As the king of Chu said, the occupation of Kunming can only be regarded as the initial determination of Yunnan, and there is still a long way to go before it can be completely pacified and even forever entered the territory and turned into the core territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The first task of the Ming army is to continue to fight, from the remnants of King Liang and those local officials and chieftains, to recover the whole of Yunnan.

According to the established strategy, after consolidating the defense of Kunming, Mu Ying immediately sent Jin Chaoxing south to Lin'an. This Lin'an is not the Lin'an of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Lin'an Road of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan.

It is located in the core of southern Yunnan, and if Lin'an is taken, the entire southern Yunnan and southeastern Yunnan chieftains, as well as the army of Dali Duan stationed in Guangnan, will be under the front of the Ming army.

The Mongol nobles stationed in Lin'an were Wu Bu, a close confidant of the King of Liang, but his main force had been transferred to Qujing before, and the remnants of the defeated generals who fled back were unable to fight again, but instead spread the horror of the Ming army, so that the chieftains and officials under him also had no courage to resist.

Therefore, as soon as the Ming Dynasty army arrived, Wu Bu obediently surrendered Kaicheng, and Jin Chaoxing occupied Lin'an, an important town in southern Yunnan, without a single soldier. The chieftains, birds and beasts of various departments were scattered, and more local officials from Ningzhou and other places took the initiative to surrender and donate grain and grass to the army to fund the suppression.

Jin Chaoxing geared up and prepared to concentrate all his efforts to eliminate the Dali army in Guangnan and completely pacify southeast Yunnan!

This battle is the real highlight - not only is the quality of the soldiers of the Dali army stronger than that of the Yuan army, which has mixed sources, but also the Ming army has always put on a posture of attacking from the direction of Guangxi, so the Duan clan spared no expense, built a city and built a perfect defense system.

Duan Bao, the governor of Dali, not only has been fighting in Guangnan, but also organized countless barbarians around him, promising heavy profits and letting them assist the Dali army in defending Guangnan. This battle is not easy to fight, and if it is not done well, it will be like Guo Xing in a stalemate.

At that time, he had to beg Lanyu Wang Bi to attack from both sides of Guangxi, so that even if Guangnan was defeated, he would not be able to raise his head among the Huaixi brothers.

Therefore, Jin Chaoxing has worked hard this time, and he wants to show it well, so that the emperor and the Huaixi brothers can see that his title of Marquis of Xuande is not picked up for nothing!

Who knew that he was destined to lose blood on this expedition. As soon as the army was halfway from Lin'an, the scouts discovered a large number of routs coming from the direction of Quang Nam.

After capturing and interrogating the prisoners, it was learned that they were the targets of this crusade - the Dali army stationed in Guangnan.

When the Jin Dynasty heard the news, everyone was square, although it was definitely a good thing that Guangnan could be captured without losing troops. But this feeling of punching out with all your strength can really make people vomit blood.

He immediately ordered the scouts to bring a captured Dali officer for personal interrogation.

"What the hell is going on?!" Jin Chaoxing asked angrily: "Lao Tzu hasn't made a move yet, why did you fall?" ”

The scribes accompanying the army hurriedly wrote this sentence on paper, similar to the situation in Annam, Goryeo Japan, Dali also spoke in its own language, 僰文, but wrote in Chinese characters.

So as long as you are literate, you can communicate through pen talk.

The officers of Dali were all nobles, and the literacy rate was still very high, so they also took the pen and wrote: 'Eight days ago, the Ming army forcibly crossed the Xiyang River, broke the Baoyue Pass, and went down to Guangnan City......

"Lan Yu ......" Jin Chaoxing looked at the transcript in a daze, and couldn't come back to his senses for a while: "Isn't his task a strategy?" How did you really do the fake show? ”

"With his character, can he be willing to sing a supporting role?" Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen on the side sneered: "It's strange if you don't steal the show!" ”

"He's messing around!" Jin Chaoxing said angrily: "Violating the combat deployment, I want to go to the prince to join him!" ”

"You can pull it down." Cao Zhen smiled bitterly: "Lan Yu is the uncle of the crown princess, and the prince is the prince's number one henchman, don't you give the prince a problem?" ”

"That can't be cheaper for him either! I'm going to slash him when I meet! "Jin Chao jumped straight to his feet with excitement." Doesn't this play people?! ”

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Anger is anger, what to do or what to do.

Jin Chaoxing ordered the army to form a formation at Liulang Mountain to block the fleeing Dali army.

The officers and soldiers of Dali fled here from Guangnan, they have fled for five days and five nights, the officers are better, the soldiers who rely on two legs are all tired and want to die, when they see the Ming army all over the mountains, how can they still have the courage to resist, they all knelt down and surrendered at the first time, and they were stunned not to give Xuandehou a chance to see red.

Xuandehou, who was holding back, kept pulling a donkey's face and didn't say a word. It wasn't until two days later, when the two armies met, and Lan Yu and Wang Bi rode horses to meet each other, that he found the right master to vent.

"Hahaha!" Wang Bi's hearty laughter resounded through the valley, and he greeted Xuandehou and Jingchuanhou from afar: "Farewell to Shaanxi, we haven't seen each other for two years, and the two brothers want to die stupidly!" ”

"Hahaha! The demeanor of Dingyuan Hou is still the same, and his brother also wants to die. The two first exchanged affectionate greetings with Wang Bi.

Lan Yu didn't seem to have anything to do with herself, and she didn't greet the two, and her face was indifferent the whole time.

Jin Chaoxing didn't see him at all, and the atmosphere became awkward.

"Hey, you old blue, we haven't settled accounts with you yet, you shake your face first." Jingchuan Hou hurriedly said to the mud: "When you go back, you have to pay a few glasses of wine to your brothers to make amends." ”

"What am I guilty of?" Lan Yu said expressionlessly. He usually doesn't do this, but he expected the other party to throw his face, and in line with the consistent style of striking first, he threw his face to the other party first.

"You know it in your own mind." Jin Chaoxing snorted. "If you violate the battle strategy formulated by the emperor himself without authorization, it is said that you should be directly impeached."

"It's all my own brothers, not so much." Jing Chuanhou hurriedly cooled down.

"What tactics did I violate?" Lan Yu didn't admit it.

"Don't pretend to be confused here! The emperor clearly ordered Er and others to send troops from Guangxi to contain the Dali army in the direction of Guangnan to fight in response to the main force! Jin Chaoxing was really a little nervous at this time, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "Did you let you capture Guangnan?!" ”

"I've wiped them out, isn't it better than containment?" Lan Yu said coldly.

"You talk nonsense!" Jin Chaoxing said angrily: "Once the Dali army in Guangnan is defeated, Dali will definitely be greatly shaken, what if they and King Liang abandon their previous suspicions and unite as one?" ”

"To hell with King Liang, how can Dali unite with him?" Lan Yuyin smiled and said, "That's why I want to send Duan Bao to hell and let him meet King Liang." ”

"You know everything?" Jin Chaoxing was taken aback, it stands to reason that when the road in Yunnan was not opened, the messenger had to go from Kunming to Guizhou first, then from Guizhou to Huguang, and finally south to Guangxi, so as to deliver the letter to Lan Yu.

Moreover, there was no post system for most of the journey, and no matter how fast the messenger was, it would take ten days and eight days.

When it was calculated that when Lan Yu crossed the Xiyang River, it was only three days before the army entered Kunming. So he didn't have time to get the news at all.

(End of chapter)