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Facing the fire from the tiger squatting cannon, the defenders in the town couldn't hold on even before the wooden wall was smashed, and they all retreated further to avoid it.

Liao Gui, the son of Liao Ande, saw that he would be defeated in such a bombardment, so he rode out of the wooden wall on horseback and shouted in Chinese, "Wu Na enemy general, if you have the guts, fight me one-on-one!"

Zhu Minru couldn't help laughing: "You Yao people, you actually watch "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"

Liao Gui pointed at Zhu Minru and said, "Do you dare?"

"Haha, why don't you dare?" Zhu Minru laughed loudly, he was a decent martial artist of the Ming Dynasty.

Liao Gui said again: "If you are a hero, you are not allowed to use firearms!"

"No, no." Zhu Minru threw the firecracker to his subordinates.

The mission officer Shi Kehuai advised: "Don't fall into the enemy's tricks, our army is sure to win, and it is necessary to take such a risk."

Zhu Minru said: "Old Shi, don't worry, he can't hurt me. Drive!"

Although there are mountains on all sides, Anding Town has a large area of ​​flat land, located in the alluvial valley where the two rivers meet.This is the distribution center for the surrounding mountain goods, and it is considered a prosperous town in a backward area.

Zhu Minru belongs to the order of dragoons, and he has no armor on his whole body. He only wears a helmet to guard against arrows, and the waist knife he is equipped with is not suitable for riding battles.

But that Yao general, Liao Gui, was wearing leather armor all over his body, and he was holding a Guangxi simple knife in his hand-a Yao nationality hatchet with a long handle.

Liao Gui guessed that he had watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" too much. At this moment, his blood was boiling, and he fantasized about beheading Zhu Minru, and then took the opportunity to lead his troops to cover up the killing and win a big victory that shocked Guangxi.

Of course, he also saw clearly that Zhu Minru didn't have any armor, and he couldn't even use a weapon.

The two sides rode their horses to hedge in this way, and in front of the two armies, under the watchful eyes of everyone, staged a very outrageous single-handed show of generals.

Even the enemy guards who avoided the artillery fire ran behind the wooden wall and watched the battle through the gaps in the wooden boards. Some even climbed on the wooden wall and rode.

Yao Lao Liao Ande did not stop his son from single-handedly fighting, he believed in his son's martial arts, but at the same time felt that he could not stick to it, so he could only win in such a ridiculous way.

With the help of the horse's momentum, Liao Gui raised the simple knife and slashed out.

His simple knife is much longer than Zhu Minru's waist knife, and has a long handle, which is easier to use in riding and fighting.

"when!"

At the moment of contact, Zhu Minru brandished a waist knife and deflected Liao Gui's simple knife, then dropped the knife and jumped out of his body, grabbed Liao Gui's leather armor, and easily took it off the horse's back.

Zhu Minru's arms are super strong, but it's a pity that the horse under his crotch is not strong enough.

It was just a southwestern pony, barely bearing the weight of two men, its limbs were bent and trembling, and it slowed down urgently, almost being thrown out by inertia.

Liao Gui was caught in a daze, without knowing what was going on at all.

Great Ming Wu Juren, so terrifying!

Zhu Minru dismounted the enemy general and shouted at the defenders in the town: "Surrender quickly!"

"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"

"The general is mighty!"

The soldiers of the Datong Dragoons burst into cheers, but the defenders in the town turned pale with fright.

Before Yao Lao Liao Ande could respond, some soldiers had already opened the wooden door, and Anding Town was captured without bloodshed.

A small town is nothing, but this is one of the two major transportation hubs of Si En Mansion!

Zhu Minru belongs to the vanguard, also known as the pioneer.After he occupied Anding Town, he sent people to escort the captured enemy generals back, leaving only a few people to garrison, and led the troops across the river to the south.

Going south along the valley, there is also Baishan Town (later Mashan County).

Also without any tough battles, they captured Baishan Town, then occupied Qiaoli, Nama and other Yao Zhuang villages, and led [-] cavalry straight to the outside of Si'en Mansion.

The enemy general of the Si En Mansion is a military officer of the Han nationality.

Seeing that Zhu Minru had few soldiers, he didn't choose to abandon the city and flee, nor did he choose to stick to the city, and gathered nearly ten thousand soldiers out of the city to fight.

This guy learned from the Ming Dynasty and started the family system, so there are only a thousand servants who can fight, and the rest are just vassal braves.

"It seems to be able to fight?" Shi Kehuai, the missionary officer, asked.

Zhu Minru smiled and said: "Where can't we fight? We're not afraid of them fighting, but we're afraid of them abandoning the city and going into the mountains. The bandits in the Si'en Mansion have never suffered from our losses, so they don't know that they will rush into the mountains when they meet the Datong Army. We must take this opportunity , How much can be destroyed. When they come to their senses, it will be troublesome to hide in the mountains."

Nearly [-] enemy troops advanced in formation, and the dragoons fired with tiger squat guns.

After two rounds of bombardment, the opponent's phalanx was in chaos, and only the family members were able to hold on.

Two thousand dragoons stepped forward, and after approaching twenty steps, in an extremely loose formation, against the enemy's hip-drawn bow and arrow, dismounted and fired a volley of firecrackers.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Get on the horse and charge!"

With one firecracker strike and three consecutive strikes, the whole army mounts and charges.

Zhu Minru brandished a saber and rushed to the front alone.The two armies have not yet contacted, and the enemy Xiangyong has already collapsed.

Zhu Minru disregarded the scattered Xiangyong, and went straight to the enemy's main formation, and those family members also started to flee.

The enemy general, who was not worthy of his life, had no chance to escape, so he was cut off by Zhu Minru with a knife, and two thousand dragoons took advantage of the situation to occupy the city of Si'en.

The two Datong armies in the north and south of Guangxi were ordered to march westward together, and they were all invincible, quickly occupying various cities.

It's a pity that fighting and fighting, the enemy troops in western Guangxi learned to be smart. When they saw the Datong army, they abandoned their cities and villages and chose to hide in the mountains to fight guerrilla resistance.

Chapter 483 [Laughing to death]

Chi Huchen, who lost his way in the karst cave, and Zhu Minru, who was singled out in front of the battle, made the first achievements of the two Guangxi armies in the north and south, but they were both severely criticized by their respective superiors.

Chi Huchen was demoted to one level, and served as Qin Gongming's deputy, who was promoted to the chief general of the Tengjia Bing.

Zhu Minru just notified the whole army to criticize, and the division commander Liu Xinyu reiterated that he must not imitate the one-on-one battle in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

During the ten-month period, the Northern Route Army occupied the entire territory of Si'en Mansion, and the Southern Route Army occupied the entire territory of Nanning Prefecture (half of which was occupied last year).

The next step is very difficult. Facing the enemy army in western Guangxi who fled into the mountains, although the policy of dividing households into fields can gradually reduce the living space of the enemy, and even force the enemy who has no food to surrender voluntarily.However, it will take time and it will be impossible to recover the entire territory of Guangxi this year.

The remaining enemy forces in western Guangxi sent envoys to Yunnan to ask for help from the Puppet Ming regime.

Kunming.

Zhu Qifeng (Jin Pang), Emperor Zhenwu of the Ming Dynasty, was drinking and having fun, enjoying a wonderful song and dance performance.

Ministers of civil and military affairs came to ask for instructions, but Zhu Qifeng said: "Leave civil affairs to Wang Qing, and military affairs to Mu Qing. You can handle it yourself. You don't need to report everything to me."

Several Yunnan important ministers looked at each other, couldn't help sighing secretly, bowed and retreated after bowing down.

In present Yunnan, under Emperor Zhenwu, there are three real power figures:

First, Mu Tianbo, king of Guizhou.

Second, the chief assistant Wang Shide.

Third, the eunuch Gao Lin.

Mu Tianbo didn't need to go into details, the world town of Yunnan, after supporting the emperor, he was also named the Prince of Guizhou.

Wang Shide is not the Jin Yiwei who wrote "Records of Chongzhen", but the former governor of Yunnan.This guy was originally from Yongkang, Zhejiang, and he was a governor in Yunnan. He suddenly heard that Chongzhen was gone, and another prince had escaped, so he discussed with Mu Tianbo to support the new monarch.

As for Gao Lin, he was originally the eunuch guarding Yunnan, but now he is the eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies.

"My lord, the western Guangxi defenders are asking for help, should they be rescued or not?" Wang Shide asked.

Mu Tianbo sighed, and asked, "How can I save you?"

Wang Shide said: "My lord recruits various armies, and may be able to wipe out the rebels in the mountains of western Guangxi."

Mu Tianbo shook his head and explained: "Wang Ge doesn't understand. The army that I can command is only ten to twenty thousand. The rest of the chieftain's soldiers can fight in Yunnan. I'm afraid they are not willing to take them to fight in Guangxi." apply."

Wang Shide said: "You can know the righteousness. Wherever the Zhao thief rebelled, the chieftains were divided into land and released as slaves. If Zhao thief kills Yunnan, will the Yunnan chieftain be spared? Helping the western Guangxi chieftain to fight is also the responsibility of the Yunnan chieftain." Fight the war by yourself. The chieftain of Yunnan will definitely understand such a simple truth."

Mu Tianbo smiled wryly: "The truth is indeed simple, and the chieftain of Yunnan must understand it, but if the Zhao bandits don't come to Yunnan for a day, the chieftain of Yunnan can't be really obedient. After all, the imperial court lacks military rations, and the chieftain who sends troops brings his own food, who wants to take his own food?" What about the food for the court to fight?"

Wang Shide was silent.

Mu Tianbo suddenly said: "In the current situation, the enemy is inside but not outside, we must get rid of that dead eunuch!"

Wang Shide said: "If you get rid of this person, you have to lead troops to force the palace."

Mu Tianbo suppressed the anger in his heart: "Even if forced into the palace, I have to do it, it's a last resort."

Before Chongzhen hanged himself, the eunuch Gao Lin had already made Kunming into a mess.After supporting the new monarch, he became a eunuch with a pen, and even more cronyism, constantly cultivating party members, and suppressing any ministers who dared to oppose him.

Mu Tianbo could bear these things.

However, after Gao Lin took control of the court, he extended his hand to the army and placed eunuchs everywhere to supervise the army, gradually controlling the rations, salaries, and ordnance of the army.

Even the several Yunnan racecourses controlled by the Mu family were mostly controlled by Gao Lin.

The dead eunuch collected beauties everywhere and offered them to Emperor Zhenwu, and also handed over part of the money he found to the emperor.Emperor Zhenwu Zhu Qifeng had already obeyed Gao Linyan and let the eunuchs mess around in Yunnan.

Last fall, Gao Lin even forced against generals and chieftains!

The chieftain of Mile Prefecture and the thousand households of the Eighteen Villages joined forces to launch a rebellion because they could not bear to be exploited.Then, the chieftain of Weimo Prefecture followed the rebellion, and the three parties joined forces to capture the entire Guangxi Prefecture. (Guangxi Prefecture and Guangnan Prefecture are both prefectural administrative units in Yunnan.)

Mu Tianbo mobilized tens of thousands of troops, fought fiercely in May, and suppressed the rebellion, finally put down the rebellion.

From then on, Mu Tianbo couldn't bear it at all, and made up his mind to "clear the emperor's side".

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Shide, is of course a target of wooing.Because the cabinet and the six ministers, many of them are colluding with the eunuchs, frantically getting money out of their own pockets.Only when Wang Shide is dealt with can Mu Tianbo dare to force the palace, otherwise the small court in Yunnan will be in chaos.

Wang Shide also couldn't bear Gao Lin, and quickly said: "Since the prince has made up his mind, I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman!"

The next day, at night.

Zhu Qifeng, Emperor Zhenwu, was still drinking and having fun. He knew that he couldn't be peaceful for a long time, and he could enjoy it every day.

Suddenly, there were shouts of killing.

The dancer and singer fled in panic, and Zhu Qifeng also scrambled and scrambled. He asked the eunuch while running, "But Zhao thief... Emperor Zhao has brought troops here? Follow me quickly... Follow me to dedicate the city and please surrender!"

The accompanying eunuch couldn't figure it out either, so he ran wildly with the emperor.

After running far, Gao Lin came in panic. The eunuch cried out, "Your Majesty, the King of Qian is rebelling, and the King of Qian is rebelling!"

Zhu Qifeng is like falling into an ice cave, he can ask to surrender when the Datong army comes, but Mu Tianbo's rebellion will be fatal.

"Quick... Hurry up and escort me out!" Zhu Qifeng was even more frightened.

An emperor and several eunuchs ran around in a panic.

No matter where they ran, they were all frightened back by the shouts of killing, and the palace seemed to be surrounded.

Just as Zhu Qifeng was looking for a hiding place, Mu Tianbo and Wang Shide led troops in.

Zhu Qifeng trembled all over, and even knelt down on the spot on the forehead, begging: "King Qian, spare my life, King Qian, spare my life. I... I will not be emperor anymore, and I will give up the throne to King Qian, please spare my life!"

The first assistant Wang Shide looked ugly, how could there be such an emperor?

I hope you don't look like a gentleman!

"Take it!" Mu Tianbo shouted.

Hearing this sound, Zhu Qifeng collapsed to the ground, so startled that he lost his ability to think.

But the soldiers caught the eunuchs and did not attack the emperor.

Mu Tianbo also personally lifted the emperor up: "Your Majesty, the ninety-five-year-old, how can you kneel on the ground? The ceremonial supervisor, Bingbi Gaolin, embezzled military rations, withheld military pay, framed weight, excluded dissidents, kidnapped people's daughters, occupied people's land, Deceive the emperor and ignore it...there are too many books to describe. The ministers and soldiers came here only for the side of the Qing emperor. Your Majesty, please kill Gao Lin and his party members!"

Didn't you come to kill me?

Zhu Qifeng was overjoyed immediately, pointed at Gao Lin and said: "Kill, kill this guy!" Then he said to Mu Tianbo, "King Qian has done a great job in eradicating adultery, seal... seal..."

It has been sealed.

Zhu Qifeng had an idea: "Seal the Zhu Kingdom!"

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only Zuozhu and Youzhu Kingdoms according to the system. Although Li Shanchang and Xu Da were enfeoffed as Shangzhu Kingdoms, they were all changed to Zuozhu Kingdoms in the end.

Chang Yuchun's and Yao Guangxiao's Shangzhu kingdoms were all gifted after death.

Xia Yan was confiscated in the Zhu Kingdom, and it was really over after the confinement.

Zhang Juzheng was also posthumously donated to Shangzhu Kingdom, and there was no peace after his death.

Is this a reward, or a curse?

Mu Tianbo knelt down and kowtowed, "I don't ask for rewards, I am willing to help His Majesty set things right."

"Then...then ransack the house, the house of Gao Lin, a rebellious minister and traitor, and reward the king of Guizhou with all the money stolen," Zhu Qifeng said to Wang Shide again, "the old Wang Ge also has a prince, and he is granted the Zuozhu Kingdom and a Grand Master!"

"The minister does not ask for a reward." Wang Shide completely gave up on the Yunnan court.