When the rebellion movement in Shudi was in full swing, Zhu Pingjin hid in the barracks outside the northern city and did not return to the palace. However, it is said that he will find someone to take the blame when he encounters a major incident, which is really wronging him.

Because political matters can be blamed by someone, economic matters can be thrown to his wife, but he can't shirk military matters.

Zhu Pingjin left the front line in northern Sichuan in a hurry, and even took away the entire decision-making and staff organs of the Military Aircraft Department and the three general departments, allowing the generals on the front line to play freely, and also leaving the suspense of the victory or defeat of the war to himself.

On April 9, Zhu Pingjin received the report of Meng Jiashan's victory, and the first pair of boots landed.

Ten days later, he once again received a high-spirited good news from a cadre of generals in northern Sichuan: the remnants of the local tyrants in northern Sichuan, including Yuan Tao, the king of Zhengtian, and Zhang Xian, the king of neatness, had all retreated north and withdrawn from Sichuan!

The good news said: On a broad front of 500 miles wide from Guangyuan in the west to Taiping in the east, all units of the Protector Army marched in unison, pursued rapidly, and successively occupied many key passes on the Daba Mountain and Micang Mountain Riding Line Ridge.

The Lizhou Garrison Regiment led by Xu Mingjiao and Li Zhizhen, on the pretext of pursuing the local tyrants, attacked and occupied the famous natural danger chessboard pass from Chaotian Pass to Ningqiang Prefecture (now Ningqiang County) in Shaanxi Province with a sudden move, and used treatment and future as bait to recruit more than 300 defenders in Guanzhong.

Qipanguan is known as "the first pass of Western Qin" and is a necessary place on the ancient golden bull road. The Protector Army took control of Qipan Pass, which meant that the Hanzhong Plain opened its door to Sichuan. However, Qipanguan and the nearby Huangba River ferry Huangba Station belong to Shaanxi. The Protector Army won Qipanguan and Huangba Station, and it is still unknown what the reaction of Shaanxi will be.

Yang Zhan, the 15th Regiment of the 15th Regiment, which had been isolated and starved for several months, had endured continuous harassment and attacks by the local rioters, and finally persevered until it joined the main force of the 15th Regiment.

The 12th Regiment, under the leadership of Ding Xianjue, regained the ghost town of Taiping, and its vanguard had entered the territory of Shaanxi, only about 100 li from the nearest Zhenba County, and only 300 li from Xing'an Prefecture (now Ankang City) in southern Shaanxi.

Although the Chengkou area east of Dazhou and Taiping was occupied by Feng Ruhu and Cai Shaoxuan, the local terrain was extremely complicated, with heavy mountains, ditches and ditches, and few roads, and it was also the traditional activity area of the local tyrants.

The arrogant Feng Ruhu and Cai Shaojun's troops made several large-scale raids, with a lot of effort, but they gained very little, so they had no choice but to change their tactics and follow Zhu Pingjian's method on the Bashan battlefield, shrinking their troops near roads, rivers, passes, and major towns and agricultural areas, and building a blockade chain to replace suppression with hardship.

Faced with the current situation of shortage of troops, Feng Ruhu had to succumb to Cai Shaoxuan's insistence: the main task of the army was changed from cutting off people's heads to repairing the earth.

The complete victory on the battlefield in northern Sichuan was not unexpected by Zhu Pingjin. After the victory in the Battle of Bashan, the situation of suppressing bandits in Sichuan has undergone a fundamental change, and all that remains is to put the finishing touches on it.

He is now more concerned about another direction: Zunyi Mansion. Fortunately, He Youyi did not disappoint him. Soon, a surprising news came:

Zunyi City Victory!

He Youyi said that after he accidentally intercepted Wang Ke, the son of Wang Zuosheng, in Tucheng City, he secretly sent Wang Ke back to Zunyi and asked Wang Zuosheng to be a guard and stick to the city. He himself led his army day and night, and marched through the stars.

The rebel seedlings were unprepared, and at the end of March, they attacked the city on a large scale, and the battle was fierce, and Zunyi was almost unprotected.

At this time, He Youyi led the army to kill in all directions, and tens of thousands of Han "righteous people" near Zunyi also carried knives to help. The rebel seedlings were defeated, tens of thousands of dead and wounded were captured, and the chief Wu Shangxian was awarded the first battle, while Long Zhengguo was captured and killed by the righteous people.

At present, He Youyi is sweeping away the rebel Miao cottage near Zunyi, and it is just around the corner to completely wipe out the rebel seedlings. The work of selecting soldiers from among the righteous people and forming the Zunyi Garrison Regiment has begun.

The 7th Battalion of the 6th Regiment of the Forward Wang Sanniu Division had already advanced to Wujiangdu. However, at this place, Wang Sanniu received a letter from the governor of Guizhou, Li Ruoxing (Note 2), ordering him to return to Zunyi Mansion and not to enter the border of Guizhou Province without permission.

Wang Sanniu also discovered that the Guizhou official army was already deployed on the other side. Zhang Denggui, a deputy general in Guizhou stationed in Zhen'an Prefecture, also sent his younger brother Zhang Zhengqian to Zunyi with a letter written by him, saying that Li Ruoxing had ordered him to reorganize his army for war to prevent "rebellion by the pro-feudal domain."

He Youyi believes that the crossing of the Wujiang River is an important place for military studies, and it is the last barrier to enter and occupy Guiyang, and whether to defend it or not has a bearing on the overall strategic situation.

He Youyi asked Zhu Pingjin to clarify his strategic tasks as soon as possible:

If you want to take the whole province of Guizhou, then Wujiangdu must not be allowed; If you don't enter Guizhou for the time being, then Wujiangdu might as well abandon it, lest Li Ruoxing sit restless and write a report to the court every day.

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Zunyi Military and Civilian Mansion, that is, Yang Yinglong's old nest Banzhou. The Battle of Banzhou, the three major expeditions of Wanli, took place here.

In the vast northwest and southwest regions of China's geography, a large number of ethnic minorities are widely distributed, and they are known as "Southwest Yi" in history. These ethnic minorities, according to the ancient classification criteria, can be divided into the Tibetan and Qiang people in the northwest and the Miao people in the southwest.

These ethnic minorities have their own languages, costumes, beliefs and religions, and some areas once had their own countries. "Historical Records of the Southwest Yi Lie" and "Later Han Shu Nanban Southwest Yi Lie Biography" respectively record many interesting stories of the barbarian states such as Yelang Kingdom, Dian Kingdom and Qiongdu.

Any complete Chinese dynasty cannot ignore these minority areas. The Central Plains Dynasty had to accomplish two of its most difficult tasks: unification and governance.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the task of reunification was completed on the basis of the War of Destruction of the Yuan Dynasty. However, the task of governance is faltering.

Over the past three hundred years, the southwest has been rebellious and rebellious, and has repeatedly rebelled.

The conquest of the Southwest Yi by successive emperors has almost never stopped. In the sixth year of Jiajing, the Miao people of Guangxi Broken Tengxia (Datengxia) rebelled, and the imperial court appointed the sage Wang Shouren as the governor of Liangguang and the governor.

Wang Shouren combined appeasement with suppression; A combination of indoctrination and massacre. The soft and hard hands of the bodhisattva's heart and thunder means have made more than 300,000 people corpses in the valley, and also made Confucian schools dotted. After the war, Guangxi became an inseparable part of the map of China.

But saints are a scarce resource after all.

In the battle of Banzhou in the Wanli year, there was no saint like Wang Shouren.

The Battle of Banzhou made the Ming Dynasty's painstaking operation in Guizhou Miao District for more than 200 years come to naught in an instant. In just one hundred and fourteen days of war, although the goal of the campaign was achieved, the bandits' nest Hailongtun was broken, the rebel chief Yang Yinglong was destroyed, and the Banzhou Tusi who was passed on to the 29th was abolished, but it opened Pandora's box and planted the seeds of a series of disasters in the future.

Since then, the Miao people of Guizhou, led by successive generations of new leaders, have repeatedly launched rebellions.

If the rise of wild boar skins and tartars in Liaodong is regarded as the sequelae of the war to aid Korea, then the rebellion of Hao'an is a continuation of the battle of Banzhou; The rebellion of Tusipu in the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign in Yunnan Ami Prefecture (now Kaiyuan City, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan) can be regarded as a continuation of the Extravagant Rebellion. In the second year, Pu Mingming died, and his wife Wan continued to mess with southern Yunnan and became a lingering scabies in Yunnan. As for when there will be another large-scale rebellion, no one knows, including Zhu Pingjian, who is like a god.

The protracted barbaric war made the blood feud between Han and Yi accumulate deeper and deeper, and it became an untiring knot; Military spending is getting bigger and bigger, and it has become a bottomless pit of discontent.

War becomes a massacre, a mere consumption of blood and money.

A group of elites drove into the endless mountains, and then walked out with blood stains all they had, leaving only endless pain.

A large number of local people have been displaced, and the loss of population is staggering. Just the siege of Guiyang in the Rebellion of Luxury, let the 400,000 people who took refuge in the city go to 95 out of ten, and the number of people who survived to break the siege was only 20,000!

Villages and towns are in ruins, and fertile fields have become thorns; Thousands of miles of uninhabited, no rooster crow in a hundred cities. It seems to be a prelude to the historical fate of Shudi, hinting at the earth-shattering catastrophe that is about to be staged in the land of abundance.

Therefore, the large-scale rebellions of the Miao people in Banzhou and Zunyi are completely open secrets.

In the face of such a hot potato, the governors of several neighboring provinces: Biyuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and even Guizhou, none of the provinces were willing to send troops to help suppress and help the salary.

The Sichuan side is also pretending to be deaf and dumb.

The reason why Wang Zuosheng's letter for help was selectively ignored by Liao Tycoon was because Liao Tycoon knew that the stability of his hat did not depend on the gains and losses of a newly incorporated wild land.

Zhu Pingjian, who was the son of Shu, reached in without hesitation. For this reason, when the fierce battle in Bashan was in full swing and the main force of Luzhou went north to participate in the war, he did not hesitate to take the risk of emptying the garrison in Luzhou, and drew nearly 1,000 reinforcements from Yajia and other places to form the Sixth Regiment of the Protector Army, which was thrown into the place where everyone was afraid of Banzhou.

Why is that?

The political reason is that Zunyi Mansion belongs to the Sichuan Political Division.

After the Battle of Banzhou, the imperial court changed the land and returned to the stream, and the Banzhou Propaganda Division was renamed the Zunyi Military and Civil Government, which was subordinate to the Sichuan Political Division. The rebellion of the Miao people in the Zunyi area should have been quelled by Sichuan.

Zunyi was undecided for a day, and Zhu Pingjin could not proudly announce that he had pacified the whole province of Sichuan, established his lofty prestige among the gentry and people in Sichuan, and consolidated his position as the king of Shu.

There is also a practical factor.

Since Zunyi was converted to the land, a large number of Han people have moved here. Han Chinese immigrants, like all newly arrived colonists, enclosed landless land for farming. The Han people are in Pingba, the Miao people are in the mountains, and the two sides are eyeing each other in a state of relative balance of power.

The Miao rebellion in Zunyi, no matter what the real cause was, took the initiative to break this balance. If the situation is not calmed down as soon as possible, the whirlpool of Han Miao's vendetta will become bigger and bigger, and the fruits of changing the land and returning to the river will be lost in their own hands, not to mention that in the end, they will passively involve the main force of the Protector Army for a long time, unable to extricate themselves.

The economic reason is that the large-scale development of the Qijiang iron ore mine is imminent.

The importance of Qijiang iron ore is undeniable. Without the Qijiang iron mine, the Chongqing iron and steel base under construction will have no rice to cook. The Qijiang Iron Mine is in the small fish cave area south of the Qijiang River, at the junction of Chongqing and Zunyi. During the rebellion, the area was burned down, resulting in the destruction of the mines, the flight of the miners, and the sharp decline in production. Now that the resumption of production is imminent, how can we allow the rebels to harass again?

There are more military reasons.

Strategically speaking, Zunyi Mansion is the northern gate of Guizhou, the step of the Sichuan Basin to climb to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the bridgehead of the traditional Han land embedded in the Yi District of Guizhou. controlled Loushan Pass, the throat of northern Qianbei, and Zunyi City was in no danger to defend; Occupy the famous Pearl Zunyi City of Sichuan and Guizhou, then to Guiyang City, the capital of Guizhou, there is only the water barrier of the Wujiang River.

So, after taking control of Zunyi Mansion, is it necessary to strike while the iron is hot and continue to seize Guiyang to the south?

He Youyi is a person with a very global vision. The reason why he reined in Wujiang and asked for instructions was because he saw it clearly:

After the unification of Sichuan, the Shu Wangfu has reached a node of strategic development, that is, the military force out of Sichuan, and it is necessary to choose a key point among the three routes of "eastward", "southward" and "northward". The reason is very simple: because the total resources of Shu are not enough to support an attack from all sides, both in terms of manpower and material resources.

But He Youyi didn't realize that his trusted master, Zhu Pingjin, was still hesitating at this time.

Why hesitate? Because of some key things, Zhu Pingjin felt it, but he couldn't grasp it.

However, someone fell from the sky to help Zhu Pingjin grasp this key thing, and that was Gu Jiang.

It is precisely because this person is disgusted by everyone and the ugly monster that the dog sees the dog is disgusted, which triggered a big discussion that decided the future fate of Zhu Pingjin and his family and the country and the nation.

The process of this great discussion has greatly unified the understanding of the cadres in Shudi; The results of this discussion witnessed an indispensable and important journey for Zhu Pingjin on the road to heaven in the future.

In this important historical decision, Gu Jiang played an indispensable role as a primer or lubricant.

Note 1: 吭, which means throat, is pronounced as HANG.

Note 1: According to the "Chronicle of Little Shyness", Li Ruoxing, the governor of Qian, also carried the title of governor of Sichuan at this time. If so, there were two governors of Sichuan at that time, and the other was Ding Qirui, the governor of the five provinces.