Yongning Xuanwei Division is the nest of luxury toast.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Xuan Chongming was defeated by the official army, fled from the Yongning Xuanfu Division, and fled into the Shuixi region to attach to the Shuixi clan, and the Yongning Xuanfu Division was immediately abolished by the Ming court.

While retaining Yongningwei, the imperial court changed the land and returned to the river on the land under the jurisdiction of the former Yongning Xuanwei Division, and set up the Xuyong Military Food Department, which was subordinate to the Xuzhou Mansion in Sichuan, and specialized in Tuntian to raise military rations.

At the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, after the Chongming An Bangyan rebelled again, the Chonghui brothers quickly led the Tusi army under their command to return to their hometown.

After the Ming army stationed in Yongningwei was defeated, the Yi Han people, who were the military households of the Ming army and got a share of the land of the luxury family, were subjected to the crazy revenge of the luxury Tusi army.

A small number of them fled, most were killed, and the newly established Xuyong Army Food Department also disappeared immediately.

However, after the land was changed and returned to the stream, it was difficult for the Yongning Xuanfu Division to restore the previous Tusi rule.

Although the status of Tusi has its historical inheritance and origin, in the final analysis, it still depends on the canonization and authorization of the imperial court.

When the Ming court stood on the side of the slaves and serfs under the Tusi, especially when the Ming court distributed the land that the Tusi relied on to rule to the poor people of the Yi nationality who came to recruit for reclamation, the rule of the Tusi could never go back to the past.

The territories of the Sizhou Tian clan and the Banzhou Yang clan, after the land was changed and returned, none of them could be restored, which is a clear proof.

The Tusi have always relied on land and torture to rule over their tribes, and when your land has been given to your former tribesmen, how can these tribesmen who were previously enslaved by you welcome you to return and continue to rule them with torture?

Because of this, although the luxury family had only lost the Yongning Xuanwei Division for just over two years, when they came back again, the situation had changed fundamentally.

The poor Yi people who had been given the land because of the departure of the Tusi would rather die fighting for their share of the land than hand over the land to the former Tusi and continue to be their serfs.

Therefore, when the officials and troops of the imperial court were defeated and left, a large number of Yi people began to spontaneously rise up against these tyrannical Tusi.

Because of this, a large number of Yi people who dared to resist were killed.

However, the big Tusi who lost the support of these low-level Yi people not only lost a steady stream of soldiers, but also had no money and grain income from the expropriation and exploitation of the Yi people.

After Hao Chongming returned to the Yongning Xuanfu Division, it was precisely because the 20,000 troops under his command could not gain a foothold there, so he had to return to Shuixi with the main force, leaving only his younger brother Hao Chonghui with 5,000 troops to guard the ancestral industry there.

At the end of the first year of Chongzhen, Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, received a large amount of money and food from the governor Zhu Xieyuan, so naturally there was no way to delay it any longer.

In February of the second year of Chongzhen, under the repeated urging of Zhu Xieyuan, Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, finally led a Sichuan army of 10,000 to set off from Luzhou City and go south to the old land of Xuanfu Division in Yongning.

To Hou Liangzhu's great surprise, the Yi and Tumiao, who used poisoned arrows, traps and other means to resist the official army, this time they ate pot pulp and welcomed Wang Shi in groups.

The 5,000 Yi soldiers under the command of Luxury Chonghui have returned to the hometown of Yongning Xuanfu Division, and many of them have quietly left because they miss their families, and Luxury Chonghui's method of dealing with deserters is to catch one and kill his whole family.

Such high-pressure measures not only did not prevent the escape of the Yi and Miao native soldiers, but also caused more native soldiers to flee from Yongning and Lin Zhou, another important town under the jurisdiction of Yongning Xuanfu Division.

When Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, went south from Luzhou, step by step, and pressed Yongning, he did not dare to resist.

At the end of February, Hou Liangzhu led his army to arrive at Jiuxingchang, thirty miles north of Yongning, and the extravagant Chonghui subordinates who were ordered to garrison Jiuxingchang and Jiuxingchang's chief officials immediately fled back to Yongning.

Luxury Chonghui learned that Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, came with a large army, but he was in Yongning as if he was in a guest land, not only could not collect food, but also could not collect enough native soldiers, so he simply patted his ass and left, all the way back to Lin Zhou at the junction of Yongning Xuanfu Division and Shuixi Xuanfu Division.

Lin Zhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the ancient Lin that bordered the east of Sichuan and the northwest of Guizhou in the later generations.

After learning that Hao Chonghui led an army of 4,000 to retreat into Linzhou, he immediately led the morale-boosting officers and troops to pursue in the south, and defeated the troops who had retreated to Linzhou without a stable foothold in Linzhou, and beheaded more than 3,000 people.

Then, the news that Hao Chonghui's army was defeated in Linzhou, and hundreds of Yi native soldiers with few remaining demoralized soldiers fled all the way to Bijie were sent back to the base camp in Shuixi by An Bangyan's younger brother An Alun, who was sitting in Bijie at this time.

Along with this news, there was also the news of the rebellion of An Chongsheng, the prefect of Wusa Tu, appointed by the Shuixian clan.

And this is also the reason why An Alun, who was originally stationed in the mansion, was in Bijie.

The Shuixi area is surrounded by mountains and dense jungles, making roads difficult to navigate.

In winter, it is often foggy and rainy, and in summer, it is often raining heavily and mosquitoes are rampant.

At that time, Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou, personally led an army of 60,000 people, chased across the Yachi River, and entered the Shuixi region with high mountains and dense forests.

When he marched, it was already full of difficulties, but when he ran out of food and retreated, he knew that the test had just begun.

In the face of the Yi native soldiers who were familiar with the mountain and forest roads and did not surround and intercept them, the official army led by Wang Sanshan finally completely collapsed on the retreating road.

Wang Sanshan died in chaos, and the 60,000 officers and troops under his command who attacked Shuixi finally came out alive.

It was precisely because of this that Emperor Chongzhen never urged Zhu Xieyuan to march into Shuixi.

It was also because he knew this, so after Zhu Xieyuan arrived, he did not dare to go all the way like Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou, but quickly set the strategy of "attacking from all sides and gradually purifying".

Soon after Zhu Xieyuan arrived, he gave Emperor Chongzhen a strategy to suppress the water, in which he said:

"The west of the water is deep and dangerous, where there are many fences, the smoke and rain, the day and night are indistinguishable, it is difficult to get out of the depths, now it should be choked, attacked on all sides, the thieves will lack food, and gradually sweep away, then the west of the water is not difficult to determine."

What Emperor Chongzhen admires most about Zhu Xieyuan today is that his mind is extremely clear, his thinking is very clear, and his strategy is impeccable.

It was also based on this strategy that Zhu Xieyuan arranged troops on all sides and tightened the encirclement from Zunyi, Yongning, Zhenxiong, Wusa and other places, so that the two had to divide their troops to defend.

On the one hand, he sent Shi Yongan, the envoy of Guizhou, and Luo Ganxiang, the deputy general, to recruit the Han people around Guiyang and the local people of the Zhongjia Miao, Buyi Miao, Chuanqing Miao, and Gelao Miao who were attached to the imperial court, and opened mountains and logs, built roads and bridges day and night, and prepared to reopen the post road to Shuixi from east to west.

As long as this post road connecting the east and west is reopened, it will only be a matter of time before the water is leveled.

Therefore, when Zhu Xieyuan sent troops from the north, Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, he also ordered Lin Zhaoding, the chief military officer of Yunnan, to lead the army from Qujing to Wusa (Weining, Guizhou in later generations).

Zhu Xieyuan is the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Lin Zhaoding, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan, is within the authority of Zhu Xieyuan.

Therefore, for Zhu Xieyuan's order, Lin Zhaoding naturally did not dare to be as sloppy as Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, and after receiving the order, he immediately sent troops north to attack Pingyi and Zhanyi.