Under the more complex form of the Luchuan area, some relatively independent forces later, especially with the gradual decline of the Luchuan power after the initial battle with the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, the main form is some city lords and village lords and other forces, often choose to be superficially dependent on the Ava Dynasty, but in fact basically independent.

As long as there are no internal changes in the Ava Dynasty and there are people who want to seize the interests of these forces, these forces will basically have enough stability and will not be controlled and lose their own interests due to external influences.

It is important to note here that these forces attached to the Ava dynasty were completely independent forces in the strict sense of the word. This relationship seems complex, but it is actually driven by a very simple relationship of interests, that is, everything is for the maximization of interests.

In the end, some small forces were independent from the scope of the two at the same time as the Ming army and the Luchuan army were fighting, and were no longer controlled by the two sides, so that the power of the small forces on all sides was unprecedentedly expanded, and many small city-states appeared, and these forces with the Ava Dynasty as the master also gave the Ava Dynasty a superficial peak of power.

But in essence, these forces are not actually controlled by the Ava Dynasty, the Ava Dynasty is just an excuse for them to have a chance to break away from the influence of Luchuan and the Ming Dynasty, and the Ava Dynasty is far from being as powerful as imagined, although the territory seems to be unprecedentedly large on the surface, but the actual strength is very limited, and it has begun to be unable to effectively suppress some of the real subsidiary forces under it, not to mention some of the affiliated forces that are not originally affiliated with the Ava Dynasty, but are closer to the affiliated forces of Luchuan.

First of all, it is not an area controlled by Mengyangcheng, the core town of Luchuan in this area, and the power control of Mengyangcheng is mainly in the northwest Indoji Lake and the towns and villages in the northwest, these places are the core areas of Luchuan tradition, and because the geographical distance is relatively far away from the Ming and Ava dynasties, the degree of control by the Luchuan forces can be said to be the highest.

When the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack Luchuan, it did not intervene and affect this area too much, first of all, although this area is the core area of Luchuan, but for the Ming Dynasty, the importance of geographical location is relatively low, and secondly, because of the low status of this area in the strategic sense, there are not many troops, and there is no important defense line, so the Ming army has almost no military operations in this area, and all the strategic deployments are as far as the Indoji Great Lake, and then began to shrink to Mengyang City, The state of the Mengyang City defense line at this time was formed.

This strategic arrangement can be said to be reasonable, concentrating superior forces to quickly destroy the military strength of the Mengmao State, and then capture the main military objectives, with the intention of maximizing the efficiency of the Luchuan forces. However, there is also a certain hidden danger in this arrangement, that is, the hidden danger that finally broke out, that is, the Ming army did not invest in the strength to completely control the core area of Luchuan that could be controlled, and to a certain extent, the military mobilization ability of the Luchuan forces was retained.

The city lords of the towns and the village lords of the towns in the traditional control area of the Luchuan forces were the tasks of the Luchuan forces when they controlled this place in the past, and they were low-key at most, but because the Ming Dynasty did not send troops or other forces to go deeper, the management power of these areas did not change.

Although Si Jifa's military organization had basically collapsed in the initial defeat, his authority had been discredited, and his position in the Sijia forces had been replaced by others who had been pushed out by his clansmen, once Si Jifa did not die, and at the same time regained the trust of these traditional power lords such as the city lords and village lords, it was possible to make a comeback.

Perhaps Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji and other generals in the army completely denied this possibility, or the Ming army did not have the extra strength to support other military operations, or they still underestimated the power in the Luchuan area in the shadows they did not understand, and they could not imagine that the powerful Ming army was actually used as a pawn on the chessboard by these Ming courtiers, who were not even qualified to be courtiers.

Eventually, this potential danger broke out, and Sijifa, who had the support of Meng Yangzhao Fadi Hubble of the Ava Dynasty, re-became the commander of a large army, and once again gained trust and prestige in the vast Luchuan traditional sphere of influence northwest of Mengyang City, squeezing out the last trace of strength in this land, and in a short time gathered a huge army, ten times the number of soldiers of the Ming Mengyang garrison.

Compared with the core area of Luchuan in the northwest, the Manggu Mountain area in the southeast is much farther away from the core area of Luchuan. It seems that in terms of geographical distance, it seems that the distance between Manggu Mountain and Indoji Lake District and Mengyang City is similar, but compared with the geographical conditions of Indoji Lake Area, the geographical location of Manggu Mountain is completely different.

The vast Manggu Mountains cover and implicate a large area, but only a small part is close to Mengyangcheng and other traditional spheres of influence under the control of the Luchuan forces, and the rest is approaching the northeast and southeast.

In the northeast, because of the influence of the Ming Dynasty, and nominally subordinate to the Ava Dynasty, the actual identity is more independent Menggong area, as well as the Mengmao and Nandian areas that have been controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the southeast, is the sphere of influence of the Ava Dynasty, and there are other forces such as Mubang Control Range, these places, may have been Luchuan's sphere of influence in decades, but after many wars between Luchuan and the Ming Dynasty, Luchuan has long lost its ability to control these areas.

After the outbreak of war between the Ming army and Luchuan, it has gained a relatively independent identity, because it is the geographical conditions of the mountainous area, and there is no large-scale organization like a town, maybe the Manggu Castle established by Jiang Yugang is the closest organization to the town on the Manggu Mountain.

In addition, this area does not have the kind of too steep mountainous terrain caused by the geographical fragmentation and distribution is too fragmented, so that there is no formed resources to use, Manggu Mountain is still a relatively rich area, not to mention a large number of animal and plant resources in the mountains, there are also quite a lot of plains and river valleys in the middle of the mountains and around the mountains can be used for farming, so it also feeds the life of a population of about 10,000 people, but later under the baptism of war, more than half of the people have fled to other places, That's why the population is gradually decreasing.

Manggu Mountain has always maintained a unique relatively primitive natural form of existence, several natural large villages, with dozens of small and medium-sized villages, in fact, the concentrated resources are also considered a town, and this town is of course unable to compare with normal towns in terms of concentration, not to mention other resources such as agriculture and animal husbandry, even the most important and basic population resources are largely scattered in the villages everywhere, and the distance between villages may be the distance between ordinary towns. Therefore, there is still a lot of difficulty for organizations to take advantage of.

In general, in the absence of external forces, it is difficult for Manggu Mountain to be integrated, and the mastery of this external force is nothing more than three forces, the Ming army, the Ava Dynasty and the Luchuan army. First of all, the Ming army, the control of Manggu Mountain is of great significance to the defense of Mengyang City, which is equivalent to having a huge camp in the southeast direction of Mengyang City, this natural fortification or the effect of the defensive front, but not the fortifications or fronts created by manpower can be compared in scale, and the actual defensive effect is naturally far superior.

For this point, the Ming army did send manpower, under Bai Qianfan's arrangement, nearly half of the military strength under his command of a thousand households, a total of five hundred households with a total of about 300 troops, was ordered to establish a defense base in Manggu Mountain, and the original camp of the defense line in Manggu Mountain was also established by these soldiers who went to Mangu Mountain at the earliest.

However, because of the overall strategy and actual military strength limitations of the Ming army, there is no more manpower and resources invested in this kind of place that is of no practical significance for the control area, but for the direct conquest of the Luchuan forces and the control of their military strongholds, after all, from a long-term point of view, the establishment of a defensive line in Manggu Mountain is indeed of great significance for the defense of Mengyangcheng, but from the direct point of view, this is just an insignificant mountain forest, and even the inhabitants in it have no direct relationship with the Luchuan forces. It is impossible to invest more forces in such a place.

Not to mention the Ava Dynasty, although because of the existence of his forces, the Luchuan forces could not effectively control Manggu Mountain in the past, but it did not dare to expand rashly and cause wars, which would offend the Ming Dynasty, the relatively weak Ava Dynasty did not have the intention of fighting to the death with the Ming Dynasty, although it could not be said that it was an obedient loyal minister, and there was a conflict with the Ming Dynasty, but on the whole, it was still trying to avoid direct conflict as much as possible, and at the same time avoid conflicts, so the Ava Dynasty was also very cautious in terms of expansion.

In addition, it may be the most important point that the Ava Dynasty has no intention of controlling Manggu Mountain, even if the original power manager of Manggu Mountain is replaced by someone who may listen more to the Ava Dynasty, it is completely unknown whether these people will continue to obey the authority of the Ava Dynasty after taking power.

Finally, mastering this complex geographical location of Manggu Mountain, which is also a mountain forest in terms of geographical conditions, is not beneficial to the Ava Dynasty, but may bring unnecessary trouble because of meddling in the affairs here, so although it can communicate with the power of the Ava Dynasty through Manggu Mountain, including exchanges from the commoners to the nobility, from life to power, but the Ava Dynasty has always been in the attitude of withdrawing from this area, Instead, he put his pursuit of this area on the towns closer to the Ming Dynasty, intending to profit from the war of the Ming Dynasty and inherit what originally belonged to the Luchuan forces, so that he could naturally obtain the legal principles recognized by the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time avoid various rights struggles.

So in the end, the main object of Manggu Mountain's pursuit became the Luchuan forces, especially at the beginning of the Fourth Luchuan War, he lost his main forces, and he was eager to regain his strength and conquer Mengyang City, and Manggu Mountain could provide manpower, and Manggu Mountain itself could be used as a bridgehead to threaten Mengyang City.

Therefore, in the Manggu Mountain, a large number of battles broke out between the defending Ming army and the Luchuan army, although the scale of these battles was very small because of the strength of the defenders and the strength and strategy of the thinking force, but in this situation close to guerrilla warfare, the defenders of Manggu Castle suffered serious casualties.