The dry season in Myanmar is from September to April every year, and there is almost no rain for more than half a year.

Outside the city of Yawa, Wang Jinzhong shouted and commanded the auxiliary soldiers and the people to build an earthen city and dig a trench. Because considering that there will be a long-term siege and battle, it is not enough to rely on Tucheng, once the rainy season arrives next year, Tucheng can easily turn into a pile of mud. Therefore, after the construction of the earthen city was completed, the auxiliaries and the people began to lay stones outside the earthen city. The stones, of course, were all brought in from upstream.

On the Ayeyarwady River, the river fleet led by Wu Haodong pursued the Burmese naval division all the way to the upper reaches. With the local Akha people leading the way, the Ming Nanyang fleet reached the upper reaches with ease, and finally forced all the remaining naval divisions of the Burmese army to surrender. So far, the routes from Anuruda City in the downstream to Bamo in the upstream have all been opened.

With the passage from Jiangkou to Ba Mo opened up by the Ming army, the rice, cloth, armor, swords, and firearms produced by the Nanyang Company could continue to reach Ba Mo along the Irrawaddy River, sending supplies to Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's army.

The wind direction is about to change to the northwest wind, which is not conducive to the future fleet full of supplies upstream, but the Nanyang Company's newly leased group of shallow-draft schooners can solve this problem, which can travel under crosswind and crosswind conditions, go straight upstream, and transport supplies to Li Dingguo. In the future, after the advent of Wang Xinyu's self-made shallow draft inland river flying clipper, it will better link Li Dingguo with Nanyang Company.

On the river, the Daming fleet, which is not visible at a glance, went upstream. A group of boats laden with stones sailed down from the upstream and docked at the riverside pier.

"One-two-one!" Several auxiliaries shouted, and lifted a large stone from the ship and loaded it onto the cart.

Several large boats from downstream arrived at the foot of Yawa City, and the auxiliaries and civilians carried bags of cement from the boats.

The Ming army auxiliaries and the local Akha people pushed carts and sent large stones to the construction site. Several craftsmen on the construction task pointed fingers. Commanding the auxiliaries and the people to build up the stone barriers, the craftsmen then plastered earth and cement and laid a layer of stone on the outside of the earthen city.

At the head of Yawa City, a reckless white face full of anxiety stood on the city tower, watching the Ming army building fortifications outside the city worriedly.

"It looks like these thieves are going to besiege us for a long time! They are reinforcing the earth city, and they must be thinking about the rainy season in half a year! Bianya said.

Right now. The Burmese on the tower suddenly saw the Ming army outside the city pushing out a twenty-four-pounder cannon, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was aimed at the city tower. Mang Bai and a group of people were so frightened that they hurriedly fled down the city tower and retreated back to the palace.

", let you see again!" Gong Xiaoda patted the cannon and said, "Count you little rabbits running fast!" Otherwise, one shot will kill you! ”

In the afternoon, a Burmese envoy came to the Ming army camp.

Wang Xinyu was not there, Luo Xiang, Wu Zhudan, Gong Xiaoda, Zhang Wei and other generals asked the Burmese envoy to enter the Chinese army's tent to see what he wanted to say.

The Burmese envoy saluted, and then said, "It is our king who has called me to negotiate with you." Your Son of Heaven is in our hands! If you don't want your Son of Heaven to have any strengths and weaknesses, then please remove the fortifications and evacuate the city of Yawa immediately! We'll definitely put your Son of Heaven back! ”

"Is your king here to threaten us?" Luo Xiang sneered, "We have only one condition, put our emperor back immediately, and we will withdraw the army, otherwise everything will not be discussed!" ”

"Isn't there anything else? Our king said, as long as you are willing to withdraw your troops. In addition to releasing your Son of Heaven, we are also willing to give you a certain amount of compensation. The Burmese envoy's tone softened slightly.

"I made it clear. Our Admiral's absence is not there, and we cannot accept any other conditions! Unless you put our emperor back first! Otherwise, please go back! Wu Pig's Egg said coldly.

"In that case, then we have nothing to talk about!" The Burmese envoy left in a daze.

Seeing the Burmese envoy walking out, Luo Xiang and others pointed to the back of the Burmese envoy and said, "Whatever you want!" Fight if you want to! Anyway, we have time! See how long you can last! ”

Hundreds of miles away on the Nu River, Wu Sangui's army was marching southwest into Burma along the weakly defended Nu River Gorge of the Ming army. The upper reaches of the Nu River are turbulent. Not navigable. As soon as Wu Sangui's army reached a place where the water was calmer, they could cut down wood and build a raft to go down the river to the city of Yawa.

There are three ways to enter Myanmar from Yunnan, one is from today's Ruili to Myanmar. That road is the best way to go, along the river valley to Ba Mo, and from Ba Mo down the river to Yawa City. However, Wu Sangui's spies learned that Li Dingguo's main force was arranging defenses along the Xibo River, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if the Qing army wanted to pass through Li Dingguo's station, it would inevitably be stubbornly blocked by the Ming army. The second road is from the area of Xishuangbanna into Myanmar, this road has no river valleys, all the way are lofty mountains, dense primeval forests, until later when science and technology developed, there is only a very steep road. In those days, if the army marched on this road, the army was easily attacked by the local Tusi, because of the terrain, even a few hundred native soldiers could defeat an army of more than 100,000.

The last road is the Nujiang Gorge that Wu Sangui has chosen now.

This road is much steeper than the road of Ruilijiang. However, Wu Sangui's spies had already found out the situation in advance, and the Qing army learned that Li Dingguo's main force was arranged in the Bamo area, and there were almost no Ming troops stationed in the Nujiang area, so Wu Sangui's main force chose this road to enter Burma.

Wu Sangui was a famous general after all, and the main force he sent to walk the Nu River, and at the same time sent another army of 50,000 horses to enter from Mubang, and took a small road to detour around the back of Li Dingguo, trying to give Li Dingguo a fatal blow from behind the Ming army. At the same time, Wu Sangui also asked a partial division to deliberately walk around the Ruili River to attract Li Dingguo's attention, in an attempt to make Li Dingguo concentrate his forces on the front, so that Li Dingguo would not guard against the Qing army attacking from behind and the Qing army entering Burma to capture Yongli.

The commander of the North Road Army, who carried out a roundabout outflanking mission and was preparing to attack from behind Li Dingguo, was Zhao Liangdong, a "famous general of a generation".

Zhao Liangdong, Qingzhi, Xihua, Ningxia people, this person is strong in martial arts. He is proficient in archery and extremely treacherous and cunning. Later, in the battle into Sichuan, Zhao Liangdong and his own soldiers shot and wounded Zhang Xianzhong, causing Zhang Xianzhong to die soon after, so Zhao Liangdong was deeply loved by Hong Chengchou. Later, when Hong Chengchou went to Yunnan, he brought Zhao Liangdong with him. Use him to contain Wu Sangui. Although Hong Chengchou has returned to Beijing and was sent to Guangdong, Zhao Liangdong's stay in Yunnan represents Hong Chengchou.

Zhao Liangdong's lieutenant is Wang Fuchen.

Wang Fuchen, originally born in a family of eunuchs, has strong martial arts, but is addicted to gambling. Later, after Wang Fuchen followed his brother-in-law to participate in Li Zicheng's invasion, he lost his brother-in-law's 600 taels of silver because of gambling, and as a result, he fled to Jiang Jiu, the general soldier of Datong of the Ming army. Later, Li Zicheng arrived. Wang Fuchen followed Jiang Hao to defect to the peasant army. After the Qing army came, it surrendered to the Qing army. Later, Jiang Hao opposed the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Fuchen, who was strong in martial arts, killed the elite Eight Banners under the command of Azig, and was known as Xiao Lu Bu. Soon after, Jiang Huang's soldiers were defeated and died, and Wang Fuchen was forced to surrender to the Qing army.

Because Wang Fuchen's martial arts were extremely high, after Dolgon's death, Shunzhi arranged Wang Fuchen to Hong Chengchou as a personal guard. After entering Yunnan, Wang Fuchen made great contributions to Hong Chengchou many times. He was deeply appreciated by Hong Chengchou, so he was promoted to the chief soldier.

Although Wang Fuchen is a nail arranged by Hong Chengchou by Wu Sangui's side. But the cunning Wu Sangui knew that Wang Fuchen was addicted to gambling, so he took the opportunity to win him over, asked his subordinates to gamble with him, deliberately lost money to him, and gave him beautiful women. As a result, Wang Fuchen treated Wu Sangui as his uncle, completely deviating from Hong Chengchou's hopes.

It is precisely because Wang Fuchen and Wu Sangui are too close. Ai Xing Ah was not at ease with this person, so Zhao Liangdong was appointed as the chief general and Wang Fuchen was appointed as the deputy general.

As the vanguard of Zhao Liangdong's department, Ma Bao, Qi Sansheng, and Ma Weixing, who were under the command of Li Dingguo, led 10,000 former Southern Ming troops to open the way in front of the 30,000 Green Camp Qing Army and 10,000 Han Eight Banners.

In fact, Ma Bao, Qi Sansheng, Ma Weixing and others all surrendered to Wu Sangui back then. However, Hong Chengchou was not worried about Wu Sangui, nor was he worried about these former Southern Ming generals, so Hong Chengchou made arrangements to arrange these Southern Ming generals under Zhao Liangdong, on the one hand, he could not let Wu Sangui develop too fast, and on the other hand, he could use Zhao Liangdong, who was loyal to the imperial court, to monitor these generals.

The Qing army in the middle of the road, that is, the Qing army that feinted to attract Li Dingguo's attention, had more than 8,000 people, and the main general would be Wang Jinbao. More than half of this army is a group of soldiers who are good at mountaineering, and they are an elite mountain army.

According to Wu Sangui's confession, Wang Jinbao attacked Li Dingguo from the front. If he seized the opportunity, Wang Jinbao's department could climb the cliff and go deep into the inner side of Li Ding's defense line, cooperate with Zhao Liangdong, who was sneaking on the side, and attack Li Dingguo on both sides, defeating Li Dingguo's department in one fell swoop.

The soldiers are all elite troops selected from the local ethnic minority soldiers, and they are a killer weapon in the hands of Wu Sangui. This time, Wu Sangui allocated 5,000 soldiers to Wang Jinbao, plus Wang Jinbao's own headquarters of 3,000 soldiers and horses, a total of 8,000. Wang Jinbao had commanded the Liao soldiers before, when Li Dingguo's general Luo Dashun was stationed in dangerous terrain, Wang Jinbao asked Wu Sangui to fight, and asked Wu Sangui to send elite mountain soldiers to help in the war. So Wu Sangui allocated 500 soldiers to Wang Jinbao. Later, Wang Jinbao personally led 500 soldiers to climb the cliff, launched a sneak attack from behind Li Dingguo, and defeated Luo Dashun.

Let's talk about the main force led by Wu Sangui himself, Wu Sangui is the commander, and the Eight Banners general Ai Xing A is the deputy marshal.

Shumulu? Aixing, the great-grandson of the old wild boar skin, once followed his grandfather to fight in Korea. While chasing down the Korean army with Duoduo, Aixing's grandfather was killed by a bird's gun. Later his father Shumulu? Tazhan set up an ambush to capture Hong Chengchou. This love star is also after the "famous general".

The main force of the Qing Army's vanguard department was 6,000 people, and Wu Guogui served as the vanguard officer, and Gao Dejie, the deputy vanguard officer.

Wu Guogui, the righteous son of Wu Sangui, is definitely Wu Sangui's cronies, with strong martial arts and the courage of ten thousand people. This person has followed Wu Sangui to fight in the south and north for many years, and has made great contributions, which has won Wu Sangui's appreciation.

Gao Dejie is also a fierce general under Wu Sangui, and the cavalry he trains is extremely elite, often able to win more with less, and can win by surprise.

Among the 6,000 vanguard troops of the Pingxi Wangfu Army, most of them were Wu Sangui's Wangfu Army, and there were 2,000 Yuan Nanming Army, and Gao Qilong was the general of the surrendered army. Although this person is a general, because he surrendered earlier, he has won the trust of Wu Sangui.

The Chinese army of Wu Sangui's department is 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and the head of the Eight Banners is Ai Xing A concurrently. Adjutant General Zhuo Luo Beizi. The five thousand Manmeng Eight Banners are all the elite troops of the Eight Banners who have been killed all the way from outside the pass to the southwest, and the Eight Banners of the capital that have begun to degenerate, these Eight Banners stationed in Yunnan have been fighting for many years, and they have never been rusty with their combat skills, and they are a very fierce new force.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Army was not so much Wu Sangui's Chinese army, but rather supervised Wu Sangui.

The real Wu Sangui's Chinese army. It was his own Pingxi Wangfu Army plus a small number of Green Battalion Army. The generals of the Pingxi Wangfu Army include Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Li Rubi, Liu Zhifu, Ta Xince, Wang Hui and others, and the generals of the Green Battalion and the Han Eight Banners are Sun Sike.

Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu are both Wu Sangui's sons-in-law, and these two can be said to be both wise and brave. In the early years, they didn't meet each other, but after meeting Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui took a fancy to the two of them and married his daughter to them.

Sun Sike, the "famous general" of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, is also a Qing army general promoted by Hong Chengchou. Known as the "Four Generals of Hexi" during the Kangxi period, the four famous Qing army generals. In addition to Daniel Zhang did not arrive, Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao and Sun Sike all arrived, which can be described as "a gathering of famous generals" and a huge momentum.

Wu Sangui rode a tall horse and walked side by side with Ai Xing A. On the surface, Wu Sangui seems to be full of ambition and has a lot of self-confidence that he will win.

"The prince's trip is huge, and he will definitely be able to calm Li and Bai in one fell swoop. Capture the puppet emperor! Ai Xing Ah deliberately complimented Wu Sangui, wanting to see what Wu Sangui's reaction was.

In fact, Wu Sangui was very depressed in his heart. He knew very well that the Qing court wanted to use him as a spearhead. The worst possibility is that the Qing court is likely to let him kill Yongli with his own hands as a vote! If this kind of thing really happened, Wu Sangui had already decided to show the Qing court more loyalty, although it was a very painful decision, but Wu Sangui thought that he had no choice.

Wu Sangui in history has always wanted to be in a safe corner. Agreed to the conditions put forward by the imperial court again and again, but it was a pity that the little emperor Kangxi had to advance step by step, and vowed not to give up if he did not cut Wu Sangui, and finally forced Wu Sangui, who was about to enter the ground, to rebel.

Wu Sangui smiled very calmly and stroked his beard: "We are determined to win this battle!" It's sure to win! ”

Aixing Ah Jian couldn't find out anything about Wu Sangui. Changed the topic again: "It's too hot this day!" I wonder how long we have to walk before we can take a boat down the river? ”

"Come on, just go for another seven days!" Wu Sangui replied.

Ai Xing Ah asked again: "Li Cheng and Bai Shun are in the north, we only use 50,000 horses to deal with them, but the 100,000 army enters Burma to capture the puppet Ming Emperor, is this a fuss?" The puppet Ming emperor has fallen into the hands of the Burmese, and we only need 20,000 or 30,000 people to arrest him! The main force should be used to deal with Li Reverse and Bai Rebellion! ”

Wu Sangui said: "Then Li is scheming, I'm afraid that they will have an ambush in front!" We are going to capture the puppet emperor, this is the most important thing! Bing Shuyun, capture the thief and capture the king first! As long as the puppet Ming Emperor is held, Li Cheng and Bai Shun are not afraid! ”

When the two were talking, suddenly someone in front of them came to report: "Lord Wang, it's not good!" There is an ambush of the Ming army ahead! The rolling wood and stones on the mountain were pushed down, and the Pioneer Gao General Army Department lost more than ten brothers! ”

"What's going on?" Wu Sangui's face changed greatly.

The vanguard Qing army of Gao Dejie just marched in the valley of the Nu River, passing through a dangerous place, suddenly several boulders and a few rolling logs rolled down the mountain, more than ten Qing soldiers in front of them could not dodge, some people were smashed into meat on the spot, and some people were knocked down into the turbulent Nu River by boulders and wood, and were swept away by the rapids in a blink of an eye.

Wu Sangui sent a fast horse to let the pioneer officer Wu Guogui return quickly.

After a while, Wu Guogui returned to the Chinese army, knelt down on one knee, and reported to Wu Sangui: "Report to the prince!" There are thieves in ambush ahead! But there are not many thieves, and the last general has already sent people to chase after them! ”

"Excellent! You have to pay attention to the safety of the road ahead! The terrain here is dangerous, and if our army falls into an ambush circle of thieves, the consequences will be unimaginable! Go for it! Wu Sangui solemnly touched his beard and nodded.

"Piercing!" Wu Guogui retreated.

In the mountains and forests on the left bank of the Nu River, the Ming army did not collect Guo Feng at night and was running through the mountains and forests, and a large number of Qing soldiers shouted behind him: "Stop! Don't run! ”

It turned out that after Guo Feng and Tang Chong discovered the Qing army, Guo Feng asked Tang Chong to hurry back to the Bamo area to report to Li Dingguo, but he arranged a rolling wood and stone in a dangerous place. When the vanguard brigade of the Qing army came, Guo Feng pushed down the rolling wood and stoned more than a dozen Qing soldiers to death.

The Qing soldiers chased after him, and Guo Feng took the Qing soldiers and ran towards the trap area he had arranged before. He and Tang Chong were ambushed here for two days, and during these two days, the two of them laid a lot of traps in the mountains and forests behind them. Now that the Qing soldiers are catching up, these traps come in handy.

Guo Feng was running in the bamboo forest, and when he passed a rope trapped, he jumped lightly and jumped over the rope.

The Qing soldiers chased after them, and one of the Qing soldiers who ran in front tripped over a rope made of green rattan in the grass, only to hear a series of wind sounds of "huhuhu", and the bent bamboo in the bamboo forest suddenly bounced straight, and a large row of sharpened bamboo guns flew out, nailing the three Qing soldiers who could not dodge to the ground.

The Qing soldiers behind were taken aback and did not dare to chase after them for a long time. After a while, the Qing soldiers saw that there was no ambush in the bamboo forest, so they were relieved to boldly chase them out again. Before chasing a few steps, I heard a "boom", and the two Qing soldiers in front fell into the trap and were stabbed into a sieve by the bamboo inside the trap. (To be continued.) )

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