In May of the eighth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan had occupied Beijing for almost two years, and the entire north had already fallen under Zhu Hongsan's rule. Jiang Yang of Shanxi finally set himself on fire in Datong, and tens of thousands of his men became prisoners of Zhu Hongsan. However, these people Zhu Hongsan did not kill them, these guys were originally border troops, and their combat effectiveness was strong, so they were just used to enter Shaanxi to clean up the chaos. In this way, Ma Kun, the governor of the left army, took this group of border troops and his two division musketeers into Shaanxi to clean up the chaos.

The war in Sichuan has long ended, and the warlords of Sichuan have seen that the Central Plains has been unified, and they have handed over their military power to become the prince, and now the governor of Sichuan is He Tengjiao, and Zhou Yu, who is the governor of the rear army, is stationed in Chongqing.

Now that most of the wars in China, except for Yunnan-Guizhou and Shaanxi, have ended, Zhu Hongsan began to focus on resuming production, after all, after more than 20 years of turmoil, the economy in the north has been destroyed. Henan and Sichuan, which are the most populous provinces, are normal for hundreds of miles without people. According to Zhou Yu's report, Chongqing Prefecture, which originally had a population of more than 400,000, actually had a tiger hurting people at noon, which shows what the population has withered into.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan's first step was to restore the local population, and Henan and Sichuan lost a lot of population, so they were transferred from the surrounding provinces. Shandong and Anhui are close to Henan, and millions of immigrants from these two provinces go to Henan. Huguang is close to Sichuan, so Huguang fills in Sichuan and immigrates from Huguang to Sichuan.

Just when the entire court was focusing on resuming production, an urgent military report from Yunnan broke the peace of the court.

The military newspaper was written by Lu Daqi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, which was very simple, that is, to tell the emperor that in February of the eighth year of Shenwu, Li Chengdong's expedition to Burma was in Tengyue Prefecture, Yunnan, which was Tengchong in later generations. In Mopan Mountain, west of the Nu River, Li Chengdong was ambushed by Li Dingguo, and was defeated in a battle, losing 20,000 of the 50,000 army, and the remaining less than 30,000 people retreated to Kunming, and Li Chengdong, the king of Jianning County, died in the army.

Here's what happened, since Zhu Hongsan left Yungui in the fifth year of Shenwu, he handed over the military power to Li Chengdong. Li Chengdong deserved to be a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, and under his leadership, he drove Zhu Youlang from Kunming, Yunnan all the way to the border with Myanmar. At the same time, Ai Nengqi, who was known as the Four Strongmen, died of illness on the Yunnan-Guizhou border, and Liu Wenxiu was beaten to death by Li Chengdong in Kunming. The smooth operation of the war made Li Chengdong proud, and he felt that he could calm Yungui within a year.

Li Chengdong is not a traverser, he doesn't know that the most capable of beating among the four athletes is not Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu, nor is it the eldest brother Sun Kewang, but Li Dingguo, who was beaten by Zhu Hongsan and ran around.

Li Dingguo prepared for this battle for two years, and he found that this Ming army was not the same as the Ming army in Guangdong, firearms were very scarce, although the armor and weapons were well-equipped, but there was no generation difference with his own army. After careful study, Li Dingguo decided to use the mountain to set up an ambush here in Mopan Mountain to strike at the arrogant Li Chengdong.

After Li Chengdong occupied Kunming, he completely forgot Zhu Hongsan's instructions to let him fight steadily before leaving, and also forgot to let him be careful of Li Dingguo's instructions. Li Chengdong felt that Li Dingguo was a child, and his hair hadn't grown when Lao Tzu was fighting! Therefore, Li Chengdong ignored the warnings of Lu Daqi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and pursued the remnants of King Gui's army non-stop.

In November of the 7th year of Shenwu, Li Chengdong defeated Li Dingguo's general Bai Wenxuan in Dali, and crossed the Nu River to approach Tengyue Prefecture. After receiving the news, Li Dingguo set up an ambush in the area of Mopan Mountain in Yongchang, west of the Nu River. He took the fame of Tai'an Bo Dou as the first volt, the Marquis of Guangchang Gao Wengui as the second volt, and the Marquis of Wujing Wang Guoxi as the third volt, and was ready to wait for Li Chengdong to enter the three volts and make a full-scale attack.

On the morning of 21 February, the day after Li Dingguo crossed the Nu River, Li Chengdong led a large group of men and horses to cross the Nu River and entered the foot of Mopan Mountain. He looked around, the peaks were clustered, the forest was dense, but he saw that the Mopan Mountain was high and there was no path to be found except a curved path, and after inspection, there was not a single soldier to be seen, only birds and birds flew in, occasionally making a few cheers, breaking the silence.

The terrain is so dangerous, soldiers should always be extra careful when encountering such a situation, and beware of ambushes. But Li Chengdong didn't care. He sent out from Kunming, pursued all the way, drove Bai Wenxuan across the Lancang River, led his troops to cross the raft, and then crossed the Nu River, marching hundreds of miles, and no one resisted. He thought that Li Dingguo had fled, and there would be no army of King Gui nearby, so he was no longer wary, and the team was scattered, so he did not think so, so he was relieved to boldly march into the army, and ordered the army to continue to advance, intending to cross the Mopan Mountain and pursue westward.

Li Chengdong's troops had already entered the mountain trail and formed a long snake in a row. After walking for a while, they began to climb the mountain, and more than 10,000 people continued to climb the mountain, and there was still no sign of an ambush. Suddenly, a man dressed as a general ran out of nowhere and rushed to surrender in front of Li Chengdong's army in a panic. This person's name is Lu Guisheng, and he served as the secretary of Dali Temple in the Yongli regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Lu Guisheng immediately leaked Li Dingguo's ambush plan to Li Chengdong, pointing out that the Qing army had strayed into the ambush circle. When Li Chengdong heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the advance to be stopped, and the troops were quickly withdrawn, and ordered the cavalry to dismount, abandon their horses, and search for ambushes. At the same time, the artillery was ordered to fire cannons in the bushes of the ditch, and the archers fired fiercely with arrows. The ambush soldiers did not dare to go into battle without orders, and they were attacked by guns and arrows, and fell to death in the forest ditch.

Dou Mingming, who was hidden in the first ambush line, knew that the ambush had been recognized, so he had no choice but to send artillery to fight, and the Ming army in the second ambush also rushed out to the rescue. So the two sides engaged in a battle on the mountain, fighting with short knives, flesh and blood flying, and in an instant, the corpses of the dead on both sides were scattered like a wall.

When the battle began, Li Dingguo was sitting on the top of the mountain, and he was very surprised when he heard that the horn was out of order, because Lu Guisheng's surrender and whistle-blowing disrupted Li Dingguo's deployment, and he could not unify his command, and the ambush soldiers were forced to go out to fight separately. But Li Dingguo still supervised the war according to the danger. The fierce fighting lasted from midnight until noon, with heavy casualties on both sides, and corpses were everywhere up and down the mountain.

Under the bloody battle, it was obvious that the physical fitness of the soldiers, Li Chengdong's army was well fed and equipped, although he was a little flustered at first, but he immediately launched a counterattack against Li Dingguo's department after relieving himself. And here Li Dingguo has lost the suddenness of the ambush because of the traitor's informant, and Li Dingguo's soldiers are indeed inferior to the Ming army in physical fitness, so they have lost all their losses under repeated hard battles, and they are isolated and unable to support without support. Li Dingguo couldn't fight anymore when he saw this, so he had to lead the remnants to retreat and go to Myanmar to pursue Yongli.

Although the losses of the two sides in the battle of Mopanshan were about the same, Li Chengdong lost completely strategically. Zhu Hongsan only had these 50,000 soldiers in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the nearest troops were thousands of miles away in Sichuan and Guangdong. Now the 50,000 army has been wiped out by Li Dingguo and nearly 20,000, which makes the Yunnan Ming army lose the initiative on the battlefield. Although troops can be transferred from Sichuan and Guangdong, it also gives Guiwang Zhu Youlang a chance to breathe.

The loss of some troops is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the commander Li Chengdong actually hung up in the chaos. You must know that there are many generals under Zhu Hongsan who can fight, but there are only a few handsome talents, and now there is a Li Chengdong dead, which immediately disrupts Zhu Hongsan's national deployment.

After the army was reported to Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Hongsan sighed at Li Chengdong's good luck and became angry for no one to send. didn't expect that when Zhu Hongsan was about to clean up Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong could have such a good ending. Now that Li Chengdong is killed in battle, Zhu Hongsan naturally wants to make a contribution to Li Chengdong, and it is estimated that he will be crowned a prince, so that Li Chengdong is almost the same as in history, and he is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to these, there is also the question of the selection of generals to lead the troops, and now the closest reinforcement to Yunnan is Zhou Yu in Sichuan. But Zhu Hongsan's order to Zhou Yu told him to prepare and go from Sichuan to Wusizang, that is, Tibet, half a year later. But now that there is such a thing in Yunnan, it seems that Tibet can only be cleaned up a few years later.

Zhu Hongsan asked Yao Qisheng beside him: "Xizhi, what do you say should be done in the chaos of Yungui and Guizhou?" ”

Yao Qisheng also knew Zhu Hongsan's difficulties, but now that Yungui is the mainstay, other places have to wait.

"Your Majesty, although King Gui's rebels are not in the climate now, King Gui is also the emperor after all, there are no two heavens and no two people, and King Gui is His Majesty's henchman, so the minister thinks that King Gui must be eliminated first!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded, this escape expert Zhu Youlang is really a thorn in his heart, and he really can't sleep if he is not completely eliminated. Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time, and then ordered the Military Aircraft Department to give the Sichuan Governor He Tengjiao a message, ordering the Sichuan General Yang Zhan and the Zunyi General Wang Xiang to lead the 10,000 Sichuan Army to be under the command of Zhou Yu, the capital of the Rear Army, and then ordered Zhou Yu to lead the headquarters and 10,000 Sichuan troops to enter Yunnan to quell the rebellion, and at the same time give Zhou Yu the right to make a decision on the spot.

Zhu Hongsan calculated that Zhou Yubu had 30,000 musketeers, 10,000 Sichuan troops, plus Li Chengdong's remaining more than 20,000 people, a total of nearly 70,000 people, and his strength was stronger than when Li Chengdong was alive, and it should be no problem to deal with Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of remnants. However, Zhu Hongsan was still afraid that Zhou Yu would be greedy for merit, so he wrote a letter to Zhou Yu in his own handwriting, telling him that the terrain of Yunnan is complicated, and he must fight steadily and steadily, and it is easy to do it with more food and silver, and he must not repeat the mistakes of Li Chengdong.

After the business is arranged, the rest is the end, Zhu Hongsan was very annoyed when he saw the military report, his brother-in-law Jin Daoming was very embarrassed this time, seeing that the battle in front was unfavorable and led the team to run first, and now he has been taken into custody by the governor of Yungui in Kunming. Zhu Hong waved his three pens and asked Jinyiwei to escort Jin Daoming to Beijing, what should he do if he was convicted here.

Zhu Hongsan originally wanted to clean up Jin Daoming, but who knew that at night, Jin Daoming's wife, Zhu Hongsan's sister-in-law and secret lover Ma Ruyun entered the palace to intercede with the adulterer Zhu Hongsan. ()

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