By the summer of the thirtieth year of the Apocalypse, the First Army of the Ming Army had fully occupied Siam.

Part of the Fourth Army had also occupied the southern state of Laos, while the Second Army had also taken control of Ava, and the Third Army had reached Chittagong.

At this time, the Taungoo Dynasty, which was the most powerful in the whole of Southeast Asia and even posed a huge threat to the southwestern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Burma, was completely surrounded by the Ming army.

Of course, the Donghu Dynasty also had an outlet to the sea along the coast of Mengjiala Bay, but this area was basically controlled by the Franco-Robot and the Red Fans.

And just three days before the Donghu Dynasty gathered its troops to prepare for a decisive battle in the Nansang area to block the Ming First Army, which threatened its capital Donghu in advance, the South China Sea Fleet had forced the Red Fan Ghost and the Francophile to give up the entrance to the sea in the Donghu Dynasty without a single shot, and successfully blocked the last way out for the Donghu Dynasty.

However, the Taungoo Dynasty, which had just unified Burma, did not realize that it was on the verge of extinction.

At this time, the Donghu Dynasty was the strongest time in history, although he had suffered a crushing defeat in front of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, and this time he lost two important strategic places, but he still stubbornly believed that he could resist the attack of the Ming army, because he had lost a battle in the Wanli period to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the king of the Donghu Dynasty also saw the accumulation of difficulties within the Ming army, and he did not invest too many troops in Ava and Chittagong, according to his strategic concept, which was to lead the Ming army into the depths, deep into his hinterland, and seek opportunities to annihilate them.

After all, in their own hinterland, there are many mountains and dense trees, and most of the Ming army living in the plains has not been able to adapt to this environment, not to mention that it is currently the rainy season, and it will be difficult for the Ming firearms to be effective.

The first army of the Ming Dynasty has just destroyed the Siam State, which is considered a tired army, and the current position of the march is closest to Nansang, so the king of the Donghu Dynasty, King Talong, has already gathered 200,000 elite main forces to gather in the Nansang area to prepare to annihilate the first army of the Ming Army in this area.

King Ta Long can be regarded as a male lord of the Donghu Dynasty, since this person succeeded to the throne, the fight against the country's strong and powerful, quelled the rebellion, divided the land and landless peasants, so that the domestic contradictions of the Donghu Dynasty were greatly reduced, the national strength is becoming stronger and stronger, he himself is also quite ambitious, has invaded the Ming Dynasty several times, although he has been defeated, but because the Ming center of gravity in the north during the Wanli Apocalypse, he still took the opportunity to occupy more than 100,000 square kilometers of territory.

If he hadn't been committed to the development of his country over the years, he would not only occupy more than 100,000 square kilometers of territory in the southwest border of the Ming Dynasty, but might even have a big war with the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, the territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty has been recovered by the Second and Third Armies of the Ming Army, and he will also have to face the invasion of the Ming Dynasty.

King Ta Long has not been a king of Siam and other countries over the years, and he has never taken lightly the Ming Empire, a giant beast that has been pressing on the head of his Donghu Dynasty, and even knows the changes of the Ming Dynasty over the years, and also knows what the real intention of the Ming Dynasty is to suddenly launch an attack on Annam, Siam, and Nanzhang.

In his opinion, the Ming Dynasty did not do this simply because these countries were disrespectful to the Ming or paid too little tribute, but the Ming Empire's appetite has grown, so he began to prepare as early as a few months ago, and sent envoys to warn the surrounding countries, and he even intends to form an alliance with other dynasties in Southeast Asia, and he can just become the leader of the alliance and compete for hegemony with the Ming Dynasty.

However, contrary to expectations, due to the contradictions between Southeast Asian countries, and because the previous expansion strategy of the Taungoo Dynasty had already accumulated deep grievances among other dynasties in Southeast Asia, the Taloon King of the Taungoo Dynasty failed to form an alliance before the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Siam and Nanzhang states, which were Southeast Asian powers.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Ming army's offensive speed was too fast.

However, the effective resistance of the first army of the Ming Dynasty to the destruction of the Siamese State in the later period was not related to the fact that the King of the Donghu Dynasty warned the Siamese State in advance, and even the King of the Talong Dynasty took the initiative to abandon the previous suspicions and help the Siam State resist the Ming attack.

Now, when the Donghu Dynasty of King Ta Long wants to face the Ming army alone, he is both nervous and excited, and he wants to take advantage of this to eliminate the first main force of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the first army, and to deter the Ming Empire, so as to improve his prestige in the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula, and become the common lord of the Southeast Asian Empire in the future, fight against the Ming Dynasty, and no longer succumb to the obscenity of the Ming Dynasty.

In his opinion, the first army of the Ming Army is already a tired division, coupled with the rainy season, the miasma is rampant, even the iron army can not bear it, and he maintains an absolute advantage in numbers and has relatively good firearms, which can annihilate the first army of the Ming Army.

In fact, the First Army of the Ming Army was indeed extremely exhausted after occupying Siam, and it was true that most of the officers and soldiers were not adapted to this tropical rainforest climate and contracted the disease because of the weather and climate change.

Considering that the more abundant the rain was later, the war would become more difficult to fight, and the disease rate would continue to increase, Chang Yanling, the commander-in-chief of the First Army, did not care that his First Army was a tired division, and immediately entered the vicinity of Nansang in the territory of the Taungoo Dynasty after occupying Siam.

However, because of the fight from Annam, the local troops captured by the Ming army have reached hundreds of thousands, and the first army alone directly captured as many as 180,000 surrendered soldiers from Siam and Nanzhang, which is nearly twice that of the entire first army, and these prisoners have now basically become the cannon fodder of the first army of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to ensure enough time to rest and maintain combat strength, basically the post-war cleaning and pre-war transportation were completed by these castrated prisoners, who had to be driven by the Ming army in order to survive, and died countless times, in exchange for their own lives for the lower casualty rate of the main force of the Ming army.

Now after arriving at the Nansang front, there are still as many as 150,000 captive soldiers attached to the First Army of the Ming Army, these soldiers are numb, the system is thin, and the weapons are just ordinary broadswords and spears, but they are still in front of the main force driven by guns and steamed buns.

King Ta Long did not expect that these Ming army would use these captives to fight, and in this way, he lost his numerical advantage.

The Ming army now likes to use artillery to fire a salvo, especially when the countless firearms troops of the Donghu Dynasty are concentrated side by side according to the mountain battle columns, using artillery is more effective than using cavalry.

Nowadays, with the development of the steam industry, the range and firing speed of Daming artillery have long been comparable to any country in the same era, and the black powder loaded with the shells has almost reached the best ratio of black powder in the world, so the explosion power is also great.

It is reported that the Royal Ordnance Department is now developing the use of nitroglycerin's explosive properties to make nitrifying explosives, and may even make high explosives such as trinitrotoluene.

Once such explosives are successfully manufactured, the Ming Dynasty may only need a few hundred artillery pieces to destroy the 200,000 troops in front of him.

Just when the general of King Talong, Mang Gujie, ordered to reload the gunpowder, the artillery on the side of the Ming Dynasty had already fired rapidly, and hundreds of shells exploded round after round on the mountainous area of less than ten square kilometers, directly blowing up the entire Burmese (Taungoo Dynasty) army is limbs, flesh and blood flying, and the high ground where they are located is also covered with smoke and dust in an instant.

Then, the 150,000 captives screamed with a knife or a spear, venting the humiliation and anger brought to them by the Ming army, and rushed forward to slash and stab the dying Burmese soldiers.

After the artillery attack of the main army of the Ming Dynasty, the task of these captives was very simple, that is, to take the knife and gun in their hands to repair the knife or cut off a certain part to capture the prisoner.

The 200,000 Burmese elite main army collapsed in less than half an hour, with more than 100,000 dead and wounded and fleeing under the attack of the artillery bombardment and the capture army of the First Army of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining 80,000 main forces retreated directly to Yongchang.

King Ta Long was very surprised when he learned the news, he knew that the Ming Army was very strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong.

He always thought that the Ming army was destroying Gularot in Siam and other places because these Southeast Asian countries were too weak, because his Donghu Kingdom knew how weak these countries were, but he didn't expect that his most elite 200,000 main forces were actually vulnerable in front of these Ming army.

King Ta Long did not know that since the Ming Dynasty entered the industrial age, the entire military combat method has already made a qualitative leap, although he can be regarded as a politician who knows how to rule the country, but in the end he still can't see farther, in some aspects of selfishness and short-sightedness is not much better than Kang Mazi, so he thought that the victory became a big rout.

However, what made him even more unexpected was that his most important and most admired god of war in Myanmar, Mang Gujie, surrendered without a fight in Yongchang City, and the 80,000 main Burmese forces announced their surrender without any resistance.

This is unthinkable in the country of Burma, which is thriving in national power, and King Tarong did not dare to imagine it after learning the news, he did not believe that Mang Kujie, a man who had experienced dozens of battles, would surrender without a fight.

Just like the late Qing Dynasty in the original history, no one thought that Seng Lingqin would be defeated so badly at Bali Bridge.

And only Mang Gujie, who was lying in the operating room of the field hospital at this moment, knew that when the artillery that was more sensitive and accurate than his own firearms overturned the entire Yongchang City, spraying countless iron bumps and directly crashing through the city walls and rushing in, he couldn't resist these steel giants with his flesh and blood, no matter how much he resisted.

Rather than being crushed into pulp, it is better to give up your life and spend the rest of your life to see how these armies of the Heavenly Empire can operate these behemoths to advance, and why their artillery can explode directly and can be shot after shot.

Because of the backing of the main army of the Ming Dynasty, the prisoners who served as the vanguard cannon fodder were obviously much stronger in battle than when they resisted the Ming army before, and their combat power was also quite amazing, which was also a reason why Mang Gujie surrendered without a fight.