Because of Zhao Hao's full support, Chen Kangbo has a lot of power. He is very grateful to Zhao Hao for giving him this power.
Although two Privy Council chiefs had lost their lives before him, at least the third Zhou Linzhi survived safely, so Chen Kangbo felt that he was almost safe.
He made an ambitious plan as soon as he took office. In order to support Zhao Xun's plan to recruit 80,000 soldiers, he organized a Privy Council meeting to discuss. After working for several days, he came up with a detailed recruitment plan, which was approved by Zhao Xun.
In terms of the selection and recruitment of military talents, he supported Zhao Xun's military examinations and internal selection plans for officials, and was also willing to promote talented officials in the Privy Council to higher positions and give them greater power.
For example, he decided to recommend Yu Yunwen to be the deputy privy envoy and become his deputy because he felt that Yu Yunwen had very good military talents.
Yu Yunwen was very happy and recommended Yang Wanli backhand. He believed that Yang Wanli also had strong military capabilities and should hold a high position, so Yang Wanli was also promoted to Privy Councilor.
Coupled with the addition of more and more military talents, Chen Kangbo became more and more happy. .
He felt that the military talents of the entire Song Dynasty were included in the Privy Council. The Privy Council was full of talented people who spoke well and had strong abilities. He sat in charge and planned among them, and he was like a fish in water.
Under this wave of excitement, Zhao Zhen gave the Privy Council great power, and to a certain extent restored the situation in the early Northern Song Dynasty where the emperor discussed military matters with the Privy Council alone and got rid of the civilian government, making the Privy Council more and more powerful.
The military of the Southern Song Dynasty was also stimulated to a certain extent. The newly recruited soldiers practiced day and night in the military bases around Lin'an City, which somewhat meant to revive the Song Dynasty.
During the "Strive for Strength" period of the Southern Song Dynasty, in October of the fourth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin received news from Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping who were in charge of Xixia.
The last remaining forces in Xixia launched a wave of rebellion.
It is said that because she was unwilling to sit back and watch Xixia fall under the control of the Ming Dynasty and eventually be annexed by the Ming Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Ren of Xixia secretly colluded with a group of Xixia officers who still controlled the army, and tried to get them to lead troops to Xingqing Mansion to rescue King Qin and provide support for the Ming Dynasty. Xixia made a last ditch effort for independence.
But Su Yonglin felt something was wrong and felt that it was impossible for Ren to do such a thing, but it was still necessary to put down the rebellion.
So at the end of December in the fourth year of Hongwu, after the Ming army put down this wave of rebellion and executed a large number of old Xixia officers and bureaucrats, they learned through interrogation that this was indeed not led by Ren.
Mrs. Ren didn't have the guts. She was just a palace woman who dared not do anything to protect her little son. She prayed to God and Buddha every day, just hoping that the lives of her family would be saved.
Those who really did this were the old Xixia officials, old nobles, old military officers, etc. who were unwilling to hand over their power and interests.
The series of revolutionary actions and reforms carried out by the Ming Dynasty in Xixia deeply offended their interests and almost completely destroyed their interests and ceased to exist.
So with deep resentment towards the Ming Dynasty, they hid their anger, continued to connect and collude in private, and finally formed a large-scale rebel group.
This rebel group was mainly composed of administrative chiefs and military governors from some of the more remote areas of Xixia at that time.
Because the most important areas in the West were the Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain, the Ming Dynasty also focused on these two areas and carried out major transformations in these two areas. The remote areas were temporarily put aside and the status quo was maintained unchanged.
Therefore, those local military and political officials were fearful and felt that they must be in danger and their future was not good. It was better to launch a counterattack while the Ming Dynasty was unable to take action, eradicate their power in one fell swoop, and restore the rule of the Xixia Dynasty.
So under the banner of Queen Mother Ren of Xixia and the young king, they called on the "loyal and patriotic people" in Xixia to rise up and resist, and expel all the Ming people from Xixia territory.
The slogans were still shouted loudly.
The main reason why this gang was able to form was that the Ming Dynasty's great purge against the counter-revolutionary forces in Guanzhong mobilized almost the entire western intelligence force, so that the intelligence force against Xixia was insufficient, which allowed this group of people to join forces.
However, as the situation in Guanzhong slowed down and the intelligence power gradually returned, the conspiracy of these people was discovered, although when they were discovered, they were already ready to attack.
However, when Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping learned the news, they did not feel panic, but felt that this seemed good.
To be honest, these military and political officials in the Xixia border areas have always been a worry for Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping. If they were all honest and did not mess around, it would not be easy to clean them up.
Su Yonglin's goal was to annex Xixia and turn it into the Hexi Province of the Ming Dynasty. The existence of these border military and political officials was a huge obstacle. Although they were peaceful for the time being, they could not guarantee that they would be peaceful in the future.
Well, now, they are messing around, messing around, and doing everything. It is logical and justifiable to clean them up. And in this way, the Hexi Province of the Ming Dynasty can be officially established.
Before the rebellion was launched, Zhou Lin and Jiang Liangping had basically figured out their rebellion plan, and then made targeted arrangements.
The Hexi Corps, which is being formed, does not have many people, and its training is not very complete, so the Qilu Corps stationed in Guanzhong provides military assistance to the Hexi Corps.
Su Yonglin felt that the opportunity was rare, so he sent the Shenji Battalion, which had just been reorganized, to Xixia to assist the Hexi Corps in killing the Xixia rebels.
After He Feihu led the Shenji Battalion into Xixia, he also made an appearance in the Hexi Corps.
Different from the previous killing of the rebel landlords, this time He Feihu faced not an elite division, but it was still a good professional army.
The two sides fought in the Ningxia Plain. Facing the Xixia rebels with complete cavalry, infantry, and crossbowmen, the Shenji Battalion showed considerable field capabilities.
Before the Xixia rebel cavalry launched an attack, He Feihu had already ordered the cavalry generals' artillery to start firing.
Although the cavalry general's artillery cannot hit explosive bullets, solid bullets can still cause losses to the Xixia rebels, especially when facing a tight military formation.
When a solid bullet hits at a direct angle, it is like reaching out and drawing a line on the flat sand. It "draws a line" on a military formation and directly smoothes the path of the solid bullet. All "obstacles," that is, rebel soldiers.
This terrifying weapon, which the Xixia rebels had never seen before, instantly destroyed the Xixia rebels' military formation.
Dozens of artillery were fired simultaneously, and dozens of solid bullets came with a strong heat wave, like lightning and thunder, drawing bloody "straight lines" from their formation.
Not only the infantry formation was bombarded to death by the chariot and cavalry generals' artillery, but the cavalry formation was also bombarded by artillery shells.
The hot iron bullets arrived in an instant and hit the ground hard. Some were directly embedded in the ground, and some could bounce up and cause secondary damage to the Xixia rebels.
Although the actual hit rate is not high, the power of the shells is still powerful.
With one shot, both men and horses were shattered.
Under the power of the cannon, the broken corpses of men and horses were scattered on the ground, and the bright red smelly things filled the entire battlefield. The Xixia rebels were stunned and overwhelmed by the rounds of artillery.
After five consecutive volleys from fifty cavalry generals and artillery, the Ming cavalry attacked resolutely, along with the firearms phalanx and the normal infantry phalanx.
