The date of the wedding is approaching day by day, the streets of Haidu City are gradually decorated with lights, the court and the Di Bao, which have always argued with each other, gradually quieted down, the officials showed a relieved smile, and the Di Bao's verbal criticism and writing have also been reduced a lot, and they began to write eulogies in a large space.

On this day, the war report of Dingbei Province was transmitted into the post house by the flying pigeon, the post house did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent it to the cabinet, the cabinet exploded all of a sudden, and the war suddenly happened at this time, which was really unpredictable.

"Just in time!" Zhu Jun slapped the royal case, his face swollen red: "Now that my Ming soldiers are full of food, it is the time to kill the traitor Wu Sangui, and the king of my country has not moved, and this thief has found the door, and it is to bring about his own destruction." ”

Although Wu Sangui is a traitor, he is also a fierce general, and he wants to chase them back then, and he has his own ability to chase them into Myanmar in fear like a lost dog. Now that Wu Sangui is leading the army to attack, it must be well prepared, and it would be strange if the ministers were not panicked.

Zhu Jun's confident words made the ministers who were originally a little panicked settle down, yes, the sky can't fall, isn't there still an emperor? Since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, our emperor has overcome Ava with thousands of people, seized Burma, and led an army to the east, destroyed Siam, and went south to capture Java. Which time is not to defeat the many with the outnumbered, and defeat the strong with the weak? The emperor is not afraid, what are we worried about.

Next, the ministers began to discuss whether to go on the expedition first or to marry first. The date of the big wedding is the auspicious day selected by the Ministry of Rites, which has already been promulgated in the world, the main officials of the provinces have sent gifts, and the seasons of various countries have also arrived in Haidu, if it is postponed, it will be discredited to the world. However, the war in northern Myanmar is also the most important thing, and it is related to the country of the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be delayed.

This time, there is no need to argue, the ministers have asked the emperor to put state affairs first, and then consider the big wedding.

As soon as the court meeting ended, Zhu Jun wrote a secret decree and ordered people to fly pigeons to Dingbei. The yamen of the various official offices began to sign the carriage everywhere, and the city of Haidu had already spread the news of Wu Sangui's invasion, and everyone was still a little uneasy at first, but I heard that the emperor was going to drive the expedition in person. I think of the emperor's great military exploits in the past to conquer all directions, and the temperament shown by the Ming army stationed in the city during training. It's a little more reassuring.

The rise of Di Bao also indirectly awakened the sense of nationalism and nationalism among the people of Haidu, and after the uneasiness, the people of Haidu were not afraid, but were indignant and demanded that the thief Wu Sangui be punished. / The Northern Expedition to Yunnan saved the people from fire and water.

Yunnan is a large province in southern Xinjiang where many ethnic groups live, and there are not only Han Chinese among them. There are also people living in Burma, and even more people from Siam, and the people of Yunnan are living in dire straits. His Majesty the New First Emperor was the emperor of the Han, Miao, Yao, Gui, Wen, Karen and Shan ethnic groups, and should obey the Mandate of Heaven and launch the Northern Expedition.

This is the general view of the Haidu people, learning that the imperial court called for carriages, first the presidents and vice presidents of the chambers of commerce immediately expressed their enlistment, and after offering a hundred carriages, other local merchant groups followed. Then there were the squires and small traders. In the end, even the horsemen who usually solicited customers in Haidu City were not far behind, within a day. Two thousand carriages were lined up like a long line on the Arc de Triomphe.

Due to the lack of good horses in Nanyang, most of the horses in Haidu City were shipped by merchants from Arab and other countries, therefore, the carriage was full of tall and divine Arabian horses, in the neighing of horses, 15,000 Ming Army soldiers stationed in Haidu got into the carriage, Zhu Jun was firmly in the middle, and under the order of countless pairs of burning eyes, ten thousand horses galloped away.

Wu Sangui's Chinese army continued to retreat in Karen City, and the 10,000 troops of his henchman General Yuan Rang began to change from the rear team to the front team, and began to sweep near Karen City.

It has entered the fourth day of entering Burma, and the Wu army has entered a dilemma, neither daring to advance lightly, nor can it withdraw its troops, seeing that the morale is getting weaker and weaker, and the rumors among the soldiers are continuous, Wu Sangui can only look forward to the news of the vanguard army on the front line.

Whether Li Dingguo can be eliminated depends entirely on time, Wu Sangui estimates that Haidu's reinforcements will not arrive in at least ten days, that is, in these ten days, he must find Li Dingguo's main force and go down, otherwise the more the battle drags on, not only will the Ming army have time to breathe and reinforce, but also his morale will plummet, and there is only one way to withdraw troops.

Nowadays, all kinds of rumors have begun to spread in the barracks, especially the version of the last bombing of the camp incident has made the soldiers uneasy, many people secretly rumored that it was the evil ghosts who caused chaos, that is, the so-called ghost possession caused the soldiers of the bombing camp to go insane and fall into killing, and Dingbei is an ominous place, and there are many demons and monsters. Some also say that the local natives used witchcraft to control the soldiers, and some say that the gods did not want the Wu army to enter Burma to fight, so they sent disasters, and there are different versions, but each version is a favorable weapon to shake the morale of the army.

At this time, a spy covered in blood rode a fast horse into the city along the gallop road, and after a stick of incense, he had entered the yatang to report the military situation to Wu Sangui.

"Lord Wang, Admiral Yuan encountered the main force of the Dingbei thief army forty miles southeast of Kalun City, the enemy was 20,000 people, and suddenly lined up in the valley to attack my vanguard army, General Yuan personally supervised the battle, but the thieves were many and occupied the geographical advantage, and now they have been divided and besieged by the thief army, General Yuan let the small one come back and ask the prince to send troops to rescue, if it is delayed again, I am afraid that the vanguard army will be wiped out."

"Okay, Li Dingguo, you can't help it after all." Wu Sangui didn't laugh angrily, his excited old face was swollen red, and said, "Hurry up and gather the military horses left and right, and prepare to go out of the city to rescue." ”

With Li Dingguo's news is easy to do, the former army led by Yuan Rang is just Wu Sangui's bait, which was originally used to catch Li Dingguo to take the bait, and now Li Dingguo suddenly attacked Yuan Rang, as long as Yuan Rang can resist one more day, Wu Sangui can lead the Chinese army to fight to the death with Li Dingguo, the reinforcements of Haidu City are mostly infantry, and it will take seven or eight days to reinforce north on two legs at the earliest, as long as Li Dingguo is willing to fight hard, Wu Sangui absolutely believes that the Dingbei army can be wiped out within three days.

The Wu army quickly assembled and began to march to the southeast, Wu Sangui gave a heavy reward, but also boosted the morale of some of the Wu army, 50,000 troops carried countless hunting banners, under the opening of the 5,000 cavalry, quickly pounced on their destination.