"As expected, Zhu Yijun has been prepared for a long time and has been waiting for me to raise troops in Bozhou!"
Yang Yinglong couldn't help but clenched his fists and said something.
Yu Maochang said: "Then persuade the nearby chieftains to raise troops with us and express our willingness to share the world with them, so that the court can no longer use chieftains to fight against chieftains!"
Yang Yinglong nodded, and immediately asked Yang Chaodong to lead troops back to Wujiang Pass to aid Wujiang Pass, while he himself began to withdraw his troops from Bozhou to contact other chieftains.
At that time, a fierce battle was going on at Wujiang Pass, the first dangerous pass from Guizhou to Bozhou.
On the government and military side, Guizhou governor Ye Mengxiong and Guizhou military envoy Jiang Duo supervised the Guangxi soldiers to cross the Wujiang River and attack Wujiang Pass.
And these Guangxi soldiers are not afraid of such dangerous terrain. Even though the entire Wujiang Pass is surrounded by cliffs and narrow river valleys, and there is no flat land on which to set up cannons and ladders, they can still climb up and let them go. The rebel Miao soldiers guarding Wujiang Pass were so frightened that they had to patrol day and night with torches.
However, Ye Mengxiong was not satisfied with this and said to Jiang Duo:
"The imperial court's strategy is to use chieftain soldiers to consume chieftain soldiers, so it is not enough to make these Guangxi soldiers dare to attack. They must dare to attack at all costs. Even if they cannot take Wujiang Pass, they will still consume their population!"
"If Wujiang Pass is captured, I will reward him generously, give him wealth, and divide the entire chieftains."
"So, send an order to bring all the silver coins from the vassal treasury, and tell all the wolf soldiers that whether they bring back their casualties or bring back the heads of the rebels, they will get three times the salary. The same goes for their cave masters." If you are rewarded with silver, I will personally confer an official title to the first one to capture it!"
Jiang Duo raised his hand and said yes.
Therefore.
A few days later, from the Ming army camp on the other side of Wujiang Pass, a large number of white silver coins were carried out and spread all over the riverside. The eyes of the Guangxi Zhuang wolf soldiers also lit up after learning the use of these silver coins. , and then they all attacked Wujiang Pass on a larger scale, like ants surrounding them.
However, Yang Yinglong always favored the Miao people and even robbed Han people and used them as slaves. Therefore, many Miao people were willing to fight to the death for Yang Yinglong.
The rebel Miao soldiers in Wujiang Pass also defended desperately under the supervision of Yang Yinglong's brother Yang Zhaolong. For a while, a large number of Guangxi wolf soldiers rushed up and were shot into the river due to the difficulty of climbing the pass and the tenacity of the defenders. .
Not long after, corpses were strewn all over the Wujiang Pass. Many corpses of Guangxi wolf soldiers were floating on the river, and the river also turned red.
But there were still many Guangxi wolf soldiers rushing over.
Because Guizhou Governor Ye Mengxiong and other Ming court officials really fulfilled their promises and distributed silver coins to the wounded and wounded wolf soldiers and their leaders.
These leaders did not care about the lives of their wolf soldiers. Seeing that they had earned silver coins, they still actively urged their wolf soldiers to attack Wujiang Pass. When those wolf soldiers saw that the silver coins were actually distributed to the children of the fallen, they also started to scream again. He ordered the people to come to Wujiang Pass to kill him.
Who made these wolf soldiers very poor, and had no other way to make a fortune, so they made a fortune by working as mercenaries for the Central Empire.
Yang Zhaolong and his rebel Miao soldiers were unable to rest day and night and were exhausted.
During this period, Guangxi wolf soldier Wei Peng climbed up from the cliff on the side of Wujiang Pass at night, put down the rope, and let hundreds of wolf soldiers climb up after him, and was the first to rush into the Wujiang River. Inside the pass, these rebel Miao soldiers were slaughtered arbitrarily, as if there was no one around.
Seeing this, other Guangxi soldiers also climbed up one after another.
As a result, the rebel Miao soldiers at Wujiang Pass were defeated, and Yang Zhaolong hurriedly led the remaining troops to retreat to Loushanguan.
But when Yang Zhaolong was retreating, he glanced at the large number of corpses of wolf soldiers by the Wujiang River, and couldn't help but said: "How desperate! What benefit did Zhu Ming give these strong men of Guangxi?"
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"Are you Wei Peng?"
After the official army captured Wujiang Pass, Ye Mengxiong personally met Wei Peng, the first wolf soldier who rushed into Wujiang Pass.
Wei Peng is a strong man with a relatively high degree of Chineseization and can understand some simple Mandarin, so after Ye Mengxiong asked, he replied:
"Go back to the Fuyuan Master, the young one is right!"
Ye Mengxiong said: "The Marquis of Nanchang will arrive here soon, and he will give you a reward. In addition, you will also go to the capital to be personally summoned by His Majesty, so you will stay here during this period to receive some etiquette training."
Wei Peng was a little stunned, and then said yes with great anticipation and excitement.
Within a few days, Liu Wei actually came to Wujiang Pass, and in front of Guizhou civil and military officials and many Guangxi wolf soldiers, he was ordered to award Wei Peng a bullfight uniform, and also granted him the hereditary title of General Anyuan, and pursued him. His parents and wife were given official titles and titles, and were rewarded with one thousand taels of silver to build a mansion.
This made Wei Peng, an ordinary farmer of the Zhuang ethnic group, suddenly look noble and impressive, and made other ordinary Guangxi wolf soldiers jealous.
However, this is just like the lottery. Although winning the big prize is very beautiful, behind the scenes, most people spend their lottery money in vain.
Therefore, although Wei Peng suddenly rose to prominence, there were a large number of Guangxi wolf soldiers casualties behind him. By next year, Han people will definitely have to move in as self-cultivators in order to prevent some fields from becoming barren.
But the ordinary Guangxi wolf soldiers were more aware of Wei Peng's glory, especially the dignitaries such as Liu Wei and Ye Mengxiong who regarded him as a distinguished friend and showed respect, which made many wolf soldiers continue to attack Yang Yinglong desperately. He set up forts in various dangerous places in Bozhou, hoping that in this way he could achieve a class leap, obtain a hereditary official position, be on an equal footing with chieftains, governors, etc., and become a master.
Zhu Yijun indeed summoned Wei Peng in person, awarded him a military medal, and ordered him to enter the official school to obtain more knowledge of Chinese culture, especially modern knowledge, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing the chieftains in the future.
At the same time that Wei Peng began to accept further sinicization, the Ming Dynasty also began to arrest and confiscate the homes of Han people who were related to Yang Yinglong or even secretly colluded with him.
Jinyiweitang official Xu Maoli personally brought a large number of Tiqi to Chengdu and began to arrest these nobles.
The Jin Yiwei had already had spies inside Yang Yinglong and these nobles, and knew everything about their contacts. The reason why they didn't have an attack was actually to wait for Yang Yinglong to rebel and return to his old ways.
But now, since Yang Yinglong could not wait any longer, he still chose to rebel. Naturally, Zhu Yijun was no longer polite and ordered the Jin Yiwei to start closing the net and arrest the Han people in Shu who had colluded and contacted with Yang Yinglong.
"What are you doing?! I was once the emperor of the World Temple!"
"You Jin Yiwei are spewing blood, but my Meng family has nothing to do with him, Yang Yinglong?!"
"Let me go! I want to go to the capital to see His Majesty and tell you that the Imperial Guards are acting recklessly and wantonly arresting veterans from three dynasties!"
At that time, many scholars in Shu were arrested. From Chengdu to Xuqing, their homes were ransacked and taken away. Each and every scholar who was arrested was frightened, angry, frightened, and uneasy. There was also controversy both inside and outside the court because of this incident. Shocked.
(End of chapter)
