Bai Wenxuan stroked his beard and smiled: "This kind of flower is actually nothing special, this king has never seen it when he was in the north, but after entering Yunnan, there are many such flowers in the mountains and forests." If there is a use, there is a point: a wounded soldier can relieve a little pain by eating a little petal, but it is not very obvious. Other than that, there is no other use. How can these flowers make us silver? ”

Wang Xinyu replied: "The last general plans to cooperate with the two princes, you plant flowers, and we will refine." In the end, the fruit of this flower will be used to make a good thing that strengthens the body and prolongs life. This is something that is specifically designed for tartars to suck. ”

"A good thing to strengthen the body and prolong life?" Bai Wenxuan shook his head.

"You can sell it for a high price! Are you not short of silver? Just sell these things to them, and you will not only get silver, but also weapons! For this good thing, they will not only exchange it for silver, but also sell you weapons and horses! Wang Xinyu laughed happily.

"This thing is so appealing?" Bai Wenxuan was very surprised.

Wang Xinyu only whispered in Bai Wenxuan's ear at this time: "If you smoke this kind of thing too much, you will be addicted, once you become addicted, if you don't smoke it for a day, you will be weak and uncomfortable all over your body; If you don't inhale for three days, you will have pain all over your body and cold sweat. In order to get the money to buy this kind of thing, even if it is murder and robbery, I will do it! Moreover, long-term smoking will make people's physical fitness deteriorate, and in the end, they can't even hold weapons! ”

"Isn't that something harmful?" Bai Wenxuan shook his head and said.

"Yes, but it's not too much for the Tartars!"

"That's right! As long as it's against the Tartars, you can't use any means too much! Bai Wenxuan also suddenly realized, but then asked, "But how can the general sell this kind of thing to the Tartars?" ”

When the general defeated Wu Sangui, he secretly sent an envoy to negotiate with them. Tell them that we have this money-making good stuff here to sell them. We sold these things to Wu Sangui and asked Wu Sangui to prepare silk, ceramics and tea for us, and we sold them to the Taisi people through Burma. Wang Xinyu said triumphantly.

"Hahaha!" Bai Wenxuan also laughed, as if he saw Bai Huahua's silver flowing into his and the Jin king's hands, and their army was quickly replaced with the most sophisticated weapons. The military also expanded rapidly.

The small team traveled in the mountains for half a month, and on October 20, they arrived at Li Dingguo's station.

Li Sixing led his soldiers to patrol the riverside on the Burmese side, and when he saw a cavalry carrying the "white" and "king" flags coming out of the mountains and forests on the opposite bank, he immediately asked his soldiers to go back to report and greet him by the river.

Two small boats and a dozen rafts went back and forth three times before they brought all the more than 300 riders back to the riverbank.

"The little nephew has seen the prince!" Li Sixing bowed to Bai Wenxuan.

Bai Wenxuan arched his hand, and then pointed to Wang Xinyu and said, "General Wang came back with this king to help King Jin!" ”

Wang Xinyu stepped forward. He arched his hand and said: "The last general has seen the little prince!" ”

Li Sixing looked at Wang Xinyu for a long time before asking, "This little brother is General Wang Yu, the Governor of Qiongzhou?" ”

"Exactly!"

"It turned out to be my brother-in-law! Brother-in-law doesn't have to be polite, you can call me brother-in-law in the future! We are all family, so why be restrained. Li Sixing was obviously very happy to see this sister-in-law's husband.

Li Dingguo heard that Bai Wenxuan and Wang Xinyu were coming, and personally walked out of the gate to greet him.

Wang Xinyu walked to the gate of the village and saw a tall man about forty years old. White face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. The general wearing a golden helmet and a python robe stood at the door to greet him, and knew that this person must be Li Dingguo, so he kowtowed and bowed: "The last general has seen the prince!" ”

"No courtesy, no courtesy! Hurry up, please! Li Dingguo personally helped Wang Xinyu up. He took the opportunity to take a closer look at Wang Xinyu, and saw that this person was dignified, tall, and had a white helmet on his head. Dressed in a white robe, he sighed, "The virtuous nephew is really a young talent!" When I saw it today, it really deserved its name! ”

"The prince has won the prize!" Wang Xinyu arched his hand.

Li Dingguo stroked his beard and smiled: "Virtuous nephew doesn't need to be polite!" Just call me Shibo! ”

"Thank you, Shibo!" Wang Xinyu hurriedly thanked him.

Walking into Li Dingguo's Chinese army tent, the group sat down. Li Dingguo sat in the middle and beckoned everyone to sit down. Bai Wenxuan sat on the left, and Li Sixing sat on the right. The place below Bai Wenxuan on the left was vacant, and the rest of the generals sat down. Seeing this, Wang Xinyu knew that the position next to Bai Wenxuan was reserved for him, so he stepped forward and sat down.

Then Li Dingguo spoke: "Our army spies have come to report that Wu Sangui has sent 150,000 troops, claiming to be 500,000, and is attacking our army's garrison!" Obviously, Wu Sangui already knew the news of the emperor's death! There is also news from the king's inside line in the Burmese, saying that the reckless white thief sent a letter to Wu Sangui, asking Wu Sangui to take the emperor to Kunming! And our army is less than 30,000. The virtuous nephew came to help this time, I don't know what is the best way to break the enemy? ”

Wang Xinyu bowed his hand and said: "Lord Wang, the last general thinks that the Tartars are overwhelming, and we should rely on the terrain to hold on!" While relying on the geographical advantage to block the Tartars, it is the best choice to have the opportunity to take the initiative and destroy a group of Tartars! As long as we eat a stream of tartar, Wu Sangui will retreat! ”

"Yes!" Li Dingguo nodded approvingly, "If you can eliminate the Eight Banners stationed in Yunnan, Manchu and Mongolia, then the Tartar Imperial Court will not be able to control Wu Sangui!" This Wu Sangui may be anyway. ”

Back then, many people in Nanming thought that Wu Sangui might be anyway, and Mu Tianbo had also sent people to find Wu Sangui many times before.

But Wu Sangui is cunning and has his own set of plans. Wu Sangui has always wanted to be a king of Yunnan in peace and stability, and he also knows the truth of raising Kou and self-respect, but the Qing court is very uneasy about him, and he needs to show loyalty.

Wang Xinyu knew that it would be difficult to make Wu Sangui go right, but he also agreed with what Li Dingguo said, if he could annihilate the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, then Wu Sangui would definitely waver. In fact, if the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were annihilated, Wu Sangui, who originally wanted to "raise his own self-respect," would use this as an excuse not to send troops again, and would sit in Yunnan with peace of mind as the king of Yunnan, and when the time came, he would accept the terms of peace talks proposed by Li Dingguo and others, and would not send troops to Burma again.

"We can find the most favorable terrain to ambush on the road, lead the Tartars into the ambush circle, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop." Wang Xinyu made a suggestion.

Li Dingguo said regretfully: "Last time, this king carefully set up an ambush in Mopan Mountain, but unfortunately a traitor betrayed him, which caused this king to fail!" If that battle had annihilated Wu Sangui's main force, the current situation would have been different! ”

"Can the prince take the last general to see the prince's defense?" Wang Xinyu pleaded.

Li Dingguo agreed: "Let's go, let's go and have a look!" ”

The group walked out of the camp and went to several Ming army defense lines arranged by Li Dingguo to check. Along the way, Wang Xinyu had to sigh that Li Dingguo's platoon was far above him. Although Li Dingguo's troops were poorly armed, they made clever use of the terrain in the layout of defensive formations, setting up stone cities at various passes, and setting up earthen cities and wooden villages on some small roads that might have been detoured by the Qing army; There are also some places that seem to have no way out, but in fact may be detoured, Li Dingguo has arranged a small number of sentinels, once he finds that the Qing army is coming, he can immediately release beacon smoke and notify most of them to rush to reinforcements.

The terrain from Yunnan to Myanmar is very dangerous, there are many valley mouths that cannot be opened, and those terrains are all middle roads, and on both sides are high mountains towering into the sky. As long as a few people arrange rolling wood and stones on the top of the mountain, it is difficult for thousands of troops and horses to pass. But because the border between Yunnan and Myanmar is extremely long, Wu Sangui has many attack routes to choose from.

After seeing the terrain, the group returned to the Chinese army camp.

Wang Xinyu said to Li Rui: "You go and get a wooden plate, and there is sand, I am going to make a sand table." ”

"Sandbox?" Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were stunned. Someone made a sand table back then, but the sand table was very complicated to make, and ordinary generals would not make this kind of thing.

Wang Xinyu's soldiers built a special barracks in Li Dingguo's camp, nailed a large wooden plate inside, and then piled wet sand on top to make a huge sand table.

Seeing the sand table, Li Dingguo said: "Isn't this a topographic map?" However, what your own soldiers did was much better than what the generals of this king did, and all kinds of fortresses and passes were marked. The virtuous nephew is indeed a young talent! ”

"Shibo has won the prize! If it is more than the arrangement of troops, the little nephew is far below Shibo. ”

Later, Wang Xinyu invited Li Dingguo to see his night team, that is, the scout team. Wang Xinyu named his scout detachment Ye Bushu, which was the name of the Ming Dynasty spies, and mainly referred to the Liaodong spies who were specifically aimed at Jiannu. Since Chongzhen chose Coal Mountain and the north was lost, no one in the south used this name anymore, and Wang Xinyu resumed the name of Night Buhui.

The 82 members of the team who did not close the team at night stood neatly on the school ground, and these Ming soldiers wearing green military uniforms and helmets wrapped in green cloth aroused great interest among the soldiers of Li Dingguo's department, and people rushed to watch.

"Green uniforms can blend in with nature, and it will be difficult for Tartar spies to spot them. When you spot an enemy at night, you can immediately send a signal to let us know that there is an enemy coming from that direction. And after they set off the fireworks, the enemy will also discover their location. But the clothes on their bodies can ensure their safe evacuation, and the Tartars cannot catch up with them. Wang Xinyu introduced his night team members to Li Dingguo.

These night-time team members who are suitable for reconnaissance in the mountains, everyone knows how to use nature to arrange traps and use complex terrain to conceal themselves; Once spotted by the enemy, they can also take advantage of the difficult terrain to escape with their whole body.

Li Dingguo took out the map and told Wang Xinyu to send the Yebu team to several locations to ambush, which were all possible locations for the Qing army to attack.

"If you don't close the team at night with a virtuous nephew, we will be much easier! No matter which direction the Tartars are coming from, we will know in advance! Li Dingguo looked at these most elite scouts with satisfaction and said with a smile. (To be continued.) )