"Emissary of Ayutthaya?" Mu Qiyuan was stunned, when he sent troops from Pu'er, he sent an envoy to Dacheng to discuss the joint dispatch of troops and urging grain and grass, but the Ming army got a large amount of military food in Ava City, and the war was also smooth, and Dacheng had already forgotten, Ta Long had already withdrawn his troops from Dacheng, I don't know why the messenger of Dacheng only arrived now, "Let him come in!" ”

"Yes, Commander." The soldiers then went out.

After a while, a middle-aged man with short hair and a gray robe followed by his own soldiers and entered the big tent, he took the initiative to bow deeply to Mu Qiyuan and clench his fists: "I have seen the commander of the kingdom!" He saluted Lin Chengxiang and Chen Zizhuang.

Obviously, the soldiers had already told him the identities of the three people in the big tent.

"You're welcome, look at the seat," Mu Qiyuan returned the salute, but sat on the chair and didn't get up to greet him, "Your envoy came so quickly!" ”

"Commander," the envoy looked at the chair brought by Mu Qiyuan's own soldiers, but he didn't dare to sit down, "When Talong withdrew his army, the soldiers of the big city in the empty Shawang City had already suffered casualties, and they had no strength to fight back at all, and they were worried that it was Talong's trick, and when Talong was far away, the city sent someone to report to my king, and my king immediately sent a lower official." ”

Mu Qiyuan was still dissatisfied, "When I sent troops from Pu'er, didn't I send an envoy to Dacheng?" Is it so hard that you don't trust the Ming army? ”

"Commander," the envoy's face showed surprise this time, "although your envoy has come to Ayutthaya, we don't know that the army of the Kingdom of Shangguo is like a bamboo in the territory of Donghu, we can't think of it, it's really unexpected. The messenger shook his head and sighed, as if he still did not believe that the Ming army had occupied most of Donghu.

Mu Qiyuan didn't want to fight with the envoy, he was just an envoy, and the one who was really in charge of the Ayutthaya Dynasty was their king Parase and the national teacher Puti, "What message does your envoy need to convey?" ”

"According to the agreement reached between Dacheng and Daming, we have brought grain, this time we have transported 50,000 stones, dare to ask the commander, where is the grain to be placed?" The envoy saluted Mu Qiyuan again, and he sighed in his heart, the Donghu army had defeated the city, and this commander, in just over two months, had already killed Baigu, the capital of Donghu, and annihilated the 100,000 elites of Talong in Binma, which was really incredible.

"Fifty thousand stones? Let's put it in Donghu City first, where we have our garrison! Mu Qiyuan is not short of food now, although he did not mention the grain requisition measure of "feeding the war with war", but the 200,000 stone grain obtained by the Ming army in Ava City is enough for the Ming army to eat for half a year.

"The lower officials know, and the lower officials will transport the grain to Donghu City." Then the messenger sat down in his chair.

"What about the rest of the grain?" Mu Qiyuan remembered that it seemed that in the agreement between Daming and Dacheng, Dacheng needed to pay 300,000 stone grain, and the 50,000 stone grain should be the first batch.

"The rest of the grain, we will be divided into two batches, about a month later, we will start to transport the second batch of 100,000 stone grain, may I ask the commander, do you still want to send it to Donghu City?" The messenger said in his heart that the agreement between Dacheng and Daming was to solve the external troubles of Donghu forever, and now that he was not extinguished, the external troubles were useless and were lifted forever, how could Dacheng transport 300,000 stone of grain at one time? Besides, Ayutthaya just wants to pay 300,000 stones, and he doesn't have so much manpower.

"Ao, then let's transport it to Donghu, as for the third batch of grain, wait for the notice of the Ming army!" Mu Qiyuan hopes that the third batch of grain will best be put in Baigucheng, and there will definitely be a Ming garrison here in the future.

"Yes, Commander, the subordinate understands that after the subordinate returns, he will urge the grain and strive to deliver it as soon as possible."

"May I ask your envoy, according to the agreement reached between Dacheng and Dacheng, the two sides will attack Donghu from the north and south, where is the army in Ayutthaya now?" Mu Qiyuan didn't think that to defeat Talong, Dacheng's army was needed, the key was attitude, and whether Dacheng was willing to fulfill the secret contract they signed with Daming.

"Commander Hui, the army of Ayutthaya is now on the eastern border, and if the Ming army needs it, they can enter the territory of Donghu immediately." The envoy was not ashamed, he saluted Mu Qiyuan again, and seemed to have eaten through the Han people's "etiquette is not strange".

"Only now at the border?" Mu Qiyuan's face changed color again, and the army in Dacheng was obviously waiting.

"Commander, my big city is a small country, the number of troops is not much, the previous bloody battle with Donghu, more than half of the army in the north was killed or wounded, after Donghu withdrew from the north and south, we rectified the army of the whole country and selected 30,000 elites, which affected the itinerary, don't blame the commander!" The envoy glanced at Mu Qiyuan and grinned: "The army of the Heavenly Empire is marching too fast, which is why the army of my big city is coming slowly." ”

Mu Qiyuan didn't eat this set, but the people sent 50,000 stone of grain, which was not a breach of the contract, besides, the army was not too late, and it should be in time for the decisive battle with Talong, "Your envoy went back immediately, ordered the troops stationed on the border to move west quickly, cross the Xidang River within three days, and set up an ambush on the east bank of the Baigu River. ”

"Talon is about to retreat?" The envoy looked at Mu Qiyuan again with a surprised look, and then looked at Lin Chengxiang and Chen Zizhuang, Baigu is the capital of Donghu, and the last 100,000 elite soldiers in Donghu are concentrated.

"This is a military secret, and your envoy can only convey orders to the army." Mu Qiyuan is also not polite, since the two sides are jointly fighting against Donghu, of course the army must be led in a unified manner, and this supreme command can only belong to the Ming Dynasty, and belong to himself, the commander of the Third Group Army of the Ming Dynasty.

"The subordinate understands, and the subordinate will go to convey the commander's military order." The envoy saluted again, he did not doubt Mu Qiyuan's remarks that he wanted to defeat the Donghu army, only two months, Donghu had lost most of the country, only the national capital Baigu remained, and it was trapped in the city by the Ming army.

If Ta Long has the ability to fight, he should confront the Ming army outside the city, obviously, Ta Long's days are not long, and the big city is about to usher in a peaceful day, thinking of this, the messenger hurried back.

However, Mu Qiyuan was not sure whether the army of Dacheng would be able to reach the predetermined position on time, so he sent ten rangers to return with the envoy to keep in touch at any time.

What Mu Qiyuan didn't expect was that the envoy came to the border between Donghu and Dacheng, and said that the Ming army was so strong in combat and fast in marching, and he ordered the army of Dacheng on behalf of the king of Dacheng to immediately set off to the west, and according to Mu Qiyuan's requirements, they must arrive at the designated place within three days.

The envoy would not worry about the casualties of the Ayutthaya army, it was the Ming army that participated in the decisive battle, and the Ayutthaya army was just an ambush, although the combat effectiveness of the Ayutthaya army was far inferior to the Ming army, and even inferior to the army of Donghu, but in the face of the rout of the Donghu, Ayutthaya had no reason not to win.

Seeing off the messenger of Dacheng, Mu Qiyuan immediately sent additional rangers to investigate the situation of Tan Daoji in more detail.

The rangers reported that there were only five hundred defenders in the fort of Tandoori.

Mu Qiyuan settled down, except for a few rangers who continued to stare at Tan Daoji and monitor the movement of the troops in the fort, the rest of the rangers withdrew to paralyze Ta Long in the ancient city of Bai.

To the east of the White Ancient City, the Ming army sent out rangers, day by day, and even small groups of troops peeping at the opposite shore in the evening twilight or in the early morning fog.

In order to prevent the Ming army from crossing the river at night and snatching the ferries on the west bank, they simply gathered the ferries gathered on the west bank and burned them.

Tandoori.

In the middle of the night, ten Ming soldiers with excellent water quality quietly entered the water from the east bank of the Baigu River.

The soldiers each carried a bamboo pole with a knot removed and a twenty-pound stone, and when they entered the water, they carried the stone in their arms so as not to sink and float in the water, and then held the bamboo pole in their mouths.

When the bamboo poles enter the water, they are filled with water, which the soldiers must drink in order to breathe fresh air.

It was not yet the season of flooding, the Baigu River was less than thirty zhang wide, and the water was no more than one zhang deep, and ten soldiers, although they were cautious and slow, but in the time of tea, they crossed the Baigu River and walked from the bottom of the river to the other side.

The soldiers did not dare to rush ashore, because there were sentinels on the west bank, and after they crossed the river, they slowly floated up the gentle slope from the bottom of the water, trying not to make a sound, and only after their heads were slightly poked out of the water, they threw away the bamboo poles and the stones in their arms, and lay silently on the outside of the embankment, not daring to move.

After a while, there were footsteps on the embankment, and although there were not many of them, the footsteps were still particularly frightening in the silence of the night.

It was the sentinels of the change of guard in Tokhoo.

The Ming soldiers crouched in the earthen nest on the outside of the embankment, one ear pressed to the grassy hill, and the footsteps of the Donghu soldiers were all in their ears: there were only five soldiers.

The Donghu sentry said a few words of greeting, and the original sentry went back, judging from the footsteps, there were also five people.

But the sound of their words and footsteps just now revealed their position, and ten Ming soldiers slowly crawled towards the shore, they worked in pairs, and the target was five sentries from Donghu.

Dressed in wet clothes, they had been lying on the embankment, waiting for the change of guard of the Donghu sentry so that the exact location of the sentry could be determined.

In the night, the Ming soldiers approached the Dongxu sentry, they quickly got up, thundered, with two enemies and one, the sharp dagger slashed through the Dongxu sentry's trachea, all of which were killed in one move.

When the Donghu sentries saw the figures, it was too late, they didn't have time to shout, they just used the warm blood plasma in the veins as weapons, spraying the Ming army on the head and face.

The Ming soldiers gently put down the still warm corpses of the Donghu soldiers, and then five of them took off their clothes and changed into the dry clothes of the Donghu sentries to stand guard in the night instead of them.

But their bodies were turned, and they were not staring at the river, but at the west, in the direction of Tandaoki.

A soldier of the Ming army, who was about their leader, tore off the vellum tied to his chest, and a man came to the outside of the embankment, took out a small piece of candle from the kraft paper, held it in the palm of his hand, and found a fire fold and lit the candle.

The light of the candle quickly spread to the other side.

The soldier covered the candle with both hands and repeated it three times.

Soon the same light appeared on the opposite bank, also three times, and then the fire was extinguished, and the night returned to its usual darkness.