Chapter Ninety-Nine: Under the City of Xunzhou

Meng Ying said: "Your Majesty, today's Yunnan doesn't actually need a general who can fight, but what it needs is a general who can convince the subordinates, and the Mu family's influence in Yunnan is enough to do this." ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment and understood this.

Now the role of the Yunnan General Army is actually to suppress the Tusi.

And the Yunnan Tusi, and even the foreign vassals such as Burma in the south, are very peaceful.

Inside, after Wang Ji and Cao Nai's two ministers guarding Yunnan, they have almost sorted out. What are the hidden dangers, under the management of the two ministers, have also been alleviated.

Outside, there is King Xiang of the Ming Dynasty.

Burma has an attempt, and the first thing to do is to deal with King Xiang.

King Xiang has struggled for decades, and he can be regarded as a firm foothold.

Unless the Ming Dynasty goes south, it will be difficult for the war to burn into the inner region of Yunnan.

All you need is someone who can convince everyone and feel at ease. can only support King Xiang, and it is enough to appease Yunnan Tusi.

Therefore, as long as Mu Bin is not unconventional and does too much, his surname is Mu, and it is very easy to do this.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Since this is the case, without further ado, let the cabinet arrange it like this." ”

Zhu Qizhen felt the instability that the situation in Guangxi could bring.

But he still underestimated this kind of instability.

Just as he was making a decision, Liu Pu's influence of being transferred from Guangxi also spread.

Liu Pu has been guarding Guangxi for so many years, although he is deeply involved in local forces, it is not that Liu Pu is incapable. He's still a bit prestigious.

So in Liu Puyi left.

In Datengxia, Hou Dagou immediately became presumptuous. He marched eastward and besieged the city of Xunzhou.

The person stationed in Xunzhou City is Ye Sheng, the prefect of Xunzhou.

Ye Shengnai is an orthodox ten-year jinshi.

At the time of Ye Sheng's group of jinshi, Zhu Qizhen's authority was already very high, so in the cultivation of jinshi after ten years of orthodoxy, some people wanted to beat some people according to Zhu Qizhen's meaning, and they had to repeatedly experience in the center and place.

Ye Sheng is one of them.

He first watched the government in the Sixth Ministry, then served as a county commander in Hebei, and then served in the military department for the second term, and then went to Xunzhou, Guangxi.

As soon as Ye Shengxunzhou's prefect is full, he can be transferred to Beijing.

He served as a Beijing official for another term.

Of course, not all Jinshi are arranged in this way, they must be ranked first in the imperial examination, and not even everyone will follow this process. It must be evaluated well every term.

Otherwise, the magistrate will always be the magistrate at any time.

Ye Sheng is the kind of person who is very good in all kinds of evaluations.

This is true even in Xunzhou.

Since he served as the prefect of Xunzhou, he has traveled all over the large and small prefectures and counties of Xunzhou, trained the people, and recruited the biggest

The Yao people in the vine gorge are cultivated in the upper tun.

And among these Yao people, recruit people to fight against the Hou Dagou in Datengxia.

Maybe in the eyes of Hou Dagou in the mountains, these people are traitors. turned the vendetta between Yao Min and Han Min into Yao Min's own internal fighting.

Therefore, he also hated Ye Sheng. But there is also nothing to do about Ye Sheng.

But all Ye Sheng can do is to protect the stability of Xunzhou. More than that, you can't do it. And what Ye Sheng relied on was the people he had trained. Instead of the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Didn't the Ming have any soldiers in Guangxi?

Of course not.

The Ming Dynasty has 11 health centers in Guangxi, 21 thousand households, and 120,000 people. However, the reality is that the Guangxi Health Center, which has a rated number of 120,000, has 30,000 horses.

It can even be said that it is not as much as all the soldiers and horses of Guangxi Tusi combined.

120,000 horses, in the face of the Yao people of Datengxia who are attacking from all sides, it is not necessarily enough to defend on all sides and set up cards everywhere, let alone only 30,000 horses.

This is why Liu Pu did not want to attack, wanted to appease, and mobilized a large number of toasts, so that the power of Guixi toast expanded to the east.

When Liu Pu was there, these 30,000 soldiers could still play some roles. However, after Liu Pu's resignation, the generals of the Guangxi Guards inevitably had some fluctuations in their hearts.

This allowed Hou Dagou to take advantage of the loophole, and the army went straight to the city of Xunzhou.

The siege began in a big way.

Hou Dagou's previous actions were all piecemeal. Many times many batches of men and horses, as many as 500 and as little as 300, these are all strong men.

Break some small tunzi, and the village is no problem.

Some small hundred households, if their defenses are lax, are not their opponents. I even dared to try the county seat.

Many of the county towns that Hou Dagou conquered were not taken by force.

They all sent people to cooperate with the outside world, or simply grabbed the city gate suddenly. Of the thousands of households that died in the hands of Hou Dagou, there were already several county orders.

But Hou Dagou stormed the city, this is the first time.

Ye Sheng sat on a Taishi chair, wearing a single coat, the climate of Lingnan, even in winter, will not feel cold. He didn't seem to care about the situation in front of him.

With a book rolled in his hand, he was reading it carefully.

Ye Sheng is a well-known book lover, no matter where he is an official, he must search for local books and make them copy and collect. Every day, when you have time, you read it.

Of course, if you look closely at Ye Sheng's reading, you will know that Ye Sheng's heart may not be worried at all.

The book he read was the stereotyped "Guarding the City" of the Song Dynasty.

There is also a reason why he behaved like this and showed peace to the people.

Because the people under his command who defend the city are all strong people, and it is simply that

The people of the city. Let them have confidence, this city can be defended, Ye Sheng's official reputation is good. When the people saw Lord Ye, they were not worried at all, and they were relieved.

Of course, Ye Sheng dared to be so big, and he could see that Hou Dagou seemed to be in a hurry, but in fact, he was just a rabble.

Not to mention other aspects, they will never be able to capture Xunzhou City.

It's not how high the city of Xunzhou City is, but the defending side, naturally there is no experience, but the siege side has experience.

Compared with the siege war on the border of the Ming Dynasty, the two sides here are simply rookies pecking each other.

As a besieging party, there are almost no siege equipment. There are several long ladders at most, remember that they are long ladders, and they are no different from the long ladders used by ordinary people.

In Xunzhou City, there are still some firearms, large and small artillery, many of which are from the Hongwu period. I don't know how much worse it is from the firearms created by Shaofu today.

But there is nothing wrong with scattering.

That's why Ye Sheng can be so stable, as long as there are no big mistakes, he can deal with it calmly. Hou Dagou's subordinates will not gain any benefits.

"My lord, look at the beacon fire." A hundred households ran over and pointed out to Ye Sheng.

Ye Sheng suddenly got up, looked at it from a distance, and sure enough, he found a pillar of smoke coming from the north.

Ye Sheng immediately laughed and said, "It's the reinforcements that are coming, pass them on, and let the people below know about them." ”

Immediately raised the city to celebrate, but Ye Sheng asked someone to go down, saying: "Without my order, whoever comes is not allowed to open the city gate." ”

Ye Sheng was worried about fraud in his heart.

After all, he knows very well that in a real fight, the people in his hands can't beat the thieves outside.

But after a while, chaos began to rise outside, and Hou Dagou's troops began to retreat.

The retreat can best reflect the quality of an army, Hou Dagou's department is naturally not called an elite soldier, so when he retreated, it was extremely chaotic, and suddenly a cavalry was only two or three hundred people, and he killed it violently, and it was like entering a no-man's land, and he was killed under the city of Xunzhou.

But he saw that the leader was a veteran general, with white hair fluttering, holding a spear, and calling the door under the city. There is a big flag behind him, on which is written: "Tian".

Ye Sheng naturally knew that this was Tian Zhen.

It can be regarded as the highest-ranking military general in Guangxi.

It's just that the generals of Guangxi can only charge into battle with two or three hundred horsemen, although they seem to be brave and unparalleled, but the inside reveals how rotten the Guangxi Guards are.

Ye Sheng immediately had the wine, meat and silver two hang from the city, and Tian Zhen rested under the city. But there was no mention of the opening of the gates.

Before Ye Sheng was sure that the danger was lifted, he would never open the city gate.

Tian Zhen has no choice.

After about an hour, the Ming army brigade, about thousands of people, came from the north, but it was Han Yong who arrived.