Donghu City is in an emergency!

Wang Mangying, the white elephant of the golden building who had been unfavorable for many years, was anxious to call all the royal nobles and veterans of the former emperor who went out with the army to his golden brocade tent.

Each of these people had a large property in Donghu City, and even if they went south, the connection with Donghu City was not interrupted. So almost at the same time that they learned the news in Mangying, they also got the news.

Different from the "official news" that Mang Yingli learned, the news they got was sent by their own family members to send slaves, and the wording of various reports was even more exaggerated, such as "a thousand cannons bombarded the city", "100,000 troops, and an iron bucket besieged the city" and other statements abounded.

Although these nobles and generals in front of them knew very well that it was impossible for the Ming army to have any 100,000 troops to besiege the city, and the "thousand cannons" theory must be nonsense, otherwise this battle would be a fart and it would be over if they surrendered directly, but they knew very well the reasons for the news at home, and they also knew the troubles faced by Donghu City.

The main force of the Ming army did not retreat eastward, but suddenly went to Donghu!

These royal families, nobles, new and old generals all gathered together to discuss how to persuade the king, but before they could reach a result, the summons of Mang Yingli had already come.

Donghu City is the "land of Longxing" of the Donghu Dynasty, and it is also the capital of the country, everyone understands the importance of Donghu City, if Donghu is lost, it is equivalent to being dug up and cut off, who can afford this crime? Even Mang Yingli couldn't, so when the first time he was "in danger of Donghu", Mang Yingli had to withdraw his troops from the northern front and come back to rescue.

And this time was no exception, Mang Yingli said to his subordinates straight to the point that he had to go back to relieve the siege of Donghu City, which was not to be discussed. What he really had to discuss was another question: what to do with Pego?

The current situation is well known to everyone, and there is no problem in withdrawing troops. Although this group of people in Bago City relied on the advantages of muskets and fortresses to defeat the Burmese army in the first day of the tentative attack, but after all, these people are only a group of recruits, and it should be impossible to let them out of the city, but any general in his right mind will not impulsively choose this kind of suicidal battle.

However, the trouble is that if you just withdraw back so straightforwardly, where will everyone's face go? When the army was first dispatched, it was very ambitious, and it was necessary to wipe out the main force of the Ming army in southern Burma in one fell swoop and destroy the Meng rebels.

The north and the "main force" of the Ming army fought, did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, and when the army was withdrawn, it was also Yin by Liu Ling, not only broke the emperor's younger brother and general Wang Shu Mangzhuo, but even the White Elephant King himself was almost captured, which was already a big loss of face.

However, that time I can also shirk the responsibility, firstly, everyone is eager to go south to rescue Donghu, and secondly, the other party is after all the famous general of the Ming army - the son of the famous general Liu Xian, and it is not a big problem to say a famous general in advance, after all, Myanmar is also popular with the idea of "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes", so no matter how many soldiers Liu Wei brings, everyone subconsciously regards it as the main force of the Ming army.

But this time it's different!

Who is the chief general of the Ming army on the southern front has now been investigated, but it is a toast in Guangxi in the past, and he is not a world-famous general. Forget about toast, the key party is still a young female toast, which is even more troublesome.

You must know that in Burmese culture at this time, women have no status at all, and the status gap between men and women is several times more serious than that of the Ming Dynasty. Now the chief general of the Ming army is a woman, which means that even if the Burmese army wins, it will not have any glorious achievements, and if it loses, on the contrary......

It's a shame just to think about it!

If the Burmese army withdraws back so simply, it means that the previous intended goal has to be abandoned, and to a certain extent, it is already a poor performance.

Therefore, from the perspective of face, it is not advisable to abandon Bago City and return to Donghu, Mang Yingli did not explicitly say this, but everyone understood it in their hearts.

It's just clear that it's easy to understand, but it's hard to find a solution.

Some people suggested that it would be better to find a way to conquer Bago as soon as possible, and everyone would go back with the glorious achievements of Bago, and the morale of the army would be higher, and with the wealth of Bago, the supplies when they returned to the army would be more abundant.

But Captain Reddy, as a military advisor, was very straightforward about his opinion: it couldn't be done.

According to his "careful observation" in the past three or four days, although the other party's fortress is a temporary building that may not be repaired for more than a month, due to "uncertain reasons", the solidity of these buildings is not bad at all, and it can even be said that the quality is outstanding.

All in all, although this is a castrated version of the temporary large fortress, without one or two hundred long and heavy artillery, it is impossible to make a breakthrough in the short term if you want to attack it by manpower. In response to this view, Captain Reddy expressed his willingness to "swear in the name of God" to prove that he was true and not alarmist.

Although Captain Reddy has limited men and horses, he has been employed in Burma since the time of the first emperor and has participated in dozens of battles, large and small, and the generals of the Burmese army are still quite convinced of his military quality, so after he said this, the idea of "capturing Bago as soon as possible" died down.

Since the army could not be withdrawn casually, but it could not be taken for a while, there was only one way left: leave part of the troops to continue to maintain the siege, and the main force went back to rescue Donghu.

But this also faces a dilemma: how many people should be left to besiege the city?

If you leave less, the siege is a joke, for example, if you leave 10,000 people, you can't even surround the city of Bago, it's a ghost siege?

But if there are too many left, everyone feels that it is not very safe: the Ming army on the southern front has never claimed how many troops it has, and so far the Burmese side can only guess about this.

At first, the Burmese side actually guessed quite accurately, and the result of the estimate was that "the Ming army on the southern front was about 30,000 or 40,000 people" - they probably counted the fleet.

Later, due to the Ming army creating a new army composed of Meng people, this data suddenly began to "float", some said 80,000, some said 100,000, and even said 150,000, this data has never been close to the real situation.

Mang Yingli tends to think that the actual strength of the Ming army does not exceed 50,000, and Captain Reddy thinks that it does not exceed 30,000, but whether it is 30,000 or 50,000, one thing is certain: the Ming army attacking Donghu must be the main force of the Ming army on the southern front this time!

This reason is actually obvious - the head of Bago City is now hanging the "high" flag, not the "yellow" flag, which means that Huang Zhiting, the main general of the Ming army, is not in the city.

After the losses of that day, the Burmese army can now only barely say that the strength is barely around 70,000 people, if there are too many troops left to besiege the city, then the strength of the troops returning to the division to rescue Bago compared with the main force of the Ming army, the advantage is not great.

What is the level of the main force of the Ming army? If according to the strength displayed by Liu Ling's troops that day, even the most arrogant people in the Burmese army felt furious in their hearts, and subconsciously weighed it, no matter how they looked at it, they didn't think that they could win one-on-one.

This is bad, even according to Captain Reddy's most optimistic estimate, the other party is 30,000, then his own side has to have 50,000 or 60,000 to think that he can fight.

The Golden Mansion White Elephant King of Megatron Tiannan actually found that his troops were overstretched, and Mang Yingli's mood suddenly became even worse. After thinking about it for a long time, it was finally more important than face, and Mang Yingli made up his mind: leave 10,000 people to continue the siege, and the remaining 60,000 troops will pack up and return north immediately.

Fortunately, the generals under his command were very "sensible" this time and did not express any objections, but there was a little controversy over the next issue of "who will stay".

Because some generals believed that the few hundred Portuguese mercenaries should also be left outside the city of Bago, on the grounds that leaving only 10,000 people to besiege the city was really too much diluted, and although the actual strength in the city of Bago was not clear to everyone, it would not be less than tens of thousands.

If those tens of thousands of people really desperately went out of the city to fight, it would not be easy for their own 10,000 people to gather from the siege state, if there was no elite to suppress the formation, and if it was not good, it would be a defeat, then the situation would be embarrassing.

Mang Yingli asked Captain Reddy what he thought, and the latter said that it didn't matter - "Employees don't have the right to choose a mission, unless the mission is to die." ”

After thinking about it, Mang Yingli still felt that it was safest to take the Portuguese mercenaries with him, so he rejected the suggestion, leaving only 10,000 ordinary Burmese troops to continue the "siege" in Bago, and he led 60,000 troops, including Portuguese mercenaries, to return north immediately.

Of course, the movements of the Burmese army cannot be concealed from Gao Silian, who has a telescope in hand, but Gao Silian also has questions about the withdrawal of the main force of the Burmese army - why did he go north?

Gao Silian was under siege, and he didn't know that Huang Zhiting had gone to Donghu City, so according to his assumption, even if Mang Yingli wanted to find the bad luck of the main force of the expeditionary force, he should go east, what kind of ghost is it to go north?

Could it be that a coup d'état or even a mutiny broke out in the city of Donghu?

Gao Silian is worthy of being a colonization envoy, and he pays great attention to seizing opportunities, although he still doesn't understand what it means for Mang Yingli to evacuate north, but it does not prevent him from making preparations in advance.

What to prepare? Ready to fight back, of course!

The Burmese army looked down on the Mon army, because the battle of Mang Yinglong to pacify the Mon Bago Dynasty was too smooth, and the main force of more than 10,000 people defeated the "80,000 army" led by the king himself in the Bago Dynasty in one battle, and directly destroyed the country in one battle.

But in reality, there is a story behind that war.

As early as the thirteenth year of Jiajing, Mang Ruiti had just succeeded to the throne of Burma. At the age of 19, Mang Ruiti first experienced the battle formation, with Mang Yinglong as the vanguard, attacking the Bago Dynasty in the south. But the result was very bad, Mang Ruiti and Mang Yinglong attacked Bagu three times before and after, but they all failed.

Three years later, Mang Ruiti eliminated the two famous twin generals of the Bago Dynasty, Binyalao and Binyajiang, and attacked Bago for the fourth time. Mang Ruiti ordered a pursuit, but the forward troops led by Mang Yinglong did not wait for the main force to arrive, that is, they routed the main force of the Meng people in the Battle of Nangyou. After this war, Mang Ruiti gave Mang Yinglong the title of "Brother Wang".

Therefore, two points can be speculated here: one is that the Mon people will be killed because of the name of the two major towns and countries, which must be a state of unstable military morale, otherwise it is impossible for the king of Bago to not even dare to defend the king, but is bent on fleeing - this shows that if the Burmese army did not press the border on a large scale, maybe civil strife would have broken out in Bago;

The second is that since King Bago is bent on fleeing, it is likely that he was unguarded, and the elite of the Burmese army led by Mang Yinglong fought a "beheading battle" - King Bago was either directly beheaded or captured (records unknown), in short, the 80,000 army collapsed directly.

So on the other hand, the Meng people may not be how poor their combat effectiveness is, their defeat is mainly due to their own king's lack of strength, first fell into the divisive plan to destroy the Great Wall, and then was caught by Mang Yinglong in the rush to escape and directly "beheaded".

For the Mon people, this is a bit of a "non-war crime", and later the Mon people even restored for a period of time after the death of Mang Ruiti. As for the rebellions in other periods, they were even more up-and-forth, and they did not stop at all, which can also prove from the side that the Mon people were not convinced.

Gao Silian has basically figured out the old things of the past few days, and also understands the revenge mentality of the Meng soldiers, but he still rejected the request of the Meng soldiers to come to ask for war when the Mang Yingli army just left.

It's not that he refuses to fight, but he has to wait a little, at least to make sure that the main force of the Burmese army has indeed gone far away, so that he can go out of the city to fight. Otherwise, what if this is a deception, just to lure his main force out of the city?

Taking advantage of the fact that there were only 10,000 Burmese troops left, and the so-called "siege" was full of loopholes, Gao Silian selected the elite to go out of the city to investigate the news, and after another day and night, it was finally determined that the main force of the Burmese army had indeed returned north, and it was also in a hurry, and it was estimated that it had gone nearly 100 miles at this time.

Gao Silian did not hesitate any longer, and even ignored the fact that it was already afternoon, temporarily reorganized the army, gathered all the more than 100 middle- and lower-level officers from the Gao family into the 10,000 new army, and then personally led this army of 10,000 people out of the city to fight.

10,000 recruits against 10,000 elites, this is a bold move, but Gao Silian is bold and delicate.

He did not attack from all sides, but first sent people to make a big noise in Nancheng, making the illusion that he was going to lead the army to break through and escape. When the Burmese army began to nervously concentrate troops and horses in the southern city, and the troops at the city gates began to relax due to temporary transfers, Gao Silian suddenly led the army straight out of the north gate.

The Burmese army in Beicheng was only about 2,000 at this time, and seeing the army in the city come out, the Burmese army urgently called for help, and it was wolf smoke and drums, while concentrating soldiers and horses, preparing to have a hard fight with this "not knowing whether to live or die" Mon recruits.

This self-confidence that has been cultivated for a long time has long since turned into conceit, and this conceit has completely buried them.

For this battle, Gao Silian, who was bold enough, concentrated 2,500 of the 3,000 Wanli 1-type muskets left by Huang Zhiting in the army, and the firepower density on the city tower had been reduced to a minimum.

And the 2,500 strokes of Wanli played the greatest role under the conceited attack of the Burmese army.

Gao Silian used one of his tricks when he opened up Huaying: the front row held spears as a camouflage, and when the enemy launched a charge at a relatively close distance, he suddenly ordered the soldiers in the front row to insert spears and squat (the knives in the bayonet formation were replaced with spears), and the back row immediately began to shoot in a standard three-stage attack.

No matter how the Burmese army claims to be the elite of a hundred battles, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than a cold-weapon army, and the hot weapon troops they have seen are also Portuguese mercenaries, but the number of Portuguese mercenaries is too small, and the scene of "queuing up to shoot" is not so scary, so this Burmese army has no idea how terrifying the large-scale queuing is to be shot.

A fiasco was booked.

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