Ahmudan is a unique military-civilian system in Myanmar's history. The so-called Ahmudan was actually a serf who served directly to the king.

Everything owned by the king of these serfs and often existed in the form of villages, where they were responsible for farming, ordnance, and military training.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty's tuntian system, these serfs were strictly controlled, and each of them had to have a tattoo on their foreheads to symbolize that they were members of the Ahmudan organization, and these people must be Ahmudan for life, except for this status, they could not even be slaves of ordinary rich families.

And once a member of Ahmudan defects or retreats, not only his family will be punished, but even the entire village will be severely punished.

They are like worker bees, there is no other way out of life except to work for the queen bee and defend the queen.

And once they defect, because they have tattoos on their foreheads, they have nothing to hide - know that anyone who dares to shelter members of Ahmudan will also commit a felony.

So they had no choice, and when the king asked them to fire at the Ming army and show the Ming army their determination to resist, they had to be this cannon fodder.

And they also successfully became cannon fodder.

With almost no effort, the Ming army sank or seriously damaged all of the more than 30 warships without moving.

The sea was littered with broken planks, dead bodies, and cave people struggling in the cold water.

Qin Shuhuai made an order that many people couldn't understand, that is, let the boat save people.

The reason why he did this was of course not out of pity or the like, after so many battles, Qin Shuhuai had already understood what the end of being merciful to the enemy was.

The reason why he did this was to use these people as advertisements to facilitate the future battle and see if he could shake the military spirit of the Ahmudan organization.

From Qin Shuhuai's logic, the Ahmudan organization is a serf organization under the coercion of the king, if the slogan of overthrowing the king's serf liberation is shouted, will these people be touched?

Do you want to give you freedom? Do you want to stop working for the king for free? Do you want to cancel your tattoos and give you back your dignity as a human being?

Well, Qin Shuhuai doesn't know if this system, which has been in place for hundreds of years, will collapse or be shaken because of himself, but he always feels that he has given these poor people a chance anyway, if they have to give their masters their lives, and if they have to feel that their masters feel very happy even if they are so cruelly oppressed them, then they can't help it.

There are always people who like to lick dogs, and it's the same in any time and space.

The Ming army quickly carried out the rescue, and delayed for half an hour in order to save these Dongwu people who fell into the water.

Of course, the Dongwu people who were rescued were all tied hand and foot and gathered together.

The fleet continued on its way, destroying several batteries at the entrance to the Irrawaddy River, and then marched unhindered towards Daguang as if it were no one.

Forty miles was a short road for a waterway, and before two o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet arrived at Daguang Harbor.

At this time, King Talong must have sent reinforcements to Daguang, but it is impossible to know how much.

Qin Shuhuai remembers very well that during the Talon era, the total population of Myanmar was about three million, but the main source of the empire's strength was still in the Ahmudan organization.

Except for the Ahmudan organization, ordinary Dongwu merchants, wealthy people, and relatives of the elite were all not soldiers. In the event of a major war, it is likely that another kind of serf, the rich and elite serfs, the "Atai", will also join the army, but this kind of soldier has little combat effectiveness because they are not usually very trained.

Judging from the information during the reign of King Talong, there were only about 100,000 young and middle-aged people in the Ahmudan organization in Dongwu at that time, which was the elite of the descendants in the hands of King Talong.

In other words, Qin Shuhuai estimated that the elite in the hands of King Ta Long should not exceed 100,000, which already included the forbidden army - the forbidden army was just a kind of Ahmudan with a high status.

In the face of the attack of the Ming army, King Ta Long had to deploy defenses in the north to prevent the Ming army from attacking from Yunnan and other places, and on the other hand, he had to deploy defenses in the south, and this defense line was very long - except for Qin Shuhuai's army, King Ta Long easily thought that the Ming army would send another army through Siam.

Therefore, the forces that King Talong can deploy in Daguang are actually very limited.

And in Qin Shuhuai's hands, in addition to the 3,000 people stationed in Manraka, there are 17,000 elites.

After the fleet arrived at Daguang Harbor, it made a slight adjustment and began to bombard it in less than four minutes.

It was still the old rule, the battleship's Hongyi cannon was the first to strike, and other small and medium-sized ships were loitering around the perimeter to be on guard.

Daguang Port was still a big port at this time, and the port was only equipped with more than 20 forts, a total of 70 or 80 shore defense guns. However, the problem is that these seventy or eighty coastal defense guns are all self-made earthen cannons made by Ahmudan, and their firing range is completely incomparable with that of the Hongyi cannons, so they can only be beaten.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that in the east at that time, if there was no Qin Shuhuai's appearance, even the relatively strongest Ming would only have a dozen Hongyi cannons, all of which were arranged in the most important Ningjin defense line, so it was naturally impossible for other small countries to mass-produce this latest cannon.

Of course, it can't be said that Dongwu didn't have it at all, because the British arrived in Dongwu very early, and they also sold some new cannons to Dongwu before, but this kind of cannon is very expensive, and there is no place to repair it if it is broken, so Dongwu only purchased a very small quantity, and most of them are equipped near the capital.

All in all, this was another artillery battle in which the Ming army opened fire and Dong Ugan stood and was beaten.

The seventy or eighty coastal defense guns, which were virtually useless, were completely muted after only half an hour of resistance under the frantic blows of the seventy or eighty battleships of the Ming army.

After clearing the shore defense artillery, the Ming battleships moved closer to the shore and then bombarded the land.

The layout of Daguang Port is a common port layout in the Age of Discovery. Near the shore are a large number of wharves, storage yards, as well as pergolas for resting and eating, wine shops and other supporting buildings, which are generally distributed less than two miles from the shore to facilitate the crew to quickly unload and rest.

And further in, about three or four miles from the shore, there is a city - Daguang City.

There was a garrison in the city, an administrative body that kept the docks running, and the supreme governor of the city, a position called Wen Mu in Dong U. In addition, there are also a large number of restaurants, inns, green buildings, etc. in the city, and the grade is naturally higher than those in the wharf.

And almost all of these places are within the range of the Hongyi cannon.

When all the shore defense artillery was destroyed by the Ming fleet, there were no more black soldiers in the visible sight.

The Dongwu soldiers are not stupid, they can't reach the Ming fleet on land, isn't they looking for a fight at this time?

The Ming army also had no intention of completely destroying Daguang Port, so it did not bombard the port facilities on the shore, but immediately let all kinds of military ships dock and swaggered to send the army to land.

In addition to the necessary sailors and gunners, about 17,000 men of the army were all landed in just half an hour, ready to go.

Qin Shuhuai did not underestimate the combat effectiveness of Dongwu, after all, historically, the current Dongwu is in a strong period, and this battle may not be easy. So he also got off the ship and landed with the army, ready to participate in this battle himself.

After the landing of the army, the first thing to occupy is naturally Daguang City.

However, the Ming army did not set off in a hurry, but waited on the shore for a while.

After about a quarter of an hour, I finally saw more than a dozen men dressed as Dongwu Shan people coming from somewhere, and they ran in a hurry, and when they saw the Ming soldiers, they said that they wanted to see Lord Qin, the Duke of Anguo.