Chapter 280: Surprises
If the chaos and decline in morale caused by the ambush can be reversed by the command and call of a strong general, and even serious energy and physical overdraft can be temporarily overcome by the mentality of "die if you don't fight", then the reckless death of the crown prince completely makes it impossible for the Burmese army to turn over.
The crown prince has been bombed into a hornet's nest, and this battle still has to be fought?
The role of the core figures in the war in the cold weapon era is far from being comparable to the situation in the high-tech warfare of later generations, so the reckless machine has just fallen, and the more than 10,000 Burmese troops who have begun to collapse before are like an avalanche, collapsing as a whole in just a moment.
The soldiers can't care about the generals, and the generals can't find the soldiers, and everything is completely messed up. It is too much praise to say that the wolf is running and the pig is rushing, and the Burmese army is now simply more than 10,000 headless flies running in all directions, and any establishment and system have disappeared without a trace at this moment.
The biggest problem of the Ming army, or the Jingang garrison, was also exposed, that is, their main infantry army could not launch a full-scale counteroffensive or wantonly advance to expand the results of the battle at such a time, and could only rely on the only 500 cavalry to harvest their lives, or force the Burmese army to surrender.
The problem is that although the Burmese army collapsed, the loss of personnel was actually not very large, and at this moment, including their own accidental deaths such as stampede, this failed Burmese army still had more than 10,000 men, and it was obvious that they could not be left with 500 cavalry alone.
Fortunately, at this time, the wolf soldiers in the rear also rushed over with the main force of Mang Yingli, and from the perspective of the situation, it seems that the garrison army and wolf soldiers with only about 15,000 people together intercepted the Burmese army of more than 50,000 people in front and rear, and the scene was extremely strange.
Fortunately, the 50,000-odd Burmese troops were like cotton under two hammers, which could not only shrink in the middle, but also swell to both sidesβmany people ran to both sides when they saw that the situation was not good. However, to the east is the Siddang River, and most of the Burmese troops who do not know how to water will subconsciously run towards the east, but will run wildly to the west.
To the west were a series of small hills, and they thought that as long as they climbed over the hills, the Ming army would not chase them again, and even Mang Yingli himself thought so.
Mang Yingli has given up the golden building white elephant that symbolizes his supremacy, and now he is riding on the war horse of the sentry troops, and the luxurious gold armor he was wearing has long been given to a personal guard who is extremely similar to him.
In the past, when Cao Mengde was forced by Ma Chao to cut his beard and abandon his robe, he probably wouldn't be more depressed than today's Reckless Yingli.
When rushing up the hill with more than 200 sentry cavalry and a group of defeated soldiers, Mang Yingli looked back at the two Ming armies in front and behind who were about to encircle and begin to force the Burmese army to kneel and disarm, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Then he heard the sound of a group of people around him suddenly gasping in unison.
He hurriedly looked ahead, but saw that a Ming army of about 5,000 people had already set up a strong position under the small hill, and what made him chill the most was that there were a few lines of words flying on the big sticks of this Ming army.
"Annam Commander Huang", "Chief Officer of the Burma Expeditionary Force", "Commander of the Yuedong Town Guard Huang", "Qinfeng Sanpin Decree Lady Huang".
Mang Yingli actually didn't finish reading it, because there was no need to read anything else, as long as he saw the words "Chief Officer of the Burma Expeditionary Force", the identity of the person who came had already been clearly clarified: this is the chief general of the Ming Army on the Southern Front......
Mang Yingli only felt that his eyes were dark, and the whole person seemed to be drained of his strength, if it weren't for the humble Miao next to him who saw the opportunity quickly and grabbed him, this Golden Mansion White Elephant King almost fell off his horse directly.
"Don't be surprised, we still have a chance." Bei Miaohou hurriedly whispered.
"Still a chance?" Mang Yingli seemed to grasp the last straw, and hurriedly asked, "What opportunity?" β
Bei Miu Hou lowered his voice: "Under the rush of the chaotic army, let's take advantage of the chaos to rush to the city......"
Mang Yingli immediately understood, and the person suddenly became energetic, suddenly straightened his chest, pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "Sons, there are not many enemy troops, we should rush out instead of waiting for death, there is still a chance of life - kill!" β
The large number of deserters who fled around him were already weak when they saw the Ming army lining up to meet them just now, but when they heard this, they suddenly "understood".
That's right, the number of people on the other side is not large, why don't we rush over?
So one by one, they suddenly became excited, tried their last strength, and suddenly launched a charge forward.
Huang Zhiting, who was supervising the battle in Ruan Songzhong's army, snorted coldly when he saw this, and Sen Ran ordered: "The archers fire two volleys, and the whole army will countercharge, I will completely crush their fighting spirit!" β
Ruan Song loudly agreed, and ordered in a loud voice: "There is an order for all the archers: the archers fire two volleys!" β
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Two waves of arrows rained down one or two hundred lives in front of them, as well as many more wounded.
Ruan Song himself was fully clothed, clamped the horse's belly, and shouted angrily: "Yanzhou Wei, kill with me!" As he spoke, he rushed out.
Although this Ruan Ti's favorite general was a low-key place in the expeditionary force on this trip, he was really not easy to match, and he took the initiative to take the lead in the charge.
At this time, Mang Yingli and the others had already quietly pulled the horse's head and ran diagonally towards the right front, not clapping with Ruan Song at all. But the deserters had not noticed this, and still mustered up the courage to rush forward.
A fresh army and a chaotic soldier whose physical strength is almost collapsed, how can the difference in combat effectiveness be multiplied? It didn't take much effort for Nguyen Song to forcibly disperse the enemy in front of him, and most of the dead and wounded of the Burmese deserters were killed and wounded, and most of the rest were paralyzed on the ground, with more air out and less air in.
"Kneel on the ground and abandon your weapons, surrender and avoid death!"
"Kneel on the ground and abandon your weapons, surrender and avoid death!"
The Burmese army, which had about 20,000 people who had collapsed physically and mentally, finally couldn't stand it, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and let the Ming army slaughter them and didn't bother to move more.
Huang Zhiting nodded with satisfaction, and asked Ruan Song, who came back from his reflex, "Have you found any traces of reckless thieves?" β
Ruan Song shook his head, pointed at a group of soldiers escorting several white elephants over, and said with a worried face: "I found the white elephant of the reckless thief and the 'golden building', but the reckless thief himself may have escaped, his golden armor is worn on a personal guard, and the people have been arrested, do they all want to interrogate?" β
Huang Zhiting turned his head suddenly, looked at the more than 100 riding Burmese soldiers who had escaped from the distance, and stomped his feet hatefully and said: "Thousands of calculations, I actually gave him a golden cicada shell!" β
There is no chase, the Jingang garrison relies on Gao Pragmatic, the owner, and there are still 500 horses, and Ruan Song's Yanzhou guard here can't even ride a hundred, thank God for being able to do the errand of exploring horses, and there is no point in catching up with people. After all, although the opponent's cavalry is also small, it will definitely defend itself to the death.
Huang Zhiting now also began to feel that Gao Shipra's idea of always cultivating new horse breeds is really necessary, this year to defeat the enemy may only need infantry and artillery, but if you want to take advantage of the situation to fight a total annihilation level victory, it is really difficult without cavalry, especially when the number of troops is still less than the opponent.
Both battlefields began to enter the stage of "surrender", which did not need Huang Zhiting's personal command, and she began to think about what to do next.
But before she could think about it, Gao Sijin had already hurriedly come to report the good news: the Jingang garrison had determined that they had killed the Burmese crown prince in the battle just now!
Huang Zhiting was also a little surprised when he heard it, although he did not achieve the plan of total annihilation, he finally got a weighty first level!
She immediately praised Gao Sijin in public, and Gao Sijin was so happy that his face was red. At this time, the yellow leopard also came, and his harvest was not small, although he did not have such a large amount of income as Mangji, but he also caught a few lords and generals, and there must be dozens of them.
Huang Zhiting finally smiled, the Burmese army's defeat is really miserable, although it can't be regarded as a total annihilation because of Mang Yingli's escape, but the main force of the Burmese army is basically completely folded here, and the middle and high-level of the army are afraid that they will also lose seventy or eighty percent.
However, as Huang Zhiting, who followed Gao Pragmatic to fight the whole battle of Annam, she will not get carried away now, because from Gao Pragmatic's experience back then, the most important thing at this time is to surrender prisoners of war, and this one even has to be placed on top of breaking Donghu City.
So Huang Zhiting didn't say a word, and immediately ordered the three major generals to take good care of the prisoners of war, give them half full, and publicize them in place - publicize the good of the Ming army and the bad of the reckless thieves; Follow the Ming army with a bright future, and follow the reckless thief to die...... Wait a minute.
In fact, she doesn't really care about the gains and losses of Donghu City, she really has no way to do it due to insufficient troops. After this battle, it is estimated that there are almost 50,000 prisoners, and she herself is only 20,000 people.
But by the next day, her worry was much less, because Gao Silian actually rushed over with 20,000 Bago garrisons, doubling the number of troops under her at once.
Gao Silian really has two brushes, and he actually led a group of recruits to completely defeat the besieging Burmese army! The results are also extremely dazzling: more than 1,700 people were killed on the spot, more than 5,600 were captured, and the rest were ...... escaped, there was no way, and there were few cavalry under Gao Silian, so he couldn't force it.
As soon as Gao Silian's 20,000 people arrived, Huang Zhiting's main force was liberated, because letting the Meng soldiers take care of the Burmese prisoners would not worry about people escaping or making trouble - the two sides have a deep blood feud, and they don't share the sky!
Gao Silian himself actually agreed with this arrangement, because he felt that it could deepen the hatred between the two races, and in turn make the new army under his command more bloody and brave.
I have to say that the mentality of those who engage in colonization is different. I heard that when this guy didn't become a refugee when he was a child, he also attended a private school for two years, but now he has lost the demeanor of a Confucian disciple at all, and he is bent on stirring up ethnic contradictions between the Burmese and Mongolian ethnic groups, so as to facilitate the future rule of the owner.
"The future rule of the owner", but no one has mentioned it to him, and Gao Pragmatic has never mentioned this kind of thing to his subordinates, all of them are the people below who "understand and understand", and Gao Silian resolutely holds this attitude.
In Gao Silian's view, the current Annan is neither surnamed Mo nor Zhu, it is surnamed Gao! In Annam, no one's words have the owner's words to work, "Mo" is the nominal name, "Zhu" is the nominal name, only "Gao" is its real surname.
If this is the case with Annam, why can't Myanmar be like this?
As for being loyal to the monarch and serving the country or something, Gao Silian has no such concept at all.
In his thinking, there are two simplest and most simple truths: first, my Gao Silian's life was saved by the owner, otherwise he would have starved to death in Weihui many years ago, so the owner is my reborn parents, and my life belongs to the owner; Second, the first thing the family is loyal to is the head of the family, and the owner is my head of the family, of course, I think about everything for the owner, which is the same in the entire Ming Dynasty. As for who the owner wants to be loyal to, what does it matter to me, I am a family member, can I control me?
Huang Zhiting's mobile forces were liberated, and immediately formed a siege of Donghu City again.
Unexpectedly, Tanma told her that during this day, the people in Donghu City seemed to be stupid, and they did not flee in a big way, and they did not know what was happening inside.
However, this question did not last long, to be exact, it was only less than two hours, and Huang Zhiting knew the answer.
The people of Donghu City had nowhere to flee......
Because, the city of Ava in the north surrendered.
This shocking news was not sent by the horse, but by a team of cavalry sent by Liu Ling's department, and although the whole thing sounded very dramatic, it was not strange when you thought about it.
The story of the matter is not particularly complicated, and it can be explained simply: the main general of Ava City is named Mang Meng, and this person is also the uncle of Mang Yingli, and he is knighted in the east.
Donghu is the royal capital of Burma, and Mangmeng can be named Donghuhou, and he is obviously one of the most important ministers in the period of Mang Yinglong, the first king of Burma. However, when the number one important minister in the period of the first king arrived, life may not be much better, which is a truth known to the world, and the situation of recklessness is basically similar.
Mang Yingli is extremely suspicious, and has been very wary of his uncles after ascending the throne, because the military system in Myanmar is actually relatively "primitive": Mang Yinglong was like a "chief scoop handle" back then, with outstanding prestige and the strongest troops, but several younger brothers also have their own military powers, among which Donghu Hou Mang Meng is the most.
Mang Meng didn't have much of a good impression of Mang Yingli back then, and he didn't support his succession very happily, but just accepted it silently. This made Mang Yingli very suspicious of his position, and he put Bei Miaohou by Mangmeng's side as a clamp all year round.
However, after the defeat of the previous northern front, Mang Yingli was anxious to go south to quell the rebellion, and did not want to share the credit for the counterinsurgency to Donghu Hou Mangmeng, so he let Mangmeng defend Ava.
Mang Yingli's thoughts at that time were actually very simple, he didn't think that Mang Meng would surrender to Da Ming, because in his opinion, even if Mang Meng was no longer reliable, but he was a Burmese royal family, Da Ming was so aggressive, obviously he was really angry, how could it be possible to surrender a Burmese royal family?
As a result, this matter was tragic, and Liu Xin persuaded her eldest brother to write a letter in person and invite Mang Meng to meet.
Liu Wei originally felt unreliable, but he couldn't stand his sister and had always been the brains of his old Liu family, so he finally complied.
So there was a dramatic scene: Liu Wei retreated ten miles first, and the two sides agreed to meet under the city, and each was not allowed to bring more than 20 guards.
As a result, when Mang Meng appeared at the agreed place with twenty guards as promised, he found that Liu Wei had only brought his sister, and the two siblings swaggered to see the chief general of the defenders of Ava City, Burmese Donghu.
Next, there is no need to go into details, Liu Wei is responsible for the aura, and Liu Xin is responsible for negotiation. Donghu Hou Mangmeng didn't know whether he was fooled and lame, or if he was already looking for a way out, in short, the two sides hit it off and reached an agreement on the spot - Mangmeng was a temporary uprising.
So he returned to the city recklessly, and nearly 40,000 Burmese troops held high the banner of righteousness and opened the city to welcome the great soldiers.
Ava City, the first male town in northern Myanmar, has changed its banner.
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