Chapter 85: Struggle

Chen Mu didn't know that the one who ambushed him in the paddy fields and forests in the southwest of Baigu City was Mang Yinglong's son Mang Yingli.

Mang Yingli, Jiajing was born in the fourteenth year, although he seems to be a generation younger than Chen Mu, but he is actually older than him, and he is forty years old this year.

When the Burmese prince learned from the Portuguese that the Ming army had landed in Rangoon, he was following the orders of his father who had gone north to unify Burma, instructing the people in Baigu to inscribe Buddhist scriptures and preside over the delivery of goods to the conquered northern state of Siam, which had no pagodas, but they could not do without them.

The little prince led the army to defeat the Ming army, and the people greeted each other in the middle of the road, and led the army back to the city to repay the wish to Brahma.

Although there were hundreds of more soldiers in his subordinates who were bitten by leeches and their calves and ankles were bloody, Mang Yingli didn't care, those soldiers themselves didn't care, what did he care about?

"The Ming army is nothing more than this, seeing our formation from afar, they don't even dare to fight back back, even if there are many such enemies, they will definitely be defeated if they don't have the courage."

After repaying the vows in front of the golden pagoda in the middle of the white ancient city, Mang Yingli climbed up the tall and iron-clad war elephant, which is a precious white elephant, the ivory is inlaid with copper gold veined tooth thorns, like two spears, majestic.

"Take the gold and the orb and send it to the pagoda built in Siam to pray for my father's blessing."

Mang Yingli knew what his father was doing, and their power came from the support of Buddhism, and how much support Buddhism could do depended on whether they could unify Burma, "When the war in the north is over, my father will become an emperor like Anuradha in ancient times, and people will henceforth say that he is the Ashoka of Burma!" ”

The footsteps of the war elephant are booming, behind the white elephant, there is another gray elephant in armor, the elephant sits on the back of the building and sits a man in a green shirt, the posture is wanton, the sword is leaning on the side, wearing a net scarf and shaking the folding fan in his hand.

The sword is a battlefield style, the flat-headed cloud sword block, the human face three-eared sword head, the blade is a thick prismatic heavy blade with sharp chopping, and the sword is full of Central Plains style.

The fan is a black bamboo bone, which is the most popular folding fan style in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people love the golden fan.

The art of folding the fan, the earliest is the most precious fan flowing into North Korea, and later it is the love of the Japanese flow of gold, gold black bamboo bone fan, as for the person in the hand of the gold black bamboo fracture fan, is nearly a hundred years, the Ming craftsmen to take the Koreans, the Japanese gold, the method of pasting gold, combined with the local gold, gold, sprinkling gold technology, the integration of the original work, deeply loved by the literati and ink writers.

The owner of the gray elephant who was half a step behind was named Chen An, who had long been a county official in Guangxi, sold weapons into Burma privately, befriended local officials, and later became a local official, and later the incident caused him to die in Burma.

"Yan Guichen is just a first-class person in the entertainment field, although he has a bit of fame, but because of luck, he doesn't seem to have any ability without the giant ship artillery he relies on." Chen An closed the golden fan, put his big sleeve arm on the edge of the window of the elephant tower and said to Mang Yingli: "The Nanyang Army's early strength was only by relying on a few warships from the Portuguese and imitating them, so that it could dominate the four seas in recent days. ”

"I said earlier, as long as you stick to the coastal city of Baigu and stop his sea boats, you won't be able to turn over any waves on land."

"What is really worrying is Yu Dayou and Liu Xian in the north, that is the real battlefield veterans, and they can't be despised lightly."

The weather in Myanmar is very hot, Chen An said and saw a few steps away from the people kneeling to hold the fruit plate, so he patted the elephant tower on the right, and whispered a few words to the warriors and servants who followed on foot on the ground, and then said to Mang Yingli: "Blocking the Ming army in the north, the king's hegemony is only Arakan in the west, they are rampant on the sea, I can't stop it, the prince can learn from that Yan Gui Chen." ”

Chen An's entourage has Ming and Japanese, but now most of them are dressed as Burmese warriors, and they are ordered to bring fruit plates, and first serve them to the white elephant Mang Yingli, Mang Yingli does not need it, wave his hand to give the fruit back to Chen An, leaned slightly and asked: "Mr. said to learn Chen Mu, how to learn?" ”

"Chen Mu may not have much ability to fight, but other wealth, tools, armaments, and tuntian are all superb. Most of the people in the country thought that the Nanyang military government was so strong because its governor Chen Mu was flattering and meritorious when he met the emperor in the north, but this was not the case. ”

Referring to the family of the Nanyang Military Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, Chen An seemed to have endless words, and said with a chuckle: "The strength of the Nanyang Military Mansion was laid as early as when he was a thousand households in Xiangshan, opened a shipyard, and established an ordnance bureau, so it was only in a few years that the military government dominated Nanyang. Don't you want the little prince to be mentioned in the future as the strength of Burma and the prince of today? ”

This is very good for Mang Yingli's appetite, if it weren't for the iron armor on his body, Mang Yingli would almost turn over on the small building in Xiangbei, he said: "I want to hear it in detail." ”

"In the Celestial Empire, the Portuguese firearms were called guns, they called them muskets, and large ship artillery, it is true that even if Burma conquered Arakan, its national strength was far from that of the Ming Dynasty, and it was difficult to compete with the Celestial Empire. But there are big benefits, small and small are powerful, even if everyone knows the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty, but it can only be like a giant itching, difficult to get rid of the root, Myanmar is different. ”

It is difficult for Chen An not to bring the self-esteem and arrogance of the Heavenly Empire in his words, but this will make Mang Yingli feel unhappy, fortunately, he is not a young and vigorous child, he just laughed and said, "I, the King of Burma, Anuradha King, also sent 72 million troops to attack and trap Dali, if the Celestial Empire is really as good as Mr. said, why didn't Your Excellency defect to Chen Mu, and why did you come to Burma?" ”

Mang Yingli's words of 72 million troops were laughed by Chen An, if this land can really support so many troops, why is it that Mang Yingli has only managed to raise 200,000 people now?

"That's exactly what I'm going to say about small countries, and the power of villains." When it came to the villain, Chen An tapped his chest with a folding fan, and said: "Heroes crisscross the four seas and even eight wildernesses, and they have the responsibility of being loyal to the monarch and serving the country. ”

"The Celestial Empire can make me live better, of course I will be in Daming, but this is not a smuggler of weapons, a dead end back to Daming, fleeing to Myanmar but having to meet Allah." He patted the gently swaying war elephant and chuckled: "Burma is prosperous, and the contemptible people also have the posture of being knighted, isn't this easier than surviving in the death of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Chen Mu has been training in Guangzhou for nine years, but the Ming Dynasty has many constraints, Burma is much bigger than Guangzhou, and there is no constraint under the prince, and it only takes two years to train and build ships wholeheartedly, cast cannons and forge guns."

Chen An pointed the tip of his right hand at himself, raised two fingers with his left hand to look at Mang Yingli, and said: "In just two years, Myanmar should have a tiger and wolf army that is not weak in Guangdong!" ”

Just as Chen An was looking forward to his own pride, a low sound of a horn was heard in the distance, and the city was in a panic, and the faces of the two people on the war elephant changed greatly.

This is a sign that the coastal fortress is encountering an enemy!