Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Jin King Li Dingguo, who was recuperating in the Mengma area of ​​Myanmar, learned in March that Wu Sangui had enshrined Emperor Yong as Zhengshuo, and now he led the army into Shaanxi. Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan, Wu Sansheng and others once led the army to Daluo, the border, and tried to enter Yunnan.

The area around Mengma is plagued with epidemics, mostly virgin forests, and rarely populated. Nearly 10,000 Ming troops lived here. Although some chieftains on the border provided relief, they still lacked medical supplies and food. In just a few months, more than 1,000 soldiers were killed. and die. After Bai Wenxuan and Wu Sangui failed to enter Yunnan, they both did not understand why Wu Sangui had already returned to the Ming Dynasty, and they had to be kept out of the country. The King of Jin said clearly that Wu Sangui kept them out of the country just to control the emperor.

The governor of Yunnan, Lin Tianqing, was a student of Hong Chengchou. Before Hong Chengchou's death, he repeatedly told him not to let Li Dingguo enter Yunnan. When Wu Sangui's main force went north, he also left behind thousands of elite soldiers and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from the original Daxi Army who surrendered to Lin Tianqing to guard Yunnan. Lin Tianqing used these troops and horses to garrison several important towns on the border. He did not take the initiative to go out to find Li Dingguo's troops, but only blocked grain, salt and iron, which caused the Ming army outside the border to face difficulties. But even so, thousands of Ming soldiers persevered here.

After Bai Wenxuan and Wu Sansheng returned to Mengma, King Li Dingguo of Jin, who had recovered slightly, personally presided over an offensive against the Burmese, defeated and killed more than 4,000 Burmese soldiers, and seized a batch of grain and grass from the Burmese army. , making the living conditions of the Ming army slightly better. But this is not a long-term solution. Seeing that the Burmese side cannot defeat the Ming army, they will shrink all the way. Like the Wu army in Yunnan, they only control the important towns, burn down some Burmese villages and towns, and forcibly evacuate the local people, so as to isolate the Ming army. Purpose.

As time went on, it became more and more difficult for Li Dingguo's department to obtain food and grass supplies from the local Burmese. At the same time, some officials who had been following Li Dingguo's department also advocated taking the initiative to disarm the Wu army in Yunnan in exchange for the Wu army to let them go back to China. The reason why these officials have this opinion is because they are all followers of Emperor Yong. Now that the emperor is in Guiyang and Wu Sangui has returned to Ming anyway, they naturally want to follow. Many officials were very clear about the intention of the Wu army not to allow the King of Jin to return to Yunnan, but they were courtiers of Emperor Yong, not of the King of Jin, so it was naturally impossible for the King of Jin to consider it mentally.

King Jin was very hesitant about this. On the one hand, he was disappointed with Yongdi and did not want to make him the emperor anymore; on the other hand, he could not watch thousands of soldiers who were born and died with him starve in a foreign country like this. Burial. It's just that if you let these officials go back to Yunnan, it will definitely be a great blow to the military spirit that is holding on. Once this opening was opened, it was difficult to say whether the generals and soldiers would also choose to surrender to the Wu army.

After Lin Tianqing learned of the difficult situation of Li Dingguo's department through detailed work, he took the opportunity to throw an olive branch to Li Dingguo's subordinates, promising that as long as these officers and men of the Great Western Army left Li Dingguo voluntarily, they would be accepted and appointed according to their official positions in Li Dingguo. This method has achieved some results. Hundreds of Ming troops secretly left the camp and returned north because they were eager to return to the country.

Wu Sansheng did not intercept and hunt down the subordinates who had returned from the north, but Bai Wenxuan sent troops to capture some people. But when he was about to put these fleeing soldiers into formation, the King of Jin stopped him. Li Dingguo not only forbids Bai Wenxuan to kill, but also wants Bai Wenxuan to let them go. The benevolence and righteousness of the King of Jin made some soldiers who returned from the north cry bitterly, and many chose to stay and follow the King of Jin to the death. But some people continue to choose to go to Yunnan after crying bitterly. Compared with loyalty and faith, not seeing any hope is the most desperate thing. It's like some soldiers kneeling in front of King Jin and crying, they don't want to die in a foreign country, they just want to die closer to home.

Two days later, without the knowledge of Bai Wenxuan and Wu Sansheng, Li Dingguo suddenly summoned the civil servants who followed him to fight against the Qing Dynasty and told them that if any of them wanted to go back to Yunnan, they could leave.

When Bai Wenxuan was notified by Li Sixing, the heir of the King of Jin, more than 100 officials had already left for Yunnan with their entourage and family members.

Bai Wenxuan sadly asked the King of Jin why he let these people go, because doing so would lead to the collapse of the entire army.

"They are Yong's courtiers, not my Li Dingguo's courtiers. They follow me just to resist the Qing. Now that the Qing court has returned to the north and Yong has returned to the country, they should follow Yong. What's the point of me keeping them? Besides, people don't want to stay with me either, a twisted melon is not sweet." King Jin's expression was very lonely. A serious illness made him not only have a lot of gray hair, but also a lot of spirit.

"It's impossible for Lin Tianqing to watch us every day. One day, we will be able to fight back to Yunnan and Guizhou, just like in the past! King Jin, as long as we don't give up, we can still make a comeback!"

Bai Wenxuan saw that King Jin was in a bad mood, so he couldn't bear to blame him any more, and only persuaded King Jin to cheer up.

"I was adopted by my adoptive father as an adopted son when I was nine years old, and I have been fighting for 32 years. After my adoptive father died, I fought side by side with Sun Kewang, in order to continue to fight the banner of our Great Western Army~www.wuxiamtl.com~ let The incense of our Daxi Army continued. Later, I supported Sun Kewang to fight against the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. At that time, I thought that the Manchus could not occupy the country of the Han people and make us slaves to the subjugation of the country. After each battle, I paid everything Hard work, but in the end, what did I get?" Li Dingguo was full of vicissitudes, "I have never lost the elder brother, nor the emperor, but they"

Li Dingguo didn't say any more, but his face was very sad and angry.

Bai Wenxuan sighed and persuaded: "King Jin, Zhu Youlang has lost you, we won't recognize him as the emperor! All the Tartars have returned to the north, and the southern capital has been restored, and the situation is much better than before. "King Jin, you should cheer up and lead our old brothers down!"

Li Dingguo shook his head: "I can't even raise the rations for the brothers, so how can I lead them down?"

"There is no food, let's think of a way to make a living person suffocate to death? As long as we survive, those who have a chance to return to China in the future will let them go. The more difficult it is for us, but the people who stay are all good men who swear to follow you, King Jin! It is because of King Jin that they can survive. If you give up King Jin, what should they do? Could it be King Jin? Do you really have the heart to watch them die in this foreign land! King Jin, we are here because you are here!"

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Li Dingguo closed his eyes in pain, and after a while, he opened his eyes with tears in his eyes, gritted his teeth and said to Bai Wenxuan: "I have never asked anyone for anything in my life, and now for these brothers who follow me, I must ask for help. already."

"Who does King Jin want to ask for?" Bai Wenxuan's heart suddenly burst, he thought King Jin wanted to bow his head to Wu Sangui for help.

King Jin was not what Bai Wenxuan thought. He said: "I want to send someone to ask Zhou Shixiang." (To be continued. . . )

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