Meng Mi.

This is a powder keg, and the rebellion on the southwest border of the Ming Dynasty was more or less related to Meng Mi - it was the largest jadeite production base at this time.

For example, the Wanli Emperor sent mine supervisors and tax envoys to the whole country, and the Southwest Tusi did not escape this fate. At that time, the eunuch Yang Rong guarded Yunnan and opened a new jade mine in Mengmi, because of the uneven distribution of spoils, which directly led to a rebellion, and then the miners revolted. Meng Mi Tusi helped the eunuch wipe his buttocks and killed thousands of people, but he still couldn't calm down.

The Wanli court decided to send troops to quell the rebellion, but there was a lack of food and money, so it had to give up in the end. Since then, the toasts have seen the weakness of the Ming Dynasty and completely disregarded the court, and even Meng Mi Tusi, who helped the eunuch wipe his buttocks, also reversed.

At this moment, thousands of miners are standing in the east and west.

Meng Mi Tusi thought about it, put on his armor and began to speak: "The Han people are about to be killed, and you also know that the Han people are the most brutal and unreasonable. Now that you are organized into an army, those who have made great contributions will no longer be miners, and those who have made small contributions can be foremen...... As long as it lasts for a month, the Burmese king will send reinforcements. As long as they hold on for three or five months, in the summer, the Han people will retreat! ”

One rudimentary weapon after another, distributed to the miners. There are also miners who have not received weapons and continue to use mining tools.

Many of these miners were stolen slaves, and some were even Han Chinese from Yunnan.

Although they were exploited by Meng Mi Tusi, they had not yet reached the point of rebellion. On the contrary, it is the brutality of Han officials, which has been engraved in the genes of the miners, and has become a nursery rhyme passed down from generation to generation.

The Southwest Tusi rebellion, half of the pot, should be carried by local officials and eunuchs, and many times they were forced to rebel.

"Kill the bandits, you have to live!"

Si Kuang took the lead in shouting a few words, and thousands of miners actually shouted.

Behind Si Kuang, there were still more than 2,000 Tusi soldiers. Among them, 800 people, fully armed and armoured, can be called elite.

Sure enough, the mine owner is rich.

Guarding the world's largest emerald base in the 17th century, Meng Mi Tusi had silver to equip the army.

However, Sikuang is destined not to wait for reinforcements from Myanmar, because Bhamo further north is the real strategic point in northern Myanmar. The reinforcements of the Burmese king are destined to go to Ba Mo first.

More than 200 anti-smuggling ships were patrolled and temporarily used as a fleet to transport baggage. Hundreds of merchant ships recruited by the people, carrying more than 10,000 patrol soldiers, slaughtered towards the Mengmi Tusi station.

Si Kuang stood at the head of the city, looking at the dense ships, and was suddenly shocked and angry.

Can you use so many soldiers to fight with a small toast? You have so many soldiers, why don't you start from Tengyue and go directly to the strategic place of Bamo? As long as you hit Bamo, you can go down the river and go straight to the capital of Myanmar!

It's very simple, there are more troops attacking Bamo, and they are attacking from both sides of the Dajinsha River and the Daying River.

"Father, do you want to surrender?" Si Bang was already scared.

Sikuang said: "You can't surrender, once you surrender, the jade mine will be gone." The Han emperor will definitely send eunuchs to occupy all our mines. ”

After breaking away from the Ming Dynasty, it has only been a few decades since he occupied the mine, and Si's Tusi has been accustomed to a rich life, and would rather die in battle than live a life without a mine. How merciful the king of Burma is, he sends some money every year and sends it away, but the Han people will rob the mines when they come.

Si Hong said: "But we can't beat it." ”

Sikuang said: "Just hold the walled city, as long as you hold it for a month or two, the army of the Burmese king will definitely come to the rescue." ”

Si Bang muttered: "We have so many soldiers here to fight. I'm afraid there are more enemy troops on the other side of Bamo, and the reinforcements of the Burmese king ......"

"Don't talk nonsense, defend the city with peace of mind!" Si Kuang scolded.

Outside the city, the inspection division was already encamped, and the leader of the road Dang Sirong said: "General, in the Mengmi walled city, there can be at most two or three thousand soldiers, and all the miners are pulled to defend the city, and the strength is only seven or eight thousand. The artillery of the Celestial Empire should be aimed at the southern wall, which had collapsed before, and was certainly not as strong as the others. ”

The division commander Pan Kai smiled and praised: "If you can capture this village, you should take the lead." ”

Sikuang and Sirong used to be a family.

Their respective grandfathers are named Siren and Sizhong.

The brothers competed for the throne, Siren won, and Sizhong voted for Burma.

It is also mixed with ethical love stories, Si Zhong led the Burmese army to kill, and Si Ren fled with his mother. Halfway through, Siren asked to marry his brother-in-law (Sizhong's wife), but his mother firmly disagreed. The mother ran away with her brother and daughter-in-law, and Siren actually led the elephant soldiers to chase and kill, trying to snatch the brother and daughter-in-law from her mother. Because he didn't get it, in a fit of rage, Siren also took refuge in Myanmar.

Siren was more valued by the King of Burma and continued to be Mengmi Tusi. Sizhong, who joined Myanmar first, didn't catch anything, and his mother and wife were still controlled by the Ming Dynasty......

"When the city is sieged, the last general is willing to be the first!" Si Rong eagerly wants to fight, wants to settle the grievances of three generations, and also wants to gain the favor of the imperial court.

Pan Kai was really satisfied, and praised: "Jun Zhen is a loyal and brave person." ”

Then there was a boring siege, with dozens of artillery pieces aimed at the once collapsed southern wall.

The rudimentary city wall, which was mixed with earth and stone, could not withstand the bombardment at all, and large cracks appeared in only one day.

The artillery of the Datong army was too terrifying, and Si Kuang felt that he could no longer hold on, so he called Meng Cai, the general of love: "Tomorrow out of the city for a decisive battle, your task is the most important." The whole army will cover your elephant troops, so be sure to seize the opportunity and ride elephants to trample the Han army! ”

"Guaranteed to trample the Han people into pulp!"

Meng Cai's father had fought with the Ming army and knew that the Han soldiers had little combat effectiveness.

What's more, Meng Mi Tusi is getting richer and richer, and his ordnance equipment is much better than before. This thing put on a suit of armor, and then rode on a war elephant, and felt that he was invincible in the world.

The next day, early in the morning.

The Datong inspectors were about to leave the camp to line up, and Pan Kai suddenly got the news that the defenders in the city had actually opened the city gate.

The defenders lined up two miles from the city, and the Chinese army was lined up in the front of the ordinary Tusi soldiers, followed by the elephant soldiers and the Tusi elite, and thousands of miners were lined up on both wings.

"Meng Mi Toast is crazy, right? Does he want to use war elephants to force my artillery fire? Pan Kai was holding a clairvoyant mirror, and he couldn't understand what the enemy was thinking.

The Tusi army advanced slowly, and the miners on both flanks were slightly confused.

Pan Kai said to the artillery commander: "All artillery, all aimed at war elephants. ”

The Tusi army was still advancing, and the provisional patrol division had no cavalry, and all the infantry were waiting there.

"Try the gun!"

"Boom, boom!"

More than a dozen shells were fired, and the Tusi front army was a little chaotic.

"Steady, the war elephant will win when it rushes over!" Thoughts and shouts, personally boosting morale.

The Tusi troops advanced another hundred or so meters.

"Volley!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Dozens of shells, all fired at war elephants.

The earth-shattering sound of artillery has already made the war elephants restless. As the shells continued to fall, the three war elephants were hit directly, and one of them was not dead.

The war elephant, whose leg was bruised, went berserk in an instant, and did not obey the orders of the riders, and rushed indiscriminately in his own army. The vicinity of the war elephants was full of Tusi elites, trampling to death on the spot and killing more than a dozen people, and the other Tusi soldiers were at a loss.

"Hurry up!"

Sikuang shouted.

However, the ordinary Tusi soldiers at the forefront had been beaten by a round of artillery fire. They haven't fought a big battle for more than ten years, where can they withstand dozens of artillery salvos, and more than half of them are so frightened that they just run away.

Pan Kai ordered: "The whole army comes forward!" ”

"Boom, boom!"

On the way to the advance of the infantry, another round of artillery salvo fired.

The rest of the war elephants couldn't bear it, and more than a dozen war elephants went crazy en masse, rampage like headless flies.

Si Kuang looked around in a daze, and the sudden rout was completely beyond his imagination. He had never seen so many artillery, nor had he ever seen a war elephant destroyed by artillery.

The last time a war elephant was destroyed by artillery was a despicable battle more than 100 years ago. The Portuguese gunners hid halfway up the mountain, and the Ava cavalry and elephant soldiers were lured by the Burmese cavalry, and all collapsed under the artillery salvo.

"Father, let's go!" Si Bang shouted, but a war elephant rushed over.

Thinking about crying without tears, he sold a lot of jade and spent a lot of silver to build an elite army! Such a powerful army can walk sideways in various Tusi borders in northern Myanmar.

The infantry of the inspection division had not yet rushed to the range of the firebolts, and the Tusi army had already begun to disperse.

The miner troops on both flanks threw down their weapons and fled. The ordinary Tusi soldiers in the middle were beaten by the artillery and their morale was negative. And those elite Tusi soldiers were completely trampled by the mad war elephants.

Meng Cai, the arrogant elephant commander of Yelang, was directly swept away by his own war elephant, and after falling to the ground, he was trampled by the war elephant.

Si Kuang, Si Bang, father and son, rode a Dian horse and fled.

They did not dare to return to the city, so they abandoned their families and walked around the city, trying to escape into the valleys and mountains to the east.

The inspector only had more than a dozen horses, which originally belonged to the sentinels, and now they were chasing at full speed.

Pan Kai once again reiterated the military order: "Don't kill people indiscriminately, capture more prisoners, and use them all to be miners!" ”

Jadeite, which began to emerge in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, has been speculated to be more expensive in recent years (Emperor Zhao likes jadeite). And Meng Mi is the largest jadeite producer, it is definitely enough to make money here, and every miner is a treasure.

This road inspector took Meng Mi, and he had to start again after a day's rest.

The next route of the march was to return to the north by boat, enter the tributary and turn southwest, and then abandon the boat and cross the mountains to the west, out of the mountains is the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.

As long as the inspection division arrives there, even if it does not move, it can cut off the retreat of the Eight Mo Burmese army. If it is along the river bank to the north, it can cooperate with the friendly forces of the two roads and form a three-sided attack on Bamo.

The Bamo and the surrounding strongholds were the core battlefields of the Qing-Burma War, and the Qing and Burmese armies fought around it for several years.

If the Huang Mi army and the Burmese army are deadlocked, this inspection division that destroyed Meng Mi will directly take the back road to besiege and block the grain route and starve the Burmese army to death.

Pan Kai led the inspection division and marched in the mountains for more than a month, and more than 300 soldiers fell ill due to water and soil adaptation.

Then, by the Irrawaddy River, he saw the grain ships of the Datong army.

"Huang Dudu won the battle?" Pan Kai stopped the grain ship and asked.

The captain smiled and said, "A few days ago, Huang Dudu's army went to the south. ”

Pan Kai was speechless for a moment, he thought that he would definitely be able to make a great contribution by outflanking the enemy's rear road. But who would have thought that his battle was only fought for three days, and the rest of the time was all on the march, and in the end he didn't even eat a mouthful of hot shit.

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