Duan Teng Gorge, also known as Da Teng Gorge, is a place where Yao people in Guangxi live together. It is located in the lower reaches of Qianjiang River near Guiping. It is the largest and longest canyon in Guangxi. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were large vines like buckets, crossing the river surface, sinking in the day and floating at night, and workers climbing across the river, hence the name.

However, in the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, Hou Dagou, the leader of the Yao people in Datengxia, led the Yao people to revolt against the rule of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court sent Han Yong, the right assistant censor, and the governor, Zhao Fu, and others to lead an army of 160,000 to suppress it, and then killed nearly 7,000 Yao people, including Hou Dagou. However, Han Yong felt unhappy and ordered people to cut off the Dateng River across Qianjiang and renamed the place Duan Teng Gorge. Of course, later generations changed the name of Dateng Gorge and gave Hou Dagou a statue.

The Yao people in the Datengxia area did not submit much to the rule of the Ming Dynasty since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. There were constant uprisings here, and there were 11 large-scale uprisings in the Ming Dynasty. From the 19th year of Hongwu to the sixth year of Tianqi at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The most legendary thing is that Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Youzhang, who had just passed away, was his biological mother, Empress Xiaomuji, who was a Yao girl. He was also one of the women captured in the battle to pacify Dateng Gorge in the first year of Chenghua. After Empress Xiaomuji was captured, she was sent into the palace with a group of Yao girls as spoils and became palace maids. Then, by chance, Emperor Chenghua was born to Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhang.

However, Empress Xiaomu Ji's life was not good. Although her son Zhu Youzhang survived by the eunuch Zhang Min, he was killed by Emperor Chenghua's favorite concubine, Concubine Wan, and he was unable to see the day when his son became the Emperor Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, Zhu Youzhang, the Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, actually has one-half of the Yao bloodline. His son Zhengde also has one-quarter of the Yao bloodline. However, Zhengde had no descendants, and the Yao bloodline of the Ming royal family was interrupted.

Although the emperor has the Yao blood, the court was not ruthless about the Yao people's uprising. Chen Jin was sent as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi this time to suppress the uprising of the children (called Zhuang people later in life) and the Yao people in Maping and Luorong counties.

The uprising between the child tribe and the Yao tribe is more difficult. Why? Because the main force of the uprising is the child tribe. If it is the Yao tribe, the Ming court can mobilize very capable wolf soldiers to suppress it. However, the wolf soldiers are an army composed of the young people of the chieftains of the child tribe. If they suppress the uprisings of other tribes, such as the Yao tribe, they might work harder. But the main force of this uprising was the child tribe of the same tribe, and the wolf soldiers were not willing to work hard. Even if the chieftains were willing to send troops, they would not be willing to fight. After all, they were all from the same tribe.

Therefore, although Chen Jin and the general officer of Guangdong and Guangxi, Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui sent 130,000 troops, he was not confident. Because, these 130,000 troops were mostly guard soldiers whose combat power had been reduced too much. As for the most capable Zhuang wolf soldiers, they were somewhat lacking in confidence because they could not bear to attack the same tribe.

Of course, this uprising army formed by the mixed child tribe and Yao tribe is not too strong, and the number is only 10,000 or 20,000 people. However, the military soldiers are even weaker, so Chen Jin had to mobilize 130,000 troops to fight. After all, with the same number of military soldiers, how could they beat the fierce barbarian soldiers? Only when the number of soldiers far exceeds the number can they have enough confidence.

The Yao people in the Datengxia area and the young people in other areas were the courage to launch uprisings again and again because they saw the weakness of the Ming Dynasty army. However, they did not know that although the Ming Dynasty's guards were not good at combat effectiveness, they could win because they could kill them by piled up their heads...

The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Chen Jin and the General Officer of Guangdong and Guangxi, Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui, obviously planned to kill the revolt of the child tribes and the barbarians of the Yao tribes.

But to be honest, as a civil servant who understands military affairs, Chen Jin knew very well what kind of virtue the Ming Dynasty's military soldiers were. Although they were not as bad as the Southeast Military Police, they were not much better. If it weren't for the many battles in Guangxi to pacify the Shaomin Uprising, the military soldiers in Guangdong and Guangxi would have degenerated into slag like the military soldiers in the Southeast prosperous areas.

It is precisely because he knows that the military troops in the ward are useless that Chen Jin is so jealous of the guns and cannons presented by the Beihai Kingdom...

Fortunately, Kong Tai was sensible and knew that Governor Chen was jealous of the guns and cannons, so he gave him another 10 Franc cannons and 100 contrail guns.

Chen Jin was also a person who was not dragging himself on the verge of trouble. After providing Kong Tai with the convenience of purchasing, he hurriedly sent these guns and cannons to the front line of quelling the rebellion in Guangxi. Moreover, these guns and cannons were all incorporated into the Governor's personal barracks of the Governor's direct governor.

In this army of 130,000 people, most of them are actually good at playing soybeans. The only ones who are truly combative are actually the generals of Guangdong and Guangxi, the personal barracks of Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui, and the personal barracks of the governors selected by Mao Rui to Chen Jin. Moreover, the strongest one is Mao Rui's personal barracks, followed by Chen Jin's personal barracks.

Here we have to mention the military system of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty mainly implemented the garrison system. Generally, the general officers were in charge of all the garrison troops in one or two provinces, and the general officers as military officers were controlled by civil servants.

When there is no war, the general usually does not take care of the troops of the guards, and at most he will take care of the military pay paid by the superiors, or the military camp where the general officer is located.

And in the Ming Army Guards, there is a very common phenomenon, which is to get a job without pay...

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, a garrison generally commanded 5,600 troops. However, in the middle and late periods, a garrison usually had only half of its troops, or even less than. During the Jiajing period, the reason why Japanese pirates were able to rush southeast was closely related to the serious shortage of soldiers in the garrison. Moreover, the southeast had been peaceful for a long time, and the garrison troops there were not much training. They were busy helping the commanders and other big bosses farming, and became farmers...

Guangxi is not as serious as the southeastern side. After all, there are often Yao people uprising, Miao people uprising and Child people uprising. Although some uprisings are not very large, it is always uneasy. Therefore, the situation of the vassals in Guangdong and Guangxi is better than that in the southeastern side. Generally, the number of soldiers in a guard is more than half.

But during the war, the number of troops in the garrison was insufficient, and the commanders of the guards who had gained enough benefits would capture some tenants to serve as facades. Therefore, the 130,000 army led by Chen Jin and Mao Rui looked very imposing, and half of the soldiers were considered good.

Moreover, even if there are half of the soldiers, there are many old and weak here. In the end, the number of people who can actually fight is up to 30,000 to 40,000 people. Therefore, to suppress the uprising of the young people, we rely heavily on the help of wolf soldiers.

But the wolf soldiers mainly come from the child clan, but the main force of this uprising was the child clan. Therefore, Chen Jin was able to get help from the wolf soldiers this time. Although many chieftains sent troops to help, most of them were just going through the motions. Only a small number of poor chieftains, who were greedy for the rewards of the court, worked harder.

Therefore, this Ming army's battle mainly depends on itself.

The two most combat-capable battalions in the army - the General's Personal Barracks and the Governor's Personal Barracks were actually selected by Mao Rui, the general officer of Guangdong and Guangxi.

As the general officer, Mao Rui naturally knew the tricks in his subordinate garrison. Therefore, when the army gathered in Wuzhou, Mao Rui specially selected three thousand elite soldiers from the 130,000 army, divided into two battalions, one as his own personal barracks, and the other was mainly responsible for escorting the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Chen Jin. After all, if something happened to Chen Jin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was the boss, in this battle, even if he won, Mao Rui would not be able to take it. What's more, the highest commander of the 130,000 army was actually Chen Jin, not Mao Rui, the military officer. Therefore, it is obviously necessary to mobilize the most elite soldiers to the Governor's personal barracks.
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