Chapter 502 Eastern Route Army
How to fight the battle of Sichuan and Shu, Wang Yan arranged his troops, a total of 110,000 horse infantry horses, 90,000 people, attacked in three ways, and claimed to be 600,000 with armor to the outside world, which was fierce and could scare people half to death.
Undoubtedly, this was the largest military operation organized by the Ming Dynasty since Wang Yan started the Chu and Cantonese people, and fought with Le Kedehun, Azig, and Wu Sangui in Chudi.
For this operation, the Longwu court emptied the treasury and was heavily indebted.
Among the three people, the East Route Army, Gao Yigong and Wang Ji, set out from Hunan, took the eastern part of Qiandong, occupied Fuling, joined the defeated army of the Western Army and the Ming Army, and then went up the river to surround Ba County from the east.
The Western Route Army, which was a faction of King Gui, marched from Guangxi to Guizhou, recovered Luzhou, and then outflanked and occupied Hezhou, cutting off the connection between Chongqing and Chengdu.
Wang Yan led the Chinese army with a large number of supplies, went upriver through Guangxi and Guizhou, and pushed head-on to Chongqing.
In this way, the Ming army launched an attack from all directions, surrounded the Qing army in Chongqing Prefecture, and the last pot was disposed of, and then the Ming army could use Chongqing as the foundation to compete with the Qing army for Sichuan and Shu.
This plan seems to be three ways out of the way, and the momentum is violent, but in fact, Wang Yan himself knows that this plan is just a declaration to the outside world, to strengthen his courage and bluff people.
At this time, among the three people, the Western Route Army, which was closest to Sichuan and served as a roundabout task, reached out and asked for 200,000 taels of opening fees, but it has not left Guangxi so far.
The middle route army, because of the abundance of supplies, the slender man pulled the big boat upstream, and the speed was relatively slow.
The first to be drawn out was the East Route Army in Hunan, they rested in Hunan for more than half a year, the number of soldiers was full, the morale was high, the slight deficiency was that the equipment did not have time to equip, the army had very few firearms, and because the government soldiers in Hunan had just begun to carry out, the newly recruited Sanxiang children were not particularly skilled in training.
At the beginning of May of the third year of Longwu, after getting Wang Yan's army and the silver ticket sent by the fast horse, the governor of Hunan blocked Yinxi directly from the Guangnan ticket number in Changsha City, and then immediately purchased grain and grass, requisitioned the people, and approved a batch of grain, grass and equipment for the army within half a month.
Changsha officials, outside the city to build an altar, issued a text, worship the emperors of the past dynasties, high power Liu Tichun, Liu Tiren, Yang Yanchang for the Chinese army, ordered Wang Ji to lead Wang Guangen three brothers as the vanguard of the East Route Army, and let Xie Kuang for the rear army to supervise the transport of materials, grain and grass.
30,000 people were loyal to the town, plus 10,000 brave soldiers, went to Xiangxi into Guizhou, and recruited 3,000 Tusi Miao soldiers as guides along the way, and crossed the mountains and mountains together.
The Ming army was violent, but soon ran into trouble, the army lasted half a month after crossing the mountains of Xiangxi, entered Guizhou, and what caught your eye was still in addition to the mountain, or the mountain!
When Wang Yangming first entered Guizhou, he had such an exclamation, "The peaks are even in the sky, the birds are not passable, the wanderer is nostalgic, and he doesn't know anything." "It probably means that there are too many mountains, people can't figure out the direction, and the birds can't fly, which is basically a barren place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs.
Wang Ji was born in Jianghuai, how could he have seen such a terrain, and after the army walked for a few days, he was convinced that the rumor that "Guizhou has no three miles of peace" is indeed true.
At this time, the two warlords Huang Chaoxuan and Zhang Xianbi, who were entrenched in Sizhou, Zhenyuanwei, Tongren and other Qiandong prefectures, received the news, and began to be sincerely frightened.
The two of them knew that they had committed a big crime, although the court did not mention it, but they also knew that it was because the emperor did not have the time to take care of them, so they were at ease in this remote place for more than half a year.
This time, the imperial court said that it was to rescue Sichuan and Shu, but after the Eastern Route Army crossed the mountains of Xiangxi, they raised their vigilance, fearing that the Eastern Route Army would destroy them by the way.
The land of Guizhou is barren, and after these two people fled to Qiandong, they didn't have to worry about management, and their 20,000 soldiers needed military salaries and food, so they looted very heavily.
They not only collected heavy taxes in Qiandong to loot the Han people, but also robbed the Tusi Miao Village, and the result was that the people of Qiandong hated it to the core, and all kinds of Tusi rebelled, as well as the Han people rioted, and the chaos became a pot of porridge.
The Ming army of the East Road finally entered Sizhou, and the pioneer Wang Ji was inexplicably attacked by a group of toasts, killing and wounding nearly 100 people, and the people everywhere were also hostile to them.
The 10,000 pioneers marched extremely slowly in the unfamiliar situation, and finally fortunately the 3,000 Miao soldiers recruited before, Wang Ji figured out the situation, it turned out that Tusi thought they were reinforcements summoned by Zhang Xianbi and Huang Chaoxuan, and wanted to suppress them, so they came out to attack.
The two generals will play the Ming Banner, and the Eastern Route Army will also play the Ming Banner, and the scholars naturally think that they are in a group, anyway, you Han people like to bully us Sanmiao.
The cultivated land in the plains has been given to you Han people, and the Miao people and Turen have all run to the barren mountains, and they still have to come to loot, so they naturally have to fight.
Wang Ji figured out the reason, and then hurriedly explained to the accompanying Miao people and the Tusi of Qiandong that they were not here to help Huang Chaoxuan and Zhang Xianbi, but on the contrary, to arrest the two, and the plight of the Eastern Route Army was gradually resolved.
Wang Ji strictly ordered the officers to restrain military discipline, not to kill in vain, not to loot, and did not commit any crimes in the autumn, and gradually won the approval of the Tusi and the gentry of Qiandong, and the army had a guide who was familiar with the terrain of Guizhou, and there was no harassment, and the progress was rapid.
With the propaganda of the local gentry and Tusi, the Eastern Route Army was much smoother, as soon as the army came, it was like a flood to wash away the filth, the thieves and grass cobs rushed when they heard the wind, and the people of Qiandong, who were looted by Huang and Zhang, also welcomed the real king like a long drought and a rainy day.
With a local guide to guide the way, the Eastern Route Army quickly walked from Sizhou to Zhenyuanwei, and finally arrived at the foot of Shiqian City, which shocked the people in the city.
Some of the Tusi who were bullied miserably, as well as the militia group formed by the squires of Qiandong, did not dare to take Huang and Zhang's 20,000 horses before, but now they heard that the imperial court sent troops to get the two, and many people left the village and moved closer to the surrounding areas of Shiqian, intending to unite around the East Route Army and make a difference.
At the head of Shiqian City, the two generals were standing on the head of the city, looking at the military camp outside the city with frowns, it was Huang and Zhang, they had received a letter from Wang Ji, asking them to hand over their military power, and then go to Guangjing to accept the imperial court investigation.
Zhang Xianbi is about forty years old, his appearance is quite powerful, leopard eyes and beards, his personality is cruel and unkind, he is more than seven feet long, holding the city wall with one hand, pressing the war knife with the other, gritting his teeth and saying: "Damn, Lao Tzu has gotten out of the way, and he actually chased after Shiqian, this is to force us to death!" If you are sent to Guangjing, there will be a way for Lao Tzu to live~"
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