In the thirteenth year of Yongli, for the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that it was a mixed blessing, first the fall of Kunming, and since then, the situation in the southwest has plummeted. Later, the restoration of Jiangnan did not fundamentally change the situation in the southwest, and even because of the deliberate blockade of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the victory of Jiangnan did not reach the southwest.

After the battle of Mopan Mountain, Li Dingguo, as the southwest pillar of the Yongli Dynasty, suffered a strategic defeat as the victor of the Qing army, and as the victor, he did not taste the fruits of victory. The victory in the battle exhausted the last elite troops, and then failed to launch an effective attack on the Qing army entering Yunnan.

After this battle, Li Dingguo's remaining people were only a few thousand, and his power was extremely embarrassed. It wasn't until He Jiuyi led 10,000 people from Guangnan to join him, and Qi Sansheng, Wei Yong and others successively led their troops to surrender, that the army's strength recovered slightly. Later, he moved the camp to Meng Lian, recruited local leaders, and cultivated and paid grain as in the mainland, in order to recuperate and regain his strength.

After a little stability, Li Dingguo successively sent more than 30 seals to the Yongli Emperor's capital, and lost contact with the Yongli Emperor. It was not until July that Bai Wenxuan came back from a defeat in the Burmese capital of Ava, and Bai and Li learned the truth of the facts, it turned out that Burma had detained Emperor Yongli, and the two decided to attack Burma to snatch Emperor Yongli. In September, the two men went to Burma separately in an attempt to regain the emperor. By November, Li Dingguo defeated the Burmese army and proposed to return the Yongli Emperor as a condition for retiring the army. However, the Burmese side's answer is still very stubborn, and it looks like it is not afraid. In the end, due to the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, coupled with the fluency of illness, the soldiers suffered heavy losses, and Bai and Li had to withdraw the army again in order to escape from Japan.

Even so, Li Dingguo still did not give up, and sent another army to try to sneak attack Ava, but was soon repelled by the Burmese army, and the imperial court was still in his hands. At this time, Li Dingguo saw that the imperial court fell into the hands of the Burmese, and he was unwilling to stay in the Tusi land on the border of Yunnan for a long time, so he was depressed for a while, and he didn't know what to do.

However, for Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others, they had to continue to resist the Qing army in the border areas of poor mountains and remote areas, and they also had to worry about the safety of Emperor Yongli in Burma.

If it is in Jiangnan and other places, it is the early spring season of the year, if it is in Sichuan and other places, this will be the golden spring flowers all over the mountains. Even in Yunnan, the spring flowers should be brilliant. But for Li Dingguo, who is located on the southwest border, because it is like summer all year round, there is no difference between four seasons, and naturally there is no spring to be seen.

Li Dingguo, who was on the riverside and personally scrubbed his war horses, occasionally looked into the distance, where the soldiers could be seen washing in the river and their laughter could occasionally be heard. Even because they were in this small and remote mountainous area, even in adversity, they still tore apart for the Han family's well-dressed and Qing captives.

Thinking of this, he thought about those soldiers who died in battle, if they knew that the army was defeated like this now, how disappointed Yu Jiuquan would be. Thinking of this, he silently prayed to the sky, praying for God's blessing, praying for the blessing of the heroic spirits under the nine springs, and blessing him to be able to welcome back the emperor.

The reason for welcoming back the emperor was not only to prevent the Burmese from colluding with the Manchus, and then handing over the emperor to the Manchus. Or is it because the emperor is the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, if this flag falls, then there will be no hope for the Ming Dynasty!

Although he was once an anti-Ming peasant army, now, he is also a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. It can even be said that it is the last mainstay of the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, Li Dingguo, who was emotional, even looked at the river with tears in his eyes, and said to himself silently there.

"If this river can enter the Yangtze River, we must bring the heart of Weichen to Emperor Gao, and Weichen will definitely swear to serve the Ming Dynasty and restore the rivers and mountains of my Han people. Emperor Gao is on the Ming Jian......"

Speaking of emotion, Li Dingguo looked full of tears, he sat by the stream, watching the river flow into the distance, as if he was thinking about whether the water could reach the Yangtze River. Can you bring her heart to Emperor Gao, and he was stunned and unconscious. He just looked at the river.

After an unknown time, suddenly he heard the guard whisper:

"Lord Wang, there are three Yunnan scholars waiting outside the camp gate to ask to see you."

There are Yunnan scholars asking to see?

Li Dingguo was slightly stunned. Because of the blockade of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was difficult for Yunnan scholars to break through the blockade line and come here.

"Is there something wrong with them?"

"They said that they had a great plan to stabilize the country and dedicate it to the prince."

A plan to stabilize the country?

What will be the big plan? Slightly stunned in his heart, Li Dingguo smiled, and then nodded silently. Then he got up and returned to the bamboo building that was not much different from the Tujia house in Yunnan, and saw that there were three scholars outside the door, all wearing robes and horse coats, and all of them had shaved their hair, his brows were slightly furrowed, although he knew that they were forced to shave their hair and clothes. But there was a faint unhappiness in his heart, but he knew that these people would never come to persuade him to surrender, let alone the three of them, even if anyone in his army dared to surrender, he would immediately order him to be beheaded. If they had heard of it, they would not dare to persuade him to surrender.

After seeing Li Dingguo, the three of them immediately bowed to him respectfully to the ground, and then said:

"Wang Wanwu and Liu Benbang, members of Kunming Mansion, met with the prince."

"Zhang Yangfeng, a member of Changsha Mansion, meets the prince!"

Changsha Mansion Students!

It's not surprising to see Kunming students here, but how far away is Changsha? As a native of Shaanxi, Li Dingguo, who has been fighting in the north and south for decades, naturally knows that from Changsha to Kunming, the road is difficult and dangerous, and he doesn't know how many risks he has gone through to come here.

So he glanced at this person a few more times, and this person's accent sounded more like a Yunnan accent. None of this is surprising. If he doesn't speak with a Yunnan accent, I'm afraid he won't even be able to break through the blockade of the Qing Army.

Although he was a little curious in his heart, Li Dingguo still invited the three of them into the door, and then asked the three of them to sit down, and then asked:

"The three gentlemen waited until now, and I don't know what to teach you?"

One of the silver-bearded elders arched his hand and said:

"Not for what we teach, but for ......"

Liu Benbang, the oldest of the three, looked at Li Dingguo, looked a little proud, and said a little excitedly.

"It's that I'm waiting to give the prince good news!"

Listening to the good news, Li Dingguo, who was slightly alert in his heart, said quietly:

"Annunciation? What's the joy of that? ”

At the time of saying this, he was even ready to kill at any time. Are they really not afraid of death? Is it to lobby for surrender?

He had even made up his mind that as long as they dared to say the word "surrender", he would immediately order someone to drag the three of them out and cut them down.

Wang Wanwu said on the side:

"Brother Changchang, don't sell it, just tell the prince the good news directly."

The persuasion of his friends made Liu Benbang dispel the idea of selling Guanzi, arched his hand, and said with a smile:

"Do you know why the Qing Dynasty has been stuck in Kunming recently?"

Hearing Liu Benbang say this, Li Dingguo remembered that in the past few months, it seems that Wu Sangui has changed his attitude of chasing after him desperately, and he no longer has the tendency to press step by step, but to watch from the sidelines. It is precisely because of this that he agreed with Bai Wenxuan to enter Burma again and force the Burmese to return to the emperor.

At first, he thought it was because Wu Sangui's army had also suffered heavy losses. Could it be that there are other reasons?

"Oh, why?"

While speaking, Li Dingguo looked at the two people who were deliberately selling Guanzi, and then turned his eyes to Zhang Yangfeng, who was speechless, and saw his calm appearance, and secretly thought to himself, perhaps, this person is the backbone of the three. Or are the three of them headed by this person?

"Because ......"

Looking at Li Dingguo, Liu Benbang continued to sell Guan Zi and said.

"Because my Ming Dynasty has not only recaptured the southern capital, but also restored half of the south of the Yangtze River!"

What the!

Li Dingguo stood up abruptly and said in surprise.

"What, what did you say?"

At this moment, he couldn't believe his ears, what did he say? What is he talking about?

"Last year, Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, led 200,000 troops to the northern expedition by sea, entered the Yangtze River from the mouth of the river, and went all the way to Nanjing, and then passed on to the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhang Cangshui, the squire of the military department, led the troops to the west, and took Jiangxi lightly, and Zhu Mingzhong was loyal to Suqian and defeated 100,000 Qing troops and 100,000 elite soldiers, and there were less than 10,000 people who escaped alive at most......"

The amazing news made Li Dingguo only feel dizzy, he never thought that he would hear such good news one day, how many years, he seems to have never heard such good news, but now this news, is it true or false?

If this news is true, doesn't it mean that this game is more beneficial to Daming?

"This ...... It's true? ”

Li Dingguo looked at Liu Benbang, and finally set his eyes on Zhang Yangfeng, he felt that this person could prove all this.

Zhang Yangfeng, who had been silent since he entered the room, saw Li Dingguo looking at his body, and he stood up and said at this time.

"In the lower Ming Jianghuai Jingluo, the loyal and righteous army is the commander of the army is Zhang Yangfeng, and I have seen the king of Jin!"

Zhang Yangfeng, who stood up, introduced his identity at the same time. While looking at Li Dingguo, he seemed to have some doubts, and then explained.

"Last year, after the victory of the envoy in Suqian, he ordered the army to send personnel to the king of Jin, to get in touch with the imperial court, and under the order of the strategy, set off in Changsha, after entering Yunnan several times after investigation, along the way fortunately I was assisted by the loyal people of the Ming Dynasty, only to find out the whereabouts of the king of Jin, and to get the help of Liu and Wang, two brothers, before entering the ...... where the king of Jin is"

Zhang Yangfeng's words seemed very calm, and in those seemingly simple words, how many difficulties and dangers were hidden, I am afraid that only he himself knew, after all, in order to cut off the contact between the southwest and southeast Ming armies, Hong Chengchou, who was the strategy of the five provinces, had strictly ordered the idle people in the interior not to enter Yunnan, and those who entered Yunnan would not be killed.

The reason why the Qing army did this was to try to make Yongli and Li Dingguo not know the situation in the southeast through the blockade of the news, and then make a miscalculation, and even shake their military morale, making them think that they were alone, and then despair, and finally surrendered without a fight. Of course, it can also make those anti-Qing forces in the interior make the same miscalculation, and this is where his viciousness lies.

In order to be able to get in touch with the southwest imperial court, Zhu Mingzhong ordered the army to send more than 30 people to the southwest as early as last year.

But because of the difficulties and obstacles along the way. Until now, only Zhang Yangfeng successfully arrived in Li Dingguo's camp, and thanks to his mother is from Guizhou, and he is good at learning languages, sometimes hidden in the mountains and forests along the way, and sometimes avoided in the horse gang, so he successfully pretended to be a Yunnan person, and arrived in Kunming safely.

How many hardships and dangers are behind the seemingly simple words, I'm afraid only he knows.

"Ah, you, you're from the southeast, but you have a certificate!"

Looking at Zhang Yangfeng with surprise, Li Dingguo hurriedly asked.

Although he himself had heard that the Qing army seemed to be defeated in the interior, the news was so messy that it was impossible to judge whether it was true or false, because the Qing army not only blocked the southwest, but also blocked the news from its own people, and it was precisely because of this that it was impossible to determine the current form. Now, the person in front of him is from the southeast, he is not only a secret envoy sent from the southeast, but more importantly, he has brought a good news that can shake people's hearts here. Let Li Dingguo immediately see hope, see the hope that he has never had.

In the past few years, he has continued to persevere, and what kind of setbacks he has suffered, he has persevered. He believes that as long as the court is there, as long as the emperor is there, there is hope for the Ming Dynasty. Because of this, no matter what kind of difficulties he faces, his heart is always full of hope. However, while he was full of hope, he was also haunted by a sense of despair. After all, the situation is getting worse day by day, but now the situation is suddenly becoming clearer. Suddenly developing in a more favorable direction for the team Daming. How could he not be excited?

"There is a slight presentation of the court under the scriptures."

When Zhang Yangfeng took out the recital, Li Dingguo's face changed slightly, and then he shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, but he didn't say anything.

Now that the imperial court is in the hands of the Burmese people, even if there is such a twist and turn, what can it do?

Just when Li Dingguo shook his head and smiled bitterly, Zhang Yangfeng looked at him and said.

"The King of Jin is worried that the emperor and the court are in Burma?"

He knows?

Looking at Zhang Yangfeng in surprise, Li Dingguo listened to him again.

"King Jin doesn't need to worry about this, before the official set off, he had a secret order from Shangfeng, my family will definitely send troops to rescue the court, if it is not bad as expected, now the reinforcements sent by the strategy should already be on the way!"

"What? Reinforcements? ”

Li Dingguo was surprised.

"Reinforcements? Where did Zhu Jinglue's reinforcements come from? ”