The terrain is complex, and in the Hengduan Mountains where mountains, rivers and valleys are intertwined, an army with the banner of the Ming Dynasty is marching in the mountains, which is a mountain army led by Wang Jinzhong, and it is the western expeditionary army sent by Wang Xinyu.

There are about 10,000 people in the western expedition of the Qiongzhou Army, and the backbone officers are all Li and Miao people from Yunnan, and most of the soldiers are locals recruited from Yunnan, and many of them are directly adapted from local soldiers. The Western Expeditionary Army from Yunnan was of great significance to the Ming army, and its role was to unite Li Dingguo with Li Laiheng and Hao Shaoqi, break the plan of Li Guoying, the second minister and the great traitor Sichuan governor, to concentrate the forces of Sichuan, Chu, and Shaanxi to encircle the anti-Qing base in Kuidong, and tear a gap in the encirclement of the Qing court, echoing the Ming army entering the river in the east.

If the Western Expeditionary Army can break Li Guoying's blockade and destroy the Qing army in Sichuan, then it will restore the anti-Qing situation to the best situation. In addition, there are the most elite snipers in this Western Expeditionary Army, and if there is a chance to snipe Li Guoying, the situation in the entire Sichuan will change immediately.

Li Guoying is good at using traitors and traitors, focusing on Chongqing and attacking everywhere to compress the territory of the anti-Qing army in Kuidong. If Li Guoying could be killed, the Qing court might promote Zhao Liangdong to governor. Zhao Liangdong's personality is completely different from the steady Li Guoying, this person likes to take risks and like to attack, if Zhao Liangdong becomes the governor of Sichuan, then he can use the strategy of luring the enemy to go deeper, and lure Zhao Liangdong and the main force of the Shaanxi Green Battalion into the mountains to annihilate.

Zhao Liangdong was originally a pawn of Hong Chengchou who stayed in Yunnan to contain Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui was defeated, Mu Zhan, Aixing A and other Manchurian "famous generals" were killed, Kunming became an ominous place in the eyes of Manchurians, not only the Manchurians refused to go to Kunming again, but even the green camps in Shaanxi, Hunan and Hubei were unwilling to stay in Kunming, so Zhao Liangdong led the army back to Sichuan, ready to assist Li Guoying. First destroy the anti-Qing forces in Kuidong. With Li Guoying's character and Zhao Liangdong's character, it is the best way to make up for it, which is also the reason why Hong Chengchou agreed to Zhao Liangdong to go to Sichuan. Li Guoying is steady but too conservative, while Zhao Liangdong is good at expanding his results but likes to take risks.

This western expeditionary army did not carry much food, and the mountain natives were born because they knew how to find their own food in the mountains, and they also knew how to collect food on the spot in the places where they went.

The army marched through sparsely populated, dense primeval forests and traveled north along the Jinsha River from western Yunnan into the mountains, passing through Tibetan territory on the way. Get supplies locally. After a long journey of more than four months, this army, which had become like a savage, finally appeared in the area of Dajian Furnace in Sichuan. As long as they crossed the Dadu River, they would enter the hinterland of Sichuan and could pose a threat to the Qing army in Chengdu.

Hitting the arrow furnace, today's Kangding area, here is the territory of the Tibetan Tusi, the local Tusi Jianshen, with the former Ming and the "Qing Dynasty" from the three official uniforms, is the real local king.

These toasts may be exempt from the jurisdiction of the Zhongyang government. You can have your own soldiers, you can have your own laws.

"Sir! A former Korean army appeared ten miles south of our stockade. "A native soldier came to report.

Jian Shen said disapprenously: "Whether it is the previous dynasty or the current imperial court, it is only necessary to send a tribute seal to the Ming Dynasty in the name of the Tusi of the Arrow Furnace, indicating that the Arrow Furnace is subject to Wanghua." I'm afraid that Daming will not only not pursue it. And a great reward! Therefore, the Ming army is coming, and it is not terrible at all! ”

"But if the Ming army is defeated again, the Qing court will come back. What will they think of us people? A toast officer asked.

Jian Shen laughed and said, "What's that! If the Ming army is defeated and the Qing army comes again, we will go to the Qing court again! We're toast anyway. Even if it was the Tang Dynasty back then, he had to give us face! ”

The Tusi officer asked, "Sir, how do we act now?" Wouldn't it be possible to rely on the terrain of the cottage to hold on, and to welcome them in? ”

"It's impossible to greet them! We sent a few people to meet them at the bottom of the mountain, gave them some grain and yak meat, and then gave them a gift out of the country! "Kensando.

The Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty entered the territory of the Arrow Furnace, and Wang Jinzhong ordered to rest on the spot.

"General, a local soldier is coming to visit us, and he said that he has given us a gift." A soldier came to report.

"Let them come!" Wang Jinzhong nodded.

Outside the camp of the Ming army, more than 100 Tibetan soldiers carried gifts such as yak meat and barley noodles into the camp. Seeing Wang Jinzhong, he saluted the first Tibetan native army officer and said: "Your Excellency's Wang Shi passed by here, and our Tusi Master is hereby offering a gift in order to show his respect for the Ming Dynasty." ”

Wang Jinzhong sneered: "Why didn't your master Tusi come over by himself?" Did he put on the official uniform of the Tartar and felt that he had no face? ”

The face of the native soldier officer changed greatly: "My lord's words are wrong, our master Tusi has always been mindful!" It's just that the power of the Tartars is too great, so I have to compromise and put on the clothes of the Tartars, but our lord's heart is always here in Daming. ”

Wang Jinzhong laughed: "Then you better bring these things back with you!" Go back and tell you Master Toast that we want food and meat, and we can go to your cottage to get it ourselves! Just by virtue of the fact that in order to show his sincerity to the Qing court, you Tusi Master killed the fleeing Han people, and you can already let General Ben take his head on his neck! ”

Although the native soldier officer broke out in a cold sweat, he still had a hard mouth: "We have a strong cottage, if you want to attack, come and attack!" Originally, our lord didn't want to turn against you, but since you want to fight yourself, then we have nothing to fear! ”

"Go back and tell your lord, we will attack soon!" Wang Jinzhong said. He had evidence of the massacre and captivity of Jianshen Tusi and the Han people who came to western Sichuan to escape the war.

In fact, it turned out that the so-called Zhang Xianzhong's Tuchuan was a basin of dirty water poured by the Qing court on Zhang Xianzhong. It is true that Zhang Xianzhong is Sichuan must have killed people, but it is impossible to kill all the people in Sichuan, otherwise who will feed his army? In addition, if Zhang Xianzhong really slaughtered Sichuan, then who was the Qing army fighting with in Sichuan for so many years?

Therefore, in fact, the real murderer of Tu Chuan was the Qing army.

After the Qing army entered Sichuan, many Han people fled to the sparsely populated western Sichuan region, where the terrain was complicated. But they had just escaped from the tiger's jaw, and had fallen into the wolf's mouth.

Many local Tibetan Tusi masters, seeing the Han people coming, turned the young and strong Han people into their slaves, the young and beautiful women became their concubines, the old and weak Han people who could not be used, were ruthlessly killed by these Tusi, and some disobedient Han people who wanted to resist were also brutally killed by them.

Wang Jinzhong had the incriminating evidence of these Tusi at hand, so he decided to attack the largest Jianshen Tusi Cottage.

After Jian Shen heard the report of the returning native soldiers, he was furious: "These Han people toast and don't eat and drink!" If they like to attack, they can attack! I see how they're going to get their heads down and bleeding under our cottage! ”

The Ming army formed a formation under the Jianshen cottage and set up an offensive posture.

Jian saw the Ming army preparing to attack the mountain, and laughed: "I don't know whether the Han people are alive or dead! Come up. I'll see how you take our cottage! ”

Before the words fell, a burst of artillery was heard in the formation of the Ming army under the mountain, followed by a burst of white smoke.

"Cannon! The Han people actually brought cannons over? Jian Shen's face changed greatly. He couldn't figure out how these Ming troops brought heavy cannons.

Several shells rose into the air, and after rising to the highest point, they pulled an arc in the air, smashed down again, and landed on the cottage. The lethality of the solid shells of the mortar cannons was not very large, but after hitting the wooden fence and the earthen wall, a large area collapsed at once.

"Don't be afraid! As long as we dodge, their cannons won't hit us! Jian Shen shouted.

However, Jian Shen misjudged again, and when the Ming army's mortar cannon was fired again, a batch of twelve-pound shells fell in the cottage, and a fire suddenly rose.

The explosions came one after another, the bursting fireballs suddenly expanded, white smoke rose up, and the shrapnel flew in all directions, and many local soldiers either burst their brains, or were disemboweled, and their internal organs flowed out, or their stumps and legs flew into the sky. The blast of shells swept out, and a large part of the wall collapsed.

Wang Jinzhong roared: "The mortar continues to bombard!" ”

More than a dozen mortar cannons continued to shoot shells, causing the flames in the cottage to rise to the sky and thick smoke billowing out.

More than 200 of the native soldiers in the cottage have fallen, and the living native soldiers no longer dare to rely on the wall to hold on, and they have looked for concealment to hide the deadly shells.

"Beat the drums, attack!" Wang Jinzhong shouted.

The Ming army beat the drums of war, and a large number of soldiers lined up in a neat formation and charged up the mountain.

"The Han people are coming up! Archery! Kenshin shouted.

The Tibetan native soldiers shot feathered arrows one after another, but the hunting bows they used were light bows with a very close range, and the arrows fired touched the Ming army wearing rattan armor, and the arrows were bounced away.

The Western Expeditionary Army is wearing rattan armor and holding rattan cards, which are also one of the trade items between Wu Sangui and Li Dingguo, Wu Sangui bought special offerings, cigarettes, ivory, jade and other goods from Li Dingguo, and sold them to Li Dingguo for their weapons, grain and cloth and other goods, which is also one of the weapons.

The rattan armor produced in Guizhou is very lightweight, suitable for the use of mountain troops, and it is invulnerable, and the only thing to fear is fire attack. But these Tibetan soldiers did not know how to attack by fire, so they could only watch the Ming army come up step by step.

"Hurry up and let go of the rolling wood!" Kenshin shouted.

Before the native soldiers climbed the wall of the village, they heard a roar in the Ming army, puffs of white smoke and dense projectiles rained down, and the native soldiers who tried to show their heads fell down one piece.

The Ming army rushed closer, only to see them raise their hands one after another, throwing rows of ceramic bottles emitting green smoke.

"What's that?" Jian Shen was stunned.

Before he could come to his senses, he heard a series of explosions. (To be continued.) )

PS: There is one more chapter in the afternoon