On the dirt road from Shiping Prefecture (present-day Shiping County, Yunnan) to Jianshui Prefecture (present-day Mengzi County, Yunnan), the Second Regiment of the New Army under Gao Wengui's command marched in a long column singing military songs. A new regiment consisted of four infantry battalions, a cavalry company, an artillery company and a direct battalion. Since Gao Wengui followed the second regiment on the march, the division headquarters also acted with him.

A line of more than 2,000 people pulled out a queue more than two miles long. Whether infantry, cavalry or artillery, all units were equipped with a flintlock gun. If the formation is changed to a horizontal formation, the two infantry regiments can step on the march and advance sixty paces without the whole formation. With such a small but elite army, Gao Wengui instructed his staff officers to do one trivial thing after another.

"Report, we just went to Lin'an City, but we saw that the puppet official personally brought people to surrender!" The scouts belonging to the battalion flew into the squad with their waist tags, dismounted and entered the crowded brigade.

"Is there a fraud?" Hearing this kind of earth-shattering news, Gao Wengui first thought about whether he would be overshadowed. After all, he had been in this land a year ago, and he was ruthlessly overshadowed.

"It's... This is not something that the lowly can know, but the lowly sees that the city gate has been opened, and hundreds of green battalion soldiers are standing outside... It doesn't look like a soldier who can fight at all. ”

"Hmm." Gao Wengui nodded and asked the scout to go back, and the scout trotted away.

"When the meeting arrives at the place where the camp is encamped, the brigade staff headquarters and the commanders of each regiment and battalion come to the brigade headquarters for a meeting." Gao Wengui gave orders according to his routine, and since Zhu Youlang ordered the establishment of a staff system, these staff officers who relied on basic knowledge to calculate and plan every step of the march and battle gave him a great sense of comfort, and he no longer needed to grasp his eyebrows and mustaches like a housekeeper's wife.

"Report...!"

This time, the scout's voice was even more urgent.

Gao Wengui made a calm appearance, but he was beating a drum in his heart---What did he see in front of him?

This time, it was not the soldiers who came in, but the commander of the scout company under the battalion directly under him. He came in and gave a new military salute and said, "General, the puppet prefect has come in person, and he has brought more than a dozen people. The lowly officials have already fired their swords and guns, do you want to let that puppet official come into view? ”

Gao Wengui said that there are many civil officials who surrender, but it is rare to take the initiative to go to the other party's military camp to surrender, and it is not common to see this prefect and not an ordinary person, so it is good to see it.

"But, let him in." As soon as the words came out, Gao Wengui changed his words again: "When you get to camp under the city, see him again, show me first." ”

The New Army's drill rules stipulated that the march should be about 40 miles a day in a place where there were roads, and after half an hour, the Second Brigade began to change its formation from a column to a horizontal formation, and after a short period of congestion, more than 2,000 people actually wrapped the west and south walls. The barracks were set up in companies, with a distance of 100 paces between each barracks, and almost no depth--- the barracks were lined up in two columns, and in the second column there were only a few companies that served as reserves.

At this time, Liu Caiyu, the prefect of Lin'an, who was frightened by the wind in the city, trembled with fear in the place of house arrest. In troubled times, scholars and doctors often praised each other with their knowledge; Liu Caiyu has also read a few military books, how can there be one that is so rare? Look at the banner that reads "Ming Guangchang Gong Yunnan recruits deputy envoy Gao", thinking that the high character is Gao Wengui who was named Guangchang Gong in the bloody battle of Mopan Mountain. But judging from this formation, why doesn't it look like the famous general who beat Zhuo Butai at all?

But now that he has been "trapped in the enemy camp", he has no choice but to hold back his meaningless remorse and wait for Gao Wengui's summons.

"Let's go." The soldier guarding him said indifferently.

Entering the newly erected tent, Liu Caiyu saw Gao Wengui with a black face, if he wore a fake beard with a Guan knife, he would be a living Guan Gong image.

"Liu Caiyu, the prefect of Lin'an, has seen Lord Gao." Liu Caiyu lowered her posture very low.

"Hmm. It's good that you can turn away from darkness and turn to light. However, the general had not heard of any defenders who had gone out to surrender. Why is that? ”

"Hui Jue Shuai," Gao Wengui claimed to be the general, but Liu Caiyu didn't dare to call along with it; "As the lord said, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and now it is the desire of the people to abandon the darkness and turn to the light in the city, the lower officials feel guilty first, and the second is afraid that the gentry in the city are eager to behave, so they tied up the lower officials to surrender to the marshal..."

Hearing him say this, Gao Wengui was relieved, the station of Mopan Mountain can be described as a bloody pestle, the world has changed color, if the emperor immediately counterattacks that day, I am afraid that the line has moved back to Kunming at this time. As the local gentry who had the most direct and clear understanding of the tragic situation of the Qing army in the bloody battle of Mopan Mountain, it is not surprising that the Lin'an gentry decided to surrender.

The battle of Mopanshan defeated the main field force of the Qing army, and the remaining remnants of the defeated generals could fight except for the garrison of Kunming's Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, and the rest of the places were newly recruited rabble, and they may not be able to go out once a month. From Xiaoqi to Qian, they are all children of the local gentry, which one is willing to fight to the death with the Ming army?

The four gates of Lin'an City were opened, and the gentry in the city brought people to send grain, wine and meat out to work the army. According to the predetermined plan to enter the city, the Ming army first sent a battalion of infantry to control various key points in the city, and then let the follow-up troops enter the city. However, to the gentry's surprise, the logistical staff officer who received the supplies gave them a stamped IOU, and said that he could use it to pay taxes.

"The villain can save it, save it," the gentry smiled and accepted it, but they didn't believe it in their hearts, they had never been in the army, and they only harmed the place, how could they not rob the place and give back to the officers and soldiers who took the initiative to give money?

Lin'an Mansion City is said to be a capital city, but in fact, the scale is only larger than a county town in the mainland--- the circumference of the city wall is less than eight miles, if the whole brigade enters the city, then the people in the city will not be able to live. After clearing up the hidden dangers in the city, only one battalion of infantry was stationed in the city to maintain law and order, and even the brigade headquarters was stationed outside the city.

The next day, the Tusi soldiers from the Yuanjiang Military and Civil Mansion and other places arrived at the foot of Lin'an City, and as soon as they saw the city wall, these local soldiers were noisily trying to enter the city. Compared with the Tusi territory of hundreds or thousands of years under the fetters system, the Lin'an Mansion of Kunming, which sent liuguan, was obviously wealthier. However, where is the new army willing to let them in, if these dirt buns are put in to rob and rob, the new army has just established a good image in the hearts of the people, is it gone?

"We are also the official army of the Ming Dynasty, why don't we let us enter the city!" A gorgeously dressed toast head shouted in half-baked southwestern official dialect. While shouting, his toast soldiers followed and tried to rush forward.

The new army was almost a firearms unit, with advanced equipment but few people, and the pile-up human wall was quickly swept away by the crowd and almost slapped to the root of the wall. Company Commander Zhao Gongfan, who was in charge of the south gate of Lin'an Mansion, was squeezed by several Tusi soldiers to the city wall, and his legs couldn't move. Seeing it, they were about to burst open the gates.

"Smack!" In a hurry, Zhao Gongfan suddenly pulled out a handcuff from his waist and shot it into the sky, and he didn't know if there was lead, but the sound of the gun was really terrifying. The Toast Array in the assault city was temporarily stopped.

Taking advantage of this short silence, Zhao Gongfan shouted loudly: "This is the order of Marshal Gao, if you have any opinions, let your officials go in and talk to Marshal Gao, don't embarrass us who are on errands." What's more, there are also people in the New Army camped outside. ”

"Raise the gun!"

An infantry company of the new army was 120 men, excluding the platoon, company-level officers and company members who used handcuffs, and 110 flintlock guns stood up in an instant, and a forest of guns appeared in front of the city wall.

"Brothers, if it weren't for the military order, we wouldn't want to kill our own people!" Zhao Gongfan's words carried a threatening meaning.

Seeing that a small officer dared to be so arrogant, he was not lightly angry, but the army in front of him had annihilated more than 10,000 Dongyu who had conquered the world in Mopan Mountain, and even Wu Sangui was tied up in the ravine to persuade himself to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light", although he had four or five hundred people under his command, he could not bury his soldiers and horses for the sake of being angry. If there is too much damage, the territory under his hands may be lost when he comes back--- Wu Baozhong, the chief official of Nalou Chadian, thought.

Although there were many Tusi soldiers, they lacked unified command among their respective families, and they were soon blocked back by the new army with steel discipline.