On September 17, the 16th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Liang Jiaqi, the chief soldier of the Chongqing Suppression Administration, sent a message to the king of Xinjun and Pingxi in Yunnan to the king of Xinjun in Yunnan that the Ming army was attacking Chongqing, and asked for reinforcements to rescue. In just five days, Doni, who was in Kunming, received Liang Jiaqi's military report.

Doni convened the generals to discuss, and Doni said: "Now Liang Jiaqi, the chief soldier of the Chongqing Suppression and Pacification Bureau, has sent someone to send a military report, saying that a group of Ming troops are now sending troops to attack Chongqing, and they want us to send troops back to help, what do you think?" Gushan Ezhen Yierde said: "These demoted officials are cowardly, last year and the beginning of the year, didn't Li Guoying also exaggerate and say that Kuidong's traitors attacked Chongqing?" Later, it was not easy to be beaten back. I don't think there's anything to be afraid of, it's just a bunch of rogues. ”

At this time, Hong Chengchou also said: "Now the land in the middle of the river, after several encirclements and suppressions by my Qing Dynasty, has been barren. Even if these rogues occupy Chongqing, when our army returns, they can be wiped out. Our current enemies are Yongli and Li Dingguo, as long as they are exterminated, others do not have to worry. What's more, we have already obtained accurate information, and the father and son of Na Song in Yuanjiang Mansion contacted Gao Yingfeng, the chief soldier, Zhu Yangen, the pseudo-Yanchang Bo, and Xu Mingchen, the chief soldier of Shiping, and Tuguan Long, who praised Tusi for raising troops and rebelling. If we can't exterminate it immediately, now that Yunnan is in Xinding, I am afraid that the people everywhere will be unstable, which will be very unfavorable to our extermination of Yongli and Li Dingguo. ”

Wu Sangui also nodded and said: "Lord Wang, the most important thing now is to stabilize Yunnan, if the war in Yunnan repeats, we don't have much grain and grass now, which will greatly increase the risk of transporting grain in our rear." And now, after years of war, there is no food to be pumped out. Although Wu Sangui is also a prince, he does not dare to be presumptuous in front of Doni, a boy in his twenties. Doni is the Manchu prince of the entire Eight Classics, what are you a slave prince, so Wu Sangui said very carefully, knowing that all parts of the country were due to the Manchu burning, killing and looting, but he didn't dare to say it clearly, so he had to vaguely say that it was caused by the war.

Everyone here knows what's going on, but the Han people don't dare to say it, and the Manchu people don't care. So everyone skipped this reason directly, and Zhuo Butai said: "Then what are you waiting for?" Directly sent troops to kill all the rebellious barbarians in Na Song, didn't they all say yesterday that Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo would lead the army to exterminate those rebels in Na Song? Why did you suddenly receive a letter from Chongqing and stop calling? ”

Doni actually didn't care about Chongqing, mainly because he was young and had never experienced a battle, and he didn't know what to do when he found out that it was a military situation, so he reluctantly summoned everyone to discuss it. After all, he is the son of Duoduo, the prince of Heshuo Deyu, although Duoduo's title is very high, but this thorn in Dorgon's heart is in Shunzhi's heart. Doni didn't want to get the credit for destroying the country, but he was caught by Shunzhi, and he didn't fall well when the time came.

Now I heard that everyone's intention was not to save Chongqing, and immediately said: "Okay, then we will first solve Na Song, Yongli and Li Dingguo, and then return to deal with Chongqing." At this time, Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun, said: "Although we don't need to focus on Chongqing now, but Chongqing is a strategic city after all, I think it is better to send 3,000 soldiers and horses to rescue." If Chongqing is fine, let these 3,000 people be stationed in Chongqing to strengthen Chongqing's defenses, so that Chongqing will not be worried about the traitors every day, and the local officials will send letters asking for help from time to time. ”

Hong Chengchou said: "King Pingjun is thoughtful, anyway, now Yongli has gone to Burma, Li Dingguo is only surviving in the western Yunnan area, and 3,000 soldiers and horses have no impact on the overall situation." Zhuo Butai said impatiently: "Then send 3,000 people, lest the guards of Chongqing beg for help crookedly all day long, you Han barbarians are hypocritical, and we are not full of people at all." ”

Zhuo Butai's words were a bit widespread, but the Manchurians present didn't care, although the Han people were sad, but who called them slaves now, and no one dared to object, even Wu Sangui, who was named the king of Pingxi, did not dare to speak out, because he surrendered Dolgon, and when Dolgon was liquidated, if he didn't have some military merits and troops in hand, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to live at that time.

Doni thought for a while, and said to Wu Sangui: "Okay, let your hands drop and bring Guo Li Ai back to Chongqing with 3,000 soldiers and horses." Wu Sangui knew that this was because Doni saw that he had surrendered too many soldiers and horses, and wanted to weaken his own troops, so he didn't dare to oppose immediately, so he had to agree.

Then Doni said: "Since we don't care about Chongqing for now, let's destroy Na Song as soon as possible, and then destroy Yongli and Li Dingguo." This is Hong Chengchou said: "It is difficult to exterminate Li Dingguo, but it is actually very simple to destroy Yongli." ”

Doni also knew that Hong Chengchou was a five-province scripture, and his position was bigger than himself, so he said, "Hong Jingluo will talk about it in detail. Hong Chengchou said: "Just last month, under the pressure of my Qing Dynasty, Myanmar has completely isolated Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others to take back the possibility of Yongli, and at present, Yongli in Myanmar can not get any help, it can be said that it has reached the point of exhaustion, if I put pressure on the Burmese authorities again, I believe that the Burmese authorities will not dare to do unnecessary resistance, and now the younger brother of the king of Burma Mang Bai is very coveted the position of the king, if the current king is not willing to act, we can provoke Mang Bai to launch a coup d'état, Then kill Yongli in exchange for our support for him. ”

Zhuo Butai glanced at Hong Chengchou and said secretly: "This old thing is worthy of being an old fox, and such a vicious plan can be said." He immediately said: "This matter is okay, if Mang Bai can kill Yongli, I will support him as the king in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Doni also said: "Yes, I will write to the king of Burma, asking them to hand over a gang of Yongli to me as soon as possible, and if he is unwilling, we will encourage Mang Bai to stage a coup d'état." Then Doni looked at the crowd again: "Tomorrow, Zhuo Luo will lead the other half of the Manchurian Eight Banners Army and Wu Sangui's headquarters from Kunming, and go to Yuanjiang through Tonghai County to conquer Na Song and other traitors. The crowd immediately answered.

The next day, Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo set out with a large army to conquer Yuanjiang Nasong. In just five days, the Qing army arrived at Qujiangyi in Lin'an Prefecture, Xu Mingchen and Long Zanzansaw that the Qing army was strong, with nearly 100,000 troops, and the two did not dare to fight and had to withdraw to Yuanjiang.

Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo did not take much effort to lead their army all the way forward and occupy Shiping Prefecture on the third day of October. Originally, at the end of July, Na Song and others openly opposed the Qing Dynasty, and the Tusi in various places responded one after another, while Xu Mingchen and others attacked everywhere. Xu Mingchen directly captured Shiping Prefecture and stationed there. Na Song and others also captured Mengzi and other places and occupied the entire Lin'an Mansion, but when the Qing army came out of Kunming to crusade, Na Song and others seemed to have been frightened by the Qing army, and directly gave up the passes along the way and retreated all the way. I only knew that the turtle was shrinking in Yuanjiang Prefecture and did not dare to fight.

On the twelfth day of October, Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo came to Yuanjiang with a large army, and Na Song and others hurriedly turned around in Yuanjiang City, and Na Song said: "You can have a way, now that the Qing army is 100,000 soldiers in the city, what should we do." Na Song's son Na Tao said: "Father is afraid that he will do what the Qing army will do, we will just go out of the city to meet the battle, why do you need to be in a hurry here." ”

Na Song shouted: "What do you know, the Qing army has 100,000 troops, and there are more than 10,000 Manchurian Tatar soldiers, we only have 10,000 soldiers and horses, isn't this a sheep into the tiger's mouth?" At this time, Xu Mingchen said: "The governor, if we blindly defend, I am afraid that the morale of our army will not be good, and we still have to find a way to frustrate the enemy's spirit to be conducive to our defense." ”

Tuguanlong praised: "I don't know if the King of Jin will come to meet us, if there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of us, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the attack of the Qing army." Zhu Yangen had already surrendered once, and now how could he say surrender, and immediately said: "So we can only fight to the death, now why not take advantage of the situation when the Qing army has just arrived and has an unstable foothold to rob the camp, and it can also frustrate the enemy's spirit." ”

Gao Yingfeng, the chief soldier, also said: "If we really just blindly defend Yuanjiang City, I'm afraid it won't last long, so it's better to go out of the city first to attack the Qing army and defeat the Qing army." In this way, our morale will be greatly boosted, and we will be more sure that we will defend the city. ”

Na Song saw that everyone agreed to fight, and Na Song didn't want to be trapped in this Yuanjiang City. Then he said: "Okay, since everyone agrees, we will immediately go out to attack the Qing army camp." Immediately, the crowd gathered more than 4,000 soldiers, went out from the west gate, and went straight to the camp of the Qing army.

Wu Sangui led his troops to fight for decades, how could he not be prepared for the move of robbing the camp, seeing that the Ming army in the city went out of the city to rob the camp, he immediately let the general Yang Wei, Ma Weixing, Ma Bao, and Ta Xince lead the army to fight. These people were originally Ming generals, and when they met in such a situation, everyone had a taste in their hearts.

Xu Mingchen saw that it was Ma Weixing, and immediately said: "Xuguo Gong, I treat you very well, why do you want to be the one who surrendered now." Ma Weixing was speechless for a while when he saw Xu Mingchen, and he was embarrassed, and said: "General Xu, now that the Qing army is strong, the emperor fled to Burma without knowing life and death, and the king of Jin was also defeated in western Yunnan. Why struggle in vain? We have accompanied Daming to this point, which can be regarded as loyalty to Daming, and now it is time to think about ourselves. ”

Xu Mingchen said angrily: "You are a dignified prince, how can you say such a thing, the emperor went to Burma, but the emperor is still there, the king of Jin was defeated, but the king of Jin is still fighting against the Qing in western Yunnan." Are you in such a hurry to be a dog for the Tartars? Xu Mingchen's words are ugly, this is to scold the people who surrendered, no matter what the reason.

Yang Wei on the side saw that Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo kept looking this way, and said angrily: "Everyone, since you have recently surrendered, what do you want to do with this?" If we don't do it now, will we be able to survive when we return to the camp? ”

At this time, Ma Weixing and the others also found that Wu Sangui and Zhuo Luo were staring at this side, and they didn't know what to say immediately, but just shouted at Xu Mingchen and the others: "If you want to accompany the funeral of Daming, we have no choice but to be polite." Ma Weixing, Ma Bao and Ta Xince drew their knives and killed Xu Mingchen and others directly, and Gao Yingfeng and Zhu Yangen and others, who were out of the city here, had to lead troops to resist.

Originally, it was a good thing to rob the camp, but it turned out to be a battle between the two armies. Originally, they were both generals and troops of the Ming Dynasty, but now they were divided into two teams to fight outside Yuanjiang City. Zhuo Luo watched from a distance and said happily: "That's right, let these southern barbarians kill each other, and when they have fought enough and have no strength, we will go up and cut off all their heads directly." ”

Wu Sangui originally wanted to organize these troops under his command, but before he could make a move, Na Song rebelled in Yuanjiang. This interrupted his plan to take in, and now he also hated Na Song, and immediately said: "Yes, these toasts, as long as they still have soldiers in their hands, they will definitely not settle down, and only by letting them consume their troops first can they keep the southwest peaceful forever." ”

Xu Mingchen and others wanted to attack the Qing army's large array, disrupt the Qing army's formation, and have the effect of frustrating the enemy's spirit. However, Ma Weixing and others, who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in order to gain a firm foothold in the Qing army's camp, would let Xu Mingchen and others succeed, and for a time the two sides were outside Yuanjiang City, desperately rushing to kill.

The soldiers on both sides saw that the main general was desperate, and they all sacrificed their lives to attack. For a time, outside Yuanjiang City, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the number of casualties continued to expand. Na Song in the city saw that he didn't rob the camp when he went out of the city, but now he fell into a stalemate with the Qing soldiers, and saw that the Qing army had signs of sending troops. Busy in the city Mingjin to collect troops, Xu Mingchen and others could not break through the defense of Ma Weixing and others, but their own sergeants were injured a lot, and now Songmingjin had to return to the city.

Ma Weixing and others had just surrendered, and they were already a little uncomfortable in their hearts when they fought with Xu Mingchen and others, but now when they saw Xu Mingchen and others collecting troops and returning to the city, they immediately did not chase after them, and returned to the Qing army camp with the army. I, Wu Sangui, saw that a few people came back better, and said with a smile: "A few generals bravely defeated the enemy army, congratulations, I should write down the merits of several generals, and when I put down the rebellion of Na Song, I will return to Kunming to reward them together." ”

Ma Weixing and the others immediately said: "The last general and others just did their duty, and they didn't dare to call it meritorious." Wu Sangui was still comforting a few people, but Zhuo Luo said: "A group of waste, with thousands of people and horses, can't even defeat the other party's 4,000 people, and let the family go back intact, it's really a shame." I think you are just perfunctory and refuse to serve my Qing Dynasty. When I return to Kunming this time, I will settle accounts with you. ”

Ma Weixing and the others immediately felt panicked when they heard this, but now that they were under the eaves, they had to bow their heads, and they had to swallow their anger and dare not speak.