Myanmar in the twelfth lunar month is sunny and beautiful, and the scenery is lush and green, just like the late spring in the north of the Ming Dynasty when the grass grows fat and the sheep are fat.
There are even palm leaves swaying on the banks of the river, just like beauties dancing, making people's hearts enchanted.
The Ming Dynasty cavalry who appeared here standing side by side were all holding three-eyed muskets, showing meaningful smiles. The horses also snorted when they sat down, shaking their manes, unable to hide their excitement.
"kill!"
Suddenly, thousands of horses galloped, flags covered the sky, like iron currents rolling across the earth, and all the green was lost in the black.
The Taungoo dynasty of Myanmar now dares to invade Yunnan of the Ming Dynasty. The greatest confidence is in its own country. In the plains along the Jinsha River and Nujiang River in southern Myanmar and the delta plains entering the sea, it has established a farming civilization, and its population has reached five Six million.
Agricultural civilization of this scale provided the Toungoo Dynasty with sufficient military resources and financial resources, which also fueled the ambition of the Toungoo Dynasty monarch Mang Yingli to expand externally and even plan the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan.
However, the permanent population of Yunnan, which was in direct contact with Myanmar during the Ming Dynasty, was only two to three million. Moreover, because Yunnan was Sinicized by the Central Plains Dynasty not long ago, not only were there few Han people who moved there, but the ethnic composition was also complex, unlike the Toungoo Dynasty. The plain areas are basically inhabited by the Shan people, resulting in local areas. The Ming Dynasty is inferior to the Burmese and Yi in terms of military resources and the material support that can be quickly provided.
Therefore, Li Rusong was ordered to lead his troops on a long journey to southern Myanmar and stab him in the back, in order to reduce this advantage of Myanmar.
Therefore, after Li Rusong gave the order, the cavalry under his command began to gallop in the delta and riverine plains in southern Myanmar.
The first person to be plowed by the Ming army was Mao Danmei, the capital of Mon State in Myanmar.
This is the mouth of the Nu River and a natural haven.
The Navy had already taken a liking to this place after exploring it all night long, so it had already asked the Privy Council for permission to let the Land Horse and Infantry plow the place thoroughly so that the Navy could move the southern Han refugees who could withstand the heat in the country here. Come and build trading posts and garrison bases.
There are not many Burmese soldiers in Mao Danmian, only 200 soldiers and a few officials as well as some Burmese nobles recuperating here.
Because their ruler was also a feudal landowner and had a weak sense of sea power, he never thought that the Ming army would stab him in the back door. He only concentrated his forces on attacking Yunnan in the north and Siam in the east.
That's right.
When it comes to great achievements and military force, the monarch of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mang Yingli, was much crazier than Zhu Yijun. Relying on the scale of his farming civilization with a population of five to six million, he insisted on fighting on two fronts, both in the north and the huge Ming Empire. Fighting against each other, and trying to annex Siam in the east, which was not a weak country in this era.
At any rate, Zhu Yijun was forced to use troops against Burma only after the large-scale use of troops against Japan was completed. He even used troops after completing internal reforms, solving Xiaomin's difficulties, increasing financial resources, and adjusting the internal interest distribution structure.
Unlike Mang Yingli, internal reforms were not carried out, and the people were still in dire straits. As a result, as soon as he came to the throne, he used troops frantically, first conquering Siam and then invading Ming Burma.
Moreover, the conquest of Siam has lasted for more than ten years. Otherwise, Siam would not have been so cooperative with the Ming Dynasty in sending troops to destroy Burma, because Myanmar had already launched a war of aggression against Siam, which was even worse than the invasion of the Ming Dynasty. Many years earlier.
Back to the topic.
Therefore, because Myanmar has raised troops in two places, it does not have many internal troops. The seaside hinterland of Mao Danmian is no different from an empty city. The remaining officers and soldiers are not elite, but are used as second-rate weak soldiers to suppress domestic civil unrest.
When the iron hooves of the Ming cavalry came rolling in, Mao Danmian's defenders' legs weakened, dropped their spears and ran into the city.
The Ming army rushed directly into the city, took up three-eyed blunderbuss, lit the match, and killed the Burmese soldiers who had not run far in front of them to the ground.
These Burmese soldiers were covered in blood from the bullets of the three-eyed gun, and they were curled up on the ground in pain.
If the Ming Army's military merit reward system had not been reformed and merit was no longer recorded on the basis of heads, these Burmese and barbarian soldiers would soon be beheaded.
However, the Ming army now only focuses on completing military tasks to record their merits. They just fired a cannon and continued to rush in. They also threw torches at some wooden houses and pavilions in the city that looked quite standard. The small porcelain bottle of kerosene was thrown over.
Suddenly, a raging fire broke out in the market near Mao Danmian's city gate.
Those who can live in wooden houses and pavilions are Burmese aristocratic landowners and family members with a sack of cotton. These people are the backbone of the Toungoo Dynasty.
At this time, many of them were crying and howling because of the Ming army's appearance, and had to run out.
As soon as these people came out, the Ming cavalry waiting outside immediately drew their bows and arrows and shot countless people. For a while, the whole street was littered with corpses, as if it had been washed with blood.
outside the city.
The iron hooves of the Ming army were also frantically plowing the court and sweeping holes.
"ah!"
Many Burmans living in the countryside were directly shot or killed by the Ming cavalry who suddenly attacked.
At this time, Xu Changdong, the general under Li Rusong, personally shot down a young Burmese man, threw him into the river, and then rushed into the Qingtian, trampling the rice seedlings with his horses and hitting the tenant servants with muskets.
Situations like this are happening across southern Myanmar.
The Ming army was like a wolf that had fallen into a herd of sheep, killing very freely without any difficulty.
You must know that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry led by Li Rusong is no longer just a pure cavalry, but a unit of infantry, artillery and cavalry formed by Li Chengliang under the influence of Qi Jiguang and others' military ideas of combining infantry, artillery and cavalry. Otherwise, they would not be able to capture Gule Village.
Many Ming troops were mounted as cavalry, and dismounted as heavy armored infantry who were good at attacking fortresses.
This is the battle mode that the Ming Empire evolved after fighting the Jurchens and Mongols in the north for many years, and fighting Japanese pirates and Xiyi in the south. Even the so-called Eight Banners heavy armored infantry and firearms and cavalry in later generations pacified the Junggar battle formations. All originate from this time.
It can be said that the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Army that suddenly came to southern Myanmar was an army at the peak of the agricultural civilization regime of this era.
It is not comparable to the early stage of agricultural civilization that has just been established in Myanmar.
Although the mainstream civilization in this world is still based on farming, there are actually levels within it.
Just like in the fantasy cultivation and upgrading system, what is the meaning of Dacheng Peak and Dzogchen in a realm.
The civilization level of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar was naturally much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty. In the north, they could also use their geographical advantages and population advantages to bully the indigenous people of Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty. However, in the south, once the climate could not pose a threat to the Ming army's border troops, they would have no choice but to be defeated. A share of wanton slaughter.
Dagon.
Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar in later generations.
In this life, it was also the largest city in the south of the Toungoo Dynasty, and it was also the main seaside resort for the nobles of the Toungoo Dynasty.
Li Rusong resisted the urge to personally lead the charge to kill ordinary Burmese barbarians. Instead, after sending some of the cavalry to kill, he continued to form troops in the rear.
Therefore, half a month after he sent Ye Bushou to explore the Dagon area, he learned that almost all of the more than 5,000 Burmese soldiers in the Dagon area had left the city to suppress the rebellion, so he decisively led the emperor's troops who had not dispersed. Wei Yiying and Zha Dashou's green camp came to Dagon.
Then, Li Rusong used his own army guards as the supervising team, and asked the green battalion soldiers composed of Jurchen Yiding to attack the fortress. He also personally rewarded those who climbed the city with thousands of taels.
So, like savages, the Jurchen Yiding who valued Qianliang rushed to Dagon City desperately, killed all the Qianliang defenders left in Dagon City, and also killed Taungu who was recuperating in Dagon City. All the nobles of the dynasty, including many members of the Mang clan, were killed.
Li Rusong also directly made a big move and took the big city of Dagon, which can reduce the population of Myanmar to a greater extent, especially the upper class and craftsmen of Myanmar, because these people are mainly concentrated in the big city.
Just like in the history of the Battle of Ningxia, he took advantage of the terrain and used the water of the Yellow River to capture the important town of Ningxia occupied by the rebels. However, in this life, due to the influence of Zhu Yijun, Li Chengliang, Qi Jiguang, etc., he made progress in advance and knew how to use troops. Yuqi.
"Spare your life! Spare your life!"
"Where did you come from? Can you spare us? We are willing to give all our belongings, including all the young and beautiful girls!"
After the Burmese nobles in Dagon City inquired, they ran out and knelt on the ground, shivering, begging the Ming army. They did not expect that such a powerful army suddenly came from the comfortable rear area, and they could only be flattering for a while.
"cut!"
Uh-huh!
Uh-huh!
Uh-huh!
However, the Ming army still issued a beheading order, and in the end all these nobles were killed.
When Li Rusong entered Dagon City, fires were already everywhere in Dagon City, corpses filled the streets, and the city was filled with blood.
