As the King of Chu said, occupying Kunming can only be regarded as the initial determination of Yunnan. There is still a long way to go before completely pacifying Yunnan, or even permanently incorporating it into the territory and turning it into the core territory of the Ming Dynasty.
The food had to be eaten one bite at a time, and things had to be done one by one. The Ming army's first task was to continue fighting and recover the entire Yunnan from the remnants of the Liang king and the local officials, chiefs and soldiers.
According to the established strategy, after consolidating the defense of Kunming, Mu Ying immediately sent Jin Chaoxing south to Lin'an. This Lin'an was not the Lin'an of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Lin'an Road established in Yunnan during the Yuan Dynasty.
It is located at the core of southern Yunnan. If Lin'an is captured, the entire southern and southeastern Yunnan native chiefs, as well as the Dali Duan family's troops stationed in Guangnan, will be under the front of the Ming army.
The Mongolian nobleman stationed in Lin'an was Wu Buji, a close confidant of King Liang. However, his main force had been transferred to Qujing, and the defeated soldiers who escaped back were unable to fight again. Instead, they spread the terror of the Ming army, causing those under him to fight.
The local chiefs and officials also lost the courage to resist.
Therefore, as soon as the Ming Dynasty army arrived, Wu Bujie obediently surrendered to Kaicheng, and Jin Chaoxing occupied Lin'an, an important town in southern Yunnan without a single soldier. The native chiefs, birds and beasts scattered in all directions, and even native officials from Ningzhou and other places took the initiative to come
Surrender and donate food and fodder to the army to support the suppression.
Jin Chaoxing was gearing up, preparing to concentrate all his efforts on annihilating the Dali Army in Guangnan and completely pacifying southeastern Yunnan!
This battle is the real highlight - not only is the quality of the Dali army better than that of the Yuan army, which has mixed origins, but the Ming army has always assumed a posture of attacking from Guangxi, so the Duan family did not hesitate to spend money to build cities and strongholds, and built a
Complete defense system.
Duan Bao, the general manager of Dali, not only has been fighting in Guangnan, he has also organized countless barbarians around him and promised them huge profits to help the Dali army defend Guangnan. This battle is not easy to fight, and if it is not done well, it will be like Guo Xing
That's a deadlock.
At that time, we will have to ask Lan Jade Wang Bi to attack from both sides of Guangxi. Even if he conquers Guangnan, he will not be able to hold his head high among the Huaixi brothers.
Therefore, Jin Chaoxing has exerted all his energy this time and wants to show it to the emperor and all the Huaixi brothers. He did not get the title of Marquis Xuande for nothing!
Unexpectedly, his expedition was destined to be bloodless. As soon as the army left Lin'an and was halfway there, the scouts discovered a large number of broken troops coming from the direction of Guangnan.
After capturing the prisoners for interrogation, it was revealed that they were the targets of the expedition - the Dali Army stationed in Guangnan.
After Jin Chaoxing heard the news, everyone was relieved. Although it was definitely a good thing to capture Guangnan without losing any troops, the feeling of using all your strength to punch and punch everything can really make people vomit blood.
He immediately ordered his scouts to bring a captured Dali officer for personal interrogation.
"What's going on?!" Jin Chaoxing asked angrily: "I haven't made a move yet, why did you fall down?"
The scribes accompanying the army hurriedly wrote this sentence on paper. Similar to the situation in Annan, Goryeo and Japan, Dali also spoke in its own language, Bo script, but wrote in Chinese characters.
So as long as you are literate, you can communicate through writing.
The officers in Dali were all aristocrats, and their literacy rate was still very high, so they took over the pen and wrote: "Eight days ago, the Ming army forcibly crossed the Xiyang River, broke Baoyue Pass, and went to Guangnan City. The general manager was killed on the spot, and most of our army
Fleeing in defeat...'
"Lanyu..." Jin Chaoxing looked at the transcript blankly and couldn't recover for a while: "Isn't his mission to provide support? Why did he fake it?"
"With his character, can he be willing to play a supporting role?" Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan on the side, sneered: "It would be weird if he doesn't steal the show!"
"He is acting recklessly!" Jin Chaoxing said angrily: "It violates the combat arrangements. I will go to the prince to interfere with him!"
"You can pull her down." Cao Zhen said with a bitter smile: "Lanyu is the crown prince's uncle, and the prince is the prince's number one confidant. Aren't you going to create a problem for the prince?"
"Then we can't give him any advantage! I'm going to give him a good beating when we meet!" Jin Chao jumped up and down in anger. "Isn't this a joke?!"
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Even if you are angry, you still have to do what you have to do.
Jin Chaoxing ordered the army to form a formation at Liulang Mountain to stop the fleeing Dali army.
The officers and soldiers of Dali fled here from Guangnan and had been fleeing for five days and five nights. The officers were a little better. The soldiers who relied on two legs were all exhausted. When they saw the Ming army over the mountains and plains, they all had the courage to resist.
He knelt down and surrendered for a moment, not giving Marquis Xuande a chance to see his glory.
The suffocated Marquis Xuande kept his donkey face and remained silent. It was not until two days later, when the two armies met, and Lan Yu and Wang Bi rode their horses to meet each other, that he found the right person to vent his anger.
"Hahaha!" Wang Bi's hearty laughter resounded throughout the valley, and he greeted Marquis Xuande and Marquis Jingchuan with fists clasped from a distance: "Farewell to Shaanxi, we haven't seen each other for two years, and the two brothers miss Brother Yu to death!"
"Hahaha! Marquis Dingyuan's style is still the same, and brothers want to die together." The two of them first exchanged friendly greetings with Wang Bi.
Lan Yu, however, seemed to have nothing to do with her and did not say hello to the two of them. She had a cold face throughout the whole process.
Jin Chaoxing also pretended not to see him, and the atmosphere became awkward.
"Hey, you old man, we haven't even settled the score with you yet, but you've made a fool of yourself first." Marquis Jingchuan hurriedly said to Xini, "I'll have to give my brothers a few glasses of wine later to make amends."
"What should I apologize for?" Lan Yu said expressionlessly. In fact, he was not like this at ordinary times. He just expected that the other party was going to slander him, and in line with his usual style of attacking first to gain the upper hand, he squandered the other party's face first.
"You know it yourself." Jin Chaoxing snorted. "If you violate the battle strategy formulated by the emperor without authorization, you should be impeached directly."
"They're all brothers, so it's not like they're not." Marquis Jingchuan said in a hurry to cool down.
"What combat strategy did I violate?" Lan Yu refused to admit it.
"Don't pretend to be confused here! Your Majesty has clearly ordered you to send troops from Guangxi to contain the Dali Army in the Guangnan direction to support the main force in the battle!" Jin Chaoxing couldn't stand it now, and suddenly raised his voice and said: "
Have you been asked to capture Guangnan?!"
"I've wiped them out, isn't it better than containing them?" Lan Yu said coldly.
"You're talking nonsense!" Jin Chaoxing said angrily: "When the Dali army in Guangnan was defeated, Dali must have been greatly shocked. What if they and King Liang put aside their old grudges and unite as one?"
"Prince Liang has gone to hell, how can Dali unite with him?" Lan Yu said with a sinister smile: "That's why I want to send Duan Bao to hell so that he can meet Prince Liang."
"You know everything?" Jin Chaoxing was surprised. It stands to reason that when the road to Yunnan was not connected, the messenger had to go from Kunming to Guizhou, then from Guizhou to Huguang, and finally south to Guangxi in order to deliver the letter to Lanyu
in hand.
Moreover, there was no relay system for most of the journey, so the messenger would have to travel ten or eight days no matter how fast he traveled.
Calculating that when Lan Yu forcibly crossed the Xiyang River, it had only been three days since the army entered Kunming. Therefore, he had no time to get the news.
