The siege of the Ming army had formed a fixed pattern, starting with the use of heavy artillery to bombard the city. Compared with the previous artillery, the heavy artillery of the Ming army has greatly improved its power, range and service life.

Although there were only more than 30 heavy artillery pieces of the Ming army, they were used in a centralized manner, and the power was huge. Moreover, the construction of the city wall of Donghu is not as strict as that of the Ming Dynasty, under the request of Xu Chengming, more than 30 heavy artillery pieces concentrated on bombarding one point, and the effect was seen in just over half an hour, and the northern city wall of Donghu seemed to be crumbling.

King Baseton and Bodao, who were watching the battle from the side, were also dumbfounded, they didn't expect Daming's artillery to be so strong.

"The power of the artillery of the Kingdom is unparalleled in the world!" King Baseton said and praised.

Xu Chengming smiled and said: "The power of heavy artillery is indeed unparalleled in the world, but the cost of heavy artillery is expensive, and each one requires tens of thousands of taels of silver. ”

"At this price, Xiao Wang also wants to buy a few of them, I wonder if the general is willing to sell them?" King Baseton asked.

"This matter needs to be decided by the Governor's Office, but it shouldn't be a big problem." Xu Chengming said.

Now Zhu Youxiao also intends to sell weapons, of course, the sale of weapons is also conditional, the first must be a subject of the Ming Dynasty; Second, there are regulations on the caliber of artillery for sale, and large-caliber artillery is not allowed to be sold; On the third day, the Apocalypse gun was not allowed to be sold, and outsiders were not even allowed to observe it up close.

"Can flintlock pistols be sold?" King Baseton asked.

"This also needs to be reported to the Governor's Mansion, and this one must be sold." Xu Chengming said.

"I heard that there is also a kind of divine weapon in the kingdom that can snipe enemies thousands of kilometers away, I wonder if this can be sold?" King Baseton asked again.

"The Apocalypse Gun that the prince said, this kind of firearm is too complicated to make, and our army can't equip it in large quantities, let alone sell it." Xu Chengming politely refused.

"It's a pity." King Baseton said with regret.

At this time, Bodao was even more regretful, although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he did not dare to show it, he understood that if he used heavy artillery to attack, his army of 80,000 would not be disbanded.

"Look at General Bodao, he has something to say." Xu Chengming said.

"The last general is just surprised by the divine weapon of the kingdom." Bodao hurriedly said.

"The reason why heavy artillery was not used in the early stage was that I wanted to test the loyalty of a soldier, in the army of the empire, the loyalty of the soldier is put first, and His Majesty requires that every soldier must be loyal to His Majesty and loyal to the empire, so in the military discipline of the imperial army, obedience to orders is always put in the first article. It's a pity that the loyalty of the surrendered troops does not meet His Majesty's requirements, even if such an army can be used as ten, the empire does not need it. Xu Chengming said coldly.

"The last general is absolutely loyal to His Majesty, and his heart can be learned." Bodao hurriedly said.

"We know the loyalty of General Bodao, and after the Donghu thief army is pacified, the empire will definitely be reused." Xu Chengming said with a smile.

"General Xie!" Bodao said.

"The Donghu thieves are out of the city." King Baseton shouted.

King Talong knew that if the heavy artillery of the Ming army continued to bombard like this, the northern city wall would collapse in half an hour at most, so he had to send soldiers to fight the Ming army outside the city.

"I thought that King Ta Long would never come out of the turtle, it seems that he can't be this turtle." Xu Chengming said disappreciatively.

Xu Chengming deployed 2,000 infantry and 10 artillery pieces outside each city gate, while the 10,000 dragoons were divided into two teams, one led by Ma Xianglin and the other with Zhang Fengyi as the commander, ready to support at any time.

The width of the gate was only so wide that two thousand infantry and ten guns were enough to completely seal the narrow gate. When Donghu's army rushed out of the city gate, the result can be imagined, groups of soldiers fell on the road before they could cross the moat, which gave people the impression that groups of Donghu soldiers rushed over in line to send the Ming army to be shot.

After leaving thousands of corpses at the gates, the Toungoo soldiers retreated to the city in disarray. The Ming army did not take the opportunity to capture the city gate, because the number of enemy troops in the city was huge, and Xu Chengming planned to hand over the task of the early street battle to King Baseton.

"Lord Wang, your army must be ready, the northern wall is about to collapse." Xu Chengming said.

"Rest assured, general, the army has already been prepared." King Baseton said excitedly. According to the agreement between the two sides, all the property looted by the Siamese army in the city this time belonged to Siam, but the wealth of the royal palace in Donghu could not be touched, which belonged to the Ming army.

"Order, withdraw all the troops blocking the south, and give the people in the city a way to escape." Xu Chengming ordered.

"No."

"General, you don't need to surround three queyi, what should you do when the Donghu royal family runs away?" Bodao said. Bodao now just wants to take revenge with his own hands and slash King Talong in order to vent the hatred in his heart.

"No, the number of soldiers and civilians in the city far exceeds our army, and once they resist desperately, even if they win in the end, it will only be a miserable victory." Xu Chengming flatly refused.

"The general is wise." King Baseton agreed.

……

Under the bombardment of the heavy artillery of the Ming army, the walls of Ava City finally could not support it and collapsed. After the city wall fell, Xu Chengming did not immediately attack, but ordered the artillery fire to be extended, and he wanted to blow up a foothold for King Basethorn's army.

At the moment when the city wall collapsed, the Donghu army took it for granted that the Ming army would attack, but did not expect that the Ming army would continue to bombard with heavy artillery. Although the range of the heavy artillery used by the Ming army's heavy artillery was limited, if it was hit by the heavy artillery, it would definitely be fragmented, which caused great psychological pressure on the Donghu army.

Donghu's army was bombarded by the heavy artillery of the Ming army, which made it easy for the Siamese army to rush into the city of Ava. King Talong was already determined to die, and he personally commanded his army to engage in street battles with the Siamese army in the city. And after the Siamese army slaughtered the city of Bagan, even the people in the city had the intention of resisting.

Street fighting continued into the evening, but the progress of the Siamese army was very slow, and the Siamese only controlled the northern part of the city, and did not even break into the center of the city.

"General, the resistance of the thieves in the city is too stubborn, our army has suffered very heavy casualties, and the progress is very slow, please ask the general for support." King Basethong did not expect Donghu's resistance to be so resolute.

"Tonight the city gate southeast of the dragoons entered the city and did only two things, set fire to it, kill people, and cause even greater chaos in the city of Ava." Xu Chengming ordered. Now the southeastern gates have fallen into the hands of the Siamese.

"No."

(End of chapter)