In this battle, the Ming army beheaded more than 20,000 rebel heads, captured more than 30,000 people, and captured the leader of the rebels, She Chongming, thus achieving a complete victory.
When Zhu Youxiao received the good news, he simply ordered the imperial camp to move back to Chongqing, and asked Qin Bangping and Qin Liangyu to organize their troops and go into the mountains to sweep away the remnants of the rebels and the bandits entrenched in the mountains.
As for She Chongming, Zhu Youxiao didn't take him seriously at all. He was just a small character. In history, except for the initial rebellion, he took advantage of the unpreparedness of local officials and the army to win several battles.
Everything else is a failure.
But no matter how much Zhu Youxiao despises him, She Chongming, as the first rebel, is destined to not end well.
Zhu Youxiao ordered him to be escorted back to Chongqing. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he was sentenced to Lingchi and killed the nine tribes. His head was hung on the city wall and the people of Chongqing were called to watch the execution.
After dealing with Yu Ni's affairs, Zhu Youxiao personally took command of the army. After joining up with Chen Guang, they marched by land and water towards Luzhou.
She Yin of Luzhou was defeated faster than his father She Chongming. The Ming army captured Luzhou in one fell swoop before She Chongming was defeated and fled.
Zhu Xieyuan and Wang Ping adopted the tactic of attacking from the east and attacking from the west. They crossed the river at the same time and at different places, thus evading She Yin, who had always been more shrewd.
She Yin and his father had the same experience. When the battle got fierce, they were attacked from two sides by the army and the army quickly fled.
He originally only had more than 5,000 people, but after such a huge defeat, with more than half of the casualties, he was still no match for the official army.
On the way back to Yongning, Sheyin was blocked by an army of unknown origin. Sheyin suffered heavy casualties and had to escape into the deep mountains and forests to seek escape.
Although She Yin's defeat was very similar to that of his father, his life was much better. He was not captured by the Ming army and really escaped.
After Zhu Youxiao came to Luzhou and understood the specific situation and situation, he stopped caring about Sheyin's life and death and left him alone. They had no place to run and they would still be guillotined sooner or later.
As the logistics support base for She Ni, Luzhou naturally stores a lot of grain, a full 150,000 taels, but the gold and silver is very small, the total does not exceed 100,000 taels, but this is no longer important.
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He led the army straight south, heading towards Sheni's base camp, Yongning Xuanwei Division, where he had more important things to do.
She Chonghui did not know that his brother and nephew had been defeated, and that the emperor had personally led an army to conquer him.
At the moment, he is disgraced and fighting to the death with the troops under Lu Qin's command with the troops She Chongming left him.
He didn't know how long he had been disconnected from the front line.
Lu Qin was a famous general in central Sichuan. When he was young, he participated in many battles to redress the rebellion and showed his talents. At that time, he was already somewhat famous.
After being tempered by time and experience, Lu Qin gradually grew into a famous general in Sichuan and was called the Southwest General.
However, these military achievements were not worth mentioning in the eyes of officials and the emperor, so he served as a small soldier and was stationed in Chengdu.
This time he led ten thousand troops alone to attack the rebellious base camp. It can be said that he was entrusted with an important task. In several battles with She Chonghui, he won successively and showed great success.
However, due to the lack of sharp weapons and large-scale siege equipment, they were blocked outside the city walls and fortresses, and were unable to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory and expand their results.
When Zhu Youxiao arrived, he directly set up dozens of artillery pieces and bombarded the defense lines and earthen walls that the chieftains had worked so hard to build.
With the support of artillery, it would be effortless to break through these fortresses and cities, which were similar to bandits' nests.
How could She Chonghui be the opponent of tens of thousands of Ming troops when he had a full attack of less than 10,000 people? Facing the Ming army's well-organized and extremely fierce offensive, She Chonghui was defeated and died in less than half a day, and was reunited with his brother.
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Zhu Youxiao spent another three days. Within these three days, the Ming army attacked in all directions and captured the areas that had been ruled by the chieftains for hundreds of thousands of years.
Completely wipe out the remnants of the rebels. As long as they are ethnic groups and chieftains under the jurisdiction of Yongning Xuanwei Division, regardless of whether you have substantively participated in the rebellion, regardless of whether there is evidence or not, the military arm will be disarmed.
Then they escorted their leaders and important figures, and all those who had a little influence, to go to the imperial camp to see him.
Anyone who disobeys or resists, the Ming army will not say a word to you at all, and will directly take action. No matter you are old, weak, women or children, they will be killed without mercy.
These civilians under the chieftain system were not of the same mind as the Han people and the Ming Dynasty. They even hated the Han people and the Han Dynasty, so there was no need to be lenient to them.
The most indispensable thing in the world is people. Zhu Youxiao is even worried about the population of the Ming Dynasty. There is only so much food, but it is too difficult to feed tens of millions of people. It is also good to take this opportunity to relieve himself.
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After disposing of several stockades and villages, the reputation of the officers and soldiers for being brutal and murderous quickly spread to every corner of Yongning and the surrounding areas, and everyone was killed in fear.
As long as the flag of the government and army arrives, they will cooperate obediently, and no one dares to disobey, because those who disobey and want to cause trouble have all become the targets of the government and army.
Afterwards, the Ming army took over all areas and villages. As long as there were houses and people, there were Ming troops on duty to control and guard every link, and there was no leakage.
In fact, this is just an excuse. Whether you are a loyal minister or a traitor is just a word from Zhu Youxiao.
If it was really just a battle to kill She Chongming, then why would he come all the way here?
The ultimate goal is to change the system of chieftains and bring them back to their hometowns. Only in this way can the current solidified class system be changed and the common people at the bottom can be liberated.
There are six or seven hundred chieftains of all sizes in the southwest, if not one thousand. If we don't kill a few and capture a few typical ones, it's really difficult to change the status quo.
After taking full control of the entire Yongning Xuanwei Division, they conducted a simple census and found hundreds of thousands of illegal and hidden households, as well as countless slaves.
There is no record of these populations, either in the local government registers or in the household department, as if they do not exist in the world.
This is a common problem in feudal dynasties, and it exists in every dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao specially mobilized officials from Chengdu to come to Yongning. He first re-registered them and compiled their household registrations. He also separated a batch from the captured grain and fed them first to avoid chaos.
After the situation in Sichuan was completely stabilized, they would begin to distribute fields and houses to them. It happened that a lot of land was recovered from these chieftains, and these lands all needed to be cultivated.