After Li Qiande's rebels captured Thang Long Mansion and wanted to capture Zhao Hao's plan failed, they immediately led the army to move to the southwest, which was the place where he had the greatest influence and the most dense place of the tribes that supported him.

However, for Li Qiande's rebels, the Great Song Dynasty could not sit idly by, Hu Yanping after rescuing Zhao Hao, immediately chased down in the direction of Li Qiande's retreat, and compared to Zhao Hao, Hu Yanping is full of experience in the battle here in Yuezhou, Jiaozhi was brought down by him at the beginning, and he also knew that it would not work only to rely on the army of the Great Song Dynasty, so this time the army he brought, in addition to the 30,000 Great Song army, also mobilized from the rear by the 50,000 local natives of Jiaozhi, These natives may not be able to fight on flat land, but they are natural warriors in the jungle.

After the arrival of the native army, Hu Yanping immediately led an army of 80,000 to chase down, before he had also discovered the route of Li Gande's withdrawal, and there were native people familiar with the jungle to lead the way, and finally it took only four days, Hu Yanping had already found the main force of Li Qiande's retreat, and immediately launched an attack.

For the pursuit of the Song army, Li Gande was also prepared, but he didn't expect Hu Yanping's movements to be so fast, and he didn't give him time to react at all, and there were already all the pursuers of the Great Song Dynasty behind him.

After Zhao Yan destroyed Jiaozhi, he mainly eliminated the regular army under Li Rizun, and did not move the local tribal forces, after all, although these tribal forces are not very strong, they are numerous, and the relationship between them is intertwined. It is impossible to completely eliminate the whole body, unless he orders a massacre that exterminates humanity, but even so, Da Song will pay a huge price, which is really not worth it.

It is precisely because of the above reasons. Therefore, since the establishment of Yuezhou, those local tribal forces have adopted a tacit attitude, and the decrees of the Great Song Dynasty have not conveyed these tribes, they naturally have their own tribal rules, as if they are independent kingdoms, and it is also thanks to the fact that Yuezhou is too far away from the core area of the Great Song Dynasty, so the Great Song Dynasty will tolerate their existence.

However, after these years of development, Yuezhou has long ceased to be the same as before, especially with the development of maritime trade. The economy of the eastern coastal area of Yuezhou has also been greatly improved, and many local forces have benefited from this, and the living standards have improved significantly, and these beneficiary tribes have gradually recognized the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and the influence of the tribes in the local area has been decreasing, but the influence of the imperial court is increasing, and it is believed that it will not be long before the tribes in these places will disintegrate.

However, compared to the eastern seaboard. The western part of Yuezhou was less affected, and most of the tribes remained the same as before. This also provided a place for Li Gande's activities, and under his covert activities, many tribes in the west, especially in the southwest, became Li Qiande's supporters, and this time Li Gande rebelled, and most of his rebels were gathered from these tribes.

Originally, according to the policy of the Great Song Dynasty towards the local tribes of Yuezhou. The army of the Great Song Dynasty generally did not use force against the tribe, after all, the impact of this was too great, which was why Li Qiande kept fleeing in the southwest direction, because as long as he got there, he could directly reduce the rebels to pieces. Return to their respective tribes, and he can also hide in these tribes, if the Great Song army dares to do something against these tribes, it will definitely cause a collective backlash from these tribes, which will cause even greater chaos.

It's a pity that Li Gande underestimated the determination of the Great Song Dynasty this time, Hu Yanping had already received a letter from Zhao Yan before leading the army to quell the rebellion, asking him to destroy Li Gande at all costs, and the tribal forces in Yuezhou have also affected the development of Yuezhou, and they were not moved before because the influence was too great, but in recent years, the Great Song Dynasty has divided these tribes, for example, the tribes in the coastal area have been thrown into the arms of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not difficult to solve only these tribes in the southwest.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Hu Yanping's army has been biting Li Gande tightly, even if the other party fled to the southwest tribe group, and scattered the rebels into pieces under the various tribes, as if they disappeared all at once, but Hu Yanping still chased here, and then gathered the leaders of the various tribes, hoping that they would hand over all the people involved in the rebellion.

In response to Hu Yanping's request, these tribes united and unanimously declared that the people in their tribes did not participate in any rebellion, let alone know Li Gande. In their opinion, there are many people on their side, and the so-called law does not blame the people, although Hu Yanping's army is powerful, it is impossible to kill them all.

However, these tribes miscalculated this time, after being rejected by these tribes, Hu Yanping immediately tore off his originally kind face, raised a butcher's knife and killed these tribes, and destroyed ten major tribes in ten days, and he had already investigated it in advance, these ten tribes were the tribes that secretly supported Li Gande the most, and half of the rebels under Li Qiande were from these tribes.

After ten days of bloody slaughter, countless heads rolled to the ground, and even in order to deter these Jiaozhi natives, Hu Yanping ordered his soldiers to pile up their heads into a high Jingguan, which looked like a hill from a distance, which frightened the rest of the tribes, and some timid tribes finally handed over the clansmen who had participated in the rebellion before after weighing, after all, compared to the destruction of the entire clan, it was absolutely cost-effective to sacrifice some clansmen to protect others.

However, Hu Yanping was still dissatisfied with the performance of these tribes, because the speed of their handover was too slow, and he did not get any information about Li Gande, so a few days later, he led the army again to slaughter several tribes, which finally frightened the rest of the tribes, and all the natives who participated in the rebellion were quickly handed over, and there was also a lot of information about Li Gande, with the help of these news, Hu Yanping quickly found Li Gande's traces, and began to arrest himAlthough no one has been caught for the time being, no tribe dares to assist Li Qiande, and it is estimated that it will not be long before Li Qiande will be arrested.

For the pursuit of Li Qiande, Zhao Hao did not personally participate, but stayed in the rear, in fact, he really wanted to catch Li Qiande, the guy who almost captured him, but Xing Shu persuaded him not to take any more risks, and in the end he had to follow his advice and temporarily return to the deep-water port to wait for news.

When Hu Yanping kept sending back the battle reports during this time, Zhao Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and had no objection to Hu Yanping's ruthless methods, but felt that he had finally avenged himself, but he also personally gave Hu Yanping an order, that is, he must capture Li Gande alive, he had to see what this guy looked like. In addition, Zhao Hao also sorted out the situation in Yuezhou, and then truthfully reported it to the imperial court.

It's just that even Zhao Hao didn't expect that the war report he sent to the court caused a lot of shock in the court, first of all, several officials expressed indignation at Hu Yanping's massacre in Yuezhou, thinking that Hu Yanping was simply killing innocents, although those were natives, but Yuezhou had become the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so those natives were also Song people, and Hu Yanping took the opportunity to suppress the rebellion and wantonly slaughtered the people of the Great Song Dynasty, which was really brutal and unkind, so they suggested that the court arrest Hu Yanping to ask for guilt.

Don't underestimate the energy of those officials, although their official positions may not be high, but the power they have is very great, and even several ministers may be overthrown by their impeachment, and sometimes even Zhao Yan will be impeached by the officials, of course, with his current status, the impeachment of these officials has no effect on him at all.

The reasons for these officials to impeach Hu Yanping cannot be said to be wrong, after all, in the influence of Confucianism, Hu Yanqing's large-scale massacre has violated the concept of "benevolence", and many scholars and doctors are very disgusted with this large-scale massacre by the army, so with the participation of those few officials, many officials have also attracted the participation of many officials, and they have impeached Hu Yanping's practice, and for a time many people in the court demanded that Hu Yanping be dismissed from his post and sent back to the capital for interrogation.

Regarding the impeachment of Hu Yanping in the court, Zhao Yan had already received the news, and he naturally couldn't sit idly by, so under his promotion, Su Song and others also began to fight back, they mainly analyzed the local situation in Yuezhou, showing that Hu Yanping's approach could completely solve the problem of Yuezhou, so Hu Yanping not only did not make a mistake, but made great contributions, and it was his practice that completely eliminated the possibility of another rebellion in Yuezhou.

The above two forces quarreled endlessly in the court, which made the Empress Dowager Gao very difficult, she also knew that Hu Yanping was Zhao Yan's person, if Hu Yanping could be held accountable, it would definitely weaken Zhao Yan's influence in the army, but she also knew that if she did this, it was likely to completely anger Zhao Yan, and then she and Zhao Yan were likely to break up, which was also something she didn't want to see, after all, now Zhao Yan doesn't care about the affairs of the court, so that she can monopolize power, but if Zhao Yan stands up and fights with her for power, Then she won't gain more than she loses.

Empress Dowager Gao hesitated for a long time and couldn't think of a good solution, but at this time, someone suddenly made a wonderful suggestion to her, which made her feel suddenly enlightened. (To be continued......)