After Wang Ji came to Luchuan, the form of the war did change, Bai Qianfan still did the same thing as before, and did not play a greater role in the war, but the overall trend of the war has changed a lot.

Bai Qianfan almost followed the army all the way forward in a trance, went deep into the hinterland of Luchuan, and began the journey of the expedition, this feeling and experience, he has not experienced it for a long time, the army is almost all the way to suppress and advance, the Luchuan army that once flaunted its might to the Ming army began to become vulnerable, only the part of fleeing remained, and even the basic defense could not be done normally.

Luchuan's ancestral land Mengmao was quickly controlled by the Ming army, and captured the core town of Mengyang, which was particularly important for Luchuan, and the battle in Luchuan went smoothly beyond Bai Qianfan's imagination, he almost thought that things had changed back at that time, and the Ming Dynasty had become the previous Ming army, and the Ming army had become the former Ming army.

The power of Luchuan was suppressed, and Wang Ji, the military department who led the army, was also awarded the title of Jingyuan Uncle for his merits, Bai Qianfan was excited about the arrival of such a new era, everything took a turn for the better, and the Ming army returned to its former glory and fought in the distance for the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

But things are far from being as simple as Bai Qianfan thought after the victory in the initial Battle of Luchuan, he must and has to recognize a fact, there is no such thing as turning back or starting over, all time and space are unique, everything cannot be reset, and only the people who live in it can be changed, and whether this change is good or bad is immeasurable, which is one of the most difficult things for Bai Qianfan to accept, but it is the whole truth he faces.

Now it is the orthodox year, and now he is the commander of Qu Jingwei, and the garrison general Bai Qianfan under the command of Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji.

It is not only him who has changed, the bigger change is the change of the entire time and space, which he has to admit and is forced to admit by fate.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty could go deep into the hinterland of distant forces on multiple fronts, conduct large-scale wars, launch large-scale battles again and again, and achieve victories in various senses.

But compared with the Ming Dynasty of that era, decades have passed, if Bai Qianfan knows what Jiang Yugang said in that era, it is half a century, and the current Ming Dynasty no longer has the war mobilization ability and military strength of the year.

From the generals who command the war, down to the soldiers at the bottom, as well as the overall level of military training, the level of army equipment, and the war supply capacity, including material supply and manpower reserves, are no longer the Ming of the past.

At the cost of decades of abandonment and conservatism, the current Ming army is much weaker than the Ming army in the past, and its commander-in-chief is also the person who may have the greatest impact on this army, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, is not a person with military talent, he tries to change, or simply prevent the further decline of the Ming in military terms, but he is simply unable to do it.

For Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, he just made a choice, a choice between radical and conservative strategies, he may also make other choices, and then do other things, but there is one thing he can't resist, that is, human death.

The former ancestral dragon, in order to resist death, left countless legends, which may be the source of the emperor's resistance to death, but the result is clear, that is, the objective law that everyone has to follow when dying is irresistible by manpower.

In this case, it can be said that Ming Xuanzong simply passed away, leaving behind the young Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and the ending that may not be changed.

Zhu Zhanji is like a railroad wrencher, letting the train go to another fork in the road, maybe when he made the decision to change direction, he didn't expect that the train would never return, and there would be no chance to return to the original direction, but this is what happened, the premature death of Ming Xuanzong, or rather, the premature death of Zhu Qizhen relative to Ming Yingzong, allowed Zhu Qizhen to take over an extremely difficult market, which is not something that Zhu Qizhen's talent can take over.

For a person who is technically incompetent, his father has created too much difficulty for him, which is the source of all tragedy and the end that cannot be changed.

When Bai Qianfan realized this, it was actually the Fourth Battle of Luchuan, which was one of the longest wars he had participated in in his life, and when this war had been lost and made progress, he did not expect that this war would last so long, and he did not expect that the Luchuan Army would be so tenacious and able to fight a continuous war against the huge Ming Dynasty with almost no actual territory under its control.

In fact, in a sense, as a pure soldier, Bai Qianfan can't understand the tenacity of the Luchuan army, but it is normal, because the war between Luchuan and Daming is only a superficial embodiment, if it is really that simple, the battle between the Luchuan forces and the Ming Dynasty, then the war should have been in the second battle of Luchuan, and Wang Ji of the military department led the troops to win, and it should have ended when the Luchuan forces were broken.

The reason why Luchuan was able to hold out for so long was actually because the Ming Dynasty relied on its military might to achieve the collapse of the ruling order of the vast area of the Indochina Peninsula, from Cochin to Ava, and then to Luchuan, and the surrounding forces wanted to get out of the control of the Ming Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, they wanted to try to get the opportunity to change the rules, and the final result was that the rear of Luchuan was closely protected, and the manpower was continuously replenished, and the Ming Dynasty, whose military strength declined, showed a declining trend in the frontal war of attrition.

This is a helpless thing, for onlookers, what he gets is a sense of powerlessness, but for Bai Qianfan, who is in it, it is not just a matter of helplessness, in the long war of attrition, his troops have suffered serious casualties, even if he can return victorious in this war, maybe the guard will not have a chance to really recover. This level of casualties was devastating for him, and a large number of deaths from low-level soldiers to hundreds of households and thousands of officers required him to spend a long time to recover, and it was impossible for him to return to the sequence of war to participate in the battle in a short time.

This is not what makes Bai Qianfan feel desperate the most, the thing that really makes him desperate is that even in this case, he has taken on the important and dangerous task of guarding Mengyang City as a relatively independent elite force with no background.

Originally, this kind of task should be taken care of by the troops of other higher-ranking generals, or allocate more troops and troops to be responsible, but because of the excessive consumption of the early war, let alone a commander like Bai Qianfan, even the commander of the capital who is the supreme leader of the capital division has been killed, and there are simply not enough troops and manpower to be responsible for defense.

On the other hand, because of the complex intertwining of the forces of all parties in the hinterland of Luchuan, in order to ensure that the war can continue to advance and not be hindered by the forces of the Ava Kingdom, and to arrange enough troops in front, Bai Qianfan took on the defense task of Mengyang City in this situation, which cannot but be said to be a helpless move, and it is also a huge disaster.

In history, it was the Mengyang garrison that lost Mengyang City, and under the unexpected surprise attack, the strategic arrangement of the Ming army completely collapsed. Although it may be difficult to imagine that the main force was destroyed, and Sijia launched a new agent to replace Sijifa's power, Sijifa was able to gather such a large force to complete the counterattack.

But from the very beginning, such an important place as Meng Yangcheng should not be managed by just a garrison, although this garrison is the absolute elite of the Ming army, in charge of a total number of more than 10,000 troops, and its own troops are also veterans who have been fighting in the Luchuan area for many years, but in the end, the military rank is too low, and the number of troops that can be controlled is still too small, which eventually leads to strategic defeat.

For this defeat, Bai Qianfan is the most complete and direct witness, if there is no Jiang Yufu's existence, maybe in the battle of Mengyangcheng, Bai Qianfan is just a fool in the end, losing and dying in vain.

But because of Jiang Yu's crossing, Bai Qianfan got important information about this war in advance, and came to the battlefield in a more direct way, and even directly led the troops to Biluzhai at the front line.

Bai Qianfan's reason for doing this is actually very simple, after discussing with Qu Jingwei's commander and commander, he finally decided to take Bi Luzhai as his most important line of defense, and accepted the advice from his newly promoted and trusted subordinate, Jiang Yugang, a hundred households in Manggu Mountain.

In fact, he made this decision with many references, the most important three considerations:

The first point is the actual defensive ability of Bilu Village and Mengyang City, although the city wall of Mengyang City is tall and solid, and it seems to be solid compared to Bilu Village, but because of this, it is also because of this that medium-range weapons such as firecrackers cannot achieve the effectiveness of the target, and they must rely on artillery to defend, and the safe use distance of firearms is closer than the defense of Biluzhai, so on the contrary, in Biluzhai, the power of firearms can be more fully exerted, and at the same time, the number of soldiers who are already at a disadvantage can be fully utilized;

The second point is the problem of the defensive front, the defense line of Mengyang City is not a defense line built under Mengyang City, but a defense line that extends out and is built in the towns and camps around Mengyang City, making full use of these defense lines that are far away from Mengyang City, and can intercept the enemy at a distance from Mengyang City, exchange space for time, prevent the fall of Mengyang City, achieve this most important goal, and at the same time wait for the support of reinforcements. As long as Mengyang City has not fallen, after the arrival of reinforcements, it will be able to rely on Mengyang City and the enemy army to carry out a defensive war of attrition, so that it can also maintain the initiative, on the contrary, if you fight directly under Mengyang City, once Mengyang City is breached, it is possible to fall immediately, so that not only do you have to face the collapse of the defense line, but even if the reinforcements arrive, your own side has lost the initiative, but the Luchuan Army can connect other rear towns with Mengyang City as the core to complete the encirclement of the Ming army. Therefore, from this point of view, even if there are not enough troops to defend the various branch defense lines, they cannot abandon these defense lines and concentrate all their forces in Mengyang City;

The third point is Bai Qianfan's trust and expectation of Jiang Yugang, Bai Qianfan is actually a relatively old-fashioned, old-style soldier who takes victory in the war as the greatest pursuit, he is in the orthodox years of Yingzong, but the pursuit of people is still alive in the Yongle period of the glory of the Ming army, and he has always seen his troops suffer losses and gradually decline, after seeing Jiang Yufu defend Manggu Mountain, and stabilize one side, and raise thousands of troops, he has regarded him as one of his most powerful subordinates, and it is far beyond his expectations for others.