Chapter 6: Colorful Clouds South (1)

"The red sun is as hot as fire, the wild fields are half burnt, the farmer's heart is like soup, and the prince and grandson shake the fan." Humming a mountain song, the scout brigade commander Wang Feiyu pushed the wheelbarrow on the mountain road leading to Puding. He was originally from Shu, but this time he was recruited from the Zhenbei Army to the Pingnan Army and returned home on the way back. He had not seen him for a few years. The rogue who was not doing his job back then returned home in glory, envious of the villagers. The scout brigade was an independent unit in the army, with a status between the division and the regiment, a real fifth-rank official and a new second-class viscount. The Wang family was full of honor. This family held wine and that family held banquets to celebrate him. During the meal, he could not introduce some backwards to help him. Feiyu suffered one by one, and was very happy to socialize. While he was happy, the Pingnan Army moved to Yuanzhou and was in charge of orders. He hurriedly bid farewell to his family and followed the army.

Without slapping his head, Wang Feiyu knew that he was going to fight. In recent years, Zhu Yuanzhang was busy dealing with the Goryeo people in the north and had no time to look south. He allowed the Mongolian Liang King to take Zara Valmi to arrogantly in Yunnan (Yuannan in Yuan Dynasty and Guizhou Provinces). Since its founding, Zhu Yuanzhang sent envoys to appease him several times, and the King of Liang killed him. In the 11th year of Hongwu, Tuogusi Temur went to the emperor and became a minister. The King of Liang only brought a book, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty could not step into the Yunnan province. This time the north was quiet, so Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not let the King of Liang go to the south again. Besides, the silver mines in the world were mostly in Yunnan, and no one wanted his wallet to be held in his hands.

In April, Mu Ying was patrolling Sichuan, and Wang Feiyu was ordered to accompany the army to train the scout brigade of the Pingnan Army for Mu Ying. In May, Guo Ying, the governor of Helin, followed the Marquis of Yingchuan, to Chenzhou, Hunan (Yuanling, Hunan), and Helin's defense was handed over to Feng Cheng, the nephew of Feng Sheng, the commander of the Weibei Army. In July, Mu Ying moved to Yuanzhou. More than 150,000 new and old Ming troops had been gathered in Hunan, and the Liang Palace was still singing and singing day by day. All the ministers under the Liang King's tent were high and the road was far away. The Ming army would not dare to come. Unexpectedly, Wang Feiyu had already brought a group of brothers to his nose.

After strolling around in Yunnan and Guizhou for more than two months, Wang Feiyu and others found out the roads of the big and small levels and delivered detailed maps to Mu Ying's tent one by one. In September, all the people were well-behaved, and Wang Feiyu was ordered to lead people to sneak into Puding City to prepare to receive the arrival of the army.

It is said that since ancient times, "the sky is sunny on three days, and the earth is not flat on three feet". In Wang Feiyu's eyes, there is now "no one has three taels of silver". In various checkpoints, the gates are taking action, not only to say that the road is money, but even when passing through a village, the land guard in the village has brought the old and young people to stop the car and collect taxes. Seeing the village from afar, before people could enter, a tree trunk was crossed on the road, and several 60-year-old men flashed behind the stone, blocking the wheelbarrow, stretching their hands, and not saying a word. A hanging of copper was naturally moved away from the trunk to let you go. If you don't pay, the old man will never give in. If there is a slight dispute, he will fall to the ground and cannot afford it. After a while, the young and strong village came out and asked to knock down the old man's recovery money. It may not be peaceful after paying the money. After paying the money, it may not be peaceful. After passing the village, there is a "click" sound. This time, I want the village fee. If I don't pay it, the story of entering the village will be repeated.

When you pass through the prefectures and counties, you will be even more difficult. Every time you pass, you will be able to draw eleven. The Songjiang fine cloth that Wang Feiyu and others, who are concealing their identities, is getting thinner and thinner. At the beginning, a wheelbarrow needs two people to push and help. Before Pu Ding, it becomes a person who can serve with one hand.

I saw a tea shed from afar. It seemed that it was run by a Han Chinese. Wang Feiyu, dressed up by everyone, greeted the people behind him and put the car around the pergola and went into the tea shed to make a point. When the shopkeeper saw a big call, he greeted him. The waiter ran out quickly and handed over a hand towel soaked in the well water, shouting, "Don't worry, please wipe the sweat first." While tidying up the table, chairs and benches, the guests were served tea. The guests obviously did not drink the stinky Mongolian milk tea. Although the ones on the greeting cabinet were coming to the new green before the Ming Dynasty this year, the price was not quasi-regarded. The shopkeeper was so happy that he smiled and came out to serve him personally.

"I'm talking about the shopkeeper, how far is this from Puding?" Everyone, who looked like a man, drank enough tea and asked slowly.

The shopkeeper saw that he spoke like a gentle man and did not dare to neglect. He walked up and lowered his head and said in the official language: "If you say that, there are still sixty miles. Go ahead along this road, and then go through three villages and one official village, and you will arrive."

"It's so far away," Wang Feiyu took the fan handed over by the shopkeeper and asked unhappily.

"It's not far away. You can set your feet in the city before the sun sets. I'll give you a tiring one. I'll give you a massage." The shopkeeper said in a favorable way to see the carts of goods.

"No, no, how dare you to take care of your elders?" Wang Feiyu quickly refused. "We have to pass three more villages and there are official villages. Please do it for you?"

The old man in the shopkeeper saw that this guy said well and said very helpfully: "If you ask me, don't ask me. If you are away, no one will have any difficulties. Just say that I will never be vague if I can help."

Wang Feiyu took out a piece of silver from his arms, about four or five cents, and held it reluctantly in his hand and stuffed it into the shopkeeper's hand. "Uncle, can you help pointing a small path? Don't be afraid of going around the distance, it consumes too much on the road." He pointed to the deflated goods, "Look, if you continue like this, the goods were drained before you wait for Pu Ding, and the boss must send me away when I go back. My family is about ten, and I can only chew it with my hard-earned money. If I lose my life, my family will be defeated." After that, tears fell from the corners of my eyes.

The shopkeeper saw Wang Feiyu crying and sighed: "Your boss is the same, why don't you run away from Zhongyuan and let you sell goods here?"

"The boss heard that Yunnan has a lot of money and is easy to make money, so he sent me here and asked me to bring goods to Yunnan City (now Kunming). Who knew that I would ask for money everywhere. Master, please give me a clear way." Wang Feiyu pretended to be like anything, and she didn't have to brew at all. Tears rolled down, and the guy next to me and the coachman dressed by the coachman sighed together.

"I'm going to Yunnan again," the shopkeeper was frightened, "You are just a little bit of goods, and after hearing what the uncle said, he quickly dealt with the goods after he arrived at Pu Ding, and then he went back to wait (qi). Don't think about Yunnan, let alone you have three times more goods than this, you can't get there."

"Uncle, what do you say? Tell me, I'll go back and talk to the boss," Wang Feiyu begged.

"Hey, young man, there is no one here today, so it's also considered that our two men are in love. I'll set up this dragon gate formation for you." The shopkeeper put on the silver, pulled a chair and sat in front of Wang Feiyu, poured a cup of tea for himself, took a sip, and slowly said: "It's said that Mongolian Tartars are vulgar and unwilling, but they are not inferior to our Han people when they set up names. Do you know, it's light to draw you eleven, you are a foreigner, and the locals are more ruthless, do you know? When the new official takes office, the people will pay "spread money" regardless of whether they are locals or not. When the old official leaves, everyone must give "human favor money". If you even receive two handfuls, no one can miss it. Is this etiquette for you Zhongyuan?"

Wang Feiyu and others shook their heads as they heard the truth.

The shopkeeper looked very knowledgeable and curled his lips and continued: "When the people of Dayuan have greater 'benefits', officials are promoted to the church, and relevant servants need to pay "regular money". If you want to sue, the plaintiff has to pay, which is called "Benfaqian", and the defendant also has to pay, which is called "business money".

"No way," Wang Feiyu and others opened their eyes and widened their eyes and protested: "How can this official who is promoted to the school to handle the case, and what is under his responsibilities, ask the people for money?"

"Otherwise, you are a foreigner and don't understand the local rules. Do you know? The Mongolians said that children who can fall and herd cattle are good children. Going to the church is a good child. It is a burden for them to take some money to calculate the integrity of their work. If you encounter a mess, you will lock up the plaintiff and get the defendant, and ask you to lose all your money to compensate him for the crime of delaying the fun. If you collect money, it is called "success", and if you can't receive money, it is called "bad luck", transferring to a good place to become an official, and staying in Yunnan is called "good nest cave". If you want to be promoted one level, you must not give it to your boss 18,000 yuan. This money is all from the common people. Even if there is money everywhere, you can't stand it for him to scrape the ground three feet."

"What about your Prince Liang? Don't care?"

"Supervisor, the Mongolians believe that the Han people should pay the money, otherwise they would have been killed. If the Mongolians beat the Han people to death, they would pay a donkey, and it depends on who your owner is. It would be good to go to your house to grab it without knowing it. You dare to complain if you collect some money." The shopkeeper felt heartbroken as he spoke and kept shaking his head.

This time it was Wang Feiyu's turn to hand him a towel and wipe his tears. The shopkeeper took the towel and saw the calluses on Wang Feiyu's mouth from the corner of his eyes. He was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "There is a small road behind the mountain. It is said that it was repaired when Wu Hou attacked Meng Huo. I don't know whether it is true or false. No one left for many years, and it was said to be haunted. I walked five years ago, and it was not much farther than the road. It was almost impossible. There was no official village. You can save some trouble from the battle."

"Thank you for being old," Wang Feiyu kept bowing to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper looked at Wang Feiyu again and said with a smile: "No need to thank you, everyone is Han. In fact, it is not easy for Han soldiers in the city. The Mongolian commander has to give gifts when he celebrates his birthday, go to war, and even if he has to give gifts at a banquet, they can't get it in their hands. Don't be surprised."

Wang Feiyunuo agreed, and took a group of brothers to push the car and follow the route guided by the shopkeeper. He used his hand to watch them walk away. The shopkeeper smiled and nodded, turned around and said to the waiter, "Little Li, pack up, pack up, prepare to close the stall"!

The guy called Little Li Zi was stunned when he heard this and asked in surprise: "Don't clean up, the sun is still high."

"Don't ask more questions, just clean up, put the things in, put them in the car tomorrow, and take them away and go back to the countryside." The shopkeeper said happily.

"You are not confused by the show, right?" The waiter was even more surprised and reached out to touch the shopkeeper's forehead.

"You are just confused. Come again tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, hurry up and pick up your mother and your sister to stay at the grandma's house in the back of the mountain for a month. I heard from the old man that he was not losing money. Nowadays, there are chaos, so don't delay your efforts."

"There are chaos in the army"? The younger brother became a monk who was two years old and was confused for a while.

"Hehe", thinking about the calluses on the tiger's mouth of the guy who was dressed just now, the shopkeeper smiled happily, took out a handful of big boy from his arms and put it in Xiao Er's hand, "Please, boy, go home, wait a few days before coming, the good day is coming soon"!

On the first day of the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to recover Yunnan because King Liang was not a minister, and appointed the Marquis of Yingchuan, Fu Youde as the General of the Southern Expedition, and Mu Ying as the Deputy General of Xiping, and led 150,000 troops to the Southern Expedition. According to the picturesque map of the country presented by Wu'an Kingdom, Zhu Yuanzhang personally formulated a strategy. He passed on a secret decree to Fu Youde, saying: "From Yongning, he sent a brave general to lead an army to Wusa, and the army followed from Chen and Yuan to Puding, and took the key points.

Then he advanced to Qujing, Qujing, and Yunnan was silent. He would work together to resist our army. He examined the situation and won a surprise. At this point, he went to Qujing to raise his troops to Wusa with a general. He responded to Yongning's army and attacked Yunnan directly, restrained each other, causing the enemy to run away and defeated him. Yunnan was immediately defeated, and it was advisable to divide his troops and go straight to Dali, and make the first move to revive, and the power was about to collapse. The other tribes could send envoys to decree the troops, so that they would not bother them."

Youde received the order and discussed tactics with Mu Ying according to the detailed map secretly sent back by Wang Feiyu, and dispatched troops. On September 26, the 14th year of Hongwu, the Ming army divided into two groups into Yunnan. Guo Ying, Hu Haiyang, and Chen Heng led 50,000 old troops to attack, and put on a feint from Yongning (Xueyong, Sichuan) to Wusa (Weining, Guizhou). Fu Youde and Mu Ying led a total of 100,000 new and old troops, and from Chen and Yuan directly attacked Pu Ding.

Wusar was at the junction of Yunchuan. When the right chief of Yuan Dynasty heard that the Ming army was coming to attack, he was afraid of any mistakes, so he led a large army of Mongolian and Han to seize it. The Han army was exploited by the Tartar officials every day. Not only did they have no military pay, they even had to bring their own armor, swords and guns. When there was a happy event in the superior family, they had to save gifts and cash from their teeth. Otherwise, they would have been dealt with by shortcomings. At this time, when he heard the Ming army generals, he was not happy enough, so he was willing to work hard. Before the army arrived in Wusar, three of the ten stops had been lost in the middle of the journey, which caused the Tartar officials to camp at night to send people to surround the Han army's camp to prevent the soldiers from running away again.

He rushed to Wusa before the Ming army arrived. After a moment of contact, Guo Ying led his troops to retreat. Within a few days, he lost the city and lost land. Even Bijie, who was not easy to get, also abandoned him and rushed to the Chishui River and crossed the river. Crossing the river, he rang gongs and drums every day, and the noise was endless. There was no boat, and he could not cross the river, so he could only yell at the other side across the river. Guo Ying ignored Shibu insults and thought he was singing. Zhang Heng could not bear it and took the initiative to ask for the battle. Guo Ying said, "Corrupt officials and generals are devoured, but the grass is exposed, and the dead bones in the tomb are dead. If he is tired, he will rest."

After cursing for several days, a spy from Liang's army came to report and found that there were Ming troops running for Puding. Shibu was afraid that Qu Jing would fall, so he returned to his army to save him. After Bijie, he asked, and was beaten by drums and drums behind him. Guo Ying led his troops to chase him.

Bu was furious and turned around and fought back. The Ming army flew with a fake shot and turned around and left. The Mongolian army could not catch up with him. He was thinking about the situation of Puding's battle. Fang transferred the team to travel south, and Guo Ying shouted and came again.

Shibu couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "Kill the Guo thief first, then return to Puding." He led all the troops back and chased them closely. Guo Ying asked Zhang Heng and Hu Haiyang to lead the army to retreat first, and he led three thousand troops to cut off the rear.

Where did the three-foot flat ground in Yunnan come from? As I chased it, I approached a valley. Shibu saw Guo Ying's big flag and shouted with a loud voice: "Children named Guo, don't run away if you have any other skills, fight with your grandfather with a clear sword and a spear."

Guo Ying waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to organize the team and cross the valley one by one. However, he brought more than 500 musketeers to the narrow area of ​​the valley. He shot three times in a row, forcing the pursuers away. He pointed at Shibu from afar: "The Tartars with mother but no father, the robbers who were sitting on the ground to share the spoils, and the bandits wearing official uniforms. Yunnan was three feet tall by you. He didn't find a place to jump down and bury himself, but came to Guo with shamelessness. Until the twelfth lunar month, your grandfather, my knife had not yet been sharpened. Hurry up and go home to boil water by yourself, wash it clean and wait for grandfather, I will use you to sacrifice to the kitchen at that time."

After speaking, he stood there in a daze, and drove the horses to chase the team.

Shibu is not proficient in Chinese studies, and only knows that the previous sentences were to scold me for being greedy for burial and abuse of power, but the meaning behind them was not very clear. After thinking for a while, I realized that Guo Ying compared himself to a pig's head used for the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and was furious. No matter how the team ran along the way, urging the cavalry to rush into the valley.

When he arrived at the valley, he couldn't walk in front of him. A hundred households came to report that they found some round stones blocking the way and asked the Prime Minister to decide. Before he finished speaking, he was hit by dozens of whips on his head. Shibu whipped and scolded, "Pure-made, don't you have claws? You won't move them away."

When the people next to him saw it, they didn't dare to touch his bad habits, so they hurried to move. Everyone took action, but they were very neat. They barely cleared the road, but found smoke coming out of several stones in succession. Just as they were surprised, they heard a thunder rolling in their ears, and the stones exploded one after another, blowing the soldiers close by, crying and calling their parents.

Everyone did not dare to move around. They saw that they were not natural stones along the way, so they carefully bypassed them. Despite this, hundreds of people were injured by the explosion. Behind the stones and in the bushes, several lives would be killed in an instant. It would be fine if they were killed by the explosion, but some of the most desperate people were blown to break their arms and legs, and they cried and cried. Shibu was so angry that they ordered that all those seriously injured by the explosion would be executed. When the soldiers of all sizes heard their lives, they secretly greeted Shibu's family in their hearts, and they did not dare to speak but were angry.

The Ming army had already taken a boat to the Chishui River and watched the fun on the other side. Although the people were not lost, their morale was low and they were unable to fight again. Helplessly, they ordered camps along the river to repair them, and sent their subordinates to the nearby native villages to grab some cattle, sheep, livestock, and women to work in the hope of revitalizing morale. For a moment, the Yi people in the mountains were full of complaints. The local chiefs in Wusa, Shuixi and other places originally occupied the mountains to watch, but could not bear the atrocities of the Liang army. They all rebelled one after another, and recommended Mrs. Shexiang, who was named the Ming Xuanfu envoy, and continued to attack with familiarity with the road.

Shibu led a 70,000 army to the riverside, and was furious. He wanted to advance without a ship, but wanted to retreat, but was afraid he was attacked by Guo Ying. When he was not allowed to take the lead, bad news came. Puding, who had been in charge for many years, lost overnight. The Han army rebelled, and the city lord*, more than 30,000 Mongolian elite soldiers were killed, and the captured ones were captured, and no one escaped. Fu Youde and Mu Ying took advantage of the situation to sweep Puning and other places, and the vanguard pointed directly at Qujing. Now behind him, the road to Qujing in the south has been blocked by Gao Degui, the general of the Pingnan Army, and the soldiers under him have become an isolated army.

"I'm the destruction of heaven," Shibu shouted, and the scene of being scolded by Guo Ying that day appeared in front of him, "The robber sitting on the ground to share the spoils, the bandit wearing official uniforms, and the sky was three feet high in Yunnan by you..."
Chapter completed!