Chapter 721: Yunnan Falls
Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi escorted the military rations to support Gan Hui's department.
Fang Zheng accompanied Qin Zhan and Najib's 60,000 troops to attack Yunnan.
Mu Tianbo also learned the news of Li Dingguo's coming to help, which was like a timely rain, which relieved Mu Tianbo, who was unable to resist.
He transferred 20,000 of the 50,000 Dian troops stationed in Baishijiang Tianwei, merged the 40,000 Dian troops stationed in Yunnan Prefecture, combined 60,000, and personally led the Ming army to Guangnan Mansion to snipe the overwhelming Ming army from Guangxi.
This is the reinforcements that Mu Tianbo has sent with all his might, and the Dian army left in Yunnan Mansion is less than 10,000. This battle is a decisive battle related to the life and death of Yunnan and Muwangfu, once lost, Yunnan will have no troops to defend.
The two Ming armies of the imperial court, Gan Hui have been dragged in Guizhou by Li Dingguo all the way, and the only one who can take on the military task of capturing Yunnan is the 60,000 Ming troops of the Southern Military Region led by Qin Zhan and Naji. Once the offensive is unfavorable, the battle of this massive attack on Yunnan will be over.
The two main armies, which could not afford to lose, met in Quang Nam Province.
As soon as Mu Tianbo led the army into Guangnan Prefecture, he defended it according to the mountains and forests, and stationed 60,000 Yunnan troops in the military fortresses between the three mountains and forests of Guangnan Province, wanting to block the advance of the Ming army by virtue of its geographical advantages.
But Mu Tianbo obviously underestimated Fang Yuan's strength, defending according to the mountains and forests was indeed tricky for other armies, and the other party originally said that the matter was right in the middle.
In winter, the weather is dry and there is little rain, which is suitable for the maximum function of white phosphorus bomb.
White phosphorus can be bought on Taobao, and the gunpowder is all ready-made, and Fang Yuan ordered the officers and men of the whole army to process it into 1,000 simple incendiary bombs for three consecutive days.
This kind of incendiary bomb is wrapped in cloth with white phosphorus, and when thrown directly during combat, a large piece can be burned. It is especially suitable for mountain and forest operations, because in the winter mountain forest, dead branches and rotten leaves are everywhere, and it is absolutely a little burning, and even the entire mountain can be burned.
Mu Tianbo stationed his army in the fortress in the mountains, just looking for death!
Five days later, the Ming army, which had made full preparations, launched an attack on the Dian army first!
At least 30,000 of these Ming troops were hired to the Fujian and Guangzhou regions and were good at jungle warfare. Almost all of these 30,000 people are good at climbing mountains and mountains, plus they are well-equipped, and they are holding a big killing weapon like white phosphorus bombs, which is simply invincible.
Fang Yuan ordered 20,000 Ming troops, gathered together with 10,000 mountain special forces, to attack the first fortress.
The 30,000 Ming army did not storm the military fortress in the mountains and forests, but divided 20,000 people to surround the mountain and forest fortresses. Only 10,000 people were dispatched, divided into 100 combat squads, and 100 people began to throw white phosphorus bombs all over the mountains and fields, and set fire to them on a large scale.
These men were nimble with their hands and feet, and when they set the fire, they immediately fled without a trace, allowing the flames to spread across the mountains. In less than a day, the entire mountain forest was already lit with a raging fire. Mu Tianbo's so-called military fortress fell into a sea of fire and smoke in an instant.
The Dian army in the fortress never thought that the Ming army could release such a huge mountain fire, and the mountain fire also carried poisonous smoke, but anyone who smelled it would lose its combat effectiveness.
These Dian troops frantically fled the fortress, either fleeing into the mountains and forests, or holding their heads and running away. Qin Zhan immediately ordered the 20,000 Ming troops stationed outside the fortress to immediately launch a pursuit, trying not to leave a single person alive.
There is almost no suspense in this kind of war with a huge disparity in military technology.
The fighting spirit of the Dian army is inferior, the equipment is inferior, plus the Ming army also has the super technology of this era, this is not war at all but slaughter.
After a day and a night of pursuit, less than 1,000 of the 20,000 Dian troops stationed in the fortress were able to escape back to Mu Tianbo. The rest were either burned to death, hunted to death, or surrendered, and none of them were spared.
After the war, the trees of the entire mountain forest were burned to ashes, the corpses were strewn all over the field, and the stench spread for miles, which was simply unbearable.
Fang Yuan wanted to take advantage of Mu Tianbo's failure to come to his senses, take advantage of the victory to pursue, take down the military fort on another hill, and then encircle Mu Tianbo.
He ordered the Ming army to take turns to rest and recuperate, and the Ming army that participated in this battle rested in place, and another team of 30,000 people went to attack another fortress of the Dian army.
Ten days later, the Ming army, referring to the tactics of the first big victory, continued to throw white phosphorus bombs, burned mountains, pursued, and an assembly line offensive was still unpleasant.
Under the thunderous blow, the second fortress of the Dian army was also defeated in a battle, and the 20,000 Dian army only fled back with 2,000 people.
At this point, the defense line established by Mu Tianbo in Guangnan Province was thought to be able to hold the defense line for at least half a year or a year, but it was easily collapsed by the Ming army within a month. There were also heavy casualties, and even the sergeants who fled back were very few, and they were almost completely annihilated.
Before bathing in the waves, he was far away in Yunnan, and he did not have a clear understanding of the combat power of the Ming army led by the other party. Now that most of the Dian army has been completely annihilated, it is possible to know the reason why Fang Yuan can fight in the south and the north and dominate the world.
The original Ming army, which was unable to fight in battle, had already been reborn in the hands of Fang Yuan, reproducing the heroic soldiers who won a hundred battles when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, and was more powerful than the Han army in the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties.
Mu Tianbo only had less than 30,000 Dian troops left, and under the successive defeats, the morale of the army had already fallen to the extreme. Mu Wangfu is unwilling to give up power for his own selfish desires, but he wants the entire Dian army to accompany the funeral, why?
In the entire Dian army, many generals were also deeply dissatisfied, unwilling to fight again, and wanted to surrender Fang Yuan.
Mu Tianbo was also frightened when he got these rumors, and the army's morale was already weakened. If you drive these Dian troops to fight against Fang Yuan's Ming army, you will undoubtedly find your own death, and it is estimated that as soon as the military order is given, someone will immediately cut off his head and surrender.
Mu Tianbo didn't dare to fight again, so he led the army to retreat, wanting to flee to Mu Wang's Mansion to discuss later.
As soon as Mu Tianbo's military order to retreat arrived, the army immediately formed an army, formed a formation, and fled in embarrassment in the direction of Yunnan Mansion.
Where would Fang Yuan let go of this God-given opportunity, and immediately ordered the whole army to go out to pursue the defeated Dian army. There is only one military order, to chase and kill and grab merit as much as you like, not to kill Kunming, the seat of Yunnan Prefecture, and to capture Mu Tianbo alive to come to ambush the law, and there is no need to retreat.
A group of warless sheep in front are fleeing, and a group of bloodthirsty wolves in the rear are chasing and killing, and the morale of the army is worlds apart.
The two sides fled and chased each other, and fled directly from Quang Nam Province to Yunnan Province. Along the way, the 30,000 Dian army was annihilated and 20,000 were annihilated, and the Dian army that could successfully escape into Kunming City was less than 2,000 people.
Because the Ming army pursued very urgently, the direction of the pursuit was Kunming, and the three thousand soldiers led by Mu Tianbo did not dare to flee in the direction of Kunming City, but fled to the west, avoiding the pursuit of the Ming army.
Mu Tianbo knew that Yunnan had been lost, and he, the mastermind advocating the alliance of the six provinces, was not spared, and the only way to survive was to flee to Burma and move troops to the king of Burma. After all, Myanmar is still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it has a lot of contacts with Mu Wangfu, even if it can't borrow troops from Myanmar to enter Yunnan, at least it can stay in Myanmar and save his life.
Mu Tianbo fled like this, Kunming City was a group of dragons without a leader, and the pursuing Ming army had come to the city, and strictly ordered Kunming City to surrender, otherwise it would attack the city immediately.
The main force of the Yunnan army has been completely lost, and the city of Kunming has been undefended, but it is only to increase casualties. Mu Tianbo's son Mu Zhonghan had no choice but to lead the whole Mu Wangfu up and down to surrender to the Ming army.
At this point, the Mu Wangfu, which has guarded Yunnan for two or three hundred years and has gone through eleven generations of Qianguo Gong, has finally come to an end in history!
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