Chapter 647: True Martial Mountain
Zhenwu Mountain is the holy place of Taoism, but there are many Zhenwu Mountains in the country, not only Yibin is unique, but where it is called Zhenwu Mountain, it must be dedicated to Zhenwu Emperor, and the whole country Zhenwu Mountain is only respected by Yibin Zhenwu Mountain. The reason why Yibin Zhenwu Mountain is so respected by everyone is because the Taoist activities of Yibin Zhenwu Mountain are the earliest and have never been interrupted.
According to legend, when Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, a descendant of Zhang Liang, passed by Zhenwu Mountain when he was cultivating, and saw that his mountain had the aura of Xianshan Mountain, and he was a cave house for Taoism to nourish his nature, so he settled down in Zhenwu Mountain to preach. During the Tang Dynasty, there was Lu Dongbin who practiced swords in Cuiping Mountain during the day and stayed in Chunyang Cave of Zhenwu Mountain at night. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Yang Daoren cultivated in Zhenwu Mountain, found fairy grass in Yugutai, and ate fairy grass to get the way to ascend to heaven by day.
By the time of the Ming Dynasty, there was a powerful barbarian tribe in the southern Sichuan region named Duzhangman, which means like a clan, and its department called itself Duzhangren. Duzhangman developed to the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, Duzhangman has been alone with the ethnic groups in the mountainous areas of southern Sichuan, no longer satisfied with living in the mountains and forests, and began to covet the northern Sichuan Plain.
In the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, the Shandu Zhangman tribe in the capital was led by the leader to besiege nine counties such as Jiang'an and Hejiang, and Ming Xianzong ordered the Sichuan army to conquer the barbarians. At this time, Zhao Duo rebelled in Chengdu, Wang Hao led the army to extinguish Zhao Duo's peasant rebel army, and the governor Ruicheng agreed with the mountain capital to promise the political status of the capital, and the leaders of the tribes could enter the city as officials, and the people of the tribes moved from the mountains to the plains to live. Ruicheng was widely welcomed by various barbarian tribes, and all the barbarian tribes in southern Sichuan invited Ruicheng and prepared to surrender.
However, after Wang Hao eliminated Zhao Duo's rebel army and led the army into southern Sichuan, he knelt on the ground and cried the Han people in southern Sichuan, saying that the barbarians who killed our Han people in the past are now sitting in the county government and becoming the county lord, and we can't take revenge and can't go back to our homes. Wang Hao was furious and ordered to directly kill the Duzhang people in the city, and at this point, the Duzhang barbarians rebelled again.
In October of the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, Duzhangman occupied Guizhou, and attacked northern Sichuan in November. For the barbarians, the Han army is no different from the Han people, so every time they occupy a city, they slaughter the Han people, which caused great hatred among the Sichuan people, and the Sichuan people have joined the army, and the Ming army is becoming stronger and stronger, and the people have to return to the mountains in southern Sichuan, so the hatred between the two sides is growing day by day.
In the first year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor sent the governor of Sichuan, Zeng Xingwu, to mobilize 140,000 officers and soldiers from Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou to conquer Duzhangman, preparing to completely wipe out the group of Duzhangman who harassed the Han people in the mountains every day. Zeng Province and the Ministry of General went to Zhenwu Mountain to pray for the protection of the gods, according to legend, because the Emperor Zhenwu dreamed of help, Zeng Province Wu was defeated and was barbaric. Zeng Province Wu for the great kindness of the Emperor Zhenwu, ordered the Ministry to build the Zhenwu Temple, changed the name of the mountain to Zhenwu Mountain, and expanded part of the ancestral hall, hall, building, pavilion. After large-scale expansion and construction, Zhenwu Mountain has become the Taoist cultural transmission center of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, and has the reputation of "North Qingcheng, South Zhenwu" in Sichuan Taoist circles.
However, because the hatred between the Duzhang people and the Han people is very deep, the Han people in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou hate the Duzhang people to the core, so the process of conquering the Duzhang people can not be described as cruel, and the Duzhang people in southern Sichuan were slaughtered, and even the young children and babies were all killed, making the Duzhangman a piece of history, and since then, all ethnic groups in southern Sichuan have bowed down to the Han regime, and there is no second heart. The Ming Dynasty adhered to a foreign policy of not compromising with the barbarians, and some ethnic minorities were exterminated by the Ming army because they did not obey the Han regime, so the ethnic minorities who survived under the iron and blood pressure of the Ming army were extremely powerful. Among them, the Duzhang people did not accept sinicization, there was a language but no writing, and the various departments of the Duzhang Barbarians were never able to unite into a powerful armed force like the Jurchens in the Northeast, so they were inevitably exterminated.
Walking on the mountain road, Wang Yongan browsed the beautiful scenery of Zhenwu Mountain, while listening to the explanation of the Taoist of Zhenwu Mountain, every time he talked about history, the Taoist quoted scriptures and witty words, Wang Yongan and a group of generals also listened with great interest, as if every tree and tile of Zhenwu Mountain had a story of thousands of years. Wang Yong'an said that if you were born more than 100 years later, with your eloquence and understanding of the history of Zhenwu Mountain, it is estimated that one person would be able to support a tourism company.
Walking to the Zhenwu Temple, Wang Yongan and other officers solemnly got up, walked into the hall in an orderly manner, headed by Wang Yongan, everyone knelt down to worship the Zhenwu Emperor, Wang Yongan said in his mouth: "The young general Wang Yongan prayed to the Zhenwu Emperor to bless the conquest of Zang Manying's banner to open smoothly and smoothly, pray that the weather will improve and all the staff will be healthy, and the power of my Han army will be irresistible." And the rest of the people prayed.
It is also strange to say, after everyone entered the mountain, the wind and snow decreased, and after Wang Yongan and others knelt down to worship the Emperor Zhenwu, they went out of the hall and found that the blizzard had stopped for seven days and seven nights.
Wang Yong was happy in peace and said to the Taoist chief that if the army went well, he would definitely order that the twenty miles around Zhenwu Mountain would never pay taxes. The Taoist chief was very happy, and repeatedly said that the Zhenbian army would be able to kill the enemy, and finally gave a peach wood sword to Wang Yongan, saying that this peach wood sword has been passed down from the Ming Dynasty to the present for more than 400 years, and hopes that it can accompany the town border army all the way to subdue demons and eliminate demons and destroy the rebels.
Wang Yongan got the peachwood sword, asked Liu Tong to take care of it, and then led the generals back to Yibin City, and at this time the weather was sunny and the temperature gradually rose. After another night's rest, the temperature is getting higher and higher, everyone is surprised, the legend of Wang Yongan seeking the Zhenwu Emperor among the people is even more magical, and some people even say that Wang Yongan also dreamed of the Zhenwu Emperor pointing out the maze, the reason why the Zhenbian army stayed in Yibin is because the Zhenwu Emperor kept them for seven days and seven nights and other legends, every story makes people feel surprised.
Because the weather improved, the Zhenbian Army began to march to Ya'an City, this time because the 9th Division had more sick soldiers, so the forward troops were replaced by the 10th Division, and the 9th Division and the 8th Division set off at the same time.
The journey from Yibin to Ya'an is not easy, especially in southern Sichuan, which has just experienced a week of heavy snowfall, and although the weather has cleared, the melting snow and ice have caused the rivers to swell, and many of the knee-deep rivers have been lost. The forward troops opened roads and filled bridges in the mountains, and forcibly opened up a road leading directly from Yibin to Ya'an.
In fact, the army from the border of the town can take a short route from Chengdu to Ya'an, but Wang Yongan's purpose is not only to eliminate the rebels, but also to deter all ethnic groups, so as to provide a good political foundation for his future development in Sichuan, so he did not hesitate to take a long detour from Yibin to Ya'an Daokangding.
However, what made Wang Yongan wonder was that the rebels still besieged Kangding City after learning that the 100,000 Zhenbian army was marching westward - and they couldn't defeat it - they had been fucking fighting for half a year.