Chapter 31 Dingxi (3)
The current Li Xin is not comparable to a few days ago, the more than 20,000 native soldiers he surrendered have expanded to nearly 50,000, and the native soldiers who were fooled by him are like drinking chicken blood, and the excited North can't be found. After dividing the land, money, and grain, Li Xin said, you have divided these property, who gave it to you, that is the emperor, why An Bangyan is rebelling now, is because you robbed his relatives of their property, and now he wants to take it back, are you willing to send the property back again, and then wait to cut off the head? If you don't want to, you can organize and become a militia, and you don't need to go to the front line to fight desperately, the war is the matter of the imperial army led by Lord Sun and Lord Qi, you can follow me to carry food for the two adults, watch the prisoners, and divide the fields and food for your relatives and friends. So Hula suddenly, Li Xin's team expanded to 50,000, Li Xin's 2,000 personal soldiers were divided into five waves, each wave of 400 people led 10,000 native soldiers, and it became the logistics troops of Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin.
Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin had no worries, and they rushed forward lightly, and within ten days they had approached Guiyang, reorganized their men and horses, set up camp, and prepared to find a suitable terrain and way to defeat An Bangyan's men and horses in one fell swoop. The terrain of Guizhou is very unsuitable for large army operations, as the saying goes, "the sky is sunny for three days, and the land is flat for three miles", which means that the natural environment is harsh, especially the weather changes have a very large impact on the musketeers.
An Bangyan is very annoyed now, he has besieged Guiyang for fifteen days, Guiyang City is still as stable as a rock, and they don't go out of the city to fight, they just stick to the city. In fact, he didn't know that in history, he besieged Guiyang City for nine months and did not defeat it, the attack ability of the native soldiers was too poor, not to mention that this time it was Zhu Youxiao's order, not allowed to attack, solid defense, and it was the imperial army that surrounded and annihilated the rebels head-on.
An Bangyan was overjoyed to get that the imperial army only had 30,000 reinforcements, and decided to mobilize all the main forces to defeat the reinforcements in one fell swoop, and then Guiyang City must be demoralized, so that he could take advantage of the situation to go down the city. So An Bangyan mobilized 100,000 native soldiers to the north to meet the troops of Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin. The two armies met at a place ten miles east of Xiuwen City, An Bangyan relied on the men and horses to be more than three times that of Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin, in a vain attempt to disperse the imperial army in one fell swoop, so he adopted a backwater battle, and the 100,000 army crossed the river and set up camp, because the front was a rare open land, which was just suitable for the impact of the brigade.
And the reason why Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin chose to camp here is also because the terrain in front is open, which is convenient for artillery shooting, and behind the river is the primeval forest (that is, the wildlife reserve of later generations), and they are also afraid that An Bangyan will break into the forest, so it will be difficult to clear it.
On December 25, the first year of the Apocalypse, the weather was very good on this day, and Guizhou ushered in a rare good weather. Unfortunately, on this day, Sun Chengzong and Qi Jin's 30,000 troops were facing off against An Bangyan's 100,000 troops. The imperial army had already set up a strong camp and was waiting for the onslaught of the rebels, the mortars had already measured the target, and the firing rifles had been loaded.
An Bangyan saw that the imperial army's army was in a defensive position, thinking that it was weak and weak, and did not dare to fight head-on, so he first sent 10,000 people to attack tentatively. The 10,000 native soldiers rushed up one by one under the leadership of a toast, and after entering the range of a hundred paces, the musketeers began to shoot, and the native soldiers saw that as long as there was smoke on the top of the village, a person would fall on the "bang" side, and with the continuous sound of "bang", a piece of native soldiers fell under the wall, and in less than a quarter of an hour, nearly a thousand people fell. Although the native soldiers had also seen the Ming army's birds, they did not expect that they could die at such a distance, and when they approached the stockade, suddenly there was a loud "bang, bang, bang", and the dead were as fast as cutting rice and wheat, and their hearts were about to collapse. Tusi, who was standing in command in the back, was killed by a gunner with a single shot from a distance of 200 paces, and in an instant the whole attack collapsed, and he retreated like a splash of water, and the Ming army did not pursue.
An Bangyan, who thought he had found out the truth, then 100,000 troops rushed together, trying to succeed in one blow, and then the trick happened, just when the rebel soldiers were one hundred and fifty steps away from Dazhai, the door of the Ming army was wide open, and rows of musketeers rushed out. At the same time, the mortars of the Ming army, the "two kicks" small cannon began to sound in unison, and in an instant the entire battlefield was covered by shells, the "two kicks" small cannon covered an area of about five feet, and the coverage area of the mortar was about one zhang square, where did the local soldiers see this kind of formation, the previous was nothing more than an iron ball rolling over and crushing a piece to death, that there were traces to follow, and they could dodge, and now the shells fell directly from the sky, killing a piece, and there was no place to hide, how terrifying it was!
In the binoculars, Qi Jin saw An Bangyan, and directly ordered ten mortars to bombard, after the artillery platoon, An Bangyan's body was gone, the commander was killed, and the native soldiers collapsed immediately. There were earth-shattering shouts around him, "Kill An Bangyan, the slaves will divide the fields", "Hurry up and put down the gun, don't die or be injured", "Follow the court, the people are rich", needless to say that this is Li Xin's masterpiece again.
The 100,000 rebels led by An Bangyan collapsed under the bombardment of mortars and "two-kick" small cannons, and they raised their hands to surrender under the temptation of Li Xin's slogan before the volley of musketeers, and all the troops were wiped out in less than an hour. Counting the results of the battle, the losses of the Ming army are still negligible, except for a few unlucky eggs who were lost and shot, they broke their feet and twisted their waists, and they were all right at all; On the rebel side, An Bangyan was blown up by the platoon artillery commanded by Qi Jin, and the 100,000 rebels were killed and wounded less than 5,000.
The captives were still handed over to Li Xin to deal with, in addition to fooling himself, this guy also let his subordinates who tasted the sweetness, that is, the native soldiers he subdued, do ideological work, which is too simple, one day of effort, Li Xin's army, that is, the militia team, expanded to 100,000 people, and then Li Xin took the 100,000 militiamen to fight the toast and divide the fields.
In Guiyang City, Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou, respectfully saluted Sun Chengzong: "My lord is really a god descending from heaven. An Bangyan rebelled 100,000 and besieged Guiyang for more than half a month, and the lower officials were helpless. As soon as the adults arrived, it was like rolling soup and pouring snow, and the rebels collapsed in an instant, which really made the lower officials admire and fell to the ground. ”
"Lord Wang is polite, this is not the credit of the old man, long live Hongfu, bow down to the soldiers with their lives, and Lord Qi has a good command to destroy this young generation. Lord Wang guards the city day and night, and it is also quite hard, and the old man will report to the emperor to ask for merit for the lord. Sun Chengzong didn't take credit, and also carried Qi Jin out, feeling that Wang Sanshan did not mention Qi Jin, for fear that Wang Sanshan would be rude.
Wang Sanshan really didn't look down on Qi Jin, because in the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials of the fourth rank could reprimand the military generals of the second rank. But when he saw Sun Chengzong take the initiative to mention Qi Jin, he knew that it was rude, so he quickly complimented Qi Jin a few more words, in fact, Qi Jin didn't have this intention at all, as long as there was a fight, he didn't care about these false courtesies, so he was a little polite.
Subsequently, officials of all sizes in Guizhou hosted a banquet to entertain Sun Chengzong, Qi Jin, Li Xin and other generals. After the banquet, Li Xin paid a special visit to Wang Sanshan, and Wang Sanshan, who was the governor, did not take Li Xin seriously at the beginning, but thought that Li Xin was a student of Sun Chengzong, because Li Xin was very respectful to Sun Chengzong, but seeing that Sun Chengzong was also very polite to Li Xin, he knew that this Li Xin was also very human, and consulted Sun Chengzong to know that this Li Xin was a close confidant of the emperor, but Wang Sanshan was startled, and fortunately there was no rudeness just now.
Li Xin's purpose in looking for Wang Sanshan was to point out Zhu Youxiao's meaning to Wang Sanshan, so that he could understand his intention to contain and treat the prisoners preferentially, not that he had recruited 100,000 troops without any reason, and hoped that Wang Sanshan could cooperate with his behavior. Wang Sanshan is a very smart person, and he immediately saw that Li Xin would definitely be a noble person in the future, so he consciously put Li Xin and himself on an equal footing to talk.
The New Year is coming soon, and no matter how tight the war is, the soldiers have to be allowed to celebrate the New Year, Sun Chengzong, Qi Jin, and Li Xin decided to march after a little discussion.
The three of them discussed how to completely quell Chuangui's rebellion and freely expressed their opinions. Sun Chengzong believed that in order to completely quell the rebellion, it was necessary to capture all relatives and brothers, including the family of Hao Chongming, and that the Shuixian clan regime should be completely divided into small tribes, so that they would not have the ability to rebel. Qi Jin is simpler, saying that as long as all the people who dare to rebel are killed, they can't rebel if they want to. Li Xin told everyone that the emperor meant to win people's hearts, change the land and return to the stream, completely destroy the existing Tusi system, and implement the management method of the prefecture and county, because Tusi is the local emperor of the soil, he holds the life and death rights of the locals, only let these people not exist, ordinary people will not rebel as long as they can eat, but this requires the cooperation of force and the government, and then the Tusi rebellion can be eliminated forever.