It was a kingdom established by the Pu people during the Spring and Autumn Period, and the royal family had no surname.
Among this surname, together with the names of Wudan and Wulian counties in Zanggao County, and Wushang County in Yizhou County, we can roughly infer the territory of the country.
However, today's Machi royal family is no longer in glory.
In the sixth year of Yuanding reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (111 BC), King Gouding died and led his troops to join the Han Dynasty. The imperial court established Gouding County on its land.
In the fifth year of the first year of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty (82 BC), because he helped put down Guzhen and Ye Yu's rebellion, Wang Bo was named the "King of Juding" and enjoyed the special treatment of juxtaposition of the country and the county.
But now, the tribes of Yu tribes that thrive in the southeast and southeast outside of Gomachi City are getting stronger and stronger day by day.
The Hu people were dissatisfied with the king's rule and were aggressive and fierce by nature. Through war, they occupied the Pu people's fields outside the city and became the most populous clan in Gouding County.
This is also true, which is the primary reason why Zhu Bao chose Gouding as the place to hold on to in the southern part of Zanggao.
Since Zhu Bao came to Xianggou to serve as the prefect, he tried his best to implement the strategy of supporting the Xiu people and suppressing the Pu people, in order to erase the prestige of the old Gomu royal family and make it easier to implement the decrees of counties and counties.
After years of accumulation of gratitude, the tribe of Gou people in Gouding County has grown stronger. They are also grateful to Zhu Bao and are willing to die for him.
Another reason is that Gouding County has a lot of grain reserves.
Although there is not much flat land that can be opened up in the Gouting area, it is much less abundant than in the southwest areas of Zanggao adjacent to Yizhou County, such as Luowo, Tongbian, Luojiang and Wudan counties.
However, there is a kind of tree that is abundant here, called "Pan tree". [Note 1]
Its wood is as strong as iron and can be used as tools, hoes and weapons; its skin is soft and soft, and ox cheese can be used to make flour and eat it, and the people can use it as food.
According to the local custom, if the natives want to take the wood from the barbarian tree, they should first worship it in the temple.
In the past, when Zhu Bao was supporting the Xiu tribe, he had stored a lot of sugarcane noodles for food. After he raised the rebellion flag, he cut down sugarcane trees more aggressively to store knives, armor, and grain.
It can be said that the people can use it, and the food and supplies are sufficient.
If he could return to Gomachi alive, it would not be easy for the imperial court to conquer this county.
However, it's a pity.
With his death, all the favors he had received in the past were all wiped out.
His eldest son, who was the first to come to Kuomachi County to take charge of the affairs, could no longer suppress the other two forces with his voice, and fell into the helpless situation of "leaving the country with ease".
The other two forces are, one is the alliance of the elder clan leaders of the Xie people tribe; the other is the alliance of the four major surnames of Long, Fu, Dong and Xie.
It turned out that they were all those who followed Zhu Bao and rebelled.
But now, there is no confidence that Zhu Bao's son, Zhu Xie, who is only in his prime, can withstand the imperial army's crusade.
When Zhu Xie learned that his father was defeated and killed, he naturally wanted to fight to the death with the imperial court.
However, the big names were unwilling to be buried with him and wanted to surrender.
They felt that if the imperial court wanted to bring peace to Xianggao County, it would definitely use a prestigious surname in the county to restrain the native barbarian tribes.
Therefore, everyone will not be killed.
Today, Zhu Bao is dead, which is equivalent to the death of the chief culprit.
If they, the rebels, lead the crowd to surrender, they will definitely be pardoned by the court.
Even Zhu Bao's son would be regarded as a person who showed the court's kindness and wooed the barbarian tribes, and was pardoned and spared.
As for the thoughts of the tribesmen, they wanted Zhu Xie to lead his army back with them to the dangerous mountains and swamps, temporarily hiding from the imperial court, and then try to recapture Gouding County after the imperial army returned.
The two families claimed that one wanted to preserve the continuity of the Zhu family's bloodline; the other claimed to allow Zhu Xie to rise again in the future. Both had their own reasons.
Zhu Xie was unable to refute.
But he also knew in his heart that neither of these two remarks were optional.
The only intention of those surnames is to keep their families alive!
As they said, the court may not hold the Zhu family accountable today, but it is law to "raise troops to rebel against the three Yi tribes"! In the future, any governor of Zanggan will have a grudge and deliberately suppress the Zhu family.
Until the Zhu family became common people or slaves!
As for the tribesmen, they are also uneasy and kind-hearted.
They just wanted to take advantage of Zhu Bao's former reputation in Xianggang County!
If Zhu Xie follows them to settle in the tribe, he will definitely be kidnapped! Even if Gouting County and southern Zangda are recaptured in the future, Zhu Xie will be nothing more than a puppet!
Therefore, they each argued for their own opinions.
Moreover, the three families had equal forces in the city, and neither could suppress the others, so a stalemate ensued.
It was delayed until Zheng Pu arrived with his army, but no decision was made.
Fortunately, the number of Han soldiers who came was only a thousand, and they could not pose a threat to their three thousand soldiers.
On the contrary, under the huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, they temporarily reached a consensus: first join forces to attack this advance Han army!
Whether to fight, surrender, or flee, it is better to test the strength of the Han army first.
If we can win a big victory, it will be beneficial to all three parties.
For Zhu Xie, it aroused the determination of others to fight to the death; for Daxing, it was also used as a threat to give more confidence when surrendering; for the Xueren tribe, it was able to demonstrate its strength so that the court did not dare to take a look at it, no matter who it was.
No matter who is the dominant person in Nigu Town County, they can't shake the status of the Yu people as the largest clan.
However, despite all their efforts, they failed to achieve even an inch of success.
With only a thousand soldiers, Zheng Pu dared to come to Gouding County alone. How could An have not relied on him?
Seeing the rebels coming out of the city to attack, they immediately ordered the soldiers to move the carts across the front, shield soldiers and spearmen to form an empty formation, and guard 500 crossbowmen in the middle. The Han infantry was deployed to meet the enemy in the wild.
The most commonly used and most effective and powerful vehicle crossbow array!
When the rebels roared and charged into the formation, the crossbow formation used a "three-stage attack" method to pour out locust crossbow arrows, allowing the rebel's corpse to pave a path of death with different shapes.
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Moreover, the nearest corpse was still half a stone's throw away from the Han army's chariot.
As soon as they charged into the battle formation, before they even had a hand-to-hand encounter, two to three hundred soldiers were killed or injured. The three rebels, who had already lost their support, could no longer hold on. In particular, some of the survivors who were about to die after being hit by crossbow arrows were wailing.
Courageous.
In desperation, they returned to the city and had another dispute over what to choose in the future.
Zheng Pu had few soldiers and could not surround the city, so he set up camp about ten miles away from the north corner of the city.
Every day, Liu Yin and Qi Yacuo were asked to go out with their retinues to patrol and monitor the movements of the rebels in the city. He also led three hundred barbarians, who were on standby at any time.
In case the rebels escape from the city, they can be pursued and fought in time.
He himself interrogated the rebel soldiers who were captured by crossbow arrows one by one in detail.
After realizing that there were currently three people in charge in the city, and they were not coordinating each other, he frowned and thought.
Immediately, his eyes burned, and he smiled.
If it is true as the prisoner said, it will not be difficult for the town and county to extricate him!
However, what he wanted in his heart had to wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops of the prefect Ma Zhong, and he could only implement them after he had the advantage of military strength.
Unexpectedly, Ma Zhong was still en route with his troops, and other military information came to him first.
All good news.
One is a Chen-style military report.
He took Zhu Bao's leader and sent more than a thousand soldiers and horses to the counties in the southwest of Xang'an. The journey was extremely smooth, and the rebels surrendered in anticipation of the wind.
The other one was Li Hui, the governor of Najiang.
Li Hui led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. After learning that the Prime Minister had sent troops south from Chengdu, he immediately led his troops to Yizhou County. When the troops and horses moved, they almost happened at the same time as Zangda County.
However, his advance was more successful than Ma Zhong's.
He was originally from Yuyuan, Jianning, and was well familiar with the mountainous terrain of Yizhou County. He had no trouble getting lost and was rarely blocked by local barbarian tribes.
Moreover, Gaoding, the king of Yue Yi, indirectly helped him.
When Li Hui marched, there happened to be internal strife among the rebels and Yong Kai was killed.
At that time, the rebels in Yizhou County had no leader, and there was no one to coordinate the rebellion. Before Meng Huo came to power and issued strict orders, Li Hui had already led his army into Yizhou County to govern Dianchi County.
But his light-weight trade advancement also came at a price.
After Meng Huo established his prestige, he personally led several times the army to surround Dian Lake, making Li Hui the turtle in the urn.
Moreover, the situation is precarious with no reinforcements from outside.
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, who was marching from Chengdu, had no chance of rushing to the rescue before Li Hui's army was cut off from food and fodder during the battle between Yueqi County and the Yi King Gaoding.
Fortunately, the Prime Minister's army is very sharp!
The places where Gaoding, the king of Yueqi Yi, set up defenses to stop the enemy were at Yanniu, Dingzuo and Beishui on the way to the west.
It is hoped that the troops will be blocked in Hanjia County and the war will not damage the Yuexi County under their control.
However, how could Prime Minister Zhuge Liang fulfill his wish?
Directly lead the army along the Minjiang River, turn to the Dadu River in the west of Leshan, turn to 30 kilometers east of Yanniu, follow the tributary Yuexi River (Niuri River), march south to Chan County, bypassing Yueqi Yi Wanggao
Deploy the defense at a certain time, and the troops will cut into Beishui County in the rear!
Gaoding, the king of Yue Yi, had no choice but to lead his army to fight.
But he lost every battle, and he was also killed by the formation!
The elders of the other tribes all led their troops to Yizhou County, relying on Meng Huo to join forces to resist the imperial army.
Meng De heard about it and saw that Prime Minister Xiangqin led the main force into Yizhou territory, so he personally led the army north to meet the enemy.
It also gave Li Hui a chance to reverse the situation.
At that time, Li Hui, who was trapped, thought of a strategy to slow down the army, and said to the rebel southerners: "The officers and soldiers have run out of food and want to return it. We have been attacking the countryside for a long time, but now we have retreated and cannot return to the north. I want to return it with you, so I have the same plan."
Tell me sincerely."
With the former sympathies of the powerful southerners, they offered up the bargaining chip to win the trust of the rebels.
When the rebels outside the city were slow to guard, they took the opportunity to encourage the soldiers to attack to the death and defeat them!
But he did not lead his army northward, and together with Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's main force, they attacked the rebels led by Meng Huo from front to back.
Instead, the rebels in the southeastern part of Yizhou County chased north and recovered all the counties from Yizhou County to Panjiang (Nanpanjiang) in the south and Zangdao in the east, leaving Meng Huo no longer able to return to his army.
At this point, the Nanzhong Rebellion, which used to be so powerful in the past, has already faded away.
In Juding County, the three powerful families heard about the war in Yuexi and Yizhou counties, and felt like they were mourning their heirs.
We also saw Ma Zhong and Chen Shi leading their troops to encircle them. Each of them, selfishly, frequently gathered with their confidants to discuss, all for their own purposes. They no longer had the three families conspiring together the day before.
In the Han army camp outside the city, Zheng Pu and Ma Zhong were stationed on a low hill, looking at the defense of Gouding County.
Zheng Pusurong said lightly to Ma Zhong, "Prefect, the city of Gouding is strong and well-defended. It would be unwise to attack it by force. I have been thinking recently, maybe I can imitate Yanzi's method of 'killing three soldiers with two peaches' without any effort.
[Note 1: "Linhai Foreign Objects Chronicles" says: "The outer skin of the cypress tree has hairs, which are scattered and growing like a palm tree. The wood is strong, and it is as sharp as iron when used as a hoe, and it is even sharper when hitting stones. However, if the roots are scorched, it will cause ear failure."
There are flakes in the skin that look like pounded rice, but also like wheat flour, and the middle is used as cake bait." "Guangzhi" says: "The cypress tree is four or five in diameter, five or six feet long, straight, with no branches on the side, and leaves on its top.
No more than a few dozen, like a palm leaf, its wood and flesh are hard and hard to damage, and if you dig into it for a few inches, you will get the dough, which is red and yellow and dense, and is edible."]
