"What do you say? Say it again? Mu Ang said excitedly to the Tanma in front of him.

"General Mu, as far as you can see, there are no soldiers and horses around Ren'an Qiang City." Tanma, who was kneeling on one knee in front of Zhu Yan, turned sideways and said to Mu Ang.

Mu Ang still didn't believe it, so he called several other probes over and asked them individually, but the results were the same.

"It seems to be true, the Bago people have withdrawn." Zhu Yang said.

"It seems to be true." Mu Ang said: "So many Tanma have reported that there are no soldiers and horses outside the city of Ren'anqiang. ”

"But I still can't believe it, the day before yesterday, the Tanma sent to report that there were at least 50,000 troops under the city of Ringanqiang, not only surrounded the city on three sides, but also patrolled by boats on the river, why did the Bago people suddenly withdraw today?"

"Maybe I'm scared by Daming, right?" Zhu Yang said with a smile: "He should also know about the surrender of Mingis Vaxiu, since the Ava Kingdom, which has been fighting with him for many years, has been defeated, and he also knows that Bagu will not be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, so he retreated." ”

"Aren't these barbarians to the south of them arrogant? How will there be a retreat? Mu Ang said. But even though he said so, he also knew in his heart that it was the reason.

"Since this is the case, then continue to move south, recover Magway City, and then withdraw troops and return, and at the same time test the bottom line of the Bago people." Zhu Yang said. He came up with the idea of inch by inch.

"Then we will continue to go south tomorrow." Zhu Yang's proposal was in line with Mu Ang's intentions, so he immediately agreed with it.

"But tomorrow when I go to Ringan Qiang City, I will ask the defenders here what it was like when the Bago people retreated." Mu Ang said again cautiously.

On the second day, the army marched to the city of Ringanqiang, and Narota approached the local defenders. For the people here, their master was just changed from Mingisvasius to his eldest son, Narota, and there was no discomfort and he knew everything about Narota.

After the inquiry, Narota came back and said to Zhu Yang and Mu Ang: "Your Highness, General Mu, the guards here said that the Bagu people retreated in a hurry, as if they suddenly knew something and retreated. ”

But they didn't leave anything behind. Generally speaking, if you retreat in a hurry, you will always drop something in a panic. Yan Wu on the side said.

"This, I don't know." Narota said.

"It doesn't look like we learned that our army came to Ringan Qiang City, so we withdrew our troops." Zhu Yang said: "Their scouts can't go far at all, knowing that when we have come to this city, our army is probably already very close to the Bago people, and they should be in a hurry to withdraw in case of a battle with our army." ”

"And if they are really afraid of our army before retreating, they should leave an envoy to hand over the documents of the minister, instead of retreating like this." Zhuo Jing keenly noticed this.

Everyone was reminded by Zhuo Jing and realized this problem, and immediately felt that the retreat of the Bagu people should have nothing to do with knowing that the Ming army was coming, and immediately discussed.

Suddenly, everyone heard someone say loudly, "What's there to discuss!" Catch up until you catch up with the army of the Bago and break it, and capture their king, and then ask for it! ”

Zhuo Jing immediately said to Mu Ang, the person who said this: "No! The goal set before was Magway City, how could you change the goal at will? Just chase it to Magway City. If you can catch up with them in Magway City, it will be enough, if you don't catch up, you can't chase them again. ”

"If you don't fight with them and let them know how powerful Da Ming is, how will they surrender?" Mu Ang said.

Zhuo Jing immediately debated with him. He is the right minister of the Min Domain, and he is still a person who is very trusted by Yunxi, and he is not afraid of Mu Ang; And although theoretically he is a literary minister, Yun Xi did not clearly distinguish between civil and military affairs when appointing the left and right ministers, if He Fu is here or Zhu Yang has made up his mind, then it is useless for Zhuo Jing to say anything; But now that He Fu is not in Ava City, Zhu Yang is also a little hesitant, Zhuo Jing can argue with Mu Ang, who was only invited by Zhu Yang through 'friendship' and has no formal position in Minfan.

Zhu Yang was very hesitant. A voice in his head told him, 'You should continue south until you catch up with the Bago people, and defeat them so that they know how powerful the Ming is.' ’

But another voice said: 'Before you left, and in your letters over the past few years, Your Majesty has told you to use more barbarian soldiers against barbarian soldiers, and you yourself approve of it; But this time most of the troops were Han troops, and there were very few native soldiers, so it was not worth fighting and dying. ’

Between these two voices, Zhu Yang leaned towards the former voice for a while, and leaned towards the latter voice for a while, which made him difficult to decide.

After a long while, Zhu Yang said, "Let's go to Magway City first." ”

But when they arrived at Magway City, they still did not catch up with the army of the Bago people. The Ming army fired two cannons at the head of the city, and the defenders of Magway City opened the city and surrendered.

Zhu Yang could only continue to struggle. He struggled for a long time, and finally said: "Pursue fifty more miles to the south, and if you still do not catch up with the army of the Bago people, you will collect your troops and return to Bagan." ”

As soon as this order was announced, Zhuo Jing and Mu Ang were not very satisfied, but Zhu Yang had already given the order, and they could only carry it out.

After that, part of the army was left to garrison the city of Magway, and the army continued south.

Because they had penetrated deep into the territory of the Bago people at this time, the army was very careful, and only marched twenty-five miles a day before setting up camp.

The next day, after marching for half a day, when Mu Ang had given up hope of being able to fight with the Bago people, suddenly the news came from Tanma: "Ten miles ahead, I found an army of Bago people. ”

Mu Ang was pleasantly surprised, and immediately urged the troops, while he continued to listen to the reports of the horses.

"Your Highness, General Mu, the army of the Bago people is at war with some people. These people don't look like regular troops, their weapons are not very good, and their clothes are very tattered, but they are very tenacious in their will to fight, and they will not retreat. ”

"We were also discovered by them. Most of them thought we were the army of the Bago people, and immediately attacked us, and we managed to escape. A scout said.

"Didn't you say that they weren't regular troops and that their weapons weren't good? How can you be so embarrassed? Mu Ang asked suspiciously.

"Although their weapons are not very good, and they have never been trained, they are not afraid of death, even if the people in front are shot, the people behind will rush immediately, and all our arrows are gone, but we still can't let them retreat, so we can only flee back in embarrassment." Exploration Horse Road.

"It sounds like a popular uprising." Zhu Yang felt incredulous and said, "These barbarians will also revolt? In his opinion, these barbarians are very obedient to the words of the headman, and the spirit of resistance is far from that of the Han people, how can they revolt?

Not only him, but others who have been in Yunnan for a long time find it incredible. In their opinion, the barbarian people will never disobey the words of the headman, and they are very docile in the face of the headman, how can they revolt.

If this is a rebellion against the rule of the king of Bago, it is not like that, if that is the case, the leader will definitely train and collect weapons in advance, so as not to be so amateurish.

But the facts are clearly in front of them, and they can't believe it if they don't believe it. Faced with this unprepared situation, Zhu Yang finally ordered: "Go and see." ”

After a while, Zhu Yang could clearly hear the shouting and killing sound coming from in front of him. Zhu Yang ordered the whole army to stop and sent scouts to the front to inquire about the situation. But he forgot one thing.

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"Who are these people?" In the dense jungle next to the road where the Ming army was, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes spoke in one language. If Zhu Yang could hear this, he would find that he had never heard this language.

Then there was a gurgling sound around him, and then the two men who were lurking there quietly left.

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"It is certain that there is an uprising of the people in Bago. What do we do now? Zhu Yang called all the generals and toasts over and asked.

The Han people fell silent. In terms of short-term interests, it should help the rebel army to eliminate the Bago court, so as to temporarily relieve the threat of the Bago state to the Min domain.

But according to their experience from the history books, all countries where there is a large-scale uprising are decaying, but the new ones will be completely new, much stronger than at the end of the previous imperial court, and in the long run will be a great disaster.

But help the current court of Bago to put down the rebellion? No kidding, what are they doing such a thing, dedicating their lives to the cause of communism?

Therefore, the Han people tend to withdraw their troops and do not get involved in these things of the Bago people, even Mu Ang, who was the most dominant battle before.

The toasts were eager to try, and it didn't matter who they helped to fight, as long as they could have the spoils of war.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yang still said: "Withdraw the troops and return to Bagan immediately, we won't go to this troubled water of the Bago people." ”

The generals had no objection and bowed down to say yes; Although some toasts had opinions, they did not dare to disobey Zhu Yan's orders. They could only get out of Zhu Yang's big tent and gather the troops and horses of their headquarters to prepare for the withdrawal.

After everyone went out, Dao Baifeng massaged Zhu Yang's shoulders and said, "Consume so much food, so go back?" ”

"What else? It's not right to stay. Zhu Yang said.

"You can lead troops to attack the nearby villages or villages, and grab some money and food to go back. If we send troops once in our village and don't lose the battle, if we don't get anything, people will be dissatisfied. Dao Baifeng said.

"You're my concubine now, oh no, you're not my concubine now, but after you get married." Zhu Yang was pinched by the knife Baifeng, and had to change his words. But he seemed to be enjoying it, and he didn't mean to be unhappy at all.

"But no matter what, you should also read more of our Han people's books and know the rules of our Han people." Zhu Yang said: "This time to send troops, grabbing things is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to weaken the Bagu State." Now that there is an uprising in Bago itself, the goal has been achieved without our soldiers fighting, so why fight? ”