Chapter 229 Axe Splitting Gorge

It was not that he did not consider the risks of the trip. However, on the one hand, he was able to recover thanks to An Bangyan's strong assistance, not to mention anything else, just talk about food, Elder An gave himself forty percent of the grain and grass he had deceived from Zhang Fang, and the Yongning Department would not have to worry about starvation even if he didn't plant a cent of land in the next two years. This kind of huge, selfless help is not too grateful to Yu Chongming - if he loses his old nest, if he divides most of the people to grow food, then there will be no more Miao soldiers left in the Yongning Army who can fight with knives, and there is no need to wait for Sun Jie to fight, as long as Luo Rebel Dog comes to harass him a few times from time to time, his rule will collapse! On the other hand, in the next battle of Yongning City, although he couldn't touch the root of the wall, even if the Luo rebel dog wanted to sneak attack, wouldn't he be able to get by? Even if he organizes the people to clear the obstacles, such a large area, when he cleans it up, it is enough for him to come back from Wusa twice!

The real enemy is in Guizhou in the east, and only by completely eliminating the threat from the west and south behind it, and then entangling the various Tusi and An Bangyan to deal with Sun Jie with all their might, this is an obvious thing. The officials and troops in Yunnan are not afraid, and the Wumeng clansmen in Shebai can only take advantage of the fire to rob, and the real threat is only the seven or eight thousand native soldiers of the Zhanyi Long clan. By completely annihilating them, Zhanyi, Wusa, Bijie, and Chishuiwei can be connected together, and not only can we obtain a huge strategic depth of thousands of miles out of thin air, but also form a stable and solid rear. Sun Jie's army will definitely penetrate into the hinterland of Guizhou along the Luguang River, and at that time it can attack An Bangyan on both sides, even if it is defeated, it can resist step by step, and lead the official army into the mountains of southern Sichuan. Therefore, helping An Xiaoliang to defend Wusa Mansion is of great significance to the success or failure of this uprising - in terms of fighting, it is impossible to completely defeat the Ming Dynasty no matter what, and only by making the court feel annoyed and the cost is heavy, can we talk about an ideal result of a corner of peace and no interference.

So Hao Chongming left only some old and weak and wounded soldiers from the Yongning Battle in Chishuiwei to defend the city, and he and Hao Yin took all the more than 30,000 elites to Bijie and went straight to Wusa Mansion from Qixing Pass. According to the plan of King Hao, after defeating the combined forces of Zhanyi and Wumeng under the city of Wusa, he asked Haoyin to take five or six thousand people to pursue the Wumeng Department to the west, and forced them to form an alliance, and led the main force to bite the Long clan to the death, completely annihilating this force, and completely pocketing Zhanyi - the official army in Yunnan will definitely ask the native soldiers of the two places to take the lead and hide behind themselves, and if they win and pick up the cheap, they will be the first to run away, so they are not in the consideration of Gao Chongming at all. Moreover, don't look at the righteousness and impassionedness of the day, the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty are playing the same set of beggar-thy-neighbor and immortal poor Dao, as long as you don't take your face seriously, you don't have to worry about sending troops to Sichuan and Guizhou in the future, and you and Brother An can resist Sun Jie wholeheartedly, and you don't need to worry about the threat from Yunnan at all.

Extravagant Chongming's judgment is very accurate: attacking Wusa, Yunnan officers and soldiers really did not work hard to hide far behind the two departments of Zhanyi and Wumeng, and the beautiful name is "holding the back road for each other's horns and strong prestige", but the so-called "back" is the Ming Dynasty's own territory, I don't know which one they want to guard against, Yunnan Governor Xie Cunren was forced by Zhu Xieyuan's pressure Although he sent 2,000 officers and soldiers to "suppress", but his heart is absolutely unwilling to make wedding clothes for others - Yunnan Province itself is a forest of large and small tribes, and the Tusi people of each village have changed their minds after the Lu'an uprising, Just relied on the officers and soldiers of the surrounding guards to suppress it, so they didn't cause a big mess, and sent soldiers out of the province to help suppress it? Hehe, if you win, it's you, Lord Zhu, who is strategizing, what if you lose? The main force is exhausted, and when the rebellions of various departments in Yunnan Province arise, it is the black yarn and even the head of Lord Ben that is lost, right? How can there be such a thing in the world? Therefore, Governor Xie's private order to the leading general Geng Hu was that the official army was not allowed to cross the boundary between Sichuan and Yunnan to cross the river (also known as the Yangliu River, which was the provincial border of Yunnan in Sichuan during the Ming Dynasty, in the territory of Xuanwei in present-day Yunnan) one step, far away from Wusa Mansion!

It's a pity that the extravagant king, who knows the situation of the war and even the style of the Ming officialdom, has made a lot of calculations and missed a step. is the wrong step, which is about to bring himself and An Bangyan into a situation from which he will never recover.

Soldiers are fast. After crossing the Qixing River from Qixing Pass, because he was marching in a friendly territory and was familiar with the road, Yu Chongming did not send scouts, and the whole army approached Wusa Mansion at full speed. Hezhang*, is the only way from Bijie to Wusa, because it is located in the slope of the Wumeng Mountains in the transition from the eastern Yunnan Plateau to the mountainous hills of the Guizhou Mountains, the terrain is majestic. In particular, the Axe Split Gorge is flanked by mountains of different heights, and a small road in the canyon winds for seven or eight miles, which is the only so-called official road. However, Yu Chongming is not worried about being ambushed here: there are almost vertical cliffs on both sides of the official road, and unless you can grow wings, no one will be stupid enough to set up an ambush on the mountain: the lowest mountain is also seven or eight zhang high, and you will jump down if you are not afraid of falling to death! With the small strength of the combined forces of Zhanyi and Wumeng, it is difficult to fight Usa, and it is impossible to divide the troops to block the end of the canyon - even if there are ambushes, what can they do? In the face of the 30,000 tigers and wolves of the Yongning Army, it is not a mantis arm as a car, and it is only a matter of half an hour to penetrate the front line of two or three thousand people at best, and it is just taking advantage of the situation to cut down the rout all the way!

To the surprise of the king of luxury, the whole army had just entered the canyon, and Zu Bao, the head of the prestige village who acted as the vanguard, personally ran back to the Chinese army to report: a large number of Ming dog ambushes were encountered near the exit outside the gorge, and a lot of horses were built, and a lot of deep ditches were dug ...... Before Zu Bao could finish speaking, there were ghostly figures on the large and small hills on both sides, although the number of each place was not very large, and there were only thirty or forty people at best, but there was still a panic in the Yongning army surrounded by strong enemies.

"Panic what! These are all suspicious soldiers, can the Han dogs fly down! Before Hao Yin's words fell, a deafening roar was heard in the valley ahead! The roar sounded continuously, getting closer and closer, and in just a few breaths, it exploded overhead, and then gradually moved backwards, and a terrible howl immediately erupted in the Yongning army densely packed on the path!

The Ming army squads on each hill are artillery crews, and the sound of Liu Tieniu's artillery group guarding the exit of the canyon is the signal, they don't have the slightest intention of attacking downward, they just set up their artillery and bombard the crowd below! What's even more deadly, the vast majority of artillery is not even aimed at the crowd, but at the opposite mountain wall!

The area around Usa is a typical karst landform, with rocks and rocks. Hundreds of iron pellets hit the stone wall and then bounced into the crowd, not only did the lethality not decrease at all, but the large and small debris in the bombardment area flew into the fire, several times more than the number of cannons, and in the blink of an eye, more than a thousand people fell in the ranks of the Yongning army, and the rest of the people looked up with fear, and the artillery crew of the Ming army reloaded unhurriedly above their unreachable heads, and then pushed the gun carriage with a big grin, and pressed the muzzle of the black hole hole to point it at themselves...... Sun Jie's newly cast artillery temporarily formed those dozen artillery groups are fine, the most hateful is those experienced old artillery groups facing the enemy, the artillery commanders even played psychological warfare with the Miao soldiers who were close at hand: first pointed the muzzle of the cannon to a certain place, of course the Miao soldiers there scattered with their heads hugged, and then the artillery commanders then commanded the artillery group to point the muzzle of the gun to another place, but they refused to ignite the fire, the Miao soldiers ran around like mice with the fingers of the artillery commander, and suddenly the torch was pressed on the fire door, and there was a bang, Everyone in the gun crew laughed as they looked at the mess below as they loaded......

Be extremely frightened.

The Yongning army was in turmoil. Rao is known as a fierce and fearless of death, and the scene of being shot on the head by someone with a cannon on the top of his head has never appeared even in the most dangerous nightmare, who would have thought that he would crash into such a hellish Shura killing field today! Fortunately, there was a boulder on the side of the road, and a large piece of it suddenly poked out, which could cover a few people, and the father and son of Yu Chongming were dragged over by the guards, so they had a place to hide for the time being. In the field of vision of King Luxury, there were already Miao soldiers who spontaneously organized themselves and climbed the stone wall completely ignoring the artillery fire above their heads, and these warriors wanted to risk their lives to attack the artillery crew, sacrificing themselves to win a glimmer of life for their clansmen. From time to time, some people fell screaming miserably, and the artillery crew on the opposite hill also aimed fire at them, and countless people were hit by iron pellets and gravel, but in the roar of the artillery and the screams of the wounded, there was a song!

I don't know who started it, but more and more people began to sing to the beat, and before long, the harmony of tens of thousands of people overwhelmed the roar of artillery! This is a hymn to heroes, ancestors and gods of the Miao family. Although they do not have their own writing, their heroes, their ancestors, their gods, and the thousands of years of history of the Miao family have been passed down from generation to generation through this long song! The singing is sometimes mournful and poignant, sometimes high and unrestrained, the artistic contagion is incomparable, every survivor joins in the chorus, more and more people struggle to get up from the ground, and begin to climb up with the song, completely ignoring the companions next to them, and even when they are hit, they still stubbornly send out the last note of their lives!

Luxury Chongming's father and son were already in tears.

The near-vertical cliffs hold the vast majority of climbers in their way, and the few lucky ones who just emerge from the cliff fall after a flash of cold light: not only is the position of each artillery crew located in a barely accessible location, but also two gunmen provide close protection!

Yu Chongming wondered vigorously, didn't Sun Jie go to Guizhou? Where did these Han dogs come from?

"My lord, give the order to collect the troops. If you can't do that, all the warriors will die here! Zu Bao went out, and the prestige village swore to open the way for the army, and the old and young in the village were entrusted to the king! Before he finished speaking, Zu Bao wiped the tears from his face, rushed out of the cover of the boulder with red eyes, and rushed forward.

"Order, assemble the whole army, and cover it with dead bodies! Wait for the prestige village to open the bloody road, and the whole army will assault! ”

The order spread all the way. The Miao soldiers gave up their futile climb according to the order, dragged the corpses of their comrades in the gap between the artillery fire, curled up behind the corpses, clutched the Miao knives in their hands, wept, prayed silently, and endured round after round of artillery bombardment. More than 20 artillery pieces on the hills on both sides are roaring continuously and unhurriedly, and a puff of blood is collapsing everywhere, everyone is patient, waiting for the warriors of Weixin Village to open the passage with their lives, at that time, vowing to slaughter these Han dogs, the blood debt of the clansmen must be repaid with blood!

"More than half of the dead and wounded in Weixin Village have crossed the trench."

"Zubaotou died before the first rejection of the horse, and the entire army of Weixin Village was wiped out, and now it is the Bai Shoutou people of Wuxiang Village who are leading the army to assault."

"Bai Shoutou is dead, and only the last way to refuse the horse is left. Adel led the people of Luojiao Village to rush up. ”

Listening to the military information transmitted from the front one after another, Yu Chongming's eyes were dry with tears, but his heart was bleeding. Now it's no longer about fighting for Uzah, it's about avenging these warriors who have gone to the death as if they were going to die! He was waiting, waiting for Adegg to completely clear the obstacles, and then, the whole army would assault and kill all the Han dogs! Yu Chongming gritted his teeth and waited until he saw the red light rising from the end of the valley in the distance ahead......

"The Han dogs piled up dry firewood like a mountain behind the horse, and the fire was so strong that it burned at least until midnight. The Han dogs lit a fire and collected their troops, and Adeg was burned to death! Also, the leading Han general is that Sun Jie, everyone has seen him, and it is really true! ”

Hearing the name Sun Jie, a huge sense of frustration came down from the top of his head, and he sat down with his legs weak: How could it be him?! Extravagant Chongming raised his eyes in a trance and looked at the sun hanging in the middle of the sky, and the unhurried roar of artillery was still in his ears, and the raging flames completely put an end to all the luck of breaking through, and he was bombarded for three or four hours? In that long, two hours at most, these 30,000 elites will all become 30,000 piles of scum!

Yu Chongming said dejectedly: "The whole army retreats!" Back to Chishui. ”

When the whole army of Yongning ran out of the axe and split the gorge regardless of the continuous bombardment of artillery along the way, the heart-wrenching luxury Chongming found that he actually had a small half of his men buried in this short canyon, and there were less than 20,000 people still with him at this moment, including the lightly wounded.

Why is Sun Jie here?

* Hezhang now belongs to Guizhou, the Ming Dynasty is sometimes assigned to Guizhou, sometimes Yunnan, this time belongs to Sichuan, the idiom "Yelang arrogant" in the Yelang country is here.