After all, half of these six thousand white-pole soldiers had fought hard in Liaodong and Donglu. They were all veterans who were not afraid of death, and because the emperor was not poor now, he intended to support them, the southern army, to check and balance Liaodong. The military town, coupled with the increase in Ming's ordnance production capacity, also equipped them with better firearms.
And in this way, the white-pole soldiers who already have high combat literacy will become even more powerful after their equipment is upgraded.
Therefore, although She Chongming's general Zhou Ding has more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and is also equipped with many muskets, he still lacks combat power in front of the current white-armed soldiers, and is naturally defeated by the white-armed soldiers. Directly defeated.
After She Chongming knew that Zhou Ding's troops under his command were defeated, he simply gave up the siege of Chengdu.
Then, as Yuan Keli expected, She Chongming had to turn around and attack Chongqing again.
She Chongming had no choice. Now that he had launched a rebellion, he couldn't give up. Yuan Keli concentrated food in the two big cities of Chengdu and Chongqing. If he failed to capture Chengdu, he could only attack Chongqing.
The vanguard sent by She Chongming was still Zhou Ding, because most of Zhou Ding's troops were Han refugees who had surrendered to She Chongming's command, and they were most suitable to be used as cannon fodder.
After the She Chongming rebels turned around and came to Chongqing, the first pass they attacked was Fotu Pass.
At this time, the person guarding Fotuguan was Zhu Xieyuan, the right governor of Sichuan.
Zhu Xieyuan and Qin Yimingmao led 3,000 white pole troops to garrison here.
However, Zhu Xieyuan only asked Qin Yiming to guard the city of Fotuguan with 3,000 white pole soldiers, while he himself only led 200 soldiers outside the city of Fotuguan and on the only mountain road leading to Guancheng. There was a desk in the middle, and he himself was sitting behind the desk. There were many books and the Four Treasures of the Study piled on the desk. Two large vats of cooked porridge were placed on both sides of the desk. The back of the desk was piled with hoes and grain.
Zhu Xieyuan was particularly bold. Even though he clearly saw rebel soldiers climbing up from the bottom of the mountain, he did not panic and only calmly stroked his beard.
Not long after, She Chongming's rebels rushed forward.
The first ones to come up were naturally the Han refugees who were used as cannon fodder.
These people were already blinded by hunger. Although they were armed with weapons, they looked no different from refugees.
Therefore, as soon as these rebels rushed up and saw two large vats of porridge, their eyes lit up. They rushed over with their tired bodies, and then drank the cold porridge hard.
Seeing this, Zhu Xieyuan smiled and shouted: "Don't panic! I am Zhu Xieyuan, the Right Chief Minister of Sichuan. I am waiting for you here today. I know that you are all kidnapped into the rebel army, so , I have asked for permission from above. As long as you are willing to submit to the imperial court, the imperial court will forgive you and allocate fields to you. You will be given grain seeds, grain rations, and a hoe. Those who want to submit to the imperial court will become good farmers again. , just come and register!”
At first, these rebels just drank porridge, with rice grains all over their faces, and ignored Zhu Xieyuan.
But after Zhu Xieyuan recited it a few times, the refugee understood it again. He turned around excitedly and knelt in front of Zhu Xieyuan: "Master, is it true?"
Zhu Xieyuan said: "I am an official of the imperial court, how can I tell lies?"
"The grassroots are willing! The grassroots are willing to submit to the imperial court! As long as the great master really gives the grassroots land and food to the grassroots, the grassroots will not become slaves of the barbarians even if they die!"
The rebel spoke excitedly.
"Then register quickly."
Zhu Xieyuan said with a smile.
"Why!"
The rebel quickly got up and walked over.
"Where are you from?"
"Name?"
"A native of Yibin, Xuzhou Prefecture."
"Su A Niu!"
Soon, the Sua Niu received his own rations and grain seeds, and stood at the designated position with a new hoe, waiting to divide the fields.
Because Chongqing City is a peninsula in the Yangtze River and Jialing River basins, surrounded by water on three sides.
Therefore, only one main road from Fotuguan to Erlangguan can lead to Chongqing.
And Fotuguan is on the ridge of the mountains, among the cliffs. Therefore, the rebels cannot appear in large numbers in front of Fotuguan.
Therefore, every time only one group of rebels came up, they would grab the porridge first because they were hungry.
Then, because these were Han refugees, just like Su A Niu, under Zhu Xieyuan's instigation, they surrendered to the court and became new households that regained farmland.
Therefore, a large number of She Chongming rebels surrendered to the imperial court.
She Chongming's general Zhou Ding didn't know the situation on the mountain at this time, but after a long time, when he saw that his officers and soldiers had not returned after rushing up, he began to be confused and thought to himself: "Could it be that , they have captured Fotu Pass?"
Therefore, Zhou Ding had to climb up first. As soon as he came up, he saw farmers standing outside Fotu Pass with hoes and grain bags.
And the officers and soldiers under his command were voluntarily disarming one by one, registering in front of a court official, kneeling and kowtowing, and then left with a bag of grain and a hoe.
Zhou Ding was stunned. He didn't expect such a scene at all.
"What are you doing!"
Zhou Ding shouted loudly.
Zhu Xieyuan also noticed Zhou Ding at this time and shouted hurriedly: "Take down this traitorous general!"
Therefore, the soldiers around Zhu Xieyuan immediately came over with spears and captured Zhou Ding and a few of his soldiers alive. The other rebels were busy registering to allocate their fields, and did not care about their commander being captured alive.
Zhu Xieyuan relied on this to directly recruit more than half of the rebels.
As a result, the strength of the She Chongming rebels was greatly reduced.
By the time the She Chongming Ministry discovered something was wrong, his troops were reduced to less than half of their strength, because many barbarians also voluntarily surrendered to the imperial court.
After all, no one wants to go hungry, and everyone also wants to have their own land.
Of course, Zhu Xieyuan's ability to do this is still related to Zhu Youxiao's strict collection of debts in Jiangnan, which gave the court enough food. Being able to transfer one million stones to Sichuan in advance also allowed Yuan Keli to be generous. He gave Zhu Xie Yuan 100,000 stone grain to recruit soldiers.
Although the Jiangnan gentry were dissatisfied because of this, the imperial court's use of troops in other places was indeed much smoother and easier.
"Damn it, you Jiangnan gentry have done a lot of harm to me and encouraged me to raise an army. As a result, my army is so hungry that it eats grass roots and tree bark, but the officers and soldiers have enough food to feed the refugees. How do you ask me to fight this war!"
After knowing the situation at Fotuguan, She Chongming directly kicked Zhu Qinggui again and shouted: "I also want to be recruited, and I also want to expose your master, Zhu Tongmeng, the governor of Sichuan, for secretly instigating me to rebel. .”
Zhu Qinggui was kicked so pitifully that he began to vomit blood, but because She Chongming threatened to accept the offer and expose his master, he had to bear the pain, knelt down to She Chongming, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, calm down! This is No one could have expected this. Who would have thought that Yuan Keli would be so cunning, fortifying the country in advance and hoarding food in Chongqing and Chengdu!"
She Chongming had no intention of saying anything now. He only told his son She Yinjiu: "You personally lead my chieftain's troops to attack Fotuguan! This Fotuguan must be captured, otherwise even if you are not killed by the army, you will have to attack Fotuguan." Starve to death! Damn it, what kind of rebellion is this!"
"Yes, father!"
She Yinjiu rushed to Fotuguan with his chieftain soldiers.
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And this time.
A large number of officers and soldiers also rushed towards Fotuguan.
"Hurry up! The Ministry has said that the emperor has allocated five hundred thousand taels of gold and silver as a reward for the whole army. Anyone who wants to share the money should hurry up! Don't be afraid of death. If you die, you can get a hundred taels of pension!"
At this time, the military attache who rushed towards Fotuguan shouted loudly.
The officers and soldiers were very motivated. As soon as they drank water or took a bite of food at the stations along the way, they immediately ran towards Fotuguan.
After all, if you want to have high morale in a war these days, you have to spend money. What kind of doctrine is not effective for these low-educated officers and soldiers.
Now Zhu Youxiao was not short of money, so he smashed the five hundred thousand taels of gold and silver that he had just collected from Jiangnan. These officers and soldiers in Sichuan were very dedicated to wiping out the She Chongming rebels.
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