Chapter 660: Attacking Burma - Breaking Ava City and the Wounded
"Kill!" Dao Yubin shouted, leading two thousand Mengyang soldiers to cross the moat that could already wade through the water, and forced into a gap in the city wall that had been blasted out by cannons.
Because the Indochina Peninsula region is relatively backward, the city building technology is not good, the city will not be built too high, Ava City is only two or three zhang high, the continuous fire of solid shells hit the city wall, earth and stone splashed, and soon the city wall blasted out large and small pits.
However, as the capital of Ava, the thickness of the walls was three or four zhang, and these craters could not knock out the gaps in the walls. But under Mu Ying's conscious bombardment, a slope similar to a dirt slope was formed, although the slope was very large, it was easier than climbing the wall, and the besieging infantry rushed along this slope to the city wall.
The Ava army, of course, resisted with all its might. They poured boiling oil or hot water down the slopes, and from time to time soldiers splashed with boiling oil or hot water screamed and fell, blocking the passage of those behind.
Dao Yubin held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed upward. When he encountered a person who fell to the ground screaming, he stepped on it and cut it off with a knife - with the technology of this era, large-scale burns cannot be treated at all, and it is better to kill them with a knife and suffer less.
Fortunately, the slopes were so wide and narrow that they could not be used, otherwise they would have to be knocked down if a log rolled down.
Another burst of boiling oil poured down, and Dao Yubin temporarily stopped his steps and put his shield on the ground to stop the boiling oil flowing down. When the boiling oil flowed from his feet, he endured the pain in his feet, ignored the screams behind him, stood up and rushed forward.
With all his strength, he pushed the two Ava men who were blocking the front of the slope to the ground, plunged his knife into the wooden edge of the shield, and took the grenade from his waist that he had received from Zhu Yang before the siege and threw it forward. Only two loud "bang" and "bang" were heard, and the grenade killed three Awa people and injured two or three others.
Dao Yubin pulled out his sword again, killed the people who were struggling on the ground, and rushed up to the city.
At this time, the Ava people at the head of the city were already in some confusion. Not only because of the Ming soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, but also because of the constant bombardment of cannonballs on the city walls. Especially after blasting out a few slopes, Mu Ying ordered six small cannons to be replaced with scattered shells to attack the Ava people at the head of the city, and they were even more confused. The damage of the shells was not large, but this weapon, which they had no way to fight back, was a big blow to morale.
Bows and arrows shot from below also inflicted heavy casualties on them. Although they could fight back, the enemy was outnumbered and far superior to them in archery; The rolling wood is useful for people who are climbing the city wall, but because the land in the central Burma plain is soft and the rolling wood will not bounce up to the ground, it is not very useful for the people below the city.
What's more, most of these people were still ordinary people the day before yesterday, and they couldn't bear such a bloody battlefield at all, and from time to time someone ran backwards with a scream, and was immediately slashed and killed by the Overseer team led by Narota himself.
But as more and more Ming soldiers climbed to the head of the city, more and more people could not bear it, and as a Ming flag was planted on the head of the city, the Awa people at the head of the city screamed and dispersed.
When the Warlord led by Narota tried to slay them, Narota stopped them and said, "Don't kill any more, the city can't be defended." ”
"So what now?" One asked. At this time, the Ming army was cleaning up the remnants of the Ava native soldiers who were still resisting, and they had not yet killed them.
"Raise the white flag, let's surrender." Narota said calmly.
"Surrender?" They shouted in understanding.
"It's surrender, since the city can no longer be defended, you and your families must be saved. You are the most elite army of my Ava, and I will need you in the future! Narota said.
As they wrapped the white cloth around their spears, one asked, "Do we have a chance to serve Ava after that?" ”
"There must be." Narota said: "This place is too far away from the place directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Kingdom, and it is impossible for the Ming Kingdom to set up a state capital here, so it can only appoint local officials. And whether Ava is handed over to Meng Yang, or to Luchuan or Mubang, the strength of this Tusi who gets Ava will be greatly expanded, and it will be close to Luchuan, which was split by the Ming Kingdom two years ago, which the Ming Dynasty will never allow. ”
"So you must have a chance to play for Ava in the future!"
At this time, the Ming army that attacked the city had already noticed this army with a white flag, and a man wearing the costume of a Ming Zheng Wupin military general came over with a dozen people and said to them: "Put down your arms!" ”
Narota first told his men to lay down their weapons, and then said in Chinese: "I am Narota, the great prince of Ava, and I ask to meet the commander of the Ming Dynasty." ”
This Ming army Qianhu was stunned for a moment, and then said to a person beside him: "Go and report to His Highness and General Mu to capture Ava, a person who claims to be the eldest prince." ”
"You don't have to tell Your Highness that he claims to be the eldest prince of Ava." Suddenly, such a voice sounded. Chito and Narota looked in the direction where the voice came from at the same time, and saw Dao Yubin jumping over with the help of others. He had just been burned by boiling oil, and he didn't feel it when he was fighting, but now he feels extremely painful, and he can only be helped.
"Narota, long time no see." He continued in Thai.
Narota glanced at him a few times, and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be you Dao Yubin, I haven't seen you for two years, what's wrong with your feet?" "They fought two years ago and met before the battle.
"I just let your people splash oil and burn the soles of their feet. Don't change the subject, how about it, the capital is under siege, right? Dao Yubin smiled.
"It's better than losing your life in front of the battle." Narota said.
Dao Yubin's face changed, his father was killed by the Ava people three years ago. "If I were the commander, I would definitely break you into pieces!" He said through gritted teeth.
"But you are not the commander of this time, and the commander cannot be any local official." Narota said this in Thai, and then said to the Ming army Qianhu in Chinese: "Don't go and report your prince yet!" ”
This Qianhu just listened to them speak in a language they didn't understand, and they were stunned all the time. Suddenly, when he heard this sentence in Chinese, he immediately asked people to report to Zhu Ying.
Dao Yubin stopped talking to him, and asked Meng Yangren, who followed him to rush to the city, to hurriedly follow the Ming army into the city from the city, and he went down the slope with the support of others.
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Zhu Yang and Mu Ying stood together, looking at the city head nervously. Although more and more people rushed forward, his heart was always tugging. It wasn't until a soldier waved a banner with the word 'Ming' at the head of the city that he relieved himself and said, "Finally conquered Ava City." ”
The man standing beside him wearing a Dai leather armor also happily hugged his neck and smiled: "Ava City has been conquered!" ”
Mu Ying glanced sideways at Zhu Yang and Dao Baifeng, but did not speak. He didn't like to have a woman in the army very much, but she was brought by Zhu Yang and the daughter of Meng Yang Tusi, and he didn't want to have a conflict because of this matter, so he could only be silent.
"Let the rest of the soldiers return to their respective camps, and even those who have already reached the vicinity of the city walls must return and not be allowed to enter the city. Give orders to the commanders of the armies and gather the soldiers. ”
"Immediately send in the gendarmes to maintain order in the city. Now that it is already dark, if they plunder, they will probably kill each other, and they must not be allowed to loot now. All the gendarmes wore red scarves around their arms, and those who dared to loot without permission were killed on the spot. Zhu Yang commanded.
"Yes, General." The man who received the order immediately walked out.
Mu Ying commanded a few more words, and then said to Zhu Ying: "Your Highness, now that it is dark, and the city has just been captured, it is very unsafe to enter the city now, Your Highness still stays in the big tent for another night like the minister." ”
Zhu Yang doesn't care about this. He had lived in a Dai village in Mengyang, and for him it was not very different from a tent. So he said, "In that case, I'll stay outside the city for another night." ”
The two of them said a few more words, and Mu Ying said, "It's so late now, and the minister won't disturb His Highness's rest." Then he exited the tent.
When he left, Dao Baifeng found that there were only two people in the tent now, her and Zhu Yan, and he hurriedly said, "Ah Lang, I'm going back too." ”
"You stay tonight." Zhu Yang said.
Dao Baifeng's body was shocked, and he was stunned for a while before he said: "Ah Lang, we are not married yet, and when we get married, I will ...... with you."
"Okay, I'll ask the guards to take you back." Zhu Yang was a little disappointed, and said with some relief.
At this time, Dao Baifeng suddenly came up and kissed his face, and then ran out of the tent with a smile.
Dao Baifeng returned to the camp of Meng Yangjun. When the army was out, if she lived near Zhu Yang's camp, even if she did not live in a tent with Zhu Yang, her reputation would be hindered, so she returned to Meng Yangjun's camp every night.
As soon as she reached her tent, she heard a cry: "Oh, it hurts me!" ”
Dao Baifeng looked sideways, and said with some concern: "Cousin, could it be that he was injured when he led the army to attack the city today?" She said as she walked towards Dao Yubin's tent.
She lifted the tent and saw Dao Yubin lying on the bed, and a native soldier squatting next to his feet doing something.
Seeing that he was not missing an arm or a leg, Dao Baifeng let go of half of his heart and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Dao Yubin saw that it was her and said, "It's Bai Feng." I led people to charge today, and let the boiling oil burn the soles of my feet, making people pick bubbles. As he spoke, he suddenly made an "oops" sound, and then said to the person who was picking bubbles: "I said you can't be light!" ”
"Cousin, let's do it with me," Dao Baifeng walked to Dao Yubin's feet, took the needle from the hand of the native soldier, squatted down and said, "Men are all hairy, how can such a job be done well." "While starting to pick bubbles.
"Sure enough, it's better for a girl to do such a thing." Dao Yubin said with a smile.
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