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Chapter 468 Tengchong
On the last day of the first year of Wanli, Liu Xian, the governor who was supposed to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in Sichuan, led more than [-] Sichuan soldiers to move to Yunnan and stationed in Tengchongwei, Yongchang.

Tengchong is not the most borderland of Yunnan, but the Longchuan and Ganya Xuanfu Divisions were all lost in the previous battle with the Burmese soldiers, and Nandian could not survive alone. The chieftain of Ganya, Dao Aiwen, and the chieftain of Nandian, Dao Lelin, both retreated. Yongchang.

Tengchongwei became the de facto gateway to the southwestern border of Ming Dynasty.

"I don't want to fight this battle. Even if I don't fight this time, it will take three to five years, or eight or ten years. I will fight Myanmar, otherwise Yunnan will be in danger."

Liu Xian's life is not easy. Although he is from Nanchang, he is born with great strength. When he was young, he worked as a servant for a living. When he caught up with the disaster year, he ate too much and almost starved to death. , thinking that it was the blessing of the gods, cried and bid farewell to the god statue, and mingled among the trackers.

Later, he moved to Sichuan. How could he live in the temple as a helper, steal tributes from Buddha statues to survive, rely on his natural strength to secretly hide the tributes under the big bell, and sometimes teach children how to read? Such days have passed for a long time. Take the Wusheng of Sichuan.

Until the war governor recruited soldiers, others encouraged him to join the army. In the first battle, he wielded two guillotine knives, armed with five or sixty soldiers, and was promoted from a small soldier to a deputy thousand households.

Liu Xian, who had white beard and hair but was still burly, put down his notes, looked up at the brackets on the roof, and sighed, "Sixty!"

After tonight, Liu Xian will be sixty.

"Your father wants to sue, but the court refuses to let him. Chen Shuai still has the ability. He can get these things. He is smart." Liu Xian patted the table on the table and asked Chen Mu to bring back the information about Myanmar. He looked up and frowned carefully. Looking at the son who stood by, he sneered and said, "Fluffy hozen! When your father is gone, learn more from Chen Shuai."

Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun are typical Chinese military generals. They summed up the wisdom of the predecessors and belong to the inheritors of Sun Wuzi in this era.Liu Xian is... the successor of Zhang Yide, he is able to fight, so he is unstoppable in galloping the world to break the army and kill the general.

As for Chen Mu, he is an atypical military general, and to others, he is a stone from another mountain that can be used to attack jade.

Liu Xian is so old and has fought so many battles. He has never seen anyone who has not fought a war, and has already figured out everything from history to borders, from population to armaments of Myanmar from a distance of thousands of miles.

"This man is a thief!" Liu Xian patted the map on the table and said, "Look at this map, you know better than the Yunnan local government's three propagandas and six comforts."

This is not Chen Mu's credit. These maps were sent by the bishop of Macau. Portuguese mercenaries ran rampant in the Indochina peninsula. They were both under the command of Mang Yinglong and Siam.

They have multiple identities. They are believers of God, explorers of the kingdom, hired mercenaries, and spies with secret letters.

Active in every place where there is war, the number is small but the knowledge is superhuman, both to get hired wages for themselves, and to draw maps for the king.

Liu Ting did not open his mouth to flatter the useless nonsense of his father being in his prime. In this era, as the son of a general, a 16-year-old boy went to the battlefield to kill the enemy. His premature maturity and natural fear of his father made him unable to say anything. if that is the case.

He just clenched his fists and said for a while, "Chen Shuai said he is preparing, but he seems unwilling to send troops."

Liu Xian waved his hands and smiled, and said, "As long as he is ready, Yunnan is also preparing. Sending troops is never a matter of willingness or unwillingness."

In fact, if it weren't for the Nanyang Army's Governor's Mansion, Liu Xian would not want to fight this battle now, especially for the purpose of completely discounting Mang Yinglong, who is in the rising stage, because Liu Xian knows very well that he will fight from Tengchongwei to the southwest and smash the nest. is impossible.

With a radius of [-] li, it would be the best result to push the front line to the Mubang and Mengyang areas.

It is not a loss if we can advance two hundred miles to the southwest and take back the three Xuanfu divisions of Longchuan, Ganya and Nandian.

There are only so many things he can do. The roads are poor and there are many mountains and forests. Walking out of Tengchongwei, there are many natural dangers and difficulties everywhere. The best plain land is all in the hands of Myanmar Mang Yinglong. Dare to think.

But it would be different if Chen Mu landed from the sea. All he needed was to drag the enemy army to the plateau and mountainous area of ​​Mubang, which gave Liu Xian the greatest fantasy about advancing to the southwest.

"Whether the imperial court is willing or not is the key. This battle will involve 50 troops, and it will take a year and a half. At least 150 taels will be spent, and the imperial court must prepare at least [-] million taels. As a father, you only need to make sure that Chen Shuai is doing it." Preparation is enough."

Liu Xian smiled contentedly while holding his beard, the white beard between his jaws trembled slowly, and said to his son: "Chen Shuai's greatest skill is not fighting wars, but making money. All wars in the world are losing money, spending millions of taels Win or lose."

"Even if the temple is successful, it will be in the next ten or twenty years. It will be left to the descendants, and the disaster will be in the present."

"Only Nanyang Chen Shuai, he can earn money for the court together in the war, your father asked you to talk to Chen Shuai, asking him if he thinks about it or not, he just wants to ask him if this battle can make money. "

"Now that he's preparing but doesn't really want to fight, it's not enough for his father to earn money for this battle, but it should be okay to keep capital."

Liu Xian got up and walked to the window. Outside the window, there were fireworks and firecrackers set off by the people of Yongchang Mansion. The old general gritted his teeth and said, "This battle has been won, let alone return Burma to the plains, even Mubang, Mengyang, Longchuan and Nandian can be changed." Tuguiliu, the court is willing to fight."

"While the old man is not dead, and the old soldier still has the energy to fight again, this year, right now, 50 years after the First World War, we will use the blood of the reckless thieves to proclaim three times and six comforts, and I, Da Ming, are back!"

Daming didn't come back, but Yang Yinglong from Sichuan came.

At the beginning of the second year of Wanli, the governor of Sichuan dispatched [-] state troops from Guizhou to Guiyang Prefecture and entered Yunnan. The widest official road in Yunnan was only the road from east to west.

Soldiers and horses from other places could not compete with the showy Yang Yinglong on their way here, they all gave way and waited for him to go first.

No way, who asked the chieftain of Bozhou to take the imperial court to expedite the transfer order?

From Bozhou to Yunnan, Bozhou dispatched [-] soldiers and [-] craftsmen. Along the way, Guizhou and Yunnan were conscripted. There were no more than [-] people wherever they went. Cutting bamboo to form a village.

Tengchong Guards was at the forefront of the highland bordering Longchuan, which was controlled by Burma. Yang Yinglong, who was wearing armor and a third-rank military officer's robe, waved his hand, and craftsmen wearing torn straw sandals bowed down to Liu Xian and offered pictures.

Yang Yinglong clasped his fists and said solemnly: "Report to Dudu, Dudu Chen of the Nanyang Military Mansion ordered me to come here with iron mud, cut bamboo to build fortifications, and built them twenty miles to the south with the start of the war. Now the iron mud can supply six Used for ten miles."

"The Nanyang military government has reported to the imperial court to help Wu Gongji, the nephew of Wu Wenyuan, the commander-in-chief of Annan, to attack Shenglong in the north, and to connect the river with supplies, food, iron, mud, blunderbuss, guns, armor and equipment for Yunnan to prepare for war."

Liu Xian frowned. He could understand the structure of the cannon fort, and understood the benefits, but... what was Chen Mu thinking?
Through the mouth of his son, he analyzed to himself how powerful Mang Yinglong was. With 300 million people and 15 soldiers, he was an extremely difficult enemy.

Then the battle with Mang Yinglong has not yet started, and he is actively participating in the divided Annan battlefield?

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)