The Burmese decided the matter, they were ready to hold on to Yawa City, hold off the Ming army, and then invite Wu Sangui to enter Burma to deal with the Ming army, and at the same time send a small number of troops from the northwest, east and southeast directions back to King Qinwang of Yawa City. Then Mang Bai sent two envoys to Yunnan on fast horses with an expedited journey of 800 miles day and night.

Wu Sangui hadn't come yet, and Mang Bai felt that it was not safe to leave Yongli on the other side of the river. Last time, Li Dingguo came down from upstream, and it was difficult to find the Yongli in the southwest of Yawa City. However, this time the Ming army came from downstream, and they first had to pass through Yongli's residence before they arrived at Yawa City, so Mang Bai decided to send someone to "pick up" Yongli and his party to live in Yawa City. When the Ming army came to attack, the Burmese army threatened the Ming army with Yongli as a hostage, bargained with the Ming army, delayed the time of the Ming army, and dragged the Burmese army back from Wu Sangui and other places.

Just yesterday, Wang Xinyu sent Cai Dezhong to come with 100 special combat members of the land division. However, because they were not familiar with the terrain, the special combat team did not know the specific location where Emperor Yongli was imprisoned, and they searched for a long time but failed to find it, but attracted the attention of the Burmese army, and Cai Dezhong and they could only return with a feather.

On the other side of the Irrawaddy River, the residence of Yongli.

Yongli sat on the chair and frowned, the queen mother sighed, and the queen hugged the prince and cried.

"The Burmese are here again!" Deng Kai, who was lame, limped back to report the news.

A Burmese army general with hundreds of murderous soldiers broke into Yongli's residence, and as soon as he entered, he loudly announced: "Our country is in a war, and some thieves are approaching the capital!" In order to ensure the safety of the Son of Heaven and his family, the king is now merciful and wants to enter the family of the Son of Heaven to live in the city of Awa! ”

After the announcement, the Burmese general waved his hand, and the murderous Burmese soldiers behind him rushed in, and couldn't help but set up the eternal calendar. Forcibly pulled him out of the residence. Several soldiers came up again, pulled the queen away, and dragged the prince out. Later, several soldiers came up and wanted to drag the queen mother, queen and concubines.

"You don't have to do it! I'll go with you myself! The queen said loudly.

The Burmese soldiers let go of the queen and watched as she walked out of her residence and onto a boat parked on the river outside. The Queen Mother and several concubines also walked out on their own. They got on the boat that the Burmese had prepared for them.

"Your Majesty!" Deng Kai and several guards of the Imperial Forest Army rushed out, but were stopped by the Burmese army.

"Go back! Our king didn't let you pass! ”

"Your Majesty!" Deng Kai shouted at Yongli's back, and said to the Burmese army: "We are going to serve the emperor!" ”

Several eunuchs and palace maids also rushed out crying and said to the Burmese army: "We are also going to serve the emperor!" ”

"Go back!" The Burmese soldier drew his sword and threatened, "Our king didn't let you pass!" Your emperor went over there, and there are special people to take care of it! ”

Looking at the steel knife in the hands of the Burmese soldiers, Deng Kai and the others could only retract it. He knew in his heart that as long as King Qin's Ming army did not withdraw, the Burmese would definitely not dare to do anything to Yongli. At least for now, Yongli is safe.

Yongli was taken to the city of Yawa by the Burmese army, and Mang Bai personally brought people to meet Yongli.

"The thieves are attacking our country, and it is not safe for the Son of Heaven to live outside the city! From the point of view of safety, the Son of Heaven was brought into the city to facilitate care. The reckless white skin looked at Yongli without smiling.

"Your country killed my civil and military officials, and our army came to King Qin, how can you say that you are a thief?" After all, Yongli is a person with a relatively weak personality, and he can barely maintain a little bit of toughness in front of the Burmese envoy before. Now I see Mangbai. On the contrary, he lost all the prestige of the Son of Heaven of the Kingdom, and weakly refuted the words of Mang Bai, the vassal king. Originally, the vassal king had to kneel when he saw the Son of Heaven. Now the reckless white has become high.

Seeing Yongli's weak and incompetent appearance, he was so reckless that he was inch-free: "Since it is from King Qin, then please ask the Son of Heaven to issue a holy decree to let them withdraw their troops!" ”

Although Yongli is weak, he is not a fool. As soon as he heard Mang Bai say that he would give himself an order for the Ming army to retreat, he closed his mouth and said nothing. Because he knew very well in his heart that if the Ming army retreated. Your own life is in danger; As long as the Ming army is in Burma, it is absolutely safe. The Burmese did not have the courage to kill themselves, and if they did, Burma would be retaliated against by the Ming army.

Seeing that Yongli refused to make an order, Mang Bai could only helplessly leave a sentence: "Since the Son of Heaven refuses to give an order." Then when the thieves besiege our capital, I hope that the Son of Heaven can bless the safety of the military and civilians in our capital! ”

The speed of the Ming army's march was not so fast, at this time Wang Xinyu's Ming army had just won a complete victory, and it was necessary to consider the problem of dealing with more than 50,000 prisoners, who were very uneasy to put around and needed to be sent to Singapore as coolies; The army has to wait for the food to come up, and it takes time. In addition, the territory that has already been occupied also needs to be digested. A small part of the territory occupied by the Ming army was taken care of by the Burmese, who were honest and obedient and willing to cooperate with them, so that they could cooperate with the Nanyang Company and the British East India Company to develop minerals and grow cash crops; Most of the land was given to the Acre people, who had better relations with the British and Portuguese and were able to help develop resources.

It takes time to deal with these things, and the Ming army is advancing steadily, and it will take at least six or seven days to reach the city of Yawa.

Wang Xinyu also estimated that Mang Bai would not surrender so quickly, and he would definitely take Yongli as a hostage to blackmail him, so he was ready to besiege Yawa City for a long time.

According to information from various sources, Burma still has 500,000 troops, all scattered in various places, to deal with the Naga, Siamese and Annamite respectively, and it is impossible for the Burmese side to mobilize all the troops to besiege itself, and at most it is possible to mobilize 200,000 troops to rescue the siege of Yawa. Of these 200,000 people, excluding the auxiliaries, there are at most 100,000. The 100,000 Burmese army did not have to worry, Wang Xinyu was most worried about whether Li Dingguo could block Wu Sangui's attack.

"The siege of Awa is under our command, and we have to organize the army of the Acre to cooperate with us. And we should go to the Xibo River to meet with the king of Jin. At the end, he brought three hundred elite soldiers here to help the King of Jin, hoping to help the King of Jin block Wu Sangui. Wang Xinyu said to Bai Wenxuan.

"Three hundred elites? General Wang has no cavalry, and there are only 300 people, what role can he play? Bai Wenxuan was very surprised.

Wang Xinyu said with a confident smile: "The three hundred people of the last general are not ordinary people!" They have a special operations squad and a squad of sharpshooters with secret weapons! These 300 people went to the King of Jin, which can be described as a tiger with wings! ”

Although Bai Wenxuan didn't believe that a mere 300 people could have much effect, he still agreed, and personally took 50 personal soldiers to bring Wang Xinyu and 300 people to meet the King of Jin.

Since he was ready to besiege Yawa City for a long time, Wang Xinyu needed to recruit a large number of Aka people as soldiers. After three months of training, the recruited Akha recruits were gradually used to replace part of the Ming army besieging Yawa City, while the main force of the Ming army would be withdrawn and transferred to the north little by little, cooperating with Li Dingguo to teach Wu Sangui a lesson.

Wang Xinyu was preparing for a long-term siege, and the envoys sent by Mangbai had already arrived in Kunming.

The Burmese envoys bypassed Li Dingguo's line and entered Yunnan, and then hurried to the horse, and on October 2, the Burmese envoys met with Wu Sangui. At this time, Wu Sangui was preparing to send troops to Burma to capture Yongli.

"Lord! We're here for help! Things have changed abruptly! The Ming army of Qiongzhou Mansion has invaded the territory of our country, and it will arrive at the capital in a few days! I hope that the prince will send troops to save my capital as soon as possible! The messenger reported the emergency to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui replied: "This king is preparing to send troops, a few days ago waiting for the holy decree from the capital, yesterday the holy decree has been issued, tomorrow you can send troops into Burma to help you." ”

Yesterday, after discussion and decision by Ao Bai and others, the holy decree drafted by the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai had been sent to Yunnan by 800 taels, asking Wu Sangui to immediately send troops to Burma to capture Yongli and hand it over to the Qing court for disposal.

In October 1661, Wu Sangui ordered the generals Wu Guogui, Gao Dejie, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu and other generals to lead the Pingxi Wangfu Army of 52,000 men and horses, and Ma Bao, Li Rubi, Gao Qilong, Liu Zhifu, Ta Xince, Wang Hui, Ma Weixing and other Ming army generals and the original Southern Ming army of 35,000 troops, plus the Pingxi general Ai Xing'a, Annan general Zhuo Luo's 5,000 Eight Banner Army, the green battalion generals Wang Fuchen, Zhao Liangdong, Sun Sike, Wang Jinbao and other leaders of the imperial court Green Camp Army 63,000 people, a total of 150,000 troops, Hao Hao set out from Kunming and killed the Yunnan-Burma border. In the city of Kunming, only Wu Yingqi and Liu Xuanchu were left to guard.

This time, Wu Sangui dispatched 50,000 more troops than in history, and he was determined to annihilate Li Dingguo in one fell swoop, march into Burma, defeat the Nanyang Ming army, and seize the posture of Yongli.

Wu Sangui is menacing, Li Dingguo only has 30,000 people in his hands, and he can only rely on natural dangers to hold on, if Li Dingguo can't resist it, Wang Xinyu's 20,000 horses in Burma will be in danger.

The Eight Banners Army, the Pingxi Wangfu Army and the Green Camp Qing Army marched out of Kunming City and marched all the way to the southwest.

On the opposite bank of the city of Yawa in Burma on the Irrawaddy River, the inland river fleet of the Nanyang Navy arrived on the shore.

When the Ming marines landed, the Burmese troops on the shore made only a symbolic resistance, and then scattered and fled. The Burmese soldiers who were in custody fled, and Mu Tianbo's family regained their freedom and went to the riverside to lead the Ming army to the original Yongli residence.

"Master Wang has come to save us!" Deng Kai and others, who were left in the residences of Yongli and Nanming officials, wept silently.

Deng Kai limped out of the wooden house with the guards of the Imperial Forest Army, the brocade guards, the eunuchs, the palace maids, and the bereaved families of the civil and military officials. After seeing Bai Wenxuan, Deng Kai knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "Lord Wang! The last general was not able to protect him effectively, and the emperor was arrested by thieves! ”

"General Deng, please get up!" Bai Wenxuan helped Deng Kai up, "The Burmese are treacherous and cunning, this is not to blame General Deng!" ”

"The emperor was arrested by them and taken to the opposite city! The last general implored the prince to quickly attack the city and rescue the emperor! Deng Kai cried. (To be continued.) )