After the military meeting, Jiang Guanjun was still uneasy and took Xu Le and more than ten people on horseback to the Guiyang city wall. After patrolling the city wall for more than thirty miles, he finally returned to the barracks to rest.
As Jiang Guangjun expected, the rebels came to attack Guiyang City again at night. However, because the city walls were heavily guarded, they retreated after a brief trial, and the night was uneventful.
The next day, it was still dark.
Jiang Guanjun got up early and rode a horse up the city wall again. It was not until daybreak that he withdrew from the city wall.
At noon, Jiang Dongzhi met with Jiang Guanjun and Zhu Renxia at the governor's office, and was full of praise for Jiang Guanjun's dedication last night.
"General Jiang has done his duty well. This is the blessing of the imperial court and the blessing of the people of Guiyang!"
Jiang Guanjun repeatedly said modestly: "Master Futai is ridiculous. Since he has been entrusted with an important task, how dare Jiang not to do his best. I will report Futai's favor and calm the fear of the people."
Jiang Dongzhi Fuxu praised: "Okay, okay, if everyone in our Ming Dynasty can fulfill their duties like General Jiang, why worry about not being able to wipe out Yang Ni."
Zhu Renxia clasped his fists and asked, "May I ask Lord Futai, how many Minzhuang troops have come to Guiyang from various prefectures so far?"
"Your Liping Prefecture's reinforcements are the first." Jiang Dongyi praised with a look of relief.
Zhu Renxia added: "Based on the distance, reinforcements from Tongren Mansion, Shiqian Mansion and other places should arrive faster. Why haven't they arrived yet?"
"According to the scouts, the rebels learned that the people of various prefectures were rushing to aid the provincial capital, so they divided their forces to intercept them, preventing them from entering the city smoothly." Jiang Guanjun said worriedly.
Zhu Renxia said: "According to the accounts of the rebels we captured, all the 600 people from Shiqian Mansion have been wiped out due to the rebel ambush. In order to avoid this kind of tragedy from happening again, please send a soldier from Mr. Futai." General, go out and gather reinforcements from all provinces and march into the city together."
Zhu Renxia stretched out a finger as he spoke: "If the people of each government are scattered, they will be alone and alone, and they will be easily broken by the rebels."
Then he stretched out five fingers and gathered them together: "If the people of each government gather together, they will clenched into a fist. If the rebels want to destroy us, it will not be an easy task. Even if they cannot enter the city smoothly, It will also form an angle with the defenders in the city, so that the rebels will not dare to attack the city."
"Magistrate Zhu said it well."
Jiangdong Zhifuxu praised, "I didn't expect that you, a scholar, also know the art of war. You are much better than those Qianshi and Qianhu. There is a shortage of generals in the city. I wonder if you are willing to take on this important task?"
Zhu Renxia smiled and said: "Master Futai is flattering, and the official is just talking about military affairs on paper. It's okay if you ask me to talk about the truth, but if you really ask me to take charge, it's just trying to catch a duck. I don't have the ability."
The reason why Zhu Renxia refused to accept his resignation was that firstly, he really felt that he did not have such ability, and secondly, he did not want to take on too much responsibility.
War is no joke. There are 30,000 to 40,000 troops on the opposite side. If you are not careful, you will lose your head. Zhu Renxia does not want his future children to lose their father as soon as they are born.
Jiang Dongzhi had no choice but to give up: "In that case, I'll choose another candidate."
After some deliberation, Jiang Dongzhi finally decided to send Guiyang Guards to command Qianshi Jianglou out of the city, contact reinforcements from various prefectures to gather them together, and take the opportunity to enter the city together to avoid being defeated by the rebels one by one.
After receiving the order, Jiang Lou led two thousand households and more than thirty guards on fast horses and left Guiyang City at noon.
At noon, the governor's Yamen held a banquet.
Guizhou Governor Jiang Dongzhi held a simple welcome banquet for the new Commander-in-Chief Jiang Guanjun and Jinping County Magistrate Zhu Renxia. The Chief Envoy Jia Chang, the Inspector-General Guo Zizhang, Guiyang Magistrate Lin Duan and others all attended, which was a great honor.
An hour later, the banquet ended, Jiang Guanjun continued to inspect the city wall, and Zhu Renxia rode back to the barracks.
As soon as I turned around a street, I saw a group of people coming to the gate of the camp from a distance. Most of them were young and strong men. I didn't know why they were here.
Zhu Renxia rode his horse to the door, got off his horse and asked, "Why are these people here?"
The guard hurriedly reported: "Let me tell you to the mayor, these common people are here to join the army. Do you want our Chang'an Army to recruit new soldiers?"
After two consecutive fierce battles, the Chang'an army lost nearly a hundred people and was in urgent need of additional troops.
Zhu Renxia was overjoyed when he heard this: "Recruit, recruit, of course our Chang'an Army needs to recruit new soldiers."
At that moment, Zhu Renxia received these simple people with a smile on his face, and told the Chang'an Army's policies one by one: "If you join our Chang'an Army, you will not only receive high pensions after death in battle. As long as you serve in the army, you will receive a monthly You can also receive a salary of three taels of silver."
These people were overjoyed and expressed their willingness to serve the Chang'an Army.
Zhu Renxia immediately called Zhu Junjian and asked him to properly resettle these newly recruited civilians and set up a temporary company first. After they have been trained a little, they will then do some errands and miscellaneous tasks. They will not participate in the battle until they improve their combat effectiveness. Too hasty.
The people in Guiyang City rushed to tell each other, and an endless stream of young and strong men joined the Chang'an Army every day. In just a few days, more than two hundred people were replenished, bringing the Chang'an Army's strength to a thousand.
In the next few days, everything was calm in Guiyang City. The rebels did not launch an attack on this fortified city. Instead, they adopted the strategy of encircling the fort and ambush the reinforcements coming from other places.
However, since the officers and soldiers were prepared, it was not easy for the rebels to annihilate the people from various prefectures.
Having learned from the experience of the Shiqian Prefecture's reinforcements being wiped out, Minzhuang from other prefectures are like rabbits, running away at the slightest sign of trouble and never engaging in a head-on battle with the rebels.
After spending several days, reinforcements from various prefectures were gradually gathered together by Jiang Lou, totaling more than 3,500 people. As the scale increased, it was no longer realistic to annihilate the rebels who intercepted them in batches, so Xiang Fan had to change his strategy.
On a dark and stormy night, Jiang Lou led 3,500 reinforcements to break through the rebel blockade. With the support of the defenders in the city, they successfully entered Guiyang City.
With the support of Minzhuang, the number of troops in Guiyang City exceeded 8,000 for the first time. This made the officers and soldiers in the city become more motivated, and the previous decadence was wiped away.
At the same time, Shizhu's Xuanfu envoy Ma Qiancheng and his wife Qin Liangyu led 3,000 white-armed soldiers to defeat a 5,000-strong rebel army in Hongya Town, fifty miles west of Guiyang. They killed several enemy generals and annihilated 2,000 enemies. The rest of them successfully approached the city of Guiyang.
Yang Yinglong knew that he had lost the opportunity to capture Guiyang, so he issued an order to retreat.
The rebel generals Xiang Fan and Deng Wuqian had no choice but to break camp and retreat. They led more than 30,000 rebels to leave Guiyang and retreat toward Bozhou.
"As the enemy retreats, we advance, and our army should pursue it." Jiang Guanjun issued the order to pursue the attack.
Zhu Renxia led the Chang'an Army as the vanguard, with two thousand Guiyang guards as the backbone. In addition, there were a thousand civilians on each side of the left and right wings, forming a phalanx of five thousand people, who rushed out of Guiyang City to pursue the rebels.
Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu led 3,000 white pole troops to respond to each other. A total of 8,000 Ming troops clung to the tail of the rebels and pursued them for more than 150 miles.
With the Baigan Army and the Chang'an Army suppressing the formation, the Ming Army's combat effectiveness was overwhelming. The rebels they killed were retreating steadily, with a total loss of more than 5,000 people. Only then did they get rid of the pursuers with the support of Yang Yinglong's main force.
After these several battles, the officers and soldiers fought successively and achieved great success, annihilating nearly 10,000 Yang rebels in total.
This made Governor Jiang Dongzhi finally breathe a sigh of relief and hurriedly wrote a letter to report to the court, hoping to restore his declining status in the eyes of Emperor Wanli.
