Pingwu County, the capital of Long'an Prefecture, is located in the mountains on the upper reaches of the Fujiang River. The terrain is very dangerous. It is also on the edge of Sichuan Province and does not block the road to the Chengdu Plain.
In Sichuan, which is now a pot of porridge, it is a rare hiding place that does not attract attention.
In addition, since Pingwu County is the border area between Uzang and Sichuan to the west, this area is very large, the terrain is very dangerous, and at the same time it is extremely barren. It has been a territory that has been easily ignored by the Central Plains dynasties since ancient times.
For Li Dingguo's troops who had failed in the battle between southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, the Pingwu County area was a good place to take refuge.
Beginning in July of the first year of Daxing in Dongping, a large number of soldiers and their family members flocked to Pingwu County from southern Shaanxi, northern Sichuan and other places. The small Pingwu County was suddenly crowded with hundreds of thousands of people. It's almost overcrowded.
Why don’t so many Fu soldiers and their families from Da Shun go to Chengdu?
This has to talk about the factional issues within the Dashun Dynasty!
Wherever there are people, there are factions and fights. Dashun, a dynasty that was put together by two "rebel armies", Li Zicheng and Daxi Zhang Xianzhong, was naturally bound to factional struggles.
Although under pressure from the Ming Dynasty, the internal struggle within the Dashun Dynasty was not fierce, and there was no full-scale martial arts campaign, and there was even harmony on the surface. But the secret competition has not stopped... and fighting for this treasure land in Myanmar is the long-term goal of the struggle between the two factions within Dashun.
Faced with the aggressive Ming Dynasty from outside and the increasingly acute land conflicts internally, the princes and generals of Dashun certainly knew that it was impossible for them to counterattack the Ming Dynasty by relying on the territory of Sichuan and Yunnan.
Fighting against the whole country from one corner never ends well!
Therefore, Myanmar, as a retreat, became a good place that both factions within Dashun coveted. The land in Myanmar was originally acquired by Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng together, but after the failure of the Battle of Siam, Li Dingguo was transferred to the northern front, and Myanmar gradually became Li Laiheng's "private land", and Li Dingguo's people were squeezed out. Out of Myanmar.
Later, another "pirate grandson" Li Jicheng emerged. Through the Battle of Arakan and the plunder of Tianzhu, he established his prestige and secured his position as the "King of Burma".
Moreover, Li Dingguo himself was thrown on the battlefield in Shaanxi by Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son, and was unable to escape for many years. Therefore, it will be very difficult for the "Four Kings of the West" to fight for Burma. Even if they reluctantly go south, they will be dependent on others at most. They will no longer be able to compete with Li Chuang's lineage and share the same rule... It's impossible. It’s so good that you don’t even get the treatment of being under someone else’s roof!
In this case, the "Four Kings of the West" could only turn their attention to the snowy plateau to the west...
Therefore, after the failure of the southern Shaanxi-Northern Sichuan campaign, Li Dingguo regarded Pingwu County in Long'an Prefecture as his new and old camp. The troops and military households who withdrew from southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, as long as they had some connection with the four kings of Daxi, were all drawn to Pingwu by Li Dingguo.
As for weapons, baggage, food and wages, they were transferred to Pingwu County like a flowing stream from places where Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi's orders could still control them.
In September and October, while the Songpan Plateau was not blocked by the heavy winter snow, a large number of troops commanded by Li Dingguo's confidants were sent to the south of Songpan Wei (south of Cao Cao and Min Mountain) to occupy the Minjiang River, The territory of the upper reaches of Fujiang River and Heishui River.
However, Li Dingguo has no intention of breaking off with the Dashun Dynasty... Even if he goes to the snowy plateau, he is still the good prince of Dashun!
Emperor Zhu's envoys to induce surrender have come several times. They are all Li Dingguo's old troops who were captured on the southern Shaanxi-Northern Sichuan battlefield. They also brought with them seemingly good conditions for surrender, but Li Dingguo remained unmoved!
Because in his opinion, he and the Zhu Ming Dynasty are not on the same page after all... Even if the Zhu family temporarily accommodates his group, just think about how Wu Sangui died. Even if he doesn't fall out now, he will in the future. A day of reckoning after autumn!
And he also knew very well that once he was recruited, Yuan Zongdi, who was stationed in Chengdu, would immediately become Wu Sanfu's key target!
Over in Chengdu Prefecture, there are now hundreds of thousands or even millions of Fu soldiers and Fu soldiers who have come from all over Sichuan... What will happen to this group of people if they fall into the hands of the Ming army? The end? Even if they are not killed, they will be sent to the Twelve Principalities of Nanyang and the New World to suffer!
Those people were also Li Dingguo's old subordinates. How could he bear to let their good Burmese household registrations become the "green books" of the United States of New Zealand?
And because of the death of his brother Wu Sangui, Wu Sanfu also regarded Li Dingguo as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh!
When Li Dingguo repeatedly refused to surrender to the court, he also left Yuan Zongdi in Chengdu aside and began to mobilize the main force to Long'an Mansion to prepare for a big battle with Li Dingguo in the mountainous area of northwest Sichuan.
Just when the war in Long'an Mansion was about to break out, Liu Wenxiu arrived in Pingwu County.
...
"Second brother, why are you here? Is the traffic still smooth along the way? How is the situation over there in Chongqing Mansion?"
When Liu Wenxiu arrived in Pingwu, Li Dingguo inspected Huangyang Pass at the west gate of Pingwu County (Huangyang Pass was the only way Li Dingguo retreated to Songpan Wei). After receiving the news, he immediately rushed back to the county with his guards. As soon as he saw the dusty Liu Wenxiu in the royal palace in the county, he started asking straight to the point.
Liu Wenxiu smiled bitterly and said: "Fourth, I'm here to join you... The situation in Chongqing Prefecture is not good. I'm afraid I won't be able to defend it for too long. The land route from Chongqing Prefecture is not very easy to travel. Fortunately, the Jialing River and There are still some naval forces on the Fujiang River, so they can still come out from Hezhou!"
"What's going on?" Li Dingguo was stunned, "Chongqing Prefecture is a fortified city..."
"So what about a fortified city?" Liu Wenxiu sneered, "Your Majesty is unwilling to defend it, so even a fortified city will be for nothing!"
"What? The emperor wants to abandon Chongqing?" Li Dingguo frowned, "Then why did he come to Chongqing?"
"Yes!" Liu Wenxiu said, "If he hadn't come, Tian Jianxiu might have been able to hold on for a few more months... It's better now. He doesn't want to die with the city, and he doesn't want to give up everything on his back. It’s Chuan’s responsibility, so I was sent to Pingwu to make things difficult for you.”
"What?" Li Dingguo didn't understand. "What the emperor means...is he to ask you to abandon Chongqing Mansion?"
Liu Wenxiu shook his head and took out Zhu Cixiang's edict, "Fourth, see for yourself!"
Zhu Cihong's hand edict was also yellow-skinned. It looked similar to that of Emperor Dashun. Li Dingguo thought it was Li Laiheng's edict, so he immediately stood up and said respectfully: "Um, Li Dingguo, I respectfully accept the imperial edict!"
After saying that, he took the edict with both hands, unfolded it and let out a sigh: "Your Majesty's handwriting is much more beautiful... Could it be that you have practiced it in Chongqing Mansion these days?"
"Where is it! Look carefully..."
"Oh, uh, look at it!"
At first glance, Li Dingguo's expression changed drastically, "This, this is Emperor Zhu's handwriting? What does he mean?"
"What do you mean?" Liu Wenxiu said with a bitter smile, "Of course you are asking us to defect to the Ming Dynasty!"
Li Dingguo stamped his feet: "Well, you mean the emperor...what does the Dongxing master of Dashun mean?"
Liu Wenxiu said with great certainty: "He means to ask us to defect to the Ming Dynasty!"
"What?" Li Dingguo was stunned again and again, "Your Majesty, your Majesty has surrendered?"
"No!" Liu Wenxiu waved his hand, "Everyone can surrender to Zhu, but the emperor and the prince cannot surrender to Zhu!"
"Then why did he ask us to surrender?" Li Dingguo was completely confused.
Liu Wenxiu snorted: "He is asking us to pretend to surrender... so that he can use this excuse to run to Yunnan! The blame for losing Sichuan will be ours, and he, the emperor, is still a good emperor!" "
"He, he..." Li Dingguo looked at Liu Wenxiu, "Second brother, what should we do?"
Liu Wenxiu snorted coldly: "Of course it's a plan... The hundreds of thousands of people in Pingwu are all from our Daxi lineage. That's our brother's capital! As long as we have soldiers and generals at hand, we can... Where can we go without enjoying delicious food and drinking spicy food? Emperor Zhu asked us to go to the plateau, and we look good! Fourth brother, why don't we go and become officials of the Ming Dynasty together!"
