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Chapter 283 The soul returns to the hometown

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When the troops of the Diao clan of the Pingmian Army arrived at the battlefield, the battle formations of the enemy in front had all collapsed.

The natives of Ping Myanmar Army rushed to chase him in groups, but still could not catch up with the fastest-running Ming cavalry. The Ping Myanmar Chief Army did not get any results.

Zhu Gaoxu stopped the horse and agreed to Zhao Ping, a personal army, to continue pursuing the enemy.

Zhao Ping first found Diao Ya, a native girl, and then led the elite cavalry to the north. They ignored the defeated local soldiers along the way, and hundreds of cavalry crossed the chaotic battlefield.

The battle started in the morning and the outcome was decided in less than an hour; but the chaos of chasing deserters continued until the afternoon.

From the battlefield to the surroundings, headless corpses and messy armour were discarded everywhere in the grass and bushes on the fields.

Next night, Zhao Ping returned to the central army with his men.He reported to Zhu Gaoxu that the cavalry of the personal guards had found and captured the leader of Meng Yangsi alive!

At this time, the Central Army was building tents on a low hilly grassland.Zhu Gaoxu saw a thin native man with deep eye sockets tied to a horse and came over.

Zhao Ping and others pulled him off the horse and pressed him over to Zhu Gaoxu's mount. Several soldiers forced him to kneel on the ground.

Sometimes when Zhu Gaoxu thinks about thinking and doing things, what appears in his mind is a savage man with a strong figure, beard and fierce look on his eyes.

Unexpectedly, he saw such a thin native man at this time... Zhu Gaoxu looked back, his eyes stopped on Diao Ya's face, and said: You ask him, is he really thinking about how to act?

Diao Ya spoke a call.

The man hummed, and said nothing.

Zhao Ping clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, you will catch some local prisoners first. When the local people saw this person, they all confirmed that he was thinking about how to act!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and thought to himself: The cavalry soldiers were busy robbing the heads, so Zhao Ping first brought the translator and captured the prisoners. He was only interested in finding the enemy's heads. This guy's mind was indeed very active.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu finally couldn't help but feel confused and asked in person: Thinking and acting!I don’t want the lives of all beings to suffer. First, I sincerely discuss peace with you. Why do you want to kill my envoy?

After Diao Ya translated, she still did not answer.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask again: Are you deploying heavy troops in the field today, thinking you have the chance to defeat the Ming army?

The way of thinking was straightening his neck, his face flushed, and he didn't want to say a word except humming some meaningless voices.

...A few days later, the Ming and Ping Myanmar coalition forces arrived at the Mengyangsi Governor's headquarters one after another, and saw that the city had almost become an empty city.

After Meng Yangjun was defeated in a decisive battle, most of the native nobles and slave owners had already escaped.

Zhu Gaoxu then brought his army to Daming City and inspected the Ming Dynasty village farthest southwest.

Daming City has become a ruin.

In just a few months, the abandoned village gates and city walls were already covered with weeds and vines under the rain.

From a distance, this place does not look like a village that has just been built recently, but it seems to be an ancient ruin, so desolate that there is no trace of people.

Zhu Gaoxu and others rode their horses to the village and saw the same scene, with weeds everywhere.

What made him most angry was that no one collected the body of the Ming army soldiers and people who were killed, and they were all thrown into the weeds, and they had become miserable bones!

Fortunately, so many dead bodies were exposed to the sun and rain, they did not turn into terrible zombies.

The army set up camp near Daming City. Zhu Gaoxu ordered: the bones in the village should be collected and buried, and then sent back to Kunming for burial.

The soldiers went to Mengyang Sizhi City to find coffins, and at the same time logged wood to create coffins on the spot.Zhu Gaoxu settled down and began to revise his memorial repeatedly, preparing to send someone to Kunming first and then report to the court to report his victory.

...The Han people in this era are a bit superstitious.

The ceremony of collecting corpses is not important. Everyone believes that people have souls. Those who die in foreign land must recall their souls and bones. This is the most important thing.

Zhu Gaoxu sent people to inquire about nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians, and found two men who were Taoist priests.

The two Taoist priests were ordered to write talisman paper and make paper money in the army to summon souls for the tragic deaths of the Ming City.

Paper money was spread everywhere at the south gate of the village, and two Taoist priests who had returned to their old careers were beating the gongs and singing lyrics in a long voice.

The army arranged a group of people who delivered food to the countryside to wear mourning clothes, to clean up the bones of soldiers who were corpses and wilderness, to put on mourning clothes and carry them into the coffin.

Eight people carried a coffin and came out of the village one after another. People followed the Taoist priest's instructions and spread paper money from time to time to bribe the local ghosts and gods. After walking for a while, everyone paused again and burned incense and sang lyrics.

The Taoist priest wore a Taoist hat that was temporarily made of paper, sang and shouted. When the strong man who accompanied him heard the order, he cried.

Zhu Gaoxu and many Ming soldiers were watching and summoning their souls outside, and even thinking about doing things was brought out.Diao Tuyu and many others were also curiously watching the funerals of the Han people from a distance.

After a while, a group of chieftain soldiers strung together with bamboo poles and ropes were driven over by the soldiers.

They cried in a mess, but couldn't run away. It was really difficult for people tied into a bunch of people in panic, and they were rushed to the side of the road.

At this time, the third platoon of Ming army infantry began to diagonally face the sky, bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang b

Immediately, many soldiers with machetes of different lengths rushed over and began to slash at the heads of the prisoners.

For a moment, the roadside was crying and screaming, and the bloody head rolled on the ground, and a nauseating smell of blood soon spread in the air.

The soldiers piled up all the chopped heads to the roadside, and then sprinkled cold wine.

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted and walked to the side of the road surrounded by soldiers.

He unfolded the paper in his hand, looked at it, and then said loudly: Revenge will be repaid, and the deceased will be in peace.My soul returns, and I go back to my hometown...

Go back to your hometown, go back to your hometown... Countless Ming soldiers were noisy and shouted at the strange mountains and forests, as if shouting for unknown things.

The shouts were loud, and they echoed in the mountains and forests one after another.

So everyone felt that the revenge of the slaughtered military and civilians was repaid and their souls could go back, and countless people showed a look of satisfaction on their faces.

After all, the time spent in life is limited, but the soul is immortal. At least people must think so.

The barbaric and effective ceremony in the morning soothed the hearts of the people, and the funeral procession arrived at the Mengyangsi Temple more than ten miles away.

The city of sin had ignited a huge fire that spread across the sky, and the entire city was burned by the Ming army.

The coffins of the soldiers and civilians who were massacred in the village and soldiers who died in battle passed by Meng Yangsi, who was filled with fire.The team was vast and people were all watching the huge bonfire.

The way of thinking was tied to the horse's back. Seeing the city destroyed by the fire and smoke, I howled and struggled to fall from the horse's back.

He was lying on the ground and still shouting, his face full of tears, but no one paid attention to him.

People just pressed him on the horse's back again.

...The Meng Yangjun prisoners were not killed. Zhu Gaoxu ordered them to be released and asked people to prepare bamboo rafts on the banks of the Dajinsha River so that the prisoners could cross the river on the raft and go to the territory west of the Dajinsha River to find the remaining troops of the Si family.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Diao Ya to translate his words in public and told the local people that the Si family rebelled and the victory or defeat of the rebellion was decided.If the remaining tribe members of the Si family want to cultivate well, we can still talk about it. I may be able to let go of the way of thinking and doing.

Hearing that he wanted to let go of his thoughts and practice, Zhao Ping turned his head first, but he finally didn't say anything.

When everyone returned to the military camp, Wang Bin and others hurriedly advised: Thinking about practicing the law is extremely evil, and the prince does not have to be kind to him.If you present the thoughts and practices to the capital, you will definitely win the heart of the emperor...

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at the generals on both sides and said quietly: I heard that I have a younger brother who is already an adult.I am willing to think about how to practice the law, is his younger brother willing to let us put people back?

After hearing this, the generals suddenly realized that they were all convinced by Zhu Gaoxu's strategy (routine).

This time, Zhu Gaoxu did not send an envoy to discuss peace, but Si took the initiative to send someone.

The envoy was sent by Sixingfa's second brother, who asked to meet the King of Han secretly.The envoy quietly made a request to the King of Han not to let the eldest brother of Si's family go; because his second brother Si Renfa had been recommended by his clan members and became the new leader.

Zhu Gaoxu was about to agree to the request of the new leader Si Renfa, so the two sides started to make peace again.

Si promised not to plague villages and mines east of the Great Jinsha River; Mengyang Shidi moved westward and ruled the entire land in the west and north of the Great Jinsha River to the Naga Mountains.

The King of Han and the Yunnan government shared the same family as the Imperial Family and recognized Si Renfa as the leader of Meng Yangsi. After Meng Yangsi sent envoys to the capital to pay tribute, the Ming Dynasty court officially enthroned Si Renfa as Meng Yangxuan's envoy.

The Yunnan government recognized the agreement signed by Yongle at the beginning of the second year of the second year, that is, to pay Sishi 800 taels of silver every year, and has the right to buy all jade ore.

Once Sijia provokes conflict again, the profit sharing will stop paying.

...Number of people died on both sides, and the labor and military expenses were immeasurable.

Sishi lost the flat plateau east of the Great Jinsha River, but she could only get 800 taels of silver in the mine every year. The bloody conflict did not give them a single extra benefit.

If the Ming army relied solely on its own forces and wanted to completely destroy Meng Yangsi, what they would have waited for would be long and long military expenditures.

What's more, even if Meng Yangsi was destroyed, there were too few Han people here, and in the end, Meng Yangsi's territory could only be divided by the surrounding chieftain forces.Isn’t Myanmar’s strength even greater?

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu no longer wanted to continue to fight with Sijia, and would endlessly affect the excavation of jade ore.

He also hopes that his actions can make all parties in this wilderness accustomed to following some rules... Otherwise, no one will be able to make a good ending.

The original contract signed has not changed much. Everything seemed to be back to the starting point.