"Ah Li said this, the board saw drilled the trunk of the tree, and the strip sawed the bark ......"

"The water rises and the vegetables are green, and the green tips are looking forward to the water boiling. I have pondered that there is always a love ...... the world."

The tail of the winter moon, when the north and south of the Yangtze River are covered in silver, Yunnan, which is located in the southwest border of the Ming Dynasty, is still sunny, and melodious folk songs come from the road.

This place, which was called the south of Caiyun by later generations, was a poor mountain and bad water that the Han people hated in this era.

Apart from the weather and the scenery, the rest of the infrastructure here can be described as old.

Although in this era, it is difficult to have any extravagant infrastructure, but compared with the traditional Han land, Yunnan, which has only been included in the Ming Dynasty for 13 years, can be described as backward.

Ordinary dirt roads are trampled by wheels and horses' hooves and potholes, and there is at least a layer of solid rammed earth like in Jiangnan.

Some of these potholes still have bright red water, but this is not blood, but water stained with red soil.

On both sides of the potholed road, tall pine and cedar trees grow.

If these trees were placed in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains, they must be worthy of being recorded by literati and artists, and maybe they could even get a few names.

But in Yunnan, they are just a very ordinary member of thousands of trees.

If someone looks into the mountains, they can vaguely see some ancient trees that have survived for hundreds of years, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years.

They are so wide that they need five or six men to hug them.

Even such a tree can be regarded as a small tree in the whole of Yunnan.

Although Yunnan has experienced more than 3,000 years of joint development by a multi-ethnic regime, due to climate problems, the population here is not large, so it retains a considerable amount of primeval dense forests.

Even if it is less than thirty miles away from Qujing Mansion, you can vaguely see the primeval mountains and forests in the distance.

"The eclipse days in July are long, and the day and night are squeaking."

"Sit on the rocks and hear someone shouting ......"

"Officers and soldiers are riding horses and standing on the side of the road!"

"Ah, oh me, don't make love ...... family"

"Stop!"

On the dirt road, a general on a bantam horse shouted, and everyone in the marching party stopped singing and stood still looking at the general.

When they stopped, they saw how they were dressed.

Their skin is dark, their eyes are high, their noses are high, and their eyebrows are slightly different from those of the Han Chinese.

They are not tall in height, but they are only five feet two or three, and their clothes are mostly blue-black plackets, short clothes, and trousers.

Outside of the short coats and trousers, all of them wore leather armor made of buffalo leather, elephant leather, rhinoceros leather, etc.

These leather armors are cut into more than a dozen pieces such as breastplate, back armor, and abdominal armor, and are painted with natural patterns such as clouds, wind, thunder and lightning, and the sun and moon, followed by geometric patterns.

They carried weapons such as long knives, axes, hammers, and longbows, and although they were uneven, the black skin and black armor made them look very fierce.

Excluding these, their eyes are actually no different from those of the Han people.

Sitting on his horse, the general who had stopped the army said to the group of native soldiers:

"The Ming people of Qujing City robbed our fields and cultivated cattle, and now I want to take you to grab them back, you just have to listen to my arrangement, and after the war, I will return your fields to you according to your merits."

After he finished speaking, the group of equipped natives did not respond much to his voice, but the general did not care, and continued to wave his hand, beckoning the army to continue singing and moving forward.

At present, they are only thirty miles away from Qujing City, after the last failure, they deliberately bypassed the place where it was easy to be ambushed, if it went well, it only took three hours for them to reach Qujing City.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on the general's face, and at the same time as his smile, there was a team of fast horses more than ten miles away.

On the red road, twelve pond horsemen ran from the south to the north, galloped for more than three miles and then stopped, and the leading little flag officer blew the wooden whistle in his hand, and after blowing it three times in a row, they rode their horses to the mountain.

The roads on the mountain are very rough, in some places less than a foot wide, and even built on the mountain wall, with an incline of more than 45 degrees.

But even on such a rough road, the twelve ponies carrying them were still on the ground.

After half an hour, they managed to reach the top of the mountain, where thousands of elite soldiers in bright iron armor were resting in the woods.

The small flag officer who took the lead turned over and dismounted and was taken to a large tree, where several generals in armor and robes sat there.

Seeing these more than ten people, the little flag officer knelt down on one knee and reported: "Back to the country, Tumu Azi is less than twelve miles away from here, and the number of his troops is as true as the previous Fantang cavalry report, about 5,000 people. ”

"Okay, I got ......"

With a familiar voice sounding, the robed general sitting on the main seat raised his head, but Xu Huizu's face was revealed under the iron helmet.

"Is there an ambush as originally arranged?" Standing beside Xu Huizu, a general in a red robe with bright armor spoke.

He was born tall, even if he sat on the horse, he was four and a half feet tall, and his face in his early thirties suddenly showed a different kind of old age, and with his resolute facial features, he gave people a calm temperament.

"There are our ambushes on several nearby mountains, and this time he can't run if he wants to."

Beside the red-robed general of Mingjia, a sixty-year-old veteran with white hair and beard, holding a helmet in one hand and a lance in the other, spoke indifferently, and did not take Tumu Azi in his eyes in his tone.

"He Dudu has been in the south for almost two months, get rid of this chieftain as soon as possible, and then go to the south to help him."

Song Sheng, who was in a white robe in Ming armor, hugged his chest with his hands, and cooperated with the seven tigers standing behind him, but he had the style of an optimus iron pillar.

It's just that he just finished saying this, and without waiting for Xu Huizu to pick up, three tall figures came not far from them.

Those three figures were tall, and they were all more than six feet tall, which was higher than the ordinary Ming army.

Such a tall and burly figure, combined with the armor on his body, gives people the illusion that a god is descending to earth.

Walking in front is a veteran in his fifties, with a wide face and a broad nose, with a pair of long eyes that are blazing and very sharp.

Behind him, the two generals in their thirties on the left and right also looked similar to him, but there was a little more fierceness in their eyes.

Looking at these three people coming, Xu Huizu only felt that the surrounding mountains and forests were a lot quieter.

"A local chieftain, a little old man, father and son, rushed down the mountain with troops, and slaughtered with a knife!"

The veteran walked up to Xu Huizu and the others, and sat directly on the ground without waiting for Ma Za to hand it over.

Even if they are sitting, they can put pressure on Xu Huizu, and even if they are allies, it is difficult to get along with the three of them.

"General Qu is brave, I have heard a lot in Nanjing, but this Tumu Azi is the most cunning, he let him escape last time, and he can't be allowed to escape this time, otherwise He Dudu's side will be under great pressure."

Xu Huizu didn't speak, but the red-robed general of Mingjia who was sitting next to him spoke.

Qu Neng is old enough to be the father of the red-robed general, but in the face of the red-robed general, Qu Neng did not refute, but raised his hand and said: "Xiping Hou rest assured, he will not let him run away this time." ”

Xiping Hou Muchun, as a general of the Mesozoic Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty who commanded the southwest and guarded Yunnan, he was the same as his father, he had a reputation for being a real sword and a real gun, Qu Neng and he had joined forces to encircle and suppress a lot of barbarians, and he knew that his ability was not as good as others, so he had special respect for him.

"Guogong, let Qu Du command the front army a little, and I will be in the rear."

Seeing that Qu Neng had suffered a loss, the veteran standing behind Mu Chun spoke, Xu Huizu did not refuse, nodded and said, "That's okay." ”

"Hehe, Gu Cheng, you are willing to give credit." Qu Neng spoke to the veteran boldly and revealed his identity.

Gu Cheng, who rushed from the capital of Guizhou, heard Qu Neng say this, but stroked his beard and smiled: "This battle can't be won, why bother to be greedy for a moment's success." ”

"I gave you the striker this time, and you can't grab the striker next time."

"Naturally!" Qu Neng bowed his head, and Song Sheng on the other side also said to Xu Huizu when he saw this:

"Calculating the time, the chief of the soil is estimated to be less than ten miles away from us, and we can prepare."

"Good!" Xu Huizu stood up and put one hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist: "Command the army, listen to the order to send troops to ambush ......"

"Yes!" Seeing Xu Huizu's order, the generals got up one after another and scattered according to the pre-battle arrangement.

Looking at the backs of them leaving, Xu Huizu clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand.

It is not difficult to see from the situation just now that this group of military generals with outstanding military achievements do not care about him, the Duke of Wei, but Xu Huizu has no choice.

His military exploits are among the best in Nanjing, but in front of these people, he has become the kid who can't fight.

"Yun Gong, if you want the generals in the army to obey you, you have to make a score......"

Xu Huizu's words flashed through his mind, so he took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and began to quietly wait for the next battle.

While waiting, he couldn't help but recall the experience of more than a month.

After more than half a month, Xu Huizu successfully arrived in Qujing Mansion in Yunnan at the beginning of winter and joined Muchun.

Within a few days, the 6,000 Sichuan soldiers led by Qu Neng also arrived, and Gu Cheng also arrived five days later with 7,000 soldiers and horses from the Guizhou Dusi.

At this time, a month and a half has passed since the rebellion of the three Tusi, He Fu in the south alone resisted the attack of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of Nong Zhenyou and Dao Bairan, and Mu Chun used more than half a month to train the military households in Qujing City and gathered 10,000 guards in the direction of Kunming.

Therefore, when Qu Neng and the others arrived, Mu Chun already had more than 14,000 mobile troops in his hands, plus 14,000 troops under Qu Neng, Qu Neng, and Xu Huizu, and the current Qujing Mansion had nearly 30,000 troops.

After a few days of discussion and arrangement, Xu Huizu sent troops under the advice of Song Sheng, Gu Cheng, and Mu Chun.

Xu Hui's ancestors placed a weak pawn in the mountain pass where Ah Zi was ambushed and defeated by Mu Chun in the previous time, deliberately let the soldiers and horses retreat in defeat, and lured Ah Zi's troops to pursue.

Now Ah Zi has been fooled and successfully entered the encirclement set up for him by the Ming army.

Next, he only needs to order the ambush to attack, and Xu Huizu can defeat Ah Zi with the help of Song Sheng and others.

Time passed bit by bit, and Xu Huizu crawled in front of the bushes on the top of the mountain, watching with his own eyes as Tumu Azi's army walked out of the pass of the mountain pass.

This is the first time Xu Huizu has seen Nanxiyi, they are different from the Yao people in Huguang, whether it is in terms of clothing, singing, weapons, or appearance.

In just half an hour, they walked from the pass to the middle of the valley plain, less than five miles from the pass out of the valley.

"It's now!"

"Beep-"

Xu Huizu suddenly got up and blew the wooden whistle in his hand, and with his wooden whistle blowing, the surrounding mountains and forests sounded this piercing wooden whistle.

"It's the official army! Remove! ”

Tumu Azi, who was riding on horseback, was so frightened that he wanted to leave, and shouted and retreated, but at this moment he had already entered the encirclement of the Ming army.

The shrill whistle of "beep" was like a talisman, and along with it, there was the sound of shouting and killing all over the mountains.

The Ming army wearing Ming armor rushed out of the mountains and forests, and the sun shone on the armor of the Ming army, reflecting the bright and flickering light, and the momentum was extraordinary.

"It's Mu Tianwang's soldiers!"

Looking at the Ming army under the banner of the word "Mu", although many local soldiers were illiterate, the shape of the word "Mu" had long been deeply rooted in their minds.

For a time, the native soldiers were in chaos, and hundreds of cavalry also rushed out from all directions.

"Formation!"

Seeing that there was no way to break through, Tomu Azaz rode into the ranks of the native soldiers, shouting for them to form a formation.

Some of the drummers who accompanied the army began to beat gongs and cowhide drums, and the native soldiers, who had been scattered, heard the drums and immediately began to form a defense.

The half-human-tall rattan was raised, and the two sword players were able to protect their whole body with a shield.

Just one word, a shield array appeared on the plain of the river valley, Mu Chun saw this, turned around and raised his hand back: "Bowl mouth!" ”

In his greeting, the men and horses of the Yunnan Dusi in the rear began to carry the bowl like a goblet forward, but unfortunately before they could ignite the fire, more than 200 cavalry crossed the Yunnan Dusi men and horses.

"Qu Neng! Don't be reckless! ”

Mu Chun saw the banner with the word "Qu" waving in the wind, and he tried to stop Qu Neng without caring about being rude.

However, his voice was drowned out by the rumbling hooves of horses, and the more than 200 armored cavalry led by Qu Neng slammed straight into the shield array of the native soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Xu Huizu scolded: "Confused! How can you charge with cavalry! ”

In the art of war that Xu Huizu learned, as well as his experience in the northern expedition with Zhu Di, cavalry was often used to suppress the formation, and only when the infantry routed the enemy head-on did it take the cavalry's turn to charge the battle and harvest the heads.

It's a pity that at the moment, Qu Neng desperately led more than 200 armored cavalry to rush to the more than 5,000 native shield arrays.

Xu Huizu's eyes widened, and he seemed to have thought that more than two hundred armored cavalry were submerged in the shield array of the earth soldiers.

"Spear!"

Tome Azi looked at the more than 200 cavalry that rushed towards them and grinned happily.

In the next second, many spears with rattan shields appeared in the shield array, and the original shield array became an iron hedgehog composed of spears.

Faced with such a scarce number of cavalry, the natives were nervous, but they were convinced that the cavalry would be overwhelmed by their spears.

"Where is my tiger?!"

On the way to charge, Qu Neng on horseback stared intently at the hedgehog shell in front of him and shouted.

At the sound of his shouting, two tall figures took the lead in raising the speed of their horses and rushed out of the cavalry in one go.

The tall and majestic two lay on the back of the horse, like two adult bears riding yellow dogs, full of oppression.

Looking closely, the horses under the two crotches have been blindfolded, and they don't know what a terrifying existence is ahead.

"Sigh the law ......"

The war horse neighed, but in an instant, the two war horses rushed towards the shield array carrying this Qu Yu and Qu Tao, and rushed into it in an instant.

The huge momentum almost broke the shield, and the horse was pierced by the spear, and fell in front of the shield wall with a whining and wailing.

Before the war horse fell, Qu Yu and Qu Tao jumped up from the horse's back, and rolled along the shield array into the shield array while the spears of the native soldiers were all inserted into the horse.

Before several of the local soldiers could react, they were overwhelmed by the two, and the local soldiers who reacted around were about to draw their swords, but they were greeted by two heavy golden gourd hammers.

Leaning back against each other, the two brothers Qu Yu and Qu Tao quickly stood up, and the sense of oppression brought by their more than six-foot physique was extremely strong.

In this pile of native soldiers in their early five feet, the two of them stood out from the crowd.

During this period, it was not without the native soldiers wielding their swords to slash them, but the iron knives in their hands could not cut through the armor of the two men.

Looking at this group of thin and weak native soldiers, only as high as their chests, Qu Yu and Qu Tao had a smile on their faces.

The native soldiers rushed up, and some even jumped up and tried to insert their knives into the gaps in Qu Yu and Qu Tao's neck armor.

Just before their actions were implemented, Qu Yu and Qu Tao held the weapons in their hands and began to kill.

There was no communication, it seemed that they had cooperated for many years, and the two brothers, Qu Yu and Qu Tao, wielded the golden gourd hammer and rushed to the front row of native soldiers to maintain the shield formation, from the inside out, breaking the formation in an instant......

The gap was opened, and Qu Yu and Qu Tao killed left and right, expanding the gap.

The cavalry of the Ming army came in an instant, like an iron nail, and was chiseled into the shield of the earth soldiers.

The shield array of six thousand people sounded indestructible, but when a point was chiseled through, what appeared in front of Qu Neng was an empty interior.

More than 200 horsemen rushed into the formation and almost penetrated the Chinese army.

The two-layer sword hand inside the shield array raised his shield and waved his sword to stop the cavalry's soldiers, but they could only stop the Ming cavalry, but they couldn't stop Qu Neng.

Facing the Zhangliu lance in Qu Neng's hand, the native soldier wearing leather armor was pierced through his body without accident, and the second-layer knife platoon was broken.

"Stop him!"

Tomu Azi's eyes almost burst, and before he could finish speaking, there was a muffled thunder in the distance.

"Bang! Bang! Bang-"

The smoke soared, and fist-sized bowl-sized stone bullets were struck, instantly smashing the sword players who were still raising their shields in other directions.

The shield array of the native soldiers was broken by the small artillery bowl of the Ming army, and Song Sheng and Mu Chun each led their infantry to kill the shield array, making it impossible for the native soldiers from all sides of the shield array to come to help, which in turn relieved the pressure on Qu Neng's department.

"Chieftain!"

The ground thundered, as if someone was yelling in their ears.

Tomu Azi turned around to hear the sound, but saw a black shadow half a body taller than him appear behind him, and before he could react, the whole person was instantly pushed up.

"Uh!!h

The screams of Tomu attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers, and when they turned around, they saw a scene that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

Tsuchime Azi, who was still commanding the battle on horseback, was pierced, and the whole person was hung on an exaggeratedly long lance, he grabbed the lance with both hands, his feet kept fluttering, and screams kept coming out of his mouth, and the whole person kept sliding down to the end of the lance.

Seeing that Tumu Azi slipped down, Qu Neng drew his knife with his left hand and slashed back, and in the next moment, Nadou Da's head took off, and Tumu Azi finally stopped the shouting.

"Tomu Azi is dead! Who would dare not to descend! ”

Qu Neng held up the corpse of the missing Tumu Azi and yelled at the Tumu soldiers who were about to attack around him.

The native soldiers, who could not understand Chinese, still wanted to do it, but Qu Neng threw the corpse of Tumu Azi out of the lance and knocked down several people in a row.

The group of native soldiers who tried to besiege him were also pierced with leather armor by the lance, and Qu Neng, who was over fifty years old, was still in the year of fighting, stabbing left and right among the native soldiers, as if in a no-man's land.

When the native soldiers were approaching step by step, trying to limit the space between Qu Neng and the war horse under his crotch, the Ming cavalry, which had been slowed down the offensive before, also rushed up and crushed the native soldiers who wanted to do it.

Their appearance made the native soldiers who wanted to kill Qu Neng lose their fighting spirit, and they all looked at each other and dropped the weapons in their hands.

It's a pity that what happened in the formation has not yet spread to the outside of the formation, the Ming army outside the formation is still frantically slaughtering the native soldiers, the so-called shield array is not worth mentioning at all in the eyes of the Ming army in armor, the combat power of the native soldiers is the same as their dress, although the weapons are sharp, but the armor is too thin.

Their weapons could hardly hurt the Ming army, but the blunt and short soldiers in the hands of the Ming army could hammer them to death.

Without the command of Tomu Azi, the front platoon was quickly crushed, and when they were crushed and fled to the rear, they saw the Chinese army that had already dropped their weapons and surrendered.

In an instant, some of the clever native soldiers dropped their weapons and raised their hands.

Some stupid native soldiers tried to break through, but were soon surrounded and slashed by thousands of Ming troops who rushed up.

On this battlefield, both sides were red-eyed, even though some native soldiers kept waving their hands to show that they had no weapons, but they were still smashed by the Ming army with a hammer, spitting blood.

"Beep!"

"Those who descend will not be killed!"

The first to observe the situation on the battlefield was Song Sheng, who knew that if he continued to kill like this, the native soldiers would be forced to pick up their weapons again, so he immediately blew the whistle and shouted at him with the people around him.

In a few breaths, the shout spread throughout the army, waking up the red-eyed Ming army.

Soon, the Ming army withdrew like a tide, and Qu Neng's father and son also led the cavalry to rush inside the local army.

Xu Huizu rushed to the battlefield with dozens of cavalry as soon as the battlefield ended.

He had just reined in when a dark shadow was thrown in front of his warhorse.

"Wei Guogong, this is Tumu Azi!"

Qu Neng's thunderous voice sounded, and Xu Huizu reacted and looked down, only to see a head with a painful expression rolling on the ground.

Before he could come back to his senses, Qu Neng's eldest son, Qu Yu, rode his horse and threw a decapitated corpse in front of him, leaving an understatement: "This is the corpse of Yuezhou Wei Tumu Azi, at the disposal of Wei Guogong." ”

Looking at the corpse, Xu Huizu was only stunned for a moment, after all, he was also a person who had fought with Zhu Di in the north, not a young man who had never been on the battlefield, so he explained to the left and right generals after Qu Yu finished speaking:

"Use it to say that the city of Yuezhou will be surrendered, and in addition, it will not be blamed for the past after the surrender of the surrender of the city, and all the land owned by Tumu Azi will be distributed to the people in the city who are willing to surrender to the city."

"In addition, after the surrender of the Tumin, all the captured soldiers were released, and all the wealth of the Tumu Azi was confiscated except for the fields, and fifty percent was used to reward the three armies, and fifty percent was handed over to the imperial court."

The rebellion of Yuezhou Wei Tuman, in the final analysis, is still because of Tumu Azi's desire for profit, and now that Tumu Azi is dead, Xu Huizu also happened to use his family wealth to buy the hearts of the people of Yuezhou Weitu.

However, he did not use all the Tusi property to reward the army as Zhu Gaoxu said, but left half of it to be handed over to the imperial court.

In the final analysis, what Zhu Gaoxu can do, he Xu Huizu may not be able to do, just like the private sacrifice of the army is also limited.

It's just that having said that, this time to defeat Tumu Azi so quickly, it mainly depends on Qu Neng's father and son to capture the flag, otherwise it is estimated that it will take another hour.

Thinking of this, Xu Huizu also said to Qu Neng's father and son: "In this battle, the commander of Qu Du and the two commanders of Xiao Qu will be the first meritorious, and when Yuezhou City surrenders, I will go to the court to ask for credit for you." ”

"Thank you Wei Guogong......" Qu Neng and Qu Yu heard what they wanted to hear, so they were not arrogant, and they also saluted Xu Huizu in return.

Seeing this, Xu Huizu set his eyes on the battlefield in the distance.

In less than half an hour of fighting, 5,000 native soldiers were killed and wounded, and the remaining 3,000 people were already captured while squatting on the ground.

At a glance, there were few corpses of the Ming army on the entire battlefield, and the combat power of the soldiers in the southwest could be seen.

This is the first time Xu Huizu has seen such a situation, so he can't help but think of the guards in Jiangnan and other places, and he can't help but worry in his heart......

(End of chapter)