In the roar of the cannonballs, Chen Erye counted the days with his fingers, and felt that he was not far from the days when his wife and children would be hot on the kang.

That is, before and after the three-eyed gun at sea.

Burma's largest city had been under siege for seven days, in fact it had already been breached once on the first day and twice in the next six days.

However, in the end, this is the capital of Burma, and the strong walls and clear fields in Mangyingli have done a remarkable job, and the artillery is current, and breaking through the city has become the most difficult problem in the war for Chen Mu.

On the first night of the battle, Shao Tingda, Huang Dexiang, and Lou Qimai led all parts of the army to break the Burmese ambush, chased the enemy all the way to the city, and blew open a heavy gate with gunpowder.

However, because Shao Tingda charged ahead, he was shot in the head by the enemy defending the city, so that the helmet knocked out, and the enemy deliberately captured this big bald head without a helmet, and before he could bring it back to the double gate, he was robbed out of the city by the family, and the left and right parts of the vanguard army withdrew from the city.

The second city was broken in the early morning of the next day, Lou Qimai's subordinates saw that the Burmese army was trying to rest the city gate, and a hundred households led troops to kill it, thus starting the second siege battle.

This time with the experience of the first night, the Ming army rushed to the cloud ladder, the city under the city to attack together, the city also entered the urn city, the city because they did not have many troops, failed to pull out the city, Huang Dexiang was worried that after the city was broken, heavy losses, so Ming Jin collected troops and waited for reinforcements in the rear.

When Chen Mu led the army and baggage to arrive in the evening of the next day, he did not rush to attack, and used a few days of swaggering siege to break the enemy's fighting spirit, because the three-eyed gun had already been loaded with ammunition.

Chen Mu was in the south, Deng Zilong was in the southeast, and Bai Yuanjie was in the west, and the three soldiers and horses did not enter the army, and from time to time they bombarded the defenders at the head of the city with the artillery of the general's headquarters, so frightened that the Burmese army did not dare to fire crossbows under the city.

At the beginning, the defenders' fighting spirit was very strong, and seeing that the Ming army was encamped, they concentrated on mobilizing all kinds of artillery, no matter whether they could hit so far or not, they had to bombard.

But as soon as they bombarded, it didn't matter who it was Chen Mu or who, not to mention the regular two-catty cannon of the Qianhu Department, the three main generals not only had the Zhenshuo general cannon of the command department, but also a few ten-catty cannons.

Every time the artillery fire on the city rang out, no matter where the defenders bombarded the city, regardless of whether their shells were effective or not, no more than half a cup of tea, more shells flew from the city to the city, and even the women's wall was shattered.

The artillery of the Ming army was more accurate, and the range of the existing artillery did not exceed the visual range, and the Ming artillery was the most accurate artillery.

The same gun mold and the same drilling machine ensure the caliber of the artillery to the greatest extent, and in terms of accuracy, no artillery in the world can surpass them within a thousand steps.

What's more, there is also the beginning of the beginning of the artillery popularization education, of course, this point is precisely the shortcomings of the Ming army's artillery.

Chen Mu thinks that their artillery education is still relatively bad, and regular artillery should come out of the lecture hall, but now there are too few academies, and it is too condescending to use officers to fire artillery.

Even so, in just two days, the Bai Gu defenders were forcibly educated by the Ming army with a larger caliber - although Chen Mu didn't know whether their artillery was damaged, or the artillery was killed, or they were completely scared.

In short, there was no artillery in the city, even if the Ming army occasionally bombarded the city, the head of the white ancient city was silent except for screaming, and even after four days of shelling, the defenders of the city seemed to be numb to their shelling.

No one spoke up at all.

Believing in the Buddha and seeking the afterlife may be a great advantage, and they are more likely to accept their fate than others.

Just when Chen Mu thought that his combat intention had been achieved, he received a message from Lin Manjue, the guerrilla leader in the northern part of Baigucheng.

After Lin Manjue divided his troops to guard the main roads, scattered his hands in the dense forest, and intercepted and killed the Burmese army more than a dozen times in a few days to send scouts to the north, a large number of Baigu people left the city from the north and fled northward, blocking the official roads, and even crossing the jungle - he couldn't stop it.

"Mang Yingli is planning to defend the city to the death, he is a smart man."

Chen Mu said this, he confirmed that Mang Yingli's move was particularly ruthless, he determined that the blockade ability of the elite Ming army in the north was far beyond his imagination from the situation when the scouts were intercepted and killed, and he couldn't give up his father's Baigu Capital City, so he had to come up with such a way.

He forced the people to the north, and the Ming army could intercept and kill one scout after another, but it was impossible to kill all the people, let alone stay.

Hundreds of thousands of people, if the Ming army wants to keep these people, not to mention how much strength and energy they will pay, just to feed this group of people, three days can eat half a month's rations of the Ming army, and before the battle is over, the Ming army will be eaten and retreated.

And the most important thing is that this can achieve the strategic goal of Mang Yingli, and send the news of the Ming army's siege of Baigu to his father Mang Yinglong.

There is no need to know the details, these people generally know what they should know, and what the people don't know, even if they tell Mang Yinglong, there is no change in essence.

Mang Yingli's question now is only whether his father will return to Baigu, and if he does, everything will be fine; If not, Bai Gu will have to fend for himself.

There were no other results.

"It's ruthless, think about it, Mang Yingli is in the city, what will he do?"

The reckless worm who had slept for several days with a swollen head shouted that he wanted to attack the city first, but Chen Mu didn't want to attack, he said: "I think that when Mang Yingli drove the people out of the city, he should have sent troops to get all the grain and grass that could be collected from house to house, and since the vanguard army broke his army, he has not opened the city gate since that night." ”

"How many heads have been killed by the vanguard army, how many corpses have been killed outside the city, the three or four thousand people have not returned to the city, they have broken up to the north and become a chaotic army, and there should not be many soldiers in Mang Yingli's hands now." Chen Mu raised his hand in the tent and pointed to the Burmese fortified city in the north and said, "What he can rely on is nothing more than this." ”

"We need military rations, he drove the people out of the city just to send the news to the north, in order to get more reinforcements, Baigu to the north, at least 1,100 miles to reach the Mang Yinglong Tun camp, the news was sent over, Mang Yinglong rushed to help and it would take another 1,100 li, Mang Yingli had to hold on for a long time, and he also needed military food."

"Baigu used to be the royal city of the Meng people, the Mang clan occupied the magpie's nest, and the people here were not loyal enough to him, and now he drove the people in the city to the north, although this is beneficial to the war for a while, but it is not a bad thing for the Ming Dynasty to lose the hearts of the people of the Mang clan in Myanmar."

"In that case, why don't we give him this opportunity and let him raise military rations for us." Chen Mu raised his two points in the direction of Bai Gucheng and said: "I will break through the city just around the corner, let him live for three more days, and after three days, the three armies will bombard together, open the city, and chase the dead to the north!" ”

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