Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 132 The Noon Offensive (22)

Si Jifa's later life trajectory is actually very simple to analyze, because after the Battle of Luchuan, Si Jifa actually did not continue to live for a long time, but soon ushered in the end of his life.

After the Battle of Luchuan, Sijifa regained control of Mengyang and established his power in Menggong City, northeast of Mengyang City. This town was once attacked by the Ming army, but later it was controlled by the Luchuan forces, and because of the simultaneous intervention of the Ava forces, it became the base camp of Sijifa.

The intervention of Ava's forces is the reason why Sijifa was able to regain control of Mengyang, and it is also the reason why Sijifa was able to gather troops to fight in Mengyang City.

Because although these historical materials do not directly explain the role of the Ava forces in the revival of the rise of Sijifa in Mengyang, they mention two points, the first point is that the Ava Dynasty also arranged its own local officials to control the Mengyang area, as the Zhaofa or city lord of Mengyang.

The lord of Mengyang here, that is, the local officials who belong to the Ava Dynasty, is not the real lord of Mengyang City, but a person with greater influence in the Mengyang area, and his actual sphere of influence is actually relatively far away from the core area of the Luchuan power, but in the area of Menggong City on the relatively margin, these places used to be far away from the most important Luchuan core area in terms of geographical location, and it is difficult to compare the prosperity of both population and economy.

But relatively, these places are not like the core area of the Luchuan Army, the core area of the Ming Army and the Luchuan Army, so they did not suffer too much baptism of war, but ensured a relatively stable environment, after the baptism of war, the situation in these places is stable, the degree of prosperity is much higher, and it can even be said that it has not been affected too much by the war.

On the other hand, because these places were originally considered the sphere of influence of the Ava Dynasty, there were people from the Ava Dynasty who managed one side, and the Ava Dynasty was nominally a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and the Burmese Propaganda Division.

Therefore, even if the Ming army once conquered these places, these places still had to be handed over to the people chosen by the Ava Dynasty to manage, and they were under the rule of the Ava Dynasty. And the turning point of Sijifa also comes from this.

After the outbreak of the Fourth Battle of Luchuan, the Ming army gathered more powerful forces than in the past, with the help of past experience, directly attacked the core area of Luchuan and the key walled city, all the way to the strong attack, Luchuan forces almost all the way to the rout.

Although Sijifa has a lot of leadership charm and organizational ability, so that the Luchuan army, which was used to resist the Ming army this time, has a lot of combat effectiveness, and the setting and arrangement of various camps also make the Ming army encounter a lot of difficulties and pay a lot of sacrifices.

However, after all, the Luchuan forces have been hit too hard in the war in the past ten years, compared with the Ming army, although the Ming Dynasty has also paid a lot of price, and the manpower operation system is close to the limit, but it can still ensure the basic manpower of the Luchuan, and the war in the past ten years has also cultivated a lot of veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, providing a lot of help to control the situation from the southwest to the Indochina Peninsula.

On the one hand, the Luchuan forces did not have the surplus of the Ming army, on the one hand, they used the capacity of the entire Luchuan region to supply the war, almost exhausting the development potential of the region, causing a lot of loss of residents and dispersion and desolation of the region, on the other hand, every time Luchuan relied on a large number of manpower to resist the attack of the Ming army.

Luchuan certainly occupies a geographical advantage, there may be a certain degree of people, but the consumption of manpower and the Ming army is not a level, every battle has to pay a much heavier price than the Ming army, and the result of the long-term maintenance of this war, is the continuous decline of the army's professionalism and military quality, although in terms of numbers can still maintain the advantage of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the protection of various towns, such as the camp around Mengyang City, has also made the Ming army pay a lot of price, and such as Jiangtou City, and even can effectively stop the Ming army's offensive.

However, the Luchuan Army itself has reached the real limit, and the veterans who once had a certain amount of war experience and military literacy are almost exhausted, and a large number of newly recruited recruits are relied on to replenish the team, and these recruits have a heavier casualty rate because of their low military literacy and lack of experience, thus forming a vicious circle.

Under this vicious circle, the Luchuan forces' control over the Luchuan area and the control system are facing collapse, and for the sake of war, Luchuan has reached its limit. Therefore, Jiang Yugang had a plan in Manggu Mountain, using the antipathy and resistance of the people of Luchuan Mountain to the Luchuan Army and mentality to drive the Luchuan Army out of Manggu Mountain.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the limit of Luchuan is the real limit, the limit of the Ming Dynasty is only the limit of a margin of margin, the limit of not hurting the muscles and bones, which is also the condition of a powerful country in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, and the limit of Luchuan is a limit in the sense of overdraft, which is actually bearing the price that they can't bear.

After Luchuan, there has never been a strong enough force in the Luchuan area, which may also be related to the continuous overdraft of the Luchuan State and the strong over-fighting of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and this overdraft is actually unable to bear the price of defeat in the war, only victory is not allowed to lose.

The people in power here are almost always a bunch of outlaws, and if they lose, they may have to pay with their lives. And in such a harsh and harsh environment, the characters who can stand out and grasp the power are also quite capable, Si Jifa is actually such a person, who can control the Luchuan forces that have been baptized by war and turmoil, on the one hand, suppress the powerful Ava, and on the other hand, confront the Eastern Continent, and may even be the most powerful Ming army in the world at this time.

This kind of thinking and wit, it really can't be said that he is not a rare talent, but even if he is a strong man with a kind of ability, he was still abandoned by the entire Luchuan force after the defeat of Mengyangcheng, and even after the defeat of the Ming army, which caused the Ming army to pay heavy casualties, and once became an abandoned son with nowhere to go.

And what shocked Jiang Yugang even more was that the Luchuan Sijia forces did indeed have other candidates for power who were not inferior to Sijifa, and at the same time that Sijifa was abandoned and fled in the Mengyang area, Sijia temporarily launched the agent Silu quickly controlled the situation south of Jiangtou City, and effectively blocked the footsteps of the Ming army.

From here, Jiang Yugang deeply felt that all the historical processes have their existing trajectories, and it is obviously just a remote corner of Luchuan that is not small, but not too big, and can have so many talents to maneuver between powerful forces on all sides, maintain the existence of Luchuan, and its strong influence on other forces.

Although he temporarily lost the support of the Luchuan forces, he was originally strictly speaking, because he lost a large number of his own descendants and important towns in the defeat of the Ming army, and it was difficult for him to have a foothold in the Luchuan forces.

Just gave up, and was not chased and killed, in fact, he already has a better way of treatment, and at the same time, Sijifa also has another important thing, that is, his name, the lord of Luchuan, the monarch of Meng Mao.

This title, perhaps except for the Ming Dynasty, is recognized by all forces, and this title is incomparably convincing in the face of the upper nobles of all other forces, or the small nobles in the lower walled cities.

Meng Mao, from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, is just a small country, but whether it is the battle with the Ming army, or relative to other forces in the Indochina Peninsula, Meng Mao, or Luchuan, has the highest status, which even the most powerful Ava Dynasty on the Ming side has to admit.

In fact, in his heart, he is also the monarch of Meng Mao and does not put the Ava Dynasty in his eyes, in his eyes, the king of Ava may be just the lord of Ava City, he should be the lord of his Luchuan, and the subordinates of the monarch of Meng Mao.

This can be seen from what happened after thinking about it. First suffered a crushing defeat against the Ming army, lost the town, lost a large number of troops and was abandoned by the Luchuan Sijia forces, the Sijia in the direction of Jiangtou City elected a new Sijia to replace the position of Sijifa, for a while, he lost almost everything except for the nominal identity of the monarch of Meng Mao and the lord of Luchuan.

In this desperate situation, Si Jifa did something miraculous, when the Ming army's attack came to a standstill in Jiangtou City, he successfully fought and won a major battle with the Ming army in Mengyang City from the direction of Indoji Great Lake, completely preventing the Ming army's goal of conquering Luchuan and regaining control of Mengyang City.

How did he do this? In other words, how did he change from the identity of a lonely man to the commander of the Luchuan army and successfully reign in Mengyang City?

This is complicated and complicated, and simple is simple, after all, the Luchuan area, to put it bluntly, is the interweaving of several nearby forces, if the Mu family is also taken into account, it is from Ah Tian's father Mu Sheng's expedition to disturb the Luchuan unfavorable beginning, the Ming began to organize a large army to conquer Luchuan, during which because of the geographical troubles, and the two major forces near the Luchuan, the Mubang Xuanwei Division and the Burmese Xuanwei Division, that is, the Ava Dynasty.

On the one hand, they don't want to disobey the orders of the Ming Dynasty and have conflicts or even wars with the Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, they are eager to take over the land of Luchuan and inherit the power of Luchuan, that is, the Meng Mao State in this place, but they are worried that the Ming Dynasty will completely conquer Luchuan, and they are worried that the autonomy they can hold will be affected by the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty.

The battle of Luchuan, which lasted for ten years, was actually not only a war between the Ming Dynasty and Luchuan, but also the impact of the complex game between various forces.

The outcome of the Fourth Battle of Luchuan is actually the ultimate embodiment of this burden, in the face of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the Ava Dynasty and Luchuan, the two forces that are on the same footing but also difficult to survive, uphold a little empathy of the lips and teeth, and finally come together temporarily.

The turning point of Si Ji Fa finally took a turn after he came into contact with the power of the Ava Dynasty, the Ava Dynasty also did not want to see the complete conquest of Luchuan by the Ming Dynasty, the Luchuan State was the master of Luchuan, but the Ava Dynasty also had local officials and other nobles who controlled part of the land of Luchuan, and if Luchuan was completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the rights of these people would also be lost.

In the face of common interests, Si Ji Fa finally came together with Meng Yang Tu Si Di Ha Bo of the Ava Dynasty, and his sons Ming Wudi and Ming Wu Suo took off the mask that had been used as an Ava nobleman to watch the war, and Si Ji Fa finally chose to come together.