Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1117 Battle of Bagu (Part [-])
Needless to say, the Burmese army that went south this time were veterans accumulated over the years.The hegemony of the Toungoo Dynasty is now almost entirely dependent on this army, and Huang Zhiting is well aware of this.

The Burmese army claims to be 15, and Huang Zhiting does not know how much water is in it, but it must not reach this number.It's a pity that the 5000 troops previously arranged at Biaoguan were too limited. In addition, Annan's cavalry was not many, and he didn't dare to send the limited cavalry to investigate. The news is "stretching for more than ten miles, the flags are like a sea of ​​forests".

Based on the attitude of expecting the enemy to be lenient, Huang Zhiting can only assume that the opponent's strength is more than [-].

Huang Zhiting currently has about [-] Lu divisions in her hands. When she attacked southern Burma, various uprisings against the Toungoo Dynasty erupted under the cheers of the Mon people when they saw the "rebellion against the Celestial Dynasty", which made her losses quite limited. .For example, in Pathein City in the most southwestern part, it was simply the Mon people who drove away the defenders of the Toungoo Dynasty and then declared their surrender.

But even so, with [-] against [-], the difficulty of this battle is too great when both sides are fighting mainly infantry. There are some odds.

Huang Zhiting's style of commanding operations is different from that of Gao Pragmatic.The high-practical habit is to determine the strategic goals alone, and then assign tasks to subordinates according to the goals, and at the same time judge the mentality of the opponent in advance, and tell the subordinates how to deal with it.However, he has always been indifferent to specific combat commands.How to fight, you frontline generals decide on their own, I just wait to see how your tasks are completed.

Huang Zhiting didn't do this, or rather, she couldn't do it either.Although she is the vice capital of Annan, only eight thousand wolf soldiers under her command are her own direct descendants.

The 7000 people that Gao Wushi dispatched from the Jingang Garrison are her strong backing, but after all, she has not yet married into the Gao family. Although the Jingang Garrison will obey her orders, she can't just ignore them. That's a direct order without even discussing it.

As for Gao Yushi's 5000 troops from Ruan Juan's Department—that is, the team that had just been withdrawn from Biaoguan—this was even more of a peripheral force, and Huang Zhiting couldn't ignore their right to know, so as not to cause turmoil in the army.

And the combat effectiveness of this army is also somewhat doubtful. Although it is true that Ruan Juan is a famous Annan general, it does not mean how strong his soldiers are.At least in the opinion of Huang Zhiting, the commander of the wolf army, the army provided by Ruan Juan is likely to be about the same strength as the Burmese army.

So Huang Zhiting convened a military affairs meeting. Apart from herself, the following people were also present at the meeting:
Gao Jing, Commander of the Jinghua Expedition Fleet, Gao Sijin, Commander of the Second Division of the Jingang Garrison (the garrison adopts a unique organization in Annan), the Commander of the Haidong Right Guard and the Garrison of Halong Bay, the Commander of the Front Guard of Nghe An and Ruan Song of the State Guard, Gao Silian, the first-class military staff officer of the general government of the three towns in Guangnan and the colonization envoy of Huaying.

The official positions of the first few people are relatively straightforward, and there is no need to explain their identities, but the position of the last Gao Silian needs to be explained.

The three towns under the jurisdiction of the General Office of the Three Towns of Guangnan are Nghe An, Hue, and Quang Nam. Among them, the garrison task of the northernmost Nghe An is not the responsibility of the Jingang Garrison, but Nguyen, who was "seconded to garrison" from the capital commander. The Ministry of Juan is in charge, and of course the government affairs are under the jurisdiction of the General Consulate General's Office.

The remaining towns of Hue and Guangnan are the garrisons of the Jingang garrison, but the Jingang garrison is not only stationed in these two towns, it also undertakes another task, which is to open up to the south.

The so-called "pioneering" and so on, of course, is a good way to say it. In fact, the general government has set up a special position called "Taoying envoy" in accordance with Gao Yushi's order, and it will be filled by people who are "suitable for both military and government affairs" in the garrison.

The task of this colonizer is to lead a small amount of garrison troops and the local "colonization regiment" to Huaying and Nanpan in the south to open up new territories.Both Huaying and Nanpan have local independent regimes, but the system is extremely old, similar to the "tribal alliance elders' discussion system" in the familiar words.

In this way, it is very clear that the so-called colonization is actually conquest by force, plus economic bribery, plus political taming.The "colonization group" is actually a semi-civilian militarized group composed of immigrant Han Chinese, Tongren, Hakka and other Ming people. To some extent, it is equivalent to a private colonial team in Europe, but it has an official background.

Gao Silian, the colonizer of Huaying, did an excellent job. In less than two years, relying on only a 300-member garrison as the core, he gathered and organized a colonization group of nearly 4000 people. By other means, they successfully defeated the local tribal alliance in Huaying (this statement is not accurate, but it can be understood), and in fact they have already obtained Huaying. The three south towns became four towns.

However, Gao Wushi has not agreed yet, because Gao Wushi plans to wait until Nanpan is also captured, and then continue to expand and occupy the city in the south, and create three new towns for the last time.

But in any case, Gao Silian is very good at how to carry out work in the new environment, so this time he was recommended by the General Consulate General to come to Myanmar. At that time, his position was relatively simple, that is, he only came here as a "first-class military adviser". , but not long ago he got a new reuse.

In view of Huang Zhiting's rich experience in organizing "semi-military groups" and being good at communicating with various local natives, Huang Zhiting appointed him temporarily as the acting commander of the Bagu garrison to command the [-] new Meng army.

Gao Silian did have some tricks. Relying on his identity as Gao Sijin, the commander of the Second Division of the Jingang Garrison, Gao Sijin was a refugee recruited by Gao Wu in Weihui's relief, and he "seconded" nearly a hundred low-level and young people from Gao Sijin. Han officers were used to enrich the command system of the Bagu Garrison, and quickly took control of this force.

The main topic of Huang Zhiting's meeting this time, first of all, is to determine the strategic purpose of this battle.

To put it more directly, it is to choose the most reliable one among several ideas such as "stick to Bago", "defeat the Burmese army", and "consume the Burmese army".

Among them, "defeat the Burmese army" is best understood, that is, to directly fight a battle, defeat the Burmese army in the battle, and forcibly defeat its intention to quickly recover Bagu.

"Stick to Bago" and "consume the Burmese army" have some things in common, but they are not completely equivalent.

If you choose to stick to Bagu, then as long as the Burmese army can launch a siege war, it will definitely consume the Burmese army, there is no doubt about it.

But there is a problem, that is, in the earliest days, the strategy discussed by Huang Zhiting and Gao Wushi was not to stick to a certain place, because Gao Wushi didn't think that Bagu City or even the old place of the entire Bagu Dynasty had to be defended.

On the contrary, in Gao Yushi's view, the entire Burmese territory can be temporarily abandoned. He only needs to weaken the ruling power of the Toungoo Dynasty as much as possible-including military strength, financial resources and even popular prestige, everything counts.

The Taungoo Dynasty itself was a dynasty that forcibly unified itself by force, and its internal ethnic conflicts were extremely fierce. At this time, the Burmese had not yet become the dominant ethnic group, so it was only necessary to weaken the Burmese army as much as possible and break the Burma army The myth of being invincible, even if he withdraws temporarily, the conflicts in his country will inevitably intensify.

In this way, after he himself has been in chaos for a few years and his ruling power is exhausted due to internal friction, Gao Yushi can fight back at any time, and easily subdue these exhausted local snakes like a raptor crossing the river , Receive the whole of Myanmar in one fell swoop.

It can be said that although the high-practical plan takes a long time, at least three to five years, it is the most secure plan with the least loss, which is in line with his usual style.

This plan is sure to be successful, because Gao Yushi, as a time traveler, knows very well that Mang Yingli in history was not taken by him, and he played himself to the point where he was besieged and betrayed by all, and was eventually defeated and captured. In their own capital city.Now with his highly pragmatic participation, the speed of this decline can be doubled.

However, Huang Zhiting seems to have a new idea now, because she found that the situation she is facing now is different from the situation in the previous discussion.

The biggest difference is that even Gao Wushi did not expect that the Mon people hated the Toungoo Dynasty so strongly. The enthusiasm of the Mon people to join the army is so high that after more than a month, they have integrated a usable army of 3 soldiers. This is even smoother than the garrison army in Annan at the beginning—at least Annan was after the overall situation was settled. Only those who joined the garrison were used. Before that, only surrendered troops were available, and the awareness of civilians to join the army was not strong.

So now Huang Zhiting feels that the hearts of the people and the army can be used. In this case, giving up Bagu easily may lead to wasting all previous efforts.

However, she and Gao Yushi are thousands of miles away at this time, and she will not be able to obtain new instructions for a while. Everything can only be judged and decided by herself. The support of the garrison and Ruan Juan's department was enough, so this meeting took place.

After listening to Vice President Huang's introduction, everyone in the meeting understood the current situation and fell into deep thought. No one made any immediate statement.

Everyone can hear that Vice Dutong Huang himself is inclined to defeat the Burmese army and establish the victory of the entire southern Burma.

But they also know the importance of this decision-what if they lose?

The opponent is an elite of hundreds of thousands of battles, and the combat power of only [-] of the main force is guaranteed. Although the morale of the remaining [-] new Meng army is good, it is formed too late after all, and it is far from being called training. white.Everyone felt that to pull them out now, as long as they could make the team look good, it would be thanks to the tradition of Gao Jiajun.

Thinking about it, everyone unconsciously cast their eyes on Gao Silian.

Gao Silian also felt everyone's suspicion. He was actually not angry because he was familiar with this kind of gaze when he was in Annan before, but he didn't immediately jump out and pat his chest to brag. Instead, he said to Huang Zhiting neither humble nor overbearing: " Dare to ask Dutong, if you want to defeat the Burmese army, do you have to fight head-on? The humble position means, do you have to pull 5 people out of the city and fight the Burmese army on the plain north of Bago City?"

Huang Zhiting heard something in his words, and asked, "You mean, there is no such need?"

Gao Silian said decisively: "That's right, I think it's totally unnecessary to fight like this."

Huang Zhiting showed a rare smile in front of her subordinates, and said, "I would like to hear a good opinion."

Gao Silian suddenly said something that shocked the audience: "My humble suggestion, Dutong can take the main force of our army out of the city, go all the way east to Xidang, which is the estuary of the Xidang River, and hand over the defense of Bagu City to our troops." Bago Garrison."

Before Huang Zhiting could speak, Gao Sijin's eyes widened and he said, "Ah Lian, are you crazy? Are you trying to persuade us to go to the fleet to escape?"

People in the north generally don't use the term "A Lian". This habit was learned by Gao Si after he came to the south. Guangdong and Guangxi provinces have this habit.

Ruan Song, another general in charge of the army, also shook his head, and said in increasingly proficient Chinese: "It's not going to happen, we haven't fought a decent battle in Burma yet, so we just fled back in such a desperate way. , there is no place to put your face."

Gao Jing originally wanted to say, "As long as everyone retreats to the mouth of the Xidang River, even if the Burmese army really comes with 3500 troops, it will not be enough for me to fight." This is not bragging. The expedition fleet has more than [-] artillery pieces in total. It can only fire sideways, and theoretically it can form a salvo of at least a thousand ship-borne cannons.

In this case, if the Burmese army uses flesh and blood to block solid artillery, it will really give as much as it wants.How many people can be killed in the end depends only on two points: how many Burmese troops are willing to die, and how many rounds the Gaojing fleet's artillery can fire.

But it is obviously too inappropriate to say this at this time, and since there are Portuguese in the Burmese army, they must not be stupid enough to use the army to test the power of naval guns, so Gao Jing thought about it, and finally kept silent.

Huang Zhiting finally opened her mouth, and said, "You mean to let Commander Bendu lead elite troops to pretend to withdraw, lure the Burmese army to besiege the city, and then Commander Bendu will look for an opportunity to sneak attack the Burmese army?"

Gao Silian said happily: "This is one of the considerations." He paused slightly and explained: "There are actually at least two possibilities here. After the Burmese army found out that they all commanded the main force to retreat eastward, although the possibility of directly coming to besiege the city The biggest, but it cannot be ruled out that Mang Yingli has too much appetite, so he simply followed the main force of Dutong to the mouth of the Xidang River, trying to completely wipe out the troops of Dutong.

The reason why this possibility exists, I think there are two points that need to be paid attention to: first, Mang Yingli is very happy, in order to save face from the defeat on the northern front, he may even hope to wipe out all our troops on the southern front; Second, if the main force of the capital can be eliminated first, Bagu City will completely lose the courage to continue to resist, just like Wang Shichong at the end of the Sui Dynasty when he saw Dou Jiande's reinforcements defeated, and it is very likely that the whole city will surrender.

Dutong, Bago is one of the most wealthy cities in Myanmar. In Mang Yingli's mind, he definitely does not want to smash Bagu, and the best choice is to win Bago's surrender. "

"That makes sense." Huang Zhiting nodded, and asked again: "Then if Mang Yingli doesn't chase after him, why don't he still come to surround Bagu?"

Gao Silian said: "It means that the Burmese army has suffered a great loss, and even the Burmese court may have become unsustainable. It is necessary to take back the rich old Bagu land as soon as possible. Because if the Bagu city is taken, the rest of the Bagu city will be destroyed. The strong support of the system may depend on the spread of the call.”

"I know this. I want to ask you, how long can you hold out under the siege of the main force of the Burmese army? Also, how do you want the main force outside to cooperate with you?"

"If the general can leave one or two thousand muskets and enough ammunition for the humble staff, the humble staff can guard until the food is exhausted." Gao Silian ignored everyone's suspicious expressions, and said in a deep voice: "Besides, it's not that our department needs the cooperation of the main force. , but our department wants to know how the main force will launch an attack, and how our department will cooperate after the main force is launched."
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