In early October of the third year of Xuande, under the personal supervision of Li Li, the Jiaozhi rebels took Nasang City, an important town in the north of Zhancheng, after a fierce battle.

The soldiers and civilians of Nasan City resisted to the death under the leadership of Chief Drada, one of the five chieftains of the Champa state, which inflicted heavy casualties on the Jiaochin rebels, which led to a bloody revenge after the rebels stormed the city and slaughtered a large number of residents.

Chief Drada was hanged on the city gates, and his family was slaughtered by the rebels.

Tong Guò looted the city of Nasan, and the rebels obtained a large amount of money and materials, most of which were transported back to Jiaozhi by the Li Li faction, and the rebels were in a predicament in Jiaozhi.

At the same time, Le Le drew 60,000 men from the rebels who remained in Cochin, gathered an army of 150,000 men, and marched in the hinterland of the city.

With this transfer of Li Li, the strength of the rebels in Jiaozhi dropped from an astonishing 300,000 to 120,000, of which 70,000 horses stationed in Jiaozhou were the main force of the rebels, and the remaining 50,000 were scattered in the rest of the state capitals.

Among the 70,000 garrisons in Jiaozhou City, the 35,000 rebels stationed in Jiaozhou City were the most elite, and they were veterans who followed Li Li all the way over, and they were also the support of Li Li Town to defend Jiaozhou City.

In Li Li's opinion, even if Li Yuntian rebelled, as long as the rebels could stop the Ming army in Jiaozhou Mansion, then he would have enough time to rush back from Zhancheng to rescue.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Li has gathered an army of 300,000, which seems to be a very impressive number, except for the old and weak, there are only 250,000 young and middle-aged people left.

Among these 250,000 young and middle-aged people, nearly 100,000 are forcibly brought in, and their will to fight is weak, and they will collapse once they encounter a tough battle.

In this way, there are only about 150,000 rebels who can be used by Li to charge into battle, and these people are all veterans of the rebellion who followed him, and many of them have experienced the war with the four commanders of Jiaozhi, and they have rich combat experience.

The four chief military officers of Jiaozhi refer to Rong Changbo Chen Zhi, Chengshan Bo Wang Tong, An Yuan Hou Liu Sheng and Zhen Wubo Li Yuntian, which can be described as battle-hardened.

Under the urging of Li Li, the Jiaozhi rebels were overwhelmed along the way, conquering many towns in the occupation state one after another, and quickly moving south along the coastline to Kata City, the capital of the occupation state.

For a time, the whole Champa country was in chaos, and the people were panicked, how could the Cham army, which had not experienced a war for 30 years, be the opponent of the menacing Jiaozhi rebels?

However, even so, the Jiaozhi rebels encountered a lot of stubborn resistance on the way, resulting in considerable casualties.

In November of the first year of Xuande, the Jiaozhi rebels, under the leadership of the general Chen Yuan, led 30,000 rebels to bypass Kata City, and unexpectedly captured Qingyun City, an important town in the south of Kata City, cutting off the road for the king of Champa to retreat south to the southernmost part of Champa to the territory of the Great Chief of Dogesa.

As a result, there are only two ways to go in front of the kingdom of Champa, one is to hold on and wait for reinforcements, relying on the city defense of Kata City to block the rebels, and wait for the rescue of the Grand Chief of Dogesa in the southern region and the Grand Chief of Lundes in the western region, as for the other three chieftains, they have been killed and defeated, and they led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Kata City.

The other way is by water, since the territory of Champa and Annam is a long area along the coastline, so the king of Champa can choose to take the waterway to reach the port of Duohaicheng, which is the strongest city in Champah, and the soldiers under the chief of Dogesa are also the most elite troops of Champong, enough to keep the Jiaochin rebels under the city.

However, due to the limited number of ships, only a small number of people could escape before the large force of the Cochin rebels arrived, and most of them had to stay.

In fact, there is a third way to go, there are nearly 100,000 Cham troops in Kata City, as long as they go south, it will be difficult for the rebels in Qingyun City to completely stop it.

It is a pity that the generals and soldiers of the Champa State were frightened by the fierce offensive of the Jiaozhi rebels, and they had the idea of fearing war, and the family business of the civil and military officials of the Champa State was in Kata City, so they did not want to be looted by the Jiaozhi rebels, so for their personal selfish interests, they persuaded the king of the Champong State to hold in Kata City and wait for the rescue of the Grand Chief of Dogesa and the Grand Chief of Lundus.

Although there were also ministers who built a city and left first, that would undoubtedly cause a situation where Kata City was leaderless, which was a huge blow to the morale of the army and civilians.

Therefore, after careful consideration, the king of Champa decided to stay in Kata City and wait for the rescue of the Grand Chief of Dogesa and the Grand Chief of Lundes, and at the same time send people to the capital of the Ming Dynasty again to ask Emperor Xuande for help.

Just when the king of Zhancheng was cut off by the rebels to retreat south, the recruits of the Xiaowu Army who participated in the suppression of bandits in Guangxi successively conquered the Dazhai of Wei Wanhuang, a barbarian of Liuzhou Mansion and Wei Chaochuan, a barbarian of Qingyuan Mansion, captured Wei Wanhuang and Wei Chaochuan alive, and pacified the bandits in Liuzhou Mansion and Qingyuan Mansion in one fell swoop.

Speaking of which, the reason why the Xiaowu army was able to exterminate the bandits in Liuzhou Mansion and Qingyuan Mansion so quickly this time was closely related to Li Yuntian's policy of reducing and reducing taxes on Tianfu and Ding and the improvement of Guangxi's official rule.

According to Li Yuntian's demand, only the common people who did not participate in the bandit can reduce or exempt the tax on land and the local government, and all those who take part in the bandit will not be held accountable if they return home before the summer grain is collected, otherwise they will be severely punished by the government in the future.

When the government in various parts of Guangxi did not collect summer grain and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes as in previous years in accordance with Li Yuntian's order, and the collection of the land taxes owed in previous years was also postponed, the impact on the people of Guangxi was huge, causing those people who were forced to participate in the banditry to return to their homes one after another, shaking the foundation of the banditry in various places.

To be honest, if you are not forced to a dead end, who wants to become a bandit, you want to live a peaceful life at home.

In addition, the recruits of the Xiaowu Army were well-trained and well-equipped, and were led by experienced military attachés, so they took every step of the way to annihilate the bandit army composed of ordinary people with the momentum of destroying and decaying.

Unlike the rebels in Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian only ordered the leaders of the bandit army to be severely punished, and those who coerced them were all treated leniently, and sentenced to one year of hard labor to atone for their crimes.

Wei Wanhuang, the bandit leader of Liuzhou Prefecture, and Wei Chaochuan, the bandit leader of Qingyuan Prefecture, were sent to the capital by Li Yuntian and handed over to the Criminal Department to be executed.

Subsequently, Li Yuntian aimed the spearhead at the Tusi in the jurisdiction of the Ming army in Jiaozhi, and sent the Xiaowu army of Jiaozhi to arrest those Tusi for questioning in the name of fornicating with Li Li rebels, preparing to use force to recover the territory of those Tusi, so as to ensure the unity of the Jiaozhi decree, and at the same time it was another test for those recruits recruited from Guangxi.

In late November, Li Yuntian went to Jiaozhi with more than 40,000 Xiaowu troops in Guangxi, and the Xiaowu army entered Jiaozhi from Xuanhua and Langshan Mansions, and went to pacify the local Tusi according to the plan.

The local state capital also immediately took action, and dispatched troops to cooperate with the operation of the Xiaowu Army, and for a time the civil war broke out in the zhì area controlled by the Ming army, and the Ming army launched an attack on the local Tusi with the Xiaowu Army as the main force, which opened the prelude to the "change of land and return to the stream" of the Jiaozhi Tusi.

In order to avoid Li Li's misunderstanding, Li Yuntian specially sent a messenger to explain to him, saying that he had received the holy decree of Emperor Xuande asking him to send troops to attack Jiaozhou City, and now he had to send troops back to Jiaozhi, hoping that Li Li could solve the matter of Zhancheng before he pacified Jiaozhi's Tusi, otherwise he would only have to mobilize the Ming army in Jiaozhi to attack Jiaozhou Capital.

The day after Li Yuntian's envoy arrived at the Li Li military camp, the Jiaozhi rebels, who had already prepared siege equipment, launched a full-scale attack on Kata City.

At the same time, the 50,000 allied forces of Grand Chief Dogesa and Grand Chief Lundes also began to storm Qingyun City, where the rebel general Chen Yuan was stationed, and wanted to rescue the Cham soldiers and civilians of Kata City, and the two most important battles on the territory of the city began at the same time.

After returning to Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian did not go to Taiyuan Mansion, where the third division of Jiaozhi was located, but followed the supposed general Nan to Yuntun Port in Xin'an Mansion, Jiaozhi.

Yuntun Port was heavily guarded at this time, and dozens of ships were docked on the dock, including more than 20 large Zheng He treasure ships, and the rest of the ships were responsible for escort and logistics and other tasks, it was obvious that this was an ocean-going sailing formation.

On the day of the voyage, colorful flags were displayed on the wharf of Yuntun Port, and the people from all over the country came to see the excitement, and they gathered around the cordon of the officers and soldiers with excited expressions, pointed to the ships on the wharf, and talked about each other.

What is particularly striking is that in addition to the officials of Sin'an Province, there are also many wealthy merchants dressed in brocade clothes standing on the wharf, where they are chatting and laughing, and everyone's face is full of excitement.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, he will use Yuntun Port as a springboard to start overseas trade with the Nanyang countries, so as to earn funds for the development of Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and at the same time to increase the income of the Ming treasury.

The ocean-going fleet on the wharf was actually a large commercial fleet, the goods were provided by the merchants on the wharf, and the transportation was handed over to the Daming sailors.

The merchants on the wharf were the same people who had successfully bid for the commercial franchise and mining rights in Jiaozhi in Yangzhou City last year, and they had invested large sums of money in preparing the goods under Li Yuntian's reminder, and now they were waiting for the fleet to return and make a lot of money from it.

To be honest, even the people of the Chen family and the Zheng family of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce did not expect that Li Yuntian would receive the grace of Emperor Xuande and open the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty.

And for those merchants on the docks, who can be said to have made a name for themselves, they are naturally well aware of the huge profits of overseas trade.

In order to prepare the goods for this overseas trade, many merchants made a desperate bet on their respective industries, and some also borrowed usury, hoping to take advantage of this rare overseas trade opportunity to make a lot of money.