Like this kind of pursuit along the mountain road, the stone pillar and white pole soldiers are used to fighting in formation, and the speed of pursuit is far inferior to the Baojing native soldiers who have always fought like a swarm of bees.

Peng Chaozhu, Xiang Lajiao and others led the Baojing native soldiers, and when they rushed down from the mountains and forests, they fought with the Yi soldiers of the luxury family who escaped the small river in the red soil river to avoid the shelling.

At the beginning, the victory and defeat were not scored, both sides were desperate battles, rattan against rattan, short soldiers against short soldiers, you hacked me two, I hacked you to death.

Even with the Shaxi Yi soldiers who rushed over later to help in the battle, the Baojing soldiers under Peng Chaozhu and Xiang La's command were still caught in the melee, and there was no sign of victory in a short time.

The two sides are knee-high in the rice fields, you come and go, swords to bones, and kill together.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yi soldiers of the luxurious family were in a panic with an unknown enemy situation, then the Baojing Tu soldiers and the Shaxi Yi soldiers would probably have to suffer a big loss.

After all, many of the Yongning Yi soldiers under the command of Yu Chongming were veterans who had experienced a hundred battles, and these people were not comparable to the old and weak Yi people hastily gathered by the Shaxi Luo clan.

And the Yongning Yi soldiers under the command of Yu Chongming also saw the combat power of the Shaxi Yi people, and soon locked the target of slashing and breaking through on the Shaxi Yi people led by Luo Jiuzhong and Ao Kun.

The Yi soldiers of the luxurious family who fell into the ambush were particularly hated for the Shaxi Yi people who lured them into the ambush circle, and when they saw the Yi soldiers of the Shaxi Luo clan, they were extremely red-eyed, and killed the Shaxi Yi people in the rice fields and ambushed corpses all over the place, and even the muddy water under the rice fields became blood-red.

It wasn't until the loud shout of "Luxury Chongming is dead" came from the mountain road in the distance that these luxury Yi soldiers who escaped across the river and fell into the bitter battle in the rice fields were like mourners, and suddenly lost their fighting spirit and began to fight and retreat.

Soon after, the Yi soldiers on the mountain road turned around and fled in front of the white pole soldiers of the stone pillars, and the more numerous Yi soldiers on the other side of the river also collapsed.

As one horse after another horseback leaders were killed because their horses' hooves got stuck in the mud, the Yi soldiers in the entire Hongtu River were finally completely chaotic.

At the beginning, some of the Yi soldiers who were trapped in the mud of the riverside shoals and rice fields surrendered, but Luo Jiuzhong and Ao Kun, who were red-eyed, did not want to be taken prisoner at all, and led the Shaxi Yi soldiers under their command to kill one by one.

Next, the Yi soldiers of the luxurious family no longer dared to throw away their weapons and surrendered on the ground.

In this way, the Yi soldiers of the luxurious family who did not die fled to the entrance of the Hongtu River without their lives.

After all, there are still 5,000 people left by Yu Chongming for his younger brother Hao Chonghui to escort heavy grain and grass and relatives and women.

Correspondingly, the Baojing native soldiers led by Peng Chaozhu and Xiang La, the Shaxi Yi people led by Luo Jiuzhong and Luo Longzuo and his son, and the soldiers of the Nanjing Jingying of Wang Jianguo's Ministry who participated in the war afterwards followed closely behind the Yi soldiers of the luxury family.

The crucial battle, within an hour of the cannon firing and the ambush exhausted, ended with the death of Yu Chongming.

However, the final battle continued until the evening of the same day, until the thick fog filled the land again, and the battle of Hongtuchuan was completely over.

Determined to unify the Yi tribes, and then divide the southwest to establish the Great Liang State, Yu Chongming, was cut off by Qin Liangyu, a female general.

And the tens of thousands of Yi soldiers he brought into Hongtuchuan, that is, the Yi Miao soldiers under the original Yongning Xuanfu Division, were wiped out in Hongtuchuan, and almost none of them were spared.

Luxury Chongming's younger brother Luxury Chonghui left all the grain and grass and heavy relatives and women, took advantage of the chaos to ride a fast horse, escaped from the valley entrance of the Hongtu River, and fled to Muorg along the mountain road with more than 1,000 cronies and Yi soldiers who escorted grain and grass behind.

The old and weak Yi soldiers in the rear who tried to flee back with them, the families and children of Yu Chongming and his leaders, were also indiscriminately hacked and killed by the Baojing native soldiers and Shaxi Yi people who were chasing them all the way.

As for how many of them died unjustly, there is no way to know.

The most cruel part of war is not the fighting between soldiers, but the suffering of a large number of innocent people.

The Yi people under the jurisdiction of the Xuanfu Division of Yongning, with the defeat of Hao Chongming in Hongtuchuan, have since completely entered history and become one of the countless Nanban tribes drowned in the dust of history.

Four days later, Wu Zhiwang led his army to defeat Yu Chongming at Hongtu River, beheaded more than 13,000 ranks, and killed Yu Chongming on the spot, and was urgently sent to Zhu Xieyuan's army, which was still garrisoned by the Yachi River.

Zhu Xieyuan was overjoyed, and immediately convened a meeting of the officials and generals under his command, and quickly made up his mind to speed up the march.

In addition to ordering Wu Zhiwang to send someone to marinate the head of Yu Chongming and send it to Guiyang for verification and identification as soon as possible, so as to pass on the first report of merit, three more decisions were made.

First, he sent people to make a detour to Zunyi, Xuyong and other places, and ordered Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding to join forces to storm Bijie.

Second, he ordered Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu and others to lead the army to advance to Dafang as soon as possible after a short rest.

In the end, Zhu Xieyuan personally led the main force of the official army stationed by the Yachi River to the west to attack Shuixicheng.

On the morning of 27 May, after the operational arrangements by the Yachi River were finalized, Zhu Xieyuan sent a messenger and Pegasus to Hongtuchuan and Zhen~Xiong~fu to deliver an order, and then he set off for the west with Xu Chengming, the chief military officer of Guizhou, the Guangxi wolf soldier Mo Keji, and Wei Ang's department, as well as Liu Zhaoji's department, which was Zhu Xieyuan's Chinese army at this time.

The reason why Zhu Xieyuan chose to start an all-out attack on Shuixi at this time was not all because of the great victory in the Battle of Hongtuchuan.

Even if Wu Zhiwang had not yet achieved a great victory in the direction of Shaxiba at this time, Zhu Xieyuan was already ready to launch a general attack.

Because of the hard work of Shi Yongan, Zhu Xieyuan's deputy general Luo Ganxiang and others in Guizhou for more than 20 days, the spacious post road leading from Yachi Station to Guli Station has been repaired again.

Under the supervision and leadership of Shi Yongan and Luo Ganxiang, more than 5,000 people of all ethnic groups who returned to the imperial court cleaned up the rocks and civil works that blocked the post road one by one.

Including the bridges and plank roads that were artificially destroyed by the Shuixi Yi people, they were also rebuilt again, and there were no longer insurmountable obstacles to the advance of the army.

However, with the example of the artillery achievements of the Battle of Hongtuchuan, this time, Zhu Xieyuan asked Xu Chengming to take the Guizhou soldiers and Liu Zhaoji's Tiance Wei Youye, escorting the ten general cannons transported all the way from Guiyang to set off first.

Guizhou Vice General Wang Guozhen had led the vanguard to arrive at the Guli Station in the middle of the Yachi River and Shuixi City, and now he has surrounded Guli Town for more than 20 days.

Because of the limited number of Wang Guozhen's troops, he did not launch an attack on An Long's troops stationed in Guli Town, but the garrison in Guli Town was surrounded by officials and troops, and they only dared to hide in the city wall and hold out.

And Shi Yongan and Luo Ganxiang took advantage of this opportunity to supervise and lead the young men to repair roads, transport grain and grass, and build warehouses and camps.

It was precisely because of the construction of a smooth post road that Xu Chengming and Liu Zhaoji set off with 10 general cannons escorted by their troops on 20 May.

Xu Chengming, who was stimulated by Qin Liangyu's slashing and extravagant Chongming, was anxious to make contributions, and after coming to the outside of Guli Town, he listened to Wang Guozhen's report and knew that there were not many An garrisons in Guli Town, and they were very honest, so in the evening of the same day, he took advantage of the afterglow of the sunset to launch an attack on Guli Town.

Guli Town is not big, there are only two gates, east and west, which are all checkpoints used by the Shuixi Xuanwei Division to collect taxes from the horse gangs and merchants who came from the east or west.

The stone wall here at the east gate is only a dozen steps wide, and there is a ruined city gate tower on it, riding on the post road leading to Shuixi City, and on both sides are high and steep mountains.

The city gate hole under the city gate has long been blocked by earth and stones.

If there were no cannons, there would have been a lot of casualties if you had to take the gate tower and pass through this town, which had only one post road, but with the cannons, everything was much easier.

Liu Zhaoji has been in the martial arts hall, and he is now the imperial attendant of Emperor Chongzhen, and even the power of artillery when it is used properly.

And Zhu Xieyuan set off first with Xu Chengming and acted cheaply, of course, it was because of him that he was familiar with firearms.

Ten general cannons, three rounds at a distance of 200 paces, knocked down the city gate tower on the city wall, and the Shuixi Yi soldiers defending the city were no longer able to gain a foothold in the city.

After another four rounds, the already old and dilapidated city wall collapsed, revealing a gap about a foot wide.

Wang Guozhen, who had been outside the city wall of the town in the Valley for more than half a month, led his Guizhou soldiers to rush up and take the city wall.

Most of the Shuixi Yi soldiers stationed in Guli Town opened the west gate and fled to Shuixi City, while a small number died of being killed on the spot by Wang Guozhen's command.

The Yi Miao and other ethnic groups and the families of the garrison in Guli Town, who were already small, once again experienced the fire and were slaughtered by the Guizhou soldiers who poured into the city later.

By the time Zhu Xieyuan led Shi Yongan, Luo Ganxiang and Guangxi wolf soldiers to Guli Town the next morning, the idle people in the city had been cleared up, and Wang Guozhen and Liu Zhaoji had already led a total of 2,000 men and horses under their commands.