Although the Yao people have become a danger to the stability of Guangdong and Guangxi, they have never been a concern of the imperial court. The reason is that their organizational power is relatively loose. Being in the mountains, there are thousands of villages. There are also spontaneous mutual aid organizations such as "Ba Yin" and "Youguo" in the villages. Leaders such as "Mu Lao", "Tou Gang Gong" and even "Tianchang Gong" are all in the village. The elderly in each house are elected through democratic elections - well, it is not surprising that organizational skills are low.
According to the legend of the ancestors of the Yao people, they are a branch of the "Jiuli" from the east. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Yao people lived in most of Hunan and were called "Wuling barbarians"; during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of the Yao people lived in Hengyang and Lingling, and were called "Mowei barbarians". By the Yuan Dynasty, most of the Yao people had entered the hinterland of Guangdong and Guangxi; in the middle and late Ming Dynasty , moved into the mountainous areas of Guangdong and Guangxi and parts of Yunnan - the essence of this migration is that the productivity of the Yao people has not been effectively developed and their living space has been squeezed by the Han people.
The largest rebellion against the rulers in the history of the Yao people was the Great Uprising of the Yao people in Datengxia, Guangxi. It started in the fourth year of Hongwu and lasted for more than a hundred years, with wars spreading all over the country - the largest one during the Jingtai period when Hou Dagou was the leader. , the number of the rebels exceeded 200,000. By the Tianshun period, they had spread to Gaozhou, Lianzhou, and Leizhou, and threatened Guangzhou, shocking the Ming court.
Chenghua Quan's eunuch Wang Zhi and Xiaozong's biological mother, Queen Xiaomuji, were both from Dadengxia and entered the palace as captives. Therefore, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after Xiaozong actually had some Yao blood flowing in them.
The large-scale Yao uprising in Guangdong at the beginning of the fifth year of Wanli was actually the result of the unprecedented intensification of ethnic conflicts among the Yao, Zhuang, Dong and other ethnic minorities in the southwest of the empire. Because the Ming Dynasty has always adopted a high-pressure and suppressive rule against the southwestern barbarians, this kind of uprising has been almost uninterrupted since the early Ming Dynasty, but it has become bigger and smaller sometimes.
Counting only from the six years before Zhu Yijun crossed over: in the early year of Longqing, there was a great uprising of the Zhuang people in Gutian, followed closely by the great uprising of the Yao people in Fujiang; in the first year of Wanli, there was another great uprising jointly by the Dong and Zhuang people in Huaiyuan; in the third year of Wanli, there was a great uprising of the Luopang people The Yao people in the mountain have killed officials and rebelled - this time, it is the largest one since the Dadengxia Uprising.
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On May 20th of the fifth year of Wanli, that is the day when Ling Yunyi and Liu Xian led the new army to Xinyi, the Luopang War had already begun.
Guangdong General Zhang Yuanxi commanded six posts including Luopang Post, Longshui Post, and Cenxi Post; Guangxi Commander Li Xi commanded Deqing, Nanxiang and other four sentinels and horses. The 100,000-strong army marched toward Luopang Center in ten directions.
In addition, in order to prevent the Yao people from crossing the north, Ling Yunyi fortified 35,000 troops along the river in Deqing, and placed 20,000 troops in Guangxi to prevent the Yao people from running westward.
In the original time and space, the Luopang War officially started in the first month of the fifth year of Wanli and lasted for four months. It happened to avoid the rainy season. It was Ling Yunyi who took the initiative to choose to go to war; but in this time and space, because the Yao people attacked the high officials first, they killed the officials. And plundered the county treasury - it was extremely efficient for Ling Yunyi to start his revenge and go back in May.
Faced with the behavior of the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi who only talked about politics but not military science, Chen Lin and the two commanders-in-chief gave them earnest advice. Marching in in May, unless the "eagle suppression" can be carried out - that is, with the intelligence clearly understood, the army will advance and exit suddenly, like an eagle fighting a rabbit. Otherwise, once the mountainous area enters the rainy season, flash floods and diseases may break out at any time, and the entire army may be lost.
However, the looting of Gaoyao County has forced Ling Yunyi to a dead end. Gaoyao is not far from Zhaoqing. The Yao people are like giving the imperial court a slap in the face under the eyes of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. If Ling Yunyi doesn't wipe them out immediately, the position of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi will be unstable, and he is likely to be convicted.
Therefore, unlike the steady and steady deployment of the original time and space, although the plan used in this encirclement and suppression campaign was formulated long ago by Yin Zhengmao and Ling Yunyi, Ling Yunyi had extremely high requirements in terms of advancement speed - a lot of time and space in the original plan were redundant. The margins are compressed to the extreme.
Any military operation conducted in this way will not go smoothly - General Zhang Bin of Guangxi Li Xi led an army of 10,000 people, entered Luopang from the direction of Nanxiang, and was responsible for capturing more than 50 villages including Aoshan Yao Village. It went very well in the early days. The Yao people never expected that the government troops would attack the village before Grandmother's Day - they were killing chickens and geese in preparation for the festival.
When Zhang Bin led his army to attack Aoshan and other strongholds, the force was like breaking bamboo, and more than 4,000 Yao people were captured and killed. However, when they went deep into Luopang and attacked Huangjiangdong, they encountered a heavy rain. Huangjiangdong is close to the base camp of the Luopang Yao people, and its Tianchang Gong He Zhuangzi has a high prestige in the surrounding villages, so he gathered more than 20,000 troops to fight to the death with Zhang Bin's troops in the rain.
Although the Yao people did not have much armor and few iron weapons. But the desperate spirit in their hearts was much higher than that of the officers and soldiers. Moreover, the Ming army could not use firearms in the heavy rain, and the visibility was not good. In the end, the two sides fought without any structure, as if two large groups were fighting with weapons. . The officers and soldiers failed to show their strength and were beaten back steadily. When the rain stopped, Zhang Bin's troops were already surrounded on a hill near Huangjiangdong.
When Zhang Bin was defeated, he urgently sent messengers to the rear and asked Li Xi for support. When Li Xi received the report, he was so worried that all the soldiers and horses were attacking according to Ling Yunyi's plan. He had less than 3,000 reserve troops, so how could he rescue Zhang Bin?
When they were at a loss, Ling Yunyi and Liu Xian led the army to Xinyi. Li Xi quickly pushed the matter of Zhang Bin being surrounded in Huangjiangdong to Ling Yunyi. Ling Yunyi had received the report long ago and was so frightened that he was sweating, so he hurried on his way - if Zhang Bin's entire army was wiped out, he would kill all the Luopang Yao people, and he might even end up in the capital's prison.
In desperation, Ling Yunyi was about to change his original plan. Instead of attacking Luopang's core Xishan Mountain Cave, he would send Chen Lin to lead the soldiers to attack Huangjiang Cave first and rescue Zhang Bin first.
Liu Xian dissuaded him: "The rainy season is coming soon. All ministries must complete the campaign and withdraw their troops before the end of June at the latest. The roads in Dadong Mountain in Xishan Mountain are dangerous and dangerous, and there are many Yao bandits. General Chen must be the main force. This Huangjiangdong is to be handed over to Let’s join the new army.”
Ling Yunyi immediately took Liu Xian's hand: "I have the audacity to call Liu Shuai big brother! I am so lucky. Without the help of big brother, I would have had diarrhea this time!" After saying that, he bowed to the ground and said, "Please, big brother." Got it!"
So Liu Xian and Ling Yunyi took control of Xinyi and sent Deng Zilong to lead 7,000 new troops to attack Luopang from the route that Zhang Bin had cleared. Because Tong Chizhong's cavalry could not be reorganized until they arrived in Yunnan, more than a thousand people led by him were left at the headquarters led by Liu Xian to continue training in mountain warfare.
Deng Zilong led his troops, led by local guides, and finally entered Huangjiangdong [Note: Today's Yunfu City, Guangdong] on the tenth day of June. Needless to say, the roads were high and the roads were slippery. By the time they entered Huangjiangdong, Zhang Bin had been surrounded for nearly nine days. Fortunately, he had not lost the food and grass he had brought with him when he retreated. There were also a lot of grass roots and bark on the mountain, so the entire army had not collapsed.
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