After the news of the siege of Taunggyi by the Ming army spread that the king of Siam was located, the hundreds of thousands of Siamese troops who were attacking the city around Taunggyi were all shocked, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they gave up the occupation of the captured city and hurried back to Taunggyi to rescue the besieged king of Siam.

Siam initially invaded Burma with 230,000 troops and 1,400 war elephants, but by the time Taunggyi was captured, the Burmese army had lost nearly 30,000 soldiers and more than 130 war elephants, leaving less than 210,000 troops and more than 1,200 war elephants.

In addition to 50,000 soldiers and 400 war elephants who stayed in Taunggyi to protect the King of Siam, the remaining nearly 160,000 troops and more than 900 war elephants scattered to attack other Burmese cities around Taunggyi, and in the process of attacking those cities in the past few days, plus the 7,000 troops annihilated by the Ming army in Daxi, the Burmese army outside the city still had about 140,000 troops and 900 war elephants.

After these armies converged ten miles outside Taunggyi, they were unable to contact Siam due to the siege of the Ming army, and were temporarily commanded by a high-ranking general of the same clan as the King of Siam, General Thondohi.

"Report to General Tundohi, all the armies have been gathered!" With the last Siamese army gathered here, the remaining 140,000 troops and 900 heads outside the city had all gathered together.

"Okay, the army will set off immediately, repel the Ming army, and rescue Your Majesty!" General Tundohi stood up and said.

"Obey General Tundohi's orders!" The other Siamese generals also stood up and responded.

Immediately, the 140,000 Siamese army quickly set off and headed for Taunggyi, which was besieged by the Ming army ten miles away.

On the side of the Ming army, Zhou Cao and the Red Lady and other Ming generals also learned the news that the Siamese army outside the city had all gathered.

The red lady said with a smile: "The 140,000 Siamese army outside the city has already killed this side by itself, plus the other 50,000 Siamese troops in the city, a total of 190,000, as long as they are annihilated, when they capture Burma and turn to attack Siam, Siam will not have a large army to resist the attack of our Ming army." ”

This time to invade Burma to take advantage of the fire and robbery, the king of Siam has brought all the most elite troops in Siam to come, if this army is completely annihilated in Burma by the Ming army, with the national strength of Siam, there is indeed no more army to resist the attack of the Ming army, which will be able to leave the Ming army a lot of effort.

"Each army will leave 2,000 troops to continue to besiege Taunggyi, and the rest of the army will attack with all their troops to encircle and annihilate the Siamese ** team sent to the door!" Zhou Cao stood up and ordered with a solemn face.

"Command!" The generals of the Ming army went down to prepare.

Although the number of the Ming army was less than 80,000 troops, less than half of the two Siamese armies in and around the city combined, no Ming generals and soldiers doubted whether they would be able to completely annihilate the Siamese army.

The four Ming armies trapped outside the four city gates, except for the 2,000 men and horses left behind, all the rest of the soldiers rode on their horses.

"Attack, encircle and annihilate the Siamese army!" At the north gate, the whole army of the 17th Army led by Ma Yue'e left the north gate and killed in the direction of the west where the 140,000 Siamese army came.

The armies of the other three city gates also left 2,000 men and horses to continue to besiege Taunggyi, and the rest of the army, led by their respective commanders, slaughtered in the direction of the west from which the 140,000 Siamese army had arrived.

Five miles away, 140,000 Siamese troops came here, and at such a distance, if you stand on a slightly higher slope, you can see the shadow of Taunggyi City.

The closer it is to Taunggyi, the greater the battle with the Ming army is imminent.

General Tundohi sat on the back of a war elephant with a blank face.

To say that their Siamese country did not border with the Ming Dynasty, so they have never fought with the Ming army, I don't know how effective the Ming army is, but the Ming army can quickly defeat the Burmese army all the way and crisscross the territory of Burma, so the pressure on him is absolutely huge.

Don't look at the 140,000 elite army of Siam by his side at this moment, plus the 50,000 army that protects the king in Taunggyi, they have a total of 190,000 troops and more than 1,300 war elephants in Siam, while the Ming army is less than 80,000, almost two and a half to one number, but according to the news he got in the past two days, the Ming army initially invaded Burma with 80,000 troops, and it was these 80,000 troops who defeated Burma in less than ten days, with nearly 400,000 soldiers in a row, and their own losses were less than 5,000!

Shocking! As soon as he thought of the rumors that the Ming army was confronting the Burmese army, his scalp was a little numb, and he extremely did not want to fight the Ming army.

However, their king was besieged in Taunggyi by the Ming army at the moment, and they had to be saved, so a big battle with the Ming army was inevitable.

General Thondohi did not seek to defeat the Ming army, but only to save the king besieged in Taunggyi from the Ming army.

"General, a few miles ahead is Taunggyi City!" A Siamese general said to General Tundohi.

"Prepare to fight and rescue the king!" General Tundohi nodded and said solemnly.

Just when General Tun Duoxi ordered the Siamese army to prepare for a battle with the Ming army, the sound of a large number of war horses galloping suddenly appeared in all directions, and it was the Ming army itself that took the initiative to attack and engage them.

"Boom"

"Not good! It's the Ming army, hurry up and meet the enemy! General Tun Duoxi was shocked, as a general who has lived for more than forty years, he has fought many times with Burma, Zhendian and other countries, he is not stupid to regard this rumbling sound as an earthquake, there is no doubt that this must be the sound of the Ming army's iron galloping.

As General Tondohi's words fell, the Siamese soldiers were nervous one by one, and the 140,000-strong army quickly formed a simple defense.

Many Siamese soldiers armed with wooden shields rushed to the outskirts of the defense, looking vigilantly ahead.

With the emergence of the first wave of the Ming army, there were figures of the Ming army's iron cavalry in all directions, and it turned out that the Ming army had already relied on the maneuver of war horses to form an encirclement of the 140,000 Siamese army from all directions.

"Meet the enemy! Meet the enemy! The Siamese generals who organized the defense shouted.

The Siamese archers, hiding behind the wooden shield soldiers, hurriedly bent their bows and arrows, and when the Ming army rushed into the range of the bows and arrows, they shot a rain of arrows.

"Bang bang bang" There was a dense gunshot, but it was the Ming soldiers who first hooked the trigger of the rifle in their hands and shot the bullets.

"Poof! Burst! Poof" bullets pierced through the wooden shields of Siamese soldiers in front of them, and then through their bodies.

A large amount of blood mist flew out from the backs of the Siamese soldiers who had been hit, splashing on the faces of the archers behind them, frightening the archers who were about to shoot arrows in an instant.

However, after only three or two breaths, the Ming army opened fire in one round.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Poof! Burst! Poof" This time, without those Siamese soldiers with wooden shields to block them outside, the bullets hit the Siamese archers directly, and a large amount of blood mist also penetrated their backs.