Chapter Seventy-Nine: Changing the Land and Returning to the River
The Ming army bombarded the artillery and rockets continuously for half an hour, and the barrel was hot, which cooled down three times, and the rocket launcher also became very hot, and after being launched, the rocket could not be placed on the launcher at all. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Aji and his people were busy coming and going with buckets to help the Ming gunners cool down the artillery. This time, he came up again with a bucket of water, and according to the instructions of the Ming army's rocket soldiers, he poured a bucket of water on the copper rocket launcher. A bucket of water was poured down, and a puff of hot water vapor rose from the rocket launcher.
After the artillery and rockets cooled down, they continued to fire. After another bombardment, there was no movement in the Miao village above.
Wang Jinzhong stood on top of a big rock, picked up a telescope, and observed the movement of the Miao village on the mountain, and he found that the top of the wall and behind the wall were empty, and it seemed that the Miao soldiers had gone down to avoid the shelling.
"These fake Tartars are shrunk! Release a hot air balloon and guide the mortar cannon to attack! Wang Jinzhong ordered.
In the Miao village on the hill, Miao Tubing was stunned to see that someone on the Ming army position dragged out a white object, the object gradually expanded, turned into a behemoth, slowly rose into the air, and below the object, there was a hanging basket, on which there seemed to be a person, holding a small flag in his hand.
With the guidance of the hot air balloon, the mortar cannon that could be fired in a curved way continued to spew fire, and the cannonball swept across the ridge and landed accurately behind the hillside where the Miao Tu soldiers were hiding, exploding, blowing up the Miao Tu soldiers who were evading the shelling.
"Gods! There are gods protecting the Ming army, no wonder we have failed! Miao Tubing, who had nowhere to hide, saw the hot air balloon in the sky and knelt on the ground to pray.
"Hurry up, this is a large Kong Ming lantern!" Peng Ding is quite knowledgeable.
Even if you know that it is a large Kong Ming lantern, what can you do? With the guidance of hot air balloons, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was very accurate, and every time a mortar shell fell, it could hit the hiding place of the Miao Tubing, so that the Miao Tubing in the cottage had nowhere to hide.
The mortar shelling continued for about an hour, and there were no more targets worth bombarding on the hill.
"It's almost time, it's time to attack!" Wang Jinzhong roared.
The pro-soldiers waved small flags and gave the order to attack.
"Kill!" With a shout, Aji and his companions followed behind the Ming army's hand-to-hand fighters and launched an attack on the mountain.
The Miao village on the mountain has been shattered, and a complete section of the wall can not be found, the rolling wood and stones used for defense and various weapons to defend the city have been smashed to pieces, the fire oil tank has been shattered, and the ignited fire oil is burning on the broken wooden fence and the wooden wall, behind the defense line, there are corpses of Miao Tu soldiers everywhere, the soil on the ground is dyed black and brown, and the soil containing blood has lost the ability to absorb blood, and the blood flows into streams.
The first group of Miao Tu soldiers were killed by shells and rockets, and the Miao Tu soldiers in the back hid in the houses, but the shells fell, and even the houses collapsed, so they could only hide behind the dirt slope to avoid the shelling. However, under the observation of the hot air balloon in the sky, the curved mortar shells fell, and hiding behind the dirt slope could not escape the shelling. At this time, there were few Miao Tu soldiers who could still stand in the cottage, and those who survived began to waver.
"Except for Peng Ding, the rest of the people will not die!" The Ming army attacking the mountain shouted and rushed forward.
Before the Ming army could kill them, the remaining Miao soldiers began to surrender one after another.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Peng Ding took his family and committed suicide in the raging fire. In the original real history, it was Peng Ding who forced the thirteen families of Kuidong to a dead end, and finally Li Laiheng committed suicide with the whole family into the raging fire. But in this time and space, Peng Ding, who originally defeated Li Laiheng in history, committed suicide with his family into the flames, which can be regarded as retribution.
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Ten days later, the Wuchang Ming army camped.
"Report! General Wang's good news, Baojing Peng's Tusi army was wiped out! All the areas of Yongbao are returned to the Ming Dynasty! The messenger sent by Wang Jinzhong reported to Wang Xinyu the good news of the victory.
The Peng family toast was destroyed, and there was a vacuum in the Baojing area, and in the end, Wang Xinyu wanted to implement the policy of changing the land and returning to the flow adopted by Yongzheng later, so he would not set up the toast again.
"Baojing no longer has a toast?" Yao Qisheng asked in surprise, "Could it be that we send Han magistrates to rule the local area?" ”
Li Guangdi also said: "Dashuai, the local barbarians are fierce and difficult to manage, and all dynasties have canonized the Tusi to manage the local barbarians, if the Tusi is canceled, I am afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the locals." Dashuai, you also know that from Huguang to Yungui, the mountainous terrain is complicated, if the local barbarians rebel, I am afraid we will not be able to send troops to exterminate them one by one! ”
"No longer canonize the Tusi who replaced the Peng family, but we can appoint locals as officials!" Wang Yuyou said with a smile and stroked his beard.
"Not bad!" Wang Xinyu nodded and said, "That's exactly what it means!" Although we will no longer appoint new toasts, the local people will still be governed by the locals, which is a high degree of autonomy. However, we can send scholars into the local area, educate the local natives, and turn barbarians into Chinese! They can also study, they can also get fame like the Han people, and they can also join the army, and there will be no difference between them and the Han people in the future. ”
"And what about the toast who has already submitted to us? Especially the Kuizhou Ma family, they are the descendants of the heroine Qin Liangyu! Could it be that the Ma family will also change the land and return to the river in the future? Yao Qisheng asked.
"That's a matter for the future, for the toasts who have already submitted to us, naturally they can't cancel their toast status immediately, this kind of thing can't be urgent, so we can only take it slowly step by step. It will take us 10 years, if not longer, to get them back to their place. Wang Xinyu said slowly.
Wang Yuyou said: "Changing the land and returning to the stream, in Huguang and the southwest, it is relatively easy to implement, after all, they are not as barbaric as the Tubo Tusi." If it is on the territory of the western Sichuan and the Tubo people, if you want to change the land and return to the stream, you will definitely abolish the slaves, so that the slaves of Tusi can be free and become farmers, and it will be too difficult to implement these things. ”
"Slaves are still allowed to be kept, but the barbaric system of the Tubo people really can't be left any longer, and these still need to be slowly inculcated. We are allowed to own slaves, but slaves can only be foreign barbarians. This clan plans to abolish the status of Han family slaves step by step, and all Han people cannot be slaves. Wang Xinyu said.
Wang Yuyou thought for a moment and said: "It is not so easy to cancel the house slaves, you need to take your time step by step. Now the house slaves in many large families, if they don't have the status of house slaves, they can't survive! There are also some children who are loyal to their masters, and I am afraid that they are not willing to let them regain their freedom! ”
In addition to domestic slaves, there are also various hierarchies such as musicians and craftsmen, which will eventually be abolished. In real history, Yongzheng's land reform and return to the river can be successful, and Wang Xinyu believes that the Ming Dynasty, which has begun to enter industrialization, will definitely succeed.