Father can be an enemy to the country

The day after capturing Qujing, Marquis Yingchuan convened the generals to discuss the next battle strategy.

"You all performed well yesterday. I have already reported to the prince to ask for credit for you." Fu Youde's expression was much calmer than when he was at Shengjing Pass. Qu Jing paused and the battle was settled. The next thing to consider is how to fight this battle beautifully.

The generals were in the same mood. After a while of chatting and laughing, Fu Youde said seriously: "But the battle is still going on, so we can't take it lightly. The more times like this, the less you can make mistakes. If someone capsizes his boat in the gutter, don't blame me. I will turn my back on you!"

"Yes!" The generals quickly suppressed their smiles and responded in a deep voice.

"Okay, let's get down to business." Fu Youde continued: "We have annihilated Dalima's 100,000 troops, and Guo Ying has restrained another 80,000 troops. King Liang does not have many troops left."

"Yes." The generals nodded in agreement.

"Yesterday we interrogated Dalima, and he confessed that Kunming now only has 20,000 defenders. There are also 10,000 guards from King Liang... but he will never use them to defend the city." Fu Youde said slowly: " Dalima even said that with the character of King Liang, after hearing that Qujing was defeated, he would probably abandon Kunming directly."

"Really? I thought he would fight to the end!" The generals' eyes lit up when they heard this. Based on King Liang's tough performance before, they were all ready to attack Kunming.

But if possible, they would rather fight ten field battles than attack the city once. Especially in a big city like Kunming, fighting is so painful. If there is a chance to win it without bloodshed, it would definitely be the best.

"Dalima said that King Liang was a timid and short-sighted person. He was just a selfish clan member. He was not what we imagined at all." Fu Youde said with a smile:

"Although we knew before that he and the Dali Duan clan were not easy to deal with, we always thought that they would put the overall situation first and join forces to deal with us in times of crisis. But Dalima said that was impossible."

"Why?" the generals asked hurriedly.

The Duan family was another big force besides King Liang, and the entire western Yunnan was under their control. Moreover, the Duan family is a descendant of the King of Dali and enjoys a high reputation throughout Yunnan. Therefore, after Boss Zhu failed to recruit King Liang, he once wanted to recruit them.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Boss Zhu sent envoys to Dali and issued an edict to the Duan family. Dali was a loyal vassal state during the Tang and Song Dynasties. Unfortunately, during the Yuan Dynasty, Dali was deposed as a native official and no longer the king. Now I am expelling the Tartars and restoring China. I want to follow the old practices of the Tang and Song Dynasties and make the leader of the Duan clan the King of Dali to govern Yunnan from generation to generation.

The conditions given were not unfavorable, but in Duan's view, it was just because the Ming Dynasty failed to recruit the King of Liang and wanted to provoke them and the King of Liang to kill each other so as to reap the benefits.

So I also refused.

Therefore, in the eyes of the court, although the two families have their own evil intentions, they can still generally communicate with the outside world based on their common interests.

Unexpectedly, Darima said that it was impossible for the two families to cooperate.

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"Because Dalima told me a secret." I heard Marquis Yingchuan explain: "He said that the father of Duan Bao, the current general manager of Dali, and Duan Gong, the previous general manager of Dali, were the ones who killed Zaravalmi."

"Oh? Is there such a thing?" The generals were surprised. They had to do their homework in advance before going on the expedition. Of course, they knew something about the relationship between King Liang and Duan Gong.

I only know that Ming Yuzhen of Sichuan attacked eastern Yunnan and reached Kunming. The king of Liang was frightened and fled to Chuxiong. Seeing that the Yuan Dynasty's rule in Yunnan was about to fall apart like elsewhere, at the critical moment, Duan Gong, the general manager of Dali, sent troops to assist King Liang, repelled Ming Yuzhen, kept Yunnan intact, and helped King Liang regain Kunming.

After the war, in order to express his gratitude, King Liang worshiped Duan Gong as the political official of Yunnan Pingzhang, and at the same time married his daughter Princess Agai to Duan Gong. Later, Duan Gong stayed in Kunming and helped King Liang regroup, expand his army and prepare for war, and rectify the taxation of tea horses and copper mines. He made great contributions to King Liang's ability to survive the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Outsiders only know that Duan Gong and King Liang accidentally fell off their horses and were seriously injured while hunting, and died soon after they were sent back. The King of Liang also expressed his condolences in person and gave him a generous burial. Unexpectedly, a cat cries like a mouse...

"Dalima said that at that time, Duan Gong had been living in Kunming for a long time and monopolized power, which made many Mongolian nobles unhappy, so they slandered King Liang, saying that Duan Gong wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to restore the Duan family's Dali Kingdom. King Liang had no idea. I listened to the slander and first wanted Princess Agai to poison Duan Gong, but the princess refused."

"The princess couldn't tell Duan Gong directly, so she persuaded him to return to Dali, but Duan Gong didn't take it seriously." Fu Youde said: "This made King Liang more and more sure that he had a very good intention, otherwise he wouldn't have taken the risk. So he simply went there himself. We started by using hunting as an excuse to invite him outside the city, ambush the killer in advance, and killed him."

"At that time, Duan's family didn't believe that Duan Gong had been riding horses all his life and he was so young. How could he fall and be seriously injured?" He then said in a deep voice: "A few years ago, Princess Agai died in depression. Before she died, she had someone kill her. This secret was conveyed to Duan Bao, and the two families completely broke up."

"So that's it..." Everyone was stunned, and they didn't expect that there was this secret.

"So, if we try to recruit the Duan family now, maybe we can succeed?" Xuandehou asked.

"It's too late. When we wanted to canonize him, we asked him to knock him down and join us. Now that we have finished chewing the hard bones with all our hard work, it is his turn to eat meat?" Marquis Yingchuan chuckled.

"Indeed, what the general said makes sense. If there is no such shop in this village, how can good things be waiting for him?" All the generals agreed deeply and felt that Marquis Yingchuan's idea was very appetizing.

"But in this case, it is indeed impossible for Prince Liang to count on the Duan family." Marquis Xiping said slowly: "Then this time not only Dali, but also King Chu Xiong and Prince Liang will not dare to go."

"Definitely. Chuxiong is close to Dali, what if Duan clan stabs him in the back." The Marquis of Yingchuan nodded and said: "Wusa was also surrounded by Guo Ying's troops, blocking his escape to Tibet. aisle."

"Then he has no choice but to run west." Xuande Hou said: "Let's see if any of the Burmese chieftains can take him in."

"It doesn't matter where he escaped, as long as he escaped from Kunming." Yingchuan Hou said solemnly.

"General, will he definitely escape?" a general asked.

"Who dares to say for certain about this kind of thing?" Fu Youde slowly shook his head and said: "But everything has one and two. Once it is born, it will be familiar twice. Last time, Ming Yuzhen led 20,000 soldiers and scared him so much that he abandoned the city and ran away. , It makes no sense that even though I have led an army of 100,000 people, he can't stand still."

"Yes, that's too disrespectful to us." The generals burst into laughter.

"Anyway, let's set up our posture first and see if we can scare him away first. If he doesn't, we will go on." Fu Youde finally said solemnly: "Let the soldiers rest quickly. Tomorrow the army will set off immediately, and the whole army will attack directly." Kunming!"

"Yes!" The generals responded loudly.