Liu Dadao won three battles and three victories, and Yang Zhaolong defeated Wujiang Road

In February of the 28th year of Wanli, Li Hualong deployed a strategy to attack Banzhou, with 240,000 troops divided into eight routes, each with 30,000 troops. The officers and soldiers are three, and the toast is seven. The Sichuan generals are mainly divided into four routes: the general Liu Wei and Ma Gui went out of Qijiang, supplemented by the general Ma Zhen, and Zhang Wenyao, who participated in the politics of the army; The general soldier Ma Kongying went out of Nanchuan, supplemented by the general Zhou Guozhu, Youyang Xuanfu Ran Yulong, Shizhu Xuanfu Ma Qiancheng, and Xu Zhongjia supervised the army; Wu Guang, the general soldier, went out of Hejiang, supplemented by the guerrilla general Xu Shiwei, and the senator Liu Yixiang supervised the army; Counselor general Cao Xibin was restrained by Wu Guang out of Yongning, supplemented by staff general Wu Wenjie, Xuanfu envoy luxury Shiji, and counselor Shi Jingxian supervised the army.

It is mainly divided into three routes: the general soldier Tong Yuanzhen, the Tusi prefect Takicheng, and the Zhizhou Cen Shaoxun out of the Wujiang River; The general Zhu Heling was restrained by Tong Yuanzhen from Shaxi, supplemented by Xuanfu to make An Jiangchen; The general soldier Li Yingxiang was prosperous, supplemented by Peng Yuanrui, the senator Zhang Cunyi, and the inspector Yang Yinqiu supervised the army; The Huguang soldiers divided the Heyi Road into two wings, and the general soldiers Chen Lan, Dong Yiyuan, and Peng Yangzheng came out of the white mud; Deputy Commander-in-Chief Chen *liang was restrained from Longquan by Chen Lan, supplemented by Xuanfu envoy Shan Yi, deputy envoy Hu Guifang, and Senator Wei Yangmeng to supervise the army. Then the governor of Guizhou, Guo Zizhang, was stationed in Guiyang, the governor of Sichuan, Tan Xisi, was stationed in Chongqing, and the governor of Hubei was stationed in Yuanzhou.

Li Hualong said again: "Banzhou is a vast area of thousands of miles, between Sichuan, Lake and Guizhou, the northwest moat mountain is the pass, and the southeast is attached to the river as the pool. Led Huangping and Caotang to be appeased, Zhen, Bo, Baini, Yuqing, Chongshan, and Rong'an were six chief lawsuits, and the land of the seven surnames of Tongtian, Zhang, Yuan, Lu, Tan, Luo, and Wu. Yang Yinglong's rebels are mostly formed by gathering the seedlings and expanding, and its main force does not account for the majority, Yang Yinglong's own can be mediocre and lose the hearts of the people, and it is difficult to reproduce the courage of his Yang ancestors.

Therefore, it will be elite to guard the two most important places in Loushan Pass and Longyan Hoard, and the soldiers of Longyan Hoard can also wait for the opportunity to support the rebels on all sides. Although the rest of the places are guarded by the seedlings, the armies of all routes must not underestimate the enemy, otherwise there will be a danger of annihilation.

The method of dealing with the seedlings has been learned by the generals before, so they must be cautious. Sichuan commander-in-chief Liu Wei was jealous of Banzhou, so he was placed in the position of the first rush, took a shortcut to take the enemy chieftain, led the enemy to block with all his strength, and facilitated the march of all roads, and the armies of all roads met at Loushan Pass. In addition, I would like to remind the generals that after the battle before arriving at Loushan Pass, if there is a request to surrender, they will be immediately accepted and dismissed on the spot. After entering the Loushan Pass, there can be no more surrender, the enemy is not credible, and the quick battle is resolved, the rebels are exterminated, and Yang Yinglong is captured and killed. After Li Hualong, the civil and military conference was held in Chongqing and swore on the altar. On 12 February, the Ming army parted ways.

Yang Yinglong also summoned the generals to deploy defense: "It is reported that Li Hualong's generals and soldiers were divided into nine routes, attacking Banzhou from Qijiang, Nanchuan, Hejiang, Yongning, Wujiang, Shaxi, Xinglong, Baini, and Longquan. Among them, the most combatants are Liu Wei and Ma Gui on Qijiang Road, followed by Chen Ling and Dong Yiyuan in the direction of Baini, and then Ma Kongying in Nanchuan. The weakest ones are Chen * Liang from Longquan and Tong Yuan Town from Wujiang.

Ordered Yang Chaodong to command 30,000 Miao soldiers, split lanes to meet the enemy, and first intercepted Liu Wei's troops to march towards our Loushan Pass. In the direction of Wujiang, he arrogantly indulged in the headquarters of Tong Yuan Town, and ordered Yang Zhaolong to wait for the opportunity to counterattack Wujiang, lure the enemy to come back to help, falsely claim to be Shuixi, and set up an ambush and broken bridge to severely damage the department. He Tingyu led 30,000 troops to attack Longquan and defeated Chen * Liang's troops, and then the two armies met, and the guerrilla tactics responded to all parties, mainly attacking Ma Kongying and Chen Luan's department, and the rest of the generals ordered the Miao troops to defend according to the danger and block them layer by layer. If the march of Liu Wei's troops can be delayed, and the remaining eight roads will be defeated by four roads, its attack will be broken, and Banzhou will be victorious! ”

On the 15th, Liu Wei and Ma Gui left the Qijiang River and entered Banzhou from Dongxi and captured Tonggu Cliff. Liu Wei said to Ma Gui: "When I learned that Yang Yinglong captured Qijiang and attacked Nanchuan, but burned all the savings of the two government treasuryes, I knew that Yang Yinglong had no ambition and would die due to rebellion. When the general army first arrived here, they did not know the details of this terrain, and then there was the Santong natural danger, which was the first line of defense in Banzhou on the road of our army. It is reported that Nanmu Mountain, Goat Mountain, and Jiantai Mountain, with more than 10,000 soldiers, but the Miao soldiers here are not the elite of Banzhou, and the thieves Mu Zhao, Wu Shanghua and others have to set up camp here and defend the danger. How does Ma Zongbing think our army should attack? ”

Ma Gui said: "The enemy camps are connected, there are many people and horses, and they defend according to the danger, and the momentum is quite strong. General Liu and I and Mazhen each led a part, surrounded on three sides, made a lot of smoke to show the illusion of burning, the enemy will retreat in panic, our army took the opportunity to advance on three sides, open the way with firearms, and go to Li Hanba to annihilate its main force, and go straight to the enemy's village. Liu Wei followed.

The Ming army was divided into three associations, so the suspicious array, the smoke in the mountains was loud, choking the mouth and nose, and the Miao soldiers suspected that the Ming army wanted to burn the three mountains, and on the one hand, they urgently reported to Mu Zhao and Wu Shanghua, and retreated backwards on the other. Wu Shanghua couldn't believe the Ming army's crazy move of burning Santong, Mu Zhao said: "If the official army dares to burn Santong, it will undoubtedly be a self-defeat, I am willing to lead the troops to meet the enemy, one to find out the truth, and the other to take the opportunity to gather and annihilate the official army." Wu Shanghua said: "If you are in danger and are not able to fight the enemy, you must immediately withdraw to the camp and can resist. ”

Mu Zhao replied: "Why are you so cowardly today, his officers and soldiers can still be gods and mortals, in the final analysis, there is no difference between you and me, we have killed a lot of officers and soldiers over the years, what are you afraid of?" You can rest assured that if the bad situation is not good, I will withdraw to the camp without your urging. Wu Shanghua agreed, and Mu Zhao led the main force of the Santong Miao soldiers to fight.

Liu Wei supervised the battle in front of the battle, holding a knife in his right hand and gold in his left hand and shouting: "Use your life to get wealth and peace for the former, and those who retreat against the order will be the soul of the sword!" "The Ming army roared, and the three-sided assault took advantage of the thick smoke to cover and occupy the periphery of Santong. Shi Muzhao led his troops to Li Hanba, and when he saw the Ming army breaking in, he led the crowd to charge. The Ming army was full of fire, the magic arrows were overwhelming, the Miao soldiers suffered heavy casualties on the front, and the three generals Liu Ling, Ma Gui and Ma Zhen took the lead and led the army to counterattack.

The Ming army moved like thunder, the Miao soldiers were frightened, Mu Zhao was strictly ordered not to retreat, Liu Wei killed, cut off Mu Zhao's head with a knife, and the Miao soldiers collapsed and fled to the cottage. The Ming army took advantage of the situation to pursue, Liu Wei attacked Nanmu Mountain, Ma Gui attacked Goat Mountain, Ma Zhen attacked Jiantai Mountain, Wu Shanghua made Miao soldiers condescending, with the danger of throwing stones and rolling wood, bows and crossbows to block the enemy, the Ming army used rockets to return fire, ignited the cottage, Miao soldiers broke again, the Ming army took advantage of the situation to attack the three mountains, Liu Wei divided a team to climb the mountain, jumped into Nanmu Mountain, the inside should be combined with the outside, Liu Wei waved the big knife to, no one could stop it, Nanmu Mountain was broken. Magui has the most firearms, the goat fire spreads, Magui takes the opportunity to lead troops to attack, the Miao soldiers scatter, because Nanmu and goats are lost, Jiantai is almost no resistance, Mazhen is easy to capture, the Ming army burns the camp and captures Wu Shanghua alive.

At the beginning of March, Yang Chaodong led tens of thousands of elite Bozhou to the north, and the troops were divided into three routes, one route was led by Yang Chaodong himself from Yudu to take Liu Ling's station, and the other two routes were led by Yang Weidong and Yang Zhu respectively from Songkan and Luogu to outflank them. Banzhou's movements have long been investigated by the Ming army, and Liu Wei reported: "This Yang Chaodong still knows some military techniques, and he intends to attract the main force of our department head-on, and then attack me from both sides, so as to annihilate me in one fell swoop." Even so, I also divided my troops into three routes, and quickly went to inform the general Ma Gui and the general Ma Zhen, and asked them to go to Songkan and Luogu to set up an ambush to prevent the enemy from outflanking. Our unit set up an ambush from the camp to encircle and annihilate Yang Chaodong. Yang Chaodong retreated all the way, and the other two roads would retreat to Loushan Pass. ”

Yang Weidong traveled all the way to Songkan, Ma Gui ordered an attack, and Yang Weidong was shocked that the military information was leaked. Ma Gui ordered the firearms battalion to fire continuously, the bow and crossbow were fired intermittently, the sound of tiger squatting cannons was deafening, the place where the bullets fell was dusty, shrapnel was shooting everywhere, and the arrow rain was pouring down, Yang Weidong was desperate to dodge. His subordinates persuaded Yang Weidong to reorganize the queue in order to fight back, and Yang Weidong shouted: "The Ming army is strong, and it has been prepared for a long time, how to reorganize the queue!" Die when you show up! ”

The subordinates persuaded again: "Our troops are in ambush, since the whole army breaks through and retreats, and then attacks after rebuilding morale, if we can't meet the eldest prince as soon as possible, the eldest prince will be in danger." The villain is willing to fight to the death to protect the third prince to break through and reorganize and fight again! Yang Weidong was deeply moved, fought desperately, and broke through backwards under the protection of a crowd, Yang Weidong followed all the way with Miao soldiers, and there were many casualties. Ma Gui saw that the Miao soldiers were retreating, so he ordered to change the formation in preparation for the Miao soldiers to attack again.

On the Luogu Road, Yang Zhu was also ambushed by the Ming army led by Mazhen. Yang Zhu transferred Teng Dun's hands to line up in front, and launched several charges in a row but failed to break through the Ming army's defense line, Ma Zhen commanded the whole army to occupy the terrain and not come out, Yang Zhu had no choice but to order the whole army to retreat to the formation, and the two armies fired in pairs.

Yang Zhu scolded: "Why is the report of this official army so fast? Obviously, we should be walking like flying in these mountains, and we are out of nowhere, but now everything is the first to be noticed by the officials and soldiers, is it that there are spies among us? Everyone was difficult to answer, Yang Zhu was unwilling, and he was eager to complete the outflanking task as soon as possible, but he was blocked by the Ming army, and it was difficult to order a retreat, so he had to secretly scold.

Yang Chaodong galloped to the front of Liu Wei's military camp, suddenly saw that the camp was scarce, uneasy, consciously planned, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, Liu Wei ordered the ambush soldiers to surround on all sides, the Ming army pulled the preset trap, projected projectiles, bows and arrows, and the battalion launched artillery to bombard the Banzhou army. Yang Chaodong led all the elite of Banzhou, and they were ambushed and each held a shield in three or three, marched scattered, each looking for cover, and took the opportunity to counterattack.

Liu Wei saw the opportunity to lead his troops to attack the enemy, the Ming army horse team came out with smoke and dust, the momentum was pressing, the front of the Banzhou army was scattered, Yang Chaodong urgently ordered to gather troops, Liu Ling's horse team rushed to kill a round and lined up again to charge twice, and the Banzhou army was also lined up to meet the battle. The two armies fought, the soldiers were vigorous, matched with each other, and the formation of the enemy was somewhat similar to the Qi family's tactics, and the Ming army was also a strong and persistent batch charge, the cycle went back and forth, Liu Ling's big knife was strong and heavy, the knife was exquisite, and he beheaded more than a dozen people in a row, and he was brave and won the three armies. The positions of the Ming army on all sides were still supported by firearms and crossbows, and Yang Chaodong saw that Yang Weidong and Yang Zhu were slow to be blocked, and he ordered the withdrawal of the army because he could not support it alone. The Ming army took advantage of the victory to pursue fifty miles and chased it straight to Shihu Pass. Yang Weidong and Yang Zhu also withdrew from the battle after learning of Yang Chaodong's withdrawal and retreated to Loushan Pass.

Tong Yuanzhen, the chief soldier of the Guizhou army on Wujiang Road, and the prefect Takicheng dispatched the Bayang soldiers and Yongshun soldiers to take the lead, and the Guizhou army stormed Wujiang Pass. Takicheng walked to the Wujiang River and sighed: "The Wujiang River is dangerous, the river is full of rocks, the river roars like thunder, the Wujiang Pass is built on the top of the slope, and the Qianzhong channel is guarded, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack." How long does General Soldier Tong think it will take for our army to capture Guancheng? ”

Tong Yuanzhen replied: "Our army is prepared this time, and there will never be another ugly incident of being defeated by the rebels." Pontoon bridges have been widely placed on the Wujiang River, and firearms cover the army to cross the river. The Ming army braved the rain of arrows to climb the Wujiang Pass many times were repulsed, Tong Yuanzhen ordered to concentrate firearms to attack its point, three moments later the Guancheng broke out of the gap, the Ming army organized a fierce attack again, the Wujiang Pass garrison Miao soldiers saw that the general trend had gone, abandoned the Guancheng and fled to the river.

The prefect Takicheng ordered the pursuit, the Ming army horse team took advantage of the situation to cover and kill, none of the Miao soldiers were spared, Tong Yuanzhen Daxi ordered the whole army to continue to advance the next day, the Ming army won the battle even again, invincible, and captured the sky with three hundred hoards, and the Miao soldiers were scattered. Tong Yuanzhen laughed at Yang Yinglong's strong cadres and reported to Li Hualong, and at the same time, all the Daoming troops passed on the good news.

Yang Zhaolong took advantage of the gap to send troops, lying that the Shuixi tribe had passed all the way through the pass, counterattacked Wujiang, and invaded Guizhou. Tong Yuanzhen and Takicheng were shocked when they heard this, and Takicheng said: "The Shuixi clan has always been deferential to the imperial court, so they were able to broadcast with the army this time, how could there be a sudden rebellion?" Could it be that Tusi and the Yang family are still secretly communicating with each other, breaking the thread, accepting Yang Yinglong's various promises, choosing the opportunity to rebel against Ming, and turning against each other. If this is the case, there will be great trouble in all armies! ”

Tong Yuanzhen said: "No matter what, the rebels have invaded Guizhou and must immediately return to the division to rescue, I will order the general Yang Xian to lead the Yongshun troops to come to the rescue, and the prefect of the province can verify the matter of Shuixi with all provinces and ask the governor to discuss with the governors of Guizhou and Shu provinces." I will put stragglers here to guard this place, so that I will not be alone in the depths and fall on my back. ”

Yang Zhaolong learned that the Qianjun army had begun to return to help, and specially ordered to set up an ambush in Wujiang. Yang Zhaolong said: "Along the way, I robbed a lot of firearms from the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers must send troops to save Guizhou, and in order to cross the Wujiang River as soon as possible, all the pontoon bridges here will be used." The herald ordered that gunpowder be buried under the pontoon bridges, and that the whole army should be lurking, and that no trace of the crowd should be shown here, and that when the officers and soldiers were halfway crossing, the gunpowder under the bridges would be ignited with firearms and rockets, and the pontoon bridges would be destroyed. ”

The Ming army rushed to Wujiang near dusk, seeing that there was no one around, Yang Xian was suspicious, and ordered the cannon to warn many times, but there was no response on both sides of the Wujiang River, Yang Xianwei rushed back to Guizhou as soon as possible, and ordered the whole army to cross the pontoon bridge and cross the river quickly. Yang Zhaolong saw that the time had come, with the order of the whole army to project firearms and rockets, the Ming army panicked, there were not a few people who jumped into the river to escape, the gunpowder of the pontoon bridge was ignited, causing a series of explosions, the pontoon bridge was broken, most of the Ming army was involved in the Wujiang River, Yang Zhaolong took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, the Ming army suffered countless casualties, almost the whole army was annihilated, and the generals Yang Xian, the garrison Chen Yunlong, Ruan Shiqi, Bai Mingkui, and Yang Xuzhi were all killed in Wujiang.

Yang Zhaolong Wujiang won a big victory, contacted the front to attack Tong Yuan Town, Tong Yuan Town and Takicheng got the report, only to know that Yang Zhaolong falsely claimed that Shuixi was attacking, and Takicheng hated it. Tong Yuanzhen in order to avoid being besieged, that is, ordered the retreat of the department, the road met Yang Zhaolong to come, the two sides scuffled, Tong Yuanzhen was bent on withdrawing the army, strictly ordered the department not to fight, the Ming army collapsed, was rushed by Yang Zhaolong to the stragglers, and fled across the Wujiang River in embarrassment. After Tong Yuanzhen returned to Guizhou, he counted the casualties, collected the remnants of the army, and asked Guo Zizhang, the governor of Guizhou, and Li Hualong, the governor of Guizhou, to punish the crime of defeat.

The deputy commander-in-chief Chen * Liang was restrained by Chen Lan to go out of Longquan, supplemented by Xuanfu envoy Shan Yi, deputy envoy Hu Guifang, and He Tingyu led 30,000 Miao soldiers to meet the battle on the order of Yang Yinglong. He Tingyu concentrated his forces on the road to ambush and sent detachments to guerrilla attacks as suspicious soldiers. Chen * Liangde said: "According to the governor's words, the two general soldiers Liu Wei and Ma Gui are the main troops to attract the main force of the rebels, and Ma Kongying's general army is secondary. You have the right to hunt. ”

Chen's soldiers were divided into five routes, each with 3,000 roads, with Hu Guifang and Shan Yi each leading one road, and marched forward in order to capture the city and pull out the village. Chen *liang led the way and followed up, and then divided into two roads into two wings to clear the suspected soldiers of the Miao Department, respond to all roads, and cooperate to protect the safety of the Chinese army where Chen *liang is located.

Hu Guifang, the vanguard of the Ming army, led 3,000 troops to Banzhou, and was immediately surrounded by the Miao soldiers led by He Tingyu. In order to make a quick decision without disturbing the advance of the follow-up Ming army, He Tingyu set up two ambush points along the way, first letting Hu Guifang pass through the first ambush safely, and then ambushing the second place so that the rear team of the Ming army could come to reinforce it.

Hu Guifang's troops were ambushed, Miao soldiers shot crossbows and crossbows continuously, and the water was impassable on all sides, Hu Guifang urgently ordered a breakthrough, and the Ming army was repulsed ten times in all directions. The morale of the Ming army collapsed, the fighting spirit declined, and they scattered and fled, in a hurry. Hu Guifang was killed by an arrow, Tusi asked to surrender, He Tingyu ignored it and wanted to rush to another ambush point to wait for the Ming army in the rear, so he was not allowed to surrender, and he was strictly ordered to be killed.

Xuanfu envoy Shan Yi led the team to follow up, and heard Hu Guifang's troops shouting and killing, so he ordered his troops to step up their advance and investigate the enemy's situation in order to rescue. Passing through the mountain pass, the ambush suddenly rose up, projecting countless rockets and torches, pushing down 50 boxes of exploding barrels, and igniting oil-soaked forage hidden in many places. The fire broke out, and the front and back roads were blocked by the fire.

Shan Yi was in a desperate situation, the six gods had no master, and the three thousand Ming army was constantly wailing, He Tingyu said with a smile: "This Chen * Liangzhi army has no way, thousands of troops are advancing lightly against the enemy, and they are defenseless not to mention for the time being, once they are frustrated, they will retreat, and they will lose their will when they are besieged, so how can they not be defeated." He Tingyu ordered to shoot with bows and arrows, and kill all of them as soon as possible, so as to gather the whole army to take Chen * Liang directly.

Seeing the sudden fire in front of him and the thick smoke rising into the sky, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Chen * Liang knew that something was wrong, and urgently ordered the left and right flanks to shrink their forces and join the Chinese army. Chen *liang did not move, and ordered to set up a formation on the spot and line up to meet the enemy. He Tingyu led the whole army to kill Chen * Liang's troops, and reported that there were many Miao soldiers, several times that of the Chinese army. Chen's conscience was afraid, and when the Miao soldiers arrived, the two armies engaged, and the Ming army was overwhelmed after two moments of bloody fighting, and Tusi also took the lead in fleeing. Seeing that he couldn't stop drinking, Chen * Liang turned his horse's head and withdrew with Tusi, and the Ming army was defeated and retreated. Chen * Liang's troops withdrew from Banzhou and no longer spoke of war. He Tingyu collected his troops and returned to the division to join Yang Zhaolong's troops, and the two went to block the offensive of Ma Kongying and Chen Luan's troops respectively.