Three thousand Ming soldiers stripped naked and began to swim across the Baigu River, this time not from the bottom of the water, but along a few ropes that had just been laid in the river.

There were also many rafts floating on the river, and on the rafts were the soldiers' clothes, knives and guns, and the water nature of these soldiers was far inferior to that of the ten soldiers just now, and there was a rumbling sound on the river from time to time.

Fortunately, the sentinels on the shore have been replaced by soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the direction of their observation has turned from the river to Tandaoji.

After the soldiers went ashore, they all changed into clean clothes, although April in Baigucheng was close to the summer of the Ming Dynasty, but in the middle of the night, the river was still very cold, if the soldiers had been wearing soaked clothes, it was very likely to catch a cold.

After the whole equipment was completed, the three thousand soldiers, each with flintlock pistols, began to march towards Tandoori under the cover of night.

Tandogi is not a city, but a large village, probably to protect against thieves, the village is surrounded by earthen walls, the wall is no more than a foot high, and there are wooden gates on all sides for the convenience of the people.

The soldiers prepared ropes and iron hooks, ready to climb over the earthen wall, but the dǐng part of the earthen wall did not focus diǎn, and the iron hook lost its purpose, but the earthen wall was less than three zhang, and the soldiers could also take a ladder to go up.

The soldiers worked in pairs, one squatted, the other stood on his shoulders, and the soldiers below slowly straightened up along the earthen wall, and the hands of the soldiers on their shoulders could already reach the wall.

On the wall, the soldiers slipped down from the inside, they put their hands on the wall, slowly lowered their bodies, and when their arms were straightened, their toes were less than three feet from the ground, and if they went down gently, the sound of landing would not be too loud.

After more than ten soldiers crossed the earthen wall, they quietly opened the gate of the wall, and the Ming army outside was taken in, the whole process, did not alarm the Donghu soldiers, it seems that the Donghu soldiers here did not feel the danger at all, they did not expect that the Ming army would cross the river from Tandaoji on a large scale.

After occupying the walled gate, the Ming army left a small number of soldiers to guard the city gate, and the rest of the soldiers, divided into several teams, began to rush into the city.

The Donghu soldiers in their sleep couldn't find a weapon for a while, and even if they found a weapon, they couldn't see the Qingming army in the dark.

Donghu soldiers can't find the general (8) dǐng (8) diǎn (8) small (8) said, .±.o⊙s_ (); The generals could not find the soldiers.

The chaos accelerated the speed of their casualties, and in less than half an hour, the five hundred Donghu defenders were all annihilated by the Ming army, and in order to prevent the information of the Ming army from crossing the river leaked out, the only hundreds of people in the fort were also slaughtered by the Ming army.

On the Baigu River, as soon as the soldiers of the 3,000 swimmers left, the sappers built a pontoon bridge along the ropes in the river.

Regardless of whether the information of the Ming army's attack on Tandaoji leaked out, as long as thousands of Ming troops crossed the river and established defensive positions on the west bank, the Ming troops behind would continue to cross the river.

By the time it was dark, eight pontoon bridges had been erected over the river, and the soldiers began to cross the river.

The soldiers who crossed the Baigu River in advance quickly established defensive positions on the periphery to cover the soldiers who crossed the river later, and there were still 3,000 Ming troops in Tandaoji, so the first defensive position was established, and the Ming troops who crossed the river were very safe.

The Ming army was obviously overly worried, and the rangers of Donghu did not find that the Ming army crossed the river for the time being, and their defensive center was still in the east of the city.

It was not until noon that the rangers of Donghu came to Tandaoji, and when they found that the Ming army had crossed the river at Tandaoji, they immediately turned their horses around and hurried back to the city to report to Talon.

The Ming army did not bother to catch up, tens of thousands of Ming troops had already crossed the Baigu River, and even the mountain artillery had crossed the river, only the heavy artillery was still on the east bank.

Hearing that the army was crossing the river in Tandaoji, he was shocked, and he was tricked again, and the Ming army was playing the dark Chen Cang, so he laid a large number of suspicious soldiers in the east of Baigucheng.

He ordered Ji Lunhai to lead 5,000 cavalry to attack the Ming army that had just arrived on the west bank and prevent the subsequent Ming army from continuing to cross the river.

The distance of forty miles was less than an hour's distance for the cavalry.

Ji Lunhai saw that the Ming army was carrying artillery through the pontoon bridge, and he had a long knife and a long sword

The flintlock musketeers of the Ming army had been waiting for the Donghu army for a long time, and when the Donghu cavalry entered the firing range of a hundred paces, the flintlock pistols in the front row rang out, and the three rows of gunners basically formed a non-stop firing.

Although the Donghu cavalry was violent, they could not cross the death line of 100 paces, and the more they thought about it, the more angry they became, the more angry they became, and the more they attacked, the faster they died.

Vicious circle.

After a few shots, more than half of Donghu's cavalry had been killed or wounded, and Mu Qiyuan visually measured that the Donghu soldiers who fell from their horses should have exceeded three thousand.

Ji Lunhai was stunned, this was the first time he saw the flintlock pistols of the Ming army on the battlefield, the Ming army shot his 3,000 cavalry without a single casualty, if it continued, the results of the battle would not be much better, maybe his 5,000 cavalry, all of them would be left in Tandaoji.

He had to issue a military order to retreat, he wanted to leave diǎn seeds for the cavalry of Donghu, in order to piece together five thousand cavalry, the rangers were all incorporated into the army by him, if all the five thousand cavalry were killed and wounded, the rangers of Donghu were almost exhausted, and without Talong's punishment, he Jilunhai would have no shame to live in the world.

The battle was not over, and the gunners increased the range of their flintlock pistols to the maximum, and as long as they were within a hundred paces, the Donghu soldiers continued to fall from their horses.

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

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

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

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The mountain artillery of the Ming army, hidden behind the haystacks, rang out, and the rain of flowering bullets rained down on the remnants of the Donghu soldiers.

Every explosion of the flowering bomb will bring the best mental torture to the Donghu soldiers, they are completely stupid, although the attack has been stopped, but the casualties are still continuous, if you want to retreat, there must be a military order.

"Withdraw, withdraw." The unlucky Ji Lunhai finally gave an order, fortunately, the cavalry of the Ming army had not been sorted out and did not chase and kill, and more than a thousand cavalry from Donghu ran all the way to fight the fire and fled back to Baigu.

By the evening, the Ming army had forty or fifty thousand soldiers crossing the Baigu River, Lin Chengxiang's front army, began to march towards the west gate of the ancient city of Bai, when the sky was bright again, 70,000 Ming troops had already camped fifteen miles away from the west city gate.

In order to confuse Ta Long, Mu Qiyuan set up a large camp of 20,000 people in the north of the city, and at noon and evening, the camp tent will produce a lot of cooking smoke, and after dark, there will be many lights in the tent, faintly and faintly there are figures shaking.

Ta Long and Ji Lunhai frowned, Donghu's rangers were driven away by the Ming army, and the range of activities became smaller and smaller, and they could no longer accurately listen to the information of the Ming army, they did not know whether the main force of the Ming army was outside the north city gate or outside the west city gate.

As a precaution, Taron and Ji Lunhai divided their troops, and stationed heavy troops in the north and west of the city, they had already narrowed their defensive lines, and the Donghu army outside the city was also gathered into the city.

Another afternoon, Mu Qiyuan, who had just woken up, was about to discuss with the generals, and a personal soldier sent to Dacheng came back, "Report to the commander, Dacheng's army has been deployed in place!" ”

"The Ayutthaya army came fast enough this time, where are they now?" Mu Qiyuan yawned, his ruddy face was full of smiles, the Ayutthaya Army was an army he expected, although the combat effectiveness was weak, but blocking the Donghu rout along the river, it should be able to complete the mission, even if it couldn't stop the Donghu rout, at least it could slow down the escape of the Donghu army.

"The army of Ayutthaya is lying in ambush on the east bank of the Baigu River." The soldiers found the location of the Ayutthaya army from the marching map and pointed it out to Mu Qiyuan.

"Okay, as soon as the Ayutthaya army arrives, the east bank of the Baigu River should be the burial place of Talong." Ta Long is not Mu Qiyuan's enemy, but he is the military and political head of Donghu and the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and only by capturing or killing Ta Long will the war against Burma really end.

"Commander, when his subordinates left the Ayutthaya Army, there seemed to be Donghu's rangers on the other side, and the generals of Ayutthaya were a little worried, more than 30,000 people were in this small area, and it would be very difficult to completely avoid Donghu's rangers."

"You take a rest first, and when you have eaten and drunk enough, go back quickly, and tell the generals of Ayutthaya that we will soon begin the siege of the city, so that they must be prepared, and the Donghu army may move and retreat towards the Baigu River at any time."

"Yes, Commander, my subordinates will go back."

Mu Qiyuan immediately convened an operational meeting.

"Commander, there is some truth in the worries of the generals of Ayutthaya, once the rangers of Donghu find that there are tens of thousands of soldiers in Ayutthaya to the east of the Baigu River, they will definitely not flee from Dongcheng." Chen Zizhuang was already full of ambition, and with Mu Qiyuan, he didn't fight much, especially if he hadn't experienced a dangerous hard battle, the Donghu army was about to end.

Mu Qiyuan was not in a hurry, "Chen Junzuo said let's see, if he can't get out of the east gate, then he will escape from that city gate?" ”

"Commander, we have discussed it last time, if there is no army in the big city, Taron will definitely flee from the east gate, if Taron finds that there are ambushes in the big city outside the east gate, he is most likely to flee from the south gate, and there are our suspicious soldiers outside the north gate." Chen Zizhuang's analysis is still relatively comprehensive.

"Commander, if Talons flee from the south gate, it will be the most unfavorable for us, our heavy troops are all at the north gate, and the distance from the south gate is the farthest, should we divide our troops to go to the south gate to intercept Talon?" A staff officer in the army put forward his opinion.

"Your analysis is reasonable, but you haven't analyzed Ta Long's heroic character, what I'm most worried about is whether Ta Long will break the net and go out of the north gate to fight with us," Mu Qiyuan still looked tepid, "If he escapes, whether he finds an ambush in the big city outside the east gate, he will flee from the east gate." ”

"I understand, what the commander means, even if he finds out that there is an ambush in Ayutthaya outside the East City, he will still flee from the East Gate, because Ayutthaya's army is the weakest, and it has been his subordinate defeat for a long time?" Lin Chengxiang was so excited that he almost got up from his seat.

"Lin Junzuo is right, Ta Long will definitely consider the ambush outside the city, compared to the Ming army, the army of Dacheng is definitely the weakest."

Chen Zizhuang is still worried that once he makes a mistake in judgment, Ta Long may flee to another country, and he will bring trouble to the Ming army in the future, "Even if Ta Long is bluffed by the big camp outside the northern city, won't he flee from the south gate?" ”

Mu Qiyuan said with a smile: "Since Ta Long can bully Dacheng, his strategic vision should be good, but we secretly crossed Chen Cang in Tandaoji, won't we use it again?" In such a good situation, will we really give him an escape route? ”

"What about the North Gate? Can't Taron guess that we're setting up a tent? Chen Zizhuang was still a little unconvinced, but his voice was obviously much quieter than just now.

"Yes, Ta Long also thought that there might be a fictitious camp outside the North Gate, but who can guarantee that we will not fake it once - the initiative is in our hands, and this is where Ta Long suffers the most now."

Lin Chengxiang believed in Mu Qiyuan more, "So the commander is reluctant to divide his troops to prevent him from going out of the city and fighting with us?" ”

"Well," Mu Qiyuan diǎn head, "he is a hero, and if the war is unfavorable, he will either choose to flee from the weakest east gate - although there are ambushes there, these ambush soldiers may not be looked down upon, or he will choose to fight with us, if he can't defeat us, he may prefer to die in battle." ”

Lin Chengxiang completely agreed with Mu Qiyuan's opinion, "It's best that he can go out of the north gate and die." ”

Chen Zizhuang also felt that Mu Qiyuan knew him better, "Commander, do you want to strengthen the defense of the East City Gate?" The combat effectiveness of the Ayutthaya Army may not be reliable. ”

"It's true that the fighting power of the Ayutthaya army is not good, but they are the feud of Donghu, this is the only chance to uproot Talon, will they let this opportunity go? Besides, the Ayutthaya army is defending the river, and it should not be defeated quickly, as long as they can intercept it for a while, our pursuers will arrive. ”