On the 23rd day of the first lunar month of the second year of Shaowu, Xinjun, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng's fleet arrived at Xing'an County in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River.

Originally in Xing'an, there was a Ling Canal connecting the Xiangjiang River and the Li River that allowed the fleet to enter the Li River directly and reach Guilin. However, the Ling Canal has been a long time and has been disrepair for many years since the 23rd year of Chenghua. It has not been repaired for nearly two hundred years and has been unable to pass through the large ship. In the original time and space, it was not repaired again until the 53rd year of Kangxi.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there was a lack of money, so what should I use to repair the Ling Canal?

Therefore, after Zhao Peng and his team arrived in Xing'an, the entire army disembarked and changed to a hike to Guilin.

The old King of Gui Zhu Changying had just died less than half a year. After Zhu Youlang took over the position of King of Gui, he began to move. After Emperor Shaowu ascended the throne, he issued a new edict, breaking the original ban on the vassal kings not allowed to lead troops, and stipulating that the vassal kings could lead troops, or lead troops to leave the territory, and could lead troops to fight on the front line.

After receiving the new imperial decree, King Gui Zhu Youlang recruited soldiers and horses, but he did not intend to go to the anti-Qing front to resist the Qing army, but instead he planned to rebel in a bad way.

Zhu Youlang also knew that his strength was insufficient, so he and King Lu Zhu Changqing planned to be ill-gotten.

In terms of seniority, Zhu Youlang's seniority is higher than Zhu Cilang, while Lu King Zhu Changqing's seniority is even higher. Even if Chongzhen is still alive, he would have to call him uncle when he sees Zhu Changqing.

King Lu Zhu Changqing was actually almost the emperor. After the news of Chongzhen's death in the country reached Nanjing, Nanjing wanted to establish a new king. After choosing between King Fu Zhu Yousong and King Lu Zhu Changqing, the Donglin Party members led by Shi Kefa chose King Lu Zhu Changqing. But in the end, Ma Shiying supported King Fu Zhu Yousong to the stage with the support of the four towns in Jiangbei.

Later, with the support of Zhao Peng, the crown prince Zhu Cixuan launched the Sect-Strike Incident, overthrew King Fu, and Zhu Cixuan ascended the throne to the throne.

In fact, King Lu, Zhu Changqing, was always dissatisfied. As early as when King Fu became emperor, King Lu, Zhu Changqing, was dissatisfied with him. Later, Zhu Cixuan ascended the throne and became emperor, but Zhu Changqing was still dissatisfied. He used the excuse of the prince being a fake prince to raise an army to rebel, but King Gui and King Lu could not defeat Zuo Liangyu, so he had to give up.

After Zuo Liangyu's death, Zuo Menggeng led his army north to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. King Gui Zhu Youlang and King Lu Zhu Changqing saw the opportunity, so he led his army north to try to occupy Wuchang. Who knew that Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng killed another shot, beat the two kings to the point of abandoning their armor, and fled back to Guilin in a panic.

"Marty, although the two kings have more than 100,000 troops, they are all mobs, just like the rebellion of King Ning back then. It's a joke! The so-called more than 100,000 troops are recruited, and more are horse bandits, mountain bandits, water bandits, and thieves recruited from all over the country. More than 100,000 rebels arrived in Wuchang and were easily defeated by the last 20,000 troops." Ma Jinzhong said.

Since Zhao Peng came to this era, he has consulted a lot of historical materials from the past. The rebellion of King Ning has been preserved in the internal files of the Jinyiwei. King Ning was prepared for twenty years, but Wang Yangming only took 43 days to quell it. Therefore, the rebellion of King Ning was ultimately just a joke.

When King Ning rebelled, except for a few of the rebels who were guards of the Ning Palace, the rest were thugs such as bandits, mountain bandits, and water bandits secretly recruited by King Ning. Wang Yangming did not have the soldiers he trained. He summoned military households, civil servants, yamen runners, constables, and white soldiers from all over the country, which were actually thugs.

The more than 100,000 King Ning's mobs faced with Wang Yangming's 80,000 King Yangming's mobs, and Wang Yangming easily calmed down. The more than 100,000 King Gui and King Lu's mobs were naturally vulnerable to the 20,000 elite troops of Shangma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng.

Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng were both famous generals who had been fighting for many years. Their army was naturally not worthy of being compared to Zhao Peng's new army, but they were like a destruction against the mobs of the two kings.

Although the two kings' army was garbage, many of these mobs were local bandits. Therefore, the imperial army headed south and the army had just arrived in Xing'an, when King Gui and King Lu knew about the arrival of the imperial army.

"The pseudo-Emperor and Pseudo-Dao are simply too deceptive! We have all retreated back to Guilin, and they will kill them all!" Zhu Changqing said angrily.

Zhu Youlang said: "Your Highness Lu Wang, don't be angry. Our soldiers are all locals. The terrain in Guilin is complex. They are not familiar with the local terrain. Moreover, the Guilin city walls are solid. The puppet emperor's army crosses mountains and ridges and cannot carry red cannons. How do they attack the city?"

"What if the pseudo-emperor army really carried the red cannons?" Zhu Changqing asked.

Zhu Youlang laughed: "The mountain road is rugged, and the red barbarian cannons are moving slowly. As long as our army sends people to harass the enemy's rear, it will definitely destroy the enemy's cannons."

However, the information of King Gui Zhu Youlang was still very inaccurate. Although they could learn about the arrival of the imperial army in time, they knew nothing about Zhao Peng and his team's strength and weapon configuration. Those amateur spies could not even get close to their opponents in front of the Ming army at night, let alone sending the accurate information.

Zhao Peng's army really brought cannons, but the twelve-pound field cannons, six-pound field cannons and four-pound cavalry cannons that were inconvenient to move have been sent back to Nanjing. This time they came to Guilin, they carried 24-pound mortar cannons, twelve-pound howitzers and one-pound light Franchise aircraft that were convenient for movement in the mountains.

The Nanjing New Army fought against the two kings, carrying a total of 60 12-pound howitzers, 200 24-pound mortars and 1,000 light Franchises. Almost all the light artillery that facilitates movement in the mountains were brought. There were 5,000 new troops, just the artillery, and 2,000 remaining 5,000 infantrymen were the Qi family army phalanx, and 3,000 Spanish phalanx.

The new army did not bring auxiliary soldiers, and there were 10,000 of the 20,000 troops of Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng. In fact, even if the new army separated from the auxiliary soldiers, they could still fight. Each infantry could carry enough food for half a month. If they fought for a long time, they naturally needed auxiliary soldiers.

However, Zhao Peng also prevented the situation. After the army passed Xing'an, Zhao Peng ordered that 10,000 auxiliary soldiers of Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng cut bamboo on the spot and tie up bamboo trays that could pass through the Lingqu Canal. Once the supplies needed to be transported, they could be transported from the Xiangjiang River to Xing'an by ship, and then transferred to the bamboo trays to the hands of the rebel army.

The twenty-four-pound mortar cannon and the twelve-pound howitzer are all weapons that Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing have never heard of. How did they know that these light guns are actually quite powerful?

After the 30,000 troops of Zhao Peng, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng passed Xing'an, they marched along the road beside the Lingqu. After passing Lingqu, they entered the upper reaches of the Li River. The army headed south along the banks of the Li River.

Wang Quan took a hundred sermons from Ye Bu Shu and scattered and explored the way in front of the main force.

When Zhao Peng went south, most of the two thousand Jinyiwei cavalrymen returned to Nanjing, leaving only one hundred cavalry without quitting. After the troops got off the ship and got ashore, all of these hundred cavalry without quitting were handed over to Wang Quan to lead the team.

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Along the way, I encountered sporadic rebel spies along the way, and were easily wiped out by Wang Quan's Ye Bu.

In terms of battlefield intelligence, the new army achieved one-way transparency against the rebels. It is unnecessary to think about such a battle. It is impossible for the enemy to be ambushed during the march. Thirty thousand troops were like marching on weekdays, approaching Guilin without any effort.

When there were only fifteen miles left in Guilin, between Wutianling and Wangyue Mountain, a Tucheng camp with the banner of King Gui blocked the way to suppress the rebellion army.
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