Extravagant Chongming turned out to be the hereditary Tusi of Yongning, he was originally a Yi people who wanted to establish a country of their own, and his ambition was not small, but it was easy to do bad things if too big ambition did not match too little strength. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. Judging from the chaos of the Ming Dynasty at that time and the troops he could mobilize, if he had united with the Tusi of Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to occupy Yunnan in the south earlier, it was not impossible for him to build a country like Dali with foreign aid according to the dangerous pass, but he was too big and wanted to go it alone to capture the whole Sichuan in one fell swoop, and kill officials and rebel in the early years of the Apocalypse, it would be beyond his ability.

However, luxury Chongming is not a brainless person, in the early years of the Apocalypse, he killed the governor of Chongqing and other officials in Chongqing in the name of sending troops to reinforce Liaodong, and then led his subordinates with his son and son-in-law to capture Hejiang, Luzhou, Zunyi, and built a pseudo-Liang country.

Sichuan military and civilians unite to defend the city to get the law, a long time to attack Chengdu will become a fight to consume him and can not fight, after the arrival of reinforcements from all walks of life, he had to wave Yongning's nest, and then even Yongning did not hold until he was defeated and retreated to the water An Bangyan to survive, his pseudo-court officials, including his relatives who did not escape, were all cut down, and it was considered to be a chicken steal not a loss of rice. Although An Bangyan said that he was as good as a brother and had nothing to say to him, he thought that after all, he was living in a foreign country, and after living for a long time, there would naturally be suspicions and contradictions, so he always wanted to go back to his hometown.

An Bangyan also agreed with Luxury Chongming's idea, although the relationship between the two was iron, but he was also afraid of the test of time, and he was also afraid that Luxury Chongming's dove would occupy the magpie's nest and guard against three points at all times☆ At first, both of them suffered defeat in the hands of the Ming army, like a wounded cat and dog, they hid and nursed their wounds, and later saw that they were strong and strong, and gradually had ambition and confidence, and the two hit it off with the plan to attack Yongning, and immediately set the counterattack on Yongning as an agenda.

A few days ago, An Bangyan sent to Guiyang to listen to the real and personal guards met the Ming army in the mountains to inspect and explore the way, but they were not able to bargain when they were outnumbered, which made An Bangyan and Luxury Chongming unanimously believe that these people were the elite soldiers of the Ming army. They also came to a conclusion that the elite soldiers of the Ming army were in the east, and as long as they held the Wujiang River, the Ming army would definitely not be able to cross the river, and they could take advantage of the emptiness in the north and south of the Ming army to conquer Yongning in one fell swoop, which was a God-given opportunity not to be missed.

An Bangyan and Hao Chongming did not hesitate to mobilize all the troops, leaving only some to guard the riverside, and the others came to the Chishui River day and night, built a pontoon bridge to cross the river at the bend shoal near Bijie, and then approached Yongning. On the way, several small groups of Ming troops were caught and killed by the rebels, and the Ming troops along the way were mostly patrol troops of more than a dozen or dozens of people, and at most they were more than 100 troops who encountered later to inquire and confirm the news, so it was not until less than 100 miles away from Yongning that the Ming army found out.

Qin Liangyu did not panic after getting the exact news, she thought that it was not wise to fight with tens of thousands of rebels with less than 10,000 troops in her hands now, but fleeing in a hurry was not her style, and it was easy for the rebels to chase and kill all the way, which was not conducive to timely deployment of troops to guard the main road to contain the enemy. She first sent people to hold on to the mountain pass leading to Yongning and went in and out to carry out the strategy of doubtful troops, and when the enemy was suspicious of standing still, she dispatched troops to fortify along the way, and finally retreated step by step to lure the enemy deeper. While entangled the enemy, she reported to the Guiyang camp to see what Gao Di and the others were planning.

Gao Di was not easy at this time, he had just set to attack from the north and south and then took the opportunity to advance from east to west, who knew that the enemy was caught off guard first as if he knew in advance, and took the lead in sending troops across the Chishui River to attack Yongning. It would not be a big deal if it was really just an invasion of Yongning, but now An Xiaoliang of Usa's came with a letter in which he was very polite, asking why the Ming army was marching from the south to the north, whether it was to destroy him or whether it was distrustful of him. Gao Di saw that Qin Liangyu was in a hurry, and thought that these two sides had become enemies on both sides, so he asked someone to notify the military generals in Guiyang to come to discuss the matter.

Early this morning, everyone came to Gao Jingluo's camp, and after giving each other a hasty salute, they sat down to listen to Gao Di's arrangement, Gao Di coughed lightly and said: "Time is urgent, we go directly to the topic, according to the Sichuan general soldier Qin Liangyu report, An Bangyan and the extravagant Chongming rebels have now crossed the Chishui River to attack Yongning, the preliminary estimate is that the enemy is about 50,000 or more∝ the general army first shrunk the original Yongning defenders who were defending everywhere more than 10,000 people to stick to the main road, and later transferred about 20,000 reinforcements from Luzhou and other places, and are retreating step by step to entangle the enemy, General Qin asked if we should send people from Guiyang to surround the enemy and annihilate them on the spot, or if she would send Sichuan troops from Chongqing and other places to reinforce them. ”

After Gao Di's words were finished, according to the usual practice, the generals all looked blankly at the governor, the supervisor and other civilian officials, waiting for them to speak, Gao Di said unhappily: "In addition to An Bangyan and the rebel prisoner Yongning, An Xiaoliang of Wusa may have discovered that my Yunnan troops are heading north along the Niuba River, and asked me if they want to encircle and annihilate him. Second, has Yunnan completed the task of encirclement? Third, did the troops along the Maoqiao River advance westward as planned? Tell me about it from a military point of view. ”

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Xu Chengming, the chief soldier of Guizhou, said: "We will only do things according to the intentions of your adults, and if we want to make an idea, it is to catch ducks on the shelves. ”

After talking to Zhao Shujiao, Zhang Jingan also knows the importance of popularity, this civil official has a good face, you respect them is always right, otherwise, you may not be able to say that you are arrogant and arrogant at a critical moment one day, and the credit you earned from birth and death will be discounted or lost, so he also followed Xu Chengming and said: "Yes, each of these people has their own responsibilities, you are strategizing and looking forward to us, our strength is that we have more time to deal with the soldiers below, and it is most appropriate for everyone to learn from each other." ”

In the past, the Ming officialdom paid attention to the absolute use of civil power, and no matter how high the status of the military generals was, they would be three points shorter when they met civil officials, because the emperor and the ministers understood that the civil officials who had received the education of sages and sages such as monarchs and ministers, fathers, fathers and sons since childhood, their loyalty was higher than that of military generals who believed in force from a young age. The rebels of all dynasties were military generals such as An Lushan and Zhu Wen, while civil officials such as Duke Zhou, Huo Guang, Zhuge Liang, and Zhang Juzheng could show their loyalty even if they held absolute power. In addition to being able to stand on the moral high ground and condescendingly suppress military generals, civilian officials can also use unpaid wages, lack of food, and lack of weapons to blackmail military generals, and military generals can generally only swallow their anger.

Later, Tianqi felt that there was a problem with this, and the policy of using civil and military forces inherited from the Song Dynasty could indeed ensure that no one was in chaos internally, but when encountering foreign invasion or barbarian rebellion, the military generals would also lose their fighters because they were accustomed to obeying the arrangements of civilian officials in everything. The blood on the civil officials themselves should also be less, and those like Liu Chan and Meng Chang who have hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands but want to surrender to tens of thousands of people will only appear in the second ancestor who has been happy for a long time, even if they do not surrender like Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, there are not a few people who are so frightened by a few words of intimidation from the enemy that they hurry to send money and land, and the courage of dozens of people like the founding ancestor to dare to go up the mountain to fight guerrillas has long since ceased to exist.

In order to change this situation, Tianqi ordered the equality of civil and military personnel, of course, in order to take care of the convention, it is stipulated that when military generals and civilian officials meet, they should be compared with a lower grade, for example, Xu Chengming, Zhang Jing'an and other second-rank generals are compared with Gao Di, Cai Fuyi and other second-grade civil officials, although the grade is the same, but it is still slightly lower than the truth. Now Zhang Jingan and Xu Chengming consciously put their identities very low, so that Gao Di, Zhu Xieyuan, Cai Fuyi and others are very satisfied, and they are willing to discuss harmony and harmony. Aren't people in officialdom just touting each other and making everyone comfortable? If you have to speak out at any time to show that you are superior, you are either a villain, or you are stupid.

Gao Di said: "What we mean is that Yunnan will temporarily retreat, so as not to provoke An Xiaoliang to rebel again, and it will not be beautiful to be attacked on both sides at that time." On the Yongning side, Qin Liangyu, Qin's general army and Luzhou's reinforcements were only 30,000, and most of the troops defending the city were not accustomed to field battles, so it was better to transfer the troops around Guiyang to solve the enemy in one fell swoop, so that perhaps the rebellion in Guizhou could be determined. But that's just our thoughts, don't just follow them blindly, but start from your own experience and share your insights. ”

Zhang Jing'an asked: "May I ask Lord Gao, is the plan for the Guiyang troops to withdraw the westward into Wujiang still implemented?" ”

Gao Di said: "We have estimated, if Xu Zongbing's people are taken away to Yongning to annihilate the enemy, only 50,000 people in the hands of Zhang Zongbing are left who can fight, and it is barely possible to defend on the front line from Guiyang to Zunyi, but if you really want to concentrate and advance westward, if there is a flash in Guiyang, it will be an empty city, ♀ although the main force of An Bangyan and Hao Chongming went to Yongning, but who knows if they will make a false shot, and hit the calculation of attacking the east and the west?" If they really want to let them capture Guiyang, destroy the grain and grass, and cut off the passage between Guizhou and Huguang, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, Mu Tianbo will be in danger, and a few of us will definitely be punished at that time, not to mention that this counterinsurgency will be more difficult. ”

Zhang Jing'an said: "My idea is not to save Yongning, let the general army of Qin fight and retreat to attract the enemy, even if it is a last resort to give up Yongning and retreat to Luzhou, there is no need to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place." Our army in Guiyang does not need to do anything step by step, directly west to the Wujiang River to guard the Sancha River and Yachi River and other ferries, we are not good to pass, the enemy is not easy to come, as long as we stand firm on the Wujiang River to quell the rebellion, even if we have completed half ♀ of the work, it can be regarded as supporting the Qin general army on the side, if the rebels are still in Yongning and do not retreat, we will send troops to cross the river to destroy their old nest and move out of the people inside, to see how long An Bangyan and Hao Chongming can jump without their old nest. ”

Zhu Xieyuan asked at this time: "It is indeed safer for General Zhang to say this, but will there be danger on General Qin's side?" Do you want her to transfer Chongqing reinforcements to the south? ”

Zhang Jing'an said: "General Qin is used to using troops, and besides, there should be no danger to her 30,000 people against more than 50,000 people, even if the enemy is 100,000 people pouring out to attack Yongning, General Qin will slowly hold on and slowly retreat to drag the enemy It should be no problem, just to tell her that she can make a plan to retreat to Luzhou if she preserves her strength." ”