Deng Hong retorted: "Lord Liu is not a man of the imperial court, he should be the king of Pingxi, right?" ”

Liu Xuanchu sneered: "So what? King Pingxi's Yulu is not the Yulu of the imperial court? The king of Pingxi was loyal to the court, so why not? ”

"This is the Tartar court, not my Ming court! It's hateful to destroy the mantle of my Han people and slaughter my Han people! Serve such a court wholeheartedly, that is the second minister! Deng Hong said indignantly.

Liu Xuanchu said in a cold tone without any expression: "If the erector insults the prince of Pingxi, aren't you afraid that the old man will send you to Pingxi General Aixing'a?" ”

Deng Hong calmly replied: "Lord Liu is the old department of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, and it is precisely because we know that Lord Liu has his homeland in his heart and does not want to see my Han mantle destroyed, so we are looking for Lord Liu." If Lord Liu really sent the juniors to the Tartars, then we can only blame Lord Wang for being blind and recognizing the wrong person! ”

Liu Xuanchu paused, looked at Deng Hong's eyes, and saw that this person was an upright and loyal person, so he told the truth: "There were old friends who came before, and asked the old man to intercede in front of the king of Pingxi, but the old man drove him away, so don't waste your efforts and leave Kunming as soon as possible!" The court here is full of secret eyeliners, if you are not careful, you and I will be destroyed, and it will also affect the prince of Pingxi. ”

"The younger generation has nothing else to ask for, but I ask King Pingxi to be merciful. If the power of the King of Jin is eliminated, the surrounding anti-Qing Tusi forces and the remnants of the previous dynasty are eliminated, the Tartar court will inevitably attack the prince! Deng Hong arched his hand.

"We also understand the principle of raising self-respect, and the old man has also persuaded the prince. But do you know how many court eyeliners there are around the prince? The prince can't help but show loyalty to the court! If you are a little careless, not only the prince's family, but also the lives of tens of thousands of people in Yunnan will be in danger! Liu Xuanchu sighed.

In fact, Liu Xuanchu has been secretly helping Nanming, and the Burmese side has sent someone to find Wu Sangui before, saying that if the Qing soldiers enter Burma. Cooperate with the Burmese army to flank Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's troops, and you can hand over Yongli. However, Wu Sangui rejected the Burmese proposal, which was the credit of Liu Xuanchu, who advised Wu Sangui to "raise his own self-respect" and refused to send troops on the pretext that the time was not ripe.

However, Wu Sangui also knew that the Qing court had always been worried about him, so later Mang Bai launched the curse water difficulty. Wu Sangui could no longer shirk it, so he had to lead his troops into Burma.

When Ai Xing Ah handed over the Yongli Emperor to Wu Sangui and let Wu Sangui deal with it himself, in order to hand in the name, Wu Sangui personally strangled Yongli with a bowstring to show his loyalty to the Qing court. On the one hand, there is the factor that Wu Sangui is willing to be the king of a local domain, and on the other hand, it is also because Aixing Ah is very close. After Wu Sangui killed Yongli, the Qing court made him a prince. Later, after three rebellions, the Qing court revised history. Splash all the dirty water on Wu Sangui.

Historically, Wu Sangui caused far less harm to the Han people than King Sanshun, because the strength of the Ming Dynasty had been exhausted in internal and external troubles, and Chongzhen went to the coal mountain again. Of course, no matter what the objective reasons are, Wu Sangui's crime of being a traitor cannot be cleared, after all, he personally killed Emperor Yongli as a petition handed over to the Qing court.

And the danger of King Sanshun is that Houjin has the most advanced firearms. As a result, after the Qing army entered the customs, it was able to rely on advanced artillery to attack the city and conquer the fortified city.

However, Deng Hong's trip was not in vain. He was going to Burma to meet with the King of Jin next, reminding the King of Jin to be careful that Burma Mangbai was not good for the imperial court, and he also learned that Liu Xuanchu had actually secretly helped Nanming and persuaded Wu Sangui, but the Qing court had many eyes and ears, and Wu Sangui did not dare to agree.

Liu Xuanchu planned to get up and say goodbye. Before standing up, he suddenly remembered something, so he asked: "I don't know if Deng Gongzi will go back to Qiongzhou or go to see King Jin after leaving Kunming?" ”

"The juniors will go to see King Jin." Deng Hong replied.

"You tell the King of Jin that Ai Xing Ah will send troops to Burma, so that the King of Jin should be on guard!" Liu Xuanchu was loyal to Wu Sangui. He didn't want King Jin's power to be completely wiped out by the Qing court, because he knew very well in his heart that if King Jin's power was eliminated, the court would take action against Wu Sangui next. But he advised Wu Sangui many times, but Wu Sangui couldn't listen to it at all.

After speaking, Liu Xuanchu let the boat dock and got up to leave.

After bidding farewell to Liu Xuanchu, Deng Hong left Kunming with the help of the secret agents of the Heaven and Earth Society and the King of Jin, and went to Burma to meet with the King of Jin.

Thousands of miles away in Qiongzhou.

On the Haikou wharf, flags were waving and gongs and drums were sounding in unison, and groups of officers and men of the Army Division were boarding the ship in a neat formation. The shore was full of people seeing off the troops who were about to go on an expedition.

The bell rang, the anchor chains were retracted, the sails were raised, and the fleet slowly left the dock and slid into the depths of the sea.

Chen Shuigen and Liu Baorui, the two brothers, are together again, and the two are on the same Spanish galleon.

The huge fleet sailed west out of the Qiongzhou Strait, turned south, and sailed south along the coastline of Annam. It was only at this time that Gong Xiaoda announced the destination of this expedition to the soldiers: "We are going to Singapore and meeting with Wang Junmen!" ”

"Going to Singapore?" Everyone was stunned when they heard the news, they originally thought that they were going to land to fight the Qing army, but they were going to an unknown place.

Liu Baorui asked: "My lord, where is Singapore?" ”

"To the south, it's a small island." Gong Xiaoda replied.

Chen Shuigen said regretfully: "I thought I was going to kill the Tartars, but who knew that I would go to an unknown island!" ”

"The military order is like a mountain! Just carry out the military orders! No need to ask! Don't ask what you shouldn't! Gong Xiaoda said coldly.

In fact, Gong Xiaoda knew very well in his heart that this expedition was really to find trouble with Wu Sangui and Ai Xing'a, to join Li Dingguo's division, and by the way, to teach Burma a lesson.

Although Chen Shuigen, Liu Baorui and others were extremely disappointed, they did not dare to refute, so they could only stay on the ship honestly.

Because the two of them are elite snipers, they live in a relatively comfortable upper gun deck.

Chen Shuigen laid out the cover on the dining table, turned his head to Liu Baorui and said, "I really don't understand, why we don't go to fight Tartars, but we want to go to a small island in the south." ”

"I don't understand what the military master thinks, our brothers have no ability but no way to serve the country, alas!" Liu Baorui sighed.

A mixed formation of eight Spanish galleons, four Dutch galens, eight Daifuku, twelve bird boats, and two duck-butt boats sailed the South China Sea. The Burmese convoy carried almost all of the strength of the Nanyang Army. At this time, Wang Xinyu's own Marine Corps of the Second Town of the Navy Division was also incorporated into the Nanyang Navy. The strength of this expedition were: four infantry battalions in Jingang Town, one artillery battalion, one mercenary battalion and one auxiliary battalion in Tianlei Town, three mountain battalions and one artillery battalion in Feihu Town; The strength of the Marine Corps is: three infantry battalions and one Divine Machine Battalion; The strength of the special combat team is one scout team of 100 people, one night team of 100 people, and one sharpshooter team. The total strength of the expedition to Burma reached 16,000 men.

An infantry battalion in Jingang Town had an establishment of more than 1,100 men, including 500 soldiers and 600 auxiliaries. The soldiers were divided into four infantry hundreds, one ironclad unit, two pikemen and one musket team, and an artillery team.

Among the 100 ironclad soldiers, the most elite ironclad team of 20 people, wearing heavy plate armor, holding Miao knives, and carrying square iron shields; The remaining eighty ironclad soldiers were dressed in lighter plate armor, armed with Miao knives, and carrying round shields; In the 100-man pikemen, the captain, the chief, and the commander always hold a halberd or a long-handled knife, and the infantry wields a spear and wears light plate armor; The musketeers wield flintlock pistols and birdguns and wore chain mail. The artillery corps was armed with four three-pounder guns and carried twenty guns.

The artillery battalion of Tianlei Town is equipped with six six-pounder guns, twelve four-pounder guns, two twenty-four-pounder mortars, and one hundred guns; The mercenary battalion has two halberd hundreds, four musket hundreds, and one artillery hundred, all of which use the most advanced flintlock guns; Auxiliary battalion of a thousand people.

A mountain battalion of 1,000 men in Feihu Town, including 500 soldiers and 500 auxiliaries, all equipped with light armor, divided into a knife team, a spear team, an archery team, a musket team and an artillery team, the musket team is a mixture of flintlock pistols and bird guns, and the artillery team under the infantry battalion is equipped with four eight-pounder mortars and 20 guns. The artillery battalion directly under Feihu Town is equipped with four twelve-pounder mortars, ten eight-pounder mortars, and one hundred guns.

The Marines were named Fubo Town, three infantry battalions, each with a strength of 600 people, equipped with light armor, a sword and shield hundreds, a spear team, an archery team, two bird guns and a flintlock team, because the marines relied on the coastline to fight, so there were no auxiliaries, directly supplied by the navy, and there was no infantry battalion artillery, the original elite ironclad soldiers were assigned to the army. The Marine Corps Shenji Battalion is armed with four six-pounder guns, twelve four-pounder guns, and one hundred carrying guns.

The scout unit of the special operations team is the scout; If you don't collect it at night, it's a special commando; The sharpshooter team is Wang Xinyu's secret weapon: rifled guns and electric guns. The rifled guns are sniper rifles, currently only six of them, equipped with adjusted monoculars; The Torch Gun is a flintlock pistol equipped with a sub-gun that can fire quickly, and there are currently only ten of them. The entire sharpshooter team, with a total of only thirty people, was equipped with cold weapons except for muskets.

At present, the biggest problem is the insufficient production of weapons, so not to mention the implementation of comprehensive firearms, even among the musketeers, there are still more than half of the musketeers using arquebuses, including the original bird guns of the Zheng family, there are also bird guns captured from the Qing army, and there are also arquebuses captured by the Dutch. The artillery used, in addition to a part of the guns purchased by the British, was some old ones that had been modified with the addition of large wheels. But the mortars are all freshly cast.

There is also a kind of big killer is the gun, this weapon is based on the original heavy musket, plus the trigger, hung with the arquebus, into a kind of extra-large arquebus, although the rate of fire is slow, but the power is huge, and can fire shotguns, which is equivalent to playing the role of a light artillery. (To be continued.) )

PS: There is one more chapter at noon