"This matter, at first glance, is indeed quite irritating..." Ma Tengyun leaned back on the chair and said quietly: "But when you think about it on the other hand, it is reasonable and justifiable. Don't say it from the beginning.

Well, it’s just you and me. If there is a disobedient subordinate, will we give him a good look? Is it possible to ask someone to surrender to us and give us money and food as much as possible? Is it possible to have a strong army?

Hand, will you care about us people?"

He Zhen looked at Ma Tengyun carefully, as if he didn't recognize him. He really didn't expect that this usually silent guy could see so deeply and so clearly.

"How about it, are you impressed?" Ta Tianbao smiled, patted He Zhen, and said: "Lao Ma is a real person who doesn't show his face. When I analyzed it at the time, I was so impressed that I admired him!"

"Don't hurt me!" Ma Tengyun scolded with a smile: "If he was really that powerful, he wouldn't have gotten to this point. I was still short-sighted before! Now I can see clearly, we are so poor that we are so stupid.

Tui Shuo's army went out for a tour and captured seven or eight cities. They are all old brothers, and they don't hide their words. If you are willing to stay in the backcountry, that's up to you. I plan to follow them.

Mixed up."

Dang Shousu pondered for a long time, then suddenly laughed and scolded: "Old Ma is so unkind. If you had told me clearly earlier, why would we have made such a fuss? Badong, well, it is really a poor place!"

"Well, I'm not rich in Daning (now Wuxi)," He Zhen said in a huff.

Haha, haha, everyone looked at each other and smiled, understanding in their hearts.

"First come, first served, it's not too late." Ma Tengyun stood up, patted his butt, and said with a smile: "Looking at this posture, we are going to continue to fight the Chu army. Huguang is rich, let alone eating and drinking. Let the sons and daughters get married as soon as possible.

If you have a daughter-in-law and can live a stable life, it means they didn't fight us in vain."

"Hey gentlemen, I think you want to take a concubine." Ta Tianbao smiled and teased: "In the land of Hunan and Xiang, I heard that beauties are as generous as those in Jiangnan. A certain family also wants to see them."

"Let's go together. Let's go together." He Zhen pretended to be afraid of falling behind, but stood up and looked at Dang Shousu.

Dang Shousu smiled helplessly, slapped the table and let out a long sigh.

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"Firearms are the priority in water warfare. According to the existing ammunition, it can no longer support large-scale battles." Chen Shangchuan was not very happy after the victory. He took the list of seized materials and thought about it. "The captured gunpowder is not powerful enough."

, we can make do with it. But these cannonballs, even if they are made of stone, there are not many left, so we have to wait for a while and accumulate a batch before we can take action."

Fighting all the way from the sea to Kuidong, the Yangtze River Navy consumed a lot of ammunition. Even though the transport ship was loaded with gunpowder and some of the gunpowder originally stored by the Thirteenth Company was replenished at Kuidong, the cannonballs had to be made by masons. After

In this Yiling battle, even looking at stone shells was not enough.

Both Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng felt a little regretful, and their eyes were fixed on Jingzhou, a point on the map.

Chief of Staff Wang Yougong was looking at another place. After a long while, he pointed with his hand and said: "According to the latest information, the Qing army is moving troops south from Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan. Our army will prepare early to avoid being

The Qing army captured the old nest."

Only then did Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng look at where Wang Yougong was heading - Zhuxi County, located in the Qinba Mountains at the junction of Hubei and Shaanxi. After Zhuxi County, there was Zhushan. Then they entered Hao Yaoqi's headquarters for ten years.

Fangxian County for many years.

"How many troops does the Qing army have?" Li Laiheng asked.

Wang Yougong solemnly said: "Shaanxi Admiral Wang Yizheng led two generals with 25,000 troops, and Henan Province's Hebei Town Commander Bao Zhao commanded 5,000 troops. A total of 30,000 troops were led by Xi'an General Warka."

"Ganshan and Henan Lvying are not comparable to Chu's army." Liu Tichun's face was a little moved. He pondered for a moment and said, "It will be difficult to resist unless the entire Tui Shuo army is deployed."

"The real purpose of the Qing army's march south should be to reinforce the Jiangnan battlefield (south of the Yangtze River), weaken our army, and stabilize the situation in Jingxiang. If our army avoids it, it will not engage in a deadly fight with our army." Wang Yougong thought thoughtfully.

Di said: "If you take Hanzhong, pass through Baoning, go to Chongqing, and then enter Hubei Province in the east, the journey will be far and difficult. If you take Shangluo, enter Hubei from Baitu Pass, pass through Yun, Xiangxiang, you can go straight down to Jingzhou, or

Along the Han River to Wuhan, this road is much closer and easier to walk."

"Avoiding the war? Are the Chief of Staff testing us?" Li Laiheng suddenly laughed and said: "Since they are the Qing army, how can there be any reason to let them pass through our defense zone?"

"Haha, I made a mistake. I forgive you, Duke. I just said the purpose, but I didn't dare to test it." Wang Yougong smiled apologetically and said: "The enemy is not small. If we fight, we must plan carefully to win.

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"If the road from Jingxiang to Huguang is said to be easy, it is not necessarily so." Liu Tichun pointed to Zhuxi and Zhushan and said: "There are many mountains, dense forests and uneven ground, and there are many dangerous places to defend. If the Qing army wants to pass through, it will not be easy.

thing?"

Zhuxi and Zhushan counties are located in the mountainous area of ​​northwest Hubei, bounded by Wudang Mountain in the north and Daba Mountain in the south. There are many mountains in the territory and are zonally folded. Meandering river valleys are developed, with canyons and intermountain basins alternating. The landforms include hills and basins.

There are many types of low mountains, middle mountains, high mountains, etc., which are very complex.

Historically, when the Qing government organized the three provincial capitals to suppress the anti-Qing base in eastern Kui, the progress along the Gansu-Shaanxi road was indeed slow. Not only did it need to cut down mountains and open roads from time to time, but there were also bloody battles. In Chenjiapu, Chitupo, Dengchuanyu, Zhang

Laohe and other places were tenaciously blocked by Hao Yaoqi's troops.

"What about here?" Wang Yougong pointed to Pingli County in Shaanxi, which is adjacent to Zhuxi. "Baituguan is a key pass on the border between Hu and Shaanxi. The terrain is majestic and it is a must-win danger. Can you order the Yunyang defenders to go first?

To test the attack, our army will set off immediately and arrive at Zhuxi to make preparations."

"It is feasible to use offense instead of defense." Liu Tichun thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

"Our army is ready to work at leisure, and we are familiar with the terrain. Although the enemy is numerous, we still have hope of victory." Li Laiheng said with a smile: "Yongzhong is taking advantage of him again. He is familiar with the place, so he naturally wants to lead the army. As for me, I am afraid I have to guard my home again.

Is the door open?"

"Yiling is of great importance and must be guarded by Duke Lin." Wang Yougong said with a smile: "With the Yangtze River Navy here, if there are other soldiers and horses, we don't have to stick to it."

"If other people can come, they can come. If they can't, I will reorganize and train the troops. It will not be difficult to have usable troops." Li Laiheng was helpless and curled his lips with contempt. He said: "Li Shangshu wants our army to cooperate to attack Sichuan.

The Eastern Chieftain just uses fighting as a substitute for training."

There are many chieftains who have lived in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, especially the Tujia people. In the early and mid-Yuan Dynasty, the activities of the local ethnic minorities in Mantong were significantly intensified than before, and the forces of various native chiefs rebelled.

Not often. Several rebellions in the early Yuan Dynasty caused great trouble for the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty mobilized troops to quell the rebellion. On the basis of quelling the rebellion, the Yuan Dynasty adopted a series of appeasement policies, and successively established pacification departments in western Hunan.

Local official ranks such as state, chief official, etc.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, based on the establishment of chieftains in the Yuan Dynasty, more clear and specific regulations were made on the establishment of chieftains, official grades, inheritance, abolition, promotion, tribute, recruitment, etc., making the chieftain system tend to

Complete. Among the official civil and military chieftain titles in the Ming Dynasty, except for the Yongshun chieftain, who has three Tuzhou civil native officials, the rest are all military chieftains. They include the Xuanwei Division, the Xuanfu Division and the Appeasement Division.

All chieftains in Changguansi and Barbarian Changguansi are set up.

In addition, the Ming court also set up guard posts in the marginal areas of the Tujia area and areas inhabited by both Tujia and Han people, and stationed heavy troops to strengthen military defense. For example, the Zhou Guard and the Bailihuang Qianhu Post were set up in western Hubei, and the Jiuxi Guard was set up in western Hunan.

There are also Yongding Guard, Chenzhou Guard, Qianjiang Qianhu Station, etc. The Guard Station has guard commanders, Qianhu, Baihu and other officials to establish a military defense encirclement around the Tujia area.

The Ming Dynasty set up passways and passes in various transportation channels, and stationed them with Han officials and Han soldiers, or guarded them with native officials and native soldiers. This kind of tight military defense and numerous passes could not only prevent the Tujia people from resisting.

, to isolate them from the Han people. To achieve the restriction of "barbarians not leaving the country, and Han not entering the cave", it can also prevent the "chieftains from coming out" and strengthen the control of the chieftains.

The chieftains and the central dynasty were interdependent and exploited each other, but they were also full of contradictions and fought overtly and covertly. The chieftains were the local emperors who “king their own land”, and there was always a conflict of control and counter-control with the feudal central dynasty on the issues of unification and separatism.

Struggle. Whenever the central dynasty changes from old to new and is unable to control, the chieftains often take the opportunity to raise troops, trying to get rid of control, develop outward, and expand their jurisdiction; when the central dynasty's control is too tight, the chieftains will also rebel and oppose control.

After the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, the peasant armies led by Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, Hao Yaoqi and others moved to Huguang and formed the "Kuidong Thirteen Families" to independently fight against the Qing army. The Tujia people subsequently joined the Kuidong Thirteen Families.

The ranks of the family’s struggle against the Qing Dynasty.

In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, thirteen families captured Jiuxi Guards and occupied Cili County. In the third year of Shunzhi, Li Laiheng and others returned to the prefecture.

The local soldiers captured Pengshui County and cooperated with the peasant army. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, the peasant army captured Shizhouwei, and then successively captured Jianshi, Badong, Hefeng, Lichuan and other county towns. Youyang, Zhonglu, Tang

Ya, Dawang and other local soldiers coordinated with the peasant army to attack Pengshui again. From eastern Sichuan to Yiling, everything was occupied by the peasant army.

But if there are those who support the Ming Dynasty, there are those who are attached to the Qing Dynasty. For example, Peng Chaozhu, the chieftain of Yongshun and Baojing, sent his master to the Qing army camp in Chenzhou to express his submission to the Qing rule. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, he defeated King Gui of the Ming Dynasty.

The generals Wang Jincai and Ma Jinzhong were sent to their headquarters, forcing Wang and Ma to move.

In September of the 11th year of Shunzhi, Li Laiheng's troops attacked Baojing again and camped on the other side of the You River for more than two months. Peng Ding, son of Peng Chaozhu, the chieftain of Baojing, gathered more than 10,000 native soldiers to resist. The peasant army suffered thousands of casualties. Shunzhi 14th

At the beginning of the year, Liu Tichun sent Wang Guangxing's general Liu Hongchang and others to lead more than 2,000 elite soldiers, including "most of the founding fathers". They crossed the Yangtze River from the north of Badong, traveled day and night, and reached Rongmei in less than four days. They would resist ten people.

Tian Ganlin, the chieftain of the three families, and his family were captured. After tens of thousands of gold and silver were paid as a ransom, Tian Ganlin and his family were released.

Later, after many twists and turns, Superintendent Wen Anzhi went through the mountains to western Hubei and went deep into the camp of the anti-Qing peasant army. He "lived in accordance with Liu Tiren (pure)" and cooperated with the veterans of the Dashun Army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Sichuan,

There are "hundreds of thousands" of armed forces on the Hubei border, collectively known as the Kuidong Thirteen Families. Among them are mainly the remnants of the Dashun Army led by Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng and others. In addition, there are also some rabble-rousers who "gather in the mountains and forests", such as the capricious

The landowners armed Tan Hong, Tan Yi, and Wang Guangxing, who blindly defended the local village, and others, "each has its own strength and does not belong to each other." There are even teams under the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty, but they engage in activities that disturb the people. It can be said that it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.

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Wen'an visited the mountainous areas of western Hubei. "Japanese loyalty inspired the towns and determined to revive them." In addition to recruiting leaders from various tribes, he also tried to win over Rongmei chieftains who had lived in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou to join the anti-Qing ranks.

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Rongmei Xuanfu made the Tang Dynasty support its army and become more powerful. Wen'an "knew his talents" and went to Baiyi Village with high mountains and dense forests (in today's Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, Yichang City, Hubei Province). With great righteousness, he mediated in many ways and took advantage of the situation.

He "brought everyone back" and went to Chieftain Tian's house. He comforted him with gentle words and talked about poems and essays, which alleviated the hatred between Tian and the thirteen families.

After the defeat of the Southwest Army, Wen'an heard the news that all the Yunnan territory had been lost and the southwest frontier had changed its banner. After Yongli fled into Myanmar, he felt deeply that his wish to "receive Shu to welcome Chu" would never be realized, and he became sick with worry and anger, "die in

"in the army".

After Tian Ganlin, the chieftain of Rongmei, learned of his martyrdom, he wrote "Crying Wen and Xiangguo when he was trapped in Badong" with grief: The sea of ​​​​fire and the miasma of the river have been deep for several times, but the emperor has not repaid his kindness but invaded each other.

, Generous and solitary, with eyes and hearts between his eyes. Where can I find tigers and leopards in close confinement? How many lines of whistling are worthy of admiration! Poor Du Yuchun came to hate him. He cried to the sorrowful man with tears in his arms. He expressed his respect and sympathy for his friends, and at the same time, he also poured out his heart.

He suffered the pain of his own country.

Wen Anzhi was the "popular figure in all dynasties" from Tianqi to Yongli. There is no denying this. As an upper-level figure in the Nanming ruling group, he and the leaders of the anti-Qing peasant army on the issue of "supporting the Ming" and "unifying the Ming".

There are undoubtedly divergent views. But his uniqueness is that he carefully weighed the situation during the period of rising ethnic conflicts, was able to seek common ground while reserving differences with the peasant army, and was able to unite these armed forces to persist in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, which is enough to show that he saw the people's will to a certain extent.

strength.

Wen Anzhi once said: "I only respect the old history and gain new honors." He must encourage himself by "establishing virtue, establishing words, and performing meritorious service." Under the control of a high degree of patriotic enthusiasm, he was able to understand the public opinion and accept orders when he saw danger. He was in the position of anti-Qing emperor.
To be continued...