At the beginning of the 23rd year of Qianlong, after the Manchu envoys sent to Burma were ordered by Yongjiya to be imprisoned in dog cages, the battle between Qing and Burma was officially launched.

Because the Burmese attack was the first to attack, the Manchus were caught off guard in terms of time difference, which also made the Burmese army not meet with strong resistance from the local authorities in Yunnan after entering the Yunnan border. Therefore, the Burmese army is overwhelming all the way, as if entering a no-man's land. As time passed, the Burmese army soon besieged Lincang and Pu'er in Yunnan.

The security of Yunnan was urgent, and if the Manchus could not quickly send troops to resist the Burmese army, the cities in these two places would be lost. The Burmese army will be directed at Forte, Dali, Chuxiong, and even Yuxi and the provincial capital Kunming.

At that time, the situation in Yunnan will be even more severe if the Manchu Qing Dynasty has to deal with it again.

The military situation was like fire, and the Manchu court could no longer tolerate it to continue to slowly discuss the dispatch of troops according to the process.

As soon as he received the information about the invasion of Burma, Qianlong immediately ordered the transfer of 60,000 Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banner troops from Beijing, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, and then gathered more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers and local villagers to form a large army to conquer Burma. Fu Heng hung the seal and went south to pacify Burma.

At the same time, in order to ensure the army's food and wages, Qianlong also authorized the household department to forcibly levy one year's tax grain in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces.

Just after the beginning of the year, the Manchu army of Burma also marched south. The poor people of these three places have not yet come to their senses, and they have begun to be exploited by the madness of the local cool officials.

No one dares to withhold the local taxes and miscellaneous taxes, because they can kill a pariah in a thousand ways.

And no one dared not pay the imperial grain.

Because there are laws and regulations in the Qing Dynasty, if anyone dares to resist the emperor's grain and does not pay, they will be executed by Ling Chi. And if the whole village dares to resist the imperial grain, the village can be slaughtered; There are cities that dare to resist the imperial grain, but they can slaughter the city.

For the Manchu soldiers who were keen on slaughtering the city, there was a reason to slaughter the city, and it was strange that they would let it go.

Especially now that the army of the Manchu court is heading south, who dares not to hand it over?

Those who dare not pay will have no choice but to rebel. But how many people have the courage to change?

Therefore, even if this year is a good year, the people in these two places can only live by eating chaff and grass. If the next year is a little worse, then it is not known whether they will sell their daughters or pawn their wives as slaves.

The twenty-third year of Qianlong, mid-March

After a long siege, the Burmese army broke through Lincang in Yunnan Province in one fell swoop, and Pu'er was already in danger. Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Niu Hulu. With limited troops, the good relatives relied on Ailao Mountain to delay the resistance of the Burmese army in Jingdong and other places.

Since entering Yunnan, the Burmese army has carried out frenzied burning, killing and looting of civilians in the areas it has passed.

In the midst of the war, the people were devastated and mourned.

Seeing this, some local people who had not yet been harmed had no choice but to give up spring plowing and flee from this war-torn place with their children and daughters.

The people were harmed by the war and left their homes, and the imperial court should issue a pacification. However, the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were busy collecting taxes and grain for the Burmese army at this time, for fear that they would be punished by Qianlong for being late in the rations, so naturally no one paid attention to such "trivial matters", and even some local officials did not forget to take advantage of these refugees.

The imperial court's wanton requisition of grain led to a rise in the price of local grain by several times a day. The high price of food is unbearable even for the local people, let alone the refugees who have been uprooted from their homes.

However, the people live on food.

If the whereabouts of these refugees are not handled well, it will inevitably lead to local unrest. Therefore, under the guidance of some "well-intentioned people", those refugees who still wanted to stay in Yunnan to watch the war situation had no choice but to flee to Guangxi, Annam and other places in order to survive.

The Burmese army's successive victories have made some of the Tusi who are reluctant to leave their land become the grass on the wall. However, just when the little abacus in their hearts was crackling and they were glad that they could preserve their strength, they were ordered by Yongjiya to send troops against the Manchus, otherwise they would be shown to be enemies.

Inevitably, they were besieged by the Burmese army, and whether these Tusi wanted to or not, they all had to help Burma attack the Qing army. Of course, the effort is not without reward.

After Yongjiya allowed them to divide up the land of those Tusi who dared to resist Burma, this also dissipated the resentment of those "wall grass" a lot. The Burmese army, which originally had scruples about entering Yunnan, has now gained a lot of strength with the support of these "wall grasses".

At this time, the Manchu army of Burma also rushed to Yunnan under the rapid march of day and night.

Compared with the beginning of the year, the situation in Yunnan has become more severe. As soon as the Burmese army arrived in Kunming, Yunnan, Fucha. Fu Heng didn't care about his physical exhaustion at all, and directly greeted Niu Hulu, the governor of Yungui. The relatives discussed the war.

"Lord Goodwill, judging from your fight with the Burmese, how do you think of their strength?" In with Niu Hulu. After a few words of greeting, Fucha. Fu Heng asked.

"Fu Hengren, this battle is not easy to fight!" Meet Fucha. Fu Heng asked, Niu Hulu. Good relatives don't mean to hide anything, after all, these things, as long as Fucha. After Fu Heng handed over the Burmese army, he naturally understood.

"The army left behind after the unification of Burma is an elite soldier of a hundred battles, and the strength is very strong. And the thousands of elephants they brought over are even stronger, not to mention the huge size of the elephants, they can still come and go freely on the battlefield, and they can walk up and down the hill as if they were walking on the ground. Many soldiers had never seen anything of such a size, and they were terrified of them as soon as the battle began, and they did not know what to do. Therefore, our army was defeated in the face of the elephant soldiers in Burma. ”

"This elephant, which I have been fortunate enough to see a few times, is indeed huge and scary. It is normal for the soldiers below to feel frightened at first sight. However, as far as I know, elephants are afraid of fire, and it is not impossible to drive them away with fire, and then kill them with cannons and muskets. "Fucha. Fu Heng thought about it and said.

"Yes, it is indeed a good way to kill with artillery. I don't know how many cannons Fu Hengda brought this time? I also considered bombarding them with artillery before, but because there were not many cannons, I had to use rockets to drive them away, but it didn't have much effect. "Niu Hulu. Kind-in asked.

"This time, I brought thirteen red-coated cannons, more than eighty medium-sized general cannons, and as for small tiger squat cannons, there are more than 200 in total. Small guns can basically be in place after three days, as for medium guns, it should be delayed for about ten days, and large guns are expected to arrive with a delay of up to a month. "Fucha. Fu Heng said.