Chapter 35 The Burmese Coup The King of Burma surrenders

The king of Burma knew that if he continued like this, he would really have to live in the far north if he wanted to live, as the Ming army general said. However, the Burmese king was really unwilling, and he thought that there was still a glimmer of hope that the British would not watch Burma be occupied by the Ming army. Although the Burmese king also knew that the British were not well-intentioned, and they were also optimistic about Burma, it was precisely because of this that the British would not let the Ming army succeed, and besides, the Ming army sank so many British warships, and the British would not be finished. Therefore, the Burmese king decided to go south, which was close to the sea, and it was really impossible to go out to sea and hide in the Mughal Empire, where he could deal with it for a while with the help of the British, with his own gold and silver. The Burmese king immediately ordered his retinue to make secret preparations for leaving, especially to bring precious gems such as jade and gold. But the Burmese king would not give up Burma so easily, and he ordered the whole country to mobilize and mobilize all men to come out and fight the Ming army. Ordered more than 10,000 defenders of Ava to go south to support General Wen Peng, and asked General Wen Peng to drive away the Ming army by the river at all costs, otherwise he would come to see him.

Wen Peng received the death order from the king of Burma, and knew that many people would die again, but it was impossible to drive away the Ming army, so he had to sigh: "Alas! "There are hands folded and kneeling on the ground, please bless the Buddha to drive away the hateful Ming army.

Coupled with the army sent by the king of Burma, Wen Peng has nearly 40,000 people, Wen Peng doesn't understand, why the Ming army doesn't leave, and his heart says: You should not occupy this place, it is not right, and it has no value, let us kill so many people, what are you trying to do?

Wen Peng knew that only by relying on the number of people to fight to the death with the Ming army, when the Ming army was tired of killing and killing, we could rush up and occupy the dock. But it depends on who can make it to the end.

The captain of the Guangzhou and the captain of the Taihu also saw that if the Burmese army did not retreat, it would still attack, and their only trick was the tactics of crowds. As long as the Yaogang naval army occupies a place here, it can contain a lot of energy from the king of Burma, so if the Yaogang army does not take the initiative to attack, it will drag on for time and wait for Qin Peng and them to press over from the north. Our speedboats can attack the Burmese warships along the Dajinsha River, and the Burmese transport ships are also forced to dock and cut off the Burmese army's water transportation. If you continue like this, you will be able to tighten the rope around the neck of the Burmese king little by little. However, when the Yaogang soldiers used a bulldozer to dispose of the corpses of the Burmese soldiers, they also covered them with **. In particular, wire-controlled anti-infantry**. That thing is a real weapon to kill infantry.

This time, Wen Peng did not choose to attack at night, but in the morning. He knew that the Burmese army used firearms, and the formation to deal with their dense attack would not be empty without aiming and shooting casually. The soldiers who attacked them were even more panicked when they couldn't see the opponent's position, and they didn't know the distance, so they didn't know when they should charge quickly. This time, Wen Peng also knew that there was no need for any tactics, that is, to press on it in an all-round way, as long as the soldiers did not die, they had to move forward, and he organized the supervision team to follow behind, and those who retreated immediately cut off their heads.

The idea of the defenders on the Yaogang side this time is also to kill and injure a large number of Burmese troops, so that they can remember it for a long time.

Therefore, when the Burmese army rushed towards the position in formation, when the forward all entered the anti-infantry ** area of two or three hundred meters, they did not detonate**, and when the forward entered within 100 meters and shouted to launch a charge, the anti-infantry ** was detonated, and the high-powered anti-infantry ** was a large explode. The last time the Burmese army attacked, it was not dawn, and the effect of the explosion could not be seen clearly in the distance, but now it is different, the Burmese soldiers behind can see it clearly, after the explosion of the anti-infantry **, the soldiers below flew around like rice blown by the wind. And it was an area where explosions like this occurred in succession, and the scene was simply terrifying. But before the Burmese soldiers behind closed their mouths that were open in shock, after a burst of rolling thunder, the explosion thunder blossomed on their heads. An airburst bomb was fired from the Yaogang warship and exploded over their heads. The kiln cannon fired very methodically, and the shells fanned out an area outside the anti-infantry. In this way, the anti-infantry ** and air-burst bombs separated the front of the charging Burmese army from the army behind. The Ming soldiers who rushed to the front were quickly dealt with by light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles. Later, Wen Peng saw that the attack was out of line, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the attack to stop. The Burmese soldiers in the back were very glad that they did not die this time. When they retreated into the woods to take a rest, the kiln shells hit again, but this time it was ***. Soon the woods were set on fire. Those soldiers who were ignited by *** on their bodies, the situation was so miserable that the Burmese officers and soldiers felt terrified one by one.

The standby Burmese army assembly area behind the woods was once again covered by kiln shells. Large-caliber 203 shells, one shot, can kill one or two hundred dense Burmese soldiers, and at the same time blow up a terrifying crater in the ground. No matter how strict the military discipline is, it can't stop the soldiers from escaping. In this battle, Wen Peng lost more than 10,000 soldiers, but 5,000 soldiers also fled.

Wen Peng was not surprised by this result, he knew that such an attack was like suicide, but Wen Peng was a good general, he knew that he had countless casualties, and the opponent was also consuming, so he couldn't wait for the opponent to ease up and attack again, although at noon, Wen Peng ordered that an attack must be organized immediately, and several generals were not satisfied with some friction, Wen Peng did not hesitate to let people pull out and cut it. The remaining generals quickly organized their ranks one by one and lined up to launch another decisive attack on the Ming army's position.

Although there was no anti-infantry in front of the position this time, the tactics of the Yaogang people were still the same, a large number of Burmese troops rushed to within 100 meters in front of the position, and the artillery intercepted them with artillery fire within three or four hundred meters in front of the formation, and the Burmese troops in front were still solved by infantry using light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles.

The artillery first covered it with air-burst shells, but the Burmese army still rushed forward one after another, and the captain of the Guangzhou ordered to use *** instead. A wall of fire was built, and the corpses of the Burmese soldiers on the battlefield became incendiary. The Burmese army behind could not break through this wall of fire in any way.

Wen Phong handed over the command of the army to his lieutenant general, and told him to send someone to report the situation here to the king of Burma, and asked the king of Burma not to embarrass his family, and to bury me on the spot as soon as possible after I died. After giving the order to stop the attack, he drew his Burmese sword and killed himself. His lieutenant didn't stop Wen Peng, and he knew that this was Wen Peng's best result. If he dies himself, he will not implicate his family. Otherwise, if you go back after such a defeat, the whole family will not be protected.

After Qin Peng and his brigade arrived on the bank of the Dajinsha River (Irrawaddy River), they immediately collected a lot of boats, three tugboats and a few speedboats from Yaogang and went upstream, and a few days later, they joined Qin Peng's army. Qin Peng asked Jiang Wei to lead the troops of the two regiments, take the wooden boats carried by tugboats, and go down the river to support the Yaogang Marines stationed at the dock. At the same time, cut off the Burmese king's retreat to the south.

When the signal soldiers sent by Wen Peng informed the king of Burma that Wen Peng's attack had failed again and that he had committed suicide, the king of Burma could no longer care about this matter. The king of Burma has received news that one of his distant brothers is organizing a mutiny and preparing to kill him and seize the throne. This frightened the Burmese king, who did not know how much Ava supported the brother, but he knew that there were many of them. Over the years, he has offended too many people since he ascended the throne, and has constantly launched conquests, which has made the people's hearts boil, and the civil and military people dare not speak out. These rebels have only one result for themselves, that is, after they are caught, they will definitely not be soft when they are killed as soon as possible. The Burmese king knew that the army on Wen Phong's side still supported him, otherwise he would not have sent someone to inform him of the situation on his side. So the king of Burma decided to flee to those armies, and with those armies, he would come back and deal with these rebels. At night, the king of Burma did not bring his princess and children, but let his guards, protect himself, and escaped from Ava in makeup, not daring to take the main road, and went around to the military camp of Wen Peng. When he entered the barracks, the king of Burma came to the grave of Win Phong and offered flowers. In fact, at this time, the king of Burma was eager to dig up Wen Peng and divide his body. But in order to win the hearts and minds of the army, what the king of Burma should do is still to do.

The king of Burma said to his lieutenant: "General Win Phong is a good general who is loyal to me. He is defeated here, and the responsibility cannot be borne by him, but also by the king. The Ming army attacking this time is really different, their firearms are too powerful! This time, the king came to reinvigorate the monarchy, make a last stand, and kill a way for us Burmese people to survive! Hurry up and call all the generals over, and the king will give a lecture. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! But ,...." the adjutant general did not dare to continue.

"But what?"

"However, there are already many troops, led by some generals, who have gone north without permission. I went to intercept it, and they almost killed me. We can't stop it! Now we have less than 10,000 people here! The adjutant general didn't say no, he gritted his teeth and said it.

"What?" When the king of Burma heard this, the hot heavenly sweat came down. Xin said: "It seems that those rebels have put their hands into the army, and the transferred army must have listened to them." ”

The king of Burma leaned back on the bamboo chair, thought for a while, and said to the lieutenant general: "You are not to blame for this, it is the king who has no way to govern the army." Now this battle can no longer be fought, our 18,000 people are not enough for the Ming army to plug the gaps, and more than 300,000 people in our north have been defeated and unable to form an army. Now I appoint you great generals to take full command of the army in front of you. Straighten out the army today, and retreat south to the sea tomorrow! ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant general, saluted and left. He knows that the general appointed now is useless, he doesn't know what he wants to do when he retreats to the beach, and he can't jump into the sea? However, the orders of the Burmese king still had to be carried out.

However, in the middle of the night, the Burmese king's confidants, U Nai Win, the envoy sent to the north by the Burmese king, fled to the camp in embarrassment. Wu Nai Win forced the lieutenant general to wake up the king of Burma from his sleep and let the lieutenant go out, and he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

The king of Burma knew that the situation was not good, so he got up and personally helped the loyal minister up, and said: "Don't blame this king, this king learned that the situation was not good, and did not dare to inform anyone, he escaped at night!" ”

"You are doing the right thing, King! If you don't leave, it's all over! ”

"Say it! How's Ava doing? Although the king of Burma was mentally prepared, he was still very nervous when it came to the end.

"Hey! Your brother Abiariroth staged a coup d'état. There were many generals who supported him, and many ministers and generals who opposed them were killed by them, your family..."

"Say it! How are they? The king of Burma did not want to hear the bad news, and he wanted to know the result.

"Your family has been killed! I know from one of your guards that you've escaped. Otherwise, I thought you had been poisoned by them. So I hid their soldiers along the river and fled all the way here! ”

"Woo!" The king of Burma covered his face and wept.

When the king of Burma had cried for a while and stopped crying, the minister asked, "Your Majesty, now is not the time to grieve, think about what we should do?" ”

"I was going to go south to the sea at dawn, but if I couldn't do it, I would go out to sea in a boat to the Mughal Empire, where there were many Englishmen whom the king knew, and who had always said they supported the king. We can go and take a break for a while! ”

"You fool, king! The British are complimenting you because they fancy the power in your hand, they are all merchants, you have no rights, and you have not brought out much gold and silver, and it is difficult to say whether we can save our lives by relying on others there! ”

"So what do we do, you say?"

"Stay alive!" U Nai Win said firmly, "On the way here, I thought about it, and we will exchange Myanmar for our lives." Anyway, if you don't change Myanmar, it's not ours! ”

"Tell me, how can we exchange Burma for our lives?" The king of Burma caught a straw.

"We surrender to the Ming army, and they will definitely protect us. We can help them completely occupy Burma and make the Burmese people submit to the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Bold! You dog minion, isn't this a complete burial of our Burma? The king of Burma was furious.

Wu Naiwen didn't say a word, just sat here.

The enraged Burmese king spun around on the ground, scolding U Nai Win and the rebels. At dawn, the Burmese king finally calmed down.

The king of Burma, who returned to the bamboo chair, said to Wu Nai Win: "You go to negotiate with the Ming army, I can surrender, but on one condition, that is, to help this king catch those who rebel, and to hand them over to this king to deal with." Do the rest! ”

Apparently aware of this result, U Nai Win said to the king of Burma, "Your Majesty, sleep for a while!" I'll also sleep for a while, and I'll go to negotiate with the Ming Army at dawn! ”

Wu Naiwen did not dare to rush towards the Ming army, and first sent a man who could speak Chinese, with his hands raised, to the position of the Yaogang people, and told the people on the battlefield that the king of Burma would send an envoy to negotiate.

This matter was reported to the captain of the Guangzhou, and the captain did not expect the king of Burma to come here, so he ordered the marines on the shore to send someone to bring the envoy of the king of Burma over, because the front line was arranged **, otherwise the envoy of the king of Burma would be blown up before he could negotiate, and the matter would be troublesome.

The captain of the Guangzhou immediately reported the situation to Qin Peng and the command center by telegram, and the command center and Qin Peng both sent telegrams back, instructing them to seriously receive the envoy of the Burmese king, and to try their best to win the surrender of the Burmese king.

The captain of the Canton had never dealt with such a major matter, and he was a little nervous all of a sudden. However, he quickly adjusted, thinking, no matter who you are, you are now my defeat.

The envoy of the king of Burma changed into a set of clean clothes and led two people to the front of the position, followed the soldiers of Yaogang, and walked towards the position. There were still a lot of dead bodies on the road that had not been cleaned, and although the kiln people had sprinkled a lot of white ash and covered it, the stench of decay almost made Wu Naiwen vomit out.

Wu Naiwen came to the position of the kiln gang people, and after only one glance, he had to admire the good repair of the kiln gang people's position. Although the kiln gang people dug trenches, but Myanmar has a lot of water, in order to prevent the soldiers from standing in the water, the kiln gang people used wood to erect wooden rafts in the trenches. The weapon held by the kiln man made him even more incomprehensible.

Wu Naiwen was even more stunned when he saw two big boats like mountains parked next to the dock, he didn't expect people to build such a big ship.

The soldiers led Wu Nai-win aboard the Canton, and the captain greeted him at the gangway. After the two sides were angry for a while, the captain invited Wu Naiwen to the ship's reception room.

As soon as he entered the boat, Wu Naiwen immediately felt that the air was very cool, and the temperature was suddenly different from the outside. The electric light in the reception room was very bright, which Wu had never seen before, and despite Wu Naiwen's efforts to keep his composure, he was still a little dizzy by what he saw.

The soldiers on board gave Wu Nai Win and the three of them, and each poured a glass of bubbling soda from a glass.

The captain said to U Nai Win: "The weather in Burma is too hot, so let the envoy drink some soda and cool down!" ”

As soon as he drank the cold soda, Wu Naiwen suddenly felt refreshed, and even said, "Okay!" This soda is so good! ”

The sailors poured them soda again.

The captain had a very obvious advantage in his heart at this time, and said with a smile: "I heard that the envoy has already talked with our General Qin Peng. General Qin Peng asked me to say hello to you on his behalf! ”

Wu Naiwen was surprised again, the news of the Ming army was reported too quickly, but the envoy reacted quickly, "Thank you General Qin Peng for me." After the last time we met, a lot of things happened, and I wanted to go back and talk to Qin Peng again, but our King is here, and I came here to ask for instructions, so let's talk to you here! ”

"Okay! It's the same with me about anything! ”

"I'll just say it!" Wu Naiwen knew that he couldn't go around in circles, "Our king wants to accept your conditions, but there are too many people in the family who oppose it. The king went a little too far. I didn't expect those people to launch a coup d'état and want to overthrow our Burmese king, and they will continue to fight with you to the end! On behalf of His Majesty the King, I ask you to send troops to assist us in suppressing the rebels. We fully accept your terms and assist you in administering Burma, and the Burmese king will personally order our subjects to submit fully to the Ming administration and become the subjects of the Ming Dynasty. ”

The envoy's words surprised the captain very much, and he did not expect such a result, but he did not believe that there was such a pie in the sky, and asked, "What about the conditions of your Burmese king?" ”

"When I came, the king of Burma put forward a condition, that is, the rebels must be handed over to the king of Burma. As for the other conditions of the Burmese king, the Burmese king said that it is up to you to decide. He believed that the Ming Dynasty was a state of etiquette and would treat him well. ”

"We can agree to your terms," said the captain, "and we can write an agreement at once, and put them on paper!" ”

"Good!" Wu Naiwen didn't want to have too many dreams at night, so he immediately ordered the people who came with him to draft an agreement with the staff officers of the kiln gang.

This way the captain and Wu Naiwen can talk like old friends. The captain asked, "Your Excellency, how many people can His Majesty control now?" ”

"There are more than 10,000 soldiers around the dock who support the Burmese king!"

"That's good! As soon as you get back, organize your army to approach the docks and set up a defensive position outside, where our artillery can provide support if the counters attack. ”

"That's great!" Wu Naiwen replied happily, but in his heart, he felt weird. The original enemy now has to provide artillery support for himself. The feeling of the army on the shore will be stronger!

"And!" The captain said, "You have also seen that the conditions on the ship are good, and if you can rest assured, the king of Burma can live on the ship, and it will be much safer!" ”

"Good! When I returned, I told the king of Burma. So when are you going to attack? ”

"Don't hide it from the envoy, a large number of our troops have already gone down the Dajinsha River, and they will arrive soon. When they arrive, we can cooperate with the Burmese army and attack from the north and south to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop. ”

"That's great!" Wu Naiwen clapped his hands happily.

After Wu Naiwen got off the ship with the signed agreement, a telegram from the Yaogang command center was also sent to the captain and Qin Peng at the same time, the content was: "Seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely eliminate all hidden dangers." For those who were originally princes and nobles were completely eliminated, those cultured people should also be isolated. All of their acts of resistance and their thoughts must be completely eradicated. A large number of teachers will be sent to teach them Chinese. ”

Qin Peng and the captain immediately rescued and understood what to do!

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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.