Chapter 286: The Situation in Donghu (Page 1/1)

Zhang Yibin breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered someone to quickly drag out the corpses of the Donghu soldiers in the city gate hole and throw them by the moat, and then seal the city gate hole with stones and soil.

At this time, Ma Xianglin rushed over with four thousand Ming army vanguards, and the Ming army entered through the west gate, Zhang Yibin said to Ma Xianglin: "General Ma, we have lost more than 60 brothers, and more than 100 people have been injured. ”

Ma Xianglin asked, "How many Donghu people have you killed?" ”

Zhang Yibin said: "Last night, we killed 327 Donghu soldiers, and today we killed more than 400 people. He also captured more than 600 people from Donglin City. ”

Ma Xianglin said: "Since there is a war, it is inevitable that there will be deaths. If a man is a husband, he will die as he deserves. This time I was too radical and blindfolded by food, General Lu had already arrived in Lailin, and we waited in Taunggyi until the main army arrived, and then attacked other places. We came with small artillery this time to see if his trebuchet was good or our artillery was good. ”

Zhang Yibin was overjoyed: "Although this trebuchet does not have many casualties, it is really annoying, with artillery, we have to turn their trebuchets into torches." ”

The Guards installed small six-pound guns on the city wall, and the six-pound guns weighed two hundred pounds, so this time they only brought a total of ten, and they didn't bring many solid bullets, mainly flowering bullets.

The Donghu people saw the activities of the Ming army on the city wall, and turned on the trebuchet again. The stone projectile of the trebuchet was slow and the accuracy was poor, so the Ming army quickly loaded the artillery, and after measuring the trajectory with a solid bullet, a flowering bullet fell next to a trebuchet, and exploded violently, blowing all the soldiers next to the trebuchet to the ground, and the trebuchet was also ignited by phosphorus fire.

The Donghu people hurriedly began to retreat the trebuchet, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ming army set fire to three catapults with flowering shells, killing a group of Donghu people who operated the trebuchet.

After removing the threat of trebuchets, the Ming army began to dig the hole in the south gate and rebuild the city gate, and as soon as the city gate was repaired, Lu Chin led a large army to Taunggyi.

Lu Chin convened a meeting of officers above the battalion commander, and he pointed to the map and said: "This is still the previous map, and it will be corrected after consulting the merchants and prisoners, and it may not be too accurate, but it will not be wrong." We are now preparing to attack the city of Yangmidin first, and then Naypyidaw, and fight directly under the city of Taungoo. ”

Division Commander Tang Jiuzhou said: "General, only occupy the city, don't you care about other places?" ”

Lu Qin said with a smile: "This attack only hits the city, not the countryside. This is the strategy formulated by the emperor, if we attack the countryside, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, our advantages cannot be reflected at all, as long as we occupy the city, then we can control the grain-producing areas around the city, and other places, it is useless to occupy them, or wait for the Donghu people to surrender and let them help us govern. ”

Zhang Yibin said: "The Donghu people are very brave, they don't seem to be afraid of death at all, if it wasn't for the explosives that were blown up twice, this Dongzhi City really doesn't know if it can be saved." ”

Lu Qin smiled: "I don't believe that there are Donghu people who are really not afraid of death, and I know that there are Ming people who are really not afraid of death." Well, our advantage is firearms, so capturing and arming around the city is the best for us. Donghu City is 400 miles away from here, and I am going to have everyone attack in two ways, General Ma will attack Yangmidin, and Commander Tang will attack Naypyidaw. Our purpose is to occupy the city, not to kill people. As long as we occupy the city of Donghu, and the city facing the sea is naturally occupied by the navy, then we will be able to control the whole of Donghu. ”

Tang Jiuzhou asked: "It is useful to occupy only the city, if the Donghu people harass in the countryside, how can we deal with it in the city?" ”

Lu Qin said: "This question was also asked at the time, the emperor believes that as long as the city is occupied, the countryside will not be able to make waves, although we don't quite understand what the reason is to support the emperor's view, but the emperor has never missed it, so everyone can rest assured." ”

Everyone laughed together, His Majesty the Emperor has indeed never made a mistake, since this is the case, let's follow His Majesty's strategy.

Lu Qin said: "According to our intelligence, the walls of Yangmidin and Naypyidaw are not high, but the city of Tangoo is built tall and strong, so this time we brought artillery, in fact, I think that if we really besiege the city of Donghu, there should be no need to attack the city, and the people of Donghu will surrender." ”

Ma Xianglin easily captured the city of Yangmidin with 6,000 men, while the 8,000 men of Tang Kyushu took some effort to defeat Naypyidaw, and after leaving 2,000 defenders in both cities, a total of 13,000 people together with Lu Qin's headquarters came to the city of Donghu.

When he heard that the Ming army had occupied Yangmidin and Naypyidaw, he immediately convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Information after the fall of the two places has also been sent to the palace. He said: "There are 4,000 defenders in Yangmidin, 5,000 defenders in Naypyidaw, and all the rest of the soldiers have been killed or taken prisoner, except for a very few who escaped to report the news. The firearms of the Ming army were so powerful that we had no way to resist them. ”

The minister said: "My lord, when it comes to firearms, the Dutch and the British also have them, and the old minister has seen them in the office they have set up, so it is better for us to buy some firearms from them, so that it will be easier to resist the Ming army." ”

Another minister, Woolla, said: "Now that the enemy has arrived in the city, is it too late to buy weapons?" The offices of the Dutch and the British had only a few firearms for self-defense in business, and where could they buy them for a while to equip the whole army? ”

He almost guessed: "Donghu City is high and thick, there is plenty of food, and there are many troops, how can the Ming army attack it?" In this way, we will have enough time to ask them how we can get firearms and equip them in the army at that time, so that we can defeat the Ming army. ”

Wu La said: "How long does this method take, the easiest way is for the king to give an order to let the troops of the surrounding cities come together to besiege the Ming army, I don't believe it, we can't beat more than 10,000 Ming troops with 100,000 troops in the east." ”

Another minister, Thaksin Mi, said: "We will only know the news when the Ming army goes from Mengsa to Lailin and then captures Taunggyi. And Yang Midin and Naypydu we set up heavy guards, but they were still broken by the Ming army in a short period of time. It can be seen that there is still a big gap between the combat effectiveness of us and the Ming army, so it would be best if we could negotiate peace. ”

Chachai shouted: "What peace talks, do you want to surrender?" ”

Woola also shouted: "How can we explain to the people of Donghu without a fight?" ”

King Ta Long actually understood that in the battle against the Ming Dynasty, Donghu's victory was extremely small. In the past, the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to the confined area at all, and the Ming Dynasty was not appeased, so it would let the Six Xuanwei District do its own thing. Now that the Ming Dynasty is internally calm, looking at the current posture of the Ming Emperor, there is a great sense that he will not take Donghu back to the Ming Dynasty and will not give up. Although Donghu is strong on the peninsula, he is only afraid that he will not see enough than the Ming Dynasty.

But I wanted him to surrender without a fight, but I was unwilling in my heart after all. He stood up and said, "Let's fight with the Ming army first." ”

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