Chapter 4 Food

Eva, the reckless favorite, was distressed.

Originally, I thought that arranging for the Ming Emperor to enter Burma was a beautiful difference, and the Ming people liked face, even if they didn't take the initiative to blackmail him, they could get a lot of property, although they were fleeing, but at least the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. As long as they are told to lay down their weapons according to Manda's orders, some of those weapons can be taken away from his own private armed forces to strengthen his own strength---- a backward country like Myanmar can't even smelt iron, and a lord has hundreds of iron weapons in his hands, even if the political situation changes, who can ignore him?

In order to "get the best of both worlds", Eva also sent someone to send a lot of things to Ma Jixiang, who is said to be the favorite of the emperor who fled from the country, and Ma Jixiang also promised himself. But just when he was waiting for the geese to pluck their feathers, the Ming army actually ...... under this small border city Started the formation?

Didn't you say that all the good ones laid down their arms? Didn't you say that the fleeing emperor would give a "reward"?

Didn't you say that the emperor was cowardly and incompetent, and he obeyed Ma Jixiang's words?

Eva was called up to the city by his retinue to look at the city, and was almost fainted in fright--- an army of thousands of men formed a formation, spears and birds glittering in the sun after the rain. Forget it, Burma was not so poor that it could not make spears, and trade with the Portuguese also obtained a lot of bird guns---- Ming army was also equipped with Portuguese-style bird guns. But the cannons facing the city gate are a different matter.

With a "whoosh", a feathered arrow tied to a letter drew an arc in the air and shot into the city.

Eva's retinue hurriedly ordered someone to pick it up.

"Take it and find a general matter."

After a while, the relatives ran back in a panic, and almost fell on the wall with a dog gnawing mud: "The Ming people outside said that they should hand over two hundred stone of grain before dark today, or they will blow up the city gate and take it for themselves." ”

"What? Is a feathered phoenix as good as a chicken? Can these lost dogs snatch food from our mouths? Eva was furious, "Capture that dog emperor for me, and I'm going to send him to His Majesty to make him bend his knees and surrender!" ”

As if he understood the Burmese language of the people above, the artillery below was not happy, and the three Franc machines were fired almost simultaneously, and the iron balls that flew out pierced the city gate.

Eva was so frightened that she fell to the ground, and even her pants were wet.

At this time, Eva's relatives came up with interest: "My lord, it's better to stay away for the time being, and when the Ming people are defeated by the Tatars, we still have a chance to take revenge." ”

"Hmph, according to what you said, let people collect two hundred stone of grain in the city and send it out. I will take revenge on this in the future! "Iva is completely straightforward.

The gates creaked open. Perhaps in order to appease the Ming army, Eva's personal entourage ordered everything he could collect to be sent out first. Bags of grain were wheelbled out by wheelbarrows and piled up in the clearing below the city, where they soon formed a hill.

"Your Majesty, no! Risking his life, if something happens to the dragon's body, it will be difficult for the minister to die! Mu Tianbo held Zhu Youlang's hand tightly and didn't let him go down the city again.

"Why not? I don't know how many times I have lost my country, what do I still care about my body? If I want to cherish my body, why don't I just throw myself into tartar? ”

Hearing the word "Tartar", Mu Tianbo didn't dare to answer. But he still dragged Zhu Youlang to death, "If there is no Your Majesty, who will still be clear to me in the hearts of the people?" ”

Li Guotai looked at Mu Tianbo vigorously: Aren't you dying, everyone knows that there is a King Ji in the fleeing team, if His Majesty says that the throne will be passed on to King Ji, how will King Ji deal with himself, and how will our family deal with himself?

"I was able to ascend to the great treasure, thanks to the support of Qu Shi and Qu Qing, and during the period from the Ming royal family to Chongzhen, there were hundreds of thousands of people?" Zhu Youlang said that Mu Tianbo was speechless.

However, Zhu Youlang still couldn't beat a group of people alone, and in the end, he had to sit behind the military formation and hold up the emperor's yellow umbrella cover. When the soldiers saw the emperor coming, they cheered.

"Didn't this Emperor of the Ming Kingdom say that he was cowardly, how dare he come to the battlefield in person?" Iva even had the urge to grab the man in the yellow umbrella cover below and ask aloud, "Why don't you coax it", but after thinking about the whirring and leaky city gate that was beaten, he still resisted this unrealistic idea.

Outside the city was slaughtered, and inside the city was a ghost crying wolf.

For the military of this era, not killing people casually means strict military discipline, and of course it is impossible for the Burmese to borrow food from door to door in the same way as the aunts of the neighborhood committees in later generations, break into the doors of the poor, and kick the doors and fire arrows on the rich to force them to open their doors. Although the army that collected the food was all brought by Eva, Iva didn't want to offend the Burmese families in the city too much--- who knew what their relatives had to do with Ava City?

But the Akito is different, as we all know, the Akito is the best bully.

"The bright dog inside opened the door, and if it didn't open again, it would set the house on fire! Ming" A dark-skinned, skinny Burmese soldier spoke like a bird and threatened with a torch.

"If the Ming Dog wants the food, let the Ming Dog come out, and the original soup will be turned into the original food!"

"Quick, open the door!" The owner of the house urged.

As soon as the old servant who was guarding the door opened the door, several Burmese soldiers with spears rushed in, and kicked the old servant who still wanted to stop him directly: "Search for me, is this family through the Ming Kingdom?" ”

Burma was not at war with the Ming State, and was even nominally a vassal state of the Ming State, and Iva had no intention of being an enemy of the Ming State. Of course, the master knew that it was made up by the Burmese army, but Xiucai met a soldier, and it was unreasonable, and how could a merchant tell if he met a soldier?

At that moment, a few green-faced, fanged, and stinking Burmese people rummaged through boxes and cabinets everywhere, and searched every grain of food from the family. By the way, I also took a lot of copper coins---- and there was no store in this village.

The owner's family cowered and hid under the bed and shivered, not even daring to breathe loudly.

"Boss, look, there's a girl here who is so white." A skinny Burmese soldier rushed into the room where the female dependents were and found a teenage girl.

"Nonsense, how can the people of the Ming Kingdom not be in vain?" The leader scolded his subordinates for not being knowledgeable, and pounced on them with a sinister smile.

Hearing his sister's cry, the boy under the bed couldn't help but want to go out, but was held down by his father: "You're stupid, aren't you just a dead word when you go out now?" What's more, your sister is dead, and our family still has one less money-losing goods! ”

The boy didn't dare to make a loud noise after all, but clenched his fists tightly under the bed. "The Ming people are outside, why should they suffer the humiliation of the Burmese in the city?"

"Alas..."The father sighed helplessly: "The Ming Dynasty has always been kind to the barbarians, and I am afraid that the Ming army outside the city is not pretended." Even if it was true, the Ming Kingdom would not care about us overseas outcasts. I heard people say that when Emperor Wanli was in power, Luzon killed tens of thousands of Chinese, and Emperor Wanli rewarded them with silver. ”

The anger in the boy's eyes gradually dimmed, replaced by endless grief and indignation.