Soon after Qin Bangping led his troops back to Mubang, he discovered that there were a large number of Burmese soldiers not far from Mubang city, overwhelming the sky.
"Looking at the size of this joint camp, it is estimated to be no less than 200,000. They should have started moving along various mountain roads very early. Relying on the fact that they are more familiar with the terrain here than us, they want to gather most of the troops and move our food routes. Cut off and turn the Ming army that stayed in Myanmar into a lonely army! In this way, we can not only use the hands of the chieftains from all over Myanmar to eat up all the troops that our Ming Dynasty sent into Myanmar, and reverse the situation of the war; we can also use the help of our Ming army. He is consuming the chieftains from all over the country, and the Burmese king’s chess piece is quite big!”
After Zou Weilian carefully observed these Burmese troops, he returned to the city and spoke to Qin Bangping.
Qin Bangping nodded: "My sister guessed it right, and so did the Privy Council. Prince Long will indeed take aim at our food route. While my sister is leading the main force to advance in triumph, he secretly dispatches a large number of troops to cut off our food supply." Dao! Although we are fully prepared, we only have more than 15,000 troops. The comparison of military strength is too big. In addition, my sister is still attacking Ava. This country cannot be surrounded forever! We still have to return to Yunnan to report to the court. Reinforcements please."
"Let me go, I will lead my soldiers out!"
Zou Weilian said at this time.
After hearing this, Qin Bangping pondered for a while and said, "Please help me!"
So, Zou Weilian led his Biao camp soldiers to break out.
Here, Qin Bangping began to order soldiers to pull barbed wire, dig trenches, and set up various traps within five miles outside the city. He personally led 6,000 white pole soldiers to seize the two high slopes in the north and south that had just been occupied by the troops of a certain chieftain in Myanmar. .
"kill!"
Zou Weilian led his Biao battalion soldiers to kill in the middle area where the two Burmese chieftains were in contact.
But the Burmese army was well prepared and knew that the Ming army would break through.
Therefore, when Zou Weilian was raiding a Burmese army camp with his elephant soldiers, he encountered a large number of elephant soldiers gathering towards him.
Therefore, Zou Weilian had to order his subordinates to form a three-line formation to deal with these elephant soldiers.
Zou Weilian's model battalions are all armed forces that he learned from Zhu Xieyuan. When he was the governor of Yunnan, he began to take in Miao orphans and raise and train them. These armed forces are all under his command. Although there are only more than a thousand troops, their combat strength is Still very strong.
However, although Zou Weilian's pacesetter battalion used fusilier formations to repulse several attacks by the Burmese elephant soldiers, the Burmese elephant soldiers did not intend to let Zou Weilian wait back to Yunnan, but still besieged Zou Weilian's pacesetter camp.
Therefore, Zou Weilian had to discuss with Wang Jun, the general of his standard battalion: "You take the most powerful five hundred rattan standard soldiers to break out through the mountain road, and I will take the remaining troops to fight against them here!"
"How can this be done? You will be in trouble if you stay here. Why don't we retreat to Mu State? As long as we retreat to Mu State, these Burmese soldiers will not intercept us with all their strength!"
Wang Jun said therefore.
"But going back like this is not beneficial to the overall situation. We came out to report the news to the court and ask for rescue! There is no wired telegraph in Mubang. As long as you rush back to Yongchang, you can inform the court through the wired telegraph that has just been laid to Yongchang, and the court will You can know it right away! If I stay here and raise the battle flag, I can attract the attention of Myanmar, and you can just follow the mountain road back to Yunnan. Besides, I am a weak official, and following you on the mountain road will be a drag after all!"
Zou Weilian said.
"But?"
Wang Jun wanted to say something more, but Zou Weilian waved his hands and said: "Nothing to worry about! Obey the order! Although I am the governor now, Your Majesty has asked me to temporarily assume the power of Governor Meng Gong. You must not disobey the order!"
"yes!"
Therefore, Wang Jun had to select the most capable five hundred Yunnan Tengpai soldiers and went into the mountains.
Zou Weilian encountered a large-scale attack by Burmese elephant soldiers early the next morning.
At first, Zou Weilian only defended according to the terrain, using a three-line formation to repel the Burmese elephant soldiers several times. However, because he ran out of ammunition and food, he had to directly order his subordinates to attach bayonets to their flintlocks, and he himself drew his sword. They charged back together.
The Burmese elephant soldiers relied on sitting on the large elephants to attack the Ming army from a high position.
In the end, Zou Weilian and the five hundred pacesetters around him were wiped out, and he himself was surrounded by the Burmese Elephant Corps.
But before being captured alive, Zou Weilian simply committed suicide.
Qin Bangping still doesn't know Zou Weilian's situation here. He is currently preventing the officers and soldiers from digging trenches for drainage.
Because the cunning Burmese soldiers blocked the river upstream of them, apparently drowning them with floods, Qin Bangping simply ordered the entire army to dig ditches for drainage downstream. Some dry river ditches were dug directly.
Seeing that the flooding plan failed, the Burmese soldiers simply attacked directly.
A large number of Burmese soldiers armed with darts, bows and arrows, and various Western firearms were like locusts, densely packed towards Mubang City.
The roar of the elephants echoed throughout the countryside.
Qin Bangping was calm and did not think about whether Zou Weilian broke out.
Now he only wants to hold Mubang, and it is even better to force Burma to withdraw its troops, because his sister Qin Liangyu is still attacking Ava.
Therefore, Qin Bangping decisively commanded his white pole soldiers to directly attack and defeat the Burmese soldiers all the way to prevent them from succeeding.
Moreover, Qin Bangping directly requested to take the initiative to attack the two strongest elephant soldiers among the Burmese soldiers.
"Kill!"
Several white-armed soldiers who had fought many battles, holding shields in one hand and white-armed guns in the other, took the initiative to charge towards the Burmese elephant soldiers.
Then, the densely packed white-barrel guns braved the rain of bullets and stabbed the huge but clumsy elephants to the point where they ran away in pain. As a result, many Burmese soldiers were thrown off their horses and were killed by the white-barrel soldiers behind them. Stabbed to death.
Of course, the white pole soldiers also suffered heavy casualties. Many were shot dead by the Burmese soldiers sitting on the elephants. In addition, many were trampled by the running elephants.
It can be said that this is a fierce battle.
In the end, because the casualty collapse rate of the white pole soldiers was smaller than that of the Burmese troops, it was the Burmese elephant soldiers who were defeated and retreated.
After all, the Baigan soldiers are all chieftains, and they all know that if they don’t win this battle, they, Qin Liangyu, the actual leader of the Shili chieftain who is still attacking Ava, and his own brothers who followed Qin Liangyu to attack Ava will all return. Not going to Sichuan.
Because of this, the Burmese soldiers gave up the attack and instead turned to siege and cut off the water source. They believed that the Ming army would not save much food, bullets, and crossbows in Mu State.
But Zou Weilian brought a lot of food and ammunition to Mubang in advance, and he was also prepared for a rainy day. Before Qin Bangping came back, he directly built a water storage reservoir here with cement, and built dozens of water storage reservoirs directly in the city.
Therefore, Qin Bangping did not run out of food or water.
Qin Liangyu's side has captured Ava, but King Talong has moved to Lashio.
Qin Liangyu asked Jiao Lian to lead the Guards Special Agent Battalion to stay in Ava, while she led the rest of the officers and soldiers to rush to Mubang. She had learned through her scouts that a large number of Burmese soldiers suddenly appeared in Mubang.
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