Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 25
"Ma Bao and Gao Qilong lost?" Wu Sangui, who was in Mubang, still felt incredible when he heard the news.

"Could it be that Ma Bao surrendered because of his old love?" Wu Sangui first thought of this possibility.

But his son-in-law Hu Guozhu told him clearly, "No, my father-in-law. Ma Bao was indeed defeated by the Ming army. Ma Bao was defeated by the Ming army's ambush. Thinking about it, there are not many troops, and it is said that after the army wiped out Burma, it also recruited those barbarians to fight with the army, and the momentum is not small."

Wu Sangui's expression was serious, "Sure enough, this would be a little troublesome."

While Wu Sangui was meditating, his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang also hurried into his camp.

"Father-in-law, the spies have come to report that the Ming army has appeared in Larong, eighty miles away from Mubang. The Ming army has camped there, and it seems that they are going to confront us."

Hu Guozhu was hot-tempered and arrogant by nature, and said: "Did the Ming army lose their minds and go crazy? Li Dingguo is so arrogant. His father-in-law led [-] troops into Burma, and he was bound to win. It is really not short enough for Qiao to face our army hard and fast."

Xia Guoxiang also said: "Father-in-law, my son-in-law thinks there must be something wrong with this matter. Although the Ming army defeated Burma, it is already weak in this matter. Even if it recruits the power of the Burmese chieftain to use it, it is definitely not as good as ours. The army of the Qing Dynasty was at its peak. They defended Wacheng, but instead came directly to Larong to confront us, which made people feel that there was a problem. My son-in-law believes that either the Ming army felt that it had great reliance, or Li Dingguo knew that the general situation was over. If you want to have a decisive battle with dignity, you will die honorably."

Wu Sangui was also uncertain, and asked, "Minister Guo, what will we get in return for the spies we send to the Ming army?"

The Qing army has been fighting for many years, and has long been accustomed to using various advantages to win over the generals of the Ming Dynasty who have no integrity, and let them defect before the battle.The camps of the Ming army were basically like sieves, which were infiltrated by others.

Xia Guoxiang said: "This time our spy operation is quite unfavorable. The Ming army has changed a lot. Many of our people have been found and executed before they approached the Ming army. The Ming army's vigilance and defense are compared with before. If not, it is said that although the puppet king of Jin is the commander in chief at this time, there are many unknown people in the Ming army, and the real leader of the Ming army is said to be the 14-year-old Prince Gui's son (the prince of Nanming) Zhu Cixuan. "

Wu Sangui scolded with a serious face: "What kind of nonsense is this? Zhu Cixuan is only a 14-year-old child. How can he control an army?"

Xia Guoxiang lowered his head slightly, and said, "My son-in-law is lying."

When the three were discussing, the reckless Aixing broke in.

He shouted: "King Pingxi, the remnant army who said it was hypocrisy actually arrived at Larong, only [-] miles away from us, and the horse treasure under your hand actually gave water to the rebels to defeat it. It depends on what you used. people'!"

Wu Sangui said with a cold face: "General Dingxi, if the Ming army dares to provoke our Great Qing Heavenly Army, there must be something wrong. For the current plan, we should not be provoked by the Ming army. It is better to find out their reality before acting."

Ai Xing laughed out loud, and said sarcastically, "King Pingxi is a good joke. The hypocrisy is nothing more than a group of local chickens and dogs, remnants and defeated generals. My Qing Dynasty has [-] elite soldiers stationed here. How can I be afraid of them?" .Pingxi King, you originally advocated the eradication of rebellion, but now you are reluctant to fight, do you have some ghostly thoughts?"

It's not that Ai Xing is not clear that Wu Sangui is not a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty at all. After Li Guohan's death, no one in Yunnan can control Wu Sangui. The Qing court has opened up military power, financial power, and personnel power to Wu Sangui.Wu Sangui also asked Hong Chengchou once, and Hong Chengchou told him not to let the southwest be safe, which means to support the bandits.

Ai Xing'a's words were quite heartbreaking. He relied on his status as a bannerman and was quite rude to Wu Sangui.Unless Wu Sangui lost his mind and really rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, otherwise he would not dare to do anything to himself.

Is it possible for Wu Sangui to rebel against the Qing Dynasty?Impossible, Wu Sangui has gone too far, he is simply the number one national thief to Daming, he opened the Shanhai Pass to let the Tartars enter; he fought all the way from north to south, and even wiped out the last seed of Nanming.Such a person, even if he voted for Nanming, Nanming would not want him.

He can stand on his own, but now that Yunnan has just been captured and has not yet recovered, it is impossible to rely on such a piece of land to fight against the Qing court.

In the end, Wu Sangui agreed to send troops.Because in his heart, he didn't think that the Ming army could really defeat him. He still believed in Li Dingguo's statement that Li Dingguo asked for the final battle that Xia Guoxiang said.

In the Larong camp of the Ming army, Li Dingguo was inspecting the final preparations for the Ming army.Since he got the "Western Land Art of War", Li Dingguo combined his own experience and confirmed it with various contents in the art of war, and gradually became enlightened.At this time, the Great Ming Fuguo Army, he thought, was the most elite force he had ever led since joining the army.Although the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army has only been established for a few months, many of the prince's training methods are quite subtle. Now the morale of the Ming army is high, and it has initially been able to use some square formations and coordinated tactics mentioned in the Art of War, which makes Li Dingguo full of confidence .

On the contrary, Bai Mingxiu was squatting in his big tent at this time, outsiders didn't know what the prince was doing.

Only Bai Mingxiu was smirking at this moment.

Because the system sent him a task.

"Sub-quest: Defeat Wu Sangui's army, reward: 20 Goldfinger Coins, Royal Guard Red Musketeer Infantry Regiment*1."

"Sub-quest: Kill Ai Xing, reward: 1 Goldfinger coins, Napoleon 6-pound gun, 12-pound blueprint."

"Sub-task: Surrender more than 2 Han troops from the Qing army. Rewards: 2 gold finger coins and 100 million taels of gold."

Bai Mingxiu was so excited to take off at this time, but he also clearly felt the maliciousness of the system.If he had directly taken Yong Li and boarded his clipper ship to Australia, obviously he would have missed this series of lucrative side missions.Just the reward of 20 gold finger coins for defeating Wu Sangui's army is quite rich for him.

"I want them all." Bai Mingxiu was as jealous as a rabbit.

Royal Guard Red Musketeer, from "Age of Empires 3", is an extremely elite infantry.And this reward is an entire infantry regiment, with thousands of people.Unlike the line infantry of the half-assed national restoration army who had just been trained, this unit was quite powerful.

As for the cannon, it was the weakest point in Bai Mingxiu's entire army.

The million taels of gold given by the last mission completely exceeded Bai Mingxiu's imagination.The small imperial court of Nanming is extremely short of money now, and a million taels of gold can greatly enrich Bai Mingxiu's treasury, and also provide him with more possibilities.

Of course, even without these conditions, he would have defeated Wu Sangui.

(End of this chapter)