Chapter 939: Recovering Yongning
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After the defeat of Hao Chongming in Chongqing, Li Dingguo and Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers went down the east of the river the next day. Qin Liangyu has a high prestige among the Tusi in Sichuan, especially after the defeat of Chongming, the Tusi have shown favor to her and the imperial court, and took the initiative to provide many ships for the use of the officials and soldiers. It was much easier to go down the river in this way than to go over the mountains and rivers when you came, so it only took four days for the army to arrive in Chongqing.
Chen Tiangong, who was temporarily staying in Chongqing, told Li Dingguo and Qin Liangyu that Li Laiheng and Fu Zonglong had led troops to attack Yongning, the old nest of luxury Chongming. Due to the absence of the main force of Yu Chongming, the soldiers stationed in Yongning were all shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and their combat effectiveness could not be compared with Li Laiheng's elite Qin soldiers at all.
But to everyone's surprise, Li Laiheng's battle did not go well. The Yongning natives were all locals who were extremely familiar with the terrain, and some natives gave them a message. Every time Li Laiheng led his troops to attack a stronghold, often the other party had already gotten the news and fled, and the Qin soldiers could only pounce. For seven or eight days in a row, Li Laiheng was led by the nose of the native soldiers in the mountains, which means that the Qin soldiers were strict in discipline and were not afraid of hard work, and if they wanted to change other officers and soldiers, their morale would have collapsed long ago.
Ma Qianxue has been following Qin Liangyu all the way, and pouted after hearing this: "This Li Laiheng is really useless, the main force of Extravagant Chongming is not there, he can't win!" ”
"Qianxue, don't talk nonsense!" Qin Liangyu hurriedly said, "I think General Pingnan has too few troops, so we still have to hurry up and send reinforcements."
Li Dingguo nodded and said, "What the Marquis of Loyalty said is extremely true. Li Laiheng had only 4,000 men and horses, and under such mountainous terrain as southeast Sichuan, he must not divide his troops again, otherwise he would be in danger of being broken by the enemy. He also has no way to do this, speaking of which, I'm afraid the difficulty is no less than the battle of Chengdu. ”
Since Ma Qianxue committed suicide last time and was rescued by Li Dingguo, she feels that she has lost face, and she has been speaking coldly to Li Dingguo these days. This time, he felt that he had seized the opportunity, so he sarcastically said: "Don't you generals who lead the troops learn the art of war?" "The Art of War" says, "Therefore I want to fight, although the enemy has a high base and a deep ditch, and he who has to fight with me, he will be saved by attacking him." 'Extravagant Chongming's lair is in Yongning, isn't Yongning the place where the rebels must be saved? If I were to be in command, I would lead the commander of the army to attack Yongning, how could I be like this Li Laiheng, stupidly going around in the mountains! ”
Li Dingguo replied with a smile: "What Miss said is good, but you only know one thing, but you don't know the other." Li Laiheng and I have both been trained at the Qin Bing Military Academy, and Concubine Ling Niangniang personally taught us, and "The Art of War" was naturally studied, and Li Laiheng also knew it.
"But before we marched into the army, we heard Master Fu Zonglong talk about the topography of Yongning, which was surrounded by mountains, a narrow valley in the middle, and a Yongning River passed through it. If the enemy rushes forward, in case the enemy lures the enemy into the depths, after the official army enters the valley, the rebels will block the mountain passes on all sides, and then block the Yongning River from the upstream, and when the water is full, the mouth will suddenly burst, and the 4,000 Qin soldiers will die without a place to be buried. Therefore, Li Laiheng must annihilate most of the rebels before entering Yongning, which is also a last resort. ”
These words convinced Qin Liangyu and Ma Qianxue sincerely. However, although Ma Qianxue was convinced in her heart, she still refused to give in, and it was not until Qin Liangyu couldn't bear to reprimand her a few words that she reluctantly closed her mouth.
After only one night's rest in Chongqing, the Qin soldiers and the white pole soldiers quickly marched in the direction of Yongning, and soon joined forces with Li Laiheng. Li Laiheng's army had 4,000 men, Li Dingguo's department also had 4,000 men, and the white pole soldiers had more than 6,000 people.
Within three days, the officers and troops won three consecutive battles and annihilated nearly 10,000 rebels. At this time, Yongning no longer had the native soldiers who could fight, and after Yu Chongming sneaked back to the vicinity from the mountains and mountains, he saw that the situation was out of control, and even Yongning did not dare to enter, and directly took thousands of remnants of the soldiers to Guizhou to defect to An Bangyan, the "King of Luodian".
After that, the combined forces of the Qin soldiers and the white pole soldiers regained Yongning without bloodshed. But it was already an empty stockade, and before they fled, the soldiers set a fire and burned down most of the houses of the thousands of Yi people who had lived here for generations.
After the officers and soldiers arrived, they first helped the people to extinguish the fire. When Yu Chongming was the leader here, he often preached to the Yi people how bad the Han people were, and the Yi people believed it because of their closed lives, and they all thought that the Han people liked to bully the Yi people, and the Han officials and soldiers were even more murderous demons.
Therefore, when the official army just arrived, the Yi people avoided them like rats seeing cats. But Qin Bing used his actual actions to prove to the Yi people that they were by no means demons and monsters. Although the language of the two sides did not understand each other, the Yi people slowly settled down when they saw that the officials and soldiers not only did not kill people or rob things, but instead helped the people put out fires.
Yongning recovered, luxury Chongming fled, and the southwest rebellion was half of the success so far. But Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng are still very anxious, because on the one hand, Shuixi Dusi is still unharmed, and it is said that An Bangyan's strength is still above that of Extravagant Chongming; On the other hand, Zhu Youzhen had already sent a message to them to the flying pigeon, asking them to quickly take the squad after quelling the rebellion in the southwest, because Houjin was likely to launch another large-scale attack on Daming soon.
Therefore, after discussing with Fu Zonglong and Qin Liangyu, the two left Qin Liangyu to lead 2,000 white pole soldiers to garrison Yongning. On the one hand, it is to completely stabilize the situation in Yongning, on the other hand, Qin Liangyu is also the leader of the Tusi, and he is also a Yi ethnic group with the Yongning people, so he is definitely more handy than the Qin soldiers in pacifying the people and rebuilding after the war.
The rest of the officers and troops, including the 8,000 Qin soldiers of Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng, and the 4,000 white pole soldiers led by Ma Qianxue, joined forces and sent troops from Yongning to attack Shuixi Tusi, and Fu Zonglong accompanied the army to praise the painting.
Their first target was Bijie. Bijie is located in the northwest of Guizhou, about 300 miles away from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, and Zunyi, an important town in northern Guizhou. Now Zunyi has been broken by the rebels, and it was there that the governor Wang Sanshan was killed by An Bangyan. Guiyang, like Chengdu, was also besieged by rebels, and the local officials and troops in Guizhou retreated there to support themselves, and they were almost exhausted.
After the official army takes Bijie, they can not only rescue Guiyang, but also go straight to Zunyi, and in case the battle is unfavorable, they can also return to Yongning. And if the rebels lose Bijie, the entire Guizhou region will be opened. Therefore, Bijie is an important node for both the official army and the rebels.
The curtain of the decisive battle between the official army and the Shuixi rebels has finally begun!
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