An army is marching through the mountains of Mu State in northern Myanmar.
Standing in the middle of the team, you can't see the end when you look forward, and you can't see the end when you look back. It was vast, with tens of thousands of people and horses. The front army has already reached the banks of the Awa River in Mu State, Myanmar, while the rear army has just moved out of Hanlong Pass in the Tengyue Department of Yunnan Province.
Zhu Youlang, Emperor Zhaozong of the Ming Dynasty, was also among this team. He was lying in a large red-painted nanmu coffin, carried by sixteen sturdy men, and came lifelessly.
Wu Guogui, who personally saw Yongli Emperor Bintian off, was wearing sackcloth and mourning, riding a big white horse, surrounded by a group of cuirassiers and generals of the Wu family army, and walked behind the coffin of Emperor Yongli with a look of sorrow and indignation - he was The second time he was sent to the army in the name of avenging Emperor Yongli, so the expression on this old face must show the indignation in his heart.
He was wearing Xiaojia and carrying the coffin on the expedition, so of course he couldn't smile.
Moreover, the Toungoo dynasty of Burma was indeed so hateful. They actually kidnapped Emperor Yongli and gave it to his adoptive father Wu Sangui. This was treasonous! The Toungoo Kingdom of Burma was a vassal of the Ming Dynasty no matter what. The ministers kidnapped the monarch and presented it to the enemy country, killing the monarch. Although it was Wu Guogui who personally delivered Yongli Bintian, it was actually the Toungu Kingdom that killed Yongli... Wu Guogui was an executioner, and you should not seek revenge from the executioner if you have any grievances or grudges!
Wu Guogui thought to himself: "If I don't strangle him and let him arrive in Beijing alive, according to the rules of Qingyao, he will be executed in Lingchi! So there are only three enemies who killed Yongli. One is Obai. At that time, Kangxi Khan has not yet pro-government, he is still a little baby, but if he does, he will definitely kill Lord Yongli! The second is the old man (Wu Sangui), if he doesn’t ask King Dongxu for someone, he might not be able to Send people to Yunnan; thirdly, King Baimang of Toungoo... Although this guy is dead, his grandson Mahamala is still there, so he has to shoulder this blood feud!"
"Awa..." Wu Guogui muttered the name of the capital of Toungoo Kingdom. The capital of Toungoo Kingdom was originally located in Toungoo in Lower Burma. However, because King Mangyingli of Toungoo died under the brutal tyrant Mangyinglong, Later, unable to maintain the situation, he was defeated by Arakan and captured and subjugated. Later, King Liangyuan, the son of Mang Yinglong, turned the tide and established his capital in Ava, Upper Myanmar, to restore the country and save half of the rivers and mountains of Upper Myanmar. Later, Anabilong, the son of King Liangyuan, regained Lower Burma and reunified Burma. However, after the reunification, the Taungoo Kingdom of Myanmar was no longer as strong as before, and it never returned to Taungoo. It has been living in Awa City. The life was quite comfortable, and the national power was getting weaker and weaker. Therefore, the lords who were far away from Ava did not obey the command of the Ava royal court. King Toungoo gradually became the lord of Ava. Although he still controlled the fertile plains near Ava, there was no vassal who could do so for the time being. Take his place. . But he is no longer able to mobilize all the troops in Myanmar to resist the Tomorrow Army, and he probably has nowhere to escape. He should stick to the Awa Castle and hope that the rainy season in Myanmar will retreat the enemy...
Wu Guogui's Chinese army turned another corner on the mountain road, and what appeared before him were still mountains. Seeing the narrow mountain road winding into the valley, and the long marching team passing through it, as if it would never reach the end, Wu Guogui was inevitably a little impatient. He turned around and shouted: "Lao Gao! We are still far away from Ava City. how far?"
"Back to the general, there are still two hundred miles!" A gray-bearded veteran, half a horse behind Wu Guogui, immediately replied loudly, "We have now entered the direct jurisdiction of the Ava King City, and it is estimated that we will be here soon. There was a fight."
This old general is named Gao Dejie, and he is also a strong general under Wu Sangui. In the original history, he once faced off against Yue Le on the battlefield in Jiangxi, and won many times. However, in the end he failed in the struggle for power with his subordinate Han Daren. He died of depression...
But now he has received a good salary, and has become Wu Guogui's deputy general, and together with him he supervises the 70,000-strong army to conquer Ava in the south.
In fact, the war against Myanmar's Toungoo has been secretly prepared for several years. Zhu Heji had already hinted that Wu Guogui would have this day, and he also gave him enough military expenses and gave him several years to fight on the border between Ming and Myanmar. The Tengyue Hall hoarded grain and grass, and bribed the chieftains in Mu State in northern Myanmar - the original base of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar was Lower Burma, Awa was originally the territory of the Shan people, and the Mu State in the northeast of Awa was Han In the territory where the Yi people lived, many chieftains were "free loyal ministers". On the one hand, they surrendered to Ava, and on the other hand, they also paid tribute to Kunming.
After the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, they became more respectful to Wu Yingxiong, who became the King of Pingxi of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Yingqi, who became the general of Pingxi of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Wu Jiajun who attacked Myanmar made smooth progress in Mubang and encountered almost no resistance along the way. They were only delayed for a while outside the city of Mubang. The Mubang City was defended by troops sent by the King of Ava City. However, before the Wu army could launch a siege and bombard it with rocket launchers and Weiyuan artillery, the Toungoo army defending the city was scared away by a reconnaissance hot air balloon... .
However, the Dongyu Dynasty should still have relatively strong control around the city of Ava, and there might be a fierce battle!
At this moment, in the royal city of Ava, King Mahamala of Toungoo was sitting high on the throne, looking angrily at his brother Mang Along, who was also the governor of Mubang.
Mang Along came to plead guilty to King Mahamala - because he abandoned Mubang City, the northern gateway to Ava City, without fighting! This was not what angered Mahamela the most.
What made King Toungoo most angry was that Mang Along actually said that the invading Ming army was led by Emperor Yongli who died twenty years ago... and that Emperor Yongli had become Zombie, this time sitting in a coffin, bringing the underworld soldiers to seek revenge from the Toungu Kingdom!
"Brother Wang, what I say is true. You must believe me! I saw Yongli climb out of the coffin and board a flying ball as big as a flying ball in Mubang City, and then fly hundreds of feet High in the air! Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise I would be dead now..."
"Shut up!" King Mahamela was furious. Who is this? Why did his father leave him such a precious little brother? He actually said that Emperor Yongli, who had been dead for twenty years, had turned into a flying zombie!
"Put him in prison!" King Mahamala wanted to kill this younger brother, but because there are many royal family veterans and eminent monks who protect the country in the palace, they would not agree to kill a noble prince. .
After having his brother put into prison, King Mahamala turned to look at an old monk wearing a yellow monk's robe, with one shoulder and one arm exposed - this was the monk king of the Toungoo Dynasty, and also the king of Mahamala. Great uncle, it is said that he has great magical power!
The popular Buddhism in Myanmar is Theravada Buddhism. Just by the name, you can tell that it is very high-end. Theravada Buddhism is higher-end than the Mahayana Buddhism which just sounds like a generic product! Advanced Theravada Buddhism takes a high-level route, so in countries where Theravada Buddhism is popular, monks have a very high status, and the senior monks among them are basically from princes and nobles. Therefore, the Sangha also has a great influence on politics... A king named Mahamala would not dare to offend a great monk with profound magical power.
"There can't be any flying zombies," the great monk said confidently. "Someone must be pretending to be a ghost. As long as the poor monk reaches the front of the formation, he will have his own way to defeat it."
Then don't worry.
Although King Mahamala has been the king for ten years, he has never had the experience of commanding a battle on the battlefield... He has so many military strategies and nowhere to display them, it's really a bit itchy!
Now that he heard the great monk's guarantee, he felt relieved, so he loudly ordered: "Gather all the elephant soldiers, artillery, and infantry... When the Ming army arrives, they will form an array on the banks of the Ava River. We must defeat it in one battle! After winning, I will also march north to Yunnan, take Kunming directly, and kill Wu Yingxiong!"
