The reason why the Ming court suppressed the rebellion this time and mobilized 130,000 troops is reasonable. Because, the rebels (Zhuang) who launched the uprising were the main source of the Ming wolf soldiers.

As the main source of wolf soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Gu warriors is naturally relatively strong. It's not as good as the authentic wolf soldiers, but it's almost there. Therefore, despite the uprising that broke out in Ma Ping and Luo Rong this time, the number of rebel troops was only one or two thousand, and there were many old and weak. But after all, these people are the same clan as the wolf soldiers, and their combat effectiveness must far exceed that of the same number of Ming Dynasty guards. Therefore, the court attaches great importance to this battle.

After Chen Jin arrived in Wuzhou, where the governor of Liangguang was located, he immediately mobilized his troops and horses from Guangzhou to Liuzhou, the seat of the rebellion.

At that time, the government of Liuzhou Prefecture was located in Maping County, not Liucheng. In other words, a large-scale uprising broke out in the Liuzhou Prefecture. Up to now, Maping County, where Liuzhou is located, is still surrounded by the rebel army.

This uprising was actually triggered by the oppression of the local Yao and Yao people by the Liuzhou government. Of course, there is also Yaomin's provocation.

For example, in this uprising, the leader of the rebel army of the Gu tribe was Huang Wenlong, which is nothing. The leader of the Yao rebel army that echoed the rebel rebellion of the servants was called Zheng Yunhu, who was the cousin of Zheng Ang, the remnant leader of the Hou Dagou Righteous Army in the first year of Chenghua. After the failure of the Datengxia Uprising led by Hou Dagou, Zheng Ang and Hu Gonghui led the Yaomin Rebellion and persisted until the eighth year of Chenghua (1472).

After the defeat, Zheng Ang and Hu Gonghui's surviving descendants and relatives all fled into the mountains and hid. Zheng Ang's nephew, Zheng Yunhu, fled to the countryside in Liuzhou Prefecture, north of Datengxia. When he escaped from Datengxia, Zheng Yunhu was still a child. But now, more than 30 years later, Zheng Yunhu is already middle-aged.

Originally, the local Yu people in Liuzhou did not plan to revolt. The cause of the incident was that the officials of Liuzhou Mansion went to the countryside to urge the payment of taxes, and as a result, a widow in the village hanged herself because she could not pay the taxes and was frightened by the officials......

Under normal circumstances, the people of the village will go to the government to make trouble. But Zheng Yunhu, who was a remnant of Datengxia and lived in seclusion nearby, saw an opportunity, and he led people to kill those officials who went to the countryside to collect taxes in the name of revenge, wearing the clothes of the servants......

This is a hornet's nest, the Ming Dynasty pursued imperial Han doctrine and looked down on other ethnic groups. Now that the Han officials were actually killed by the "barbarians" in the Shaomin village, isn't this a provocation to the imperial court?

So, the Liuzhou government sentenced Sang Yue and was in charge of the lawsuits of the first government, so he sent a large number of officials to the village to order the other party to hand over the murderer. However, this thing was not done by the people in the village at all, where did they hand over people?

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, Zheng Yunhu led a group of Yao people to kill, and in the name of rescuing the brothers of the village, he killed the officials of the government and successfully dragged the village into the water.

After learning the news, the Liuzhou Mansion immediately mobilized a large group of people to go to the village, but it was still a step too late - Zheng Yunhu had already convened a meeting of the nearby villages to discuss the plan of rebellion......

The servants were already fierce, and in the face of the hundreds of soldiers and horses transferred by the government, they easily repelled them. Later, a number of local villages jointly elected Huang Wenlong, the most prestigious hunter among the villagers, as the leader of the 72 villages, raising more than 10,000 troops to officially launch an uprising. And Zheng Yunhu also took the opportunity to gather two or three thousand Yao people nearby and joined the rebel army.

10,000 rebels marched to Maping County, where Liuzhou was located, and surrounded it. It's a pity that there is Liuzhou Wei in Maping County. When the rebel army was busy gathering soldiers and horses from various villages, the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Liuzhou Wei retreated back to Maping County from the periphery and concentrated on defending the city.

The guards of the Liuzhou Guard are the border guards, and the combat effectiveness is maintained well. If it was in the field, it would have been easily defeated by the servant rebel army.

However, this time they were defending the city. Therefore, despite the disadvantage in numbers, the guards of Liuzhou Wei were able to withstand the combined rebel army of the Su and Yao tribes. This is mainly because these brute soldiers composed of servants and Yao people are good at fighting in the field and in the mountains and forests, but they are not proficient in siege. In addition, there were Liuzhou guards in Maping County, so they failed to break through Maping County.

Huang Wenlong and Zheng Yunhu saw that this could not be done, so they simply moved to Luorong County on the edge of Maping County, and broke through Luorong County, killed the officials in the city, and used it as the base camp of the rebel army.

Now it's a big deal......

If the rebel army was only rampant in the countryside and was at most regarded as a rogue by the imperial court, perhaps the local chief military officer would mobilize soldiers and horses from nearby guards to encircle and suppress them.

However, occupying the county seat and killing the officials of the imperial court is a slap in the face of the imperial court. If you don't die tenderly, it will damage the majesty of the court......

Therefore, after urgent deliberation, the Ming court sent Chen Jin, who had the experience of suppressing Mengyang Tusi Silu in Yunnan, as the governor of Liangguang, the governor of Liangguang soldiers and horses, and wolf soldiers to jointly suppress the rebellion of the servants and Yao people who dared to slap the face of the court......

However, Guangxi was a remote and barbaric area in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and its economy was very poor. But next door to Guangdong, because of the tributary trade, is a place of abundant taxes.

Therefore, the imperial court gave Chen Jin the post of governor of Guangdong, which was to give Chen Jin the right to go to the more prosperous Guangdong to prepare the money and food needed for the army to go on the expedition.

In order to gather enough grain and grass for the 130,000 army, Chen Jinzuo asked to withhold more than 200,000 taels of silver from the inventory that the imperial court originally planned to collect from Liangguang as the military expenses for the 130,000 army expedition.

It was during the period when Guangdong raised the money and food needed for the 130,000 army that Chen Jin happened to watch the teaching of the use of the Franc cannon and arquebus in Beihai Kingdom. Then, the Fran cannons and arquebuses of the Beihai Kingdom left a deep impression on Chen Jin. It was on that occasion that Comté sent him 10 Furlong cannons and 100 arquebuses.

Originally, under normal circumstances, Chen Jin would never accept a gift from a ghost of unknown origin. But Chen Jin happened to be in charge of encircling and suppressing the rebels and Yao people uprising this time, so he naturally hoped that the stronger the army, the better.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the rebel army of the Gu tribe is similar to the wolf soldiers valued by the imperial court. In order to be safe, Chen Jin naturally hoped that the stronger the imperial army, the better. Therefore, he simply accepted Kong Tai's gift, and specially used the right to make a decision in his hand to open a back door for Kong Tai......

And this time to suppress the uprising of the servants and Yao people, these Franc machine guns and arquebuses were also used by Chen Jin in the governor's personal barracks. In order to make better use of these guns, Chen Jin specially brought veterans who had learned the operation methods of the Franco machine gun and arquebus from the Beihai gunners and musketeers from the Guangzhou avant-garde to train his own soldiers in the use of them.

In order to make better use of these Franc cannons and arquebuses, Chen Jin specially selected a group of experienced artillerymen and three-eyed gunners from the guards to receive training in the use of Franc cannons and arquebuses. Sure enough, these well-established gunners and musketeers quickly learned how to use the Franco cannon and arquebus, and were ready to fight against the rebel army of the servants and Yaomin......