Qijiang holds a slogan.

In May (1599), a valiant soldier with tens of thousands of people suddenly surrounded Chongqing Qijiang City. In the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, people in this southwest border town probably never thought they would be attacked, so there were only 3,000 newly recruited defenders in the city.

This army comes from Bozhou, which is 0/70km away from Qijiang/KLOC-,and is led by Bozhou Chief Executive Yang Yinglong. At this time, Yang Yinglong' s blatant rebellion came from

He built Hailongtun Fortress three years ago: this is a huge castle at the top of Longyan Mountain in Bozhou with an altitude of 1.354 meters, with a total area of 1.59 square kilometers. It is surrounded by nine natural disasters, guarded by stone buildings like palaces, and contains well water for thousands of people to drink. After the reconstruction was completed, Yang Yinglong wrote a couplet: "Gankun in Tianzi Town in the first half of Hailongtun": he fought against the imperial court's intention according to the danger, which was obviously in the sun.

Then, when the main force of the imperial army fought in Korea, Yang Yinglong, with deep-rooted hatred for the loss of children, led the Bozhou army to take the initiative. In the 24th year of Wanli (1596), he looted all Guizhou provinces around Bozhou. In the second year, Jiangjin and Nanchuan were looted, and Hongtou, Gaoping and Xincun in Guizhou were also attacked. The farthest place even occupied 48 villages in Huguang.

At this time, there was no room for change between the Ming Dynasty and Yang Yinglong. But at this time, the Korean War is not over yet, and the army can't turn around, so it can only take the defensive on Yang Yinglong. Yang Yinglong saw that the court's response was weak, so he became more and more arrogant and aggravated.

In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli (1599), Bozhou army entered Sichuan in three ways, surrounded by Yang Yinglong. There was a reason for attacking Qijiang: the commander-in-chief of Qijiang at that time actually deceived innocent Bozhou people to kill them in order to win credibility, which was often done by shameless generals in the late Ming Dynasty. However, Fang's appearance at this juncture was even more infuriated, and as a result, it brought disaster to the whole Qijiang River.

The guards on the Qijiang River are weak. After the Bozhou army completed the siege on all sides, it set up a ladder to attack the city. This is obviously Yang Yinglong's deliberate revenge-from the beginning, he planned to slaughter people to vent his anger. Soon, the Qijiang garrison was outnumbered and was wiped out in the street fighting. Then Yang Yinglong killed Qijiang, killed all the innocent people in the city and threw them into the river. In history, it is said that "throwing a corpse over a river makes the water turn red"; He also took all the treasures and released all the prisoners. When he left Qijiang, Yang Yinglong also set fire to burn the whole city to ashes.

From this point of view, Yang Yinglong's original intention is still only to consider self-control according to the broadcast status, repel the imperial army and force the court to sit down and negotiate. But I'm afraid this is just his wishful thinking. Rebellion is a game played by the whole country, and it is a question of not advancing or retreating. Unfortunately, Yang Yinglong didn't understand this. He relied too much on Hailongtun internally, which doomed his final outcome.

On the other side of the Ming court, Emperor Wanli was very angry when he learned that Qijiang had been slaughtered. In February this year, the protracted Korean War finally ended. In the end, the Ming court could free its hands to solve the problem: Yang, the commander of Jiangdong, the governor of Guizhou, and Li Tingdong's 3,000 troops suppressed Yang Yinglong. In this battle, loyalists hold their heads high. What kind of efforts do they think it takes to deal with Tusi soldiers?

As we all know, the Bozhou Army in Yang Yinglong has been fighting for the Ming Dynasty and is invincible. This is a truly powerful army. In this battle, the commander-in-chief of Bozhou Army was Yang Chaodong, the son of Yang Yinglong. He made a plan to lure the enemy deeper and hide the ambush in nine places.

At the beginning of the battle, the Ming army used firearms and tigers to squat guns, and cooperated with the magical machine, the arrow car and the ware hand to storm. The Bozhou army was defeated by the enemy and retreated quickly. The officers and men quickly captured 300 waterfalls (now 300 waterlogged places in Weng 'an Monkey Farm, Guizhou Province), thinking that Bozhou army was vulnerable and even more complacent. However, Bozhou troops actually pretended to escape, and they had set an ambush in Tianbangtun (now north of Weng 'an County, Guizhou Province).

When Li Tingdong, a general of the Ming Dynasty, walked all the way to Tianbangtun, suddenly there was a fire on all sides, and at the same time the Bozhou Legion surrounded the Ming army. Then, the rockets of Bozhou Army were fired at Ming Army from all directions, and 3,000 Ming Army made a mess, and Li Tingdong was killed on the spot. Then the Bozhou army was killed again, and the remnants of the Ming army were wiped out. Yang, another Ming general, and several officers were captured by Bozhou army and ordered to kneel by Yang Chaodong. However, Yang Zhu Guo cursed unyieldingly, so Yang Chaodong ordered him and other 13 Ming army officers to be beheaded.

When the news of the defeat of the Ming army came, Emperor Wanli flew into a rage again, ordered the dismissal of Governor Jiang Dongzhi, who was almost captured by the Bozhou army and humiliated by the imperial court, appointed Li Hualong, a former imperial adviser and assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to control the military affairs in Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou, and decided to mobilize the total forces of 65,438+05 provinces to pacify Bozhou. Subsequently, the new governor Li Hualong fought day and night at the front with the sword on the side. At this point, the battle of Bozhou, one of the "three major signs of Wanli" in the Ming Dynasty, finally officially started. This time, is Yang Yinglong lucky?

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