Jiang Jin finally got what he wanted. A few days ago, Shi Yizhi left Beijing and inspected the emperor as the chief military minister and the Zuodu envoy.

This is the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and he is such a high-ranking official. Shi Yizhi not only still holds an important position in the central central government, but also receives the status of an imperial envoy. This time, the emperor ordered all departments in the central government, especially the Ministry of Personnel, to cooperate fully, not to mention the local government. With Shi Yizhi's rights, not to mention the officials of the magistrate, the prefectures and prefectures, even senior executives of the level of the governor are not a problem. In addition, there are rumors in the court that Shi Yizhi's inspection of the world is mainly to rectify local officials. The previous case of Fujian has not been a few years, and now the central government is now making great contributions. Many people with unclean butts on the local area are suddenly panicked and frightened.

But what about the outside world? Jiang Jin, who is the most profitable, was secretly happy. You should know that Shi Yizhi's position as chief military aircraft will end in more than a year. Now he is sent to inspect the local area. When Shi Yizhi returns from the local area to the center, he will officially withdraw from the military aircraft.

As a military aircraft, Jiang Jin, who is second only to Shi Yizhi, now that Shi Yizhi has left Beijing, although he is not nominally the chief military aircraft, he is actually undoubtedly the chief military aircraft.

This is true. Before Shi Yizhi left Beijing, Jiang Jin entered the palace once, and Zhu Yicheng said something to him. Although he did not fully indicate the intention of Shi Yizhi's arrangement, the meaning of asking him to preside over the work of the Military Affairs Office was obvious.

After leaving the palace, Jiang Jin was almost laughing loudly. The opportunity that had been waiting for many years finally fell into his hands. From now on, he is not the chief but also the chief. When Shi Yizhi officially withdrew from the military, the real chief position would fall on him.

Although excited, Jiang Jin did not show it. After all, Jiang Jin has become much more calm over the years. Moreover, when he has not been able to truly get the chief military aircraft position, Jiang Jin still needs to pay attention to all parties. After returning to the Military Operations Office, everyone who learned about this congratulations to Jiang Jin, but Jiang Jin was extremely humble. Not only did he not show his pride, he instead told everyone that he must cooperate with Shi Yizhi's inspection of the world's center and not be careless.

Zhu Yicheng also took great pains to do such an arrangement. At least he did not cause a huge shock to the Military Affairs Office on the surface, and he could use this matter to let Shi Yizhi do something practical for the Ming Dynasty.

In Shi Yizhi's heart, after taking this job, he finally let go of his heart, removed his knots, and felt much more relaxed. Moreover, he was originally a commander, and doing these things is much more comfortable than staying in the military office. As for the position of the chief military aircraft, he no longer cared about it now, but this made him more relaxed.

Just as Shi Yizhi left Beijing, Prince Cheng was looking at the map carefully, frowned.

"Have Suken's people come?" After looking on the map for a long time, the Prince of City suddenly looked up and asked.

"Back to the prince, General Su's people have not arrived yet." Goshha replied next to him.

"Go! Send someone to see it, it should be coming according to time." Prince Cheng looked a little unhappy.

Goshha responded quickly and walked out quickly. Then Prince Cheng continued to look at the map carefully, then stood up to meditate after a while.

More than ten days ago, Kunming fell.

In fact, the loss of Kunming was not surprising to Prince Cheng. As early as when he entered Yunnan, he knew in his heart that Yunnan could not be defended.

However, as the prince of the Qing Dynasty and commander of the Qing army in the southwest, Yunnan must defend itself no matter how much it is. After all, the so-called Qing Dynasty is not much territory now. If it is lost, Yunnan will be lost, and the Ming Dynasty will completely recover this place.

In Prince Cheng's view, although Yunnan cannot be kept, it should be a big problem to persist for one or two years, because Yunnan does not have much to give in to it, whether it is terrain or ethnic complexity, compared with Guizhou. In addition, the Qing Dynasty's military strength in Yunnan is a little stronger than that in Guizhou, so Prince Cheng was prepared to stick to Yunnan from the very beginning.

But who would have thought that although his arrangement in Yunnan brought a lot of trouble to the Ming army, it also made the progress of the Ming army not smoothly after entering Yunnan. Famous generals like Yue Zhongqi could only adopt the tactics of steady action and step by step in the face of Prince Cheng's arrangement.

These also gave some encouragement to the Qing army that wanted to stick to Yunnan, especially Prince Cheng. Just over two months ago, Prince Cheng felt that although the Ming army took over part of the land in Yunnan, it was not so easy to truly capture Yunnan. If he did a good job, he might be able to confront the Ming army in Yunnan and thus defend Yunnan.

But not long after, just as Prince Cheng was about to start making arrangements and use Yunnan's advantages to give the Ming army a little more powerful view, who would have thought that the situation in Yunnan changed suddenly, and the descendants of the Mu family who emerged from somewhere, had no idea that Prince Cheng had noticed it at all, suddenly fell to the Ming Dynasty, which caught him off guard and the plan that had not yet been able to make was immediately lost.

In Yunnan, Prince Cheng was able to barely block the attack of the Ming army before, not only the troops in his hands, but the key lies in the chieftains and head men in Yunnan. Compared with Guizhou, this situation in Yunnan is more complicated, and Prince Cheng also took advantage of this.

But who would have thought that the descendants of the Mu family appeared inexplicably from the Ming army, and this descendant of the Mu family actually had the ability to integrate the forces of those places like loose sand, so as to abandon the Qing Dynasty and join the Ming Dynasty.

Although these forces were not all, only part, and even less than one-third, the consequences were serious, because this change made many local forces in Yunnan turn from assisting the Qing Dynasty to standing by. In addition, due to the rebellion of some people, the Qing army's previous advantages became disadvantages, and the problems faced by both sides showed a reversed situation.

Due to this situation, the Ming army's offensive began to strengthen, and the Qing Dynasty also lost its previous advantage. As the Ming army was marching towards Kunming and the surrounding areas of Kunming was ready to move, Prince Cheng knew clearly that Kunming could no longer be defended. Once he continued to defend the other side, he might be ruined with the entire Kunming City.

Under such circumstances, Prince Cheng decisively ordered the voluntary evacuation of Kunming. If it were a few years ago, Prince Cheng, who was arrogant, might not have done so, but after years of military training, Prince Cheng is no longer the self-righteous prince he used to be. He had already had some military talent and had a vague vision of a famous general.

In this way, before the Ming army surrounded Kunming, Prince Cheng led his troops to withdraw directly from Kunming City, and retreated directly northward, retreating to Jianchang in one breath.

After arriving in Jianchang, Prince Cheng took advantage of the convenience of the geographical advantage to reset the defense line and stabilize his position.

Jianchang is an important town in Yunnan. It was established as early as the Western Han Dynasty. It even had county and prefecture management in the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, it even managed to control Yunnan. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it captured Yunnan and established a general town government in Jianchang.

Jianchang belonged to Sichuan Province, but before it belonged to Xikang and Yunnan, and was one of the important channels in the southwest.

As early as when Prince Cheng decided on Yunnan's defense, he deliberately left a backup plan, which was to use Jianchang as the key to protect the safety of his retreat.

Previously, Prince Cheng asked his confidant general Su Ken to lead some troops to Jianchang, thinking that he might lose Kunming in the future and prepare a retreat. At the same time, he used Jianchang as a base to open up the road to advance north.

I have to say that Prince Cheng's move was really right. If it weren't for the early arrangement, the Qing army withdrawn from Kunming might not even know where they go. Once the Qing army, which was originally not very morale, had no way of retreat, it would be no different from the dogs of the betrayal family. At that time, the Ming army would not need to fight, and the Qing army might collapse on its own.

Now, although he suffered a defeat and lost Kunming, at least the main force of the Qing army is still there, and Jianchang can also give the Qing army a place to settle down and breathe.

But even so sincere Prince knew in his heart that Jianchang could stay temporarily but not for long, and he could not even keep Kunming, let alone Jianchang?

Therefore, Prince Cheng had made up his mind to prepare to evacuate Yunnan. The next direction was to advance north, from Yunnan through Jianchang, head north, and then find a way to move directly to the Western Regions, and finally meet with Prince Guo's troops in the Western Regions.

This road is difficult to walk, and it is even more difficult. Prince Cheng knew this very well, but no matter what, this might be his only way out. Unless he wants to bury himself in Yunnan, there is no other way.

"Prince! General Su's men are here!"

Just as Prince Cheng was thinking about what was going to happen, Goshha, who had sent him to inquire, hurried over. Prince Wen Yancheng quickly stood up, and in a blink of an eye, he saw a man appearing in front of him in dust.

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