Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 13 I will not enjoy this honor alone

"Adayun, you are still in the city?"

Zhu Cixuan was very surprised when he saw Adayun being caught by Wei Bao.

Even though there was chaos in the city last night and no news was transmitted, the sun had been hanging in the sky for almost two hours now, and Zhu Cixuan still deliberately opened two city gates to facilitate the escape of the princes and nobles of Ava City, in order to reduce the pressure on his side to pacify Ava City.

The Ming people and Europeans were killing, burning and looting everywhere. In addition, the king was killed and the dukes fled. The Hongsha people, whose defenses had been broken by the night of gunfire, many of them climbed over the wall and fled before dawn.

Adayun, as the main culprit of the Ming and Hongsha countries, did not take the opportunity to escape.

Wei Bao sneered, "Your Highness, when I caught him, he was still moving treasures from the home of a minister in Hongsha State."

Adayun said with an embarrassed look: "Your Highness, I am just following your previous arrangements."

Zhu Cixuan shook his head and was speechless for a moment. He was exactly the same as those princes and ministers who valued money more than their lives when the Ming Dynasty fell.

"Mangbai murdered his brother and seized the throne, violating Buddhist teachings. I have long foreseen that he would never achieve great things. Only someone as brave and unparalleled as Your Highness the Crown Prince could quell the Toungoo rebellion and uphold the principles of Heaven."

"Your Highness, I have supported you from the very beginning, whether it was inducing Mangbai or leading the troops into the Ming Dynasty. I even guarded Lu Dao for Your Highness the entire time. Your Highness, will you forgive me for not finding the Ming army last night?"

Are you guarding for me?
Half of the eight Yundao and Yunji of Hongsha Kingdom were in the Liuli Palace. As a result, many imperial edicts to suppress the Ming army were issued from Ludao last night.

Zhu Cixuan smiled and said, "This time, the Ming Dynasty was able to recapture the Xuanwei Office of Ava, and Adayun deserves the main credit. Last night's minor offense is nothing to worry about."

Adayun looked at the Crown Prince of Ming with a confused look on his face as he helped her up.

"Although the night of yesterday's revolution was long, its glory is truly immortal."

"I will not keep this honor and glory to myself."

Zhu Cixuan held Adayun's trembling hands.

"It has only been a hundred years since the Toungoo Kingdom conquered Ava, and it has only been twenty or thirty years since they established their capital there."

"And the Ava Xuanwei Office of the Ming Dynasty has been in existence for a full 120 years."

"The Adayun who used to connect the Ming Dynasty and Hongshawadi was the real splendid one. What's the Yundao Yunji of Ludao? He is just like Biedai Yun, who is truly second to none."

After understanding the meaning of the words of the Crown Prince of Ming, Adayun trembled all over, and he only hated that he had no royal blood and it was unlikely that he would become the King of Hongsha.

Unfortunately, Pingdali's son and the former crown prince were captured by the Ming Dynasty in the Liuli Palace, but his two younger brothers escaped.

"Your Highness, your servants, Adayun and Wunaang, from now on will obey His Majesty the Crown Prince as a monk obeys the Buddha. Even if it means jumping into the Jinsha River, if I hesitate even a moment, I will be seriously ill and my family will suffer poverty and starvation."

boom!
boom!
A loud bang interrupted Zhu Cixuan's words of comfort, and the subsequent earthquake made it impossible to stand.

When the commotion subsided a little, Zhu Cixuan went out and saw a small cloud of smoke suddenly rising from the city.

Mu Tianbo and Deng Kai came together shortly afterwards.

Deng Kai said, "Your Highness, some of the Hongsha soldiers in the city fought to the death and set themselves on fire by detonating the gunpowder and artillery warehouses."

The frightened Adayun stood there in a daze.

After arranging personnel to put out the fire, Zhu Cixuan looked at Mu Tianbo who was going out of the city to welcome Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's army.

Mu Tianbo considered his words carefully: "Your Highness, this is not the army of Prince Jin and Prince Gongchang."

"It was Pagan Marquis of Hongsha. King Jin released his entire family. When Pagan Marquis's carriage reached the outskirts of Ava City, the Hongsha army stationed in the village thought it was King Jin and his men who were attacking, so they misrepresented the message."

Mu Tianbo laughed out loud as he spoke: "Last night's chaos was purely a misunderstanding."

If the carriage of the Marquis of Pagan had not been mistaken for the two kings of Li Bai by the city of Ava, causing great unrest, they might not have been able to easily drive out Mangbai's 3,000 troops.

Zhu Cixuan also laughed and said, "It seems that destiny really is in my hands."

……

"The fate of the Ming Dynasty has come to an end!"

Hongsawadi Bagan County, an unknown peak somewhere in the Arakan Mountains, close to the Indian Ocean.

Li Dingguo, the last pillar of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Prince of Jin of the Ming Dynasty, looked at the blue line on the other side of the mountain, and a variety of emotions arose in his heart.

"At the age of ten, I joined my adoptive father in the army and fought across thousands of miles before submitting to Your Majesty to fight against the Qing and restore the Ming. From Guangdong Province to Hongsha, from the East China Sea to the West China Sea, it was another journey of thousands of miles."

Li Dingguo's mind flashed through the poverty of his hometown in Shaanxi Province, the gradual rise from Henan Province to Huguang, the prosperity of Shu, the conquest of the Eastern Tartars in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong, the glory of defeating two famous kings, and the pride of monopolizing power.

Now he is fleeing from the Central Plains like a rat, thousands of miles away from his hometown. Wu Sangui is guarding the eight border passes, and returning home is out of the question.

Looking at the black line on the coast of the West Sea, Li Dingguo could no longer control himself and tears flowed from his tiger eyes.

"We have reached the ends of the earth, where is the Ming Dynasty?!"

When one thinks about the fact that the emperor is still a prisoner of the Hongsha people, it would be difficult to rescue the prince who sent the message for help.

Li Dingguo, who was as solid as Mount Tai in the eyes of the Dashi Army, could not hide his tears.

"I have failed His Highness and His Majesty. How can I face the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese people forever?"

Bai Wenxuan, who was originally chasing a small group of Hongsha soldiers and surveying the terrain, looked at Li Dingguo's appearance, his lips moving but unable to speak.

His gaze shifted to the West Sea. This was Bai Wenxuan's first time seeing the ocean, but he had never imagined it would be so desolate.

Now that the inland areas have been occupied by the Qing invaders, the last Ming troops have been scattered to the ends of the earth.

What else can I say at this moment?

Any words of comfort are just words that upset the heart.

After a while, Wu Sanxing, the general under Li Dingguo, spoke up: "Prince Jin, although we failed to rescue His Majesty and the Crown Prince, we did save the Empress Dowager and the little prince."

"The Ming Dynasty can continue its lineage. Prince Jin, raise the banner. Even if our brothers are outside the Central Plains, we are not afraid to fight the Eastern Tartars for another three hundred rounds."

"Even if we have to endure the harsh weather in this barbaric mountain forest, brothers can fight for another twenty years and will never surrender to the Qing invaders."

Bai Wenxuan gathered his emotions and said with some effort, "Didn't the Prince of Yanping once march towards the Southern Capital last year? We can go from Siam to Annan to find the Prince of Yanping."

Li Dingguo turned around suddenly, his eyes red: "How can I abandon the emperor and the crown prince!"

Bai Wenxuan was silent for a moment. "Unlike last year, when we were able to reach Ava City, this time the Hongsha people have fortified their walls and cleared the fields, building defenses that will make it difficult for us to capture. Ava City is also a huge city, and our troops are all from the Middle Earth. They are not acclimatized to the local climate, and there are already epidemics among the troops."

"If you want to support the king, Siam must send troops, and they must be the main force."

"I heard that Prince Min is in Siam. Siam and the Kingdom of Hongsha have a feud. We could borrow troops from them, but it would take months to gather enough food and fodder for a large army. By then, the opportunity would be gone, the weather would get hot again, and the miasma would start to rise again."

"He Jiuyi has brought news from Mubang that Wu Sangui has regrouped his troops at the Eight Passes of Tengyue and intends to invade Sanxuan and Liuwei. For now, we can only withdraw and borrow troops from the Liuwei chieftains and Siam. We will then come to rescue you during the spring and summer transition next year."

Although the Hongsha army was vulnerable, they were always able to stop their advance by relying on the favorable time, place and people.

However, if the Eastern Tartars come, the Ming Dynasty's only military advantage will no longer exist.

At that time, there must have been many colleagues in Yunnan Province who were familiar with them.

After hearing the news about Wu Sangui, Li Dingguo remained silent for a long time.

"Wang Qilong said that the prince recognized the thief as his father and wanted to join forces with the tiger to plot against Ava City. If we withdraw our troops, how can the prince survive?"

"Advance to retreat, attack to defense." Bai Wenxuan gritted his teeth.

"If the Crown Prince succeeds, we will attack Ava City to provide support. If not, we will threaten with a large army, claiming that we have captured the Crown Prince and the Empress Dowager, and all the imperial decrees are in our possession, forcing the Hongsha Kingdom to not dare to harm the Emperor and the Crown Prince at will."

"Then retreat to Mubang to guard against Wu Sangui's attack."

"Prince Jin, we are pretending to withdraw our troops and secretly sending Jin Tongwu, disguised as a Hongsha man, to lead the troops to Ava to rescue you. Whether it succeeds or not, we have done our best."

"The Crown Prince's real consideration is to send the prince and queen here so that we can have peace of mind."

Li Dingguo was unhappy and speechless.

He and Bai Wenxuan both understood that the prince's plan was a matter of life and death.

If he and Bai Wenxuan were to lead a few hundred elite soldiers, there would be a 30 to 40 percent chance.

But the prince grew up in the deep palace, the Duke of Qian was a noble who only knew how to wield a meteor hammer, and Deng Kai, Wei Bao and others were just reckless men with only military power.

Wang Qilong, the only one who knew military affairs, was sent back by them to escort the queen.

Prince Yi Nian's reckless behavior was due to his inability to support the king. Li Dingguo couldn't control his cough.

The humidity and heat of Hongshawadi have always been a threat to this man from northern Shaanxi.

The saliva was tinged with blood.

Just when Li Dingguo couldn't bear it anymore.

Wang Qilong suddenly came on horseback to report.

"Prince Jin, Prince Gongchang, good news."

"The Crown Prince is a brave and valiant man. He has conquered Ava City, killed King Hongsha, and forced the King of Toungoo to retreat. Even the King of Pyinmeet's army, which had been following us, has withdrawn south."

Upon hearing this, Li Bai and the others were all stunned and stood there in a daze.

After hearing Wang Qilong's detailed account of how the prince killed an elephant in battle, forced King Hongsha to death, forced the King of Toungoo to retreat, and pacified the city of Ava, he returned home.

Several people became even more confused.

You are talking about the kind and incompetent son of Emperor Yongli, the frail Crown Prince who has just run a fever and lost his mind.

It is certain that he did not force Kong Youde to death, kill Nikan in battle, or defeat the King of Jin, who was a famous king and ruled the world, twice.

Bai Wenxuan, who had just said that Zhu Cixuan could not accomplish anything, had his expression changed several times and could only utter one word.

"what?!"

Li Dingguo was also confused and stunned, with all kinds of thoughts mixed up.

He quietly swallowed the blood that had already reached his mouth.

(End of this chapter)