Chapter 576: Zhiga Aru
At the same time that Long Jizhao bit the Wu to death, Zhao Guoxi, the general of the Guizhou Army under Xu Chengming, also rushed to the battlefield with more than 1,000 people from the vanguard of the former army.
Hundreds of torches were quickly thrown into the col, instantly illuminating the enemy and distinguishing friend from foe.
As hundreds of strong bows were drawn, hundreds of sharp arrows flew out, and then hundreds of rebellious Yi soldiers fell to the ground screaming at a time.
A few steps away, the strong bow and hard crossbow were aimed at the unarmed and rebellious Shuixi Yi soldiers, which was a shot and a target.
Not long after Zhao Guoxi arrived at the battlefield, Luo Ganxiang finally led nearly 3,000 native soldiers under his command to rush to Xiemapu all the way, and then rushed into the battlefield.
At this time, the Shuixi soldiers in the entire mountain col no longer had room for resistance and the possibility of survival.
And the battlefield in the mountain col is no longer a battlefield, with the battle-hardened Qingmiao soldiers under Luo Ganxiang joining the battle group, the official army of the Shuixi Yi people, who have surrendered and rebelled, is no longer fighting, but a one-sided massacre.
This mountain col is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the south is an east-west post road, and the opposite side of the post road is not far from the rocky deep valley, and there is a Liuchong River with abundant water and rushing eastward flow under the deep valley.
Now the officers and soldiers were divided into several ways to attack and slash inward from the side of the post road, and the rebels in the col had no choice but to flee to the steep and difficult mountain inside.
It's just that there is only a bowl of wild vegetable porridge every day for several days, and it is the hardest and most tiring physical work to open the mountain and build the road.
However, since joining the official army and establishing the Camp of the Army, the soldiers who have begun to eat and do nothing all day long are unusually energetic.
Like the wolf soldiers from Guangxi, they went crazy when they saw blood, and they all looked like madmen, shirtless and barefoot, wielding double knives, and rushing to and fro among the rocks and thorns.
It's like hunting on the high mountains of Pu'an Prefecture, chasing and killing the Shuixi Yi people who are scattered and fleeing.
About half an hour after Luo Ganxiang led his troops to arrive, Xu Chengming led a rear team of 4,000 people from Guizhou to the battlefield.
More than 5,000 Shuixi soldiers, whether they were a few who had a rebellion or an innocent majority who had not yet developed a rebellion, all of them were spared from the fate of being slaughtered and slaughtered.
In the early morning of June 16, the sky was getting brighter, and the shouts of killing in the area of Xiema Mountain had completely subsided.
Shi Yong'an, Xu Chengming, Luo Ganxiang, Zhao Guoxi, and Long Jizhao, whose head and face were even covered in blood like a hell of Yama, stood quietly on a dirt slope at the foot of Xiema Mountain, looking at the corpses on the border in the col, and only heard the sound of the torrent of the Liuchong River lapping on the riverbank.
A layer of white mist shrouded in the mountains and fields, it looked like a fairyland from afar.
However, underneath this fairyland-like beauty, it is truly like hell.
After all, none of the Shuixi soldiers who fled all over the mountains and wilderness escaped the pursuit of the Lulu camp, and no matter where they hid in the mountain col or in the mountains and forests, they would be found and killed by the Lulu soldiers with their hunters' sense of smell.
Most of these people are innocent.
However, this is generally the case in the world, careerists are always in the minority, and innocent people are always in the majority, but it is often the innocent majority who pay for the ambitions of a few careerists.
"There is no general who has led the army since then, and there is no one who does not stand up for his authority by killing!
"This official and a scholar still know this principle, and you are all old generals in the army, so you should have a deep understanding!"
Looking at the slightly tired and silent generals, Shi Yongan, the envoy of Guizhou, said.
The generals all nodded when they heard this, and Long Jizhao, who didn't understand what it meant, also nodded.
After this matter was settled, Xu Chengming immediately sent An Shirong and Fang Guoan to send the letter back quickly, and then left a rear army, in that mountain col, collected the corpses everywhere, dug a pit and buried them deeply.
Then, he joined forces with Luo Ganxiang, walked through the more than ten miles long mountain post road, and entered Xixipu.
The camp followed Shi Yongan to continue to stay in Xiemapu, waiting for the next batch of troops from Shuixi City to arrive, and continued to open mountains and build roads and widen post roads.
Fortunately, the post road from Shuixi City to Xixipu has been widened and repaired, and it is basically nearing the end, and after turning the spiral mountain road west of Xiema Mountain, it is considered to have arrived at the periphery of the luxury fragrance station.
The post station system of the Ming Dynasty should be said to be very complete, and the shop is a node in the post station system, which belongs to the post station.
There are post posts and ambassadors, and now they are all officials, with official bodies and ranks.
And Xixipu is the last stop under the jurisdiction of Shuixiyi, after crossing the Xixi River, it is a luxury fragrance station.
Of course, now Longchang Jiuyi, as well as all official institutions such as posts, stations, shops, and offices in Shuixi, have been destroyed.
The ambassador of the post and the shop were killed, the post guards fled without a trace, and the Longchang Nine Stations had been abandoned and barren for many years.
At noon that day, Xu Chengming and Luo Ganxiang led the army into Xixipu, because this time the westward march was extremely hasty, and they did not bring the people who accompanied the army.
Those people are still transporting grain and grass from Shuixi City, rushing to this side.
Therefore, Xu Chengming and Luo Ganxiang had no choice but to command their soldiers to personally clean up the mess left by the Guangxi wolf soldiers in Xixipu.
Groups of officers and soldiers, wrapped their mouths and noses in cloths, endured the stench, cleaned up the half-decomposed corpses that had fallen in the streets and alleys, in front of and behind the houses, and discarded them in a valley outside Xixipu and buried them indiscriminately.
Xixipu is located on the east bank of the Xixi River, and is only separated by a river from the luxury fragrance post not far from the west bank of the Xixi River.
Along the post road from east to west, Han-style or Yi-style shops, houses, and courtyards are distributed on the relatively gentle slopes on the east bank of the Xixi River.
When the officers and soldiers cleaned up Xixipu, Xu Chengming, Luo Ganxiang and other generals officially stationed in Xixipu, and then observed the enemy camps on the riverbank, valleys and mountains near Luxiangyi on the opposite bank across the Xixi River.
When there is little rain in winter, many sections of the Xixi River can be waded through on foot, but at this time, when the water is rainy, the water volume of the Xixi River increases greatly, and there is no possibility of wading through the water at all.
Nearly 400 years later, there will be a bridge across the Xixi River valley, but at this moment, there is not a single boat or even a zipline at the ferry crossing on the Xixi River.
Looking at the Xixi River, which rushed south for more than ten miles and then joined the Liuchong River, Xu Chengming and Luo Ganxiang were silent.
The following afternoon, Xu Chengming, Luo Ganxiang, Zhao Guoxi, and other generals walked back and forth for more than 20 miles along the upper and lower reaches of the Xixi River, looking for suitable crossing points and discussing feasible ways to cross the river, but they did not make up their minds.
Shortly after they returned, however, good news came one after another.
In the evening of the same day, the leaders of the two wolf soldiers from Guangxi, Mo Keji and Wei Ang, with their wolf soldiers with high morale, escorted a large number of horses, mules and buffaloes from the upper reaches of the Xixi River along the path on the riverbank.
It is said that they returned victoriously because everyone had a large bag of things on their bodies, including all kinds of silver ornaments, cloth and skins accumulated by the Yi people in Shuixi, and almost every horse, mule, and buffalo carried a basket and a basket of precious rice.
The golden unhulled rice alone is as much as three or four thousand stones.
In addition, there are strips and pieces of smoked and blackened air-dried bacon and salted fish.
All these materials are enough for all the officers and soldiers of Xixipu, including Xu Chengming and Luo Ganxiang, to eat for ten days and half a month.
The Guangxi wolf soldiers under the command of Mo Keji and Wei Ang returned victoriously and brought back a large amount of grain, wine and meat, which certainly made Xu Chengming and Luo Ganxiang happy, but what made them even happier was that Mo Keji and Wei Ang reported a piece of news to them.
Mo Keji and Wei Ang led two wolf soldiers from Guangxi, since they left Shuixi City, they first divided each side into several teams, and advanced all the way to the west, burning and plundering a total of 36 villages, and everywhere they passed was gold and silver taken away, and chickens and dogs were not left.
In this way, all the way to burn and loot all the way to Xixipu, the wolf soldiers who scattered out combined to slaughter Xixipu, and then went north again, all the way into the mountains.
In the end, the teams of wolf soldiers, along the mountain path, unexpectedly joined forces in one place again.
This place is the Yina Dam on the Zhiga Aru Lake in the upper reaches of the Xixi River, which is more than 50 miles away from Xixipu Mountain Road.
And the Yina Dam is the location of the Yina River, one of the twelve streams of the Shuixian clan.
All the villages around the upper reaches of the Xixi River, Zhiga Alu Lake, have a mountain road leading to this place, large or small, far or near.
Because the Yina Dam on the shore of Zhiga Aru Lake is the place where all the Xidong Tusi villages in the jurisdiction of the Egnaze River pay money, grain, and material tribute to the Shuixian clan.
It is precisely because of this that the Guangxi wolf soldiers, who were divided into more than a dozen groups at the beginning to attack the rebel Miao thief village, pulled out the villages around Zhiga Aru Lake one by one, followed the winding mountain path, and finally came to the vicinity of Yinaba together.
So the old and weak women and children of the Yi people who stayed behind in the Yina Dam were considered to have fallen into bad luck and suffered a disaster.
Men were killed regardless of age or young, and women, those who dared to resist were also killed on the spot, and those who were more cooperative were to endure humiliation and survive, and the tragic details of them naturally do not need to be elaborated one by one.
And nothing excites Mo Ke and Wei on the most than the discovery of several huge cellars.
There is not much gold and silver in it, but it is enough to make Mo Keji and Wei Ang feel that this time from the west of the water is not in vain.
In addition to some of the gold and silver that had not been handed over, a large amount of grain stored in the river, which was supposed to supply the Shuixi army for a long time, was also seized by Mo Ke and Wei Ang.
After the two wolf leaders who had harvested a lot were satisfied, they no longer continued to burn and loot farther and deeper in the mountains and forests, but collected a large number of horses, mules, and buffaloes in the area of Yinaba, and returned to Xixipu with the money, food, and materials that could be taken away.