Chapter 37 Forced to fight

Shi Jing was not completely satisfied with Meng Ying's statement.

But Meng Ying did more to explain.

In Meng Ying's view, Wang Ji may not be reliable. After all, the relationship between the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War has been going up and down for decades, and the entanglement of grievances cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.

In case Wang Ji had other thoughts, the Mu family's deep roots in Yunnan were beyond the imagination of ordinary people. He would have revealed this to Luchuan beforehand.

Meng Ying is in danger.

Such important matters of life and death must not be placed on other people's moral integrity.

Of course, Meng Ying did not always want to hide it from Wang Ji. After Meng Ying led 30,000 people from his headquarters out of the city, Wang Ji also received a letter from Meng Ying.

Meng Ying entrusted all Kunming and rear affairs to Wang Ji.

Because at this time, even if Wang Ji made a small move, it was too late.

Because Meng Ying can't move, but moves like thunder.

The troops were very fast. From Kunming to Jingdong, the straight-line distance was three hundred miles. However, the mountain road was winding and winding, which added another hundred or two hundred miles. Meng Ying led the team at the front.

This veteran general in his fifties took the lead and completed the journey of more than 400 miles in three days.

After climbing over countless mountains and crossing two rivers, we finally stopped at the foot of Wuliang Mountain.

From Wuliang Mountain to the south, only a dozen or so miles away is Jingdong City.

Wuliang Mountain is Menngle Mountain in later generations. It is a steep mountain with high mountains and dense forests. Meng Ying had already made arrangements in the mountain.

A total of 30,000 soldiers can be rested, but it is still possible.

It's just that it's a little too close to the Luchuan Army Camp. The distance is only about ten miles.

That is to say, there are few cavalry in Yunnan, and the detection distance of the scouts without horses is quite limited. Therefore, the scope of external detection is also reduced a lot due to the mountain terrain.

But Meng Ying also knew.

Si Renfa is not a waste. The signs of the army in the mountains may not be discovered for a day and a night. But as time goes by, the determination cannot be hidden from others.

Therefore, there is not much time left for him.

Meng Ying summoned all the generals and said: "Let's rest in the mountains tonight. I will show my identity tomorrow on the first day of April. I will lead the cavalry to attack Luchuan's main formation. You will follow me to fight. Wherever you see my banner, fight wherever it is."

, those who dare to look back will fight."

"Yes." All the generals said in unison.

Meng Ying said: "Then take a good rest."

Meng Ying is a veteran who has experienced many battles and rests when he is told. However, the people around Meng Ying are not doing well, especially Meng Ying's sons.

The eldest sons Meng Jun and Shi Jing acted as personal guards beside Meng Ying, and they felt even more uneasy.

After all, against a crowd of 30,000 and a crowd of more than 100,000 in Luchuan, not everyone can be as calm as Meng Ying.

I finally fell asleep, but after only a few hours of sleep, I heard faint movement, but it was dawn and Meng Ying had already gotten up.

Shi Jing and Meng Jun got up immediately. Meng Jun brought Meng Ying face wash and breakfast.

The so-called breakfast consists of rice balls and many long strips of dried meat.

These rice balls and dried meat were all prepared in advance, and it could be said that not a single bite was hot. But Meng Ying had long been used to it, and she finished it in three times.

Then he took Meng Jun, Shi Jing and more than a dozen personal guards and walked over in groups. Meng Ying was like an old soldier, without any air of a general. No matter which soldier he was talking to, he could talk to one or two.

Jokes and vulgar words were blurted out, and wherever they passed, these soldiers who were a little nervous suddenly relaxed.

The solemn atmosphere before the war seemed to have dissipated a lot.

Meng Jun then asked: "Father------"

Meng Ying immediately reprimanded him and said: "There is no father or son in the army, so he is called a general."

Meng Jun immediately said: "Yes, general, our army has just arrived and the enemy is unprepared. Why don't they attack at night?"

Meng Ying said: "The army cannot stay in Yunnan for a long time to show its power. There is no easier way to demonstrate than to defeat more than 100,000 troops in Luchuan with an army of 30,000 people."

"Besides, in night battles, there are too many uncertain factors. It is easy to defeat the enemy, but it is difficult to break the courage of thieves. What I want is to make the thinking thieves break their courage."

Seeing that the time was almost up, Meng Ying gave an order, and the horns sounded and the drums beat loudly. The Ming army was divided into three parts. Meng Ying led his cavalry and appeared on the southern slope of Wuliang Mountain in the morning light.

The Ming army behind them were all infantry, marching in neat steps, and there were countless false flags planted in the mountains. For a while, it was hard to tell how many Ming troops were coming.

The sudden appearance of Meng Ying's troops immediately shocked the entire Jingdong battlefield.

Meng Jun felt his blood boiling for a moment. Being with his compatriots in the army, he felt a sense of self-confidence, as if no one in the world could stop them.

The Luchuan Military Camp under Jingdong City was now in chaos.

As the saying goes, one drum will make the energy strong, the other will weaken, and the third will exhaust it.

Sirenfa led his troops and besieged the city for more than half a month. Large-scale attacks were carried out almost every day. However, Lucchuan was far worse than the Ming army in defending the city.

Although Mu Ang only had more than 20,000 remnant troops in his hands, he encouraged the people of Jingdong, all men, young and old, to go to the city.

And Jingdong is not another place.

It is the foundation of southern Yunnan and the place where the Ming Dynasty has been operating in southern Yunnan for the longest time. It can be said that most Han people in this place have military status.

Many people are no strangers to fighting.

Speaking of which, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, Yunnan has never been peaceful for a few years.

In the 17th year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty established the rule of Jingdong. Within 20 years, the Battle of Annan began, and Yunnan was one of the directions for sending troops.

After the troops withdrew from Yunnan, Luchuan rose again.

The people have been in battle for a long time and are used to it.

With the prestige of the Mu family, Mu Ang can defend for a period of time as long as he is not a fool. Facts have proved that although Mu Ang is not a general, he still has basic military qualities.

Therefore, in the past ten days, although there were heavy casualties and Jingdong City was in danger several times, Luchuan's attack was always defeated.

At the same time, Luchuan was unable to fight.

There are three reasons for not being able to fight.

First, too many people died.

The Luchuan headquarters only had about 100,000 troops, so Sirenfa naturally refused to allow his headquarters to attack the city, especially when he knew that the Ming army defended the city very well.

As a result, most of the chieftains who had just surrendered to Luchuan became the vanguard. Luchuan's headquarters was just holding the line.

However, in these ten days of attacks, the chieftains' headquarters lost tens of thousands of troops. Every chieftain was injured. These chieftains began to work in tandem with each other and refused to contribute.

Si Renfa also turned a blind eye.

Speaking of the war between Daming and Luchuan, the ones who have suffered the most losses so far are neither Daming nor Luchuan, but these chieftains between Daming and Luchuan.

Second, there are not enough supplies.

After all, Luchuan is not the Ming Dynasty. Even in the disaster years of the Ming Dynasty, although it is difficult to support the army, it can still hold on with gritted teeth.

But that's not possible in Luchuan.

Although He Wenyuan said that Luchuan is only a county, it is a bit too much. However, Luchuan headquarters only has more than one million people, and has organized an army of 100,000. From last year to now, the fighting has been incessant, and the financial consumption of Luchuan has been

is very huge.

The accumulation of more than 40 years of homesickness in Luchuan is being rapidly consumed.

Moreover, Luchuan Sijia could not see the end of this war, so he increased his exploitation of other chieftains to share the expenses.

However, these chieftains did not have much food, and they could support the Luchuan army under Jingdong City for a long time.

The third reason was that Si Renfa was worried that reinforcements from the Ming army were coming.

Although Sirenfa had heard about the conflict between Meng Ying and Mu Ang before, Sirenfa was not a fool, nor was he someone who didn't understand the Ming Dynasty at all.

When he was young, he grew up in the Mu family.

He also knows the internal situation of the Ming Dynasty very well, and he also knows what kind of existence the Mu family is.

Therefore, he did not think that Meng Ying would really refuse to save her.

He thought that the Ming army would definitely come to rescue him, but he didn't know when.

But he never expected that almost as soon as he woke up, reinforcements from the Ming army, which he didn't know when, would already arrive outside the camp.

For a time, he had countless questions in his mind: who would lead the army, how many people there would be, and what would be the reaction in the city? But when he knew the reactions of the chieftains, he immediately suppressed all thoughts, because he had no choice but to
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