Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1093 Brother and Sister
"This guy in Mangyingli walks really slowly, Xin'er, I think you might make a mistake." Liu Ting lazily leaned against a big tree, sitting on the ground without any image, gnawing with a sugar cane.

This is the most southwestern part of Yunnan, and the weather has been hot for a long time. Liu Ting's chest was opened a little, but because he was in front of his sister, he was still particular about it, so he only opened it a little to let the air flow.

"It stands to reason that it shouldn't be so slow." Liu Xin frowned slightly: "After the fall of Bagu, southern Myanmar was in chaos. It is said that the Mon people have already played the banner of Bagu's restoration of the country. In addition, there is a call for the emperor of tomorrow Now, the Meng people in the old land of Bagu are going against each other, and there is a tendency to start a prairie fire. If Mangyingli stays in southern Yunnan for one more day, Dongyu City will be in danger of falling. I can't figure out why he doesn't rush back desperately. Pursuing and suppressing...why is it moving so slowly?"

"I see, there are only two possibilities." Liu Ting continued to gnaw on the sugarcane, and said vaguely: "Either this guy is lucky and thinks that there are only 2 people in Huang Dutong, and the Meng people are not enough. If there is no fear, Toungoo City will be able to withstand it until he returns in triumph; or we really overestimated the Burmese army and expected their marching speed to be too high."

Liu Xin still frowned, thought carefully, and asked, "Brother, do you think it's possible that Mang Yingli was very cautious and expected that we would lie in ambush here when he was in a hurry to return south, so he would rather slow down. You have to walk cautiously until he confirms that he won't be ambushed?"

"This..." Liu Chen stopped chewing sugarcane, and said hesitantly, "I can't say it's impossible, but I still don't believe it, because when he rescued Yue Feng before, his reaction wasn't very fast. Hmph , or if you let me let Yue Feng go on purpose, and let Yue Feng spread the situation in southern Burma to the Burmese army in horror, now this dog thief has been chained into Beijing by my people."

Liu Xin laughed and said: "Brother is still entangled with Yue Feng's matter? Don't worry, he won't be able to escape. As long as this plan works, let alone Yue Feng can't escape, it's hard to say whether Mang Yingli can escape."

It turned out that after the great victory at Tiebiguan, Liu Ting issued an appeal to the chieftains, calling on the chieftains to "revenge with me", "strive to make meritorious deeds", "to be loyal to righteousness, to go to the enemy with strength, or to help soldiers." Use it as a servant, or assist the soldiers at noon; wait for their voices for me, bring their party and soldiers for me, stab them in the tent with a knife for me, intercept them outside the pass for me, and strike them with special horns for me. Invade Yi, set up a path for me to never return."

And Deng Zilong also marched smoothly, defeating Hanqian, Hanqian's sons Zhaohan, Zhaose and others fled to Sanjian Mountain (in Gengmaxi in later generations), and together with their uncles, deployed more than 500 medicine crossbowmen, Relying on the dangerous mountain situation to resist stubbornly.Deng Zilong learned about the path up the mountain from the local Pu people, and ordered the general Deng Yong and others to lead the army straight to the enemy's lair, and set up an ambush behind the mountain, attacking back and forth, and captured more than 30 leaders such as Zhaohan, Zhaose, and Hanlao alive. , killing more than 500 enemies.Then Deng Zilong's army recovered Wandian and Gengma.

But Liu Ting led the army to drive straight in, and soon approached Longchuan where Yue Feng was entrenched.With the army under pressure, Yue Feng knew that the situation was over, but he refused to sit still, so he ordered his wife and Buqu to surrender first.

After discussing with Liu Ting, Liu Xin judged that Yue Feng was not an honest person, even if he offered his wife, it might not mean that he sincerely asked to surrender.Liu Ting also felt that based on Yue Feng's past deeds, this person has no such thing as a conscience, and it is very likely that he will do such a thing, and maybe he will still want to feign surrender at that time, and then suddenly turn his back on the battle.

So Liu Ting, under the pretext of sending Yue Feng's wife back to Longchuan, sent troops to Shamulong Mountain to the east of Longchuan, occupied the dangerous place first, and then led the army to advance to Longchuan.Earlier, the brothers and sisters Liu Ting learned the news that Huang Zhiting's troops had captured Bagu in southern Myanmar, so they used the news to intimidate Yue Feng, letting him know that there would be no future for him to follow Mang Yingli, and the mang thief would die and the country would be destroyed. Not far away.

Knowing that he could not escape, Yue Feng had no choice but to surrender to Liu Ting's army. Feng said that she had fallen ill due to fear in the past few days and hoped that she could be held incommunicado.Liu Ting felt that this condition could be satisfied, so he agreed.

It was all going well here, but who knew that Liu Xin was more cautious than her elder brother, she felt that Yue Feng's behavior was not normal, as if he was avoiding meeting with his wife and subordinates.It is understandable to avoid his wife, after all, his previous actions were a bit of using his wife as a bait to create opportunities for himself to escape, but it does not make sense to avoid his subordinates.

So Liu Xin immediately asked someone to verify her authenticity. Yue Feng's wives, concubines, and family members were escorted to "visit", and she found the problem: this "Yue Feng" was a fake, and the real Yue Feng had already quietly escaped. .

It turned out that a few days ago, the Burmese general Sanduo sent by Mangyingli to help Yue Feng had already fled on an elephant, leaving only dozens of Burmese to stay behind in Longchuan, and Yue Feng's true self quietly followed Sanduo's team Li, and ran to find King Mang Yingli of Burma together.

Liu Ting asked Liu Xin to do some calculations to see if he could catch up if he chased him immediately. Liu Xin just calculated a little and told him that he could catch up, but she suggested not to chase, so she asked Yue Feng to go to Mang Yingli.

Before Liu Xin could explain this truth, Liu Ting suddenly realized that she wanted Yue Feng to bring the news of Bagu's fall to Mang Yingli, because if she did so, Mang Yingli might rush back to the teacher to rescue the capital And messed up the sense of propriety and created a fighting opportunity for himself.

Liu Ting then successfully occupied Longchuan and "captured Burmese books, Burmese bowls, Burmese silver, Burmese umbrellas, Burmese clothes, python teeth, armor, knives, guns, pommel horses and other clothing."However, he still felt that Yue Feng's ability to escape from his hands made him lose face, and he always thought that he must humiliate this guy when the time comes.

But that's for the aftermath. After Liu Ting's army occupied Longchuan, they began to take advantage of the victory and advance.

Liu Ting put forward five conditions and asked him to give a reply within five days: first, to capture and send the accompanying ministers; second, to hand over the seal letters of Hanshi and Ganya; the residents; the fifth is to recruit Meng Yang.

Chieftain Manmo had no way of escaping, and was unable to fight again, so he had to accept the conditions of surrender, so he "captured and offered 18 Burmese people, one elephant, five horses, and the Burmese chieftain gave one to the pseudo-Guanfang, and surrendered it before the army" .Then, Liu Ting regained Meng Yang and Meng Lian (later Menglian in Yunnan).

Liu Ting's progress is so smooth, it is natural that "the barbarians and Myanmar are afraid of him, and those who follow the wind will follow." Mubang Hanfeng, Meng Yangsiyi, etc. all killed the Burmese envoys and surrendered to Ming Dynasty.And Meng Mi's Sihun also sent his younger brother to surrender, offering an elephant and the seal issued by the king of Burma.

But before Liu Ting had time to go south to Mubang, Mubang, who had already surrendered, was defeated by Mang Yingli who had retreated from the front line after hearing the news. With his cronies, he came to join Liu Ting.

Liu Ting discussed with his younger sister Liu Xin and thought it was meaningless to go directly to Mubang, because Mang Yingli could not have the intention to continue wasting time in northern Burma, and he chose Mubang only because of the need for retreat—Mubang was his source At the same time, it is also the way back. If Mubang is blocked, he will be trapped to death in northern Myanmar.

So the two brothers and sisters made up their minds and immediately dispatched troops overnight. First, they took down the Mengmao appeasement department, broke out of Hanlong pass, and pretended to go straight to Mubang.

This is the only way to retreat from Mupang to Myanmar's Xibo City, and behind Xibo City is the fulcrum of this war in Mangyingli-Awa City, an important town in northern Myanmar.

According to Liu Xin's calculations, Mangyingli's army should have arrived here two hours earlier, but now it was almost evening, and Mangyingli hadn't shown up yet, Liu Ting inevitably wondered if something went wrong.

If only Mang Yingli was the only one, Liu Ting would not doubt that he would be in the trap, but Mang Yingli still has Yue Feng beside him now, and Yue Feng slipped under his nose once before, so it is hard to guarantee that he will not offer advice this time Give Mang Yingli, and avoid today's catastrophe, then he, Liu, will not look good in face.

Seeing that his sister was still in the mood to joke, he couldn't help but smiled wryly and said, "Xin'er, you're not worried about our miscalculation at all because of the reputation your elder brother has built up over the past ten years?"

Liu Xin was surprised and said: "How do you say that? Even if the mang thief is lucky and let him escape this time, we are nothing more than giving up this opportunity. It is not a big deal to attack Ava directly, after all, the mang thief's backyard is on fire. , How many soldiers and horses can he keep in Ava?"

Liu Ting shook his head and said, "That's not what I'm worried about, but... the south of Myanmar is fighting too well. We are chasing behind the reckless thief. Although he is eager to go back to rescue Dongyu, it is impossible for him to give up the north of Myanmar directly. For us, so we still have to deal with it. Dealing with it means that he can't walk fast, so that the results of the battle in southern Myanmar may be even more brilliant... At that time, if the results of the battle here are better than the Without a female chieftain, I really have no place to put my face."

Liu Xin turned her beautiful eyes, but her face remained unchanged, and asked, "If this is the case, brother now has two paths."

"Huh?" Liu Ting was slightly taken aback.

Liu Xin said: "First, defeat Mangyingli in northern Myanmar; second, let Mangyingli go south."

Liu Ting was slightly surprised, and asked: "It is understandable to defeat Mang Yingli, but why is it a choice to let Mang Yingli go south?"

"The mang thieves went south smoothly, and there will be more soldiers and horses left. At that time, the pressure on Vice President Huang's side will be great. It will be very difficult to hold on to the results. Naturally, there will be no decent victory. In the end, we can only Withdraw. With such a comparison, big brother's face will be saved."

Liu Ting frowned: "You want me to do this?"

"I don't want it." Liu Xin spread her hands: "I just tell you that there is such a choice out of my duties as an aide. If you ask me, I certainly hope to defeat Mang Yingli in an open and honest manner, otherwise I advise you to come. What are you doing to stop him?"

Only then did Liu Ting relax, nodded and said: "Yes, brother understands." After a pause, he continued: "Although Vice Dutong Huang is a woman, since the Battle of Lang Son and this expedition, she has achieved great results. From a solid point of view, it is indeed not easy. If this battle of peace and Burma goes well, maybe I will have the opportunity to meet her and see what kind of heroine she is."

Liu Xin rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Brother, you don't have to talk about fighting, but you are really slow in some aspects...Don't say that my sister didn't remind you, you'd better not have any curiosity about her .”

Liu Ting was taken aback for a moment: "Why?"

"Hmm... If you are not afraid of Gao Gaocheng's punishment, you might as well be curious." Liu Xin snorted softly: "Our heroine, I am afraid that we have long been a dish on Gao Gaocheng's plate."

"You mean..." Liu Ting looked surprised, his eyes rolled a few times quickly: "She belongs to the senior high school... that... the outer room?"

"I don't know, maybe it's not the outer room, maybe it's the main room." Liu Xin turned her face away, as if looking at the direction where Mangyingli's army should come, and said plainly: "First, I will do my best to help the high school. Cheng Ping Annan, less than two years after Gao Gaocheng returned to Beijing, she couldn't help but go north in person, but unfortunately Gao Gaocheng was transferred to Liaodong at that time. So, she was in the title of deputy tribute envoy There is an extra mission to discuss trade, and I followed him to Liaodong... Brother, don't you think this is strange?"

"This..." Liu Ting said, "Can the outer room do the same?"

Liu Xin sneered and said, "Then Gao Gaocheng's courage is really bigger than I imagined—he handed over Annan's big situation to an outside room? Do you know how much money Gao Gaocheng invested in Annan?" , how much capital do you have now?"

Liu Ting shook his head resolutely: "I don't know much about these things."

Liu Xindao: "It is said that Annan's government affairs are all managed by the commander-in-chief, but in fact it is all managed by Jinghua. Jinghua has Thang Long City and Haiduong Mansion in the north of Annan, and three towns such as Nhe An in the south. This is the 'four mansions and one Jing'. In addition, Jinghua also has a total of [-] troops from the Shenglong Garrison Army and the Jingang Garrison Army. These [-] troops are nominally under the command of the Annan Metropolitan Commander, but in fact Mo Maoqia can't even mobilize a single person.

There is also the Golden Port. It is said that its port is no worse than Guangzhou Port, and the whole city is newly built. The high school Cheng invested in the construction. Brother, how much money did you think it cost?And now, he has promoted Huang Zhiting as the deputy capital commander. Since Mo Maoqia is just a radish seal, what does the deputy capital commander mean? Brother won't you not understand? "

Liu Ting was stunned for a long while, and finally said: "Could it be that the Ming matchmaker is going to marry? This...isn't it a bit difficult?"

"Then I don't know." Liu Xin shook her head: "Our high school senior is not an ordinary person, maybe he has some special tricks."

Liu Ting was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Xin'er, you have known Senior High School Cheng for more than ten years, don't you think he is the most suitable..."

"Stop." Liu Xin stretched out a finger: "I don't want to talk about this."

Liu Ting sighed: "But you are not young anymore, this daughter's family is always going to marry, if the senior high school is not in your eyes, I..."

"I said stop." Liu Xin's complexion tightened, and she suddenly said: "Brother, look ahead, the reckless thief is coming."
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