Chapter 230: Zhen Xiong
Because Zhu Xieyuan saw the memorial that Wang Ershan gave to the court when he retreated from Dafang after running out of food: "Wumeng, Mangbu, An Xiaoliang, and She Chongming were deceived by Chief An, and they united the chieftains from the four provinces to resist me. I only supported it with my own army." In times of crisis..."
In this memorial, Wang Ershan mentioned five forces: Wumeng, Mangbu, An Xiaoliang (Wusa), She Chongming (Yongning), and Anbangyan (Shuixi). However, it is obvious that Mr. Wang’s conclusion is seriously inconsistent with the facts. First of all, this rebellion was caused by She An. Wang Ershan believed that She Chongming and others were deceived by An Bangyan, which was naturally a big mistake. Secondly, except for the An Xiaoliang tribe, the Wumeng and Mang tribes did not rebel like the An Xiaoliang tribe of Usa. It is possible that people from one or two villages followed the rebels, but it cannot be said that the entire tribe is completely Against the Ming Dynasty! Of course, when a catastrophe is imminent, it is a common practice of Ming officials to exaggerate the enemy to death, and Wang Ershan cannot avoid it. However, although Mr. Wang was on the front line in person, he did not fight side by side with Sun Jie and Luo Qianxiang like Zhu Xieyuan. Zhan was surrounded by people like Zhang Fang, Xie Zhongren, and Chen Qiyu. Therefore, his understanding was still superficial and did not really sink in. Various misjudgments and defeats were inevitable.
Needless to say, An Xiaoliang, An Bangyan's best friend, was the third figure in the She'an Rebellion. Wumengbu Luo Qianxiang introduced that it was Shebai's natal family, An Xiaoliang's first wife, the An family, had no children. Because An Xiaoliang had a good relationship with An Wei, Shebai and his son An Qijue were always bullied by the An family. Zhu Xieyuan asked An Qijue to inherit Wusha's chieftainship, and the whole Wumeng clan surrendered to the Ming Dynasty to help Shebai go to rob Wusha, and they were now allies. As for the last part of Mangbu,...wait a minute, how come I haven’t heard of Mangbu before?
You're right if you haven't heard of it - because the Mang tribe has long been torn apart into a piece of loose sand, and each village has its own way of doing things, and there has been no leader who can order the whole clan for a long time. In a sense, as a tribe, Mangbu exists in name only.
Mangbu is a place name and is also used as a tribal name. After the Jiajing period, a mansion was set up there, so the tribe was still called Mangbu, and geographically, it became famous - Zhenxiong Mansion!
The reason why it is famous is because of the chaotic fighting between the villages, which is like a pot of porridge - some people say that the name "Zhen Xiong" in the Ming Dynasty also has a vague meaning of "Shocking the heroes, you all should be honest and stop fighting randomly." " meaning. The centuries-long war cannot be described in detail, otherwise it will be a long article of at least tens of thousands of words and has nothing to do with the main purpose. In short, it is nothing more than a fight to the death between several relatives in order to inherit the position of chieftain. Mainly due to the two families, the Long family and the Lu family, coupled with the local officials of the Ming Dynasty who were causing trouble and stirring up dissension, as well as the imperial court's chaotic affairs, they had been suppressed for more than a hundred years, and the huge Zhenxiong Mansion was turned into nothing. In the land of the Lord - the people of the two major families, even the adopted son whom they recognized as distant relatives, were all dead! The largest number of people in the remaining villages was less than 2,000, and no one had the ability to give orders to the various ministries. Therefore, everyone was content with their own affairs after hearing the noises of chickens and dogs, and ended up in peace.
When Zhang Heming came to Fuchuan, Sun Jie made a sneak attack on Bijiewei, taking the route of Zhenxiong Mansion. When the army passed by, all the village leaders knew that if they turned to Elder An, it was because they were worried about their own longevity, so they all pretended to be deaf and no one sent any message to the An family. Therefore, Sun Jie was caught off guard, and Bijiewei came down with a drum.
The plan that Zhu Xieyuan, Sun Jie and others agreed upon in Chengdu was a series of strategies: sending the Zhanyi Long clan and Wumeng clan to fight Wusha, Lao Shun led half of the Chengdu central defenders, and recruited more than 10,000 people to fight. Sun Jie entered Guizhou with great fanfare (Sun Jie was worried, and finally assigned the guard battalion to Lao Shun to escort Mr. Zhu). He led the main force to repeat the same trick and once again passed through Zhenxiong Mansion to set up an ambush for She Chongming's reinforcements. Luo Gan The Elephant Leader waited for an opportunity to sneak attack on the Chishui Guards...
Finally, after listening to Luo Qianxiang's introduction to the various ministries, combined with the various information he had about the court, Zhu Xieyuan pondered for a long time and murmured a few words: "Zhanyi Long clan, Mangbu Long clan, Lu family..." Luo Qianxiang just wanted to explain that this Long family is not the other Long family, but he was kicked by Sun Jie and shut up knowingly. Zhu Xieyuan winked at them, smiled slyly, and threw out another one. What a big carrot - I sent another serious official letter to the Long family of Zhanyi: I heard that Zhenxiong Mansion was the place where the Long family invaded. We are supposed to choose the best, but the military affairs are busy. You are from the Long family, please help find a clan member to inherit it!
This huge, hugely sweet carrot knocked Long out on the spot! In the past, I always had to worry about my brother-in-law An Xiaoliang coming to kill the orphans and widows. Now it's good. Not only did he get the support of the Ming Dynasty, but he even asked him to find an heir to the Zhenxiong Mansion, which was out of reach! Could a more delicious pie fall from the sky? !
Without saying a word, the Long family immediately allocated 500 people from their insufficient resources and asked An Yun'ao to take them straight to Zhenxiong. They contacted each village in Mangbu one by one, making wishes and threatening them. They were very busy. For a while. So, when Sun Jie led his troops to cross the border, he was pleasantly surprised to find that people from each village were contributing. An Yun'ao, who claimed to be the orphan of the Long family, had already led nearly 4,000 Mang tribe soldiers to assemble, waiting to join the official army to fight against She Chongming!
Of course Sun Jie would not point out what Sun Jie wanted, but he would not ask these people to participate in any battle. Although everyone is very brave, for generals like Sun Jie, well-trained troops can only be commanded easily. In a real fight, a large group of rabble who cannot read flags and golden drum orders will only add chaos. Moreover, since it was a surprise attack and an ambush, Sun Jie did not intend to engage in a head-to-head war of attrition with the Yongning Army. However, these people still helped a lot: in transporting heavy equipment over long distances in the mountains, their efficiency was much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty's best auxiliaries. After arriving at the Axe Gorge, in front of Sun Jie, these people climbed up the mountains like apes, threw down a few thick ropes, and more than twenty brand-new small copper cannons and the gun carriages were used in less than a day. It's all in place.
Of course, it would be more reliable to ask your own auxiliary troops to do formal field fortifications such as digging ditches, building forts, and setting up horsebacks. However, these thousands of friendly troops were not idle either. Sun Jie ran a few laps before and after the Axe Gorge. At the exit, he stared blankly at the busy construction site for a while, then smiled again. An Yun'ao was summoned to give an explanation, and the four thousand native soldiers immediately turned into woodcutter. Before the fortification was completed, the firewood branches behind had already piled up into hills. Setting up this fire scene saved the brothers from forming a formation to stop the enemy, which cost at least dozens of casualties.
The next thing is to cook. She Chongming didn't know when he would come over. Nearly 20,000 big mouths had to eat as much food as a small mountain every day, which was not an easy task. You cannot light a fire for cooking when setting up an ambush, so you must prepare in advance. These thousands of Mang tribe soldiers were of great help. In less than two sticks of incense, they built thousands of simple stoves with rocks. They covered them with bluestone slabs, mixed the mixed noodles with salt water and patted them into pancakes with their hands. Seven or eight pieces of slate can be baked at once, and within a moment, the browned pancakes will be piled higher than a person in a flowing stream. The soldiers, who should have been extremely busy, had nothing to do. They all stood with their hands folded and watched in admiration. Not only that, they even dug a ditch to divert spring water from the mountain. Although it was not very wide, it was more than enough to provide daily drinking for the entire camp.
An Yun'ao sent people to lookout at several key mountain tops on the way. Their distance over the mountains was many times greater than that of the Han soldiers. Moreover, even if they were discovered by the scouts sent by She Chongming, the risk was not high and they would definitely be discovered. Considered as aborigines who go into the mountains to hunt.
All that's left is to wait.
In the past few days, Liu Tieniu, the artillery officer who had been given practical training in guerrilla training after the First World War in Chengdu, was in an unusually high mood. Although he was a Qian Commander with a false title of guerrilla in the past, Tieniu's status in Sun Jie's army was really not high. Even the commander-in-chief in the army did not like him very much. Tieniu himself knew this well. It's no wonder, after all, those officers were cut with real swords and guns on the battlefield with blood on their faces. Not to mention that the commander-in-chief often fought the enemy hand-to-hand. The artillery often won the battle before the artillery was ready, so the artillery team had to Amid the roars of laughter from his triumphant comrades, he put his things away again with a frown on his face. Even if there is an occasional opportunity to fire a few cannons, the drums will sound from behind - the whole army rushes in, and there is no need for the artillery team! Everyone was secretly laughing at the fact that Tieniu was able to become the Chief Qian just because bronze cannons were so valuable... The status of the artillery crew members was only a little higher than that of the auxiliary soldiers.
The situation in Chengdu was completely different after World War I. Tieniu has won the heartfelt respect of everyone with his solid performance and record. Sun Jie got a lot of rewards when he was forced to stay in Chengdu Mansion by Zhang Heming. In order to help Luo Qianxiang resist the counterattack that She Chongming would launch sooner or later, Sun Jie thought of casting cannons. Other military leaders turned copper cannons into private money, but Sun Jie used cash to buy copper materials and cast the cannons himself. Casting sixty or seventy doors in one breath, of course, the yield rate of this kind of technology will not be too high. This is not entirely due to sense of responsibility. After Tieniu's personal inspection, the broken ones were re-melted. Finally, Tieniu looked at the long row of brand-new copper cannons and smiled so much that the corners of his mouth almost reached his ears.
He left half of it for General Luo, and taught his people how to cast it step by step. Then Tieniu dispersed all the artillery crews under his command, and the experienced veterans were all now gunners. Then Tieniu went to Sun Jie to ask for gunpowder. Sun Jie was a little confused at first: the gunpowder allocated to the artillery team was really not short. However, after Tieniu finished his sentence, "I feel that cannons are weapons rather than treasures. "Brothers, the more you practice, the more thieves you can kill." He immediately called Su Yinghui, the officer of the auxiliary army, and told him to give him as much gunpowder and iron bullets as Tieniu needed. If they were not enough, he could buy them at any time or ask the auxiliary soldiers to make them themselves. At that time, the brothers in the camp were tired of enduring the deafening sound of artillery all day long, but when they saw that the artillery crews who returned to the camp every evening were beaten into pig heads by iron cows, everyone laughed and said, "What happened to my ears during the day?" The croaking can be exchanged for watching the pig's head before going to bed, so it's worth it. Many people even sneaked in to watch Tieniu train his artillery crew. Watching him beat people angrily was a rare pleasure in the boring military journey. Later, fewer and fewer people were beaten, and smiles gradually spread across Tieniu's face, driving away the earlier anger without a trace...
After Sun Jie determined the tactics according to the terrain of Axe Gorge, he went to Tieniu to discuss it in detail. After hearing the commander's plan, Tieniu was very happy: this time it was the artillery team that took the lead! Suppressing the ecstasy that was about to burst out from his heart, Tieniu called all the gunners over and cursed and threatened them all - this time, everyone was not as scared as when Liu Tou'er scolded them in the past. The legs were trembling, but everyone was smiling: Isn’t it just for today that I have received countless slaps and whips in the past? Everyone in the artillery team has been waiting for this day!
Tieniu only left one old artillery group on each side of the canyon entrance. His own artillery group guarded the exit. The other ones deployed in the canyon were all newcomers and new artillery. He left the remaining four old artillery groups to Sun Jie was stuck behind the trench, waiting to be attacked head-on by the thieves who were charging to fill the trench. After the artillery array was deployed, Tieniu was still a little worried, so he borrowed a horse from Shangguan Fei and ran several laps along the canyon. Seeing the rugged rocks on both sides, Tieniu laughed again, almost falling off his horse with laughter, and then gave the order to each artillery crew to blast the rocks.
Finally, Tieniu climbed to the top of his battery, sighed with satisfaction, lay down comfortably, took out a piece of salty flour pancake from his arms and chewed it without any pieces. Soon, the military information from the front came back: the main force of the extravagant thieves was found, and it is expected that they will enter the ambush circle around six o'clock tomorrow.
It was night, but Tieniu was too excited to sleep, so he looked at the stars in the sky. There are so many stars in the sky, can our artillery team kill so many thieves tomorrow?
sure!
There were almost more than 6,000 stars visible to the naked eye, and tens of thousands of Yongning soldiers did not make it out of the Axe Gorge alive. Less than a thousand commandos died at the exit, and the rest were all the result of the Iron Ox Artillery Team.
Of course Tieniu didn't know how many stars he could see. The only thing he knew was that when he saw that the forwards of the Yongning Army had reached his feet and there was an endless group of thieves to the west, he pressed the torch in his hand hard on the fire door and shouted. A cry: "Kill the thief!"
Zhenxiong Mansion really suppressed all the heroes in Mangbu. She Chongming and his son can indeed be called heroes. They were suppressed by Liu Tieniu in the Axe Gorge.
