Wanli Youming

Chapter 356 Wanli Li Court

Chapter 356 Wanli Li Court

Myanmar in the twelfth lunar month is sunny and sunny, and the greenery is like the late spring when the grass grows in the north of the Ming Dynasty and the sheep are fat.

There are also palm leaves swaying on the banks of the river, just like beautiful women dancing gracefully, making people fascinated.

The Ming iron cavalry who appeared here standing side by side held the three-eyed blunderbuss in unison, showing meaningful smiles, and even the horses snorted and shook their manes when they sat down, unable to hide their excitement.

"kill!"

For a moment, thousands of horses galloped, the flags covered the sky, like a stream of iron rolled across the earth, and all the green was buried in the black.

The Taungoo Dynasty of Burma now dares to invade Daming Yunnan. The biggest confidence is his country. In southern Myanmar, the Dajinsha River and the Nu River along the river plains and the delta plains that enter the sea have established farming civilization. The population has reached five. 600.

This scale of farming civilization provided the Toungoo Dynasty with sufficient military resources and financial resources, which also fostered the ambition of the Toungoo Dynasty's monarch Mangyingli to expand abroad and even seek the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan.

However, in the area of ​​Yunnan where the Ming Dynasty was in direct contact with Myanmar, the resident population was only 300 to [-] million, and because Yunnan was Sinicized by the Central Plains Dynasty for a short time, not only were there few Han people who moved there, but also the ethnic composition was complex, unlike the plains of the Toungoo Dynasty. The area is basically full of Shan people, resulting in a partial area, and Ming is not as good as Myanmar and Yi in terms of the source of troops and the material support that can be provided quickly.

Therefore, Li Rusong led his soldiers to travel long distances to southern Myanmar and stabbed him in the back with the purpose of reducing this advantage of Myanmar.

Therefore, after Li Rusong gave an order, his cavalry began to gallop across the delta and river plains in southern Myanmar.

The first to be courted by the Ming army was Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, Myanmar.

This is the estuary of the Nujiang River, and it is also a natural shelter from the wind.

The navy has already taken a fancy to this place after investigating it at night, so it has already asked the Privy Council to let the land horse infantry plow it thoroughly, so that the navy can move the heat-resistant southern Han refugees here. To build trading posts and garrison bases.

There are not many Burmese soldiers in Mawlamyine, only two hundred soldiers, a few officials and some Burmese nobles who are recuperating here.

Because their rulers were also feudal landlords with a weak sense of sea power, they never thought that the Ming army would poke him in the back door, and only concentrated their forces in the north to attack Yunnan and the east to attack Siam.

That's right.

In terms of great achievements and militarism, Mang Yingli, the monarch of the Toungoo Dynasty, was much crazier than Zhu Yijun. Relying on the scale of his farming civilization with a population of 600 million, he insisted on fighting on two fronts, fighting against the huge Ming Empire in the north. , and attempted to embezzle Siam, which was not considered a weak country in this era, in the east.

At any rate, Zhu Yijun was forced to use troops against Burma after the large-scale use of troops against Japan was over, and he was even completing internal reforms before using troops after Su Xiaomin’s difficulties, increasing financial funds and adjusting the internal interest distribution structure.

Unlike Mangyingli, where internal reforms have not been carried out, the common people are still in dire straits, and as a result, as soon as he ascended the throne, he used troops frantically, conquering Siam first and then invading Daming Burma.

Moreover, the conquest of Siam has lasted for more than ten years. Otherwise, Siam would not have cooperated so much with Ming's sending troops to destroy Burma, because Burma had already launched a war of aggression against Siam, which was worse than the invasion of Ming. many years earlier.

Turn the words back.

Therefore, because of the deployment of troops in two places in Myanmar, there are not many internal troops. The hinterland near the sea like Mawlamyine is no different from an empty city.

When the iron hooves of the Ming army cavalry rolled over, the guards of Maolamian's legs went limp, dropped their spears and ran into the city.

And the Ming army rushed directly into the city, holding the three-eyed blunderbuss, and after lighting the matchlock, they blasted the Burmese soldiers who had not run far in front of them to the ground.

These Burmese and Yi soldiers were covered in blood from the three-eyed gunshots, and curled up on the ground in pain.

If it hadn't been for the reform of the Ming army's meritorious service reward system, which no longer counts meritorious service by head, these Burmese and barbarian soldiers would have their heads cut off soon.

However, the Ming army now only counts credit for completing military missions, that is, after firing a gun, they continued to rush in, and threw torches at some wooden houses and pavilions in the city that looked quite standard, and they will also be equipped with The small porcelain bottle of kerosene was thrown over.

Suddenly, a raging fire ignited in the market near the city gate of Mawlamyine.

Those who can live in wooden houses and pavilions are Burmese noble landlords and their families in a bag of Mawlamyine. These people are the backbone of the Toungoo Dynasty.

At this time, many of them were already crying and howling because of the appearance of the Ming army, and had to run outside.

As soon as these people came out, the cavalrymen of the Ming army who were waiting outside immediately opened their bows and set up arrows, shooting and killing countless people. For a while, the whole street was littered with corpses, as if washed by blood.

outside the city.

The iron hooves of the Ming army were also sweeping holes in the plow court crazily.

"what!"

Many Burmese and Yi who lived in the countryside were directly shot or killed by the sudden attack of Ming cavalry.

At this time, Li Rusong's general Zhong Changdong shot down a young and strong Burmese Yi in person, threw him into the river, and then rushed into the Qingtian, trampling on rice seedlings with horses and smashing servants with guns.

This scenario is playing out across southern Myanmar.

And the Ming army was like wolves in a herd of sheep, hacking and killing very freely without any difficulties.

You must know that the Liaodong iron cavalry led by Li Rusong is not just a simple cavalry, but a combination of infantry and cavalry formed by Li Chengliang under the influence of Qi Jiguang and other infantry and cavalry military thinking, otherwise he would not be able to attack Gulezhai.

Many Ming soldiers mounted their horses as cavalry, and dismounted as heavy armored infantry.

This is the battle pattern evolved by the Ming Empire after fighting against Jurchen and Mongolia in the north for many years, and fighting Japanese pirates and Xiyi in the south. All from this time.

It can be said that the Liaodong cavalry of the Ming army who suddenly came to southern Myanmar was the army at the peak of the agricultural and civilized regime of this era.

It is not comparable to the initial stage of the newly established farming civilization in Myanmar.

Although the mainstream civilization in this world is still dominated by farming, there are actually levels within it.

Just like in the upgrade system of fantasy cultivating immortals, what is the meaning of the peak of great success and great perfection in a realm.

Myanmar's Taungoo Dynasty is naturally much lower in civilization level than Daming. In the north, he can take advantage of geographical advantages and population advantages to bully the natives of Daming's Yunnan. Wanton butchering portion.

Dagon.

Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar in later generations.

This life is also the largest city in the south of the Toungoo Dynasty, and it is also the main seaside resort for the nobles of the Toungoo Dynasty.

Li Rusong resisted the urge to personally lead troops to attack and kill ordinary Burmese and Yi soldiers. Instead, he scattered some of the cavalry to kill, and then only continued to form troops in the rear.

Therefore, half a month after he sent Yebushou to investigate the Dagon area, he resolutely led the remaining Tianzi pro-army personally when he learned that almost all of the Burmese soldiers in the Dagon area, with more than [-] soldiers and horses, had left the city to put down the rebellion. Wei Yiying and Zha Dashou's green camp came to Dagon.

Then, Li Rusong used the pro-military guards as the supervising team, let the green battalion formed by Jurchen barbarians attack the fortifications, and personally offered thousands of taels of rewards to those who climbed the city.

So, like a savage, Jurchen Yiding, who valued 1000 taels, rushed to Dagon City desperately, killed the thousand or so defenders left by Dagon City, and also sent the Toungoo Dynasty who was recuperating in Dagon City The nobles, including many members of the Mang clan, were all slaughtered.

Li Rusong also took the big ones directly, and took down 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 he took advantage of the terrain in the Battle of Ningxia in history to take advantage of the water of the Yellow River to capture Ningxia City, an important town occupied by the rebels, but in this life, because of the influence of Zhu Yijun, Li Chengliang, Qi Jiguang, etc., he made progress in advance and knew how to use troops Yu Qi.

"Forgive your life! Forgive your life!"

"Where did you come from, can you spare us, we are willing to give all our wealth, including all young and beautiful girls!"

The Burmese nobles in Dagon City ran out and knelt on the ground trembling after interrogation, begging the Ming army. They didn't expect such a powerful army to come suddenly from the comfortable and comfortable rear, and they could only be extremely coquettish for a while.

"cut!"

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

But the Ming army still issued a beheading order, and in the end all these nobles were killed.

And when Li Rusong entered Dagon City, Dagon City was already on fire everywhere, corpses filled the road, and the city was full of blood.

(End of this chapter)