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Chapter 602 Pya City

The Meng army that went down to Burma and followed the Ming army to the north was very poor in fighting and could not even line up well.

The siege of the city relied almost entirely on the Ming army and the Han rebels of the "Min family".

The only role of these Mongolian troops is to carry out genocide. The Ming army is not easy to do it, but these Mongolians have no such scruples.

They have a blood feud with the Burmese. As long as the Ming army captures a Burmese city-state, they will disobey orders and go to the city to carry out massacres. All Burmese will be killed.

At first, the Burmese people could still survive, but they were about to be robbed of all their property. When they came to the back, these Mongolian soldiers all became red-eyed and massacred almost city after city.

Such behavior caused many Burmese people who went down to Myanmar to flee with their families to the upper reaches.

The Toungoo court in Myanmar saved trouble. These fleeing Burmese people finally gathered in Pyay City, and they did not even need to recruit young men.

The strategic position of Pyay City in Myanmar is very important. Any dynasty that wants to unify Myanmar (excluding northern Myanmar, which does not belong to Myanmar) must fight a battle in Pyay City and win to dominate Myanmar.

The Toungoo dynasty in history first joined forces with the Meng people and defeated the powerful Ava dynasty (Dai people) and Arakan coalition forces in the north in Pyay, which completely established the rule of Toungoo.

Then, the honeymoon period between the Mon and Burmese people ended, because the enemy was defeated and the Burmese no longer needed the Mon people.

Now, the wheel of history is repeating itself. The Meng people are not good at military warfare. Just like they supported the Burmese two hundred years ago, they also provide money, food and ships for the Ming army. They even take on the responsibility of civilian auxiliary troops and help the Ming army. Attack the Burmese.

When Lin Jin and Chen Chaohong arrived at Pyay City with their army, they saw that the city walls were densely packed with Burmese defenders composed of young and strong civilians who had been recruited.

Outside the city, there were also a circle of Burmese people. Lin Jin just glanced at them with a telescope: "They are all old and weak women and children. They must have been driven out by the Burmese officials. Almost all of them were picked on the city walls." Come out young and strong."

Chen Chaohong said: "Single out the young and strong first. This will not only save food, but also the old, weak, women and children will not be able to rebel."

Lin Jin said: "It is indeed the end of the dynasty. The Toungoo court in Myanmar should really be destroyed."

The Ming army quickly disembarked and set up camp.

The Meng auxiliary soldiers and civilian men went to the surrounding villages in batches to collect food, grass and guides for the army.

The next day.

The army attacked the city. Although the Ming army was small in strength, counting the Meng auxiliary troops and civilians, there were only more than 20,000 people, but they brought a lot of artillery.

"Boom boom boom!"

A total of eight red cannons were used as a test shot against the city wall of Pyaimai City.

The Burmese refugees who gathered around the city wall were all frightened by the power of the Ming army's artillery and fled in all directions. They were unable to enter the city and did not dare to run to the Ming army's positions.

Because the Mongolian auxiliary soldiers were already carrying knives and were driving away these Burmese refugees. Don't block the sight of the sky soldiers' cannons.

"Boom boom boom!"

Another round of cannon fire.

The red-coated cannons of the Ming army poured shells at the Pyay city wall wantonly. The Burmese "guards" on the city wall all huddled behind the city wall and did not dare to show their heads at all.

It is still the Toungoo dynasty, not the Gonbang dynasty that later colluded with the British, so there is no established firearms force, not even a few muskets.

Moreover, in this time and space, the British and the Ming Dynasty have already formed an alliance, so it is impossible to provide any military support to the Burmese.

It was impossible for them to help the Burmese, at least until South India was completely annexed by the British.

The general stationed in Pyaoi City is no longer the original governor. But after getting the news, he was urgently sent by the Burmese king to punish Ming Gong.

As the uncle of the king of Myanmar and the last uncle, he was highly valued by the king of Myanmar, Emperor Suadibo. In the last twenty years of the Taungoo dynasty, this guy became the captain of the fire-fighting brigade under the Burmese king. He was sent wherever there was an emergency, and he was defeated repeatedly. The Burmese garrison general said: "The Chinese artillery is too powerful. We cannot let the Chinese army continue to bombard us. We should take the initiative to attack."

He shook his head and said, "Pass my military order to the whole army to stick to their treatment, and then let the civilian men go down to strengthen the city's defenses. Don't let these refugees eat the food in the city in vain."

The general was a little reluctant: "But..."

His face darkened: "No but, no one is allowed to go out of the city to meet the Chinese army without my order."

The Toungoo dynasty was in a precarious stage, and there were not many troops in the country. He Minggong took a boat to rush south, and the troops he brought with him were less than 2,000 at most.

Including the humble defenders, the total number will not exceed 5,000 troops, and the rest are all Burmese peasants recruited temporarily.

With such a small amount of troops, how could he dare to send troops casually and start a war with the Chinese army?

They can only defend Pyaim. As long as the Chinese army's offensive is blocked in the north, Ava City will have spare power to support Pyaimai City. After all, the Chinese are playing away from home and cannot adapt to the climate here, so they cannot stay for too long.

Those Meng people were even more vulnerable. Without the help of the Chinese, he completely dared to take these troops to fight the Meng people decisively.

The only ones who are a little worried are the Arakanese people on the southwest coast. These Arakanese people once helped the Dai people and fought with the Burmese.

Therefore, after the founding of Toungoo, troops were sent to conquer Arakan several times, but they were not defeated. There was no guarantee that the other party would not take advantage of it.

In the country of Burma, in the end, the Burmese people are the most hated by all ethnic groups here. The Arakans resisted Burmese rule and even developed into later generations.

Later generations only knew about northern Myanmar, but they did not know that there were also warlord separatist forces in the south that resisted the Burmese. The Arakans even joined forces with the northern Burmese warlords to attack the Burmese government from the north and the south.

This can be regarded as a problem left over from history. Northern Burma and Arakan were all British Burma that were forcibly integrated by the British for convenience, so they did not have any dominance over these areas.

"Boom boom boom!"

The Ming army's artillery took advantage of its range and continued to bombard the Pyai city wall along the Yihe River for three days.

The Burmese in Pyay City did not go out of the city to fight except for symbolic counterattacks with old city defense artillery.

On the Ming army's side, the Meng auxiliary soldiers drove away the captured Burmese people and braved artillery fire to fill the moat.

The Burmese people in Pyay City also braved Ming army artillery fire and were whipped by the Burmese soldiers to defend the city to the death and prevent the filling of the moat outside the city.

This battle was inexplicable and turned into a tug-of-war.

Lin Jin frowned: "The Burmese in the city don't go out to fight, so how do you usually fight?"

The leader of the Mon auxiliary army, Rawadi, said: "In the past, if we Mon people launched an uprising, the Burmese king would send troops to conquer it. Before the Burmese king's army came, the Burmese people in these places would not dare to fight us unless we were small in number. Moreover, in the past few years, the Burmese king has basically stopped sending large troops to Burma. Basically, we attack the cities of these Burmese people, and then they defend to the death. If they can be defeated, they will attack. If they cannot defeat them, they will withdraw if there is insufficient food..."

Lin Jin was speechless: "So the only way to attack Pyaoy City is by force?"

Min Xin, a Han from the "Min family" who followed the Chinese army and acted as a translator (actually a mixture of Han and Karen) said: "Either attack by force, or we can only eat the reinforcements of the Burmese king, so as to force the humble Burmese to surrender. . But even if the Burmese king sends a large army south, it will be impossible to reach here within a few months, because the Burmese king has to raise food, grass, soldiers and horses first."

Lin Jin said: "We don't have that much time. Since Piya can't fight, we can go directly north."

It is a taboo for military strategists to directly march north without clearing the strategic strategic points first.

But it doesn't matter, they are taking the water route, so if they really can't fight, the worst they can do is escape by boat.

Moreover, this river leads directly to Awa City, the capital of Toungoo Kingdom in the north. It will not be the Ming army that will be anxious at that time, but the humble Burmese and the Burmese king in Awa City.

No matter which one is drawn out, it can create fighter planes for friendly forces.

Besiege a city and call for reinforcements. If you can't defeat it, just change the city!

(End of this chapter)