The Irrawaddy River is the British term, and the Chinese call it the Great Jinsha River. On the banks of the Xibo River upstream, outside Li Dingguo's Bai Wenxuan camp, Li Sixing walked around the river with a few personal soldiers.

"Little prince! Look at the people on the other side! One of the soldiers suddenly pointed to the opposite bank and shouted.

Li Sixing looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, only to see seven or eight ragged figures suddenly appear from the jungle on the opposite bank, crying and rushing towards the river. Although the distance is far away, it can be vaguely seen that those people are Han hairstyle.

"Kill them!" Hundreds of Burmese soldiers and soldiers were in hot pursuit.

Those people jumped into the turbulent river and desperately swam towards the Ming army camp.

The Burmese soldiers who were in hot pursuit chased them to the river, took their muskets and aimed them at the river, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang" A row of gunshots roared, and small water columns rose on the surface of the river. One of them was shot and sank into the water, and a cloud of red blood rose on the surface of the river. The rest of the Han Chinese, who were better at the water, dived into the water and dodged the bullets.

Burmese soldiers crouched on the ground, reloading ammunition.

When Li Sixing saw the Burmese army on the other side shooting the Han Chinese, he was immediately furious: "The Burmese people dare to kill my Han people!" So he ordered the soldiers to roll out the artillery.

The gunners nervously loaded the shells, and at this time the Burmese troops on the other side had already loaded the bullets and pulled the trigger on the river. Another row of gunfire roared, and two people who could not hold their breath and floated up to breathe were shot and sank into the river, and bright red blood flowers floated on the surface of the river.

"Put!" The commander of the Ming army on the other side yelled.

The military cannon spewed fire, and the shells whistled and smashed into the river on the opposite bank, smashing into the crowd of the Burmese army, splashing dazzling blood and smashing several Burmese soldiers who were loading bullets to pieces. The rest of the Burmese soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and turned around and ran.

"Get the man up!" Li Sixing shouted.

Several Ming soldiers rushed to the river. rowed a small boat to the center of the river and rescued the people who swam over.

"We want to see the prince! There is something important to report. A man in ragged clothes had just climbed ashore and cried out.

Li Sixing saw that although the clothes of those people had been torn into strips of cloth and there were blood stains on their bodies, it could be vaguely seen that the clothes they used to wear were Jinyiwei's flying fish suits. So he promised to take them to see Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan.

"Lord Wang! Two princes! Something is wrong! As soon as they saw Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, these people knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, kowtowing desperately, knocking their foreheads bloody.

"Say, what the hell is going on!" Li Dingguo's voice was not loud, but it was very majestic.

The man who knelt on the ground and headed howled: "Lord, save the emperor quickly!" Mang Bai killed all the ministers of the imperial court, detained the emperor, and killed more than 300 followers. The emperor was detained by them. We were detained at the residence of the Duke of Qianguo. Later, we escaped by chance, and the Burmese army pursued and killed them, and most of them were killed, leaving us with five brothers. ”

Under Li Dingguo's repeated questioning, the man made things clear from beginning to end.

Bai Wenxuan said angrily: "They told you to curse the water covenant, and you really believed them? ”

"Lord Mu and the emperor are suspicious, but Lord Ma thinks that we are under the fence and subject to others. This is what I have to do. Who knew they would suddenly turn their faces. Lord Mu and Master Ma were killed! The man wept silently.

Bai Wenxuan scolded: "General Ben opened a bloody road last time, and he wants to take you back." Why don't you come back? Instead, ordered us to retreat? ”

The man cried: "Originally, Master Mu also proposed to come back. But Master Ma resolutely refused to come back, and threatened Lord Mu to say that he would go back by himself. Then this person said that Ma Jixiang's bad deeds, and Mu Tianbo once wanted to get rid of this traitor, but unfortunately he didn't succeed. Instead, he was killed several people who were on the same agenda.

Bai Wenxuan was even more furious: "That pretended to be handed over to the Burmese under the pretense of the emperor's holy edict, saying that the emperor had already gone to Fujian, and that if our Ming army entered Burma again, the Burmese army could kill it, this is also written by Lord Ma himself, right?" ”

"Yes." The man's voice was as low as a mosquito.

"This Ma Jixiang was killed. You deserve it! Poor Lord Qianguo Gongmu! It also caused our emperor to be imprisoned. Li Dingguo couldn't help but burst into tears.

"They want to arrest you, why don't you resist?" Bai Wenxuan asked angrily. This Bai Wenxuan is Li Dingguo's brother, with an upright personality and a relatively short temper.

"We're all defenseless! Lord Mu still snatched the weapons of the Burmese soldiers and killed a few Burmese. ”

"Where are your weapons?"

"The emperor ordered that all weapons should be lost when entering Burma."

Bai Wenxuan's face changed greatly, and he roared angrily: "The Son of Heaven is held hostage by traitorous ministers, and it is just a matter of hunting in Burma in the south, and he has lost all his weapons and turned into a group of sheep to be slaughtered!" That's it, the national disaster is at the head, it is difficult to protect itself, and it is still intrigue! ”

Li Dingguo shouted: "The three armies listen to the order!" Send troops immediately and cross the river to King Qin in Yawa City! ”

"Lord Wang, but we have too few boats, only two boats, more than 10,000 soldiers have to cross the river, how long will it take!" General Zhang Guo said.

Bai Wenxuan also said: "King Jin, such a son of heaven, he can't help it, do we still want to help it?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "After all, we are the Son of Heaven, no matter how difficult we are, we must send troops to the king!" ”

"Lord Qiqi!" Deng Hong, who had just arrived here two days ago, bowed his hand to Li Dingguo, "If nothing else, the army of Qiongzhou Mansion has already arrived in Burma!" ”

Li Dingguo was taken aback: "The army of Qiongzhou Mansion? How did they get here? Did it fly over? ”

"Coming by sea! Cross the Strait of Malacca and go north along the river! "The reason why Deng Hong didn't say that Wang Xinyu would send troops before was because Wang Xinyu had explained to him, and he wasn't sure when something would happen. When you get the news, you will tell Li Dingguo the news that the Qiongzhou Mansion has sent troops.

"It's going to take a month to come in a big circle, can General Wang know that this will happen?" Li Dingguo was very surprised.

"Lord Wang!" Deng Hong replied, "We, Wang Junmen, have long known that the Burmese are capricious! Sooner or later, something big will happen! So defeat the red-haired ghost at any cost and open up the Malacca route, just to wait for this day! ”

Li Dingguo was overjoyed: "There is no endless road to heaven!" I'm saved! ”

Thousands of miles away in Kunming City, the envoy sent by Mang Bai hurried to Kunming.

When Wu Sangui learned the news, his feelings were very complicated. On the one hand, he also understands the truth of self-respect, and there is also the torture of righteousness and morality. But on the other hand, there was also an urgent need to show loyalty to the Qing court. Previously, he pleaded with the Qing court to clear the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in order to allocate funds for the court, so that he could be his king of Yunnan with peace of mind. But now that Yongli has fallen into the hands of Mang Bai, he said that he would give it to the Qing army in exchange for the Qing army's entry into the Qing Dynasty to suppress Li Dingguo, etc., Wu Sangui felt that this was a hot potato.

If Mang Bai Zhen handed Yongli into his hands, he could only prove his loyalty to the Qing court by killing Yongli with his own hands. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Qing court to trust him.

The ruthlessness of the Qing court Wu Sangui is very clear, Zhu Cihong fell into the hands of the Qing court, Wu Sangui originally wanted to intercede with Zhu Cihong, but Dolgon pointed to the deer as a horse, insisted that Zhu Cihong was a fake prince, and asked Ming's subordinates to identify him. All the ministers and eunuchs who said that the prince was real were all killed, and the rest could only say that the prince was fake, so Zhu Cihong was killed by the Qing court in the name of pretending to be the prince. If at this time, Yongli falls into the hands of Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui does not kill him, will the Qing court let him go?

Now, Wu Sangui decided to send troops to Burma to bring Yongli back, and then kill Yongli with his own hands to show loyalty to the Qing court, so that he and his children and grandchildren could be the king of Yunnan forever. And killing Yongli, out of sight and out of mind, can also reduce the torture of betraying the old master in your heart.

Wu Sangui secretly summoned his staff and subordinates to discuss the matter of sending troops to Burma.

Wang Pingfan, Zhang Guozhu, and Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingqi and others all felt that this was a good opportunity to make great contributions, and they must immediately send troops to Burma, immediately capture Yongli, and take the opportunity to exterminate Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others.

"Lord Wang!" Liu Xuanchu knelt on the ground, "I think that we shouldn't kill the pseudo-Ming." Please don't forget the birds, the bow hides the rabbit, and the dead dog cooks! ”

Who knew that Wu Sangui couldn't listen to it at all: "The old man just wants to be the king of Pingxi in Yunnan with peace of mind!" Nothing else! Xuan Chu still don't say more! ”

"Lord Wang!" Liu Xuanchu wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Wu Sangui.

"Go down, all of you! This king is decided, needless to say! Wu Sangui made a gesture and motioned for everyone to stand down.

When Liu Xuanchu retreated and the others dispersed, Wu Sangui's cronies and the captain of the guard came over, grabbed him, and whispered in his ear: "Lord Liu, the prince asked you to go to his study." ”

Liu Xuanchu walked into Wu Sangui's study, immediately knelt down, and begged Wu Sangui to think twice.

Wu Sangui sighed: "Ai Xing Ah and Zhuo Zhuo Beizi must know about this matter!" The matter of raising Kou's self-respect will be mentioned again after the first day of Xuan. ”

"Lord Wang!" Liu Xuanchu pleaded, "If Yongli is arrested and Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan are destroyed, the imperial court will not let you go in the future." We can delay it a little longer! ”

"I delayed it last time, what excuse do I have this time?" Wu Sangui said helplessly.

Wu Sangui once went to the Qing court and asked for a large amount of silver and property, under the pretext of exterminating the Southern Ming court. The Qing court allocated funds, and Wu Sangui did not send troops to Burma under the pretext that the time was not ripe, which made the Qing court very dissatisfied with him. In fact, in the eyes of the Qing court, a capricious guy like Wu Sangui is a villain at both ends of the first rat, and there is no trust at all.

"We can still drag it, so we can use the excuse that the road is far away, and Yungui and Tusi rebel to drag them down." Liu Xuanchu offered advice.

Wu Sangui said: "Xuanchu doesn't need to say more, this king has decided to send troops to Burma, you go down." ”

Liu Xuanchu could only retreat helplessly. Since Wu Sangui was determined to be a loyal lackey of the imperial court, Liu Xuanchu could not do anything, so he could only secretly pray in his heart that Li Dingguo and they could rescue Yongli, so that not only would there be a chance to regain his sight, but it would actually be good for Wu Sangui. (To be continued.) )