Compared with Deng Ming's previous life's difficulty in cursing water, Mangbai launched this time not only a few months at night, but also a smaller version. The Ming Dynasty cabinet, including Ma Jixiang and Mu Tianbo, the Burmese tyrant kings did not dare to kill them but imprisoned them. The situation in the Ming court is not as desperate as Deng Ming's previous life, and Mangbai does not want to do things out. The overall situation is that the Qing Dynasty is strong and the Ming Dynasty is weak. Myanmar believes that the Qing army will eventually win, and not doing things out for the time being will help appease Li Dingguo, who is still capable, Bai Wenxuan, and let the Ming army be afraid of weapons.

As for the possible reactions of the Ming army, Mangbai believed that with the strong military pressure from Wu Sangui, the Ming army would not have the power to open up a new battlefield. If the Ming army sent a small group of troops to Myanmar, Myanmar would be local to fight, Mangbai felt that nothing was scary.

Mangbai is facing a lot of pressure now, because the Ming court has been reluctant to admit his status, and the Qing court has refused to admit it. This is not good news for Mangbai, who killed his brother and resolutely. After considering it over and over again, Mangbai felt that instead of begging the Emperor of Ming who had abandoned his country and went into exile, it would be better to rely on the Qing court with nine out of China. After launching a reduced version of the Curse and putting down the Emperor of Ming and the cabinet, Mangbai sent troops to plunder the Emperor of Ming and his troops and followed his subordinates with the rewards of the property brought by Yongli.

The officer of the Imperial Guardian who fled back to Kunming cried to Li Dingguo, saying that the emperor's camp was plundered, the palace maids, the chief ministers, and the nobles' female relatives were also taken away by the Burmese people. As for the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guardians, they were all captured, and they were probably divided up by the Burmese nobles who supported Mangbai and became their slaves.

"Why did you throw away your weapons when you leave the country?" Li Dingguo angrily rebuked. The Imperial Guards who followed the Emperor Yongli had three thousand armored soldiers. Their strength was stronger than the Myanmar army loyal to Mangbai. However, when they fled to Myanmar, they abandoned all the weapons and armor at the gates. After entering Myanmar, the old men gathered to gamble all day long, and the officers also worked as well. The Imperial Guards had neither armed nor fighting spirit nor military discipline. When Mangbai launched the water curse, the old men and civil and military officials surrendered, and only Mu Tianbo tried to resist. Mu Tianbo had to snatch weapons from the Burmese soldiers to defend themselves, but he was subdued and was quickly subdued and imprisoned with Ma Jixiang and others.

"This is the Lord's order." The Imperial Guard officer burst into tears. He fled back alone, and his family and his subordinates were also trapped in Myanmar.

Li Dingguo glared at the officer fiercely. In order to show that he was different from Sun Kewang, he not only agreed to the emperor to recruit imperial guards, but also disagreed with the public and provided them with a large amount of equipment. This aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Xiying. The generals of the Qin and Shu factions of the Xiying were still complaining behind their backs, saying that Li Dingguo was not the prince of the Xiying, and had forgotten his roots and really wanted to be the King of Jin of the Ming Dynasty. Finally, when the Qing army attacked, the imperial guards built with a lot of money did not help resist as Li Dingguo hoped, but instead left all their equipment and fled abroad. Now they could not even complete the most basic task of defending the emperor: "What is the matter going on, please tell me in detail."

"Mangbai, this thief, said he would swear with the elders and ask the elders to go and curse the water river and drink water and swear..." The Imperial Army officer stopped his sad voice and said in tears.

"You believe it?" Li Dingguo interrupted his narration bluntly: "Mangbai can even take action on his own brother, and he is unruly. Do you believe that he suddenly becomes a vegetarian Bodhisattva?"

"The Lord and Yuanfu are both suspicious."

"Then what precautions did you do?" Li Dingguo asked the Imperial Guard speechlessly with one sentence.

When rebuilding the Imperial Army, the old subordinates of the Qin faction, of course, could not be used, but the warriors recommended by Li Dingguo, such as Zhao Tianba and other Jin Palace, could not reassure the court. Therefore, the monarchs and ministers of Yongli selected those who had nothing to do with the Xiying, and the officers were also the remaining nobles, or those who were particularly good at flattering the chief minister Ma Jixiang and the elders.

Before the trouble of cursing water, although the exiled court was worried about Mangbai, he could not count on the army in his hands, so in the end he could only hope that Mangbai was sincerely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the cabinet masters and nobles went to meet the Burmese army naked.

"In front of the three thousand Yulinlangs, the cabinet elders and important officials were captured by hundreds of Burmese soldiers, and then they watched them rob the imperial camp and abduct the palace men and the relatives of important officials. What is the use of the emperor raising you?" Li Dingguo became more and more angry as he heard it. He almost ordered the escaped imperial guard officer to be pushed out and executed. But after all, he was the emperor's personal army, and it was not a prince's turn to decide what to do. Li Dingguo was in a place of right and wrong, and the rumors about him had never stopped. Zheng Chenggong and others were always suspicious and were ready to support the new king after usurping the rebellion in Xiying. In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, Li Dingguo ignored how Yongli organized the imperial guards, and endured the impeachment of him by the Censors, and even made apologies for this. If he killed the emperor's personal army, he didn't know what the rumors would be like.

"You are the emperor's personal army. It would be fine if you watched the elders be captured by the Burmese people, but they even surrendered and became slaves to the Burmese people. It really gave up all the face of the dignified Heavenly Dynasty." Although Li Dingguo did not kill people, his anger was still difficult to contain. If Yongli had heard from him, he used strong soldiers who could use the Western Camp to fight as a guard, even if he was in a foreign country, how could he be so slaughtered: "After all, it was because you had thrown away all your armor shamelessly! As warriors who protect the emperor, even the weapons to settle down as old as their shoes, how could the Burmese people be afraid of you? They saw through your reality at a glance!"

The Imperial Guard officer was so scolded by Li Dingguo that he could not raise his head. In the end, he could only lie on the ground and sobbed, begging the King of Jin to send troops to save the Imperial Guard colleagues and their families.

"Okay, you go down and rest first. You have worked so hard to escape back to report the news, which shows that you are still loyal and righteous." After being furious, Li Dingguo's chest was full of powerlessness. The country was in great danger. The emperor and the cabinet was so weak, how could he expel the Tartars and restore the country?

Bai Wenxuan and others who were listening were also full of contempt, and Ma Bao and He Jiuyi looked even more contemptuous. He Jiuyi felt that Li Dingguo had no reason to oppose Sun Kewang back then. In order to support such a Ming emperor, it would be better to support the Qin King ascend the throne.

However, He Jiuyi was still a little brainy, knowing that it was not the time to add fuel to the fire. After the Imperial Guard left, He Jiuyi pretended not to know what was going on in Myanmar, and clasped his fists to Li Dingguo and said, "King, the army is ready to stop. May I ask when will the troops be sent to Guizhou?"

"What are you going to Guizhou to do? Send a detective to investigate the Myanmar soldiers and prepare a manifesto, telling them that we will send troops to welcome the emperor back, and ask the Myanmar soldiers not to stop our army's troops, otherwise we will be ruthless." Li Dingguo said angrily.

"King," although Ma Bao was not a general of the Qin system, he couldn't help but ask loudly: "Are we really going to send troops to rescue Yuan Fu and the others?"

"It's about the safety of the court, how can you be careless?" Li Dingguo's face darkened and he shouted, "You can go and prepare!"

Li Dingguo, of course, knew the undercurrent in the Western Camp, but he still had to react to the matter. The generals muttered to prepare for the Burmese campaign, and only Bai Wenxuan, his old comrade-in-arms, was left alone.

"The emperor who can't help him." Seeing that there was no one else in the camp, Bai Wenxuan sighed. The news of the trouble of cursing water spread, the prestige of the Yongli court would be hit hard again, and the King of Jin, who was closely related to him, would also be seriously damaged. The officers and soldiers of the Xiying Camp would further question Li Dingguo's decision to unconditionally support Yongli.

"That's the emperor too." Li Dingguo smiled bitterly. He knew that the soldiers of Xiying were not loyal to Yongli. After the emperor abandoned the country, Li Dingguo continued to maintain the authority of the Yongli court at the expense of his prestige. If this continues, no matter how strong Li Dingguo's connections and prestige are, he will sooner or later consume it in this bottomless pit.

"Indeed." Bai Wenxuan nodded. As Li Dingguo's righteous brother and closest comrade-in-arms, he could understand what Li Dingguo did. Yongli was the last banner to maintain the superficial unity of the Anti-Qing Alliance. If something really happened to Yongli, it would be unpredictable what would happen to the Anti-Qing Alliance. If someone suspected that Li Dingguo had also betrayed the court, then he would be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and submit to Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Huangyan's army might regard Xiying as an enemy. Pessimistic and disappointed people might even lose all the fighting spirit to continue to resist and surrender to the Qing court.

However, even if you can understand Li Dingguo's painstaking efforts, the anti-Qing Alliance, which was as stubborn as a storm, could not withstand the storm and waves, and Bai Wenxuan's disappointment was still there.

"If it weren't for King Jin..." Bai Wenxuan muttered silently in his heart. Now his loyalty to the Yongli court was barely maintained because of Li Dingguo's prestige. If similar situations happen again, Bai Wenxuan would not know whether he could continue to be loyal to Yongli.

"Send people to Chengdu and bring all the fast horses with you." Li Dingguo was exhausted physically and mentally. Under the pressure of Wu Sangui, he could not send out a large army to rescue the court. He urgently needed the support of his allies. Even if there was only political support, it would be good to continue to maintain the loyalty of the Ming army in Yunnan to the court, and thus preserve the precarious anti-Qing alliance: "Run at full speed to notify Duke Baoguo (the title that Deng Ming had just obtained), so that Duke Baoguo quickly criticized the shameless crime of the Burmese people."

"What about Guizhou?"

Li Dingguo shook his head powerlessly: "The morale of the army is unstable, we can't help with the family."

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After the Qing army in Guiyang learned about the trouble of cursing water, Wu Sangui laughed: "I had prepared 30,000 troops to prevent Li Dingguo from disturbing my plan despite the old grievances from the An family. OK! Mangbai is indeed very good. I can use these troops to clean up Anshuixi, and I solved this important problem before the New Year."
Chapter completed!