The Rise of the European Emperor

It makes sense that the Ming court mobilized 130,000 troops to suppress the rebellion this time. Because the Tong clan (Zhuang clan) who launched the uprising was the main source of the wolf soldiers in Daming.

As the main source of wolf soldiers, child warriors are naturally more powerful. Although it is not as good as the authentic wolf soldier, it is almost the same. Therefore, despite the uprising that broke out between Ma Ping and Luo Rong, the number of the rebels was only 10,000 or 20,000, and there were still many old and weak. But after all, these people are the same clan of the wolf soldiers, and their combat effectiveness must far exceed the same number of Ming Dynasty guards. Therefore, the court up and down, attaches great importance to this battle.

After Chen Jin arrived in Wuzhou, where Xingyuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was from Guangzhou, he immediately mobilized his troops and went to Liuzhou, where the rebellion was located.

At that time, the seat of Liuzhou Prefecture was Maping County, not Liucheng. That is to say, a large-scale uprising broke out in Liuzhou's prefecture. Up to now, Maping County, where Liuzhou Fuzhi is located, is still under the siege of the rebel army.

The uprising was actually triggered by the Liuzhou government's oppression of the local Tong and Yao minorities. Of course, there are also provocations by Yaomin.

For example, in this uprising, the leader of the Tong Clan Uprising Army is Huang Wenlong, which is nothing. The leader of the Yao nationality rebellion who echoed the Tongmin uprising was Zheng Yunhu, the nephew of Zheng Ang, the leader of the remnants of the Hou Dagou rebellion in the first year of Chenghua. After the Datengxia uprising led by Hou Dagou failed, Zheng Ang and Hu Gonghui led the Yaomin uprising army, which did not fail until the eighth year of Chenghua (1472).

After the failure, Zheng Ang and Hu Gonghui's surviving descendants and relatives all fled into the mountains and hid. Zheng Ang's nephew, Zheng Yunhu, fled to the countryside in Liuzhou Prefecture, north of Datang Gorge. When he escaped from Dateng Gorge, Zheng Yunhu was still a child. But now, more than 30 years later, Zheng Yunhu is already middle-aged.

Originally, the local Tongzu minority in Liuzhou did not plan to revolt. The cause of the incident was only that the officials from Liuzhou Prefecture went to the countryside to urge the tax payment. As a result, a widow in Tongzhai hanged herself because she could not pay the taxes and was frightened by the officials...

Under normal circumstances, people from Tongzhai go to the government to make a fuss and pass. But Zheng Yunhu, who was a remnant of Dateng Gorge and lived in seclusion nearby, saw an opportunity. In the name of revenge, he led people to kill those officials who went to the countryside to collect taxes, dressed in children's clothes...

This time, the hornet's nest has been stabbed. The Ming Dynasty pursued the imperialism of the Han Dynasty and looked down on other ethnic groups. Today, Han officials are actually killed by the "barbarians" in the village of Shaomin. Isn't this provocative to the court?

As a result, Liuzhou Prefecture sentenced Sang Yue and was in charge of the litigation of the first office, so they sent a large number of yamen to Tongzhai to order the other party to hand over the murderer. However, this matter was not done by the people from Tongzhai at all. Where did they go to hand in?

Just when the two sides were deadlocked, Zheng Yunhu took a group of Yao people to kill, and in the name of rescuing the Tongzhai brothers, he killed the official yamen and successfully dragged the Tongzhai into the water.

After hearing the news, Liuzhou Prefecture immediately mobilized a large group to go to Tongzhai, but it was still a step too late-Zheng Yunhu had already called a rally in the nearby Tongzhai to discuss the plan for rebellion...

Tong Min was already fierce, and he easily repulsed the hundreds of soldiers and horses transferred by the government. Later, a number of local villages jointly elected Huang Wenlong, the most prestigious hunter among the Tongmin, as the leader of the 72 Tongzhai Alliance, raising more than 10,000 troops to officially launch an uprising. And Zheng Yunhu also took the opportunity to gather two or three thousand Yao people nearby and join the rebel army.

Tens of thousands of rebel troops went to Maping County, where Liuzhou Fufuzhi was located, and surrounded it in groups. It is a pity that there is Liuzhou Guard in Maping County. While the insurgents were busy gathering soldiers and horses from various villages, Liuzhou Guard's 5,000 soldiers and horses withdrew from the surrounding area to Maping County, and concentrated on defending the city.

This Liuzhou Guard's garrison was originally a frontier garrison, and its combat effectiveness remained fairly good. If they were in the wild, they would have been easily defeated by the Tongmin Rebellion.

However, this time they are defending the city. Therefore, even though the numbers were at a disadvantage, Liuzhou Wei's guards were able to withstand the combined rebel army of the Tong and Yao tribes. This is mainly because these savage soldiers composed of Tongmin and Yaomin are good at fighting in the wild and in the mountains and forests, but they are not proficient in siege. Coupled with the fact that there were Liuzhou Guards in Maping County, they were unable to break through Maping County.

Huang Wenlong and Zheng Yunhu saw that this would not work, so they simply moved to Luorong County, which is on the edge of Maping County.

Now things are getting bigger...

If the insurgent army is only rampant in the countryside, at most, it will be regarded as a rogue by the court, and the local chief military officer may mobilize the troops and horses of the nearby guardhouse to encircle and suppress it.

However, occupying the county seat and killing the court officials, this is the face of the court. If you don't die tenderly, it will damage the majesty of the imperial court...

Therefore, after an urgent discussion, the Ming court dispatched Chen Jin, who had experience in suppressing Mengyang Tusi Silu in Yunnan, as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the soldiers and horses of Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the wolf soldiers, to jointly suppress the Tongmin who dared to slap the face of the court this time. , Yaomin uprising...

However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi was a remote and wild area, and the economy was very poor. However, Guangdong next door, because of the tributary trade, is a place with sufficient taxes.

Therefore, the imperial court gave Chen Jin the position of governor of Guangdong, which was to give Chen Jin the right to go to the richer Guangdong to prepare the money and grain needed for the army to go on an expedition.

In order to collect the food and grass needed by the 130,000 army, Chen Jin requested to withhold the more than 200,000 taels of silver that the court had planned to collect from Guangdong and Guangxi as the military expenses for the 130,000 army.

It was during the period when Guangdong raised the money for the 130,000 army that Chen Jin happened to watch the teaching of the use of the Beihai Fran cannon and arquebus. Then, the Fran cannons and arquebuses of Beihai Kingdom left a deep impression on Chen Jin. It was on that occasion that Conté gave him 10 Fran cannons and 100 arquebuses.

Originally, under normal circumstances, Chen Jin would never accept a gift from a ghost of unknown origin. But Chen Jin happened to be in charge of encircling the Tongmin and Yaomin uprisings this time, so he naturally hoped that the stronger the army, the better.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Tong Clan Uprising Army is similar to the wolf soldiers that the court attaches great importance to. In order to be safe, Chen Jin naturally hoped that the stronger the imperial army, the better. Therefore, he simply accepted Kong Tai's gift, and specially used the power of imperial envoy to make an impromptu decision to open a back door for Kong Tai...

And this time to suppress the Tongmin and Yaomin uprisings, these Fran cannons and arquebuses were also used by Chen Jin in the governor's personal battalion. In order to make better use of these guns, Chen Jin specially sent veterans from Guangzhou avant-garde who had learned the operation methods of Fran cannons and arquebuses from Beihai country gunners and musketeers to carry out training for his personal soldiers. Use training.

In order to make better use of these Fran cannons and arquebuses, Chen Jin specially selected a group of experienced artillerymen and three-eyed gunners from the garrison army to receive training in the use of Fran cannons and arquebuses. Sure enough, these good gunners and gunners quickly learned how to use the Fran cannons and arquebuses, and were ready to fight against the Tongmin and Yaomin rebels...