Chapter 284: Design
The Siamese people who were ridiculed by the Great Tomorrow as a group of rice buckets, in fact, they are not really all rice buckets, at least the Emperor Na Lixuan in the original history did have two brushes.
He was sold by Nguyen Huang, and he took 30,000 soldiers and horses to Chiang Mai to fight a battle with 30,000 Burmese troops, and actually won.
You must know that the Burmese army on the opposite side was originally placed in Chiang Mai to deter Siam, but it is the elite of the Burmese army, and Mang Yingli was reluctant to use this army when he went south from northern Myanmar to Donghu, which shows the heavy task of them, and in turn proves their strength.
Such a recuperated new force, after learning that Na Lixuan's "rebels" were going north, of course, could not bear it, so they took the initiative to go south to meet the attack, and as a result, the two sides met in Lampang, southeast of Chiang Mai, and the "Battle of Lampang" broke out.
The place in Lampang is close to the Mong River, and the situation at that time was that the Burmese army had already crossed the river, and Na Li Xuan planned to fight the Burmese army for a half but was one step late, so the situation became the last battle of the Burmese army.
As we all know, the last battle is a decisive battle for the desperate Burmese army, and the Burmese army at this time will have a bonus effect on morale, and the Burmese army has a very large chance of winning when the strength of the two sides is equal.
However, the unexpected happened.
Na Li Xuan first went up to attack a wave, but the offensive was relatively weak, so he was despised by the Burmese army, believing that Na Li Xuan's department was just a group of rabble temporarily recruited, so he decisively launched a counterattack.
Na Li Xuan fought and retreated, retreating for twenty miles in a row, and reached a place called Mae Ta. Because of the pursuit, the Burmese army has long been out of touch. At this time, Na Li Xuan suddenly shot an arrow herself, killing a general of the Burmese army, and the morale of the Siamese army was greatly boosted.
At the same time, Na Li Xuan's rear hand was launched, and thousands of monks and soldiers suddenly came out from the side, stirring up the already unformed formation of the Burmese army even more chaotic, and Na Li Xuan did not hesitate to launch a counterattack, and in one fell swoop broke the fastest forward army of the Burmese army.
At this time, the chief general of the Burmese army realized that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered to switch from attack to defense, but it was too late. Na Lixuan's descendants, who were equipped with armor and steel swords supported by the Ming army (Annan), attacked in an all-round way, and a single charge broke the circle formed by the Burmese army and entered the core of the Burmese army.
Na Lixuan himself did not hesitate to follow in person, and took the elite main force he had accumulated in Phitsanulok to tear apart the defense line of the Burmese army in one fell swoop from this breakthrough, and the Burmese army was in chaos for a while.
In the chaos, the Burmese army commander was shot and killed, and the Burmese army fell into a bitter battle without a leader, and then collapsed, many turned and fled, while Na Lixuan led his troops to chase them down.
The final result of the battle was that Na Li Xuan's troops defeated the main force of the Chiang Mai Burmese army at the cost of more than 2,400 people, and won a great victory of nearly 5,000 men and more than 8,000 prisoners.
Subsequently, Na Li Xuan reported the battle situation to the Ayutthaya side, and on the other hand, he divided his troops to occupy the important place in the north of Siam, that is, the area of the Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanwei Division or Lanna.
In a report to his father, the King of Siam, Na Li Xuan accused the Annam Expeditionary Force of treachery and brought him to the brink of despair, and at the same time asked his father to arrest Nguyen Huang and said that he would appeal to the Ming in protest.
Of course, the king of Siam, Tanmaroja, did not have the ability to arrest Nguyen Huang, and even because he himself was weak and bullied, he had now lost the military power of the national capital Ayutthaya, how could he be arrested?
Command of the royal guard and the Forbidden Army (essentially the Forbidden Army) had now been transferred to Nguyen Hoang, and he was constantly liaising with Siam to try to control the rest of the local chiefs or warlords except Na Le Xuan.
Nguyen Huang's fox and fake tiger power not only used the name of Tanmaroja to give orders to various places, but he also borrowed various names such as "Great Ming Dynasty" and "Annam Metropolitan Division".
He even vigorously preached that the reason why Na Lixuan won the Battle of Lampang relied on the sophisticated equipment provided to him by the Jinghua Group. And this kind of sophisticated equipment, as long as everyone takes refuge in Daming, Annan, and Jinghua, they will have the opportunity to obtain it.
However, Ruan Huang also knew that this alone was still a little insufficient, after all, there were too few men and horses in his headquarters, even if he added the soldiers and horses brought from Nanzhang, it was not worth mentioning - not counting Na Li Xuan's department, the other troops in Siam alone added up to more than 80,000.
The strength of these troops may not be very good, they were all defeated by the Burmese army back then, but the number of 80,000 at least sounds like a lot, if it is the other way around, it is enough for him to drink a pot.
Therefore, while stabilizing the situation in Siam, he asked for support in three aspects: first, of course, he directly sent people to contact Gao Shishi as quickly as possible, and asked Gao Shishi to send troops to support.
Secondly, he also knew that Gao was too far away and might not be able to relieve himself, so he also asked for support from Annan, which was nominally sent to the Annan Metropolitan Envoy, but in fact it was written to the Jinghua advisers. In addition, he also wrote two personal letters, one to Gao Min of the Thang Long garrison, and one to Gao Mengnan, the commander of the three towns of Quang Nam, asking them to send troops to support as appropriate.
The second is to write to Huang Zhiting, who is outside Donghu City, while reporting the situation on his side, he tentatively asks Huang Deputy Dutong if he can draw some troops to support him, or if he can't directly send troops, then it is better to tilt his troops to Lanna (Eight Hundred Dadian) in the northeast, so that Na Lixuan will not dare to go south at least in the short term.
Ruan Huang's troops were only a little less than Na Li Xuan's, but he was not afraid of being defeated by Na Li Xuan, after all, he thought that he had his descendants at hand and the 6,000 elites of the Thang Long garrison, so he would not lose if he lost. It's just that he is worried that once Na Lixuan goes south, some local leaders and warlords of Siam will defect to him, and the overall situation of Siam will be completely unpredictable.
Due to the terrain and distance, Huang Zhiting got the news two days earlier than Annan, and Ruan Huang sent the news to make her very embarrassed.
Huang Zhiting has no opinion on Ruan Huang's temporary change plan, and even thinks that he has done a good job, which is in line with Gao Pragmatic's evaluation of him, "This person sees the wind and steers, but he is quite far-sighted."
It's just that although this matter has been done well, now because of Na Lixuan's big victory, some bad signs have begun to appear, that is, it may force the black prince to rebel.
In Gao Pragmatic's evaluation, Na Lixuan's ability, especially his military ability, was highly evaluated, and Gao Pragmatic also mentioned that Na Lixuan was very ambitious.
The evaluation of great ambition can be proved from the fact that Na Li Xuan immediately divided his troops to occupy Lanna after defeating the Burmese army, and Huang Zhiting has no doubt. According to her thoughts, the best way to deal with such people is to kill them as soon as possible before they have more power.
But ideas are ideas, and things are still a little difficult to do for a while. Now that the city of Donghu is besieged, the Ming army is not unable to enter it, but that is equivalent to destroying the country, which will cause the Burmese to become more and more hateful to the Ming after the fact, but the Ming does not intend to annex Burma, this hatred is not beneficial except for causing trouble in the future, and it is not conducive to the Ming Dynasty to replenish blood from Burma.
Originally, it was also a way to directly destroy Mang Yingli, and then find another Burmese royal family to succeed him, such as Mang Meng and other "Uncle Wang", which are all objects that can be considered, but it is really not possible to have Mang Yingli's son, but Gao Pragmatic has clearly rejected this suggestion.
Gao's pragmatic view is that Mang Yingli has lost his prestige after this battle, and his reputation in Myanmar is completely ruined, and both the military and the people will regard him as a defeated king. Especially in front of his father Mang Yinglong's exploits, Mang Yingli's performance is completely a clown.
What does this mean? It means that Mang Yingli has lost the hearts of the Burmese people, his rule is already rootless, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Annam, he was naturally his enemy in the past, but he will be his creditor in the future - the creditor will not let the debtor simply die, because the creditor needs him to repay the debt.
Therefore, Daming, Annan and other forces are the last straw for Mang Yingli to survive in the future, even if he has monstrous hatred, he can only press it down and obediently give Daming a dog, otherwise it will be the end of death without a place to be buried.
On the contrary, if Mang Ying Li is replaced by Mang Meng and others, these people did not bear much notoriety in this war, and even bear the name of "Mang Ying Dragon King Brother", so the Burmese may have high hopes for them.
In this way, the past of Goujian, the king of Yue, may not be impossible to be replicated in Myanmar.
Therefore, Gao Shishi believes that the waste in Mangyingli can be reused, from "hazardous waste" to "recyclables", and make good use of the waste heat.
But in this case, Donghu City can't be broken, because if it is broken, Mang Yingli, the "culprit", will definitely have to "escort the Jingshi" as usual, and then most of them will have to "pass on the head and nine sides", so how can the following drama be played?
If you don't break the city of Donghu, and you can't let Mang Yingli have other ideas, then you can only surround it like this, and wait until a series of operations such as signing a peace treaty and limiting the strength of the Burmese army are completed before you can liberate the group of people under Huang Zhiting to do other things.
That's the trouble - Na Lixuan won't wait.
Huang Zhiting couldn't think of any good way for a while, so the matter dragged on all night.
On the second day, about 10,000 people of the Ming Army on the Northern Front escorted Liu Shizeng, the plenipotentiary envoy and governor of Yunnan, to the outside of Donghu City. Since Liu Shi was Huang Zhiting's temporary boss, Huang Zhiting reported to him on the recent military affairs and the recent situation in Donghu City.
Liu Shizeng is also the backbone of the Chen Party, so he naturally knows that Huang Zhiting's identity is relatively special, and he is very polite to her, and after listening to the report, he took the initiative to ask how the garrison in Donghu City was, and whether the troops outside the city and the 10,000 troops he brought would be able to draw troops to put pressure on Na Lixuan.
Huang Zhiting said that there are not many veterans of the Burmese army in Taungoo City, and the number of them does not exceed 10,000 at most. However, this is the royal capital of Burma, the population in the city is sufficient, and now some new troops have been organized, and the Burmese army in Donghu City may have reached about 30,000, but the combat effectiveness is limited, and the defense of the city can still make do, and the field battle out of the city must not have that courage.
Liu Shizeng was a civilian official, and his understanding of military affairs was average, so he began to think about it when he heard the rumors. But one of the young generals beside him instead spoke: "I heard that there were many Burmese soldiers captured under the command of Huang Dutong before, but I don't know how many have been surrendered now?" ”
Huang Zhiting didn't know this young general, but still replied: "Most of it has been collected, about 34,000 people." ”
"Are there many people who know the inside story of this matter?"
Huang Zhiting shook her head and said, "How do outsiders know? Naturally, there are not many. ”
The young general said: "In this case, there is a plan for lowly duties." ”
Huang Zhiting was quite surprised, and even Liu Shizeng was a little surprised, and glanced at the young general, but in the end he didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence that the young general could speak.
Huang Zhiting bowed his head and said, "Please ask Gao Theory." ”
"Don't dare." Although the young general said this, his attitude was very calm, "I think that Huang Dutong can repair a letter to apologize to Na Li Xuan for what Ruan Huang has done in the name of the deputy capital commander of Annan, and at the same time invite Na Li Xuan to lead the army to Donghu City to participate in the joint operation as an ally, and can also ask him to come to discuss the aftermath of Ruan Huang's affairs." Humble Feelings...... There is a good chance that Na Lixuan will come. ”
Huang Zhiting's brows furrowed when she heard it at first, but then she understood that what the young general said earlier was all a foreshadowing for the final invitation to Na Lixuan to come to Donghu.
"I kind of understand what you mean." Huang Zhiting tilted her head slightly, "Let Na Lixuan come to Donghu, and then I will be outside Donghu City, or on his way to Donghu...... Solve him? ”
The young general smiled slightly and bowed slightly: "I have heard the prestige of Huangdu for a long time, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation." ”
Huang Zhiting saw it, frowned slightly, she always felt that this young general's words were a little weird, but at least this didn't sound like a bad thing, she didn't bother to think about it for a while, so she asked: "What if Na Lixuan came out of the nest and came with an army of 30,000...... You also know that he has just defeated 30,000 Burmese troops, and he is in full swing. And at that time, I will besiege Donghu City on the one hand, and on the other hand, I will have to deal with his 30,000 army, in case something goes wrong and ruins the major affairs of the court, how will it end? ”
The young general raised his eyebrows: "Huang Dutong broke the main force of the Burmese army with 20,000 expeditionary troops of 60,000, this kind of power, in recent years, I am afraid that only Liaodong High School can reach, is Huang Dutong still in the hands of Na Li Xuan's 30,000 Siamese soldiers?" You must know that he broke through the Burmese army in Chiang Mai this time, relying on his personal guards equipped with Annam's excellent armor to break through the defense line of the Burmese army in one fell swoop, so he took advantage of the situation to win.
Now under the command of Huang Dutong, there are not only the world-famous Guangxi wolf soldiers, but also the elite Jingang garrison army in Annan. ”
What this young general said was not unreasonable, but Huang Zhiting felt more and more strange when he heard it - why does this person always seem to be agitated?
Huang Zhiting thought for a while, and said secretly: This person seems to be under Liu Ling, could it be that Liu Ling is jealous of my military exploits? But this doesn't make sense, although Liu Ling is also a general under Gao Lang, but I am not...... I won't compete with him in this regard, and it doesn't make sense for him to be jealous of my military exploits, so there's no need for it.
She was suspicious on this side, but Liu Shizeng didn't think much about it on the other side, and at this moment Liu Zhongcheng also figured it out, this plan sounded feasible, and the only question was how many people Na Lixuan would bring over.
So Liu Shizeng finally said: "The headquarters doesn't think that Na Lixuan will bring his 30,000 troops over. You think, after Na Lixuan defeated the Burmese army, he immediately divided his troops and occupied all parts of 800 Dadian, which shows that this person is greedy and gluttonous. Even if, as Fang Cai said, Huang Dutong invited him under various banners, and at the same time he refused to give up the reputation brought by his personal invasion of Donghu, but the headquarters still believed that he would not ignore the 800 Dadian and come to the nest, and this person would leave part of the army to manage the 800 Dadian with all his heart, so as not to Ruan Huang take advantage of the situation. ”
Before Huang Zhiting could speak, the young general had already hugged his fists and said: "What Zhongcheng said is very true. In this way, Huang Dutong's victory rate in solving Na Lixuan will be greater. ”
Huang Zhiting narrowed her eyes slightly, glanced at the young general again, and suddenly smiled: "The clever strategy is indeed extraordinary." Fang Cai was rude, he hadn't asked for advice on his surname, and now he has any position under Liu Yourong? ”
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