Broken Teng Gorge, also known as Dateng Gorge, is the place where the Yao people in Guangxi live, located in the lower reaches of the Qianjiang River near Guiping, and is the largest and longest canyon in Guangxi. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were big vines such as fighting, across the river, day and night floating, workers climbed to cross the river, hence the name.

However, in the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, Hou Dagou, the leader of the Yao people in Datengxia, led the Yao people to revolt against the rule of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court sent Han Yong, the imperial historian of the right capital, and Zhao Fu, the governor of the capital, to lead an army of 160,000 to suppress it, and then killed nearly 7,000 Yao people, including Hou Dagou. However, Han Yong felt puzzled and ordered someone to cut off the large vine across the Qianjiang River and renamed the place Broken Teng Gorge. Of course, later generations changed the name of Datengxia back to Datengxia, and also gave Hou Dagou a statue.

The Yao people in the Datengxia area, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, have not been very subject to the rule of the Ming Dynasty. There are many large and small uprisings here, and there are 11 large-scale uprisings in the Ming Dynasty alone. From the nineteenth year of Hongwu to the sixth year of the Apocalypse at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The most legendary thing is that the newly deceased Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youji, his biological mother Empress Xiaomuji, was a Yao girl, and she was also one of the women who were captured in the battle to pacify Datengxia in the first year of Chenghua. After Empress Xiaomuji was captured, she and a group of Yao girls were sent to the palace as trophies and served as palace maids. Then, by chance, Emperor Chenghua was fortunate and gave birth to Emperor Zhu Youzhi of Hongzhi.

However, Empress Xiaomuji's own life is not good. Although her son Zhu Youzhi was protected and survived by the eunuch Zhang Min, he was killed by Wan Guifei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Chenghua, and he did not see the day when his son became the emperor of Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, Zhu Youji, the Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, actually has one-half Yao blood. His son, Zhengde, also has a quarter of Yao ancestry. However, after Zhengde, the Yao lineage of the Ming royal family was interrupted.

Although the emperor had Yao blood, the imperial court was unrelenting in its response to the Yao uprising. Chen Jin was sent as the governor of Liangguang this time to suppress the uprising of the Su (later called Zhuang) and Yao people in Maping and Luorong counties.

This uprising between the Gu and Yao tribes is more tricky, why? Because the main force of the uprising was the Servants. If it is a Yao tribe, the Ming court can also mobilize wolf soldiers who are very capable of fighting to suppress it. However, the wolf soldiers are an army composed of the young people of the Tusi of the Servant Clan. If they suppressed the uprisings of other tribes, such as the Yao, they might be able to work harder. But the main force of this uprising is the same clan of servants, and those wolf soldiers are not very willing to help. Even if there are toasts who are willing to send troops, they will not be killed. After all, it's all one race.

Therefore, although Chen Jin and the chief military officer of Liangguang and Mao Rui, Fuqiang Bo, sent 130,000 troops, they did not have much confidence. Because, most of these 130,000 troops are guards whose combat effectiveness has been reduced too much. As for the most capable Zhuang wolf soldiers, because they can't bear to attack in the face of their own clan, they have some lack of confidence.

Of course, this rebel army, which is a mixture of the Gu and Yao tribes, is not too strong, and the number is only one or two hundred thousand. But the guards were weaker, so Chen Jin had to mobilize 130,000 troops to fight. After all, with the same number of guards, where can they beat the fierce barbarians? Only when the number of people is far exceeded can there be enough confidence.

And the Yao people in the Datengxia area, as well as the young people in other areas, saw the weakness of the Ming Dynasty's army that they had the courage to launch uprisings again and again. However, they didn't know that although the Ming Dynasty guards were not good at fighting, they could win because of the large number of people, and they could be killed by piling up heads......

Chen Jin, the governor of Liangguang, and Mao Rui, the commander-in-chief of Liangguang, and Fuqiang Bo Mao Rui, obviously planned to kill the barbarians of the rebel Gu and Yao tribes by relying on numbers.

However, to be honest, as a civilian official who understands military affairs, Chen Jin also knows very well what the virtues of the Ming Dynasty guards are. It's not as bad as the Southeast Guard, but it's not much better. If it weren't for the fact that there were more battles in Guangxi to quell the uprising of the young people, it is estimated that the guards in Liangguang would have degenerated into scum like the guards in the rich areas in the southeast.

It was precisely because he knew that the guards were useless that Chen Jin was so enthusiastic about the guns offered by the Beihai Kingdom......

Fortunately, Kong Tai was sensible, and knew that Governor Chen was keen on those guns, so he sent him another 10 Franc cannons and 100 arquebuses.

And Chen Jin is also a person who does not drag mud and water, and after providing Kong Tai with the convenience of procurement, he directly hurriedly asked people to send these guns to the front line of the Guangxi Rebellion. Moreover, these guns were all incorporated into the governor's personal barracks directly under the governor.

In this army of 130,000 people, most of them are actually soy sauce. In fact, the only ones that really have combat effectiveness are the commander-in-chief of Liangguang, the pro-military battalion under Mao Rui of Fuqiang Bo, and the pro-military battalion of the governor selected by Mao Rui for Chen Jin. Moreover, the strongest is Mao Rui's pro-military camp, followed by Chen Jin's governor's pro-military barracks.

Here I have to mention the military system of the Ming Dynasty, which mainly implemented the guard system. The general officer of the army is in charge of all the garrison armies in one or two provinces, and the chief military officer, as the military attaché, is subject to the control of the civilian governor.

When there is no war in peacetime, the general soldier generally does not take much care of the soldiers and horses of the guards, and at most he has a hand in the military salary issued from above, or he is in charge of the military camp where the chief military officer is stationed.

In the Ming military guard, there is a very common phenomenon, that is, empty salaries......

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, a guard post generally commanded 5,600 soldiers. But in the middle and late stages, a guard is generally only half staffed, or even less. During the Jiajing period, the reason why the Japanese were able to run rampant in the southeast had a lot to do with the serious shortage of soldiers in the southeast guard. Moreover, the southeast has been peaceful for a long time, and the guards over there are not much training, so they are busy helping the guards and commanders and other bigwigs to farm the land and become farmers......

Guangxi is not as serious as the southeast side, after all, there are often Yao uprisings, Miao uprisings and servant uprisings here. Although some of the uprisings were not very large, they were not peaceful. Therefore, the situation of the guards in Liangguang is better than that in the southeast. Generally, the number of actual soldiers is more than half of the guard.

But when the war was fought, the number of soldiers and horses in the guard post was insufficient, and those who had made enough benefits in normal times would grab some tenants to fill the façade. Therefore, the 130,000 army led by Chen Jin and Mao Rui looked very imposing, and half of them were considered good.

Moreover, even if there are half of the soldiers, there are many old and weak here. In the end, there are at most 30,000 or 40,000 people who can actually fight. Therefore, to suppress the uprising of the young people, this side relies heavily on the help of wolf soldiers.

But the wolf soldiers are mainly from the Servants, but the main force of this uprising is the Servants. Therefore, this time, Chen Jin was limited in his ability to get help from the wolf soldiers. Many toasts, although they sent troops to help, most of them were also going through the motions. Only a small number of poor toasters, greedy for the rewards of the imperial court, are more hardworking.

Therefore, this time the Ming army mainly had to rely on itself.

The two battalions with the strongest combat effectiveness in the army, the commander-in-chief pro-barracks and the governor-general's pro-barracks, were actually personally selected by Mao Rui, the commander-in-chief of the two Guangxi soldiers.

As the chief military officer, Mao Rui naturally knew that his subordinates were tired of the guards. Therefore, when the army gathered in Wuzhou, Mao Rui specially selected 3,000 elites from the 130,000 army and divided them into two battalions, one as his own personal battalion, and the other was mainly responsible for guarding Chen Jin, the governor of Liangguang. After all, in this battle, if Chen Jin, the governor of Liangguang as his boss, had an accident, even if he won the battle, Mao Rui would not be able to eat and walk around. What's more, the supreme commander of the 130,000-strong army is actually Chen Jin, not Mao Rui, the military attaché. Therefore, it was obviously necessary to mobilize the most elite soldiers into the governor's personal barracks.

Of course, Mao Rui must have put the strongest battalion of soldiers and horses by his side. His pro-military battalion is the strongest in combat effectiveness. Chen Jin's pro-military battalion, although it is also good, is not as strong as the combat effectiveness of the general pro-military battalion. In fact, the Governor's personal barracks has the greatest task of protecting the Governor's safety. As for Mao Rui's general army and personal battalion, there is a great possibility that he will go into battle and charge......