Xu Chengming, the chief soldier of Guizhou, quickly received a reply to his request for war.

On the morning of the first day of the fifth lunar month, Xu Chengming ordered Luo Ganxiang, the deputy general of the Governor's Xingyuan, and Wang Guozhen, the deputy general of the Guiyang General Military Office, to lead an army of 1,000 to cross the river by bamboo row from the upstream and downstream of the Yachi Station, a few miles apart.

Around midnight in the morning, the periphery of the Yachi Station is shrouded in a wet and misty water vapor, and above the surface of the Yachi River, it is even more dense fog, ten steps away, that is, there is no human figure.

Luo Ganxiang was originally a local official under the jurisdiction of Yongning Xuanwei Division, after the rebellion of Luxury Chongming, he also followed Luxury Chongming's father and son to fight in the east and west to fight in the south and the north, what to trap Chongqing, break Luzhou, slaughter Neijiang, and besiege Chengdu, all have his share.

Later, because he did not get the reward he deserved for his merits, he complained and had a dislike with Luxury Chongming's baby son Luxury Yin, and was whipped and humiliated by Luxury Yin.

The luxury family of Yongning Xuanfu Division is the Yi Tusi, and the area under its jurisdiction is a mixture of Yi, Miao, Han and soil.

After the rebellion of the Yi leader, the Hao family, the Han people in the territory were slaughtered, and the Miao and Tujia people were also ostracized.

Although Luo Ganxiang rebelled with the luxury family, he had no status in the rebellion group of the luxury family.

And Luo Ganxiang, a Miao Tusi who was born in green seedlings, although he has tried his best to be Yi people, he still can't enter the inner circle of the luxury family.

The Yi people are still black and green, and most of their clothes are black, and the so-called wearing green seedlings are Miao people who wear blue clothes.

Luo Ganxiang wore green seedlings, had a low status in the Yi soldiers of the luxury family, and at the same time was bullied by the luxury Yin, so when he followed the father and son of the luxury family to besiege Chengdu, he secretly sent someone to contact Zhu Xieyuan and expressed his willingness to be the internal response.

And Zhu Xieyuan, who was the governor of Sichuan at the time, attached great importance to him, and in order to show enough sincerity, he went out of the city alone to meet with him with the dignity of the governor, which could be regarded as subduing this fierce general under the command of the father and son of the luxury family.

Subsequently, Luo Ganxiang returned to the camp of the luxury army, and launched a rebellion according to the agreement, while Zhu Xieyuan took the opportunity to lead the army out of the city, defeated the father and son of the luxury family and fled, and the siege of Chengdu was lifted.

Since then, Luo Ganxiang has formed a mortal enmity with the father and son of the luxury family, and has also become a cadre under Zhu Xieyuan.

This time, after Zhu Xieyuan was reinstated by the imperial court, he was naturally transferred to his command, ordered 2,000 of his troops to be the Chinese army, and appointed him as the deputy general of the superintendent.

This time, Luo Ganxiang, who was over forty years old and was a deputy general, personally put on armor and went into battle, holding the rattan machete that was popular in the southwest army, and squatted steadily at the front end of a bamboo platoon.

Twenty large bamboo rows, taking advantage of the dense fog on the Yachi River, slowly rowed to the opposite bank, the bamboo rows were silent, except for the sound of the water brought by the pole into the water, there was no sound on the whole river.

Soon a bamboo raft at the front crashed into the opposite riverbank, followed by a burst of screams.

"There are enemies! The officers and troops of the Han people have crossed the river! The officers and troops of the Han people have crossed the river! ”

Panicked screams were heard far away over the river at the Silent Gate.

Immediately afterwards, a bamboo arrow was nailed into the rattan plate held by Luo Ganxiang in his left hand, and through the iron arrow of more than an inch of the rattan card, a faint blue dark light flashed.

Seeing this, Luo Ganxiang shouted: "Raise your shield!" Raise your shield! Poison on the arrow! It's a poisoned arrow! ”

Before Luo Ganxiang's words fell, several people on the nearby bamboo raft screamed and fell into the river.

The same danger occurred at the downstream river crossing a few miles away from Luo Ganxiang and his command.

Xu Chengming's deputy general Wang Guozhen was like Luo Ganxiang, personally wearing armor and going into battle, holding a huge shield, riding a bamboo row, and marching towards the opposite bank.

The exclamations and screams from afar also reached his ears.

Wang Guozhen knew that the Yi soldiers on the opposite side had discovered the officers and soldiers crossing the river, so he deliberately hid his whereabouts again, and ordered loudly: "Speed up!" Hasten! Rush to the other side! Rushing to the other side is victory! ”

The Shuixi rebel camp on the mountain on the other side of the Yachi River is only the scale of more than a thousand Yi soldiers.

Of course, this situation can't be concealed from Shi Yongan, Luo Ganxiang and others, who have long come to the Yachi River to repair the ferry road.

This is also the reason why Xu Chengming and Wang Guozhen led their troops to Yachi Station and quickly asked to cross the river to attack.

When Wang Guozhen shouted "speed up" a few miles away, Luo Ganxiang had already jumped into the shallows on the other side of the Yachi River with a rattan machete in his hand, and was waving his knife against the Shuixi Yi soldiers who rushed to hear the news.

The ferocity of the Yi mountain people is naturally extraordinary, but no matter how fierce they are, their fists are always difficult to defeat with four hands, not to mention the battle-hardened green seedling soldiers under the command of Luo Ganxiang.

As the bamboo platoons rushed onto the river beach, there were more and more native soldiers under Luo Ganxiang's command, and it didn't take long to divide and surround the native soldiers of the Shuixi Yi nationality on the other side of the Yachi River.

The Yi mountain people's tactics of not fearing death are very familiar to these native soldiers wearing green seedlings.

At the same time, these soldiers who had joined the official army also received much better foster care and equipment than their opponents, the Yi mountain people, and also learned the method of small groups and multiple routes, divided and encircled formations, which the imperial court officials and soldiers were good at.

No matter how brave a person is, he can't beat the opponent who is besieging in groups.

When Wang Guozhen led a thousand officers and soldiers to the other side of the Yachi River, the native soldiers of the Yi nationality in Shuixi who came to intercept were far less than the people who went to intercept Luo Ganxiang, but there were only more than 300 people.

Wang Guozhen held a huge shield, braved the rain of poisonous arrows shot from the shore, rushed to the shore first, brandished the newly acquired Qi knife in his hand, and slashed the black thin Yi soldier holding a simple bow and arrow in front of him to the ground.

The fog on the Yachi River did not dissipate until midnight that morning.

The sun shone through the clouds, on the west bank of the Yachi River, and also on the corpse of the black clothes and black pants wrapped in black cloth.

Among the corpses of the native soldiers of the Yi nationality in Shuixi, there are occasionally one or two corpses of officers and soldiers wearing rattan armor, leather armor or iron armor.

Among the officers and soldiers in Guizhou, those wearing rattan armor are ordinary soldiers, those wearing leather armor are group commanders and chiefs, and those who are qualified to wear iron armor are at least captains and generals.

After nearly an hour of bloody fighting on the beachhead, Luo Ganxiang and Wang Guozhen attacked the bank of the Yachi River, attacked the Shuixi Yi barracks more than a mile away from the riverbank, and killed all the Yi soldiers who had no time to escape and did not surrender, and with more than 400 casualties, they were beheaded at more than 1,100 levels.

Except for a small number of people who fled, the vast majority of the Shuixi Yi native soldiers stationed at the post road intersection on the west bank of the Yachi River chose to fight to the death.

This is a common phenomenon of the Tusi army in the southwest in this era, on the one hand, because these Yi native soldiers have a strong personal attachment to the Tusi head, and most of these Tusi soldiers and their families are the family property of the Tusi head, without independent personality and independent meaning.

On the other hand, it is because of the cruel punishment in the Tusi Kingdom in the southwest of this era, if the Tusi head is killed in battle, you die in battle, your family will continue to live, if you flee back, not only yourself, but even your family will be executed together.

Under this kind of cruel punishment, the Tusi army in Liangguang and the southwest region had a tradition of not fearing death.

This tradition played an important role in the war against the Japanese and the Liaodong Jianyu.

However, when used in battles against the imperial court officials and soldiers, it can be effective in a short period of time, but in the long run, it will inevitably cause heavy losses to itself.

This is because, when fighting against the Japanese and the Jianjiao, their weapons and equipment and food supplies are guaranteed, coupled with the tenacious spirit of these people who are not afraid of death and will not retreat, they can achieve major results.

However, at this time, although the human factor has not changed much, the weaponry and food supply are very different.

The severance of Longchang Jiuyi and the blockade of the Shuixi region by the governments of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan after the Shuixi Rebellion in the second year of the Apocalypse made the Shuixi region, which was already very backward in industrial and agricultural production, even more backward.

Ironware, salt, tea, grain, and other materials, which were already in short supply, suddenly lost all external sources, and they could only be supplied by sending troops to loot from time to time.

After several years of blockade, of course, the leaders of the Shui'an clan Tusi at all levels still have no problem spending all day and drinking, but the old, weak, sick and young among the ordinary Yi mountain people do not know how many have died.

All these problems will eventually be reflected in the combat effectiveness of the Yi native soldiers in the 48 caves under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwei Division of the Shuixian Clan.

The battle situation on the bank of the Yachi River was sent to Zhu Xieyuan's Longchang Station at noon that day.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Xieyuan left Guangxi Governor Li Fengjie to supervise Guangxi Fubiao, and continued to transfer grain and grass at Longchangyi, while he immediately took 7,000 people under the command of Liu Zhaoji, Mo Keji and Wei Ang to the Yachi Station on the bank of the Yachi River.