After listening to Pi Xiong's words, the generals present were immediately unconvinced. Wu Zisheng said: "King Qianyang, what he said is a bit too much, there is still a team in this world, and the soldiers can not die when they go to the battlefield by themselves?" Even the real Manchuria of the Manchu Qing did not dare to say this. ”

Qi Sansheng also said: "That is, if there is really such an army, the world will not be Ming Dynasty long ago, where is there anything to do with the Qing court." Although Li Dingguo didn't care about it in his heart, he saw that everyone was crowding the bear. Immediately said: "What are you arguing about?" If you are not convinced, wait for a few days, after defeating the Qing army, everyone will come together, won't everything be understood? Anyway, they're not far away from us now. ”

Bai Wenxuan said: "King Jin is right, we also have to prepare well, don't meet when the time comes, although they didn't say so well, but our soldiers here are weak, then we really don't have the face to compare with them." Suddenly, several other people said: "Yes, we must not let them look down, even if they are people from Kuidong, they were also soldiers and horses under King Chuang before, and we are the subordinates of the Eight Great Kings, and we must not be compared to them." ”

After this discussion and understanding, everyone also somewhat diluted the pessimism brought about by Yongli's murder. Now that Pi Xiong praised the good of the Restoration Army, everyone suddenly aroused their competitive spirit, and immediately shouted that they wanted the Restoration Army to take a good look at the heroic demeanor of the officers and men of the Great Western Army.

Everyone came out of the big tent in the chaos, and Pi Xiong saw that Li Dingguo had also eased up, and said: "King Jin doesn't have to worry too much, when he was in Kunming, Zhang Zuochen told me that the Marquis of Pingyu had a family affair. Li Dingguo suddenly misunderstood, and thought that Pi Xiong was afraid that his status would be shaken, so he thought that he wanted to kiss Zhu Youdong. Suddenly said: "I, Li Dingguo, am loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and I can learn from it every day." If this Pingyu Marquis can't tolerate me Li Dingguo, I should just leave, how can I use the affairs of my children to flatter him. ”

After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he didn't wait for Pi Xiong to explain, and got up directly and walked out of the big tent. Li Dingguo was sick twice in a row, and both of them were serious illnesses that hurt the fundamentals, and his body was already weak. Now that he has just recovered, he forced himself to walk out, and suddenly felt that his whole body had no strength. But Li Dingguo still walked out step by step and firmly.

Looking at the stubborn Li Dingguo, Pi Xiong admired Li Dingguo's loyalty to Daming, and at the same time smiled bitterly at Li Dingguo's misunderstanding. But I didn't explain anything, and this misunderstanding didn't matter, and when everyone got together, it would be good to talk about it.

With the news of the Restoration Army's attack on the Qing Army, Li Dingguo, who had been defeated by the news of Yongli's death, reluctantly recovered his vitality. Although Li Dingguo's spirit is still not very good, at least he is no longer as hopeless as he just heard the news of Yongli.

Deng Kai was also placed, and Deng Kai's mood improved slightly after this venting. Then in the following time, Li Dingguo and others led the army to actively prepare for the war, preparing to start a counterattack on the Qing army.

The morale of the army is also rising, and it seems that for a time the Qing army was attacked on all sides. Soon the Qing army will be wiped out, and everyone will return to Kunming.

Waiting for Li Dingguo to arrange for Wu Sanxing and He Jiuyi to take the army, set off from Meng Lian, and traveled all the way around the mountain. When He Jiuyi and the others arrived in Mengmeng, the Qing army along the way was indeed panicked. Seeing He Jiuyi's troops, many of them did not resist and fled directly. This made He Jiuyi's army even more morale-boosting, and He Jiuyi himself was very happy, and immediately sent military information to Li Dingguo and others in the rear team, asking them to speed up the march.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, He Jiuyi had already led the army to Mengmensi. This Qing army was originally stationed here, and it was the general of Wu Sangui's department, and the 3,000 troops led by Liu Wei were stationed. He Jiuyi did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and sent several waves of sentry spies in a row. As a result, the sentry came to report that there was no Qing army in the city at all, and the people came and went freely, and no one cared about it at all.

He Jiuyi didn't dare to be careless, and took a look at the city by himself, and the result was not bad at all with what the sentinel said. He Jiuyi immediately asked people to ask the local natives. The native said: "General, the Qing army left three days ago. I heard that it was going to war, and the Han army came to the north again, and the Qing army did not dare to delay, so they left directly. ”

The soldiers sent into the city by He Jiuyi also came back and said, "General, there is not a single Qing army in the city, not even the camp where the army is stationed, all of them are gone. He Jiuyi was immediately relieved when he heard this.

It's not that He Jiuyi is careless, but in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, this is a place that Yunnan Province can effectively control. Only Yunnan Prefecture, Dali Prefecture, Chuxiong, Yao'an, Lin'an, Yongchang and other large state capitals, and other nine places such as Mengmian and Menglian are all Xuanwei Division. In addition, there are Menggen, Mengding and other fetters, and others such as Xinhua, Nandian, Weiyuan and other places have no fixed boundaries at all, only know the approximate location.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can't control this place at all, these places are just local toasts or leaders, and they admit that they are the places of the Ming Dynasty. These people do not bear the taxes of the imperial court, nor do they listen to the dispatch of the imperial court. Whether these places can cooperate with the imperial court depends on whether the local Tusi cooperates with the imperial court.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty did not garrison troops in these places, and if the Qing army was not to pursue Li Dingguo and others, they would definitely not bother to come to these places. Now that they heard that most of Yunnan had been occupied by the Ming army again, these Qing troops were of course panicked. As soon as I heard that the situation was wrong, and the order had not been suppressed yet, the previous Manchurian masters had disappeared. As a result, these Qing troops fled to Jingdong, Chuxiong and other places.

As soon as He Jiuyi entered Mengmian City, the local Tusi came to visit. He Jiuyi inquired again, and after confirming that the Qing army had left, he was immediately stationed in Mengmian.

When He Jiuyi arranged everything, the sentry who went to investigate hurriedly came in and said, "General, the Qing army is back again." He Jiuyi was shocked, thinking that he had fallen for the ghost tricks of the Qing army and was lured into this Mengxi city. Suddenly asked, "What do you see is true?" How many people were there in the Qing army? ”

The sentinel said, "There are 3,000 Qing troops, but they are very embarrassed, and they don't look like they are trying to ambush us. He Jiuyi said: "That's not right, there were originally 3,000 people stationed here, and you saw 3,000 people coming back." That is, the Qing army that left all came back. We haven't attacked the Qing army yet, and besides, we are the front army, the vanguard. Who will run ahead of us to attack the Qing army, no, you can go and investigate in detail. ”

This sentry is unwilling, if it is really a ghost plan of the Qing army, it is not a dead end for him to go now. Busy said: "General, I think we should retreat first." If we are surrounded by the Qing army, we will not be able to leave even if we want to. ”

He Jiuyi was also a little panicked when he heard this, and just wanted to retreat to Mengmeng with the army. Hu Shundu, who had gone to arrange the camp before, came in and said, "General, now the army has been arranged. As soon as he finished speaking, he found that He Jiuyi's expression was wrong, and said, "General, what's wrong?" The Qing army has run away, and we just have to chase after it. General, why do you still look terrible. ”

He Jiuyi said: "You go to gather the army, and we go to meet the Qing soldiers." Hu Shundu said: "The general said that he laughed, where are we going to find the Qing army now, they have already run away." He Jiuyi shouted: "If you are asked to gather the army, you will go, where is there so much nonsense." I'm telling you, the Qing army is back. ”

Hu Shundu was suddenly startled and said, "This, how is it possible." I'm going to gather the army now. With that, he ran out. He Jiuyi looked at the sentry who was still waiting, and said, "Go and find out the location of the Qing army immediately, the speed at which they are marching must not be mistaken." ”

When the sentry saw that he couldn't dodge, he didn't stop immediately, so he had to beckon his team to leave. After everyone went out, He Jiuyi said to himself: "We don't just have to save ourselves now, if we don't fight two decent battles, it is estimated that there will be no place for us in the future." ”

Not long after, Hu Shundu gathered the army, and then He Jiuyi set off directly with the army. Not long after leaving the city, the sentinel who had gone to investigate came back and said that the Qing army had come this way, and the distance was only a few miles.

He Jiuyi immediately said to the soldiers: "Soldiers, there is a Qing army in front of you who has fled, they have been defeated by the army from Kunming, if we can't even defeat such a defeated army, what face do we have to live." Didn't the Ming army that let Kunming come over and look down on us all? We also want to show them that we are not easy to provoke when we start a war. ”

A few days ago, when I was preparing, it spread in the army that the Ming army from Kunming was very powerful. These people are holding back the fire in their stomachs, and now He Jiuyi said that he wants everyone to contribute, so that the Ming army from Kunming can see that they can also fight, which is related to their own face. Immediately, all the soldiers roared angrily, to make the Qing army look good, and let the friendly troops take a good look at our ability.

As soon as He Jiuyi boosted his morale, he had already seen the Qing army coming from the other side. The person who led the army on the side of the Qing army, He Jiuyi knew, was Liu Wei, the former general of Wu Sangui. He had been stationed in Mengmian before, beware of Li Dingguo's army. He Jiuyi originally thought that the Qing army had fled, but now he saw that Liu Wei had returned with the army.

The two were also enemies, and they were very red when they met, and He Jiuyi shouted: "Liu Wei, you are like a lost dog now, why don't you surrender early to save your life." When Liu Wei saw that it was He Jiuyi who was blocking the road in front of him, he scolded: "Phew, you are also worthy of your Liu Ye to surrender, and a group of subordinates are defeated." Now hiding in this barren mountain range, I don't have the shame to want you Liu Ye to surrender. ”

When the Qing troops on the opposite side heard Liu Yan's words, they also coaxed. Hu Shundu and the others on He Jiuyi's side were already furious, and immediately said: "General, order us to kill these dog-day Qing troops." He Jiuyi saw that the morale of his side was high, so he immediately stopped saying more, and said: "Liu Wei, since you don't know what to do, don't blame me for being rude, soldiers, kill this group of Qing soldiers for me, and also show our friendly troops." ”

When Liu Wei saw that the Ming army on the opposite side was charging, he was not ambiguous at the moment, and directly let a Qing army attack. It was not a wide place, with mountains on both sides, and only about 200 men could fight head-on. So there weren't many people on both sides, only about five hundred.

I heard that this was a group of defeated soldiers before, and He Jiuyi and the others thought that they could easily defeat this Qing army and then fight a big victory. Who knew that as soon as I fought, I found that it was different from what I thought before. This group of Qing soldiers is very experienced and very difficult to deal with. When He Jiuyi saw it, he just said that he would defeat this Qing army and let the friendly army see his own strength, and now in the battle of only 500 people, both sides have been deadlocked.

He Jiuyi suddenly felt a little unhappy in his heart, and said to Hu Shundu: "You go up and replace them down, defeat the Qing army as quickly as possible, and then impact the rear of the Qing army." Hu Shundu saw that his army had not been able to open the scene for a long time, and he was also very anxious, and now that he had received He Jiuyi's order, he immediately took 500 people up to replace the army that attacked before.

The Qing army on the other side saw that the Ming army had changed, and thought that they had defeated the Ming army, but they suddenly found that the Ming army here was not powerful, and the morale of the Qing army was high for a while. I had just encountered the Ming army coming to block the road, and I was still panicked, but I also settled down at this time. Even if Hu Shun led people up to attack desperately, he never broke through the defense line of the Qing army.

Hu Shundu, who was in front, was also very anxious, and now he himself was in the army. Seeing that the Qing army was tightly guarded, he immediately didn't care about anything, and after a fight. Although it was winter, Hu Shundu had already begun to sweat. But the Qing army on the opposite side didn't seem to be afraid of death now, and if one was killed, someone would immediately come up behind.

At this time, not only Hu Shun in front was a little anxious, but He Jiuyi in the back also saw that something was wrong. The tenacity of the Qing army was beyond imagination. No matter how Hu Shundu rushes and kills, he can't break through the defense line of the Qing army. He Jiuyi had to let the drummer behind him beat the war drum vigorously. Listening to the rapid sound of war drums in the rear, Hu Shun in front kept roaring, making the soldiers rush up.

Liu Wei in the Qing army's array, seeing that the Ming army just couldn't break through its own defense line, immediately pointed at the Ming army, as if he was laughing at the incompetence of the Ming army. When Hu Shundu saw it, he angrily threw the hat on his head to the ground and said, "If you are not afraid of death, come with me." Lao Tzu didn't want to believe it, he couldn't break through the defense line of the Qing army today, and immediately rushed to the front line with his own soldiers. ”

With the impact of Hu Shundu and others, the Qing army's defense line suddenly loosened. Hu Shun was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately roared angrily, and he himself did not do any defense, but only rampage in the Qing army. For a time, in the crowd of the Qing army, people turned on their backs, and other Ming troops also rushed into the Qing army formation when they saw this, and the Qing army's defense line was suddenly broken.

As soon as He Jiuyi in the back saw that the Ming army had attacked the Qing army's defense line for nearly half an hour, it was finally breached, and the army behind immediately pressed it. The Qing army was originally stirred up by Hu Shundu and others, but now when they saw that the Ming army behind them was pressed over, they immediately began to flee backwards.