Chapter 508: A Great Victory
Under the pursuit of the Xiaowu army, the defeated rebels fled to Yi'an City in panic, and the reason why only the Xiaowu army pursued the rebels was because the Zhancheng army had already exhausted after a night of fighting and was no longer able to pursue.
Because the Xiaowu army marched faster than the rebels, the rebels who were caught up along the way surrendered on their knees under the shouts of the Xiaowu army, "those who surrender will not die", knowing that they were now trapped in Yi'an Mansion and resisting in vain.
Li Li was surrounded by many personal soldiers, riding horses mixed with the rout, wolf bรจi unbearably galloped towards Yi'an City, his mood had fallen to the bottom at this time, his face was gloomy like ice, the original foolproof breakthrough plan would fail, and after this defeat, he was no longer able to prevent the second breakthrough, so he could only temporarily hide in Yi'an City to survive.
Rumble! When he was five miles away from Yi'an City, a dull sound suddenly came from the front, waking up Li Li who was feeling sorry for himself.
Immediately, a series of muffled noises came from the front, and the screams followed, and Li Li, who was faintly on a horse, saw someone soaring into the air in front of him.
"Ground Fire Mine!" Looking at the rebels who flew into the air inexplicably, Li Li's eyes showed a look of astonishment, and then he suddenly remembered the matter of the fallen leaf slope, and his face turned pale with a brush, could it be that the Ming army had an ambush here?
"Kill!" Before Li Li could react, an overwhelming shout sounded from the mountains and fields on the right, and countless Ming soldiers rushed over waving the weapons in their hands.
At this moment, the rebels had lost all morale, and there was still half the will to resist, and they fled like a tide to the mountains on the left.
Boom, boom, boom......
With this action of the rebels, the rebels who rushed to the front stepped on the mines buried in the ground one after another, and a violent explosion occurred, and the surrounding rebels fell to a piece, and the scene was full of flesh and blood, and many wounded rebel soldiers fell to the ground and groaned in pain.
"Quick, retreat!" Li Li came back to his senses and immediately realized that the Ming army had arranged a mine array on the mountain field on the left to drive the rebels there, and hurriedly shouted loudly.
It's a pity that the rebel soldiers at the scene have been frightened by the sudden appearance of the Ming army, coupled with the chaos of the situation, where is anyone willing to listen to him, like headless flies strung around, which makes more mines detonated, explosions one after another, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of rebel soldiers.
"Let's go!" Looking at the rebel soldiers rushing around him, Li Li closed his eyes in despair, he knew that the situation was over, and then turned the horse leader and led his own soldiers to flee to the rear.
Obviously, since the Ming army has set up an ambush here, it means that Yi'an City is already in the hands of the Ming army, and Li Li never imagined that the speed of the Ming army's actions would be so fast, which had far exceeded his imagination.
With Li Li's escape, the frightened rebels finally collapsed at a distance of five miles from Yi'an City, and surrendered to the Ming army, and the Ming soldiers were like ducks, grabbing prisoners all over the mountains.
At this point, after more than two years of arduous counterinsurgency, the rebellion in Cochin slowly came to an end.
Two days later, Li Yuntian led Wang Bin, Dogesa, Lundes and others to Yi'an City, and Li Daniu led the Ming generals in the city to meet them outside the city.
At the same time that the rebels left the city of Yi'an, Li Daniu, who was sitting in Qinghua Mansion, ordered the Ming army to march to the city, because there were no rebels in the city of Yi'an, and even the shadow of the residents was not seen, and the residents almost all fled out of the city after the rebels left, which made the Ming soldiers enter the city without blood, and then set up an ambush five miles outside the city, and defeated the rebels in one fell swoop.
"Lord Commander, this is the rebel Li Li." Under the leadership of Li Daniu, Li Yuntian and his entourage went to the government prison of Yi'an Mansion, and in the prison, Li Daniu pointed to Li Li in a cell with a disheveled hair and a wooden flail and said to Li Yuntian.
Li Li sat against the wall, his eyes closed, his face pale, he knew that the officials of the Ming army had come to see him as a prisoner, so he felt extremely humiliated in his heart.
Yesterday afternoon, Li Li, who was hiding in Tibet, failed to escape the search and arrest of the Ming army after all, and was captured in a village.
When he heard the words "Lord General Soldier", Li Li couldn't help but open his eyes, and he really wanted to see who the general Dingnan who cornered him was.
"It's you!" After seeing Li Yuntian surrounded by everyone, Li Li was slightly stunned at first, then stood up suddenly, walked quickly to the wooden fence of the cell, and looked at Li Yuntian with a shocked face.
Li Li naturally will not forget the special envoy of General Dingnan who was in Xiaohe Town with him back then-Mu Zi, judging from the reactions of those Ming generals at the scene, this person turned out to be General Dingnan, which made it difficult for him to believe that the scene in front of him was true for a while.
"Li Li, you were originally the inspector of the Imperial Court Inspection Department, but you didn't want to repay the emperor's kindness, and you rebelled and rebelled for your own selfish desires, causing Jiaozhi to suffer a catastrophe because of this, which is really a crime that deserves death!" Li Yuntian looked at Li Li who looked stunned silently, and scolded him sternly.
"You liar, liar, I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost." Li Li suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, he could finally confirm that Mu Zi was General Dingnan at this time, and he was immediately annoyed and angry, and yelled at Li Yuntian with a red face, and the wooden flail he was wearing around his neck hit the wooden fence with a bang, and it seemed that he was very excited.
"The winner is the king, the loser is the king, this qiฤ is your life." Seeing this, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth couldn't help but reveal a sneer, and he looked at Li Li coldly, if he wanted to blame Li Li, he was too greedy, and then fell for his plan to delay the army.
"I should have killed you, I should have killed you!" Being ridiculed by Li Yuntian like this, Li Li seemed even more excited, and roared in his mouth.
"There is one thing that this official wants to tell you, Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan died in vain, if there are two of them, you may be able to break through the defense line of the Cham army." Looking at Li Li, who looked like crazy, Li Yuntian groaned for a while, told him something with an expressionless face, and gave Li Li a heavy blow again.
"You lie, Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan want to replace this king, and they are innocent!" Li Li didn't believe Li Yuntian and glared at him angrily.
"If this official didn't guess wrong, it must be Fan You's secret to you, otherwise he would have appointed him as a pioneer officer."
Li Yuntian didn't argue anything, but looked at Li Li with a cold expression, and said in an orderly manner, "Although Fan You is brave in battle, he is just a puppet after all, and he is embarrassed to take on a big responsibility. โ
"It's a pity, Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan are loyal to you, so you killed them easily!" After speaking, Li Yuntian ignored Li Li and walked away, leaving Li Li, who was pale, standing there in a daze.
Li Li had already understood what Li Yuntian meant, Li Yunzai's implication was that Fan You deliberately framed Chen Yuan and Ruan Yan in order to compete for the throne, if this was really the case, then wouldn't he kill the wrong person and bury the future of the rebels with his own hands?
As Li Yuntian said, if Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan had not died, then Ruan Yan had made a plan, and Chen Yuan led the army to charge into battle, and the Cham army would have been defeated long ago and would not have held out until the Xiaowu army arrived.
Now that he thought about it, he felt that he had been too hasty in dealing with Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan, which not only greatly weakened the strength of the rebels, but also severely damaged the morale of the rebels, which was really a failure.
Li Yuntian stopped in front of a cell not far away, and Cai Fu was locked up in the cell, and Li Li was carrying a wooden flail, although Cai Fu was nothing in the rebel army, but in the Ming army, he was only the second rebel key after Li Li, and he was to be escorted to the capital with Li Li to be handed over to Emperor Xuande.
"Lord Commander, please be merciful and spare the villain's life, the villain is willing to serve you as a cow and a horse in the next life." Cai Fu had already heard the conversation between Li Yuntian and Li Li just now, so he waited behind the wooden fence near the corridor of the cell, and when he saw Li Yuntian coming, he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
"Hmph, the things that have forgotten their ancestors have actually defected to the rebels, and they have simply lost all my Ming people." Facing Cai Fu, who was kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, Li Yuntian sneered, and shouted in a loud voice, "Come on, drag this dog out to see, bury the corpses in the grave!" โ
As soon as Lei Ting, who was standing in the crowd behind her, waved her hand when she heard this, several Li Yuntian's personal soldiers rushed into the prison with great momentum and dragged Cai Fu, who was begging hard, out.
The officials at the scene couldn't help but glance at each other, and no one said anything, although according to the process, Cai Fu should be sent to the capital for conviction, but Li Yuntian, as the highest military and political chief in Jiaozhi, killed Cai Fu Such a traitorous general, after all, Cai Fu's defection to the enemy deserved death, and Li Yuntian killed him.
"Come on, send an 800-mile fast horse to report the good news to the emperor, our army has successfully quelled the Jiaozhi rebellion, captured the rebel leader Li Li and his people alive, etc."
After Cai Fu was dragged away, Li Yuntian turned around and glanced at the officials who were following him, and said in a deep voice, "Remember, you will not stop all the way, and you must report to the emperor before this year's dynasty!" โ
"Don't worry, Lord Commander, let people do this, and they must send the good news to the capital before the court." Li Daniu was the highest general in the Ming army at the scene, and when he heard this, he bowed to Li Yuntian with confidence, and Emperor Xuande must have been eagerly waiting for the news of Jiaozhi's victory.
Different from the previous few rebellions, Li Yuntian is the upstart among the Ming nobles who Emperor Xuande single-handedly raised, if he can successfully quell the rebellion of the old nobles like Chen Zhi, Wang Tong and Liu Sheng, then it will undoubtedly establish the prestige of Emperor Xuande in the army, so that those nobles in the capital who followed Emperor Yongle in the southern and northern wars will no longer dare to be proud in front of him.