Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In Yunnan, Yongli, after the change of tranquility, was like a frightened bird, hurriedly fled to the west of Yunnan, and arrived in Yongchang six days later. Ma Jixiang and others instigated Yongli to go straight to Burma, but the Queen Mother and Queen Wang insisted on not going. Thinking that he was in a hurry to escape when he was in peace, and left the empress dowager, queen, and prince behind, Yongli felt guilty, so he ordered to be stationed in Yongchang. At this time, 80% of the accompanying officials had gone, and there were only less than 4,000 people escorting the troops and horses.

Hundreds of miles away, Wu Sangui led his army to the city of Kunming without any resistance, but he was stunned by what he saw. The generals of his subordinates also opened their mouths one by one, as if they had seen the most unspeakable things in the world. They couldn't help but be shocked, because the Ming army made the stupidest and smartest decision - set the whole city of Kunming on fire!

Wu Sangui's face was extremely ugly, and his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang could even see his father-in-law's right hand shaking slightly while clutching the saddle.

Wu Sangui thought that the Ming army might protect Kunming to the death, and also thought that the Ming army might give up Kunming, but he did not think that the Ming army would neither protect Kunming nor give up Kunming, but chose the simplest and most rude way - set fire Burned the city of Kunming.

Fang Shouliang, the staff member, also sucked in a breath of cold air. Everyone said that Li Dingguo was benevolent and righteous. He didn't want this person to have such courage and dare to set fire to Kunming! Fang Shouliang admired this courage, but he probably couldn't be so cruel.

Wu Sangui couldn't help but hate it. He decided to attack Kunming, not only to capture the big pear to hold the imperial court, but more importantly, for the millions of stone rations in Kunming. With these millions of stone military rations, Wu Sangui no longer has to worry about the limitation of this ration, and can have more spare power to decide about Yunnan affairs, so that his plans can be realized little by little. Now it's good, Li Dingguo actually set Kunming on fire with a torch, which made all his plans and plans turned into black smoke, how to make him not hate him.

The city of Kunming has been in ruins. Most of the buildings in the city are wooden structures. After a few days of fire, the entire city of Kunming has been turned into an ashes, and the rest are only a few burning wooden pillars. The air was filled with the smell of charcoal, and there was countless dust falling from the air. Apart from the ruins, which were corpses that had been burnt to charcoal, there was not a single living person in the city. Kunming was completely destroyed. Except for the surrounding walls that were still intact, the largest city in southern Yunnan with a population of hundreds of thousands no longer existed. The Qing army could not stay even one night in the city of Kunming, because the city was full of scorched corpses, and they did not know how many Kunming people died under the fire.

The big pear was in hand, but it was a rotten pear, and he couldn't even eat it. Wu Sangui went to the Beileshangshan army to discuss matters according to his anger. Zhao Butai, the general of Zhengnan, also arrived with his army. Seeing the ruins of Kunming, his reaction was as angry and helpless as Wu Sangui.

On behalf of Duoni, the king of Xinjun, Beiler Shangshan asked Wu Sangui to immediately lead his army to the west of Yunnan to hunt down Yongli, but Wu Sangui had other ideas in his mind. The Yongli court is already at the end of its power. Abandoning Kunming and retreating to western Yunnan shows that its potential is exhausted, and it will not be a problem to destroy it. At present, there are many Qing troops gathered in Kunming. Wu Sangui has more than 50,000 men, Shang Shan has more than 20,000 soldiers, Zhao Butai also has more than 20,000 soldiers, and nearly 100,000 soldiers are advancing into western Yunnan. Yongli's men only have Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan. In the dead of life, the two kings' troops together were less than half of the Qing army, and there was a huge disparity in numbers.

However, Wu Sangui was unwilling to destroy the Yongli court, or he did not want Yongli to die like this. He knew very well that the reason why the Qing court relied on him was because Zhu Ming was still there. If Zhu Ming really perished, would he have a good end for this lackey?

The cunning rabbit died and the dog cooked. Hong Chengchou wrote the three words "hold the emperor" in the tea at Yanglaobao in Guizhou. Wu Sangui himself has various explanations, Hu Shouliang and Fang Yuxuan also have various explanations, but in the end they are all for him King Pingxi will not end up being cooked by a lackey.

Rely on the emperor, which emperor?

Hu Shouliang thought that he was coercing the emperor Shunzhi, so what was the coercion? Take the emperor of Yongli to take the emperor of Shunzhi.

Wu Sangui agreed with Hu Shouliang's guess, so the Qing court wanted to die forever, but Wu Sangui couldn't. However, if the Yongli court was still in Yunnan, Wu Sangui's plans for Yunnan and Guizhou would not succeed. Therefore, he cannot let Yongli stay in Yunnan.

Therefore, Wu Sangui said to Shang Shan and Zhuo Butai: "According to the investigation, the fake emperor is in Yongchang, and our army must immediately enter Yongchang and capture the fake emperor."

Shang Shan nodded and said: "King Pingxi is right, but my troops and horses have been here for a long time, and I'm already exhausted. I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight again." The implication is naturally that he doesn't want to lead his troops to Yongchang, because there are Ming troops Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan there. Although the two generals suffered repeated defeats, the Qing army did not dare to say that they were incapable of fighting.

"My soldiers and horses have suffered too many casualties, and I'm afraid they won't be able to fight again."

Zhao Butai was dissatisfied with Wu Sangui for a long time. When he was in Yang Laobao that day, if he hadn't pushed himself to fight against Li Dingguo, how could his soldiers and horses have suffered so many casualties, so he subconsciously went to Yongchang to hunt down Emperor Yongli. The task was pushed to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui sneered in his heart, Shang Shan and Zhao Butai refused to lead their troops to Yongchang, but they fell into his arms. In his opinion, if he is the main force to pursue Emperor Yongli, the life and death of Emperor Yongli will be in his hands, and his plans will be realized according to his own wishes. Although he was happy in his heart, he said on his mouth: "Although our army is tired, the enemy army is even more tired. If we let it breathe, I am afraid that it will revive. It will be more difficult to destroy it at that time."

Shang Shan glanced at Zhao Butai, thought about the tiger for a moment, and said, "As long as the King of Pingxi is willing to take the lead, we are willing to assist."

"Kunming is in ruins, and our army's food and grass is a big problem." Wu Sangui immediately followed the trend, Shang Shan and Zhao Butai refused to go to Yongchang, then they had to pay the price.

Shang Shan and Zhao Butai discussed a few words and agreed to allocate some food and grass in their army for Wu Sangui's army to use.

After the military meeting, Wu Sangui returned to the barracks and immediately set off to assemble the army, heading for Yongchang. On the way, he encountered the selected department of Bai Wen, the king of Gongchang of the Ming Dynasty. Bai Wenxuan guarded Yulong Pass with more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and Wu Sangui sent the vanguard to lead Berhetu to attack. After Bai Wen selected the army, he lost to Ber Hetu, so he had to leave the camp first. Wu Sangui ordered the Qing troops to catch up, and Bai Wenxuan turned around to fight again, but was defeated again and had to retreat in a hurry. In this battle, the Qing army seized one golden seal of King Gongchang of Bai Wenxuan, captured Lu Sangui, the general of the Ming Dynasty, and captured three elephants and one hundred and forty horses.

After the defeat of Bai Wenxuan, Wu Sangui immediately led his army to Yongchang. He ordered the army to camp five miles away from Yongchang, and then took his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu to investigate the terrain of Yongchang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The spies came to report that they were in the west of Yongchang City. When Wu Sangui found a small road leading to Myanmar, Wu Sangui moved in his heart when he heard it, and instructed the generals: "Wait for the troops to surround the east, south, and north sides of Yongchang City, and only let the west side not be surrounded."

Hu Guozhu said in a puzzled tone, "Your Highness, don't encircle it tightly, don't you want to leave a vein of vitality for the enemy army?"

However, Xia Guozhu knew his father-in-law's intentions, so he smiled and said to Hu Guozhu, who was about to become his brother-in-law: "If you surround them tightly, you may make the enemy want to fight back, and it will be unfavorable to oppose our army at that time."

Hu Guozhu was a little puzzled: "Right now, the Ming soldiers are like the end of a strong arrow. Just surround them tightly, and within a few days, the Ming soldiers will be in chaos without fighting. If you can capture the Yongli Emperor, wouldn't it be a great achievement?"

Xia Guoxiang said indifferently: "The rabbit will bite people in a hurry. Be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years."

Hu Guozhu wanted to speak, but Wu Sangui waved to stop him. Apart from Guan Ningbing, his direct descendant, most of his subordinates were Ming troops who surrendered from Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan all the way, so some words should not fall in the ears of these people.

(To be continued.)