"Fixed shot loading, direction Sinan City, fixed shot twelve rounds, put!"

"Boom, boom—"

At the beginning of the lunar month, when the capital learned that the Yang clan of Banzhou had accepted the land change and returned to the stream, Mu Chun quickly led 20,000 troops to gallop away 400 miles to the east after leaving 10,000 troops to take over Banzhou City and the third pass in the east of Banzhou.

It has been more than half a month since the Ming army attacked Zhenyuanwei directly, and Tian Chen personally led 30,000 Yi soldiers to besiege Zhenyuan, but Sinan Tian Zongding did not move, ready to wait for Tian Chen and the Ming army to fight and lose before attacking.

Tian Zongding's idea gave Mu Chun an opportunity.

After half a month's trek, Mu Chun personally led 20,000 soldiers and horses to repel Tian Chen's Yi soldiers besieging Zhenyuan, and then quickly turned north to 200 miles to attack Tian Zongding, who wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Although Tian Zongding's department had 40,000 Hanyi rebels, they didn't expect that Mu Chun would turn north to fight themselves after repelling Tian Chen, so they were caught off guard at the first time.

Tian Zongding hurriedly asked Tian Chen for help, but Tian Chen, as Mu Chun expected, complained about Tian Zongding's immobility earlier, and only cared about building Sizhou city defense, and had no intention of sending troops to help Sinan.

"Hold Sinan, each household will be tax-free for one year!!"

Standing at the head of Sinan City, Tian Zongding risked being shelled and came to the city wall to boost morale.

"Boom, boom—"

The sound of artillery of the Ming army sounded, and Tian Zongding was so frightened that he ran down the city before he could inspire the morale of the soldiers.

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di's conjecture is right, the Tian family's strength is indeed strong, but they can't stand the deep contradictions between Tian Zongding and Tian Chen, and their abilities are mediocre.

In other words, Yang Sheng and Yang Gang had 80,000 Hanyi armored officers and soldiers, and they would never be repelled and besieged by Mu Chun's 20,000 people in a round of assault.

"My lord, let's open a warehouse and send food to boost morale!"

After Tian Zongding retreated from the city, his generals began to persuade him to open a warehouse and distribute grain, so as to motivate soldiers and horses to defend the city.

"No, if it's finished, what will we do in the future?!"

Although Tian Zongding was over thirty years old, he was a small-bellied chicken intestine, and his mother quarreled with him over a trivial matter, so he had his mother hanged to death.

For the people of Sinan, he also forbade not to use tiled houses and not to cultivate rice, but to cultivate the crops he likes to eat.

In Sinan, whenever someone disobeys him, he will kill his entire family at every turn, so that the people of Sinan have always been under his fierce government.

If you want a person like him to take out real money to reward the army, he is reluctant.

"Adult ......"

The general wanted to persuade him again, but Tian Zongding glared at him: "There are 40,000 troops in the city, but you can't defend the city?!" ”

"I ......" Seeing this, the general could only bow his head helplessly.

Seeing this, Tian Zongding also left the city wall complacently, leaving only the generals and soldiers to guard the city wall.

However, to say that it is garrisoned, in fact, it is a one-sided shelling.

Outside the city, the Ming army mobilized sixty artillery pieces to bombard back and forth in three groups, Mu Chun rode a big horse, held a telescope to scan the Sinan city wall, saw that the Sinan city wall had not been up for a long time, and immediately knew Sinan's strength.

"These soldiers are also elite, but it's a pity that Tian Zongding is such an incompetent person."

Qu Neng, who was beside Mu Chun, snorted lightly, obviously looking down on Tian Zongding.

Sinan Tubing has also participated in many battles to quell the Tusi rebellion, and Qu Neng is naturally no stranger to them.

When they were under the command of the Ming army, as long as the rewards and rations could be distributed on time, they were all fearless and brave.

But now in the hands of Tian Zongding, the lord of Sinan, this fierce army that is not afraid of death has immediately turned into a nest of rats that dare not raise their heads and only dare to hide in the city.

"The shelling is almost over, you can stop."

Mu Chun opened his mouth and said: "Tian Zongding is unpopular, so attacking the heart is the top, and attacking the city is the bottom. ”

He squinted his eyes and scanned the city, seeing that no one dared to take the lead when the shelling stopped, and his heart was even more certain.

"Get the army ready to sing!" Mu Chun turned around and instructed Mu Sheng, and when Mu Sheng heard this, he immediately began to order Tang to run away.

A quarter of an hour later, with the sound of the trumpet, nearly 20,000 people in the whole army began to sing.

"Sinan Tian Zongding is brutal, everyone opened the door to welcome the officers and soldiers, welcomed the officials and soldiers to share the fields, welcomed the officials and soldiers to reduce the land rent, and the days of stability are ahead."

"Sinan Tian Zongding is brutal, everyone opens the door to welcome the officers and ......"

The trained singing voices continued to sound, from the chaos at the beginning to the uniformity later, and then to the loud sound at the end, and almost the entire Sinan City could hear their voices.

During the past morning's shelling, the whole army was reciting this not-so-long sentence.

Thanks to their daily training, they are like a loudspeaker at this moment, constantly using words to attack the people, soldiers and horses in Sinan City.

Even if there are few Han people in Sinan's soldiers and horses, the news will undoubtedly spread.

In the face of a brutal guy like Tian Zongding, many soldiers began to waver, even if Tian Zongding learned the news, he was angry and ordered someone to come to supervise the battle, but he couldn't stop this kind of sprouts.

On this basis, Mu Chun began to have chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and other livestock slaughtered in front of the army, and began to cook meat in front of Sinan's army, and sprinkled spices.

The pungent fragrance blew along the wind towards Sinan City, making the Sinan soldiers, who had not eaten meat for many years, swallow their saliva.

As they swallowed, their meals were brought up in pots and basins.

Thin porridge with pickles and green vegetable soup, this is the lunch they got after a long morning's fighting.

"Today, all the big pots of porridge have been added with two liters of rice, and your lord has ordered you to defend the city well and not be bewitched by the thieves and soldiers."

Looking at the gruel pickles and vegetable soup that were brought up like pigs' food, and looking at the Tian clan people who were dusting their hands and being arrogant, many soldiers couldn't help but clench the weapons in their hands.

It's just that the suppression that has been imprinted in the bloodline for hundreds of years still makes them have to come to their senses.

Eating the bland gruel and vegetable soup, it seemed that only by taking a few sharp sips could they suck out some oil and water from the fragrance wafting from the Ming army.

After they had eaten the small amount of gruel, when they lay down again, they still saw the Ming army slaughtering poultry and pigs.

Due to Tian Zongding's cowardice into the city, the surrounding villages and towns were not garrisoned, so the Ming army could easily obtain the surrounding towns, and executed all the landlords and small Tusi who were close to Tian's family, divided the acres of land equally, and captured the poultry and brought them to Sinan outside the city to be slaughtered for the whole army to eat.

Compared with the comfort of the Ming army, the Sinan native soldiers were uncomfortable, so they watched it all afternoon, until it was dark, and the Ming army still lit a bonfire to cook sheep and slaughter pigs.

"What the hell are we fighting for?"

Smelling the smell of meat in the air, the native soldier holding a bowl of gruel couldn't help but complain.

After he said this, he realized it later, and looked around in a panic, fortunately, the Tian clan's supervision team was not there, otherwise I am afraid that he would have been punished by the Ming Dynasty.

Relieved, he leaned back against the female wall, and after taking a sip of the bland and tasteless gruel, he frowned and said, "Why don't you even have the taste of salt?" ”

Due to geographical problems, there is almost no salt production in Guizhou, so eating salt as a soldier is a road that everyone has to choose.

But after a day of fighting, there was not even a little salt in the porridge, how could this be unbearable.

"I guess we'll be delivering pickles later, right?"

The fellow townsman beside the native soldier spoke, but his words were full of uncertainty.

The two of them waited for the so-called pickles, but they couldn't wait for half an hour, and the whole person began to be impatient.

Not only them, but the rest of the native soldiers also shouted.

"Where's the salt!"

"yes, why don't you even give pickles?"

"After sweating for a day in armor, I can't bear to give pickles!"

Today, the local soldiers complained very loudly, perhaps because of the Ming army's behavior of cooking meat, or because of the anxiety of sweating too much in armor for a day to replenish the salt.

In short, at this moment, they are like a powder keg, which can explode at a moment.

"What to shout! What to shout! ”

Suddenly, the overseer team came over and scolded, "Didn't you serve greens and pickles at noon?!" ”

"Noon is noon, now is now!" Hearing the words of the Overseer, the soldiers also turned red-eyed.

"You're dizzy?!" Seeing that the native soldiers dared to shout at themselves, the overseer team drew their swords.

"Tie him up and punish him!"

The leader of the team opened his mouth, and the surrounding team members stepped forward.

It's just that unlike the past adversity, today's native soldiers appear to be extraordinarily united.

"You guys move and try it!"

"That's right! You guys try it! ”

"Hehe......" Baihu officials laughed angrily, this group of people who have been slaves and maidservants for hundreds of years still dare to show their faces.

After laughing angrily, he directly swung his knife to slash, but fortunately, the person next to him pulled it, otherwise the native soldier would have been stabbed in the face.

"Straight sissy thief! Enter your mother's house! ”

The reacted native soldier swung the hammer in his hand and smashed it on the face of the hundred household officials, and the hundred household officials did not expect that the native soldier would do it, and in an instant, blood foam and teeth splashed, and the members of the supervision team also waved their knives at the native soldier after reacting.

"you! It's the other way around! ”

"Brothers, open the city gate with Lao Tzu and go outside the city to eat meat with the officials and soldiers!"

"Do it!"

"Cut off the head of the mother!"

The phrase "enter your mother" by the overseer team completely ignited the anger of the native soldiers, and more than 100 native soldiers fought with this supervising team, and soon caused a response from other native soldiers.

They don't have any intention of eating meat and dividing the fields at the moment, they just want to vent the humiliation they have suffered over the years.

Soon, there was a lot of noise on the walls of Sinan City, and the sound even alarmed the Ming army who were cooking sheep and slaughtering pigs.

Their movements slowed down, and they all looked at Sinan City in the dark night at a loss.

"Beep-"

Suddenly, the whistle sounded, except for the soldiers who were responsible for killing chickens and pigs, the rest of the soldiers got up and put on their armor, waiting for further military orders to be issued.

Mu Chun and Qu Neng rode out of the battle and looked at the dim Sinan City with binoculars, but Tian Zongding was too picky, and even the torches were reluctant to put too much, so the dim situation could not be seen clearly even with a telescope.

"Did the Mind Attack work?" Qu Neng asked in surprise, but Mu Chun shook his head:

"I can't be sure for the time being, what if Tian Zongding disguised himself as a straw bag and deliberately lured us to the bait?"

"Let's wait and see if the gates will open."

Not long after Mu Chun finished saying this, not even a quarter of an hour later, a large amount of fire suddenly appeared at the base of the city wall of Sinan City, which was obviously caused by the fire oil smashed under the city and ignited.

"I'll lead five hundred cavalry to take a look, you wait here for my news."

Mu Chun explained to Qu Neng, and then urged the horse to lead the five hundred elite horses of the headquarters to rush towards the Sinan City Gate.

Qu Neng sighed and said regretfully: "He was the first to go." ”

As soon as the words fell, he paid full attention to the situation in Sinan City, and Mu Chun also led the five hundred elite horsemen behind him to cross a distance of one mile and came to the front of the moat of Sinan City.

At this moment, the city gate of Sinan City has been opened, there are dozens of bloody soldiers on the drawbridge, and the city gate is full of fire and fighting shadows.

Seeing Mu Chun and them coming, the native soldiers on the suspension bridge hurriedly dropped their weapons: "General, we have surrendered, Tian Zongding is in the city!" ”

"Drive!" Hearing this, Mu Chun hurriedly urged his horse forward, and the left and right cavalry also took the initiative to block in front of him.

As the left and right cavalry dismounted and checked the man, after making sure that there was no problem, he took him to Mu Chun.

"General, we have few people, you take someone to occupy the Yongdao first!"

The native soldier said very badly, but Mu Chun understood it.

"You lead 200 men up to help, make sure there is no ambush, and blow the wooden whistle."

Mu Chun instructed the people behind him that he did not take any risks personally.

Under his command, two hundred elite horsemen turned over and dismounted, and rushed straight into the Yongdao of Sinan City Gate, waving weapons regardless of the enemy, but seeking to occupy the Yongdao.

Seeing the appearance of the Ming army, the native soldiers who wanted to surrender hurriedly dropped their weapons and ran out of the Yongdao, while the stubbornly resisting warlords and most of the local soldiers were driven out of the Yongdao by the Ming army.

"Beep-"

"Up!"

Hearing the whistle, Mu Chun did not hesitate to signal to the guards beside him, but he did not make a dangerous move.

Soon, more than 200 Ming troops dismounted and rushed into Yongdao, and Mu Chun also said to the native soldiers: "Bring your brother over, take off your armor, and credit your great achievements!" ”

"Yes!" The native soldiers spoke excitedly, and walked across the suspension bridge with hundreds of native soldiers, and took off their armor with numb hands and feet.

At the same time, Qu Neng heard the whistle and quickly led the army out of battle towards the drawbridge.

The distance of one mile was not a short distance for the armored soldiers, at least they walked for a quarter of an hour before they came to Sinan City.

Seeing Qu Neng and them coming, Mu Chun immediately ordered: "The whole army enters the city and captures Tian Zongding alive!" ”

"The last general commands!" Hearing this, Qu Neng rushed into the corridor first.

Although he was over sixty years old, Qu Neng was still able to use a heavy gun on his horse, and the people who passed through him were on their backs.

He held a big gun in his left hand and a gourd hammer in his right hand, and after he came to the inner city, he fought left and right on the streets, and the Ming army that followed him into the city also instantly crushed some of the native soldiers who were still trying to stop him.

"Those who descend will not be killed, and the fields will be divided equally!!"

The Ming army shouted and waved their weapons, Tian's supervision team was killed and collapsed, and the rest of the local soldiers saw that the supervision team was retreating, so they instantly dropped their weapons and stood on both sides of the road.

"Kill!!"

The shouts of killing pierced through the night, waking up Tian Zongding who was sleeping.

"What's going on?!"

Tian Zongding pushed open the door of the bedroom, sweating and looking at the guards at the door who were also frightened, but he didn't hear any useful news from the mouths of the people, so he could only quickly put on his clothes and wait for the news of the soldiers and horses defending the city.

As the shouts of killing became louder and louder, Tian Zongding, who ran to the main hall, finally saw a general who ran into the mansion in embarrassment.

"My lord, it's not good, Youyi has opened the city gate instead, and the Ming army has poured into the city, so it's almost here!"

"Idiot, then what are you doing in a daze, send me out of the city!"

Tian Zongding scolded and hurriedly trotted to the backyard.

"Don't forget the gold and silver in the treasury, all the grain is burned, don't leave it to them."

Tian Zongding hasn't gone through too many battles, he is nothing more than a spoiled loser.

But even so, he also knew how expensive grain was in Qiandi, where transportation was difficult, so after ordering people to burn it, he watched people load more than a dozen boxes of gold, silver and copper coins into trucks, and then fled to the north under the escort of more than 1,000 guards.

At this moment, Sinan City was in a mess, Qu Neng led his two thousand soldiers from Xichuan to kill all the way, and he didn't know how many native soldiers he tried to stop them, all the way from Sinan South Gate to Xuanwei Si Yamen.

"Master Hou, that bastard ran away!"

"Master Hou, there is a place on fire!"

For a while, two different pieces of news came, although Qu Neng was a little exhausted all the way through, he still forcibly cheered up and shouted: "Take people to fight the fire, and block the city gate!" ”

"Yes!"

The two thousand-household officials immediately divided their troops to put out the fire and take over the city gate.

The fire ordered by Tian Zongding was extinguished by the Ming army before it burned for a quarter of an hour, and the native soldiers in the city also fled and surrendered.

When the sky was slightly bright, 20,000 of the 40,000 native soldiers in the city were captured, more than 3,000 were killed, and more than 17,000 fled.

Mu Chun took Mu Sheng to ride into the city, only to see that all the people were afraid to go out of the city, fearing that the Ming army would slaughter the city.

However, it is obvious that their worries are superfluous, not to mention that Zhu Gaoxu said that he could not kill Qiandi too hard, and Mu Chun is not a general who likes to slaughter cities.

Under the guidance of the military attaché, he came to the granary that Tian Zongding tried to burn, and at this moment, Qu Neng's eyes were red after a night of fighting.

After seeing Mu Chun, he immediately scolded: "Tian Zongding's eggless guy, if I hadn't put out the fire in time, this grain would have really been burned by him." ”

"How many?" Mu Sheng asked curiously, obviously the amount of granary storage that could make Qu Neng so angry would not be too small.

"At least 500,000 stones!" As soon as Qu Neng spoke, Mu Sheng subconsciously looked at Mu Chun.

Mu Chun's face was flat, and when he heard this, he just said calmly: "There is so much food, if the ancestor of Tian Zongding sees this scene, I am afraid that he will be angry to death again." ”

He had already listened to the public prosecution of the local soldiers who opened the city gate last night, and understood that the reason for their rebellion was only because of a few pots of pickles, Mu Chun only felt that Tian Zongding was very stupid, and even if he won him, Mu Chun seemed to feel that he should not brag.

It was indeed the first time in his long combat history that he had faced such a stupid opponent.

"Where did he flee?"

didn't see Tian Zongding beside Qu Neng, Mu Chun knew that he had most likely fled.

"Flee to Yinjiang, do you want the army to rest and recuperate before pursuing?"

Qu Neng asked with red eyes, but Mu Chun shook his head: "The north is all mountainous, we are not familiar with the situation, and it is easy to be ambushed." ”

"Besides, if Tian Chen of Sizhou learns the news that we have broken Sinan, he will probably take the opportunity to transfer troops to continue to attack Zhenyuan."

"I don't think the two of them have that kind of talent, but it's always a good idea to be careful."

Mu Chun said, turned his head to look at Mu Sheng: "Leave 10,000 soldiers for you, and open a warehouse to release grain while appeasing the native soldiers." ”

"The more than 700 native soldiers who opened the city gate were each given 100 stones, and the people in the city and the soldiers who surrendered were each given 1 stone of grain to appease the people."

"In addition, tell them that after the imperial court solves Tian Zongding and Tian Chen, it will immediately start to divide land and salt for them!"

"I'll write a letter to the political envoy of Jianbu and ask him to transfer 50,000 quintals of salt from Sichuan."

After learning about the shortage of salt among the native soldiers, Mu Chun transferred a batch of salt to them without saying a word.

One load is 100 catties, and 50,000 quintals is 5 million catties of salt, although this is worth 70,000 or 80,000 yuan for Sichuan, as long as Mu Chun speaks, Jian Yi will naturally not violate Zhu Gaoxu's decree.

As long as Mu Chun lacks something, he will find a way to make up for it.

"Big brother, will there be too much."

Mu Sheng felt a little distressed about food and salt, but Mu Chun said, "What? Do you also want to learn from Tian Zongding? ”

"No ......" Mu Sheng lowered his head and made a move, Mu Chun looked at Qu Neng when he saw this:

"Write a letter to Qu Yu and ask him to closely supervise the Song and An families in Banzhou, and at the same time let Cao Guogong advance into the hinterland of Miao Xinjiang from the south, and at the same time change several long lawsuits in the south and return them to the stream, and unite with General Gu Lao to squeeze Sizhou and Sinan Tusi."

"Today's army is tired, so let's rest for a day, and tomorrow the army will march south."

"Good!" Qu Neng nodded when he heard this, and at the same time, the news of Sinan City's destruction spread as the native soldiers broke and fled out of the city.

For a while, Tian Zongding's prestige was hit, and many small and medium-sized toasts under his control stopped and did not dare to advance, for fear that Tian Zongding would be defeated before he arrived.

You must know that it is not easy to save a batch of iron armor in Guizhou.

Tian Zongding lost 40,000 armored soldiers in the first battle, and almost burned the accumulation of more than 800 years of Sinan Tian's family.

Even if the Ming army didn't chase him, he probably wouldn't be able to hold out for long.

Instead of following him to the funeral, it is better to go back to the cottage honestly and see how the situation outside the mountain will develop.

Thinking of this, many small and medium-sized toasts retreated one after another, and Mu Chun also led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to retreat to Zhenyuanwei.

Before Tian Chen could react, Mu Chun joined Qu Neng and Qu Tao of Zhen Yuanwei, and the 20,000-strong army drove out of the city and killed Sizhou in the east......

(End of chapter)

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