At this moment, there was a deafening sound of gongs and drums from the upper reaches, and everyone looked around, not knowing when more than a thousand volunteers emerged from the mountains and forests.

Seeing the approaching volunteer infantry, Zhang Sheng seemed to see the prey at his fingertips, and everyone had nothing to do in the face of the volunteer cavalry equipped with cavalry rifles and strange tactics in front of him, and if he faced the approaching volunteer infantry, everyone was still full of confidence.

The horn kept blowing, and the Governor of the Iron Cavalry Battalion would lead more than 100 Iron Cavalry to rush towards the approaching Volunteer Infantry, and everyone was full of confidence and thought that they had a plan.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, Wang Hui thought that he had a plan, and at this moment, dozens of doors were suddenly launched in the opponent's formation, and in the face of the iron horses that were sprinting, they ignited the rockets one after another.

The rocket took off into the air and rained down on his side, and before he could dodge, he was shot by the rocket that fell from the sky.

After a round of rockets, the formation of the Iron Cavalry Battalion was disrupted, and seeing the frightened faces of the soldiers around him, the Governor of the Iron Cavalry Battalion would shout loudly, hoping to organize everyone to retreat, but it was too late.

After the first blow was successful, Wang Gao led the 1st guard to kill the past, and everyone continuously released their guns at the enemy cavalry that had been disorganized in formation, and many people fell off their horses one after another.

Before Wang Hui could get up from the ground, he was surrounded by three volunteers with bright spurs, and after a fight, Wang Hui became a prisoner of the volunteers.

Seeing that less than half of the pillars of incense kung fu in the Wanghui Department were defeated by the guard mark, the Liukou Iron Cavalry panicked, and everyone no longer listened to the command of the generals around them, and fled one after another.

After defeating the place in front of him, Wang Gao led the guards to kill the ferry.

Du and Gui Ze led the 2nd Cavalry Association to kill Li Dingguo to relieve the siege of the 3rd Town.

At the side of the ferry, Sun Kewang complained bitterly, when the cavalry of the two sides was in full swing, the other side of the Baishi River thundered, and from a distance, there was a great fashion of Yang Xuan, the governor of the six provinces.

Affected by this, the morale of the volunteers was greatly boosted, and everyone jumped into the biting river water one after another, using bamboo rafts to temporarily build pontoon bridges.

After some efforts, the pontoon bridge that had just been burned was only more than 100 meters from the shore, and the other two pontoon bridges had also been erected in the middle of the river.

At this critical juncture, who expected that the Iron Cavalry Battalion would be defeated by the Volunteers, and after the defeat of the Liukou Iron Cavalry Battalion, Wang Gao led the guards to approach the ferry.

Sun Kewang was hesitating, but his soldiers didn't think so, especially those people who came in coercion, or the soldiers who surrendered, everyone mainly ate with their mouths, and there was no need to lose their lives in a bloody battle.

On the other side of the river, Yang Xuan keenly discovered this, and immediately ordered the whole army to beat the drums, and the morale of the volunteers was greatly boosted, especially the 9th standard staff general Wang Shu occupied the opposite bank, and even jumped into the river and rushed over with chest-high water.

Everyone worked hard to reoccupy the ferry, and the soldiers behind them were killed in an endless stream.

Seeing that the victory in hand had fallen short, Li Dingguo looked up to the sky and sighed, but the main force of the Volunteer Army had already crossed the Baishi River, and it was too late by now.

After crossing the Baishi River, Yang Xuan ordered the whole line to pursue, but the rogues were defeated and retreated.

The Volunteers successively recovered Qujing, Xundian and other state capitals, and approached Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, at the end of the year.

Liukou was defeated all the way, Yang Xuandu led all the troops to march together, this day when the forward was a hundred miles away from Kunming City, the front came to report, and the former Yunnan governor Wu Zhaoyuan asked to see.

Yang Xuan was overjoyed, immediately stopped his horse and stopped, and met the other party on a hill next to the avenue.

Accompanied by an official, Wu Zhaoyuan walked quickly to the front of the seat, and looked at the surrounding environment from time to time along the way, there were more than 100 guards lined up in several rows on the surrounding hillside, and there were only more than ten officials lined up in two rows in front of him.

After coming to the front of the seat, bowing his hand, and reporting to each other about his official positions, Wu Zhaoyuan said: "Hou Ye Huwei, this official has already heard that the peak of the volunteer army is prosperous, even if Qi Yuanjing (Qi Jiguang) is still inferior to that day.

At that time, although the Qi family army was famous all over the world, its troops were only 4,000, and today the Hou Ye has tens of thousands of volunteers, which is really gratifying. ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said, "Lord Wu, it's over."

Although the volunteers have made small achievements in recent years, they are still inferior to Qi Yuanjing and others. What can you teach me when you come over this time? ”

Wu Zhaoyuan was slightly stunned, and then arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye is too modest, Hou Ye is not as talented as an official."

It's just that this official has been in Yunnan Province for many years, and he has been circling between Shadingzhou and Sun Kewang in the past few years, and he is a little familiar with the place. ”

Listening to the other party's mouthful, Yang Xuan's brows furrowed slightly, it was not easy to attack, but of course the people around him couldn't stand it.

Ouyang Zhi, the secretary of etiquette, pointed to the other party and said: "As the saying goes, ministers should have the responsibility of defending the land, and the dignified officials of the frontier are actually attached to Sha Dingzhou and Sun Kewang one after another.

Hou Ye is today's concubine, and he was named the governor of several provinces by the imperial court, and his status is so noble, you are now wearing a guilty body, and you are talking about your official in the hall, although the country is broken now, but the Ming Dynasty has been a minister and an official for nearly three hundred years? ”

Wu Zhaoyuan sweated like rain, the first to see that the other party was young, kind and contemptuous, who knew that he was grabbed by the petty officials under his account and insisted on it, and he was quite annoyed.

Now seeing Ouyang Zhi's sudden attack, although there are two or three generations of people in the audience who speak, they are also dissatisfied with his attachment to Sha Dingzhou and Sun Kewang successively.

Thinking of this, Wu Zhaoyuan knelt in front of his seat and confessed his guilt, Yang Xuan helped him up, glared at Ouyang Zhi next to him and said, "Mr. Ouyang, you, why don't you understand things like this, blame the wrong good person."

The rebellion of Shadingzhou was really caused by Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, Mu Tianbo's negotiations were overflowing, and it is said that the gold, silver and jewelry in the house were piled up, which attracted Shadingzhou's greed, so that he took the opportunity to make trouble, resulting in a series of disasters in Yunnan Province.

Although Mr. Wu is the governor of Yunnan, the power of the prince of Qianguo is greater than that of the prince, and the Tusi local officials do not listen to their governors at all. ”

Ouyang Zhi heard this, and arched his hand: "Master Hou's lesson is that although the emperor is dusty now, the system that should exist must still be maintained. ”

When Wu Zhaoyuan heard this, he even called himself a criminal minister, but Yang Xuan didn't say anything.

Returning to the seat, Wu Zhaoyuan arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye, since the reign of the first emperor, the world has been in turmoil, the country is in tatters, and now the Liukou have been defeated by Hou Ye, although they retreated to Kunming, there are still tens of thousands of people, how to deal with it in the future, Hou Ye must not be careless." ”

Yang Xuan smiled, looked left and right, and said: "What Mr. Wu said is very true, the main force of the Liukou is the pro-army under the four major generals, and these people are only one-twelfth of them, they have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they are one person and one horse, and they are fast and mobile.

On the same day, the rogue was defeated in Phoenix Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong was killed, everyone thought that the rogue was going to be difficult to make a comeback, and the general of eastern Sichuan, Zeng Ying, was arrogant and led his troops and horses out of the battle in an attempt to annihilate the remnants of the defeated general, but the battlefield was taken advantage of by the rogues, and finally died in the city.

Why is this so, because Zhang Xianzhong is dead, the main force of the Liukou is still alive, and the Liukou is fighting with tens of thousands of elite divisions, even if Sun Wu is reincarnated, it is difficult to make a difference.

Today, our army won a complete victory in the first battle of Baishijiang, and the generals suggested that they should pursue the whole line, but they deliberately slowed down the pace because they were worried about repeating the mistakes of the past. ”

Wu Zhaoyuan even claimed to be good, and said: "Master Hou, now the Tartars have entered the Kou, occupied my land, changed my clothes, slaughtered my people, and wantonly occupied the land in various places, and the slightest resistance of the people slaughtered the village, and the city was slaughtered, and all kinds of atrocities were appalling.

In the whole world, the people all suffered from it, and all the relatives of the households were harmed by the Tartars, and the scourge of the Tartars was the great enemy of the world, and the rogues were just a small problem of scabies. ”

Yang Xuan stood up, took a few steps back and forth, looked at Qian Bangqi on the left and said: "Mr. Wu is reasonable, don't say anything else, when the Tartars entered Sichuan, burned, killed and looted, I remember vividly, although Xuan was dull, but he always wanted to swear to the Northern Expedition, in order to return my clothes and save the people from fire and water."

However, Hanzhong and Yungui are all in the basin mouth of Sichuan, and if all the Liukou send troops to attack sooner or later, then I am afraid that Sichuan Province will no longer be owned by me. Therefore, when Zhuge Wumu went on a northern expedition, he had to pacify the rebellion in the south first.

In the next is not talented, do not dare to compare themselves with Zhuge Wumu, but all the princes are a hero, should inherit the will of the sages, must not let the land fall, let the people be enslaved by the Tartars. ”

When everyone heard this, they knelt down and said yes.

Wu Zhaoyuan arched his hand and said: "What Hou Ye said is exactly, Zhuge Wumu captured Meng seven times and pacified Nanzhong, which was regarded as a beautiful talk for future generations, and now the Liukou is entrenched in Yunnan, and there is more Shadingzhou in the place, how should Hou Ye pacify the rebellion in Nanzhong today?" ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Many rogues are dissatisfied with the brutality of the government, they are desperate and desperate, and finally become thieves, the so-called thieves in our mouths are even more righteous in their eyes."

Therefore, since the first emperor ascended the throne, although the imperial court has repeatedly defeated the Liukou army and captured its leader, the reason why it rebelled is really because the government did not treat its hardcover well and settle down to follow its people.

In order to pacify the scourge of the rogues, it is necessary to divide the military and seven points of politics, first defeat the troops of the rogues militarily, trap them in the land of projectiles, and then implement a new policy, so that everyone can live in peace, so that their army will disperse and the scourge of the rogues will naturally subside. ”

Wu Zhaoyuan was overjoyed in his heart, and arched his hand: "Master Hou, now that the rogue has been newly defeated, he is cramped in the second and third state capitals, and the chassis he occupies can be described as a projectile land.

Hou Ye, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu are all Zhang Xianzhong's sons, like father and son, and the generals under his account have also followed him to fight in the south and north for several years, and they are like brothers.

Zhang Xianzhong was killed by the Tartars in Phoenix Mountain, and he left his last words before he died, hoping to abandon his previous suspicions and fight against the Tartars together.

Yesterday, the general of Pingdong, Sun Kewang, summoned the criminal officer, hoping that the two families could stop the army and make peace, and the lord stopped marching, and the Liukou sent soldiers and horses to follow the northern expedition of Hou Ye.

As the Lord said, our greatest enemy now is the Tartars, and the criminal judge thinks that it is better to make peace with the rogues. ”

Yang Xuan shook his head and said, "This is not a murderous person, and the scourge of the rogue should be based on Zhao'an."

Among our volunteers, the main generals of the thirteen towns, Jin Tongwu and Wang Zhibang, can be born among the rogues, which shows the sincerity of the political settlement and recruiting the Liukou.

A few years ago, Ben Hou also met with Li Dingguo, the general of Zhengxi, and knew that he was the tiger general of the time.

If everyone can negotiate the conditions, don't say that they will appease their subordinates, and in the future Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, they should borrow Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu. ”

Immediately thought about it for a moment and said the conditions for his surrender.

beheaded Li Gande, Wu Dading, Yuan Tao and others who plotted to kill Yang Zhan, the former governor of Sichuan.

As a folk righteous man, he changed his name to Zhang Xianzhong as the eighth king, and in the future, he could establish a private ancestral hall in the place where he died in battle, and worship his actions of going north to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Kewang served as the general counselor of the Hou Mansion and no longer led the troops.

According to the establishment of the Volunteer Army, the Liukou was reorganized into two towns of soldiers and horses, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were respectively appointed as the commander-in-chief of the army, and the soldiers of the department were issued according to the standards of the Volunteer Army.

The rest of the people, those who are meritorious, are hired for official positions, and they are assigned to different places.

The general public allocates local tuntian, the government distributes seeds and rice, and gives bereavement pensions, and the first three years are exempted from the land tax, and after the fourth year, officials are appointed to collect taxes according to the local government.

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The crowd was in an uproar, especially when he asked Zhang Xianzhong as a civil righteous man, many officials did not think so.

Thinking that Zhang Xianzhong betrayed the imperial court many times, excavated the tomb of the Ming Emperor, forced to kill and mutilated many princes of the Ming Dynasty, King Xiang, King of Chu, and King Shu, and mutilated his relatives, and now he actually wants to build an ancestral hall to worship, which is too incredible.

Especially Qian Bangqi, knelt down and arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye, this matter must not be done, don't say anything else, but say that the county lord's family was slaughtered for it, and tens of thousands of clan relatives of the Shu clan were harmed by it, such a traitorous and evil person, Hou Ye is actually ready to set up an ancestral hall for sacrifice, don't say that the old minister can't get by, and the county lord is not easy to explain." ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Since Jiajing, the people of the time have evaluated the great disadvantages of the world, which are nothing more than the clans, guards, and bureaucrats.

During the Chongzhen period, hundreds of thousands of clans in the world, large and small dragons and grandsons all need to be supported by the state, and the power of the whole country can not supply the clans, which has not been heard of since the ancient times, since the court can not solve it, of course, the people can not bear its disturbance and resist.

During the Hongwu period, there were 547 internal and external guards in the country, 2563 of them, the imperial court originally thought that it relied on the land of the guard to raise the guards, but the land of the guards was devoured by the officers, and the treatment of the guards was not as good as that of ordinary people.

Looking at it this way, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are in turmoil, the court is not without responsibility, and the ministers of all dynasties and generations are not without responsibility.

In addition, our sacrifice and commendation is not Zhang Xianzhong's gathering and rebellion, but his northward resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and our sacrifice is to tell those who have taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Tartars, that is, to tell the people in the occupied area, that is, Zhang Xianzhong, a traitorous and reckless hero, also knows the national righteousness and the Chinese debate.

Just like Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui's generation boast of loyalty, don't even compare with Zhang Xianzhong. ”

When they heard this, they promised.