Chapter 37: Forced Battle

Shi Jing was not completely satisfied with Meng Ying's statement.

But Meng Ying explained more.

In Meng Ying's view, Wang Ji may not be reliable. After all, between the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War of the Five Armies, there have been many exchanges and grievances for decades, and the grievances and grievances are entangled, which cannot be clearly explained in one or two sentences.

In case Wang Ji has other thoughts, the Mu family's local roots in Yunnan are not something ordinary people can imagine. Leak it to Luchuan in advance.

Meng Ying is in danger.

This kind of life-and-death matter must not be pinned on other people's discipline.

Of course, Meng Ying didn't always want to hide from Wang Ji, after Meng Ying took 30,000 people out of the city, Wang Ji also got Meng Ying's book.

Meng Ying entrusted the rear affairs of Kunming to Wang Ji.

Because at this time, even if Wang Ji has a small move, it will be too late.

Because Meng Ying does not move, she moves like thunder.

From Kunming to Jingdong, the distance is 300 miles in a straight line. It's just that the mountain road is winding, and it will add one or two hundred miles. Meng Ying led the team to the forefront.

This veteran general, who is in his fifties, took the lead and completed the more than 400-mile road in three days.

After climbing countless mountains and crossing two rivers, I finally stopped at the foot of Wuliang Mountain.

From Wuliang Mountain to the south, only one or twenty miles is Jingdong City.

Wuliang Mountain is Mengle Mountain in later generations, the mountain is steep, the mountain is high and dense. Meng Ying has already been arranged in the mountains.

All the rest of the 30,000 soldiers, but it is still possible.

It's just a little too close to the Luchuan military camp. It's only about ten miles away.

That is, there are few cavalry in Yunnan, and the scouts have no horses, and the distance to explore is quite limited. As a result, the scope of external exploration has also been reduced a lot because of the mountain.

But Meng Ying also knew.

Si Renfa is not a waste, and the signs of the army in the mountains may not be found in a day or a night. But after a long time, the plan can't be hidden.

So, there wasn't much time left for him.

Meng Ying summoned all the generals and said: "Rest in the mountains tonight, tomorrow on the first day of April, I will take the cavalry to attack the Luchuan main formation, and you will follow me to fight, and when you see where my banner is, you will fight wherever you want, and dare to fight against those who dare to look behind." ”

"Yes." The generals said in unison.

Meng Ying said: "Then take a good rest." ”

Meng Ying is a veteran of the war, and he will rest when he says he will rest, but the people around Meng Ying are not good, especially Meng Ying's sons.

The eldest sons, Meng Jun and Shi Jing, were guards by Meng Ying's side, and they were even more apprehensive in their hearts.

After all, with 30,000 people, against more than 100,000 people in Luchuan, not everyone can be as peaceful as Meng Ying.

It was easy to fall asleep, but after a few hours of sleep, I faintly heard movement

, but the sky was bright, and Meng Ying had already gotten up.

Shi Jing and Meng Jun immediately got up, and Meng Jun called Meng Ying for washing her face and brought breakfast.

The so-called breakfast is a rice ball. There are also quite a few long strips of dried meat.

These rice balls and dried meat are all prepared in advance, and it can be said that no bite is hot. However, Meng Ying had long been used to it, and she finished eating three times and five divided by two.

Then he took Meng Jun, Shi Jing and more than a dozen other personal guards, and walked over in groups. Meng Ying is like an old pawn, without a little general's style, no matter which soldier can have a sentence or two, what a nonsense, third-rate words, blurted out, where he passed, these soldiers who were originally a little nervous suddenly relaxed.

The solemn atmosphere before the war seems to have dissipated a lot.

Meng Jun then asked, "Father------"

Meng Ying immediately reprimanded him and said, "There are no fathers and sons in the army, they are called generals." ”

Meng Jun immediately said: "Yes, General, now that my army has just arrived, the enemy army is unprepared, why don't you attack at night?" ”

Meng Ying said: "The army can't be in Yunnan for a long time, show its authority, there is nothing easier to demonstrate than to defeat more than 100,000 people in Luchuan with 30,000 people." ”

"Besides, there are too many uncertain factors in the night battle, it is easy to defeat the enemy, and it is difficult to break the thief's courage, what I want is to make the thief break his courage."

Meng Ying saw that the time was almost up, an order, suddenly the horn sounded, the drums shook the sky, the Ming army was divided into three parts, Meng Ying took the cavalry of the headquarters, and appeared on the slope of the south of Wuliang Mountain in the morning light, and the Ming army behind was all foot soldiers, and they also walked neatly, and there were countless flags in the mountains, which made it impossible to tell for a while, how many Ming troops came.

The sudden appearance of Meng Ying's department immediately shook the entire Jingdong battlefield.

Meng Jun felt his blood boiling for a while, and with his compatriots in the army, he had a kind of confidence in saying it, as if between heaven and earth, no one could stop them.

The Luchuan military camp in Jingdong City is already in chaos at the moment.

The so-called one drum is angry, two is declining, and three is exhausted.

Si Renfa took the men and horses of his headquarters to besiege the city for more than half a month, and large-scale attacks were almost every day, but Luchuan was much worse than the Ming army in terms of defending the city.

Although Mu Ang only had more than 20,000 remnants in his hands, he encouraged the people of Jingdong to go to the city with all men, young and old.

And Jingdong is not anywhere else.

It is the place where the foundation of southern Yunnan is located, and the place where the Ming Dynasty has been operating in southern Yunnan for the longest time, it can be said that in this place, most of the Han people are military.

Many people are no strangers to fighting wars.

Speaking of which, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, Yunnan has not been calm for several years.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty determined the rule of Jingdong, and before twenty years was the Battle of Annam, Yunnan was one of the directions to send troops.

After the withdrawal of troops from Yunnan, Luchuan rose again.

The people have been in battle for a long time, and they are used to it

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With the prestige of the Mu family, as long as Mu Ang is not a fool, he can stay for a while. Facts have proved that although Mu Ang is not a general, he still has basic military qualities.

So in the past ten days, although there have been heavy casualties, Jingdong City has been in danger several times. But it always thwarted Luchuan's attack.

At the same time, Luchuan couldn't move.

There are three reasons why it can't be moved.

One is that too many people have died.

The headquarters of Luchuan is about 100,000, and Si Renfa naturally refuses to let the headquarters attack the city, especially when he knows that the Ming army is defending the city strongly.

As a result, most of the toasts who had just surrendered to Luchuan became forwards. Luchuan headquarters is just pressing.

However, in the past ten days of attack, these Tusi headquarters have lost tens of thousands. Every toast is broken. These toasts began to connect with each other, and they refused to contribute.

Si Renfa also turned a blind eye.

Speaking of the war between Daming and Luchuan, the biggest loss so far is neither Daming nor Luchuan, but these toasts between Daming and Luchuan.

Second, there are not enough materials.

Luchuan is not the Ming Dynasty after all, even if the Ming Dynasty is in a disaster year, although it is a little difficult to support the army, it can still hold on through gritting its teeth.

But Luchuan can't.

Although He Wenyuan said that Luchuan is just a county, it is a bit too much. However, the headquarters of Luchuan is only more than 1 million people, and an army of 100,000 has been organized, and the financial consumption of Luchuan has been very huge since last year.

The accumulation of more than 40 years of Luchuan Sijia is rapidly depleting.

Moreover, Luchuan Sijia could not see the end of this war, so he intensified the exploitation of other toasts to share the expenses.

But these toasts don't have much food, and they can support the Luchuan army for how long under Jingdong City.

The third reason is that Si Renfa is worried that the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming.

Although Si Renfa had also heard of the contradiction between Meng Ying and Mu Ang before, Si Renfa was not a fool, nor was he a person who didn't know anything about Da Ming.

He grew up in Mu's family when he was a child.

He also knows a lot about the internal situation of Daming, and he knows more about what kind of existence the Mu family is.

Therefore, he didn't think that Meng Ying would really die without help.

He thought that the Ming army would definitely come to the rescue, but he didn't know when.

It's just that he never expected that almost as soon as he woke up, he didn't know when the reinforcements of the Ming army would come, and they had already come outside the camp.

For a while, he had countless questions in his mind, who was the leader of the army, how many people were there, and how would the city react? But when he knew the reaction of the various Tusi, he immediately pressed all his thoughts, because he had no choice but to fight a battle with the Ming army. And this battle must be won.