The surrender of Ava City was not an isolated incident. In fact, it immediately led to a series of changes.
Bagan City, which was closest to Ava City, was the first to hear the news. Then Bagan City's defender, Pasen Hou Manggu, immediately changed his flag and announced that he would respond to Dongyu Hou Mangmeng.
Not only that, Mang Gu also actively proposed to "clear the emperor's side" and even said that he had sent troops and horses - he really sent 10,000 troops, but the troops were sent at the request of Mang Yingli. The reinforcements for Toungu City later went south because Mang Yingli was too lazy to wait. As a result, the troops have not arrived at Toungu City yet.
In fact, Mang Gu himself was playing a trick here. He had told his eldest son who was leading the army at the earliest, and told him to take his time and not rush to Toungoo City. The purpose of what he said at that time was to preserve his strength, because he guessed that with Mang Yingli's temperament, he would probably not wait for the support army to be dispatched, so he could reduce the loss.
But he didn't expect that Mang Yingli's march south to quell the rebellion would be so unsuccessful. Bago City had not yet been recovered, but Toungu City was actually besieged. Immediately afterwards, Toungu Hou Mangmeng led Ava, who had the most troops at the moment. The city surrendered to Ming Dynasty!
After this round, the situation in Myanmar suddenly became out of control.
Mang Gu was not stupid. He immediately changed his position according to the wind without saying a word, and announced his surrender while announcing "clearing the emperor's side". Of course, this "Qing Jun Side" is nonsense, and he is not really going to attack Dongyu City. Before the announcement, he had already sent out fast horses to recall his eldest son and the 10,000 troops. It is estimated that the 10,000 troops will have to rush back in a few days. At that time, the saying will definitely become "Toungoo City will be dealt with by the Ming Dynasty on its own, and there is no need for me and other foreign ministers to intervene."
As soon as the city of Bagan fell, the situation in northern Myanmar completely collapsed. The city of Linhan, not far away, immediately said, "The heavenly dynasty punishes the people and has been forced to rebel for a long time. Now that the king's army is coming, he should be free to deal with it." In this way, two groups of troops were sent out overnight, all the way to the northeast to express their surrender to Liu Wei, and all the way to the southeast to express their surrender to Huang Zhiting - this is not a woman marrying twice, mainly because the Linhan City guard can't do it. Who has the final say among the two generals of the Qingming Army, so they have no choice but to act in an attitude of worshiping God and worshiping the emperor.
Then things collapsed, and Xuanlichao Talluo City and Pyaimai City also announced one after another that "the city is undefended and can be dealt with at will." Of course, it doesn't matter whether these two cities are fortified or not, because they are relatively close to Taungoo, and originally had fewer troops. After Mang Yingli transferred the main force, now the two cities combined are less than one Tens of thousands of soldiers, defending the city is tantamount to seeking death.
At this time, the news of Mangyingli's defeat at the southern suburbs of Toungu City had reached these two cities, and they had no choice.
Think about it, the 60,000-strong army was completely wiped out by the Ming Army's 20,000-strong expeditionary force in one battle, and the majestic Golden Tower White Elephant King almost only escaped with his life. One of the two cities has 4,000 soldiers left, and the other has 5,000 soldiers. They are still second-line troops. Can they withstand the flanking attack of the main Ming army from the north and the south?
Never in my dreams has it been so beautiful! Haven't you heard that the Ming Army is always "destroying the city with ten thousand artillery pieces"?
Several big cities in Myanmar were basically surrendered. However, surprisingly, Huang Zhiting, who surrounded Toungu City, did not seem to be in a hurry to attack the city. Although more than a hundred cannons were placed outside Toungu City, they did not attack the city at all. He was surrounded in silence every day, not knowing what he was waiting for.
Three more days later, Huang Zhiting and Liu Wei reached something like an agreement during the exchange of messengers. The two sides divided the temporary occupation area with Linhan City as the axis. Liu Wei and Deng Zilong's troops did not go south, and Huang Zhiting's troops did not have to go south. Go north.
In fact, the reason is very simple: both sides do not have enough troops.
The troops of Liu Wei and Deng Zilong, including the reinforcements that have recently moved south from Yunnan, totaled only more than 30,000 and less than 40,000, while the fierce northern Burma surrendered nearly 40,000 troops. In addition to the Bagan City and the external Xuanwei people who had taken advantage of the situation and defected to the Ming Dynasty, Liu Wei and Deng Zilong had to rely on the 30,000 to 40,000 men under their command to frighten the nearly 100,000-strong army. Of course, they did not dare to act rashly.
Huang Zhiting's situation is not much better. In the previous battle between Bago and Taungoo, more than 50,000 Burmese soldiers were captured, but she had less than 20,000 elite men (some were lost in the battle), plus the Bago garrison. Including, it is only barely equal to the number of surrendered troops. Then Linhan and Xuanli sent troops to surrender in the three cities of Talluo and Pimai, not to mention the tens of thousands. The key point was that each city had to send troops to "recover", so naturally there was no spare power to go north.
In fact, Huang Zhiting didn't even dare to easily divide her troops to guard the place, so she and her subordinates simply ordered them to send troops from three cities to support her in the battle.
Of course this is nonsense. She is not very pragmatic and can spend a lot of money to bribe the surrender of the army. Her current situation is similar to the Taungoo dynasty's hegemony, which relied entirely on force and coercion. How could they dare to send the Burmese army to attack Taungoo City? Aren't you afraid that if you beat a dog with meat buns, you will never come back?
Its intention was nothing more than to spare the troops of the three places, and send a small number of Bago garrison troops from the Mon people to occupy these cities. Two thousand troops were sent to each of the three cities, for a total of 6,000 troops.
This is also learned and applied from Gao Ping'an's method, a typical method of strong branches and weak branches - as long as my main force remains assembled, none of you dare to act rashly to avoid being struck by my thunder.
This is like a group of people surrounding Li Xunhuan, knowing that he only has a throwing knife in his hand, but no one dares to hit him - whoever hits him will die, so of course he is a dead Taoist friend but not a poor Taoist.
In fact, all parties in Myanmar can roughly guess the intentions of Huang Zhiting and Liu Wei. However, this kind of conspiracy is useless if you just know it. If you can't defeat it, you can't defeat it. This is the last word.
But what they didn't know was that at this time, another branch of the expeditionary force had already conquered Vientiane, the capital of the Nanzhang Kingdom. Ubalu, the puppet king of Nanzhang supported by the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar, wore a torture instrument and left the city to surrender. It was agreed that Ubaru would be handed over to Ruan Huang, the commander of the Annan Expeditionary Force of the Ming Army.
Of course Ruan Huang himself did not want Ubalu. This was the person Gao Pragmatic wanted by name, not only Ubalu himself, but also his wife and children.
Gao pragmatically did this, of course, not out of any humanitarian spirit. He wanted to have someone who could threaten the status of the Dao siblings. If the Dao siblings disobey in the future, he would have someone to replace him - Lao The sons and daughters of Setatira, the king of the South Palm, could succeed to the throne, so could his younger brother Ubalud, and so could Ubalud's children.
Therefore, this family will be transferred to Thang Long City. Anyway, the real owner of Thang Long City is Gao Pragmatism, and there is a security force. Once the U Ba Lut family arrives in Thang Long City, the Nanzhang Kingdom will be much safer.
Ruan Huang came here with 15,000 elite troops, including 5,000 from his own army, 2,000 from Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan's troops, and 6,000 from the Sheng Long garrison. But the credit for capturing Vientiane basically belongs to the Thang Long Garrison - the garrison had many cannons and directly blasted open the city wall of the new capital of Nanzhang (Vientiane has only been the capital of Nanzhang for 23 years).
Of course, Ruan Huang is not reconciled to this achievement. He has long since adopted pragmatic methods and does not dare to think about rebellion. But since he does not dare to rebel, he must perform well, otherwise why should he maintain his status?
As a result, Ruan Huang showed his slick political methods and fooled him. The prince of the Dao family, Nuojiao Gumeng, who had no military power, succeeded to the throne as the king of Nanzhang. Although Princess Bijue controlled more than 10,000 people in the "rebel army" of Nanzhang. , but she only got the weird title of "Princess of the Council".
Not only that, Ruan Huang also enthusiastically recommended Her Royal Highness the Chief Princess to actively learn from the Thang Long Garrison, saying that it was to strengthen the army of the Southern Governor.
Bia Jue, the chief princess of the Council, actually does not have very strong ability to govern. Her main purpose of bringing in the rebel army is to avenge her father. Now that she has to avenge her great revenge, she doesn't want to take care of things at all. She agrees with this opinion very much. After all, Sheng Sheng The majesty of the Dragon Guard Army's ability to blow open the walls of Vientiane City with just a few rounds of shelling really left a deep impression on her.
As a result, a large number of officers from the Thang Long Garrison began to join the rebel army. Although these more than 10,000 rebels were known as the new "Forest Army" of the Nanzhang Kingdom, they had actually completed the private "asset transfer". It became an affiliated force of the garrison.
Not only this direct lineage, but also the other armies of the Nanzhang Kingdom that were incorporated were actually under the control of the Thang Long Garrison under Ruan Huang's operation. Ruan Huang was very satisfied with this.
Ruan Huang has always been a smart man. Although he played a great role in it, he will never reach out to the Nanzhang army. He knew very well that Gao Jingshi's position in Annan had been completely consolidated. Even if he still had some troops on hand, in fact, as long as he dared to make any changes, the two major security forces would be able to deal with him at any time.
Therefore, now he would rather rely on the fact that his son is studying under Gao Jingshi to curry favor with the Emperor Annan, rather than foolishly do anything stupid that may violate taboos. He even had the idea of retreating in order to advance, that is, he would resign to Gao Pragmatic after this war, especially to hand over his independent military power.
Over the past two or three years, he has also seen clearly that Gao Jingshi is a very measured and shameless person. As long as he hands over his military power, Gao Jingshi will not treat him badly. On the contrary, as long as this military power remains in his hands, Gao Pragmatic will never truly regard him as one of his own.
Since you can't resist, you can only cater to it.
Ruan Huang believes that among the three local warlords in Annan, if he is the first to hand over military power, Gao Pragmatic will definitely use him even if he considers buying horse bones for a thousand gold.
As for whether Annan will still have a chance to regain the country after the military power is handed over in the future... Haha, what will happen to me, Ruan Huang, when Annan returns to the country? Even if the country is restored, will it be my turn, Ruan Huang, to be the commander-in-chief, the king, or the emperor?
Since you can't, then of course you have to choose to hang out with the most powerful and kindest big brother.
Myanmar did not directly control Nanzhang from the beginning, relying on the indirect rule of the puppet king Ubalut. Now that the "Great Tomorrow Soldiers" have easily recovered everything in the capital, Nanzhang has suddenly spread the word in the country.
After integrating his troops and horses, Ruan Huang left 5,000 men to guard Vientiane and control Nanzhang, while he set off again with more than 20,000 people, heading straight for Phitsanulok in Siam.
Phitsanulok was the capital of the Ayutthaya dynasty of Siam, and was also the place where the black prince Naresuan was guarding (Note: Phitsanulok was actually called "Bole" in the Ming Dynasty at this time, but this was too obscure. Considering reading habits, it is used today. name).
According to the prior agreement, the day when the Annan Expeditionary Force entered Siam was when Naresuan announced an uprising and resisted the rule of the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar.
Although it is "cross-border" from Vientiane to Phitsanulok, it is actually not too far, only less than 600 miles. The agreement between the two parties did not require the expeditionary force to arrive in Phitsanulok, but only to enter Siam. Therefore, only three days later, Naresuan learned that the Annan expeditionary force had entered Siam.
The Black Prince was indeed a decisive man. He didn't even say hello to his father and directly announced an army to resist the Burmese thugs in Phitsanulok.
That's right, he didn't use "tyranny" but "thugs", which meant that he did not recognize that Burma ruled Siam at all.
Myanmar does not have troops stationed in Nanzhang, but it does have some troops stationed in Siam. However, this army is not in Phitsanulok, nor in the capital city of Ayutthaya, but in Chiang Mai further north of Phitsanulok.
Chiang Mai originally belonged to the "Babai Dadian Xuanwei Division" of the Ming Dynasty and was the administrative seat. However, this place was eroded by the Toungoo Dynasty very early and is now regarded as Myanmar itself. Therefore, the Toungoo Dynasty stationed 30,000 troops here to suppress Siam by "sitting north and facing south".
Coincidentally, the troops gathered by Black Prince Narixuan were almost 30,000, of which about 16,700 were his "starting troops", and the remaining 13,400 were temporarily gathered after the army was launched. .
Although it was a temporary gathering, these troops were not just random refugees, but domestic slaves and monk soldiers of some powerful people in Phitsanulok and surrounding areas - not only Shaolin Temple has monk soldiers, Buddhists like Siam and Nanzhang In extremely powerful countries, many large monasteries support varying numbers of monk soldiers.
Because the Toungoo Dynasty ruled very arbitrarily and demanded various tributes very harshly, these powerful people and monasteries supported Narixuan, but the real poor people did not care - the Toungoo Dynasty did not rule directly, they demanded The tributes were all similar to those from the "big households" in Siam, so the "big households" were the main force in the resistance to the Taungoo dynasty.
Since a big family is a big family, they certainly have the power and soldiers in their hands, and they are obviously unwilling to have their interests taken away. Therefore, they spared no effort in supporting Naresuan, allowing him to get more than 10,000 elites in Phitsanulok and surrounding areas alone.
At this time, the news that the Burmese army was defeated on the northern front and that the southern front was attacked by the Annan Expeditionary Force had reached Phitsanulok. Although Naresuan was still unaware that Burma had lost almost all its capital in the Toungoo battle, it was enough to cheer him up. . So while he sent envoys and guides to guide the Nguyen Hoang Department of the Annan Expeditionary Force, he actively carried out investigation work on Chiang Mai.
Naresuan knew that as long as he defeated the 30,000 Burmese troops in Chiang Mai, the Burmese army would have no time to deal with him, at least in the short term. This would allow him to concentrate on dealing with the capitulationists in Siam - of course, for other People have to deal with it, but his father can only persuade him.
After receiving the Burmese battle report conveyed by Na Li Xuan, Ruan Huang secretly thought something was wrong.
Why has the situation in Myanmar changed so much from what was previously discussed? The key is, if Myanmar has no remaining power to counterattack Siam, how can I help Prime Minister Gao Gao control Siam? If I didn't complete the task of mastering Siam, which the Prime Minister did not expressly say but was definitely implying, wouldn't the Prime Minister blame me for my incompetence?
How is this possible!
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Some people say: When capitalists talk to you about your dreams, it means you are ready to generate electricity for love.
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