Everyone saw that Zhang Jing'an began to say that everything was good and obeyed the arrangement, but if he really wanted to speak, he rejected everyone's opinions, and everyone was unhappy and secretly agreed with his attitude, at least not to please people who gave up their principles, such people are worthy of trust.

Zhu Xieyuan nodded and said: "In the north, we mainly retreat, drag and entangle the enemy's main force, and there should not be much obstacle left in the west, and we can indeed go straight to the Wujiang River in one go, and there will be a lot of trouble, ♀ one is to fight for land, and the other is to fight for people, we will push the defense line west to the Wujiang River, not only can occupy more land, but also move more people, this method of both people and land is good, I express my support." ”

Zhang Jing'an said: "Lord Zhu doesn't know, not only people and land but also people and money, Zhao Zongbing is saying that the area east of Guiyang is not enough to settle people, after our army has advanced to the west for dozens of miles, a lot of borderless land has naturally become official land, Zhao Zongbing's people can sell silver as soon as they build a regular order?" I heard that many people had asked to buy and rent land from him, but he was a little too busy. "When they heard that they could sell more money, everyone's eyes lit up, and the power of this money was not inferior to swords and guns at any time.

Cai Fuyi, who is also the governor of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, asked: "Zhang Zongbing's reasonableness is admirable, this is said in the north and west, Zhang Zongbing will talk about what to do in Yunnan?" Do you continue north to the Niupa River and the Kedu River or retreat to Qujing? How to reply to An Xiaoliang? ”

Zhang Jing'an thought for a while and asked: "If An Xiaoliang rebels again, what real harm can he do to the Ming army?" ”

Cai Fuyi said: "An Xiaoliang is very prestigious in the Wusa and Dongchuan areas, but his troops are not large enough to threaten any troops in Yunnan or Guizhou, and we were most afraid that An Xiaoliang would allow An Bangyan and Hao Chongming to pass through his territory to the west, where there are more Yi and Miao people in the Wumeng Mountains and Daliang Mountains." More people may be gathered there, and when the time comes, relying on the mountains and rivers to invade Xuzhou and Yuejun in the north, and Dali can be threatened to the south, and it will be even more difficult to pacify at that time. ”

Zhang Jing'an said: "Yes, how can such an important place be sent to a rebellious toast?" I think that the army in Yunnan must go north along the Niuba River, cut Wusa and Dongchuan in half, cut off their connections, and cut off the rebels' way to flee west. In the past, we still had An Xiaoliang to lead the rebels to obstruct us when we did not complete the encirclement, but now An Bangyan and the main force of the rebels of Xuan Chongming are attacking Yongning, how can such a golden opportunity be missed? Now that it has been decided to completely abolish the Tusi system, it will give people the feeling of backsliding back on their word, and I know that the Yi and Miao people value their promises the most, and it is better to speak out about them. ”

Gao Di thought for a while and said: "Since this is the case, let's continue to march into the army, and at the same time, we still have to appease An Xiaoliang, but I don't know what conditions to appease me, this is a comprehensive consideration of the imperial court, and we can't decide that we must ask for an order without authorization." ”

If you want to appease people, you either give real money or let the high-ranking officials be generous, neither of these things are high-ranking high-ranking things, and An Xiaoliang rebelled again in anger. An Xiaoliang was opposed when he was clearly informed by Gao Di that the Tusi system must be abolished, and he was angry that these Ming people were so shameless that they actually said that the official position promised by the ancestor was abolished, which made him almost blow up his stomach. What makes him even more angry is that the Ming people say that they will be abolished and there is no compensation measure, which is like a person who has been a big official for a long time and suddenly has no reason to be pushed to the end, and the loss and grief are not experienced by ordinary people.

An Xiaoliang still wanted to sincerely return to the imperial court at the beginning, after all, the hereditary iron rice bowl is not easy to find, and the area around Emperor Tiangao Yuanwusa is his own world, but because he had colluded with An Bangyan to rebel a few years ago, although the prodigal son turned back later, it was also a stain, and he also thought that this was the reason why the imperial court wanted to break his iron rice bowl. It is not easy for a person who betrays and returns to obedience and betrayal, and no one dares to guarantee that such a person will not betray himself by a short-circuit in his brain at some point, and An Xiaoliang also sent someone to Zhijin to contact him when he decided to rebel again, but no one responded to him.

Originally, An Bangyan and Hao Chongming had been persuading An Xiaoliang, telling him that the territory of Yunnan and Guizhou should be decided by their locals, and this persuasion had never stopped even if An Xiaoliang began to rebel and later returned to the imperial court, but An Xiaoliang never agreed. When An Xiaoliang now felt threatened and wanted to unite with An Bangyan and Hao Chongming, those two people went to Yongning, hundreds of miles away, to create a base, and there was no one in charge in the Zhijin area. An Xiaoliang had no way to go northwest to Shuixi to find An Wei for help, but An Wei was noncommittal about whether to reinforce An Xiaoliang.

Anwei's father An Yaochen was appointed by the imperial court to serve as the Shuixi Xuanzhi, and after his father's death, he inherited the position of Shuixi Xuanxuan, but he was too young at the time and no one looked at him, and all the big and small affairs were taken care of by his mother Shehui≥ Shehui is the sister of Luxue Chongming, although she is very capable, but after all, she is a woman, and the outside affairs are handled by Anwei's clan uncle An Bangyan. An Bangyan was originally a fellow acquaintance of Shuixi Xuan, and after the death of his brother, his nephew was naturally in power, and he could do whatever he wanted

Extravagant Chongming colluded together to do whatever he wanted, and he was very complacent, and he didn't take Anwei, the titular Shuixi Propaganda Envoy, in his eyes.

It stands to reason that An Bangyan and Luxe Chongming are Anwei's clan uncle and the other is Anwei's uncle, and the three of them should be very close, but the actual situation is that Anwei and An Bangyan and Luxury Chongming have a bad relationship. In the early years, the two brothers and sisters of Luxury Shehui and Luxury Chongming had a dispute over the territory of Shuixi and Yongning, and later when Luxury Chongming rebelled, Luxury Shehui did not agree to the Shuixi army to rebel with him, but only participated later under the forced request of An Bangyan, so the relationship between the two brothers and sisters of Luxury Shehui and Luxury Chongming was not as good as the relationship between An Bangyan and Luxury Chongming.

After An Bangyan mastered the military power in Shuixi, he didn't put An Wei's mother and son in his eyes, which made An Wei's young heart plant the seeds of hatred, but it was buried deep and no one found out, and now An Xiaoliang came to ask for help, he didn't want to follow An Bangyan's path, but only perfunctory An Xiaoliang did not make specific promises. An Xiaoliang did not get angry at An Wei because he had no time and no way, he calculated according to the intelligence that the Ming army had almost passed through Lishan to Zhanyi, if he did not act and let the Ming army advance to the side of the crossable river, he would not be able to move and let anyone slaughter him, so he hastily gathered more than 8,000 people to take the lead in crossing the river and prepared to give the Ming army a head-on blow.

In addition to the remaining troops scattered in Qujing, Xundian, and Wuding, the Ming army in Yunnan sent about 20,000 soldiers to march north in two routes, one along the Niuba River to the north to prepare to cut off the connection between Wusa and Dongchuan, and all the way from Qujing all the way north around Lishan and through Zhanyi to prepare to advance directly to the Kedu River, forming a semi-encirclement of An Xiaoliang along the other road, prompting him to obey the orders of the imperial court and monitor him to avoid An Bangyan and the Ming rebels from fleeing westward.

Who knows that An Xiaoliang is a tough temper, although he has been forced to take advantage of the form of opportunism and improvisation, but he is a person who adheres to principles, his principle is to hold the iron rice bowl handed down from his ancestors, and to pass it on from generation to generation, if anyone wants to break his iron rice bowl, he will smash someone's head.

The Ming army that went north and the Usa army who went south met in the north of Zhanyi City, surrounded by a plateau without any shelter of any favorable terrain, and the angry soldiers on both sides had no extra language, because they were different positions and ethnic groups and the language was not very comprehensible, the two sides immediately drew their knives and began to communicate after a short period of surprise at this unexpected encounter. In terms of numbers, everyone is about the same, and the Ming army is about 8,000 people because of the division of troops, but the Usa army has the upper hand at the beginning because of the anger and courage to fight hard.

The reason for the anger of the Usa army is that they heard that the army wants to destroy their homeland, and the encounter on the road proves that this rumor is not unfounded, so the Usa army has a reason for anger and the courage generated by anger. The Ming army was also angry later, we received the order to go to the river to hold on, you actually dare to ambush here, could it be that you have eaten the gall of the leopard? The consequence of the anger of the Ming army was not to rush and kill without fear of death like the Usa army, but to be more calm. Fighting on the plateau is similar to fighting on the plains, there is no place to hide, and you can't turn around and run to leave your back to the enemy to cut, although the Ming army does not flee or hide, anger and anger can not be transformed into strength, but the Ming army has advanced weapons that are muskets.

After suffering a certain number of sacrifices, the Ming army finally lined up the musket array, although it was the rainy season in June, but this day was cloudless, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the wind was blowing on the plateau, and the climate was pleasant, which was suitable for killing people and setting fires. When rows of muskets rang out, the high-spirited Usa's army fell to the ground in rows like a farmer's harvest crops, and the balance of war tilted in favor of the Ming army with the intervention of high-tech weapons.

In the face of the muskets of the Ming army, An Xiaoliang was not cowardly, he had to fight for the iron rice bowl of himself and his ancestors and descendants, and when he personally held the broadsword and led the last group of Wusa's disciples to fall on the way forward, the battle ended.

A few days later, almost at the same time, Guiyang Gaodi and An Bangyan outside Yongning City received the news that An Xiaoliang's soldiers had been defeated and died, but one was overjoyed and the other was in a heavy mood. Seeing that he had no worries, Gao Di praised the Yunnan army in a letter and asked them to immediately change their original plan to cross the river to occupy Wusa, and to quickly occupy the passes east of Wusa to prevent An Bangyan and Hao Chongming rebels from attacking. Wusa is surrounded by high mountains and plateaus, and the terrain in Shuixi and Zhijin is lower than that of Wusa, and there is no problem for the Ming army to defend condescendingly.

Zhang Jing'an and Xu Chengming did not wait, they each led 30,000 people from east to west to go straight to the edge of the Wujiang River, and Zhao led the people to escort the materials to clean up the people from Guiyang to the Wujiang River, and requisitioned and transferred the young and suspicious people to other places to do things, and the remaining old and weak women and children were temporarily distributed with March food, so as to prevent anyone from making trouble.

At the end of June, the Wujiang River was very urgent, and it was impossible for ordinary people to cross it easily, so the Ming army carried out a tight defense at the ferries along the Yachi River and the Sancha River, and chose the route to build a military station along the Wujiang River, which meant that they did not plan to leave if they stopped.

An Wei also knew the news, the rebellion in Guizhou in the past few years was also a few years of his growth, and now he is no longer young and has a certain judgment, so he deployed troops at various ferries on the other side of the Wujiang River in advance to prevent himself from becoming the next An Xiaoliang.