As Anabilon sent more and more troops to the area around the Wulu River, the amount of food and salary consumed naturally increased, and the flaws that broke out became obvious, and gradually Li Xin saw the opportunity to send troops to Dongwu, and he began to gather the generals in the army to discuss how to seize Dongwu's plan.

For the march into Ava, under normal circumstances, Liu Wei is the most familiar with the road, he had led his troops to Ava in his early years, but now the situation is different, Li Xin in order to avoid the war in Yunnan, and not to let the Dongwu area too chaotic, this must take a more covert way, all the troops need to secretly enter Ava City, and seize Ava City in the way of civil strife, it is best to capture Anabilon in a battle and take over power smoothly, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to make a strict and meticulous battle plan, It's not something that one person can decide.

Li Xin summoned all the staff officers of the officer corps, plus Liu Wei, Deng Zilong, Zhao Rui and Fang Ruguo, and everyone sat together behind closed doors to discuss the battle plan. Li Xin explained the purpose of this operation to everyone, expounded the significance of such an operation, and made everyone mentally prepared for a certain degree of mental preparation, and then everyone discussed around this purpose.

Dongwu is a country with very good topography, its location is surrounded by mountains in the east, north and west, facing the sea in the south, and a narrow plain in the middle, most of the territory is south of the Tropic of Cancer, which belongs to the tropical climate. In ancient times, such terrain isolated the invasion of ancient India and ancient China, and the mountains and seas were its natural barriers, and the complex alpine dense forests made it helpless for successive Chinese dynasties.

The Dongwu people continue to use the advantages of the terrain to harass the frontier areas of the Ming Dynasty, for such harassment, the dynasties are helpless, they peep into the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, always rob and quickly retreat into the mountains and mountains with complex terrain, so that the Ming fleet looks at the mountains and sighs. The large-scale use of troops is huge, and a small army may be defeated, which makes the Ming army feel very depressed, like mosquitoes and flies, although it will not kill you, the endless itching is annoying. Li Xin planned to solve this problem once and for all, directly occupy this dynasty, and then carry out a thorough transformation to avoid all future troubles.

Liu Wei once led his troops to fight Ava, but only hit, and did not completely occupy it, but only attacked, the reason for this was that the number of troops was too small, and the logistics supply was difficult, so they could not be stationed there for a long time. Liu Wei said: "The terrain of this Dongwu is too good, it is difficult for us to pass through the mountainous areas in the north, if we force it through, it is not impossible, but the next supply problem is more serious, especially now that we are all firearms troops, the supply dependence on logistics is even more serious, if the supply problem can be solved, I think it is not a big deal to occupy Dongwu." ”

The staff team was also at a loss when they looked at the dense mountain rivers on the map, and there were not many constructive solutions given. Li Xin looked at everyone's expressions and had no choice, but it was not a way to give up like this, what should I do?

At this time, Fang Ruguo asked, "Since the supply is so difficult, how did Liu Laocai's goods be transported?" Isn't business doing well now? Is it possible to use Liu Laocai's business path? ”

Fang Ruguo then explained himself: "Liu Laocai's goods to Ava were transported by the Kachin horses, and only the Dian horse was feasible on this rugged mountain road. The horses in Yunnan are bantam horses, which are known for their endurance in history, and are the most important means of transportation on the ancient tea horse road. The characteristics of the Dian horse are that it is stable and has long endurance, and is suitable for mountain roads and dangerous roads. The most striking characteristics of the Yunnan horse are that it is short and healthy, hard-working, and good at carrying weights, and can travel long distances, which is very suitable for long-distance transportation on rugged mountain roads. With the help of the Kachin people's horse gangs, we can buy a large number of Dian horses from now on, and then gain the trust of the Kachin people, and along the ancient tea horse road, we can transport a large amount of military supplies to the small town near Ava in advance and store them, so that they can be used at that time. Moreover, even after the start of the war, a large number of Yunnan horse packers can be formed to transport supplies. ”

Fang Ruguo's words reminded Li Xin that in this era, most of the materials between Dongwu and Daming were completed by the horse gang, Liu Laocai himself had already formed a horse gang, and many soldiers entered Dongwu under the cover of the horse gang.

At this time, Liu Wei also had a big brain, and said with a smile: "Yes, Brother Fang reminded me, so let's do it, let's disguise the troops as Kachin horse gangs, I am still familiar with the road, we put all the weapons in bags, put them on pack horses, treat them as goods, and then divide them into dozens of big horse gangs, and only carry a short knife for defense, and the short knife for robbery can solve the problem if you encounter a small group, and there will not be too many robbers in the brigade, and it is a big deal to solve it with a musket." ”

After some discussion, Li Xin set the tone for this operation, that is, in the name of seeking benefits from the Kachin people, quickly controlling Awa, and then thinking about controlling the entire Dongwu and letting the war be carried out in Dongwu.

After formulating a plan, Liu Wei, Deng Zilong, Zhao Rui, and Fang Ruguo quickly began to act, first buying a large number of Yunnan horses, and then the troops began to prepare various materials, disguising a large number of weapons as ordinary commodities, dividing them into a small group of about 100 horses, formulating certain contact information before and after, and began to enter the territory of Dongwu in large numbers.

As a pioneer, Liu Wei first took a dozen horse gangs, about fifteen or six hundred people, as a pioneer. They didn't have to cover anything, they just looked like real horse gangs, and they entered the territory of Dong Wu from Wan Town generously. In Wan Town, along the bank of the Wushui River all the way to the Irrawaddy River, there were indeed no large bandits on the way, and a small number of mountain people robbed the road were quietly solved by Liu Ling, in order to make it more convenient to pass in the future, Liu Wei also left hundreds of people along the way to build several contact points.

After arriving at the Irrawaddy River, Liu Wei paid for a few big ships, loaded the soldiers and supplies on the boat, and went straight to Ava along the Irrawaddy River. Originally, according to Liu Ling's wishes, let some of these Dian horses go back, Deng Zilong thought that it would be better to let these Dian horses be slender men after arriving in Ava, and then pull these big boats upstream along the Irrawaddy River, and by the way, the people behind them were also loaded on the boat, otherwise the use of Dongwu's slender men would easily expose the arms on the ship, and the use of Dian horses could be as fast as possible.

After arriving in Ava, Liu Ling and his team contacted the Ming spies who had been doing business here in the early stage, and stored the military materials in various shops, and the soldiers were also hidden in the mills, carpentry factories and other factories opened by Liu Laocai. Deng Zilong took these Yunnan horses up the Shuojiang River and continued to transport the soldiers who arrived one after another.

A large number of people and horses are naturally not easy to hide in the city, but there are still a large number of places outside Ava City to hide, Liu Laocai's caravan in the past two years outside the city to establish a workshop to hide these horses very well, after all, there is a calculation or not, Li Xin planned to seize Dongwu for a long time, Liu Laocai also spared no effort and money to buy land and workshops, all of which were very hidden.

The troops of more than 20,000 people slowly entered the territory of Dongwu, and Liu Wei began to organize slowly here, and the troops were divided into several different assembly locations, agreed on contact information and time, and waited for the right opportunity to hold a big operation.

There are many festivals in Myanmar, especially the festivals of various ethnic groups in the people, Liu Wei intends to carry out the action on the day of the Songkran Festival, which is a traditional festival, generally lasts about four days, the day of the action is set on the last day of the Songkran Festival, this time is the most tired day for most people, even if it is a person with energy, after four days of carnival will be exhausted, both soldiers and Anabilon will be in the most slack, just find a reason, you can cause disputes, and then take the opportunity to start an incident.