The time has come to May of the tenth year of Kangxi, this is the May of the lunar calendar, and it is already the height of summer!

The Sichuan Basin, located in the southwest, is now shrouded in scorching heat. The sun is like fire.

It was such a hot day, stuffy and hot, and the air under the sun seemed to be hot, so it was really not a good time to use force. But the storm of war, no matter how hot the weather was, still slowly but firmly blew towards the southwest corner of the Sichuan Basin!

On the road leading from Fushun County in Xuzhou Prefecture to Shunqing Mansion City, dozens of knights hanging under the yamen of the general army of Qujing in Yunnan Province were surrounding Wang Zhongxiao, Lu Sanhao, and others, rushing to the place where Prince An Yue Le, the military minister of Yunnan, Guichuan, and Qincha President Yunguichuan was stationed. I am going to report to Yue Le the results of this trip to the Xuzhou Mansion, and then if nothing else, he will also participate in the grand military meeting of the President of Qincha as the chief soldier!

At this moment, Wang Zhongxiao's slightly tanned face, which was moving forward against the hot sun, was full of high-spirited expressions.

In the eyes of outsiders, this high-spirited spirit must be because he was rewarded by Emperor Kangxi not long ago, from a sticky pole chief with the rank of general soldier to a formal general soldier in Qujing, Yunnan, although Qujing Mansion is still under the control of Wu Guogui, the capital commander under the Pingxi Palace. But as long as the army commanded by Yue Le defeated Wu Yingqi, the second son of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, in the ensuing engagement, then Wang Zhongxiao could really take office.

And the current minister of the president, Prince An Yue Le, is still very interesting to arrange for him to be the pomp of the general army, and sent him a start-up fee, so that he can first set up the yamen.

Subsequently, Wang Zhongxiao obtained Yue Le's consent and seconded some officers and soldiers from the various ministries of the presidential minister's moderation, plus the family members he brought with him and the enshrined and civilian lieutenants who were originally under the establishment of the sticky pole, and so-so made up two or three hundred people.

Although Wang Zhongxiao is known for his bravery, and now he is the chief soldier, and he has also raised a team of two or three hundred people, Yue Le did not let him charge into battle, and used him as an "internal officer".

No, he just went to Wu Yingqi with Lu Sanhao, who was promoted to Yunnan Alternate Dao, and conveyed to Wu Yingqi the Ming edict of Emperor Kangxi - according to this edict, after Wu Yingqi sent his father, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, to Yue Le, Prince of An, he would immediately be awarded the hereditary first-class duke, and then get the iron scroll of the Cidan book he wanted the most.

In addition, Wu Yingqi's son Wu Shicong will also accept the appointment of the Southern Sichuan General Army, the Southern Sichuan Tuanlian, and the Minister of Tuntian, and immediately begin to preside over the affairs of Xuzhou, Ningyuan and Luzhou Tuntian.

The 30,000 soldiers under Wu Yingqi's jurisdiction will also be transferred to Wu Shicong's control, and they will be in Xuzhou Mansion, Ningyuan Mansion and Luzhou Tuntian.

That is to say, as long as Wu Yingqi takes Wu Sangui to Beijing for retirement, he will be able to get a hereditary first-class duke, and he can also get a gold medal for avoiding death, and he can also keep his army, and he can even get the territory of Xuzhou, Ningyuan and Luzhou.

Such conditions are so generous that they are unreal!

After learning of these "untrue" favorable conditions, Wu Yingqi did not suspect fraud, but said that he would leave Yibin and arrive in Fushun with his son Wu Shicong around the sixth day of the sixth month of June. And I hope to meet Prince An Yue Le in Fushun County, be awarded the title of first-class duke, and get the card to avoid death.

And his son Wu Shicong also had to accept the canonization of the Southern Sichuan General Army, the Southern Sichuan Regiment Training, and the Minister of Tuntian in Fushun!

After that, Wu Yingqi will follow Yue Le to the north to retire with Wu Sangui.

The battle of Yunnan seems to be able to be won without a fight soon, oh, and maybe there will be a fierce ambush battle to be fought!

When Wang Zhongxiao arrived in Shunqing City, the city built along the Jialing River almost became a storage center and material transfer base, and the grain and equipment transported from Shaanxi and Gansu were transported to Shunqing City along the waterway of the Jialing River. It's all the people's fat and people's ointment scraped out by Mo Luo from poor places such as Shaanxi and Gansu!

Along with these people's fat and people's ointment, there are also large brigades of Ganshan people driving mule and horse carts and pushing wheelbarrows, like ants moving, will be through Chencang Road, Micang Road and then waterway to Shunqing Province to transport all kinds of materials to Shunqing Mansion, and then transfer to Zizhou, Luzhou, and Jiading Mansion, which are closer to the frontier.

The convoy of people and horses of the brigade came and went around Shunqing Mansion City, and they were stunned to tread the official road that was originally overgrown with weeds.

In order to send grain and grass to the front line in Sichuan to supply the people, Mo Luona, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, really used all his strength to eat milk - don't think that tens of thousands of people sending supplies are small battles, that is to send grain into Sichuan!

What is the difficulty of Shu Road, it is difficult to go to the blue sky?

How difficult it was for Zhuge Kongming, who came out of Qishan back then, how difficult it is for Mo Luo, the current governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, or even more difficult!

After all, Zhuge Liang raised grain in Sichuan, the land of abundance, and sent it to Ganxi, while Mo Luo scraped the land in Shaanxi and Gansu, which were in the barren land, and sent it to Sichuan. That's Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang's hometown!

After Yue Le entered Sichuan, in addition to fooling Wu Yingqi, he also urged all armies to step up training, and also organized several large-scale training exercises with the participation of the Eight Banners New Army and the Green Battalion New Army.

This clan general and old elder who has been lying flat at home since Kangxi ascended the throne, at this time seems to have recovered the majesty and pride of following the older generation of clan kings such as Dolgon, Duoduo, and Haoge into the world.

It's just that I suffered those Eight Banners who grew up in Beijing. How hot it is in the Sichuan Basin! I also have to train in a formation against the big sun, advance for a while, retreat for a while, and change formations for a while, a practice is most of the day, and there are a large group of people who suffer from heat stroke after each practice, and sometimes a few can die of heat!

However, Yue Le understands what it means to be merciful and not to be in charge of soldiers. If you want to train this army well, when you go back and talk to Wu Yingqi, you really go to the battlefield, and the military formation can't be arranged, and you still have a hair?

Yue Le himself is the Minister of Presidential Training, of course he knows that the Eight Banners New Army under his command is still far from the real elite soldiers!

So no matter how hot the weather is, no matter how much sweat he sweats, even if he dies of heat, Yue Le will not relax in the slightest.

Under his strict supervision, the three towns, eight banners, and the new army of the green camp finally looked a little bit like that. Therefore, Yue Le is in a very good mood these days, and in the office of the Minister of the Presidential Mission, his hearty laughter can be heard from time to time. The guards below, the master, and Goshha are also relieved, it seems that the situation is very good, it seems that it won't be too long, everyone can leave the ghost place of Sichuan and go back to Beijing City to enjoy happiness!

And today, as soon as Wang Zhongxiao and Lu Sanhao, who were sent out by Yue Le to run errands, came back, the minister of the presidential mission sank his face again, and immediately issued an order to beat the drum and gather the generals!

At this time, the generals and above officers of the Eight Banners New Army, the Green Battalion New Army, and the Ganshan Green Battalion, who were under Yue Le's control, had already gathered in Shunqing Mansion and were waiting to participate in this military meeting!

Therefore, not long after the drums of the generals sounded in the city of Shunqingfu, there was a big scene of generals gathering in the hall of the military minister of Yunguichuan, the president of Qincha.

According to the system of the Eight Banners New Army and the Green Battalion New Army, the head of the new army in a town is called the presidential minister, and at least he is a senior member at the level of the commander of the army, and below the presidential minister is the general army of the left and right wings (metropolitan commander), and under the general army of the two wings are the leading officers at all levels, such as Xietai (deputy metropolitan commander) and staff general (staff leader).

Now Yue Le has a total of three new troops under his command, including himself, there are a total of three presidential ministers, six wing generals (capital commanders) for a total of nine people. Mo Luo, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, brought two commanders and four general soldiers to Sichuan this time, plus he himself was seven people. There are also Sichuan Governor Luo Sen and Yunnan Governor Li Tianyu who are also in Shunqing Mansion these days, so they were also called by Yue Le to participate in the Shunqing Mansion military conference together.

In addition, Wang Zhongxiao and Lu Yifeng, who had just returned from Xuzhou Mansion, must also participate in this military meeting.

At this time, gathered in the lobby of the president's ministers, the total number of people is these twenty or so. Among them, the coach Yue Le sat on the table, while the others stood in shifts, and then saluted him together.

Of course, everyone who is qualified to come to participate in the military conference today knows that it is impossible for Emperor Kang Mazi to let go of the Pingxi Domain. Now that Wu Sangui is mostly gone, Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui, the two dutiful sons, may not know when they will become popular, and Wu Yingxiong is a big bear who eats inside and out. With today's Xiao Mazi Emperor's meanness and widowhood, can he let go of the Pingxi Domain?

That's going to be bloody!

And although the bloody Pingxi Domain is a bit unauthentic, it is also an opportunity for the big guy to step on the corpses of the soldiers of the Pingxi Domain and climb up!

These Qing officials, now like the evil wolves who smell the smell of blood, just wait for Yue Le's order, and they are about to pounce on and bite the fat and tender big fat pig of Pingxi Domain.

Yue Le stood up, smiled faintly at the generals below, and glanced over one by one. Slowly arched his hand, and then picked up a fold with a yellow cover that had already been placed on the desk: "By the Holy Order!" This king has been appointed as the general of Dingyuan Pingkou, crusading against the rebel rebel Wu Yingqi of the Pingxi Domain, escorting Wu Yingxiong, the son of the king of Pingxi, to Kunming and the generals of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. You should be a holy heart, you should be afraid of military discipline, be cautious in your orders, and encourage you to kill thieves! ”

This is a real face-tearing and about to start!

Previously, Emperor Kangxi did not make it clear in the form of an edict that the war between the peaceful Western Domains would be, although a large number of troops had been pressed, it was also possible that it was to force the Pingxi Domain to submit to the imperial court and accept the conditions of reducing the salaries of the troops and the change of power internally.

But now, it's really going to be fought!

The officials and generals at the bottom have been looking forward to beating the water dogs for a long time, and now they are all breathing from their small stomachs, shouting "whoa", which shook the lobby and buzzed!

After announcing the emperor's decision to go to war, Yue Le's face was still gloomy, he sat down behind the public case, then cleared his throat, and arched his hand into the void: "The emperor Shengming, the magic is clever, comparable to Zhuge Kongming, Wu Yingqi, the clown who jumps the beam, has been tricked!"

He will lead 10,000 elite soldiers from the capital of Xuzhou around the sixth day of the sixth month of June, escort his father King Pingxi to Fushun County to meet with me, and accept the first-class public canonization, but the emperor has calculated that he will not really return, maybe he will continue to escort his father to Fushun The opportunity to raise an army! Otherwise, it's just an old man who has had a stroke, and he can use an army of 10,000?

That's why the emperor ordered the king to set up an ambush along the way, destroy it in one fell swoop, and never suffer from the great disaster in the southwest! ”

This is really the most beautiful archway to do the most shameless thing!

Wang Zhongxiao, who was also standing in the group of Qing officials below, pondered: Fortunately, Wu Sangui has made great progress with my help, otherwise he would really not be able to fight Kang Mazi!

At this time, Prince An Yue Le paused, and said slowly: "Although there are 60,000 or 70,000 officers and soldiers here in Sichuan, the one who can really pull up the elite soldiers of the Heping Western Domain to fight is more than 10,000 people in the Ganshan Green Battalion of the New Army of the Three Towns, and 40,000 people are almost the same. Wu Yingqi said that he brought 10,000 soldiers to Fushun, but this king didn't believe him so honestly, saying that 10,000 is 10,000. This king will double the number of his people, even if he is 20,000 people. 40,000 to 20,000, the advantage is mine! Moreover, this king will also set up an ambush near Fushun County and Yibin on the way to Fushun County, and beat him to the enemy! ”

Listening to Yue Le's unhurried words, the civil officials and military generals below could generally figure out that Yue Le's ambush would be like this. There are Tuojiang River and Rongxi around Fushun County to rely on, and it is a good place to fight half-crossing. The terrain south of Fushun County is relatively open, which is conducive to the activities of the Eight Banners Horse Team, and on the west side of this plain is a row of mountain beams, which are just used to ambush soldiers.

This ambush battle is about to be fought, and Wu Yingqi's belongings are all explained in Xuzhou Mansion!

At this time, Yue Lekai was a general: "The left wing of the Central Army of the Eight Banners New Army is unified, the right wing of the Central Army of the Eight Banners New Army is unified, the Minister of the President of the Green Battalion New Army Rear Army, the Left Wing General of the Green Battalion New Army Rear Army, and the Right Wing General of the Green Battalion New Army!" ”

The five generals named are Jue Luo Ji Hali, Garhan, Sun Sike, Ma Siwen, Su Lang, and the Eight Banners of Yishui, the difference is only the full flag, the Mongolian flag, and the Han army flag.

The five of them lined up in a row and bowed together: "Please give the order!" ”

Yue Le ordered loudly: "You and the other five people will set up an ambush with this king in the area of Tazi Mountain and Shigu Temple in the southwest of Fushun County!" ”

"Huh!"

The five generals answered loudly, and then took the order to return to their positions. After that, Yue Le then ordered the general: "The former president of the Eight Banners New Army Shun Cheng County King, this king ordered you to join the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Governor of Shaanxi, and the Governor of Gansu, each leading the troops and horses of the headquarters, and set up an ambush around Fushun County. ”

"Huh!"

Le Erjin, Mo Luo, Bai Yongfu, and Wang Jinbao, who were ordered, were ordered loudly.

"The governor of Sichuan, the governor of Yunnan, and the alternate governor of Yunnan!" Yue Le called a few more official names.

This time, the new governor of Sichuan, Luo Sen, the governor of Yunnan, Li Tianyu, the governor of Yunnan, and Lu Sanhao, the alternate governor of Yunnan, were listed.

Yue Le said: "Luo Futai, you take this standard to guard Fushun County and protect the prince of Pingxi." Li Futai, Lu Sanhao, and the two of them accompanied the prince of Pingxi to wait for the king of Pingxi to arrive in Fushun County. ”

Although Yue Le and the others felt that Wu Sangui had already hung up, they still had to do superficial work, after all, Wu Yingqi had not yet reported his funeral to the imperial court. So Wu Yingxiong had to go to Fushun County to be a filial son. Even if it is Wu Sangui lying in the coffin, he, a filial son, has to be responsible for crying and mourning!

Lawson, Li Tianyu, and Lu Sanhao also took orders. Yue Le finally glanced at Wang Zhongxiao who was standing in the corner, "Wang Shikai! ”

"The end will be." Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly came out of the ranks.

Yue Le said with a smile: "Your dispatch, the emperor has already said it when he was parading in Fengtai, do you remember?" ”

"The last general remembers, the protection and worship are thorough." Wang Zhongxiao replied.

Yue Le nodded: "Then what if you can't protect it?" ”

Wang Zhongxiao was stunned for a moment, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Yue Le said: "The emperor told me, Dai Feng is a rare genius with artillery, and he must not fall into the hands of the enemy, do you understand?" ”

Oh, there is a "hope"! Wang Zhongxiao understood. Kangxi's meaning is that if he can't protect Dai Zi, he will kill him!

Such a talent cannot fall into the hands of Wu Sangui (Wu Yingqi)!

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly replied: "The lower officials understand, and the lower officials know what to do!" ”

Yue Le nodded, and then said with a smile: "This is just in case, although Fushun fights, this king is completely sure, but in case there is still to be prepared!" He looked at a group of eager generals and feudal officials, and said with a smile, "Today's meeting is here, the weather is hot, you go back and rest well, tomorrow we will send troops south!" ”

"Huh!"

At the same time, in Yibin, the heavily guarded capital city of Xuzhou, Wu Sangui, the king of the west of the Qing Dynasty and the president of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, had already added a piece of clothing to himself despite the scorching heat. A yellow round-necked dragon robe, and a yellow hood on his head.

I saw him standing on the head of the city of Xuzhou, looking at the 25,000 soldiers who had changed into yellow robes and red scarves below, with an excited face. Behind him, two big flags have been erected, one is tattooed with the words "Revival of the Ming Dynasty President Xiwang Wu", and the other is tattooed with "Qingtian is dead, Zhou Tian should stand, the land is divided, and the world is safe"!

On the left and right of Wu Sangui, there are Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui, who are said to have turned against each other, as well as their sons Wu Shicong and Wu Shijue, as well as Wu Sangui's three sons-in-law Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, and the three major military divisions under Wu Sangui, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, and Wang Shirong.

At this moment, Wu Sangui suddenly opened his throat and shouted loudly: "Qingtian is dead, Zhou Tian should stand, the land will be divided, and the world will be safe. Sangui has been committed to the Qing camp for more than 20 years, just so that he can go north to the Central Plains with all the monarchs today, drive out the Tartars, restore China, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty. Are you willing to join Sangui Shuntian and achieve a great cause together? ”

(End of chapter)