An army was walking through the mountains and dense forests outside Hanlong Pass.
The number of people in this army is so great that if you stand in the middle of the team and look forward and backward, you can't see the beginning or the end. It was a mighty force, with tens of thousands of troops and horses. The front army had already entered Mubang Walled City, while the rear army was still in Hanlong Pass.
Hanlong Pass was originally the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, and outside the pass was the territory of Mubang Xuanwei Division. Before the rise of the Toungoo dynasty, Mubang Xuanwei Division had always belonged to the Ming Dynasty. In the decades after the rise of the Toungoo dynasty, Mubang Xuanweisi began to oscillate between the Ming Dynasty and the Toungoo dynasty. When the Toungoo Dynasty was strong, this land would be swallowed up, and when the Toungoo Dynasty was weak, this land would become independent and attached to the Ming Dynasty.
In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, King Liangyuan (the grandson of Emperor Mang Yinglong), who realized the second resurgence of the Toungoo Dynasty, unified Burma (northern Myanmar) and once again brought Mu State under the rule of the Toungoo Dynasty.
In the original history, the Han clan chieftain in Mubang, which had been inherited for more than 200 years, was completely destroyed after the fall of Mubang and never revived.
But now history has changed. When the Dashun army pacified Yunnan, Hanside, a descendant of the Han family who was exiled in China, saw the power of the Dashun army with his own eyes, so he had the idea of using the power of Dashun to restore Mu Bang. Therefore, not long after Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, he led his tribe to surrender to Li Dingguo and became the captain of the elephant soldiers of the Dashun Army. After entering Yunnan, the Dashun Army also hired some elephant soldiers, although they were of little use. But it still looks very majestic! The soldiers who control the elephants are all recruited locally in Yunnan. Hansid has been playing with elephants since he was a child and is a master in this area.
After Dashun pacified Yunnan, he continued to advise Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng on Tumen. Although the Han chieftain regime had been destroyed for nearly fifty years, the influence of the Han family in Mu State still existed. You can help the Dashun court lead the surprise attack on Mubang! The Mubang Walled City was only three to four hundred miles away from Ava, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty. With the help of the chieftain family of the Han family to lead the way and raise food and grass, it was not difficult to pass the three hundred to four hundred mile mountain road.
And once you pass through the Mubang Mountains and capture Awa, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty, it will be a good place with vast plains. Just plant some rice and you will get three crops a year - the Toungoo Dynasty can get back up after several attacks. Damn it. It's just a great spot.
If Dashun can conquer the Awa Plain, there will be a way out in the future!
In history, no separatist dynasty centered on Sichuan has lived long! The Shu Han Dynasty lasted forty-three years between Liu Bei and Liu Adou, father and son. And they also have an awesome assistant like Zhuge Liang!
Therefore, as soon as Li Laiheng, Prince of Fujun in Dashun, heard that he could plot Burma, he immediately became interested - counting from the time Li Zicheng entered Sichuan, it has been almost ten years now! If "Shu Shun" can have the future of Shu Han, it will only have more than thirty years left. Moreover, when Li Laiheng looked at Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, they didn't look like Zhuge Liang!
And the Ming Dynasty has another ZTE hero, who has already beaten the Qing Dynasty to the point of dying... Looking at this situation, it is hard to say whether the Dashun Dynasty will have another thirty years of good life!
When Li Laiheng was not firmly established as the "Shu Shun" crown prince, he was very envious of Liu Adou. But now, the more he becomes the Prince of Fujun, the more he enjoys it! If you become an emperor in the future, it will definitely be more interesting. How can you become a submissive master?
So since two years ago, he has advocated going south to Tumen and conquering Burma. In the future, without Sichuan and Yunnan, he can still be the emperor in Ava. It's hard to say whether the Dashun Dynasty will be able to sustain the country for a long time, but he won't worry about it in this life...
And his idea of expanding southward to survive coincided with Li Dingguo's.
It turns out that after Li Dingguo conquered Yunnan, he began to think about expanding to Myanmar. Because in the process of pacifying Yunnan, he became familiar with many small chieftains in Mu State in northern Myanmar. Through them, Li Dingguo learned that the military force of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar was quite weak - because of Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong, and Mang Yingli. The militancy of three generations of kings caused the Toungoo dynasty to suffer heavy losses. Therefore, after King Liangyuan and King Anabilong re-established Toungoo, they changed their previous national policies and no longer pursued expansion, but lived their own small lives. .
The Toungoo dynasty's pace of introducing Western military technology was also interrupted by the Salian Rebellion (Portuguese mercenary captain Philippe de Brito took advantage of the weakening Toungoo dynasty to separate the country from Salian and proclaimed himself king).
Therefore, the Taungoo dynasty's military power has been slowly declining since decades ago. By now, it had gone from being a powerful country that could resist the Ming Dynasty to a weak country that Li Dingguo seemed vulnerable to.
As for the sect-vassal relationship between Dashun and Taungoo... Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo don't care! Dashun is not the Ming Dynasty, they are just rogues!
However, after deciding to go south to Tumen, Dashun's senior officials decided to use some strategies to make victory easier. Song Xiance, who was good at calculating but always inaccurate, came up with the strategy of "attacking the north and attacking the south".
The Northern Expeditionary Army was established in Kunming with great fanfare, giving the Burmese people the illusion that the Great Shun Dynasty was about to launch a northern expedition to the Central Plains. They secretly contacted various small chieftains in Mu State and bribed them to serve as the leading party.
After the news of the restoration of the Qing Dynasty reached Kunming, on March 13, the seventh year of the Dashun rule, the Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army swore to fight for the Northern Expedition in Kunming!
Then, under the leadership of the two commanders Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo, they secretly went south and left Hanlong Pass. With the help of Hansid, they attacked Mubang Walled City and opened the door to Ava, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty.
There was a sound of horseshoes, and Li Laiheng, who was leading the Chinese army group on the rugged mountain road in Mubang, saw dozens of horses galloping in front of him. The two leading horses were Li Dingguo and Hanside.
"How is it?" Li Laiheng asked loudly before the horses the two of them were riding stopped in front of him, "Has the vanguard crossed the Ava River?"
The Awa River is located south of Mubang Walled City. The river leads directly to Awa City, the capital of the Toungoo Kingdom. The river is wide and the current is not too fast, so it is possible to sail.
After capturing Mubang, they built rafts of boats and rafts on both sides of the Ava River, and then followed the river and attacked Ava. This was part of the raid plan formulated by Li Dingguo and Hansid.
However, at the Awa River, Dashun's Northern Expeditionary Army encountered an unknown number of troops from the Toungoo Dynasty. Moreover, this Toungoo army also had more than a dozen war elephants, which seemed to be a bit powerful.
"Crossing the river!" Li Dingguo said with a smile, "The Toungoo people's army is vulnerable! We set up artillery on the north bank of the Ava River and bombarded it for a few rounds, but their elephants went crazy and fought randomly. Our elephants went crazy. The people took the opportunity to force the crossing in a small boat, and a few hundred-man troops killed them, but their thousands of people couldn't hold it anymore. They completely collapsed and asked us to kill a man with corpses everywhere."
Hansid added: "This army should be the garrison of Mubang sent by the Toungu Kingdom. It is the first-class elite soldier in Toungoo. But that's it... After all, Toungoo has already There has been no war for decades. Your Royal Highness, we should march quickly and capture Ava City in one fell swoop before Mang Dali and Mang Bai gather their troops!"
The military foundation of the Toungoo Dynasty was also a combination of soldiers and peasants, called Ahmudan, so it also had the weakness of slow mobilization and the inability to withstand long-term wars. The main reason for the decline of the Toungoo dynasty was that Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong, and Mang Yingli overstretched Ahmudan's power. In the past twenty or thirty years, the Toungoo dynasty has almost stopped fighting, and Ahmedan has become dull and decadent. After the defeat of a small standing army, it will be difficult for the Toungoo dynasty to organize a large number of Afghans in a short period of time. Hemudan Army.
That’s why the idea of raiding Hunstead came up with the idea of raiding Ava!
"No need!" Li Laiheng rejected Hansid's suggestion. "The army rested in Mubang and built warships, giving Mangdali and Mangbai time to gather the army... Now the army they have gathered is getting bigger and bigger. The more, the more casualties there will be! There are many elites in our Northern Expeditionary Army in Dashun who have survived hundreds of battles, and those peasants and soldiers cannot resist them. So we just need to take advantage of now to kill more! Kill them one hundred and eighty thousand, Let the people of Dongxu dare not rebel against me, the Great Shun Dynasty!"
