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In history, when the Qing army went south, Guangxi also launched a vigorous anti-Qing movement.

As far as Han gentry are concerned, they are mainly concentrated in northern Guangxi.

In the fourth year of Tianqi's promotion of Li Yingpin, he first dispersed his family wealth to recruit soldiers, and went to Hunan to fight against Li Zicheng's remnants. In the face of the Qing army's attack, the central and northern parts of Guangxi were completely lost, but Li Yingpin was still able to stand firm in the northeastern part of Guangxi.

The reason why Li Dingguo was able to regain Guilin and forced Kong Youde to be defeated and self-immolated, Li Yingpin contributed a lot. First, Li Yingpin restrained the main force of the Qing army, leaving Guilin empty of troops; second, Li Yingpin notified Li Dingguo, suggesting that Li Dingguo seize the opportunity to attack Guilin.

It's a pity that when the Qing army counterattacked, Li Dingguo was forced to withdraw, and Li Yingpin fought alone again.

The base area laid down by Li Yingpin was surrounded by the Qing army from three directions, and wherever they passed, "they killed everyone, regardless of age."

Li Yingpin was defeated and fled without a trace. The three sons obeyed their father's order and remained in the Qing Dynasty for life.

In this time and space, when the Datong army invaded the northeast of Guangxi, Li Yingpin also recruited troops to resist. But there was no battle after the recruitment. Li Yinpin was said to surrender by his former classmates, and he also helped the Datong Army to recruit and surrender the entire Lingchuan County Township Army to train troops.

Today, Li Yingpin has been transferred to Sichuan and is serving as the magistrate of Longchang County.

Under the persuasion of Li Yingpin, Chen Jingyou, a talented scholar whose whole family fought against the Qing Dynasty, chose to lead his troops to surrender to the Datong Army. He is currently serving as the county magistrate in Liucheng, Guangxi.

The two brothers Zhu Shengnong and Zhu Shengtian from the clan of the Ming Dynasty fought against the Qing Dynasty for ten years, cooperated with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo in the battle, and won the loyalty of a large number of Zhuang and Yao forces. And in this time and space, they were respected as co-lords by the Guangxi resistance forces, and they formed a coalition army to block the advance of the Datong army.

After two defeats in a row, Liao Mingyue, the leader of the Yao tribe, joined the Datong army with his entire clan. Brothers Zhu Shengnong and Zhu Shengtian were disheartened.

Just last fall, the two secretly contacted Liu Xinyu, and Liu Xinyu reported it to the Ministry of War, and received Zhao Han's personal approval: Since the Zhu brothers did not do any evil, and they were only the nominal leaders of the Guangxi coalition forces, their surrender can be counted as meritorious service. After the surrender, if you want to be a civil servant, you must first go to Nanjing to study for three months, at least you can start as a county magistrate.

The Zhu brothers immediately surrendered and arrived in Nanjing at the end of spring this year, turning the Guangxi coalition forces into a mess. That's why the Ministry of War ordered to win the whole of Guangxi within this year!

Zhu Minru, a martial artist, surrendered in the winter of the previous year.

After this person was admitted to the martial arts examination, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty conferred the post of General Manager. But he didn't catch the real shortage, and it is estimated that the money was not enough, so let him go back to his hometown and wait slowly.

Historically, Zhu Minru spent all his wealth to recruit soldiers and had the strongest cavalry unit among the Guangxi Rebel Army. He has repeatedly made military exploits, and he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, and he was given the seal of General Zhenxi. When the Qing army broke through the city, Zhu Minru killed his wife and children, burned the seal, took off his armor, put on a virtuous crown and a big crimson robe, and committed suicide in the direction of the Nanming court.

This year, with the expansion of the Guangxi Datong Army, Zhu Minru has been promoted to the head of the cavalry regiment. When he surrendered, he not only disbanded more than 3,000 troops, but also donated more than 800 southwest war horses.

Zhao Han attached great importance to this. Although he took away 80% of the Zhu family's property, he gave him an iron mining license and allowed his family to operate a salt shop in Lingui County.

Anding Town.

This town is located on the north bank of the Nijiang River (Hongshui River), which is twenty miles south of the later Du'an Yao Autonomous County.

The leader of the Yao nationality occupies a radius of hundreds of miles, and takes Anding Town as the core of rule, and builds a wooden city wall outside the town.

Zhu Minru, as the vanguard of the Guangxi North Route Army, led the cavalry along the river. He didn't set up camp at all, and ran out of the town single-handedly, shouting loudly: "Surrender quickly, or this place will be flattened!"

The missionary officer Shi Kehuai also rode up to follow, and led a group of missionary officers, shouting in Chinese and local Yao dialect: "All the people in the town listen, Your Majesty the Emperor of Datong, please marry the Yao Pan Niangniang as your concubine. Han, Yao They are both brothers and in-laws. In Anding Town, there are Han people and Yao people. As long as you put down your weapons and surrender, you will celebrate the festival before and forget the past. Go to the Yao elder Liao Ande and tell him that Liao Mingyue, the elder of the Yao nationality, has surrendered. Can the little leader of the Yao tribe still withstand the advance of the Datong army?"

Not long after, Yao Lao Liao Ande appeared in person: "If I surrender, I don't want to be a chieftain, but my land is not allowed to be taken away, and it is not enough to take away my soldiers and slaves!"

The Yao people not only have a variety of languages, but also their systems.

Ba Pai Yao, who was born as Pan Qimei, implements a democratic election system. The Yao people here belong to the dictatorship, and there is still slavery.

Zhu Minru was furious immediately: "You don't know what's good and what's wrong. You occupied Anding Town without saying anything, and even captured the Han people as slaves. It's a great kindness for you to surrender, but you still want to keep the soldiers and slaves! Hu Zun Pull out the cannon and immediately attack the city!"

The Datong Army in Sichuan and Guangxi not only has mountain troops, but also has cavalry equipped with tiger squatting guns.

The tiger squat gun belongs to the original mortar, the gun body is very light, and it mainly uses curved fire, which is very suitable for fighting in mountains and forests.

That is, the range is very short, and the effective range is less than 500 meters.

The tiger squatting cannon was slowly carried to the outside of the town, and the missionary officer continued to shout: "Brothers of the Han and Yao nationalities, the Datong Army is for the poor. You work hard for the old Yao. Life and death are unpredictable, and you can get it in exchange." What? As long as you surrender to the Datong army, households will be assigned to farms immediately. There will be no heavy corvees, and no excessive taxes. This year Liuzhou has a bumper harvest, and every household is well fed... I don’t want you to defect, Datong’s heavenly soldiers break through the wooden wall, just put down your weapons. For weapons, you can kneel or squat, and the Datong Army promises not to kill the surrendered soldiers!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The tiger squatting gun was pulled to a distance of 300 meters, aimed at the wooden wall and started firing continuously.

This place belongs to the jurisdiction of Sien Mansion, and there are only two cities in the entire Sien Mansion. One is Si'en Fucheng, and the other is Wuyuan (Wuming) County. There are only two prefectures in the city, but the real control area is very large. One can imagine how remote and backward it is.

They have no artillery, let alone firecrackers, and the only long-range weapons are homemade clay bows and javelins.

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!"

"Victory! Victory!"

"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 taken 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 2,000 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 10,000 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 didn't deserve to have a name, didn't even have a chance to escape, so he was cut off by Zhu Minru with a knife, and two thousand dragoons took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Si'en Mansion City.

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.