After Zhu Youxiao gathered these chieftain leaders from the Yongning Xuanwei Division together, he did not immediately take the so-called measures.
He did not announce his policy or idea of returning home, but he only briefly met them and took care of them together.
Zhu Youxiao has more important things to do right now, which is to conquer the An rebellion in Guizhou. This is a tough one. In terms of strength and foundation, An Bangyan is much better than She Chongming.
Therefore, he did not dare to look down upon him at all. After leaving Zhu Xieyuan's soldiers and horses and Wang Ping's guards to guard Yongning, he took the Yulin army, Qin Liangyu's chieftain soldiers, and Lu Qin's Chengdu army, a total of nearly
Fifty thousand people marched south to Guizhou at full speed to put down the rebellion.
At this time, northern Guizhou had been completely transformed into a pot state. An Bangyan first gathered an army of 70,000 to attack Guiyang. Unexpectedly, Guizhou Governor Li Yang had already prepared.
Anbangyan attacked fiercely for several days, killing more than 5,000 people and wounding more than 5,000 people. However, he was still unable to shake Guiyang at all, so he had to retreat with hatred and go to attack other prefectures and counties.
The garrison soldiers in Guizhou were invincible and lost several battles in a row, so they had to huddle in the city and wait for reinforcements from the imperial court.
An Bangyan took advantage of the fact that the court's attention and troops were all focused on She Chongming, so he sent out troops in large numbers to attack the city and occupy the city.
Most of northern Guizhou fell, and the army under An Bangyan's command reached nearly 130,000. The momentum was overwhelming, and the whole Guizhou seemed to have changed.
Li Yang sent documents to surrounding provinces several times, requesting them to send troops to assist to prevent the rebellion from getting worse and becoming uncontrollable.
But who would have expected that not a single province sent troops and all of them sat back and did nothing. The reason they gave was very good. This was a rebellion in your territory of Guizhou. It was what you, the governor of Guizhou, should do. What does it have to do with us?
Li Sheng had no choice but to write three memorials in a row, send his cavalry to the north, report to the court and the emperor, and request that elite troops be sent to Guizhou to quell the rebellion quickly.
Li Sheng also issued a death order. Regardless of anyone, regardless of the arrival of fighter planes, without his order to dispatch troops, the entire Guizhou Province was not allowed to send out a single soldier to fight with the rebels in the field. Anyone who violated the regulations would be executed immediately.
Faced with Li Sheng's strategy and intention of waiting for reinforcements, how could An Bangyan not know, so he once again assembled heavy troops to attack Guiyang.
When Guiyang was in danger, Zhu Youxiao's reinforcements finally entered Guizhou.
After reading military reports and understanding the situation in Guizhou, Zhu Youxiao quickly formulated a plan to conquer An Bangyan.
He divided his 50,000 troops into three groups. In one group, he led all the Yulin Army, a total of more than 20,000 people, and went straight to the Shuixi Dafang area, intending to eliminate An Bangyan's base camp in one wave.
Qin Liangyu was the main general along the way, and she led her white pole soldiers and a group of chieftain soldiers, marching along the fastest official road, straight to Guiyang, blocking An Bangyan from returning reinforcements, and buying him time before An Bangyan could rush back.
Capture Shuixi Dafang and other areas.
On the other side, Lu Qin was appointed as the chief general and led his troops to capture Zhijin, Puding and other county areas. Finally, he regained Anshun and built a strong line of defense to prevent An Bangyan from escaping south after his defeat.
But before the deployment was finalized, Zhu Youxiao received a military report that An Bangyan had already withdrawn from Guiyang and was retreating at full speed.
This made him very strange. Did An Bangyan calculate that he would arrive in Guizhou at this time, so he could withdraw his troops and return to defense in time?
With no other choice, Zhu Youxiao had to change the deployment plan. The mission plan and route of Lu Qin's unit remained unchanged, but he could not rest and recuperate. He must immediately send troops to recover Zhijin, Puding, Anshun and other areas.
Qin Liangyu joined forces with the emperor and quickly captured Dafang with superior force, and then prepared to fight in Dafang.
Although Dafang was An Bangyan's base camp, because he transferred too many troops to attack Guiyang, there were not many people to resist.
Especially those who have tasted the artillery of the army. Even if they put down their weapons and surrender, they dare not resist at all. They have never seen such a weapon from heaven.
It can be said that Zhu Youxiao captured Dafang without any effort, and then buried pots and cooked rice here. The army rested and recuperated, and after recovering their mental state and physical strength, they fought to the death with An Bangyan here.
An Bangyan learned that his most important base camp had been occupied by the government troops. He was immediately furious and ordered the army to return at full speed for reinforcements. He took advantage of the fact that the Ming army had not yet gained a foothold and sent troops to attack and capture it.
An Bangyan's rebels had a field battle with the government troops outside Dafang City, resulting in more than 3,000 casualties. An Bangyan saw the power of firearms and cannons for the first time, and was immediately frightened, and quickly ordered the troops to retreat.
Subsequently, several small-scale wars broke out between the two armies. The rebels lost several battles in a row and lost more than 2,000 soldiers.
Since the war started, the officers and soldiers have taken the initiative every time, while An Bangyan defended himself everywhere, falling into a completely passive situation.
Unable to defeat and defend, coupled with occasional bombardments from the government's firearms and artillery, the rebels' military morale has dropped to a low point, and they lack the prestige of attacking cities and looting in the past few days.
Zhu Youxiao used his more than 30,000 people to the extreme. He did not engage in large-scale battles with the rebels. He avoided the real situation and attacked the weak. After finding their weak points, he quickly gathered troops to annihilate them.
When they gathered heavy troops to attack, Zhu Youxiao relied on his own equipment advantages and used firearms and cannons to carry out long-range fire strikes.
As long as the rebels attack the camp and come within shooting range, they will be greeted with all the arrows and gunpowder. Faced with such firepower, An Bangyan can't withstand it, and those people below are not willing to be shot.
There is no one to bombard.
After slowly wasting away like this for more than ten days, An Bangyan finally couldn't hold on any longer, so he withdrew from the camp late at night and changed the marching direction and offensive of the army.
Zhu Youxiao would not let go of this opportunity to beat a drowned dog, and immediately asked Cao Wenzhao and Ma Xianglin to lead the elite cavalry and infantry respectively to pursue them. They once again defeated the rebels and beheaded more than 20,000 prisoners in total.
An Bangyan retreated to the Dingxin and Qianxi areas before he was temporarily freed from the pursuit of the army. This was also his base camp area, so he was very relieved and ordered the army to relax, take a good rest, and restore morale.
But in the middle of the night, when they were sleeping, An Bangyan's military camp was bombed, the whole army was in chaos, and there were ghosts and screams everywhere.
After he put on his armor and took his personal guards to understand the situation, he realized that this was not an unprovoked bombing of the camp, but an army attack on them at night, taking advantage of the darkness.
The general who led the night attack this time was none other than Ma Xianglin, whom the emperor trusted most, and his troops were the two thousand sergeants who were carefully selected in the capital and rigorously trained for night fighting.
A sneak attack of tens of thousands by two thousand men may seem like hitting a stone with an egg, but in reality it is more than enough.