Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 962 Collecting Yunnan
At the end of May in the second year of Gongzhi, He Tengjiao issued an order to fight against Sun Kewang in Xingyuan, Guiyang. Three groups of people, totaling 11 people, suddenly attacked Sun Kewang.

In fact, the Ming army used far more than 11 troops, including a large number of chieftain soldiers and horses, accompanied by powerful men, who were bound to destroy Sun Kewang.

The mountains and forests in Yunnan and southern Sichuan are crisscrossed, and foreign forces may not even be able to find a way to invade, so it is very difficult to attack, but the Ming army did not have such a problem.

Sun Kewang suppressed the gentry and landlords in Yunnan, causing many people to flee to the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty. Now that the government and army are going to counterattack Yunnan, these reactionaries are eager to regain their land, so they have become the vanguard of the government and army.

They are familiar with the terrain and the cultural environment, and they also have a certain relationship with the leaders of the local minorities. If they act as guides for the Ming army, the Ming army will not be afraid of finding their way. If they go to persuade the chieftains in the mountains and forests to surrender the city checkpoints, they will be of great help to the extermination of Sun Kewang. will be of great help.

In addition to these people who fled into the area ruled by the Ming Dynasty, in Yunnan, there were also many gentry who were oppressed by Sun Kewang. The generals in the Ming army who came from the Western Army could also contact some old friends and become the internal support of the Ming army.

The ministries of the Ming army had been preparing for battle for more than seven months, and they could start action immediately after receiving the military order. More than 6 people from He Tengjiao set off from Guiyang on the same day, and marched towards southern Sichuan where the Western Army was heavily assembled. The place of handover and control of officialdom prevents Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi from communicating with each other.

Soon after these two groups of troops were dispatched, the Ming army in Guangxi received an order, and more than 4 people also began to march towards Yunnan in a mighty manner.

Sun Kewang claims to have one hundred thousand soldiers, but that's just to scare outsiders. The number of people he can really fight is only about [-], and most of the rest are miscellaneous soldiers.

Originally, based on the conditions in Yunnan, he could not support so many soldiers, but he exploited the gentry landlords and big chieftains in Yunnan, and forced them to pay, so that he still had some resources in his hands, and he was able to put 10 people on the shelf. stand up.

His choice of this model also determines that he cannot stay quietly in Yunnan. The entire Western Army regime must be very aggressive and expansive. He must constantly plunder resources in order to raise troops, and he must plunder. It caused him to provoke a powerful existence, which caused the situation to be tense. In order to deal with the tense situation, he needed to recruit more troops, forming a cycle.

The gene of the Xijun regime determines that he either wins the world or dies on the way to the world. Of course, the Xijun regime can also change its policy, but this requires a peaceful external environment, and the Xijun obviously does not have this condition .

Now, the Western Army has provoked a powerful existence that he can't deal with. The Western Army, which had not many soldiers, was divided into two by the Ming Army.

In order to compete with Hauge for southern Sichuan, Sun Kewang almost sent out all the elite. Although Ai Nengqi, who stayed behind in Yunnan, claimed to have more than 4 people, the real elite soldiers in his hands had already been transferred to southern Sichuan one after another by Sun Kewang. 2000 people.

Hearing the news that the Guangxi Ming army had invaded Yunnan, Ainengqi was terrified. He had persuaded Sun Kewang not to provoke the Ming Dynasty and run Yunnan with peace of mind, but Sun Kewang refused to listen, saying that it was just a matter of lingering and living for a while. Sooner or later, they will still be destroyed. If they want to survive, they must win the world.If you don't develop, you are waiting to die. If you fight hard, there is still a glimmer of life.

Ainengqi knew that what Sun Kewang said was not unreasonable, but the key was that he didn't grasp the scale and timing well in this fight, which attracted the attention of powerful enemies.

There were [-] Ming troops attacking Yunnan, and they were all elite Ming troops accompanied by many local soldiers. In addition, the vassals Gaoping and Annan of the Ming Dynasty also increased their troops on the border, posing a threat to Yunnan.

The Ming army was approaching menacingly. Ai Nengqi gathered his troops and horses and prepared to go to meet them. The army had just set off from Kunming when news came from the front that Ma Weixing, a veteran of the Western Army guarding Guangnan Mansion, surrendered to the Ming army under Liu Wenxiu's persuasion. Hand over Guangnan Mansion.

Liu Wenxiu was originally one of the four kings of the Western Army, ranked ahead of Ai Nengqi, and had considerable influence in the Western Army. He came out to speak out, and called for surrender. The power can be imagined.

When Ainengqi got the news, the army immediately returned to Kunming, hoping to take advantage of the complicated terrain in Yunnan and the chieftains along the way to stop the Ming army from advancing, and to wear down the morale of the Ming army, making them an exhausted army when they reached the city of Kunming.

However, Ai Nengqi miscalculated again. The Ming army did encounter some troubles in its advance. The people in Yunnan seemed to be very disgusted with the official army. However, under the leadership of the guide, the Ming army still only took fifteen days to approach. Kunming.

The Ming army is different from the Jin army. The Jin army is a northern army. It is not good at fighting in the southern mountains and forests, and there is no guide who is familiar with the terrain, so it is difficult to defeat the Western army. But the Ming army is different. There are many Western troops in the constant army. The generals, and the gentry in Yunnan, the landlords are the guides and the internal support, and they are also good at fighting in the mountains and forests. The equipment and training of the Western Army is not as good as that of the Ming Army, so there is basically no advantage.

Ai Nengqi had just received the news that the road leading to southern Sichuan had been cut off by Chen Youlong. When he was horrified, he did not expect that the Ming army would approach Kunming in less than half a month. .

Ainengqi knew that he was no match for Wang Jincai and Liu Wenxiu, and if he was surrounded in Kunming, no one would come to rescue him, so he resolutely gave up Kunming and fled to Dali.

The Ming army occupied Kunming without a single soldier, and the main reason why it was so easy was the huge difference in strength between the two sides.

Different from the antipathy towards the Ming army shown by the people in Yunnan, when the Ming army entered Kunming, they were warmly welcomed by the residents of the city. People with dignity in the city flocked to meet Wang Jincai and Liu Wenxiu, and lamented Chen Sun Kewang for oppressing scholars and seizing people. The criminal acts of property strongly demand that Sun Kewang be caught and abandon the head of the market lord.

Wang Jincai appeases this, and then he sits in Kunming, while Liu Wenxiu leads 1 horses, and pursues them under the guidance of surrendered generals and guides.

The Ming army was far more elite than Ainengqi's troops, and soon caught up with the Western army in Chuxiong Mansion.

Ainengqi had no choice but to fight Liu Wenxiu in battle. The [-] Ming army faced [-] miscellaneous soldiers without any fear.

Liu Wenxiu recruited Ai Nengqi before the battle, but unfortunately Ai Nengqi said, "It is rare to fight once in one's life. Now that the flag of righteousness is raised, there is no reason to let it go easily. The elder brother wants to fight, and the brother can only fight. I will accompany you to the end!"

Seeing that Ai Nengqi was loyal to Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu stopped talking. There was a big battle between the two sides. Although the Western Army had more than 3 soldiers, except for more than 2000 elite soldiers, the rest were miscellaneous soldiers. How could it be possible to fight more than [-] soldiers? The elite Ming army, especially the Kesheng Battalion who used new guns and made repeated military exploits.

Within half an hour of the battle, the 1 Western Army was defeated, while Ainengqi led [-] troops and fled the battlefield.

The generals who came from bandits were basically very good at running around, but Liu Wenxiu was also from bandits, he bit Ainengqi all the way and chased him, but after a big defeat, Ainengqi ran faster with fewer people.

When Liu Wenxiu was about to catch up several times, he let Ai Nengqi escape. Finally, the Western army rushed into the territory of Toungoo, and the Ming army stopped pursuing.

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