In the Battle of Grape Well on June 24, the officers and soldiers of the two routes unexpectedly joined forces and beheaded more than 10,000 people again, even killing the old and weak Yi people in the villages around Grape Well.

On the morning of 25 June, Zhu Xieyuan, who had been driving the mountain road all night with torches, finally took Liu Zhaoji, Mo Youjing's musket team and artillery team, and hurried to the grape well.

Zhu Xieyuan had already learned that by the time he came to the Grape Well, the brutal war had already subsided, and only Xu Chengming's subordinate Zhao Guoxi commanded nearly a thousand Yi people to take prisoners of the old and weak, and buried the piles of corpses piled up like a hill in the col south of the Grape Well.

Xu Chengming accompanied Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu to see Zhu Xieyuan, and several people met again after two months, and the situation in Shuixi has changed.

Zhu Xieyuan praised Wu Zhiwang and Qin Liangyu's performance of the officers and soldiers, especially Qin Liangyu, who was the initiator of the rebellion in the midst of the army at the age of 55, which made Zhu Xieyuan full of praise.

After several people met, Wu Zhiwang asked people to call the meritorious officials of this battle, one was to directly kill the Baojing Tu General Xiang Lama of the Left Governor Mo De under the command of An Bangyan one hundred and fifty steps away, and the other was to behead Luo Longzuo, the heir of the Shaxi Luo Tusi who beheaded the old An Guozhen of the Shuixi Xi'an clan in the process of slaughtering the Yi people of the Grape Well village.

Zhu Xieyuan praised the bravery of the two on the spot, and agreed to ask the court to reward them for their meritorious service after pacifying Shuixi.

With Zhu Xieyuan's guarantee, whether it is Xiang La, who has always been unsmiling and very cold, or Luo Longzuo, who is bent on making meritorious contributions and flying Huang Tengda to keep the Shaxi Luo Tusi official, they are all very happy.

The reason why Wu Zhiwang brought the decapitation of a Shuixi clan elder to Zhu Xieyuan, which was actually not very prominent, was actually to pave the way for the future imperial court to reward meritorious deeds and then govern Shuixi.

Because since he has agreed to the request to retain the world official for the Shaxi Luo clan, he must first win the support of Zhu Xieyuan, the coach of Shuixi.

When it was time to eradicate the Extravagant Rebellion and completely pacify Shuixi, there was no longer much suspense, and the heads of the officers and soldiers from all walks of life began to calculate the reward after the war.

This is human nature, and Zhu Xieyuan himself is thinking about this problem, so he also understands the thoughts of all the officers and generals under his command.

At noon that day, Zhu Xieyuan was in a Yi manor in Grape Well, and summoned the generals to arrange the next combat mission.

Looking at the fierce generals from all walks of life, Zhu Xieyuan said: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety!" Now An Bangyan evacuated Dafang and fled to Chishui, he thought he had a plan, but he was actually looking for death! If it crosses the Liuchong River in the south and flees to Zhijin Cave, the war in Shuixi may be undecided! But his move is just death!

"The generals have this insight, and they are naturally worthy of praise! However, back then, Governor Wang Sanshan Gong also had a generous army, and An Bangyan also fled in a panic! However, the final result does not need to be said by the Ministry of Finance, and all the generals also know it!

"When the ministry says this, it is not to belittle the three good people! The reason why this ministry mentions the tragedy of the year is to warn you that there must be a beginning and an end, a good beginning and a good end, the more you reach the last step, the more you can't take it lightly, so that the success falls short, and the success fails!

"The soldiers from all walks of life have entered the work of suppressing Shuixi, and none of the headquarters will be buried! Whether it is an official position, a knight, or even the gift of land and forests, the ministry will report to His Majesty the Emperor on meritorious deeds and rewards, and will not make all the soldiers work in vain and return empty-handed! ”

After Zhu Xieyuan finished saying these words, as the first trusted general under Zhu Xieyuan, Xu Chengming took the lead in expressing his position, promising not to be arrogant or rash, never to raise thieves and self-respect, resolutely obey Zhu Xieyuan's arrangement, and never withdraw troops if An Bangyan is not eliminated.

The rest of the generals also expressed their positions one after another, resolutely obeying Zhu Xieyuan's orders.

At noon that day, after agreeing on the next marching sequence, Luo Ganxiang, who had grabbed a lot of money and harvested the most loot, took the two wolf soldiers, Mo Keji and Wei Ang, once again as the vanguard, and went all the way to the north.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Xieyuan and Wu Zhiwang took the remaining Xu Chengming, Qin Liangyu, and Peng Chaozhu, as well as Liu Zhaoji, who carried cannons, and Luo Longzuo, who escorted a large amount of grain and grass at the end, and marched to Datunchang in the north.

At this time, An Bangyan had already led more than 10,000 relatively elite men and horses to Datunchang on the night of the first day.

On the evening of 25 June, the front army of Luo Ganxiang's army, that is, the forward of the Qing Miao Army, which he directly led, encountered a large force of sentinels sent by An Bangyan in the area of Guowa near Datunchang.

Under the fierce battle between the two sides, there were losses to each other, and no one dared to fight, one team urgently withdrew to Datunchang, and the other team hurriedly withdrew the report.

At this time, An Bangyan realized that the rear team of more than 10,000 people led by Zuodu Mode might not be able to come.

At the same time, An Bangyan also suddenly realized that leaving Dafang Muoge Mountain City may be a wrong move.

Especially after leaving Muoge Mountain City, he listened to the persuasion of Maude and others and retreated to Datunchang, which was almost certainly a mistake.

But it had come to this, and the Governor of the Left was dead, so it was too late to say anything.

That night, An Bangyan asked people to find his mastermind Zhou Shiru, as well as Datun Tusi An Chi, who supported him, and his cronies Zimo, Wu Azhan and others to discuss the matter.

For his current mastermind Zhou Shiru, An Bangyan is more and more trusting.

If he had listened to his words, thrown away everything outside his body, and only took the elite soldiers to cross the Liuchong River to the south, and went deep into the area of the Zhijin Cave with high mountains and dense forests, then the current situation would not be like this.

If you listen to Zhou Shiru's words, although the bitterness is a little harder, but after the bitterness is the situation of the sky is high and the birds fly, if the official army chases, if they can fight, they can fight, if they can't fight, they can also continue to retreat to the south, and even cross the Sancha River to the south, all the way to Anshun.

Today, however, there is no such retreat.

Although the area around Datunchang is prosperous and the grain is safe, only after he came did he know that this place has not much room for him to move around or hide in Tibet.

Unless you cross the Chishui River to the north and enter the former Yongning Xuanfu Division, or even hit Luzhou or Chongqing further north.

But that place is the heart of the Ming Dynasty!

However, even if you do hit there, will you be able to gain a long-term foothold there?!

After Zhou Shiru's explanation and analysis, An Bangyan thought about it carefully, and found that once he left Shuixi, although the world was big, there was no place for him An Bangyan at all!

Finding this, An Bangyan was very depressed, and then suddenly he didn't know what he was thinking, and his eyes suddenly lit up and he was excited again.

An Bangyan, who was reinvigorated, said: "I, An Bangyan, have always been the head of the chicken rather than the queen of the cow!" For several years, according to Shuixi, anti-imperial court, what did he do? !

"Everything I do is to restore the Luodian country established by the ancestors of the Yi people in Shuixi, and restore the glory of the ancestors of the Yi people in my Luodian country!

After saying this, An Bangyan's gaze suddenly became warm, swept the faces of everyone under his command one by one, and continued: "An Yaochen, An Guoheng, the father of An Jiangchen, ruled the west of the water back then, and acted perversely, and the heavens were angry and resentful!" His ancestor An Wan Yi even killed his eldest brother Wan Jun to stand on his own, bribed Guizhou Fuchen with a lot of money and attacked, and he never got the right position!

"Wan Jungong, the eldest brother of Wan Yi, is my ancestor! I, An Bangyan, am the eldest grandson of Wan Jun Gong, and I am from the authentic lineage of the Shuixian clan!

"Shuixi should be the Shuixi of my An Bangyan, why can't I be called the king of An Bangyan!?"

An Bangyan's eyes burned with fire, and he didn't know if he was angry because of the old past of the Shuixian clan, or because he was excited that he could get what he wanted now.

Seeing An Bangyan like this, Wu Azhan and Zimo, who had always been the leaders of An Bangyan's guards, looked at each other and nodded, knelt on the ground together, and said loudly:

"Shuixi is the king's Shuixi! Please take the throne as soon as possible! ”

An Bangyan's blazing gaze swept over the faces of the two and landed on An Chi's body: "Idiot, what do you say?!" ”

As soon as An Chi heard this, he knew that if he dared to say a word at this time, he was afraid that he would have to die without a place to be buried, so he immediately knelt down and said:

"Idiot swears allegiance to the king! Please take the throne as soon as possible! In the name of the king of Luodian Kingdom, he ordered the four Yi people around Shuixi to raise troops to serve the king! ”

At this time, Zhou Shiru should naturally know what to say, and he also felt that if An Bangyan called for the restoration of Luodian Kingdom, and sent orders to the Quartet in the name of the King of Luodian, encouraging the Shuixi Yi people to fight for it, there might still be a chance, so he said slowly:

"If the king has made up his mind, then dare to invite the king, tomorrow in Datunchang to hold a Zen throne ceremony, please be the king of Luodian country, and in the name of the king of Luodian country, order the Yi people of the Quartet to raise troops to fight against the enemy who invaded Shuixi!"