Kunming City, Yunnan Prefecture, the history of the city is as thick as her towering city wall, after the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan, Ming Hongwu 14 years, the Ming general Fu Youde, Lan Yu and Mu Ying led the division into Kunming, ending the reign of the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan, leaving Mu Ying to guard Yunnan. In the following year, Mu Ying abandoned the earthen city in Kunming, built a brick city wall, and surrounded the Yuantong Mountain into the city.

There is a folk proverb: "There are three mountains and one water in Kunming." "The three mountains are Yuantong Mountain, Wuhua Mountain, Zuban Mountain and Cuihu. The Ming Dynasty built the city wall with a total length of nine miles and three points, two zhang and nine feet two inches high, the city wall opened six gates in total, and built six city towers. The city wall of Kunming in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, there is a river around the city, and boats can be used. Outside the heavy customs, across the pass of Qu City, the street outside the city is more than one zhang wide, divided into three roads, walk its way, depending on the person, the official line left, the business family line right, the prince and noble line, the hierarchy is clear.

Wu Sangui spent a lot of effort to build the Kunming city wall when he defended Yunnan, after the fall of Wu Sangui, the Qing Dynasty recovered the Kunming city, successively repaired the Kunming city wall 23 times, and carried out a great reconstruction and expansion of the streets inside and outside the city, the suburbs set up 3 squares and 24 shops, more than 150 streets, more than 400 lanes.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty took Kunming as the capital of Yunnan Province and called the capital of Yunnan as the provincial capital or the capital city. Yunnan Prefecture has jurisdiction over four prefectures and eight counties, namely Jinning, Anning, Kunyang, Songming, Kunyang, Yiliang, Songming, Fumin, Chenggong, Yimen, Lufeng, Roots eight counties.

Du Wenxiu's Dali Righteous Army and Chen Yucheng's Taiping Army marched east and west and attacked Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, and Peng Yulin, the new governor of Yunnan, took over and did everything possible to defend the key passes around Kunming. However, the Dali Righteous Army and the Taiping Army attacked fiercely, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated. Four states and eight counties were lost one after another. The Dali Righteous Army and the Taiping Army each met in Shunlì in Chenggong County on New Year's Day.

Two days later, Du Wenxiu personally rushed to the Chenggong Mansion to meet with Chen Yucheng, a general of the Taiping Army, and the two sides each led their cronies and generals to gather together. After the host and guest are seated. Du Wenxiu hugged his fists and apologized in the first place under Chen Yucheng: "Chen Shuai Mingjian, his subordinates did not know the official position of the Heavenly Kingdom before, and they arbitrarily sealed the name of the Generalissimo of the Soldiers and Horses, but now under Mr. Lu's suggestion, they already know that the position of the Generalissimo is extremely honorable in the Heavenly Kingdom, and before the army went to the East, his subordinates have accepted the title of the Heavenly Kingdom. Since he took the title of generalissimo, he also asked Chen Shuai to present a plea to the king of the west on his behalf. Now that the two armies are united, their subordinates are willing to lead the Dali Righteous Army under their command to drive them. ”

Chen Yucheng smiled slightly before speaking. A white-clothed and talented person beside Du Wenxiu spoke: "Chen Shuai, at the beginning of the Dali Righteous Army, everything was difficult, and Du Shuai had to take the post of generalissimo as a last resort. Before the Righteous Army marched from Dali to the east. The king of the west has already personally named Du Shuai as the Marquis of Pingnan. Du Shuai went to the post of generalissimo, and now the two armies will meet, and he will listen to Chen Shuai's unified command as soon as he is ready."

Chen Yucheng smiled again, this Xiucai should be the helmsman of the Yunnan branch of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lu Pan, when he was ordered to enter Yunnan westward, not only did he follow the rebellion of Du Wenxiu and others against the Qing Dynasty, but also when Du Wenxiu raised his army, he worshiped as a military advisor with his knowledge and strategy. Obeying his words, the alliance between the two armies and the annexation of Du Wenxiu's righteous army were single-handedly promoted by Lu Pan. It laid a solid foundation for the Taiping Army to enter Yunnan, which is really indispensable.

At present, after the two armies meet, how to unify the command is indeed a problem, Du Wenxiu showed his attitude as soon as he came up, obviously Lu Pan had persuaded Du Wenxiu, and then Chen Yucheng looked at the Xiucai, and smiled at Du Wenxiu: "Du Shuai doesn't have to ask for guilt, when this matter comes, the King of the West has already explained, and the cause and effect of this Shuai already knows." The Dali Righteous Army fought hard in the early days, if there was no Du Shuai to hold high the banner, I was afraid that I would not be able to unite the righteous army from all walks of life, what is the crime? Now that the King of the West has awarded the title of Marquis of Pingnan, Du Shuai is also the Marquis of Pingnan of the Kingdom of Heaven, and as for the generals under Du Shuai, they naturally also have the title and official position of the Kingdom of Heaven. ”

Du Wenxiu and his subordinate Ma Rulong and other generals were overjoyed after looking at each other. Now the Taiping army swept across the southwest, the soldiers were unstoppable, the previous Zhu Hongying Department of the Heaven and Earth Society was unwilling to attach, and the result was solved by the Taiping army, this matter has been heard of by the Dali Righteous Army, and there is a military advisor Lu Pan, a person from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, persuaded that the generals of the Dali Righteous Army naturally want to belong to the Taiping Army.

After the matter of the inauguration was decided, Chen Yucheng praised: "Before entering Yunnan, I heard that Du Shuai was benevolent and benevolent. ”

Du Wenxiu said a few words of humility, Chen Yucheng looked at several Taiping generals under his command and said with a smile: "Tell you about a little thing about Du Shuai, these things are true, after Du Shuai's army took possession of Dali, the pigs in Dali City have almost been killed, and the Han, Bai, and Yi people have to eat mutton instead." After Du Shuai took command of the army, he ordered to open a market for buying and selling pork at the south gate and the east gate. It is said that on several occasions, Hermes-Epitek bought pork and passed in front of the Shuaifu and was severely beaten by the Shuaifu soldiers. In the future, not to mention that the people who bought pork did not dare to pass by, and others took a detour for fear of being beaten. For a while, the front of the Shuaifu was deserted. When Du Shuai learned of this, he was very angry, and severely trained the soldiers who beat people, and ordered each of them to take a gong and go to the street to publicize it. Soon the Shuai Mansion Gate was full of people again, and it was lively. It is not easy for Du Shuai and other generals of the rebel army to respect other sects, accept the people of other ethnic groups, and unite the people of all ethnic groups in 53 counties west of Dali and other places. ”

The main body of the Dali Righteous Army is the Hui Army, and there are many soldiers in other places in the Taiping Army who also believe in Allah, so they all know the habit of believing in this doctrine, and they all admire Du Wenxiu's temperament at the moment.

Du Wenxiu couldn't imagine that Chen Yucheng also knew about such a trivial matter, and said gratefully at the moment: "Chen Shuai praised it falsely, I only think about the integration of the three religions, and it is not the best policy to kill and stop killing. It is advisable to treat everyone equally, and it is not allowed to bully each other, so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, and can be crushed into a fist and fight against the Qing Dynasty together. ”

Chen Yucheng applauded and smiled: "Du Shuai said it well, he is worthy of being the first person in the Yunnan Righteous Army." Then he said to several division commanders: "Now that we have joined forces with the righteous army, we should order our subordinate soldiers to strictly abide by the customs and habits of the people in various places, and there are also soldiers of other clans and other religions in each army, and if there are any taboos and habits, inform the soldiers to strictly abide by them in the morning, and they shall not violate the taboos of others, and those who violate the military law will be severely punished!" ”

Several Taiping Army generals got up together to receive orders, and Du Wenxiu and other righteous army generals also smiled when they saw that the Taiping Army respected their respective doctrines and customs, and after gossiping with each other, they became more and more familiar.

After Chen Yucheng finished talking about the first thing to pay attention to after the division, he changed his words and talked about the current military, "The two armies have met, the righteous army has 100,000 horses, and our fifth army has 80,000 horses, although the number is far more than the Qing army, but the armies captured the land of four states and eight counties, and divided a lot of troops, and now the two armies participating in the siege of Yunnan Fucheng add up to only 80,000 people, and most of the righteous army is still blocked west of Biji Pass. The Qing army claims to be 150,000 defenders of the city, although it is a lie of the Qing army, but the commander estimates that there are still 100,000, and the elite Qing army will not exceed 30,000, and the rest should be regimental training soldiers or Tusi soldiers who are closely related to the Qing army. ”

Chen Bingwen, the commander of the Fifth Army, stood up and saluted everyone and said: "According to the intelligence, Peng Yulin built a long base along the Panlong River, and sent troops to guard the long base, and the base was equipped with sandbags, mud domains, and barbed wire to avoid our army's bullets, and there were more than 10,000 Qing troops guarding the dangerous Biji Pass, more than 10,000 men and horses guarding the Changworm Mountain, and 8,000 sailors guarding the key points of Dianchi Lake. Yuantong and other hills have Qing army artillery arrays, and the artillery positions are surrounded by dense fire and arrow teams, archery teams, broadsword teams, and shuttle dart teams. The defense is still extremely tight, and Peng Yulin is not under Jiang Zhongyuan. ”

Chen Yucheng smiled slightly and said: "He was also forced out, in this case, even if Yunnan Mansion is a hard bone, we have to gnaw him down, starting tomorrow, all departments will be divided into pieces according to the strategy of the General Staff, and within a limited period of time, first sweep away the Qing army on the periphery of Yunnan Mansion." ”

All the generals received the order together, and Du Wenxiu asked a little anxiously: "Chen Shuai, where are we going to fight?" You can't just leave us aside. ”

Chen Yucheng knew that Du Wenxiu was anxious, and patiently explained: "Du Shuai rest assured, most of the righteous army is blocked west of Biji Pass, and it is difficult to deploy the troops. After the rest is over, your ministry has another task. ”

Du Wenxiu had seen the sharp guns of the Taiping Army, and he couldn't imagine that the Taiping Army would generously provide them to the righteous army, so he was overjoyed and said: "What is the task, Chen Shuai is okay to talk about it." ”

Chen Yucheng pointed to the map of Yunnan and said: "The Dali Righteous Army occupies 53 counties west of the provincial capital, but there are still Qing army feudal counties in the west, south and north. The Qing army guarded the city of Kunming tightly, and there was Dianchi Lake and the outside world, the Qing army and some local Tusi could still transport soldiers, equipment, food and ammunition and other materials to the city through the Guò Dianchi waterway, although the Qing army was besieged, but some stubborn Tusi in various places still did not change their minds, and there were often sneak attacks on our army. Although our army besieged the city, the city was besieged but not trapped. According to this, for a long time, the Qing army will not be trapped, but our army will be trapped. Therefore, he also asked Du Shuai to lead his troops and horses to quickly sweep the states and counties in the west, south, north and other places. Fucheng has our Taiping army as the main attack, and after Fucheng was defeated, the two armies entered the city together. ”

After thinking for a while, Du Wenxiu decisively got up and hugged his fists and said: "My subordinates have received orders, tomorrow I will first send a group of soldiers and horses to the north to attack Dongchuan Mansion, Qujing Mansion and other places, cut off the road of the Qing army in the north to aid the south, and after most of the troops rested, they will immediately divide their troops and attack Chuxiong, Pu'er, Yuanjiang and other places to the south." ”

Chen Yucheng stroked his palm and smiled: "That's right, the detailed strategy will be sent by the commander to contact your ministry later." (To be continued......)