The night has deepened, the carnival has come to an end for the time being, and the noise mixed with pain and excitement has become quiet.
The iron pot on the fire was turned over, and the smell of pickles and bacon came out of the broth. A veteran with dirt on his fingernails roughly held the pancake and patted it hard on the edge of the pot. Junquge
Muchun, Lan Yu, Zhu Gaoxu and the generals in the army sat around the pot with calm faces.
"There is no other way. If we really want to attack Kongtong Village, we have to attack the mountain!"
He Fu, the commander of the Yunnan capital, spoke first and said, "When it was bright during the day, I led my men to explore there. It's damn hard to attack. There is a road on the mountain, but there are bunkers on both sides of the road. There is no blind spot when shooting with bows and arrows. , the men will be living targets if they go up there!"
He also carries the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, and he is an experienced subordinate who followed Lan Yu on his expedition into the desert and went deep into the fishing sea, so he speaks very casually, "This is all done openly and secretly. There will definitely be no shortage of traps and stingers!"
Zhai Neng also said, "We can only fight head-on. Firearms are completely useless. Even if our cannons can find their bunkers, they can't hit them from an elevated angle." He said with a gloomy face, "We can only let people clear the way. , Use your life to find out the location of their bunker, then carry the cannon up and get close and knock it!"
"Then the damn dead people will go into the sea!" Lan Yu cursed.
"How about?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at everyone, "Fire attack and burn the mountain? I remember there is something called fierce fire oil..."
"Ha!" Before he finished speaking, there was a burst of chuckles from around him.
The people sitting here were all veterans who had fought in the war, and they all respected him as the emperor's grandson, but they didn't take it seriously, so the laughter seemed very contemptuous.
Zhu Gaoxu suddenly became furious and furious.
"It's winter now..." Lan Yu glanced at him and said.
Yes, in winter, the wind direction is wrong.
"Besides, we are at the bottom and they are at the top. How do you burn it? How do you pour oil?" Lan Yu said, opening the lid of the pot, and her face was suddenly enveloped in smoke.
He held a bowl of broth in his hand. His rough hands were not too hot. He broke open the pancake and soaked it in before putting it into his mouth.
After eating half a bowl, Lan Yu continued to speak, "Actually, I always feel that Manzi didn't hold back his fart well! He was thinking of giving us a hard time!"
"Over the years, they have rebelled and surrendered over and over again. They probably thought that they would hurt us so that they could continue to be the local emperor here!"
These chieftains in Yunnan were indeed a serious worry for the Ming Dynasty.
They were all nominally subjects of the Ming Dynasty, but in private they were out-and-out overlords. The mountain tribes under their rule were their slaves, and the power of life and death rested with the chieftains.
They also forged weapons privately and had their own craftsmen making weapons, just like a country within a country.
In recent years, the Ming Dynasty adopted a strategy of taking things slowly and simmering over a slow fire. Once the land was restored, whether it was a return to local rule or the establishment of counties, the interests of the chieftains would eventually be harmed.
This kind of contradiction is completely irreconcilable, so they rebel every now and then, which is a headache.
"Actually, that guy Dao Mengqian sent someone to deliver a letter!" Mu Chun said slowly.
Seeing everyone looking at him, he said with a smile, "It's still the same as before, saying that he is a vulgar person, and he didn't mean to provoke the Celestial Empire. As long as the Celestial Empire stops its troops, he is willing to change his past and become a good minister of our Ming Dynasty, haha !”
"Fuck grandma!" He Fu scolded, "I've been saying this all these years when I get beaten up, and the scars will heal and I'll stink." He cursed, pinching the knuckles of his big hand, "Capricious and insidious." Villain!"
Lan Yu looked at Muchun, "What do you mean?"
"I'm not interested!" Mu Chun smiled, "Just listen to him fart!" He said, sighing, "Ever since my father guarded Yunnan, these chieftains have not been struggling for a year. As the saying goes, it is better to make a long-term connection than to make a short-term connection.
We cannot leave the problems to the future. For this battle, the Emperor has prepared more than two million for us in terms of military supplies alone. There are not enough soldiers and horses on the front line, and there will be soldiers and horses from surrounding provinces that can be mobilized in the future."
"We fight not according to our will, but according to the emperor's will, according to the will of our Ming Dynasty! Either don't fight, or cut him into pieces!"
"That's not right!" Lan Yu suddenly put down the bowl, "That's not right!"
"What's wrong?" Muchun asked.
Lan Yu frowned and pondered, "The time for him to write the letter was wrong!" Then, he thought seriously and said, "The two armies haven't fought yet, so he didn't write a letter first to convince the soft. Even if he really had the intention of convincing the soft, but now
Doesn’t he have any chips?”
As he spoke, Lan Yu looked at everyone, "He also knows that our Ming Dynasty has committed the same trick he did. If he wants us to stop our troops, he has to show his strength."
"How to show it? Of course he is inextricably linked to us. When we are unable to succeed, it is a good time for him to come forward and declare his vassal. It is equivalent to giving us a step up to the Ming Dynasty. If we can't attack it by then, we can only pinch our noses.
admit!"
When everyone heard this, they all lowered their heads and began to think deeply.
This is indeed the truth, this is indeed the case.
"A delaying tactic!" Mu Chun said bitterly, "I wrote a letter asking him to surrender. According to the normal procedure, I will report this matter to the emperor. This correspondence will last at least half a month..."
"It's a waste of time!" He Fu also understood, "We climbed over the mountain and came from his side. He needs time to reorganize the defense line. Moreover, he knows that it is not easy for us to transport food and grass... While it is time-consuming,
Cut off our food supply again..."
Zhu Gaoxu's mind was running rapidly, and he was learning while listening.
Before the army set off, there were two natural chasms, one was Gaolianggong Mountain, and the other was Nujiang River.
In order to prevent the Ming army from advancing, Dao Mengqian and other chieftains set up defense lines layer by layer along the Nu River. Now that the Ming army came over the mountains, Muchun broke through the enemy's Nu River defense line from the front...
Manzi Tusi's side needs time to adjust frontally and turn the side defense into a flanking attack...
"I still have a lot to learn!" Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself, "The brains of these old military leaders react really quickly."
"No!" Lan Yu suddenly said again, "He has enough time!"
As he spoke, he picked up a burning branch to extinguish the flames and began to draw pictures on the ground.
"Kongtong Village is their base camp." Lan Yu said, "It is built on the mountain and is indestructible. We can only attack with human lives. Even if there are 100,000 soldiers and horses, we cannot break it in a short time."
"During the time we are attacking the mountain, he has enough time to make arrangements and command! Moreover, as you Xiao He just said, what we are worried about is the grain road. If he wants to attack, he will definitely make a fuss about the grain road!"
"In other words, he doesn't want to fight now, at least not at this time. Why not fight at this time? It's not because he is afraid of us. It's because he feels that now is not his chance to win?"
This group of old soldiers nodded frequently. But Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be listening to a book from heaven. The barbarians thought they could win? Isn't this a joke?
"Why isn't it the time to win?" Lan Yu continued in a deep voice, "Because there is no power that can completely destroy us!" He said with a sneer, "What he did was to keep tens of thousands of us here.
What a crazy idea!"
"Hiss!" He Fu gasped.
Muchun muttered, "With tens of thousands of us staying here, there will be no soldiers left in Yunnan Province. When the time comes, they will march straight in..."
"They..." Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask, "Do they have such big ambitions?"
"I don't know if Dao Mengqian is there, but there must be people behind him!" Lan Yu said, throwing down the branch in his hand, "Burma!"
After saying that, he continued to ask, "Who is in charge over there now?"
Mu Chun thought about it, "What the fuck are you calling Mingji Sifa Jixiu... I can't tell you, it's such a fucking tongue twister... On the surface, it's our Ming Dynasty's relief to China and Myanmar."
The envoy is secretly the King of Ava of Myanmar!"
"Dao Mengqian's rebellion must have something to do with him!" Muchun continued, "They have been flirting with each other for a day or two."
"Give me five hundred cavalry!" Lan Yu said suddenly.
"Who are you?" Muchun seemed to understand.
"Go around... I'll go further away and see if there are any troops mobilizing over there in Myanmar!" Lan Yu said seriously.
"What if there is?" Zhu Gaoxu asked hurriedly.
"That's just right!" Mu Chun smiled, "It's just hitting Mr. Lan's unique skill!"
Zhu Gaoxu didn't answer, but He Fu laughed and said, "Surround the area for help!"