Chapter 18 The first blood
"Master, think twice!" Bai Wenxuan knelt in front of Sun Kewang's horse, begging to speak.

Sun Kewang said slowly: "Wenxuan, I have lost my will to be lonely. I just hope that you can think about what Gu said today. Even if Li Dingguo gathered Gu's 20 former army and got the help of you and Ma Jinzhong, he still couldn't defend it." Those who live in Yunnan and Guizhou, by then Guangxi will be the destination of my [-] Western Army soldiers."

"You and Ma Jinzhong, Ma Weixing, Ma Bao and others turned against each other, causing Gu to lose Yungui, but what Gu wants to tell you today is that if you and all the soldiers come to vote in a desperate situation in the future, it will be for the sake of fighting against the Qing Dynasty My country of the Han people, Gu can still accept you."

As soon as these words came out, not only the soldiers in the front army, but also Bai Wenxuan's generals also respected Sun Kewang in their hearts.

"My lord..." Bai Wenxuan was deeply moved.

He had been favored by Sun Kewang for ten years, and Sun Kewang had never failed him. Now that he said this again, it really made him feel uncomfortable.

It's just that Li Dingguo is his best friend, and Yongli is also the king, so he finally chose the path of being a lord, a friend, and a king.Historically, hundreds of Sun Kewang's remnant troops fled in Guizhou and western Hunan for many days. Some people in later generations speculated that Bai Wenxuan could not bear to capture Sun Kewang, so when he approached him, he used cannons to scare away Sun Guozhu.

"Wenxuan, remember what I said. Don't surrender to the Qing Dynasty when you are in poverty. I can still treat you as before when you come to Guangxi!" Sun Kewang sighed.

The 20-strong army that the Southwest had worked hard for ten years could not let them starve to death or die of illness in western Yunnan, as happened in history, and then defected to Wu Sangui.

When the Qing army went south three times, the morale of the Ming army was low, and Yunnan was in jeopardy, the soldiers in Daxi would naturally feel that their lord was more reliable than Li Dingguo and the Yongli court in retrospect.

By that time, it is difficult to say that Ma Weixing and Ma Bao are Daxi soldiers who have cheated the lord, but the old troops of the former army who were recruited by Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in the Battle of Jiaoshui, as well as the party members such as Di Sanpin, Wang Hui, and Zhang Guangcui The hopeful generals and Liu Wenxiu's former troops who hated Li Dingguo to the bone will come to Guangxi.

Instead of going to western Yunnan to graze in the tropical rainforest, Sun Kewang believed that most of the soldiers of the Western Army would make the right choice.

At that time, these soldiers have returned to the court thousands of miles away, and they have the potential to revive the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations. However, he is the Eastern King but not the Heavenly King. He will go to the west of Guangdong to recruit the old troops, carry a hundred thousand banners to kill Yama, and use Guangxi's food and salary to recruit a hundred thousand Western soldiers!The trend is still promising!
"Take your people and leave! Remember to ask Liu Wenxiu to come here to see me." Sun Kewang said in a deep voice.

Upon seeing this, Bai Wenxuan knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times, and led his men to take off their armor, war horses, armor, and weapons.

Sun Kewang said indifferently: "Get out of the way and let Bai Wenxuan go!"

"Master!" Some generals in front of the army wanted to say something.

"They are all my good sons in Daxi. When I sent my lone army to Yunnan, I never thought of massacring Daxi's soldiers!"

Sun Kewang glanced around, and the soldiers in front of him silently moved out of the way.

"Master." The generals of the Baibu came to bow down to Sun Kewang, and then led their subordinates back along the road with complicated expressions.

"Clean the battlefield and set up camp here." Sun Kewang gave the order.

Soon, the equipment of the five thousand cavalry was ordered by his subordinates. The five thousand cavalry selected by Bai Wen were the elite of the Western Army, including one thousand equipped heavy cavalry. It was these heavy cavalry who took the lead in charging and broke through the formation of Sun Kewang's army.

There are [-] cavalry and armored cavalry, and [-] arquebus armored cavalry. These cavalry are the key targets of Sun Kewang's support. In order to win over Bai Wenxuan, their equipment is comparable to that of the cavalry of the former army. Not only do everyone wear armor, but the heavy cavalry also Wearing two or three layers of armor, he was enough to compete with the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.

In addition to armor and weapons, the most important thing is the horse mule of the five thousand cavalry. Each of the five thousand cavalry has a good war horse, and another horse is used to carry armor and food. This is also the standard of a real combat cavalry. In addition, in order to pursue Sun Guozhu, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu even added extra horse mules to the Baiwen Xuanbu for long-distance raids.

After the [-] iron cavalry were unarmored, over [-] horse mules were seized by the Qianqian army, and Sun Kewang, who was already bleeding, finally recovered his first mouthful of blood.

"It's not easy for Lord Sun to bring out so many cavalry in Yunnan and Guizhou." The current Sun Kewang was filled with emotion as he watched the soldiers of the front army happily counting supplies.

Both the Jiaqian army and Li Dingguo's troops were able to fight against the Eight Banners in the field. They had a lot of cavalry. Bai Wenxuan, Ma Jinzhong, and Feng Shuangli's troops also had a large number of cavalry. It is to raise a large number of mules and form a large number of cavalry.

In the records of the Battle of Chakoukou alone, the configuration of the [-] Ming army is more than [-] infantry, [-] to [-] cavalry, [-] infantry is easy to pull, and two to [-] cavalry is difficult.

"Wang Aixiu!" Sun Kewang shouted.

Wang Aixiu, who was leading the army general and followed the king all the way to the dark side, ran over after hearing this.

"You take 5000 people and take these horses and mules back to Guiyang quickly, and order Ma Zhaoxi and Wannian to feed them well. These horses and mules have gone through a long journey and must not be allowed to die in large numbers!"

"The last general will obey." Historically, following Sun Kewang's orders, the ministers of the Yongli court were so ecstatic that they did not dare to rebel. Wang Aixiu quickly started to organize the important affairs of the country.

"Zheng Guo!" Sun Kewang spoke again.

"The Lord of the Kingdom, the general is here!"

"You lead a thousand elite cavalry to march along the mainland and lead Liu Wenxiu's army to meet with Gu."

"Yes!" Zheng Guo hurriedly set off with a thousand cavalry.

Both Wang Aixiu and Zheng Guo were close associates of Sun Kewang. Since the Yongli court was moved to Anlong by Sun Kewang, Sun Kewang established the Sixth Administrative Department in Guiyang and did not take the court seriously at all.

He appointed his cronies Fan Yingxu as the prefect of Anlong and Zhang Yingke as the chief official. They gave the Yongli court 8000 taels of silver and [-] shi of food per capita every year. They only provided food for these people, which made all the officials in the court filled with righteous indignation. Every official is miserable.

Later, when the secret edict to Li Dingguo happened, Sun Kewang sent Wang Aixiu and Zheng Guo to lead troops to Anlong, and killed many "loyal ministers and righteous men" who had caused trouble. Wang Aixiu and Zheng Guo, the leader of the Sun Kingdom, naturally had special trust in them.

Based on this experience, Wang Aixiu and Zheng Guotiao have to be liquidated!Those people from the Yongli court wished they could skin and cramp the two of them, crushing their bones and ashes.

Tens of thousands of horses and mules were quickly taken to Guiyang for feeding under Wang Aixiu's organization. A thousand cavalrymen from Zheng also caught up with Bai Wenxuan and others, shocking the 5000 people. However, after explaining the reason, Taking the overall situation into consideration, Bai Wenxuan chose to gallop with Zheng Guo, preparing to contact Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang for reconciliation.

(End of this chapter)

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