Yunnan, after the change of tranquility, Yongli was like a frightened bird, fled to the west of Yunnan in a hurry, and arrived in Yongchang six days later. Ma Jixiang and others instigated Yongli to go straight to Myanmar, but the Queen Mother and Queen Wang insisted on not going. Thinking that he was anxious to escape when he was in peace, and threw the queen mother, queen, and prince behind, Yongli felt guilty in his heart, so he ordered to be stationed in Yongchang. At this time, eighty percent of the accompanying officials had gone, and there were less than 4,000 escorts left.

Hundreds of miles away, Wu Sangui, who had not encountered any resistance, led his army to the city of Kunming, but what he saw in front of him made him dumbfounded. The generals of his subordinates also opened their mouths one by one, as if they had seen the most unbelievable thing in the world. They couldn't help but be shocked, because the Ming army made the stupidest and smartest decision - to burn down the entire city of Kunming!

Wu Sangui's face was extremely difficult to see, and his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang on the side could even see his father-in-law's right hand holding the saddle trembling slightly.

Wu Sangui thought that the Ming army might defend Kunming to the death, and also thought that the Ming army might abandon Kunming, but he only did not expect that the Ming army neither defended Kunming nor gave up Kunming, but chose the simplest and most crude way - to set fire to the city of Kunming.

Staff member Hu Shouliang also gasped, everyone said that Li Dingguo was benevolent and righteous, and he didn't want this person to have such courage and dare to set fire to Kunming! Fang Shouliang admired this boldness, but he probably wouldn't be able to be so ruthless.

Wu Sangui couldn't help but hate, he decided to attack Kunming, in addition to taking this big pear to hold the imperial court hostage, and more importantly, for the millions of stone military rations in Kunming. With these millions of stone military rations, Wu Sangui no longer has to worry about the limitation of military rations, and can have more spare power to decide Yunnan affairs and make his plans come true little by little. It's good now, Li Dingguo actually burned Kunming with a fire, which turned all his calculations and schemes into smoke, how to make him not hate.

The city of Kunming has become a ruin, most of the buildings in the city are wooden structures, a few days of fire down, the whole city of Kunming has turned into a pile of ashes, and the rest are left with a few lonely wooden pillars that are burning. The smell of charcoal filled the air, and countless dust fell from the air. There was not a single living person in the city, except for the ruins and charred corpses. Kunming is completely destroyed, except for the city walls that are still intact around it, the largest city in southern Yunnan with a population of hundreds of thousands no longer exists. The Qing army had no way to stay in the city of Kunming for even one night, because the city was full of the smell of burnt corpses, and it was not known how many Kunming people died under the fire.

The big pear was in hand, but it was a rotten pear, and he couldn't eat it, so Wu Sangui went to the Belle Shangshan Army to discuss matters in anger in his heart. Zhao Butai, the general of Zhengnan, also led his army to arrive, and when he saw Kunming, which had become a ruin, he reacted as angry and helpless as Wu Sangui.

On behalf of Xinjun Wang Doni, Beile Shangshan asked Wu Sangui to immediately lead an army to western Yunnan to chase and kill Yongli, but Wu Sangui had other ideas in his heart. The Yongli Imperial Court was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and abandoning Kunming and retreating to western Yunnan showed that it was exhausted, and it would not be a problem to destroy it at all. At present, there are many Qing troops gathered in Kunming, Wu Sangui has more than 50,000 people, Shangshan has more than 20,000 people, Zhao Butai also has more than 20,000 soldiers, nearly 100,000 soldiers advanced into western Yunnan, Yongli only Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan is carrying to the death, and the soldiers and horses of the two kings together are less than half of the Qing army.

However, Wu Sangui was unwilling to destroy the Yongli Imperial Court, or he didn't want Yongli to die like this. He knew very well that the reason why the Qing court relied on him was only because Zhu Ming was still there, if Zhu Ming really perished, would he, a lackey, still have a good end?

The cunning rabbit died and the lackey cooked, Hong Chengchou wrote the three words "coercive the Son of Heaven" in Yang Laobao in Guizhou that day, Wu Sangui himself had all kinds of explanations, Hu Shouliang and Fang Yuxuan also had all kinds of explanations, but in the final analysis, it was all for him to prevent the king of Pingxi from ending up as a lackey.

Coercing the Son of Heaven, which Son of Heaven is coerced?

Hu Shouliang thinks that he is coercing the son of heaven Shunzhi, what do you want to blackmail? Take Yongli, the son of heaven, to coerce Shunzhi, the son of heaven.

Wu Sangui agreed with Hu Shouliang's speculation, so the Qing court wished that Yongli would die, but he Wu Sangui couldn't. However, if the Yongli court is still in Yunnan, Wu Sangui's plot against Yunnan and Guizhou will not be successful. Therefore, he could not let Yongli stay in Yunnan.

Therefore, Wu Sangui said to Shang Shan and Zhuo Butai: "According to the detective, the puppet emperor is in Yongchang, and our army must immediately enter Yongchang and capture the puppet emperor." ”

Shang Shan nodded and said: "King Pingxi is right, it's just that my soldiers and horses have been here for a long time, and they are extremely tired, and I am afraid it will be difficult to fight again." "The implication is naturally that I don't want to lead my troops to Yongchang, because Yongchang has Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan of the Ming army, and although the two generals have been defeated repeatedly, the Qing army does not dare to say that they have no strength to fight." My soldiers and horses have suffered heavy casualties, and I am afraid that I will not be able to fight again. “

Zhao Butai had long been dissatisfied with Wu Sangui, and when he was in Yang Laobao that day, if he hadn't squeezed himself to fight against Li Dingguo, how could his soldiers and horses suffer so many casualties, so he subconsciously pushed the task of going to Yongchang to hunt down Emperor Yongli to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui sneered in his heart, Shang Shan and Zhao Butai refused to lead their troops to Yongchang, but they fell into his arms. In his opinion, if he let himself be the main force to pursue Emperor Yongli, Emperor Yongli's life and death will be in his own hands, and his plan will be realized according to his own wishes. Although he was happy in his heart, he said: "Although our army is tired, the enemy army is even more tired, if you let it breathe, I am afraid of a resurgence." It will be even more difficult to extinguish it. ”

Shang Shan glanced at Zhao Butai, thought about the tiger for a moment, and said, "As long as the King of Pingxi is willing to take the lead, we are willing to assist." "Kunming has become a ruin, and the grain and grass of our army is a big problem." Wu Sangui immediately took advantage of the situation, and Shang Shan and Zhao Butai refused to go to Yongchang, so they had to pay the price.

Shang Shan and Zhao Butai discussed two sentences, agreed to allocate some grain and grass from their army for Wu Sangui's army, and the three agreed that Wu Sangui would lead the army to attack head-on, and Shang Shan and Zhuo Butai led the troops to follow.

After the military discussion, Wu Sangui returned to the barracks and immediately set off as an army and drove to Yongchang, encountering the Ming Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan on the way. Bai Wenxuan guarded the Yulong Pass with more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and Wu Sangui sent the forward to lead Bai Erhetu to attack. After Bai Wenxuan's army engaged, he was defeated by Berhetu, so he had to withdraw his camp and flee first. Wu Sangui ordered the Qing soldiers to catch up, and Bai Wenxuan turned around and came to meet again, but he was defeated again and could only retreat in a hurry. In this battle, the Qing army captured a golden seal of Bai Wenxuan Gongchang Wang, captured Lu Sangui, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and obtained three elephants and 140 horses.

After the defeat of Bai Wenxuan, Wu Sangui immediately led his army to Yongchang, where he ordered the army to camp five miles away from Yongchang, and then took his sons-in-law Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu to survey the terrain of Yongchang.

The spies came to report that they had found a small road leading to Burma in the west of Yongchang City, and Wu Sangui was moved when he heard about it, and instructed the generals: "Wait for all the people to surround the east, south, and north of Yongchang City respectively, and only let the west side not surround it." ”

Hu Guozhu said puzzledly: "Lord Wang, if the siege is not tight, don't you want to leave a pulse of vitality for the enemy army?" ”

Xia Guoxiang knew his father-in-law's intentions, so he smiled and said to Hu Guozhu, who was about to become his brother-in-law: "If you surround it tightly, I am afraid that the enemy will have the heart to fight against the water, and it will be unfavorable to oppose our army at that time." ”

Hu Guozhu was a little puzzled: "At present, the Ming soldiers are like the end of a strong crossbow, just surround them tightly, and within a few days, the Ming soldiers will be in chaos without a fight." If you can capture Emperor Yongli, wouldn't it be a great achievement? ”

Xia Guoxiang said disapprerovingly: "The rabbit is in a hurry and wants to bite." Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. ”

Hu Guozhu still wanted to speak, but was stopped by Wu Sangui waving his hand. During this period, in addition to his own Guan Ning soldiers, most of his subordinates were Ming troops who surrendered all the way from Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, so some words could not fall on the ears of these people.

(To be continued.) )