Bai Wenxuan also said: "In this way, this Pingyu Marquis did not deliberately want to return to Sichuan. Besides, even if he is still in Yunnan, he can't stop Wu Sangui who is far away in Myanmar. Bai Wenxuan's statement is obvious, even if Zhu Youdong stays in Yunnan, there is no way to enter Myanmar in a short time to prevent Wu Sangui from killing Yongli.

As soon as Bai Wenxuan said about Yongli, Li Dingguo was immediately silent, now that Yongli is dead, where should Daming go, even Li Dingguo can't say it. After waiting for a while, Li Dingguo said to Pi Xiong: "Did Zhang Zuochen say where did this army come from?" Who is this Pingyu Marquis? ”

Pi Xiong glanced at Li Dingguo and said: "It is said that part of the army of this Pingyu Marquis is the soldiers and horses of the original Kuidong Zhuzhen. Qi Sansheng frowned and said, "How is this possible?" It is said that when the Qing army first began to attack Yungui, their thirteen families combined could not defeat Chongqing, why did they suddenly become so powerful, and they also recovered the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. ”

Pi Xiong said: "I don't know exactly what's going on, I was in a hurry to come to Yunxi to find you, so I didn't ask too clearly." But it is true that there are many Kuidong generals in the Restoration Army. It is said that the current governor of Guizhou is Qihou Hezhen of Kuidong at that time. ”

Li Dingguo was also a little puzzled: "Could it really be that Kuidong and they fought it?" It is not impossible, the Qing army entered Yunnan and Guizhou in a big way, causing the emptiness of troops in Sichuan and other places, so that the generals of Kuidong may have a chance. Pi Xiong agreed: "King Jin is really proficient in the art of war, and he can see the weakness of the Qing army at a glance. ”

Li Dingguo smiled bitterly and said: "What is proficient in the art of war, if we had understood this earlier, we would have taken the emperor and the army to Sichuan, and we would not have let the emperor be killed by Wu Sangui in Myanmar like now." Pi Xiong said: "The King of Jin doesn't have to blame himself too much, as long as we wipe out the Qing army that entered Yungui." The Qing court must not be able to gather so many troops in a short period of time. Huguang must also be very empty, then we can counterattack Huguang and Liangguang again. At that time, we will still be able to drive the Manchus out of the Central Plains, restore the Han dynasty, and restore the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Dingguo said: "It's so easy there. Wu Sanxing, who was next to him, saw that Li Dingguo still couldn't raise his fighting spirit, and immediately said: "King Qianyang, you said just now, is it the university scholar Zhang Zuochen who is sitting in Kunming?" Who is in command of the Ming army that entered Yunnan? ”

Pi Xiong said: "Now the army is divided into three roads, one is led by Luo Ren, Li Rubi is the deputy, and the other is Yang Jiafu, Ta Xince, Feng Tianyu, Hu Yiqing is the general, and they are going to Lin'an Mansion." The other way is led by Hao Yongzhong, Wang Xing is the deputy, Liu Dongcai, Xiong Yansheng, Hu Guozhu, and An Kun are the generals. Then the last route is led by Liu Yingnan, Guo Li Ai is the deputy, Hu Jungui, Xie Shun, Gao Qilong, An Chongsheng is the general, they are going to Menghua Mansion and Dali Mansion. ”

After Pi Xiong finished speaking in one breath, everyone sighed when they heard it, this Restoration Army is really a large number of soldiers. Just this is already close to 20 generals. As a result, Pi Xiong suddenly remembered again and said: "Oh, by the way, there is also an army led by Jiang Chao, Ma Weixing as the deputy, Zhao Yun, Jia Si, An Yang, and Long Sheng as generals, they are going to Lijiang." However, they are mainly looking for the Ming troops scattered near Lijiang Prefecture. In addition, there are not many Qing troops stationed in Lijiang Prefecture now, so there will not be too many battles. In addition, Daniel Zhang took 6,000 cavalry reorganized by the Guanning Army to Dali Mansion, and Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian of Shizhu took 3,000 white pole soldiers to Jinghong. ”

This time, the people in the big tent all took a deep breath, and the general alone was already thirty people. Li Dingguo also said: "This Restoration Army is really strong, how can there be a general of the Qing Dynasty?" Could it be that all these people surrendered to the Restoration Army? ”

Pi Xiong said: "Yes, the Guan Ning army was originally going to return to Guizhou, but I don't know what happened, and they all surrendered to the Restoration Army." Then after they captured Kunming, the generals of the Qing army who stayed in Kunming before, as well as the generals of our Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Qing army before, also went anyway. In this way, after the Restoration Army reorganized the surrendered army in Kunming, it now has more than 100,000 troops. ”

Li Dingguo sighed: "If only this news could come a month earlier, then it will be really as the Marquis of Pingyu said, the people of the small country in Myanmar will not dare to be disrespectful to the emperor, but it is too late." Even if we now press the army close and wipe out all the Qing troops, how will this change in the overall situation? The emperor is gone, we will become lonely ghosts, and the Ming Dynasty will be gone. ”

At this time, Wu San said: "Why did the King of Jin say such a depressing word, isn't there another clan in our army, we can serve him as the master and continue to complete the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty." Bai Wenxuan said: "The three provinces are talking about Zhu Jingchun, the lieutenant of Fengguo who is of King Han's bloodline? When he arrives in the clan, I'm afraid the bloodline is a little far away. It is better to worship the king of Lu in Fujian, Zhu Yihai. Besides, King Lu had already had the title of prison country before. ”

Hearing the words of Wu Sanxing and Bai Wenxuan, everyone else also talked about it, but Li Dingguo and Pi Xiong did not speak. Li Dingguo saw that Pi Xiong didn't speak, so he asked, "Taihong, what do you think?" Taihong is the word for Pi Xiong, and when he heard Li Dingguo ask himself, Pi Xiong did not answer immediately. Instead, he said: "King Jin, now we should cooperate as soon as possible, the Ming army from Kunming, and they will join forces to deal with the Qing army in Yunnan, and then you will definitely have a decision." ”

Li Dingguo saw that Pi Xiong said this, and did not answer his own question, and immediately understood that there must be something strange in it. glanced around and said, "Si Xing, you take Liu Zhen and Wu Guoan to the camp to appease the soldiers and prepare them for a counterattack on the Qing army." ”

Li Sixing had no choice but to take Wu Guoan, Liu Zhen and other younger generations out of the big tent. Then Qi Sansheng, Wu Sanxing, He Jiuyi, Bai Wenxuan, Le Tongwu and others were left behind, and after the others retreated, Li Dingguo asked Pi Xiong: "Now there are only a few of us, tell me what is going on?" ”

At this time, Qi Sansheng and the others also realized that something was wrong, and looked at the bear in confusion. Pi Xiong looked at everyone and said, "Just now, the King of Jin asked what the origin of this Pingyu Marquis was, and I didn't say anything. The main reason is that they are afraid that their juniors will not be able to hold their breath and cause other incidents. ”

As soon as Skin Bear said it, everyone else became cautious. Pi Xiong said: "Now the Qing army in Yunnan is indeed not a cause for concern, and my Ming Dynasty now has more than 100,000 troops, and the army led by the Marquis of Pingyu is called the Restoration Army, which is clear at a glance." There was only one thing that worried me. ”

Li Dingguo suddenly understood, and asked Skinbear: "He is in charge of an army of more than 100,000 alone, does he have other thoughts that should not be?" Hearing Li Dingguo say this, several other people suddenly sighed in their hearts, and said secretly: "Don't let Daming go through such a thing again, if such a thing really happens, Daming will definitely perish." ”

Pi Xiong said: "In troubled times, it is inevitable that you will think about it. But he has this idea, and we don't have any reason to stop it. I was very worried before I came, but now I am not worried about this at all, as long as everyone is still loyal to Daming, it is estimated that there will be no more extraneous branches. ”

Li Dingguo was puzzled: "How do you say this?" Since he has the idea of non-separation, why can't we stop it? Le Tongwu said: "Yes, is it because he now has more than 100,000 troops?" At the beginning, the Manchu army of hundreds of thousands was also afraid. Qi Sansheng and Wu Sansheng also said: "Yes, it's a big deal to fight him." ”

Pi Xiong said: "You don't need to fight, because he is also a member of the Ming Sect." I didn't say it just now, because the juniors are all young and vigorous, and the emperor was by everyone's side before, and everyone didn't have other ideas. But now that a clan suddenly comes from another place and asks everyone to be loyal to it, there may be many young people who are unwilling. ”

Bai Wenxuan hadn't heard Pi Xiong say Zhu Youdong before, and when he heard this, he was suddenly shocked: "What? He's also a clan? It can't be fake, there was a Zhu Rongfan in Sichuan, but don't come out with someone else. At that time, don't say that the juniors are unwilling, even if we don't necessarily respect him. ”

Le Tongwu and others also said: "Yes, yes, yes, you can't make a fake one, there will be a joke when the time comes." Maybe there's another infighting. Although Li Dingguo didn't say it, his expression also had this concern.

Seeing this, Pi Xiong said: "This should be true, since he can integrate the Kuidong army, it means that the Wen Inspector of Wen'an in Kuidong must have studied it, otherwise Wen'anzhi will not easily let him integrate the Kuidong army." And it is said that Kuidong also has two clans, one is Zhu Ganyan, the queen of Han Xian, and the other is Zhu Shenglang, the king of Dong'an. They have such two clans in Kuidong, so why should they succumb to this clan of unknown origin? ”

However, what Pi Xiong didn't know was that the situation was just urgent at that time, and Kuidong needed Baoning's grain and grass, and Baoning needed Kuidong's soldiers and horses. The two parties were also helpless, so they had to join forces, and at that time, Zhu Youdong persuaded Wen Anzhi with national righteousness, and Wen Anxia reluctantly agreed to recognize Zhu Youdong's clan identity.

Who knew what happened later, it became more and more unexpected for Wen Anzhi. In just half a year, Zhu Youdong, who integrated Kuidong, became bigger and bigger. After Wen Anzhi, who had been staying in Kuidong, found out, he had to worry about the consequences of exposing Zhu Youdong.

In addition, since Yongli was chased by the Qing soldiers and fled from the country, Wen Anzhi has been ill, and there is still energy to do these things. And now Kuidong's generals have almost collapsed by Zhu Youdong. The soldiers under the generals have also been repeatedly adapted by Zhu Youdong, and the generals have also been replaced by Zhu Youdong wave after wave.

These generals, who can still make their soldiers follow them with all their hearts, may only be Liu Tichun and Wang Guangxing, who have been staying in Kuidong, but with the strength of the two of them, there is no way to take Zhu Youdong at all. And Zhu Youdong is not blatantly saying that he wants to usurp the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youdong showed that he was still trying to save Yongli.

For a while, Wen Anzhi couldn't find a reason to expose and subvert Zhu Youdong. Other people such as Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong, He Zhen and others have now completely obeyed Zhu Youdong. basically agreed with the identity of Zhu Youdong's clan, and it was impossible for them to expose it. In this way, of course, the outside world really thinks that Zhu Youdong is a member of the Ming clan.

When Li Dingguo heard Pi Xiong's analysis, he immediately believed it. said: "No matter what, let's destroy the Qing army in front of us first." I don't know what kind of bloodline this clan he is. It is not unreasonable for Li Dingguo to ask this, after all, they were all peasant armies first, and when they rebelled, they killed a lot of the Ming clan. If you have an enmity with the Great Western Army, you will not have a good time with these old brothers in the future.

Pi Xiong did not disappoint Li Dingguo, and said: "It is said that this Pingyu Marquis is a descendant of King Xiang, and he was originally the heir of King Xiang's lineage, Zhu Changgan, King of Jinxian. He Jiuyi said: "In the Daming Sect, if there is really a capable person, the Daming country may really be recovered." But he is not only capable, but also a descendant of King Xiang, so our days can be ....... ”

He Jiuyi's words were not finished, but everyone knew what He Jiuyi meant. The emperor's ability is strong, and it will definitely be difficult to be a courtier, not to mention that after the Great Western Army broke through Xiangyang City, Zhang Xianzhong led the Great Western Army to almost kill the Xiangwang family, and only ran away from the King of Fuqing and the King of Jinxian.

As a result, King Fuqing went to Jiujiang, and finally arrived in Jiangnan, where he was awarded the title of King Xiang in the Hongguang regime. After the fall of the Hongguang regime, King Fuqing disappeared. This King Jin Xian has faded out of people's sight early, and now his heir is an outlier, and he actually saved the Ming Dynasty alive.

So there are still some scruples in the hearts of Li Dingguo and others, after all, Zhu Youdong's family was killed by Zhang Xianzhong. No one knows whether Zhu Youdong will hold this grudge in his heart, if Zhu Youdong can't let go of it in his heart, then he will not have a good impression of them, the generals who were born in the Great Western Army.

For He Jiuyi and the others' scruples, Pi Xiong didn't feel much better for a while, after all, if he said it now, Zhu Youdong didn't think like this at that time, wouldn't these people be annoyed that Pi Xiong deceived them.

Seeing that everyone had some scruples, Li Dingguo said: "Okay, now you don't have to think too much, after all, we haven't seen this clan, and the most important thing for us at the moment is to cooperate with other Ming troops as soon as possible to eliminate the Qing army in Yunnan." Then meet up with the attacking Ming army and discuss what we should do next. ”

Hearing Li Dingguo say this, it was not easy for others to entangle. Pi Xiong said: "You can rest assured at this point, it is said that this Pingyu Marquis is very good at leading troops." All the armies that he has reorganized, these soldiers are all screaming, and they are not afraid of death at all, and they don't even need to supervise the team in a big war. ”