"Alert!" Duan Gong shouted loudly.

Suddenly, all the soldiers on the city wall were in full formation, each holding a weapon in their hands, and they were ready to defend.

A moment later, the knight on horseback rushed to the bottom of the city, turned over and dismounted.

It turned out to be Dali's own horse scout.

Duan Gong immediately sent someone to bring him in.

"What's going on?" Duan Gong asked with a frown.

"Chief, I just received news that Chen Youliang is leading an army to Puzhou, and it is estimated that it will take a few days to reach Puzhou." The knight said.

"Do you know how many soldiers and horses Chen Youliang brought?" Duan Gong asked.

"It's said to be about 50,000." The knight replied.

"What? About 50,000, Chen Youliang is crazy, isn't he afraid of a fire in the backyard? After Duan Gong heard the news, his face changed.

Chen Youliang previously claimed that the 100,000 army, Duan Gong didn't believe it at all, but now the 50,000 reported by Tanma should not be wrong.

Even if it was an army of 50,000, it was not something that more than 10,000 people under Duan Gong could defeat.

Duan Gong just couldn't understand, could it be that Chen Youliang poured out of the nest, so he wasn't afraid that there would be rebellion in Dali City and Kunming City in the rear?

"You go down and rest first!" Duan Gong waved his hand and said.

After the knight left, Duan Gong fell silent again.

After a while, Duan Gong stood up, and then ordered: "Pass the order, let all the officials in the city come to the council hall immediately!" ”

Soon, all the officials in the Puzhou Mansion were gathered, and the Puzhou officials were basically here this time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chen Youliang's army is less than three hundred miles away from Puzhou, what do you think we should do?" Duan Gong sat on the chair and asked.

"Lord Qiqi, the last general thinks that we should clear the wilderness and wait for the enemy army to cause chaos." An official said.

"The last general seconded it!" Another military general next to him stood up and said.

Duan Gong shook his head, and then said: "The enemy army is menacing, and we can't stop the other party at all, but Chen Youliang has many firearms, and it is easy to destroy the city and pull out the fortress." ”

"This..." After everyone heard Duan Gong's words, they were all stunned for a moment.

"If Chen Youliang doesn't have many soldiers and horses, we can still hold on, but since Chen Youliang has brought so many troops, we will definitely not be able to hold Puzhou, so the goal is to preserve our strength, and we must give up Puzhou City!" Duan Gong said categorically.

Everyone knows that what Duan Gong said makes sense.

But if you really want to give up Puzhou City, you are a little reluctant in your heart.

Because, once they lose Puzhou, the revival of Dali will be in vain, and this is the last city in Duan Gong's hands.

"Governor, Puzhou can't be lost, what should we do with the people in Puzhou, they have lived in Puzhou City for generations." An official said worriedly.

"Chief, Puzhou City must not be lost!" Other officials followed suit.

Duan Gong took a deep breath, and then said: "Chen Youliang's soldiers and horses are too strong, since Puzhou can't stand it, then leave Chen Youliang with an empty city and retreat with the people of Puzhou." ”

"Retreat?"

"The people of the city?"

"Where to retreat?"

After everyone heard Duan Gong's decision, the boss with staring eyes asked with a puzzled face.

"Let's take a break for the time being, retreat to Bangya first, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback!" Duan Gong explained slowly.

"Boss, Bangya is not our territory!"

"Chief, the land in Bangya is barren, how can you support the army and civilians?"

"When Chen Youliang occupies Puzhou, is he willing to let us stay in Bangya?"

"That is, I think it is better to fight to the death?"

The crowd immediately opposed it in unison, and their opposition was not without reason.

If they really want to follow Duan Gong's plan, once they continue to retreat south, Chen Youliang will definitely occupy the entire territory of Yunnan, and when that time comes, Duan Gong and the others, who are a lone army, will have no chance even if they want to fight hard with Chen Youliang.

Rather than that, it is better to use Puzhou's city defense to repel Chen Youliang's attack.

Fight for the last shred of life for yourself.

Faced with the doubts of many generals, Duan Gong had his own ideas.

He waved his hand to stop the quarrel of the generals, and then said calmly.

"Now that Chen Youliang's forces are strong, it is no longer something we can resist, instead of pinning our hopes on repelling a strong enemy in Puzhou, it is better to dodge south first, and we can also use this time to look for reinforcements outside."

"Looking for reinforcements?"

Hearing that they were looking for reinforcements, the generals seemed to see hope again, but the light in their eyes soon dimmed again, because now the Yuan Dynasty's Liang King Bazara Valmi in Yunnan has been defeated and died, and a large number of Mongolian soldiers have also been killed by Chen Youliang, where are the reinforcements?

"Although Da Yuan is no longer good, I still have a Da Ming." Duan Gong said steadily.

"What? Does the governor mean to lead us to surrender to the Ming army? ”

For the decision to surrender to the Ming army, these Dali generals were not very optimistic.

Because they had already heard what the Ming army had done, it was no worse than Chen Youliang.

The Ming army not only did they fight local tyrants and divide the land in the Central Plains, but even the Tusi in Guizhou, which was close to Chi Qi, were beaten by the Ming army, and the land and people they had ruled for hundreds of years were divided up by the Ming army.

If the Ming army came to Yunnan, the rights of these Dali generals would definitely not be recognized, even if it was the Ming army that Duan Gong led them to surrender, there would be absolutely no difference between the surrender and Chen Youliang in the end.

"Chen Youliang is a loser's dog, lost the territory of Hubei and entered Sichuan, and then came to attack our Yunnan, what he wants is to rely on the manpower and material resources of Yunnan and Sichuan to counterattack the Ming army, so he will definitely use means to squeeze us, and if the Ming army captures Yunnan, we can help the Ming army govern the people and land in Yunnan, without worrying about what enemy the Ming army will deal with. Duan Gong said with a smile.

A group of Dali generals quickly understood the truth.

Since the Great Rebellion of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasty, this place in Yunnan has been ruled by the local Tusi forces.

No matter how powerful the Central Plains court is, the governance of Yunnan is nothing more than the appointment of some higher-level officials.

Then the specific power below still relies on the local Haoqiang Tusi to implement.

For example, Duan Gong, the head of Dali, handled far more practical affairs than King Liang's Zaravarmi.

So Duan Gong has enough reason to believe it.

After the Ming Dynasty seized Yunnan, without the enemy Chen Youliang, he would definitely implement peaceful rule in the local area.

Duan Gong and they could gradually restore their dominance in Yunnan, and the Ming army occupied the name, but the actual power was owned by Duan Gong and others.

Duan Gong and others felt that the Ming Dynasty ruled Yunnan just as the Yuan Dynasty ruled Yunnan.

Duan Gong and others wanted to use the Ming Dynasty to eliminate Chen Youliang, and then let the Dali people restore their original power in Yunnan, and wait until the Ming army's rule in Yunnan was established, Duan Gong and others could slowly try to restore the country.

"I will immediately repair a letter myself, and you will send the most powerful people to deliver this letter to the Ming army."

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There is a small island in the vast sea, standing alone on the sea, and a few clouds of cooking smoke rising from the small island indicate that people are moving on it.

In the inner harbor of the island, seven huge sailing ships are moored on the shore.

The eastern capital of the Daming Sea is Hu Dahai, because of that hurricane, drifted to this isolated island that does not know the location.

Originally, in that storm, Hu Dahai's fleet losses were not too serious, although three warships were damaged and sunk, but most of the crew were rescued by other warships.

It's a pity that the sailboats and masts of these warships are seriously damaged, the power of the warships has been affected, many ships can only drift with the current, in order to ensure that all the staff return to Hu Dahai, they can only lead the remaining two intact warships to follow these damaged ships with the current, after drifting for more than half a month, they finally found this small island, just rested on the island for two days, most of the ships have been repaired, but now they have lost their way, As for how to return to the Haidong Talisman or a certain familiar place, no one has an accurate direction.

"Daddy, how long are we going to wait here?" Hu Dahai's son Hu Guanzhu asked.

The other generals also looked at Hu Dahai.

Now everyone has no idea, and can only hope that this Hu Dahai, the lord, will come up with a charter in the future.

"I don't know where we're now!

If you follow the original route back, I'm afraid I don't know what danger you will encounter. Hu Dahai said with some concern.

In the more than half a month they had been adrift before, the water and food on the ship had been almost exhausted, and if they returned along the original treacherous sea route, many of the crew members would probably die of starvation and thirst on the sea, so now if they want to return to Haidong Donghufu, they must take a safe and secure route.

After hearing Hu Dahai's words, everyone was silent, and their brows were tightly locked.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Hu Dahai suddenly remembered......

In the cabin, there is a treasured book of navigation secrets, which Zhu Han taught him at the beginning, and he can use the knowledge in it to locate the location of the sea area

After more than half a day of measurement, Hu Dahai relied on the sky-watching positioning method handed over to him by Zhu Han to basically determine their current position.

"Damn, we are thousands of miles away from Haidong now, and if we return the same way after such a long journey, I am afraid that we will really die of hunger and thirst on the sea." Hu Dahai looked at the measured results in his hand and felt very worried.

Then, after some surveying the surrounding area, Hu Dahai basically determined that there were many similar desert islands around this isolated island, and these desert islands were arranged along the sea from west to east like a long chain, and each island was only three or two days away, and the nearest one could be reached by only a day's or so voyage.

Finally, at Hu Dahai's suggestion, everyone agreed to continue sailing along this series of barren islands, collecting food and water on the islands as they sailed, and then tentatively sailing back along the original route when they were fully prepared.

In fact, what Hu Dahai didn't know was that these islands they discovered were the Kuril Islands in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, and the Kuril Islands are located in a series of volcanic and seismic zones, like a pearl necklace embedded in the Pacific Ocean, and continue to extend eastward, directly to the land of North America.

Of course, Hu Dahai and the others did not know about the New World of America, because this was an undeveloped area left by Zhu Han to the future Ming Dynasty.

Hu Dahai and the others led the fleet to explore along the island chain, but they were very quick to make a discovery that shocked and delighted all of them.

On several desolate islands, there was a lot of gold exposed to the ground.

This gold is naturally formed, and according to the popular name, they have a name called ko's head gold.

Because of these naturally occurring gold elements, the appearance is strange.

It looks like a crooked dog's head.

Hu Dahai and his Ming soldiers, almost every one of them carried a large piece of gold on their bodies.

On these small islands, there are few people, so much golden gold, on the wasteland for the Ming soldiers to pick up at will, and there are many wild beasts on these small islands.

These beasts had never seen anyone hunting at all, so not only did they not flee, but surrounded them curiously.

Some of the fat deer and roe deer were caught one by one, and then they made the game into dried meat.

After continuous hunting, Hu Dahai led his soldiers to pile up several boatloads of food in winter, and all of them were smoked and cured meat.

And just as they were about to rely on these hoarded food and water to return to the Haidong Metropolitan Protectorate along the original road, a winter storm suddenly struck again.

The weather on these small islands is extremely harsh, far colder than that of the Kaito Prefecture.

When Hu Dahai's fleet was sailing on the sea, they could not resist such a strong wind and waves, and they had to continue to sail eastward with the wind and waves.

There is a series of small islands on the road ahead, which allows them to shelter from the wind and waves at the most dangerous times.

Everyone's mood was once again worried, not knowing where they were going and when they would be able to return to the Haidong Metropolitan Protectorate.

Mongolian Plateau, Hangai Mountain.

In ancient times, Hang Ai Mountain used to have another name, that is, Yanran Mountain.

The Yanran Mountains were once the holy land of the Xiongnu Empire, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Le Shi Yanran and Feng Wolf Juxu had the highest level of martial arts.

The wind howled, and heavy snow covered the mountains and grasslands.

Tens of thousands of Mongol troops gathered at the foot of Hangai Mountain, and they received orders from the Yuan emperor to raise troops and horses to defend themselves against a possible Ming attack.

It's just that after these tens of thousands of troops gathered at the foot of Hangai Mountain, they did not advance an inch to the east for more than a month.

The leader of Moxi Mongolia, Tuli Buhua, looked at the tens of thousands of tents at the foot of the mountain, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

Toli Buhua is a descendant of the Mongol Khan Ali Buge.

At that time, Ali Buge and Kublai Khan competed for the throne of the Mongol Great Khan, and the two sides broke out in a fierce battle on the steppe that lasted for several years, and finally relied on the Han army of the Central Plains and Kublai Khan, the vassal king of Eastern Mongolia, to win the victory of this Mongolian Great Khan.

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Ali Buge was defeated and captured.

Later, under the arrangement of Kublai Khan, Alibuge was poisoned in a solitary place.

Ali Buge's descendants continue to thrive in Moxi Mongolia, and although nearly a hundred years have passed now, the hatred of seizing the throne of the Mongol Great Khan has never dissipated.

As a descendant of Ali Buge, Tuoli Buhua, now seeing that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was beaten back to the grassland by the Ming army, not only did he not worry, but he was very happy.