In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, in December of the fifteenth year of the Yongli calendar of the Ming Dynasty, after a long march, the army of the king of Qinwang in western Sichuan finally arrived in Tengchong, and after a short rest in this place, the army of the king of Qinwang in western Sichuan continued to advance and turned with the Yunnan army commanded by Bai Wenxuan.

Deng Ming's move was a great surprise to Li Dingguo, and Deng Ming refused to let the army stay in Kunming, but went straight to the Yunnan-Burma border, which was of course to buy time and to show Li Dingguo that there was no other purpose in western Sichuan—even 8,000 troops were enough to put a lot of pressure on Kunming for the impoverished Jin king, who could not afford to expand his army and had to defend the whole of Yunnan. Deng Ming himself held a brief meeting with Li Dingguo in Kunming, and once again expressed his willingness to maintain the status of the Emperor of Yongli and the unity of the Anti-Qing Alliance.

After the curse of Deng Ming's previous life, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan could only send a dozen boats and hundreds of soldiers to try to solve the Yongli Emperor, although they fought all the way to the city of Wacheng (Schindler), the capital of Burma, but the pressure on Burma was limited, and they returned to the division because of the edict of the Yongli Emperor ordering them to withdraw their troops.

This time, Li Dingguo was able to send an army far stronger than last time, and he had already gathered 10,000 troops to the Yunnan-Burma border, of which the armor soldiers were also as high as 2,000, which was more than four or five times that of Deng Ming's previous life. Moreover, through three months of transportation, Bai Wenxuan also hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in the border area, which was enough to supply tens of thousands of military horses for two months.

"General Deng's army came day and night, which shows his kindness." After seeing Deng Ming, Bai Wenxuan said with a smile that he had already gotten the news from Kunming. Originally, Li Dingguo only hoped that Deng Ming would support him politically, lest Jianchang feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it and use his crooked brains when he sent troops -- even with the Kunming agreement last time, the estrangement between Jianchang and Kunming was still quite deep.

Therefore, after Deng Mingshuai's 8,000 soldiers arrived, Bai Wenxuan was also a little nervous for a while, for fear that this was a secret agreement between western Sichuan and Jianchang, and wanted to take advantage of the fact that the son of Yongli was in danger and the army was unstable and panicked. After hearing that Deng Ming came with nearly 10,000 soldiers, Bai Wenxuan even had the idea of giving up King Qin and rushing back to Kunming to shock the western Sichuan army.

Fortunately, the Sichuan army behaved very reassuringly, Deng Ming not only did not try to enter the prefecture and county under the rule of the King of Jin, but also handed over the grain and grass brought by the army to the magistrate of Yunnan to assist in transportation - this is also a win-win situation for Deng Ming, his army saves physical strength, and Li Dingguo does not have to worry about what crazy moves the Western Sichuan army will make without grain and grass, the only thing to worry about is what Li Dingguo has any different intentions, but Deng Ming feels that the King of Jin is not this kind of person, Moreover, the current military and political situation did not allow Li Dingguo to make an attempt to unify the Sichuan-Yunnan decree.

"General Bai has won the award, the king humiliates the ministers to death, the saint is in danger, King Qin is the unshirkable responsibility of our courtiers." Bai Wenxuan is the king of the county, and Deng Ming is the prince of the country, and the other party calls Deng Ming a general is a posture of being an equal, with the strength that Deng Ming now has, there is nothing inappropriate to accept this kind of courtesy.

followed Deng Ming to King Qin, as well as the 2,000 people sent by Feng Shuangli, and they were commanded by Deng Ming's old friend Di Sanxi, these 2,000 people were mainly auxiliaries, and the armor soldiers only had 100 cavalry. If Jianchang sent a large army into Yunnan, Kunming would probably be a little uneasy, and Feng Shuangli would also be worried that Li Dingguo would be unfavorable to his armor soldiers. It was such a small number of troops, and Li Dingguo wanted the Jianchang army to ensure that they would not plunder the population of Yunnan before they were willing to let them enter the country.

In addition to being a political statement, the main task of Jianchang's dispatch of troops this time was to transport a large amount of grain and grass to Yunnan, and Deng Mingda should use the spoils of war and Chengdu's material compensation.

Although the relationship was not good before, after seeing Jianchang's grain, Bai Wenxuan also greeted him with a smile: "General Di, we haven't seen each other for a long time." ”

"I've seen the king." Di Sanxi didn't ask for it, and honestly met Bai Wenxuan with the etiquette of meeting the king of the county.

"There's no need to be polite, we'll be exempted from these rules in the future." This time, Deng Ming still asked to follow the rules of the last time, the soldiers of western Sichuan did not kowtow to the nobles and generals of Yunnan, and the Yunnan army did not need to pay homage to the five senses of western Sichuan. Bai Wenxuan invited Deng Ming and Di Sanxi to enter the account, Jianchang has given Kunming a lot of things in the past six months, so that Li Dingguo has a precious respite, and can also slightly reduce the taxes of some people, Bai Wenxuan also knows this, and now he sees Di Sanxi, the henchman of the king of Qingyang, he expressed his gratitude again in person: "Qingyang sent 200,000 stone grain to Kunming before and after, and this time gave so much grain and grass, and after saving the Son of Heaven, the king must personally go to Jianchang to thank Qingyang." “

"What's this?" Di Sanxi replied with a big grin: "It's not from us, the king just thanked Deng Shuai." ”

Bai Wenxuan was stunned when he heard this, Deng Ming never mentioned that the food given by Feng Shuangli was paid by him for Kunming, and Di Sanxi didn't expect Deng Ming to say a word about it. After a little silence, Bai Wenxuan guessed the truth, and said to Deng Ming with some surprise: "Didn't Jianchang give us these grains in the agreement?" Could it be that it was all given by General Deng? ”

Deng Ming didn't want to mention it because he was afraid that Jianchang and Kunming would fight again, even if he paid out of his own pocket to help Jianchang buy favors, if it wasn't for the fact that the transfer from Chengdu to Jianchang was really difficult, he would have wanted to give more, and after hearing Bai Wenxuan's question, he immediately replied: "It was given by Qingyang, but the transfer is difficult, and Qingyang needs cloth or something, so I will share some of it, which can be regarded as helping Qingyang to travel expenses." ”

Bai Wenxuan was about to nod, but Di Sanxi didn't do it, he shook his head and retorted loudly: "That's not the case, all the grain transported from Jianchang to Kunming, we have to settle accounts with Deng Shuai, part of the grain, part of the salt and cloth, all from Deng Shuai." ”

Deng Ming turned his head and glared at Di Sanxi, but the other party still continued: "I didn't expect Deng Shuai to mention this matter to King Jin and King Da Wang, but we are also all upright men, and this thing is not something we gave." Besides, our transshipment is really hard, if Qingyang really wants to reconcile with King Jin, wouldn't Deng Shuai let us transport us? ”

"Exactly, exactly." Bai Wenxuan laughed: "Being able to help us transport grain is already enough to show our hospitality." ”

Deng Ming smiled bitterly, and he didn't defend himself, but because of Di Sanxi's words, it made him have a deeper good impression of the people in Jianchang, thinking that although these people from the Qin family Xiying are selfish, they are also worthy of being upright heroes, and this persistence of not taking advantage of others alone is enough to compare most people in the world.

However, Deng Ming didn't know that Di Sanxi, who was known as a wise general in Jianchang, was not exactly as heroic as he showed, and if the people in Jianchang were all kind-hearted people who refused to take advantage, then they would not have taken away the people of northwest Yunnan back then.

When he first met Deng Ming after the Kunming fire, although the generals of Jianchang admired his courage at that time, Deng Ming had no strength in his hands at that time, and Chengdu who supported Deng Ming was also very weak - Yang Youcai brought hundreds of people to support Deng Ming, but Feng Shuangli saw through at a glance that these soldiers in western Sichuan were all people with no combat power, and Yang Youcai, who commanded the army, was also a peasant head. At that time, Jianchang thought that he at least had the ability to fight against Deng Ming, and the Son of Heaven abandoned the country and Deng Ming also had the possibility of ascending the throne.

Now the situation is completely different from that after the Kunming fire, Feng Shuangli and they have been planting fields in the safe rear for two years, saving more and more grain, but they are about to become farmers. On the other hand, Chengdu has developed by leaps and bounds, and under the leadership of Deng Ming, not only has its population surged, but also successively won a series of great victories in Hubei, Nanjing and even Gaoyou Lake. Although Deng Ming still can't occupy a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, but now Jianchang no longer thinks that he is stronger than Chengdu, at least from the perspective of material richness, Deng Ming said that no matter what Jianchang wants, he can do it, gold, silver, cloth, salt, it seems that Deng Ming is not particularly in short supply.

Therefore, Feng Shuangli not only actively responded to Deng Ming's request to join King Qin, but also secretly discussed with Di Sanxi, that is, he must leave a good impression on Deng Ming in this King of Qin - Jianchang originally positioned himself as "an ally with Chengdu back-to-back", but now it has gradually adjusted to "Chengdu is Jianchang's backer".

"The Burmese soldiers in the border area are vulnerable and have been dispersed by me," Bai Wenxuan told Deng Ming and Di Sanxi, long before the arrival of the two of them, the Ming army had already carried out some preliminary work, and the foundation was unstable after Mang Bai's usurpation, and the military spirit of the Burmese army was not very strong, so the border passes were easily captured by the Ming army. The losses of the Ming army in attacking these passes were minimal, which made Bai Wenxuan even more contemptuous of the combat effectiveness of the Burmese soldiers, and even more dissatisfied with the performance of the Imperial Forest Army: "When the Imperial Forest Army entered Burma, the armor and equipment accumulated in front of the pass, hmph, what happened when the pass was captured and entered? If the Burmese dare to say a word, they will destroy their country! ”

"Soon, the Burmese will have to pay the price for supporting Mang Bai, a thief who killed his brother and usurped the throne." These days, Deng Ming asked the guide sent by Li Dingguo to give his men a serious introduction to the geography of the border, and after a while, he would make the same request to Bai Wenxuan, and let those Dian soldiers who had been to Burma come to give guidance to his officers: "Ba Mo, now in the hands of Wang Shi?" ”

"General Deng said the key at once," Bai Wenxuan nodded approvingly, Ba Mo is the key to invading Burma, as long as Ba Mo is occupied, you can go straight to Wacheng along Lijiang, along the way there are not only dense population areas to facilitate the Ming army to raise grain and grass, but also flat valley terrain suitable for the passage of large armies; And if it can't take Bamo, if the Ming army wants to invade the hinterland of Myanmar, it will have to crawl through the deep mountains and old forests in northern Myanmar, which is not only protracted, but also has to transfer grain and grass from its own territory, which Kunming can't afford in any case: "I have found out the truth of the city defense, but I haven't fought yet, and now the Burmese side still thinks that we are just lying and intimidating." Either we don't fight, once we defeat Bamo, we will go straight to Wacheng with lightning speed. ”