Chapter 352: Wanli Plough Court
The Burmese wind and sun in the month of Layue are beautiful, and the greenery is verdant, such as the twilight spring when the grass grows and the sheep fat in the north of the Ming Dynasty.
There are also palm leaves swaying on the banks of the river, just like the beauty of the man dance, the flirtatious people are intoxicated.
Standing side by horse and appearing here, the Daming Iron Rider held the three-eyed gun with a brush, revealing a meaningful smile, and the war horse snorted and shook his mane, which was difficult to hide his excitement.
"Kill!"
For a moment, thousands of horses galloped, flags covered the sky, like a stream of iron swept across the earth, and the green was all obliterated in the black.
The Taungoo Dynasty of Burma now dares to invade the Ming Yunnan, and the greatest confidence is in his country, in the southern part of Myanmar, the Dajinsha River and the Nujiang River along the river plain and the delta plain area into the sea, the establishment of agricultural civilization, the population size has reached five or six million.
The agricultural civilization of this scale provided sufficient military resources and financial resources for the Donghu Dynasty, and also nurtured the ambition of the Donghu Dynasty's monarch Mang Yingli to expand abroad and even seek the Ming Dynasty's Yunnan.
The Yunnan area where the Ming Dynasty is in direct contact with Myanmar has a resident population of only two or three million, and because Yunnan has not been sinicized by the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time, not only has there been few Han people who have moved over, but also the ethnic composition is complex.
Therefore, Li Rusong was ordered to lead a large army to the south of Burma for a long journey and stabbed him in the back, with the purpose of reducing this advantage of Burma.
Therefore, after Li Rusong gave an order, his cavalry began to gallop in the delta and the plain along the river in southern Burma.
The first to be plowed by the Ming army was Mao Mian, the capital of Mon State in Myanmar.
This is the estuary of the Nu River, and it is also a natural sheltered harbor.
The sailors had already taken a fancy to this place after exploring it at night, so they had already asked the Privy Council to allow the land horse infantry army to plow this place more thoroughly, so that the sailors could move the southern Han people who were resistant to heat and heat in the country to establish a trading post and garrison base here.
There were not many Burmese soldiers, just 200 soldiers and a few officials and some Burmese nobles who were recuperating here.
Because their rulers were also feudal landlords and had a weak sense of sea power, they never thought that the Ming army would stab him at the back door, and only concentrated their forces on attacking Yunnan in the north and Siam in the east.
That's right.
If it is about great achievements and reckless military force, the monarch of the Donghu Dynasty Mang Yingli is much more crazy than Zhu Yijun, relying on the scale of his agricultural civilization with a population of five or six million, he insisted on a two-front war, not only fighting against the huge Ming Empire in the north, but also trying to encroach on Siam, which was not a weak country in this era, in the east.
And Zhu Yijun was forced to use troops against Burma first after the large-scale use of troops against the Japanese state was over, and even after completing the internal reform, first overcoming the difficulties of the small people, increasing finances and adjusting the internal interest distribution structure.
Unlike Mang Yingli, the internal reforms were not carried out, and the common people were still in dire straits, and as a result, as soon as they took the throne, they used troops frantically, first conquering Siam and then invading Ming Burma.
Moreover, the conquest of Siam has lasted for more than ten years, otherwise, Siam would not have been so cooperative with the Ming Dynasty sending troops to destroy Burma, because Burma had already launched a war of aggression against Siam, many years before the invasion of the Ming Dynasty.
The conversation turned back.
Therefore, because of the two places of raising troops, Burma does not have many troops internally, and the hinterland near the sea is no different from an empty city, and the officers and soldiers left behind are not elite, but only as a second-rate weak soldier to suppress the domestic civil uprising.
When the iron hooves of the Ming cavalry rolled in, Mao Mianmian's defenders directly weakened their legs, dropped their spears and ran into the city.
The Ming army rushed directly into the city, held the three-eyed gun, lit the fire rope, and bombarded the Burmese soldiers in front of them who had not run far to the ground.
The Burmese soldiers were covered in blood and curled up on the ground in agony by the three-eyed shotguns.
If it weren't for the Ming army's military merit reward system has been reformed and no longer records merit by head, these Burmese soldiers would have been cut off their heads very quickly.
However, the Ming army now only took credit for completing military tasks, and only continued to rush in after putting a gun, and threw torches at some wooden houses and pavilions in the city that looked quite standard, and threw small porcelain bottles containing fire oil over.
Suddenly, a raging fire broke out in the market near the city gate.
The people who could live in wooden houses and pavilions were Burmese aristocratic landlords and family scrolls with a bag of woolen cotton, and these people were the backbone of the Tungoo Dynasty.
At this time, many of them had already howled because of the appearance of the Ming army, and had to run out.
As soon as these people came out, the Ming cavalry waiting outside immediately opened their bows and arrows, shooting countless people, and for a while, the whole street was covered with corpses, as if washed in blood.
Outside the city.
The iron hooves of the Ming army are also frantically plowing and sweeping holes.
"Ahh
Many of the Burmese who lived in the countryside were directly shot or killed by the sudden attack of the Ming cavalry.
At this time, Xu Changdong, the general under Li Rusong, personally knocked down a young man with a shot, and threw him into the river, and then rushed into the green field, stepped on the seedlings, and smashed the servants.
This is happening everywhere in southern Myanmar.
And the Ming army was like a wolf in a flock, slashing and killing very freely without any difficulty.
You must know that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry led by Li Rusong is not just a simple cavalry, but a type of infantry and artillery combined with cavalry and cavalry formed by Li Chengliang under the influence of Qi Jiguang and other military thoughts, otherwise it would not be possible to capture Gule Village.
Many Ming troops were cavalry on horseback, and heavy infantry who were good at attacking fortifications when they got off their horses.
This is the Ming Empire in the north with the Jurchens, Mongolia for many years, and in the south with the Wakou, Xiyi battle, and evolved the battle mode, even the so-called Eight Banners heavy infantry and firearms plus cavalry in later generations to pacify the Dzungar these battle formations, all originated from this time.
It can be said that the Liaodong cavalry of the Ming army, which suddenly came to southern Burma, was the army at the peak of the agrarian civilization regime of this era.
It is not comparable to the early stage of the newly established agrarian civilization of Burma.
Although the mainstream civilization in this world is still mainly agricultural, in fact, there are levels within it.
It's just like in the Fantasy Immortal Cultivation Upgrade System, what is the meaning of the peak of the Great Perfection in a realm.
The civilization level of the Donghu Dynasty in Myanmar is naturally much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and he can also use the geographical advantage and population advantage to bully the natives of Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty in the north, but once the climate in the south cannot pose a threat to the Ming army and the border army, he will only be wantonly slaughtered.
Dagon.
In later generations, Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar.
It was also the largest city of the Taungoo Dynasty in the south, and it was also the main seaside resort of the Taungoo Dynasty nobles.
Li Rusong resisted the urge to personally lead the troops to charge and kill the ordinary Burmese, but after spreading out a part of the cavalry to cut and kill, he only continued to arrange troops in the rear.
Therefore, after sending out the night to explore the area of Chagon for half a month, when he learned that almost all of the main force of more than 5,000 Burmese soldiers in the Dagong area had left the city to quell the rebellion, he decisively personally led the first battalion of the Son of Heaven's pro-army and the green battalion of the Cha Dashou Department to Dagong.
Then, Li Rusong used the pro-military guard as the supervising team, let the green battalion composed of Jurchen Yiding attack the fortification, and privately rewarded the climbers with thousands of taels.
As a result, the wild people, who valued the Jurchen Yiding very much, rushed to Dagong City desperately, killed all the 1,000 defenders left in Dagong City, and killed all the nobles of the Donghu Dynasty, including many Mang clansmen, who were recuperating in Dagong City.
Li Rusong also directly engaged in the big city, and took down the big city Dagon, and the population of Myanmar can be reduced to a greater extent, especially the Burmese upper class and artisans, because these people are mainly concentrated in the big city.
Just like in his history in the battle of Ningxia, he used the terrain to capture the important town of Ningxia occupied by the rebels by taking advantage of the water of the Yellow River, but in this life, because of the influence of Zhu Yijun, Li Chengliang, Qi Jiguang, etc., he made some progress in advance, and knew that the way to use troops was strange.
"Spare your life! Spare your life! ”
"Where did you come from, can you spare us, we are willing to give all our goods, including all the young and beautiful girls!"
After the Burmese nobles in Dagon City inquired, they had already run out and knelt on the ground trembling, begging the Ming army, they did not expect such a strong army to suddenly break into the comfortable rear, and they could only be extremely flattering for a while.
"Slash!"
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
But the Ming army still issued an order to behead, and in the end, all these nobles fell to the ground.
And when Li Rusong entered Dagong City, Dagong City was already full of fires, corpses were all over the road, and the city was full of blood.