"Damn it! How could the navy of the Ming Dynasty do this? This is destroying the foundation of this king's empire!"
King Talong punched the table, extremely angry, and after pondering for a moment, he ordered: "Draft an edict to order the chieftains from various places to allow the expansion of troops! Tell them that when the Ming Navy comes, they will be divided The land is given to the untouchables. If they want their land not to be taken away, they must protect my kingdom with all their strength!"
Qin Liangyu is still marching hard in the tropical rain forest.
Since Myanmar is still in the rainy season, the army led by Qin Liangyu encountered pouring rain soon after entering Myanmar.
Moreover, the heavy rain continued for several days. All the officers and soldiers were soaked by the heavy rain, and the roads were blocked and it was difficult to walk.
It is also difficult to camp and rest.
Because the ground was full of mud and it was impossible to walk.
The whole army could only spend the night on horseback.
Therefore, not long after the expedition, many people in the entire army were still infected by this disease, especially the elite Guards Secret Service Battalion known as the Empire. Because most of them were northerners and were not accustomed to the acclimatization, many people were infected.
Fortunately, he also brought enough anti-malaria medicines and medical staff with the army.
Except for a small number of seriously ill people who need to be sent back to Yunnan for treatment, most of them only need to be treated and rested on site.
What's even more troublesome is that food and gunpowder are also affected by moisture.
There was no choice but to stay in a place with no village or store for several days, waiting for the weather to clear so that the food could be dried before marching.
But the morale of the entire army is still very high.
The main reason is that Qin Liangyu has high personal prestige and has rich experience in leading troops.
She knew that this kind of marching through mountains and wading water would be very hard for the soldiers, not to mention that most of them were local soldiers who were not very loyal to the court, so it was impossible for them to be without complaints.
Therefore, despite her age, she still ate and slept with the soldiers, so that the officers and soldiers had no complaints.
After all, an old lady who is over sixty years old is not afraid of getting tired. As the officers and soldiers who are almost all young men, they have the nerve to complain.
Of course, it is also related to the Ming Dynasty's sufficient logistics preparations. A large number of logistics supplies are carried by horses. Even an ordinary soldier is equipped with two or three horses. Even if one horse falls ill, there are still two available, so the officers and soldiers who go on the expedition are still full of energy. .
However, Myanmar still took advantage of the opportunity of heavy rain to affect the marching speed of the Ming army, and made a lot of preparations in advance and made many preparations on the unarranged road that the Ming army must pass.
Three months later, Qin Liangyu led the main force into Mubang.
This was originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
The defenders of Mubang abandoned the city and fled.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu's tribe successfully occupied Mu State.
But this was not because the Burmese army was afraid of the Ming army. Instead, it implemented a strategic shift with the intention of fleeing to the mountains to fight guerrillas with the Ming army. To this end, before escaping to the mountains, they also carried out a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and moved all the people in. In the mountains.
The Ming army did not find enough food when they arrived, and only found hundreds of stones of food after entering the mountains.
Before the expedition, Qin Liangyu also recruited a group of Han battalions in Yunnan and Guangxi. These battalions were originally used as a military force to check and balance the local soldiers. Now they were transferred to Burma to garrison the newly occupied cities.
Now after regaining Mubang, Qin Liangyu left three thousand Han soldiers in Mubang City and continued to advance towards Manjie with the main force.
Because Qin Liangyu had also learned through his informants that Myanmar was misled by her temporary change of the march plan, which led to the Myanmar side failing to respond in advance and organizing defenses at the Xifo River. In the end, the Myanmar side could only rush in the barbarian Organize the main force to respond to the enemy.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu came directly to Manjie based on the intelligence.
King Thalong has asked the Burmese army to build more than 20 wooden forts here, and built more than 20 military camps based on them, stretching for dozens of miles, all blocking the main roads.
The Burmese army used giant trees rich in tropical rainforests to form walls in various wooden villages, and the moist bark on the outside was not cut off, making it difficult for the Ming army to attack from the outside. The walls of the giant wooden villages were built with There are tall earth walls. In addition, there are deep ditches dug inside and outside the wooden and earth walls. Sharp bamboo sticks are inserted into the trenches. The bamboo sticks have stains from the water poured with dung or rotting animal corpses.
But if the Ming army wanted to capture Ava, they had to conquer these wooden villages one after another.
You can't attack with fire yet, because this is a tropical rainforest area and it's very humid.
In addition, Qin Liangyu found that there was no danger to defend his side, so Qin Liangyu had to face the risk of being attacked and overwhelmed by the Burmese army.
In order not to be overwhelmed by the Burmese army, Qin Liangyu could only take the initiative to attack.
In addition, Qin Liangyu only knows the principle of one rush, then exhaustion, and three failures. In addition, if it is delayed for a long time, food consumption will be aggravated.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu knew that he must launch an attack on these twenty wooden villages as soon as possible.
"Enter the dense forest and form a formation, with the white-pole soldiers in front of the formation, the secret service battalion behind the formation, and the rest in the middle."
Qin Liangyu first issued the order to form the formation.
Here, Mang Dahe, the Burmese general guarding Muzhai, saw this and knew that his chance of sending cavalry to rush into the battle was gone, and the Fang Ming army was obviously prepared.
Qin Liangyu, on the other hand, took advantage of nightfall to divide the Guangxi and Yunnan soldiers into two groups to occupy the mountain ridges east and west of the first wooden village, surrounded the first wooden village on three sides, and made a plan to attack the wooden village behind first. village, and implement a posture of dividing and surrounding the wooden village in front.
Seeing this, Mang Dahe couldn't help but said: "You dare to divide your troops! Let Sihuzi lead the troops out of the stronghold to attack the Ming army who is still in the forest!"
Qin Liangyu did not really want to attack the wooden village behind, but deliberately divided his troops to show weakness and deceived the Burmese army, and lured the Burmese army out to fight.
Because as soon as the experienced Qin Liangyu saw the quality of the Burmese army, he knew that the Burmese army was not good at field combat. Otherwise, he would not have distinguished the colors of the clothes of officers and soldiers so clearly, so that as long as they fought in the wild, their archers could be accurate. Shoot its officers.
What Qin Liangyu left behind in the forest were his direct line of white pole soldiers and the Guards' special agent battalion.
The white-pole soldiers were extremely skilled in archery, and they could shoot equally well with the Manchu heavy armored infantry.
The Guards' special agent battalion holds percussion rifled guns, which are highly accurate and can hit wherever they are pointed.
Therefore, when the Burmese army rushed over condescendingly, the Guards Special Agent Battalion and White Pole Soldiers who had already set up their positions also began to fire arrows and bullets.
Because the leaders of the Burmese army all wear red clothes, and the soldiers all wear green clothes.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu directly ordered the officers and soldiers on his side to target the red-coated man directly.
As a result, the arrows and bullets of the Guards Special Agent Battalion and the White Guards were like having eyes, specifically targeting the Burmese Army officers.
Not long after, more than 500 officers of the Burmese army were annihilated, and the entire Burmese army collapsed.
Then, Qin Liangyu ordered the Tengpai soldiers as a reserve team to rush out to pursue. During the pursuit, they annihilated thousands of Burmese troops.
The Burmese army suffered a disastrous defeat and retreated to the stronghold.
Mang Dahe was quite depressed when he saw this.
But after that, the Burmese army also learned its lesson and did not dare to take risks in field battles with the Ming army again.
Because his army was frightened by the Ming army in this battle, and there were crazy rumors that the Ming army's firearms were like having eyes, and they could hit whoever they wanted. They were so brave that they did not fight against the Ming army. The fighting Myanmar troops were frightened.
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