Ningxia Rebellion of Bo Bai

Timeline

1. 1592Ningxia garrison · YinchuanBo Bai was originally a surrendered Mongolian who rose to deputy general before retiring, with his son Bo Cheng'en inheriting his post. Governor Dang Xin investigated his fraudulent payrolls and curtailed his household troops, and long-simmering resentment erupted. On the eighteenth day of the second month Liu Dongyang and others killed Dang Xin and vice commissioner Shi Jifang, and general Zhang Weizhong hanged himself. The rebels, with Liu Dongyang as general and Bo Bai as mastermind, took Zhongwei, Guangwu, Lingzhou and other forts, and promised grazing at Huamachi to lure Zhuolitu and others of the Ordos tribes, shaking all Shaanxi.
2. 1592Ningxia garrison and front of the Helan Mountains · NingxiaGovernor-general Wei Xuezeng first recovered several forts west of the river, but the Ningxia garrison city resisted prolonged siege. The Ming court sent Ma Gui to reinforce and check the Ordos tribes; in the fourth month Li Rusong was made general of Ningxia with Mei Guozhen as supervisor, and troops from Liaodong, Xuanfu-Datong, Zhejiang and Miao were combined for the encirclement. In the seventh month Ma Gui raided the Ordos camps, pursuing to the Helan Mountains and cutting off the rebels' outside support. Wei Xuezeng, who favored appeasement, was dismissed and Ye Mengxiong replaced him as commander.
3. 1592Ningxia garrison city · YinchuanMing forces breached the Yellow River to flood the city, and the north wall collapsed. With ammunition exhausted in the city, Liu Dongyang, Tu Wenxiu, Xu Chao and others turned on each other. After breaching the main city Li Rusong besieged Bo Bai's residence; Bo Bai killed his whole household, Bo Cheng'en and others were captured and later executed in Xi'an. With Ningxia pacified, Li Rusong was immediately ordered east to aid Korea, and the next of the Three Great Campaigns of Wanli was already unfolding on the peninsula.