Chapter 269 Hailong Tunnel

On the first day of the sixth month of the 28th year of Wanli.

After convening civil and military personnel to discuss military affairs in Chongqing Prefecture, Huang Laifu decided to set up a pacification strategy of "attacking from all sides and gradually cleansing!". The strategy decided to quell the rebellion and attack the Ming army from all sides and attack the eighth route to suppress the military in order to achieve the goal of comprehensive encirclement, gradually compressing, and finally quelling the rebels' capital and reserves.

At this time, under the strict order of Huang Laifu, all the troops from the Ming Dynasty gathered one after another near Bozhou, the four towns of Yanning, Henan, Shandong, Tianjin, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces, and the chieftains also took their lives.

The deployment was set, on the sixth day of the lunar month, Huang Laifu met with civil and military officials outside the Chongqing martial arts performance venue, and made oaths and made a vow to the morale of the army!

For Huang Laifu, this oath was necessary. When Huang Laifu first arrived in the southwest, he was not aware of his face and did not know his heart. He was afraid that there would be defeated people in it. He would be able to join the heavens with his ambitions. After all, it was not as good as the future generations. At this time, the Ming people still believed in oaths very much.

The oath-taking meeting on the sixth day of the lunar month was a huge scale, which made people excited! Huang Laifu, in accordance with the opinions of the staff, established the heaven and earth, sun, moon, wind and clouds, thunderstorms, mountains and rivers, country, ancestors, sages and other gods in the Chongqing martial arts arena according to ancient etiquette. The generals of the army will swear in turn. At the oath-taking meeting, Huang Laifu pointed out that Yang Yinglong was ruthless and the heaven and earth were not tolerated. To fight Yang was to eliminate violence and safeguard the people, and to promote the army together, our army will win!

Huang Laifu's words greatly boosted the morale of the army, and the people who swear to be loyal to the Lord, to die and die, and to sacrifice their lives for their country. Like all those who bear the country will be sent by the gods!

A few days after that, Huang Laifu was in a tense and busy situation again. On the 12th, the time for the troops had arrived. Huang Laifu ordered the Ming army in various provinces to fight.

The army attacked in eight directions, and Sichuan was divided into four routes: General Liu Qi led his army to enter the Bo from the direction of Qijiang, and under his command was the general Ma Zhen and the general Zhang Wenyao, and General Ma Kongying entered the Bo from the direction of Nanchuan, and under his command was the general Zhou Guozhu, Xuanfu Ran Yulong and others, and Sichuan assistant Xu Zhongjia supervised the army.

General Wu Guang entered the air from Hejiang direction, with guerrilla Xu Shiwei and others under his command, Sichuan Senator Liu Yixiang supervising the army. There was also deputy general Cao Xibin also under Wu Guang's control and entered the air from Yongning direction, with gang general Wu Wenjie, Shuixi chieftain She Shiji and others under his command, and senator Shi Jingxian supervising the army.

Guizhou was divided into three routes: General Li Yingxiang, General Tung-Tu Prefect, General Tung-Tu Prefect, Cen Shaoxun and others entered from the Wujiang direction, and the Senator Zhang Cunyi supervised the army. General Tung-Tu General Zhu Heling was controlled by Li Yingxiang, and Chief Tung-Tu General An Jiangchen and others entered from the Shaxi direction. Chief Peng Yuanrui and others entered from the Xinglong, and Chief Yang Yinqiu supervised the army.

The territory of Huguang is a side bridge and has two wings. In history, the general Chen Lin was in charge of this route, but at this time Chen Lin was in charge of the Tyrant Island, so the deputy general Chen Liangbi chieftain Peng Yangzheng and others entered from Bai Ni, and the deputy envoy Hu Guifang supervised the army. The chieftain Shan Yi and others were controlled by Chen Liangbi, and entered from Longquan to supervise the Wei Yangmeng supervisor. In addition, the general of Datong Town Ma Jin led a part of the army to assist Chen Liangbi and others.

Huang Laifu sent an order to arrive at Loushan and other passes for the time being, and ordered Guo Zizhang to return to Guiyang as the governor of Guizhou, and Zhidake returned to Zhenyuanjiang as the governor of Huguang, thinking that he would dispatch military affairs of the two provinces. He was in Chongqing as the governor, holding the Shangfang sword and presided over the overall situation. The family camps around him, as well as most of the officers and soldiers brought from the two towns, were accompanied by Chongqing, thinking that they would support the Eighth Route Army troops.

The literati supervising the army was the result of Huang Laifu's fierce competition and compromise with the civil servants in the southwest. His arrangement was also due to the consideration of placing the elite in Qijiang and turning the bridge direction. Liu Qi was very famous among the people who made him from Qijiang to enter the rebels in Bozhou.

In the direction of Huguang Bianqiao, there are four cards outside the river and seven cards inside the river. They are all the places where the five corpses and nine evil seedlings are occupied, so Huang Laifu sent Ma Jin to lead the army here.

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The army attacked in eight directions, with about 30,000 people in each direction, totaling more than 200,000, including three-tenths of officers and soldiers and seven-tenths of chieftain soldiers. The 200,000 army was powerful and attacked all over Bozhou. When the Bozhou rebels saw it, they were all shocked: "This is the real heavenly soldiers, different from the past!"

The army of the three provinces attacked Bozhou from several directions. Under Huang Laifu's severe reward and punishment measures and sufficient food and salary guarantee, unlike before, the soldiers were all using their lives this time.

On June 13, Sichuan general Liu Qi first led his troops through Baiduyi and entered Qijiang to fight against the Bozhou riots within Qijiang. Qijiang entered Bozhou from Dongxi. The territory was steep and ridges of Maoqing, and the surrounding area was full of strange and dangerous places. There were Nanmushan, Yangjiantai, Sandong and other villages. Mu Zhao, the leader of the rebel army, led thousands of troops to seize the danger and defended them.

Liu Qi fought hard, and first supervised the troops to attack Nanmu Mountain, and beheaded 65 people. The rebels guarding Nanmu Mountain were afraid of death, so they rushed to escape, and Nanmu Mountain Village was recovered. Then Liu Qi moved his troops to Yangjiantai Village to camp. The superiors attacked and beheaded 26 people. A few days later, Liu Qi set up a camp to the Sandong Village. Muzhao and other rebels saw that the Ming army was in great strength and did not resist, so they fled back to Bozhou at night. Sandong Village and other villages were taken back to the Ming army.

He seized the important Qijiang land, removed the threat of the chaos to Chongqing Prefecture, and also obtained the first strategic point to enter Bozhou. The first battle was won, and the news spread, and the Chongqing Prefecture was in full swing. Huang Laifu ordered a heavy reward for Liu Qi and the soldiers who made meritorious. A few days later, the meritorious person received a lot of silver rewards, which made the morale of the army even more excited.

By the end of June, Liu Yu had led his troops to attack Tongyinyi, not far from Jiupan, a major military town of the rebels. Good news from other armies also came one after another. Our army was fierce, and the thieves could not stand the battle, so he had recovered many places of the lost city and siege.

On the second day of July, General Ma Kongying and the Nanchuan direction army led by the military supervisor Xu Zhongjia, captured Sangmu Pass, another important pass at Bozhou, not far from Suiyang.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Guizhou General Li Yingxiang conquered Wujiang Pass, and the next day, conquered the river and crossed the pass.

On the ninth day of the lunar month, in Huguang direction, Chen Liangbi, the deputy general of Huguang, and Ma Jinji, the general of Datong Town, defeated the four evil seedlings in Jiangwai, captured Tiandu, and fell into the three hundred fallen into the trunks.

At this time, Huang Laifu's strategic idea of ​​"attacking from all sides and gradually cleaning up!" has gradually become a fact.

The Ming army was extremely powerful, and the Bozhou riots were in chaos. In mid-July, Yang Yinglong hurriedly ordered his son Yang Chaodong to lead tens of thousands of troops to meet the enemy in different ways. When Yang Chaodong was fighting against Liu Chaodong, Liu Qi personally got into the battle. A big iron sword turned like flying on the horse, and his power was crazy, and his personal military camp also followed the battle bravely, and it was unstoppable.

The Bozhou rioters had long heard of Liu Qi's reputation, and when they saw Liu Qiyong rushing unstoppable, they were shocked and said, "Liu Dadao is here!" They collapsed immediately, and Yang Chaodong broke into the siege, with only dozens of servants around him. At this time, the rioters were even more courageous and dared to defend the city walls, and did not dare to go out to the city to fight again.

On July 29, Liu Qi captured Loushan Pass. Loushan Pass was the front gate of Bozhou. The terrain was dangerous, and tens of thousands of peaks were inserted into the sky, and only one line could be connected. Liu Qi led the official army to climb vines from the intermittent road, destroyed the gate, and finally occupied Loushan Pass. At this time, the two Sichuan troops in Nanchuan and Yongning had already arrived in front of Loushan Pass. The three armies met, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. They broke the Dragon Claw, Haiyun and others, and finally defeated Hailongzun to build up.

At this time, in the direction of the Guizhou army, the chieftain An Jiangchen had seized Luomeng Pass and went to the Dashuitian. The Huguang army also broke through Qingshetun. In the four directions of the southeast, west and north, several large armies attacked the core area of ​​Bozhou. Seeing that the Ming army was in a hurry, Yang Yinglong had no choice but to hug each other and cried bitterly, and went up to defend the enemy to the Huang Laifu place in Chongqing Prefecture, hoping to alleviate the offensive of the Ming army.

At that time, some people thought that Yang Yinglong's surrender could be accepted in order to achieve the goal of defeating others without fighting. Huang Laifu just smiled coldly and said, "Don't accept surrender when fighting quickly. The army should not be old for a long time, and the thief should not be trusted."

Behead the envoy and burn the books without being moved.

In early August, Bozhou Prefecture regained its remnants, and Yang Yinglong led his family and his remaining troops to retreat to the last stronghold: Hailongtun.

On August 13, the Eighth Route Ming Army gathered under Hailongtun and began to build a long siege and attacked repeatedly. Yang Yinglong knew that the troops were at the neck, but he just tried to defend.

On August 20, he was concerned about the progress of the war, and Hailongdun was the last battle to pave the game. Huang Laifu personally led the central army and his servants and guards to come from Chongqing to Hailongdun. At this time, this place had become a tragic battlefield. More than 200,000 Ming official troops surrounded a Tanzi with a radius of less than ten miles, but they fought hard.

For the Ming army to quell the rebellion, as long as Hailongdun was wiped out, it would mean the war was over. The officers and soldiers were all eager, and Yang Yinglong was also in a final madness. For a moment, the surrounding Hailongdun was full of corpses and blood flowed into a river.

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On August 21st, early in the morning, Hailong Treasures.

The continuous mountains in the distance were shrouded in the misty mist, and a ray of sunlight shone on the Hailongtun not far away, making it look even more majestic and dangerous.

Huang Laifu stared there and did not move. Not far away from him, dozens of yellow-shaped flags were heard. Standing were all the trusted servants and guards wearing helmets and armor. They were all motionless like nails, but they stood upright with a knife, and their bodies were filled with a strong murderous aura.

In addition, there were many civil and military officers wearing iron helmets and armor surrounded by the side, Huang Laifu's personal guard generals, Gu Dadao, Yang Xiaolu, Tian Dafu, Xu Xueshi and others, as well as Ma Jin and others brought from the two towns. This time, the generals and officials from various provinces of the Ming Dynasty, such as Liu Yi, Ma Kongying, Wu Guang, Li Yingxiang, etc., were also standing by, gathering elites and gathering together.

On both sides of Huang Laifu, Sichuan Governor Li Hualong, Guizhou Governor Guo Zizhang, and Huguang Governor Zhi Dake also stood solemnly, looking at Hailongtun in the distance, with a serious expression. Although everyone had heard of Hailongtun's danger, they were still shocked after seeing it with their own eyes. No wonder the 200,000 officers and soldiers won the battles and gained nothing after several days of hard attacks under Hailongtun.

Looking at the dangerous barrier in front of him, Huang Laifu also had a serious expression. He knew that the battle of Hailongtun in Bozhou in history was very difficult. After seeing him today, he felt that Hailongtun was even more dangerous. Historical books once said that Hailongtun was a natural danger that the thief was leaning against, and birds and apes could not be surpassed. Huang Laifu felt that this evaluation was not too much.

The thousands of mountains and ridges in this area belong to the remaining branches of the Dalou Mountain. The peaks are towering and the canyon is deep. The Hailongtun in front of you is built on the top of the mountains. There are steep cliffs on all sides. Only a small road behind the Tun can be climbed. The Baisha River Valley and the belt rock ditch surround Hailongtun and become a natural moat. The Tunfort is surrounded by mountains and water, and the weather is very strict.

Not only that, there were also nine passes including Copper Pillar Pass, Iron Pillar Pass, Feilong Pass, Feifeng Pass, Chaotian Pass, Wan'an Pass and Xiguan. Each pass was built with huge stones, and the tall guard walls were connected overlapping and windingly surrounded by mountains, forming three strict defense systems. Each pass can be said to be a pass, and tens of thousands of people cannot open it, making it extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Records of the Grand Historian, Hailongtun and Diaoyucheng were built at the same time, and formed a deep defense system with the nearby "Loushanguan" and "Dingshancheng". At that time, Bozhou and Dali lived together for three hundred years, and Dali was eventually destroyed by the Yuan soldiers, but the Yuan soldiers confronted Bozhou for more than 30 years and could not be taken. Even Kublai Khan knew that Bozhou had strict defenses, so he avoided Bozhou to attack the Song Dynasty. This shows how strong Bozhou's military defense was.

Especially when Yang Yinglong was in power in the Wanli period, he mobilized tens of thousands of craftsmen. He spent several years to expand the castle and palace on the basis of the Longyadun built by his ancestors, and built twelve passes in front and back. He built a large wall on the mountain within a range of several square kilometers. He was built with huge stones, and the city gates were engraved with the name of the pass, and the arrow towers, warehouses, barracks, and water prisons were also built in the city. The stone walls were connected between the passes, and the horse road was connected, which increased the difficulty and difficulty of the Hailongun.

Yang Yinglong was tyrannical and bloodthirsty by nature. It is said that during the years of reinforcement and expansion of Hailongdun, he strictly ordered the construction workers, civilians and soldiers to wear a pair of straw sandals every day, otherwise they would be regarded as lazy and slacking off work and be beaten, and finally thrown off the cliff to feed the wolf. This legend further added to the terrible and mysterious feeling of Hailongdun.

Building such a castle on such a terrain is really a huge project, but Huang Laifu was unwilling to sigh at the huge manpower and material resources spent on building this castle. He only knew that this castle built on the dangerous mountains was very easy to defend and difficult to attack, his own troops could not be deployed, and the Ming army's gun advantages were difficult to exert. If he insisted on attacking, he would only suffer many casualties.

In the battle to aid Korea, the Ming army attacked the Japanese city, which was less than one-tenth of the danger, had heavy casualties. If we were to attack Hailongtun now, what price would it cost? Especially now, Yang Yinglong in the tank has more than 20,000 defenders, natural dangers to rely on, hundreds of years of savings, and brave confidant soldiers to be able to use it. This tank is difficult to attack.

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After staring at this huge military castle for a long time, the nine gates on the magnificent mountain ridge in the distance were vaguely visible. Huang Laifu took a last look and suddenly turned around the camp without saying a word. Everyone followed Huang Laifu, and they all said silently, but they were all moved by the bloody battle that was coming soon. The terrain was so dangerous and the dangerous gate with strict defense seemed to have no other way besides a hard attack. But in this way, how many Ming warriors were going to be buried here?

Around the fortress that Hailongtun, the Bozhou chieftain soldiers, were all surrounded by vast mountains, with very few plains and even hills. Therefore, the camps stationed by 200,000 Ming troops were all distributed in the surrounding vast valleys with limited mountains. Looking up, each flat land, each with gentler mountainous land, was full of continuous flags and camps, and was scattered and strict.

In addition, on the trails entering the camp, the civilians who carried the materials gathered like ants, and the vehicles, horses and supplies from Chongqing Prefecture and other places were continuously transported into the camp. The materials needed by the 200,000 army were amazing. If it were not for the Pingbo bonds issued by Huang Laifu, it would be difficult to supply so much demand from the army in terms of financial resources.

After entering Huang Laifu's huge tent, Huang Laifu just sat firmly and pondered. The officials of each province had a fierce debate on how to capture Hailongtun. Of course, according to the official pattern of civil and noble and lowly in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and the southwestern provinces, those who could argue were the senior civil officials of each province. Even if they were the supreme generals, they could only stand at the bottom and listen quietly.

As the governor of Sichuan, Li Hualong was under his jurisdiction at this time. Liu Qi, who was brave and diligent in this battle, was even his general of Sichuan. The battle went smoothly, and Li Hualong became eager. At Huang Laifu's order, his shogunate masterpiece took out a huge map of Bozhou, especially the terrain map of Hailongtun in the inner city, which was more detailed. It was obvious that Li Hualong had done a lot of homework.

According to the picture, Li Hualong explained in detail about Huang Laifu and everyone present: "The thief follows the natural danger of Hailongtun to resist the king's army. Since the Yang family entered the anchor state, it has been more than 800 years since the Yang family entered the anchor state. After its generations of operations, it can be said that it is extremely difficult and dangerous, and it is even more related to the pass. It is observed that Hailongtun has a total of nine levels of passes, and each pass is built according to the danger, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack!"

Li Hualong pointed to the map and said, "The first pass of Hailongtun is the Tongzhu Pass. The city wall is made of huge stones. The gate is high and thick. It is located at the corner of Hailongtun Mountain. There is a rugged path from the valley to the bottom of the city wall. It is the first pass in the east of Dunzhu Pass! The pass is behind the Tongzhu Pass. The pass faces south and north and is next to the valley to straddle the way up the mountain, which is the north gate of Dengtuo. There is a lookout post behind the Tiezhu Pass. The local thieves call it Xiematai, which connects the upper and lower passes. In front of it, the place where the thieves Dengtuo people are waiting for verification!"

"The Tongzhu Pass and the Ironzhu Pass are the first pass defense of Hailongtun. After Xiematai, you can walk 33 stone steps and pass a mountain bend before you can enter Feihu Pass! Xiematai reaches Feihu Pass and is the second pass defense of Hailongtun. The 33 stone steps you take are all built on the ridge. On one side, there are bottomless gullies, and on the other side, the cliffs cut by a knife and axe are cut, which is quite dangerous."

"Flying Tiger Pass is a dangerous place in the Hailongtun. The thief is also called the suspension bridge pass. The pass is built on a steep cliff. The city gate is made of a huge stone moat on half a cliff, which is extremely difficult to attack. There is a special rolling stone warehouse for throwing rolling stones on the gate. In front of the city gate, there are dozens of stone steps paved with huge stones, which is called the ladder of the sky. The ladder is steep and difficult to move. Each stone step requires hands and feet to be used to climb. It is impossible to think of one step at a time. I think it is the walking obstacles set up by the thief for his defense, which makes my attacking soldiers unable to go up one after another!"

"Behind the Feihu Pass city gate, there is a huge urn city dug up on the rocky mountain. After our division attacks the pass, the thieves in the city can block our army's soldiers. Behind the Feihu Pass, there is a steep passage chiseled on the rock wall. The thieves call it the Dragon and Tiger Avenue, which is more than 200 feet long. It is located on the cliff and the valley. There is a guard wall on the side, so you can directly reach the Feilong Pass behind the pass. When the thieves at Feihu Pass are out of support, the thieves at Feilong Pass can provide assistance nearby!"

Li Hualong looked solemn and pointed to the pass on the map: "Compared with Feihu Pass, Feilong Pass is more steep. The pass is built on a ring cliff in the shape of a mountain. All the walls of the pass are made of huge stones weighing 100 kilograms. Its momentum is guarding the narrow passage ridges, and the deep valley of the Killer Gully, climbing up to the distance and looking at it, it is clear at a glance. It is the most important pass of Hailongtun."

In history, this Feilong Pass was also the most fierce part of the Ming army's attack on the hoard. There was a big gap in the Feilong Pass in later generations, which was bombarded by the Ming army with cannons when it was attacking.

In addition, the deep valley of the Killing Ditch next to Feilong Pass is also a shocking place. Yang Yinglong's rule in Hailong Ditch was brutal. During the years of strengthening and expanding Hailong Ditch, he once stipulated that if someone did not wear a pair of straw sandals a day, he would be pushed down from the cliff of the Killing Ditch as a lazy person and fell to death. In history, most of the corpses of the Hailong Ditch who died in battle were thrown into the Killing Ditch. In addition, the local people killed by Yang Yinglong for many years in the ditch were once full of bones in the Killing Ditch. After the Ming government changed the land and returned to the ground, it built a Haichao Temple in the north of the Killing Ditch, hoping to calm the grievances in the Killing Ditch.

In addition to the Killing Ditch, there are also embroidery buildings built by Yang Yinglong for his daughters in Feilong Pass. These embroidery buildings are built beside high cliffs. If there is no courage, people may not dare to climb these embroidery buildings.

Li Hualong said unremittingly, Huang Laifu kept silent, just looking at the map, the danger of Feilong Pass also shocked him.

Behind Feilong Pass is Chaotian Pass, which was the place where Yang Yinglong welcomed and sent off the imperial envoys and border generals. Together with Feifeng Pass, it formed the most spectacular group of stone structures in Hailong Dun. The passes are made of thousands of kilograms of huge stones, and the single stone wall is nearly fifteen meters high, which is extremely solid.

After leaving Chaotian Pass, it is Feifeng Pass, the inner city of Hailongdun. This is a pass with a urn city built with huge stones. It stands on the top of the hut, with a large scale and two gates. On the stone platform at the entrance, there are five very spectacular carved towers. This is a flower building built by Yang Yinglong for his five wives, and it is also the command center when facing the enemy.

The nine levels of Hailongtun are all dangerous, especially the three levels of Feilong, Chaotian and Feifeng, which are the third line of defense, are arranged in an orderly manner, forming a horn-shaped stone castle together to form a stepped stone castle, which is quite thought of three-dimensional and deep defenses in ancient times. To conquer these three levels, I don’t know how much blood will be flowed.

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Li Hualong came one by one, and everyone in the commander's tent looked solemn. The Hailongtun is so dangerous, with many passes and extremely difficult to attack. Except for Huang Laifu and others, the officials and generals have had a deep understanding of the few days of going to Hailongtun. In fact, since the 200,000 Ming troops gathered under Hailongtun on the first day of August, many days have passed, and the army has suffered a lot of casualties, but even the first pass at Hailongtun, the Copper Pillar Pass, did not even capture the Copper Pillar Pass, and there were many more passes that were more dangerous than the Copper Pillar Pass. Under this Hailongtun, it is still unknown how much blood of the Ming soldiers would be shed.

Everyone looked ugly, just looking at Huang Laifu in the head.
Chapter completed!