An army is marching through the mountains and dense forests outside the Hanlong Pass.

The number of this army was so great that standing in the middle of the ranks, looking forward and backward, there was no beginning or end in sight. With tens of thousands of men and horses, the front army has entered the Mubang walled city, and the rear army is still in Hanlong Pass.

Hanlong Pass was originally the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, and outside the pass was the territory of the Mubang Xuanwei Division. Before the rise of the Donghu Dynasty, the Mubang Xuanwei Division had always belonged to the Ming Dynasty. In the decades after the rise of the Donghu Dynasty, the Mubang Xuanwei Division began to oscillate between the Ming Dynasty and the Donghu Dynasty. When the Donghu Dynasty is strong, this land will be swallowed up, and when the Donghu Dynasty is weak, this land will become independent and dependent on the Ming Dynasty.

In the 34th year of Wanli, King Liangyuan (grandson of Emperor Mang Yinglong), who realized the second revival of the Taungoo Dynasty, unified Shangma (northern Burma) and once again brought Mubang under the rule of the Taungoo Dynasty.

In the original history, the Mubang Han clan Tusi, which had been inherited for more than 200 years, was completely destroyed after the fall of Mubang and never recovered.

However, now history has changed, when the Dashun army pacified Yunnan, the Han descendants of the Han clan who were exiled in China saw the strength of the Dashun army with their own eyes, so they gave birth to the idea of using the power of Dashun to restore Mubang. So as early as soon after Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, he led his people to serve under Li Dingguo, and became the captain of the elephant soldiers of the Dashun army - after entering Yunnan, the Dashun army also engaged in some elephant soldiers, although it was useless, but it looked very majestic! The soldiers and generals who control elephants are recruited locally in Yunnan, and Hunside has been playing with elephants since he was a child, and he is a master in this regard.

After Dashun pacified Yunnan, he continued to talk to Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng about Tu Burma - although the Han Tusi regime had been extinct for nearly 50 years, the influence of the Han family in Mubang still existed. You can help the Dashun court lead the way to attack Mubang! The Mubang Walled City is only three or four hundred miles away from Ava, the capital of the Donghu Dynasty, and with the help of the Han Tusi family to lead the way and raise grain and grass, it is not difficult to pass these three or four hundred miles of mountain roads.

And once through the Mubang Mountains, after conquering Awa, the capital of the Donghu Dynasty, it will be a good place for a horse and a flat river, and planting a little rice is three crops a year - the Donghu Dynasty can rise again several times, relying on a good place.

If Dashun can conquer the Ava Plain, there will be a way out in the future!

In history, the separatist dynasty centered on Sichuan did not have a long life! Liu Bei, Liu Adou, father and son, two generations of forty-three years of Shu Han is considered a long time. And people also have a cow like Zhuge Liang to assist!

Therefore, as soon as Li Laiheng, the prince of Dashun's Fujun, heard that he could plot against Burma, he immediately moved his mind - it has been almost ten years since Li Zicheng entered Sichuan! If "Shu Shun" can have the future of Shu Han, there will only be more than 30 years left. And Li Laiheng looked at Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, and they didn't look like Zhuge Liang!

And Da Ming has another Zhongxing hero, and he has beaten Daqing to death...... Looking at this situation, it is difficult to say whether there are thirty years of good life in the Dashun Dynasty!

When Li Laiheng didn't sit firmly on the "Shushun" prince, he was very envious of Liu Adou. But now, the more this prince of Fujun becomes, the more he tastes it! If you want to be an emperor in the future, it will definitely be more flavorful, how can you be willing to become the queen of the queen?

So since two years ago, he has advocated going south to Tumen, conquering Burma, and without Sichuan and Yunnan in the future, he can still be the emperor in Awa. It's hard to say whether the Great Shun Dynasty can last for a long time, but he won't worry about it in his life......

And his idea of expanding the land to the south to survive coincides with Li Dingguo.

It turned out that after Li Dingguo conquered Yunnan, he began to ponder the expansion to Burma. Because he was familiar with many small Tusi in Mubang in northern Burma in the process of pacifying Yunnan, through them, Li Dingguo learned that the armed forces of the Donghu Dynasty in Burma were quite weak - because of the recklessness of the three generations of kings of Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong, and Mang Yingli, the Donghu Dynasty suffered heavy losses, so after King Liangyuan and King Anabilon revived Donghu again, they changed their previous national policy and no longer pursued expansion, but lived their own small life.

The pace of the introduction of Western military technology by the Taungoo Dynasty was also due to the rebellion of Salen (Portuguese mercenary captain Philippe. Morality. Britto took advantage of the weakening of the Taungoo Dynasty to secede Salian and set himself up as king) and suspended.

Therefore, the force of the Donghu Dynasty, since decades ago, has been slowly declining. By now, it has changed from a strong country that was enough to fight against the Ming Dynasty to a weak state that Li Dingguo seemed vulnerable.

As for the suzerain-vassal relationship between Dashun and Donghu...... Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo don't care! Dashun is not the Great Ming Dynasty, they are originally rogues!

However, after deciding to go south to Tumien, the top management of Dashun still decided to use some stratagem to make victory easier. And Song Xiance, who can pinch and calculate, but is always inaccurate, offered a strategy of "striking north and attacking south".

The formation of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Kunming with great fanfare gave the Burmese the illusion that the Great Shun Dynasty was about to make a northern expedition to the Central Plains, and secretly contacted various small Tusi in Mubang and bribed them to act as a leading party.

On March 13, the seventh year of the reign of Dashun after the news of the restoration of the Qing Dynasty reached Kunming, the Northern Expeditionary Army of Dashun swore in Kunming for the Northern Expedition!

Then, under the leadership of the two commanders Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo, they secretly went south, went out of the Hanlong Pass, and with the help of Hunsted, they attacked the walled city of Mubang and opened the door to Ava, the capital of the Donghu Dynasty.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and Li Laiheng, who was leading the Chinese army brigade on the rugged mountain road in Mubang, saw dozens of horsemen galloping in front of him, and the two leading horsemen were Li Dingguo and Han Side.

"How?" Li Laiheng didn't wait for the war horse ridden by the two to stop in front of him, and asked loudly, "Has the vanguard crossed the Ava River?" ”

The Ava River is located in the south of the Mubang Walled City, and the river leads directly to the city of Ava, the capital of the Donghu Kingdom, and the river is wide, and the current is not too fast, so it can be navigated.

After taking Mubang, building boats and rafts on both sides of the Ava River, and then attacking Ava down the river, was part of the raid plan developed by Li Dingguo and Han Ste.

However, on the side of the Ava River, Dashun's Northern Expeditionary Army was blocked by an unknown number of troops of the Donghu Dynasty, and this Donghu army also had more than a dozen war elephants, which looked a bit powerful.

"Crossed the river!" Li Dingguo said with a smile, "The army of the Donghu people is vulnerable!" We set up artillery on the north bank of the Ava River and bombarded it a few times, and their elephants went crazy and rushed wildly, and our men took the opportunity to drive small boats to force the crossing, and a few hundred people killed them, and their thousands of people could not bear it. Completely collapsed, and told us to kill a corpse all over the field. ”

Harmed added: "This army should be the town garrison of the Taungoo State in Mubang, and it is the first class elite army in Toungoo. But that's it...... After all, Donghu has not fought a war for decades. Your Royal Highness the Prince, we should hurry up and march to take Ava City in one fell swoop before Mangdali and Mangbai gather an army! ”

The military basis of the Taungoo Dynasty was also the integration of soldiers and peasants, called Ahmudan, so there were also weaknesses such as slow mobilization and inability to withstand a long war. The main reason for the decline of the Donghu Dynasty was that Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong, and Mang Yingli overdrew the power of Ahmudan. In the past twenty or thirty years, the Donghu Dynasty almost no longer fought wars, which made Ahmudan sluggish and decaying, and after the defeat of a small number of standing armies, it was difficult for the Donghu Dynasty to organize a large number of Ahmudan troops in a short period of time.

That's why Raid Hunsted came up with a proposal to raid Ava!

"Not necessarily!" However, Li Laiheng rejected Hamsted's suggestion, "The army will rest and build warships in Mubang, and give Mangdali and Mangbai time to gather the army...... Now the more troops they have gathered, the more casualties they will have! There are many elites in my Dashun's Northern Expeditionary Army who have survived a hundred battles, and they are not those peasant soldiers who can resist. So let's kill more now! Kill him 108,000, so that the people of Donghu will no longer dare to oppose my Dashun Heavenly Dynasty! ”