The scenery becomes clear in the telescope, with the jade-like Yuanjiang River in the north, and the other three sides filled with terraced rice fields like mountains and seas between the earth.

The territory of Yuanyang County is full of lofty mountains and mountains, the terraced fields change with the terrain of the mountains, according to local conditions, the large slope is reclaimed for the large land, the small field is reclaimed for the steep slope, and even the stone gap under the ditch side is also opened, so the terraced field is large and has several acres, and the small one is only the dustpan is large, and there are often thousands of acres on a slope. So many terraced rice fields, in the shade of the vast forest, under the cover of the long sea of clouds, constitute a magical and magnificent landscape.

Ma Bao, the king of Ruyang, watched for a long time, finally put down the telescope in his hand, sighed heavily, and said to He Shaochang, an officer of the Military Intelligence Department who had been standing beside him: "I sneaked here yesterday, and I haven't reported it at this time today, and the crime of concealment and deception has been confirmed, so let's arrest it!" ”

He Shaochang nodded, because he didn't belong to Ma Bao, so he just bowed politely and was about to turn around.

"Wait." Ma Bao hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll go with you, I want to ask him a few words, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

He Shaochang thought about it, smiled faintly, and said: "It's just house arrest, and we still have to wait for His Highness to come back to deal with it. ”

"Of course, how dare I ask a prisoner in private. Before His Royal Highness left, he also secretly instructed me, how dare I disobey the order if I am guilty of a crime this time? ”

Ma Bao didn't think He Shaochang was rude, but had the intention of letting him witness in order to avoid suspicion. It's just that for the sake of old friendship, he still wants to see and hear with his own eyes before he can settle down.

The group went down the mountain along the road, Ma Bao's face was serious all the time, but his heart was churning. Wu Sangui's army went out of Kunming and pressed south, Yuanjiang and Mengzi. There may be war at the same time. It is at such a critical moment that internal moles and civil strife must be completely eradicated, even if it is only possible, or if it is the enemy's counter-plot, it cannot be taken lightly.

What's more, Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi did conceal the news that his family had sneaked from Kunming. When the enemy is pressing, only one crime of collaborating with the enemy, even if it is immediately hunted and killed, is not considered an excessive disposal.

The dark room is deceiving, and it is difficult to escape His Highness's divine calculation! Thinking of Zhu Yongxing's private conversation with himself before leaving, Ma Bao's heart suddenly rose with fear. He Jiuyi, the Duke of Guangguo, was left here, and his generals were dispatched elsewhere, or He Jiuyi was recruited at the beginning, but his soldiers were left to the King of Jin. His Royal Highness Min has already expected today! The current Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi, with only his own soldiers around, wants to rebel and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and he can't afford to turn over the big storms.

In the barracks outside the city, there were shouts of slaughter, and 2,000 recruits recruited from the vicinity of Annam and Yuanyang were stepping up their training. Because of the loss of land by the Tusi, many ethnic minority people became free people, and the disposal of Mufu Xuntian also freed many farmers from personal dependence. A series of preferential policies to elevate the status of soldiers, as well as to sergeants and their families. It is also quite attractive, which makes the people's enthusiasm for joining the army increasingly high.

Initiation and organization. As long as these two tasks are done well, coupled with the appealing anti-Qing banner and the policy of favoring the military, it is not difficult for people who have experienced or heard of the atrocities of the Qing army to arouse their will to resist the brutal rule.

The rise and fall of the country, the righteousness of the nation. It is indispensable, after all, there are many people with lofty ideals who are loyal and righteous; Rent reduction and land granting, actual benefits, but the concern of the small people in Shengdou. Grasp both spirit and material, and both hands should be hard.

He Shaochang sent two of his subordinates. Ma Bao sent his own personal soldiers, and a team of people did not enter the barracks, but went straight to the city to arrest Li Dengyun, the servant of He Jiuyi, who had secretly sneaked in. Ma Bao and He Shaochang galloped into the camp and led people straight to the camp tent of Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi.

In the past, Gong Tianxiang was loyal to the country, and he was a model for all generations. In prison, Duke Wen once received a letter from his daughter, learning that his wife and two daughters were slaves in the Yuan Palace, and he couldn't help but cut his stomach. He replied: "Who has no wife and children? But at this point today, Yu Yi deserves death, which is his fate. How? How! can make the willow girl and the ring girl be good people, and the father can't control ......"

However, since ancient times, how can those who have abandoned their homes and become a country have geometry? If you can save your wife and children with just a promise, if you give up your place, most people may not be able to make a decision immediately.

Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi was at war in heaven and man at this time, whether to accept Wu Sangui's appeasement in exchange for the safety of his wife and children, or to abandon his family for the country and resolutely cut off the family affection entangled in his heart, it is really difficult to choose. His wife's letter had been read several times, and at this time he couldn't help but take it out, looking at the familiar handwriting, and sighed for a long time.

"See the King of the County." The voice from outside the tent startled He Jiuyi, and he hurriedly put away the letter and got up to greet him.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Ma Bao and He Shaochang walked in, followed by four soldiers.

"The last general will see the king of the county." Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi didn't know He Shaochang, and he didn't expect that the matter had been revealed, so he was polite to Ma Bao.

Ma Bao smiled bitterly, feeling that he should still be given a chance to confess, so he reminded again and again: "He Guogong, this is Lord He of the Military Intelligence Department, you-"

He Jiuyi was shocked in his heart, looked at He Shaochang, and hesitated.

He Shaochang hurriedly arched his hand and said: "There are Qing army spies sneaking here, the matter involves the Guogong, please cooperate with the investigation, don't blame the offended." ”

Finally being known, He Jiuyi smiled miserably and said: "The domestic servant Li Dengyun came here with a letter from my wife, as well as Wu Sangui's intention to appease him. I—to conceal my guilt, and to be willing to wait for the fate of the crime. ”

Ma Bao sighed and shook his head slightly, but it was a little late to confess now. I hope He Jiuyi will not write any letters with the intention of accepting appeasement, so that there may be a possibility of turning around.

He Jiuyi removed his weapons and was escorted out of the tent, and his own soldiers were stunned.

"He Jiuyi concealed the Qing army's envoy, and now he will be investigated, and he will wait for His Highness to come back and deal with it. Hold your place and do not act rashly. Ma Bao glanced coldly and said loudly.

"I am guilty, I am willing to listen to the whereabouts of His Highness, you should not make trouble, you should obey the order, work hard to kill the enemy, and serve the country. His Royal Highness Min is benevolent and will not implicate you. Guangguo Gonghe Jiuyi also opened his mouth to comfort, he was also afraid that his subordinates would make trouble, but he would really hurt himself.

The soldiers bowed down to obey the order, but they were worried in their hearts, not knowing how big the matter was and how it would be handled. Whether it will implicate itself.

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The Yuanjiang Uprising was regarded by Wu Sangui as a problem in the elbows, and it was also seen as an opportunity to show force and deter the Tusi of the Eastern Mountains. On September 28, the pioneer Wu Guogui set off first; On the second day of October, Wu Sangui led a large army out of Kunming. Through Tonghai County to the Yuanjiang River. The army was accompanied by about 5,000 men from half of the Manchurian army in Yunnan led by Gushan Ezhen Zhuoluo, and the other half of the Manchurian army led by Doni and Gushan Ezhen Yild remained in Kunming.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers, more than 100,000 auxiliaries, known as 300,000 troops, and ten Hongyi cannons. Such a force made Wu Sangui full of confidence in victory, but he did not know that the progress of Wu Guogui, the striker of the Dao Dao, was not smooth, and after more than 3,000 casualties along the way, it was only on the eighth day of October. Exhausted, he entered the empty Shiping City. At this time, it was also the time when Wu Sangui led the army to arrive at Qujiangyi.

Reoccupied Shiping, Wu Guogui can be regarded as having completed the task, although the road is not smooth and there are some setbacks, but in the end he still does not lose his face as a striker. If you wait for the army behind you to ask, it will be a little embarrassing.

But what Wu Guogui never expected was that in the few days he was wandering on the road. More than 30,000 rebels have gathered outside Shiping City, including 3,000 Ming troops. Anyway, there were 2,000 officers and soldiers, 16,000 Yuanjiang native soldiers led by Natao, and tens of thousands of native soldiers under the rule of Ningzhou Tusi Lu Changxian, Zhang'e Tuguan Luyi, Wang Yangzu, Shiping Tuguan Long Zan, Long Tao, etc.

This is a set of backup plans formulated by Zhu Yongxing and his staff officers, if the Qing army's forward is out of touch with the large army. Or if the lone army goes deep, they will learn from the experience of the Battle of Tengchong, put the enemy into the stone screen, and encircle and annihilate it. Of course, planning is not set in stone. Zhu Yongxing left a small number of sappers behind, ready to replace the tunnel with blasting to infiltrate. In these days when Wu Guogui's troops were delayed, preparations were already in place, waiting for the Qing army to enter Shiping.

Field battles are the worst, street battles are acceptable, and defense is better. This is the overall evaluation of the local soldiers by Zhu Yongxing and the generals of the Ming army. If you want to gather and annihilate the Qing army, it is not possible to defend the city to the death, and it is too passive, it is better to use the numerical advantage to engage in night street battles with the Qing army.

As for blasting the city, Zhu Yongxing believes that it is the most powerful and deterrent when it is first used. In the future, if the Qing army is prepared, it will increase many difficulties. Therefore, it is better to use it early than later, and it can kill and damage the enemy in the most amount, causing the enemy to be passive.

The shouts of killing were earth-shattering, and the dense torches were innumerable. Before Wu Guogui could sleep, he got up again and rushed to the city, and saw thousands of enemies flocking to the city from afar.

"What are you doing with the thief?" Wu Guogui was puzzled, not afraid, he was wondering if the enemy did not defend the city, and after giving up his hands, he came to attack the city, there was something wrong with his head, right?

"Your Excellency." A staff general obviously felt the same way, frowned and said: "There is fraud in it, I am afraid that it is to lead our army out of the city to fight, or to harass the tired soldiers." ”

"Out of the city?" Wu Guogui smiled and said, "At night? Are thieves stupid to think of us? ”

The general also smiled and said, "That chieftain, I'm afraid you really think so, right?" ”

Wu Guogui said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the chieftain of the clan is bluffing and wants to scare our army out of the city and flee, otherwise why would he besiege Sanqueyi?" It's a little trick, like child's play. ”

"The chieftain only knows how to besiege the city, but he doesn't know that the siege is extremely difficult." The general echoed and said: "Our army still has more than 7,000 soldiers and nearly 10,000 auxiliaries, even if there are 100,000 troops to attack, it is not possible to break the city in a short time. ”

Wu Guogui nodded with a smile, and then said with a serious face: "Don't be careless." The Art of War: To be prepared, our army must also strengthen its vigilance. Wait until dawn tomorrow, and then see the situation and go out of the city to defeat the enemy. ”

"My lord." The general bowed down to receive the order, turned around and gave the order.

A large number of Qing soldiers went up to the city wall and waited for it. This was a prudent move, and no matter what the enemy's intentions were, Wu Guogui took the most appropriate measures. Then, exercising his duties as a commander-in-chief, he made a tour along the city walls.

The rebels came to the city and unhurriedly lined up to surround the three sides of the city, while the sappers secretly opened the roof of the cave where they were hidden, went down inside, and lit the fuse.

Wu Guogui inspected the city gate, and saw that there were already elite soldiers guarding it, and his heart was determined, and he thought that the enemy was bluffing and making a plan to attack the heart, and he couldn't help but show a disdainful sneer.

There was a loud bang, which startled Wu Guogui and the people around him to turn their heads to look together, only to see a pillar of smoke and dust rising into the sky behind him, which could be seen clearly in the moonlight.

"What's going on?" Wu Guogui and the others were all shocked, they had never seen this kind of formation.

At this time, the rebels outside the city had already launched an attack, and the smoke and dust flew up to the tower. Natao gave the order, and thousands of soldiers shouted in unison, and bravely rushed to the gap in the wall filled with smoke and dust.

Under the rule of Yuanjiang, the four surnames of Fang, Yang, Pu, and Li were the most proficient at fighting, and the Przewalski's Tusi was close to Annan. There are often battles, and the native soldiers have a lot of combat experience.

The Platts soldiers swarmed in from the gap, and the surrounding ground was full of bricks and stones, and countless Qing soldiers were lying horizontally and vertically. At the time of the explosion just now, many Qing soldiers were standing on top of the collapsed city wall, and most of these Qing soldiers were the most experienced veterans in the city, and some of them were even killed in the east and west, and they were the backbone of Wu Guogui's troops.

These soldiers stand very closely, as this is more effective in killing and injuring enemies who are attacking the city. Outcome. These experienced veterans and officers were blasted into the sky along with the city wall, and the Qing soldiers in the nearby battlements also fell from the city wall, and those who did not fall off the city wall were also knocked over by the blast wave of the explosion, and could not get up again.

For the rebels standing half a mile away, the most that fell from the sky was to smash a bag in the face. But it was not so simple for the Qing soldiers who were on standby behind the city walls, first they were dizzy by the explosion, and then countless bricks fell crackling. Those Qing soldiers who were far away from the blasting point and were not killed or injured by the shock did not have time to dodge. A rain of bricks suddenly fell from the sky, and these Qing soldiers were taken by surprise.

When the rebels rushed in, the smoke and dust had not yet cleared. These native soldiers wielded broadswords and spears, and without saying a word, they stabbed at the Qing soldiers who fell to the ground gasping for breath, and in the blink of an eye, they cut down all the Qing soldiers who could still move after the opening, and then killed them along the city wall to the two gates of Shiping City.

At this time, Wu Guogui led a team of men and horses in a hurry, although he had not yet figured out what was going on. But he knew that the situation of the road had changed abruptly. A lantern was raised from the tower - a sign that the city had been breached by the enemy with incredible speed.

"Boom!" A loud explosion rang out again, this time from the east of the city. Wu Guogui, who was stunned, and the Qing soldiers led by him looked in the direction where the second loud noise came from, only to see that there was also a pillar of smoke, and dust, sand and dust filled the air, blocking part of the sky.

"How is that possible?" Wu Guogui was stunned and muttered to himself. I couldn't move for a long time, and the red lantern was soon raised in the East Tower.

"Boom!" Another explosion, this time in the south of the city, Wu Guogui looked at another red lantern that was rising, and he was going crazy. His head rattled, and he lost his ability to react in an instant.

Regarding the combat effectiveness of the native soldiers, the generals of the Ming army in the Yuanjiang Small Staff Department were obviously more reserved than Zhu Yongxing. Therefore, in the small Shiping City, the tactics of blasting on three sides and entering the city more points were adopted. Although a lot of gunpowder was wasted, the battle situation became clear at once, and the righteous army that entered the city in three ways divided the Qing army, and the numerical advantage was fully utilized. Although the scuffle continued, as the city gates were opened, more and more rebels entered the city to join the battle, and the defeat of the Qing army was assured.

The sound of shouts of killing, muskets, and explosions quickly spread throughout the city, and fighting was everywhere. The Qing army, which had lost its unified command, could only fight on its own, fighting with the rebels who rushed into the city in the streets and houses. The advantage of the Qing soldiers over field warfare was limited, and they could only meet the rebels in a narrow area, fighting for numbers and physical strength.

Wu Guogui led hundreds of soldiers to fight hard, rushed to the north, and broke the city on three sides, he reacted instinctively. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy has just broken through the city and has not yet penetrated deeply, whether it is to break through the streets from the north, or to join up with the troops from the north who may not have been involved in the melee, and then wait for the opportunity to fight, this is a more correct choice.

At first, it was indeed as Wu Guogui expected, the rebel army attacked the Qing army from both sides of the broken city, and the number of troops that penetrated into the streets of the city was not very large. But as time went by, a large number of rebels poured in, and the Qing soldiers led by Wu Guogui felt more and more pressure. The rebels who rushed out of the streets and alleys from time to time brought casualties to the Qing army, but also slowed down their advance.

A burst of musket fire erupted ahead, and a scream rang out. A group of Ming soldiers rushed out of the alley on the right side of the street, with neat armor, rushing quite calmly, chasing a group of Qing soldiers without hurrying. Rows of muskets fired fierce volleys from time to time, and streams of bloody arrows sprayed out, and this group of Qing queens continued to retreat, and they were wounded and fell to the ground and were soon hacked to death by the shield soldiers of the Ming army who rushed up with their blades.

This group of Ming troops fought out of the street and blocked the road of Wu Guogui's department, and the enemy and us were dozens of meters apart. Some officers shouted loudly, and the two teams of men and horses hurriedly formed a formation, and a bloody battle unfolded even on this street.

Wu Guogui observed this Ming army through the gap in protecting his own soldiers, and knew in his heart that this was an elite army, and it was by no means comparable to the native soldiers. Two rows of sword and shield hands squatted in the front, and a musket stretched out in the back, and suddenly a sharp whistle sounded, and the gunshots were filled with white smoke, and the Ming army took the lead in firing.

After a burst of screams, many Qing soldiers fell in the front row. However, it did not cause the Qing army to collapse, and with the shouts of the officers, the Qing army shouted and rushed forward. (To be continued......)