In fact, when the puppet Tang thief army just moved south, it had already caused panic in many places in Guangxi. For example, in Liuzhou, before being besieged by the puppet Tang thief army, all the gentry and wealthy people who were in the city had already fled.
few.
Subsequently, the puppet Tang rebel army continued to march south to Xiangzhou, especially when they defeated Wei Yan's 8,000-strong army at Anjia Wharf, and frightened the people in Xunzhou Prefecture and other state capitals next door half to death. Many people actually
They have all escaped.
However, the puppet Tang bandits later returned to Liuzhou after going around Xiangzhou. This made many people feel relieved, and then began to look forward to the adults above organizing an army to suppress those damn pseudo-Tang bandits. Many of them
The people who started to leave returned to the city.
But not long ago, they heard that the puppet Tang rebel army was marching south in large numbers, and that there were more than 50,000 people there, which frightened them.
In Wuxuan City and even in Wuzhou behind it, people were panicked because the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army moved south. Many gentry began to flee Wuxuan, and even Wuzhou did not dare to stay. Even if the puppet Tang rebel army could not defeat Wuxuan in the end,
Wuzhou cannot be conquered, but when the war breaks out, ordinary people like them will always suffer the scourge of war.
Apart from anything else, if Wuzhou is besieged by the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, it will be fine for a month or two. But if it is besieged for half a year or even longer, what will the soldiers and civilians in the city eat? They will either starve to death by then.
He changed his son and ate it.
They did not want to take such a risk, so basically those who had some ideas began to leave Wuzhou with their families, preparing to go to the countryside first, or simply go to Zhaoqing or Guangzhou in Guangdong to escape the war.
Of course, those who were able to escape Wuzhou and avoid the war were basically gentry and businessmen. Ordinary people could not leave. Their roots were here and they had nowhere to escape.
The panic of the people in the rear can be regarded as an indirect witness to the powerlessness of the Guangxi government and army against the puppet Tang rebels. If the officials and troops in Guangxi can effectively contain or even suppress the puppet Tang rebels, what will happen to these big gentry families?
Panicked, he must have been drinking wine, listening to a ditty, and laughing about the gossip about the pseudo-Tang traitor army.
However, anyone who knows a little bit about the situation can see that, let alone Guangxi, even the entire strength of Guangdong and Guangxi can suppress the puppet Tang rebels.
Once Wuxuan and Wuzhou cannot be suppressed and defended, then the entire Guangdong and Guangxi will fall into the hands of the traitor army.
This possibility will naturally cause panic among the people, shock in the officialdom, and shock in the capital!
Yes, that's right!
When Li Xuan led his army to leave Liuzhou and go south, the adults in the capital and Emperor Zhengde also learned about the disastrous defeat of the Guangxi army in Xiangzhou and the fall of Liuzhou.
Originally, according to the transmission speed of the Ming Dynasty's post station, the adults in the capital should know about it soon, but after this defeat, naturally they will not send an unclear report to Pegasus immediately, at least to confirm the news.
True or false, and then carefully consider how to write the message, and then pass it upwards. Naturally, there are many things that need to be considered in detail in this process. Either the battle is defeated or the news is passed on in a panic.
What kind of decency is that? Does it still have any political consciousness?
In particular, Wang Yuegang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, wrote down the details of Xiangzhou's defeat, and then more than a dozen of his staff polished it together. Just then he sent someone back, when bad news came that Liuzhou had been captured.
Therefore, Wang Yue could not help but send someone to investigate, and then thought hard about how to write this excerpt.
If you foolishly report the consecutive misfortunes rashly, you are seeking death!
So in this letter, Wang Yue not only wrote about the capture of Liuzhou, but also about the Guilin Prefecture. He said that the soldiers and civilians of Guilin Prefecture fought bravely and defeated the puppet Tang rebels many times. Thanks to His Majesty's protection.
, not only saved Guilin Mansion from the attack of the puppet Tang thief army, but also killed countless thieves.
More importantly, it thwarted the plot of the puppet Tang rebels to go south through Guilin Prefecture and attack Wuzhou Prefecture, saved Wuzhou Prefecture and Xunzhou Prefecture, and bought time for the government and army to gather forces for subsequent suppression and annihilation of the puppet Tang rebels.
Gained time.
A great victory in Guilin!
Yes, you read that right. In the memorial Wang Yue submitted to the capital, although he wrote bad news about Liuzhou being captured, he also gave good news to Zhengde and the cabinet bosses: a great victory in Guilin!
In addition, it also writes about why Liuzhou was captured. This is because the puppet Tang thief army came too suddenly, and the soldiers and civilians of Guangxi had not yet reacted. The puppet Tang thief army surrounded Liuzhou City and was extremely treacherous. In Xiangzhou
The ambush blocked our own rescue, which led to the capture of Liuzhou.
At the same time, they are still crying about poverty in various ways, saying that Guangdong and Guangxi are poor and have few troops. There are only a few thousand defenders in Liuzhou City and the ordnance is very old. However, the bandit army that has entered Guangxi has grown to 50,000 people, with hundreds of heavy cannons and bowl-mouth cannons.
There were hundreds of soldiers, one against ten, and it was really unsustainable.
He also said that all the troops in Guangxi have been mobilized, but the number of troops is only less than ten thousand, so they can only try their best not to defend Wuxuan and Wuzhou, but to protect Wuxuan and Wuzhou.
But there is no need to worry, the governor has ordered the officers and soldiers to train hard day and night, and has begun to recruit Guangdong troops and young men from the two provinces, preparing to defend Wuzhou City for the emperor to the death, and protect Guangdong and Guangxi!
Although Wang Yue had been very careful in his choice of words and had even concocted a specious story about the victory of Guilin as a cover, these two envelopes still caused shock in the capital after they arrived in the capital one after another.
In the Forbidden City, Emperor Zhengde, who was lying on the bed, read the memorial with his eyebrows raised. Then he raised his head and looked at the important ministers below. He said in a feeble voice: "Li Ni went upstream to Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, from just two provinces.
The first-class thieves have grown to have tens of thousands of soldiers, and they have conquered all the prefectures and counties in Guizhou. Now even Liuzhou is in the hands of thieves. How do you do it? Didn't you say before that Li Ni was just a small thief who could be wiped out overnight?
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Although Emperor Zhengde spoke in a feeble voice, his attitude of accountability was clearly expressed.
All I have to do is say directly that you are all trash. You can't even wipe out a bandit, but instead you let him grow bigger.
Immediately, the cabinet ministers below secretly glanced at each other, and finally Chief Assistant Xia Yan (Note 1) stood up and said: "Your Majesty, even though Li Ni was in exile for a while, now Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang and other provinces
All the elite troops have been sent out, and Wuzhou in Guangxi is a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If the puppet Tang rebel army continues to advance eastward, they will definitely be beaten to death. By then, elite troops from several provinces will wipe out Li Ni, and Li Ni will definitely be defeated.
Let Li Ni's head be removed from his body!"
When the lower class people said this, the people next to them muttered in their hearts: This is all nonsense!
Immediately, a man came out and said: "Your Majesty, Li Ni now has an army of one hundred thousand, which should not be underestimated. The reason why Guizhou has fallen now is that only Guiyang is holding on, and Liuzhou in Guangxi has fallen into the hands of thieves.
It is because the military affairs of each province are different. Li Ni went to Guizhou to cause chaos. Huguang, Guangdong, Yunnan and other provinces all stayed put. Now that Li went to Guangxi, the Huguang army still stayed put. In the opinion of a weak minister, a capable minister must be sent to coordinate Guizhou.
The military affairs of Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang and other provinces can quickly control the situation and wipe out Li Ni!"
After this man came out to speak, Emperor Zhengde glanced at him and saw that it was Yan Song, the great scholar of Huagaidian (Note 2). Although what he said was still a bit false and empty, it was much better than Xia Yan's nonsense, at least again.
Once he proposed to send a minister to oversee the military affairs of several southern provinces.
In fact, as early as a month ago, the capital had already started discussing whether to send an important minister to the military affairs of several southern provinces to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang rebel army.
However, many people at that time said that the puppet Tang rebels were just first-class thieves. In order to deal with a bandit, it was too much to send an important minister to supervise the military affairs of several southern provinces. If someone rebelled and sent a superintendent,
Then does our Ming Dynasty send a few governors every year? After all, there are rebellions every year, and there are quite a few every year.
Therefore, although this topic was brought up by some people and was discussed at the court meeting, it ended without any resolution.
We just ordered Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, Guizhou and other provinces to strictly prevent Li from running upstream and eliminate them as soon as possible!
But who would have thought that not long after, the puppet Tang rebel army marched south to Guangxi and captured Liuzhou in one fell swoop. At the same time, they also annihilated more than 10,000 Guangxi officers and soldiers. This shocked a group of ministers in the capital!
Rebellions happen every year, and everyone is used to it. However, it is still rare to see such a large-scale uprising involving the puppet Tang rebels.
This level of momentum is probably comparable to the Prince Ning's Rebellion more than 20 years ago, well, it was even bigger.
But how long did King Ning's rebellion last? It only lasted for forty days. When the officers and soldiers suppressed the rebellion, they were also clean and tidy. Wang Shouren, who was the governor of Southern Jiangxi at the time, easily defeated King Ning.
However, the Li Ni Rebellion has been going on for several years. At the beginning, they saw this fake Tang Dynasty as a joke from the memorial of Su Jiakang, the magistrate of Zhengtai County. At that time, no one took it seriously. Quan
As a joke.
Later, I read about the puppet Tang rebel army from the memorial of Song Zhiwen, the magistrate of Xingquan Prefecture. After hearing that the official army suffered a disastrous defeat and even the capital of Xingquan Prefecture was lost, the big shots in the court were naturally unhappy, so
It seems that Song Zhiwen was escorted to Beijing to await trial, and he is still in the sky jail.
At that time, they asked Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, to pacify Li Ni. They originally thought that the matter would be over. It was not easy for the governor of the province to lead tens of thousands of troops to fight against the first-rate thieves. But if they wanted to get there, even Zhu Zhihai's army
They were all defeated at the Tonggu Acropolis of Liping Mansion and Liping Mansion City. Not only was the army defeated, but even Zhu Zhihai, an extremely upright old man, died in the battle at Liping Mansion.
This time, it finally attracted the attention of the court bosses!