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Section 11 Offensive (Part 2)

Bai Wenxuan, who captured the border, sent an envoy to Myanmar to issue a letter, saying that as long as Myanmar returns to the Emperor Yongli, the Ming army would immediately retreat.

Originally, Deng Ming thought Bai Wenxuan was just a martial artist, but judging from this action, he was quite scheming.

"General Bai is a plan to arrogance of the enemy, right?" The 20,000 Ming troops completed the assembly, and the food and supplies were ready to stop. The attack on Myanmar was already on the verge of arrows. However, Bai Wenxuan sent an envoy to Bamo to write a letter at this time, obviously deliberately showing weakness, which made Myanmar feel lucky.

"That's right." Bai Wenxuan smiled. Since ancient times, if the troops were strong and strong, there would be no fair trade. If the Ming army claimed that they would siege Myanmar if they did not return the emperor, I guess Myanmar would consider it carefully. Of course, Myanmar might also think that the Ming army was bluffing. However, now the Ming army does not even have the courage to bluff, but just said pitifully that they would use borders to exchange the emperor. Myanmar would probably fall into the ground and determine that the Ming army did not have the ability to attack.

Myanmar's idea is very consistent with the habits of this era, that is, Deng Ming is an exception, so that the Qing army once misjudged the strength of the Ming army again and again.

"Has the King of Jin and General Bai sent anyone to ask for it for three years?" Deng Ming asked.

"At first, I wanted to send someone to ask for it, and the King of Jin also handed over this matter to me, but I was about to talk to Myanmar when news came from General Deng in Kunming, so I retreated and joined forces with King of Jin to return to Kunming. I have been confronting Wu Sangui's old thief for the past three years and have mentioned this matter many times, but it has never happened." Bai Wenxuan replied seriously.

Before Mangbai usurped the throne, because the Ming army was not as embarrassed as Deng Ming's previous life, Yongli's exiled court lived a good life in Myanmar. The chief minister and the cabinet masters were worried for many years in the country and finally lived a stable life. No one was willing to come back. Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan discussed it privately several times, and they all felt that it was unlikely to persuade the emperor to come back, and it was meaningless to send troops to take over. It would not only weaken Yunnan's defensive power, but also make the court disgusted, thinking that the Jin royal palace bullies the court and causes trouble for the exiled court. Since it was a thankless thing, Li Dingguo gave up in the end.

Unlike Deng Mingyi's way of informing the entire army of military orders, the officers under Bai Wenxuan were mostly ignorant of the deployment of the Ming army and the determination of the commander. To keep it confidential, Bai Wenxuan sent the envoys to Bamo from the military camp stationed on the front line. These envoys did not know how many soldiers were stationed behind them, and they did not know that reinforcements from western Sichuan and Jianchang had arrived. In this way, Bai Wenxuan did not have to worry about military information leaks at all.

After waiting for a few days, Myanmar sent several overseas Chinese to send back the heads of the three envoys of the Ming army. He replied to the arrogant and rude words in the book, saying that since the Ming army attacked the border of Myanmar, Myanmar would fight back and use force to expel the invading Ming army.

"I really don't know how to live or die." After seeing the heads of the three Ming soldiers, Bai Wenxuan looked murderous: "It turns out that the intention of being an unofficial person is obvious."

Myanmar's current Tohsu Dynasty was established by Mang Yinglong. His son conquered Thailand. After Cambodia launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty and was defeated by the Ming army. The conquered areas such as Thailand became independent again. However, the Liaodong War followed. The Ming Dynasty accepted Myanmar's surrender and recognized Myanmar's occupation of Bamo and other areas. Now there are a large number of overseas Chinese in Bamo and other places. However, Myanmar's enemies also organized coalition forces to break through Wacheng and kill Burmese King Mang Yingli. Although his son maintained the dynasty and did not destroy it, Myanmar was no longer a military power.

"Duke Mu said that when Mang Yingli invaded, one Yunnan army led the general with five hundred soldiers and defeated 20,000 Burmese soldiers; two thousand officers and soldiers could directly attack the city of Wacheng. The Burmese people had healed their scars and forgot the pain." Bai Wenxuan pondered for a moment and ordered another ten soldiers to form an envoy to submit the letter of the country to Bamo.

The lessons of the past are not far away, so this mission is naturally very dangerous, but Bai Wenxuan didn't care at all. He found ten insignificant soldiers, and Deng Ming knew that King Gongchang did not take these lives at all. Although the military strategy said: "Love is not in charge of the army", Deng Ming felt that he could not make such a decision.

After sending out the second batch of envoys, Bai Wenxuan sent a command to the entire army to set off and head towards Bamo. As the Ming army gradually set off camps and drove towards the hinterland of Myanmar, the size of the army was difficult to conceal. Bai Wenxuan had no intention of sending a third wave of envoys. He estimated that shortly after the Eight Mo defenders saw the second wave of envoys in the Ming army, he would find that the Ming army had already arrived at the city.

However, Bai Wenxuan still made some confidential arrangements. He asked two thousand people to set the way for the army in front, and arrested all the Burmese people they met along the way. If they were Chinese, they would be taken to the camp behind to act as auxiliary soldiers, while the Burmese people would be killed. The Burmese people along the way were either killed or fled. Even if one of them could escape back to the rear, they only saw two thousand Ming troops, but they could not see the main force of the Ming army of up to 20,000.

In the second letter of the country, Bai Wenxuan spoke humble and apologized for the three killed envoys, saying that they did not understand etiquette and brought disaster upon themselves, and acted like bargaining, saying that the Ming army was willing to consider exchanging borders first, as long as the Burmese defenders of Bamo were willing to escort the Ming army envoys to Wacheng.

After seeing Bai Wenxuan's letter, Bamo's Myanmar defenders concluded that the Ming army was a very limited army. The letter of state was sent to Wacheng by them to make the king and ministers of Mangbai feel at ease. When the Ming army had just invaded, Bamo nervously called the city of Wacheng and asked them to send reinforcements quickly. Now Bamo's Myanmar soldiers were worried. According to the Chinese who sent the letter, the Burmese soldiers had even left the city and planned to rely on their own strength to recover the border passes before the reinforcements in Wacheng arrived.

Before arriving at Bamo, Bai Wenxuan received a report from the vanguard. The Myanmar defenders indeed killed all the envoys of the Ming army and sent overseas Chinese to send their heads back to the Ming army.

"How many of Bamo's total troops are there, and how many people have they sent out of the city?" Bai Wenxuan asked the overseas Chinese.

"There are about three thousand Burmese soldiers in Bamo, and this time they came out two thousand."

"Haha, our vanguard is enough!" Bai Wenxuan calmed down and focused on commanding the headquarters to collect food and transport supplies. The Western Sichuan Army of Commander Deng Ming followed behind Bai Wenxuan, using the rugged mountains to hide the whereabouts and scale of the army.

As Bai Wenxuan expected, the Myanmar army was ambushed by the Ming army vanguard and was defeated by the Lijiang River. The Ming army vanguard sent suicide squads to make up their destiny and took down Bamo's city gates, and took down this important stronghold with one assault.

By the time Deng Ming led the western Sichuan army to arrive, Bai Wenxuan had completed the identification of Bamo. Tens of thousands of Chinese in the city and around him were pardoned, while the Burmese still did not stay. In this battle, not only did they wipe out Bamo's defenders, but the Ming army also seized some ships and rafts. When they headed south along the Lijiang River, there were also a number of transportation.

"Mangbai sent 30,000 troops to reinforce Bamo," Bai Wenxuan informed Deng Ming and Di Sanxi about the latest information: "Wacheng will be shocked when he learned that Bamo fell into our hands. I have sent a thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people to camp in the south. I will also go there later and raise my royal flag in the camp there."

I heard that after Bamo fell, even if Myanmar despised the Ming army at first, he should be wary now. Bai Wenxuan did not want to take the initiative to attack Myanmar's army, but hoped that they would come and die. The farther these Myanmar troops were from Wacheng, the more likely they were to be chased by the Ming army and left without leaving any armor.

Therefore, Bai Wenxuan planned to carry out the arrogance of the enemy to the end. If Myanmar sent an envoy to detect the Xushi, they would see that King Gong Chang's commander was just weak soldiers with incomplete armor.

The Myanmars' plans were once again selected by Bai Wen. After learning that Bamo was lost, they sent envoys to rebuke the Ming army. These envoys first put the responsibility of killing the Ming army on the Bamo's guards, and then asked the Ming army why they invaded the vassals and even more harmed the Myanmar area. When the Ming army accused Myanmar of seizing Yongli, the Myanmar army insisted that these were all rumors. The Ming army looted the surrounding city of Wacheng, causing the Myanmar army to spontaneously attack the Ming army. Mangbai not only protected the "culprits" and also provided food to Yongli's family to ensure that the exiled Ming emperor was protected from hunger and cold.

Bai Wenxuan intentionally let the Burmese people see the burnt ruins around Wacheng and the heads piled up by the Ming army. He saw with satisfaction that the Burmese messengers were full of resentment in their eyes: "You go back and tell Mangbai that as long as he is willing to return the emperor to us honestly, we will withdraw our troops immediately."

Although Bai Wenxuan tried hard to act, the Burmese generals were still suspicious after asking the messenger back, worried that this was Bai Wenxuan's plan to lure the enemy - if the Ming army was really as bad as the messenger reported, how did they conquer Bamo?

While the Burmese army was hesitating, the Ming army began to move south again. At this time, anyone could see that the Ming army had a plan to force Mangbai to surrender. Mangbai asked the generals on the front line to continue the attack. In order to ensure that everything was foolproof, Mangbai ordered to continue to send reinforcements to the front line.

Another 20,000 reinforcements arrived at the front line, while the commander of the 50,000 Myanmar army would not completely eliminate their worries because of Mangbai's encouragement. After some serious discussion, the commander-in-chief of Myanmar decided to advance from another shore of Lijiang in order to fully observe the strength of the Ming army. Now Myanmar has the advantage of a navy. If he finds that the Ming army is indeed weak, he can cross the river near Bamo and completely block the invaders' retreat; if he finds that the Ming army is hiding a very strong force, the Myanmar army advancing from the other shore can also see the approximate strength of the Ming army.
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