The day after Qujing was captured, 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 situation has been decided. The next thing to consider is how to end this battle.
It's just a beautiful fight.
The generals were in the same mood. After talking and laughing for a while, 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 we 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 doesn't 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 a city once. Especially for a big city like Kunming, it would be too painful to fight. 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 Duan clan of Dali 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 is another big force besides King Liang, and the entire western Yunnan is under their control. Moreover, the Duan family is a descendant of King Dali and enjoys a high reputation throughout Yunnan, so Boss Zhu failed in recruiting King Liang to surrender.
Later, he turned to want 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, but unfortunately during the Yuan Dynasty, Dali was deposed and became a local official and no longer the king. Now I
In order to expel the Tartars and restore China, in order to follow the old practices of the Tang and Song Dynasties, he made the leader of the Duan clan the King of Dali and governed Yunnan for generations.
The conditions offered were not unfavorable, but in Duan's opinion, 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 imperial court, although the two families had their own hidden agendas, they were generally able to deal with the outside world on the basis of 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 Yingchuan Hou explain: "He said that the father of Duan Bao, the current general manager of Dali, and Duan Gong, the previous general manager of Dali, was the king of Liang who killed Zaravalmi."
"Oh? There's still something like this?" 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 frightened King Liang fled to Chuxiong. Seeing that the Yuan Dynasty's rule in Yunnan was about to collapse like elsewhere, at the critical moment, Duan Gong, the general manager of Dali, sent troops to assist King Liang.
He defeated Ming Yuzhen, kept Yunnan intact, and helped Liang Wang regain Kunming.
After the war, the King of Liang expressed his gratitude and worshiped Duan Gong as the political official of Yunnan Pingzhang. At the same time, he married his daughter Princess Agai to Duan Gong. Later, Duan Gong stayed in Kunming to help the King of Liang regroup, expand the army and prepare for war, and rectify the tea horse and copper industries.
The tax revenue from the mines made great contributions to the Liang Wang's ability to survive the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
Outsiders only know that Duan Gong accidentally fell off his horse and was seriously injured while hunting with the King of Liang. He died soon after he was sent back. The King of Liang even 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 the king of Liang, saying that Duan Gong wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to restore the Duan family's Dali kingdom. The king of 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 his intentions were very good, 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 not very young, so 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?" Xuande Hou asked.
"It's too late. When we wanted to canonize him back then, 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 King Liang to count on the Duan family." Marquis Xiping said slowly: "Then this time not only Dali, but also Chuxiong and King Liang will not dare to go."
"Definitely. Chuxiong is close to Dali. What if Duan clan stabs him in the back?" Marquis 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," the Marquis of Yingchuan said in a deep voice.
"General, will he definitely escape?" a general asked.
"Who dares to say for sure about this kind of thing?" Fu Youde slowly shook his head and said: "But everything has two consequences. One is born again and another is familiar. 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 move like a mountain.”
"Yeah, that's too disrespectful to us." The generals burst into laughter.
"In any case, let's set up our posture first and see if we can scare him away first. If not, 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."
