Qin Liangyu saw that the Burmese army was cowardly and could not come out of the stronghold, and no matter how she tried to lure them, it was ineffective, so she finally decided to attack by force.
After several tentative attacks, Qin Liangyu discovered that the Burmese army had the strongest troops deployed in the west of the Muzhai Group.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu and the generals discussed and decided to attack the west side of the Muzhai Group next. After annihilating the strong soldiers there, the entire Burmese army's Muzhai Group could be destroyed without attacking.
So, on this morning, Qin Liangyu commanded the Ming army to take advantage of the heavy fog and begin to swoop towards the west of the Burmese Muzhai Group.
Qin Liangyu personally led the white pole soldiers and the chieftain soldiers from the southwest to charge, taking the lead.
Qin Liangyu handed over the coordination task to Jiao Lian.
Jiao Lian led the Guards Special Agent Battalion to use the advanced muskets in his hands to accurately shoot at the Burmese army on the stronghold from the outside, allowing the white pole soldiers and the southwestern chieftain soldiers holding shields to avoid being attacked by the Burmese army on the stronghold. A large number of attacks were carried out, and thus they successfully advanced to the wall of the village.
And because the heavy fog shrouded the surroundings and the visibility was not high, the Burmese army did not know how many musketeers there were besides the group of musketeers from the Ming Guards' special battalion that appeared in front of them. They were quite panicked for a while and could only support them everywhere.
Some Burmese soldiers were even forced to come down to the stronghold and fight hand-to-hand with the Ming soldiers because they were afraid of the Ming army's muskets.
Qin Liangyu personally killed many Burmese soldiers.
Along the way there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Many chieftains of the Ming Army from the southwest seemed to be on the same level as this steep mountain fortress. Some even directly carried their shields, knives, and shoes and socks on their backs, and borrowed vines and protruding stones from the cliff with their bare hands and feet. , braved the rain of arrows and bullets and climbed directly to the Shangmu Village, like a monkey.
The rushing canyon river below does not seem to bring fear to these people who grew up in the mountains.
Lan Peng, a rattan soldier from Yongchang, Yunnan, even climbed up a towering wall of a wooden village with his bare hands and rushed directly into the wooden village. There were hundreds of Burmese soldiers inside the wooden village. Lan Peng was not afraid at all and decisively attacked. He took off his shield and sword, held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and directly attacked these Burmese soldiers, slashing and slashing, as if they were in an uninhabited land.
Seeing this, other Ming army chieftain soldiers also continued to climb, and gradually more than ten Ming army chieftains and rattan soldiers rushed into the wooden village.
Qin Liangyu also led his army into the stronghold after that.
On this day, the Ming army finally captured the two highest wooden villages in the entire Manjie wooden village group.
Qin Liangyu took the opportunity to let the Ming army attack other wooden villages from a high position, and directly captured eighteen wooden villages at once.
The Burmese army tried to counterattack at night, but the counterattack failed because the Ming army had the sky-shattering thunder popularized by the use of mercury fulminate technology.
Seeing that there was no hope of retaking Muzhai, the Burmese army had to retreat.
As a result, Qin Liangyu's troops successfully captured Manjie and reported their victory to Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao was very happy to learn about this good news.
Although many southwestern chieftain soldiers were lost in the capture of Muzhai this time, it was a tough battle after all. Even if there were warriors like Lan Peng who successfully captured Muzhai, many were injured by the Burmese army's firearms and fell off the cliff or even into the rapid river. among.
But for Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, this was his purpose, to consume the southwestern chieftain soldiers through this difficult battle.
However, in order to prevent the southwestern chieftain soldiers from refusing to charge for the central court, Zhu Youxiao naturally did not hesitate to reward those who made meritorious services and even those who survived.
Lan Peng, who performed the most bravely in this battle, was directly promoted to a general by him, and he was ordered to go to Beijing to study in the general class of the Ming Dynasty Lecture Hall in order to be reused.
At the same time, Zhu Youxiao directly attributed Qin Liangyu's merits to his younger brother Qin Bangping, named him Yi Guogong, and ordered the world to guard Mu State. He intended to use the method of extending favor to further break down some large southwestern chieftains into more small ones. toast.
For Lan Peng and Qin Bangping, they could not refuse Emperor Tianqi's arrangement.
First of all, for Lan Peng, an ordinary shield soldier, the chieftain's interests have little to do with him. The emperor allows him to transcend social classes and become a senior general of the empire, and he will only be grateful.
As the main figure of Shili Tusi, Qin Bangping would only be a main figure if he stayed in Shili Tusi, not the real master of Shili Tusi.
In the final analysis, the head of Shili Tusi is still from the Ma family. He is just a relative by marriage and cannot inherit his sister's title.
But now that the emperor has made him the Duke of the country and asked him to guard the country for the rest of his life, it is undoubtedly better for him to be a local emperor like the Mu family in Yunnan than to be a chieftain in Shili.
Qin Bangping would only shed tears of gratitude to the emperor.
As long as the chieftain officers and soldiers performed bravely in battle, Zhu Youxiao would quickly promote them personally and show their kindness, thereby achieving the purpose of dividing the chieftain internally.
The southwestern chieftain soldiers who conquered Burma also received generous rewards from Colonel Zhu You for their bravery in the Battle of Manjie, which greatly boosted their morale. They performed very bravely in the various fortified battles that followed when they advanced to Ava, although many died in the battle. There were only a few people, but in the end, with bloody courage, they captured Song Sai, another important town after Manjie.
However, the discipline of these southwestern chieftain soldiers is indeed very poor. Now they are attacking Burma without any control from the imperial government and they are even more unscrupulous.
Qin Liangyu couldn't control it either.
Therefore, next, the entire Songsai and several surrounding cities were slaughtered by the southwestern chieftain soldiers.
Many of the people who were massacred in Myanmar and the Ming army's southwestern chieftain soldiers were of the same race.
But national sentiment is very fragile in the face of interests.
The southwestern chieftain soldiers of the Ming army needed to reward themselves for their hard work by burning, killing and looting.
Although some of the upper-class chieftains and nobles among them knew that this was a conspiracy of the imperial court, and that the imperial court was using them to cleanse the indigenous forces in Myanmar, they could not stop the massacre and plunder of their subordinates, and even accepted the filial piety of their subordinates.
The chieftains in various cities in Myanmar were naturally unwilling to be arbitrarily slaughtered by these chieftain soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, and they resisted very fiercely.
Next, in the Battle of Xiangkong, the soldiers of various chieftains in Myanmar showed a very strong fighting spirit and fought fiercely with the southwestern chieftain soldiers of the Ming army for several days. Even elephant soldiers were dispatched from Myanmar.
But in the end, because the Ming army was superior to the Burmese army in both artillery and musketry, and the Burmese army had to divide its forces to guard the Ming navy's attack in the south, Qin Bangxian's reinforcements had a chance to arrive, which made The Ming army won the final victory.
The reinforcements led by Qin Bangxian were all white-poled soldiers, and they were very active in reinforcing Qin Liangyu. In addition, Qin Bangxian himself had just been named a prince, and he was very eager to repay the emperor's kindness, so he even walked hundreds of miles at night on the mountain road to reach here.
However, after this battle, the Ming army's southwestern chieftain soldiers also suffered more than 3,000 casualties, many of whom were elites who had fought fiercely with the Donglu in Liaodong.
The losses on the Burmese side were even more severe, forcing them to give up the direct confrontation with the Ming army and adopt a strategy of luring the enemy deep into the country. They burned stockpiles and emptied villages along the way, so that the Ming army, which had little food and tired horses, could not find any supplies along the way. And fell into a state of distress, and in the end had to kill horses to satisfy hunger.
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