The war elephants of Du Qifei's Chinese army were all blindfolded, and the direction of the movement was all under the command of the rider, and the rider was killed at this time, and it suddenly lost its direction.

Chen Xiongfei saw that all the cannons had been reloaded, and was about to give the order to shoot, but he saw that the elephant ran out of an arc and plunged into the enemy formation.

The fact that the Dragon Guard can deal with elephants does not mean that the enemy army also has a way. The rider's corpse was pulling at the reins, which made the war elephant feel painful, and for a while he just kept shaking his head and running desperately, trampling many toast soldiers into pulp along the way.

As Zhu Linmiao expected, the elephant was extremely stimulating to the soldiers' hearts, and someone hissed and exclaimed, "The elephant is shocked!" ”

"Run, the war elephant is coming!"

Others were terrified and shot at the war elephant with bows and guns, but they could not kill it at all, but only made it even more crazy. In an instant, Du Qifei's screams in the formation were even worse.

The officers on the side of the Dragon Guard were also stunned, and saw that the enemy was trampled by the war elephants they brought, running around like headless flies, and the formation was half chaotic in an instant.

But they quickly reacted, and immediately ordered the infantry line to advance, and when they were within firing range of the muskets, the snare drums suddenly stopped, and three thousand soldiers shouted in unison, "Aim!" ”

"Put!"

Du Qifei's subordinates were still immersed in the fear of the trampling of war elephants, and there was a burst of fire on his side, and hundreds of soldiers immediately overturned, and they saved thousands of officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

On the contrary, some Tusi officers wanted to gather their men to counterattack, but the following rounds of fire salvos completely disrupted their military formation, and some hunters continued to snipe officers and standard-bearers, further aggravating the chaos.

Under the double blow of elephants and firearms, no one dared to fight, and the entire army gradually retreated and retreated faster and faster. At the same time, the line formation of the Dragon Guard Army was also transformed into an arc, forming a semi-encirclement situation against the enemy.

Sha Dinghai was stunned under the city, but he didn't expect these four thousand officers and troops who were not amazing to be so powerful, and they defeated Du Qifei's seven or eight thousand people in just one face.

He saw that the battle was good, and he had the heart to do something, but he didn't know what to do. After a while, he only turned around and ran back to Kunming City according to his instincts, shouting all the way, "Defeated, defeated!" The officers and soldiers have entered the city! ”

Originally, Du Qifei's Chinese army was in a mess, but at this time, he shouted like this, and the soldiers in the rear team also glanced at each other, and followed towards the city. At one time, people trampled on horses, and I don't know how many people died.

Zhang Jiayu put away the binoculars and turned his head and said, "My lord, judging from the casualties of the enemy army, it should be a real rout." originally thought that Du Qifei had another ambush, but now it seems that he is just arrogant.

Zhu Linmiao nodded and said, "In this way, the two teams of men and horses we originally used to guard against ambushes can be used."

"Order, Xia Fuxian and Zhao Shichao's troops cut off the enemy's retreat from both flanks, and try to form an encirclement with the infantry."

"Yes!"

The ensuing battle was no longer suspenseful, under the continuous fire of the dragon guards' infantry, cavalry and artillery, Du Qifei's men quickly lost their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another.

Du Qifei himself was shot in the right leg, and only led hundreds of people to flee into the city of Kunming, and immediately closed the city gate and did not dare to move again. Outside the east gate of Kunming City, there are already corpses all over the field, soaked in blood.

And the "meritorious" war elephant, after a few guns in his body, ran wildly for a meal, and finally died of exhaustion.

Zhu Linmiao asked people to take prisoners, but simply cleaned up the battlefield, and then ordered the artillery to line up outside the east gate and bombard the city gate. Although the nine-pounder field cannon did not cause much damage to the city walls, every time the cannon roared, the hearts of the defenders of the city would twitch.

By the time the night was ugly, Du Qifei had fallen unconscious due to excessive blood loss from his broken leg. His officers deliberated repeatedly, and after receiving Zhu Linmiao's promise to spare them immortal, they finally surrendered Kaicheng.

At dawn the next day, Zhao Shichao drove his horse to the mansion and said to Zhu Linmiao: "My lord, my subordinates have captured Sha Dinghai in the city. ”

"Sha Dingzhou's eldest brother?" Zhu Linmiao had already heard Chu Pingmao talk about the situation of the Tusi in Yunnan, and signaled to Zhao Shichao, "Bring him to me." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, a slightly chubby middle-aged man with his arms tied behind his back was taken to the government office. Sha Dinghai bowed respectfully, and pleaded: "His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, Sha Dingzhou rebelled, and it is a capital crime for Xia Guan to be his eldest brother. The lower officials did not ask the court to exempt me from the death penalty, but only wanted to see how Sha Dingzhou and Wan Cailian, two dog men and women, were beheaded, and then went to Huangquan by themselves. ”

Zhu Linmiao asked Shi Lin to untie him, helped him up again, and said with a smile: "Chief Sha and his father have always been loyal to the imperial court, but it is not your fault that they were killed by Sha Dingzhou's rebels. ”

Sha Dinghai was stunned for a moment, and immediately said excitedly: "The imperial court does not punish the capital crime of the officials? ”

Zhu Linmiao continued: "Not only will you not be punished, but you will also be reinstated as the chief of the lawsuit." ”

Sha Dingzhou knelt down and slammed his head on the ground, "Xiaguan Xie for the great grace of the imperial court, and he will be loyal to Daming in the future!" ”

"There's something for you to do right now......"

Zhu Linmiao instructed Sha Dinghai to leave, and then called Zhao Shichao and said: "Contact Mu Jing as soon as possible, let him spread the news everywhere, and say that the imperial court has restored Sha Dinghai's original post, and Wang Lane is still under his rule." ”

"Yes!"

……

Sha Dingzhou raised his head and poured a large bowl of cold water, but he could not extinguish the fire in his chest.

Just as his henchmen trotted all the way, his face was full of embarrassment and said: "Lord of the General Mansion, Mu Tong said ......"

Sha Dingzhou glared at him and shouted, "What is it this time?!" ”

"Mu Tong said that more than 100 people in the city were infected with the plague, and he was afraid that the army would get sick when he entered the city, so he asked your lord to wait for another day, and he will open the city gate after burning the sick body and burying it."

"Bastard!" Sha Dingzhou slammed the water bowl on the ground and said angrily, "If there is no plague sooner or later, there will be a plague if my army wants to enter the city?!" ”

When he said this, he couldn't help but think of a series of boring things in his mind.

When he arrived at Chuxiong, he found that there was a team of people stationed in the city abandoned by Mu Tianbo, which was the Lijiang Mu family. Mu Yan, who commanded the army, sent someone to ask for a meeting, saying that the Mu family had not made an inch of merit before, and this time he helped Sha Zongfu capture Chuxiong.

Sha Dingzhou only thought that the Mu family wanted to take refuge in himself wholeheartedly, and praised him a lot, but this Mu Yan only said good things, but he never opened the city.

Under his urging, Mu Yan said that there were still Mu Tianbo's remnants in the city, and they could be cleared in half a day. So Sha Dingzhou asked the army to wait outside the city for a day, and Mu Yan sent someone to say this campaign, he suffered a lot of casualties, but there was no silver to compensate, and he wanted to ask Sha Zongfu to borrow 30,000 taels of silver.

Where did Shadingzhou bring so much cash, so he had to send someone to Guangtong to withdraw money, and it was another day and a night back and forth.

Who knew that after Mu Yan took the money, he actually said that there was a plague. No matter how stupid Sha Dingzhou is, he should understand that there is a problem at this time.

He summoned Chen Changming, Lu Trillion and others, and was about to give the order to attack the city, when a horse galloped over, waving the letterhead in his hand and shouting: "Urgent!" Kunming City Falls! ”