Since the Song Dynasty, the trend of governing the Central Plains dynasty has generally emphasized culture over military affairs, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception.
However, the current situation is not as serious as it was later. The heroes, generals and descendants who came from the Jingnan Campaign still have a high status and voice.
Especially after a nobleman like Zhu Yong, local governments still dare not neglect them.
Zhu Yong came to Changde Prefecture and was warmly received by many bureaucrats below the prefect Zhao Ming.
Because the eunuch Cao Shan, the eunuch of the East Factory, knew Ma Bao, and Cao Shan's status in the palace was far higher than Ma Bao, Zhu Yong easily saw the eunuch who came to collect information and investigate the case; and he obtained the survey information about the cult ward off the cult from him.
The location of the Cult's General Assembly and some branches are at the junction of Yongshunsi and other three places. With the help of Changde officials, Zhu Yong learned that this area is within the Wuling Mountains, with the complex terrain, rugged roads, high mountains and dense forests, and sparsely populated areas, which are not a good place.
There are very few Han people in this area. Zhu Yong can't imagine what source of materials the unrest party uses to raise soldiers. Could it be that it is robbing the money and food of the young people?
What's the difference between that and the bandits?
Before Zhu Yong arrived in Huguang, he learned that the rebellion party occupied the territory near Shimen County; the holy reputation brought by the eunuch Cao Shan from Xuzhou was to give priority to encirclement and suppress the bandits in Shimen County, and to assist the Jinyiwei and local governments in destroying the rebellion party's nest.
Now that we have arrived at the local area, we found that the rebels have fled back to the mountainous areas, and the task of encircling and suppressing Shimen County no longer exists.
The old nest of the cult warding is in the deep mountains, which is not conducive to the army's march; in Zhu Yong's judgment, these people are actually like armed refugees and cheating bandits. He believes that there is no need to send troops to fight if they are not very clear about the facts, but should send secret spies and scouts to find out the situation first.
As a military general, the most noticeable situation at present is that the Miao rebels entered Chenzhou Prefecture.
According to Tang newspaper, more than 10,000 Miao people gathered, which was very powerful and shocked the prefectures and counties.
This is where Zhu Yong believes there is a place to be useful, and he will definitely achieve great success in this battle with the Miao people.
More than 10,000 Miao soldiers fought on the outside; hundreds of rebellions shrank in the mountainous areas.
The general of the two hatchbacks, Mr. Zhu, was already calculating in his heart.
He established a military center in Changde. On the one hand, he urged the Wuchang Dushi to gather troops as soon as possible and hand them over to him. The dispatch of troops was divided into two stages: the first stage, the first batch of troops with a population of no less than 5,000 from the near Left Guard and the Prefecture were gathered as soon as possible; the second stage, the military households of the military farms and the reserve military households of the prefecture and county were recruited to form an army of more than 20,000.
On the other hand, Zhu Yong and his staff formulated combat ideas and reported to the Central Army of the Jingying in Xuzhou.
Of course, because the journey is long, you don’t have to wait for the center’s response before the action. Since the Ministry of War has handed over the military power, the general officer has greater autonomy.
The combat ideas are mainly aimed at the Miao people.
In the early stage, the existing troops stationed in various places were quickly recruited in the first stage to seize the fighter opportunity of the main force of the Miao people entering Chenzhou. The official army went south to cross the tributary of the Yuanshui River and quickly occupied Luxi to cut off the retreat of the Miao soldiers' large stocks as a whole. Based on the judgment that Chenzhou is a major gateway in the southwest and cannot be broken in the short term, the Miao soldiers must rob food in the village after entering Chenzhou Prefecture, and there is no danger to defend.
At this time, the main force of the official army in the west and the official army in Chenzhou City formed a horn. They attacked and defeated the main force of the Miao soldiers and then divided them to chase them to weaken the Miao soldiers' strength and morale.
In the later period, the army recruited gathered together. When the Miao people were severely damaged in Chenzhou, the official army then used their superior forces to attack the Laer Mountain area in a row to quell the rebellion in one fell swoop.
After the Miao rebellion was quelled, Zhu Yong described the situation against the rebellion: the Yongshun Office and Baojingzhou Xuanwei Office were barriers in the west, and there were many garrisons and chieftain armed forces in the north. After the official army in the south suppressed the rebellion, they controlled the Wuling Mountains in Miaojiang, and the Dongting Lake Plain in Changde and Yuezhou in the east, which was the territory of the steadily and effectively ruled by the imperial government.
He directly surrounded the activities of the unrest in the middle, leaving it with no way to go and it was difficult to fly.
By then, if we use mobile forces to enter the mountains and attack, we will surely clean up the main forces of the rioters.
The idea is good, but the reality is not that beautiful.
The mobilization ability of the garrison troops in the southwest region is very low, with slow speed and poor dispatch.
The people sent by Dusi to mobilize troops also understood that as military households escaped more and more than 5,000 places in the local area had a very difficult time to mobilize half of the number of troops.
Moreover, when the generals and officials were shirking responsibility and disputes, there was no secret of military mobilization. Almost everyone knows where to go and what to do.
In Zhu Yong's plan, the idea of suddenly crossing the river and occupying Luxi was not easy to achieve suddenness. The soldiers dispatched from each garrison were not enough food and grass. In addition, the constraints were not strict, so the army requisitioned horse food and grass along the way.
If the people are unwilling to communicate, scare them and say that the man is going to quell the rebellion, and your obstruction is colluding with the rebels; most honest people dare not compete with the soldiers and can only admit that they are unlucky.
Zhu Yong was both angry and disappointed when he saw this situation. He could only hope that the Miao people had always been active in the closed mountainous areas and knew nothing about the outside world. In fact, it seemed that this was true, because according to the Chenzhou government, the Miao people who came from the east showed no sign of retreating.
The so-called rapid assembly of no less than 5,000 troops in the first stage was not enough for more than half a month.
There were crackling sounds of whips and screams begging for mercy outside Zhu Yong's central army tent every day.
Zhu Yong did nothing, and the news from the court went back and forth, and the reply came to his hands; The officials of the Ministry of War agreed with his military plan, who knew that Huguang was like this?
Zhu Yong had no choice but to start considering the Yongding Guard, who had not originally planned to mobilize troops...
When formulating military documents, the order given to Yongding Guard was only to raise vigilance and stick to the pass.
Because Zhu Yong's aides and his generals discussed and argued that although the cult evacuation party was withdrawn from the two counties of Shimen and Cili, their troops were not damaged, and the size of the army was a threat and needed precautions; Yongdingwei, the place was therefore valued by several talented strategists in Zhu Yong's circle.
Several strategists initially believed that the rebels who ward off the cults could bypass Yongding Guard from the west and then jumped to capture Cili of Shimen, which was the dereliction of duty of Yongding Commander; then the bandits actually retreated from the east, which even made people wonder whether the generals of Yongding Guard had colluded with the bandits.
But later everyone discovered that these problems were not only the Yongdingwei problem, but also the war was about to be held accountable.
Then the strategists began to discuss the pros and cons of mobilizing troops from Yongding Guard to supplement recent soldiers.
However, the current situation is not as serious as it was later. The heroes, generals and descendants who came from the Jingnan Campaign still have a high status and voice.
Especially after a nobleman like Zhu Yong, local governments still dare not neglect them.
Zhu Yong came to Changde Prefecture and was warmly received by many bureaucrats below the prefect Zhao Ming.
Because the eunuch Cao Shan, the eunuch of the East Factory, knew Ma Bao, and Cao Shan's status in the palace was far higher than Ma Bao, Zhu Yong easily saw the eunuch who came to collect information and investigate the case; and he obtained the survey information about the cult ward off the cult from him.
The location of the Cult's General Assembly and some branches are at the junction of Yongshunsi and other three places. With the help of Changde officials, Zhu Yong learned that this area is within the Wuling Mountains, with the complex terrain, rugged roads, high mountains and dense forests, and sparsely populated areas, which are not a good place.
There are very few Han people in this area. Zhu Yong can't imagine what source of materials the unrest party uses to raise soldiers. Could it be that it is robbing the money and food of the young people?
What's the difference between that and the bandits?
Before Zhu Yong arrived in Huguang, he learned that the rebellion party occupied the territory near Shimen County; the holy reputation brought by the eunuch Cao Shan from Xuzhou was to give priority to encirclement and suppress the bandits in Shimen County, and to assist the Jinyiwei and local governments in destroying the rebellion party's nest.
Now that we have arrived at the local area, we found that the rebels have fled back to the mountainous areas, and the task of encircling and suppressing Shimen County no longer exists.
The old nest of the cult warding is in the deep mountains, which is not conducive to the army's march; in Zhu Yong's judgment, these people are actually like armed refugees and cheating bandits. He believes that there is no need to send troops to fight if they are not very clear about the facts, but should send secret spies and scouts to find out the situation first.
As a military general, the most noticeable situation at present is that the Miao rebels entered Chenzhou Prefecture.
According to Tang newspaper, more than 10,000 Miao people gathered, which was very powerful and shocked the prefectures and counties.
This is where Zhu Yong believes there is a place to be useful, and he will definitely achieve great success in this battle with the Miao people.
More than 10,000 Miao soldiers fought on the outside; hundreds of rebellions shrank in the mountainous areas.
The general of the two hatchbacks, Mr. Zhu, was already calculating in his heart.
He established a military center in Changde. On the one hand, he urged the Wuchang Dushi to gather troops as soon as possible and hand them over to him. The dispatch of troops was divided into two stages: the first stage, the first batch of troops with a population of no less than 5,000 from the near Left Guard and the Prefecture were gathered as soon as possible; the second stage, the military households of the military farms and the reserve military households of the prefecture and county were recruited to form an army of more than 20,000.
On the other hand, Zhu Yong and his staff formulated combat ideas and reported to the Central Army of the Jingying in Xuzhou.
Of course, because the journey is long, you don’t have to wait for the center’s response before the action. Since the Ministry of War has handed over the military power, the general officer has greater autonomy.
The combat ideas are mainly aimed at the Miao people.
In the early stage, the existing troops stationed in various places were quickly recruited in the first stage to seize the fighter opportunity of the main force of the Miao people entering Chenzhou. The official army went south to cross the tributary of the Yuanshui River and quickly occupied Luxi to cut off the retreat of the Miao soldiers' large stocks as a whole. Based on the judgment that Chenzhou is a major gateway in the southwest and cannot be broken in the short term, the Miao soldiers must rob food in the village after entering Chenzhou Prefecture, and there is no danger to defend.
At this time, the main force of the official army in the west and the official army in Chenzhou City formed a horn. They attacked and defeated the main force of the Miao soldiers and then divided them to chase them to weaken the Miao soldiers' strength and morale.
In the later period, the army recruited gathered together. When the Miao people were severely damaged in Chenzhou, the official army then used their superior forces to attack the Laer Mountain area in a row to quell the rebellion in one fell swoop.
After the Miao rebellion was quelled, Zhu Yong described the situation against the rebellion: the Yongshun Office and Baojingzhou Xuanwei Office were barriers in the west, and there were many garrisons and chieftain armed forces in the north. After the official army in the south suppressed the rebellion, they controlled the Wuling Mountains in Miaojiang, and the Dongting Lake Plain in Changde and Yuezhou in the east, which was the territory of the steadily and effectively ruled by the imperial government.
He directly surrounded the activities of the unrest in the middle, leaving it with no way to go and it was difficult to fly.
By then, if we use mobile forces to enter the mountains and attack, we will surely clean up the main forces of the rioters.
The idea is good, but the reality is not that beautiful.
The mobilization ability of the garrison troops in the southwest region is very low, with slow speed and poor dispatch.
The people sent by Dusi to mobilize troops also understood that as military households escaped more and more than 5,000 places in the local area had a very difficult time to mobilize half of the number of troops.
Moreover, when the generals and officials were shirking responsibility and disputes, there was no secret of military mobilization. Almost everyone knows where to go and what to do.
In Zhu Yong's plan, the idea of suddenly crossing the river and occupying Luxi was not easy to achieve suddenness. The soldiers dispatched from each garrison were not enough food and grass. In addition, the constraints were not strict, so the army requisitioned horse food and grass along the way.
If the people are unwilling to communicate, scare them and say that the man is going to quell the rebellion, and your obstruction is colluding with the rebels; most honest people dare not compete with the soldiers and can only admit that they are unlucky.
Zhu Yong was both angry and disappointed when he saw this situation. He could only hope that the Miao people had always been active in the closed mountainous areas and knew nothing about the outside world. In fact, it seemed that this was true, because according to the Chenzhou government, the Miao people who came from the east showed no sign of retreating.
The so-called rapid assembly of no less than 5,000 troops in the first stage was not enough for more than half a month.
There were crackling sounds of whips and screams begging for mercy outside Zhu Yong's central army tent every day.
Zhu Yong did nothing, and the news from the court went back and forth, and the reply came to his hands; The officials of the Ministry of War agreed with his military plan, who knew that Huguang was like this?
Zhu Yong had no choice but to start considering the Yongding Guard, who had not originally planned to mobilize troops...
When formulating military documents, the order given to Yongding Guard was only to raise vigilance and stick to the pass.
Because Zhu Yong's aides and his generals discussed and argued that although the cult evacuation party was withdrawn from the two counties of Shimen and Cili, their troops were not damaged, and the size of the army was a threat and needed precautions; Yongdingwei, the place was therefore valued by several talented strategists in Zhu Yong's circle.
Several strategists initially believed that the rebels who ward off the cults could bypass Yongding Guard from the west and then jumped to capture Cili of Shimen, which was the dereliction of duty of Yongding Commander; then the bandits actually retreated from the east, which even made people wonder whether the generals of Yongding Guard had colluded with the bandits.
But later everyone discovered that these problems were not only the Yongdingwei problem, but also the war was about to be held accountable.
Then the strategists began to discuss the pros and cons of mobilizing troops from Yongding Guard to supplement recent soldiers.