The Duke of Qian State Mu Tianbo took the newly recruited army and the former garrison to the border between Chuxiong Prefecture and Yunnan Prefecture to challenge the battle. Now the troops in Chuxiong City are very empty.

Zhang Dingguo led a large army to raid, and the defenders in the city were defeated before they could even react.

After entering the city, the Western Army did not burn, kill and loot, but maintained considerable restraint.

In this case, the people in the city cooperated very well.

In their opinion, there is not much difference between whether the Ming army controls this place or the Daxi army controls this place. The same one needs to pay grain, and the same one needs to perform labor service.

They just live their own little life well, and they don’t need to think too much about other things.

After Zhang Dingguo took Chuxiong, Mu Tianbo's situation was extremely embarrassing.

He led his army to the border to call the battle to pull space for Qin Liangyu, so he had no intention of actually fighting.

If the rebels from Shadingzhou come to pursue him, he will immediately lead his troops to flee back to Chuxiong City.

But now that Chuxiong was captured by the Daxi Army, he was cut off from his retreat and could only grit his teeth and evacuate to northern Yunnan.

After all, there are some toasts there who support him, which is safer than staying under the nose of Shadingzhou.

Although Mu Tianbo wanted to cooperate with Qin Liangyu to fight a beautiful siege battle, he still gave up considering the actual situation.

In addition to the one or two thousand soldiers of Yang Weizhi, Mu Tianbo basically had the newly recruited recruits.

It is no different to dream to rely on these recruits to win battles.

Mu Tianbo knew very well that these soldiers would collapse instantly and be defeated like a mountain of defeat whenever they encountered a failure.

Mu Tianbo didn't plan to joke about his wealth and life. Although he was extremely brave, there were too many heroes.

A real man can bend and stretch, and endure for a moment is the kingdom.

As for Zhang Dingguo, he did not make any further moves after occupying Chuxiong Mansion.

He knew that there would be a big battle between the Ming army and Shadingzhou, so he was very happy to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight.

Of course, he ordered people to send the good news of seizing Chuxiong Mansion back to Sichuan.

The messenger went to Jianchang to Chengdu and reported the news to the Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was drinking happily, and was stunned when he heard the news.

Then he burst out laughing and said, "We have not read the wrong person. Dingguo is really our Han Xin."

Among the four adopted sons, Zhang Kewang must be the strongest in handling internal affairs. But if you want to say that the one who can fight the most is Zhang Dingguo.

Zhang Wenxiu is both literary and martial, and is between Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Kewang. Zhang Nengqi is a little worse in all aspects, but he is also a rare general.

Zhang Xianzhong is able to live today, largely because of these four adopted sons who fought to the death.

Zhang Xianzhong got up and walked in the hall for several steps, waved his hand and ordered: "Call all three princes, I have something to say."

Zhang Xianzhong was in high spirits and poured a glass of wine full of wine. His eyes narrowed slightly as if he saw the scene where Zhang Dingguo captured Kunming and inserted the flag of the Western Army at the top of Kunming city.

If Sichuan and Yunnan are connected together, the strategic depth of the Daxi regime will be greatly increased.

Whether the Eastern Barbarians went south or the Ming army advanced west, Zhang Xianzhong didn't have to be afraid.

In fact, why doesn’t Zhang Xianzhong want to take Yunnan? It’s just that he always feels that there is no chance.

Although the Daxi Army claimed to have hundreds of thousands of troops, the actual combat soldiers could only be fought in only tens of thousands. There were more than one hundred thousand people, but it was only barely enough to guard against the sneak attacks of the Eastern Lu and the Ming army at the same time.

If a large group of troops are dispatched to attack Yunnan, Sichuan may fall at any time.

However, Zhang Dingguo only proposed to lead a few thousand people to raid.

This plan would not cost too much the deployment of the Western Army. Zhang Xianzhong finally agreed.

In Zhang Xianzhong's opinion, Zhang Dingguo is best able to conquer one or two prefectures and counties, and even if he can't conquer it, it's nothing. Anyway, he can still follow the trend and consolidate the rule of the Western Army in Jianchang.

Who would have thought that Zhang Dingguo would eat Chuxiong Mansion in one breath and drove Mu Tianbo, the old man, to northern Yunnan to eat dust.

This is really cool, it’s cool!

At this time, the internal officials reported that the three princes had arrived. Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and signaled to bring the few people into the hall.

Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi went to the palace to salute in turn, and then stood respectfully.

Although the three of them are usually overwhelming, they are always respectful in front of Zhang Xianzhong.

"Haha, I got good news. Guess what, Dingguo took down Chuxiong Mansion!"

Zhang Xianzhong was very excited, swallowed and continued, "I'm asking you guys to discuss what we'll do next?"

Zhang Kewang thought for a moment and bowed, "Congratulations to Father, the emperor, my son, I think that more troops should be sent to take Kunming as the situation."

Zhang Xianzhong nodded.

Zhang Kewang's idea coincides with his. Kunming's importance to Yunnan is equivalent to Chengdu's and Sichuan.

Why did Shadingzhou suddenly gain so much support from the toast? It wasn’t because he took Kunming and drove Mu Tianbo away.

If the Daxi Army can take Kunming, these fence-skinned chieftains will definitely swear allegiance. In this way, at least the Daxi Army will not have to worry about the rule of Yunnan in a short period of time.

"Wenxiu, what do you think?"

Zhang Xianzhong set his eyes on Zhang Wenxiu again.

Zhang Wenxiu replied slowly: "Father, now a big battle will inevitably begin between the Ming army and Shadingzhou. My son-in-law thinks we can hold our troops first and wait until they fight to lose both sides before coming out to clean up the mess. Of course, it is okay to send troops to Yunnan first."

This idea is about stability.

"What's the point? How do you think we should make a decision?"

Zhang Nengqi has the lowest presence among Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons.

Originally, he did not intend to speak out, but since Zhang Xianzhong pointed out his name, he could only say with a stingy head: "The two brothers have finished what I want to say. The sons thought that the father was the emperor's decision to do so."

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a moment and said, "Who of you is willing to lead your troops to Yunnan?"

The three of them felt a sank in their hearts at the same time.

It can be seen that Zhang Xianzhong attaches great importance to Yunnan and actually wants to send two adopted sons to Yunnan for territory.

Zhang Kewang doesn't really want to go.

First, the conditions in Yunnan are difficult, so it is far worse than staying in Chengdu. Second, he is not good at leading troops to fight. When he arrives in Yunnan, the military power will probably be annexed by Zhang Dingguo, and all the credit will be made by Zhang Dingguo.

Therefore, he lowered his head and kept silent.

However, Zhang Wenxiu clasped her fists and said, "My son is willing to volunteer to go."

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed when he heard this.

Zhang Wenxiu's ability to lead troops was second only to Zhang Dingguo among his four adopted sons, and was a rare and powerful general. With him leading troops to reinforce, the possibility of the Western Army seizing Kunming would increase a lot.

"Okay, how many people are I going to take?"

Zhang Wenxiu clasped her fists and said, "Ten thousand people are enough."

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and said, "I will give you 15,000 people and join you in the 5,000 people from Dingguo. If you can't defeat Kunming, you won't come back!"

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