Lin Chengxiang and Chen Zizhuang had to sit down again.

After a while, a eunuch, surrounded by two civil officials, walked into the hall with his head held high.

Mu Qiyuan and the two army commanders were about to kneel and bow, but the eunuch stretched out his hand to stop them: "This is the emperor's secret decree, and the three generals don't have to make a big salute." He took out the secret decree from his sleeve and did not read it, but handed it directly to Mu Qiyuan.

Mu Qiyuan held the secret decree in both hands, opened it and saw that in the secret decree, Zhu Youzhen asked him to eliminate all the magnates in Donghu, but he must not harm the Han people, as long as they do not oppose the Ming and the Ming army.

He hesitated a little, then glanced at the eunuch who passed the decree, and when he saw the eunuch's head, he handed the secret decree to Lin Chengxiang.

Lin Chen and the others were also shocked when they saw the secret decree, why did the emperor issue such a secret decree?

At present, Mu Qiyuan arched his hand to the eunuch, "This father-in-law, do you know why His Majesty will issue such a secret order?" ”

"I heard that on the sixth day of the first lunar month, His Majesty was playing in Yuquan Mountain, and the king of Donghu sent someone to assassinate His Majesty in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from sending troops to Donghu, and His Majesty was furious, and this is the secret decree."

"Assassination of the Majesty? The sixth day of the first month? Mu Qiyuan was shocked, "That Majesty has ...... Wounded? ”

"His Majesty is safe and sound, and all the Donghu people who carried out the assassination have been captured." The eunuch cherishes words like gold.

"Your Majesty!" Mu Qiyuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and his heart fell from his throat, Da Ming finally came out of a strong emperor, if he was injured by the Donghu assassins, it would be worse than Dou E, Zhu Youzhen asked him to eliminate the magnates of Donghu in the secret decree, but there is no fixed standard for the magnates, and anyone who is not good for the Ming Dynasty will be classified as the magnates and directly eliminated.

Sending away the eunuch who sent the edict, Mu Qiyuan once again inspected along Ava City for a week, Ava City was built near the river, unlike most of the cities in Donghu, it was northeast and southwest, and the city wall was not a regular rectangle, but an approximate oval, and the 100,000 Ming army had already surrounded Ava.

The Ming army was about to attack the city.

It was Chen Zizhuang's 17th Army that undertook the task of the main attack, in fact, there is not much difference between the main attack and the auxiliary attack now, but there is a priority in the time of entering the city.

Since there was a flowering bomb, when the Ming army attacked the city, it no longer used the cloud ladder ∨dǐng∨diǎn∨ small ∨ to say, .∧.■os_(); Set up the head of the city, and then let the soldiers attack the city along the ladder, such a siege method, the casualties of the soldiers are too great.

The Ming army now attacked the city, usually using artillery to blow up the city wall or city gate, and after depleting the enemy's living force, the soldiers would swagger into the city along the gap in the city wall.

The firearms of the Ming army were more advanced than those of the opponent, and the number of soldiers besieging the city exceeded that of the opponent, so the casualties of the soldiers were minimized as much as possible, and it was difficult to achieve zero casualties, but the casualties were generally not large.

Except for the Northern Expedition, the marines of the North Sea Fleet and the cavalry of Jiannu fought to the death, and the number of casualties was relatively large, and in other battles, the number of casualties of the Ming army was rarely more than ten.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Ming army are relatively stable now, except for a few soldiers who retire because of their age, or long service time, or difficulty in adapting to firearms, most of the soldiers who are familiar with each other constitute the cornerstone of the Ming army.

All provinces of the Ming Dynasty established a military reserve system to train recruits for replenishment, but there were not many soldiers who really needed to be replenished to the army.

A small number of reserve soldiers are strictly trained, almost reaching the level of front-line soldiers, as long as they learn to use firearms, they can be immediately replenished to the front-line army, while most of the reserve soldiers only participate in training during the slack time in the farm, and the time spent on training every year is only one month, and most of the time is still engaged in agricultural production.

The advantage of this is that it will not only enable the reserve soldiers to engage in agricultural production and increase grain production, but will also allow the reserve force to spend its limited training experience on the cutting edge, and will not only be able to train a small number of soldiers with combat effectiveness, but will also be able to expand the breadth of the reserve force, which will help select outstanding soldiers from a large number of soldiers.

After Mu Qiyuan inspected for a week, he was worried about the solidity of Ava City and the Donghu soldiers who didn't care about the city.

The city of Ava was once the capital of the Ava Dynasty, with high walls and solid stone walls, and after the army of Donghu occupied Ava and destroyed the Ava Dynasty, they repaired the walls of Ava again.

Ava, where the water network is developed, is also an important grain producing area of the Donghu Dynasty, the successive generations of Donghu kings have attached great importance to the defense of Ava City, and constantly increase the height and thickening of the city wall, the current Ava City, can be regarded as a strong city, if you face 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers holding cold weapons, it is estimated that you can hold on for a year.

But the Ming army was not an ordinary army, and they were not armed with cold weapons like swords, guns, swords, and halberds, but flintlock pistols and artillery.

Chen Zizhuang launched an attack from the East City Gate, and he set up all the forty artillery pieces of the whole army less than a thousand steps from the city wall, and the closer the distance, the more powerful the flowering bullets became, as long as they were far away from the bows and arrows of the Donghu Army.

In the first wave of forty flowering bombs, most of them fell on the outside of the city wall, and less than twenty fell on the city, but the huge noise and shock wave established a horn of death full of terror at the head of the city, and the city head was covered with Chinese red, either the fire released by the explosion of the flowering bombs, or the blood of the defenders.

The mutilated limbs of the soldiers had dramatically increased the number of defenders several times, if they were a single defender.

The soldiers who could not find their arms and thighs were the most worrying, they screamed, cried, rolled, and even some soldiers endured severe pain and connected the mutilated arms and thighs, and after connecting them, they realized that something was wrong, this arm and thigh were thicker than their own, or thin, or their skin was much darker than their own.

In desperation, they once again joined the tumbling army.

The soldiers who could not find their heads were lucky, they lost all consciousness in an instant, and they walked without any remembrance or pain before they met God.

The soldiers, who were not injured for the time being, were stunned for a moment, they had never seen such artillery, maybe it was fear, maybe it was wounded under the invisible shock wave, they forgot to bandage their companions, and even forgot to flee.

The Ming army did not let these soldiers struggle for too long, and the defenders had not finished licking the wounds of the ** spirit, and the gunners began the second wave of shooting.

This time, there were more flowering bombs that fell on the city, more than thirty.

If they can avoid the explosion of two waves of flowering shells, these defenders are really favored by the Buddha, and the remaining few defenders, as if they have been summoned by the Buddha, they run down the city in a puff of smoke, regardless of the hysterical cries of their companions.

Maybe that was the last sound they made in this life.

The Ming army began to adjust the artillery, the forty artillery pieces were divided into two, the twenty artillery pieces continued to shoot at the head of the city, the artillery fire extended forward by 300 paces, 500 steps, and the other 20 artillery pieces, all aimed at the east city gate.

The city wall is thick, and the flowering bombs are difficult to destroy, Chen Zizhuang doesn't believe it, the city gate will be so strong, it is made of iron, under the bombardment of twenty flowering bombs each time, how long can it last?

The city gate did not last long, three waves of flowering bombs, the city gate has long disappeared, either broken bones, or was blown up by the roots, Chen Zizhuang has already seen the open city gate hole.

Outside the east city gate is the Shuitange River, but the Shuitanhe River is far away from the city wall, the Ming army has crossed the Shuitange, and it is from between the Shuitange River and the city wall to attack, and the east city gate in front of the soldiers has been opened.

Chen Zizhuang finally gave the order to enter the city, and now there are no defenders at the east gate, and the Ming army is not in a hurry, they are holding flintlock pistols and lining up in a neat queue from the city gate to enter the city.

There were still soldiers of the Donghu Army at the head of the city, but they were either corpses or wounded soldiers, and as long as they could move, they had long since run away.

After the Seventeenth Army entered the city, it first killed the wounded soldiers on the head of the city one by one, and they occupied the head of the city without firing a single shot.

The main force of the defenders in the city is still there, they still have a greater threat to the Ming army, Chen Zizhuang divided the soldiers into regiments, carried small mountain runs, and began to search in the city, and then the twentieth army into the city, is to act as a rearguard, they guard the east city gate, and march along the city wall, to meet the Ming army outside the city into the city.

The battle was mainly carried out in the city, and the Donghu Army, which had no speed advantage and no long-range strike capability, was simply a target for the Ming army's flintlock pistol and mountain running, even if it wanted to rely on the cover of buildings, it could not, and the Ming army had mountain artillery.

The Donghu soldiers scurried around the city in despair, but there was no safe place in the city, and the search teams of the Ming army were everywhere.

The clever soldiers of the Taungoo Army began to hide in the homes of residents.

The searching Ming army soon discovered their movements, and all the civilians who took in the Donghu soldiers if they did not report to the Ming army in time were considered to be guilty of the same crime as the Donghu soldiers and were all shot.

If the inhabitants were Han Chinese and were coerced by the Donghu army, the Ming army could open the net, but these people would need to prove their innocence in the future.

Qingfeng, the commander of Awa, felt that his end had come when he found out that the Ming army had entered the city, but he still organized the soldiers of Donghu in an attempt to reoccupy the city gate and block most of the Ming army outside the city.

The Ming army did not give him any chance, and all the Donghu soldiers with weapons in their hands were shot and killed by the Ming army, regardless of whether you were ready to surrender or not.

Qingfeng saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to wipe his neck and commit suicide.

In the evening, the sound of flintlock pistols gradually thinned out, and most of the Donghu defenders were killed, and the Ming army searched for the fleeing Donghu army in the name of searching for the fleeing Donghu army.

In addition to the confiscation of property, the main ones of these families were also killed, because they were the magnates of Ava City.

The ordinary people who dared to resist, the Ming army was not soft, and basically exterminated the whole family.

The only exception was the Han Chinese, who were able to keep their families and property, whether they were ordinary people or wealthy merchants.

Later, some Burmese who could speak a diǎn Chinese dialect also falsely claimed to be Han Chinese, counting on the Ming army to show mercy to their men.

If they are ordinary people with little money left, most of them laugh it off and let them pretend to be Han Chinese, and officials and large families, even if they pretend to be Han Chinese, will be interrogated by the Ming army at all levels.

Three days later, the inventory in the city was basically over, and the original population of Ava, which had a population of 150,000, was less than 100,000, and these 100,000 people also included nearly 50,000 Han Chinese, or other ethnic groups that falsely claimed to be Han Chinese.

These Han people and pseudo-Han people, looking at the rich businessmen who were still arrogant yesterday, and the officials who have always eaten Naka and Ava, have become ghosts under the sword of the Ming army one by one, and they can't help but secretly sigh: It's good to be Han!