There was chaos, everything outside the city was in chaos.
Originally, Nong Zhenyou, the chief of Guangnan, got the news and thought it was an opportunity, so he hurried over to take advantage of it.
As a result, due to carelessness, Nong Zhenyou was tricked and killed in the city by Zhu Zhen. Although he did not fall into a trap in the city and died, he was executed with his head mutilated and no burial place.
At the same time, half of the 80,000 wolf soldiers were killed with Nong Zhenyou under the city walls inside and outside the city. As for the remaining 40,000 soldiers, they were scattered by Zhu Chu and 20,000 Ming troops.
The main reason is that Zhu Chu rushes into the enemy's army like a cheat and opens Wushuang, which is a huge blow to the enemy's army.
This is simply courage that no man deserves. This is not a myth or story. Do you think you are Lu Bu?
So on the plain outside the city, countless wolf soldiers were seen being chased by the Ming army, but they no longer dared to resist and fled everywhere.
Even the more than 8,000 cavalrymen who were left before were almost all killed or wounded. There were still several thousand Ming soldiers who grabbed the horses during the war, jumped on the horses and transferred to the cavalry on the spot.
Good guy, this Ming army is all brave and good at fighting, including cavalry, but it's a pity that there are not so many horses.
Now that it's better, Zhu Zhen no longer intends to subdue these tough wolf soldiers, but allows the Ming army to continue to charge and kill.
It wasn't until the horizon began to turn white that the war finally subsided.
In the end, less than 500 of the original 80,000 wolf soldiers were captured alive, and all the others died.
The casualties of the Ming army were negligible. Less than a hundred people suffered some minor or serious injuries. The most serious ones were stabbed and scratched on the waist and abdomen by enemy weapons. Others were not serious.
Not even one died.
The reason why he had such a record that could almost be regarded as a complete victory was mainly because Zhu Zhen used a trick to catch the enemy by surprise at first.
After learning the news of Nong Zhenyou's death, the enemy had no fighting spirit.
If someone hadn't shouted for revenge for Nong Zhenyou last night, there wouldn't have been a second game.
Morale was particularly important in ancient times. Once morale was low, or after the casualty rate reached 20%, the final victory could be determined.
Therefore, the most intense battle was right after Nong Zhenyou entered the city. After Nong Zhenyou died, everything went smoothly afterwards.
The injuries of the Ming soldiers were all sustained while encircling and suppressing Nong Zhenyou's troops.
In the end, all that was left was a one-sided massacre.
What's more, Zhu Chu didn't just watch. He was also fighting with Mu Qiu and others on the field. With him as the strongest combatant, the enemy army was completely defeated.
Zhu Chu killed at least several thousand enemies that night.
"Your Highness, what should we do with these surrendered troops?" Wang Fu, covered in blood, escorted more than 500 prisoners to Zhu Chu.
Zhu Ming looked at these people and said without thinking: "Sure them, kill them."
It's not like he didn't give them a chance to surrender last night. Since they want loyalty, then give them loyalty.
Mu Qiu opened his mouth.
Zhu Ming shook his head and said: "If you are blindly benevolent as a woman, you are weak. Sister, there are things you can and cannot do. Don't worry, I will not wipe out all the Zhuang people in Guangnan Prefecture, but since these people have not repented, I mean, if you refuse to repent, then just die."
As a result, all 80,000 wolf soldiers were wiped out.
Although they are called wolf soldiers, there are differences between wolf soldiers and wolf soldiers. This army belongs to Guangnan Mansion and belongs to Nong Zhenyou.
The Mrs. Wa's family mentioned earlier was from Guishun County (now Jingxi County), Guangxi.
The current Guangnan Prefecture belongs to Yunnan.
Since they are stubbornly resisting and don't cherish the opportunity to surrender, there is no need to give them another chance.
You can't just beg them not to die, right?
As this enemy army was slaughtered, Zhu Zhen once again gained 80,000 force points, and the force value once again exceeded 100,000.
Then comes the part of cleaning up the battlefield.
The enemy's corpses should be buried as much as possible, and the armor and weapons on the enemy's bodies should be restrained, especially since Nong Zhenyou brought a lot of food and grass during this expedition.
After all, the autumn harvest had just been completed and there was still a war to be fought. There was enough food and grass to support an 80,000-strong army for a month.
Zhu Ming didn't hesitate and directly called the people in the city to "share the spoils", which immediately made the people in the city cheer.
In fact, last night, the common people also helped to defend the city. After deciding to be loyal to Zhu Zhen, these honest and simple people no longer held grudges against Zhu Zhen, but sincerely regarded him as their leader.
In the middle of the night, many people were still burning hot oil in their homes and sending it to the garrison on the city.
At least more than 10,000 enemy soldiers were burned, which was due to their efforts.
This can be regarded as a reward for them.
After cleaning up the battlefield, it was busy into the afternoon.
At this time, news came from the direction of the Eleventh Village. The people of the Eleventh Village had all been appeased, and the family of the Eleventh Village leader had also been dealt with. There was also a large amount of wealth accumulated by the Eleventh Village owner over the years. According to the According to Zhu Chu's instructions, it was decided to distribute the land according to the population of each household in these days.
The rebellion in the entire Vimo State has been put down, and then the land will be re-measured and the population will be re-counted.
These things must be done, and we must change our ways, otherwise we will just relapse into the old ways, and then the sacrifice of so many people and the suppression of the rebellion will be in vain.
Zhu Ming was already struggling. Since the Battle of Dingbian, it has been difficult to have the opportunity to send troops to eliminate those chieftains.
Now that they have given themselves enough reasons and excuses, how could they not cherish them.
We must not let their rebellion go in vain.
So Zhu Ming began to make drastic reforms here. Even though he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious of him and even beat and scolded him, so what?
These things must be done, and they cannot be stopped because of Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion.
At the same time he found Arjun.
"Arqiong, you are a talented boy, so I plan to let you temporarily take over the post of Qiubei County Magistrate." Zhu Ming did not treat Arqiong badly, and Arqiong made a contribution to seducing Nong Zhenyou. It also proves that you are loyal to yourself and can be used.
Arqiong was immediately overjoyed. Was he going to stand out?
But Zhu Zhen immediately warned Arqiong: "But don't be arrogant, kid. I only want you to be a Han county magistrate, not a so-called chieftain officer. Do you understand? The Eleventh Village will not have a village leader anymore, but a village leader." There will be a village chief, who has the duties of mediating disputes and leading the people in spring plowing and autumn harvest, but he will no longer have the power of appointment and other privileges."
The most important thing in the reform of Tuguiliu is to abolish the existence of chieftain officers. How could Zhu Zhen install new chieftain officers.
He is reforming the situation in Yunnan bit by bit.
"I will leave some people to continue to reform the situation in Weimo Prefecture. You will learn from it first and understand how to do the things you will be responsible for in the future," Zhu Ming explained to Arqiong.
In addition to Arqiong, there were some people who were also valued by Zhu Zhen that day and would be transferred to the eleventh village as village chiefs.
They were originally from Qiubei County, not from the Eleventh Village. Letting them serve as village chiefs could avoid being affected by the deep-rooted relationships of the previous village owners.
The most important thing is that the village chiefs sent in the early stage need to be fair and impartial. If the village chief is selected from the village, it will inevitably not be biased.
Zhu Chu has a lot to do now. He can't always take care of the small things in each village.
For example, now that Weimo Prefecture has no worries about future troubles, Zhu Zhen left the Ming army with less than 500 people and continued to complete matters such as population statistics and land surveying, while he took 29,000 The force of five hundred men continued to march eastward.
Although Nong Zhenyou has been destroyed, Guangnan Mansion dared to rebel this time. It is impossible to kill the culprit and just ignore it.
Apart from anything else, it is impossible to continue to let Nong Zhenyou's children succeed as chieftains, and then wait for their wings to mature before rebelling.
So Zhu Chu led his troops to Guangnan Mansion.
Moreover, after this battle, Zhu Jin's army added thousands more cavalry. In addition to the previous cavalry, he was surprised to find that there were even 15,000 cavalry in the current army.
This is really not a small scale.
Once the cavalry troops exceed tens of thousands and charge on the plain terrain, the scale cannot be underestimated.
Let's put it this way, in an open area, 10,000 cavalry are enough to scatter 50,000 infantry. Even when facing a force of 100,000 infantry, they can come and go freely.
Unless infantry units are guarded by city walls or have defensive measures such as horse-repelling stakes prepared in advance, it will be difficult for them to fight against cavalry.
The reason why the dynasties of the Central Plains have always been unable to completely solve the troubles of the nomads is that most of the nomads are cavalry troops, and the Central Plains lacks war horses, so they are tired of dealing with them.
In addition, the nomads do not have a fixed living environment and come and go like the wind, so it is indeed difficult to eliminate them.
But now that Zhu Chu has so many cavalry, he is very satisfied.
"Although we are far away from the Mongolian grassland now, we are very close to Tubo. Once Tubo breaks into chaos, there must be at least one cavalry that can drive straight in," Zhu Zhen thought to himself.
Tubo is today's Tibet. Although Tubo was still very loyal to the Ming Dynasty from the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it could only listen to the instructions but not the propaganda.
The Ming Dynasty has never been able to successfully convert the snowy areas back to their native lands, which is a bit helpless to say the least. From the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was still very powerful, the surrounding vassal countries could only surrender.
However, the Ming Dynasty never formally sent court officials to serve as administrative officials, so when the Ming Dynasty became weak and those vassal states became disobedient, they were no longer recognized as territorial categories during the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, when the Ming Dynasty was in its prime, it almost occupied Burma, as well as Annam, which is Vietnam.
Tubo was of course also canonized by the Ming emperor.
In terms of the territory actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was actually not weaker than that of the Qing Dynasty. It was just that during the Ming Dynasty, there were too many so-called chieftain autonomous regions, such as the current Mubang Prefecture, and even the Xuanwei Division of Myanmar, etc.
If these chieftain officer areas were set up by the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Ming Dynasty would be too large.
But precisely because once native officials were established in the Ming Dynasty, as long as those areas paid tribute, they would feel at ease and forget about it.
As a result, once these places developed, they would rebel, which made the Ming Dynasty miserable. Even later generations refused to recognize these territories of the Ming Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty in this regard. From Kangxi to Yongzheng, and then to Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty began to first mention the idea of returning the land to the locals, to actually making reforms, and even experienced many counter-rebellions, and finally took control. In these local politics, no one can deny that this is the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
But in fact, during the Qing Dynasty, Myanmar, which once caused the court a lot of trouble, also established the Chieftain Xuanwei Division during the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Zhen knew the necessity of reforming his country and returning to his hometown, so in his heart, he was afraid that sooner or later he would still get involved in Tubo.
So what if Tubo nominally belongs to the Ming Dynasty? Zhu Zhen is very practical. What he wants is to belong to the Ming Dynasty, not just in name, but actually.
Otherwise, even if the two brothers Mu Chun and Mu Sheng had conquered almost half of the Southeast Asian countries in history, so what? Set up a Xuanwei Department and leave, and then they turn against you?
That's really boring.
Not to mention that Xinjiang today is called the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, let alone the Ming Dynasty.
"There are so many beauties in Xinjiang, no, it's called the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. Sooner or later, I have to go and see it," Zhu Zhen began to fantasize.
He will definitely expand his territory in the future.
"Old Zhu, Old Zhu, even the Great Emperor Hongwu can only look at this one-third of an acre of the Central Plains. But this king's vision is too far away."
"The countries in Southeast Asia, Xinjiang, Tibet, the Mongolian grasslands, and even overseas. My ambitions are too great, but I also need a larger foundation to back me up."
"What's more, I am a vassal king. Even if I manage my own fiefdom in Yunnan, you will be suspicious of me. Even the relationship between father and son is like this. It is conceivable that no matter who becomes the emperor in the future, I will not be tolerated."
"Instead of doing this, it is better for me to become the emperor. With the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty as the foundation, we can then use the entire country's troops to conquer the north and south. Unify the world."
Zhu Zhen thought beautifully.
In fact, Zhu Zhen also knew that what he did was indeed transgression. Even if he stated his interests in the book before, he still could not be tolerated by Zhu Yuanzhang.
You are here to reform the land, but the officials you set up are all your people, so what's the point?
But even if Zhu Yuanzhang is suspicious of him, Zhu Ming still has to bite the bullet and carry on, even now.
There are some things he must do, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will continue to decline.
At the same time, Zhu Ming also understood that if he wanted to use Yunnan as his backing base, he could indeed conquer today's Southeast Asian countries, but he would soon be suppressed by the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Zhu Ming could only go back and start a war with Ming Dynasty.
Should we use Yunnan as the basis to conquer Southeast Asia first, or use Yunnan as the backing to rebel and ascend to the throne, and then develop the whole country and use the Ming Dynasty as the basis to dominate the world? You don't have to think about it, you should know how to make the choice, right?
"So even if you can no longer tolerate these things, I still have to do what I have to do," Zhu Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed that his bid to hide his capabilities was coming to an end.
As a result, it has only been dormant for a year, and is it going to be high-profile again?
Mu Qiu, who was beside him, turned to look at Zhu Ming secretly. He noticed that his expression was sometimes bright and sometimes cloudy along the way. He knew what he was thinking about and did not dare to disturb him.
But then the scout came to report.
"Guangnan City is ahead."
The distance from Qiubei County to Guangnan County, that is, Guangnan City, is one to two hundred kilometers, but that is now a detour and a highway.
Zhu Chu and the others took a straight mountain road directly from Qiubei County. Although the journey was difficult, they still arrived at the gate of Guangnan City a day later.
With the arrival of this force, the defenders of Guangnan City quickly closed the city gates and prepared nervously.
Zhu Zhen raised his head and glanced at the defenders on the city wall. He sneered and ordered: "Go and call the city gate and tell them that their chieftain, Nong Zhenyou, is dead and that the entire army has been wiped out. If you don't want to wait for me to break through the city gate, After massacring the city, quickly open the city and surrender."
Zhu Zhen was a little impatient. After all, this was the base of the rebel Nong Zhenyou. At the same time, he was also confident. After all, Nong Zhenyou's 80,000 troops were wiped out by him, let alone the only remaining defenders.
He just didn't want to waste time, and he didn't want to actually kill a tribe.
But the defenders on the city wall were not moved at all after hearing this.
"Do you think we are three-year-old children? So easy to deceive?" The people in the city became proud of themselves.
Zhu Ming was so angry that he wanted to ask people to go back to the mass grave outside Qiubei County to dig out Nong Zhenyou's head and send it to the city?
"You stubborn people, do you really want to wait until I break through the city gate before you surrender?" Zhu Zhen shouted angrily.
The people on the city wall looked at Zhu Qi strangely, and were surprised that he claimed to be the king, but they still shouted calmly: "Don't waste your time, as long as we hold the city and wait for the chief leader to return with his army." , you will naturally be wiped out."
It sounds like Nong Zhenyou is so powerful, but he was tricked and killed by this king with a little trick.
Zhu Ming is so angry, what's going on with these guys? He was so blindly obedient to Nong Zhenyou.
Even Mu Qiu shook his head and asked Zhu Zhen, "Your Highness, why don't you give me a try?"
Zhu Ming glared at her angrily: "What's the matter? Do you still want to use a beauty trap? That won't work. Your beauty trap can only be used on me."
Mu Qiu immediately retreated shyly.
In fact, she saw that Zhu Chu's tone was too harsh, and she planned to try to persuade the defenders on the city to believe in her, so that they would know that Nong Zhenyou had indeed been eliminated.
But since Zhu Ming didn't want to, of course she had to be obedient.
It's just that there is a stalemate, and it is not an option to continue like this.
Mu Sheng couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, why are you talking so much nonsense with them? You just rest and watch from behind. The general will lead 20,000 troops and break the city for you to see."
Zhu Zhen smiled. He had just been attacked by Nong Zhenyou, and he used a trick to trick Nong Zhenyou into trap and kill him. Now it was his turn to attack the city again?
"Actually, it's not that troublesome," Zhu Zhen said: "As long as the news of Nong Zhenyou's defeat and death and the destruction of the army reaches the city, I don't believe that the whole city will remain unmoved. As the saying goes, be polite before fighting. If the whole city has to resist stubbornly, then I will do what I say, and when the city is broken, it will be the day of massacre."
When Zhu Zhen said the last word, his eyes became cold, and just a hint of murderous intent made Mu Sheng startled, and he stared blankly at Zhu Zhen at a loss.
Do you really want to massacre the city?
"They rebelled and we put down the rebellion. Both sides had their own reasons. But they lost 80,000 people, and they were all strong men. These people all had families."
"People in Qiubei County had strong resistance to us before, but they were slowly persuaded later."
"But if these people remain stubborn and continue to live with hatred for us, sooner or later they will rebel again. Do you really think that I am too hesitant to massacre the city?"
Zhu Ming sneered, took out the loudspeaker and asked someone to shout.
At the same time, Zhu Xi had thought so much along the way and had already made a decision.
He must build Yunnan into an iron barrel as soon as possible. Once he wants to rebel, it can become his strongest backing base instead of holding him back.
So it’s rare to get out this time, and it seems there’s still a lot to do.
(End of chapter)
