Chapter 303: The plan to go to the country

Yang Gao said: "It's not once or twice that we fight recklessly, and we still talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality in extraordinary times." If there is benevolence and righteousness in this world, the dog thief Wu Sangui will not chase after us! ”

Li Dingguo said: "Then we have no choice but to raise troops again." Speak with a sword, attack Burma by force, and force Mangda to hand over the emperor! ”

Yang Gao said: "King Jin, I am the first to agree with your plan. But the Forces nouvelles cannot leave northern Burma, otherwise our situation will be even more difficult. ”

With a "bang", Yang Qiaoran put the musket on the table: "This can't be done, that's not possible." Back then, I shouldn't have allowed the saint to enter Burma, but now the saint is under house arrest, but he is obsessed, if he doesn't care that Zhu Youlang is the nominal emperor, I would have led my new army into Ava City a long time ago, making us very passive, how can we be embarrassed? ”

Yang Gao said: "Mangda fought with our army, suffered heavy casualties, suffered great losses, and the hearts of the people in the country fluctuated, it is very likely that there will be a new coup d'état, so we can take advantage of the situation to enter!" ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "The coup d'état can't be too optimistic, if it is a coup d'état that favors the Qing court, the emperor's life will not be guaranteed." ”

Yang Qiaoran said: "It's not superfluous to worry, this governor still says the same - enter Ava City, occupy the whole of Burma, and use it as a new reserve base for my Ming Dynasty against the Qing army!" ”

Li Dingguo and Yang Gaoxue stood up: "Your Excellency the Governor is far-sighted, just follow your wishes!" As a result, the plan of the Southern Ming Army to send troops to capture the city of Ava in Burma was in full swing......

As Yang Qiaoran expected, on May 23, 1661, the younger brother of the king of Burma, Mang Bai, made a move before the Ming army attacked the city of Ava, staged a palace coup, and executed the Burmese king Mangda to stand on his own.

Mangbai sent an envoy to ask Emperor Yongli for a congratulatory gift, Zhu Youlang was unable to take out a decent thing at this time, the dead duck was still hard-mouthed, and refused to recognize Mangbai's provisional government, so the congratulatory gift was also exempted, which angered Mangbai, who was eager to obtain the recognition of the suzerain, and decided to kill all the officials accompanying Zhu Youlang, so he sent someone to inform the Yongli courtiers to cross the river to discuss the matter.

Mang Bai used the "Drinking Curse Water Oath" to set up an ambush of 3,000 soldiers under the Boyan Tower, Mu Tianbo knew that this was a trap, or did he not hesitate to contact Mang Bai instead of Zhu Youlang.

At the "cursed water oath" ceremony, the Burmese army launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Nanming officials, killing more than 40 civil and military officials, including Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, Wei Bao, and Ma Jixiang.

While doing it, Mang Bai immediately burned down the bamboo city, and ransacked Zhu Youlang's residence, and closely monitored Zhu Youlang and others.

Deng Kai, the general soldier who survived the "cursed water oath", fled back to Yunnan in the chaos and sent the news to Li Dingguo through the "Heaven and Earth Society".

After receiving the news, Li Dingguo regretted very much that he did not attack Ava City before Mang Bai made a move, so he sent Bai Wenxuan to build a pontoon bridge over the river seventy miles away from Riawa City to attack Mang Bai and his gang.

Who knows that the people of Myanmar have spread the news of the invasion of the Yanming army, and the news spread. The Burmese army, which got the news, was in danger and sent someone to secretly cut the vine slivers on the pontoon bridge with a knife, but the Ming army was unaware.

When the Ming army launched a general attack, there was no pontoon bridge as a support, and it could not reach the other side, so it had to withdraw, and the last operation to enter Burma to rescue Zhu Youlang was a complete failure.

On the first day of December, Wu Sangui led 100,000 Qing soldiers to the outskirts of Ava, Burma, and the Burmese king Mangbai sent Emperor Yongli and his mother, son, wife and concubine to the Qing army. The Manchu general Dingxi General Ai Xing A proposed to surrender Yongli to Beijing and let the imperial court dispose of it.

In order to establish his immortality, the traitor Wu Sangui played three times, urging the imperial court to execute Yongli on the spot, in case there was a change on the way, and Emperor Shunzhi did not approve it for a long time.

When it was time for the New Year, Wu Sangui issued a proclamation, saying that before the New Year, Zhu Youlang and others would be beheaded by Dianchi Lake. Of course, this is a trap, and Wu Sangui wants to take this opportunity to wipe out the anti-Qing forces in Yunnan.

Yang Qiaoran in northern Myanmar heard the news, and despite Yang Xuegao's dissuasion, he insisted on bringing more than 30 people, pretending to be Burmese jewelry merchants, and with the help of the Heaven and Earth Society, they arrived in Kunming unimpeded.

Wu Sangui is like a hunting dog, with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and he has been alert to the heroes and heroes who secretly infiltrated Kunming City, and in order to cast a long line to catch big fish, he did not order a city-wide search, but he hoped that the anti-Qing elements would surface themselves.

December 30, outside the city of Kunming.

It had just rained lightly and the air was exceptionally fresh. On the edge of Dianchi Lake, the sun is shining, the lake water is blue, and fishermen fishing by the lake are forbidden to go down to the lake to work.

A large group of Qing troops escorted "Zhu Youlang" and his followers to the execution ground slowly, Wu Sangui led his minions to personally supervise the beheading, he moved a Taishi chair next to the beheading platform, closed his eyes to recuperate, and quietly waited for the arrival of noon.

There were tens of thousands of onlookers, Wu Sangui was very calm, the eagle dogs of the Qing court had long pretended to be the masses and hid in the crowd, as long as the wind blows, thousands of killers could surround the remnants of the armed personnel of the Southern Ming Dynasty who dared to rob the law field at any time.

Three o'clock in the afternoon had passed, and the crowd of onlookers was still calm. Wu Sangui saw that the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty still hadn't shown up, so he was impatient, and thought: Could it be that they have already seen through the king's plan, it is impossible.

Wu Sangui slowly got up from the chair, threw the token to the ground, and shouted: "The hour has come, the execution-"

"Zhu Youlang" struggled to stand up and scolded: "Dog traitor, Wu Sangui, I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty." According to the law, the whole corpse should be retained, so why use beheading! ”

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "Er is the king of the fallen country, and he has been fighting against my Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and he should be cut by a thousand cuts." This king has beheaded you, which is enough face! ”

Qing general Ai Xinga stepped forward and said, "Yongli tastes the king of China, if he is beheaded now, it will be too miserable, and he should still be given to commit suicide, and he will be decent." ”

Wu Sangui responded: "Ai Ah Xing, you are a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, intercede for this dying person, are you not afraid that this king will join you?" ”

Ai Ah Xing said: "King Pingxi, don't be too ruthless, you were just a general of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning!" ”

Wu Sangui laughed: "What's wrong with the general, aren't you still controlled by me?" This king has his own measure, and it is not your turn to point fingers, so quickly retreat—"

The others wanted to step forward and continue to plead, but when they saw that Wu Sangui insisted on beheading "Zhu Youlang", they had to retreat.

"Zhu Youlang" spat at Wu Sangui: "Dog traitor, I won't let you go if I'm a ghost!" ”

Wu Sangui smiled: "Zhu Youlang, let's talk about it when you become a ghost!" Execution—"

Click, click—the executioner beheaded the Nanming official with a swing of the ghost-headed knife, and blood splattered all over the ground.

"Zhu Youlang" was like earth at this time, and shouted: "Where is my loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty?" I'm going to die from the knife soon, why don't you save me when you die-"

The executioner behind him took a sip of wine, sprayed it on the knife, and then raised the ghost-headed knife with a cold light, and was about to fall. Yang Qiaoran in the crowd couldn't hold his breath, and if he didn't make a move, the emperor would be finished.

Yang Qiaoran raised his hands and threw out a shuttle four-cornered dart, the executioner was killed instantly, and the guards on the execution ground fell to the ground one after another, and there was chaos immediately. The crowd of onlookers constantly broke through the cordon of the Qing army and flocked to Wu Sangui's prison platform.

Wu Sangui's thousands of killers took off their coats, drew machetes, and slaughtered the unarmed crowd. Hundreds of Qing army guards protected Wu Sangui to the death, and they couldn't take care of "Zhu Youlang".

Yang Qiaoran rushed forward, and his hands were about to help "Zhu Youlang" up. Unexpectedly, "Zhu Youlang" took advantage of Yang Qiaoran's defenselessness, quickly took out a short knife from his boots, stabbed Yang Qiaoran in the lower abdomen, and slashed at Yang Qiaoran with his fist. Yang Qiaoran knew that he had been fooled at this time, endured the severe pain, fought back with one hand, and pulled out the soft sword on his waist with the other hand, only to see a white light slash, and the killer's head flew several feet away.

Yang Qiaoran shouted: "Brothers, we have been tricked, withdraw quickly!" ”

Dozens of his men pulled out muskets and opened fire on the enemy, trying to rescue Yang Qiaoran, who was deeply encircled. There are more and more Qing troops, and if they don't withdraw, they will be wiped out.

Dozens of daredevils threw their hands at the Qing army, dozens of ** exploded, smoke screens rolled, and the enemy suffered countless casualties. Yang Gaoxue led a dozen or so people to the outside of the encirclement and fought with the enemy.

Yang Qiaoran in the inner layer knew that he couldn't get out, so he was so anxious that he ordered loudly: "Leave me alone, go quickly-"".

A Qing army with the appearance of a school captain hugged Yang Qiaoran from behind, and Yang Qiaoran stabbed the soft sword in his chest, reaching the school captain behind, and the sword blade pierced diagonally through the back of the school captain.

Yang Qiaoran drew his soft sword again, and the lieutenant fell to the ground and died. The Qing army continued to fight over, and Yang Gaoxue couldn't get close to Yang Qiaoran.

Yang Qiaoran took off his coat, lit the ** bag on his body, and ran towards Wu Sangui: "Wu Sangui, today I will send you to the West Heaven to eliminate harm for the people!" ”

Seeing this, hundreds of Qing troops did not dare to flee for their lives, and desperately protected Wu Sangui.

Yang Gaoxue saw that Yang Qiaoran was determined to die with the enemy, so he had no choice but to throw homemade urges, tears, and bullets, waiting for an opportunity to break out of the encirclement.

With a loud "boom", the prison beheading platform was blown into the air, and many Qing soldiers were killed and wounded. Wu Sangui had a big life and only suffered a little skin injury.

Yang Qiaoran was blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, Wu Sangui was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, pointing to Yang Qiaoran's body and shouting hysterically: "Throw this traitor into Dianchi Lake to feed the fish, quickly-" The Qing army threw Yang Qiaoran's body into the lake......

On April 25, the sixteenth year of Yongli (1662), Zhu Youlang and his mother and concubine were sent by Wu Sangui to be locked up in a small temple on the outskirts of Kunming, and Wu Sangui personally brutally strangled Zhu Youlang with a bowstring......

When the bad news came, Li Dingguo felt that the banner of supporting the Ming Dynasty and resisting the Qing Dynasty had collapsed, the general trend had gone, and he was unable to return to the sky.

The few soldiers and horses of the Southern Ming Dynasty were stationed in the sparsely populated tropical rainforest area, where there was a serious shortage of food and medicine, and more than half of the people died of illness. Li Dingguo had no choice but to follow Yang Qiaoran's instructions before his death, ordering all the troops to withdraw to the northern Burma plateau (now the Kokang region of Burma), and he was no longer able to organize a large-scale army to kill back to Yunnan and expel Wu Sangui and other Qing troops from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. At this point, Nanming's history in China has disappeared and drawn a tragic end.