East Factory Governor

Chapter 809

The soldiers of the Ming army immediately brought one of them to Qin Shuhuai. When the man saw Qin Shuhuai, he knelt down and said in good Chinese, "My subordinate Ma Bo, the rudder leader of the Dongwu Branch of the White Lotus Sect, pays his respects to the leader."

Qin Shuhuai was waiting for him.

This Mabo is a native of the Dongwu Shan nationality. His original name was Mabo. In order to better integrate into the Central Plains, he changed his name to Mabo.

Ma Bo's ancestors were nobles of the Ava Kingdom for several generations. Later, the Awa Kingdom was defeated and annexed by Toungoo.

The so-called "Atai" is the private slave of the Taungoo nobles. Atai's status is lower than that of Akhmedan, because Akhmedan is the king's slave anyway, and the local government dare not be too oppressive, but Atai is Private slaves of nobles, not to mention their property, even their lives belong to the nobles.

What's even more frightening is that the identity of Atai must be hereditary, that is to say, if the parents are Atai, the child must also be Atai, and there are almost no human rights.

Even King Talong stipulated that if Atai marries someone who is not Atai and has a free status, then the person who marries him (she) must also become Atai.

This is clearly the rhythm that makes Atai unable to stand up, but how could the former aristocrats like Ma Bo be reconciled?

So under Hua Chen's arrangement, since he was taken to the headquarters of the White Lotus Sect in Tianjin, he has been studying Chinese desperately, hoping to get the help of Daming, and one day he can return to Dongwu with the help of the Ming army. Let a large number of enslaved Shan people like him regain their freedom, and also overthrow King Talong's rule and establish a new empire.

The ambitious Ma Bo is the epitome of countless Shan people at the moment, and this is what Qin Shuhuai hopes to see.

Only such people will unreservedly help the Ming army in this war, and even sacrifice their lives.

Let's say that Ma Bo and others had sneaked back to Dongwu secretly half a year ago. In addition to secretly organizing the Dongwu people's uprising, they also had an important task, which was to collect information about Dongwu.

Hua Shen spent at least 10 taels of silver on them for a year or two, and now, the time has come to use them.

This is the best "leading party" that the Ming army can find now.

After his identity was checked carefully, Qin Shuhuai said to him, "Master Ma Tuo, it depends on you to lead the way in this battle, don't let me down."

Ma Bo said excitedly, "This subordinate is willing to die for the leader! This subordinate only begs the leader to send divine punishment to destroy the Talong tyrant and restore the freedom of our Shan people."

Qin Shuhuai said, "This seat has its own plan, and you should do your part well."

"Subordinates obey!"

According to Ma Bo, there are [-] defenders in Daguang City, of which [-] were transferred from the vicinity of the capital, and their combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

Among them, there are about [-] cavalrymen, all of whom are well-trained Akhmedan cavalrymen.

The biggest feature of the Ahmedan organization is that each village is divided according to its function in the army.

For example, this village is responsible for the production of cavalry, and the young and middle-aged men in the whole village are all cavalry, and they raise their own horses, make their own sabers, and train their own cavalry, which is hereditary from generation to generation.

Another example is that this village is responsible for the production of shield soldiers. The young and middle-aged people in the whole village are trained according to the training model of shield soldiers. In addition to farming, men, women and children in the village usually produce the weapons that shield soldiers need.

In this way, all arms grow up in an environment with a strong training atmosphere on weekdays. Just like the sons of hunters are likely to be able to hunt, the quality of the cavalry from the cavalry village is generally not too bad - because their parents and grandparents Even neighbors and friends will teach them how to ride horses and fight.

Of course, this method also has disadvantages, that is, the training level and training methods of each village are different, so it is difficult to effectively unify command in large-scale operations.

For the Ming army who came from afar by boat, cavalry was indeed a big problem, because the capacity of warships was limited, and the Ming army only brought a few dozen horses from the mainland—these horses were still used to pull cannons.

However, at the time of Manlajia, the Ming army captured about 400 horses and excellent heavy armor.In view of the fact that many ships were emptied after deploying [-] soldiers in Manlajia, so Qin Shuhuai ordered that more than [-] war horses be forced into the cabin, so that they could be regarded as some cavalry at any rate.

Now these four hundred well-equipped heavy cavalry are under Zhang Xiao's direct command. All the cavalry are composed of demon soldiers and martial arts allied forces who have experienced countless battles. It can be said that they are the super sharp swords among the seventeen thousand Ming army.

In addition, considering the lack of cavalry, Qin Shuhuai brought a full 6000 spearmen this time, so that the anti-cavalry capability was greatly enhanced.

Therefore, facing the opponent's two thousand cavalry, Qin Shuhuai neither underestimated nor feared. The specific quality of the two thousand cavalry would only be known after fighting.

Daguang City is only about three or four miles away from the shore. If the army goes there immediately, it is estimated that it will be surrounded in two quarters of an hour.

However, Qin Shuhuai didn't procrastinate at all. While ordering the army to stand by, he ordered the horse sentry to search the surrounding area of ​​Daguang City first - you must know that the surrounding area of ​​this city is full of lush vegetation and a small mountain range. It is best to engage in an ambush.

Within half an hour, spies reported one after another.

Five miles to the north of Daguang City, traces of enemy cavalry were found, judging from the hoof prints, no less than a thousand.

On a mountain range in the south of the city, fireworks lit by the spies of the Ming army went up. The fireworks were red, and there were two, indicating that there were no less than [-] ambush soldiers there. .

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Qin Shuhuai decided to capture Daguang City before dark, because it was easier to be ambushed after dark.

Immediately, the battleships began to bombard Daguang City, laying the foundation for the army's attack.

The army immediately set off for Daguang.

In response to the ambushes in the southern mountains of the city, Qin Shuhuai sent Li Jingting and Lai San'er to lead 3000 people to stop them, but ordered them not to take the initiative to attack, but to lie in ambush between the mountains and Daguang City—if they don't come out, confront them, come out just hit.

For the cavalry in the north of the city, Qin Shuhuai sent 80 heavy cavalry and [-] pikemen to stand in formation in the north of the city.The road leading from the north to Daguang City is not wide, only a dozen meters at most. Even if the cavalry rushed over from the place full of long grass and shrubs on both sides of the road, it would only be [-] meters wide. The river is broken, and it is impossible for cavalry to cross the river.

Therefore, [-] pikemen can completely form a horse-repelling formation to block the opponent, while [-] heavy cavalry can be used as a mobile force to wait for an opportunity.

The rest of the soldiers and horses took advantage of the situation to surround Daguang City - it would be better if the opponent came out to fight in the field during the siege.

The Dongwu defenders in Daguang City really did not dare to go out of the city to fight - the artillery fire of five or six hundred battleships was so fierce that it almost covered all the gates of Daguang City. It's half dead before it comes out.

After Qin Shuhuai's army successfully completed the outflank of Daguang City, the battleship's artillery fire was still raging.

To be honest, the accuracy of the Hongyi cannon is not very good for targets three or four miles away.

But at any rate, it was still within five miles, and the Hongyi cannon could hit a general area.

In addition, there are too many cannons, five or six hundred, and the shells are like raindrops, so the probability of accurately hitting the city walls and gates is greatly increased.

The bombardment lasted for more than half an hour, and it didn't stop until it got dark.

The soldiers of the Ming army looked at the walls and gates of Daguang City about a mile away from the city (they were afraid of being accidentally injured by artillery fire), and they were immediately happy.

I saw a large section of the city wall collapsed, and the city gates were also crumbling. There were many corpses of Dongwu people lying on the city wall, but there was no living person—the ones who were alive did not know where to hide. !

Battleship artillery, so terrifying!
It's already been blasted like this, there is no reason not to go.

Zhang Xiao, who was in charge of the siege command, gave an order, and about [-] Ming troops rushed into the city from all directions.

(End of this chapter)