"Since the armies of Yunnan and Guangdong provinces have been reorganized, there is no need to bother the army of the Beijing Division, Li Aiqing, transferred the 19th Army and the 20th Army from Yunnan to pacify Wusizang, and Mu Qiyuan, the commander of the 19th Army, commanded the two armies in a unified manner; The 14th Army and the 15th Army were transferred from Shaanxi to Duogan, and the commander of the 14th Army, Zuo Liangyu, commanded the two armies. ”

Zhu Youzhen's eyes were resolute and his tone was resolute, so that the ministers had no room for opposition, and the ministers wanted to oppose it, and he could also say that this was a military matter, and it was decided by the National Defense Yuan.

Zhu Youzhen estimated that the Ming Dynasty had entered the age of firearms, and one army was enough to quell the riots in Wusizang and Duogan, but these newly formed armies had not experienced war, and he wanted to give them the opportunity to train.

In April of the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631 AD), the armies of Shaanxi and Yunnan of the Ming Dynasty were dispatched almost at the same time.

The Shaanxi army marched westward from Guyuan, passed through Lanzhou, the capital of Shaanxi, and went straight to Xining of the Duogandu Division; The Yunnan army set out from Dali, followed the ancient tea horse road, and went west to Wusizang.

In order to speed up the march, Mu Qiyuan and Lin Chengxiang, the commander of the Twentieth Army, agreed that the two would divide their troops in Lijiang, Mu Qiyuan's Nineteenth Army would go west, go straight to Chayu, and point to Lhasa with the shortest distance, and Lin Chengxiang's Twentieth Army would go northwest, and the front of the troops would be Mangkang, the eastern gate of Wusizang.

The first thing Mu Qiyuan had to deal with was the Lancang River, fortunately, the water in the upper reaches of the Lancang River was relatively slow, and the water surface was relatively narrow, so the 19th Army crossed the Lancang River in one day, but the Yuqu River and the Nu River in front of them were relatively rapid, and the sergeants used the rafts prepared in advance, and it took five days to cross them all.

The army of 30,000 marched on the high mountains, stretched wide apart from each other, and when the baggage troops in the rear had just crossed the Nu River, the sergeants in front had already arrived at Chayu.

Chayu is close to Yunnan, the altitude is much gentler than the west of Wusizang, and the population is relatively concentrated, but at this time, Chayu is only a small city, with a population of less than 5,000, and there is no regular army.

According to the archives of the Ministry of Households, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the total population of Wusi Zang was only 600,000, less than one percent of Jiangnan Province.

After receiving the news of the Ming army's attack, the gate of Chayu City was closed, and all the people who were farming outside also hid in the city.

The front of the 19th Army surrounded Chayu City on all sides, and Mu Qiyuan didn't know that there were only thousands of people in the city, and he regarded Chayu as the first battle in Tibet.

He rode a red horse and looked around, but he didn't find any discomfort among the soldiers, so he was relieved.

Mu Qiyuan set up all the ten artillery pieces at the south city gate.

Originally, the Ming New Army had forty artillery pieces in each army, but when the southern army was reorganized, the artillery in Beijing could not be shipped for a while, and the Guangzhou Firearms Factory did not have time to manufacture enough artillery, and each army only had twenty artillery pieces, but when Mu Qiyuan sent troops to Wusizang, he knew that Wusizang was inconvenient in transportation, so he only carried ten artillery pieces, but the flowering shells were not less.

On the Chengtou Mountain in Chayu, there are constantly figures shaking, and they should be soldiers guarding the city.

While Mu Qiyuan ordered the infantry to prepare and seize the city gate as soon as the city was broken, he began to have the gunners prepare to bombard the city gate and city walls.

Ten guns, standing quietly a thousand steps away from the south city gate, the gunners are busy adjusting the muzzles, these new guns, have been installed with crosshairs, higher than the old guns used by Zhu Youzhen during the Northern Expedition.

The defenders were also watching the artillery outside the city, these behemoths, they had never seen them before, and they were still in the mood to see the excitement, and they were happy to see it.

"Commander, the artillery is calibrated, will it be fired immediately?"

"Launch now."

The gunners began to reload and ignite, and as the fuse # cable was ignited, the flowering shell entered the firing countdown, however, this was a mental countdown for the gunners, and the gun itself did not have such a device.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

……

Ten artillery pieces, fired almost at the same time, the flowering shells dragged a tail line, and flew towards the south gate like geese.

Of the ten flowering bombs, only one fell near the south city gate, and the rest of the flowering shells either fell on or outside the city wall.

It was this flowering bomb that fell in front of the city gate that blew the tattered wooden gate to pieces, and after the sawdust and smoke stopped, a huge hole appeared in the city gate.

Mu Qiyuan was overjoyed, "What kind of city gate did these Tibetans build?" Doesn't this make my soldiers meritorious? ”

"Throne, the city gate has been blown open, do you want to let the infantry enter the city?"

"Wait, there may be defenders in the city, let the soldiers fire cannons into the city first, two flowering shells per person."

"Yes, Throne."

This time, the artillery fire was directly aimed at the city walls, and the huge flames completely enveloped the city in an instant.

Mu Qiyuan was still not at ease, "The artillery fire extended two hundred steps forward, and continued two rounds of shelling." ”

After the artillery fire stopped, there was no movement on the top of the city, and there was no defender in sight.

Seeing the power of artillery on the battlefield for the first time, Mu Qiyuan shouted excitedly: "Infantry, enter the city, be careful that there are defenders ambushing on the inside of the city wall." ”

"Brethren, enter the city." Liu Zhenyu, commander of the 55th Division, won the first opportunity to enter the city, and with a wave of his hand, he grabbed the front of the soldiers.

Seeing that the division commander stole the limelight, how could the soldiers lag behind? One by one, as if they had been beaten with duck blood, they quickly caught up, and before entering the city gate cave, a large number of soldiers had already crossed Liu Zhenyu.

Inside the south city gate, in addition to the burning flames, that is, the corpses of the defenders, those soldiers who are not yet dead, are rolling and howling, and they are not far from being dead, even if the Ming army does not shoot, they will not last an hour.

The Ming army did not let them continue to suffer, when the enemy has no hope of living, then let him get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, reincarnate as soon as possible, and become another hero as soon as possible, but don't be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty anymore! Liu Zhenyu silently prayed in his heart for these Tibetan defenders.

Entering the inner city, there was no decent resistance, and the temporarily armed serf gate was held with wooden sticks and farm tools, and under the leadership of the leader, blocked the front of the Ming army.

Whoever holds a weapon is an enemy.

Liu Zhenyu is not a person who pities fragrant jade, besides, the enemy soldiers on the opposite side are not fragrant jade.

Under the long-range blows of the flintlock pistols, the Tibetan serfs could not get close to the Ming army within a hundred paces, and they were moving targets alive.

Although the target could move, the Ming army was much outnumbered, and if the first soldier didn't hit, there were second and third soldiers.

Liu Zhenyu was so strong that he forgot to open the other city gates and receive friendly troops into the city, until Mu Qiyuan entered the city with the rear army.

After Mu Qiyuan entered the city, he asked Liu Zhenyu to open the other three city gates, and issued a massacre order on the other.

Mu Qiyuan had his reasons: the army was still on an expedition, and no one had the time and energy to take care of the prisoners, and besides, the reason why they went on the expedition was because of the riot in Wusizang, and this riot had evolved into robbery, rape and massacre of the Han people, since you dared to slaughter the Han people, you should think that one day you would be slaughtered by the Han people, and the Han people would take revenge a hundred times.

Mu Qiyuan's massacre order was quickly conveyed to every soldier, and the Tibetans in the city had no chance of surrendering at all, as long as they met the Ming army, it was their time of death, whether it was the elderly, women and children.

Chayu City is not large, the Ming army quickly searched the city, but there are not many jewels and belongings, but in a warehouse in the southwest corner, more than 1,000 slaves wearing shackles were found.

The soldiers in charge of searching the warehouse wanted to slaughter, but when they heard someone shouting in Chinese to "spare their lives", the soldiers kept an eye on them, and when they asked, they learned that they were not Tibetans, but Han people in the vicinity, who had been captured and used as slaves, and in order to prevent them from escaping, they were all shackled when they were not working.

It was the people of the 55th Division who searched the warehouse, and the division commander Liu Zhenyu did not dare to call the shots, so he had to ask Mu Qiyuan: "Junzuo, how to deal with these Han people?" ”

"How? Naturally, it was released, and the army entered Tibet, one was to quell the riots, and the other was to rescue the local Han people, could it be that even the Han brothers should be killed? Mu Qiyuan participated in the meeting before the expedition and knew the purpose of the imperial court's use of troops, although he was not Han nationalism, but he still had a sense of national identity.

"Yes, Commander, I'll go and let them go." Liu Zhenyu gave a military salute and was about to leave.

"Zhen Yu, you let them have a full meal first, and then bring a few leaders to meet me." Although Mu Qiyuan is the prince of Mu Wangfu, but Yunnan is a place full of foreign races, and his long-term military career has made him a little less gentlemanly, a little more general's demeanor, and his brain is turning fast, since the army will not be stationed in Chayu, it is also good to arm these Han people to defend the city and help transport some supplies.

Soon, Liu Zhenyu took ten Han slaves.

"This is our military seat, which was ordered by the military seat to release you and give a salute to the military seat."

"I've seen the military seat, thank you for the grace of the military seat." Ten slaves knelt down for Mu Qiyuan together.

"Get up, you are all Han brothers, we are the army of the Ming Dynasty, it is also appropriate to save you, you will tell me what happened in Wusizang as it is." Mu Qiyuan had ten Han Chinese slaves sit under his side.

"Back to the military seat, since the end of last year, the Tibetans began to rob the Han people's property, the slightest disobedience, either beating or scolding, Tibetans because they usually eat mutton, they have short knives hanging on their bodies, and they may give you a knife at any time." This named Liu Feiyu has obviously seen a lot of cruel scenes, and his eyes are full of horror.

"Later, the Tibetans developed to the point of burning down the shops of the Han people, and even killing innocent people," an old man said with trembling when he saw Mu Qiyuan's harmony.

"Chayu is just a small city, how can there be so many Han people?" Mu Qiyuan didn't understand that if he really wanted to reach this ratio, the Han people could completely resist.

"Originally, we were not in Chayu, we lived in nearby Metuo, but after the Tibetan riots, we were arrested by the Tibetans to work." Liu Feiyu gradually calmed down, and there was a hint of anger hidden in his eyes.

"You have suffered, and now the army of the Ming Dynasty has come to rescue you, how about it? Do you want to put this piece of land under your feet? ”

"The throne means ......"

"I will give you a hundred sabers, you organize a hundred Han armies to garrison Chayu, and the rest of the people will work nearby, and they will not have to pay taxes to the Tibetans in the future."

"Thank you Junza, Junza is really our reborn parent." And they knelt down together, and knocked their heads to the ground.