In the palace of Chuhaidian Palace, the windows of the pavilion are open, and the laughter of the prince and the three marquis is constantly heard.

The four of them are actually massive, from the evening to the afternoon, one of them drank a jar of wine, and he can still talk about business.

"Lord Wang, how is the situation of my conquest of the Southern Army now?" Guo Ying and Hu Quanba looked at the sixth child, and when they left Yunnan, they could only learn about the latest military information through the Tang Daily. The news lags by at least half a month.

"It's going pretty well." Zhu Zhen dipped his finger in the tea and sketched the outline of the Indochina Peninsula on the table.

"At the beginning of May, my 150,000 troops were on the verge of Mengmao, and the remnants of the Luchuan regime had already coerced the people, so they fled to Mengyang first, leaving only an empty city for us."

"After the soldiers entered Mengyang without blood, General Zhengnan sent Marquis Jingchuan to lead an army of 50,000 to the north to pursue the remnants of Luchuan, and he personally led an army of 100,000 to the south, and went out of Wanding by Mubang through tin foil to smash Ava!"

"Because there is no decent army in Luchuan, and with the cooperation of the local prefect, the army is like a bamboo, and half a month later, the army will be in the heart of Myanmar - under the city of Ava!"

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The Ava region is located in the heart of the whole of Burma, where the Bagan Dynasty, which ruled all of Burma, had its capital. Later, the Bagan Dynasty weakened under the blow of the Yuan army, and the second largest ethnic group, the Mon, took the opportunity to rebel against the Dai and established the Bago State on the banks of the Bago River in the south, which was later near Yangon.

Since then, Myanmar has been divided into Upper and Lower Burma. Upper Burma is still the capital of Awa, called Awa, and is still ruled by the Dai people. Lower Burma is the Bago country of the Mon people.

Both sides regarded each other as the number one enemy, fought each other again and again, and the national strength was exhausted, so they gave Sihanfa the opportunity to rise at the beginning.

After Sihanfa rose to Luchuan, he forced the king of Ava and Bago to claim to himself with a strong army, which was regarded as the annexation of Burma.

After the annexation of the Luchuan Kingdom, the fate of the two regimes was very different, because King Ava was the former co-owner of the Dai people, Sihanfa and his son naturally looked at him unpleasantly, and changed their ways to weaken their strength. In every battle, the Ava army was recruited as cannon fodder, and the Battle of Luchuan was no exception.

As a result, the 30,000 Ava army was written off in the first battle. Although King Ava still has a bit of a family background, he is already afraid of the Ming army, so as soon as Mu Ying's army arrived, he directly opened the city gate and surrendered.

The situation in Bago is much better than in Awa. First of all, Bago is the farthest away from Luchuan, and there is a country of Ava in the middle, and Sihanfa's father and son can't stretch their hands so far.

Moreover, they have to count on the Bago State to exert continuous pressure on the Ava State, so that those Dai people in Ava who regard themselves as noble will honestly accept the protection of their Luchuan compatriots. Therefore, the Bago state has not been weakened much, and after the fall of the Luchuan regime, it has become the strongest force in the whole of Myanmar.

King Bago may have felt that his country was built on the seashore, and the Ming army would definitely not be able to fight so far, so he refused the surrender of the Ming army, and only agreed to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor as a king.

In the past, most of the Ming army pinched their noses and recognized it. But now it's different, it's all their fiefdom, and King Bago doesn't want to let it out, so he can only fight down.

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"But damn the climate is in our way." Zhu Zhen sighed and said: "Entering June, the Indochina Peninsula is unbearably hot, the mountains and dense forests are full of snakes and insects, even if there is my fifth brother's military medical insurance escort, there are still half of the soldiers who are sick, most of them are heat stroke, and a small part is malaria and cholera. ”

"That's it......" The three marquis nodded with serious expressions, they all knew that in the southwest, the number one enemy was never those Fanbang troops, but the extremely hot weather, and the pervasive miasma.

If the climate and miasma of Inner Yunnan are nightmare difficulty, then the natural conditions for fighting in Outer Yunnan are hellish difficulty.

All the Central Plains armies were defeated on this. The Mongol and Yuan armies, which had the best results, also lost more than half of their losses due to the plague after capturing Burma and had to retreat to Inner Yunnan.

They were really worried that the southern army would repeat the mistakes of the Yuan army. Then their fiefdom dream will be far away.

"Don't worry, this is all expected by me and Brother Wen Ying." Zhu Zhen gave them a reassurance pill and said: "In fact, it is the safest for the army to choose to send troops after the autumn is cool." It's just that the battle of Luchuan was fought too beautifully, and all the troops in Luchuan were wiped out in one battle, leaving a huge power vacuum in Luchuan and Burma, and if we don't hurry south, we will be picked by others. ”

"Yes." Guo Ying and the three nodded, and the former said: "It's not just the king of Bago, those toasts are actually all the way to Si Lunfa and Daogan Meng, even if they donate their land and return to obedience, they will definitely not be honest, and they will definitely use every opportunity to expand their territory." ”

"So I ordered Mu Ying not to retreat north with the whole army, but to leave a part of the army to garrison Ava City, Ava is the center of Burma, and only by firmly grasping it in our hands will those local prefects not dare to act rashly." Zhu Zhen said with a smile:

"However, this king is still too conservative, Brother Wen Yingge does not plan to spend the summer in Ava City in the past few months, he is ready to personally lead 10,000 light horsemen, launch an eastward crusade, and the old knife in the car and the knife in Chiang Mai, flank Bangkok...... That is, the kingdom of Ayutthaya. ”

He was a hundred hearts about Mu Ying's military ability, so he agreed to this crusade.

"Mu Shuai is good at everything, it's just too fast." When the three of them heard this, they sighed: "It's like this to fight Yunnan and Luchuan, so that the brothers haven't used their skills yet." ”

"Hahaha, this is the difference in everyone's position, standing in the position of my father and this king, I love Brother Wen Ying to death." Zhu Zhen shook his head and smiled: "I wish he could bring down the entire Indochina Peninsula in a year." ”

"That is, what others can do with ten victories, he can do it with one. How much money can the imperial court spend less, and how many fewer people die? The three of them smiled bitterly and said: "Just follow him, it's too much of a loss in terms of merit." ”

"Well, you're going to have to change your mindset too. This Indochina Peninsula will be your fiefdom in the future, it will be a dozen years, thousands of miles of red land, and the population will be extinct, okay? Or is it better to fight a quick battle like Brother Wen Ying, and the people will suffer the least losses? Zhu Zhen laughed and said: "What is the spirit of ownership, it is the spirit of distress when the altar and jar are broken." ”

"Hey, it's really ......" Wang Bi and the three of them were empowered, and smiled embarrassedly: "That must be the best like Mu Shuai." This place with people is valuable, and if it is a deserted place like Mobei, it is not uncommon to seal us for 10,000 miles. ”

"Haha, that's it." Zhu Zhen nodded with a smile and touched another glass with the three of them.

"Lord Wang, can you give us a thorough understanding of what is the division of this fiefdom?" Wang Bi asked impatiently: "I just heard that it is going to be piloted in Outer Yunnan, and I don't know what the charter is." ”

(End of chapter)