On the last day of the first year of Wanli, Liu Xian, the governor of the capital who was supposed to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in Sichuan, led more than 5,000 Sichuan soldiers to move to Yunnan and stationed in Yongchang Tengchongwei.

Tengchong is not the most marginal edge of Yunnan, but Longchuan and Ganya Erxuanfu Division were lost in the previous battle with the Burmese soldiers, and Nandian could not survive alone.

Tengchongwei has become the de facto gateway to the southwest border of the Ming Dynasty.

"This battle is not for me to fight, even if I don't fight this time, it will be three years and five years, eight years and ten years, and I will always have to fight with Myanmar, otherwise the land of Yunnan will be in danger."

Liu Xian's life is not easy, although he is a Nanchang person, born with great strength, when he was young, he made a living as a helper, and he almost starved to death in the disaster year, and had the idea of suicide, and he went to the ancestral hall to hang himself twice and did not die.

Later, he went to Sichuan, how could he live in the temple to help people, steal the tribute of the Buddha statue to survive, rely on the natural strength to secretly hide the tribute under the big bell, sometimes teach children to read, such days have been a long time, and the martial arts of Sichuan have been impersonated.

Until he encountered the war governor recruiting troops, others instigated him to join the army, the first battle brandished two guillotines, fifty or sixty people, and the pawns were promoted to deputy thousand households, and after only seven years, he was already the chief military officer of Wolf Mountain who ruled the north and south of the river.

Liu Xian, who had white hair but was still burly, put down his notes, looked up at the roof arch, and sighed: "Sixty!" ”

After tonight, Liu Xian will be sixty.

"You want to sue the old man, but the court won't let you, Chen Shuai still has the ability, he can get these things, shrewd." Liu Xian patted the table and asked Liu Wei to bring back the information about Myanmar, raised his head and frowned, looked carefully at his son who was standing aside, sneered, and said, "Fluffy monkey!" When your Lao Tzu is gone, learn more from Chen Shuai. ”

Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun are typical Chinese military generals, and they summarize the wisdom of their predecessors, all of whom belong to the inheritors of Sun Wuzi in this era. Liu Xian is ...... is Zhang Yide's successor, that is, he can fight, so he gallops the world and kills the incapable of stopping the army.

As for Chen Mu, he is an atypical general, and for others, he is a stone from other mountains that can attack jade.

Liu Xian is so old and has fought so many battles, he has never seen a war before, and thousands of miles away, he has already figured out all the history and territory of Burma, from population to armament.

"This thief!" Liu Xian patted the map on the table and said, "Look at this map, I know more about the three propaganda and six comforts under the rule of the Yunnan local government." ”

This is not the credit of Chen Mu, these maps were sent by the bishop of Macau, and Portuguese mercenaries were rampant in Indochina, both under the command of Mang Yinglong and in Siam.

They have multiple identities, being believers in God, explorers of the kingdom, hired mercenary groups, and spies with secret letters.

Active in every place where there is war, there are few but learned people, both for their own wages and for the king to draw maps.

Liu Wei did not open his mouth to flatter useless nonsense such as his father was in the prime of life, in this era, as a son of a general, a sixteen-year-old boy had gone to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and his premature maturity and natural fear of his father made him unable to say such things.

He just clenched his fists and said for a while: "Chen Shuai said that he is preparing, but he seems unwilling to send troops. ”

Liu Xian waved his hand and smiled, and said: "As long as he prepares, Yunnan is also preparing, and sending troops is never a matter of willingness." ”

In fact, if it weren't for the Nanyang Military Governor's Mansion, Liu Xian would not have wanted to fight this battle now, especially for the purpose of completely discounting the rising Mang Yinglong, because Liu Xian knew very well that it was impossible to fight from Tengchongwei to the southwest.

With a radius of 600 miles, it is already the best result to be able to push the battle line to the area of Mubang and Mengyang.

If you can advance 200 miles to the southwest and take back the three Xuanfu Divisions of Longchuan, Ganya, and Nandian, it will not be a loss.

That's all he can do, the roads are not smooth, the mountains and forests are mostly there, out of Tengchongwei, everywhere is dangerous and difficult, the best plains are all in the hands of Mang Yinglong in Myanmar, in fact, Liu Xian didn't even dare to think about advancing six hundred miles.

But it was different with Chen Mu landing from the sea, all he needed was to drag the enemy's army in the plateau and mountainous areas of Mubang, which gave Liu Xian the greatest illusion of enterprising the southwest.

"Whether the court is willing or not, is the key, this battle will mobilize 70,000 troops, a year and a half, let alone spend 500,000 taels, the court must prepare at least 1.5 million taels, as long as my father is sure that Chen Shuai is preparing, it is enough."

Liu Xian said and smiled comfortably with his beard, the white beard between his jaws slowly trembled, and said to his son: "Chen Shuai's greatest ability is not to fight, but to make money, all wars in the world are losing money, spending millions of taels to win or lose." ”

"Even if the temple is gained, it will be in the next ten or twenty years, and the legacy will be a disaster for the present generation."

"Only Nanyang Chen Shuai, he can make money for the court together in the war, your father asked you to talk to Chen Shuai, and asked him to think about it, but he just wanted to ask him if he could make money in this battle."

"Now that he is preparing, but he doesn't really want to fight, he estimates that it is enough to make money for this battle for his father, but it should be okay to keep his capital."

Liu Xian got up and walked to the window as he spoke, and outside the window, the people of Yongchang Mansion set off fireworks and firecrackers, and the old general gritted his teeth, "This battle is won, let Myanmar retreat to the plains, Mubang, Mengyang, Longchuan, and Nandian can be changed to the land, and the court is willing to fight." ”

"While the old man is not dead, while the old man still has the energy to fight again, just this year, that is, now, after fifty years of suffering in the southwest after the first war, with the blood of the reckless thief, I am back!"

Daming didn't come back, but Yang Yinglong from Sichuan came.

At the beginning of the second year of Wanli, the governor of Sichuan transferred 3,000 troops from Guizhou to Guiyang Mansion into Yunnan, and the widest official road in Yunnan was only from east to west.

The soldiers and horses of other places could not compete with Yang Yinglong, who loved to be in the limelight, on the way to come, and they all gave way and waited for him to go first.

There's no way, who let the Banzhou Tusi take the imperial court to expedite the order?

From Banzhou to Yunnan, Banzhou sent 3,000 troops, 1,800 craftsmen, along the way to recruit Guizhou labor, Yunnan labor, everywhere not less than 10,000 people, they carried a large number of baggage to Tengchongwei, unloading the baggage is a dangerous place to cut down bamboo and build a village.

At the forefront of Tengchongwei, the highlands bordering Longchuan, which was controlled by Myanmar, Yang Yinglong, who was wearing armor and a three-grade military attache robe, waved his hand, and a craftsman wearing broken straw shoes bowed down to Liu Xian.

Yang Yinglong hugged his fists and said: "Governor Yudu, Governor Chen of the Nanyang Military Mansion ordered to come with iron clay below, cut down bamboo to build fortifications, and with the start of the war, build the past twenty miles and twenty miles to the south, and now the iron clay can be used for sixty miles." ”

"The Nanyang Military Government has reported to the imperial court to help Wu Gongji, the nephew of Wu Wenyuan, the general soldier of Annan, to attack Shenglong in the north, and pass the river to use the army's food, iron mud, guns, guns and armor for Yunnan to prepare for war."

Liu Xian frowned, he could understand the structure of the fort and understand the benefits of this, but ...... What was Chen Mu thinking?

Through his son's mouth, he analyzed for himself how powerful Mang Yinglong was, with three million people and 150,000 soldiers, which was an extremely difficult enemy.

And then the war with Mang Yinglong has not yet begun, and he actively participates in the divided battlefield of Annam?

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