Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Huh...huh..."

Dull breathing, dark vision, when Si Zhefa opened his eyes, at this moment he was in a mountain full of corpses.

"Boom bang bang-"

"Bang bang bang-"

"kill!"

"Escape!"

"Beep--"

The sound of artillery, shouts, fleeing, wooden whistles, as well as drums, horns, and the crisp and unique sound of firecrackers.

"Who am I? Where am I? Why is it so noisy..."

When Si Zhefa was awake and saw the surrounding scenes, he was panicked.

There were corpses lying all around him, full of Burmese soldiers wearing Burmese army armor and robes, shouting and running.

They called out the names of their relatives who joined the army, shouted for them to run away, and ran away themselves.

In the process of fleeing, many people fell down.

On the sandy land that has been pitted and uneven by the artillery stone bullets, whenever a stone bullet falls, a whirlwind will blow from the bullet point to the surroundings, rolling up the sand and incomplete dead branches and leaves.

The waves of fleeing people scattered, they rolled in the rugged mountain forest, scattered from the trees in the dense forest like water spray, and rolled down the mountain.

Even though some fallen people were shot, they still gritted their teeth and crawled... Finally, their faces were pale due to excessive blood loss and they stopped, unable to move anymore.

If the war fails, no matter what the terrain of the battlefield is, there is nothing more pitiful than a group of panicked and defeated soldiers.

These men who used to work in the fields with Si Zhefa, and then were conscripted into the army as brave men, they didn't know what was going on in front of them, they only knew to run away with the flow of people.

No one is willing to go to the battlefield, even if their kings Thalom and Arakan sang the slogan of defending their homeland and arable land, but in fact they did not attract many people to go to the battlefield.

The land they were allotted was too limited, and no one was willing to work hard for that little land.

Therefore, when the battle is unfavorable, this group of untrained men only know how to turn around and run away.

Bullets shot out from the dark forest, and the entire mountain forest was full of thick smoke and chaos. The army's baggage vehicles were entangled with the flow of fleeing people, which aggravated the degree of chaos.

The horse also jumped up and trampled on the wounded and fallen man.

Around Si Zhefa, on the ground, it seemed that wherever he could hear and see, there were moans everywhere.

The fallen people were extremely panicked, some fainted from fright, and some ran around. In order to stop them, the general led the supervisory team to exchange fire with the soldiers, killing their own people with their own people.

During all this some generals calmly charged their matchlocks with lead with sullen indifference, and put the muzzle of the guns to their own mouths.

With a "bang", he stopped moving...

Of course, such people are in the minority, and more generals, for their own benefit, continue to organize routs and lead them to the battlefield ahead, but before Si Zhefa sees the enemy, they fall one after another down.

On this dim battlefield, Si Zhefa even forgot who he was fighting with.

When he was in a daze, the dense gunfire in front kept approaching him, and finally he saw the enemy emerging from the dense forest.

red……

Red like a red tide poured down from the hillside. They held a kind of firecracker that was very unfamiliar to Si Zhefa in their hands. They kept raising the firecracker and loaded something similar to lead bullets to the end of the barrel of the firecracker.

There are still firecrackers that can be loaded from the rear, which is unheard of in Si Zhefa.

But soon, Si Zhefa returned to reality, because the group of people had already rushed in front of him, and a soldier also raised the gun indifferently, aiming the black muzzle at his forehead.

"Are you going to die..." Si Zhefa was relieved, but an officer next to him stopped the soldier.

"He was broken by a stone bullet and is already paralyzed. Don't waste bullets."

The officer led the soldiers and left here, Si Zhefa looked weakly at the enemies in red coats passing by him.

At the end of his life, he closed his eyes amid the occasional loud shouts of explosions.

The loud noise of the cannon drowned out everything, and Si Zhefa, like many Toungoo soldiers, lay down completely in this forest.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the 12th year of Tianqi, Huang Fei led Henghaiwei and Longjiangwei in Qindun to defeat King Sutai of Arakan, beheading [-] people and beheading more than [-] people. recover……

At the same time, the Nanhaiwei and Xiyangwei joined forces in the south, and Dongyu Pingdali and Dumodi had not yet arrived in Dongyu City, and the city was breached, and the two troops had to retreat to Binya in the rear.

Anyway, the Meng people in the north, Ma Xianglin won without a fight, took Meng Yang lightly, the little Brahmin country,
On the ninth day of the first month of the 12th year of Tianqi, there were 36 Burmese soldiers of 28 left, and only less than [-] miles of land in Toungoo, with a population of more than [-] million.

Faced with such a situation, Maung Ki of Miaodangcheng was naturally anxious, but Hong Chengchou was more anxious than him.

"Boom bang bang-"

Fierce artillery bombarded Miaodang City day and night, and all the moat defense lines and barracks defense lines outside Miaodang City were broken. 8 soldiers and horses retreated into the city, and more than [-] soldiers and horses were still stationed at various passes and mountain passes.

Unable to bear this humiliation, Maung Ki withdrew [-] troops to the rear of Miaodang City for [-] li, leaving Si Nibei with [-] troops to garrison Miaodang.

Si Nibei knew that this was a hard job, but he had no face to refuse after losing the defense line on the river beach.

Therefore, he could only take 5 people to be bombarded in Miaodang City.

As for Hong Chengchou, he was in the artillery position every day, watching his two thousand artillery bombard Miaodang City indiscriminately.

"When will Huang Wenlu arrive..."

Looking at Miaodang City being bombarded, Hong Chengchou on the ground remained calm, but his address for Huang Fei changed from Huang Dudu to Huang Wenlu.

Wenlu is Huang Fei's nickname, and Hong Chengchou called Huang Fei's nickname, which seems to be a lot closer.

The reason for such a change is also because Huang Fei actively cooperated with Hong Chengchou after receiving a letter sent by Huang Long to the carrier pigeon.

Otherwise, in the final analysis, Huang Fei is also the governor of the Navy's Dudufu. Unless Hong Chengchou becomes the chief assistant, otherwise even if he manages the Dudufu of the Five Armies, he can only be on the same level as Huang Fei.

Huang Fei's attitude made Hong Chengchou more confident about becoming the chief assistant of the cabinet, so his attitude was naturally much better.

As for his inquiry, Mu Yi, who is his confidant, bowed back and said, "According to the time, it is estimated that the distance to Miaodang City is less than two hundred miles away."

"Two hundred miles..."

Hong Chengchou stroked his beard, thought for a moment and ordered decisively:
"Order all the soldiers and horses of the army, except the rear army on the east bank, and the rest of the troops will launch a general attack at noon tomorrow, and not one of the soldiers and horses of Dongwu will be left."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Mu Yi bowed excitedly.

If one is not kept, two 10,000+ troops are worth more than 200 million taels of silver, and Mu Yi can at least get tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This is just a silver reward for beheading on the battlefield, and more importantly, it is the finishing task for the next three years.

Thinking of these benefits, Mu Yi sent Tang Qi with excitement, and Tang Qi quickly notified the troops and horses.

Except for Siam, which was too far away from Long Zaitian, which was in charge of Siam's northward invasion, other troops such as Ma Xianglin, Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, Huang Fei, Wu Bikui, and Mu Qiyuan began to prepare for a general attack.

The mobilization and preparation of the Ming army naturally attracted the attention of the Burmese army.

When the war came here, the Burmese army seemed extremely embarrassed.

The navy equipped with rifles occupied most of the coastal areas of Myanmar in ten days. Although the Burmese army still controls three thousand miles of plains, more than 300 million people, and an army of 10,000+, everyone knows that they are already trapped. beast.

The land of 2000 miles sounds very large, more than 2000 million mu, but due to the lack of development in Toungoo, in fact, there is less than 200 million mu of cultivated land in the territory of more than [-] million mu.

With 200 million mu of land, it is still difficult to feed the local people, not to mention there are 10,000+ off-duty troops?

The plains in the Burmese region are basically cropped more than one year, but like most places where crops are cropped more than one year, the yield per mu of land that is cropped more than one year is not necessarily higher than that of land that is cropped once a year, even if it is higher. Too much higher.

Therefore, although it is the first lunar month, for local farmers, this time is also the time to harvest rice.

More than 1000 million mu of paddy fields can produce at most 800 million shi of rice, and the edible part of these rice is less than [-] million shi.

Eight million stones of rice feed more than 800 million soldiers and civilians. Even if each person eats only one catty of rice every day, they can only last for nine months at most, not to mention that these lands are constantly decreasing with the attack of the Ming army.

"How long will our military rations last?"

"About four months, please don't worry, my king, we will definitely be able to persist until the bandits of Ming Dynasty are defeated!"

In a valley at the foot of Miaodang Mountain, when the tired-looking Maung Ki questioned the minister, the minister's words made him extremely disappointed.

With four months of military rations and dwindling land, how could they defeat the Ming army?

I'm afraid they will be wiped out before the summer...

Thinking of the result that Arakan King Sutai's [-] troops had only persisted for three days against Huang Fei's [-] troops, Maung Ki was a little tired.

It's just that he also knows that none of the nobles in Toungoo will support him to surrender, because they want to keep their jade mines, various mine veins, as well as their current status and their own territory.

It's just that their thoughts are simply a humiliation to Daming.

So Zhu Youjian made it clear from the very beginning in his reply to Hong Chengchou...

"Destroy the country, abolish its system, impose Han law, and teach it to be king..."

From the very beginning, Zhu Youjian didn't intend to use gentle methods. What he wanted to do was to remove all the cancerous tumors in Toungoo.

There are hundreds of ethnic groups in Toungoo, and it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to allow hundreds of ethnic groups, 800 million people, to accept the culture, system and laws of Ming Dynasty.

Except for the ethnic groups in Mubang, Mengyang, Meng Gen and other places that belonged to the territory of Ming Dynasty, the attitudes of other ethnic groups towards Ming Dynasty are hostile.

The reason is that the Taungoo people have always thought of invading southern Yunnan and separatist control of the southwest to fight against Ming Dynasty, and among them, the Burmese are the most numerous.

Therefore, if you want to completely bring the Myanmar region into the actual control of Ming Dynasty, you must follow the charter of "catch up the seedlings and expand the industry".

The Taungoo nobles did not support Maung Ki's surrender, and Zhu Youjian did not want Hong Chengchou to accept the surrender. The attitudes of the two sides were very clear, that is, to fight to the last Burmese.

Maung Ki knew all this well, but he was powerless to change, he could only grit his teeth tightly.

"Could it be that the Ming army is really invincible?"

Sitting in the Miaodang Mountain military tent, Maung Ki's complexion was unpredictable, and his teeth were clenched tightly.

In fact, now he only needs to face the fact that most of the [-] coalition forces in Arakan were wiped out within three days, and he will know that the Ming army is really invincible...but he doesn't want to admit it.

Although Toungoo is lonely, he also has a dream in his heart.

That is to unify the Myanmar region, bring Taungoo back to its peak, conquer Siam and Khmer, and finally take down Yunnan in Ming Dynasty to complete the unfinished feat of the Luchuan Dynasty!

It's just that his dream was coming to an end before it even started. The Ming army took the lead in firing the first shot, and the Burmese army was captured by the Ming army with absolute strength, taking half of the territory in just ten days.

"My king..."

In the tent, all the generals, chieftains, and warlords looked at Maung Ki, but Maung Ki just clenched his fists tightly.

Even if the Ming army is extremely powerful, they are still here to destroy the country!

As the king of Dongyu, is it possible that he can raise his hands and surrender, and let him be captured by Ming Dynasty? !

No!Even if it is death, he must try his best to defeat the Ming army. Da Dongyu cannot just be destroyed by the Ming army!
"beat!"

While the warlords were watching what Maung Ki would do, they didn't expect this guy to whisper the word "fight" suddenly.

"There is a chance to stick to it, but the chance is slim. Instead of doing this, it is better to fight directly!"

"I have read information about the battle between Ming and the Tatars in the north. One of them is Nurhaji. The reason why he defeated the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu was because the general They broke through one by one!"

Maung Ki looked up at the ministers and generals: "Since Nurhazhi (Nurhachi) can do it, why can't we?"

"The Ming army is currently divided into five armies, among which the two [-]-man Ming troops behind us have the weapons to win."

"Using this firearm, they defeated Suthai in just three days."

"But they came from the sea. After breaking through so many cities in a row and defeating Sutai's [-] army, how much gunpowder can they have?"

"These two soldiers and horses must be the elite of the Ming army. As long as one of these two soldiers and horses is defeated, the other soldiers and horses of the Ming army will not dare to send troops because of fear."

"Next, we only need to solve the other one, and then use their firearms to fight Hong Chengchou. Waiting for the summer, Hong Chengchou himself will return to Yunnan."

The more Maung Ki spoke, the more agitated he became, he stood up suddenly, holding the handle of the knife at his waist, vigorously:

"I am determined to follow Nurhaji's example. Since he chose to attack the strongest of the four Ming armies in Sarhu, I will also choose the strongest one."

"Let me tell the general that more than half of the soldiers and horses were dispatched from each mountain pass and pass, and Ping Dali was ordered to lead 6 people to the north to support, and Du Modi led 4 people to guard Binya."

"I want to concentrate my forces, use 13 people to eat up these two elite troops of the Ming army, and regain the lost ground thousands of miles behind!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" All the Burmese generals present listened to the order and immediately got up to make arrangements.

Toungoo is the most powerful country in Central South. Even if 25 to 25 troops were wiped out, they still have 13 troops. It is not difficult to draw [-] horses from [-] miles.

Although most of the 13 troops are farmers with weapons, they are still a huge force in places like the Indochina Peninsula.

This kind of strength is actually very strong, not to mention Siam, even the Mughal Empire, which controls 30 strings, must be handled carefully.

However, at this moment, the Burmese army is facing the Ming army, and it is also the elite of the Ming army. Therefore, when Maung Ki commanded the army to kill Huang Fei on the tenth day of the first lunar month, not only was his heart trembling, but the other Burmese soldiers The generals were also trembling in their hearts, not daring to be careless.

"put!"

"Boom bang bang-"

At the same time, the difference is that the general attack of the Ming army was two hours slower than that of Maung Ki and others.

When Wu Bikui, Hong Chengchou, and Ma Xianglin attacked Binya and Miaodang in three directions, Huang Fei was also marching towards Miaodang City in a hurry.

He needs to cross the 150-mile plain, then take the Mansha Mountain Road to attack Manshakou, defeat the [-] Burmese troops stationed at Manshakou, and then go straight into Miaodang City from the rear.

But he didn't know that Maung Ki was leading 7 people over the 30-mile Mansha Mountain, while Ping Dali in the south was also leading [-] troops to kill him from the plain.

"Togo's army numbers are wrong..."

Hong Chengchou was the first to discover something was wrong, because he saw that many flags in Dongwu City were broken by stone bullets and were not repaired in time.

Such details seem to others to be that the Burmese army is afraid of the Ming army's bombardment and dare not repair them, but for Hong Chengchou who carefully looked at the battlefield for ten days, he clearly remembers that in the past nine days, the Burmese army's flag that was smashed will be repaired in time.

After all, the banner represents the number of defenders in the city, and its function is not only to intimidate the enemy outside the city, but also to motivate the soldiers inside the city.

But there are only two explanations for the fact that the banners in Miaodang City have not been restored.

First, the Burmese army was trying to attract the Ming army to attack by showing the enemy's weakness, and then a large number of troops suddenly appeared to panic the Ming army, which in turn caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

Second, the Burmese army has mobilized its troops, and there are insufficient troops on the frontal battlefield, which cannot be repaired.

Among these two explanations, Hong Chengchou chose the second one without thinking.

The reason is very simple. The Ming army has demonstrated its combat power for a long time in the past. If the Burmese army dares to show the enemy's weakness, then once the large Ming army reaches the top of the city, with the Ming army's combat power, it can completely Keep the horse path, break the front with points, and climb first step by step.

Therefore, the Burmese army must have mobilized its troops, and because too many soldiers were mobilized, there were too few soldiers in Miaodang City, and too many civilian bravery, and the minyong dared not repair the banners, and the soldiers could not repair them.

and so……

"Den-"

Hong Chengchou suddenly pulled out the long sword on his waist as an ornament, pointed at Miaodang City, and shouted: "Stop shelling!"

He stopped the bombardment, and then ordered the surrounding generals: "The whole army will attack the city! The first climber will be promoted to a higher rank and will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"

Hong Chengchou suddenly ordered the whole army to attack the city, which made the generals puzzled, but Hong Chengchou's next sentence woke them up:
"The Burmese army mobilized troops and horses to try to encircle and suppress our army's division of troops. Tangqi scouted and reported, and quickly checked the situation of all troops and horses!"

"Yes!" After being awakened by Hong Chengchou, everyone looked at Miaodang City, which had few banners.

Only then did they realize that even if the Burmese army was afraid of artillery, they would not let the artillery smash the flags into such a virtue.

Only the division of troops can explain why the soldiers in Miaodang City did not mend the banners, and once the Burmese army divided up, Miaodang City would become a dish in the bowl of the Ming army on the West Bank!
"All generals listen to orders! Eliminate bandits and thieves, kill them!"

"Beep--"

As the vanguard general, Mu Yi led his [-] soldiers and horses to attack Miaodang City with the siege equipment he had prepared long ago. When Mu Qiyuan and others saw this, they also led troops to attack Miaodang City. go.

No one wanted to let go of the honor of being the first to ascend. All of a sudden, the battle horses galloped in front of Miaodang City, the sun and moon flags fluttered in the wind, and the [-] Ming troops launched towards Miaodang City with an incomparably compelling momentum. attack.

In front of the gate tower of Miaodang City, Si Nibei supported the female wall with one hand, and watched the charging Ming army with the other. The general next to him asked nervously: "General..."

"Command!" Si Nibei grabbed the Burmese knife at his waist, pulled it out abruptly, and immediately ordered:

"Behead the first rank of the Ming army and enjoy [-] acres of land!"

"Yes!"

Hearing such a generous reward, the generals around widened their eyes, but quickly reacted.

The greater the reward, the greater the difficulty.

For Miaodang City, which has only [-] civilians and [-] soldiers at the moment, even if they succeed in beheading, they may not survive the war.

But in any case, the rich rewards will eventually make the timid people courageous to fight against the Ming army. Even if they can only block the Ming army for a second, it is worth the money for Si Nibei.

What he has to do is very simple, that is to block Hong Chengchou and let Maung Ki encircle and wipe out Huang Fei's troops.

Thinking of this, he put the Burmese knife on the drum stand aside, picked up the drumsticks and started beating wildly.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

"kill!"

The sound of the drums was melodious, but it couldn't cover the Ming army's shouts of killing.

The cloud chariot, Lu Gong chariot, siege tower, and a cannon with a door pushed to the front of the formation began to show their power in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming army.

Two thousand artillery shelled in the direction where there were few Ming soldiers. Under the close-range bombardment, Miaodang City, which was originally built of stone and rammed earth, began to collapse. A large number of Ming soldiers threw siege equipment into the moat, and then filled bags of sandbags into the moat .

In less than an hour, the four-foot-wide moat of Miaodang City turned into flat ground, which also meant that their dilapidated city walls were about to face the front of the Ming army.

"Tungoo!"

Si Nibei beat the drum and roared, he no longer had the concept of how to arrange the city defense in his mind.

Because he knew very well that there was no need to pay attention to city defense when the 5 civilians and [-] warriors were facing more than [-] Ming soldiers outside the city.

What they have to do is to use up all the mace, gold juice, stone bombs, and gunpowder.

"Tungoo!"

"Boom bang bang-"

Si Nibei let out a loud roar, and was about to drop the hammer, but the artillery positions of the Ming army continued to fire in the next second.

The main target of the city gate and the city gate tower were undoubtedly bombarded, and Snebe was also hit by a stone bullet after shouting, and his whole body was blown away like a tattered bagman...

The second is about nine o'clock in the evening