Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1094 Was The Thieves Ready?

The army stretching for more than ten miles marched on the not-so-wide mountain road, and the symbols of the Golden House White Elephant King "Golden House" and "White Elephant" appeared in the front position of the army.

White elephants are easy to understand. They are white Asian elephants. This kind of elephant has existed since ancient times, but its proportion is rare. It is regarded as a treasure and sacred object in Myanmar, Siam, and even Annan.

However, Mang Yingli's father, Mang Yinglong, believed that he was not an ordinary person, so after he came to power, he became known as the "White Elephant King of the Golden House" and used the white elephant as his mount to become the Holy One.Mang Yingli inherited his father's throne and also his white elephant mount. The white elephants in this march were his mounts and spare mounts.

As for Jinlou, there are two theories.One is that it refers to the Ganbang Shadi Palace proposed by Mang Yinglong after the Toungoo Dynasty conquered Bagu (Mang Yinglong was not the king of Myanmar when the palace was built). This palace has seven halls, each of which is It is golden all over, and looks like a golden city from a distance.And its towering main hall seems to be the "golden building".

Another theory is traveling. After Mang Yinglong became known as the White Elephant King of Jinlou, he didn't just sit on the back of the white elephant, but put a special ride on the white elephant. Like a small building, it is also golden in color, extremely rich and majestic.

It's just that such a ride is a bit heavy after all, and even a white elephant can't carry it for a long time, so when traveling, at most every two hours must be replaced by another white elephant.

Wang Mangyingli, the second generation of the Golden House White Elephant, is now sitting on the "Golden House White Elephant", leading his army slowly heading south.More than [-] troops surrounded him, and there was even a beautiful woman sitting beside him, I don't know if it was a concubine or something, she was holding a jade cup and feeding him wine.

But Mang Yingli just took a sip with no expression on his face, then waved his hand and pushed away, signaling the beautiful woman to transfer.The woman curled up and knelt down to him, almost lying on her side (see former Thai female prime minister Yingluck meeting the Thai princess).

Mang Yingli raised his right foot, lifted the woman's chin with the toe of her boot, said something, the woman showed a flattering smile, knelt and stepped back, the whole figure was like a twisting but backward walking snake.

In the forest on the mountain, Liu Xin, who was hiding behind a tree with her waist down, let out a cold snort.

Liu Ting couldn't help but said behind another tree next to her: "This mang chief is living a good life. I have lived for more than 20 years of my mother's life, and this is the first time I have seen such etiquette."

Liu Xin squinted at him: "You want to try too?"

"This... Forget it, I think it will be overstepped." Liu Ting smiled dryly, and then asked: "Is it time to start? He will go a little further, and it will be inconvenient for me to catch him personally. "

Liu Xin shook her head directly: "No, if we activate it now, the ambushing artillery and steel wheel fire mines will not be able to fully exert their power, which will affect the effect of annihilating the enemy. When the time comes, the senior high school will blame you. How do you answer, brother? He made it very clear. Reckless The number of people here is not important, what is important is to try to annihilate the main force of the Burmese army and weaken Burma's war potential."

Liu Ting replied: "Of course I remember the words of Senior High School Cheng, but when I saw the mang thief's posture, I remembered one thing - we planted so many mines, if we blow up his golden building and white elephant, we will be destroyed." There are only two rare items missing."

But Liu Xin shook her head and said, "You still have the heart to think about this at this time? Inviting credit and rewarding this kind of thing, big brother can put 1 hearts at ease, and just leave it to Senior High School Cheng. Those golden buildings and white elephants, etc. It doesn't work at all without him to help you with a word."

After thinking about it, Liu Ting thought it made sense, so he nodded and said, "That's right, I just want to fight the war." Then he asked, "How long will it take to start?"

Liu Xin gestured a few times with a small ruler in each of her left and right hands, as if she was calculating something in her head, and quickly replied: "The half stick of incense is not here, brother can make preparations."

"Just waiting for your words!" Liu Ting immediately began to adjust the armor, and then gestured a few gestures to the subordinates around him. He pulled out the horse from behind with a cat bent, touched the bit, and patted the horse's neck, saying: "Be patient, you can't make any noise now... Let's get closer quietly."

Although it is said that cavalry are "not to enter the forest", well-trained war horses are not unable to march in the woods, but because of their size, they cannot be fast and they are not very flexible.It's doable, though, to get out of the woods.

Besides, there are not many cavalry under Liu Ting's command. Except for more than 100 scout horses, there are only [-] cavalry in total. They are regarded as Liu Ting's personal guard cavalry, and the whole army is less than [-] cavalry. Typical Southern troops.

He gathered his troops and saw that Liu Xin was also wearing armor and holding a war horse, he couldn't help hesitating for a moment, and said, "Xin'er, why don't you stay here to observe the general situation..."

Liu Xin raised her eyebrows: "Why, Deputy Huang can lead an army and conquer thousands of miles, so I, Liu Xin, can't ride horses or kill thieves?"

"Why do you keep mentioning her?" Liu Chen said with a wry smile, "You know that brother doesn't mean that, I just care about you. Youdao means that there is no eye in battle. If you are injured, how can I explain to my father?"

Liu Xin ignored him, but also checked her armor, weapon and horse, and then carefully led the horse down the mountain.

Liu Ting sighed helplessly, waved to the surroundings, gathered a few people, and confessed: "Listen, you guys, it doesn't matter whether you kill or not, I will give you half of what I will kill. Your task is to keep an eye on it." Miss, she just hurt a hair, I want you to look good, do you understand?"

"understand!"

"Hay!"

Liu Ting nodded, and was about to follow Liu Xin up, but someone stopped him and asked in a low voice, "Should we surround the eldest lady or..."

"Are you a pig's brain? Don't you know how smart the eldest lady is? She can't see it when you surround her?" Liu Ting yelled like a cannonball.

"Then we..."

Liu Ting glared: "What the hell, how do I know? Figure out a way for yourself!" Then he left behind a group of guards who were watching each other, and followed Liu Xin away.

Although the size of the Burmese army is large, the morale does not seem to be too high, and the military discipline is not very good. Sigh sigh, shake head shake head.

When they sent troops to the north this time, they only achieved good records and results at the beginning. When the Ming army began to shrink the line of defense and hold on, the Burmese army hardly made a decent breakthrough.

Especially after the two battalions of Tengyue and Yongchang were temporarily formed, the situation of the battle immediately turned bad.

Liu Teng of Tengyue beat Yue Feng and other chieftains who had defected to Burma to throw away their armor and armor. It was like entering and exiting no one's land when they came all the way; , Even death can't break through Yaoguan.

In this way, the original Burmese plan for Yue Feng to take Tengyue all the way, Mangyingli's main force to take Yongchang, and then the two sides joined forces to go straight to Dali, and the plan to defeat Mu Changzuo's main force in Erhai directly went bankrupt.

Immediately afterwards, there were more bad news. For example, Yue Feng even lost his old nest in Longchuan, Nandian, Ganya, Longchuan, Manmo and other Xuanfu divisions changed their families one after another, and once again took the surname Zhu.

The situation in Mang Yingli was also not going well. After Deng Zilong defeated Hanqian and his son, he personally sat in Yaoguan and challenged Burmese King Mang Yingli in the afternoon.Mang Yingli was furious and stormed for several days, except for seven or eight thousand casualties in vain, he couldn't even go up the tower.

The Portuguese mercenaries who relied on the Great Wall also refused to go forward, saying that according to their observation, the opponent's firepower was very strong, and it was purely courting death to attack with their own people. They suggested that the White Elephant King should think of other ways.

But the White Elephant King hadn't thought of any solution yet, and the bigger bad news came with Yue Feng.

Bago is lost!

The Meng people announced the restoration of the Meng State (Pegu Dynasty), but on the surface it was known as the "Grand Gula Military and Civilian Propaganda Department"-this was the "establishment" of the Meng State in Daming in the past.

Under the instigation of the Ming army, that trash in Abrabang proclaimed himself the "Deputy Consolation Envoy of the Military and Civil Consolation Department of Dagula", and then wantonly recruited troops and wooed the survivors of the Mon nationality.As a result, in less than ten days, six of the thirteen cities in Bagu's old land were reversed directly, nearly half of them!

Fortunately, Pasheng, Dawei, and Maduba (later Mawlamyine) are still under control among the five major towns in the old land of Meng. Only Bago and Daguang (later Yangon) were lost. It seems that the situation can be salvaged.

But it can't be delayed any longer. If it continues, once the entire old Meng country is completely reversed, it will not be a big problem that can be solved in the short term.

So Mang Yingli decided to withdraw the army immediately, but before withdrawing the army, Yue Feng, who had lost his capital, felt that he could not be so unknown and offered advice.

Yue Feng said that the direct withdrawal of the troops would inevitably be restrained and harassed by Deng Zilong. It is better to pretend to launch a huge offensive first, so the whole army retreated a little later, away from Deng Zilong's nose, and then pretended to be logging and collecting boulders. In fact, they set up dummies and quietly evacuated at night.

Yue Feng said that in this way, Deng Zilong was worried about our army's offensive, so he must be fully prepared to fight, and naturally he would not be able to find out that our army has withdrawn.

Mang Yingli was overjoyed and immediately followed suit, but Deng Zilong did not pursue him.Mang Yingli went south boldly with confidence until now.

However, although the evacuation went smoothly, after all, this trip to the north not only fell short, but even caused a fire in the backyard.Mang Yingli was still very annoyed, even the beauties offered by Lanna couldn't make him happy. (Lanna, a small country northwest of Siam, is also currently a vassal of Burma.)
Moreover, the battle in northern Myanmar was so anticlimactic this time. Even if he stabilized the south after he went south to quell the rebellion, the situation in the north has changed drastically. The management for many years may be ruined. This also made him feel even more depressed. Oops.

Just as he was in the midst of a lawsuit, he suddenly heard a sharp "chirp--", the voice was so sharp that it made his eardrums sour, and he couldn't help shaking.

Mang Yingli raised his head to follow the prestige, but saw a red flame soaring into the sky, and then exploded with a "bang", turning into little sparks.

Mang Yingli is not new to the battlefield, he has fought with his father for at least 20 years, and he knew at a glance that this must be some kind of flare, and he was ready to order his subordinates to pay attention to sneak attacks.

However, someone was faster than him. His uncle Mang Zhuo, who was sitting on another ordinary elephant with his eyes closed, had reacted very quickly and yelled in Burmese: "Enemy attack! Defend on the spot, don't panic! "

Mang Yingli breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't carelessly, but also shouted: "The troops before and after the order, defend on the spot, and don't run around!"

At this time, the surrounding soldiers had begun to spontaneously surround Mang Yingli, protecting him in the middle.

Mang Yingli was wondering why the Ming army in ambush hadn't moved yet, when suddenly there was a cannonball in the mountains ahead, and solid shells hit the crowd one after another.

These solid shells didn't have any explosive power, but each shell fell into the dense crowd, and it was quite easy to kill a few people.In addition, the damage of "smashing" often makes people's bones and blood splattered, but it looks quite scary.

Mang Yingli didn't expect that the Ming army hadn't come out yet, so he launched an artillery attack first. Although he couldn't figure out how the Ming army had placed the cannons in such a place in advance, he couldn't care less about it at the moment. He ordered the surrounding elephant slaves to hold up the golden ladder and let him go down first to avoid the limelight - he also felt that the goal of staying on the golden building white elephant at this time was too obvious.

Just after disembarking from the white elephant, there was a loud bang from the front army suddenly, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" There were more than a dozen blasts in a row, and then all kinds of heart-piercing shouts came from miles away. When the Chinese army came from outside, everyone was terrified.

"What's going on, what kind of gun is this, why is it making such a loud noise?" Mang Yingli was also startled by the series of loud noises, grabbed the Portuguese military adviser beside him and asked.

"Sorry, Your Majesty. I, I have never heard of such a powerful land cannon. Generally speaking, only the long and heavy cannon among naval guns can be built so huge, and... the sound of the long and heavy cannon seems to be the same as this giant cannon. It's a bit different, this voice is too muffled, I suspect it's the Ming people's secret weapon."

Secret weapons are not wrong, because landmines are not popular in Europe. This thing was not paid attention to in the European weapon system until the Russo-Japanese War. Now it is estimated that there is not even a trace.

However, China has had similar weapons for a long time, and it was developed very comprehensively during the Ming Dynasty. There are a lot of mines of various patterns on land, and there are also many mines in the water, such as the "Underwater Dragon King Cannon" is one of them. represent.

However, the original land mines and sea mines are relatively primitive, not very powerful, and difficult to detonate, and they always like to add some silly things to them.

Before Gao Yushi officially set foot in the military industry, he handed over some of the improved landmine and sea mine design drawings to Qi Jiguang for testing. Later, Jinghua had its own military industry system, and the development of these things became more in line with the "correct direction" of historical development. ".

The landmines used by Liu Ting today are the so-called "steel wheel self-igniting" mines, but they are an enhanced version.

How was it strengthened?This kind of landmine itself is triggered by stepping on it, but under Gao Yi's transformation, Jinghua made a "connected mine" structure, that is, these mines are connected with fuses.

As long as you step on one, the steel wheel will hit the flint to ignite the sparks, and ignite the fuses mixed with phosphorus powder and other substances. These fuses will not only detonate the mine itself, but also ignite other connected mines. Over there More landmines continue to be detonated to form a "continuous explosion".

The former army stepped on a landmine, which caused more than ten landmines to explode in a row. The people who were blown up fell on their backs and wailed all over the place for a while.

In fact, they are quite lucky, because limited by the manufacturing level of this era, even Jinghua's products will often misfire, especially this kind of lightning, if one is interrupted in the middle, the subsequent ones may be gone.

In fact, the series of thunderbolts fired a total of [-] bombs just now, but they only exploded about halfway and then stopped. As for the problem, no one knows now.

But that's enough.

A golden signal bomb rushed into the sky again, and the artillery fire on the mountain suddenly weakened.

If anyone in the Burmese army could listen calmly at this time, he should have discovered that the front and rear troops were still being bombarded by artillery fire, and only the artillery from the Chinese army stopped.

Immediately afterwards, the mountains on both sides of the Burmese army suddenly screamed. Countless Ming soldiers threw away their straw camouflage and came out wearing thin mandarin duck battle robes and armor in the south.

An extremely capable general rode a top-quality Ujimqin horse, and leaped out with a sharp sword.He casually sliced ​​an unlucky Burmese soldier in front of him obliquely in half, and half of his face was stained red by the splattered blood.

Ming Jiang let out a frightening scream, pointed in the direction of the golden building and white elephant and shouted: "Where is Mang Yingli? Have you prepared the head of the thief? Grandpa has come to fetch it!"

This Ming general made publicity as soon as he entered the battlefield, who else could he be besides Liu Ting? ——
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