Wu Sangui's main army marched south along the Nu River valley, and in the past two days, a small number of Ming Tusi soldiers threw stones on the hills or dug traps on the main road, creating a little trouble for the Qing army. Every time he walked to dangerous terrain, Wu Sangui had to send infantry to enter the mountains on both sides to search first and confirm that there was no danger before daring to advance. As a result, the Wu army advanced extremely slowly, and could only march twenty miles a day.

After four days of difficult walking, Wu Sangui's army was finally about to enter Burma.

Just as Wu's army was about to leave the Mangshi Pacification Division and enter the territory of Burma, where the Nu River was gentle, a large earthen city blocked the way on the road ahead.

This place is the territory of the Yi people, the Lu people and the Dai people, within a radius of 100 miles, the roaring Nu River passes through the middle of the river valley, and on the side of the avenue, there are various peaks ranging from 300 to 1,000 meters in relative height, such as Jianshan, Dayatou, Bow and Arrow Mountain, Gouxin Mountain, Waitu Mountain, Fubao Mountain, etc., all over the dense forest, small streams. At that time, the population was not as large as that of later generations, and the modern dense mountain rice fields were lush primeval forests in those days.

Tucheng is set up in the basin in the valley, blocking the avenue, and behind Tucheng is a high hill, not very high, the relative height is only one hundred to two hundred meters. But on the hillside behind the earthen city, there are still two city walls! This means that once the Qing army breaks through the first earthen city, when it climbs to the top of the city, it will be attacked by the second earthen city behind! What's even more amazing is that the third wall behind is a stone city, and it has a strange appearance, every other section of the city wall, there is a raised castle! In this way, the terraced three earthen cities that rose in turn allowed the Qing army to drain all the blood under the city.

The raised castle built on the city walls, called a bastion, could expose the besiegers to fire from three sides.

"It's Tucheng again!" Wu Sangui listened to Wu Guogui's report, and his face turned blue.

Last time, a small earthen city caused the Wu army to lose thousands of people, although they were all green battalion soldiers. But it's also the soldier of the king of Pingxi! And the scale of this earth city in front of him is more than twenty times larger than the last time Mu Zhongxian earth city! Look at that posture, there are at least more than 10,000 Ming troops stationed in this area! If you want to pass through here, I don't know how many people will be lost.

"Order all the armies to set up camp! Don't attack lightly! Wu Sangui asked his soldiers to pass the order.

Then Wu Sangui had a plan, he wanted people to challenge and lure the Ming army out. Once the Ming general is defeated, he will take advantage of the situation to attack the city. So he ordered Gao Dejie and Hu Guozhu to take people to the gate of the Ming army camp to challenge.

Gao Dejie and Hu Guozhu led 3,000 Wu troops to the gate of the Ming army's Tucheng, but saw a war-free card hanging high on the gate of Tucheng.

The so-called war-free card is not that you really don't want to fight, but that you don't take the initiative to attack, but you can't stick to it no matter how much the opponent scolds, and the opponent will attack if you want to attack the city.

"I am Wu Jun's high victory. Let's challenge today! After Mu Gongzi is a famous family, the young general Gao has heard that Mu Gongzi is strong in martial arts for a long time, and he dares to ask Mu Gongzi if he dares to fight to the death with me alone? Gao Dejie pointed to Tucheng and shouted.

The Wu soldiers under the city also scolded: "Mu Gongzi, after you are still a famous general, I didn't expect it to be a turtle with a shrunken head!" ”

The young and vigorous Mu Zhongxian couldn't stand being scolded, and he was about to fight when he mentioned the mace, but was persuaded by Wang Xinyu: "Little Guogong, don't fall for thieves!" Our army held out in the city. The Tartars are afraid of heavy losses in the siege, so people invite you to fight alone! If you go out of the city to fight. I'm afraid the Tartars will take the opportunity to rush in! ”

Mu Zhongxian suddenly realized this, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Thank you Wang Junmen for reminding me!" This son is young and vigorous, strong-blooded, likes to act impulsively, and Wang Junmen is resourceful. ”

Wang Xinyu walked up to the city tower, pointed to Gao Dejie under the city and shouted: "I have heard for a long time that General Gao's martial arts are strong. But on the battlefield, it's not about individual martial arts, it's about who has the most people! Now that there are many powerful soldiers, our army can only avoid war! If General Gao wants to attack the city, he will attack it, and my Wang will accompany him to the end! ”

"Who are you?" Gao Dejie asked, pointing to the city.

"I am the king of Qiongzhou!" Wang Xinyu replied.

"Qiongzhou? Qiongzhou's is here? Gao Dejie was taken aback.

Hu Guozhu roared: "General Gao, don't talk nonsense with this thief!" We have a lot of soldiers. Siege is it! ”

"Hahaha!" Wang Xinyu laughed a few times, "Our army has hung up the battle exemption card, and if you want to attack, you will attack!" ”

Hu Guozhu was so angry that he ordered the Qing army to carry a simple flying bridge and a simple ladder to attack the city. As a result, the arrows on the earth city rained down, and the Qing army auxiliaries were shot back by random arrows before they could even get close to the trench.

Gao Dejie and Hu Guozhu were defeated, and after returning to the camp, the two knelt in front of Wu Sangui and pleaded guilty: "Report to the marshal, our army failed to attack, please surrender the marshal!" ”

Wu Sangui helped the two of them up: "Two little generals, this king didn't plan to attack in the first place, this thief is extremely cunning, since they are unwilling to fight, we don't have to attack, just set up camp here, and when we build siege weapons, it's not too late for us to attack!" ”

The Qing army sent auxiliaries into the woods behind and began to build various siege weapons such as shield carts, nest carts, ladder carts, trench carts, chariots, and rushing chariots.

In addition, in the area of Mubang, the Ming army of Bai Hua fought and retreated, and retreated for more than 150 miles in a row within four days.

Bai Hua retreated to a dangerous pass, but saw a gate on the middle avenue, it seemed obvious that Li Dingguo had repaired the pass not long ago, on both sides were towering mountains into the sky, and the Ming army flag fluttered in the gate.

Because history has changed now, Li Dingguo does not need to send troops into Burma to go to King Qin, as long as he concentrates on dealing with Wu Sangui. Since Li Dingguo learned the news of Wu Sangui's troops, he expected that Wu Sangui might sneak attack his lair from Mubang, so he had already prepared and built a fortress on the dangerous road of Mubang.

Seeing that it was Bai Hua who came back, Li Sixing ordered the gate to be opened and the Ming army into the city.

When Bai Hui saw Li Sixing, he bowed his hand to him and said, "I'm finally back!" In the past four days, the Tartars have been chasing after them, but fortunately, the King of Jin had the foresight to build a fortress here, otherwise you and I would not be able to stop the Tartars at all! ”

Not long after the Ming army entered Guancheng, they saw the smoke and dust on the road ahead, and a Qing cavalry galloped forward.

Zhao Liangdong chased after him with two thousand cavalry, but saw a gate in front of him blocking the way.

Bai Hui at the head of the city saw that the Qing army was not numerous, and proposed to Li Sixing: "Little prince, there are few Tartars, we have 5,000 men and horses, and there are war elephants to restrain the Tartar cavalry, should we go out of the city to fight this group of Tartars?" ”

Li Sixing shook his head: "My father has explained, no matter how the Tartars provoke, you and I can't hold on!" If the Tartars want to attack the city, let them meet under the city and break the blood! Don't look at the few people in this Tartar, I'm afraid there is fraud! If we go out of the city and are accidentally stolen by the Tartars, you and I can't afford to bear the responsibility! ”

At this time, a spy came to report: "Report to the little prince, a Tartar division appeared on the mountainside on our right, and they came from the path. ”

"Sure enough!" Li Sixing laughed and said, "Father's judgment is very accurate!" The Tartars are treacherous and cunning, they are pinning us down head-on, while another infantry climbs from the cliff! Thankfully, we were prepared, otherwise it would have been a bad thing! ”

On the flank of the Ming army, more than 5,000 Qing infantry led by Wang Fuchen crossed the mountain path and climbed halfway up the mountain.

But when the panting Qing army was about to climb to the top of the mountain, Wang Fuchen found that there was actually a line of stone walls and battlements on the top of the mountain, and the Ming army flag fluttered in the wind behind it.

"Damn! There's even a Ming dog here! Wang Fuchen scolded. After that, he gave the order for a storm.

Thousands of Qing troops shouted and brandished various weapons, rushing towards the walls and battlements on the mountain.

I only heard a thunderous roar, and a wolf's tooth slap flew from the city wall, hitting the crowd of Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers who collided with them flew out one after another. Huge stones rolled down the mountain one by one, and the Qing soldiers who were hit by the stones were crushed into meatloaf. Arrows were fired in volleys on the city, and many Qing soldiers were shot into hedgehogs.

"Mingjin retreats!" Seeing that the strong attack could not be carried out, Wang Fuchen had no choice but to withdraw his troops and retreat to the foot of the mountain.

Outside the city, the main forces of Zhao Liangdong's Qing army arrived one after another and set up camp outside the city.

Zhao Liangdong observed outside the city, and saw the banners of "Li" and "Bai" fluttering on the head of the city, and saw that these flags were not the banners of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, so he knew that the defenders of the city must be Li Sixing and Bai Hua. Later, Zhao Liangdong asked people to ask the villagers in the nearby mountains and fields, and confirmed that it was not Li Dingguo who was defending the city, but Li Sixing.

"The thieves have been prepared, if our army attacks, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, who is willing to persuade them to surrender? If you can recruit thieves without bloodshed, it will be a great achievement! Zhao Liangdong looked around at the generals in the camp tent and asked.

Ma Bao, Qi Sansheng, Ma Weixing and other three former Nanming generals stepped forward one after another, competing to arch their hands and said: "The last general is willing to go!" ”

In fact, they were very afraid that Zhao Liangdong would order a strong attack, because if the Qing army wanted to attack, it would definitely be them who were pulled out and put in front as cannon fodder to attack the city. If you can defeat your opponent, you can avoid losses.

"Ma Weixing, I'll give you a letter, you go and persuade the thief to surrender!" Zhao Liangdong said.

"Piercing!" Ma Weixing knelt on the ground and slapped a thousand, then stretched out his hands and respectfully accepted the letter of persuasion written by Zhao Liangdong.

After that, Ma Weixing took off his armor and came to the city single-handedly, and he shouted to the city: "Listen to the two little generals inside, I am Ma Weixing, the chief soldier of the Wu army, and I came to see the two little generals today, and I am here to send a letter to the two!" ”

"General Ma! I know you! You used to be under your father! Today, he has come to be a lobbyist for the Tartars! Please come back! My father said that I would rather die in the wilderness than surrender! Li Sixing shouted at the city.

Ma Weixing replied: "Little prince, we were originally also interested in the Ming Dynasty, but Yongli was mediocre, and he abandoned the country and abandoned the Ming army and people who I fought bloodily, which is really chilling!" That's when he surrendered to Wu Dashuai! Please also think about it! Don't die for the unscrupulous king anymore! (To be continued.) )