The newly crowned Lord is extremely desperate, not to mention that Ji Weimin is facing the weakest opponent.

Among the three divisions of Meng Yang, Mu Bang, and Meng Mi, only Meng Mi only faces one aspect of the enemy, but this aspect of the enemy is the most terrifying.

They followed Ji Weimin, made contributions to the suppression of the rebellion in Huguang, and absorbed the elite of the Sichuan army.

Although Ji Weimin only brought 3,000 people from Sichuan to Yunnan, what they could build as the backbone included Mu Shaoxun's personal troops, the elite of Yunnan, and the Tusi army of Inner Yunnan that was promised to expand some territory.

In addition to the barrier of Gangao Mountain, Mengmi's nest and Mubang's nest are extremely close, each less than fifty miles away from Tianma and Hannan Erguan.

This seems to be a coincidence, but it is also inevitable. They originally survived between the Ava Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and Yongchang, Nandian, Ganya, and Longchuan, the outermost territories in Yunnan, were the core areas of the Luchuan Dynasty in their past.

Therefore, when they had the opportunity, they laid down the Ava dynasty and divided the land of Burma, hoping to obtain a richer land and more depth.

It's a pity that they didn't have time to digest it. With the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty by their side, they failed to secure the process of pretending to be an Ava king, slowly digesting these lands and building a new line of defense.

There were not too many camps, and after the front line was crushed, Meng Guang and Meng Nai in the northeast of Meng Mi were taken in turn, which was the progress of the middle road.

On the west side of the road, Mengyang's Jiangtou City was quickly broken, and only one Menglun City was left to the south of Mengyang.

When it comes to defending the city, Da Ming is not afraid of anyone. Therefore, only 800 people were left to defend Jiangtou City, waiting for the back Manmo to wait for reinforcements from the Tusi soldiers of Inner Yunnan, and Qu Zhinan went along the Jinsha River to attack the small cities around Ava in the south.

On the east road, Tang Shaozong went out of Hanlong Pass, and just marched to Mubang City to surround the east, west, and north sides.

Playing Mubang is in the mountains, and the consumption will be not small.

Tang Shaozong's level and the soldiers under his command are a grade below Ji Weimin, he doesn't need to attack, he just needs to keep Mu Bang's main force on the lair.

Because of the south and southeast of Mubang, there are naturally Cheli, Eight Hundred Dadian and Mangrui Ti to advance.

"Both Si Lun and Han Lie said that?"

In Mengmi City, Sizhen's forehead was full of green muscles.

"The Han army is three-way, Meng Yang reinforcements have to cross the Jinsha River to come, and Mubang has to cross the Ava River......"

"Reinforcements from Malay City, Naoterri, and Ava City!"

"Donghu is also fighting in the south......"

Si Zhen sat down with a pale face, just as another round of artillery rang out in a muffled manner.

The Ming army has been bombarding since the Ming army came to the city of Mengmi.

I don't know why there are so many shells for them, why they can't be broken, why they hit so accurately.

That's it, they also cut down trees outside the city, preparing to build more trebuchets.

Outside Mengmi City, Ji Weimin himself was standing at the artillery position facing the north gate of Mengmi City.

"How long will it take to get school?"

"General, counting, counting......"

Ji Weimin's side was the two cannons that were dragged over by horses with difficulty after pulling out Meng Guang and Meng Nai.

These two cannons set out from the capital last summer, and they went through many ups and downs all the way to Yunnan.

The latest guy jointly developed by the War Bureau, the Ordnance Supervision and the Baojin Bureau. It has a much longer barrel than the original bowl and can be mounted to the frame.

The frame is not purely wood, the wheels and body are made of iron bones, wood and flesh, and then hoops with iron sheets. And the gun slot where this cannon is placed is also a little different. The round iron wheel on the side, after turning, can change the inclination of the gun groove and the gun carriage attached to it within a limited range through the gears and threads.

Now, the person who asked Ji Weimin was still holding a piece of paper in his hand, and there were dense numbers on it, which was not something that Ji Weimin could understand.

On the battlefield, a man magically appeared sitting there with an iron abacus crackling and nervously calculating.

The person who answered Ji Weimin kept looking ahead with a telescope, and asked again: "How much was the No. 4 gun loaded just now?" What is the elevation angle? ”

Ji Weimin picked at his head on the side, he was both expectant and irritable: Why is it so troublesome?

It's just that the Duke of Qianguo, who has moved over to sit in the town, said: This battle is to attack the heart, and the Shenwei cannon must make the thieves chill with one shot.

So what kind of shooting table is this, if the Shenwei cannon comes first with two cannons, and then calculates according to it, it would have been easier, and it would have been easier to use the ordinary tiger squat cannon with a cannon groove and a horn measuring rack next to it to get that number......

"General, there's no need to rush." Baihu, who was in charge of these two groups of artillery next to him, said while patiently accumulating data, "I was instructed before leaving Beijing, and Your Majesty attaches great importance to the data obtained in this actual battle. Not only the Shenwei cannon, but also the Tiger Squat Cannon will have a slightly larger new running type and gun truck in the future. This time, so many shells were transferred to Yunnan, not only to destroy the withering and decaying, but also to obtain more data and go back to statistics. ”

Ji Weimin had no choice but to mutter: "This is a war...... If you want to try, can't you go to the shooting range? ”

"Naturally, the shooting range tried more. It's just that although there is a shooting meter, it is also a standard shooting meter regardless of the wind and terrain. "The mouths of the 100 artillery households are all special words that make Ji Weimin's head swell," After the gunpowder is ignited in different places, the power is also different. The shooting range of Beijing and Xuanda can not measure the data of Nanyun. ”

Ji Weimin just pointed at the divine cannon: "When it arrives in Ava City, it should fight a few more times, right?" ”

"That's natural, now this first shot is going to make a splash."

Ji Weimin could only wait patiently for him.

In this battle of the Ming Dynasty, the Middle Route Army wanted to show its unrivaled power.

Take two small cities in front, and you don't need this huge cannon. And the first shot at the moment tried to accurately hit the north gate of Namengmi City in one fell swoop.

Of course, no one is absolutely sure about this, so this side is counting more, and the other side is also preparing more siege equipment.

Defeating Meng Mi is not the end, the Ming army is not prepared to have too many casualties here, and first completely demoralize the enemy.

It is said that this is the request of His Majesty to the General Armaments Department of the Military Council after the First World War: In the future, problems that can be solved with money and firepower should be filled with as much as possible.

Now it's really like a stream of money here, all those shells and gunpowder......

Si Zhen in Mengmi City was discussing with the others whether to abandon Mengmi City and retreat to Ava City, but he ran into a treasure well that was extremely difficult to let go.

It was just a small city, and although it was a little better than Meng Nai and Meng Guang in the north, it was difficult to hold on to it after giving up Meng Mi's morale. But if even Baojing is given up, will Meng Mi take so much wealth with him or give it up?

This discussion did not take too long, and suddenly it sounded like two earth-shattering thunders, only a moment apart, so it sounded almost simultaneous.

The master of the temple even felt his soul wander.

"What's going on?"

At this moment, the leader of the defenders in the north of Mengmi turned his head to look behind him with a pale face, and what he saw was shocking.

The garrison troops piled up in the open space inside the city gate ready to be carried to the city wall at any time were scattered very widely, and many of the people in a radius of several feet fell in a pool of blood and howled miserably.

Another shell hit a little higher, and a small two-story wooden building was collapsing.

Outside the city, Ji Weimin shook his head again and again: "I would have beaten it directly!" After so long, I still haven't been able to bombard the city gate! ”

The artillery Baihu was a little embarrassed, and according to the results of his observations just now, he gave the order to correct it again.

Busy adjusting the angle and reloading over there, Ji Weimin still said: "If you want me to say, I should use this divine cannon to bombard it with the first shot!" In the back, the tiger squat cannon also fights! With this movement, it is much better than thinking about something to break the door with one shot. ”

"How good is it to gradually wear down morale and then settle the situation?"

"If you hit the city gate, you will enter the city gate hole, why be so stubborn?"

"As long as the angle is right, you can enter the hole!"

The two of them didn't care about the mood of the defenders in the city now, as if it was natural to easily break the city, they only had a small disagreement about how to enter the position.

For the sake of range and power, this giant cannon has not yet been improved to the stage of using sub-mother cannons like the Tiger Squat Cannon, so the rate of fire is much slower.

During this time, Si Zhen finally knew that there were two more powerful cannons in the Ming army's array, which had been blocked by the Ming army's human walls and flags.

Is it time to give up?

Before he could make a final decision, two more cannon shots rang out almost simultaneously.

"Oops! It's really in the city gate! Ji Weimin exclaimed.

The artillery leader was relieved at this time, and lightly ordered: "Raise it a little, shoot it again, and hit the city gatehouse!" ”

After that, Ji Weimin proudly dusted the shooting watch in his hand: "The general doesn't know how difficult this shooting watch is. In the future, if you can attack the city, what kind of deterrent will it be? The leader of the enemy army must always command in front of the battle, right? If you can only hold your head and run away, won't the enemy soldiers make a mess? ”

He was right, now the generals guarding the north gate under Si Zhen just saw those two huge projectiles burrowing into the city gate hole under his feet, and he only felt that his crotch was numb, and he was in a cold sweat.

Now, the Tiger Squat Cannon still hasn't stopped, but he just can't stand still.

"Retreat!"

No matter whether the next shot continued to blow open the city gate or hit the city gate tower, he no longer had the will to face such a strong and accurate shelling.

In Ji Weimin's eyes, the long and thick barrel raised a little again in a high-spirited manner.

He excitedly shouted, "them!" ”

As a rough old man who leads the troops to fight, who doesn't love this long and thick hard guy?

……

The Ming army did not mean to annihilate the enemy army in Mengmi City, and was not even interested in encircling three and missing one, at most some troops were deployed on the two flanks in the north to contain it from afar.

Therefore, after the defenders of Beicheng broke and fled, it quickly caused a chain reaction.

"Let them bring the news back to Ava City." Wu Wending and Mu Shaoxun looked at each other and smiled, "The people left in Ava City and Si Hongfa will only place them in Malay City. ”

After Meng Mi broke, the middle road divided the troops to go to the Jinbo back road in the southwest of Bamubang, and after the main force took Baojing again, they were ready to join Qu Zhinan on both sides of the Jinsha River in Anzheng Guocheng, which was more peripheral to the north of Ava City.

The biggest problem with the three divisions is that they have not yet been able to become a unified military order, they are a loose alliance of three core territories that each has its own core territory that must be defended.

Now, Si Lun was blocked by the defenders of Jiangtou City in his hometown of Mengyang City far to the north, and Han Lie was also pinned down by Tang Shaozong in Mubang City, and was cut off from the back road to Ava.

That's why the next strategy works.

With the power of such a great victory, Meng Mi's core territory was quickly controlled, and the Ming army was still only fighting in the middle and pinning down the main force of the three divisions.

After all, it is only the main force, and Ava City and Mubang still have troops to meet Cheli, 800 Dadian, and Donghu.

That's the real bloody battle.

But the bloody battle is good, naturally it will consume them, and it will also make their hatred for each other a little deeper.

In fact, this battle quickly entered garbage time, especially after the Ming soldiers pulled out the two horned cities across the river from Ava City, Zhijiao and Malai.

The reason why this process took a little more time was only because it took a lot of effort to transport the two cannons from the east side of the Jinsha River to Zhijiao City on the west bank.

The only thing that makes Sihongfa and Sizhen, who has been hiding in Ava City, feel safer is the wide water surface at the confluence of the Ava River and the Jinsha River.

But how long will it take them to transport the cannon to the south bank of the river? Jinbo was broken, it was south of the Ava River, and it was not difficult for them to establish a stronghold on the south bank of the river.

The Ming army stopped.

"What are they waiting for?"

Si Hongfa couldn't figure it out, he asked his uncle, and also asked Si Zhen.

The two men weren't sure. Waiting for food? Waiting for shells? Wait until Han Lie, who has destroyed Mubang, and then come to encircle the east and south?

Mang Ruiti also guessed so, he could only attack north frantically.

"If the Akito captured Ava City, would it really be handed over to us easily? Either way, catch up with the siege! From the south, it's easier to get into Ava City! ”

The young reckless body was both fearful and expectant.

Now that the banner of the battle for the Burmese has been raised, he cannot afford to lose the city of Ava.

“…… It's coming so slowly. Mu Shaoxun was a little helpless, "Order Qu Zhinan, let him leave some people to guard the straight stalks, and return to Jiangtou City to force Meng Lun." It is rumored that Meng Lun is guarding the general, it is Si Lun who is not a minister, and Da Ming does not want to eliminate Meng Yang. Capture the first evil Silun's family, Meng Yang wants to change to a new family! ”

At this moment, some of Jinbo's generals also fled to Mubang City after being "defeated to the death".

Mubang City is quiet, but the news from the west has been coming, and there is invisible pressure here.

Meng Mi was defeated, and although Jin Bo was killed in the face of a partial division that could not hold and he trusted more generals, the generals who fled back were also a force after all.

"What does it mean to not fight and not surrender?"

Han Lie was extremely agitated.

He can return the land he has encroached upon, he can recover the money he owes before, and he can give a large sum of money, but as long as the envoy of Mubang Xuanwei is still him.

But there were only four words back: Guilty of guilt.

Isn't that bullying? How dare you?

But in the midst of this stalemate, a few days later, there was a sudden mutiny in the city.

The leader was not the general who fled back from Jinbo, but he was one of them.

All the members of the family of Hanlie's "main branch" were captured, and the head of the side branch with a suitable identity was enshrined as the lord of the Mu State with the support of the leader of the small tribe with a lower status.

Lingbi Botang Shaozong didn't lose a single soldier here, so he picked up the credit given to him by Wu Wending and Mu Shaoxun.

But this was only the beginning, and he knew that the rest was even more difficult.

After all, Mubang City was north of the Ava River, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to drive Mubang south of the Ava River.

His main task was to persuade them to relocate to Jinbo.

"Just hand over the Hanlie family to General Ben, rest assured, Wang Shi will not enter the city now. It's just that how to ask for the seal later, after Wang Shi captures Si Lun and Si Hongfa father and son, Si Zhen, he will let Er and other Waidian ministers make a new covenant in Ava City. ”

On the other side of Ava City, to the south of the city, two Shenwei cannons were erected on the north bank of the river.

It fires only a few shots a day, allowing the defenders of Ava to admire its range and power.

Only they fired, but so many tiger squatting cannons also fired across the river.

It's like showing off.

But in fact, Wu Wending and Mu Shaoxun just kept sending people to shout.

"The heavenly soldiers are here only to uphold justice and to conquer the rebellious ministers and thieves. The land of Outer Yunnan is governed by local officials. Meng Mi's chaotic ministers thought about the truth, refused to surrender, and killed the Ming envoy, the crime is unforgivable! Si Lun's son Si Hongfa, according to the Burmese Xuanwei Division, falsely claimed to be Mangbuxin, deceived the king and asked for a seal, and the crime was unforgivable! Daming is unwilling to kill in vain, the guards in the city, it is advisable to bind the head of the thief, please surrender when the city is opened! The king entered the city, and the autumn did not commit any crimes! ”

Under the invisible pressure and this kind of attack, Si Hongfa and Si Zhen are worried about someone jumping back every day.

This torture reached its peak after Han Lie was personally escorted to the north bank of the river, next to Erwuzai, who was said to have been appointed as the envoy of Mubang Xuanwei.

"Can't my father come to help?" Sihongfa asked his uncle in despair.

“…… can't come, Meng Lun has also fallen......"

Although the Ming army had taken control of the west bank of the Jinsha River, there were still mountain roads to the north, and the news was not broken.

"The Mangrui body is getting closer and closer...... "Si Hongfa cried, "I said a long time ago, find a real Ava Dynasty clan as a puppet, why do you want me to come?" ”

Er Wuzai's appearance broke the last string, and it was indeed an opportunity for these city generals who had usurped the Ava Dynasty to have no morale and covet the old land of the three divisions to reshuffle the cards.

When the young Mang Ruiti rushed to Ava City with his more poorly equipped and less powerful recruits, he only looked desperately at the Ming Sanchen Banner fluttering on the city wall.

(End of chapter)