The Ming army won a great victory in the first battle, and the military and civilian brigade passed through the mountainous areas one after another and arrived at the Dongwu Highlands west of the Great Jinsha River (Inowidy River).

Not long after, Diao Tuyu, the envoy of Pingmeng Xuanfu, led his army to approach the Ming army camp.

Zhu Gaoxu received a report that Diao Tuyu had less than 10,000 people to reinforce; and Sixingfa fought with the Ming army in the southern foot of Gaoligong Mountain, Diao's family remained silent and did not stop Sixingfa.

All these things disappointed Zhu Gaoxu. The local tyrant Diao family did not provide strong support to the Ming army.

However, the Pingmei Xuanwei Department at this time was indeed much worse than before. At the beginning, the Pingmei Xuanwei Department had a large territory, but it was actually a kingdom. Later, the chieftains fell apart and were changed to the Luchuan Pingmei Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department in the early Ming Dynasty. When Diao Tuyu took over, it was split into the Luchuan Peace and Myanmar two Xuanwei Departments again.

Nowadays, the largest toast on this land is no longer Petani.

There are three major forces in the Myanmar region: in addition to the Sijia Mengyangsi in the north, they are Myanmar in the south and Mubang in the east.

...The Ming army camp was built on a relatively flat grassland, surrounded by only bushes. This morning, the Pingmian army finally arrived at the Ming army camp.

Zhu Gaoxu took the generals and his personal soldiers to go out to the headquarters to welcome the arrival of friendly troops. He saw native soldiers everywhere on the open ground, and the battle elephants were walking leisurely. He was about to ask where Diao Tuyu was.

At this moment, a cheerful orchestral music "Shooting Woo" sounded. Zhu Gaoxu looked in the voice and saw a group of people dressed in bright clothes and elephants coming here.

Two teams of men in colorful clothes walked around, surrounded by a huge elephant; flags were flying around, and even seven or eight women followed. The elephant's elephant was covered with yellow chairs and umbrellas and curtains, covering it, looking very gorgeous.

The general Zhao Ping immediately stepped forward and raised his hand to signal the people to stop. At this time, the sound of admiration gradually subsided, and the brightly dressed elephant stood gently and knelt down his legs very obediently.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu rode a horse to the elephant.

The two natives lay on the ground and arched their backs. After a long struggle, a pair of men and women finally walked back and forth.

The man was obviously Diao Tuyu. He was a man in his thirties. He was tall and thin, with skin whiter than other natives. He wore a white skirt and a red and yellow satin dress, and a cylindrical hat on his head. A huge gold-inlaid ring on his finger was very conspicuous.

Zhu Gaoxu narrowed his eyes and waited for Diao Tuyu to come slowly.

The Miramar comforter Diao made a little angry when he was not impatient and slow. After all, everyone had to divide the scores after the fight... Diao didn't want to do anything, but wanted to divide the benefits of jade. Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, and felt a little uncomfortable.

The man and woman looked at Zhu Gaoxu who was standing in the middle of the horse on horseback. The woman tentatively said in Chinese: "Are you His Highness the King of Han of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Don't it look like it?" Zhu Gaoxu said casually with a wry smile. As he said, he turned over and jumped off the horse's back, and the heavy armor made a "clang" sound.

Even in autumn, the sunny day was very warm. Zhu Gaoxu didn't even wear a cloak, a wide-brimmed hat, and his face had long been sunburned into bronze. At first glance, it was not much different from the soldiers. So he didn't blame Diao for asking questions.

The woman said, "I dare not." After that, she looked at Zhu Gaoxu again. The woman's eyes were tired and the corners were drawn very long, so her eyes were a little charming and bold.

At this time, Diao Tuyu stepped forward and clasped his hands together and said, "We have never seen His Highness the King of Han. We have not been able to identify the first time we met. Please forgive me."

"It's easy to say," Zhu Gaoxu said with his fists, "The Diao Envoy came from afar and was exhausted. Please go to the big tent to have a tea and take a break."

Diao Tuyu bowed and said, "Thank you, your highness, it's better to obey your orders than respect."

Zhu Gaoxu thought that the chieftains at this time were all barbarians, but when he saw this foolish Tuyu, he felt that he was quite noble and spoke calmly in Chinese, as if he was a little bit ink, but it was a little surprised.

The group came to the center of the Ming army. A guard general held his fists and said, "Hello!" The guards raised their weapons together, held the spear and wooden poles in both hands to see Zhu Gaoxu and others holding the military salute.

With neat movements and straight queues, Diao Tuyu and others looked at the soldiers and took a special look.

Sure enough, Zhu Gaoxu asked the guards to train the ranks and improve their military appearance and leather surface, which was quite useful. The first thing outsiders saw was the military appearance and momentum. Diao Tuyu praised: "Your Highness's army is majestic and has the style of a superior country!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly, not humble at all, and was about to strengthen his confidence in the victory of his allies.

I don’t know why a woman was taken to the Central Army tent by Diao Tuyu, and Zhu Gaoxu didn’t ask her what her identity was, because it was inconvenient to ask about other people’s female relatives during the Ming Dynasty, unless the relationship was good, someone would take the initiative to introduce her.

Behind the chairs in the upper tent of the Central Army, a silk map was hung. After Zhu Gaoxu and other soldiers took the tea, they pointed to the map and said, "This place is from Mengyangsi Governor, east of the Great Jinsha River, and west of the remnants of Gaoligong Mountain. They are all flat plateaus, mainly grasslands and shrub vegetation."

Diao Tuyu looked up at the picture, looking very interested. However, in Diao Tuyu's position, he could not see the details of the drawings on the map.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, skipped a passage and said directly: "Three days later, we will join forces to the north. The Ming army is in the middle, and the Ping Myanmar army is divided into two wings, searching forward, and heading straight to the Mengyang Sidi Department. Can the Diao Envoy do it?"

Diao Tuyu nodded and said, "I am here to honor His Highness the King of Han. I have another question to ask His Highness, after our two armies defeated the Si family together, the land of Meng Yangsi will be owned by Diao?"

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "This matter will be discussed after quelling the chaos of thinking and practicing law. However, our Ming Dynasty valued Xinyi the most, and the previous concession signed will not change. The jade mine gave the Diao family profits, each pit of 800 jin per year. Yunnan officials and businessmen have the right to buy jade mines."

Diao Tuyu folded his palms and bowed, as if he was in agreement. Diao Tuyu lived a luxurious life and had money, so he must be secretly happy in his heart.

Since the Ping Myanmar army was an ally and had nearly 10,000 people, Zhu Gaoxu then began to inform the strategy, "Thinking and practicing the law was defeated on the southern foot of Gaoligong Mountain, and there were many people who were dispersed. We should take advantage of the victory to pursue it, and we should not delay the time.

This place is between the Dajin Mountain River and Gaoligong Mountain, and there is no danger to defend. I am determined to eliminate the resistance forces here and approach the Mengyangsi Governor. If Mengyang army is raiding with the mountains, rivers and terrain, the Diaojun only needs to protect the two wings of the army, and the army continues to advance, forcing the home to miss the home and force it to fight to the decisive battle!"

Zhu Gaoxu talked with Diao Tuyu very quickly and asked him to go back to the camp to rest and told him to start the military affairs in three days.

The woman next to Diao Tuyu, with a tired look on her side, turned around and cast a meaningful look at Zhu Gaoxu when she walked to the door of the tent. But Zhu Gaoxu pretended not to see it.

He had no interest in the women of the chieftain, and he did not want to influence military and political affairs for some destruction. What he cared most about was jade and a large amount of silver and copper coins; secondly, the border situation in Yunnan. This trip, having fun was not within his consideration.

Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: If it weren't for the sake of profit, I would have been so full that I ran to this place?

...Three days later, the troops of various troops set up camp in sequence and spread horizontally on the wilderness with flat terrain. The battle elephant infantry of the Pingmian Tushimen army was also mobilized to the two wings of the army as promised. The main army of the coalition army, Mrs. Ding, had more than 30,000 war horses, mules and donkeys, and the elephants were in vain. The army marched north in a mighty manner.

At first, there was no resistance. Zhu Gaoxu was reported, and the friendly troops of the chieftains successively robbed and slaughtered the villages along the way. He sent people to order Diao Tuyu to dissuade innocent people from killing them. Diao Tuyu replied that the enemy was hidden in the village. So Zhu Gaoxu suggested that the chieftains army drive away the people to the mountains. After the army left, the civilians would naturally return to the village.

Then it didn't work much. The local army had extremely poor military discipline and did a lot of bad things when driving out civilians.

On the contrary, it was the soldiers of the Ming army who did not slaughter civilians. It was not that the Ming army was morally noble, but because the Ming army's military discipline was relatively strict at this time, and everyone did not dare to violate the law easily.

Zhu Gaoxu is not a sage either. He just feels that killing innocent people is useless. He has a wrongdoing and has a debt. It is not these villagers who slaughter the Mingjun mines; killing people indiscriminately cannot retaliate against the real enemy. Angry and shame can only be a sign of powerlessness, and even thinking about family may not necessarily care about the lives and death of the villagers.

The native villagers also knew the current affairs. A few days later, when the villagers along the way saw the Ming army wearing iron helmets, people stopped running away, but instead took out some fruit and grain to please the soldiers.

At this time, all the people were fighting sporadically, and Meng Yangsi's main force had not yet appeared. The coalition forces fought some local military camps that were home-like.

The right-wing Ping Myanmar army besieged a military camp for more than a day, delaying the speed of the army. The next day, the central army of the Ming army dispatched troops to reinforce. When Zhu Gaoxu rode his horse to observe, the battle was almost over.

The military camp on the hillside was already trapped in the fire and thick smoke. The Ming army's various artillery and rockets formed a circle and were still firing. The entire hillside and village seemed to have volcanic erupted, and there were fires flashing on all sides.

The messy local soldiers ran out of the military camp, and there were people everywhere on the hillside. In addition to the local soldiers, there were also a group of Ming army households who were in chaos. They rushed to the ground with their swords to cut their heads.

No matter how the local soldiers screamed, the Ming army households were not ruthless at all and chopped their necks with knives. They seemed not to be cutting their heads, but harvesting crops.

Not long after, many military households gathered in a place with their bloody heads. While counting the numbers, the civil servants and generals of the central army set up matches to burn their heads and skulls. It seemed like they were doing business there.

At this time, the scout Baihu team of the escort army had already scattered more than ten miles away from the army, but no large number of enemy soldiers were found.
Chapter completed!