"Fart!"

When Hong Chengchou's letter was sent to Maung Ji by the rout, Maung Ji, who was strong, decisively scolded back, and pointed to the rout:

"Chop off their heads and hang them at the mouth of the stone bridge!"

"Don't! Our king, we are only preaching! My King ......"

The two defeated soldiers didn't have a chance to say the rest of the words, and the next second they were slashed to the ground by Si Youbei's sword, and the blood stained the wall bricks of the horse road red, and Maung Ki also looked at the generals:

"Tell Hong Chengchou that the Burmese will never surrender, and before the blood of millions of Burmese people is drained, the Ming people will not be able to eat a grain of rice grown by the Burmese!"

"Yes—"

The generals responded loudly, not only to them, but also to the soldiers around them.

There is no shame in the rout on the battlefield, but no one is willing to cede their own interests.

Maung Gi was able to mobilize more than 300,000 men to join the army because he gave farmland to millions of Burmese people.

Similarly, the northern Mengyang and other Tusi wanted to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty because they did not gain benefits.

Distribution of land ......

The simple four words allowed Donghu to obtain the capital to resist the Ming Dynasty, although this capital was weak, but at least it could fight with the Ming Dynasty, unlike the Zheng and Ruan lords of Annam, the Ming army collapsed as soon as it arrived.

It's just that no matter how strong the morale is, it can't beat the hard bullets, and Maung Ji's tenacity is only manifested in his Dajinsha River defense line, and his back has long been beaten into a sieve, leaking everywhere.

Maung Ki couldn't cover up the defeat of Donghu, and he knew that if the city of Donghu in the south fell, the defense line of the Great Jinsha River would also be completely broken.

Once the city of Donghu falls, the Ming army can attack from the south to the north and take the plains in the hinterland of Donghu, and then the troops and horses of the defense line of the Dajinsha River will also run out of food, and he will be completely defeated.

"If the Buddha Kingdom had given me ten years, I wouldn't be so embarrassed!"

At this moment, Maung Ji looked at the Ming army that was constantly logging in on the river beach, and his heart was dripping blood.

He has already started distributing land to Burmese farmers, and the next thing to do is to recuperate.

As long as he was given time, he would surely be able to restore the strength of Donghu and re-submit Siam and Nanzhang to Donghu, and then threaten the Ming Dynasty.

But Da Ming didn't give him time, and the army of more than 100,000 troops went south soon after he divided the land, and he could rely on nothing but that little morale.

"The Ming army wants to transport artillery, and it should not attack in a short time, tell Pindari that they must be fast, and they must defend Dumodi City!"

Maung Ki looked at the Ming army that had not yet attacked, and probably knew why they didn't attack, but even if he knew, he had no choice.

The battle just now has shown the combat strength of the Ming and Burmese armies, and the Ming army did not attack because the artillery had not yet crossed the river, not because they were not capable of attacking the city.

150,000 Burmese troops are distributed in various mountain passes around Miaodang City for more than 30 miles, and there are only 50,000 troops in Miaodang City.

His hope was to save the Burmese people from miasma and disease.

Both the Yuan and Ming armies were defeated in the Burmese climate, and it was impossible for the Ming army to get rid of this result.

As long as he delays until spring, then Hong Chengchou can only withdraw his troops in ashes, and Donghu can also get a respite of half a year.

"Jingluo, this cave king is not fooled......"

In the Jiangtan camp, Mu Yi stood at the door of the tent and looked at the head of Donghu City, and after finding that the other party's flag was actually stubborn, he immediately replied to Hong Chengchou, who also shook his head and stroked his beard.

"This Taron is a bit resourceful......"

Maung Ki's calmness made Hong Chengchou a little disappointed, and at the same time a little appreciative.

He also thought that Maung Ji, like Zheng Zhu and others, was a brave and unscrupulous horseman, and now it seems that Maung Ji, who knows how to give land to farmers, is much better than Annan Zheng and Ruan, who only know how to fight.

However, in Hong Chengchou's view, Maung Ji's resourcefulness is only a little.

"Throughout the ages, those who hold on to it are often difficult to escape defeat, and if they want to win, they can only defend first and then attack, such as Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, His Royal Highness the King of Qi of our dynasty."

Hong Chengchou got up and looked at the sand table in the military tent, he knew very well that Maung Ji had reached a dead end.

Judging from the battle just now, Hong Chengchou didn't think that Maung Ji could defeat the Ming army in the field.

Since it is no longer possible to achieve victory in the field, then the stubbornness is to wait for death.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin, Qi King Zhu Youzhen, in the eyes of Hong Chengchou, both of them have fought defensive battles, but they both fought back in defensive battles.

Defending first and then attacking is what these two have in common in defensive battles, but in terms of active attack, the two are not quite the same.

Li Shimin is good at using small to broaden, mixing politics in the military, using the enemy's internal contradictions to gain the enemy's weaknesses on the battlefield, and then attacking with thunder, defeating the opponent's main force and surrendering.

Zhu Youzhen's attack was somewhat similar to Bai Qi's, that is, a large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle, and every time one side was destroyed, the enemy, regardless of the army and civilians, suffered heavy casualties.

Zhu Youzhen likes to fight encirclement and annihilation battles, so Hong Chengchou does what he likes, and most of the time he fights siege and annihilation battles, which is different from Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting and others care about one city and one place, Zhu Youzhen cares more about the total annihilation of the enemy's living forces, and Hong Chengchou likes to take every step of the way, but Zhu Youzhen likes to annihilate everything, so he leans in that direction.

Therefore, logically speaking, whether it is political or military, he Hong Chengchou should be more favored by King Qi.

"I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Sun Boya poured into His Highness, and he doesn't look like a person with a clever tongue, how can he ......"

Looking at the sand table, Hong Chengchou shook his head.

Although he has great military achievements and Wenzhi is eye-catching enough, he can completely leave Sun Chuanting behind, but Zhu Youzhen's attitude towards him always makes him feel that he is inferior to Sun Chuanting.

"After this battle, when I finish this battle and govern Luchuan, the opportunity to ascend the pavilion will come......"

Stroking his beard, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be a little happy, but just when he was happy, a general walked in at the door.

"Jingluo, this is the newspaper sent by Jinglue Mansion......"

The general sent Longchuan's mansion newspaper with both hands, which made Hong Chengchou have a bad premonition.

Di Bao is such a thing, he was very good-looking when he was in Longchuan, and the officials of Jingluo Mansion should know it.

Now the Jingluo Mansion in Longchuan has someone to send this newspaper, unless something implicates him.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou took the newspaper and glanced at it at a glance.

Sure enough, with this glance, he soon found several important news in the newspaper.

Princess Qi and Concubine Zhou Ping of the Qi Palace's palace were overjoyed, Sun Chuanting was reinstated, and the eunuch was Wang An......

Hong Chengchou made a comparison of the importance of the two important things, and found that the most important thing was the Qi Palace, followed by Sun Chuanting's resurrection, and the third was the candidate for the eunuch.

The two concubines of the Qi Palace's mansion are pregnant, no matter whether they can give birth to a male heir or not, this news is enough to make the Ming Dynasty politically turbulent once.

This can be seen from the fact that Sun Chuanting was reinstated, and the eunuch who passed the decree was Wang An.

Sun Chuanting will definitely be revived, but it should not be the emperor who sent someone to resurrect, but it should be the king of Qi.

What was the reason why the emperor sent people? To put it bluntly, it is because he feels that his position is unstable, so he has to issue an edict to the important ministers to demonstrate his majesty, indicating that the emperor's power and majesty are still there, and the important ministers still have people to listen to the emperor.

What is a Heavy Minister? That is, a person who can lead troops to fight, and has outstanding military achievements, is involved in the army, and shows political ability, this is worthy of being called a heavy minister.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there are only four people who can be worthy of these words: King Qi, Xiong Tingbi, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting.

Yuan Yingtai, Wu Aheng, and Yang Wenyue couldn't do it, because their heels in the army were unstable.

Needless to say, Yuan Yingtai is mainly responsible for logistics in Liaodong, which dooms him to have no team in the frontal battlefield and the combat system.

As for Wu Aheng and Yang Wenyue, among the two of them, Wu Aheng has no team at all, but this is not to say that he can't do it, but he can't have a team.

Wu Aheng is the uncle of Tian Xiuying, the concubine of the Qi Palace, if he has a team, and Tian Xiuying gives birth to an heir in the future, then Wu Aheng's life will not be easy.

As for Yang Wenyue, he has a team, and his team is Cao Dingjiao, Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and their group.

In this group of people, except for Cao Dingjiao, the others should have been Li Dan and Yan Siqi's team, but Li Dan didn't dare to accept them at all, and Yan Siqi regarded them as a hot potato.

If Li Dan wants to accept them, then for Huanglong, Li Dan will be a bit of an eyesore, after all, this vote is all the navy, if they want to develop, they will also develop to the sea.

In that case, if there are a few capable people among them in the future, what will happen to Huang Fei's position as the governor of the navy?

Therefore, after many considerations, Li Dan did not dare to accept them, as for Yan Siqi, it is needless to say.

Yan Siqi has too much black material, and now he can get an earl to take charge of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division in the capital, which is already a great treatment, and he will go to form a gang again, with his previous black history as a pirate, once the party strife breaks out again in the future, he will have to fall first.

No one received it, so Zheng Zhilong and the others naturally wanted to find a backer.

Looking for Huang Long, Huang Long looked down on them, so it was better to find Yang Wenyue, who had commanded them.

As for why Yang Wenyue has military merits, qualifications, and a team but cannot be called an important minister, the main reason is that his team in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is not strong enough.

Excluding Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, Xiong Tingbi, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting, the total number of troops that the three of them can call in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is at least five, and Yang Wenyue only has three.

Not only that, Yang Wenyue's forces in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were too scattered, and the three of them were all connected.

Who is Xiong Tingbi's old subordinate? He Shixian, You Shigong, and many generals who were promoted after this war, such as Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, Mao Wenlong, Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang, Zu Dabi and others......

Who is Hong Chengchou's team? Wu Bikui, Mu Yi, Mu Qiyuan, Long Zaitian, Mu Zeng......

It can be said that the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiaozhi are the base camps of Hong Chengchou.

As for Sun Chuanting, he does not form gangs, but the northwest needs a figure to control the field politically, so Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, Guan Fumin, Cao Bianjiao and others all helped Sun Chuanting.

It is precisely because of this that compared with Xiong Tingbi and Hong Chengchou, it is easier for talents like Sun Chuanting to be pushed by the general trend to make orders.

Moreover, Sun Chuanting killed the Sichuan gentry, patrolled the world, and exiled many conservative party officials and corrupt officials of the Yanshan faction, all of which determined that he would not be a person co-opted by various parties.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked Sun Chuanting to accept the order and let him recover, which means that the emperor has his own people, and this person is not won over by the emperor, but pushed to the emperor by the parties.

You all hate Sun Chuanting, then I will take Sun Chuanting down.

Zhu Youxiao meant this, and in order to strengthen Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao used some of the strategic plans he heard from Zhu Youzhen.

After passing through the Wusi Zang, to put it bluntly, it is the Governor's Mansion of the powerful Northern Army.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, when the Shangzhi, the Eastern Army, the Southern Army, the Western Army, and the Navy were all fighting, only the Northern Army in the northwest was eating sand.

When Sun Chuanting recovered, the Northern Army had military operations, and the non-commissioned officers of the Northern Army, who had rested for six or seven years, also had military operations.

With military action, there is a reward for beheading, and in the holy decree issued by Zhu Youxiao to Sun Chuanting, the first reward of the Western rebels he issued was thirty taels of silver.

What is this concept? You must know that when Hong Chengchou and them fought Annam, the first reward of the Zheng and Ruan armies was only ten taels, and this time Pingdong Wu's reward was also ten taels.

The Mongols in the north are now ten taels, and the only ones who can match this standard are the Jianju who have been swept away by the plough court.

Can Zephan be strong? Naturally not!

No matter what period the Western Fan is in, the reward issued by the Ming court is between ten taels and fifteen taels, and now it has suddenly risen to thirty taels, to put it bluntly, it is to send silver to the northern army, send military merits, and at the same time let them know that it is Sun Chuanting, who is the emperor's resurrection.

Is Zhu Youxiao's move a struggle for power with Zhu Youzhen?

Naturally, it's not ......

Zhu Youxiao really wants power, Zhu Youzhen may give him the power directly, of course, Zhu Youzhen may say many things, such as not being able to change his new policy.

Zhu Youxiao is not stupid, even if he wants power, he will not change the government, after all, Zhu Youzhen has already treated this bad guy.

"Zhu Family ......"

Hong Chengchou squinted his eyes, only feeling that these two brothers were not easy to get along, but if he really wanted to choose, Hong Chengchou would rather choose Zhu Youzhen.

To put it bluntly, it is human nature, people are all strong, and they all hate cumbersome, and Hong Chengchou is no exception.

Hong Chengchou's family is poor, he dropped out of school at the age of 11, helped his mother make dried tofu at home, and went to Yingweipu every morning to walk the streets and alleys to sell dried tofu.

At that time, Hong Qiyin, the talented son of Xixuan Changfang, ran a village school in Shuigou Pavilion, and Hong Chengchou often listened to lectures outside the school hall in addition to selling dried tofu, and occasionally helped students do pairs and homework in exchange for family use.

Hong Qiyin found that Hong Chengchou was extremely talented and ambitious, so he accepted Hong Chengchou as an apprentice for free and returned to school.

He is different from Sun Chuanting and others, he is from a poor family, and he knows that people who are poor will be bullied, and only the powerful can not be bullied.

He sharpened his head and climbed up, just so that he would not be bullied.

In his opinion, Zhu Youzhen is capable and capable, and he doesn't seem to look down on him Hong Chengchou, but so what?

The emperor's family has always been unkind, and it is precisely Zhu Youzhen who pays attention to kindness.

Hong Chengchou didn't know if Zhu Youzhen acted out, but he knew that with Zhu Youzhen's ability and character, no matter how much he climbed, he could die a good death under Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen is not afraid of rebellion under his subordinates at all, which is why people like Hong Chengchou feel that it is safe to follow Zhu Youzhen.

As for Zhu Youxiao......

Hong Chengchou admits that Zhu Youxiao is good at balance and has a high attainment in the art of controlling the world, but this kind of person does not regard the life of his courtiers as his life.

If Zhu Youxiao is in the upper position, and Zhu Youzhen is still in Daming, then Hong Chengchou will immediately return to his hometown, no matter how old he is at that time.

Because as long as Zhu Youzhen relinquishes power, Zhu Youxiao will monopolize power, and Zhu Youzhen is in charge, Zhu Youxiao is not afraid of others rebelling, so his means can be used unscrupulously against his courtiers.

An emperor who does not take the lives of his courtiers as his life is in power, which is not a good thing for a heavy minister like him.

But if Zhu Youxiao is on the throne and Zhu Youzhen wants to become a vassal, then ......

Hong Chengchou glanced at the newspaper in his hand, and only felt that there seemed to be a little bit of time running out.

He has his own information, according to the intelligence, the current Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse 11 rifles are basically equipped with the navy and Shangzhi, as well as the 12th Duogan Battalion of the Northern Military Governor's Mansion.

Huang Fei was able to quickly annihilate the Arakan Kingdom and seize the rear of Donghu, which was a little surprising to Hong Chengchou.

He knew Huang Fei's ability, and with Huang Fei's ability, he categorically couldn't do it to such a degree, so what helped him do it to this level was actually the more than 12,000 rifles.

Huang Fei can do this, what about Sun Chuanting?

The people of the West are only hundreds of thousands, but only 30,000 or 40,000 troops and horses, if Sun Chuanting wants to pacify the West, then there is no need to recruit people at all, directly based on the 12 battalions of Duogan, three battalions go out, and the nine battalions transport baggage, and in less than three months, Wu Sizang can be pacified.

Judging from the time when Sun Chuanting received the decree and Hong Chengchou's understanding of him, I am afraid that this guy has already set off on the second day of receiving the order, and now I am afraid that he has entered Shaanxi and arrived in Yulin.

On the twentieth day of the first month at the latest, he would arrive in Dogan and send troops from Dafeichuan to raid Lasa and Sanzhujie (Shigatse).

The matter of Wusizang, Hong Chengchou learned about it through Mu Zeng and Mu Yi, and the most powerful one at present is the Zangba Khan who is entrenched in Sanzhujie.

Since the Hongwu period, the Ming Dynasty has divided the three Dharma kings and the kings of the five places in the Wusi Tibetan region, and the "many feudal and multi-construction" adopted by its management of the Tibetan region.

Although there were no garrisons, from the Hongwu period to the Zhengde period, there were always troops and horses sent to inspect the Wusizang until Jiajing abolished the Wusizang Division.

Although Zhang Juzheng later presided over the re-establishment of Wusizang in the Wanli period, many officials of the Ming Dynasty at that time thought that this was a loss-making deal, so they no longer sent troops to inspect, and the rule of Wusizang was only in Huangzhong Sanjie, mobilizing the soldiers and horses in the Naqu area to encircle and suppress the Mongols.

However, in any case, nominally speaking, for more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the forces of Wusizang were all ordered by the Ming court.

The Ming Dynasty set up a post station in Wusizang, and adopted a regular, fixed, fixed, and customized tribute model for the monks and secular leaders of Wusizang, and adopted the method of "losing horses and making endowments" to collect taxes for the rule of Wusizang.

However, from April of the 37th year of Wanli, due to "the people are mixed, the things are indiscriminate, the edicts are suspicious, and the envoys are tempted to commit adultery", the cabinet removed the eight tribute qualifications of the Mahayana King Wusizang, the Great Treasure Dharma King, the Guardian King, Changhexi, Dong Bu Hanhu, etc., and only allowed the king of the sect and the king of the auxiliary sect to pay tribute.

Therefore, at present, only the Zhigong faction's sectarian sect kings and the Sakya sect's auxiliary kings are currently under the command of the Ming Dynasty.

However, despite the situation, Hong Chengchou did not think that the other eight would dare to clash with Sun Chuanting.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to recover Uszang, or even garrison troops, it is too easy, and it is enough to raid Lasa and defeat the Zangba Khan of Sanzhujie.

The interruption of one ancient tea horse road is enough to make hundreds of thousands of people in Wusizang sick and die, so on the surface, Sun Chuanting needs to recover the entire Wusizang and fight one city after another, but in fact he only needs to fight two cities.

In the case of the speed of the soldiers, at the beginning of February, Sun Chuanting was able to make the entire Wusi Zang attach the Ming ......

As soon as he thought of this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but close the newspaper in his hand, he knew in his heart that he had to defeat the Burmese army before Sun Chuanting, otherwise no matter how many Burmese soldiers he killed, Sun Chuanting would cover him.

"The first victory of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, I must take the lead......"

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou walked out of the tent and looked at Miaodang City in the distance.

With a gloomy face, he turned his back to the generals and ordered: "Within three days, all artillery must cross the Dajinsha River, and then send the order to Huang Dudu, and in ten days our army will launch a general attack!" ”

"Yes!"

Mu Yi and the others hurriedly responded when they heard this, but they were all curious about why their own strategy suddenly changed from being unhurried just now to what they are now.

Suspicious, they released the carrier pigeons.

Two days later, when Hong Chengchou was racing against time to transport artillery, and Maung Ki was preparing to rely on the moat of Myodang City to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army, the Ming army in the south and west was marching high.

The armies of Muang Nai and Chiang Mai began to withdraw to Taungoo, and Wu Bikui and Long Zaitian also took over the cities of Muang Nai and Chiang Mai with a large army.

Similarly, the navy that landed in the west and south also completed the finishing touches, and the troops were directed towards the hinterland of Donghu.

In just four days, Caocheng, which was the western gate of Donghu, was easily captured, and Caocheng, which was originally crowded, had become devastated at this time.

The scorched earth, the pungent smell of gunpowder, and some burning dead branches......

Of course, it's more about the stumps and corpses.

"Governor! Hong Jingluo sent a message! ”

On the horse road at the head of Caocheng City, when Huang Fei, dressed in armor, inspected the city wall and watched the corpses of Burmese soldiers being thrown off the city, a commander ran to Huang Fei with a note.

He handed over the magnifying glass and the note, and the gray Huang Fei on his face also frowned and took it, looking at the note with a magnifying glass.

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The words on the note were small fly-headed characters written in mouse hair, and although they were only one inch wide and three inches long, they were written hundreds of words.

Huang Fei struggled to read the whole content before throwing the note into the fire where the corpses were burned under the city.

He looked at Cao Cheng, who was empty and bloodstained on the street, expressionless:

"Order the whole army, in three days, I will kill 70,000 southwest Yi in the Qinshan Formation!"

"Governor, that Miaodang City ......" The commander had obviously read the information and wanted to know how Hong Chengchou would arrange it.

Just in the face of his inquiry, Huang Fei took the rifle of the soldier next to him, loaded the ammunition and aimed at a Burmese soldier who was pretending to be dead and trying to jump into the moat.

"Seven days later, all the guards will besiege Miaodang City......"

"Bang!"