Tang Chong originally wanted to report to the Jin king as soon as possible about the Qing army's entry into Burma from the Nu River Gorge. From here back to Bamo, it will take two days for the fast horse to gallop, and it will take another five days for the army of King Jin to arrive at the earliest. Once the Qing army left the treacherous Yunnan and entered the relatively gentle Burma territory, Li Dingguo's army could not stop Wu Sangui. Therefore, Tang Chong had to find the support of local native soldiers, so he went to a nearby Tusi cottage according to the signs on the map.

"Stop! What people! "On the mountain road, a group of native soldiers in Ming army uniforms blocked the way.

Tang Chong saw that although these native soldiers were dressed as Yi Tusi soldiers, the battle clothes on their bodies were in the style of the Ming army, and the helmet was also the six-petal Mingguang helmet of the Ming army, so he turned over and dismounted, and arched his hand to these native soldiers: "I am a spy of the Ming army, and I have something important to report!" The military situation is urgent, don't stop me in my way. ”

"Ming army spies?" These native soldiers looked at each other, "Does the Ming army have such a dress?" ”

A man who looked like a hundred soldiers shouted: "If there is anything important, you should tell the official first!" ”

"The military situation is urgent! Tartars enter Myanmar from the river valley! I need your support, drag the tartars, and then send someone to report to the king of Jin!" Tang Chong was very anxious, and took out the waist card and presented it.

The native soldier officer took the waist card and glanced at it, and said suspiciously: "This good man should go to see our Lord Li first!" Seeing Lord Li, if the matter is true, Lord Li will help King Jin to stop the Tartars! ”

The native soldiers took Tang Chong to their cottage. It's not a long way from here, but it's only half an hour before you reach the cottage of these native soldiers. As soon as I walked to the door of the cottage, I saw a group of Dali Bai Tusi soldiers walking out surrounded by a young man wearing Han aristocratic costumes. Tang Chong looked at the little boy, and saw that he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, tall and tall, looking sven, but he had the temperament of a martial arts practitioner.

"Mu Gongzi!" The group of Yi native soldiers hurriedly bowed. "We caught a suspicious-looking guy who claimed to be a spy for our Ming Army, and said he had discovered a Tartar invasion!"

Seeing that Tang Chong did not kneel, a native soldier kicked and shouted, "Bold! When I saw the prince of Mu Guo, I didn't bow down! ”

Hearing that it was the prince of Mu Guo, Tang Chong was also startled, and was kicked by the native soldiers, so he knelt down on one knee and arched his hand: "See the prince of Mu Guo!" ”

The little boy stepped forward and looked at Tang Chong for a long time, and was very suspicious when he saw that this person was dressed in strange clothes. After a long time, he asked, "Are you really our big spy?" ”

Tang Chong took out the waist card and presented it with both hands: "Please take a look at the prince of the country!" ”

The little boy took the waist card, looked at it a few times in his hand, and arched his hand: "Please come with this good man!" ”

When I walked into the lobby, I saw a middle-aged man with light eyebrows and small eyes, a half-foot beard, who looked not angry and arrogant, and was wearing a red official uniform. This man is Li Weizuo, the minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the little prince who is known as the prince of the country. Naturally, it is Mu Tianbo's eldest son Mu Zhongxian.

After verifying Tang Chong's identity, and hearing that the Qing army had entered from the Nujiang River Valley, Li Weizuo and Mu Zhongxian were very surprised, so they sent spies. Soon after. The spies sent by Mu Zhongxian also returned, confirming that what Tang Chong said was true, and also met Guo Feng, who had just wiped out all the Qing army's pursuers, and brought him back.

"Shibo. What should we do now? Mu Zhongxian was obviously too young to know how to deal with this matter.

Li Weizuo said: "Let's organize all the local soldiers we have at hand immediately!" Let this strong man lead us to stop the enemy! We have sent another messenger here to ride the best fast horse. Hurry up and report to King Jin! ”

After a short time, Mu Zhongxian gathered all the native soldiers he could muster, a total of more than 800 native soldiers, and more than 100 regular Ming troops.

Li Weizuo stood on the platform, looked around at these native soldiers, raised his voice and shouted: "Brothers! The Tartars are going to go from the valley to Burma to capture our Son of Heaven! The main force of King Jin has taken five days to get here! Now it's up to us to stop the Tartars! We can't let the Tartars pass through our turf! ”

Mu Zhongxian also said loudly: "We are favored by the imperial court in the Mu Mansion era!" Now that the court is in trouble, we will do our best to help! The Tartars want to go over unless we all die! ”

Dali Mufu is the leader of all the toasts in Yunnan, and the big and small toasts all listen to Mu Tianbo. Two years ago, Mu Tianbo entered Myanmar with Yongli and left his two sons behind and entrusted them to the local Tusi. Now that Mu Tianbo has been killed, Mu Zhongxian, the son of the world, is the boss of these toasts, and these local soldiers listen to him.

In real history, after Yongli's death, Mu Zhongxian had to go incognito and join the family of Long Shirong, the great toast, but in the end, he did not escape Wu Sangui's pursuit. Because the Mu family is too famous and prestige in Yunnan, as long as the people of the Mu family stand up and raise their arms, Yunnan Toast will respond. Wu Sangui wanted to replace the Mu family as the real king of Yunnan, so he killed all the descendants of the Mu family.

Guo Feng said: "Mu Gongzi, Master Li, although the lowly position is just a night that does not accept it, the lowly position has learned how to block the enemy in the mountains!" If the two lords can trust the lowly position, let the lowly position lead the eight hundred native soldiers! ”

A native soldier officer spoke: "Two adults, this Guo Gongzi is indeed powerful!" More than a hundred Tartars chased him and were killed by him all! ”

The number of native soldiers in the Ming army was small, only more than 800 people, plus the personal soldiers of Li Weizuo and Mu Zhongxian, there were only more than 900 people in total. In order to deal with Wu Sangui's 100,000-strong army with more than 900 people, it is necessary to make good use of the terrain and adopt flexible and mobile tactics in order to hold off Wu Sangui's army for five days and let Li Dingguo's main force come and completely block Wu Sangui.

Li Weizuo asked people to take the map, put it on the table, pointed to various locations on the map, and introduced Guo Feng and Tang Chong to the various mountains, valley bottoms, and dangerous passages.

Nine hundred people occupy a favorable position, and just by rolling wood and stones, they can deal a great blow to the Qing army. But 900 people is too few, and if you fight hard, you will definitely not be able to compete with more than 100,000 Qing troops.

Looking at the map, Guo Feng thought of a way, his finger pointed to the area of Huoban on the map: "We can arrange it on the mountain in this location, and push down the rolling wood and stone from the top of the mountain, which can cut off the way of the tartar." However, this area is more than 50 miles long and 40 miles wide, with many mountains and dense forests. There are also many rivers and streams. With such a small number of people, it is impossible for us to occupy all the territory, and the Tartars have many paths to attack behind our backs. We can only retreat after pushing down the rolling wood and stones on the top of the hill and killing a batch of tartars! Set traps in the jungle and make the Tartars who try to detour behind us suffer a big loss! Next, let's lead the Tartar by the nose! Attract the Tartar pursuers with a small number of people, and the other part go to the dangerous terrain to block the main force of the Tartars! ”

Then Guo Feng and Tang Chong followed Mu Zhongxian with more than 800 native soldiers and more than 100 Ming troops to intercept the Qing army on a mountain in a dangerous river valley.

The terrain of the Nu River valley is dangerous. The drop is very large, the elevation of the river is more than 500 to 800 meters, but on both sides are high mountains with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters to more than 3,000 meters. In this kind of terrain, as long as you find a mountain and smash it down with rolling logs and stones, you can inflict heavy losses on the Qing army on the march. In order to pass through this place, Wu Sangui had to send troops to attack the mountain, so as to delay the Qing army and slow down their march.

Mu Zhongxian led the Ming army to climb the mountain. Get a bird's-eye view of the Nu River Gorge in the valley. Standing on the top of the hill and looking down, there is an unfathomable canyon below, through which a mountain road passes.

The road along the river was the gentlest avenue, and the main force of the Qing army carried a large amount of baggage supplies. There was also a large number of cavalry of the Eight Banners, which had to go from the river valley. The mountains on both sides are rugged and densely packed with jungle, making it difficult for people to walk. Not to mention the passage of cavalry and convoys laden with baggage.

"Hurry up! Chop down the wood and bring the stones! Mu Zhongxian shouted.

The native soldiers and Ming soldiers cut down the towering trees one by one and cut off the branches and leaves. made the trees into rolling logs; Some Ming soldiers and local soldiers used chisels to chisel down the rocks and move them to the edge of the cliff.

Guo Feng took a group of native soldiers and set up traps on the road where Mu Zhongxian was about to retreat, just waiting for the Qing army to attack, Mu Zhongxian couldn't resist and retreated, leading the Qing army into the trap.

Not long after, Mu Zhongxian saw a Qing army with the banner of "Wu" appear in the river valley to the north, with several cavalry on horseback in front and a large group of infantry behind. The Qing army was marching downstream along the mountain road and along the valley of the Nu River.

"Smash!" Mu Zhongxian roared.

The native soldiers and the Ming army pushed the logs and rolled the logs down the uphill slope, and used iron drills to pry the boulders and make the stones fall off the cliffs.

There was a loud thunderous roar, huge logs rolled down the hillside, and stones the size of millstones fell from the cliffs. Rolling wood and stones fell on the mountain road, the Qing cavalry marching in the front suddenly turned on their backs, the first Qing army was always hit by a boulder, only to hear a sad scream from the war horse, the Qing army was always smashed into a meat pie with people and horses.

All the horses were in disarray, some of the war horses raised their hooves and threw the Qing soldiers on their backs under the horses, and some of the war horses turned their heads and galloped wildly, knocking over many Qing infantry. A war horse that had no time to run away was hit by a huge log, and the war horse let out a heart-rending sound and fell to the ground, and one leg of the Qing cavalry on horseback was also pressed under the horse.

Rolling wood and stones fell in the crowd of Qing infantry, and when they landed, blood and flesh flew everywhere, killing and wounding a large number of Qing soldiers.

"Bang" A Qing soldier was hit by a log that rolled down at high speed, and the whole person was knocked into the air, dancing in the air, as if trying to catch something, but to no avail. This Qing soldier drew a beautiful arc in the air, landed in the turbulent river, and was swept away by the surging river in the blink of an eye.

"My lord! There are thieves in ambush ahead! The Qing soldiers who fled back in embarrassment reported to Wu Guogui.

After listening to the battle report, Wu Guogui personally went to the front to observe for a while, thought for a moment, turned to Gao Dejie and ordered: "There are few thieves and soldiers, and it is impossible to hold every place!" Immediately lead 2,000 elite soldiers and go around the hillside over there! Go and attack the thieves! ”

"Piercing!" Gao Dejie stepped back. Then he led 2,000 elite infantry up from the other side of the hill.

Gao Dejie led two thousand elite green battalion mountain infantry composed of Dian and Guizhou people, through the dense primeval forest, all the way to the top of the mountain panting all the way to attack. The mountain road here is very difficult, walking through the primeval forest, the road is smooth, the moss-covered stones make people slip if you are not careful, and the trunks and branches of the trees that fall in the jungle make it difficult to walk; The climbing vines on the ground can trip people at any time.

The number of Ming troops was too small, and it was naturally impossible to hold all the places.

About two hours later, the Qing army emerged from the mountain forest on the side.

Mu Zhongxian was commanding a hundred Ming troops and two hundred native soldiers to attack the Qing army in the valley with rolling wood and stones, and at this moment, a personal soldier shouted: "Mu Gongzi, the Tartars are coming up from the side!" ”

In the mountains and forests on the right, dense Qing soldiers came out, holding various weapons, shouting and killing Mu Zhongxian.

"Retreat!" Mu Zhongxian shouted.

Two hundred native soldiers and one hundred Ming soldiers turned around and retreated to the primeval forest behind them, Mu Zhongxian took off the iron tire bow from his back, put on his wrench, took out an arrow from the quiver, and aimed it at a Qing soldier who rushed to the front with a bow and arrow, and with a slight loosening of his fingers, a wolf's tooth arrow roared out, nailing the Qing soldier to the ground.

Gao Dejie shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

Rows of arrows shot like locusts flying in the sky, and landed in the mountains and forests, and the two slower native soldiers screamed and were shot into hedgehogs.

Mu Zhongxian, who was strong in martial arts, took advantage of the concealment of mountains and forests and stones to avoid the chaotic arrows of the Qing army. He ran to the rear, and from time to time he took an arrow from the quiver and shot an arrow at the back. Every time a wolf's tooth arrow was fired, a Qing soldier screamed and rolled down the hillside.

Gao Dejie and the Qing soldiers chased after him, and a burst of arrows came indiscriminately, and from time to time some native soldiers fell down with arrows.

After escaping for half an hour, Mu Zhongxian finally saw Guo Feng, who was arranging traps in front of him.

"General Guo, save me!" Mu Zhongxian shouted.

"Mu Gongzi, you take someone over there! These tartars are handed over to the lowly position! Guo Feng shouted.

Mu Zhongxian bypassed a small road on the side, and Guo Feng led five hundred native soldiers to close together, blocking the way of the Qing army.

Seeing the Qing army gradually approaching, Guo Feng shouted: "One person shoots an arrow, withdraw immediately!" ”

Among the 500 native soldiers, 200 archers, 200 condescendingly, shot a volley of arrows at the approaching Qing army. Only a burst of feather arrows broke through the air was heard, and the locust-like arrows drilled into the crowd of Qing troops, screaming miserably, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who rushed to the front were shot like hedgehogs and fell down one after another.

Because of the need to fight in the tropical rainforest and mountains, these mountain Qing troops did not have heavy armor on their bodies, most of them only had one coat, plus the cloth armor with the worst defensive power, they could not resist the random arrows at all.

Gao Dejie used his sword to push away the incoming arrows and shouted: "The thief is ahead!" Catch up! Kill a thief and reward two taels of silver! Capture the thief's head alive and reward 100 taels of silver! (To be continued.) )

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