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Chapter 419: Casting spells to suppress evil

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Outside the Lizhou military camp, the guard at the door was dizzy by the light reflected by the facing heart protection mirror. He couldn't help but squint his eyes and saw clearly that the person coming was General Zhou Mengxiong and others. The guard's expression immediately became nervous and his body became more straight.

Ding Ding frame, a series of metal collisions sounded, and a group of armed generals dressed in armor followed Zhou Mengxiong into the tent.

Zhou Mengxiong saw a look of awe on the faces of the guards and was very satisfied.

In the army, from generals to soldiers, everyone is afraid of him, which is exactly the prestige he needs to establish; people are afraid of themselves in their hearts, and even if they occasionally ask unreasonable demands, the soldiers dare not raise objections.

In dealing with these reckless men, sticks and majesty are the most useful and simplest things.

So sometimes Zhou Mengxiong thinks that Zhang Ning should not be a good general. If he were the one who was in charge of the army himself, a group of soldiers might turn out to be bad.

Because Zhang Ning is too gentle, he can't restrain the soldiers with a large number of people at all. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. If you don't give some color, you will see if they will go to the house and unload the tiles!

However, Zhou Mengxiong secretly had to recognize that Zhang Ning was a superior. He wanted to check and balance and control all forces, but he could not succeed by just being stern.

There are fewer people in a group of people with higher status in all parties. Whether a person is fierce on the surface is actually useless is easy to see that everyone is not scared and does not take that trick.

salute!Suddenly I heard a loud shout.All the generals stood up one after another, raised their arms straight, and looked at Zhou Mengxiong who had just walked into the middle seriously.

Zhou Mengxiong just nodded and waved his hand to signal everyone to find their own positions.

What Zhou Mengxiong was holding was the order from Wuchang that he had just received. He paced back and forth in front of the seat above, but did not go up. He just stood below and held up the military order with both hands, bowed to the top, and then said: The King of Xiang.

He knew it well, and he had to do enough attitude to avoid anyone coming to Wuchang to speak in secret.

Naturally, he has no strength or name, nor has the intention to be unjust, and at the same time he also wants to be constrained by himself.

On the battlefield, he controlled neither the most nor the most elite. There were also the father and son of the Yao family in Yuezhou, and Yu Qian and Wei Bin in Wuchang and Jiangxi.

Not only that, after the establishment of the six cabinet ministries in Wuchang, all the local financial power had been reclaimed. Now, the Lizhou camp wants to launch a war to prepare food, grass, materials and military expenses, and must obtain the Ministry of Revenue’s decree. Zhou Mengxiong’s words are no longer useful in the local government, and he dare not overstep the authority and order the government.

Firearms were also directly allocated from Wuchang, and ammunition was from the Changde Weapon Bureau workshop. Zhou Mengxiong, the yamen in these places, had no right to get involved.

In less than a year, the decentralization of power had been basically completed. How dare he easily gain troops?

Zhou Mengxiong put away his thoughts and looked at the words on the paper carefully and said: It is not for the country's soldiers to fight for themselves, but for the unjust attack... When Zhou Mengxiong read the first sentence, he felt that the order was drafted by Zhang Ning himself, because it looked very similar to his argument.

Zhang Ning was born as a literati, and many of his articles and decrees were written by him, so he had a clear idea when writing things.

After the Ministry of War transfer order, Lizhou then began to prepare to march into Miaojiang, Wuling Mountain. Li Wenda, a relative of Zhou Mengxiong, volunteered and received the military order.

Two soldiers and horses were assembled, with each of them being about 750 people, plus the commanding soldiers and mates, the number was nearly 2,000.

Zhou Mengxiong believed that the number of people was not large or small. If there were too many people, it was difficult to walk on the mountainous roads and was difficult to replenish supplies, and he was afraid that King Miao would not be able to afford the food he needed.

Then he agreed to cooperate with Miao Envoy and ordered Li Wenda to march southwest.

The information in Miaojiang was blocked, and the old man and the Vermillion Bird Army were connected, but the Miao people knew nothing.

When Li Wenda's troops of the Suzaku Army passed Luxi and embarked westward, the old man suddenly claimed on Laer Mountain that he wanted to accept the title of Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty.

There was a sudden internal dispute.

Not long after, the Miao people discovered the Ming army and the Miao army guide on the Wuxi River, and then realized the seriousness of the matter. The Miao king and the old man obviously had planned to take action seriously.

The old man insisted that the Ming army that came was a guard protecting the envoy of Jianwen and ordered all ethnic groups not to harass them.

Shi He and other leaders opposed complacent to the Ming court. They had a noisy but had no choice but to do anything for the time being. In a hurry, they could not assemble a large army.

It was midsummer and the busy farming season, most of the soldiers went home and were busy taking care of the dealer. It was difficult to gather the army in one month or two.

The old man naturally had the mood to argue with them. Anyway, as time went by, the guide could bring the Ming army into the mountains.

He declared in the village that the Ming Dynasty wanted to be the King of Miao, and from now on, he would not directly involve the Miao Xinjiang affairs. Only by nominally being the subject of the Central Plains dynasty was the long-term way.

Many elders of all tribes present could not even understand the situation outside, nor could they tell the difference between Jianwen and Xuande.

But finally there was a clear understanding. Shi He immediately pointed out that even if he wanted to surrender to the Central Plains dynasty, he should accept the title of Emperor Xuande in Beijing, rather than Emperor Jianwen in Wuchang. He also said that Emperor Jianwen was rebelling at this time, and that Miaojiang and him were not only not a long-term way, but may cause trouble.

The old man wanted the emperor of the capital to give him a golden book, but it was probably wishful thinking.

Fortunately, the truth is not the most important. Shi He and others can use not enough personnel to form an absolute advantage over the Miao King's gangsters. In the most serious internal struggle, many people who had flattered before were unwilling to shed blood and work hard. He was unable to call on the Miao people.

Many people who were changing their minds began to speak with Miao Wang in private.

However, Shi He and others who supported the Shiren Cult knew that they were coming for them and had no way out. The contradictions became irreconcilable as the news of the Ming army got closer.

The headman Shi He thought it would be difficult to get support from the Miao King at this moment, so he hurriedly decided to deal with the invading Ming army first.

Shi He gathered gangs from the clan and the Wu family and Ma family, and waited for work in a dangerous area of ​​Wuxi River, preparing to raid the Ming army with its steep mountains and rivers.

This tactic has been tried and proved to be successful. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Miao people suffered this kind of hardship, and the unfamiliar terrain was unacceptable to the local conditions and failed several times.

But this time was different from the past. The Ming army had support from Miao people. The people of Miao King not only directly sent people to serve as guides and vanguards, but also were responsible for inquiring about information and providing a large amount of food, herbs and other materials.

Li Wenda's troops received news of the gathering of troops in advance, and changed their strategy of passively sticking to the route along the river and took the initiative to attack.

They came ashore in a place called Boji Mountain, led by the Miao vanguard and rushed to the mountain village.

The Battle of Duji Mountain was not at all suspense. The Ming army climbed the mountainside below the mountain village, not close to the Miao people's crossbows and bamboo poles to shoot. They directly used light cavalry cannons to take turns to blow up most of their fortifications. Then the musketeers gathered to attack with three-wheeled shooting tactics, and the Miao people scattered in birds and beasts.

The rebel soldiers fled into the mountains and forests with familiar terrain, but at this time, King Miao's men arrived and scattered into the mountains to guerrillas. The rebels were bravely broken in the battle.

Li Wenda successfully entered Laer Mountain, and the army was stationed in various mountain villages on Shirendong Mountain. These houses were built by the Shirenjian and had already fled in all directions.

In addition to the soldiers, there was also a group of Taoist priests in the army, who were very lively in their daily slap.

After Li Wen arrived at Laer Mountain, in addition to meeting King Miao, he was busy building stone tablets and engraving his great achievements on it.

Then let the Miao King attract mountain people from far and near, and ask the Miao people to promote them in the crowd every day.

They said that the giant stone man in the cave is an evil god, and not doing good things will only bring disaster. Only by asking the Taoist priests to invite the great gods from Lingxiao Palace to seal the evil gods can the world avoid disasters.

So Li Wenda and the generals let go of the rice wine given by King Miao in the mountain village, while asking the Taoist priests to do the trick every day, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to quietly bury gunpowder in the ground below the entrance of the stone cave.

After seven or eight days like this, Li Wenda declared that he wanted to implement the Dharma.

A group of Taoist priests beat gongs and drums and sang Taoist scriptures. After a long time, an old Taoist danced madly in public. Humanity was possessed by the gods.

I saw the old Taoist pointing to the hole, muttering something.

Everyone was watching it strangely, and suddenly heard a deafening loud bang on the ground. The earth shook, and the earth flew around in the smoke, and the entrance of the stone cave collapsed in the smoke.

The mountain people were stunned, and many people kowtowed hard.

After Li Wenda finished this, he asked King Miao to build a temple on the mountain and enshrine the statue of Huangdi inside, so that he could suppress the evil god for ten thousand years.

King Miao and some knowledgeable leaders knew that it was a gunpowder explosion, but at this time they also used the tricks, as long as they could scare the people.

After a while, Wuchang really sent a golden edict to enthrone the Miao King, and issued an edict to the Bai family inherit the Miao King.

Li Wenda was named General Wu Lue by Emperor Jianwen and became famous in one battle, and went from an unknown commander to a famous general.

After this incident, Zhou Mengxiong and his guests were drinking and talking a lot, and he started to say something, saying that wars often occur in the border areas of the mountainous areas, which shows the reason.

There are indeed some local rebellions because border generals colluded with officials to act against each other, forcing border residents to rebel, and then the border generals sent troops to quell the chaos. After they were exhausted, the people were injured and their wealth became successful. It was just like a general who had achieved success and had thousands of bones woven.

However, this victory did not have much response in Wuchang. The court officials just said a few congratulations when they met in the cabinet.

Zhang Ning asked Xu Wenjun to send the victory report to the palace for Bai Fengjiao to take a look at it himself, so he left the matter behind.

What really concerns people is not Miaojiang but Jiangxi.