Chapter 774: Attacking Taunggyi City

The sound of artillery outside the city has died down for quite some time.

"It's over, the hundreds of thousands of troops outside my city are finished." Inside the city, the desperation of the King of Siam also reached its peak.

From the main force of the Ming army to besiege and annihilate the hundreds of thousands of Siamese reinforcements outside the city, to the surrender of hundreds of thousands of Siamese reinforcements, the Ming army gradually received surrendered troops, this period of time is not short, and the King of Siam has also tried to rush out of the city I don't know how many times.

Even the door shield didn't work, and he used a war elephant.

However, the war elephant is obviously more unreliable than the door shield, and if a war elephant is killed in the entrance of the city gate, the huge elephant corpse completely blocks the way, and it takes a lot of effort to get the huge elephant corpse away.

However, in addition to the door shield and the war elephant, the King of Siam had no tricks, so he could only use these two tricks repeatedly, and at this moment the corpse of a war elephant was blocked in the city gate.

The King of Siam was already in a trance, and he did not give any more orders to rush out of the city, and he had obviously completely lost hope of rushing out of the city.

Many impacts, but also many times relying on a large number of door shields to rush to the outside of the city, but in addition to being blown up by the Ming army's artillery and paying heavy casualties, nothing was obtained, for this reason, the army has been killed and wounded more than 5,000 people, more serious is that the morale of the soldiers has also been knocked to the bottom, the soldiers have no will to fight, and even after seeing the strength of the Ming army, the soldiers are faintly afraid of fighting with the Ming army.

"Newspaper"

"Your Majesty, the spies on the city wall have come to report that the main force of the Ming army has returned, and a large number of prisoners of our Siamese soldiers have returned with the main force of the Ming army!" A Siamese general suddenly came to the king of Siam and said.

As he spoke, there was obviously a lot of fear in the general's expression.

The main force of the Ming army returned, but they never managed to break out of the city, break out of the encirclement of the Ming army, and flee back to Siam.

When the King of Siam heard the news, his body trembled suddenly, and he became even more desperate.

The other Siamese soldiers will get the news and tremble, the main force of the Ming army has returned, does it mean that their end has come? Boundless fear spread among the Siamese army within the city.

Outside the city, Zhou Cao returned to Taunggyi with the main force of nearly 70,000 Ming troops and nearly 100,000 Siamese captives.

"Marshal, the King of Siam in the city tried to get out of the city more than a dozen times, but was repelled by our army!" The commander of the Ming legion, who stayed at the east gate, reported to Zhou Cao.

Zhou Cao nodded and said, "Okay, now that all the enemy reinforcements outside the city have been resolved, it is the turn of the King of Siam in the city." ”

Originally, besieging Taunggyi and blowing up the four gates, the reason why the army was never ordered to enter the city was to keep the King of Siam to attract hundreds of thousands of Siamese troops outside the city, but now that the hundreds of thousands of Siamese troops have been wiped out, there is naturally no need to continue to keep the King of Siam.

Zhou Cao glanced at the passage of the city gate blocked by the elephant corpse and ordered.

"Fire the cannon immediately and open the passage to the city!"

Although there are at least more than 40,000 Siamese soldiers in the city, and if these Siamese soldiers use the buildings in the city to hide and kill and injure the Ming soldiers, the Ming will rush into the city, although they will definitely win, but they will also pay a certain number of casualties.

However, at this moment, Zhou Cao obviously didn't think that the Siamese soldiers in the city still had such a high will to resist, so they didn't have to waste shells to destroy the buildings in the city first, after all, every shell is money, and it is better to save some or save some.

The five cannons that had been aimed at the entrance of the city gate did not even need to be adjusted.

Bang!

As soon as the shell was loaded, the cannon was fired.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom"

Five cannonballs flew out and exploded directly inside the entrance of the city gate, and the corpse of the war elephant blocking the entrance of the city gate was torn apart into a mist of blood and minced flesh by the powerful force of the five shells.

The powerful blazing waves from the explosion of the cannonballs carried the blood mist and minced flesh of some of the war elephants into the city.

Many Siamese soldiers who were closer to the city gate were swept away by the blazing waves, and their faces and bodies were stained with blood and flesh.

The smell of blood penetrated their nostrils, intensifying the spread of fear in their hearts.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! It must be that the Ming army is about to attack the city, please take refuge immediately! "A Siamese general said to the king of Siam.

The King of Siam was equally terrified.

"Quick, like in the city!" The king of Siam was obviously not ready to be killed by the Ming army, or become a prisoner of the Ming army, so he immediately ordered.

At the same time as the order was given, the King of Siam also withdrew in the direction of the center of the city under the protection of a group of generals and soldiers.

Perhaps the King of Siam had no hope of defeating the Ming army, but he always had the idea of living a little longer in his heart, and until the last moment, he was still unwilling to surrender or be killed directly by the Ming army.

"Kill"

Outside the city, the blood mist produced by the explosion of the elephant corpse had not yet dissipated, and Zhou Cao had already ordered the Ming cavalry to kill inside the city.

A Ming cavalryman who rushed to the front broke through the blood mist that filled the doorway, and his face was stained with a lot of blood, looking particularly hideous, like a soldier of death from hell, which frightened the Siamese soldiers in the city even more.

"Run" The Siamese soldiers didn't even have the courage to engage the Ming army, and desperately followed the Siamese king to the center of the city to escape.

More and more Ming cavalry rushed into the city, and high-level generals of the Ming army, such as Zhou Cao and Red Lady, also entered the city.

"Pass the order down, try not to hurt the Burmese people in the city!" Looking at the Burmese buildings in the city that are still quite intact, Zhou Cao rarely moved a trace of compassion, the Burmese people in the city are just a group of ordinary Burmese people, they are not Burmese soldiers who have been captured, and after transformation in the future, they will be transformed into the people of the Ming Dynasty, so since the overall situation has been decided, Zhou Cao does not want to kill more.

The Ming soldiers were ordered to gallop their horses as much as possible without rushing directly into the courtyards of the Burmese people in the city. Only pursued the direction of the Siamese king's escape.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "There were many Siamese soldiers who fled in no hurry and were shot by the Ming cavalry who were chasing behind them.

was chased and killed by the Ming army like this, but none of the Siamese soldiers dared to turn around and risk their lives to fight with the Ming soldiers, they only hated that their parents gave birth to two legs for themselves, and hated that they didn't escape fast enough.