Ping An Biography

Since the Song Dynasty, the ruling trend of the Central Plains Dynasty has generally emphasized literature over military affairs, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception.However, the current situation is not as serious as it was later. The heroes and generals who came over from the Jingnan Battle and their descendants still have a high status and the right to speak.Especially after Zhu Yong's honor, the local government still dare not neglect.When Zhu Yong came to Changde Mansion, he was warmly received by many bureaucrats under the prefect Zhao Ming.

Because Cao Shan, the eunuch of the Supervising Army, and Ma Bao, the eunuch of Dongchang knew each other, and Cao Shan's status in the palace was much higher than Ma Bao, so it was easy for Zhu Yong to see this and come down to collect information and investigate cases when he was recommended by Cao Jianjun. eunuch; and obtained information about the evil cult from him.

The location of the main altar and some sub-altars 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 range of Wuling Mountains. And sparsely populated is not a good place.There are very few Han people in this area. Zhu Yong can hardly imagine what material source the rebel party uses to raise its soldiers. Could it be that it relies on robbing the money and food of the few people?How is that different from bandits?

Before Zhu Yong arrived in Huguang, he learned that the rebel party had occupied the territory near Shimen County; the eunuch Cao Shan from Xuzhou brought the honor of encircling and suppressing the bandits in Shimen County first, and assisting Jinyiwei and the local government to destroy The lair of the rebellious party.

Now when we arrive at the place, we find that the "rebellious party" has fled back to the mountainous area, and the task of encircling and suppressing Shimen County no longer exists.However, the home of the evil sect is in the deep mountains, which is not conducive to the march of the army; in Zhu Yong's judgment, this group of people is actually a rabble like armed refugees and bandits who are deceived and deceived. Instead of sending troops to suppress the situation, spies and scouts should be sent to find out the situation first.

As a military commander, the situation that caught his attention the most at the moment was the Miao rebels marching into Chenzhou Prefecture.According to Tang Bao, the Miao people gathered more than 1 troops, and the momentum was so great that it shocked the prefectures and counties.This is where Zhu Yong thinks it will be useful, and the battle with the Miao people will definitely win a lot.More than 1 Miao soldiers fought outside; hundreds of rebels retreated to the mountainous areas.Comparing the hatchback and the commander-in-chief, Mr. Zhu has already made up his mind.

He established a military center in Changde Shengzhang. On the one hand, he urged the Wuchang capital to gather troops and hand them over to him as soon as possible. In the second stage, the military households in the guards and the reserve military households in the prefectures and counties were recruited to form an army of more than [-].

On the other hand, Zhu Yong and his staff formulated a combat plan and reported it to the Xuzhou Jingying Chinese Army.Of course, because of the long distance, it is not necessary to wait for the response of the center before taking action. Since the Ministry of War has handed over the military power, the commander-in-chief has greater autonomy.

The combat idea is mainly aimed at the Miao people.In the early stage, using the existing troops stationed in various places that were quickly recruited in the first stage, they seized the opportunity of the main force of the Miao people to advance to Chenzhou. ; Based on the judgment that Chenzhou is an important town in the southwest and cannot be breached in a short period of time, after Miao soldiers enter Chenzhou Prefecture, they must rob |At this time, the main force of the west government army and the central government army in Chenzhou City formed horns. Two flanking attacks defeated the main force of the Miao soldiers, and then divided and chased them to weaken the strength and morale of the Miao people.

In the later stage, when the conscripted army gathered, when the strength of the Miao people was severely damaged in Chenzhou, the official army split up with superior forces and attacked in the range of Laer Mountain to quell the rebellion in one fell swoop.

After the Miao people's rebellion was put down, Zhu Yong described the situation of the "disruptive party": the Yongshun Division and Baojingzhou Xuanwei Division were used as barriers in the west, and there were many guards and chieftains in the north. Controlling the Wuling Mountain System in Miaojiang, the eastern part is Changde and Yuezhou Dongting Lake Plain, which is the site of stable and effective rule by the imperial court.It directly surrounded the scope of activities of the "disruptive party" in the middle, making it difficult for them to fly.At that time, the mobile forces will be divided into the mountains and suppressed, and the main forces of the chaotic party will surely be wiped out.

The idea is good, but the reality is not so good.The mobilization ability of the guard soldiers in the southwest region is very low, the speed is slow, and the dispatching is not effective.The people sent by the capital to mobilize troops also understood that it was very difficult to mobilize half of the 5000 guards in the local area under the situation that military households escaped more and more.Moreover, under the shuffle and dispute between generals and officials, there is no secret about military transfers. "Where to go" and "what to do" are almost known to passers-by.

In Zhu Yong's plan, the idea of ​​"suddenly crossing the river and occupying Luxi" is not easy to achieve suddenly. The sergeants dispatched from the guards are completely insufficient in food and grass, and the restraint is not strict, so the armies "expropriate" horses and grass along the road.If the common people are unwilling to surrender, then scare them, saying that the masters are going to suppress the rebellion, and that your obstruction is in collusion with the rebels.

Seeing such a situation, Zhu Yong was both angry and disappointed. He could only hope that the Miao people had always been active in the isolated mountainous area and knew nothing about the outside world; The Miao people from the east showed no signs of retreating.

The so-called urgent deployment of "quickly gathering no less than 5000 people in the first stage" has not been enough for more than half a month.Every day outside Zhu Yong's camp, there were "crackling" whips and screams begging for mercy.Zhu Yong didn't even do anything, the news from the court went back and forth, and the reply came to him; the officials of the "Walking" Ministry of War approved his military plan, and who knew the situation in Huguang?

As a last resort, Zhu Yong began to think about the Yongding Guard who hadn't planned to mobilize troops...

When the military official document was formulated before, the order given to Yongdingwei was only to increase vigilance and stick to the pass.Because Zhu Yong's staff and generals discussed and argued, although the rebel party of the evil sect withdrew from Shimen and Cili counties, their military strength was not damaged, and the size was a threat that needed to be prepared in advance; Yongdingwei was therefore subject to He won the attention of several talented advisers in Zhu Yong's circle.

Several counselors thought at first that the anti-thief soldiers of the Anti-Xie Sect were able to bypass Yongding Guard from the west, and then captured Shimen Cili in leaps and bounds, which was the negligence of the commander of Yongding; People suspect that the generals of Yongdingwei have colluded with the bandit soldiers.

But later everyone discovered that these problems were not only the problems of Yongdingwei, and the war was imminent, and there was no time to hold the commander accountable.Then the counselors began to discuss the pros and cons of transferring troops from Yongding Guard to supplement the recent troops.