The matter of sending troops to Donghu was arranged a few years ago, with Mu Qiyuan's 19th Army in Yunnan and Lin Chengxiang's 20th Army as the main army, and Chen Zizhuang's 17th Army in Guangdong as the response, and the three armies exceeded 100,000 soldiers to temporarily form the Third Group Army, with Mu Qiyuan concurrently serving as the commander of the group army and commanding the three armies in a unified manner.

After Chen Zizhuang's 17th Army arrived in Kunming, Yunnan, after the New Yuan Dynasty, and joined forces with Mu Qiyuan and Lin Chengxiang.

On the tenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1632 AD), the army was assembled, all the grain and grass, and all the equipment were in place.

Burma, now called the Donghu Dynasty, the northeast is the remnants of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, everywhere are lofty mountains and mountains, the terrain is relatively high, the northernmost Kumen Ridge, commonly known as the Savage Mountain, is an undeveloped alpine dense forest, the mountain is full of miasma, all kinds of poisonous insects, birds and beasts are rampant, the Three Kingdoms era, the prime minister of Shu Zhuge Liang had captured Meng in this seven times.

From northwest to northeast, the Minkin, Bonya, Longerang and Rakhine ranges, sandwiched between the east and west mountain ranges are a vast river valley plain with dense rivers and the longest river in the country, the Irrawaddy River, which flows from northeast to west and runs through almost the entire country.

Because the roads in northern Myanmar are isolated and not suitable for the army to travel, Mu Qiyuan is ready to break through from the middle road.

Lin Chengxiang's Twentieth Army, starting from Dali, entered Burma from Tengyue (now Tengchong), passed through Bamo, and went straight to Ruigu.

At this time, the main force of the army was far away in the Ayutthaya Dynasty in Siam, in the north of Ayutthaya, Ta Long personally commanded 100,000 Taungoo troops, from north to south, wantonly ravaging the territory of Ayutthaya, in the south, Taungoo was in the southeast of Ayutthaya, Chen soldiers 50,000, once Taungoo won a decisive victory in the north of Ayutthaya, they were ready to open up a second battlefield at any time, to give Ayutthaya the most fatal blow.

This time, Taron almost poured out the whole country's strength, and he was preparing to completely annex Ayutthaya.

The country of Donghu is relatively empty, all 50,000 soldiers, mainly distributed in the national capital Baigu and the northern important town of Ava, Ta Long is not worried about the domestic situation, the northwest of Donghu does not threaten the power of Donghu.

Lin Chengxiang's 19th Army, numbering more than 30,000 people, the soldiers were equipped with flintlock guns, and there were siege artillery, easy-to-carry mountain runs, along the way the defenders in each small city, either fled from the wind, or were completely wiped out, the 20th Army was able to preserve the intact structure, until the ancient city of Rui, before officially setting up the barracks.

Ruigu was originally the land of the Ming Dynasty, belonging to the Mengyang Xuanwei Division, but the main population of Mengyang, is not the Han people, but the Shan people, under the rule of the Donghu Dynasty for nearly 30 years, the people's hearts are no longer towards the Ming Dynasty, and now in the city, there are about 3,000 defenders, and the guard will be called Ahan.

Ah Han saw that the Ming army was strong and did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so he closed the four gates, strictly guarded the secrets, and prepared for a protracted war with the Ming army.

Lin Chengxiang surrounded Ruigu on all sides, and camped under the city, with only 3,000 Donghu troops, Lin Chengxiang did not pay attention to it, but his subordinate soldiers ran for a long distance and crossed a large number of plateaus and mountains, and now he was extremely tired, he did not immediately attack the city, but let the soldiers rest for a day and a night.

After dawn, Lu Yufeng's 58th Division, the whole army's forty artillery pieces, all concentrated in the East City Gate, with the experience of the Wusi-Tibetan War, Lu Yufeng no longer commanded the soldiers to forcibly attack the city, so that the casualties of the soldiers would be very large, he wanted to use artillery to directly blast open the city gate.

Forty artillery pieces, stopped at a distance of a thousand paces from the East City Gate, and the gunners began to calibrate the artillery, a thousand paces, which was the effective range of the Ming artillery, but the bows and arrows of the Donghu Army, even if they started firing from the head of the city, were far from reaching.

Ah Han was standing at the head of the eastern city, he retracted his gaze and stared closely at the ant-like Ming army outside the city.

Yesterday, the Ming army did not attack, and the soldiers spent a day without war, but Ah Han knew that this was only a short calm before the storm, and the Ming army came all the way to Ruigu and would definitely attack the ancient city of Rui.

The Donghu army is the defensive side, the initiative of the war is not in the hands of Ah Han, he can only wait for the Ming army to attack, the Ming army outside the city, but there are tens of thousands of people, Ah Han does not dare to go out of the city to face the battle.

As soon as the sky dawned today, the soldiers reported to Ah Han that there were signs of abnormal movement in the Ming army outside the east city, and Ah Han came to the head of the east city to supervise the battle.

Seeing that the Ming army came a thousand steps away, Ah Han estimated that the Ming army was about to attack, I don't know if the first wave of attacks of the Ming army will be particularly violent, how many casualties there are among his soldiers, he turned his eyes to the city, the soldiers on the city looked very nervous, he wanted to comfort a few words, but he couldn't think of the right words for a while.

The Ming army has adjusted the artillery, and the muzzle of the black hole is facing the direction of the East City Gate, Ah Han began to think that it was a trebuchet, but the trebuchet did not have such a black rumbling iron pipe, he asked the soldiers around him, and he didn't know what it was.

Originally, there were twenty trebuchets in the city, but Ta Long wanted to attack the city with all his might, so he transported all the twenty excellent trebuchets away, and the ancient city of Rui had not been in war for thirty years, and no one expected that the Ming army would suddenly appear here.

If the twenty trebuchets were still there, perhaps they would be able to drop stones at the Ming positions outside the city now, and Ah Han estimated that the trebuchets would be able to send small stones to such a distance.

There is no trebuchet, Ah Han can only wait until the Ming army attacks the city, and let the soldiers throw the stones directly under the city, anyway, the Ming army will attack the city sooner or later, and the same is true for hand throwing.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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Forty artillery pieces fired flowering shells at the city head almost at the same time, Ah Han was shocked by the artillery fire, his brain was a little short-circuited, and he thought that the Ming army threw stones at the city head.

Instinct told him that the stones were powerful, and he leaned against the inner side of the wall while letting his soldiers dodge the stones.

Ah Han saw the flowering bomb for the first time, the speed of the flowering bomb was far beyond his imagination, he had just hid in the corner of the city wall, the flowering bomb exploded at the head of the city, and the huge sound shook the head of the city.

The city was full of severed limbs and blood of soldiers, half of the palms, half of the thighs, and even the mutilated heads, which almost made Ah Han vomit, and the screams of the wounded soldiers made Ah Han even more worried, even more terrifying than the explosion of the flowering bomb.

Fortunately, the city walls did not collapse, and the city gates were not seriously damaged.

Ah Han found that the Ming army threw stones at the head of the city, and the stones would not explode, "How can the Ming army have such a terrifying firearm?" "He has never seen artillery, he is a little desperate, originally facing tens of thousands of Ming troops, Ah Han's confidence in holding the city is not sufficient, now the Ming army has such a terrifying firearm, his soldiers can only be beaten, there is no ability to fight back.

The gunners of the Ming army did not know how Ahan felt, and they were calibrating the muzzles of their guns in preparation for a second wave of strikes.

Ah Han's personal soldiers saw that the Ming army was loading the flower bombs again, they were the first to come to their senses, and they forced Ah Han to leave the city, although Ah Han was unwilling to leave the front line of the battle, he was still dragged away by his own soldiers like a puppet.

As soon as he left the city, the second wave of flowering bombs from the Ming army fell.

In this wave of attacks, the Ming army mainly aimed at the east city gate, and the flowering bombs that fell on the city did not increase much, and the defenders who were still in a daze in the city, or whose brains were temporarily deaf by the flowering bullets, became new targets, and the defenders who had been killed and wounded were just a little more thorough.

The wooden east gate was overwhelmed and torn apart by flowering bombs.

The Ming army did not immediately attack the city, and in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, Lu Yufeng asked the gunners to extend the flowering shells forward by 300 and 500 paces, respectively, with two rounds of shelling.

The eastern gate of Ruigu has become an undefended city gate.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the infantry of the Ming army, like a tide, began to pour towards the east city gate.

Lu Yufeng left a regiment of soldiers to guard the east city gate, because the Donghu defenders in the city suffered few casualties, and there should still be combat effectiveness, he did not dare to be careless, and the soldiers were divided into regiments and began to advance towards the city and the north and south city gates.

The war had just begun, and the Ming army was temporarily unable to contain prisoners, and the Ming army was still deep into Burma, and the food was not rich, so it could not support the soldiers of Donghu in vain.

The four city gates were soon occupied by the Ming army, when the entire 20th army entered the city, there was no suspense in the war, the Ming army relied on the advantage of flintlock pistols, and chased and killed the soldiers and civilians of Donghu everywhere in the city, and even Ah Han died under the indiscriminate guns.

At the beginning, the Ming army shot the main Donghu soldiers, after the Donghu soldiers were killed and wounded, even the people who ran at will on the street were also shot by the Ming army, in the eyes of the Ming army, although they were ordinary people, but at this time the people who were still running on the street must be helping the Donghu army, since they were enemies, they should be eliminated, whether they were soldiers or civilians.

For a whole morning, the Ming army has been fighting the enemy in the city, and if the people want to survive, they must stay in their own homes for the time being, and do not let the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty cause misunderstanding.

In the afternoon, Lin Chengxiang sent a staff officer in the army to appease the people in the city: the Ming army returned to Ruigu to restore the Mengyang Xuanwei Division established during the Taizu period, as long as the Ming army was supported, the people in the city would be protected by the Ming army.

In the current Rui Ancient City, there is only the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the people have no choice.

The staff officers of the army found various leaders in the city and asked them to beat gongs and drums on the streets to strongly publicize the return of the Ming army.

Donghu has been fighting for many years, the people are very taxed, they have no good impression of Talong, and among the people in the city, there are very few Burmese people, mainly the Shan population, they are the same origin as the Dai people in the Ming Dynasty, within the Donghu Dynasty, their status is not high, and even in the memory of the loose management during the reign of the Ming Dynasty.

There were also some Han Chinese in the city, and when the Ming army occupied the ancient city of Rui, they acted as the vanguard to welcome the Ming army.

After resting in the city for a day, and when the order in the city gradually calmed down, the Twentieth Army left a brigade of soldiers to prepare to sweep away the remnants of the surrounding Donghu Army under the guidance of the local Han people, and restore the entire Mengyang Division.

Lin Chengxiang led the rest of the soldiers along the Irrawaddy River to Ava (present-day Mandalay), an important northern town of the Taungoo Dynasty.

Mu Qiyuan and Chen Zizhuang did not march from Dali, they first stationed troops in Pu'er, Yunnan.

After Lin Chengxiang entered Burma in the west, Mu Qiyuan sent people to contact the Ayutthaya Dynasty to discuss the joint march of troops, and by the way, let Ayutthaya fulfill the grain promised in the contract.

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