Wenhuan, who was not tall beside him, immediately looked at the messenger cavalry when he heard the words.

The cavalry rode away, ran to the front of the drum chariot formation, and immediately ordered to change the sound of the drums.

"Boom...boom...boom! Boom! Boom!"

In an instant, the melodious and long drumbeat turned into a rapid shower like a calm sunny day, instantly letting all the soldiers and horses know the progress of the battle.

Three hundred paces away from the city wall in the northern part of the western section, Sun Chuanting, who was wearing armor, was holding the long sword at his waist tightly. When he heard the sound of the drum change, he immediately drew his sword and said:
"The rebel army is exhausted, follow the governor to kill!"

After all, as a civil servant, Sun Chuanting actually led the supervising team to keep up with the siege team.

Tall, he was very conspicuous in the crowd, but at this time the defenders of the city wall were all attracted by Cao Wenzhao, and Sun Chuanting led the troops to the top of the city immediately.

They tore open the weak opening, and the tall Sun Chuanting was not a paper tiger. He put his long sword back into its sheath, took the long-handled pumpkin hammer from others, and immediately led the Bijie soldiers under his command to fight.

At this time, the surrounding rebels also rushed over. After all, in their eyes, the soldiers of the Ming army were very powerful in firearms, but not necessarily strong in hand-to-hand combat, so they always had a mentality of underestimating them.

But it was only after they went up that they realized that the soldiers of the Ming army were strong in hand-to-hand combat, and the Yi soldiers who were considered by She Chongming to be brave in the southwest, with the cooperation of the Bijie soldiers, were constantly repelled, and there were rebels every second. The sergeant screamed and fell to the ground.

Sun Chuanting, who couldn't reach the rebels with the pumpkin hammer, was in a hurry, grabbed the spears of the soldiers next to him, and squeezed behind the sword players in the front row.

He is very tall, so he has an advantage when using a long spear to stab. Under the protection of the sword player, he has already stabbed to death five or six rebel soldiers in a short time.

The long knives held by those soldiers seemed like a joke to Sun Chuanting, no matter whether they were chopping or chopping, they were not as fast and fierce as stabbing.

Simple actions can cause huge casualties. Even with armor protection, there are too many places on the body without armor.

With extravagant Chongming's financial resources, there is no way to equip [-] Yi soldiers with the same armor as the Ming army.

Casualties on the battlefield are only a momentary event, and bad news is spreading in Yongning Acropolis little by little.

Judging from the overall battlefield situation, the Ming army has already taken an absolute advantage.

There was blood on their faces and bodies, and they couldn't tell whether it was their own or the rebel soldiers'.

The entire wall was like a huge grinding plate, mixing the soldiers of the rebel army and the soldiers of the Ming army together until they could no longer distinguish each other. The sound of fighting resounded throughout the whole world, as if it made the whole sky red with blood.

When the long road on the city wall was full of soldiers dressed in Ming army armor, the Yi soldiers were defeated from the top of the city and began to rely on the fortifications built earlier to prepare for street fighting with the Ming army.

Zhu Xieyuan led people into Yongning Acropolis and temporarily lived in the Dongcheng tower, and then called the generals of various armies.

When the general walked into the tower, he was clearly distinguished from the others, and the faction could be seen from the position of the general.

Du Wenhuan sat first on the left, followed by Zhang Yanfang, Xu Chengming, Huang Yunqing and other local generals, while Sun Chuanting sat first on the right, followed by Cao Wenzhao, and then Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng.

It is not difficult to see from the seats that even in the military, there are factions.

Although Xu Keqiu and the Sichuan gentry helped a lot, Wu Aheng and Yang Wenyue chose to get close and become members of the Qi royal party when Zhu Youjian did not conflict with the local government.

Such a situation, in the eyes of Zhu Xieyuan of the Zhejiang Party, represented the growing Qi Wang Party.

However, for him, the King Qi Party is currently a party that is beneficial to the imperial court, and he has a good impression of the King Qi Party.

Therefore, he didn't care about this kind of camp, but said to everyone:

"Right now, the rebel army has already retreated into the city, and there are tens of thousands of people in the city. If they attack the streets by force, there will be many casualties."

"After pacifying Yongning Guard, we still need to go to Linzhou City, and then go south to Guiyang."

"Therefore, the old man would like to ask the generals, can they persuade you to surrender?"

"Absolutely not!" As soon as Zhu Xieyuan finished speaking, Du Wenhuan responded abruptly:
"A thief is a thief. There is no such thing as persuading surrender. If there are good people in Yongning City, how can they follow the thief?"

Du Wenhuan is the governor, a second-rank official, so he is one level higher than Zhu Xieyuan in terms of false title.

However, in Ming Dynasty, civil servants were always more important than military officials, so even if he was one level higher, Zhu Xieyuan could suppress Du Wenhuan.

It's just that Zhu Xieyuan still needs to listen to Du Wenhuan's opinion.

After seeing what Du Wenhuan said, although Zhu Xieyuan didn't agree with it in his heart, in order to save Du Wenhuan's face, he still nodded slightly.

However, some people are used to Du Wenhuan, but some people are not used to it.

"Mr. Du is serious."

Suddenly, Sun Chuanting spoke, which attracted everyone's attention.

Sun Chuanting looked at Du Wenhuan and said neither humble nor overbearing:
"The common people are stupid, so how do they know how to rebel? What's more, today's emperor and the king of Qi have said that they will not blame the people under the chieftain's command in Guizhou."

"Therefore, in my opinion, people can be ordered to spread the news that An Bangyan and Song Wanhua went to Zhenyuan Mansion to tell the truth. As long as this news is told, the rebel army will be shaken."

"They have persisted until now, but because of what She Chongming said, An Bangyan will lead the army to rescue the siege."

"If the hope of reinforcements is broken at the moment, the rebel army will inevitably split. We can spread the news, as long as the father and son-in-law of She Chongming are captured, they will be exonerated."

"In this way, I believe that without sending troops, there will be problems within the rebel army."

"Okay..." Zhu Xieyuan listened to Sun Chuanting's words, and responded with a satisfied smile and stroking his beard, while Du Wenhuan frowned and said very unhappy:
"The rebels are cunning and alien. If they don't kill them today, they are afraid that they will cause disaster to the frontier in the future."

"Being in my Han family for more than two hundred years, how can it be summed up in one sentence of foreign race?" Sun Chuanting responded seriously on the surface, but he sneered in his heart.

The Southwest is different from the North. Nomads always have to contact each other. However, due to the terrain in the Southwest, the various departments are scattered, and the relationship between the various departments can only be maintained by the chieftain.

As long as the chieftains of the various ministries are captured and killed, the rest will follow the crowd and continue farming honestly under the rule of Ming Dynasty.

Now as long as She Chongming is captured and killed, the local people in Yongning will become a mess and cannot gather together.

"okay……"

Zhu Xieyuan saw that the smell of gunpowder between the two was getting heavier, so he interrupted immediately, and then said to Cao Wenzhao:
"General Cao Shen, please send the news to the Duogan Camp under your command."

"The last general takes command!" Hearing this, Cao Wenzhao knew that this was Zhu Xieyuan's opportunity to make meritorious service for him, so he immediately returned the salute and saluted, and after Zhu Xieyuan announced their respective return to the camp, he, Sun Chuanting and the other three left the gate tower.

But when they left, Zhu Xieyuan walked behind the female wall and looked down. Looking at the backs of the four of them, he frowned slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, he also left the city, while Cao Wenzhao said on the way back with the other three:

"Three, it seems that the rebellion of the rebels should be extinguished soon. If this is the case, then I don't know if the three want to improve their promotion after the war?"

Cao Wenzhao's words made everyone stop, and the reason why Cao Wenzhao said this was naturally assigned by Zhu Youjian.

Although Zhu Youjian wanted Wu Aheng or Yang Wenyue to stay in Sichuan, let Hong Chengchou go to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and let Sun Chuanting go to Shaanxi.

But some things are not as good as he thought. Sun Chuanting has done well in Shaanxi in history, but it does not mean that he knows and favors Shaanxi enough at this time.

Therefore, he asked Cao Wenzhao to throw stones to ask for directions, which can be regarded as a look at the hearts of these people.

Cao Wenzhao is a warrior and doesn't know so much, so seeing that the end of the war is not far away, he should send a letter to his highness, so he asked.

To this, Yang Wenyue was the first to respond: "If possible, I would like to go to the frontier to be an official."

Yang Wenyue is not stupid. He knows that he was trained by the Sichuan Party. If he stays in Sichuan, at the request of the Sichuan Party officials, he may conflict with King Qi who takes care of him.

On this point, in fact, Yang Wenyue had an idea since Zhu Youjian started to attack the guards and private salt.

Therefore, what he wants most is to transfer away from Sichuan, preferably farther away from Sichuan.

Cao Wenzhao responded slightly to his words, and then looked at Wu Aheng and Sun Chuanting.

Wu Aheng didn't have any idea about where to go, so after thinking about it, he bowed and said: "It all depends on the arrangement of the Shangguan in the capital."

The words were not too obvious, but Cao Wenzhao also knew that Wu Aheng was expressing his opinion. He nodded and looked at Sun Chuanting, but Sun Chuanting said something that surprised Cao Wenzhao.

"If it's possible, I hope that the imperial court can transfer me and my soldiers to Liaodong."

Obviously, Sun Chuanting was still very indignant about the Liao affairs, but Cao Wenzhao was at a loss for words.

It was less than half a year after he finished the Shen-Liao battle, so he naturally knew what the current situation in Liaodong was like.

If Sun Chuanting goes to Liaodong, it is estimated that he will have to work hard on defense for a long time, and it will be impossible to make achievements.

Therefore, Cao Wenzhao cryptically reminded: "Liaodong has enough soldiers and horses right now, and the old slaves don't dare to offend the border easily. Do you want Governor Sun to think about the Northwest?"

"..." When Cao Wenzhao said this, Sun Chuanting frowned slightly, and immediately knew what King Qi wanted him to go to the northwest.

Although he still wanted to go to Liaodong, in order not to refute King Qi's face, he still bowed after thinking about it and said:
"If possible, Yansui is also good..."

"Haha, Yansui is good, it's a good place!" Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Cao Wenzhao laughed loudly, then bowed to say goodbye, turned and left.

Seeing this, the other three also bowed to say goodbye, and then returned to their camps.

After Cao Wenzhao returned to Daying, he first wrote a letter to Zhu Youjian, and then asked someone to count the troops.

After counting, there were [-] people in the Duogan camp when they left Tibet, but now there are only more than [-] people left, which made Cao Wenzhao a little heartbroken.

Although commanding this group of guards and Tibetan soldiers requires the help of small officials from the Siyi Pavilion to translate, these guards and Tibetan soldiers are really easy to use.

"No, I have to ask His Highness to add something to me."

With careful thought, Cao Wenzhao praised the quality of Wei Zang's soldiers at the end of the letter, and then asked Zhu Youjian vaguely if he could let Wei Zang's various ministries transfer more troops.

"call!"

After writing the letter, he blew on the ink, and then waited for the ink to dry, so he sent someone five hundred miles to rush to the capital, and then arranged for military clerks to write a letter of persuasion.

At night, Cao Wenzhao asked Wei Zang soldiers to start using bows and arrows to shoot arrows carrying letters of persuasion to spread the news.

Not surprisingly, when the content of these capitulation letters was seen, the rebel army, which was already on the verge of collapse, was completely in chaos.

"Bastard! Bastard!"

In the yamen of Xuanfu Department of Yongning, She Chongming with disheveled hair waved the long knife in his hand, chopping the surrounding furniture continuously. Fan Long led people to protect She Chongming's family members, for fear of being hurt.

In just one night, more than [-] soldiers and horses surrendered and left more than [-], and they are still expanding.

lost...

At this moment, Fan Long understood that they had lost this battle, and they had misjudged the strength of the Ming army.

I thought that the Ming army was beaten like that in Liaodong, and the strength of the troops in the southwest should be even worse, but I didn't want to encircle and suppress them just like this.

Less than two and a half months after the start of the war, it was already a dead end, and it was impossible to even break through the siege...

"Fan Long!"

Suddenly, She Chongming, who was chopping furniture, turned his head to look at Fan Long, and Fan Long stepped forward hesitantly and said, "Father-in-law..."

"Lead someone to break through..."

In a word, She Chongming seemed to be ten years old, his legs suddenly softened, and he knelt down on the ground.

"father in law!"

"father!"

She Chongming's words made everyone unable to hide their grief, and they all bowed their heads and began to cry.

At this time, She Chongming raised his head and said: "Since I lost, my family members will definitely be humiliated by the Ming army. If you are my blood, wife and daughter, you can do it yourself."

After all, She Chongming threw the long knife in his hand in front of his family members, and this action made everyone take a step back.

No one wants to die, but the current situation obviously cannot break through successfully.

There are more than [-] main and auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army, and the surrounding city gates are impenetrable. Besides, there are still people among them who keep surrendering. How can we fight in such a situation?
Fan Long gritted his teeth, then turned his head and said to his lieutenant general:

"Lead someone to pour kerosene on the house, and after setting fire, you will lead people to surrender!"

"General!" Hearing this, the lieutenant panicked and knelt on the ground with a terrified expression.

"Go!" Fan Long roared and kicked him over.

The lieutenant came to his senses after being kicked over, crawled out of the yamen, and then asked people to pour kerosene on fire to prepare for it.

At this moment, all She Chongming's family members cried loudly, and many concubines ran to the gate, ready to escape.

However, upon seeing this, Fan Long drew out his waist knife and slashed at the person who was trying to escape.

After a while, all of She Chongming's family members were killed by Fan Long, and he also held a blood-stained waist knife and walked in front of She Chongming, who was indifferent to everything.

"Father-in-law..." He was struggling, but She Chongming looked up at him, got up and tore off his clothes, exposed his breasts and said, "Have fun!"

"puff"

The sound sounded, and Fan Long raised the knife and stabbed She Chongming in the heart. Looking at She Chongming, his eyes widened, he subconsciously grabbed the back of the waist knife, and then knelt down unwillingly and died on the ground.

"what!!!"

Fan Long roared angrily, and drew out his knife to wipe it off his neck, but after the knife reached his neck, he didn't do it for a long time.

"Damn it! Fan Long, you bastard!"

For a moment, tears and snot poured out of Fan Long's face, as if he was laughing at his timidity.

At this time, the Yongning Xuanfu Division was ignited by the fire, and there was a faint cry of killing in the distance.

Fan Long, who didn't dare to kill himself, heard the voice, but rushed to the gate like crazy, cut off the bolt with a knife, and at the same time, opened the gate to see the Ming army rushing from the main alley.

"It's good to drop it! It's good to drop it all! Ah——"

He murmured at first, then became a little crazy, and finally rushed towards the Ming army with a roar, but was swallowed by the crowd in the next instant.

So far, the Shechongming tribe, which took the lead in the rebellion, was wiped out except for Fan Hu's tribe.

　Four o'clock and one more

　　
　
(End of this chapter)