Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 830 Dongyu's military situation, the soldiers are divided into two groups

"The current king of Dongyu is Mangda, also known as Pingdali, Zhaowu succeeded to the throne in four years, and has been in power for five years.

Although Mang Da is mediocre and likes to enjoy extravagance, he has weakened the country of Toungoo in just a few years.

But after all, after two or three generations of virtuous kings made great efforts to rule Dongyu before, the national power is still quite strong now.

According to the situation detected by Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi, there are about 20 standing troops in Toungoo. Of course, if the private soldiers of feudal lords in various places are counted, it can reach as many as 50.

In addition, Toungoo would recruit civilians of all ethnic groups to serve as soldiers during wartime—according to estimates by the Staff Department of the Military Affairs Council, Toungoo could recruit 50 to 80 militiamen. "

At this time, Dong Zhining, the No.19 town's staff officer, said: "That is to say, Toungoo may mobilize a maximum of 130 million troops?"

"That's right." Zhang Huangyan nodded, and then said: "This is just the estimate of the Chief of Staff, but in fact, due to various reasons, it is not bad that Toungoo can mobilize 80 troops to fight."

Yang Guodong said: "It is always right to expect the enemy to be lenient."

Zhang Huangyan nodded, and said: "The equipment of the Toungoo army is not bad - as early as more than 100 years ago, King Toungoo hired Portuguese soldiers to fight.

Since then, the Taungoo Army has been equipped with Western firearms such as matchlock guns and Francophones.

According to the information from Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi, the [-] elites directly belonging to Dongyu Royal Court are equipped with matchlock guns as high as [-]%. .

However, for the other 15 troops directly under the Toungoo Royal Court, only about [-]% of them are equipped with matchlock guns, and there are fewer artillery pieces in the army.

But it is worth mentioning that there are [-] elite elephant soldiers in this part of the army and [-] trained war elephants!

Many feudal lords in Toungoo also kept elephant soldiers, and there were about 200 elephant soldiers in total! "

Hearing this, several of the chief soldiers and town staff officers working in the hall couldn't help frowning.Because they only know the name of the target soldiers, have not been in contact with them in battle, and lack experience, it is difficult to judge the strength of the enemy and ourselves for a while.

At this time, Dong Zhining said: "War elephants are sensitive and afraid of fire, let alone firearms. Therefore, the war elephants of the Toungoo Army can only be used as surprise soldiers, and it is impossible to fight against our army on the frontal battlefield.

If they are really stupid enough to do this, our army only needs one round of artillery to collapse their elephant soldiers and rebel their army formation. "

Yang Zhan said with a smile at this time: "In the past, General Deng Zilong used paper monsters to set fire to scare off the Toungyu Elephant Soldiers. Today we have so many cannons, how can we be afraid of the Tungyu Elephant Soldiers? We just need to beware of them acting as a surprise attack. enough."

Although there were no elephant soldiers in the new army of the Ming Dynasty, some chieftains in the Southwest used to have war elephants, ranging from a few to as many as a dozen, and they couldn't afford to raise any more.

Because war elephants are much more difficult to serve than war horses, a war elephant must be equipped with at least one hundred soldiers, which is extremely expensive.

Toungoo is also rich now, so he can keep hundreds of war elephants.If it is changed to a poor and weak country, it is not bad to be able to raise dozens of heads.

Yang Zhan once saw the war elephants of Yunnan chieftains.

In cold weapon warfare, war elephants are indeed terrifying.Because it is not afraid of bows and arrows. If it is slightly armored, it is not afraid of even knives and guns. The only weakness is its trunk and eyes.But in battle, how many warriors are there who can take the risk of hurting the trunk and eyes of a war elephant?

Therefore, elephant soldiers are very powerful in cold weapon battles.

It's a pity that times have changed. Now most of the world's powerful countries have stepped into the era of hot weapons, and elephant soldiers have gradually withdrawn from the war arena.

After talking about the Xiangbing, Zhang Huang said: "As for the militia recruited temporarily by Toungoo, the firearms distribution rate may be zero. Because Toungoo itself has a very low production capacity of firearms and relies mostly on imports.

In the event of a war, our Ming Western Navy will blockade the coast of Toungoo so that it cannot obtain weapons from Western countries.

Therefore, even if Toungoo can recruit 80 militiamen, most of them are mobs with cold weapons and no military training, so there is nothing to worry about. "

Hearing what Zhang Huangyan said, all the generals nodded slightly, and their mood became more relaxed.

Then, Zhang Huangyan began to explain the situation of various regions and cities in Toungoo...
In the ninth year of Zhaowu, the second day of October.

Yang Zhan, General Anning Bo of the Ming Empire (who was named after the Shadingzhou Rebellion was put down), commanded an army of 14 troops. He set out from Mengmao, Longchuan Prefecture, and divided his troops into two groups.

The Left Route Army was led by him personally. In addition to the No. 13 town of the border defense army, there were also two towns of the Yunnan Garrison Army and two Sichuan Garrison Army towns. They went out of Tianma Pass and took Mengmi directly.

The Right Route Army was led by Yang Guodong, under the jurisdiction of No.19 Town of Frontier Defense Army, two towns of Guangxi Garrison Army, and two towns of Yunnan Garrison Army.

As for the Guizhou garrison in another town, it is responsible for escorting grain and grass and protecting grain roads.

The team of civilian men who actually escorted the food and grass was composed of local people hired by the governor's office in Yunnan.

Mubang, originally the Daming Mubang Xuanweisi, was first established in the 11th year of Yongle.

Since the Jiajing period, Mubang has been lost and regained due to various reasons, and it has been lost again.

During the Jiajing period, the politics of Daming was corrupt and dark. The chieftain Han who ruled Mubang rebelled against Daming and defected to Dongyu because he could not obtain the post of Xuanweisi through the local government of Daming (it is said that the local officials tried to extort him). .

Later, in the tenth year of Wanli, the Dongyu army failed to invade Yunnan, and the Ming army regained Mupang when they counterattacked, and restored the Mubang Xuanwei Division.

However, in the 34th year of Wanli, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty became even darker than that of the Jiajing period.

At that time, it coincided with the reign of Anabilon of the Toungoo Kingdom, unified northern Myanmar, and attacked Mupang with 30 Toungoo troops.

Daming's rescue failed, and Mubang fell again.

Today, this place has been under the rule of the Taungoo Kingdom for nearly half a century, and most of the local people have forgotten that this place was originally owned by Ming Dynasty.Therefore, I only know King Dongyu and the feudal lord of Mubang granted by King Dongyu.

The geographical location of Mubang is important, so the Toungoo Kingdom took the royal branch as the feudal lord to guard the place.

At this time, the lord of Mubang City was named Gu Dali. If he followed the method of changing the name of the Burmese people in the Ming Dynasty, he should have become Mang Guli.

Mang Guli was originally very ambitious. During the Shadingzhou Rebellion, he secretly supported Shadingzhou, and made preparations to take advantage of the fire and invade Daming.

Because ten years ago, even he, a Burmese, knew that the future was fading and the country was about to perish.

Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, Da Ming not only quelled the internal and external turmoil, but also dispatched powerful troops to quell the Shadingzhou Rebellion.

Hearing the news of that battle, Mang Guli no longer coveted Yunnan, but was worried about whether Daming would try to take Mupang after it became stronger again.

He reported to the royal court the changes in the Ming Dynasty and the military strength he demonstrated in the suppression of the Shadingzhou Rebellion.

It's a pity that the new king Mangda who succeeds to the throne doesn't think that the Ming Dynasty will try to take Toungoo, and he indulges in drinking and sex all day long, and doesn't care about the danger on the border.

In this worry, Mang Guli was relieved when he learned that the Ming army was attacking aggressively.

He felt that as long as he guarded Mupang for a period of time, Mangda should be able to make Mangda pay more attention to the safety of the northern Myanmar border.

Thinking so in his heart, he asked the scout who found the trace of the Ming army, "How many people from the Ming army are here?"

"About 6 people."

Sixty thousand?

Hearing this, Mang Guli was also shocked.

Seeing that the generals and officials below all showed panic, he pretended to be calm and said: "I thought the Ming army would come with 10,000+, but I didn't expect it to be only [-].

There are many dangerous passes and military strongholds around Mubang, and there are four red barbarian cannons and [-] Fran cannons in the city, with more than [-] defenders.

In the past, when Toungoo Kingdom took Mupang, we attacked with an army of 10,000+. At that time, there were only 8000 chieftains of Mubang in Ming Dynasty, and they held on for more than three months.

Now, we will definitely have no problem keeping it for a month.In a month's time, Wang Ting's reinforcements will arrive! "

After being fed a meal of chicken soup by Mang Guli, the defenders of the wooden gang finally lifted their spirits and made active preparations to resist the Ming army.

　Second more.

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