Before leaving, An Bangyan said to his confidant veteran An Long: "Now that the war has started, although the direction of Guiyang is quiet, we must not take it lightly!"

"Zhu Xieyuan is very human, I expect that the military situation in the west will soon be transmitted to Guiyang, once Zhu Xieyuan learns that he has been ordered, Bijie is in danger, and he will inevitably send troops to attack Shuixi City.

"When the time comes, you only need to stick to Shuixi City and not come out, and when I join forces to solve the danger of Bijie and destroy the enemy from the west, I will definitely come back to help. If you can hold out for a month, it's a great achievement.

"Fortunately, I am a warrior in Shuixi, born and raised, and I am familiar with this mountain and forest road, and the officials and soldiers of Guiyang came from afar, and they don't understand the terrain of my Shuixi, so they don't dare to go deeper.

"In this way, maybe it doesn't take a month at all, I will lead the army back here, and Shuixi City will be safe and sound at that time!"

An Long, a veteran of the An family who was nearly sixty years old, heard this, and instinctively felt that it was inappropriate, in case you delayed in Bijie for too long, or suffered a defeat, and the official army in Guiyang rushed to attack Shuixi City before you returned to the division, what if I couldn't hold out for a month?

However, in the face of An Bangyan, who has always been rigid and arbitrary, An Long did not dare to speak the question in his heart, and only said: "Everything is respected by the Great Elder, Long and the others will do their best to protect Shuixi City and wait for the return of the Great Elder!" ”

After An Bangyan led the army away, An Long felt uneasy, so he withdrew most of the defenders on the front line of the Yachi River to Shuixi City, leaving only a few key places to send troops to guard them, which played the role of an outpost warning.

For example, this is the case with Huangshadu in the upper reaches of Wujiang Pass, and the same is true for the outpost camp opposite Yachiyi.

The Yi-style camp on the bank of the Yachi River, which was originally enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, only left more than 1,000 people to garrison, and the rest of the men and horses either withdrew to Shuixi City, or shrank to Guli Town, which was in the middle of Yachi Station to Shuixi City.

An Bangyan's conceit may have his own reasons, but Zhu Xieyuan has no obligation to cooperate with his performance.

Historically, Hou Liangzhu and Xu Chengming, two general officers, combined forces to break into Shuixi from the northern front, approaching the core area of Shuixi, that is, the Dafang area where Muoge Mountain City is located.

At that time, An Bangyan's statement was like this, as soon as he led the army to arrive, the official army would definitely fail, and then he would turn back to fight the official army here, and the result was not like that at all.

As soon as he led the army north, Zhu Xieyuan immediately ordered Xu Chengming, Hou Liangzhu and others to hold on without fighting, at the same time, the official army in the direction of Guiyang and Zunyi immediately marched westward, An Bangyan could not fight on the northern front, and the eastern front was in great danger, so he had to lead the army to retreat.

This time, after Zhu Xieyuan received the military report from Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, he learned that the government had been taken by the official army, and after personally leading the army across the Yachi River, he found that the Shuixi Yi soldier camp with such an important location and such a huge scale was only garrisoned by more than 1,000 people, and he immediately made a judgment in his heart.

While ordering the vanguard of the official army Wang Guozhen to march into Guli Town and confront the Yi soldiers stationed in the valley, while arranging for Shi Yong'an, the envoy of the inspection, and Luo Ganxiang, the deputy general, to urge the people to be young and strong, and to widen and repair the mountain road leading to Guli Town, he also arranged for messengers to make a detour in the direction of Zunyi to send orders to Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding to besiege Bijie as soon as possible, but only to besiege and not to break the city.

It is very similar to the strategy in history, that is, to attack the east and attack the west, mobilize the armies of An Bangyan and Hao Chongming to the western front as much as possible, and then create conditions for the officers and troops on the eastern front to attack on a large scale.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan, who had crossed the Yachi River, also ordered Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu and others, who were stationed in Huangshadu, to immediately lead their troops westward and join forces with Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu to attack Shaxi Dam (later Jinsha, Guizhou).

For Wu Zhiwang, Zhu Xieyuan is still very relieved.

Because Wu Zhiwang, the left attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, was not given for nothing, and he was also a figure who had been the governor of Denglai.

And the most important thing is that this Wu Zhiwang, who is about the same age as Zhu Xieyuan, is still a Qihuang holy hand, and he can be regarded as a famous medical scientist in the late Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, after Wu Zhiwang took Chen Zizhuang and other people from Nanjing to Zunyi, he quickly won the respect of Qin Liangyu, the leader of the Shizhu Tusi, and Peng Chaozhu, the leader of the Baojing Tusi.

Today's Shizhu Tusi Xuanzhi is Qin Liangyu's son Ma Xianglin, but this son is weak and sickly and is not suitable for leading troops to fight, so when the imperial court has recruited Shizhu white pole soldiers to go on expeditions, Qin Liangyu always goes out in person.

Although she is not the Pillar Messenger, she is much more prestigious than her own son in the Stone Pillar Tusi Army.

After the Guiyang official army took the Yachi River, it was much more convenient to connect with the Huangshadu downstream, and it only took half a day to reach it along the Yachi River.

On the evening of the fourth day of the first month of May, Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu received Zhu Xieyuan's military order in Huangshadu, and early the next morning, Qin Liangyu immediately reorganized his soldiers and horses, escorted Wu Zhiwang and his party, and rushed to the direction of Shaxiba.

At this time, Qin Liangyu, a fifty-five-year-old female general, rode a red horse, held a hook and sickle, and wore a helmet and armor.

Her husband is dead, and her two younger brothers have all died on the battlefield, among which Qin Bangping led his army to die in Liaodong, and Qin Minping led his army to die in Shuixi a few years ago.

Qin Bangping has no sons, and one of Qin Minping's two sons is now transferred to Gyeonggi by Emperor Chongzhen and has become the general of the first town of the Guards, that is, Qin Yiming, the right deputy capital, and the other is a general under Qin Liangyu, who followed his aunt to fight in the south and the north, and it is now Qin Gongming, the deputy general under Qin Liangyu.

Whether it is Yiming or Gongming, it all means to protect or protect Daming.

This alone shows that Qin Liangyu and his younger brother Qin Minping are loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the rebellion, after the capture of Chongqing, the large and small Tusi around the Yongning Xuanfu Division defected one after another, and Xuan Chongming also sent a messenger to the Shizhu Xuanfu Division not far from Chongqing to contact Qin Liangyu, hoping to form an alliance with the Shizhu Xuanfu Division and jointly oppose the Ming.

As a result, the envoys sent by Yu Chongming and a group of dozens of people were captured and killed by Qin Liangyu as soon as they arrived at the stone pillar.

Since then, Qin Liangyu and his Shizhu native soldiers have always fought on the battlefield of counterinsurgency in the southwest.

These deeds of Qin Liangyu and the Shizhu Tusi army, Wu Zhiwang was an important member of the imperial court before, and then went to Nanjing to serve after stepping down as the governor of Denglai, of course.

Therefore, after being ordered to Zunyi, he also had great respect for Qin Liangyu, a veteran of the battlefield with outstanding achievements, and of course relied on the Great Wall for the Shizhu Tusi army under his command.

Huangshadu is more than 100 miles away from Shaxiba, but after crossing the Liuguang River Huangshadu all the way to the west, it is really high mountains connected to high mountains, dense forests are connected to dense forests, and there is only a narrow mountain road that is still abandoned, winding between mountains and dense forests.

Counting such a zigzag mountain road up and down, the distance between the two places is more than doubled out of thin air.

In the morning, he carried the baggage from Huangshadu to the west, Qin Gongming led an army of 3,000 in front, and Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu led more than 1,000 troops to escort the baggage.

Every ten or twenty miles along the way, you can see the Yi or Miao villages that were destroyed by the Baojing native soldiers led by Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu.

Previously, Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu were ordered to lead an army of 3,000 to the west, and not long after entering the mountains and forests, they began to be harassed and attacked by the Yi or Miao mountain people along the way.

In April and May, in the deep mountains and old forests of Shuixi, whether it is rain and fog, or mosquitoes are rampant, Chen Zizhuang, who was born in the Lingnan land of Nanhai, Guangdong, and Peng Chaozhu, who is from the Xuanfu Division of Huguang Baojing, are all accustomed and tolerable.

However, the Yi Miao villages they encountered along the way, and the practice of being enemies with them, gave them a headache.

In particular, the Yi Miao mountain people always used the poisonous arrows and traps they were good at to bring some non-combat attrition to the Baojing soldiers under Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu, which made them unbearable.

The journey, which was expected to be completed in one day and two days at most, took up seven days.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, when Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu led the follow-up army to march westward, Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu came to Shaxiba step by step.

The reason why there was so much delay along the way was because Chen Zizhuang and Peng Chaozhu, who could not be disturbed, took 3,000 local soldiers to sweep away all the eleven Yi and Miao villages they found along the way from Huangshadu to Shaxiba.