But they didn't know that no matter how good the plan was, it was nothing more than a joke in front of Emperor Chongzhen's golden finger.
For example, in later games, the opponent did not have fog of war, so they had to rely on spies and the like to open maps to explore. However, Emperor Chongzhen's side had no fog of war at all. The opponent self-righteously ambushed several troops, but as a result, Emperor Chongzhen could see clearly how to fight this battle?
Of course, no one at this time knew that Emperor Chongzhen would create a fog of war. Not only are they enemies, but even our own people don’t know.
When Cao Bianjiao, the vanguard commander of the Ming army, arrived fifty miles away from Lashio, he ordered the entire army to rest. Then he took out his kit and opened it curiously.
Upon seeing this, his expression suddenly became very exciting.
Beside him was the head of a local soldier named Brute Man. The main function of the team he leads is to act as a guide. Seeing Cao Bianjiao's behavior at this time, he couldn't help but be very curious and asked quickly: "Commander, is this a clever plan?"
When Cao Bianjiao heard the question, he came back to his senses and looked at the barbarian man. Seeing the curious look on his face, he nodded and said, "Yes, this is the bag given by the emperor. It contains a really clever plan. No. , to be precise, it is a strategy to defeat the enemy!”
As soon as he heard this, the brute man's expression became very exciting. In this land of Yunnan, the legend of Zhuge Kongming is everywhere. The word "tips" must be connected with a clever plan. In the past, I had only heard about it in legends passed down by word of mouth, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today.
While he was thinking about it, he heard Cao Bianjiao suddenly ask him: "Is there a place near here where a sister beats her husband?"
Hearing this, the brute man was a little curious. He nodded quickly and said, "There is a place called Sister Dafu, which is in the mountains not far ahead. I don't know how the commander knows this name. Most people really don't know this." Local!"
After hearing this, Cao Bianjiao had an admiring smile on his face. He raised the brochure in his hand and the note he pulled out from it and said, "The emperor said it in this brochure. Where is Dongwu's ambush? There are about three thousand men." .”
"What? Dongwu ambush?" After hearing this, the brute force man couldn't help but be very surprised and said: "They no longer wait in Lashio City, why are they hiding in the deep mountains and old forests?"
"Of course it's to attack our army's food road!" After Cao Bianjiao was confirmed that there was indeed such a place, his expression turned contemptuous. The ambush had been discovered, so there was nothing to be afraid of. With Dongwu's three thousand troops, the Ming army doesn't even need a thousand men. If they face each other head on, they will definitely beat barbarians like them!
He really didn't look down on Dongwu. In the past, Dongwu mostly fought with Yunnan chieftains, and he was still afraid of the regular officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there was such a thing.
Chieftain Mengyang of Yunnan was at war with Dongwu and asked the court for help. The reinforcements did not arrive, so he gave the chieftain a lot of Ming army flags to think he was a suspicious soldier. As a result, Dongwu's army was so scared that he ran away.
If the Ming Dynasty had not been distracted by the three major conquests during the Wanli period, and looked down upon the remote and wild lands of Yunnan, Mubang and Mengyang, it would have been impossible for Dongwu to occupy them.
At this time, Cao Bianjiao learned about the location of the ambush, and while letting the army rest, he sent people from Ye Bushou and Brute Force Han to go to the place where the sister beat her husband to investigate the specific situation.
As for himself, he was still in the mood to joke with the brute man, asking him why the place names here are all weird, why is it that Muse, sister beating her husband, etc., are all related to sister?
In response to the commander's questions, the brute man naturally knew everything he wanted to say. The two of them were chatting animatedly, as if they were not leading troops to attack a foreign country, but instead going out for an outing. Finally, Ye Bu, who had been sent out, took it back.
Unexpectedly, there was indeed an ambush of Dong Wu in the place called Sister Da Hu. He heard Ye Bushou report to Cao Bianjiao: "Commander, this ambush probably thought that the war would take a long time to come, so they were lax in guarding and were captured by their subordinates." People won’t know it until they touch it.”
After hearing this, Cao Bianjiao actually understood them quite well. Generally speaking, this ambush should wait until their own battle against Lashio begins. When there is such a movement, they will become vigilant, carefully send out scouts, wait for the main force of the Ming army to pass, and wait for the food transport team to come up. At this time, he ran out and attacked. Therefore, the forward troops led by him marched quickly and it was no wonder that this ambush force would be alert!
Of course, it would be best if Togo's ambush would be like this. Therefore, Cao Bianjiao issued a military order to go and ambush Dongwu here first.
The smoothness of the battle was even a bit beyond Cao Bianjiao's expectations. The Ming army he led suddenly appeared in front of Dongwu's ambush troops, which frightened these Dongwu ambush troops into running around all over the mountains and fields without even thinking of resisting. , run as fast as you can, run as far as you can.
However, Cao Bianjiao came prepared, and in the end, only half of Dongwu's army allowed them to escape. What surprised him a little was that there was a lot of food in the Dongwu ambush camp.
After a little thought, he figured it out. Since Dongwu has ambushed his troops here, and he doesn't know when the Ming army will attack, he naturally needs to prepare more food and cats here.
Now, Cao Bianjiao sent people to escort the two thousand captured Dongwu prisoners to the rear, while collecting the grain. Without waiting for the grain and grass supplies from the Chinese army, he started to raid again, and directly captured La Xu began to take less rest.
The resistance on the Lashio side was easy because the people and soldiers of Yuanmu State were committed to the Ming Dynasty. They captured about 3,000 Dongwu soldiers and sent them to the rear.
In response to this, the brute man said a little puzzled: "Commander, instead of dividing the troops to escort these prisoners back, it would be easier to kill them with one knife!"
Hearing this, Cao Bianjiao couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand to pat him and said, "Why, are you willing to build the roads in Yunnan yourself?"
"Ah?" After hearing this, the brute force man couldn't help but said a little surprised, "Commander, are all these prisoners taken back to build roads?"
"Nonsense!" Cao Bianjiao nodded immediately after hearing this and said, "The emperor has a decree, these prisoners cannot be wasted. The roads in Yunnan are too bad, they can be used to build roads and benefit the people of Yunnan!"
Hearing that the emperor was so considerate of them, Brute Man was suddenly moved. This borderland of Yunnan finally no longer feels like an unraised child!
After they rested in Lashio for three days, their mental exhaustion caused by the hot weather in Dongwu finally eased. At the same time, the envoy sent by Emperor Chongzhen also arrived. After encouraging Cao Bianjiao, he gave him a brocade bag and said: "When your troops arrive forty miles away from Xibo, you can open the brocade bag and receive the decree. "
With this first experience, Cao Bianjiao probably knew what was in this bag, and he couldn't help but admire it very much. The emperor is still as unpredictable as ever. The small country of Dongwu still wants to fight with me, the Ming Dynasty. It is simply a dream!
But he didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen also knew about ambushes in several places. This news not only came from Tai Taitun, but also after he went all the way to Dongwu, he cross-checked it with the eavesdropping seeds he had scattered before. The news is absolutely reliable. reality.
The reason why I didn't tell Cao Bianjiao everything at once was that I was afraid that the news would leak out; and the other was that I was worried that Dongwu's deployment would change in the future. Therefore, he would eliminate one ambush and verify the next ambush before giving out tips.
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Ava and Pingdali are also worried about the Ming army. Almost every day they think about where the Ming army is? Could they have captured Lashio and then marched straight in, not encountering strong resistance from Dongwu and feeling complacent...
Thinking about this, he couldn't help but wonder, what would the Ming army's expression and mentality be like when the ambush he arranged suddenly came out?
To be honest, if possible, Pingdali would really like to see it with his own eyes. But unfortunately, the troops he prepared were to resist one after another, and the resistance was getting stronger and stronger. In this case, the Ming army will underestimate the enemy due to smooth operations in the early stage, and it will also lengthen the Ming army's grain and grass transportation lines, which will inevitably reduce the Ming army's protection on the grain road.
Of course, Taitaitun was well aware of his mentality, and would say nice things about Pingdali's arrangements from time to time. In this way, later on, he won the trust of Pindali. Not only did he no longer care about Tai Taitun, the defeated general, but he also gave him part of his troops to assist him.
On this day, Tai Taitun waited for the news from the front line, personally sent it to Pingdali, and reported loudly: "Your Highness, the Ming army has captured Lashio and is going south again."
"Okay!" When Pingdali heard this, he didn't care at all about the loss of Lashio. Instead, he said happily, "When the next news comes, it will probably be good news!"
"That's for sure!" Tai Taitun immediately agreed, "As soon as the Ming army's forward left Lashio, and then the ambush came out, even if the Ming army's food and grass were not burned, it would definitely frighten the Ming army's forward into panic and never dare to advance again. Got it!"
"Haha, I just want to make the Ming army suspicious!" Ping Dali heard this and said in a confident tone, "Let's see how long the morale of the Ming army can last!"
So, two days later, another news came. When Tai Taitun heard the report, he immediately rushed to Xiang Yao to intercept the news first and let him report it. Unexpectedly, Pingdali was already at the city gate, preparing to listen to the messenger's report.
When Taitai saw it, he rushed forward and said loudly: "Congratulations, Your Highness, this must be good news!"
As soon as he finished saying this, he saw the messenger's face was very ugly, and immediately, he had a bad feeling.
Ping Dali obviously guessed something from the expression of the messenger. His face was a little ugly, so he ignored Tai Taitun who came over to flatter him, and immediately shouted to the messenger: "What's going on, tell me quickly!"
