Li Chengdong frowned and looked at the letters, these are all reports of being attacked, most of them are in the forest, and they are all small troops, the largest force is the adopted son's thousand-man battalion baggage army, fortunately, that army won, otherwise the supply on his side will be cut off, so it will repeat Li Dingguo's mistake.

Li Dingguo was defeated by this, such a small-scale attack, of course, the mountainous and forested terrain of Burma, which is not easy to find the enemy, and the climate, water and soil are not adaptable.

Originally, he knew that there was such a thing when he talked freely with Li Dingguo, but now when such things happen frequently, he knows that he is in trouble.

What to do?

In fact, he has already thought of a way, that is, there are traitors in that country, he has found a lot of such people, that country has some ********, he has found a lot of such contradictions, after some time of induction and sorting out by the staff, he has locked a lot of tribes that need cooperation, and it is this kind of tribal cooperation that enables hundreds of thousands of captives who have entered Burma and their own troops to exist in various places, and establish supply depots one after another.

He found some patterns, in such a tribe, those Han people who came here from all dynasties and dynasties formed the tribe happened to be the most fierce and fierce rebellion against themselves, and the families who inherited the Han reading tradition among them have made suggestions and efforts for the tribal leaders of Burma, and they have contributed more fiercely and more threatening than the Burmese people.

This made him puzzled and at the same time the most angry, these people may be a worm in the Ming Dynasty, but they are a dragon here, with the strength of the Burmese people, their intelligence, which makes the Ming army extremely headache.

With an opponent of similar intelligence to you, can you not be cautious and not afraid?

And the Burmese high-level showed their philosophy of survival, and tried their best to appoint these scholars, when they were useless, they pushed these scholars to the army of Burma, as a substitute for the dead, and then sued for peace, many people fell for their tricks, when they fled, when they came to their strength, continue to fight with the Burmese army, kill those soldiers who surrendered, or attack the grain road, and take the Ming army to the primeval forest, with their own skillful terrain, they walked away, and the Ming army that entered the primeval forest rarely came out alive.

Therefore, Li Chengdong rarely let his troops enter the primeval forest, they all attack along the avenue, along the enemy's cities, camps, conquer one camp after another, and then send people to garrison, for the surrounding primeval forest, Li Chengdong always sends people to light fires, burn them if they can, and cut them down as much as possible if they can't burn them, even if they clear the small forests that are easy to clear around them, or the edge of the forest.

He has no shortage of manpower, those prisoners can only rely on the army here, and the Burmese language is not understood, there is no way to escape, there is no way to go to heaven, they can only work wholeheartedly with the Ming army, if they want to fight, they will fight, if they want to farm, they will farm.

In fact, according to the information held by Li Chengdong, the area west of Mandalay used to be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but through decades of war, the Burmese army continued to wage wars and took this area from the Ming army, which was unable to defend this land.

Why is it powerless to defend?

One is that the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and the main energy was to deal with the ethnic groups on the grassland, and the other was that there were more ethnic groups in this area than cattle hair, and the owners of this land, or the people who managed this land, were all Tusi in the border area, and they had no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and secretly got closer to the indigenous tribes in neighboring Myanmar, and helping their neighbors was definitely more enthusiastic than helping outsiders thousands of miles away.

The other is that all Han education is not to cause war, not to fight, and to give others something good to make others submit or give themselves benefits to never turn their faces against others, even if this person has his wife, occupied his own land, and beaten his own father.

Anyway, if you have less things, you can take some from your brothers, fathers, and relatives, and if you can't bully some weak people, you can take them from the people, and you will have them again, what kind of battle will you fight with other barbarians, you will die.

The internal battle is a mess, and the barbarians may be able to become their own thugs for two dollars and help them fight their own people.

For these Han people, Li Chengdong has only one idea, kill, even if there are innocent people, they must be killed, maybe after a few hundred years, these Han people will be bullied by the natives, and finally because of the burden of humiliation, learn the words of others, abide by the rules of others, give birth to children, become other people's people, maybe can retain some Han traditions, but this just becomes a convenient condition to coerce or curry favor, deceive the Central Plains Dynasty, between the land and the country, with these conditions you have to deceive other countries, dreams, to deceive the Central Plains Dynasty, The Han people who have been immersed in Confucian culture for thousands of years are no better.

So Li Chengdong doesn't want to leave that regret for his motherland, and then suffer a loss, even if he himself kills a lot of Han people, Jiading three massacres, he has at least two slaughters, Jiangyin he killed at least tens of thousands of Han people, but what, he is always a Han in the land of the Han people, even if he bears the name of a traitor, it is the result of the Han people's internal fighting, but he can't let other Han people learn from him and do his own things outside, because the traditional culture of Confucianism tells him that he is a Han and a scholar, and he wants to sell the Han people, But in his bones, he absolutely does not admit that he is not a Han, and the benefits can be gained, but the identity of the Han cannot be lost.

To put it bluntly, it's a double standard.

In literary terms, it is explained by this person's contradictory character, and many later generations analyzed his character and explained it for him, which made people very confused.

He threw the letters aside, took the tea and said to the staff on the side: "How is our tuntian, immigration, and clearance plan doing now?" ”

The killing of hundreds of thousands of people, he naturally exuded a thick murderous aura, even if he was calm, sitting there, without wearing a battle robe, armor, or holding a weapon, the words he said, and the way he made his staff shiver and tremble.

He replied in a low voice: "According to the report of the spies, this group of Burmese who attacked the major general came from a cottage, and they were the soldiers and tribes of the original dynasty in Upper Burma. ”

Li Chengdong squinted at him, and his staff explained in a low voice: "This is for the major general to ask his subordinates to report to the lord, in addition, our tuntian has covered all the occupied camps and villages, and all the villages on the land since Wanli and Chongzhen were unable to take care of the imperial court, and at least 100 people, 20 households, and more than 200 households, thousands of people and prisoners have been converted into soldiers. ”

He paused, "In addition, between each village, not to mention the closest, thirty miles away, a hundred captive soldiers are stationed in the pass of fifteen miles, and a battalion of five hundred soldiers is stationed in a hundred miles. Thirty kilometers and sixty miles were stationed with a general leading 2,000 soldiers, and our direct army was besieging and plundering the city, stationed in various cities, with 2,000 soldiers in each city and 1,000 captive soldiers and civilians, and recently nearly 30,000 captive soldiers who performed well were recruited by various generals and organized into 15 battalions of 2,000 people, and sent generals, led by guerrilla generals, as mobile forces, sweeping all over the mountains, forests and ravines, and deep in the mountains, the tribes of 10,000 people like attacking the major general have become extinct. ”

"Okay, don't let this kind of enemy of 10,000 people appear in the future, what are the arrangements for this in the imperial court?" He asked.

The staff said cautiously: "I heard that the imperial court has sent Liu Liangzuo to lead 100,000 troops to attack Laos, and the Xuanfu Division echoes with our army, and we can't let the enemy escape to Laos and other mountains to attack the flank of our army." ”

Li Chengdong put down the teacup and sighed: "The Metropolitan Governor is really strategizing, winning thousands of miles, wise and powerful, I was just about to suggest to him, and he has already done what I want to do." ”

(End of chapter)