The "Yao Rebellion" in Guangdong and Guangxi has a long history. Its history can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, "Yao Rebellion" occurred one after another in Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces for six hundred years. In general, the "Yao Rebellion"
"It developed from north to south. The "Yao Rebellion" in the Song Dynasty mainly occurred in Hunan. As the Yao people gradually moved southward, by the Ming Dynasty, the "Yao Rebellion" mainly occurred in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas.
The Yao people migrated south from Hunan. Although they first entered Guangdong and then Guangxi, they have made Guangxi Province their home base for a long time. Guangxi has rugged mountains and dense jungles, making it an ideal place for the Yao people who rely on mountain farming as their main source of income. For example, Gou
Luoda Mountain and Dayao Mountain are the main gathering areas of the Yao people. The Ming Dynasty's Yao governance policy also focused on Guangxi.
Since Xuande, Yunshan, the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, has conquered the Yao on the border between Guangdong and Guangxi. In two years, he has killed tens of thousands of people. Later, Liu Pu and Tian Zhen both carried out massacres in Guangxi. As a result, a large number of Guangxi Yao people flowed into Guangdong, including Zhao, Gao, Lei and Lian.
The mountainous areas intertwined between Guangdong and Guangxi, especially the mountains and mountains of Longshui. Therefore, the Guangdong Yao Rebellion in the Ming Dynasty was mainly south of Xijiang, starting from Fengchuan in the west, Yangchun and Gaozhou in the south, and Gaoyao in the east.
, with Dongshan, Xishan and Back Mountain of Longshui as their base camp, they operated in various mountainous counties at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Yao Rebellion affected a wide range of areas. At that time, six of the ten prefectures in Guangdong were affected by the Yao Rebellion.
Luopanyao, who is located in Longshui County, often appears in the Xijiang River and plunders, seriously threatening the traffic arteries of Guangdong and Guangxi. Like bone spurs in the throat, it cannot be solved for a long time. The original reason why the Ming Dynasty would set up the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in Zhaoqing was precisely because of this.
Yao chaos.
However, since the Yao rebellion subsided in the fifth year of Wanli (1577) and Luoding Zhili Prefecture was established in Shenglongshui County, the power of the Yao people in Guangdong has declined. Since then, the large-scale "Yao rebellion" in Guangdong has ended.
The power of the Yao people in the county no longer exists. The Yao area in Guangdong only exists in the mountainous prefectures and counties at the junction of northwest Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan, and its strength is not as good as before. Since then, the scale and scope of the "Yao Rebellion" have continued to shrink, although
There have been many riots, but they are no longer as large and powerful as in the past.
The "Yao Rebellion" in Bapai Yao was a riot after the "pacification" of the Yao Rebellion in Guangdong. Although the scale was not as large as before, in the old time and space, it was still a riot that allowed the Ming court to mobilize armies from several provinces and recruit tens of thousands of troops to suppress it. So.
From the beginning, the General Staff Headquarters and the South China Army Headquarters were quite nervous about this "Yao Rebellion" because the Bapaiyao uprising not only started much earlier than the history of the original time and space, but was also much larger in scale.
The "Bapaiyao Rebellion" that originally broke out in 1639 had a small scope, but this time, the Bapaiyao riot was not only five years ahead of schedule, but also expanded rapidly due to the collapse of the Ming Army's Zhenyao system in Guangxi.
.In particular, the retreat of the two Ming army anti-Yao generals in Luoding Prefecture directly created a huge vacuum. The rioting Yao people's armed forces drove straight down and once again touched the Xijiang waterway. And from the feedback from the army and local government, the Yao people
The civil riots have spread from Lianzhou in northwest Guangdong to the east and south, and the areas affected are rapidly expanding.
In order to prevent the Yao people's riots from forming a chain reaction, the General Staff stepped up the deployment of the National Army to the western and northern Guangdong regions to fill the gaps in local defense. At the same time, it dispatched a large number of reconnaissance personnel with permission to conduct reconnaissance in the areas where riots occurred in western and northern Guangdong.
At the same time, a large number of documents and historical materials were reviewed.
According to the feedback from the scouts, the scale of the Yao people's riot was not as serious as the staff estimated. After the establishment of Luoding Zhili Prefecture in 1577, the strength of the Yao people was greatly reduced. Although the riot team of the Eight Pai Yao mobilized many Yao
People's villages follow the storm, but the strength of these villages is generally limited. Most of the Yao people's villages are slash-and-burn farming in the mountainous areas, and they have very little savings. They rely on traders to import iron tools and salt. They lack weapons and have no ability to attack difficulties, although they can sometimes use clever tricks to surprise them.
The city was captured, but overall the combat effectiveness was very weak. The Hakka villages on the edge of the Yao area have long been in conflict with the Yao people, and the number of times the villages were conquered was not many. Therefore, the comprehensive conclusion can be concluded that the scale of the Yao rebellion was not too large.
It's not big enough to pose much of a threat.
"Is your conclusion a little... optimistic?" Zhu Mingxia asked with a frown at the licensing report meeting.
"I think we should look at the matter in two." Xu Xu said, "Currently, riots are happening along the Xijiang River, but according to reports from our troops, the main scope of activities of the Yao people's armed forces is still on the north bank of the Xijiang River - they are not
Without penetrating into the South Bank area, analysis of past historical data shows that the actions of the Yao people's armed forces were mainly 'plundering', that is to say, they cared more about property and population rather than occupying territory."
The Yao people are mainly engaged in farming in the mountains. They are scattered in large areas and live in small settlements. They are highly mobile, backward in culture and education, and live in poverty. They often take risks for a way out of life, and plundering down the mountains is very common. Although the Yao people's armed forces have captured the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty more than once.
, but they basically abandon the defense after looting, and will never defend the city.
"The Yao proverb says: 'The official has ten thousand soldiers, and I have ten thousand mountains. When the soldiers come, I go, and when the soldiers go, I come.' Relying on the mountains to protect yourself, exhaust the enemy troops, and eventually force the invading officers and soldiers to retreat, this is the Yao people's armed forces
A tried and tested combat principle. The Bapaiyao Rebellion actually did not end until the end of the Ming Dynasty. It was not suppressed until the Shunzhi period. It was the use of this principle." Xu said eloquently, "So their riots are often satisfying.
Yu went down the mountain to plunder, and then retreated to the mountainous area, looking for an opportunity to cool off before going back down the mountain. I investigated the Ming army's methods of dealing with the Yao people's armed forces, and particularly emphasized "difficulty"-using troops to control various water and land exits in the mountainous areas can be effective.
To control the scope of activities of the Yao people's armed forces. I think we can learn from this."
After listening to his introduction, Zhu Mingxia felt that he had some ideas.
"Another point is that although the scope of activity of the Badai Yao armed forces is not small this time, and there are many Yao people villages that have rioted, these villages have basically not merged with the Badai Yao armed forces - the Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi are different from the Yunnan and Guizhou regions in southwest China.
, there are no great chieftains like the Yang family in Bozhou and the Shui Xi'an family who have been inherited for hundreds and thousands of years and are similar to local emperors. Although the Yao people have leaders such as Yaomu, their power is limited and the scope of their jurisdiction is not large. The economic level is backward.
, it is generally difficult to form a large armed group - don't look at the fact that many Yao villages are rioting now, in fact they will not join forces with the armed forces of Bapai Yao. For these Yao villages, the riots are just because the Ming army fled and created public security
If there is a vacuum, we will take the opportunity to go down the mountain to plunder and make a profit. As long as the National Army is quickly in place and reestablishes social order, the riots in Li villages in these mountainous areas will quickly subside."
"You mean to say that except for the Badai Yao in Lianshan, the Yao people's riots in other areas are not a concern? There is no need for us to send special troops to suppress them."
This question seemed a bit heavy-handed. Xu Xu thought about it for a moment before replying: "That's right. According to the information compiled in the big library and our interviews with local elders, the officials got the information. As long as the local security and traffic can be controlled,
The main road can effectively curb the Yao people's looting activities. In fact, even if we go to suppress it, we will actually go over mountains and ridges to attack the city, and there is no decent armed group for us to encircle and annihilate."
"So that's what it is." Zhu Mingxia nodded, "This is actually a public security war."
"Exactly," Xu Xu said, "we really have to use large corps to suppress them. That's just like using artillery to fight mosquitoes. And it will seriously restrict our field strength. It is more appropriate to let the National Army deal with them. In fact, the most worrying thing now is not
It's not a riot by the Yao people. It's a problem with local bandits - they are much more mobile than the Yao people's armed forces, and they are more destructive."
Bandits are an old problem. In China in the 17th century, wherever there were people, there were bandits. Even in a "best place" like Beijing, bandits were active outside the city. Guangzhou is known as the number one city in the south.
The possibility of being robbed and kidnapped by Da Tian Er was certainly no exception on both sides of the golden waterway of the Xijiang River. The collapse of the Ming army in Guangdong and the destruction of local wars caused the number and equipment level of the bandits to rapidly increase several times.
"...Now it is the bandits who are harassing the prefectures and counties everywhere, attacking our troops and staff, and putting huge pressure on us," Xu Xu said. "What I am most worried about is that the bandits may join forces with the rioting Yao people. At present,
It seems that there is already such a trend.”
In the history of the old time and space, the Yao Rebellion in 1635 was just a small fight. Only Ba Pai Yao participated in the rebellion. They briefly captured Lianshan County, seized the county seal, and then retreated and hid in a mountain nest to fight with the army.
The real uproar would not start until eight years later, when Ba Paiyao joined the people of Lianshan County, united Zhang Xianzhong's general Tang Taozhong, and Yang Guozhi's tens of thousands of rogue bandits, Lian Kelianshan, Lianzhou, Jie
They invaded Yangshan, Yingde and other places. They were very powerful for a while, but were suppressed by the Qing army during the Shunzhi period.
"...If social order cannot be restored as soon as possible, the bandits form a large group of rogues, and the Yao people's armed forces merge with the rogues on a large scale, the situation will be a hundred times more difficult to manage than it is now." Xu Xu then mentioned another important piece of information.
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"According to our interrogation of prisoners, we learned that many of the bandits currently operating in the Xijiang Basin are not the defeated Ming army, but "official bandits" from Guangxi.
"Official bandit?!" Zhu Mingxia was surprised. "You mean Xiong Wencan..."
"Yes," Xu Xu nodded, "although the information we have is limited. However, the Ming army in Guangxi infiltrated back to Guangdong as a small group of bandits and also became bandits."
"Xiong Wencan is short of food and pay, and wants to ask the officers and soldiers to come back and die. How can he be happy?"
"Why are you not happy?" Xu Xu said, "I asked them to become bandits, not to fight. Being bandits means they are free, and the children and treasures they robbed are all their own - no better than a few soldiers' pay?"
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