Many years later, in a monograph on the history of the East by Westerners, a Western historian used the biographies of Westerners who fought as mercenaries in the land of the East at the end of the 16th century as the source material to evaluate such a famous fire, a fire in Phitsanulok, which destroyed not only a prosperous city, but also the fate and future of a country and a nation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After King Narui Xuan made up his mind, the strategy of the scorched earth war of resistance was determined, and the sudden attack of the Burmese made Xiao Ruxun and King Narui Xuan unprepared, Narui Xuan lost his hometown and thousands of villagers, and Xiao Ruxun Although there was no loss, he also had some understanding of the Burmese decisiveness.

In the face of a desperate situation, some people will sit on the ground and wait for death, some people will rise up to resist and fight for the last ray of life, and these Burmese are obviously the latter, whether it is Mang Yinglong or Mang Yingli, they are all heroes in troubled times, the ending of the heroes in troubled times is not to create history, or to die on the battlefield, there is absolutely no other ending, Mang Yingli as the strongest warrior of his own nation, as a matter of course, chose to resist to the end.

Xiao Ruxun also knows that such an enemy will never surrender and will definitely fight until the last moment.

At the same time, the specific number of Burmese troops sent this time has also been roughly accurate, the Ming spies and Siamese spies together described the Burmese army that was raging in Phitsanulok province, saying that it was an army that covered the sky and the sun, not only a large number of elephants, but also a large number of musketeers and gunners, and the Siamese army of about 5,000 people, resisted only a quarter of an hour before completely collapsed.

Fortunately, thanks to the smooth implementation of the scorched earth strategy, before the Burmese army entered and occupied Phitsanulok, Phitsanulok had been burned down, the raging fire burned for three days and three nights without stopping, houses, warehouses, elephant fields, temples, etc., all were burned down, and the Siamese people who died in this fire are estimated to be 10,000 or 20,000, for Siam, this is a disaster, a disaster that shakes people's hearts

It's just that for the Burmese, this is also a disaster, the Siamese would rather burn their hometown than give the land to others, not give the food and weapons to the Burmese, which made Min Qide furious, what is the purpose of the forced march with his troops? What is the reason for leaving the miscellaneous soldiers and the elite soldiers and horses to rush all the way? For what?

Seeing the raging fire, he almost immediately ordered the army to put out the fire, salvage food and weapons, but the fire was fierce, the Burmese army was burned to death by the fire, but did not grab anything, and then the fire grew bigger and bigger, uncontrollable, until the early morning of the fourth day, a downpour extinguished the fire, this heavy rain lasted for a morning, after the fire was extinguished, the bloodshot Min Kai Tak ordered to search the ruins.

What else lies beneath the rubble? Except for the charred is the charred, black and swarthy, nothing can be found, occasionally find some ruins, broken walls, broken tables and broken benches, it is useless, not only did they not get a grain of grain or a weapon, not even a local can catch a single local, those Siamese who caught it at the border all said that Phitsanulok had a lot of reserves, they just galloped all the way, now Phitsanulok may have a lot of reserves, but all of them have turned to ashes.

A wild and forced march, all you get is a ruin, nothing, what kind of mood Min Qide is can be imagined, what kind of blow to the morale of the Burmese army can also be imagined, in such a situation, the Burmese army is already at the end of the crossbow, there is no way to continue to move forward, and then to snatch other things.

Min Qide watched his army fall into a decadence with red eyes, he wanted to organize the troops to attack the city again to seize grain and grass to boost morale, but he was shocked to find that he had used the troops too hard before, and then they were exhausted by all the strength, they had rushed here for a long time, and almost had a full day of rest, and the troops were extremely exhausted and had reached the verge of physical collapse.

Under such a premise, even if Min Qide was angry, he could only let the troops rest, otherwise, it would inevitably cause a mutiny, and he could only camp in the ashes of Phitsanulok, and by the way, wait for the miscellaneous soldiers who had fallen behind before and part of the main force to monitor.

On the other hand, the scorched earth strategy did cause Siam to suffer huge losses, but the Burmese were imprisoned and prevented from attacking further southward, which gave Siam a precious respite.

Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang studied the information they had obtained so far and made a complete analysis of the Burmese army.

The main force of the Burmese army is about 100,000, which is estimated to be all the elite main forces that can go out in its country, and they have a desperate plan to end the war in Siam, and destroy Siam by the way, and solve all the threats in one battle, which is an extremely bold strategy and tactics, but it is unexpectedly effective, and in a short period of time, it has broken through the northern town of Phitsanulok, which is more north, and isolated Chiang Mai and other places further north, breaking the strategy before King Narui Xuan in one fell swoop, and the situation is precarious.

The combat arms of the Burmese army include musketeers and gunners, which are not many in number, but they are strong in combat, and a large number of foreigners are organized in them; There are elephant soldiers, about three or five hundred war elephants, it is very terrifying from a distance, once the war starts, the impact of the war elephant community will produce an extremely terrifying war effect, and the ground can be described as shaking the mountain; There are also traditional swords, guns, swords, and archers, which are the largest in number and are the main force of the Burmese army.

"For the enemy's gunners and gunners, our army and the Siamese army have corresponding firearms troops, which can compete with them, not to be afraid, and our army's bird guns and Francophone guns account for an overwhelming majority, so we will not fall into the disadvantage at all in terms of firearms, as for the war elephants, the Siamese people also have corresponding countermeasures, the Siamese war elephant troops can compete with the war elephants of Dongwu Kingdom, our army only needs to assist, do not need to bear the main combat force, as for the main force, Ji Xin, your artillery tactics can come in handy."

Yuan Huang made a brief analysis of the current situation and came to the conclusion that any branch of the Burmese army, the combined forces of the Ming army and the Siamese army, could be opposed.

"This is just the most ideal state, Yuan Gong, in case of heavy rain when the battle is about to fall, it is not good, I am indeed good at using firearms, and there are also war elephants that use artillery to occupy high places to cover the shooting of Dongwu, causing the fear of the war elephants, so as to directly collapse the military formation of the Dongwu army, but once it rains, all firearms can not be used, that is a real hand-to-hand fight, our army and the Siamese army together more than 80,000 people, and the main force of the Dongwu army of 100,000 people, quite difficult."