"What? There is still someone waiting for King Chuang now? Is there a scam?"
Li Laiheng stopped and looked back at Liu Wenxiu, who was reporting the matter, with a surprised expression, and said something that made everyone in the court feel a little discouraged.
Song Xiance, the great military advisor, went out to the class and said: "Your Majesty, the civil uprising in Shizhou Wei Jiannan Division in the territory of the Zhu bandits was not a fraud, but was launched by the heroes of the Trade Department of the Household Government."
"Is it someone from the Trade Department of the Household Government who did it again?" Li Laiheng said, "It won't be like the one in February. It just started and then stopped, right?"
"Your Majesty, the rebels in Shizhou Wei Jiannan Division are the rebels of Huya Mountain," Song Xiance said with a happy face, "The easy way to handle the Huya Mountain uprising was not wiped out by the Zhu bandits. They surrounded Huya after the Zhu bandits army. He crossed the river in front of the mountain and headed west along Jingmen Mountain and Qingshui. In mid-March, he moved to the territory of Shizhouwei. On March 22, he raised the flag near Jiannansi and broke the red bandit's defense. The army attacked more than a dozen valleys at the junction of Jiannansi, Wanzhou and Shizhu, and raised a banner to welcome King Chuang."
Li Laiheng frowned, with a look of disbelief on his face: "Shizhou native soldiers are quite good at fighting. There are countless watchtowers and fortresses in the territory. We have sent troops many times but failed to break them. Why are they so useless now?"
Shizhou Guard is not an ordinary military guard, but a military and civilian command department that uses the military to govern the people. It was established in the 23rd year of Hongwu, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. Twenty-three years before Hongwu, Shizhou and Shizhouwei coexisted, with the former in charge of the people and the latter in charge of the army. However, due to the local chieftain rebellion, after being suppressed, Zhu Yuanzhang turned Shizhou into a military control area under the jurisdiction of the First Military Guard.
At the beginning, only 1,500 military households were moved to settle in the fields, and some chieftains were also recruited. Later, some military households were gradually moved in and began to thrive there. The terrain of Shizhouwei is a bit strange, it is a remote mountainous area, and the population was very small in the early Ming Dynasty. But the mountains there are not very tall. Looking from a high altitude, you can see the densely packed steamed bun mountains. Between these steamed bun mountains, there are slopes or valleys that can be cultivated. In addition, there are several large valley basins that can be cultivated.
In the early Ming Dynasty, those valleys and slopes were covered by forests. Over the next 200 years, they were continuously reclaimed and turned into terraced fields or high-yield paddy fields, which raised an increasing number of military households. Precisely because Shizhouwei had a small population in the early years and a lot of land that could be cultivated, until the Chongzhen period, the conflict between man and land was not very prominent there. The military households living there were not impoverished, so they maintained a certain degree of force and even married each other, forming many prominent mountain families. This group of military households who benefited from the rule of the Ming Dynasty were very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. When troubled times came, Shizhouwei became an important stronghold of the Ming Dynasty at the junction of Huguang and Sichuan.
In the original history, the Ming Dynasty's resistance in Shizhouwei lasted until the fourth year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1665). A few years later, Wu Sangui raised troops in Yunnan (1673), and Shizhouwei raised troops again to respond and continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty. . After the fall of Wu Zhou, there was no peace there. The descendants of the local military households of the Ming Dynasty continued to resist the Qing Dynasty's reform of the country. It was not until the sixth year of Yongzheng that the Shizhou Guards and Datian Office were withdrawn, realizing the Qing Dynasty's rule of officialdom... ..
Under Zhu Cixang's rule, the military households (chieftains) of Shizhouwei, the military households (chieftains) of Sichuan who retreated to Zunyi Prefecture, the military households (chieftains) of Guizhou, and the military households (chieftains) who escaped from Yunnan , together constitute the Southern Army faction in the Ming Army - the Ming Army has always had conflicts between the North and the South. Zhu Cixiang's armies are not all new armies. There are also many armies that are slightly adapted from the traditional Ming Army. Among them The Ming armies in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Shizhou were the ones with the least adaptation efforts. Therefore, the first-line army is more independent, has a higher degree of feudalization, and is less willing to stray too far from home. But when he was guarding his home, he was very tenacious, so he was despised by the Dashun army as a thief who was guarding his home.
The Ming army of Shizhou Guard was better at defending their homeland than the Ming army of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Although the terrain of Shizhou Guard was not particularly dangerous, the Ming army who could not withstand Shizhou Guard was particularly keen on building fortresses, and the terrain of Shizhou Guard was also difficult. Can support fortress warfare - A large number of hills are good places to build fortresses, and the valley bottoms, basins, and slopes under the mountains can provide sufficient logistical support for the fortresses.
In addition, the Ming army military households in that area were also rooted in the countryside like the Fubing households in Dashun. Moreover, they had been rooted for more than two hundred years and had formed a military household clan as dense as a spider web.
Therefore, the Dashun Army's attacks on Shizhou Guards often fall into the people's war of the Ming Dynasty military households - the front line cannot capture the fortress, and the rear is harassed by Shizhou Guards, and the Dashun Army does not dare to fight a protracted war in Shizhou Guards , because the new Ming army in Huguang will soon come to support, and in the end they can only retreat in embarrassment.
However, the Ming army of Shizhou Guard was not interested in attacking Wanzhou and Shizhu under the rule of Dashun, so the war between the two sides became less and less powerful... Ten years after the joint rule, the Ming and Shun armies fought on the northern front Despite the excitement, the war in Shizhouwei area gradually extinguished, but the smuggling trade between the two sides flourished.
Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something. Most of the heroes mobilized by the Trade Department are making a living on Jingmen Road (the smuggling route). They all want to be successful..."
"Everyone wants Dashun? Aren't they just some private businessmen?" Li Laiheng said, "Are these people trustworthy? They won't be cheating, right?"
Gu Junen, the Secretary of the Household Government, came out and said: "Your Majesty, the private merchants who can do long-term business with the Trade Department of the Household Government have submitted certificates of investment, and most of them are heroic heroes in the Jingchu rivers and lakes, and they all admire King Chuang. Hero, willing to follow and do something great!"
The king of Chuang is also a job that can be replaced. The first generation of king of Chuang is Gao Yingxiang, the second generation of king of Chuang is Li Zicheng, the third generation of king of Chuang is Li Guo, and the fourth generation of king of Chuang is Li Laiheng - starting from Li Zicheng, Prince Chuang and Prince Dashun were connected together.
So the King Chuang whom Gu Junen said the heroes of Jingchu admired was Li Laiheng!
After hearing what Gu Junen said, Li Laiheng finally believed it. He nodded and looked at Song Xiance again.
Song Xiance said: "It is reported that among the heroes who followed the trade minister Niu Jie from Huya Mountain to the west, many of them were very familiar with the terrain in the Jiannansi area, and they had friendships with several chieftains in the Jiannansi area, so they could Earn the castle and occupy the valley.
Your Majesty, this is a rare opportunity to fight back against the Crimson Thief! Not to mention taking down the entire Shizhou Guard, even taking down half of the Shizhou Guard, can also promote the prestige of E Dashun, and at the same time attract the soldiers and horses of the disabled to reinforce the Shizhou Guard and reduce the pressure on the northern line. "
"King of Han, what do you think?" Li Laiheng was a little undecided, so he asked Liu Zongmin for advice.
Liu Zongmin twirled his white beard and squinted his eyes, seeming to be thinking hard.
"Your Majesty, I thought that sending troops to Shizhou Guard was an opportunity to counterattack, but now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, we still have to prepare for the worst."
"What's the worst plan?" Li Laiheng asked knowingly.
Although he had said in his early years that he was willing to be Liu Adou, Liu Adou had been emperor for forty-one years before he "wanted to miss Shu". He was only in the first year of the Dongping Daxing, so why did he "luck to miss Shu"?
Liu Zongmin said slowly: "The worst plan is of course that Can Ming breaks through Daba Mountain and enters Shu..."
As soon as his words came out, there was a dead silence in the hall.
After a long while, I heard Li Laiheng sigh, "Prince Qin and Prince Tang, you two should also talk about it."
Qin Wang Sun Kewang frowned: "Your Majesty, it seems certain that Can Ming will enter Shu. The question now is how will we fight and how will we leave?"
"How to fight? How to leave?" Li Laiheng asked, "Should we fight or leave?"
"You have to have two hands," Liu Wenxiu said, "No, you should have three hands to prepare!"
"The third hand?"
Liu Wenxiu said: "The first move is to counterattack! The second move is to decisively defeat Bashu; the third move is to move south..."
