Chapter 265: The Thirteenth Task Zhu Youlang's Wish 8
There was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, and in the end, Wu Sangui still led his army to the city of Ava. At this time, it was already the twentieth year of the Yongli calendar, April of the fifth year of Kangxi, and it was about to enter June according to the solar calendar.
The weather became more humid and hot, and there were more and more injuries in Wu Sangui's army. After launching several siege battles, Wu Sangui ordered people to besiege Ava City, no longer besieged the city, and wanted to force changes in the city to surrender on his own initiative. It's a pity that no one Bing has already jumped out of the encirclement with a large group of people.
The defenders of the city were Zhang Huangyan, who was the most determined, and the troops defending the city were all composed of the 10,000 remnants of the Ming army with the strongest will. Zhang Huangyan found someone in the city to pretend to be the emperor to attract Wu Sangui's army. Lu Renbing took the rest of the men and horses to take the lead in withdrawing from Ava City and waited in hiding.
After Wu Sangui's army began to besiege the city, Lu Renbing began to concentrate his forces on attacking Wu Sangui's army from behind.
At first, Wu Sangui thought that it was a small group of enemies, and he didn't care. But with the sneak attack, the casualties were increasing. Wu Sangui sensed that the situation was getting worse and worse.
The army he sent out to collect grain and grass began to go and never returned. The form on the grain road in the rear is also getting worse and worse. The morale of the army is seriously low.
What made Wu Sangui most depressed was that Yongli on the other side did not confront him head-on at all. Relying on the familiar terrain, he runs fast. He couldn't even figure out where Yongli was.
The situation was stalemate for two months, and the Manchu generals in Wu Sangui's army finally could not stand it, and the humid heat in Burma proposed to withdraw their troops. Wu Sangui finally asked Beiping to explain the situation. Slowly withdrew from Burma.
In the end, in order to vent his anger, he burned down all the occupied cities and killed many local people. Lu Renbing led the army under his command, followed all the way, and sent Wu Sangui's army out of the country.
If you want to chase and kill like in the novel, there is basically no such thing. The other party's generals do not have a rookie, and their own generals are commendable, but their strength does not allow it at all.
At this point in the battle, although the losses of their own side were very large, they were mainly in terms of property, and the casualties were not large. How many Qing troops were killed and wounded, it is estimated that there are quite a few.
Anyway, there are more than 5,000 beheadings reported, but Lu Renbing doesn't need to look at it to know how much water there is. Well, a shrinkage of eighty percent should be a bit excessive, and a thousand or more should be about the same.
It's not that Lu Renbing underestimates the people under his command, the truth should be like this. According to the virtue of the people below these years, if more than 5,000 heads were really beheaded, it should be 50,000 when they reported to Lu Renbing. Well, Wu Sangui's army should have its losses halved.
But Lu Renbing didn't care, the main purpose of this time was to train the team and unite people's hearts. Although the battle was sparsely fought, it was not a look, and it was not fierce at all. There were even heavy losses.
But after all, it was under the personal command of His Majesty the Emperor that he "repelled" the invading enemy and kept the territory. This is already a great victory for the Yongli Dynasty.
After this battle, we can at least buy three or five years of peaceful development. Wu Sangui spent three million taels of silver on military spending the last time he entered Burma, and this time it was three million taels. There is no silver mountain in the city of Beiping, and it costs money everywhere. In three or five years, Wu Sangui will no longer be played.
I was worried that Wu Sangui would be difficult to treat, and then he made additional payments one after another. Isn't this raising tigers?
Emperor Yongli is a grasshopper after the autumn, and it will not be a few days before he collapses. In the eyes of Beiping, Wu Sangui's danger is far higher than that of Yongli.
It can be said that after this battle, Lu Renbing no longer has to worry about Wu Sangui sending troops to attack again in a short period of time. Kangxi is about to be pro-government. After killing Aobai, it's time to start cutting the domain. Wu Sangui pulled the flag and rebelled, how could he care about coming up to suppress him. When the time comes, maybe Wu Sangui will pull out Emperor Yongli as a gimmick and command the world's heroes.
In this plane, did he strangle Yongli and bear the reputation of killing kings. Maybe he can really get him to do something.
Lu Renbing is not worried about being used, but when the time comes, Lu Renbing still wants to use the power of the three feudatories to stir up the situation and turn the tables in one fell swoop.
After Wu Sangui returned to Yungui, he counted some losses in the soldiers and horses. But it never hurts. There are definitely not as many people who are killed as they are from the disease. He also made up his mind that if Yongli did not die in Burma, he would never take the initiative to send troops again. Tired but not tired is nauseous.
The accompanying full general also feels this way, who is willing to go to the old forest to feed the mosquitoes in the spring city with the spring city all year round. Maybe after two years, the dead King Minggui was bitten to death by mosquitoes.
The two of them went on the fold, only saying that the army passed by, the enemy fled in the wind, and the pseudo-Ming Gui Wang fled without a trace. However, the weather was not favorable to the army, and most of the soldiers were trapped by miasma. Therefore, the army was withdrawn and more than 30 large and small cities in Burma were destroyed.
Beiping's Ao Bai and Suke Saha party have already fought, and the bayonets are red. They are also all knowledgeable soldiers, and they know that the southern invasion in summer is indeed not good for the army. After the decree was issued to praise the army, the military operation was completely over.
For the senior officials in Peking at this time, Lu Renbing is really a grasshopper after the autumn, and he won't be able to jump for long. When this side settles down, you can wipe it out at will.
Lu Renbing's side successfully "repelled" the invasion of the Qing army, which greatly increased the prestige of the Yongli Emperor. Although the loss is a bit miserable, it is all Burmese stuff, and we are not distressed at all. The city is destroyed, and then the repair is finished. It is indeed an eternal truth that people have lost their land, and that people and land have been deposited.
Lu Renbing's side also rewarded and punished the relevant personnel according to the reports of Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Then it's just a matter of continuing to farm.
He has now initially built a large-scale navy, and the fishermen who fled from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong have been continuously brought to Burma by Lu Renbing, who had been prepared for a long time. Annam was now in the heat of the Mo Dynasty and Hou Li, and the Mo Dynasty, supported by Wu Sangui, blocked Lu Renbing's passage to the east. Lu Renbing didn't want to cause trouble at this time. The only way to get into Myanmar is to let the fleeing fishermen cross land or make a detour to the south.
Lu Renbing launched land reform throughout the Burmese Gang, completely shaking the boundaries of the so-called Shan and Mon ethnic groups. Then, with his own army, it took another three years to completely unify the Burmese state, and through dragon slaying techniques, he eliminated the upper echelons of the various tribes in Burma and prevented them from overflowing. Wait until.
During this period, Lu Renbing established a preliminary military industrial system in Burma, and through trade with the Dutch and the British, Lu Renbing obtained a large number of new muskets, artillery, and new sailing ships, and also recruited many craftsmen.
Well, if you can't buy it, grab it, and for the back, Lu Renbing is silent. But in Nanyang, Lu Renbing became more and more arrogant. Who let these people stay away from their hometowns, we will bully the soft and fear the hard.