On the evening of June 15, An Shirong, the nephew of Tushuai An Long, hurried back to Shuixi City on horseback and reported to him an astonishing news.

The part of the original Shuixi City defenders who followed Shi Yongan and Luo Ganxiang to the west of Shuixi City, opened mountains and logged trees, cleared obstacles, and rebuilt post roads, that is, some of the Shuixi Yi soldiers and local officials who surrendered with their own Tumu leaders, were secretly contacting and preparing to rebel again.

One of them, the head of the local general named Wuhao, was elected as the leader, contacted An Shirong, and said to An Shirong that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court had killed too much, and when the road was being built, he found that in his own village, men and women had not left chickens and dogs, and they were all killed by the officials and soldiers who came, and hoped that An Shirong would report to his uncle An Long and make decisions for them.

This Wu is Wu Xu's younger brother, and he was also a brave man used by An Long's subordinates, but now he has lowered the official army but cannot guarantee the safety of his own village, and he cannot guarantee the lives of his family, and he is extremely resentful.

And because his elder brother Wu was killed under the muskets of the official army, according to the tradition of revenge of the Yi people in Shuixi, his heart was already full of hatred.

When he saw his village being slaughtered, his relatives being killed, and his house burning, he was even more angry.

The same situation also existed in the Yi soldiers under the command of several other Tumu who surrendered.

As a result, a conspiracy of revenge took place in the surrender of these Shuixi Yi soldiers who were forced to renovate the post road.

An Shirong's family has long since died, and he has lived with his uncle An Long since he was a child, and now An Long has chosen to surrender in Kaecheng and sacrifice Shuixi City to the official army, although he doesn't understand, but he accepts his uncle's choice, and he also knows that after so many days, Uncle An Long's family members who stayed in Muorg must have been killed.

In this case, what is the significance of surrendering and rebelling to An Shirong and his uncle An Long?

Therefore, An Shirong did not reply, but found an opportunity to rush back to Shuixi City to report the news.

An Shirong returned to the city, first found his uncle An Long, who was detained in Liu Zhaoji's camp, and then soon under the leadership of Liu Zhaoji, together with his uncle An Long, came to Zhu Xieyuan's governor's ministry in the city.

Subsequently, Zhu Xieyuan urgently summoned the generals in the city, Xu Chengming, Wang Guozhen, Zhao Guoxi and others rushed to come, and the generals heard what An Shirong said, and everyone was not angry but happy.

These people are worried that they have no chance to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and now that the surrendered Yi soldiers are unarmed, they actually want to rebel again, isn't that for nothing that they came to give them military merits?

That night, Zhu Xieyuan left Liu Zhaoji and Wang Guozhen's various consulates and continued to follow him to sit in the city, waiting for the battle, beware of the chaos of the Anlong headquarters and the men and horses under the command of other Tusi Chiefs who were streamlined and reorganized in the city at this time.

At the same time, he ordered Xu Chengming to lead the soldiers of Guizhou to light torches and quickly march westward.

And An Shirong took several fast horses and rushed to Xiema Mountain, the temporary station of the current road construction army.

Shuixi City to Dafang more than 120 miles, luxury Xiangyi is in the middle, away from Shuixi City and Dafang near the Jinji Station, each about 60 miles.

And Xiema Mountain is located more than 20 miles east of the luxury fragrance station, which is a long uphill road around the mountain for more than ten miles.

The reason why it is called Xiema Mountain is because the caravan caravan caravan must stop at the bottom of the hillside for a while before walking through this long winding mountain road, so that the horses carrying the goods can rest, otherwise the horses carrying the goods will be tired and lie down.

This place is surrounded by steep mountains on one side and a treacherous deep valley in which the Liuchong River, a turbulent tributary of the upper reaches of the Yachi River, roars and rushes.

A winding post road spirals west on the mountainside.

And the Xiema shop at the foot of Xiema Mountain is the resting place where Shi Yongan, Luo Ganxiang and others are now leading the army to drive the troops of Shuixi City to dig stones and widen this half-mountain post road.

The young and strong men of the Miao people in Shuidong, Guiyang, Anshun and other places who originally followed Shi Yongan and Luo Ganxiang to renovate the post road, with the surrender of more than 15,000 Yi soldiers in Shuixi City, were also upgraded to become the baggage soldiers of the Guiyang official army to conquer Shuixi, helping to escort the ordnance and baggage, and transporting rice and grain.

And Shi Yongan, as the envoy of Guizhou, also selected a group of young people from Pu'an Prefecture from among these young men of all ethnic groups who were promoted to the rank of official and heavy soldiers, and used the weapons captured in Shuixi City to arm them briefly, and followed him as the supervisor of the post road.

Pu'an Prefecture is located at the junction of Guizhou and Yunnan, and the Lu people living in the high mountains and dense forests were originally a branch of the Yi people, but they were more closed, poorer, and more primitive than the ordinary Yi people.

Elsewhere, the Yi people have relied mainly on agriculture for their livelihoods, but the Lu people still rely mainly on fishing, hunting and mountain grazing.

The difference between the ordinary Yi people and the Lulu people at the end of the Ming Dynasty is like the difference between the Jianzhou Jurchens and the savage Jurchens.

However, it is precisely because of this that although the population of the Lu people is small, they are more fierce and brave than ordinary Yi people.

At the same time, because of its simplicity and primitiveness, it is more loyal to its owner.

Long Ayou, the leader of the Lulu people in Pu'an Prefecture, has never had a rebellion in nearly three hundred years from Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty to Yongli at the end of the Ming Dynasty since he was pacified by the Luo Luo Pacification Division during the Hongwu period.

Moreover, the reason why the whole clan perished in the end was because of the resolute resistance to the Qing Dynasty during the Yongli period, which can be said to be a black army that really fought to the last soldier and was extinct.

Shi Yongan, the Guizhou envoy, took a fancy to the characteristics of this Pu'an people who can endure hardships, be tenacious enough, and take their promises lightly over life and death.

Now this group of more than 1,200 Pu'an Lulu, under the leadership of its Tusi leader Long Jizhao, has an independent battalion, called the Lulu Battalion, guarding the exit of a col in Xiemapu, guarding the more than 5,000 Shuixi City troops who have been tired for a day in the col.

There are more than 15,000 troops in Shuixi City, and although the sixty-mile post road is long, it is high and densely forested, and the road is narrow, so it is impossible to spread them all out to build the road.

Especially the winding mountain road in the area of Xiema Mountain, the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and there is no room for many people to go immediately, and more than 5,000 people are working in sections, which is the limit.

At this time, night fell, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and the silence in the col around Xiemapu under Xiema Mountain was abnormal.

In order to prevent the camp from roaring at night, the army is never allowed to make loud noises.

To drive so many captives to build roads is, of course, governed by military law.

Although in terms of ethnic origin, whether it is the Hualuo in the plain area under the mountain or the black Luoluo in the high mountains, they are all a branch of the Yi people, but these Lulu people do not consider themselves to be Yi people.

Especially for the so-called Luodian Yi people in the territory of the Shuixi clan, they are even more despised and despised by a hundred.

Therefore, as the overseer, the Lulu people were very cruel to these surrendered Shuixi Yi soldiers, not to mention speaking loudly, even if they didn't look right, they were often beaten and scolded, and even slashed and killed.

Ma Jizhao, the leader of the Gang who was in charge of guarding more than 5,000 captive slave laborers at the pass of Xiemapu Mountain, took his two young Ma Jiqing and Ma Jixiang, and after nightfall, they did not dare to sleep, and still patrolled back and forth on the post road outside Xiemapu.

Throughout the day, the small movements of those Shuixi City troops, as well as the hateful eyes of the people who looked at the overseers around him, sent chills down his spine and made him vigilant.

And An Shirong, the nominal leader of these Shuixi captives, hurriedly returned to Shuixi City, which also made him feel that something might happen.

At the same time, the Shuixi Tumu Wu, who was in the col of Xiemapu Mountain, was lying on his side on the ground and pretending to sleep, holding a short-handled iron hammer that had been hidden privately.

Shuixi Tuguan Wuhao, who had never done this kind of physical work, was tired for a day, and only drank a bowl of vegetable porridge at noon, which continued for several days, and at this time he was so hungry that his chest was burning in his back and stomach.

What's more, he still has such a big secret hidden in his heart, when he breaks work and eats at noon tomorrow, he will take advantage of the strength to start a rebellion just after eating, and he still has tools in his hands, and then kill these officers and soldiers who oversee the work, escape across the Xixi River, and flee back to the luxury fragrance station.

If it weren't for the fact that the winding mountain road on Xiema Mountain, which is more than ten miles long, is too difficult to walk, and I am worried that I will not be able to climb this long slope after a tiring day, Wu Hao would have launched a rebellion when he returned to the camp this evening.

Just as he was enduring hunger, looking forward to the long night and the early rise of the sun tomorrow, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

In the quiet night, the sound of horses' hooves drowned out the sound of the Liuchong River beating against the riverbank in the distance, and the "da-da-da" and "da-da-da" were getting closer and closer.

After a few moments, Ughorn suddenly heard a sudden sound of dense and hurried footsteps on the post road outside the mountain pass.

Wuhao, who had a ghost in his heart, immediately turned over and sat up, looked around, but saw nothing.

I only heard the sound of horses' hooves not long ago, and once again "da-da-da" and "da-da-da" walked away along the mountain road.