While Zhu Youlang begged Wu Sangui like a dog, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, and Bai Wenxuan, the king of Gongchang, were still trying to find a way to rescue him from the Burmese. The two most loyal princes of the Ming Dynasty www.biquge.info did not know what was happening in Burma until the ninth day after the "cursed water difficulty", and the news was transmitted to the Ming army by the Han people in Burma who risked their lives.

Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were shocked when they heard the news, and felt that the situation was extremely urgent, and the next step for the Burmese was either to kill the Son of Heaven or hand over the Son of Heaven to the Qing army, so they immediately divided their troops and crossed the river with 16 boats loaded with soldiers and horses to attack the Burmese army. However, due to the preparations made by the Burmese side, the battle was lost, and five boats capsized in the middle of the river. As a last resort, the Ming army had to retreat to Dongwu.

The news of the "difficulty of cursing the water" has spread among the army, and the morale of the army is low due to the failure of the attack. When Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan discussed, they also had a sense of the end of the road, and the two stood on the cliff and were speechless to each other.

After a long time, Bai Wenxuan sighed suddenly, and said to Li Dingguo: "King Jin, what we have done for so many years is right or wrong?" ”

Li Dingguo was full of grief, looking at the red sky in front of him. His heart also hurts.

"If we did the right thing, why did we lose the emperor so many times!" Bai Wenxuan punched the stone wall in pain, and a trace of blood dripped down his fist to the ground.

"We are not wrong, the Southern Song Dynasty has Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, and Zhang Shijie, and this Ming Dynasty must always have someone to persist until the end. When the country is destroyed, there must be a few martyrs in our Han family! Li Dingguo suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, "If we are wrong, then the sky bears us, not us!" ”

Li Dingguo was tired, he was already seriously ill, and he forced his sick body and Bai Wenxuan to join forces to attack Burma to save him, but he really couldn't support it anymore at this moment, he was unstable and about to fall. Bai Wenxuan hurriedly held him firmly and slowly put him down.

Li Dingguo's expression was very calm, and he asked Bai Wenxuan: "You say, is it really the sky that bears us?" ”

Bai Wenxuan cried, and he asked Li Siye, the son of the King of Jin, to take good care of the King of Jin and returned to his camp. He never thought that at this moment, his subordinate generals Zhang Guoyong and Zhao Desheng and others were secretly discussing the surrender.

"The miasma here has injured many people, and now it goes deeper, the climate is hotter, and it is not all dead. Rather out of Yunnan, there is no Burmese ghost. ”

Zhang Guoyong, Zhao Desheng and others decided to surrender because they had a bleak future and could not see any hope of regaining their sight. Their subordinates have been fighting along the Sino-Burmese border for a long time, and their living and fighting conditions are extremely difficult. So Zhang and Zhao ordered the sergeants to prepare their clothes at night, and then led their troops straight into Bai Wenxuan's tent, asking him to leave Li Dingguo's ministry immediately and return to Yunnan.

The sudden shocking change made Bai Wenxuan know that the big thing was not good, and he angrily scolded Zhang Guoyong and others for betraying the Lord for glory.

Zhang Guoyong persuaded: "Your Highness, you know that it is impossible to succeed in a big event, and you still want to take us deep into the miasma, we can't even leave a name when we die here, why bother!" ... I know that His Royal Highness will follow King Jin, but in the future, His Highness will end up with another He Jiuyi! ... Please also ask Your Highness to take us on a walking path! ... The brothers really can't hold it anymore! Your Highness! ...”

Zhang Guo used these words to say that many generals were in their hearts, and many people cried on the spot.

Bai Wenxuan was also moved, but he didn't decide to surrender on this, he snorted and asked Zhang Guoyong and the others: "What do you want?" ”

Zhang Guoyong said: "We still have so many officers and soldiers, if we go to Yunnan, why don't we worry about being reused?" ”

Hearing this, Bai Wenxuan smiled miserably: "You have surrendered to the Qing, what should the emperor do?" ”

Zhang Guoyong replied categorically: "I'm exhausted, this is God's will, I can't hold on!" ”

Bai Wenxuan insisted on refusing to surrender, and Zhang Guoyong and others immediately took Bai Wenxuan hostage and set off on horseback, marching for 70 miles overnight. In the early morning of the next day, Li Dingguo received a report that the whereabouts of Bai Wenxuan's department were unknown, and felt that the situation was serious, so he sent his son Li Sixing to lead troops to follow and observe Bai's movements. He warned Li Sixing not to use force with Bai Wenxuan's soldiers and horses, and he himself led the troops to follow up slowly.

Zhang Guoyong and Zhao Desheng were afraid that coach Bai Wenxuan would be nostalgic for the old relationship and reconcile with Li Dingguo, so they deliberately let people hold Bai Wenxuan hostage to go ahead, and the two led the troops to break off. Five days later, the soldiers and horses marched to the Black Gate, Zhang Guoyong and Zhao Desheng saw that Li Sixing's soldiers were chasing after him, so they discussed with the generals: "The prince of Jin is in a hurry to move me, and our army is tired. ”

The generals had no opinion, so the white army waved his troops to choke the mountain danger, and the arrows and artillery were fired in unison. Li Sixing was furious and ordered his troops to forcibly climb the mountain to counterattack. At this moment, Li Dingguo arrived and told Li Sixing to stop the battle immediately and not to kill the soldiers of the king of Gongchang.

Li Sixing was unwilling to let go of Bai Wenxuan's soldiers like this, and Li Dingguo said: "Back then, I had dozens of comrades in the Great Western Army, but today they are all dead, only me and Wenxuan are left, where can I bear to kill each other?" Besides, since he decided to lead the army north to return to the Qing Dynasty, he is also looking for his own way of survival, I let you lead the army behind, just hoping that Wen Xuan will have remorse, so that he can still join forces. But now, I'm afraid that I can't, let them go, we just do our own thing. ”

Li Dingguo also ordered that more than 40 soldiers who had fallen behind in the Wenxuan Department should be taken in on the way, and all of them should be returned, and then the father and son led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to return to Dongwu.

Bai Wenxuanjun continued to walk for three days, and on the way he met the three provincial departments of Wu from Mengding. All the horses in Wu's camp had been killed, and the generals still walked into Burma to seek to join Li Dingguo, despite the hardships.

Bai Wenxuan had a good conscience, and said to Wu San with tears in his eyes: "I am responsible for the emperor and His Royal Highness Jin!" The general can command the troops so far, so that I have the help of Taishan. ”

Wu Sansheng judged from the direction of Bai Wenxuan's march that his subordinates intended to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so he deliberately threatened: "The Yunnan surrenderers are all resentful, not reused by the Qing Dynasty, and people are clear-minded, so we came here on foot." ”

After hearing this, the soldiers under the Bai Wen player were all unwilling to go to the Qing again. Zhang Guoyong and Zhao Desheng also considered their own future, worried that they would not be properly resettled after the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, and no longer insisted on going to Kunming to surrender.

Bai Wenxuan saw that the army was stable, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and when he was discussing with Wu San Province to return to Dongwu and join the King of Jin, there were Wu officers and soldiers who caught a detailed work. As soon as the man saw Bai Wenxuan, he shouted that he was Wang Gongfu, a native of Huizhou, and that he had come from Sichuan at the behest of Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, thousands of miles away at the risk of death, just to tell the king of Jin and the king of Gongchang a great news - the southern capital has been restored!

After Bai Wenxuan, Wu Sanxing and others heard this, they were all shocked and did not believe it, only until Wang Gongfu personally wrote to Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, and everyone believed it, and thousands of soldiers immediately cried with joy. After Bai Wenxuan was surprised, he immediately drove straight to Dongwu with Wu Sanxing. For a few days in a row, only to run a dead horse. Seeing the Dingguo military camp from a distance, Bai Wenxuan had not yet arrived, and he had already shouted: "King Jin, there is something to do, there is a lot to do!" ”

(To be continued.) )