Chapter 1105: The Sorrowful Burmese Prince
After the battle of Jiangtou City, Xu Qingshan once again divided his troops into two routes, starting from Jiangtou City and marching to Donghu City, the capital of Burma!
According to expectations, Xu Qingshan personally led the first route of men and horses to attack the Burmese capital Taungoo by land, and Mu Tianbo's second army went down the Irrawaddy River and attacked Taungoo City by water.
The two armies finally met under the city of Taungoo and attacked the city together, completely destroying the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma!
The road from Yunnan to Myanmar is rugged and difficult, there are many jungles, and it is difficult to travel along the way, while the road from Jiangtou City to Donghu City is a plain with pleasant scenery, and the only thing is that the road is far away, with more than 1,000 miles of road.
In the first battle of Jiangtou City, the Ming army eliminated the main force of the Burmese army, and it stands to reason that there is no suspense in the next battle, but Xu Qingshan is not a complacent person, he strictly ordered all departments to march rigorously, not carelessly!
When the news of the defeat at the front came, the entire city of Donghu was fried.
The Burmese king Mang Bai was angry that the front line generals had negotiated privately and forged their own documents, but the commander Mangfu had died, and the right prime minister Mahaduro had also become a prisoner of the Ming army.
The stubborn Burmese king still refuses to admit defeat until now, and ordered the whole country to reorganize its troops and horses and participate in the defense of the national capital!
Since ancient times, Myanmar has attached great importance to raising soldiers, and in addition to basic production work, the people of the "Bingtun" are also responsible for preparing the weapons and equipment of their own troops, and automatically enlist in the army with weapons when the king is called.
After receiving the strict order, the Burmese soldiers immediately stopped their production and labor, went to the designated place to report, and prepared to go out to stop the Ming army.
These doormen were on the move, their weapons with bedding, ammunition, and pots on one end, and rice, salt, and shrimp paste on the other.
In this way, the Burmese soldiers did not use vehicles or tents, wore their daily clothes, and wrapped their heads in strips of red cloth that were the soldiers' markers, and drove to the places where they wanted to go.
When camping, I rest on the spot, and after getting up, I cook separately, and the individual is the logistics, and there is no burden of logistics at all.
This seemingly disregarding the safety of grassroots soldiers in the Burmese army has increased the mobility of the army, and at the same time, it can also achieve the effect of clearing the wilderness.
This also explains why after the Burmese army village in Jiangtou City was destroyed, a large number of Burmese soldiers desperately fled regardless of life and death, because people did not worry about survival at all!
Similarly, the quality of the equipment of the portal soldiers is uneven, the training is insufficient, and the combat effectiveness is outrageously low.
Along the way, the Ming army's tiger and wolf division was invincible, and it was easy to defeat these portal soldiers who went to the field one by one, and sometimes only one team of ten people was dispatched, and the Burmese army of 1,000 people was easily defeated.
In addition to the gateway soldiers, there were also some primitive tribe scholars who were recruited by the Burmese king to participate in the war, these people had thick lips, the Burmese army called them cannon fodder, and the Ming army called them savages.
The way of the savage is very wild, the battle is brave, he rushes up with a stick, he is not afraid of the Ming army at all, and he has the professionalism of being cannon fodder.
It's a pity that cannon fodder will always be cannon fodder, and the Ming army will destroy it unceremoniously!
The king of Burma was very angry, Xu Qingshan was also angry, he didn't know what to do with the little Burmese, he decided to use violence to counter violence and subdue them!
On the ninth day of November, Xu Qingshan ordered the whole army: Don't take prisoners, and kill the enemy on the way to the march! There are Tusi resisters, slaughter their tribes!
The two armies strictly carried out this military order, and the surrendered Burmese army opened the way, let them shout, and after three warnings, directly launched a fierce attack.
On November 13, Xu Qingshan's headquarters encountered the Burmese army, and after the Ming army was polite, they saw that the other party did not react, so they quickly launched an attack.
The tactics of the Burmese army portal soldiers are very fixed, whether it is cavalry or infantry, they like to throw throwing weapons such as javelins and darts, run after throwing, and then let the musketeers follow up and shoot.
Sun Jian led the rattan unity array to resist the front, withstood the enemy's first firepower and arrow rain and then withdrew in an orderly manner, allowing the musketeers to shoot alternately.
After a few rounds of alternate shooting, the gateway soldiers of the Burmese army could not bear it, and ran away like joy, they had no armor, they ran very fast, and they pulled out a random long-distance running event that could be used in the future generations to participate in the Olympic Games, and the results were not bad.
(The countries of Indochina Peninsula have not produced armor since ancient times, and generally use rattan armor, just simple helmets, shoulder pads and joint protection, with the gradual popularization of firearms, rattan armor has lost its effectiveness, and the main force of the Burmese army has almost no armor, let alone gateway soldiers.) )
Xu Qingshan ordered the cavalry to pursue and kill them all.
Obviously, the fate of this portal soldier was very tragic, no matter how fast they ran, they were not as good as the Ming Flying Man Liu Run, and under the pursuit of the Ming cavalry, the whole army was annihilated.
In the days that followed, the Ming army's reputation for murder spread far and wide, and the resistance encountered was noticeably less.
When it was less than 200 miles away from Donghu City, the Burmese king Mangbai sent an envoy in the name of negotiation to try to lure Xu Qingshan into an ambush halfway, causing the tragedy of the cursed water for the second time.
In order to let Xu Qingshan be fooled, Mangbai paid a bloody capital and sent the crown prince Na Luo Luo as a messenger to act as bait.
With the prince of a country as an envoy, it is very reasonable to negotiate with the commander of your Ming army! Very sincere!
As the commander of the First Army, Xu Qingshan has fought for half his life, and he has never seen any conspiracy and trickery, and the reputation of the Burmese army for fraudulent surrender is famous, and there is a lesson from the difficult past.
Therefore, Xu Qingshan took the plan and accepted it, and prepared to reverse the Burmese prince with a pot.
The commander of the Ming army agreed to the peace talks, and the Burmese king Mang Bai was overjoyed and ordered the army to go out, hoping to make dumplings for the commander of the Ming army and order him to withdraw as a hostage.
On the day of the meeting, the Burmese prince Narovaro hopefully led the elite cavalry troops of the three elite cavalry troops of the royal city Praetorian Guard to attack the temporary camp of the Ming army at the negotiation site, and he also wanted to learn from the Emperor Mingwu.
Since Emperor Tianwu became popular all over the world, princes and princes all over the world have taken him as their goal, hoping to imitate and surpass.
It's a pity that Na Luo Luo's qualifications are too poor and his life is too thin, when he excitedly led his troops into Xu Qingshan's temporary camp, the whole person was stupid, and there was not even a hair in it! Even the Ming soldiers standing guard outside the camp are all scarecrows pretending!
Narovara, who reacted, wanted to withdraw, only to hear the sound of killing around him, the trembling of the earthquake, the rumbling of iron hooves, and the cavalry of the Ming army roared like a torrent.
The Ming cavalry crashed into the panicked Burmese cavalry, and after several waves of charges, the two sides became entangled.
Whether it is weapons and equipment, cavalry literacy, or tactical coordination, the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard of the Burmese army Wangcheng looks very immature in front of the cavalry of the Ming army.
Moreover, the cavalry of the Ming army was extremely brave, and the glory of the Ming army made them fearless and courageous!
Soon, the three elite cavalry led by the Burmese prince Na Luo Luo were killed by the flexible cavalry tactics of the Ming cavalry and the flanking attack of the infantry.
These three Burmese cavalry, who are also the Janissaries of the Royal City, are the most elite professional soldiers in Burma, they fought in their hometowns, and they fought in the Great Patriotic War, and they performed extremely tenacious.
The Burmese cavalry was defeated by the Ming cavalry in a long-range attack, but the knife and marksmanship in close combat were very good, and they fought well, and they did not retreat when the last cavalry fell off their horses.
In the end, the three Burmese generals who took the lead died heroically, the cavalry of the three Burmese royal city guards were all annihilated, and the Burmese prince Narovaro was stabbed three times and captured by the Ming army!