The Burmese messenger was carefully selected. He looked solemn. He walked into Bai Wenxuan's tent with his head held high and his chest held high, and said loudly: "King Gongchang received the order."

"You are a vassal king..." For Bai Wenxuan, the Burmese king was just a vassal king, and his status was even below him. A vassal king dared to order him, and he was an enemy who had just been defeated on the battlefield... However, Bai Wenxuan was about to be furious, but he understood a little and stared at the jade box and looked carefully.

"This is the emperor's edict." The Burmese messenger announced loudly, and his answer confirmed Bai Wenxuan's concerns.

"How do I know if it is the emperor's edict?" Bai Wenxuan's tone had already softened a lot.

"King Gongchang can check it yourself," Myanmar had long expected Bai Wenxuan to ask this question, so he handed the jade box he was holding to the Ming army guards: "King Gongchang must be able to recognize the emperor's handwriting."

Bai Wenxuan's cheek twitched a few times, and took the jade box from the guards in a stiff movement, opened it and looked carefully, letting out a long sigh. Suddenly, he knelt on the ground in the direction of Awa in the south, and kowtowed repeatedly: "I know the emperor's will, and I have a copy to report it."

The Burmese envoy asked calmly: "Does King Gongchang want to resist the order?"

"No, it's just that something is unknown, so I have to write to the emperor." Bai Wenxuan has confirmed that the imperial edict is indeed written by Yongli, so he has become polite to the Burmese messenger.

The Myanmar envoy considered it, nodded, and asked Bai Wenxuan to write a memorial. He said he would hand it over. Bai Wenxuan asked the Myanmar envoy to wait in other camps. After this man left the camp, there was a sudden explosion in the tent, and everyone asked Bai Wenxuan how the imperial edict was written.

"The Emperor wants us to retreat to Yunnan immediately and not allow us to enter Burma again." Bai Wenxuan said dejectedly.

The generals were even more uproar, and many people shouted: "The emperor was imprisoned by the Burmese people, and this imperial edict must not be the emperor's original intention."

Bai Wenxuan's opinion is similar to his subordinates, but Bai Wenxuan has a big trouble. In the end, their Xiying was not well-off, and there was a troublesome incident that Sun Kewang usurped the throne not long ago. If Bai Wenxuan had a Yongli supervisor, or a minister of the cabinet, then that person could come forward to announce the imperial edict that it would not count; but if this was from the mouth of Xiying, it would be very bad, and it would only make the princes and people from all over the world deemed to be the thief of Xiying and the people of the world who remained unchanged. Li Dingguo was also as disrespectful to the royal family as Sun Kewang.

Whether before or during the time of sending troops, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan repeatedly told him that he must be respectful and polite to the court. After rescuing the Emperor Yongli, he should not put soldiers in Xiying beside the Emperor. Even if the Emperor's Imperial Guard is not ashamed, he should let the emperor decide who will protect him.

"Our army has arrived at the city of Awa, and defeating Myanmar is just around the corner. How can we retreat at this time?"

After hearing the complaints of the generals, Bai Wenxuan was also suffering. He kept complaining about Yongli's timidity: If the emperor did not issue this edict, then Xiying would naturally continue to move forward without any concerns. Now that Yongli issued the edict, Xiying would no longer be able to escape as long as it did not obey the edict, and would just take the emperor out. The emperor and the cabinet might still be suspicious about it. As long as it was an emperor, it would be difficult for the ministers to ignore his will, even if this kind of ignorance was to save his life.

And if you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of one. If you join the Burmese people, they will be crazy about Yongli. With this edict, the rescue operation in Xiying may be said to be a killing person with a knife.

"Don't you know how to delay? Only when the soldiers can't issue this edict will the soldiers dare to save you." Bai Wenxuan didn't dare to say it, and he was extremely dissatisfied: "The King of Jin ignored his brotherly feelings for the sake of the emperor. Your Majesty, you must also let the King of Jin be a human being."

After thinking about it, Bai Wenxuan still dared not continue to march. He hurriedly wrote a memorial to Yongli, which said that the soldiers from Yunnan and Sichuan heard that the emperor was not doing well in Myanmar and the Burmese were still rude to the cabinet, so the King of Jin sent Bai Wenxuan and Deng Ming to pick up the emperor, asking the emperor to return to China with the soldiers no matter what.

Bai Wenxuan hoped to send this memorial to him by his men, but was rejected by the Burmese envoy. In the end, Bai Wenxuan had to say that in the second edict given by the emperor, he must see the reply to his memorial.

After sending away the envoy from Myanmar, Bai Wenxuan said to the generals: "The emperor will issue such an imperial edict, perhaps because the emperor does not know the situation of the war. Although my memorial did not state it clearly, the emperor could understand at a glance that our army has a great advantage now, and the emperor no longer has to be afraid of the Burmese people. Let's wait for a few days and then continue to attack Awa."

If you send the memorial to attack immediately, Bai Wenxuan is worried that this will make people feel that the Xiying did not care about Yongli's life and death at all. This time, there are more than Yunnan people who come to fight. Moreover, Yongli is particularly important to Xiying, which was supported by Li Dingguo, and he also hopes that after expelling the Tartars in the future, he can help them suppress other factions. If Yongli and the cabinet are resentful about this, there will inevitably be future troubles.

But after only a few days of waiting for Bai Wenxuan, the new imperial edict arrived again. In this imperial edict, Yongli refuted the claim that he was under house arrest, claiming that he was good to be with Myanmar, and had already discussed it with the Myanmar authorities that he would soon go to Kinmen from southern Myanmar to go to Kinmen. Yongli said that he had no intention of returning to Yunnan at all, and he did not intend to take the soldiers and generals from Xiying when he went to Fujian, and asked them to go back to Yunnan as soon as possible.

After seeing this imperial edict, Bai Wenxuan was stunned. Even if the emperor was controlled by others, he would not speak for the enemy like this. After Emperor Yingzong of Ming was captured by Wats, he did not issue an edict to withdraw the Ming army, let alone say that everything was fine and life was very pleasant in Mongolia. As for the issues of the cabinet, the imperial guards and the Burmese people, Yongli said that those people were responsible for their own faults, and the emperor had no objection to the handling of the Burmese King.

Bai Wenxuan felt that he was forced to the edge of the cliff. The emperor was obviously worried that the Ming army would bring him life danger. If Bai Wenxuan ignored the emperor's feelings, it would easily lead to resentment. He would definitely think that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan did not care about his life or death. After learning the content of the imperial edict, the Ming army officers and soldiers were in a turbulent relationship. Many people said that this must not be Yongli's inner thoughts and asked King Gongchang to continue the attack. Bai Wenxuan also hoped that the views of these officers and soldiers were correct, but he looked over and over the imperial edict of Yongli several times, but he could not find the other party's hint that he would let him continue to march.

"Maybe we retreated a little and threatened Mangbai, and he would release the emperor?" Bai Wenxuan made several more memorials, delaying time and discussing with his confidants. If Mangbai could be released under threat, it would be the best. Bai Wenxuan strictly obeyed the orders of the court, and the emperor could feel the loyalty of Xiying and realize that both Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan valued his life very much.

However, after several memorials were raised, Yongli never replied again. The memorials were all like stones entering the sea. Bai Wenxuan, who was unaware of the matter, weighed the pros and cons, and still planned to withdraw his troops. After retreating thirty miles northward, Bai Wenxuan set up camp again. Seeing that the Ming army refused to continue leaving, Awa sent another envoy to urge him.

Bai Wenxuan argued with reason and said that since he had withdrew his troops by the order, the Burmese rescue should hand over the emperor. The Burmese side claimed that the Yongli imperial edict wanted all the Ming army to withdraw from the border, implying that only then could the return of the Ming emperor.

The two sides were in a stalemate for a while, and as the Ming army dragged it longer and longer, there were more spontaneous resistances in the local area. The effect of the last great victory of the Ming army was gradually passing, and time always made the sense of fear thinner. Due to the weak force, the Ming army could not stop the resisters from gathering in groups of three or three in the rear.

After hearing that the grain collection in the rear was affected, and someone began to ambush the lonely soldiers of the Ming army, Bai Wenxuan began to solemnly consider the issue of continuing to withdraw his troops. At this time, Deng Ming also came from Hedong inquiry. After hearing that Bai Wenxuan had plans to withdraw his troops, Deng Ming blamed dissatisfiedly: "Now the Burmese people around Awa are all watching our actions openly. If we retreat this time, no matter what the reason is, the Burmese people will feel that Mangbai still has the opportunity to hold the throne. This is a great encouragement for those who support Mangbai; and if we do not retreat, Mangbai's supporters will be shaken, and those fence-bearers will also find a way out. If King Gongchang retreats this time, Awa may not be so smooth next time he comes to Awa."

No matter how weak the spontaneous resistance is, it will cause losses to the Ming army, and the Ming army will continue to lose personnel due to illness. The royal army with only 20,000 people cannot accept a protracted war of attrition.

"But the emperor doesn't want us to save him." Bai Wenxuan said with a wry smile.

"Why would the emperor not want to? It must be the Burmese people who intimidated the emperor." Bai Wenxuan did not dare to say explicitly that Yongli was a coward, but Deng Ming did not have this concern.

There were other people around, and the Burmese envoys were there - Deng Ming did not ask for a private meeting, but instead took the Yongli imperial edict in public and called the Burmese envoys to inquire - Bai Wenxuan was unwilling to echo Deng Ming's accusations against Yongli in public, so he pulled Deng Ming behind the tent and whispered: "General Deng said it well, but what would the emperor think?"

"What do we care about the emperor?" Bai Wen used the tone of whisper before, but Deng Ming's answer did not mean to lower his voice at all. The generals in the camp could hear it clearly: "The most important thing is to save the emperor."

Deng Ming did not consider whether Yongli would doubt himself because of this. He never thought of being loyal to Emperor Ming, or worried that Yongli would settle accounts after the autumn, or used the court to control other princes... Deng Ming only knew that Yongli would never die now.
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