"Moo!"
"Moo!"
"Moo!"
Another deafening roar of elephants came.
Qin Bangping, who was guarding Mubang, could guess that his sister might have captured Ava and was coming to help him, which made him, King Long, eager to annihilate him in advance.
Qin Bangping asked solemnly: "How much food and ammunition do we have left?"
"Running out!"
"Especially the ammunition!"
"A heavy rain a few days ago caused a reservoir to burst, and the ammunition stored nearby was wetted. We can only continue to fight hand-to-hand with these Burmese elephant soldiers, but this will consume a lot of food!"
Weng Zhiqi, the commander-in-chief of his command, replied.
After hearing this, Qin Bangping punched the battlement and said, "I don't know if Zou Futai and the others have returned to Yunnan, and will the imperial court send reinforcements?!"
"My lord! Do you think it is false that the imperial court will destroy Burma? Is it true that it wants to use the hands of the Burmese people to get rid of our white-armed soldiers? Could it be that the man named Zou knew the imperial court's intention in advance and asked for help in the name of it? Flee back to Yunnan first?"
Tan Ning asked.
"Even if the imperial court had this intention, it would not do it so ugly!"
Qin Bangping said, "No matter what, Mubang must be defended! Later, you will personally lead your brothers to rush out and repel these Burmese elephant soldiers."
"yes!"
After Tan Ning replied, he really took the initiative to charge towards the Burmese elephant soldiers with his white pole soldiers. The two sides fought fiercely in the woods. In the end, the Burmese soldiers still failed to conquer the first line of defense of the Ming army in Mubang.
However, the Ming army suffered a lot of losses, and Zhang Zi, the Ming army general, was seriously injured.
However, because King Thalung strictly ordered that Mu Bang must be taken, and he personally led the victorious soldiers to supervise the battle team, then the Burmese soldiers continued to attack Mu Bang.
The Ming army still relied on the terrain to fight fiercely.
It was okay at first, but as the two sides battled for longer and longer.
Because the climate throughout Myanmar has entered the dry season, the weather is hot and miasma is rampant.
The many white-pole soldiers in the Ming army also suffered a large number of non-combat attrition.
In addition, food and ammunition began to become increasingly scarce.
Therefore, Commander-in-Chief Tan Ning could not help but persuade Qin Bangping again: "Master Guo, why don't we break out! That man named Zou must have tricked us!"
"We can't break out! We can't lose Mubang! Even if we die, we have to die here!"
When Qin Bangping said this, he put the knife on Tan Ning's neck and said, "If you say this again, I will kill you! Next, you rest and stay in the city to command, I will lead the people out!"
Seeing this, Tan Ning could only reply: "Yes!"
As he spoke, Qin Bangping drew his sword and personally led a group of white-pole soldiers under his command and held rattan-brand soldiers to kill them. He once again repelled the attack of the Burmese soldiers, and took the opportunity to cut a lot of elephant meat back and said to Tan Ning: "These will be food from now on!"
Next, Qin Bangping and other officers and soldiers guarding Mubang not only took the initiative to rush out of the position to snatch the killed elephants and feed on the elephant meat, but also cut down the trees and took out the bullets embedded in the trees. They were able to continue fighting fiercely with the Burmese soldiers who besieged them.
For a while, the river outside Mubang was always red.
The bodies piled up like mountains, and there was no time to clean them up.
Most of the Ming troops guarding here suffered losses, many of them veterans who had fought bloody battles with the Donglu in Liaodong.
Qin Liangyu's side was also engaged in a fierce battle for position.
The Burmese soldiers rushed towards the wooden stronghold built by Qin Liangyu's troops as if they were crazy. They did not stop even though his corpses filled the ravine.
Qin Liangyu, on the other hand, did not know how many times he had taken the lead in repelling the sieges of Burmese soldiers.
At this time, she already had more than a dozen injuries on her body, her hair had been condensed into strips due to blood, and the sword given to her by Zhu Youxiao also had several chips.
However, these are nothing to her. What really saddens her is that many of the white-armed soldiers who went to Liaodong with her personally did not die in the hands of the Donglu people, but died here in battle.
"Madam, is it right for us to attack Burma? This time, instead of defending our country, we have lost so many men in vain! What do Your Majesty and the others think? Why do they want to attack Burma?"
Qin Liangyu's daughter-in-law Zhang Fengyi couldn't help but ask Qin Liangyu at this time.
Qin Liangyu smiled bitterly: "How can the emperor's favor be so easy to bear? From the moment you and Xianglin followed me to the capital, our fate today was doomed. We are the swords in His Majesty's hand. The swords are not used to kill the enemy. You can only be burned to death! Yi'er, would you rather drink blood and die, or be burned to death?"
Zhang Fengyi did not answer, but asked: "Will the imperial court send reinforcements?"
"Will do!"
When Qin Liangyu saw the Burmese soldiers climbing up again, he couldn't help but stand up, gripped the sword tightly, and said: "Your Majesty can't let us die in vain! He is not a master who likes to suffer!"
"Kill!"
After Qin Liangyu finished speaking, he rushed towards the Burmese soldiers first.
Zhang Fengyi also hurriedly followed.
The Burmese soldiers were repulsed again.
The reason why the Burmese soldiers have not yet conquered Mubang and the Muzhai held by Qin Liangyu is that firstly, the Ming army guarding these two places has adopted a defensive attitude, and secondly, the further the Burmese soldiers go to the back, the less confident they are in defeating the Ming Dynasty. military.
Many Burmese chieftains have even refused to carry out King Thalong's orders, and instead resorted to siege.
At first, these Burmese soldiers could still resist because of their common national interests, but as time went on, their bloody spirit declined faster.
Therefore, in the end, the Burmese soldiers' offensive became smaller and smaller.
However, due to too many wounded and sick people and insufficient food and ammunition, the Ming army could only hold on and was unable to protrude any further.
The two sides reached a stalemate.
…
Zou Weilian's general Wang Jun led the Tengpai soldiers back to Kunming over the mountains.
After all, these shield soldiers grew up in the mountains. Except for a few who accidentally fell off the cliff while climbing the cliff, most of them were not seriously injured.
The 10,000 reserve Dai troops who stayed in Kunming came to Mubang under the leadership of the commander-in-chief Zeng Ying.
These Dai soldiers were recruited and trained by Zeng Yingfeng from the Dai people in Yunnan. They were very adaptable to the tropical rainforest climate in Myanmar. Therefore, they marched very quickly and soon approached Mu State.
Ming Dynasty has been expanding its railway lines in recent years, and now it has mainly built two.
One is from Liaoyang to the capital, the purpose is to facilitate the navigation of the Northeast.
One is from Xi'an to the capital, the purpose is to facilitate the current strategy of conquering the west.
Yang Zhan and his task force took the railway line from the capital to Xi'an to the southwest, then passed through Hanzhong into Sichuan, and then rushed to Yunnan.
After Yang Zhan learned that Zeng Ying had rushed to aid Mubang, he rushed directly to Ava to prepare to meet Qin Liangyu.
…
At this time, King Thalung of Myanmar did not know that the reinforcements of the Ming army had entered Myanmar. Now, because many chieftains in Myanmar were unwilling to lead troops to attack the Ming army, he had to personally lead the victorious troops, that is, his royal guards, to concentrate on the attack. Qin Liangyu's main force launched a strong attack.
"Kill the Army of Light! Protect my homeland!"
King Talong shouted because of this, and with a sword in his hand, he rushed towards the wooden stronghold guarded by Qin Liangyu.
Qin Liangyu said with a solemn expression: "Even if you die, you will die on the way to charge. Sons, follow me to kill the enemy!"
For a time, the Ming army and the Burmese army were still fighting hand-to-hand because they used almost the same amount of ammunition, and they once again collided fiercely like two torrents.
boom!
boom!
boom!
But at this time, there was a thunder-like sound of cannons outside.
Both Ming and Myanmar couldn't help but stop.
For a moment, Zhang Fengyi realized it first and couldn't help but ran towards Qin Liangyu with joy: "Madam, it's our reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty! It's the signal flare from my reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty! Our reinforcements are here!"
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