Bai Wenxuan, who captured the border pass, sent an envoy to Burma to write a letter, saying that as long as Burma returned the Son of Heaven, the Ming army would immediately retreat.

Originally, Deng Ming thought that Bai Wenxuan was just a martial artist, but from this move, he was quite scheming.

"General Bai, this is a ploy for the enemy, right?" The 20,000 Ming army has completed the assembly, the grain and grass are ready to stop, and the attack on Burma is already ready to be launched. However, Bai Wenxuan sent an envoy to Ba Mo at this time, obviously deliberately showing weakness and making the Burmese side feel lucky.

"Exactly." Bai Wenxuan smiled. Since ancient times, if the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, there will be no fair trade, and if the Ming army claims to set foot in Burma without returning the Son of Heaven, it is estimated that Myanmar will seriously consider it. Of course, Burma may also think that the Ming army is bluffing. However, now the Ming army doesn't even have the courage to bluff, but pitifully says that in exchange for the Son of Heaven at the border pass, most of the Burmese side will fall to the ground in their hearts and decide that the Ming army has no ability to attack.

The idea of Burma is very much in line with the habits of this era, that is, Deng Ming is an exception, so that the Qing army has misjudged the strength of the Ming army again and again.

"After three years of hunting in the south, didn't King Jin and General Bai send someone to ask for it?" Deng Ming asked.

"At first, I wanted to send someone to ask for it, and the King of Jin also handed over this matter to me, but I was about to talk to Burma, and the news that General Deng was in Kunming came, so I withdrew and returned to Kunming with the King of Jin. In the past three years, he has been confronting Wu Sangui's old thief, and has repeatedly mentioned this matter, but he has never made the trip. Bai Wenxuan replied seriously.

Before Mangbai usurped the throne, because the Ming army was not as poor as Deng Ming's previous life, the Yongli exiled court was okay in Burma, and the first assistant and the elders of the cabinet had been worried in the country for many years, and finally lived a stable life, and no one was willing to come back. Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan discussed privately several times, and they both felt that it was unlikely that it would be possible to persuade the emperor to come back, and there was no point in sending troops to pick it up, which would not only weaken Yunnan's defense force, but also make the imperial court disgusted, thinking that the Jin royal palace was bullying the imperial court and causing trouble to the exiled imperial court. Since it was a thankless task, Li Dingguo gave up in the end.

Unlike Deng Mingyi's way of informing the whole army of military orders, the officers under Bai Wen were mostly ignorant of the Ming army's troop deployment and the commander's determination. For the sake of secrecy, the envoys sent by Bai Wenxuan to Bamo were still selected from the military camps stationed at the front line, and these envoys did not know how many soldiers and horses were stationed behind, let alone that reinforcements from western Sichuan and Jianchang had arrived, so Bai Wenxuan did not have to worry about the leakage of military information at all.

After waiting for a few days, Burma sent a few overseas Chinese to send back the heads of the three envoys of the Ming army, and the words in the reply letter were arrogant and rude, saying that since the Ming army attacked the border pass of Burma and opened the army, then Burma would return the color and use force to expel the invading Ming army.

"I really don't know if I'm alive or dead." After seeing the heads of the three Ming soldiers, Bai Wenxuan had a murderous look on his face: "Sure enough, the heart of disobedience is obvious." ”

The current Taungoo Dynasty in Burma was founded by Mang Yinglong, whose son launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty after conquering Thailand and Cambodia, but was defeated by the Ming army, and Thailand and other conquered regions also regained their independence. It was only then that the Liaodong War took place, and the Ming Dynasty accepted the submission of Burma and recognized the Burmese occupation of Ba Mo and other regions, and now there are still a large number of overseas Chinese in Ba Mo and other places. However, the enemies of Burma also organized a coalition army, broke through the city of Wa, and killed the Burmese king Mang Yingli. Although his son maintained the dynasty and did not fall, Burma was no longer a military power.

"Mu Guogong said that when Mang Yingli invaded, a Yunnan army general with 500 soldiers defeated 20,000 Burmese soldiers; Two thousand officers and soldiers will be able to storm the city of Wacheng. The Burmese people are healed, the scars are forgotten, and the pain is forgotten. Bai Wenxuan pondered for a moment, and ordered ten more soldiers to form an envoy group to deliver the credentials to Bamo.

The lessons from the past are not far away, this mission is naturally very dangerous, but Bai Wenxuan didn't care, he specially found ten insignificant soldiers, and Deng Ming knew that King Gongchang didn't care about these lives at all. Although there is a saying in the art of war: "Compassion does not command soldiers", Deng Ming felt that he could not make up his mind.

After sending the second group of envoys, Bai Wenxuan ordered the whole army to set off and march towards Bamo. As the Ming army pulled out of camp one after another, rolling towards the hinterland of Burma, the size of the army was difficult to hide. Bai Wenxuan also had no intention of sending a third wave of emissaries, and he estimated that soon after the Bamo defenders saw the second wave of emissaries of the Ming army, they would find that the Ming army had already driven to the city.

However, Bai Wenxuan still made some secret arrangements, he asked 2,000 people to open the way for the army in front, and all the Burmese people he met along the way were arrested and screened, and if they were Chinese, they would be escorted to the camp behind to serve as auxiliaries, and the Burmese would be killed. The Burmese along the way were either killed or scattered, and even if some of them could escape back to the rear, they would see only 2,000 Ming troops, but not the main force of 20,000 Ming troops.

In the second letter of state, Bai Wenxuan spoke in a humble tone, and apologized for the three slain envoys, saying that they did not understand etiquette and brought themselves into trouble, and put on a bargaining appearance, saying that the Ming army was willing to consider exchanging border passes first, as long as the Burmese defenders of Ba Mo were willing to escort the Ming army envoys to Wacheng.

After seeing Bai Wenxuan's letter, the Burmese defenders of Ba Mo concluded that the Ming army was a partial division with very limited strength. The letter of state was sent to Wacheng by them, so that the reckless monarch and ministers could rest assured. When the Ming army had just invaded before, Ba Moke was very nervous and asked them to send reinforcements quickly. According to the Chinese who sent the letter, the Burmese soldiers had even left the city, intending to regain the border passes by their own strength before the reinforcements from Wacheng arrived.

Before arriving at Bamo, Bai Wenxuan received a report from the front that the Burmese defenders had indeed killed all the envoys of the Ming army, and sent overseas Chinese to send the heads back to the Ming army again.

"How many of Ba Mo's total troops are there, and how many people did they send out of the city?" Bai Wenxuan asked overseas Chinese.

"There are about 3,000 Burmese soldiers in Bamo, and this time they came out with 2,000."

"Haha, our vanguard is enough!" Bai Wenxuan put his mind at ease and concentrated on directing the headquarters to collect grain and grass and transport materials. The Western Sichuan Army under the command of Deng Ming followed behind Bai Wenxuan, taking advantage of the rugged mountain terrain to hide the whereabouts and size of the army.

As Bai Wenxuan expected, the Burmese army was ambushed by the vanguard of the Ming army and was completely annihilated by the Lijiang River. The Ming army's avant-garde death squad disguised themselves as Burmese soldiers and captured the city gate of Ba Mo, and took this important stronghold in a single assault.

By the time Deng Ming led the western Sichuan army to arrive, Bai Wenxuan had already completed the screening of Ba Mo, and tens of thousands of Chinese in and around the city were pardoned, while the Burmese were still not left. In this battle, not only did the defenders of Bamo be completely annihilated, but the Ming army also captured some boats and rafts, so that when they went south along the Lijiang River, they also had a number of means of transportation.

"Mang Bai sent an army of 30,000 to reinforce Ba Mo," Bai Wenxuan informed Deng Ming and Di Sanxi of the latest information: "Knowing that Ba Mo has fallen into our hands, Wacheng must be shocked. I have sent a thousand old and sick to camp on the south, and I will go over in a moment, and put up my royal banner in the camp over there. ”

After hearing that Ba Mo was lost, even if Burma despised the Ming army at first, it should be vigilant now. Bai Wenxuan did not want to take the initiative to attack the Burmese army, but hoped that they would come and die - the farther these Burmese troops were from Wacheng, the easier it was for the Ming army to be pursued and killed.

Therefore, Bai Wenxuan planned to carry out the plan of arrogance to the end, if the Burmese sent envoys to detect the truth, they would see that the commander of the king of Gongchang was just some weak soldiers in incomplete armor.

Once again, the Burmese plan was picked up by Bai Wen, who sent envoys to rebuke the Ming army after learning that Ba Mo had lost. These envoys first put all the blame for beheading the Ming legation on the Bamo defenders, and then asked why the Ming army invaded the vassals and even brutalized Burma. When the Ming army accused Burma of seizing Yongli, the Burmese army insisted that these were rumors, and that it was the Ming army that plundered the surroundings of Wacheng, which led to the Burmese army spontaneously attacking the Ming army.

Bai Wenxuan deliberately let the Burmese people see the scorched ruins around Wacheng, as well as the heads piled up by the Ming army, and he was satisfied to see that the Burmese envoys had a look of resentment in their eyes: "You go back and tell Mang Bai that as long as he is willing to honestly return the Holy Lord and the Pavilion Elder to us, we will withdraw immediately." ”

Although Bai Wenxuan worked hard to act, the Burmese generals were still suspicious after asking the envoy who returned, worried that this was Bai Wenxuan's plan to lure the enemy - if the Ming army was really as bad as the envoy reported, then how did they defeat Bamo?

When the Burmese army was hesitating, the Ming army began to move south again, and at this time, anyone could see that the Ming army had the intention of approaching Wacheng and forcing Mang Bai to submit. Mang Bai asked the generals on the front line to continue the attack, and in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Mang Bai ordered to continue to send reinforcements to the front line.

Another 20,000 reinforcements arrived at the front, and the commander of the 50,000 Burmese army would not completely dispel his worries with a reckless word of encouragement. After some serious discussions, the former enemy commander-in-chief of Burma decided to advance from the other bank of Lijiang in order to fully observe the strength of the Ming army - now Burma had the advantage of a naval division, and if it was found that the Ming army was indeed weak, it could cross the river near Ba Mo and completely block the back road of the invaders; If it is found that the Ming army is hiding a fairly strong force, the Burmese army advancing from the other shore can also see the approximate strength of the Ming army.