Emperor Ming Dynasty

Yunnan, Mengding Prefecture.

In a mountain forest, there are no village houses on the bank. At this time, thousands of Ming troops came out of the forest path, and the scene was extremely embarrassing.

No one can imagine that this is the Ming army.

The army rushed towards a camp in front of them in a mess.

There are undulating mountains on both sides, only this river beach is relatively open, and in this wilderness, there is only one camp standing majestically, with a towering arrow tower.

After the Ming army was chased out of the forest, the enemy did not rush to chase them.

But after a while, at the edge of the forest at the foot of the mountain, suddenly some huge creatures slowly emerged one after another!
All the soldiers in the Ming army camp watched with amazement.

"Mou Hou—" a strange giant called out, like thunder.

The soldiers of the Ming army in the camp finally recognized that it was an elephant!
The elephant was very big, covered in leather armor, with a man sitting on its back.

One, two, and finally a total of 10 elephants came to the camp swaggeringly, with arrogance written all over their faces.

Although the elephant walks slowly, its skin is thick and thick, as if it is invulnerable, and it looks very scary!
On the sides and behind each elephant, these are brutes dressed in disorder, marching with the elephants.

Behind the elephant, there are more than [-] people with feathers on their heads and animal skins on their bodies, holding homemade bows and arrows, and their faces are full of joy.

"Ada, these Ming troops are not our opponents at all."

The youthful and vigorous Han Shan has his big mouth open, revealing uneven teeth. He is wearing leather armor, not to mention how proud he is.

And beside him, this is an old man in his 40s, with chapped skin and green sap, squinting and looking ahead.

He is Hanba, the chieftain of the entire Mengding Mansion.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set up Mengding Yuyi Mansion, and the chieftain had the surname of Dao. During the Zhengtong period, the prefect of Mengding escaped due to chaos, and the chieftain with the Han surname inherited Mengding Mansion.

In name, he is the prefect of Mengding, the real ruler here.

After the Ming army captured the Yunnan government, they quickly regained the Han state capital, focusing on Kunming and Dali, and continued to conquer those cynical chieftains.

And Li Dingguo, a black-hearted man, followed Sun Kewang all the way from Chuxiong to Hanlong Pass in Yuanchuan, almost crossing the border.

After stopping and stopping for more than half a year, the chieftain along the way was first looted by Sun Kewang. He thought that the king's teacher would be able to seek justice, but Li Dingguo used the excuse of being a traitor, either to conscript the army or to return to the country.

Good guy, more than a dozen big chieftains, hundreds of small chieftains, the young and strong confiscated more than 10,000 inexplicably, and half of them were converted into land returnees, and the big chieftains became small chieftains.

This action immediately caused an uproar in the entire Southwest Yunnan.

The chieftains have been married for generations, and they are basically relatives. They empathize with each other. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, and countless cavalry rebelled.

Li Dingguo was also unequivocal, cutting up melons and vegetables and killing them all over.

The huge southwestern Yunnan immediately calmed down.

At this time, the Han family in Mengding Mansion panicked.

Without him, the Han family, as chieftain, helped Sun Kewang stabilize Yunnan back then, gained a lot of benefits from it, annexed a lot of land, even the state capital of the imperial court secretly looted a lot of people.

Now that the Ming army is back and the imperial court is back, it is natural that someone will sue and want to get their land back.

Now, the Han family couldn't stand it anymore, so they could only rebel.

Fortunately, they linked up with Taungoo (Myanmar) as early as the Wanli period, and got the support of some elephants.

The Ming army that is fighting now is retreating steadily, so they are naturally very happy.

"Ada, this Li Dingguo is nothing special, just 3000 people want to take us down, and we can get four or five thousand if we fiddle with it, come and die."

"When the time comes, take out Li Dingguo's head, who in Yunnan will dare to fight against us?"

Han Shan grinned, unable to contain his excitement.

"What's the benefit of killing Li Dingguo?"

Hanba rubbed his head, and said in a deep voice: "There are countless Ming troops in the whole world. If you kill this Yunnan general, all the soldiers and horses in Yunnan will come to wipe us out."

"In addition, strong soldiers from other places will also come. How many people do we have in Mengding? Can we win once, or a hundred times?"

"Then what do you mean?" Han Shan asked puzzled.

"Taking advantage of this opportunity, let's negotiate terms with Mr. Li."

Hanba smiled slightly: "We are only in Mengding Mansion, the rest is out of our control, and the imperial court is not in charge of us either. He will definitely agree to this condition."

"The commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, I can't afford to lose face like this."

But in the army camp, Li Dingguo showed no sign of discouragement, instead he was extremely interested. He picked up the binoculars and aimed at the huge elephant soldiers, amazed:

"I have been in Yunnan for many days, and I have heard about the greatness of the elephant soldiers. I finally met them today."

The guerrilla general at the side wiped the dust off his face, and also smiled: "It's still your old trick."

It turned out that this battle was to lure the snake out of its hole.

Han's hometown is in a steep mountain. The camp is not only built of stones, but also has running water, land, and a lot of food and grass.

It can be said that this camp alone is enough to hold on for several months.

And what about the Ming army?The supplies of food and grass were in danger of being cut off, and the water source was not clean. It rained from time to time, and everyone fell ill.

There are countless leeches and other insects and beasts in the forest, and it is not a good place to fight at all.

Therefore, only by leading the snake out of the hole and fighting in the plains can we have a chance of winning.

"It seems that the main force of the Han family has come out. This time we must wipe out all of them. We can't leave any tails behind."

Li Dingguo ordered in a cold voice and waved his hands.

In an instant, the whole army was dispatched.

"Boom!" Suddenly there was a loud noise, a flash of fire flashed in the air, and a shell fell to the ground like a thunderbolt from the blue, scaring the elephant.

Afterwards, the gate of the camp was lowered with a "bang", and the well-armored infantry inside ran out in a column.

"Crackling-"

A musket sounded, a large amount of smoke filled the air, and the thick sulfur smell choked the nose.

But the elephant was completely frightened. It kept roaring and turned around and ran away. The driver above couldn't control the frightened elephant at all.

Now, it was their turn to be chased.

The musketeers who rushed out of the camp gave way, and a group of Ming soldiers with long spears and swords and shields chased after them, killing anyone they saw.

Being trampled by their own elephants, or being hunted down by the Ming army, the barbarians were routed and failed to form a fighting force at all. Thousands of people did not resist at all, and only cared about running.

Han's father and son were taken aback, knowing that the situation was bad, they turned around and ran away.

It's a pity that Li Dingguo had seen them a long time ago, and the army chased them all the way to the entrance of the camp in the mountains.

It's a pity that Han's father and son, who were running desperately, had no one to guard even if they fled back to the cottage. After all, they were no match for the Ming army who had recharged their batteries and lost their lives.