In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to stabilize Guizhou and conquer Yunnan, the Ming Dynasty carried out the policy of advancing from Jingzhou to western Guizhou by force, and now the Dong area in Liping has become the first front line. However, due to the exploitation and abuse of local ethnic minorities by the officers and men who carried out the task of town relief, in June of the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378.7), Wu Mian, unable to bear the military conquest and oppression of the imperial court, led the local Dong and Miao ethnic minorities to launch an armed uprising. Starting from Huang Shang, the Rebels successively captured villages near Wukaidong, and then occupied Liping, which was on a roll, and even went straight to Jingzhou, Zero Creek Lake and other places, defeated Jingzhou defenders and killed Guo Xing, commander-in-chief of Wei State in Jingzhou. After Guo Xing's death, the Ming Dynasty ordered Chen to direct the suppression. In November of the same year (1378. 1 1), the Ming army defeated the insurgents. Wu Miansui led the remnants of the rebels to retreat to Tianfu Cave (now Mao Gong of Liping) to rest in the jungle and continue to confront the government forces. In view of the general trend, rebel leader Wu Mian has fled far away, and at the same time, he was forced to retreat because of insufficient troops.

In April of the 18th year of Hongwu (1385.6), there was a cave rebellion in Sizhou, so Wu Mian took the opportunity to raise the anti-Ming banner again, calling himself "King Ping", and developed the rebel army to 200,000, sweeping the "eight caves" and once occupied the vast area at the border of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Ming Taizu was furious after hearing this, and immediately made the king of Chu take lord protector Tanghe as the general of Lu, and Zhou Dexing, the deputy chief of Xiahou Jiang, as the lieutenant, and sent his troops of 300,000. After Tang He arrived in Jingzhou, he sent someone to Liping to surrender to Wu Mian, but Wu Mian sternly refused. After the failure of surrender, the Ming army, based in Jingzhou, advanced to Liping step by step, sent troops to erect fences in various caves, surrendered to the chieftain, mingled with the aborigines, and gradually disintegrated the rebels from the inside. Isolated Wu Mian led the rest of the troops back to Huang Shang to continue fighting. In the 18th year of Hongwu (1385.438+0 1), in October, the Ming army attacked the headquarters of Huang Shangyi Army, captured Wu Mian and his son Lu Wu alive, and sent them to the capital (Nanjing) for execution.

At this point, the eight-year uprising in Wu Mian was finally completely suppressed. Although Wu Mian failed in the uprising, his heroic deeds have been praised by the Dong people for generations, and are still circulated in the legends of the local people. In addition, in this battle, the beloved princess of Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, died in Tonggu City (now Tonggu Town, Jinping County) because of her acclimatization. Tang Miao, the fifth son of General Tang He and his assistant, died in battle. Later, when Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, returned to Korea, Tanghe led the troops to defend Liping, set up five guards, set up internal and external stations such as Liping and Zhongchao 16, set up 380 bunkers such as Huangtuan and Gaotun, and stationed 33,460 troops.

Although the war in the Fifth Open Area of Ming Dynasty directly led to the death of a large number of people, and the import of Han civilization also had a strong cultural impact on local ethnic minorities, after the arrival of a large number of Han soldiers and civilians, through continuous immigration, reclamation and development, it objectively provided a powerful condition for the development of local land resources and laid a solid foundation for the future national integration and social, economic and cultural development in Liping area.