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Chapter 2434 The oath of alliance (Part 1)

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    Once central Guizhou was established, Ou Yan sent Xu Shiji and Pei Zhen'an to lead Zuohou Wei's 39th Army, 40th Army and more than ten thousand Jingnan native troops to the west to conquer Yuzhou, while he himself continued to lead his troops to pacify Yuanling.

    Although the Tian family surrendered, there were still many unnaturalized barbarians in Yuanling.

    Logically speaking, Ou Yan should have personally led the army to attack southern Sichuan. After all, the pre-war plan was for the Jingnan army to penetrate central Guizhou and directly attack Yuzhou.

    However, the plan did not change quickly. After Ou Yan pacified central Guizhou, news came from Badong in the north. Prince Huang Weiyang had defeated Li Tang's Badong garrison and occupied Kuizhou.

    This makes Ou Yan's partial division lose its role in supporting.

    From Jingnan to Yuzhou, it is thousands of miles away and takes a long time, but from Kuizhou upstream, it can be easily reached by waterway.  When the Jingnan army arrived, there was no scum left.

    Therefore, there is no need for the Jingnan Army to attack again.

    However, the original plan was to attack Yuzhou directly, and Ou Yan could not disobey the order.

    So Ou Yan asked Xu Shiji and Pei Zhenan to go, while he himself stayed in Yuanling County.  After all, as soon as central Guizhou was conquered, a part of the army had to be left to deter the Tian family and other barbarians.  Otherwise, when Tian's strength is greatly reduced, the whole central Guizhou will not be in chaos.

    If it was as Ou Yan expected, Xu Shiji and Pei Zhen'an led more than 20,000 people, hurriedly and slowly, and finally arrived at Yuzhou, but it was still a step too late. Yuzhou had been captured by Zhang Changxun.

    However, they had no choice but to arrive a step too late, so they had no choice but to follow Zhang Changxun and march westward to attack Luzhou.

    But this time the two of them were still unlucky.

    Before the army could advance westward, news came from the direction of Luzhou that the Lingnan Army led by King Huang Mingcong of Han had occupied Luzhou.

    There are two armies on the southern front of the Ming Dynasty, one going out of Jingnan and the other going out of Lingnan.  Among them, the Jingnan Army can only be regarded as a partial division, while the Lingnan Army is the serious Southern Route Army.

    Huang Mingyuan¡¯s purpose of setting up the Lingnan Army is also obvious.

    On the one hand, it is to conduct a roundabout outflank from the southern line to block the possibility of Li Tang going south to Nanzhong.  On the other hand, it is to consume the local soldiers in Lingnan to better stabilize Lingnan.

    Since being ordered, Huang Mingcong has mobilized more than 40,000 troops in Lingnan. In addition to the 70th Army of the Right Imperial Guard and the four battalions directly under the jurisdiction of the Duhufu, there are also 30,000 local soldiers.  Including Feng Zhidai, Feng Xuan, Feng Shihui, Li Guangdu, Li Yun, Deng Wenjin, Ning Huizao, Ning Xuan, Chen Longshu, Pang Xiaogong, Shen Xun, Ouyang Shipu, Wei Que, Qin Yuanlan and others all led their troops.

    These people may lead two to three thousand troops at most, and more than a thousand troops at least.  It's not that I don't want to take more, it's actually that in the previous South China Sea War, every family was injured and couldn't recover at all.

    But these many troops are enough.

    Each family met in Cangwu County.

    From Cangwu to Luzhou, it is more than two thousand miles long, and it is a long and difficult road.

    Fortunately, the Imperial Protectorate prepared a large number of ships. The three armies boarded the ships directly from Cangwu and sailed up the Yushui River to directly enter Zoke County.

    However, after entering Zoke County, there was no passable waterway, so the army had to abandon the ship and land ashore.

    At this time, Zangke County was still a place where no one cared about anything.  Although the Sui Dynasty established one county and two counties here, there was no registered population at all, let alone officials or troops.  Most of the entire Zoke County was occupied by the Zoke Xie family.

    The conditions in Zangke County are not as good as those in Qian'an, Yangming, Yuanling and other counties. It is basically an uncivilized wilderness.

    The ruler of Zoke County is the Zoke Man headed by the Xie family.

    It is said that the Xie family of Zangke originated from Xie Xian, the meritorious cao of Zoke County during the Wang Mang period, but it is only a legend.

    The barbarism in Zangke County was serious. During the Western Han Dynasty, seventeen counties were established here. By the Western Jin Dynasty, there were still seven counties, but now only two are left.

    The entire Zangke County is still in the primitive era of slash-and-burn farming.  The local barbarians have no written language, and they are scattered in the caves with carved logs. They live in nests in the trees. They wear bearskin crowns and beast skins, which shows that they are barbaric and backward.

    There are many barbarians in Zangke County, led by the Xie family and the Zhao family.

    Among them, the Xie family is divided in many ways, and is further divided into Xixie, Dongxie, Nanxie, Juzhou Xie, and Chongzhou Xie (Juzhou and Chongzhou were established in the third year of Zhenguan, and were later used as prefectural names to refer to them)  .  The Zhao family is called Xi Zhao.

    But the more barbarian they are, the better they are at fighting.  There are more than 100,000 barbarians in the entire Zoke County, and they can pull out tens of thousands of troops.

    It is actually unrealistic to fight with such an army.

    This group of barbarians doesn¡¯t even have a city, and as for Wang Hua, it¡¯s even more difficult to defeat them.

    Unlike the Tian family, the Zangke Man controlled the city and the county. Although the Ming army was limited by the terrain, they could also figure out the opponent's weaknesses.  andThe Zoke barbarians were no better than the savages. They dispersed in a crowd, and the Ming army pursued them.

    In Huang Mingyuan's view, for these barbarians, military means are a last resort. After all, if you attack a group of lions and elephants, you will kill them all, so what's the point.

    The military method is to intimidate, and the main purpose is to naturalize.

    Furthermore, when the Lingnan Army went to Luzhou, the time requirement was very important. They had to seize Luzhou before Li Tang found out, so they were not left with much time to fight the Zokeman.

    Before Huang Mingcong sent troops, he set the tone for recruiting the Zangke Xie clan.

    Ming Dynasty never worried about Xie's separatist rule.  Unlike the Tian family that dominated central Guizhou, the Zangke Xie family was first divided into three and then five, and its leading figures were not fixed in any one family.  Moreover, beside the Xie family, there was the Zhao family, who was eyeing them with eager eyes. It would not be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to divide and dismantle these people.

    What is more important now is to complete the goal of raiding Luzhou.

    After the army entered Zoke County, Huang Mingcong restrained all the ministries and not to act rashly.

    At this time, the barbarians were mostly afraid of the Han army, and then became hostile.  Therefore, when the army entered Zoke County, it was not stable.

    Huang Mingcong ordered the 70th Army and the Lingnan native soldiers to form a pioneer team of more than 500 people, led by General Han Jin, the deputy lieutenant of the 70th Army, to lead the way.

    The land of Zangke is a rugged mountain area with towering ancient trees and overgrown weeds. There are dense forests and dangerous mountains everywhere.

    The barbarians along the way thought that the Han army was coming to attack them, so they demolished the single-plank bridges on the mountain streams, removed the stone piers in the streams and hid them in the mountains and forests. From time to time they brandished bows, arrows, spears, and occasionally fired cold arrows.

    And there are also large groups of barbarians who are besieging the road-opening team.

    When the soldiers of the road-opening troops saw this, they wanted to attack these barbarians.  Especially the native soldiers of various ethnic groups in Lingnan. When they were in Lingnan, they were regarded as barbarians, but compared with this group of people, their self-confidence immediately exploded.

    If they are barbarians, then the group of people opposite are savages.

    However, Han Jin restricted all ministries not to fight back rashly to prevent a fight between the two sides.  Although the Ming army is not afraid of these Zoke barbarians, mishandling them will affect the overall situation.

    Han Jin ordered his guides to constantly persuade the barbarians, telling them that they were just passing through, but the barbarians didn't believe it at all and still refused to let the Ming army pass.

    When the two sides were arguing, a fight was about to break out. At this time, the barbarian leader Xie Zhen arrived in time and stopped everyone

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