An Chonglei and his son stood on the wall of the fortress, looking at the crowds coming from afar, and felt the darkness in front of them.

"There are at least 30,000 people." An Chonglei pointed at the black line, his hands trembling.

An Sheng added in a low voice, "It's all Han military households and Yi people, Aga and Xiaxi, and there are also many Miao people. None of the Han army has appeared yet!"

"Did these people take ** medicine? Why did they all follow the Han army to oppose us? What benefits did the Han army give them?" An Chonglei said hatefully.

Although Zewozexi has tens of thousands of households and hundreds of villages, Zexibaozhai has only more than a thousand households, and the usual Yi soldiers are only a few hundred people. Now suddenly, these tens of thousands of people are coming closer, and the Yi soldiers on the village wall are extremely frightened.

Outside the village, the man was still moving forward slowly.

Under the banner of the militia camp in Chengguan Town, Longli County, Wang Tongan was wearing a piece of rattan armor, a bronze helmet on his head, and a pair of short boots on his feet. He was carrying a backpack, a shoulder bag on his shoulder, and a cowhide belt around his waist.

Listening to the rhythmic drumming, he and his companions in Longli followed the militia camp flag and moved forward slowly. Zewo Zexi Fortress in the distance was near in front of him, and Wang Tong'an was extremely excited.

This is not the first battle.

After he signed up for the war, he was not incorporated into the Han army. Later he learned that the Han army had only formed them into militia teams. Basically, militia companies were built in all counties and townships. Those with more than 500 people were called militia battalions, those with more than 200 people were called militia companies, and those with less than 100 people were called militia teams.

There were many militias in Longli Weichengguan Town, with a total of 500 people, so they finally formed a militia battalion, and several officers were sent to serve as their battalion commander, chief of staff, company commander, etc.

After the Han army formally awarded them the flag of the militia battalion in Chengguan Town, Longli County, they officially became members of the militia. The superiors gave them armor and equipment.

Wang Tongan was also the chief army of Longli Guard. When he was disabled, he made him the chief army and his three younger brothers the remaining army. At that time, the garrison station had not been removed. Wang and they were also transferred to train every year. The Longli Guard was in Guizhou, the southwest border, not as good as the Central Plains. Although the garrison station was abolished, the garrison station was abandoned. After all, there were fierce young people such as Yi Miao and other young people, so they would train carefully for a period of time every year to prepare for prevention.

From the time he took over his father's position to the court's abolishment of the ward, he also served as a general army for five years. The training time in the five years was also quite short. In the past, he practiced bird guns, and his skills were average.

This time he was incorporated into the militia camp. He knew that he was a bird gunner in the past. After taking a musket for him to test, he became a musketman in the militia camp.

He received a self-generated musket, which was much more sophisticated than a bird gun. Without a fuse rope, the fire door cover was opened and closed automatically, and even the lead was fixed. After just a few days of live ammunition training, he was already used to this advanced musket, and even his hit rate was much higher.

After only a few days of live-fire training, their militia battalion was ordered to gather in Guiyang.

When they arrived in Guiyang City, there were tens of thousands of militia teams from all over the country who came to militia camps and militias. Everyone changed their equipment and wore uniform armor, mostly equipped with rattan armor and cotton armor stocked by various garments and chieftains. The Han army also gave each of them an iron helmet and two pairs of short boots.

In addition, nearly half of the militia were equipped with fusing guns, and the remaining half were knife players, spear players and archers.

Everyone changed their equipment. After reorganizing the Han army, they looked decent and had a bit of momentum.

However, when they saw the Han army troops under Guiyang City, they understood what the real elite was. The Han army was uniformly wearing red and blue robes, and most of them were equipped with fire guns. They carried cowhide backpacks, cowhide shoulder bags, ammunition and leather bags, and even water bottles were in a unified style.

What amazes them the most was the Han army's cannons.

The field artillery and heavy artillery troops had arrived later, and those cannons were amazed. A cannon had also been set up on the top of Guiyang City. The cannons were placed there, which made Wang Tongan believe that no one could capture Guiyang City.

After gathering in Guiyang City, they soon sent troops.

After sending troops from Guiyang, the first battle was fought by the light cavalry of the Han army, and the ones were beaten by the Shuidong Song family. The Song family was deposed and still had a considerable force. They were in the east of Guiyang. This time, the imperial commander Liu Huangshu summoned him into Guiyang, but no one in the Song family paid attention to it.

Wang Tongan and other militias witnessed the elite of the Han light cavalry together, and also witnessed the recession of the Song Dynasty in the Shuidong period.

The Han army's light cavalry quickly surrounded the fortress, and then used the cavalry cannons covered by war horses to blast open the Song family's fort gate with lightning speed, and then rushed in in one fell swoop. The Song family had no power to fight back and was taken down in less than a cup of tea.

Uncle Liu was not polite to the Song family. The Song family's earthly eyes were pulled out and killed, and the black Yi was also cut off. Then the Bai Yi and the slaves were announced that as long as they served in the Han army for two years, they could become free. Kill a rebel barbarian and get two pieces of silver and two, and they could get freedom in advance. Even for every two more, they could get one acre of land.

As soon as the result was announced, the Bai Yi and slaves in the Shuidong Song Fortress signed up to fight for the Han army.

They took advantage of the victory that day and won the lawsuit against Chief Za Zuo, and then took Yudezexi and Longchang Yihe Town Xiwei City.

All three battles were bombarded by the Han army artillery first, and then the militia rushed in in one fell swoop.

In three days, they fought all the way, and each time they destroyed the village, without even the chance to escape and report the news.

Three scratches were carved on Wang Tongan's gun handle. Although there were special people who registered their military achievements, Wang Tongan still liked to carve a mark for every time he killed someone.

He had killed three rebel soldiers, each of which was worth two silver dollars, and three were six yuan. This was equivalent to three days, and he earned one acre and two parts of the land.

This result made him extremely excited, and the fatigue he had when he marched had long been wiped out.

His companions also gained a lot. After capturing the four forts, although most of the seized were to be returned to the public, they also gave them some rewards, and the rewards everywhere included four silver dollars.

In addition, he secretly hid a ruby ​​ring that had been captured from Tumu's hands. Almost every militia would hide some small spoils. As long as it was not done too obviously, even the battalion commanders and company commanders from above turned a blind eye.

At this time, Wang Tongan couldn't help but reach out and pinched the corner of his clothes. The gem ring was there. He felt a little satisfied. Such a ruby ​​ring would have to be sold for twenty or thirty silver dollars, which would be equivalent to four or five acres of land.

When I came to fight, it was indeed true.

Looking at the Zewo Zexi Fortress in the distance, he was not nervous at all, but was just full of excitement. Zewo Zexi is the largest Zexi in the Shuixian clan, and is the strongest. Zewo Tumu Fortress is also extremely large in scale.

He thought to himself that such a big village would definitely be very wealthy. By the time he broke through the fortress, he would probably be able to divide the spoils into two or three silver dollars. If he was lucky, he would kill a few more people and cut off their heads, or if he had good luck, he would have to grab some spoils such as ring bracelets from a Tume or Heiyi, he would have even more profitable.

As for failure, he never thought about it.

They came from Guiyang all the way, and they were invincible and had a strong momentum.

There were Han army cannons. No village could block their attacks, and the Han army did not even need to take action. With their militia, they could rush down.

Now, they have a total of 30,000 militias.

Not far behind the militia, 20,000 Han troops were escorting the formation, and the field artillery battalion was already advancing forward and preparing to set up a position.

It was very timely, and the Yi soldiers contacted by Wu Zexi had not arrived yet." A staff officer put away the Qianli Miles Miles and said with a smile.

"I wish those Yi soldiers were here, so it would be easier to get some trouble. We can gather and annihilate them, so we can fight each other." Another staff officer said with a smile.

Although the She'an Rebellion was in Yunnan and Guizhou for more than ten years, to be honest, they really didn't take these Yi soldiers seriously. First, after experiencing the Bozhou Rebellion, the She'an Rebellion, the Buqi Rebellion, etc., the strength of these Yi people in Yunnan and Guizhou was greatly reduced. Second, even if they were in their heyday, the Han army, who had well-equipped and well-trained professional army, wouldn't they be afraid of some local soldiers holding swords and fireguns?

No matter how dangerous the mountain village was built along the mountain, it could not stand the bombardment of the Han army artillery.

No matter how fierce the Yi soldiers are, they cannot stop the rogue and guns from being shot.

"These militia have high fighting spirit and strong morale."

"Of course, you only have two silver dollars to kill. You can take the opportunity to loot, share the spoils, get military pay and settle the family fee. Where else can you do such good conditions?" The staff officer felt that the treatment of these indigenous people was too good.

"This is the war bonus mentioned above. To put it bluntly, this battle is to win over the majority of people and attack a few people. This time our main opponent is the Yi people, but we cannot simply suppress the Yi people, but we must selectively suppress them. We must do our best to suppress those local officials and local people, and attack the upper class of the Yi people, namely the Zimo and the Heiyi. As for those white Yi, serfs, Miao people, if you can win over, you can share the land, exempt debts, and give freedom, what is the purpose? Isn't this what is now, these people actively pick up their knives and lead the way for us, and charge forward in every battle."

"As for giving some silver and money rewards, or even letting them hide some spoils while they are in chaos, it is all a trivial matter, so don't care. What we need to care about is that the big game of chess in the entire southwest is the kingly way. As Your Majesty said, the people of the southwest provinces must become taxpayers of the empire in the future."

The emperor once said, taxpayers are the people of the empire, and those chieftains and barbarians who do not pay taxes to the empire will never be called the people of the empire.

"Beat the drum, blow the trumpet, let the artillery fire open the city walls, and let the militia prepare to charge and seize the village!" A Han army commander with a golden tiger hanging on his shoulder came over and ordered the commander. After saying that, he raised his head, "It's already noon in the sun. Take the fortress early, and we will go to the fort to rest and have dinner early!"

"Sir, do you still only order the militia to attack and capture the camp, and don't you need our soldiers?" the staff officer asked.

The assistant chief waved his hand, "This is such a small village, and we still use our imperial soldiers? Why use the knives to kill chickens and let the militias go out. Since they have received the court's salary, they must make a difference."

However, there are 30,000 militias, and the previous attacks and captures of several fortresses have performed well, so it’s better to let them go. With such a big sun, even if autumn is coming, the autumn tiger is still very powerful. Just let the militias go and the imperial soldiers escort the formation behind. (To be continued.)

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