The Ming soldiers immediately brought one of them to Qin Shuhuai, and when the man saw Qin Shuhuai, he knelt down and said in good Chinese, "Ma Bo, the subordinate White Lotus Sect Cave Wu Branch Helmsman, pays a visit to the sect leader. ”

Qin Shuhuai was waiting for him.

This Ma Bo is a native of the Dong Wu Shan people, formerly known as Ma Bo, in order to better integrate in the Central Plains, he changed to Ma Bo.

Ma Bozu was a nobleman of the Ava Kingdom for several generations, and later the Ava Kingdom was defeated and annexed by Donghu, and the Ma Bo clan not only lost their inherent land but was also forced to incorporate into the "Atai".

The so-called "Atai" is the personal slave of the Donghu nobles, and Atai's status is lower than that of Ahmudan, because Ahmudan is the slave of the king, and the local government does not dare to oppress too much, but Atai is the private slave of the nobles, not to mention their property, that is, their lives are all nobles.

What's even more terrifying is that the identity of Atai must be hereditary, that is to say, the parents are Atai, and the children born must also be Atai, and there are almost no human rights.

Even King Talong stipulated that if Atai married a person who was not Atai and had a free status, then the person who married him or her must also become Atai.

This is clearly the rhythm that makes Atai not turn over, and how can Ma Bo, who was a nobleman in the past, be willing?

So under Hua Shen's arrangement, since he was taken to the headquarters of the White Lotus Sect in Tianjin, he has been desperately learning Chinese, hoping to get the help of the Ming Dynasty, and one day he can use the hands of the Ming army to kill back to Dongwu, not only to let a large number of enslaved Shan people like him regain their freedom, but also to overthrow the rule of King Ta Long and establish a new empire.

The ambitious Ma Bo is a microcosm of the countless Shan people at this moment, and this is what Qin Shuhuai wants to see.

Only such a person will help the Ming army unreservedly in this war, even at the cost of his life.

In addition to secretly organizing the uprising of the Dongwu people, Ma Bo and others also had an important task, which was to collect information about Dongwu.

Hua Shen has spent at least 100,000 taels of silver on them for a year or two, and now, the time has come to use them.

This is the best "leading party" that the Ming army can find now.

After having his identity carefully verified, Qin Shuhuai said to him, "Master Ma Helm, this battle depends on you to lead the way, don't let this seat down." ”

Ma Bo said excitedly, "My subordinates are willing to die for the Sect Master!" My subordinates only ask the Sect Master to send down divine punishment to destroy the tyrant of Ta Long and restore the freedom of our Shan people. ”

Qin Shuhuai said, "This seat has its own plan, and you should do your part." ”

"Subordinates obey!"

According to Ma Bo, there are 10,000 defenders in Daguang City, of which 7,000 are transferred from near the capital, and their combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

Among them, there were about 2,000 or so cavalry, all of whom were Ahmudan cavalry and were well-trained.

The most important feature of the Ahmudan organization is that each village is divided according to its functions in the army.

For example, this village is responsible for the production of cavalry, and the young and middle-aged people of the entire village are cavalry, and they raise their own war horses, make their own swords, and train their own horse formations, which have been hereditary for generations.

Another example is that this village is responsible for the production of shield soldiers, and the young and middle-aged people of the whole village are trained according to the training model of shield soldiers, and the men, women and children in the village usually produce the weapons that the shield soldiers need in addition to farming.

In this way, all the troops grow up in a strong training environment on weekdays, just as the son of a hunter is likely to hunt, and the quality of the cavalry from the cavalry village is generally not too bad - because their parents, grandparents, and even neighbors and friends will teach them how to fight on horseback.

Of course, there is also a disadvantage to this method, that is, the level of training in each village is different, and the training method is also different, so it is difficult to effectively unify command in large-scale operations.

For the Ming army, which came from afar by boat, the cavalry was indeed a big problem, because the capacity of the warships was limited, and the Ming army only brought a few dozen horses from the mainland - these horses were still used to pull artillery.

However, at the time of Manraka, the Ming army captured about 400 war horses, as well as excellent heavy armor. In view of the fact that many ships were empty after the deployment of 3,000 soldiers in Manchuria, Qin Shuhuai ordered the more than 400 war horses to be stuffed into the cabin, which was a bit of cavalry.

Now these four hundred well-equipped heavy cavalry are directly under Zhang Xiao, and all the cavalry are composed of demon sect soldiers and martial arts coalition troops who have experienced countless battles, and it can be said that they are super sharp knives in this 17,000 Ming army.

In addition, considering the reason for the lack of cavalry, Qin Shuhuai brought a full 6,000 pikemen this time, so that the anti-cavalry ability was also greatly enhanced.

Therefore, in the face of the other party's 2,000 cavalry, Qin Shuhuai was neither underestimated nor frightened, and the specific quality was only known after fighting.

Daguang City is only about three or four miles offshore, and if the army kills it immediately, it is estimated that it will be surrounded in two quarters of an hour.

However, Qin Shuhuai did not delay at all, and while ordering the army to stand by, he ordered the horse sentry to search the surroundings of Daguang City first - you must know that the surrounding area of this city is lush grass and trees, and there is a small mountain range, and this kind of place is the best place to ambush.

Within half an hour, spies reported back one after another.

Five miles north of Daguang City, traces of enemy cavalry were found, and judging from the hoof prints, there were no less than a thousand.

On a mountain range south of the city, fireworks were lit by Ming spies, two of them were red, indicating that there were no less than 2,000 ambushes there - but the spies did not return, apparently also discovered by the enemy and killed.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Qin Shuhuai decided to capture Daguang City before dark, because it was easier to be ambushed after dark.

Immediately, the battleships began to bombard the city of Great Light, laying the foundation for the army's offensive.

The army immediately set off for Daguang.

In response to the ambush in the mountains south of the city, Qin Shuhuai sent Li Jingting and Lai San'er to lead 3,000 people to block them, but ordered them not to take the initiative to attack, as long as they ambushed between the mountain range and Daguang City - if they didn't come out, they would confront each other, and they would fight when they came out.

For the cavalry in the north of the city, Qin Shuhuai sent 300 heavy cavalry plus 4,000 pikemen to wait in the north of the city. The road leading from the north to Daguang City is not wide, at most more than ten meters, even if the cavalry rushes from the place full of long grass and shrubs on both sides of the road, it is only seventy or eighty meters wide, and then there is a river on both sides, and it is impossible for cavalry to cross the river.

Therefore, 4,000 pikemen can form a horse rejection formation to block the opponent, while 300 heavy cavalry can wait for the opportunity as a mobile force.

The rest of the soldiers and horses took advantage of the situation to surround Daguang City - if the other party fell out of the city to fight in the field during the encirclement, it would be better.

The Dongwu defenders of Daguang City really didn't dare to go out of the city to meet the battle - the five or six hundred battleship guns were so fierce that they covered almost all the gates of Daguang City, in this case, if the Dongwu defenders dared to go out of the city, I am afraid that half of them would die before they came out.

After Qin Shuhuai's army successfully completed the outflanking of the periphery of Daguang City, the battleship's artillery fire was still raging.

To be honest, for targets three or four miles away, the Hongyi cannon is not very accurate.

But it's still within five miles, and the Hongyi cannon can hit a general area.

In addition, there were too many artillery, five or six hundred, and the shells were like raindrops, so the probability of accurately hitting the city walls and gates greatly increased.

The shelling continued for more than half an hour, and did not stop until it was dark.

The soldiers of the Ming army looked at the walls and gates of Daguang City at a distance of about a mile away from the city (they were afraid of being accidentally injured by artillery fire) about a mile away from the city, and they were immediately happy.

I saw that a large section of the city wall had collapsed, and the city gates were all crumbling, and there were many corpses of Dongwu people on the city wall, but there was not a single living person - some of them didn't know where to hide!

Battleship artillery, terrifying!

It's all been bombarded like this, and there's no reason not to be on it.

Zhang Xiao, who was in charge of the siege command, gave an order, and about 8,000 Ming troops immediately rushed into the city from all directions.