Liu Xuanchu and Deng Hong recruited more than 20,000 people from Kunming, Qujing, Dali and other places, and by the time they took these people to the Nujiang Gorge, more than a month had passed.

Wu Sangui was naturally very happy to see Liu Xuanchu, but because of Ai Xing's face, he couldn't help but reprimand: "Why did Mr. Liu arrive so long?" You must know how many times General Pingxi has urged this king during this time! This king can only repeatedly ask for a few more days, and when Mr. Liu arrives, he can break the enemy. ”

Ah Leng, who was standing on the side, snorted: "The action is so slow, the thief's city has been strengthened again!" If we can attack as soon as possible, I am afraid that the enemy has already been broken! ”

Liu Xuanchu hurriedly knelt down and replied: "Go back to the big handsome!" Despicable capital offense! It was only because the thieves were too powerful that they considered that they should be foolproof, so they recruited the people and delayed for some time! I hope that the handsome man will be guilty! ”

"Hurry up!" Wu Sangui helped Liu Xuanchu up, "Mr. Liu can come, this king is already very pleased!" Mr. Liu quickly come with this king and see how this thief's city can be cracked. ”

"I also brought a student here, and it is this Deng Gongzi!" Liu Xuanchu introduced Deng Hong to Wu Sangui, "This Deng Gongzi has been reading military books since he was a child, and he has the talent of Kong Ming and Pang Tong!" With Deng Gongzi coming, he will definitely be able to help our army break the formation! ”

Since Deng Hong was introduced by Liu Xuanchu, Wu Sangui was naturally convinced.

And the Manchurians all like the Three Kingdoms, I heard that this Deng Hong has the talent of Kong Ming Pang Tong, Ai Xing A is very happy: "I also ask Deng Gongzi to give advice to this general, how to break through this thief city?" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the students still have to go out and see the thief's city before they can come up with a strategy to break the enemy!" Deng Hong arched his hand.

Liu Xuanchu and Deng Hong followed Wu Sangui and the others out of the camp, walked to a place about five hundred steps away from the Ming army's city, and observed the strange castle in front of them from a distance.

Looking at this strange castle, Deng Hong sighed: "Genius! The thief on the other side is a genius! Only a genius can come up with such a city! Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this raised castle can allow our army to suffer three blows during the siege of the city! Such a city. Only the cannons bombarded those raised castles. However, the thief's castle is located on the mountainside, and our red-coated cannon cannot hit it, and the general cannon can hit it, but after the general cannon has to raise the muzzle, the power is insufficient; The range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is too close, and I am afraid that it will be destroyed by thieves before it enters the range! ”

Wu Sangui was overjoyed and said: "Deng Gongzi is really a genius!" As soon as you come, you can see the mystery of the thief city! ”

Ai Xing Ah lowered his face: "In this way, what is the best way for Deng Gongzi to break the enemy?" ”

Deng Hong arched his hand and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, in addition to the siege of such a city, there is only outwitting!" Siege is not a solution. Our army could not pass through that avenue, nor could it cut off the grain and grass transportation routes of the thieves. If it is a detour, the distance is too far, and it will take at least three months for our army to return to Kunming and then detour into Burma. Now there's only one way left to outwit! ”

Aixing said: "Deng Gongzi, can you talk about it, what way do you outwit?" ”

Deng Hong pointed to the mountain behind him: "The mountains overlap here, and there must be a path to go around behind the thieves!" ”

Wu Guogui said: "We have tried, but we can't get around." The thieves were very well guarded, and General Ben took an elite detour behind the thieves, but was intercepted by the thieves. The terrain is treacherous, and it only takes a few thieves to block the way. General Ben was shot back by a random arrow from the thieves. ”

Deng Hong replied with a smile: "Why should our army attack the city of thieves? Our army sent an elite mountain army. Bring enough dry food, just find a path around it, and attack the thief's baggage and cut off the thief's food route. Thieves are bound to mess with themselves! They will definitely send troops to rescue the grain road. Our army uses a small group of elite mountain soldiers to deal with the thieves who have returned to help, and the thieves are worried about the safety of the grain routes, and they will be in a dilemma: if they increase their troops again. The defense of the city must be empty; If you don't increase the troops to help, the thieves' food will not be peaceful, and the people will inevitably be panicked, and the army's heart will be unstable, so you can only withdraw the army! ”

Wu Sangui turned his head to look at Liu Xuanchu: "What does Mr. Liu think of this plan?" ”

Liu Xuanchu arched his hand and said: "Clever plan! The humble position also has this idea, but he doesn't know how to implement it, this Deng Gongzi is thoughtful, which is really admirable! ”

Wu Sangui heard Liu Xuanchu say this, and also nodded: "It is indeed a clever plan!" How could this king not think of this? ”

Aixing Ah Daxi said: "High! Deng Gongzi is really a genius! ”

Deng Hong said again: "As long as our army sends spies to arrest the local mountain villagers, it will definitely be able to ask a path that can intercept the thieves' grain road in a roundabout way!" ”

"Then it's settled!" Ai Xing Ah listened to Deng Hong's proposal.

After that, the Qing soldiers sent spies composed of Lulu soldiers everywhere to catch the local mountain people. After three days, five woodcutters who were chopping wood on the mountain were arrested.

"Say it! Where is the way to get around? Ai Xing personally separated these woodcutters and interrogated them separately.

The captured woodcutter was so frightened that he poured beans into a bamboo tube and told the Qing army everything he knew.

Ai Xing asked again: "The thief generals opposite, besides Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, who else?" ”

"Lord Hui, it's from Qiongzhou, a man named Wang Yu. The villain also has important information to report to the adult. ”

"Speak quickly!"

"There are a lot of Qiongzhou soldiers here, and the villain also heard that the Qiongzhou soldiers are attacking Ava City, and it is estimated that there are fifty or sixty thousand horses. It is said that the city of Ava is surrounded like an iron bucket, and not even a fly can fly over! ”

Aixing Ah Daxi: "As long as our army passes through here, we can not only defeat Li Rebellion and Bai Rebellion, but also take the sheep and wipe out this Wang Rebellion's soldiers and horses under Ava City!" How many soldiers can there be in Qiongzhou? Fifty or sixty thousand people came to Myanmar, presumably Qiongzhou must have been empty! This situation has to be reported to Guangdong and Guangxi as soon as possible! Let Lord Hong urge King Dingnan and Sun Yanling to take the opportunity to send troops! ”

After the Qing army obtained a circuitous path, Deng Hong personally received the order: "I am willing to personally lead fifty men and horses to go over and draw a map over there!" It will be back in about 10 days. ”

Ai Xing'a nodded and said: "Deng Gongzi is loyal to the imperial court, if he can break the enemy and capture the pseudo-Ming and pseudo-emperor, this general will play the imperial court to raise the flag for you!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Deng Hong hurriedly bowed to the ground.

Looking at the back of Deng Hong's departure, Ai Xing Ah thought to himself: This person is indeed a talent! This kind of talent cannot be used by the king of Pingxi, it must be used by my court! When he had made great achievements, General Ben would raise the flag for him and take him into his account.

Deng Hong took fifty soldiers and bypassed the path mentioned by the woodcutter, and sure enough, there was no Ming army blocking the road. But no one noticed that Deng Hong marked a tree and hid a small ball of paper in the grass under the tree.

The Qing army crossed the defense line of the Ming army, and Deng Hong led 50 soldiers to explore the situation of the road on the opposite side.

After three days of reconnaissance, Deng Hong returned to the Qing army camp along the original path with the drawn map and presented the map.

"Marshal, General Pingxi! The lowly has found out the truth and drawn the map. After passing through the trail, the mountains are densely forested, but there are trails to traverse. Fifty miles away, there is a road that goes straight to Bamo, as long as you bring three thousand elites, each person brings enough dry food for ten days, and detours through the path, you can cut off the thief's grain transportation avenue! Our army burned a batch of grain and immediately hid in the mountains and forests. If the army of thieves comes to help, our army will take advantage of the mountainous terrain to maneuver; As soon as the load of grain arrived, they went up and burned their grain. Deng Hong arched his hand.

Wu Sangui asked, "Is it enough for one person to have ten days of dry food?" ”

"That's enough! In the mountains and forests, you can hunt game, pick wild fruits, and support for a period of time without problems! It was precisely because of the fact that there were too many people to go and that our small army would not have enough food, so only 3,000 men and horses would be enough. ”

"Good! That's up to you! Wu Sangui nodded, looking around at his subordinates, "Who is willing to lead troops there?" ”

Wu Guogui, Hu Guozhu, Gao Dejie, Xia Guoxiang and others were unwilling to let go of this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and they all asked for their lives: "The last general is willing to go!" ”

In the end, Wu Sangui still named his righteous son: "Wu Guogui! You take 3,000 soldiers, each with enough dry food for ten days, and go around the path! Encounter the thief food convoy and attack immediately! You have run out of dry food, there is game in the mountains and forests, and there are wild fruits to pick, which can last for a while! ”

Aixing said: "The map was drawn by Deng Gongzi, let Deng Gongzi go too!" If you can break the thief, Deng Gongzi has the greatest credit! ”

"I am willing to go with General Wu!" Deng Hong stepped forward to ask for help.

"Good!" Wu Sangui agreed, "Deng Gongzi is a literati scholar, and he doesn't need to go into battle in person when he encounters a thief!" If something happens to Deng Gongzi, my Pingxi Mansion will lose a good military advisor! ”

Wu Guogui and Deng Hong took 3,000 soldiers and made a detour from the path again. This army marched through the mountains and forests for two days, and reached the edge of the road behind the Ming army.

"Here, here, let the brethren lay in ambush on the spot! When the thieves' food convoy passes, we will kill them. It was more than fifty miles away from the thieves' camp, and we attacked their grain and grass, and they didn't have time to come! Deng Hong pointed to the main road.

The Qing army ambushed in the mountains and forests for three days and three nights, in order to save dry food, Deng Hong asked the Qing soldiers to pick wild fruits to catch wild meat to satisfy hunger, because no fire was allowed, Wu Guogui ordered people to kill the captured snakes and drink snake blood and eat snake meat raw. The pheasants and other game caught are also eaten raw. These soldiers were all mountain people who had endured hardships, and they persevered like this.

Three days later, the grain transport team of the Ming army really appeared on the avenue.

"Kill!" Wu Guogui roared, and was the first to rush out of the mountain forest.

The three thousand soldiers in the back shouted, rushed onto the avenue, and intercepted the grain transportation team of the Ming army.

These grain carriers were all auxiliary soldiers and strong people, and although they were numerous, they were vulnerable. Seeing the Qing army rushing out, they immediately scattered and fled.

Wu Guogui walked to a grain truck and waved his knife to split open a grain bag, and found that it was indeed grain inside. He also chopped the grain bags on several grain trucks in succession, and found that all that flowed out of them were grain.

"Ignition!" Wu Guogui sneered. (To be continued.) )