"Nailing stakes only makes it easier to climb, but it doesn't help much when it's really attacking." Zhu Yongxing gestured with his hand, "The angle of the steep slope is too large, and the elevation angle of seventy or eighty degrees, with a bow and arrow, is like shooting into the sky, and the damage to our army is very limited." As for the people, when attacking, they almost have to push him in the back, and if they fall down, they will probably knock down several. ”

After a pause, Zhu Yongxing continued: "The muskets bombarded condescendingly, and the shields and armor of the Qing army did not have much protective effect, so they could only fill it with human lives. Even if they captured the three lines of defense here at the cost of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, there were still a few passes behind, and the Qing army had a total of less than 20,000 men and horses, and each pass would have to pay heavy casualties, what strength did they have to attack Tengchong? ”

"Your Highness's wisdom and resourcefulness are extremely admirable." Dao Bailong first complimented, and then said meaningfully: "The rainy season is coming, at most there will be twenty days!" ”

"Yes! When the rainy season arrives, it will affect not only here, but the whole of Yunnan. It will be very difficult for the Qing army to transport grain and transfer troops. Moreover, they are not adapted to the rainy season in Yunnan at all, and they do not know how powerful it is. Zhu Yongxing glanced at Dao Bailong, and felt that this guy's head was not simple, and he could guess a winning condition that he didn't say.

"Your Royal Highness, King Li Jin and King Gongchang are either in Mubang or in Menggen, and there are also a lot of other Ming troops in the land of Sanxuan and Six Comforts." Dao Bailong cautiously bowed down and asked, "Why do you want to take a risk, and use the hastily closed Ming army to make a big show, instead of attracting the Qing army to come to fight?" ”

Of course, you don't know why I didn't rush to vote for Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan; You don't know that the strength of the Qing army in the hinterland of Yunnan at this time is not so strong; You don't know that if I only care about safety and delay time, I will only wait for the remnants of the Ming army in Yunnan Province to descend; You don't know how much negative impact the abandonment of the country and the retreat of the Son of Heaven will have on the forces that are still resisting the Qing Dynasty......

Zhu Yongxing groaned, and did not reprimand the rudeness of the sword white dragon, after a pause for a long time, he considered his words, and slowly spoke: "The Qing army seems to be strong, but it is actually weak, but there are very few people who can get a glimpse of this secret. I provoked with several remnants of the army, and I was sure of victory. The victory will break the myth that the Qing army is overwhelming and the gloom that envelops the Ming armies. ”

Dao Bailong retreated silently, he was in awe of Zhu Yongxing's book-burning confession, but based on the fear of the Qing army and the consideration of the safety of his own clan, he was always in a contradictory mood. In reality, the strength of several rendezvous Ming armies and reorganized Yongchang and Tengyue refugees was not something he and his clansmen could resist.

It would be good if we could defeat the Qing army, but if the Qing army won, would our clan be spared? Dao Bailong secretly smiled bitterly, the more powerful the Ming army's blockade, the more Qing troops were killed and wounded, and the Qing army's retaliation would be more tragic. Slaughtering the city and exterminating the clan, killing and looting, the Qing army's bad deeds in Yunnan are notorious, and he will understand his hardships and open his net, he does not dare to have any illusions.

Every time the Qing army died, it undoubtedly brought themselves and their clansmen closer to the Ming army. When the exhausted and devastated Qing army entered Tengchong and Zhanda, he and his people seemed to have only one way left, that is, to fight side by side with the Ming army and use force to avoid the cruel retaliation of the Qing army.

Of course, he can also fight back, hoping to exchange this for the forgiveness and forgiveness of the Qing army. But can the Qing army stay here for a long time, in order to avenge the clan in front of them, I am afraid that the tragedy of the revenge will not be weaker than that of the Qing army.

Dao Bailong's mind flipped, and he thought that there was no perfect solution, and it would be so difficult for Mingzhe to protect himself and be a wall grass.

"Do you know why the Mengshan Ke clan is fighting with all their might?" Zhu Yongxing glanced at Dao Bailong, whose face was uncertain, and asked lightly.

"I heard that His Royal Highness has appointed his patriarch as the commander of Annam, and his clan has been oppressed in Burma for a long time, so I followed His Highness into Yunnan to find a happy land." Dao Bailong was stunned for a moment, and replied truthfully.

This guy's degree of sinicization is quite high.,He even uses the word "Paradise".。 Zhu Yongxing smiled slightly and said, "Paradise, well, this word is used well. Where is the land of Cole, in Gaoping, Annam, you have to trek through mountains and rivers, and you have to fight bloody battles to get it. In this world, it is pitiful to trust one's fate to the mercy and forgiveness of others. God will not take care of people who are unwilling to give and work hard. Do the Mengshan Khat people believe in the distant happiness I promised, and do the local officials believe that I can defeat the Qing army and protect this side from the poison of the Qing army? ”

Dao Bailong was silent, Zhu Yongxing's meaning was already obvious, whether he was lucky, or fully supported the Ming army, he had to make a statement, even if this was a perfunctory statement, but it also needed to be proved by Dao Bailong in his actual actions in the future.

"There's no hurry." Zhu Yongxing waved his hand lightly, and his eyes had already turned to the front-line position, "Let's see how the Qing army can break through this dangerous place that I have arranged!" ”

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There were no guns, no artillery, and no bombing from airplanes. Wang Jinbao's mood at this time was even more helpless and angry than the expeditionary force that had attacked here with great difficulty hundreds of years later.

With the support of the nailed stakes, it is still extremely difficult to attack the back, and the bows and arrows fired by your own side pose little threat to the enemy, while the arrows and javelins fired by the enemy from a high altitude are not only far away, but also highly lethal. Coupled with the continuous musket fire, the casualties of the Qing army rose in a straight line, but they did not even touch the fence.

The old open flame gun has a large bullet and an unstable trajectory, which can cause severe trauma when hit on the body, and there is a history of death after being hit in the arm by a bullet. The open fire gun was most suitable for use in fixed, covered positional defensive battles, coupled with the continuous rain of bullets formed by the assembly line loading and firing method, which caused the Qing army to pay heavy casualties on the back.

The ascent is difficult, and the descent is extremely difficult. Many of the wounded fell, and because they had not had time to be transported down the mountain, they groaned and wailed in the dust, shedding the last drop of blood.

The blood has been shed too much. After three fruitless attacks, the floating soil in some places is turning into cement, red cement. The Qing troops who participated in the war were in a state of distress, their mouths and noses were already full of mud, and their heads, faces, and bodies were full of yellow dust, and none of them were not cursing this damn gray slope.

When the sun was sinking in the west, he looked at the king banner on the mountain again, and angrily gave the order to retreat, ending the day's costly upward attack.