The reason why the Ming Dynasty mobilized 130,000 troops this time to suppress the rebellion is justified. Because the child tribe (Zhuang tribe) who launched the uprising was the main source of the Ming wolf soldiers.
As the main source of wolf soldiers, the combat power of the child warriors is naturally relatively strong. Although it is not as good as the authentic wolf soldiers, it is almost the same. Therefore, although the uprising broke out in Maping and Luorong this time, the number of rebels was only 10,000 or 20,000, and there were many old and weak. But after all, these people are the same tribe of wolf soldiers, and their combat power is definitely far greater than that of the same number of Ming Dynasty guards. Therefore, the court attached great importance to this battle.
After Chen Jin arrived in Wuzhou from Guangzhou, where the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was located, he immediately mobilized his troops and went to Liuzhou, where the rebellion was located.
At that time, the Liuzhou Prefecture's government office was Maping County, not Liucheng. In other words, a large-scale uprising broke out in the Liuzhou Prefecture Prefecture. Until now, the Maping County, where the Liuzhou Prefecture Prefecture is located, is still surrounded by the uprising army.
This uprising was actually caused by Liuzhou Prefecture's oppression of local children and Yao people. Of course, there were also provocations from Yao people.
For example, in this uprising, the leader of the Tong tribe uprising army was Huang Wenlong, which was nothing. The leader of the Yao uprising army that followed the Tongmin Uprising was Zheng Yunhu, who was the cousin of Zheng Ang, the remnant leader of Hou Dagou's army in the first year of Chenghua. After the failure of the Datengxia Uprising led by Hou Dagou, Zheng Ang and Hu Gong returned to lead the Yaomin Uprising army, and they persisted until the eighth year of Chenghua (1472).
After the failure, Zheng Ang and Hu Gong returned to survive and all their descendants and relatives fled into the mountains and hid. Zheng Ang's nephew Zheng Yunhu fled to the countryside in Liuzhou Prefecture north of Dateng Gorge. When he escaped from Dateng Gorge, Zheng Yunhu was still a child. But now, more than 30 years have passed, Zheng Yunhu is already a middle-aged man.
Originally, the local children of Liuzhou had no plans to revolt. The cause of the incident was that the official in Liuzhou Prefecture went to the countryside to demand taxes. As a result, a widow in the Tongzhai could not afford the taxes and was frightened by the official in charge and hanged herself...
Generally speaking, the people from Tongzhai will go to the government office to make trouble. However, Zheng Yunhu, who was a remnant of Dateng Gorge and lived in seclusion nearby, saw the opportunity. He led people to wear the clothes of the children in the name of revenge and killed the officials who went to the countryside to collect taxes...
This time, the hornet's nest was stabbed. The Ming Dynasty pursued imperial Han dynasty and looked down on other nations. Now Han officials have been killed by the "barbarians" in Shaomin's village. Isn't this provoking the court?
So, the Liuzhou Prefecture General Sang Yue was in charge of the lawsuits of the government, so he sent a large number of yamen runners to the Tongzhai to order the other party to hand over the murderer. However, this matter was not done by the Tongzhai people at all. Where did they go to the Tongzhai to hand over the person?
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, Zheng Yunhu and a group of Yao people came to kill the yamen runners in the name of rescuing the brothers of Tongzhai, and successfully dragged the Tongzhai into the water.
After learning the news, Liuzhou Prefecture immediately mobilized a large group of troops to Tongzhai, but it was still one step late - Zheng Yunhu had already convened a gathering in nearby Tongzhai to discuss the rebellion plan...
The Tongmin was already fierce, and he easily repelled the hundreds of soldiers transferred from the government office. Later, many local children's villages jointly elected Huang Wenlong, the most prestigious hunter among the Tongmin villages, as the leader of the 72 Tongmin villages, and raised more than 10,000 troops to officially launch an uprising. Zheng Yunhu also took the opportunity to gather two or three thousand Yao people nearby and joined the uprising army.
More than 10,000 rebels went to Maping County, where the Liuzhou Prefecture was located, and surrounded them. Unfortunately, there were Liuzhou Guards in Maping County. While the rebels were busy gathering the troops of various villages, the 5,000 soldiers of Liuzhou Guards retreated from the surrounding area back to Maping County, concentrating their efforts to defend the place of the mansion.
The Liuzhou Guard's garrison soldiers were originally border guards, and their combat effectiveness was maintained well. If they were in the wild, they would have been easily defeated by the Tongmin Uprising Army.
However, this time they were defending the city. Therefore, despite the disadvantage in the number of people, the soldiers of the Liuzhou Guards barely resisted the joint uprising army of the Tong tribe and the Yao tribe. This is mainly because these barbarian soldiers composed of the Tong tribe and the Yao people were good at fighting in the wild and forests, but were not proficient in siege. In addition, there were Liuzhou Guards in Maping County, so they failed to break through Maping County.
When Huang Wenlong and Zheng Yunhu saw that this was not good, they simply moved to Luorong County, which was next to Maping County, and captured Luorong County, killed the officials in the city, and used them as the base camp of the rebel army.
Now the matter is getting big...
If the rebel army was just rampant in the countryside, at most it was regarded as a bandit by the court, and the local generals might be asked to mobilize the troops from nearby guards to encircle and suppress them.
However, occupying the county town and killing the imperial court officials is to hit the court in the face of the red fruit field. If it is not tender and dies, it will damage the imperial court's majesty...
Therefore, after urgent consultation, the Ming Dynasty court sent Chen Jin, who had experienced suppressing Meng Yangtusi Silu in Yunnan, as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the soldiers and horses of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the wolf soldiers to jointly suppress the children who dared to slap the court in the face this time, and the Yaomin uprising...
However, Guangxi was a remote and barren area in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and its economy was very poor. However, Guangdong next door was a place with sufficient taxes because of the tribute trade.
Therefore, the court gave Chen Jin the position of governor of Guangdong, which was to give Chen Jin the right to go to the wealthier Guangdong to prepare for the money and food needed for the army to go to the expedition.
In order to collect the food and grass needed by the 130,000 army, Chen Jin requested to intercept the inventory of more than 200,000 taels of silver that the court originally planned to collect from Guangdong and Guangxi as the military expenses for the 130,000 army to fight.
It was during the time when Guangdong raised the money and food required by the 130,000 army that Chen Jin accidentally went to watch the use of the Franco machine cannons and the mesh guns of the Beihai Kingdom. Then, the Franco machine cannons and the mesh guns of the Beihai Kingdom left a very deep impression on Chen Jin. That was when Kong Tai gave him 10 Franco machine cannons and 100 mesh guns.
Originally, under normal circumstances, Chen Jin would never receive a gift from a strange ghost of unknown origin. But this time Chen Jin was responsible for encircling and suppressing the children and Yaomin uprising, so he naturally hoped that the stronger the army, the better.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the child uprising army was similar to the wolf soldiers that the court valued. In order to be safe, Chen Jin naturally hoped that the stronger the imperial army, the better. Therefore, he simply accepted Kong Tai's gift and specially used the power of the imperial envoy to open a back door for Kong Tai...
This time, when the Tongmin rebellion was suppressed, the group of Fran cannons and grenade guns were also used by Chen Jin in the Governor's personal barracks. In order to better use these batches of guns, Chen Jin specially sent veterans from the Guangzhou Forewarts who had learned how to operate Fran cannons and grenade guns from the Beihai Kingdom gunners and musketeers to train their personal soldiers.
Chapter completed!