The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Although the two armies were only ten miles apart, it took a long time for the messengers to cross mountains and ridges.

After Li Chengliang watched the people leave, Qi Jimei also sent people to communicate with the other side. The Ming army was the first to relax. The soldiers chose to sit on the ground and began to drink water and eat dry food.

"Jimei, send someone to the back to cook and give the soldiers something to eat. Anyway, there is still time, let the soldiers have a hot meal."

Li Chengliang opened his mouth and ordered again.

This is also to paralyze the other side, making them think that the possibility of successful peace talks is very high, so the Ming army relaxed their vigilance against them at this time.

But in fact, the Ming army's formation is still there, as long as the soldiers stand up, the formation will be formed immediately.

Even if the other side wants to take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army to relax its defense and launch a sneak attack, it is impossible.

Given the current situation of the Burmese army, even if they want to organize soldiers to fight, it will take some time to prepare.

And preparation also gives the Ming army time, which can be regarded as a warning to the Ming army.

Li Chengliang was in front of the battle line, and he didn't think that the preparations of the other side could be hidden from his eyes.

"Yes, Marshal.

Then ask someone to set up a big pot to cook meat soup. It will be troublesome to cook for so many people in such a short time."

Qi Jimei said immediately.

"Okay."

Li Chengliang nodded.

The soldiers still had dry food in their hands. Drinking it with meat soup could also restore a lot of physical strength, so that they would have the strength to kill the enemy later.

The Ming army temporarily relaxed its vigilance and started to eat, but the Burmese army on the opposite side did not have such good conditions.

The Ming army had sufficient logistical supplies, but the replenishment was often not timely, and the Burmese army had not brought much baggage after fleeing all the way.

Even if a batch of supplies were added in Ruibo City, the quantity was limited, and most of them were rice.

Now the army was blocked here, and it was troublesome to collect firewood nearby.

The Burmese army naturally saw the movement of the Ming army's battle line.

The slackness of the Ming army's formation made the Burmese soldiers feel relieved. It seemed that they didn't need to fight anymore.

They also saw that the Burmese officials went to contact the Ming army. They knew that they were at the end of the road and didn't want to fight anymore.

As soon as they relaxed, boundless sleepiness and hunger filled all the soldiers. Without waiting for the generals to speak, many Burmese soldiers also followed the Ming army and sat down on the ground to rest.

The Ming army still had food, but they didn't, so they could only sit there and watch the other side eat and drink.

Unconsciously, they still felt dissatisfied with their superiors.

When they robbed silver and things, they didn't think their superiors were good, but at this time and in this situation, dissatisfaction with the Burmese officials and chieftains was also growing rapidly.

Before, they only thought about surviving, so they ran desperately and had no time to think about these things.

Now that they are free, they are not thinking about random things, and then whispering in a low voice, and finally developed into groups of three or five whispering.

The soldiers had nothing to eat, but the officials and chieftains would not be hungry.

The personal soldiers around them also found firewood nearby and prepared food for their leaders, and they themselves could also get some.

Of course, the soldiers had to forget about it, because the personal soldiers did not have enough food.

More than an hour later, Li Chengliang finally received news that the scout team on the mountain had been deployed and could pass the information through arrows.

"Gudong."

Li Chengliang quickly chewed and swallowed the meat in his mouth, and drank the broth in the wooden bowl into his stomach. He burped and said, "Jimei, you now tell the other side to let Mang Yingli apologize and all Burmese soldiers lay down their weapons and surrender, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."

The soldiers under his command had already eaten. Although they were definitely not as good as the generals, dry biscuits and broth were also rare delicacies for these soldiers.

"Yes, Marshal."

Qi Jimei did not say much, and immediately called someone to pass on Li Chengliang's words.

Soon, several Ming soldiers followed two Burmese prisoners of war and walked out of the Ming army formation and headed towards the Burmese army.

Qi Jimei also immediately asked his personal soldiers to pass the message to each army formation, asking the captain to be ready to assemble the troops at any time.

After the Ming army issued the request, you can imagine what the result will be on the other side.

As long as they are a little tougher, the officials and generals of Myanmar will probably not accept it, and this war will inevitably break out.

But now, the Ming army has an obvious advantage, and Qi Jimei is not worried about anything.

Let's fight, anyway, we are ready.

The Ming army began to prepare quietly. First, the captains of each team knew about this, and then the soldiers below soon knew about it.

In a while, we may have to fight another battle with the Burmese army.

It was when they were full and full that the morale of the Ming army soldiers also rose.

This is why it is important to prepare food and grass first in ancient wars. When they are full and full, the morale of the soldiers does not need to be mobilized, and they will have it by themselves.

Soldiers who are not full will not have the spirit to fight, and they will easily collapse at the first touch.

The Ming army was gearing up for the final battle to destroy the enemy in front of them.

As for the Burmese army on the other side, the Ming army envoys did not enter the Burmese army, but were just outside, with the two Burmese prisoners shouting to the inside.

In an instant, the Ming army's demands spread among the Burmese army.

The Ming army wanted the Burmese prince Mang Yingli to apologize for his crime, and the entire Burmese army to lay down their weapons and surrender.

In fact, laying down weapons and surrendering was acceptable to the Burmese soldiers.

It's just that in the past they participated as victors and accepted the surrender of the enemy.

This time it seems that the situation has turned around and they have become the losers.

However, they can still accept laying down their weapons and accepting surrender.

After all, what else can they ask for after losing the war?

However, for the Burmese officials and chieftains who still have troops in their hands and want to continue to be the rulers of this land after the war, this is somewhat unwilling to accept.

Once they surrender, the next situation is not something they can choose.

The Ming army has the final say, and they can only passively accept it, which makes them somewhat unable to agree.

"Do the Ming people think they have won? Do we still have tens of thousands of people?"

"But we can't not surrender. We can't win now."

"It wasn't like this before. As long as we express our acceptance of surrender, it seems that the Ming country will accept it and treat us with courtesy."

"Yeah, why does it feel wrong this time."

The chieftains were whispering. At this time, no one of them considered Prince Mang Yingli. What did the Ming army's request to him have to do with them, the chieftains.

The chieftains just didn't want their soldiers to lay down their weapons and become lambs to be slaughtered. As for whether Mang Yingli was embarrassed or not, it had nothing to do with them.

They thought so, but Mang Yingli couldn't.

He absolutely couldn't accept such an insult.

Of course, he knew that he had to take off his shirt and carry the thorns to ask for forgiveness from the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, if he just wrote a petition to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he would still be willing to do it, because he knew what it was.

But he couldn't accept it when he had to carry the thorns to ask for forgiveness in front of his subordinates.

In the future, he will be the king of this land. How can he be treated so humiliatingly? How can he rule this country in the future?

"Prepare for a fight. I think the Ming people don't intend to let us live."

Mang Yingli suddenly spoke loudly.

"What?"

His words made the Burmese nobles, officials and chieftains gathered around him feel nervous.

Mang Yingli looked at the reactions of the crowd and immediately continued: "The Ming people asked us to lay down our weapons and surrender. After that, we can't fight or kill them.

If the Ming people really accept our surrender, they should let us write a letter of surrender and then treat us warmly as usual, win us over and make us listen to them all the time."

His words made the people around him nod unconsciously.

Indeed, the chieftains of Myanmar had conflicts with the Ming country before. After the Ming army was dispatched, they bowed their heads and surrendered, and the matter was over.

However, this time is a little different from the past. They led troops into the Ming country.

"They probably didn't intend to let us live, so they put forward harsh conditions in an unusual way."

Mang Yingli continued.

His purpose is actually very simple, he still wants to pull the generals and chieftains to his side and make a gesture of fighting to the death with the Ming country.

Then, he can negotiate with the Ming country. For example, according to convention, he wrote a letter of surrender as a Burmese prince and asked for forgiveness from the emperor of the Ming country.

In this way, he would not have to lose that person, and it would not affect his future as the king here.

The Ming army wanted to kill the officials and chieftains here, but Mang Yingli had not thought about it yet.

Because according to convention, they knew that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not willing to come to such a remote place as Myanmar to serve as officials.

Not to mention Myanmar, I heard that no one in Yunnan was willing to come.

This is actually the reason why Mang Yinglong dared to take action against Yunnan.

He believed that since the officials and ministers of the Ming Dynasty did not like Yunnan, there would be a chance to take Yunnan from the Ming Dynasty.

For those officials, without Yunnan, they would not worry about being sent to such a wild place to serve as officials.

It is a good thing.

At that time, as long as they wrote a humble letter to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they should be able to fool him.

After all, he also knew that the power of the Ming Dynasty was actually in the hands of the ministers, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was young and had no power at all.

Of course, Mang Yinglong only said these words to his son Mang Yingli.

To the outside world, Mang Yinglong's statement was not like this, but very tough, and even discussed with his subordinates how to divide the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty.

If not, he would not have been able to organize an army of 300,000 people from the country this time.

Those chieftains were fooled by Mang Yinglong's words, because the invincible Mang Yinglong would really lead them to defeat the Ming Dynasty and divide the colorful world of the Ming Dynasty.

How could Mang Yinglong, who could unify Myanmar and continue to fight foreign wars without defeat, be a simple-minded person? Couldn't he measure the strength of the strength?

Myanmar is very powerful, but that is against the surrounding small countries.

Against the Ming Dynasty, Myanmar does not have this confidence.

Now, he can only use the "Confucianism" thought of the Ming people, hoping to surrender according to convention with tougher means.

He did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would completely incorporate Myanmar into its territory this time and no longer allow them to exist.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Myanmar was already part of the Ming Dynasty. They actually belonged to the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administration Commission, so he conferred titles on three envoys and six chieftains in Myanmar.

The kings and chieftains of Myanmar were actually just envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and were not considered foreign vassal kings at all.

It was just that the Ming Dynasty did not force them to give up their titles.

To the Ming Dynasty, they regarded themselves as envoys, but internally, they were still kings.

Wei Guangde dared to reach out to Myanmar because Myanmar was not among the fifteen countries that Zhu Yuanzhang had set as non-conquerable.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang did not say that Burma could not be conquered, it means that it could be conquered and occupied.

The "unconquered countries" announced by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in the "Huang Ming Zu Xun" in the 28th year of Hongwu were only Korea, Japan, Great Ryukyu, Little Ryukyu, Annan, Zhenla, Siam, Champa, Sumatra, Western, Java, Pengheng, Baihua, Sanfuqi, and Brunei.

It can only be said that Mang Yingli accidentally told the truth, and Li Chengliang really didn't want to keep them.

However, when he said that the conditions of the Ming army were harsh, everyone nodded.

Indeed, the conditions of the Ming army were really dangerous.

When the knife was not on the neck, no one would be willing to be tied up, and naturally they still wanted to struggle.

"Prince, what do you think we should do?"

Someone asked.

Seeing the reaction, Mang Yingli was not happy, but only panic.

He suppressed his nervousness and continued, "We must firmly reject the Ming people and tell them that we can surrender, but we need to do it in a decent manner.

This king can write a letter of surrender to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty on behalf of my father, but refuse all others."

Mang Yingli did not say that he would refuse the Ming army's request to ask for forgiveness, but said that he should surrender in a decent manner and could write a letter of surrender, but nothing else would be discussed, which was in line with the wishes of all Burmese officials and chieftains here.

"What the prince said makes sense. We can surrender, but if we ask our men to lay down their weapons, what if the Ming army does not keep its word? We will be caught in a trap."

Someone else shouted.

In fact, it is not uncommon for Myanmar to raise the butcher knife against the surrendering party when it was fighting abroad.

So when these words were spoken, they reminded many people that laying down weapons and surrendering seemed to be very risky.

"Reject them and prepare for war."

Without giving others more time to think, Mang Yingli shouted loudly.

But Mang Yingli was still a little young after all, and he failed to incite the emotions of the crowd.

Because no one agreed with him and shouted with him.

After blushing for a moment, Mang Yingli immediately suppressed his surging emotions and continued: "Express our attitude to them, and then continue to talk.

However, each department must make a gesture, that is, if the Ming Kingdom does not meet our requirements, we can only go to war and die.

If the Ming army wants to get our sneak attack, they must accept our conditions."

Mang Yingli's reaction was very fast. He knew what everyone was thinking, so he immediately used this matter as a gesture to put pressure on the Ming army. The ultimate goal was to negotiate with the Ming people.

"This is possible, let everyone pretend, as long as we get through this level."

Some people agreed, and soon the supporters accounted for more than half.

Those who did not speak out were a minority.

"Should we also ask the Ming people to release the king and let the king come back?"

A Burmese minister also proposed.

"Of course, this should be included. If everyone has anything to say, say it, and then we will talk to the Ming officials."

Mang Yingli agreed.

The person who just spoke was a minister loyal to Mang Yinglong.

As the saying goes, a new emperor appoints new ministers, and the Burmese officials may not necessarily listen to him.