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Li Yangong said: "Brigadier Commander, I think the lighter artillery should be pulled onto the carriage. The artillery must be allowed to keep up with the infantry, so that the infantry and artillery can cooperate in field battles."

Chen Lin nodded and said: "But artillery operations will disturb the war horses, so special war horses must be used for battlefield training."

Li Yangong nodded and said: "Actually, it doesn't necessarily require a war horse. Although the weight-bearing capacity of a mule is not as good as that of a horse, it is easier to control."

Chen Lin nodded and said: "I will write a letter to the logistics and ask them to transport a group of hardy livestock to the front line."

After finishing the summary of artillery tactics, the commanders of the infantry operations also summarized the gains and losses of their own operations.

Chen Lin finally said: "According to the information from the capital, Li Chengliang is busy with internal issues of reducing the vassal state, and it should be impossible to go south. We will continue to stay in Suiyang during this period, waiting for the ammunition to be supplied from the rear, and prepare to attack Kaifeng !”

All the group leaders took orders one after another.

Just as Suiyang's Southeast New Army was reorganizing its troops to prepare for war, Sichuan, Nanzhong.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, the Nanzhong region has been the Southwest Yi region divided into the Central Plains. It was here that Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times.

Western Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi were still areas where Han and Yi people lived together even in the Ming Dynasty.

"Captain, the cottage is over there!"

The guard brought a telescope. Xiong Kuang looked at the mountain stronghold on the opposite side of the mountain. He took a bite of dried meat and said, "Why do these bandits build a stronghold in a place like this? It makes me crawl! Order the whole army to pay attention to cover." , serve it to me!”

There were no surprises in the ensuing battle.

These bandits in the southwestern mountainous areas were able to thrive for a while by hiding in the mountains and relying on the unwillingness of the government and soldiers to spend energy entering the mountains to suppress the bandits.

When faced with the regular army's suppression of bandits, these cottages were simply vulnerable and were quickly wiped out by Xiong Kuang's army.

Xiong Kuang is leading his army to train and suppress bandits in the Nanzhong area.

By noon, Xiong Kuang had ended the battle, and some soldiers escorted the bandits down the mountain. Xiong Kuang convened a meeting with his battalion and company-level commanders to summarize.

"The Yunnan horses are indeed suitable for camel transport on mountain roads, but they can only carry six-pound guns. No matter how large the caliber is, they cannot be transported up the mountain at all."

"Hand grenades are very useful in mountain warfare, but they can also easily cause landslides."

Everyone was talking to each other, and Xiong Kuang took out his notebook and recorded all the problems encountered in this battle and the areas that needed improvement.

Sure enough, the governor was right, "Practice brings true knowledge." Only then did Xiong Kuang discover that there were so many problems in mountain warfare.

Carrying supplies via camels, matching weapons, and setting up camps all require practice.

How to deal with the wounded and how to stay out of the cold overnight on the mountain all need to be summarized step by step.

After everyone finished summarizing, Xiong Kuang nodded and said:

"This is the last time we suppress bandits in Nanping."

Everyone looked at Xiong Kuang, who said:

"The governor's prediction was correct. Sure enough, there has been something strange happening among the chieftains in Guizhou. The brigade commander has ordered that our independent regiment return to Nanping City to rest for seven days before heading to Guizhou immediately."

The personal style of an army commander will affect the entire team.

Li Yangong's command style is relatively steady, and he basically fights steady and steady positional warfare, so his commanders are also relatively rigorous.

Xiong Kuang is more flexible in fighting and likes to use surprise troops, so the style of his commanders is similar to him. The atmosphere of the entire independent regiment is relatively relaxed, but generally more bellicose.

In fact, Xiong Kuang's suppression of bandits in Nanping was to train the army to fight in the mountains and prepare for the Yunnan-Guizhou war predicted by the governor.

Guizhou, Bozhou.

Bozhou is now Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. The local chieftain Yang family has been hereditary for twenty-six generations.

Yes, since the Tang Dynasty, the Yang family has been the local rulers of Bozhou. No matter how the Central Plains changes, the Yang family is still the ambassador of Bozhou.

Now Yang Lie, the Bozhou Xuanwei envoy, is also ambitious in his own right.

The Yang family had ruled Bozhou for generations, and their forces were intertwined. They had long been disobedient. He believed that Sichuan's officers and soldiers were weak and incompetent in fighting, and he despised them.

After Shuzhong was captured by the Southeast, Yang Lie took advantage of the chaos in the Southwest to expand his territory and absorb more fleeing Southwest barbarians, gradually becoming disloyal.

And when he heard that Duke Qian of Yunnan had surrendered to Su Ze, the governor of the Southeast, both Yunnan and Guizhou showed signs of stability, and Southeast implemented a comprehensive reform of the country in Guangxi.

Yang Lie was already a little anxious, but soon he heard the news about the war between Southeast and Ming Dynasty in Henan.

Yang Lie immediately felt that he had an opportunity. If the Southeast and the Ming Dynasty went to war, it would definitely be a national war to unify the country, and the main force would definitely be transferred to the northern front.

If he takes advantage of the chaos and sends troops at this time, if he can separate the southwest, he will definitely get the support of the Ming court, and maybe he will also be granted the title of Duke.

Furthermore, we can also follow the example of southwestern separatist forces such as Nanzhao and Dali in establishing political power.

Yang Lie gathered his people and started to rebel under the banner of supporting the Ming Dynasty.

But Yang Lie didn't know that his rebellion had long been anticipated by a great governor, and the Southeast Cabinet had long been preparing for mountain operations to solve the problem of chieftains in the Southwest.

So the news of Yang Lie's rebellion quickly spread to Chengdu and Nanjing, and the cabinet immediately held a meeting.

Looking at Su Ze, Xu Wei could only sigh with emotion. The Governor was really good at predicting events. He had predicted the rebellion of the southwestern barbarians correctly again.

Yungui is going to rebel. Naturally, Su Ze is not just guessing.

In the historical timeline before he traveled through time, the Bozhou Rebellion during the Wanli Period consumed the last vitality of the Ming Dynasty and exhausted the dominant power in the southwestern part of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that in that timeline, it was Yang Lie's son Yang Yinglong who rebelled.

Now I am in rebellion. This is not to say that the Yang family is inherently rebellious, but that the problem of southwestern Yi is very serious. No matter who is in this situation, they will breed ambition.

The atmosphere in the cabinet is very relaxed. Because of Su Ze's arrangements, the main forces in the Southeast to conquer Annan and the main forces to attack Sichuan all stay in the Southwest, including the troops in Guangdong and Guangxi. It can be said that nearly half of the troops are in the Southwest. This time the Southwest Yi rebellion will definitely happen. Be pacified.

Yang Lie probably didn't expect that after Su Ze surrendered to the southwest, he didn't mobilize all his troops to the northern front, but stayed in the southwest to "wait" for his own rebellion.

The atmosphere in the cabinet was relaxed, and Xu Wei said: "Just as the governor expected, the Southwest will rebel. Because the Southwest issue is not a military issue, but a political issue. This is the backward chieftain system and the ideology caused by the Sinicization of the Southwest. Conflicts arising from progress.”

"The southwest problem is not a Han-barbarian problem, but a system problem!"