Zhu Xieyuan, who was already sixty-three years old, although his hair had turned gray, but his energy was still vigorous, and at this time, all the Chinese officers and military generals in the hall had already expressed their orders, and the Nanjing Military Department Attendant Lang Wu Zhiwang also pointed out in public the meaning of the beheading of those who violated the order, and nodded at the moment and said: "I have summoned you here today, one is to affirm the order, and the other is to agree on the strategy.

"Since ancient times, those who have not known orders have no way to be an army, and they cannot enter the army. I am the weight of the Ming military law, and the generals are old in the army, and they know everything, so they don't need to say much from the ministry.

"The ministry and the academy only talk about one article here, not to be an official or a general, but anyone who does not obey an order, does not advance in fear of the enemy, and does not save the friendly army in distress, will be killed!"

Zhu Xieyuan didn't say that Qiu didn't commit any crimes, and he couldn't kill good people and take risks, because he knew that he couldn't do it.

The Shuixi Yi did not have a standing army, and the absence of a standing army meant that any adult man who could carry a sword into battle could be a soldier.

Moreover, when the Tumu people in the 48 caves under the jurisdiction of the Shuixian clan were ordered to go to war, they all prepared their own armaments and brought their own grain and grass.

The Yi soldiers under his command also do not have standard weapons and equipment or military uniforms, so they look the same as ordinary Yi people, and there is basically no difference.

If you really want to say anything about not hurting the people of Shuixi, it is self-tied, pedantic and ridiculous.

Zhu Xieyuan knows this, and all the generals under his command also know it.

Zhu Xieyuan is definitely an outlier.

He was born in Jinshi and is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, but his figure and appearance do not look like a weak scholar in Jiangnan Water Town.

On the contrary, he is eight feet tall, has a large belly and ten girths, and his appetite is particularly amazing, and he can catch up with the food of twenty ordinary people in one meal, which is simply a strong man in the northwest with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

If this is left in the future, it will be a fat man who is more than two meters tall and weighs more than 300 pounds, so no matter how you look at it, it is not the appearance of a weak scholar.

However, he is an authentic Shaoxing scholar.

Zhu Xieyuan said this military order with only one content in a sonorous voice, and then said:

"Since March this year, the Sichuan and Yunnan armies have reported successes frequently, and now Hou Liangzhu, the chief military officer of Sichuan, has gone down to Yongning and Lin Zhou, and Lin Zhaoding, the chief military officer of Yunnan, has been leveled and benefited, and An Chongsheng, the prefect of Wusa Tu, has surrendered.

"And the two armies of Guizhou and Guangxi were ordered to eradicate the Song clan in Shuidong, and our army marched westward, and there was no need to worry about the future. The effect of the previous attack on all sides of the ministry has already begun to show.

"Now that the imperial army is gathered in Qianxi, the food and salary of all departments are sufficient, and the weapons are excellent, our army has entered Shuixi, and the time has come to gradually wipe it out!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Xieyuan looked around at all the civil and military generals in the hall, and then said: "From tomorrow, the headquarters will lead the Guizhou soldiers and Guangxi soldiers to move to Longchangba.

"Since Master Wu has come to Guiyang, don't be in a hurry to leave! Please ask Lord Wu and his entourage to move to Zunyi City, General Qin's stone pillar soldiers and General Peng's Baojing soldiers, this battle is under the control of Lord Wu!

"As soon as you are ready, you can go up the Wujiang River from Wujiang Pass, seize Huangshadu on the Liuguang River, and then attack the Shaxi Dam according to the situation!"

The Liuguang River is a section of the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, and Huangshadu is an important crossing on the Liuguang River from south to north.

As for the Shaxi Dam, the location is even more important, located more than 100 miles northeast of the Dafang Muoge Mountain City, the core of the Shuixian clan's rule, which is the location of Jinsha County, Guizhou in later generations.

This is also the place where the Shuixi clan must defend, let Wu Zhiwang sit in Zunyi, and lead Qin Liangyu's Shizhu soldiers and Peng Chaozhu's Baojing Tu soldiers to attack Shaxi Dam, the purpose is to mobilize An Bangyan's army to the north, and then create an opportunity for the main force of the official army in the direction of Guiyang to march smoothly.

Wu Zhiwang is a squire of the Nanjing Military Department, and it stands to reason that he is a high-ranking official of the imperial court, but Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Guizhou, has a lot of part-time jobs, not only the governor of Yunnan, Guichuan and other five provinces, but also the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

Especially now that he has arrived at the front line in Guiyang, he naturally has to listen to Zhu Xieyuan's moderation, and at the same time, he also has the hope of martial arts with a heart of meritorious service, and he is also willing to follow the counterinsurgency army to make some contributions.

At this time, after listening to Zhu Xieyuan's order, seeing that Zhu Xieyuan gave him the right to do so, he was also excited in his heart, and he hugged his fists and promised: "I don't dare to ask for it!" ”

Several people who were ordered by Zhu Xieyuan before, Li Fengjie, Xu Chengming, Qin Liangyu, Peng Chaozhu and others, also clasped their fists and said: "The lord of the ministry has an order, how dare the officials disobey!" ”

Next, Zhu Xieyuan ordered the Guizhou Metropolitan Commander to command the envoy to make Huang Yunqing move to the town of Anshun, and requisitioned the guards of Pu'anwei, Anzhuangwei, Pu'anwei, and Annanwei, as well as the pacification divisions of various ethnic groups under the jurisdiction of the four guards, and the local soldiers of the chief official division to prepare their own food and salaries, and assemble along the Sancha River and Ale River in the upper reaches of the Yachi River to block the southwest line of the water.

At the same time, let Guizhou according to the inspector Shi Yongan and the deputy general Luo Ganxiang as the vanguard, supervise the original requisitioned a large number of barbarians and young strong, continue to follow the post road of Longchang Jiuyi, cross the Yachi River and continue to open up the road to the west, so that it will set up a camp every 30 miles, garrison the troops, and transfer grain and straw for the army.

Since the opening of the Hongwu period, Longchang Jiuyi has been maintained and guaranteed by the Shuixi clan, which is not only the main traffic road between Yunnan-Guizhou and Sichuan-Guizhou, but also the main traffic road for areas outside Shuixi to enter Shuixi.

In other directions, it is not that there are no roads at all, but those roads either need to be detoured several times the distance from north to south, or they are hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests, and no one knows how to go or where to go except for the local indigenous tribes.

Therefore, although the post road of Longchang Jiuyi has now been deliberately destroyed by the Shuixi clan, this post road is still the only way to enter Shuixi from the direction of Guiyang.

Fortunately, the first two of the nine stations in Longchang, namely Longchang Station and Yachi Station, are both outside the water area and are currently in the hands of the official army.

The so-called area outside the water was originally also the territory of the Shuixi clan, but this place is east of the Yachi River, which is not suitable to be called Shuixi, and at the same time it does not belong to the Shuidong Song clan, so it is called Shuiwai.

Now this piece of land that hangs alone in the east of the Yachi River and originally belonged to the west of the water, of course, fell into the hands of the officials and soldiers.

The sixty-mile steep post road from Longchang Station to Yachi Station has now been reopened by Shi Yongan and Luo Ganxiang leading the people and young people.

The Longchang Station outside the water is sixty miles north of Guiyang, while the Yachi Station is sixty miles west of the Longchang Station.

Each post station is about 60 miles apart on average, so it is a total distance of 540 miles from Guiyang to Bijie and Longchang Jiuyi.

From this, it can be imagined that the land west of the water is about 2,500 to 3,000 li in radius.

already has such a large area of hereditary territory, why doesn't the Shuixi clan continue to choose to guard the Longchang Jiuyi, the only way to travel from south to north, and make a lot of money, but choose to rebel, and what Luodian ghost country has to restore?! Is the title of a king of Rodian so important?

I am afraid that only An Bangyan, who wants to be the king of Luodian, can answer this question.

Yachi Station is also called Liuguangyi or Luguangyi, which is on the east bank of the Yachi River.

The Yachi River and the Liuguang River are just different names for different sections of the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, and one of them is called the Sancha River.

Although the names or names are different, they are actually the main rivers in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River.

On 18 April, as soon as the meeting of the ministries and institutes of the Guiyang Governor's Office ended, Wu Zhiwang and Chen Zizhuang took Wang Jian, an official and soldier of the Nanjing Jingying who had come from Nanjing to escort food and ordnance, and together with Qin Liangyu and Peng Chaozhu, carried a batch of grain and salary, and went north to Zunyi first.

Five days later, the news of Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu, Peng Chaozhu and others sending troops from Wujiang Pass reached Guiyang, and on the morning of 24 April, Zhu Xieyuan held a pledge meeting in Guiyang City.

Shao Jiechun, the political envoy of Guizhou, Huang Yunqing, the commander of the capital, Wang Yinghua and the officials of Guiyang stayed in Guiyang to continue to collect and allocate grain and materials, and then personally led the Guizhou soldiers under the command of Xu Chengming, the general soldier of Guizhou, and the wolf soldiers of Mo's and Wei's under the command of Li Fengjie, the governor of Guangxi, carried a large number of heavy food and salaries, and went out of the city to Longchangyi.

Liu Zhaoji's 1,000-day guards naturally took the initiative to ask for help and followed, and Zhu Xieyuan also used it as his own Chinese army with great confidence, and asked him to follow the governor's ministry to act together.

At noon on April 25, Zhu Xieyuan's governor Xingyuan arrived at Longchangba (later Xiuwen County, Guizhou), where Longchangyi was located.

The next morning, Zhu Xieyuan immediately sent Xu Chengming, the chief military officer of Guizhou, and Wang Guozhen, the deputy general, to lead 6,000 Guizhou soldiers to Yachiyi.

Three days later, Zhu Xieyuan received a messenger sent by Wu Zhiwang and others at Longchangyi, and learned that Qin Liangyu's troops and Peng Chaozhu's troops had seized Huangshadu on the Liuguang River.

Liuguang River is the name of a section of the lower reaches of the Yachi River, and the Huangshadu on the other side of the Liuguang River on the west side of the water was occupied, so the defenders of Shuixi on the opposite side of the Yachi Station could not gain a foothold.

Sure enough, the day after receiving the news that Huangshadu was captured by the official army of Zunyi, Xu Chengming, the general soldier of Guizhou, sent a messenger from Yachi Station, requesting that troops be sent to capture the ferry on the other side of the Yachi River.

Although Guizhou has a landform of eight mountains, one water and one field, the two banks of the Yachi River in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, which divides the west and east of the water, are rare to see in the open and flat valley area.

In particular, a section of the river valley where Yachiyi is located, with gentle terrain and fertile soil, is an important grain producing area for the Shuixian clan.

However, at this time, the Yi and Miao villages near Yachiyi have long been burned into a white land by the war that lasted for several years, and a large area of good rice fields is very rare, and it is also covered with half-human-high Artemisia annua grass.

The Yachi Station, which was once prosperous in commerce, is now only left with broken walls, only the tents and pergolas that stand between the broken walls and ruins, indicating that this post station, which has been abandoned for several years, has re-entered people's field of vision.