Mai Yaqian, who followed cautiously, couldn't help but be surprised as Yong Jiya's gaze looked over.

"Yunnan?"

"Yes, it's Yunnan." Yong Jiya affirmed Mai Yaqian's question.

Just as Annan had an obsessive fantasy about Guangxi, so did Myanmar with Yunnan.

The Taungoo Dynasty, which was known as the strongest in Burma, revealed its coveting of Yunnan after unifying Burma.

In October of the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the then king Mang Yingli, under the persuasion of the traitor Yue Feng, sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers and war elephants to attack Yunnan in many ways.

Burma was a war that started suddenly, so it caught the Ming Dynasty off guard. During this period, seeing the great victory of Burma, the leader of Cheli Nuomeng, the leader of Mengyang Siwei, the leader of Mubang Hanfeng, the leader of Mengmi Sizhong, the leader of Manmo Sihua, Meng Gen, Babai, etc., also sent troops to support the main force of the invading army of Mang Yingli, and the size of the army of the Donghu Dynasty even exceeded the era of his father Mang Yinglong, reaching an unprecedented powerful situation.

However, although the Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period was much weaker, it was not easy to mess with.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty sent Liu Wei as a guerrilla in Tengyue and Deng Zilong as a general in Yongchang, and gathered more than 100,000 troops to attack the army in Burma.

In February of the same year, Deng Zilong fought with the Burmese army at Panzhishu and defeated the Burmese army.

In April of the same year, the Ming army attacked with victory, annihilating more than 10,000 invading Burmese troops and achieving a complete victory. Subsequently, Liu Ling, Deng Zilong and other generals led their troops from Longchuan and Mengmi, and attacked until the former Burmese royal capital Ava City, and defeated the entire Burmese army before retreating.

In the twelfth year of Wanli, Mang Yingli, who was defeated by the Ming army, led a large army to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the local Tusi Xuanwei Division and the Mubang Xuanwei Division.

When Mang Yingli attacked Mubang Xuanwei Si Meng Mi, Li Cai, the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, gathered troops in Tengchong, sent people to rescue Mengyang, Manmo and other places, and fought with the Burmese army in Shalang, breaking the elephant array in Mang Yingli, and capturing more than 5,000 people.

But Meng Mi's soldiers were defeated, and Mang Yingli's army besieged the five chapters. The Ming Dynasty rescued Gao Guochun with 500 people, and actually broke through tens of thousands of Burmese troops in one fell swoop, destroying six Burmese army camps one after another. At this point, the Burmese army was defeated, and the second Burma-China war in Mang Yingli ended in defeat.

Burma's defeat in this massive war against the Ming Dynasty resulted in the loss of large swathes of territory in the northern part of the Taungoo Dynasty, and at the same time laid the foundation for the decline of the Taungoo Dynasty.

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The minister knelt down and begged the king to think twice. At that time, the Donghu Dynasty gradually declined because of the army that attacked Yunnan, resulting in a large loss of troops. I'm going to be cautious! Mai Yaqian, who was shocked in his heart, hurriedly knelt down in front of Yongjiya and persuaded him.

Yunnan is a coveted land for Myanmar, but it is also a nightmare for Myanmar.

Even the powerful Donghu Dynasty was defeated in Yunnan, let alone the newly stable Gongbang Dynasty?

Now that Myanmar is rarely unified again, Mai Yaqian really doesn't want Yongjiya to touch Yunnan.

After all, compared to Burma, the Qing Empire was too large.

Even if the Qing Empire now has civil strife, its power is not an existence that Burma can contend with.

"What you mean, I see. However, loneliness is not reckless, and the Manchu Qing at this time is not the Ming Dynasty at that time. Yongjiya said disapprerovingly.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty was in the midst of war at this time, and it was too busy to take care of itself, and even when the Annan troops entered Guangxi, it was indifferent, let alone Yunnan, what could it do? Such a God-given opportunity, if I dare not attack Yunnan with the victorious army, then we will never be able to have Yunnan. ”

At this time, I saw that Yongjiya became more and more excited the more he talked.

"Moreover, Yunnan is only the first step. As long as we can stand firm in the land of Yunnan, we can look at the land of Guizhou in Sichuan at that time, and even learn from the Manchu Tatars, and it is inevitable that we will become the ruler of China. ”

"Entering the Central Plains?"

When he heard this, Mai Yaqian couldn't help but gasp, and his heart instantly became excited.

Thinking of the infinite possibilities of the future, Mak Yaqian even felt that his brain seemed to be completely insufficient.

Indeed, who would have thought that after the turmoil of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Tatars, who only had about 200,000 troops outside the Guan, would be able to enter the Central Plains?

If the Manchu Tatars can, why can't I, Burma?

Just like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now in constant war and chaos.

True, the Burmese invasion naturally attracted the attention of the Manchu Empire. However, compared with the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River occupied by the bandit army, the poor and remote Yunnan is insufficient.

Judging from the information obtained, the Qing Empire's anti-thief and bandit army was very strong, even no less than Burma. And in order to pacify the rebels who occupied the rich land as quickly as possible, the Manchu Qing would definitely do their best to deal with the bandit army.

At that time, a Yunnan that has no intention of sticking to it will indeed be an opportunity for Myanmar.

Thinking of this, Mai Yaqian couldn't help but admire Yongjiya's strategic vision and courage.

"Then Siam, we are going to miss this great opportunity." Mai Yaqian couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

After all, Burma has been fighting Siam for hundreds of years, and once there is a good opportunity, the Burmese are eager to destroy Siam immediately.

"Don't be so short-sighted, once Yunnan is owned by us, with the development of Yunnan's resources, will it be difficult to take Siam at that time?" Yongjiya comforted.

"Indeed, it is the minister who has not thought it through." Mai Yaqian replied.

"In a moment, I will have a decree drawn up for Luang Prabang (1) and ask him to send 2,000 troops to Burma. When the time comes, you will send them to help me watch the two thousand. Yongjiya commanded at Mai Yaqian.

"Obey the command, Your Majesty." Mai Yaqian knelt down again and replied.

"Today's events cannot be said out of your mouth, do you understand?" Yongjiya warned.

"The minister understands, he will never dare to have only the king's orders." Mai Ya said humbly.

"Get up and get busy!" Yong Jiya said.

"Obey the order and retire." After saying that, Mai Ya retreated respectfully.

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October of the 22nd year of Qianlong

Under the pretext of the border Tusi dispute, Yongjiya personally led hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the Yunnan border to launch a war against the Manchus.

Everywhere the Burmese army went, they burned, killed, plundered, and committed all kinds of evil.

In front of Yongjiya's huge army, Yunnan lost several cities in a company, and wars broke out.

The Qing-Burma War officially began.

Note (1): The Kingdom of Luang Prabang was part of the Kingdom of Lancang. The Lancang Kingdom, also known as the Nanzhang Kingdom.

In the 34th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, after the death of King Suriyawangsa, the last king of Nanzhang, there was no successor, so that the throne of the Lancang Kingdom also began to be contested.

At that time, the prosperous Lancang Kingdom was divided into four small kingdoms: Champasak, Luang Prabang, Sichuan Khouang, and Vientiane. The dismantled Namzhang soon fell, and the Kingdom of Luang Prabang became a vassal state of Burma at this time.

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