The uncle's rebellion was undoubtedly the biggest scandal in the Ming Dynasty. The whole country was in turmoil for a while, and all officials were weighing the pros and cons. After all, in their eyes, whoever wants to sit in the world can sit there, as long as they can get it. They will support whoever they want!
The officials are still like this, and the people are even more blind. They don't know why the country is suddenly so nervous. They only know that all food and commodity prices have doubled, and the money in their hands is becoming more and more useless. Hundreds of copper coins have been lost. Not being able to buy food is undoubtedly the most fatal thing for the people who have just experienced the year of great disaster!
In the capital, Li Yukun was at home, but he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Ye Yuanzhi finally took action. Unfortunately, although he was in the capital, his troops were at the border, and now Wala was also watching, so it didn't take much. I thought, it must be Ye Yuanzhi’s fault!
Li Yukun thought about it, took a pen and paper, and wrote a letter, "Han Rui!"
Li Hanrui hurriedly came to the study and said, "Father, please call me!"
Li Yukun took out the letter, "You personally take ten people to Huguang and hand this letter to General Zhao Shichang. Most importantly, bring all of Zhao Shichang's family members to the capital for me. Do you remember?"
Li Hanrui took the letter in his hand and seemed to have guessed something, "But... General Zhao Shichang only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, so this is undoubtedly an egg hitting a stone!"
"Now there is no other way. I can order your elder brother to send 20,000 elite cavalry back to the capital to aid, but it will take at least four to five days. Now we can only see if they can attack Henan under Ye Yuanzhi. If I come back before, if I can come back, I can still confront Ye Yuanzhi for a few days. If I come back too late, the capital will be in danger!"
"Father, if my son has a bad word to say, my brother-in-law...why hasn't he shown up yet?"
"I'm also wondering, this bastard, this is so urgent. Where are the people? Where have they gone? Without Qilin Guards, don't we still have soldiers in the Li family? Why are there still no people?" Li Yukun cursed angrily!
Li Hanrui knew the importance of this matter and immediately nodded, "In this case, I will go to Huguang now!" After Li Hanrui said that, he no longer hesitated, and immediately took Liu Bo and ten bodyguards at home, and rushed to Huguang immediately!
Ye Yuanzhi sent troops to Guangxi, but the three neighboring provinces were caught in the flames of war. The garrisons in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong provinces didn't know what to do for a while!
Although the imperial court has ordered an all-out attack on Ye Yuanzhi's rebel army, there are only less than 10,000 defenders in each province. It is okay to protect the people from living and working in peace and contentment, but fighting against hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers is undoubtedly courting death!
Therefore, the garrison leaders of the three provinces came up with the simplest solution. As long as Ye Yuanzhi leads the troops to attack, he can directly open the city gate and surrender. After all, resistance is useless. If he does not come to attack, then he can hold his post as a I don’t know anything. In this era of war and chaos, it is the simplest thing to kill a few messengers. As long as the superiors ask, just say that they have not received the news, and no one will be offended!
However, Guangzhou and Yunnan escaped, but Guizhou had no way to avoid it, because Guizhou was the only way for the rebel army. When Guizhou garrison general Wang Shihai saw Ye Yuanzhi leading an army of hundreds of thousands to attack, he did not resist at all. Directly order the city gate to be opened!
Ye Yuanzhi sat on the horse, wearing silver armor, looking at the troops entering the Guizhou city gate in a mighty manner, raising his head and laughing. Ye Yaoguo on the side saw such a scene and hurriedly said, "Father, look, we are facing the second In the first battle, there was no need to fight at all, and the opponent surrendered directly. This is enough to show that we are obeying orders in this uprising, and God will help us!"
Ye Yuanzhi nodded with satisfaction, "My son has made great progress now. It seems that we will succeed immediately this time. It will only be a matter of time for this incompetent emperor to abdicate. This world still needs a wise king to inform the generals guarding the city." , bring all the soldiers and horses, and join me in the northern expedition!"
"Yes!" Ye Yaoguo immediately rushed into the city on his war horse!
In this way, Ye Yuanzhi attacked Guizhou without any effort, and immediately recruited 8,000 defenders. Wang Shihai was directly promoted to general in front of the battle, which invisibly increased his strength!
Ye Yuanzhi's next target was Huguang, not far from Guizhou. Hearing that there were tens of thousands of defenders in Huguang, Ye Yuanzhi immediately summoned Wang Shihai over after learning about it, "There are ten thousand defenders in Huguang. I am ordering you to go there now." To persuade you to surrender, if you recruit these 10,000 soldiers, I will definitely reward you well!"
When Wang Shihai heard this order, he was stunned on the spot for a moment. Ye Yaoming took a look and felt that things might not be as simple as he thought, so he asked, "General Wang, is there any difficulty?"
Wang Shihai sighed, "The commander may not know that the general of the Huguang garrison is Zhao Shichang!"
"Zhao Shichang?" Ye Yuanzhi frowned slightly after hearing this, "Why does this name sound so familiar?"
"Zhao Shichang is Li Yukun's old subordinate. After he retreated from the frontier, he was sent to Huguang as a garrison general. This man has a tough personality. It may be difficult to persuade him to surrender..." Wang Shihai said.
"Oh? Are there such strong bones? Father, let me take 30,000 cavalry. If he knows the current situation, I will recruit him. If he doesn't drink, I will directly conquer Huguang!" Ye Yaoguo said loudly.
Nangong Shuo, who was sitting next to him, shook his head slightly after hearing this. "Three young masters are wrong. Our morale is at its peak now. If there is a war, we can maintain our full strength. If we start a big war because of the mere 10,000 defenders, it will be slow." Destroyed the process and damaged morale!"
"What do you mean, sir...?" Ye Yaoming asked.
"Huguang only has 10,000 defenders. We can't leave him alone and cross directly to Sichuan, and then drive straight into Henan. Henan has just experienced a major disaster. Now the people there can't even eat, let alone have the strength to stop us. In this way We can fight directly to the gate of the capital! When the troops arrive, great things will happen!" Nangong Shuo said loudly.
After weighing the pros and cons, Ye Yuanzhi nodded slightly, "Then do as you wish. The army will rest here today and continue marching tomorrow, heading straight to Sichuan and bypassing Huguang!"
"Yes!" Everyone nodded and shouted!
Ye Yuanzhi's plan was good. He rested for one night in Guizhou and then continued marching. However, the number of 170,000 troops was too many, and in order to maintain combat effectiveness, they could not march too fast. They walked for two days and still did not leave Guizhou.
While resting on the third night, all the rebels were sleeping soundly. Suddenly, a gong sounded, "There is an enemy attack, get up quickly, is there...?" An arrow hit the soldier who was beating the gong!
When Ye Yaoming and Ye Yaoguo rushed out of the tent, they saw that the north of the military camp was already in flames of war. Hundreds of military tents were engulfed in fire, and there were also bursts of killing sounds.
"These bastards!" Ye Yaoguo got on his horse and raised his spear, "Charge with me and kill these people who are looking for death!"
"Yes!" More than two hundred cavalrymen around them mounted their horses and rushed straight to the war-torn area in the north!
Ye Yaoguo led the cavalry to rush forward and took a look. They saw that they were all soldiers wearing green military uniforms. Judging from the number of people, they were only about a thousand. This group of people held earthenware jars in their hands. They saw military tents and crowded places. Just throw it away. After the clay pot is broken, the tung oil inside is scattered everywhere, and fire is everywhere. Just a small spark can ignite a fire in an instant!
After the earthen jars in their hands were exhausted, the soldiers pulled out their daggers one after another and started close combat with the soldiers from the Huhao Camp. When Ye Yaoguo saw this, he couldn't help being very angry. He waved his spear and said, "Kill with me!"
"Kill...!" More than two hundred cavalrymen rushed over quickly. At this time, Ye Yaoming also led about two thousand swordsmen and axemen to rush over and started a battle with these thousands of soldiers!
An hour later, the battle was over. The scene was very tragic. The ground was covered with blood. The soldiers' bodies were so bloody that it was impossible to tell who was who!
Ye Yuanzhi was sitting in the big tent, while Ye Yaoguo and Ye Yaoming stood aside with their hands hanging down. "Where did this death seeker come from?" Ye Yuanzhi shouted angrily.
"Let's capture a few enemy soldiers and bring them in!" Ye Yaoming shouted.
I saw three soldiers with scars all over their bodies being brought in with large straps. They entered the tent and kicked the three soldiers on their knees. The three soldiers knelt down instantly.
"Who are you?" Ye Yuanzhi asked loudly.
The three of them slowly raised their heads, looked at Ye Yuanzhi, and couldn't help but smile, "Da Ming Huguang defenders!" A man shouted loudly, seemingly not afraid of Ye Yuanzhi and the other people in the tent!
Ye Yuanzhi smiled, "Are you the Huguang defenders?"
"That's right! It's your grandfather and me!" The soldier was not afraid and yelled directly!
Ye Yaoguo on the side couldn't bear it anymore, so he pulled out the steel knife and chopped the swearing soldier to death instantly!
After Ye Yuanzhi heard this, he also frowned slightly, "Your Huguang garrison only has 10,000 people. I didn't even want to attack you and keep you away from the battlefield. You actually came from Huguang to Guizhou to look for trouble with me? Who gave you the courage?" "
When the remaining two soldiers saw their companions being killed, their eyes became even more angry, "Hahaha! You bunch of rebellious officials and traitors are naturally afraid of us. Who gave us the courage? The current emperor! Ye Yuanzhi, don't think you are so powerful. What the hell?"
"A coward who gave his sister to the emperor to sleep with. If he didn't let your sister strip naked and sleep with him, how would you be in your current status? A man who relies on his own sister to sell his body is worthy of treason? It's really a shame for your parents!"
After a flash of cold light, this soldier was also beheaded by Ye Yaoguo. "Asshole!" Ye Yaoguo shouted loudly.
"It's you who's the bastard!" the last soldier cursed loudly, "You have received the emperor's favor and actually rebelled? I really don't know how your parents educated you. Don't worry, you won't get out of Guizhou so easily. My general Zhao Shichang has led all the Huguang garrison The army has prepared generous gifts for you on the road, you will definitely be very satisfied!"
Ye Yuanzhi looked at this soldier with a bit of admiration in his eyes. He was also from the army. How could he not like such a loyal soldier? "Aren't you afraid of death?"
"I'm afraid! But I don't dare to betray the country, and I can't embarrass my ancestors. I know I won't survive today. Can I make one last request?"
"Say!" Ye Yuanzhi asked softly.
"Anyway, your sister will be sold to anyone. Why don't you let me have a taste of what it's like? Maybe I can rebel too! Hahaha...!" After saying this, the soldier threw his head back and laughed!
Ye Yaoguo raised his knife and dropped it, and the last soldier died!
Ye Yuanzhi saw the three ordinary soldiers in front of him, his eyes were very complicated, and he didn't speak for a long time!
Nangong Shuo on the side asked softly, "How much was the total loss?"
"More than 3,000 casualties, more than 800 military tents, food and grass... not much!" Ye Yaoming lowered his head and said!
When Ye Yuanzhi heard this, he was very angry. "A thousand people gathered together, and the military camp was in a state of chaos! Yaoming!"
"My son is here!"
"After dawn, I will give you 40,000 soldiers and horses, go straight to Huguang, and bring Zhao Shichang's head back to me. I didn't want to care about him, but he is looking for death. It's no wonder he killed me!" Ye Yuanzhi shouted.
"Yes! I accept the order!" Ye Yaoming also guessed that if he was not afraid of being dealt with by Zhao Shichang, he would definitely harass them non-stop, which would slow down the march of the army!
Early the next morning, Ye Yaoming led 40,000 elite cavalry and rushed to Huguang. He was bound to kill Zhao Shichang, otherwise the army might not be able to leave! Ye Yaoming led the cavalry and rushed to Huguang. Unexpectedly, Zhao Shichang did not dodge and stood directly on the city gate, looking at Ye Yaoming below the city with a hard steel front!
Ye Yaoming really didn't expect that he would not dodge when he brought so many cavalry. He is really a gentleman. "Zhao Shichang, now my father is commanded by heaven. He will arrive in the capital soon and take care of the incompetent knight." Your Majesty, please step down, but you have thousands of troops, don’t be stubborn, otherwise your blood will be spilled on the White City today!"
