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In this way, it is natural that Daniel Zhang and Line Guoan's judgment is skewed, and they underestimate the severity of this subtropical rainy season in Yunnan, which makes the soldiers tired. In their eagerness to end this difficult conquest, and with the urging of Kunming, the noose of defeat became tighter and tighter, firmly around their necks.

However, Daniel Zhang and Line Guoan did not have this awareness, and the news from the elite troops they sent back also deepened their miscalculation. The elite vanguard was blocked by the Ming army, but it was only one day, and they retreated at night, apparently buying time for Tengchong's pseudo-clan to escape.

It is a virtue with the puppet emperor Yongli and the monarchs who fled into Burma. Daniel Zhang and Line Guoan couldn't help but sneer and disdain. The pseudo-sect was forced to stay behind by the holy decree, and had to pretend to be, but now that the goal has basically been achieved, they can't run away in a panic and run to a remote place to survive. Fortunately, the capture of Tengchong meant that the military operation came to an end, and this torturous campaign could finally be ended.

And the spread of the plague in the army was at this time involving the main energy of Daniel Zhang and Xian Guoan, who obviously did not know the jungle adage of Lu Dao, "To defeat the enemy, first defeat the disease."

The jungle area is densely vegetated, poisonous plants breed everywhere, and insects and animals are numerous. Overgrown weeds and a warm environment are conducive to the proliferation of choleria and pathogenic microorganisms, leading to the epidemic of various diseases. For example, dysentery, malaria, hepatitis, leptospira, Japanese encephalitis, scrub typhus, cholera and various insect bite dermatitis, as well as comprehensive fatigue caused by fatigue and dampness and the "three rots" (crotch, feet, hands), etc., caused a large number of non-combat attrition in the Qing army, and with the extension of time, the plague has become more and more serious.

Not to mention that Daniel Zhang and Xian Guoan did not anticipate the danger of the jungle environment, and according to the medical level at that time, they really had no effective way to prevent it. It is important to know that even in the Battle of Imfar during World War II, due to the neglect of first aid and protection for the jungle wounded, almost 100% of the personnel in the battle suffered from malaria, and the ratio of sick and wounded in the troops reached up to 6:l; In the five years of the war of aggression against Vietnam, the number of people suffering from malaria and dysentery accounted for 42.2 percent of the total number of troops, and the number of people who died of disease was four times that of the number of people killed in war.

Of course, the jungle environment also had an impact on the Ming army. However, Zhu Yongxing relied on the knowledge of later generations and took a series of measures in advance: let the soldiers chew more betel nut, tea, and garlic; Use a mosquito net for sleeping, and apply garlic juice or mint leaf juice if you don't have one; Toilets are built in the barracks, and open defecation is not allowed; Don't drink raw water, don't eat unclean food, wash your hands before and after meals, bathe frequently, isolate the sick, sprinkle lime, etc. These later primary school students may have known the prevention and treatment measures of the Dao, coupled with the home remedies of boiling water in Qingsong, as well as the medicinal materials dug up by the Zheng family's horse gang, the situation of the Ming army was much better than that of the Qing army, and the morale gradually surpassed that of the Qing army.

From the sum of these circumstances, Daniel Zhang and Xian Guoan's strategy of advancing alone was partly based on their own judgment, and on the other hand, it was indeed that the Qing army was extremely tired and carried the wounded, sick and heavy to continue to advance, which was very difficult.

However, these difficulties were not taken seriously by Kunming, and the Manchurian generals were arrogant, looking down on the Green Battalion and the Han Army, and only focusing on the results and not the process of their operations; Hong Chengchou thought that the general trend had been decided, and the imperial court's arrangements for Wu Sangui and others had also been determined, and the old traitor felt old and sick, so he begged to return to Beijing to recuperate; Wu Sangui got the will to be stationed in Yunnan, although it was a little far from his expectations, but Wu Sangui was still ready to use the power given by the imperial court to expand and develop his own power, and such preparations should undoubtedly be the army first.

In fact, whether it is Shunzhi or the minister of the parliamentary king, when granting Wu Sangui and others the privilege of staying in the town, they all emphasized that this was a temporary method. Mainly in view of the fact that Yunnan-Guizhou, Liangguang, and Fujian had recently opened up, the situation was complicated, and the situation was not stable enough, so they had no choice but to resort to this temporary method in the hope of using their prestige and military strength to restore and ensure normal social order as soon as possible. In fact, the rule of the "Three Kings" was, to some extent, a form of military control.

However, Wu Sangui was a treacherous old man, and took advantage of the initial determination of Yunnan and the unstable situation to appeal to the Qing court, asking for the establishment of "Yunnan Aid and Suppression of Four Towns", and to install important generals as commanders in one aspect of military organization. According to Wu Sangui's plan, the four towns were not stationed in Kunming, but were to be stationed in four important areas of Yunnan: Wuding, Qujing, Chuxiong, and Erhaiwei (Xiangyun). The soldiers of a town were six hundred horsemen, one thousand and five infantry, and nine hundred garrisons, making a total of three thousand. The most important thing is that the soldiers of these four towns are all subordinate to Wu Sangui, which means that he wants to expand his own family and horses.

Since Yunnan had just been pacified, it was extremely necessary to strengthen the military defense, which was in line with the fundamental interests of the Qing Dynasty, so Wu Sangui thought that the request for the establishment of four towns would soon be approved. However, he also knew that although the Qing court would not interfere with the names of the generals of the four towns proposed and nominated by him, there would definitely be some checks and balances, such as ordering a group of military personnel to serve as military governors in various regions of Yunnan.

It is not yet known whether the Ganshan Green Battalion led by Daniel Zhang can be left in Yunnan and transferred by him and absorbed by him; Line Guoan is the governor of Guangxi, and the Han army led by him is also Kong Youde's old department, so he will definitely go back. Therefore, before the Qing court's will was issued, Wu Sangui was not very concerned about the military operations in Tengchong. He even had a little expectation, hoping that the Puppet Ming Sect would be able to escape and continue to toss.

In this way, Wu Sangui could ask the imperial court to play again, and justifiably adapt the surrender of the Ming army to Chengcheng, and even the formation plan was designed. At the beginning, two series of battalions were set up, which were named "Loyal Battalion" and "Volunteer Battalion". In these two battalions, there are five battalions in the middle, front, rear, left, and right, with a total of 10 battalions of soldiers and horses. Each battalion of horse infantry was initially set at 6,000, and in this way, another 12,000 troops were in the hands of Wu Sangui.

The reason why Wu Sangui was in a hurry to expand the army was really because he did not have enough generals in his hands. In addition to the two battalions of "Loyal and Brave" and "Righteous and Brave" in the plan that could be set up soon, the army under his direct control, that is, the "Domain", was only more than 10,000 soldiers.

And this army is his most trusted family, and officers at all levels are his cronies and the most important generals in his army. Among them are also his relatives, such as Wu Yingqi is his nephew and Xia Guoxiang is his son-in-law. Some of them have become confidant generals as early as in Liaoxi, such as Yang Shen and Wu Guogui, and these people have an inseparable special relationship with Sangui. If it is not a critical moment, Wu Sangui is willing to use this lineage team.

As for the "Pingxi Domain", it includes the Qing army in other places, such as the Ganshan Green Battalion, the Huguang Green Battalion, etc., although it is under its control, but the relationship with Wu Sangui is one layer worse, and these troops are owned by the country in name, that is, the imperial court, and they are only temporarily stationed in Yunnan.

Raising thieves is self-respecting, and it is not possible to make Yunnan Province idle for a day, Wu Sangui holds such a line of thought, plus it is the rainy season, and the roads in Yunnan are difficult to travel, so he naturally does not care much about the war in Tengchong. In addition, Wu Sangui also despised Zhu Yongxing, the clan who suddenly appeared, and didn't take Zhu Yongxing in his eyes at all. Therefore, the old traitor of the three ghosts was busy expanding his strength, and he did not pay attention to the grievances of Daniel Zhang and Line Guoan.

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