In Kunming City, while the civil officials in the rear were intriguing and planning how to realize their own interests, the offensive of the frontline departments was unstoppable.

After the Volunteers captured the city of Kunming, the Liukou fled to Kunyang Prefecture, Ningzhou, Chuxiong, Chengjiang Prefecture, Lin'an Prefecture, Yuanjiang Prefecture and other places.

After capturing the city of Kunming, the volunteers divided into three routes and attacked together to pursue the remnants of the Liukou.

In February of this year (the third year of Yongli, 1649 AD), after Cao Xun, the commander of Sichuan Xingdu, led the 9th town of the headquarters and the 6th town of Liu Weiming to capture Chuxiong Mansion, he put on a posture of entering western Yunnan.

Seeing that the prestige of the righteous army was far above that of the other departments, the Tusi of Western Yunnan, who had been watching from the sidelines, could no longer sit still, and sent people and horses to comfort their troops, or rushed to Kunming City to meet in person.

By March of this year, Cao Zhangtong, the chief soldier of the guard town, led the 3rd standard of the guard, the 5th town of Yang Bingyi, the 10th town of Feng Youqing, and the 11th town of Wang Zhibang approached Maitreya Prefecture.

Considering that the Liukou is good at luring the enemy deep and likes to fight ambush warfare, all units are battalions step by step, supporting each other, in the face of such tactics, although Liu Wenxiu sent elite troops to set up ambushes, but they were defeated by the volunteers one after another, and now they are retreating to Maitreya Prefecture.

Liu Wenxiu was ready to lead his troops to flee south, but Yunnan, unlike other places, was sparsely populated and had difficulty in supply.

What's even more annoying is that the Tusi forces in various places are very strong, and everyone dare not provoke when the righteous army is strong and strong, and now that the righteous army is obviously down, everyone is not so polite.

Some Tusi were greedy for the equipment of the rebel army, some besieged the lone generals, and some even sent soldiers and horses to participate in the encirclement and suppression, although everyone did not want to defend the city, but they did not know where to retreat.

It is rumored in the army that Li Dingguo, the general of Anxi, has already returned to the Shunyi Brave Army, and is now entrusted with the 12th town commander-in-chief.

Those who surrendered and returned to obedience had a good belonging, and those who were physically strong were elected to join the army, and they were paid as soldiers, and their food was sufficient.

It is those old, weak and disabled soldiers, women, children, and children have also been resettled, and I heard that they are now being resettled in Kunming, Qujing, Wumeng and other places, not only the government has lent grain, but also exempted from Liang Fu for the first three years.

In the past few days, the people in the army have panicked, and many generals have the intention of surrendering, just last night, the general Di Sanpin once claimed that this Yunnan land is not divided into three parts, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the supply is difficult, if it continues to develop like this, thousands of brothers will probably die out.

On this morning, the soldiers at the front came to report, and the governor Dou Minwang asked to see him, so that he could bring them into the big tent.

Looking at Dou Minwang, Liu Wenxiu asked, "You guys, what's wrong with you?"

General Zhengxi can still fight well, the huge Kunming City was broken in a few days after resisting, and the combat power of this volunteer army is too strong. ”

Dou Minwang nodded and said: "General, the volunteers not only have sharp firearms and excellent tactics, but also the soldiers are elite.

General Zhengxi and I looked at the soldiers under them at the camp of the Volunteer Army, all of them were strong and strong, and they didn't have that kind of noodles and vegetables.

Yang Xuan reorganized the prisoners, and the 10,000 people under the command of General Zhengxi were only 3,000 left, and their bodies basically reached the level of the general's own soldiers. ”

Liu Wenxiu sighed: "Hey, yes." After they captured the city of Kunming, they immediately marched south to attack Guang (Xifu, oh, you stayed in the camp of the volunteers, tell me, what should I do?). ”

Dou Minwang first handed over Li Dingguo's token, then told what he had seen and heard in the past two days, and finally said: "General, it seems that the only one who can stabilize the world with a young general is this Penghou, and this time I came in the hope of convincing the general to return to Penghou."

Among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, only this Penghou is quite friendly to our rebels, and only he can treat us fairly and equally. I heard that in order to appease the generals of the Dashun army, he actually married Liu Tichun's daughter.

And many of the generals in our Great Western Army are quite important, not to mention the general Zhengxi, he was appointed as the chief soldier at the beginning, and others, such as Jin Tongwu, Wang Zhibang, and Wang Fuchen, also led an army alone, and the others are very important. ”

Liu Wenxiu sighed: "Hey, it sounds good.

Listening to this, Yang Xuan reorganized the various departments at every turn, which made people feel bad, if he didn't reorganize my troops, General Ben would be willing to surrender to him. ”

Dou Minwang shook his head and said: "General, when I came, the young general also saw the general's former generals Yang Wei and General Wang Fuchen, which are his tokens." ”

Liu Wenxiu took the token with trembling hands, looked at it carefully and said, "This is what I gave to Yang Wei that day, it is rare for him to keep it so well." He, is he okay?

Dou Minwang said with a smile: "General, General Yang is very good. He told the junior general that after the defeat and capture, his unit was reorganized and could not reach 500 people, but in the past few years, he had already been promoted to a guerrilla general for his meritorious service on the battlefield, and now his unit was under the command of General Zhengxi.

Although the number of a target of the Volunteer Army is about the same as that of our battalion, which is equivalent to one of our general soldiers, its units are comparable to those of the pro-army, and their combat strength is completely incomparable.

General, we also have many familiar faces serving in the Volunteer Army, the right prime minister Yan Ximing served as the prefect of CD, Shangshu Jiangding Town served as the prefect of Long'an Prefecture, and Wen Zirang, Hong Zhenglong, and Lou Yi others.

General, with your talents, as long as you are loyal to Yang Xuan, you will definitely be reused.

Those who follow the volunteers, that is a full amount of military salary, 1 tael of silver for the first three months, 1 tael of silver after that, in addition, there is also a skill allowance, that is, you can be ranked in the top 8-10 in the whole company, there is 1 yuan of silver allowance, in the top 10 of the whole battalion, there is 3 yuan of silver allowance, if you can rank in the top 10 in the whole regiment, then there is 5 yuan of silver allowance.

Even if they were eliminated, Yang Xuan didn't treat them badly, let them farm in various places, exempt from taxes for one to three years, and collect taxes after the fourth year, which is cheaper than cultivating official fields.

For those who are clever, I heard that they will also be selected as officials to enrich the place?

General, don't you want to mix food and clothing when you come out? Brothers, if you can do this, it will not be in vain to follow you, the general. ”

As soon as Liu Wenxiu heard that Jin Tongwu, Wang Zhibang, Yang Wei, Wang Fuchen, Wen Zirang, Hong Zhenglong and others were overjoyed, they led their troops out of the camp and surrendered.

On the one hand, Yang Xuan asked Liu Wenxiu to go to Kunming to discuss matters, and on the other hand, he ordered Cao Zhang to lead the department to reorganize the Liu department.

After seeing Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu hugging each other and crying, Yang Xuan pulled Li Dingguo with his left hand and Liu Wenxiu with his right hand, walked into the banquet and said: "Brother Liu, if it is undecided today, the people's lives are miserable, today I specially asked people to kill a pig, so to entertain Brother Liu, and I hope that Brother Liu will not be surprised." ”

Li Dingguo next to him said with a smile: "Wenxiu, don't look at the high salaries of the soldiers of the Volunteer Army, everyone has sauerkraut to eat at every meal, and stir-fry vegetables from time to time."

Penghou's life is quite simple, and he always eats with everyone every day when he fights with the army.

Generally, four vegetables, two meat dishes and one soup are fried, everyone scoops them according to their own preferences, and adults have one more meat dish, two vegetables, one soup and a small glass of wine for each meal, and they can eat worse than many staff.

Wenxiu came today, Penghou can be regarded as an exception, and there are a lot more dishes on everyone's table. ”

Yin Chengqi took over the conversation and said: "In the past, the army often ate hard steamed buns when marching and fighting, although now with four-wheeled vehicles and two-wheeled carriages, life has improved, and everyone can eat fresh vegetables and drink hot porridge, but the conditions are still quite difficult.

On the battlefield, Hou Ye only has a vegetable and a meat dish for each meal, and now it is of course different to fight without troops in the rear, eat a little better, and replenish your physical strength. ”

Everyone laughed, and Yang Xuan took over the topic and said, "Everyone, people live in the world, and they only eat three meals a day.

But many powerful people have to cook multiple dishes and spend as many taels of silver as they need to cook each meal, which is completely unnecessary.

As the saying goes, wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants, we eat together every day, and talk while eating, it is this peanut and this white rice are quite good. ”

Next to him, Yin Chengqi smiled and said: "General Wenxiu, this white rice is different from other rice, this is machine rice, it is rice from the water mill."

Is ordinary rice more delicious than a lot of polished rice? Wait a minute, taste it, feel it. ”

After the meal, Yang Xuan had a long detailed discussion with Liu Wenxiu, and then decided to appoint him as the chief soldier, and the headquarters was reorganized into 26 regiments, 27 standards, and C towns.

After hearing that Liu Wenxiu had surrendered to the Volunteers, the Great Western Army split with Shao Huang.

Li Gande, Yuan Tao and others believed that the Volunteers were winning all the way, and the Great Western Army shook Huang into Yun (the southern time was still short, so it was better to lead his troops to Mengzi to go to Shadingzhou to contact Tusi in various places to fight against the Volunteers.

The volunteers entered Sichuan this time with great momentum, and the uncooperative Tusi were all eradicated, and in Guang (Xifu), there were 3 Miao villages that were killed by the volunteers in the mountains because of their opposition to the volunteers.

After the elimination of Tusi, the government reacted quickly, abolishing one Tusi and changing it to a prefecture and county, while the other two Tusi appointed two Han officials who were familiar with local affairs as Tusi.

Li Gande thought that Yang Xuan's action would inevitably annoy the majority of Tusi, and together with Yuan Tao, he led his troops to Shadingzhou, Mengzi Tusi, hoping to rely on Tusi to gain a firm foothold, and then take the opportunity to counterattack.

Sun Kewang had long wanted to throw away this burden, and after seeing Li Gande, Yuan Tao and others asking for orders to go to Mengzi, it was decided that Wang Shangli, Feng Shangli and others would lead their troops into Guizhou to contain the volunteers.

And he led the main force into Guangxi (west) to ask Emperor Zhu Youlang to send an envoy to mediate the dispute with the volunteers.

Seeing Maitreya Prefecture, after several Tusi in Lin'an Mansion were quickly annihilated because of blocking the volunteers, the Tusi in various places were sincerely afraid, and at this time they received an official letter from Yang Xuan, in addition to claiming that Wu Bikui and Shadingzhou rebelled, and the rebellion of the Daxi Army was quelled one after another, it was hoped that the local officials who served as prefects, Tongzhi, Zhizhou, and chief officials would rush to Kunming before early December to discuss major matters together.

Although the area of Yun (south is vast, but the prestige of the volunteers is still impressive, I heard that a Tusi in Maitreya Prefecture thought that the cottage was difficult and dangerous, but who expected that the volunteers would be bombarded by artillery after hundreds of people shouted to kill.

After some fighting, the tens of thousands of Tusi were conquered, more than 1,000 people were killed, and all three generations of the Tusi family were beheaded after being declared guilty.

Then all kinds of gossip kept coming, and many of them were spread so much that everyone didn't dare to come out.

Some people say that Zhuge Wuhou invented the wooden ox and flowing horse, but this Penghou actually invented a wheelbarrow, a two-wheeled carriage, and a four-wheeled carriage, all of which are more powerful than the wooden cart, oxen and horses.

Legend has it that the wooden oxen and horses only walk more than 30 miles every day, and the light four-wheeled carriage (two horses) drags 8 loads of grain (1200 catties) on the post road for a hundred miles.

As for the heavy carriage (four horses), it can be dragged even more, up to 20 loads of goods, and it is like walking on the ground on the post road.

Many people think that this is a spell, otherwise how can they pull so many things, how can they run so fast?