Chapter 259: Ambition is no more

Three days later, Cheng Xiaolian and the others got the information of the prefect of Dali Mansion, the prefect of Dali Mansion is named Duan Moyu, who is a jinshi elected by the West, and is an absolute confidant of Wu Sangui, of course, if it is not for Wu Sangui's henchman, he would not be able to be the prefect of Dali Mansion and master such an important place.

Cheng Xiaolian is in Burma, the reason why they played the banner of Daming is to take revenge, but also to let the Han people in Myanmar return to their hearts, now they can't use the banner of Daming to provoke Wu Sangui, if Wu Sangui knows that Daming's people have become momentum in his rear, I am afraid that I have to rush back.

Wu Sangui is also in trouble now, he is getting older and older, but his most powerful son was slaughtered by Kangxi, and his grandson Wu Shifan is too young, so he has no successor. Now that the Yangtze River can't be crossed, Wu Sangui has no ambition to annex the world, and just wants to divide the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and get this half of the country.

If Cheng Xiaolian and the others played the banner of the Ming Dynasty, they just gave Wu Sangui an excuse to withdraw from the army, so they put away the banner and only said that it was the righteous army.

Five days later, they arrived at the boundary of Dali Mansion, Duan Moyu was a middle-aged man in his forties, and at this time he had already received the news and was discussing matters in the Yamen.

"Tell me, who are these guys?"

"I heard that it came from the south, so it can't be Burmese soldiers, right?"

"Nonsense, when did the Burmese soldiers dare to come to us to make trouble? Besides, our spies see about the same, it should be Han Chinese. ”

"Han Chinese? Where did the Han people come from such a large army? ”

At this time, someone suddenly said coldly: "I heard that there were still a group of people under the traitor Li Dingguo who defected and did not submit to us." ”

Duan Moyu was stunned for a moment: "Even if it's them, what are they doing here?" The Ming Dynasty has been dead for so many years, and they still want to take the opportunity to make some moves? ”

A master sighed: "At the beginning, Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty died in the hands of our prince, but I am afraid that they still hate us in their hearts." ”

Just a few months ago, Wu Sangui was promoted to the king of Zhou, and the title of generalissimo was not needed, so they called him the prince, and they knew in their hearts that it would not be long before Wu Sangui would be crowned emperor.

Duan Moyu nodded: "This makes sense, such an army suddenly appeared in our territory, I'm afraid it's not a good thing, hurry up and send a letter to the prince and ask him to send a large army to exterminate it." ”

A team of post guards rushed away, Duan Moyu began to arrange people to defend the city, he didn't expect these people under his command to be able to go out of the city to meet the enemy, as long as he held the Dali Mansion, it would be a great achievement.

But what he didn't expect was that the army didn't even look at him, and went away, this time he couldn't sit still at all, if this army went to Kunming, when the time came, the generalissimo's mansion would be beaten down, and he would be held accountable, and he would be suspected of arsoning with the enemy, so he quickly sent someone to order the soldiers and horses in the city, and he would chase and kill.

Who knew that just after the soldiers and horses were ordered, the spies outside the city came to report that this army was heading north, not east.

Duan Moyu couldn't make up his mind a little, if he attacked rashly, losing Dali would be a capital crime, since their target might not be Kunming, it had nothing to do with him, so he quickly sent spies to keep an eye on that army, once they showed signs of going east, they would immediately come back to report it, and he would send troops again.

Yang Youcai had already discovered the spies around the army, but he did not move them according to Cheng Xiaolian's request, because they also guessed that the defenders of Dali were insufficient, and if there was no special need, they would not send troops to attack them, so they deliberately kept this spy to reassure the people in Dali City.

If it were a surprise attack, Cheng Xiaolian and they would probably capture the entire Yunnan Province, but what was the use of capturing it? When Wu Sangui was furious, he led the army to fight back, and the roles of several people had to be reversed, and Cheng Xiaolian and Wu Sangui were sandpipers, and Kangxi became a fisherman, so Cheng Xiaolian did not intend to be an enemy of Wu Sangui. At least for the time being, you can't be an enemy of Wu Sangui.

Half a month later, Wu Sangui got the news in Yanzhou, at this time he was commanding the men and horses to prepare for battle, in March of the thirteenth year of Kangxi, Kangxi ordered Shuncheng County Wang Leerjin to transfer troops from Jingzhou and Yiling, preparing to capture Yuezhou City, Wu Sangui of course could not let them occupy, so Wu Yingqi was the president of Yuezhou, leading 60,000 horses to guard Yuezhou.

He secretly arranged his troops and prepared to meet the enemy, and at this time he got the news of the Ming army, but he was scared a lot.

"You said that Li Dingguo's remnants came to Yunnan from Burma and planned to capture Yunnan?"

"Master Duan asked us to say this, and here's a letter from him."

Who knew that before the letter was finished, a piece of news came over: "Lord Duan said that the group did not capture Dali, but went north. ”

Wu Sangui coughed and glanced at Xia Guoxiang: "What do you think?" ”

Xia Guoxiang was also not decided: "Erchen really doesn't know where this army came out. ”

Wu Sangui looked at no one on the left and right, and asked in a low voice: "Do we want to withdraw our troops back to Burma?" ”

"Never!" Xia Guoxiang was taken aback: "Now everyone's eyes are focused on us, if the battle of Yuezhou is won, Wang ~ Fuchen, Geng Jingzhong and they will definitely be willing to do big things with us, if the battle of Yuezhou is lost, I am afraid that they will have to be the first to do both ends." ”

"They dare!" Wu Sangui's heart was also empty, he was full of determination to sweep the world, but after fighting for so many years, he found that things were not as easy as he thought, plus after all, he was old, and his ambition had also diminished, and his current wish was that Kangxi could row the river with him, and it would be best not to invade each other at that time, as for driving the Manchus out of the customs, he didn't want to do it anymore.

Xia Guoxiang knew that it was now a matter of life and death, in case Wu Sangui was shaken, everyone would be doomed, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Lord Wang, although we are stalemate in the war, but the life of the Manchu Qing is not easy, the world is full of wolf smoke, their Manchu people are not as many as our Han people, as long as we survive this period, they will definitely be defeated." ”

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly: "At the beginning, this king was in the middle of the day, and some of them persuaded this king to keep Emperor Yongli alive and exchange a tanuki for the crown prince, but this king was loyal and did not do so, and now it seems that it is a big mistake." If Emperor Yongli is here, why is it here? ”

Xia Guoxiang also sighed, they thought that most of the Han people would rise up after the army, but Wu Sangui's reputation was there, and the land south of the Yangtze River, which was most persecuted by the Manchu Qing, was as stable as Mount Tai, giving the Manchus time to breathe, and also caught Wu Sangui off guard.

(End of chapter)