Chapter 1102: Fighting wits and courage

Taking advantage of the foggy weather, the Ming army surrounded Jiangtou City layer by layer, only attacking with artillery fire, and the rest of the troops rested for several days, patiently waiting for the fog to pass.

The commander of the Burmese army, Mangfu, was unwilling to hold on all the time, and he constantly harassed and sent people to harass the Ming army, trying to exhaust the Ming army and drag it down.

On the night of the first day of November, the reckless man decided to seek wealth and danger, and suddenly sent an army to launch a surprise attack on the left flank of the Ming army.

In the face of the surprise attack of the Burmese army, Ma Xianglin led his troops to take the lead and led the white pole soldiers to block the Burmese army.

The Burmese army was basically frightened by the Ming army in the field, and it was crushed at the first touch, and Ma Xianglin captured two generals of the enemy army and returned in style.

The Ming army's naval division also took the opportunity to attack the Burmese army on the river and captured a Burmese army flag, and the war had developed to a very urgent stage.

Seeing that the army was in a bitter battle, Mahaduro, the right prime minister of Burma, transferred eight more naval armies to support, hoping to defeat the Ming army on the water.

On the third day of November, 30 warships of the Burmese army secretly rowed out of the water camp, preparing to build a wooden fence on the shore to strengthen the city wall that had been damaged by the Ming army.

Gan Hui, the commander of the Ming Army's naval division, discovered their thieving behavior and once again led his troops to raid the Burmese army that was planting a wooden fence, destroying more than 500 enemies and burning eight Burmese warships, including a Burmese king-level warship with Burmese characteristics.

On the fourth day of the first month, the reckless man who refused to admit defeat sent troops to attack the Ming army on the west bank again, but before he could get close to the Ming army's camp on the west bank, he was destroyed by the Ming army ambushed in the primeval jungle on the shore.

In the confrontation with the Burmese army, the Ming army gradually advanced, successively terminated the two-story wooden fence of the Burmese army camp, and constantly attacked the warships of the Burmese army on the river with guns and artillery, and gained complete initiative.

However, the Ming army still had no way to make substantial progress, and the Burmese military camp in Jiangtou City was still standing firmly in front of them.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the fog on the river was still lingering for a long time, and by the time it dispersed in the afternoon, the fighter plane had already been missed.

Wang Fuzhi, the governor of Yunnan, proposed the tactic of digging tunnels, using the method of attacking the city wall, supplemented by explosives to blow up the Burmese army's wooden village, and Xu Qingshan agreed.

All the engineers of the Ming army were dispatched, and began to dig tunnels through heavy fog, and after digging dozens of zhang deep, they began to fill the explosive packs, trying to directly blow the foundation and collapse the wooden wall of the Burmese army.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the engineering regiments lit the explosives bags and took refuge in the trenches.

With a loud "boom", the giant wood supporting the wooden fence of the Burmese army vacated a height of one zhang high, and the Burmese army shouted in panic.

The Ming army cheered and cheered, and the soldiers drew their swords one after another, waiting for the wooden wall to collapse and charge in to kill the Burmese army!

However, something unexpected happened, the huge wooden stake bounced up and was inserted back into the ground!

"Fuck, what's going on!"

Ma Xianglin scolded, as if he had seen a ghost.

Xu Qingshan's eyes shrank, and he said in a deep voice: "Order the engineers, continue to bomb!" ”

What is unbelievable is that the engineers exploded three times in a row, and these huge wooden piles continued to stabilize after bounce up, and did not collapse, but cracked a little......

The commander of the Burmese army on the wooden wall laughed and said a word of schadenfreude.

After listening to the praise painting in Burmese, he reported to Xu Qingshan: "Dashuai, the old Burmese said that their wooden fence is standing under the slope, and those huge wooden stakes are fixed together in rows, unless they are blown up, they don't want to shake it!" ”

Xu Qingshan understood that wood is not a stone wall, and the foundation will all collapse as soon as it is spanned, as Lao Mianzi said, unless it is blown up, it will only be loose and will not collapse.

Ma Xianglin was not convinced, and said in a loud voice: "Since it can't be blown up, then fucking cut it!" Pull it off! ”

When Wang Fuzhi heard this, he nodded and said, "It's feasible!" ”

Xu Qingshan nodded and said, "Ma Xianglin, this matter is up to you!" ”

"Yes!"

Ma Xianglin responded, and immediately ordered the white pole soldiers to find thick rattan nearby and wrap and weave hundreds of zhang.

Then, he sent thousands of men and horses to secretly detour to the corner of the wooden fence at the very edge of the Burmese army's big village, tied it to an iron hook with ox leather, threw it into the end of the Burmese army's wooden fence, and then pulled it back to fix it.

In the end, the big scene came, and the 4,000 soldiers of the Ming Army used the method of tug-of-war to pull the rattan, and the scene was very hot.

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

The faces of the soldiers of the Ming army were red, their eyebrows were twisted into pimples, and even the green tendons on their arms could be seen clearly.

"Click! Click! Click! ”

There was a crisp cracking sound, and the Burmese army's wooden fence began to tilt and loosen.

The Burmese army near the wooden wall noticed something strange and rushed over and cut the rattan with machetes.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Ming army stepped up its pulling, but this effort, coupled with the Burmese army's fierce cuts, broke the rattan, and the broken village was declared a failure again......

tried all means, but Lao Burma's Dazhai was not breached, and the soldiers of the Ming army were a little decadent.

But at this time, Xu Qingshan was extremely calm, and he ordered the transfer of the only Martial Emperor cannon in the battalion!

This weapon was carefully prepared for the old Burmese, but it was inconvenient to cross the mountains and mountains, and there was only one left, which made people forget.

The brothers of the artillery battalion climbed to the commanding heights on the hill on the shore to cast the fort, and then pulled the Wuhuang cannon up.

As soon as this weapon of mass destruction was put in place, it immediately launched a powerful bombardment of the wooden stakes of the Burmese military camp.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, like a thunderclap in winter, the shell exploded a huge crater under the wooden wall of the Burmese army, and the sawdust flew immediately, but did not directly hit the stake.

The Burmese army in Jiangtou City was taken aback and hurriedly sent people to repair it.

The power of the Wuhuang cannon far exceeds that of the Hongyi cannon, but unfortunately, there is only one in the Ming army, if a few more Wuhuang cannons form a dense firepower, the Burmese army's so-called impregnable wooden fence defense line will be vulnerable!

Xu Qingshan knew that he would not be able to take Jiangtou City with just one Martial Emperor cannon, but he had already ordered a continuous bombardment.

Because he knows that the Burmese army will not be able to bear it!

Sure enough, after a day of continuous bombardment by Wuhuang artillery, that night, some Burmese troops secretly ran out of Jiangtou City and went to the Ming army camp to surrender.

During the day, it was digging tunnels and dragging wooden stakes, which scared many Burmese troops, and they could still endure and persist in the artillery battle, but this way of fighting, coupled with the fact that it is not clear how many powerful artillery pieces the Ming army still has, Jiangtou City will not be able to hold on sooner or later, it is better to surrender as soon as possible and change the way to live.

The heart of the Burmese army was fluctuating, and the next morning, an arrow tied to the Pu Yeshu was shot from the Burmese army camp.

Xu Qingshan read the letter, the signature of the letter was the commander of the Burmese army, Mangfu, his attitude and tone were deferential and lovely, it seemed that the commander of the Burmese army, Mangfu, wanted to make peace.

Xu Qingshan smiled indifferently, ordered a ceasefire, and sent people to shout in front of the Burmese army.

"Tell your boss to be reckless, if you want to beg for peace, boldly say it, and send someone to talk openly, instead of archery chatting!"

The shouts of the Ming army had a great impact on the Burmese soldiers on the wooden wall, who were originally in a fluctuating mood and unwilling to fight again, but when they heard that their commander intended to seek peace, their morale immediately plummeted.

After receiving the report, the reckless man turned blue with anger, and angrily scolded Xu Qingshan on the spot for being despicable and shameless, not talking about martial virtues, and secretly cursed in his heart that he had no hole in his son!

However, he still sent a junior general to negotiate with the Ming army camp, because he was afraid that the general would be slaughtered by the Ming army.

All countries in the world have heard that the Ming army has a bad habit of killing envoys, in case this time it is a deception...... I have to guard against it!

Xu Qingshan saw that there was a young general with a low grade coming from the opposite side, and he was very unhappy in his heart, so he directly asked Ma Xianglin, who likes to scold people, to scold people in the past.

Ma Xianglin happily accepted the order, swaggered to see the Burmese general, and went up to scold, using five dialects throughout the whole process, as well as a half-baked Burmese dialect, and the saliva sprayed the Burmese general's face.

The young general of the Burmese army bowed his head and waited for scolding, and did not dare to reach out to wipe the saliva on his forehead, and was scolded like a mourner.

finally finished scolding, and he vigorously accepted Ma Xianglin's words, repeatedly saying that Myanmar definitely did not mean to offend the kingdom of the Great Tomorrow, and the previous ones were all misunderstandings.

Ma Xianglin scolded him again, sprayed half a catty of saliva, and finally agreed to talk about it tomorrow.

In view of the Burmese army's history of many fraudulent surrenders, Xu Qingshan let the army continue to remain under siege while having a plan.