Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Ava was called Mandalay and Wacheng in later generations. It was the capital of the Ava Kingdom, and it is also an important town in the north of the Toungoo Kingdom, and the political, military, and commercial center of northern Myanmar. It is prosperous and prosperous.

It is located at the confluence of the Dajinsha River and the Awa River, surrounded by basins and plains, so it is also the granary of northern Myanmar, and its importance to Toungoo is self-evident.

The Dongyu kings of all dynasties guarded here as close to their clan or princes.

Now guarding Awa is Mang Da's eldest son, Mang Zhe.

Mang Zhegang was 28 years old, he was in the prime of life, and he was also known for his ambition and ability.Even though he was a concubine and his mother's status was low, he was still trusted by Mang Da and appointed as the Lord of Ava and the Governor of Northern Myanmar.

He first learned of the Ming army's entry into northern Myanmar through the messenger sent by Mangguli for help.Then Meng Micheng also sent envoys to ask for help, which confirmed the matter.

He summed up the news sent by both sides, and when he learned that the Ming army had 10,000+, he knew that Mubang, Mengmi and other places were difficult to hold.

For him, the loss of Mubang, Mengmi and other places is nothing, as long as he can defeat the Ming army, it will be a great achievement.

In the former Ava Palace in Ava City, now in the Governor's Mansion of Northern Burma, Mang Zhe called his subordinates to discuss the matter.

Mang Zhe's number one confidant, Mai Longan, said: "Your Excellency, 10,000+ Ming troops marching south is amazing, but the commander of the Ming army made a fatal mistake, that is to divide the troops into two groups.

There are only 15 to [-] soldiers along the way, while Ava has accumulated [-] heavy soldiers, and then urgently recruits the private soldiers of the nobles in the surrounding cities, at least [-] troops can be gathered!
Even though the Ming army was good at fighting, we attacked all the way with 15 soldiers, twice as powerful, and more familiar with the terrain than the Ming army. How can there be any reason to be invincible? "

Jue Tun, the number one general under Mang Zhe, suggested: "The two Ming armies must have flowed down the river. We can find a suitable position, first attack with elephant soldiers to disrupt their positions, and then encircle and kill them with a large army. Defeat the Ming army!
With the prestige of a great victory, it is also a matter of course to defeat another Ming army.At that time, we might be able to take advantage of the trend and invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Your Excellency, the prosperity of the Ming people in recent years is known to all countries. Even Westerners praise the exquisite and easy-to-use goods of the Ming country.

I am also proud of owning a set of high-quality porcelain or glassware from the Ming Dynasty.

If we can invade Yunnan, we will definitely be able to make a fortune, and even expand the territory for me in Toungoo! "

This Juetun is obviously a militant, and he is very far-sighted and beautiful.

Mang Zhe's eyes lit up when he heard this.

What he thought was that if he could defeat the 10,000+ army, and even expand the territory to the north, even if he was the eldest son, after the death of his father, he might be able to inherit the throne as the governor of northern Myanmar!

So he looked at Mai Longan and asked, "Which Ming army do you think we should attack first?"

Mai Longan said: "The Ming army on the right that came down from the Awa River - it is much closer to take the Awa River from Mubang than to take the Dajinsha River from Mengmi.

In this way, we defeated the Ming army on the right first, and the Ming army on the left must have not yet reached Ava. We can just repeat the old trick and ambush the Ming army again! "

"Okay!" Mang Zhe slapped his knees, his round face flushed with excitement, "That's it!"

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Two days later.

Along the Ava River, near Kyaukmei City.

The Ming army is advancing smoothly along the Ava River.

Part of the luggage was loaded on the boat, the soldiers lined up on both sides of the Ava River, and the scouts scattered five miles away.

The prudence of the Ming army and the elite scouts of the Ming army made it difficult for the Dongyu army to make a real surprise attack.

So they simply chose a relatively flat area near Kyaukmei City, and first raided the Ming army on the left bank with dozens of war elephants and thousands of elephant soldiers.

The war elephant was driven to run, and the speed was quite fast.Moreover, there were bursts of elephant chirping, and the ground trembled like ten thousand horses galloping, and the momentum was quite frightening.

Ordinary troops, if they have never fought war elephants before, are easily frightened by such an earth-shattering momentum and even collapse directly when they meet them for the first time.

Mang Zhe knew that there were no elephant soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, so if he used the elephant soldiers as the vanguard to attack, he had no intention of causing the Ming army's array to collapse directly.

In order to watch this good show, he deliberately sat on a chair on the back of a war elephant on a high slope and looked out with a telescope.

On the side, a subordinate who had made his fortune by flattering seized the opportunity to get up early.

"Your Excellency, the elephant soldiers are so powerful that the Ming army didn't move at all when they saw it. I'm afraid they were all scared to death. Our army will definitely win this battle!"

Looking from a distance with the naked eye, when the elephant soldiers were rushing to attack, the Ming army indeed stopped suddenly, as if motionless.

But Mang Zhe saw through the binoculars that although the Ming army stopped suddenly, the team was neat and there was no confusion at all.And the soldiers of the Ming army are changing their formation in an orderly manner, launching artillery one by one and setting them up.

"how can that be?"

Mang Zhe was puzzled by the calmness of the Ming army when they suddenly encountered elephant soldiers.

He didn't know that there was a reason why the Ming army was so calm.

For one thing, the Ming army had long discovered that the Toungoo Army had ambushed heavy troops near Kyaukmei City, including an elephant soldier.

Second, the Ming army had been preparing for battle on the Yunnan border for several months, and Yang Zhan had long considered the psychological impact of the elephant soldiers' raid on the soldiers.Therefore, in the past few months, he has conducted adaptive training for the soldiers with a dozen war elephants owned by chieftains.

The soldiers of the Ming army are already of high quality, and after undergoing adaptive training to face the impact of war elephants, they can naturally collapse Mount Tai without changing their complexion.

Seeing the war elephant rushing into the range of the bright artillery, the artillery general of the Ming army waved the flag and shouted: "Fire!"

Immediately, hundreds of bright cannons roared together, directly covering the neighing of the war elephants.

boom boom boom

A burst of explosive bullets fell, even though only a handful of war elephants were actually hurt, the remaining dozens of war elephants were all shocked.

In fact, the elephant soldiers in Toungoo are also doing adaptive training on guns, but the effect is not good-if the war elephants can adapt to the hot weapons battlefield, future generations will not withdraw from the war arena.

Not to mention, the momentum and power of the Ming army's bright artillery shells far surpassed the live ammunition produced by the Hongyi cannon.

Although the Toungyu Army also purchased flowering ammunition from Westerners, their momentum and power were not comparable to the Ming Army's flowering ammunition.

Dozens of war elephants ran wildly in fright, causing the surrounding elephant soldiers to be trampled and hit in pieces, and they died in an instant.

Moreover, the war elephants were smart enough to know that the shells were coming from the front. Although panicked, most of them rushed back and hit the Toungoo army behind them.

Fortunately, the Toungoo army had already prepared and formed a number of scattered small army formations, otherwise the whole army would have collapsed in one fell swoop.

The frenzied war elephants did not recoil and crush Toungoo's army, but Yang Guodong was not going to let go of this excellent opportunity.

He was also standing high at this time, scanning the entire battlefield with binoculars.

Seeing this, he immediately ordered: "Order all the troops on the left bank to attack and defeat the Toungoo Army!"

"As ordered!"

Following Yang Guodong's military order, the Ming army's attack horn sounded——

"Ugh-"

"Kill it!"

Since accepting Mubang's surrender, although the Ming army on the right went south and got several cities, the soldiers did not get a decent battle.

The cities along the Ava River either surrendered directly or collapsed at one blow. Many soldiers didn't even have the chance to face the enemy face to face.

Now, as far as the eye can see, among the hills in front of you, there are many flags of the Toungoo Army. There are probably tens of thousands of people, and they must have been beaten.

For many soldiers, this means that they can finally gain military exploits.

Therefore, all the soldiers of the Ming army were full of fighting spirit, like a dragon going out to sea, and a tiger going down the mountain!

Second more.

Good night~