readx; The combined forces of the Qin soldiers and the white pole soldiers used clever tricks to lure the enemy into the depths, and broke the rebels in the west of the water in Wufeng Mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The rebel chieftains An Bangyan and Hao Chongming were killed on the spot, more than 50,000 rebels were killed, 20,000 were captured, and only a few thousand escaped because they had not yet entered the ambush circle.

Next, the Qin soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the rebels were leaderless and had no intention of fighting, so they directly abandoned Bijie and fled eastward, and the Qin soldiers successfully recovered Bijie.

Three days later, the imperial court received a flying pigeon from Qin Bing, and it was full of joy. Since the fiasco in Salhu in the last years of Wanli, the Ming army seems to have lost its soul, and routs and fiascos have become commonplace. In this southwest rebellion, many officials already felt in their hearts that Guizhou was afraid that it would be the same as Liaodong, and the imperial court would lose control of it forever.

Unexpectedly, the emperor only sent 10,000 troops, and in just over two months, he fought in Chongqing, Chengdu, Yongning, and Bijie, annihilating the main force of the rebels, beheading the thief chieftains, and the southwest rebellion was close to being pacified! All of a sudden, the praise of the emperor rose, and even those Donglin officials who usually worked against Zhu Youzhen also praised the saint from the bottom of their hearts, and asked Zhu Youzhen to reward Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng who led the troops to fight.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen was also very happy. At the beginning, he decided to use troops against the southwest first, but was opposed by many ministers, believing that the southwest rebels were not as much of a threat to the imperial court as the Houjin and the thieves. If Zhu Youzhen hadn't insisted on his own opinion at that time, I'm afraid that Chengdu, Guiyang and other places would have fallen now, and even Yunnan would have lost contact, wouldn't it be adding fuel to the fire for the already crisis-ridden Ming Empire! Now that the southwest has been basically pacified, Zhu Youzhen can concentrate on dealing with Houjin and the thieves. After all, two enemies are always better than three.

But he didn't have time to celebrate, because there were a lot of real problems that needed to be solved. First of all, Guizhou has not yet been completely pacified, and there are still many remnants of native soldiers distributed in the lofty mountains; Second, how to pacify the local people is a more difficult problem than quelling the rebellion. Third, which Zhu Youzhen has always been worried about, is that Qin Bing must immediately shift his teacher. Because since learning that the Houjin army defeated Lin Dan Khan, Zhu Youzhen understood that Huang Taiji's attack was imminent.

As for the remnants of the enemy in Guizhou, many officials advocated that Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng continue to pursue and suppress them. Under normal circumstances, this should indeed be the case, because the Qin soldiers had the power of a great victory and had rich combat experience against the rebels, so they should have completely wiped out the rebels in one go.

However, Zhu Youzhen thought twice and decided to immediately transfer Qin Bing back. There are three reasons for this: first, the main force of the rebels has been eliminated, An Bangyan and Hao Chongming are dead, and all that is left is the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and there will not be too many storms. And to completely exterminate them, it will be necessary to advance layer by layer in the lofty mountains and mountains of Guizhou, and it will take at least a year or more. Then Jin was about to enter the army, and Zhu Youzhen could not waste such an elite army on such an inconsequential battlefield.

Second, although the Qin soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they had been fighting thousands of miles for more than two months, marching rapidly almost every day, and had lost more than 1,000 people in many battles, so they had to rest immediately, otherwise they would be exhausted.

What especially made Zhu Youzhen anxious was that Li Dingguo and some Qin soldiers were infected with malaria! As a person who has crossed over, Zhu Youzhen certainly knows the severity of malaria. It is a malignant infectious disease transmitted by mosquito bites, and the symptoms of hot and cold are already very painful, and repeated attacks can lead to anemia and eventually death. In this era when there are no antibiotics, if Li Dingguo is knocked down by this hateful infectious disease and even loses his life, it will undoubtedly be a great loss for Zhu Youzhen, so he must be allowed to return to Beijing immediately and cure the disease first.

The third is Zhu Youzhen's deep thinking on toast in Guizhou, Sichuan and other places. There is no doubt that the rebels are all ethnic minorities such as the Yi ethnic group, and they participated in the rebellion, but the main culprits were An Bangyan and Hao Chongming, and most of the rest were deceived and coerced. Now that these two people are dead, if Yongning and Shuixi rebels are cut to the roots, it will certainly be the same law; However, the Yi people were also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the official army was not a beast army like the Jurchens and Mongols, so it was impossible to implement a policy of massacre of the whole clan.

In this way, a deep hatred will be planted in the hearts of the Yi people. Although this rebellion was suppressed, a few years or more later, when the descendants of these slain rebels grew up, would they be driven by hatred to rebel again?

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to attack the heart. He publicly issued an edict and immediately sent a letter to Chongqing, Chengdu, Bijie and other places, and made the following decisions: 1. Liu Hanru, the governor of Sichuan, who was passively avoiding the war, was dismissed, and Zhu Xieyuan, the prefect of Chengdu, temporarily acted for Sichuan, and Chen Tiangong temporarily acted for Chongqing. The two should restore local order as soon as possible, let the fleeing people return to their hometowns, and if necessary, they can discuss with Jinyiwei, who took over the Shu Wangfu, and temporarily borrow the grain in the Shu Wangfu to help the victims. Chen Tiangong also had to hold Fengjie and strictly prevent thieves from breaking into Sichuan from Xiajiang Road.

Second, after the murder of the former governor of Guizhou, Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou has been vacant. Zhu Youzhen set up the Bijie Mansion in Bijie, on the one hand, to pave the way for "changing the land and returning to the stream", and on the other hand, he also promoted Fu Zonglong to the prefect of Bijie and gave him a suitable identity. Then let Fu Zonglong temporarily act in Guizhou.

On the military side, Qin Liangyu led the white pole soldiers to be stationed in Bijie. For the remnants of the enemy in Shuixi, they will not pursue and suppress them for the time being, but give them three months to surrender. As long as they can voluntarily surrender, except for those who have committed serious crimes such as indiscriminate murder and rape of women, they will not be guilty of the past and can still serve the people. If they still do not surrender after the time limit, they will be resolutely exterminated by the white pole soldiers.

Third, because of the military disaster, Sichuan and Guizhou were not only exempted from all military service for one year, but Zhu Youzhen also allocated 1 million taels of money from the internal treasury to be used specifically for relief to the victims, restore production, and rebuild their homes.

Fourth, he comforted the various toasts, including the Yongning Tusi and Shuixi Tusi who rebelled. attributed the crime of rebellion to An Bangyan and Hao Chongming, not to his family, let alone to the Yi people. The rebels who died in the war should be properly buried, and if their families are in difficulty, they can also be given relief by the Bijie prefect at their discretion.

Fifth, Qin Bing immediately took the division. Because there is no other way to go, you can only go back the way you came. Zhu Youzhen specially instructed in the holy decree that Li Dingguo and other soldiers suffering from malaria must be carefully taken care of, and the rest of the soldiers should also strictly prevent mosquito bites, and also used this holy decree to tell the people of the world: Malaria is transmitted by mosquito bites, so we must pay attention to mosquito prevention and control.

If all goes well, the Qin soldiers will be able to return to Beijing within a month. But Zhu Youzhen always felt a little frightened, all kinds of clues showed that there might be earth-shattering events in the near future!