In the third year of Yiguang and the third year, in mid-May, next to Qichun County, Jiangxia County, on the wide and long Qishui, a fleet of thousands of people came west from Yizhou Ba County along the Yangtze River waterway.

This fleet is naturally not someone else's fleet, they are the vanguard sent by Fuquan to rescue the soldiers and horses of Jiangxia and Lujiang counties, specifically to clean up the waterways and protect the safety and smoothness of the waterways, and at the same time, they are also responsible for the army to go ashore to find a landing place. The reason why the Ganning army is like this is because the thieves are cunning, and when they heard that the imperial court sent Yizhou soldiers and horses to rescue, they burned down the water village in the waters near their lair. At the same time, build a fort along the coast, send soldiers to monitor the waterway, as long as the soldiers of Ba County land on the shore, they will take the beacon fire as a letter, and let the thieves stationed on the case come to intercept and harass, and the thieves do this in order to delay time, so that the thieves who go east have more time to attack Lujiang County.

"Qu Shuai, forehead...... Sima, those thieves have run away again, if they go on like this, when will they be able to land? "The person who spoke was Jiang Fan, a subordinate of Gan Ning's original brocade robbers, and just now he took more than a dozen ships to disperse the hundreds of thieves who came to harass him, and then he was ordered to report to Gan Ning. It's just that this Jiang Fan was obedient for a while, and called Gan Ning Qu Shuai again, and under the other party's rather meaningful angry gaze, he quickly changed his words, after all, they are all Han officials and soldiers now, and Gan Ning is Sima who is in charge of a county's water army, so naturally he can no longer be called Qu Shuai like before.

Gan Ning saw that his former subordinates were interested, and said "um" to indicate that he knew, and then looked at the surface of the water with a thoughtful look.

Now for him, it is naturally better for others to call him Qu Shuai than to call Sima, because Sima is an official after all, and what is Qu Shuai? Qu Shuai is a derogatory name for the leader of the thieves and rebels in the imperial court, how can there be a good title of Sima now?

Gan Ning, who has been a "high-ranking official" in the army for more than a month, has forgotten how much he used to like the happiness of being called "handsome in brocade", but he prefers not to call him "Sima" or "general". Of course, although the name of "General" is majestic, it will make his colleagues laugh at him if he is now called by his subordinates, so he can only bend down and call "Sima".

Now he is no longer the original Jinyi Qu Shuai who led more than 200 people to rampant Jing and Yi Liangzhou, but the naval army Sima of Dahanba County, of course, this is not official, Fuquan only added the word "line" in front of his miscellaneous name Sima in April, which means that it is naturally just an agent, after all, he is defenseless, and he has the history of Jinyi Qu Shuai, how can he trust him, and directly give him the position of Sima, not to mention whether other colleagues in the county who have climbed up step by step by relying on military merits will be dissatisfied, even the court is not easy to explain, The princes of the court would not agree to give Gan Ning a high position directly because he was talented.

As far as the eye can see, I saw a small forest on the bank of the river in front of me, it is close to summer at this moment, it is the time when the vegetation is luxuriant, I have a plan, pointing to the forest and saying to Jiang Fan: "Select a hundred people to lurk ashore, hide in the woods, and then the army will land here, if the thieves attack again, the front and back attack, the prince will come today, if I don't land again, how can I meet the prince?" The order, landing on the shore today, the thieves attacked, and the whole army dared to retreat, behead! ”

"No!" Jiang Fan got the order and took the order, and went to the navy to choose the soldiers who lurked ashore, since it was latent, it was naturally not to sail ashore, but not to be found by thieves to swim to the shore, which had a lot of requirements for the soldiers, so most of the soldiers he selected were the old brothers who were originally thieves in brocade clothes.

Looking at the two banks of the Qishui in front of him, which had made him wander for two days, Gan Ning was annoyed, these traitors were really cunning, although the number of people they attacked each time was small, but the thieves were too familiar with the terrain, and they had destroyed all the surrounding places suitable for the landing of the navy, making it difficult for him to land. And if you choose the opportunity to find other river beaches that are more difficult to go ashore to log in, you will come to harass a troop at the first time, and the other party carries a lot of cans of fire oil that I don't know where they come from, and they don't tremble with themselves, as long as their fleet docks, they throw away the cans of oil and attack with fire, so that they will lose hundreds of soldiers before they have landed, and the ships they bring with them will also be burned dozens of times, and the fight is really too passive.

Not to mention how Gan Ning made Ji Qiang go ashore here, just behind Gan Ning's vanguard horse, a fleet far larger than Gan Ning also sailed along the Qishui, on a huge building ship in the center of this fleet, the commander of the exit to quell the chaos, the Marquis of Dahan Ting, Bajun Taishou Fuquan is enjoying the coastal scenery.

"Thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day, and the ancients will not deceive me." Fu Quan held the boat pole in his hand, and a gust of river wind blew, bringing a burst of coolness, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Although the words were concise and clear, the civil and military people who followed behind Fu Quan were puzzled, and before long, they saw the chief bookkeeper Wang Mou step forward and asked: "Dare to ask the Ming Mansion, where does this 'Qianli Jiangling One Day' come from?" It's wonderful! Why has the lower officials never heard of it? Wang Mou was also attracted by the famous sentence of Fuquan, he thought that he was also a well-read talent, and now he had never even heard such a witty saying, so he was naturally a little embarrassed.

"Well...... When I was a child, I saw it in an ancient book, which is insignificant! Insignificant also! Fu Quan waved his hand to signal not to dwell on this, and said to the topic, he knew it himself, even if he looked for him, he couldn't find it, did he tell them that he casually said that he had leaked his mouth, and inadvertently made a copyist? Isn't this a slap in the face? He didn't want to do something that would be considered a neurotic freak.

Seeing that Fuquan didn't seem to want to think about it, everyone thought in their hearts, but they only said that they had made this sentence by themselves, but they did not write poems, so they pretended to rely on the words of the ancients. Of course, they won't say this explicitly, after all, Fuquan is their boss, how dare they slap their boss in the face as a subordinate?

Fu Quan naturally didn't know the thoughts of his subordinates, and he didn't have the heart to care, probably knowing that he wouldn't say anything, anyway, he was just fooling the ancients. At this time, he was leading an army of nearly 5,000 to Jiangxia, and his mind naturally would not be on these trivial matters, thinking of the thieves in Jiangxia and Lujiang counties that he knew about this time, he was also worried in his heart, and he didn't know if his five thousand barbarian soldiers could defeat those Jingchu barbarians, after all, although his soldiers were strong and strong, he couldn't prepare for many thieves, and he couldn't be underestimated in the face of his own ten times the enemy.

Of course, there is a reason why Fuquan only brought 5,000 barbarian soldiers, plus a total of more than 6,000 people from the Ganning Navy Army to quell the chaos in Sichuan, not because he has no soldiers in his hands.

The reason why he brought few soldiers was because he did not have so many ships and the corresponding sailors who could escort these ships to transport troops safely. Although Gan Ning had been subdued by him, and even after two percent of the thieves in brocade clothes who were arrested under his command came out and were tried and executed by the county office for their great crimes, the others were also persuaded by Gan Ning to surrender to the Han army and accept Zhao'an.

Since Gan Ning finally surrendered to himself in April, Fu Quan has been in line with the principle of wooing, playing the means of using people without suspicion and suspecting people, and directly presented Gan Ning's position as the temporary naval army Sima to the imperial court. Of course, this is not how it is written, after all, Gan Ning has a history of thieves in brocade clothes, Fuquan ordered Wang Mou to polish it well, and the flowers written are full of flowers, the reason is that the Bajun Navy is weak, Gan Ning has a talent, and he is needed to quell the chaos this time. After all, it was to rely on Fuquan to quell the rebellion, and the court princes and the emperor Liu Hong didn't have the heart to save Fuquan's face for a thief, so they agreed to his invitation.

It's just that Gan Ning's identity is settled, but the Bajun Water Army is not something that can be formed at one time. Originally, there were only a few hundred old and weak sailors in Ba County, and they didn't have much use on weekdays, but they were established by the county office to rectify the water thieves. But obviously, this naval army is okay to clean up the small thieves, but it is useless against the brocade robbers in Ganning.

Of course, Fuquan can't tolerate this, after all, whether his 5,000-strong army can successfully land in Jiangxia depends on the naval army. Therefore, after screening the old and weak of the original Ba County Naval Army, Fu Quan released the brocade thieves who had committed less crimes in the past, and asked Gan Ning to help recruit them, and then asked Gan Ning to recruit strong fishermen who were familiar with water by the Ba County River, and made up the number of 1,000 soldiers of his "Water Warrior Sima". After that, it was ordered to collect ships from the whole county, and even borrowed a number of large ships from the surrounding counties that could pass through the Yangtze River.

Although it took a lot of time, he was finally able to bring the soldiers into Jiangxia smoothly, and along the way, Fuquan was also studying the information of Jiangxiaman, the target of this rebellion, after all, he knew himself and knew the enemy, and he must understand the truth of winning a hundred battles. What's more, this time is different from the previous time when he led his troops to fight the rebellion, when the previous time was barbaric, there were no Han people to join the rebellion, so it was relatively difficult to quell the rebellion. But this time there were not only Jiangxia barbarians, but also Han people, and they were numerous, with more than 100,000 people, so Fuquan couldn't afford not to pay attention to them.

This rebellion, the so-called Jiangxia Man, it is said that their origin also has a history. In the twenty-third year of Emperor Guangwu's establishment of martial arts, Lei Qian and others from the southern county gathered to rebel against the Han Dynasty, invaded and plundered the people, and the Han Dynasty sent Wuwei general Liu Shang to lead more than 10,000 people to defeat Lei Qian, and "more than 7,000 people of his race were placed in the Jiangxia boundary". That is, the seven cadres of the Meishan barbarian race were relocated and settled in Jiangxia County, and later they are now known as "Chuzhong Man".

In the thirteenth year of Emperor Yongyuan, there were witches in Nanjun, Xu Sheng and others thought that the county guards were collecting taxes unevenly, and they were resentful, so they gathered people to rebel against the imperial court. Later, in the summer of the 14th year of Yongyuan, the imperial court sent envoys to gather more than 10,000 troops from various counties in Jingzhou to recruit Xu Sheng. Because Xu Sheng and others relied on the dangerous terrain, they could not attack it for a long time. So the troops of all walks of life advanced separately, attacking from Bajun, Yufu and other roads, and the barbarians were outnumbered, scattered and fled, and the Han army killed the leader of the barbarians, and pursued the victory, defeating Xu Sheng and others. Xu Sheng and others begged to surrender, and this time the Han Dynasty once again showed the so-called "wind of benevolence and righteousness towards the outside world", pardoned them, and "resettled the captured people in Jiangxia", so that they all moved and settled in Jiangxia, and the barbarian rebellion in the former Fannan County was broken.

These barbarians of Nanjun who moved to Jiangxia were later called "Jiangxia Barbarians", and lived in the area of five rivers, including Bashui, Qishui, Xishui, Chiting Shui, and Xiguishui, so they were also called "Wushui Man". Now, the rebellious Jiangxia barbarians are these two groups of Nanjun barbarian descendants who moved to Jiangxia, their ancestors were conquered and migrated, although there are several generations, but this hatred has not been reduced because of assimilation, and the local officials and people naturally do not have much good impression of these rebellious descendants, coupled with the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by local officials, this is why today's rebellion has intensified for various reasons.

And there is a reason why this rebellion was so large-scale that it even affected two counties. After all, it has gone through several generations of life and reproduction, these Jiangxia barbarian forces have developed rapidly, almost all over Jiangxia counties, and there are nearly 100,000 rebellious Jiangxia barbarians. Because as the Jiangxia barbarians live with the Han people everywhere, although the people still don't like these Jiangxia barbarians, there are also many Han people who are too close to them, among which Huang Sui, a Lujiang man who is close to Jiangxia County, is one of them.

It is precisely because of these reasons that this thief Huang Sui was able to take advantage of Jiang Xiaman's early rebellion to unite some Han people who had already been with Jiang Xiaman's prosperity and loss, and rebelled, and even Jiang Xiaman, who had a large number of people, could allow Huang Sui to become their leader, which was also for this reason. Because in their eyes, Huang Sui is actually no longer a Han person, and many years of Han and barbarian living together have long made them automatically think that Huang Sui is their Jiangxia barbarian.

Thinking like this in his heart, Fu Quan was woken up by an exclamation, only to hear Yang Hong, the military advisor accompanying him, pointing ahead and shouting: "Junhou, there is something different along the Qishui coast!" ”

The face was startled, Fuquan followed the prestige, only to see the smoke on the shore of Qishui in the distance to make up for it, at a glance, there were two sides of the horse fighting, the road was not very clear, but on the water, you can see countless warships, the flags they hoisted, it is obvious to tell others, they are the Han army. The huge words "yellow" and "strict" on the banner clearly tell everyone that they are Bajun soldiers and the vanguard troops sent by Fuquan.

"Quick! Ordered the whole army to be on alert and rushed to the rescue. There was no time to investigate what happened, Fu Quan hurriedly ordered, he didn't want his vanguard to have an accident, otherwise it would be a huge loss before the battle, which would be a big bad thing for him.

"No!"

Before long, with the sound of the passionate horn, the entire fleet changed its breath in an instant, and a solemn aura spread, and under the orders of the ministers, they rushed to the front of the battle site to rescue......

Lushan Man: Living in Changyang now

Wu Man: Lived in present-day Wushan County, Sichuan

Chiting Water: Lift water today

West return water: pour water today