Just as the Ming army marched south in three directions and slowly advanced in an encirclement manner, She Chongming in Yongning had also completed the final preparations and was ready to rebel at any time.
"Father, our troops and horses are all ready. There is no problem with food and grass. Chengdu is still as usual without any awareness. Now is the perfect time to raise troops!"
She Chongming's son She Yin said excitedly.
They have been preparing for this day for too long, and they have been forbearing for too long. The Yi people can no longer wait any longer. With the hope of the people, they can no longer delay and must start their troops immediately.
Seeing that She Chongming was still frowning and closing his eyes to think, She Chonghui, who had always been relatively calm, couldn't stand it any longer and couldn't help but say:
"Brother, what are you still hesitating about? Most of the imperial court's attention has been attracted by the slave-building in the north. Most of the elite soldiers and generals have been recruited to the north. Even Qin Liangyu's last few white-poled soldiers who guarded the house and courtyard have all gone.
to Liaodong."
"Not to mention Sichuan and Sichuan, even in the entire five southwestern provinces, the number of elite soldiers who can truly fight is probably only a few tens of thousands at most, and they are extremely scattered. They cannot be combined into one army in a short period of time."
"As long as we raise the battle flag and banner, raise our arms and shout for the righteousness of opposing the Ming Dynasty, and offer huge profits in Xu, the chieftains of other ethnic groups will definitely respond to us. At that time, we will occupy the southwest, establish ourselves as kings, and divide the north and south with Zhu Ming.
It’s just within easy reach.”
All that was needed was the east wind. In order to get rid of the greedy exploitation of those officials, his Yi people had already spent all their money to support his great cause of raising an army.
The tribe has suffered for decades, and seeing hope right in front of them, how could he give up halfway? Hundreds of thousands of tribesmen are just waiting for him, the leader, to overthrow the tyrannical and unjust Zhu Ming Dynasty.
But She Chongming still had not decided. He always felt uneasy in his heart. He had never felt this way before. It was a feeling that could not be described in words.
"The leader is worried that the Shuixian clan will not be able to come as promised?"
Zhang Tong seemed to notice She Chongming's worries and asked slightly from the side.
"Yes, although the Shuixi'an clan is adjacent to us and has been repaired for generations, rebellion is not a trivial matter. If we have their help and raise an army together, it will be twice the result with half the effort."
"The An family has a very high status in Guizhou. As long as they participate in the anti-Ming cause, the lands of Sichuan, Shu and Yunnan and Guizhou are just in their pockets."
"My father-in-law's concerns are indeed reasonable, but judging from my son-in-law, An is not a law-abiding and well-behaved master."
"Last time, my father-in-law sent people to Shuixi to discuss the anti-Ming affairs with An Bangyan secretly. Didn't he promise that he would send troops to help, attack Guizhou, and disperse the Ming army?"
"Now, he is probably watching the fire from the other side. After his father-in-law launched an army, he will see how Zhu Ming's court reacts and whether he can have the same strength as he did to pacify Yang Yinglong."
"I hear you regard us as a pathfinder. I'm afraid their hearts are as worried as my father-in-law's now, and their preparations are no less than ours."
"As long as my father-in-law can make a difference after he raises the army, An Bangyan, who has long had dissident intentions, will definitely actively participate in this anti-Ming cause."
Fan Long's words indeed hit the point. She Chongming nodded secretly. Anbang Yanba had such thoughts.
She Chongming looked at all his relatives and confidants and felt extremely stressed.
Finally, with the persuasion of these people, She Chongming finally made up his mind not to wait for An Bangyan's reply, but to do it himself first.
"The rotten and weak Zhu Ming army is no match for our elite Yi soldiers. This time we must let them know how powerful we are."
After deciding to rebel, they immediately took out a map, which they carefully drew themselves, specifically for the southwest.
Their intelligence work was very good. They understood all the defensive armament issues of the Ming army in the entire Sichuan-Sichuan region and northern Guizhou, and their analysis of the situation was very clear.
According to their previous plan, after raising the troops, the troops were divided into two groups, one with the main force and the other with the partial divisions.
The main force was personally led by father and son She Chongming and She Yin, with an initial cavalry force of 30,000, heading north to capture Luzhou and open the southern gate to Chongqing.
After capturing Luzhou, his army could rush straight down the Yangtze River and approach Chongqing Prefecture.
The partial division started with an army of seven thousand, led by She Chongming's son-in-law Fan Long and his general Zhang Tong, and captured Zunyi.
Zunyi and Bozhou were close to each other, and She Chongming planned to recruit the chieftains there to join his uprising army to strengthen his momentum.
Although Boshu is no longer what it used to be, integrating their forces can still be a good military boost.
After the partial division army captured Zunyi, they began to march toward the northeast. There were many Miao chieftains there, and She Chongming would naturally not let them go.
When the time comes to attack Chongqing from both sides and capture the important town of Chongqing, the first step in his great cause of counter-Ming will be officially declared victory.
The Ming army in these two areas was completely defenseless. There was only one guard station. Thousands of people seemed so insignificant in front of his tens of thousands of troops, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
She Chongming had made a special observation before, and found that the combat effectiveness of the sergeants inside was not very strong. Most of them were even empty, and at most there were only half of them who could fight.
The only thing he was worried about was the garrison troops in Chengdu and the white soldiers in Shizhu County.
Most of the soldiers in the Chengdu camp are the governor's personal guards, and there are also some generals' personal soldiers. Their combat effectiveness is quite strong, and it is quite difficult to deal with them.
In order to stabilize his rear base camp just in case, She Chongming specially left his younger brother She Chonghui to stay in Yongning, and left nearly 20,000 troops and horses for him.
"Pass my military order, each battalion and each army will rest for a day. At three o'clock in the morning the next day, they will bury pots and make rice. At five o'clock, they will set off and march directly to Luzhou and Zunyi!"
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Located in Shizhu County in the east of Chongqing, an army with clear flags, well-trained and neat military appearance is arranged in an orderly manner in the school grounds.
They wore different armors, including frontier army-style cloth face armor, Confederate army-style leather breastplates, and a type of iron armor that was obviously homemade.
Although the armor styles are different, the colors are all silver and white, which looks quite pleasing to the eye.
On the high platform of the school grounds, a female general with a figure that was not inferior to that of a male was commanding the entire army holding a command flag.
This person was Qin Liangyu, the female general who inherited the post of Shizhu's Xuanwei envoy on her husband's behalf. She was also the only female leader among the chieftains in the Ming Dynasty. Her reputation had already spread to every corner of the southwestern provinces.
The white-pole soldiers she organized and commanded frightened the enemy. Like the Qi family army, the white-pole soldiers had fought more than a hundred battles in the south and north since the day they formed the army, and they had not lost a single defeat. It has been more than twenty years now.