When the men and horses of the Diao clan of the Ping Burma Army arrived at the battlefield, the battle formation of the frontal enemy army had all collapsed. The natives of the Ping-Burma army hurriedly chased after them in groups, but they still couldn't catch up with the fastest Ming cavalry, and the Ping-Burma Tusi army almost didn't catch any results.

Zhu Gaoxu reined in his horse and stopped, agreeing to the request of Zhao Ping, a hundred households, to continue to pursue the enemy.

Zhao Ping first found the native lady Diao Ya, and then led the elite cavalry to the north, they ignored the local rout along the road, and hundreds of cavalry went straight through the chaotic battlefield.

The battle began in the morning, and in less than an hour the winner was decided; But the chaos of chasing and killing deserters continued into the afternoon. From the battlefield to the surrounding areas, the meadows and bushes of the fields were littered with headless corpses and messy ordnance.

In the evening, Zhao Ping returned to the Chinese army with his men and horses. He reported to Zhu Gaoxu that the personal cavalry had found and captured alive the leader of the Meng Yang Division!

At this time, the Chinese army was setting up tents on a low hilly meadow. Zhu Gaoxu was stationed on the slope of the horse hill and saw a lean native with deep eye sockets tied to a horse.

Zhao Ping pulled him off his horse and pushed him down in front of Zhu Gaoxu's mount, and several sergeants forced him to kneel on the ground.

Zhu Gaoxu sometimes thinks of thinking and doing, and what comes to mind is a barbarian man with a strong body, a full beard, and a fierce light in his eyes. Unexpectedly, at this time, he saw such a lean native...... Zhu Gaoxu looked back left and right, his eyes stayed on Diao Ya's face, and he said, "You ask him, is he really thinking and doing?" ”

Diao Ya said a call.

The man snorted, turned his face away and didn't speak.

Zhao Ping hugged his fists and said: "Lord Wang, the last general first captured some natives captives, and when the natives saw this person, they all confirmed that he was thinking and acting!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and said in his heart: The cavalry soldiers are busy grabbing the head, only Zhao Ping first brought the translator and captured the prisoner, and he only looked for the enemy's leader, and this guy's mind is really still very active.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu finally couldn't help the confusion in his heart, and asked face to face: "Thinking and doing the law!" This king does not want to be ruined, so he first sincerely negotiated peace with you, why did you kill my envoy? ”

After Diao Ya translated, Si Xingfa still didn't answer.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask again: "You are deploying heavy troops in the field today, thinking that you have a chance to defeat the Ming army?" ”

Si Xingfa straightened his neck, his face flushed, and he didn't want to say a word except humming some meaningless sounds.

…… A few days later, the Ming and Ping-Burma coalition forces arrived at the Mengyang Sizhi Office one after another, and saw that the city had almost become empty. After the defeat of Meng Yang's army in a head-on battle, most of the native nobles and slave owners had already fled.

Zhu Gaoxu then led the army to the "Daming City" to inspect this Ming Dynasty village farthest in the southwest.

"Daming City" has been reduced to a ruin. In just a few months, the abandoned walled gate and city wall have been overgrown with wild grass and grass vines under the watering of rain. From a distance, it doesn't look like a recently built village, but it looks like an ancient ruin, so desolate that there is not a trace of people.

Zhu Gaoxu and others rode to the village and saw the same scene, where wild grass grew everywhere.

What made him most angry was that the soldiers and civilians of the Ming army who were killed had no one to collect their bodies, and they were all thrown into the barren grass, and they had become miserable bones! Fortunately, after so many dead corpses were exposed to the sun and rain, they did not turn into terrible zombies.

The army set up camp near the "Daming City", and Zhu Gaoxu ordered: collect the bones in the village and put them in the buried, and then send them back to Kunming for burial.

The soldiers went to Mengyang Sizhi City to find coffins, and at the same time cut down wood on the spot to make coffins. When Zhu Gaoxu settled down, he began to revise his recitals repeatedly, preparing to send people to Kunming first, and then to the imperial court to report the victory.

…… The Han people of this era were a bit superstitious. It doesn't matter how to collect the corpse and body ceremony, everyone believes that people have souls, and those who kill people in other places must recall the souls and bones, which is the most important thing.

Zhu Gaoxu sent people to inquire in nearly 20,000 soldiers and people, and found two men who had been Taoist priests.

The two Taoist priests were ordered to write rune paper and make paper money in the army to summon the souls of the soldiers and civilians who died tragically in the "Daming City". Paper money was scattered everywhere at the south gate of the village, and two Taoist priests who had returned to their old business were banging on the gong and singing the words loudly.

The army also arranged for a group of people who delivered food to wear linen and filial piety, clean up the bones of soldiers in the wilderness, put on longevity clothes for them, and carried them into coffins.

Eight people carried a coffin out of the village one after another, and people followed the instructions of the Taoist priest to throw paper money from time to time to bribe the local ghosts and gods; After walking for a while, everyone stopped again, and then burned incense and sang lyrics. The Taoist priest wore a temporary Taoist hat tied with paper, sang and shouted at the same time, and the accompanying strong men heard the order and cried "whooping".

Zhu Gaoxu and many soldiers of the Ming army were outside to watch the spirits, and even the thinking and practice methods were brought out. Diao Tuyu and many others were also curious to observe the funerals of the Han people from a distance.

After a while, a group of Tusi soldiers strung together with bamboo poles and ropes were taken prisoner and driven by the soldiers. They were crying and screaming, and they were in a mess, but they couldn't run, and the people tied up in a bunch in the panic were so difficult to coordinate that they stumbled to the side of the road.

At this time, the three long rows of Ming army infantry began to set fire to the sky diagonally, "......bang bang" and use them as firecrackers, and they rang out three times in unison.

Immediately, a number of soldiers with machetes of various lengths rushed over and began to slash at the heads of the captives.

For a while, the side of the road was simply crying and howling, screaming everywhere, bloody heads rolling on the ground, and soon a disgusting smell of blood filled the air.

The soldiers piled up the severed heads and offered them to the roadside, and then sprinkled them with cold wine.

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted, and walked to the side of the road surrounded by soldiers. He unfolded the paper in his hand, read it again, and read it aloud: "Revenge is avenged, and the dead are blind." The soul is back, and I will return to my hometown......"

"Go back to your hometown, go back to your hometown......" Countless Ming soldiers were noisy, shouting at the unfamiliar mountains and forests, as if shouting something unknown.

The shouts were loud, echoing in the mountains and forests. As a result, everyone felt that the soldiers and civilians who were slaughtered had their revenge and their souls could go back, and countless people showed satisfied expressions on their faces. After all, the time to be born in the world is limited, but the soul is immortal, at least the living have to think so.

A savage and effective ritual in the morning calmed people's hearts, and the funeral procession arrived at the Mengyang Sizhi Office, which was more than ten miles away. The "City of Sin" had already been ablazed with fire, and the entire city had been burned down by the Ming army.

The soldiers and civilians who were slaughtered in the village, the soldiers who died in battle, and the coffins passed through the fire-filled Meng Yangsi. The procession was huge, and people all looked sideways at the huge "bonfire".

Si Xingfa was tied to his horse, and when he saw the city destroyed in the fire and smoke, he howled and struggled to fall off his horse. He lay on the ground still screaming, his face covered with tears, but no one paid attention to him. They just pressed him back onto the horse.

…… The captives of Meng Yangjun were not killed, so Zhu Gaoxu ordered them all to be released, and also ordered people to prepare bamboo rafts on the banks of the Dajinsha River, so that the captives could cross the river on a raft and go to the territory west of the Dajinsha River to find the remaining men and horses of the Si clan.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Diao Ya to translate his words in public and told the locals, "Si's rebellion, the victory or defeat of the battle to quell the chaos has been decided." If the rest of the Si clan wants to repair it, we can still talk about it, and this king may be able to release the Si Xing Fa as well. ”

Hearing that he wanted to let go of his thoughts and deeds, Zhao Ping was the first to turn his head, but he finally didn't speak.

When everyone returned to the barracks, Wang Bin and the others hurriedly persuaded: "The crime of thinking and practicing the law is extremely evil, and the prince does not need to be merciful to him." "If you sacrifice your thoughts and actions to the Jingshi, you will have the heart of the saints......"

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at the left and right generals, and said quietly: "I heard that Sixingfa also has a younger brother, who is already an adult. Is my brother willing to let go of his thoughts and practice the Fa, and his brother is willing for us to put people back? ”

When the generals heard this, they all bowed to Zhu Gaoxu's strategy (routine).

This time, Zhu Gaoxu did not send an envoy to negotiate peace, but Si took the initiative to send someone.

The envoy was sent by Si Xingfa's second brother to ask for a secret meeting with the king of Han. The envoy quietly made a request, asking the King of Han not to let go of the eldest brother of the homesick family; Because the second brother Si Renfa has been elected by the clan and has become the new leader.

Zhu Gaoxu was ready to agree to the request of the new leader, Si Renfa, so the two sides began to make peace again.

Si promised not to attack villages and mines east of the Dajinsha River; The Mengyang Division moved westward and ruled the west and north of the Great Jinsha River to all the land in the mountainous area of Naga Mountain.

The Han king and the Yunnan government agreed to Si's occupation of the existing territory and recognized Si Renfa as the head of the Mengyang Division; After Meng Yangsi sent an envoy to Beijing to pay tribute, the Ming court officially canonized Si Renfa as Meng Yang's consolation envoy.

The Yunnan government recognized the covenant signed at the beginning of the second year of Yongle, that is, to pay Si 800 taels of silver every year, and had the exclusive right to buy all jade ore. Once Sijia provokes another conflict, the dividends will stop paying.

…… Countless people died on both sides, and the cost of manpower and military expenditure was not calculated. Si Shi lost the flat plateau east of the Dajinsha River, and as a result, they could only get 800 taels of silver per year in the mining profits, and the bloody rush did not give them any more benefits.

If the Ming army only relied on its own forces and wanted to completely destroy Meng Yangsi, what awaited them would be a long time and long-term military expenditure.

What's more, even if Meng Yangsi is destroyed, there are too few Han people here, and in the end, Meng Yangsi's territory can only be divided by the surrounding Tusi forces. Isn't Myanmar even stronger?

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu no longer wanted to continue the war with Sijia and endlessly affected the excavation of jade ore. He also hopes that his actions will make all parties in this wild land get used to following some rules...... Otherwise, no one will be able to get any good results.

The original treaty signed by the pledge has not changed much. Everything seems to be back to square one.

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