At the end of the twelfth year of the new year, 4,000 Ming troops and nearly 30,000 rebels from all over Burma besieged the city of Ava, a few days later, the righteous king Li Dingguo poured out of the nest, nearly 15,000 troops drove to the city, Zhu Jun ordered the people to hold a banquet to reward the three armies.

"Long live the wechen Li Dingguo knocking to see my emperor!" Li Dingguo was inconspicuous, only about forty years old, his skin was slightly blackened, and his thin face was already in tears at this time.

"Righteous King, please rise." Zhu Jun quickly stepped forward to help Li Dingguo up, but he felt that Li Dingguo's body was extremely light, I was afraid that there was not a few taels of meat under the bronze armor, and his heart couldn't help but feel sour, the mountains and forests in northern Myanmar were steep, and Li Dingguo's department had no provisions, and he had to face Wu Sangui's encirclement and suppression every now and then, and the hardships could be imagined.

"The ministers and soldiers miss Your Majesty day and night, and if you can see the face of heaven today, it is worth ten thousand deaths." Li Dingguo held Zhu Jun's arm, and when he stood up straight, Zhu Jun found that his back was slightly hunched, and he couldn't help but stroke Li Dingguo's arched back with his hand and sighed: "General Li has worked hard." ”

Although this sentence did not have flowery rhetoric, it was Zhu Jun's heartfelt words, which caused the surrounding generals to sigh for a while.

After that, Zhu Jun rode a tall horse, accompanied by Li Dingguo and the commanders, inspected Li Dingguo's department, as Zhu Jun expected, these soldiers who were active in northern Burma were all ragged, yellow and thin, at this time it was winter, although Myanmar was southern, but still cold wind hit, many people had frozen lips and swollen. It's just that the spirit is very full, everyone's eyes are flashing with perseverance and unyielding, and wherever Zhu Jun stepped on the horse, there were ragged warriors holding up steel knives and spears that were already full of gaps and shouting long live.

At the end of the line, a strange phalanx made Zhu Jun pause, these soldiers and other soldiers

They were dressed in different clothes, with sweat toveins wrapped around their heads, and some even had feathers inserted into them, they were not wearing armor, they were holding scimitars in their hands and a simple longbow made of willow wood behind them, they were barefoot, and their faces were the same as those of other soldiers.

"Your Majesty, this is the Chuxiong Army, and it is the team of the Ming Tusi of all ethnic groups in Yunnan and northern Burma." Li Dingguo saw that Zhu Jun's eyes were full of curiosity, and reminded him.

There are many ethnic minorities in the southwest, and the Ming Dynasty's rule over Yunnan adopted a combination of the Tusi system and the Liuguan system, and gradually changed the land and returned to the stream. When the Qing people entered the customs, Wu Sangui led his troops to break through Yunnan, and the Qing people used troops in Yunnan for many years, which made the Tusi increasingly dissatisfied, and finally fell to the Ming Dynasty and joined Li Dingguo's team. Even after Li Dingguo's death, the ethnic minorities in the southwest were still dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and there were many rebellions, all of which were suppressed by the Manchus.

Zhu Jun nodded, rode his horse up the hill in the distance, turned his horse's head to face the black-pressed soldiers in front of him, and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers have meritorious service to the country, and they must be rewarded!" Where is the quartermaster? ”

A half-old general in the team stood up, half-knelt and said, "The last general." ”

"I have asked people to rush to make cotton armor, be sure to let the soldiers survive the winter, you are responsible for reporting the amount of cotton armor needed, in addition, there are swords, bows and crossbows and other weapons, if there is a shortage, they are all listed."

"The last will obey." The quartermaster's face showed joy, in the army of northern Burma, the most difficult is the quartermaster, what do you want, it's basically just a fictitious title, this is not counted, finally got a little bit of food, and each battalion sent someone to ask for it, if you don't give him he will be scolded, give him a little bit and it is not good, every day the battalion officers of each battalion come to report the required supplies. But your quartermaster is not Sun Wukong, where has so many things come out, so naturally he is complained about everywhere, and even ordinary sergeants don't have a good face when they see you.

"In addition, all the soldiers will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and I will give each of you a piece of land in southern Burma, and some properties will be purchased, so that in the future, the soldiers can go there to retire." The idea of buying property for the soldiers was thought up by Zhu Jun, so that they could give full play to their desire to survive and defend the land without worries, so that everyone could maintain a relatively high combat effectiveness. And Zhu Jun also hid some careful thoughts, these soldiers have an industry in southern Myanmar, and they also have concerns, if there are officers who incite rebellion, everyone also has a layer of consideration, now there is a good field and land, someone seditions rebellion or can get benefits from the Qing Dynasty is the official, none of these soldiers have a fart, no matter how stupid the soldiers are, I am afraid they will not be fooled.

"Long live my emperor!" The soldiers looked happy and replied.

"I will never treat the loyal people badly, not much to say, everyone will go back to the camp to rest and attack the city tomorrow." Zhu Jun pulled his horse down the hill and rode away with a cadre.

It is said that it is a siege, in fact, it should be more vivid to besiege the city, Zhu Jun's current army and horses have nearly 50,000 people, although only Zhu Jun's department and Li Dingguo's department really have combat effectiveness, but the momentum is also very huge, Wang Mangbai did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle in Zhu Jun's might, and only shrank in the city to defend. Zhu Jun is not in a hurry, now his reputation in Burma is in full swing, more and more county guards give full play to the spirit of beating the water dogs, and issue a crusade to join Zhu Jun's crusade army, Wang Mangbai is unstable inside, there are no reinforcements outside, and it is only a matter of time before he breaks through Ava City, Zhu Jun arranged the siege of the city while ordering Liu Er to go back to southern Myanmar to disassemble a few Francophone cannons and transport them to the front line from the Sidang River by medium-sized transport ships.

Wang Mangbai's life in the city is not easy, the whole Ava City is surrounded by iron buckets, all kinds of rumors in the city are flying all over the sky, the Ming army outside the city has put down the words, only kill the rebel Wang Mangbai, the rest of the people are not guilty, if someone offers his head, the reward is not to mention that there are officials to do. Wang Mangbai is cautious every day, and always feels that the generals and guards around him seem to be wrong to look at him.

At this point, Wang Mangbai has long lost his former violence, and turned to worry about his own life, he kept gathering his henchmen to ask, everyone means to go out of the city to fight, Wang Mangbai shook his head, the battle is simply a joke, the Ming army alone has broken the 20,000 elites of Aduo, although there are still 20,000 people in the city, but the Ming army outside the city has Li Dingguo's department and the reinforcements led by the county guards from all over the city, and it has reached 50,000 people, which is more than twice as much as himself, what is the difference between going out and sending him to death?

In the end, the henchmen threw out the killer weapon and surrendered! Wang Mangbai hesitated, in order to compete for this throne, he has been secretly operating for more than ten years, and finally succeeded, before his ass can sit firmly, he is about to become a prisoner, such a result is really unacceptable to him. But there is only one life, Wang Mangbai feels more and more that time is pressing, I heard that the Ming army outside the city is transporting Francophone cannons to bombard the city, and it will be transported in a few days, and at that time, the chips for surrender will be gone.

On this day, Wang Mangbai and his henchmen were locked in the palace hall for a whole night, and the next morning, he walked out of the palace door blankly, and his feet slipped and staggered in a trance, and a henchman stepped forward to support him, and he waved his hand to the henchman: "There is no business for you here, you go and do it according to our discussion, if the Ming army feels that the conditions are harsh, you can also lower it, but it is necessary to ensure the safety of the king and the family, the king does not fight with them, just want to be a rich man for the rest of his life." ”

The henchman nodded and walked briskly away.

At noon, the defenders on the upper floor of Ava City loaded a Burmese official with a hanging rope to put down the city, the Burmese official went down to the Ming army camp after going down the city, and waited out of the range of the bow and arrow of the city tower, several Ming soldiers who had already patrolled intercepted him, and after the report, the Ming soldiers were not embarrassed, and took him to the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Report!" A lieutenant flew into the tent and dragged a long voice.

"Tell the emperor that there is a Burmese official in Ava City who wants to see him."

Zhu Junzheng and Li Dingguo were talking in the camp, and when they saw the captain's announcement, they already knew that the Burmese officials were asking for peace, and now Wang Mangbai had betrayed his relatives and left, and he was guarding a lonely city that would be broken sooner or later, and he was afraid that he would surrender for his life.

Zhu Jun glanced at Li Dingguo inquiringly, and Li Dingguo said: "Your Majesty, go to the army to fight, this person still has to meet him, let's see what he says first." ”

Zhu Jun had already had this intention, and said to the captain: "Please let him in." ”