In Mubang, Yunnan, 500 men and horses painted by Bai Hua fought against 50,000 Qing troops, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to deal with the Qing army. The 500 Ming troops fought and retreated, moving all the way to the Xibo River where Li Dingguo was stationed.

In the camp of the Qing army, Ma Bao proposed to Zhao Liangdong: "Lord Zhentai, the thieves have discovered our movements, and if we attack in a roundabout way, I am afraid that we have lost the suddenness of the sneak attack, then Li Yi must be prepared!" Let's go and meet with the king in the middle lane. ”

Zhao Liangdong showed a cruel look on his face, staring at Ma Bao with blood-red eyes, scaring Ma Bao so much that he didn't dare to speak again. Zhao Liangdong really wants to make this great achievement, because Li Dingguo has been in Mubang for many years and has always been a big problem for the Qing court, if he can seize this opportunity to get rid of Li Dingguo, then he Zhao Liangdong will have a bright future.

Wang Fuchen also proposed: "Lord Zhentai, the Mubang Mountain is high and the road is steep, the terrain is treacherous, and there are many dangerous passes that cannot be opened. ”

"What's the hurry! Let's wait! General Ben has already sent a fast horse to find General Wang and Prince Pingxi! Look how it's going on their side! This time, our army attacked in three ways, and the thieves had to deal with it in three ways, and they were bound to be overwhelmed! As long as we calm down and don't change the prince's plan, there will definitely be a chance! After a while, Zhao Liangdong spoke.

However, at this time, the Qing army of Wang Jinbao in the middle road had already exchanged hands with one of Li Dingguo's partial divisions.

Li Dingguo's garrison consisted of only 2,000 men stationed on a hilltop in a river valley by the Ruili River, which blocked the passage of the Qing army.

When the Qing army was advancing, it strayed into the ambush circle of Li Dingguo's general Ma Jiugong, and after the Qing army entered the ambush circle, it was attacked by a rolling log and rocks and random arrows, and was beaten with heavy losses. Although it was ambushed by Li Dingguo's troops, the Qing army was victorious in numbers, and the Ming army could not eat the Qing army in one bite, but was driven back to the mountain.

Wang Jinbao saw that the number of opponents was small. I just want to eat this Ming army in one bite. Wang Jinbao calculated that if he ate this Ming army, then Li Dingguo's main force would be attracted, and it would also create a chance for Zhao Liangdong, who was roundabout to the north, to win. If it is immediately defeated in an ambush, then the Ming army will follow behind and cover up, and the Qing army will suffer heavy losses.

The Qing army, which was ambushed, was in danger under the command of Wang Jinbao and launched an orderly attack on the Ming army on the mountain.

"Up!" Kabush Xianzhang Jingnara? Mu Zhan led a team of 300 Eight Banner soldiers to stand behind the Green Camp Qing Army, shouting for the Green Camp Qing Army to attack the mountain.

Nala? Mu Zhan was indeed very unaccustomed to fighting in the mountainous areas with complex terrain in the south, and the infantry in the north fought in formation. The cavalry flanked and killed. But here, a few soldiers of the southern barbarians are guarding the top of the mountain, and you can cut off a road with rolling wood and stones, so that you can't pass through thousands of troops. If he didn't attack the mountain and get rid of these southern barbarians, his Eight Banners cavalry would be useless. Of course, this kind of thing is to let those lowly Han people do it, and their Eight Banners Master will not do this kind of thing.

The boulders on the top of the mountain continued to roll down, and dozens of bloody corpses of the green battalion soldiers rolled down from the hillside with the tumbling boulders.

"Ahh Dozens of Green Battalion soldiers screamed and turned around and fled down the hillside.

Nala? Mu Zhan couldn't help but say that he stepped forward with the overseer team. Cut off the heads of all the escaped Green Battalion soldiers.

"These cowardly Han people, they won't go all out without a knife!" Nala? Mu Zhan roared.

Wang Jinbao felt uncomfortable when he heard this, but he still echoed: "What the Counsellor said is good!" These people are greedy for life and afraid of death! ”

Kabush Xianzhangjing means the forward commander, and in terms of rank, he is on an equal footing with Wang Jinbao, a green battalion general. And the main general of this partial division is still Wang Jinbao, nominally? Mu Zhan had to obey Wang Jinbao, but after all, he was a Manchurian lord and had the power to kill and kill the Green Battalion soldiers. Wang Jinbao can only bow down in front of the Manchurian adults.

"The thieves occupy the favorable terrain on the top of the hill and cut off our passage, and we do not take the hill. You can't get past it! Lord Wang, let your people speed up and attack! Mu Zhan snorted coldly.

"Piercing!" Wang Jinbao responded.

The Qing army of the Green Battalion organized another onslaught, the Eight Banners raised the big drums, Mu Zhan personally beat the drums, and the war drums rumbled. The three trumpeters of the Eight Banners sounded the conch horn, and the trumpet sound was low and mournful. The flag waved, and the eight banner soldiers with angry faces held their swords, standing behind to press the formation, and the green battalion Qing soldiers shouted and rushed up to the camp of the Ming army on the mountain.

Rolling wood and stones were mixed with arrows like flying locusts, and the arrows were shot into the crowd of Qing soldiers, only a series of screams were heard, and the Qing soldiers who were hit by the arrows rolled down from the hillside one after another. The boulder rolled and fell down the mountain, and the Qing soldiers who were hit were immediately knocked over, and their flesh and blood were blurred by the stones. The thick wood made a thunderous roar and rolled down the mountain, and the Qing soldiers who were hit flew upside down and fell down the hillside screaming.

None of the more than 200 Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion could rush forward, and most of them were stoned to death by rolling wood and stones, and were killed by random arrows. The remaining dozens of Qing soldiers were afraid of the steel knives of the warlords, and they didn't dare to look back when they didn't hear the sound of gold, but just gritted their teeth and charged up the mountain desperately, and finally they were all killed by random arrows.

Another group of Qing soldiers rushed up like crazy, and rolling logs and stones fell down the mountain, causing heavy casualties to the Qing army.

At this moment, the sound of gold sounded, and the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion, who had failed in successive attacks, heard the sound of gold, as if they heard the most beautiful sound in the world, and immediately turned around and ran happily.

In the camp of the Ming army on the mountain, the victorious Ming soldiers let out bursts of cheers.

At this moment, a subordinate general reminded Ma Jiugong: "My lord, this Wang Jinbao is extremely cunning, this person is good at sneak attacks from behind, and our General Luo suffered this person's loss back then." ”

This subordinate was originally Luo Dashun's subordinate, and he once suffered Wang Jinbao's loss.

Ma Jiugong touched his beard and said with a slight smile: "King Jin has already reminded him when General Ben came!" Wang Jinbao is extremely treacherous and cunning! We had to be careful! ”

After a short rest, the Qing army launched another attack on the mountain.

In front, more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers held swords and cards, shouting and shouting and charging frantically towards the mountain. When the Qing army rushed halfway up the mountain, rolling wood and stones fell on the mountain, and arrows shot down.

Even though the arrows on the mountain rained down and the stones were like hail, the Qing soldiers still gritted their teeth and charged. This time, the Qing army that charged not only had the Green Camp Qing Army, but even the Eight Banners followed behind the Green Camp Qing Army and stormed the mountain.

"Whoosh" The Eight Banners who followed behind the Qing army in the green camp threw with a strong bow, and rows of random arrows flew over the top of the wooden fence and landed in the Ming army camp.

At the same time as the Qing army of the green camp attacked head-on, Wang Jinbao personally led 1,500 soldiers to take advantage of the opportunity of the frontal Qing army to contain the Ming army and quietly went around the back mountain, and climbed up from the back of the Ming army camp on the mountain.

More than 70 miles away, on the banks of the Xibo River. A fleet of ships flying the flag of the Daming Navy Division appeared on the river downstream, heading upstream, heading towards Li Dingguo's camp. The Ming army of Li Dingguo's department on the shore sent a flag signal, and the Ming army on the ship replied with a flag, and after the confirmation of the contact code, it was confirmed that it was the Nanyang Ming army transporting supplies.

Previously, the Ming army's inland water division, led by the Aka people, who were familiar with the local hydrological situation, annihilated the remaining Burmese army water division. At this time, all the Burmese naval divisions on the Irrawaddy River have surrendered, the underwater hidden piles and barrages have been cleared, and the core fleet of the Ming Nanyang Navy can pass freely on the Irrawaddy River. With this golden route, food produced by the Akha people from Luzon, Borneo and southern Myanmar was continuously delivered to Li Dingguo.

This fleet was the first fleet to deliver supplies after the Irrawaddy River route was completely opened.

"It's coming! Here it comes! The food and weapons sent by General Wang have arrived! Seeing the arrival of the Ming fleet, the soldiers of Li Dingguo's department cheered.

Large and small ships laden with cargo docked at the riverside improvised docks, and the sailors on board lowered their anchor chains and threw down their cables. The Ming army on the shore tied the cable to the stone, and when the boat came to a stop, the boat lowered the gangplank.

A 50-ton Chinese military ship stopped on the shore, and Lin Bian, who was responsible for transporting grain and weapons to Li Dingguo's ministry, disembarked. Seeing a general wearing a python robe and a golden helmet coming to greet him in person, Lin Bian hurriedly bowed: "The last general will knock to see the prince!" ”

Several pro-soldiers also knelt down one after another: "Knock on the prince!" ”

"Hurry up, please!" Li Dingguo stepped forward and personally helped Lin Bian up, "These grains you have sent are really a charcoal in the snow!" Our army has been short of food for a long time, and the officers and soldiers are hungry and fighting with the Tartars and the Burmese, and the brothers are miserable. With this food, our military morale is much more stable! ”

The auxiliaries assisted the people of the Nanyang Company and carried bags and boxes of weapons ashore together.

This time, Wang Xinyu sent 5,000 stone of grain, 3,000 pieces of cotton cloth, 4,000 sets of Spanish armor, 2,000 Spanish spears, 300 halberds, 1,000 sets of swords and shields, 100,000 arrows, 500 Spanish-made arquebuses, 200 French-made dog-lock flintlock pistols, 12 British-made three-pounder guns, 2,000 barrels of gunpowder, and 1,000 boxes of lead bullets and shells.

Except for food, cloth, swords, shields, feathered arrows, and ammunition, which were captured or homemade, all other weapons were purchased by Wang Xinyu at his own expense from the Spaniards, British, and Portuguese. Manila's Governor Manrik bought silk, ceramics and other goods from the Nanyang Company, and sold weapons to Wang Xinyu, making a lot of money.

But now Nanyang has no choice, because its own factories do not produce enough, so they can only spend money to buy weapons.

Just when Li Dingguo was happily accepting food and weapons, messengers from Mubang and Ruilijiang came to report at the same time, saying that a large number of Qing troops had appeared in both directions, and that the Ming troops stationed there had started a fierce battle with the Qing army.

Coupled with Wu Sangui's one-way route, there are three Qing armies, and at this time Li Dingguo must decide how to deal with the simultaneous attack of the three-way Qing army. (To be continued.) )