Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 554
By the summer of Apocalypse 30, the First Army of the Ming Army had completely occupied Siam.
Part of the Fourth Army has also occupied Nanzhang State, which is now Laos, the Second Army has also controlled Ava, and the Third Army has reached Chittagong.

At this time, the Toungoo dynasty, which was the most powerful in Southeast Asia and even posed a huge threat to the southwestern frontier of Ming Dynasty, that is, Burma, was completely surrounded by the Ming army.

Of course, the Toungoo Dynasty still had the outlet along the coast of Mengjiala Bay, but this area has basically been controlled by the Frangji and the Red Fangui.

And just three days before the Toungoo Dynasty assembled troops to block the decisive battle with the Ming First Army, which threatened its capital Toungoo in advance, the South China Sea Fleet forced the Red Fan Ghost and the Frang Robot to give up without firing a single shot. At the mouth of the Toungoo Dynasty, they successfully blocked the last way out of the Toungoo Dynasty.

However, the Taungoo Dynasty, which had just unified Myanmar, did not realize that it was on the verge of national subjugation.

At this time, the Toungoo Dynasty was at its strongest in history. Although he had already suffered a disastrous defeat in front of Daming during the Wanli period, and lost two important strategic locations this time, he still stubbornly believed that he could resist The attack of the Ming army, because it was defeated by Daming in a battle during the Wanli period.

However, the king of the Toungoo dynasty also saw that the Ming army was hard to return. He did not invest too much troops in Awa and Chittagong. According to his strategic concept, he used this to lead the Ming army deep into his hinterland. Look for an opportunity to annihilate it.

After all, in his own hinterland, there are many mountains and dense trees, and the Ming army, which mostly lives in the plains, may not be able to adapt to this environment. What's more, it is now the rainy season, and Daming's firearms will not be effective.

The first army of the Ming Dynasty has just wiped out Siam, and it is considered a tired army, and its current marching position is the closest to Nansan, so the king of the Toungoo Dynasty, King Talong, has already gathered 20 elite main forces to gather in the Nansan area to prepare for this area. Annihilate the First Army of the Ming Army.

King Talong can be regarded as a hero of the Toungoo Dynasty. Since he succeeded to the throne, he has attacked the country's tyrants, quelled rebellions, and divided land and landless peasants, which greatly reduced the domestic conflicts of the Toungoo Dynasty and made the country stronger. He was quite ambitious and had invaded Daming several times. Although he was defeated, he still took the opportunity to occupy more than [-] square kilometers of territory because the center of gravity of Ming was in the north during the Wanli Tianqi period.

If he hadn't devoted himself to the development of his country over the years, he might not only occupy more than [-] square kilometers of territory in the southwestern border of Ming Dynasty, but might even have a war with Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, the territory occupied by the current Toungoo dynasty has been recovered by the second and third armies of the Ming army, and he will have to face the aggression of Ming.

He, King Long, has not been the king of Siam and other countries who only know how to build cars behind closed doors. He has never taken lightly the Ming Empire, a giant beast that has been oppressing his Toungoo Dynasty, even the changes in Daming over the years. He also knows very well, and also knows the real intention of today's Ming Dynasty to suddenly launch an attack on Annan, Siam, and Nanzhang countries.

In his view, Da Ming's actions were not simply caused by these countries' disrespect or contribution to Da Ming in the past, but because the appetite of the Ming Empire has grown, so he had already started making preparations a few months ago. , and sent envoys to warn the surrounding countries, he even intends to form an alliance with other dynasties in Southeast Asia, and he can just become the leader of the alliance and compete with Ming Dynasty for hegemony.

But contrary to expectations, due to the many conflicts among Southeast Asian countries, and because the previous expansion strategy of the Toungoo Dynasty had already accumulated deep grievances among other Southeast Asian dynasties, King Thalom of the Toungoo Dynasty failed to destroy Siam in Ming Dynasty Formed an alliance with the Southeast Asian powers such as Nan Zhangguo.

Of course, this is also related to the too fast attack speed of the Ming army.

However, the effective resistance encountered by Siam after the First Army of the Ming Dynasty destroyed Siam might not be related to the fact that King Talong of the Toungoo Dynasty warned Siam in advance, and even King Talong took the initiative to abandon the past , to help Siam resist Ming's attack.

Now, when King Long's Toungoo Dynasty is going to face the army of Daming alone, he is both nervous and excited. Deter the Ming Empire, thereby improving its prestige in the entire Southeast Asian peninsula, and become the co-lord of the Southeast Asian Empire in the future.

In his opinion, the First Army of the Ming Army is already a tired army. In addition, it is the rainy season and the miasma is rampant. The firearms that can annihilate the First Army of the Ming Army.

In fact, the First Army of the Ming Army was extremely exhausted after occupying Siam, and it was true that due to climate change, most officers and soldiers did not adapt to the tropical rainforest climate and fell ill. Ning is cinchonaine, a special drug for treating malaria, which is mass-produced. At this moment, the first army has already lost countless soldiers due to the disease.

Considering that the rainfall will be more abundant in the future, the war will be more difficult to fight, and the sickness rate will continue to increase, so Chang Yanling, the commander-in-chief of the First Army, will not care that his First Army is a tired division and is occupying the army. Siam immediately entered the vicinity of Nansang in the Toungoo Dynasty.

However, because they fought all the way from Annan, the Ming army captured hundreds of thousands of local troops. The First Army alone directly captured as many as 18 surrendered soldiers from Siam and Nanzhang Kingdoms. Nearly twice as many as the First Army, and these captives have basically become cannon fodder for the First Army of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to ensure enough time to rest and maintain combat effectiveness, these castrated captives basically completed the post-battle cleaning and pre-war transportation. They had to be driven by the Ming army in order to survive, and they died countless times. The main force of the Ming Army had a relatively low casualty rate.

After arriving at the front line of Nansang now, there are still as many as 15 captive soldiers attached to the First Army of the Ming Army. In front of the main force.

King Long didn't expect that the Ming army would use these captives to fight. As a result, he lost his numerical advantage.

The Ming army now likes to use artillery to fire a round of volleys, especially when the countless firearms troops of the Toungoo Dynasty are concentrated side by side and lined up according to the mountain, using artillery is more effective than cavalry.

With the development of the steam industry, the range and firing speed of Ming cannons are already comparable to any country in the same era, and the black powder loaded in the shells has almost reached the best ratio of black powder in the world, so the explosive power is also great. .

It is reported that the Royal Ordnance Division is now developing and using the explosive properties of nitroglycerin to make nitro explosives, and it is even possible to make high explosives such as trinitrotoluene.

Once such explosives are successfully manufactured, Ming Dynasty may be able to destroy the 20 army in front of it with only a few hundred artillery pieces.

Just when he, King Long's general Mang Gujie, ordered to load the gunpowder, the artillery from Daming's side had already fired over rapidly, and hundreds of shells exploded round after round on the mountainous land less than ten square kilometers, directly blowing the entire Burma (Toungoo Dynasty) The army bombed to separate limbs, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the high ground where they were located was instantly covered by smoke and dust.

Then, each of the 15 captive soldiers held a knife or a dry spear and howled, venting the humiliation and anger brought to them by the Ming army on these Burmese soldiers, and rushed forward to beat up the dying Burmese soldiers. Hacking and stabbing.

After the artillery attack by the main force of the Ming Dynasty, the task of these captive soldiers was very simple, that is, to make up for the knife with a knife or gun in their hands or to cut off a certain part to catch the captives.

The 20 Burmese elite main force completely collapsed in less than half an hour. More than [-] were killed, injured and fled under the shelling and the attack of the Ming First Army's captive army. The remaining [-] main force directly retreated to Yongchang.

King Long was very surprised when he heard the news. He knew that the Ming Army was very strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong.

He always thought that the reason why the Ming army destroyed ancient times in Siam and other places was that these Southeast Asian countries were too weak, because his Toungoo Kingdom and its warring countries knew how weak these countries were, but he did not expect that his most elite 20 The main force of Wan was actually vulnerable to these Ming troops.

King Long didn't know that since the Ming Dynasty entered the industrial age, the entire military combat method has undergone a qualitative leap. Although he can be regarded as a politician who knows how to rule the country and has some foresight, he still can't see farther. The selfishness and short-sightedness in the field are not much better than Kang Mazi, so the big victory he thought he would win turned into a big defeat.

However, what made him even more unexpected was that Mang Gujie, the most respected and most admired God of War in Myanmar, surrendered without a fight in Yongchang City, and the [-] Myanmar main force declared their surrender without any resistance.

This is unimaginable in Burma, whose national strength is booming. King Talong did not dare to imagine after hearing the news. He did not believe that Mang Gujie, who had experienced dozens of battles, would surrender without a fight.

Just like in the late Qing Dynasty in the original history, no one thought that Seng Gelinqin would lose so badly at Baliqiao.

And only Mang Gujie, who is lying in the operating room of the field hospital at this moment, knows that when the artillery that is more sensitive and accurate than his own firearms overturns the entire Yongchang City, spraying countless iron lumps and rushing in directly through the city wall, what will happen to him? No matter how I resisted, I couldn't use my flesh and blood to resist these giant steel beasts.

Rather than being crushed into meat, it is better to give up your life and spend the rest of your life to see how the armies of these heavenly kingdoms can operate these behemoths to advance, and why their artillery can explode directly and can be fired one after another.

Because of the main army of Ming Dynasty as the backing, the captives who acted as vanguard cannon fodder obviously had much more confidence in combat than when they resisted the army of Ming Dynasty before, and their combat power was quite astonishing. This was also one of the reasons why Mang Gujie surrendered without a fight.

(End of this chapter)