Chapter 33 The Yaogang people seize the wharf, and the king of Burma sends troops to attack

It's not that the naval army of Yaogang is too big, but that the ships of Yaogang are long-distance voyages, and the ships must carry as many goods as possible, and each additional soldier must carry a lot of supplies. Especially on long voyages, the soldiers must not be too crowded. In order to ensure the health of the soldiers, it is necessary to ensure relatively spacious and comfortable conditions. Because the soldiers on the voyage ship were so miserable. Another reason is that the people of Yaogang are indeed very confident in their own combat effectiveness. They felt that with the support of warships on the water and the huge Taihu Lake, the Burmese could not help them.

To say that the king of Burma also attaches great importance to the Ming army that came from the water, he knows that the opponent who came this time is very powerful, and he does not dare to be careless. Although he also knew that the opponent was only coming from two large ships, the scout said that they had only a few hundred people ashore, and there were still a few hundred people on the ship, and the Burmese king's nose was crooked. The king of Burma slapped the table and shouted: "The Ming army is really too deceitful, and it dares to enter the hinterland of our great Burma with less than a thousand people, and I really think that we have no one." Someone! ”

Several ministers and generals entered the palace of the Burmese king, entered the main hall and bowed to the Burmese king, and then stood aside.

The Burmese king looked at them and asked, "Have you all heard about the landing of the Ming army on our riverside?" ”

The minister and the general folded their hands and said, "Got it!" Your Majesty! ”

"Humph! This Ming army is simply humiliating us, not only that, if the Ming army is allowed to gain a foothold on our riverside, the threat to us is too great! General Wu Nu, I order you to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses, with more artillery, not only to recapture the docks occupied by the Ming army, but also to use artillery to drive the Ming army's warships away from the Dajinsha River! The Burmese king did not dare to say that he would sink the Ming army's warships, he knew that a British fleet was no match for the Ming army, and his idea was that he could beat the Ming army away.

"King of Peace! Not only did I have to annihilate the Ming troops who landed, but I also had to sink all their warships in the Dajinsha River. "General Wu Nu is bold.

The Burmese king waved his hand and said, "General Wu Nu, don't be careless, our army in the north is now losing and retreating, although we have obtained a lot of firearms from the British, but compared with the Ming army, the gap is still very large. We can't beat them now. But when our Ming army arrives at our house, we must take advantage of the large number of people to solve this Ming army as soon as possible, and remember to run away. ”

"Yes!" General Wu Nu said with his hands folded.

This time, the king of Burma felt that more than 10,000 people had been dispatched, and he almost smashed ants with a sledgehammer. Winning is not a problem at all. It's no wonder that Wu Nu is so confident. This is a war in one's own home, with more than 10,000 people against a few hundred. Wu Nu's thought in his heart was that he must not let the Ming army know that they had come with so many people, so as not to scare the Ming army away.

Yaogang dared to send such a small army here, and all the soldiers sent out were elite soldiers. Among these elite soldiers, the Scout is the best. They sent several teams, arranged in various key roads, all dressed in camouflage and camouflage, hiding in trees, in the Burmese woods, and they could not be detected from a distance.

Before the Burmese army arrived, several scout teams were sent to investigate, but they were all captured by the Yaogang scouts, and after the Burmese scouts finished asking, they were disposed of and thrown into the jungle. The scout reported the received information to the ship by radio.

According to this situation, the warship also stopped moving upstream, and returned to the dock to stop with the Taihu Lake, which was unloading its cargo. The Marine Corps had already built fortifications around the pier out of wood, and there were still many horses to repel. In front of the position, a line of defense was laid out with serpentine barbed wire. Light and light machine gun positions were also in place.

The soldiers who went out to scout also brought back good news, not far from the dock, there was a small shipyard with a lot of wood in it. This is very good news, because with this shipyard, sappers can build barges. With the barge, the three tugboats could transport supplies and soldiers up and down the Dajinsha River to cooperate with Qin Peng. The Guangzhou warship in Yaogang was of the Fu ship system, with a deep draft, and was not suitable for free movement in inland rivers where the underwater conditions were unfamiliar. Barges are different, with high-horsepower tugboats, you can tow a long line of barges, and the draft requirements are not high. More suitable for inland river operations.

After getting the news that the Burmese army was coming, the two captains of Yaogang were simply looking forward to their early arrival, and they would still build ships after the battle.

Myanmar is a place where there are abundant products, and the pace of people's lives is slow, so they are not in a hurry to fight. When they had gathered their troops, they slowly came to the perimeter of the dock and surrounded it in a semicircle.

Due to the rain on these days, the roads were muddy, and it was difficult for the Burmese army artillery to bring it over. Although the British's cannons were made of cast iron, which could easily get bogged down in the mud, the Burmese took great pains to carry a dozen cannons to the front of the battle at dawn.

How did the Burmese know that the Yaogang people were masters of playing with cannons, and the scouts were staring at their cannons. The Burmese artillery was brought over, and the artillery positions were arranged. Around the position, there were many Burmese officers and soldiers pointing around the artillery position, talking and laughing, they knew the power of the artillery, and they waited for the Ming army to level the position as soon as they opened fire, and then they rushed up and it was over. If you get it right, you can sink the warships on the riverside for them.

But suddenly there was a rumbling thunder in the air, and a shell "boomed", and it exploded not far from the artillery position. The cannonballs were so powerful that the earth trembled. The Burmese artillerymen felt that their artillery was powerful enough, and they wondered, how could there be more powerful shells?

Another closer shell made the Burmese artillerymen understand that the Ming army had discovered their artillery position and was firing a school shot. But the commander on the position has not yet come, the soldiers don't know where to shoot, and they don't dare to run, the military discipline of the king of Burma is too terrible, and if he runs and is caught, he will die miserably.

While they were still hesitating, it was too late, and after a burst of rolling thunder in the sky, the thunder on the ground exploded.

The Yaogang warship received a report from the scouts that they had discovered the Burmese artillery position, and the captain decided to eliminate them immediately without leaving any threat. After two rounds of calibration, six 130-caliber and two 203-caliber cannons opened fire together, quickly covering the Burmese artillery position.

Not only were more than a dozen British cannons blown up, but many ** were also killed, and their artillery that they couldn't train was killed, and even the Burmese soldiers who were watching the excitement were killed by more than 200 people.

General Wu Nu, who was red-eyed, came to the messy artillery position because he wanted to cry without tears, and what frightened him even more was the terrifying big craters on the ground. Those craters are literally a big pond. But Wu Nu understood that no matter how terrible he was, he had to fight this battle, otherwise the cannon that the Burmese king bought at a high price would be blown up like this, and he would not be able to escape death when he went back.

Wu Nu gritted his teeth and ordered the whole team to immediately attack the dock occupied by the Ming army.

The combat effectiveness of the Burmese army was really not very good, and they lined up and brandished Burmese swords and pressed towards the pier from three directions. Getting closer, the artillery carrying small cannons behind the Burmese army stopped, set up small cannons and began to fire at the Yaogang position. The soldiers of the Yaogang Navy Marine Corps were all lying in ambush in the trenches, ignoring the shells that came at them. When the Burmese dense army officers and soldiers felt close enough, the officer gave the order and began to charge.

At this time, the soldiers of the kiln guard on the dock opened fire at the same time, light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles. As soon as the attacking Burmese soldiers ran up brandishing Burmese swords, they immediately fell like a piece of wheat that had been cut down. The Burmese army could not fight such a vicious battle, leaving behind more than 1,000 corpses and retreating.

Wu Nu was a little more sober at this time, the attack he had just organized was too hasty, and he thought that with more people, he would cover the dock at once and cut off a few heads of the Ming army. I didn't expect the opponent's firearms to be so violent. Wu Nu gasped, and said in his heart, no wonder the king of Burma reminded himself not to be careless, it seems that the king of Burma is very clear about the combat power of the Ming army.

However, Wu Nu knows that whether he can keep his head depends on whether he can win the battle in front of him, and now that so many people have died, I don't know how he will die if he can't win and go back.

Wu Nu reorganized the ranks and ordered officers at all levels to fight to the death this time, and if there was no order to return, first the officers were beheaded, and then the soldiers were beheaded.

Although the Burmese officers and soldiers were afraid of death, they knew that it was better to die when they rushed forward than to be beheaded when they fell back. In this attack, all the remaining armies went into battle together, and it was Wu Nu who was the last to suppress the formation.

Looking at the Burmese troops surging up like a tide on the riverbank, the artillery on the warship still did not fire, but the mortars of the marines of the navy began to fire non-stop. Each shell could knock over a few Burmese soldiers, but the Burmese soldiers still flooded. The bullying Marine Corps officer waited until the Burmese army reached 50 meters before the position before ordering the soldiers to shoot.

The Burmese soldiers knew that if they retreated, they would die, so the front fell and the back still poured up, and the corpses were soon piled up in front of the kiln hill position.

Wu Nu, who was following behind the Burmese soldiers with the warlord, knew that today was his death, so he ordered a few soldiers to go back and send a letter to the Burmese king and report the situation here to the Burmese king. Then he drew his waist knife and rushed forward with the Overseer soldiers.

The bullet didn't know what a general was or what an ordinary soldier was, Wu Nu was also hit by a heavy machine gun bullet, and he fell together with his soldiers, bleeding together.

The Burmese soldiers were all killed in battle, and it was getting dark. The Yaogang soldiers went out, and after catching a few wounded soldiers who were not dead, they retreated back to their positions.

The captains of the Guangzhou and Taihu who were in charge of the command studied it and decided that when it was dawn, they would send off the ship some gasoline and that the bodies of the Burmese soldiers must be cremated immediately.

However, the Marine officers on the dock demanded that the corpses be cremated overnight, because in such a hot weather, the corpses would decompose in one night, and if this was the case, we would not be able to stay without the Burmese attacking. The captains accepted his advice, and both ships put all their searchlights on the shore to illuminate the soldiers. The Yaogang soldiers first bulldozed several large pits in a low-lying area in front of the wharf, and then the soldiers put on gloves and masks, piled the bodies of the Burmese soldiers into several large piles in the big pits, poured gasoline, and set them on fire.

Several large candles were burned until dawn, when the smell of tar smoke was extinguished. After the incineration was completed, several large graves were built with bulldozers. The blood stains on the ground were also washed aside with a pumping machine, and the battlefield was quickly cleaned, and those who did not participate in the battle could not see that a fierce battle had just taken place here. Once there were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

Such a battle was really tragic, but the kiln people were used to it. The Burmese finished beating the kiln and the people went to work again. Some of them, under the cover of a group of soldiers, went to the shipyard to prepare for the construction of barges, and others began to build cement docks. The kiln people are going to take root here.

After receiving the battle report, the command center immediately called back to commend the officers and soldiers who had just won a great victory, and all this was also expected by the Yaogang people. After the radio broadcast the battle report, it did not arouse excessive excitement among the kiln workers. This kind of war report kiln gang people are used to it.

Emperor Chongzhen waited for this battle report and happily sent a telegram of congratulations to Zhang Zhimu, he knew that such a victory was not the same as killing a few more Mongols in the north, which meant that Burma would be defeated.

When the Burmese king got the news, he was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time. He faintly felt that danger was coming, and regretted launching an attack on the Ming Dynasty this time. I'm a little confused! Seeing the cannons and muskets sent by the kiln people, he felt confident, and the British supported his promise, which made his head hot. Someone once persuaded himself that the Ming Dynasty was too big, and we had no way to confront the Ming Dynasty in an all-round way. But I can't listen to it at all, and it's too late to regret it now. But the Ming army in front of him must be driven away, so that he will not be attacked by the enemy. Stabilize the Ming army in the north, and you can still sit on the throne of the king stably.

The Burmese king once again convened a meeting in front of the palace, and after discussing with the civil and military forces, the Burmese king made up his mind this time to hand over all the 35,000 troops that he could still control in the vicinity to General Wen Peng, and asked him to lead these troops to drive out the Ming army. And he told Wen Peng to be careful.

In fact, there is no need for the King of Burma to tell him, Wen Peng already knows the fate of Wu Nu, so he will naturally be extra careful.

Wen Peng called the messenger sent back by Wu Nu, and after carefully inquiring about Wu Nu's defeat, Wen Peng divided the army into five groups and surrounded the dock occupied by the Yaogang people.

An official sent by the king of Burma to the northern front also went through hardships, and finally met Qin Peng.

When the Burmese envoy said that the Burmese king meant that as long as the Ming army stopped attacking, it would be easy to negotiate any conditions. The specific conditions can be mentioned by Qin Peng. At the same time, the envoy also brought a gift for Qin Peng personally. Qin Peng asked people to accept the gifts, because Qin Peng knew from the internal reference that Wei Xiang negotiated with them after accepting the gifts from the North Korean envoys, and Qin Peng also learned Wei Xiang's methods.

When the envoy of the King of Burma saw Qin Peng let people carry the gifts to the back, he was simply overjoyed, and he already felt that the great work was about to be completed. He knew that if this was done and he returned to the palace of the Burmese king, the Burmese king would definitely reward him.

But Qin Peng's words with a smile made the envoy of the King of Burma feel that he had been beaten in the head.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.