Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1121 Reversal
Toungoo City is in a hurry!
The unlucky Jinlou White Elephant Wang Mangyingli was in a state of desperation, calling all the royal nobles and former emperor veterans who accompanied the army into his golden brocade tent.

Each of these people has a large property in Toungoo City, and even if they go south, their connection with Toungoo City has not been interrupted.So almost at the same time when Mang Yingli got the news, they also got the news.

Different from the "official news" that Mang Yingli learned, the news they got was sent by servants sent by their own family members, and the words used in various reports were even more exaggerated. "Besieging the city with iron barrels" and other sayings abound.

Although the nobles and generals in the front knew very well that it is impossible for the Ming army to have an army of [-] to besiege the city, and the theory of "thousand cannons" must be nonsense, otherwise this battle will be a fart. It would be over if they simply surrendered, but they knew the reason for the news from home, and they also knew the troubles facing Toungoo City.

The main force of the Ming army did not withdraw eastward, but suddenly went to Toungoo!

These royal families, nobles, old and new generals gathered together to discuss how to persuade the king, but before they reached a conclusion, Mang Yingli's summons had already arrived.

Toungoo City is the "Land of Prosperity" of the Toungoo Dynasty, and it is also the capital city of its country. Everyone understands the importance of Toungoo City. If Toungoo City is lost, it is equivalent to being dug up. Who can bear this crime? rise?Even Mang Yingli couldn't, so Mang Yingli had to withdraw troops from the northern front and come back to rescue when "Tongyu was in danger" for the first time.

And this time was no exception, Mang Yingli straight to the point told his subordinates that he had to go back to relieve the siege of Dongyu City, which was out of question.But what he really wants to discuss is another question: what about Pegu?
Everyone is very clear about the current situation, and there is actually no problem in withdrawing troops.Although this group of people in Bago City relied on their muskets and bastions to beat the Burmese army in the first day of probing attacks, they did not dare to easily consider a strong attack, but these people are just a group of recruits after all, and they should be sent out of the city. It's impossible, but any general with a normal mind would not impulsively choose such a suicide battle.

However, the trouble is that if you just withdraw it so straightforwardly, where will everyone lose face?When they first sent troops, they were very ambitious. They wanted to wipe out the main force of the Burmese Southern Ming Army and kill the Mon rebels.

In the north, they fought with the "main force" of the Ming army, but they didn't take advantage of it. When they withdrew, they were bullied by Liu Ting, not only the late emperor's younger brother and general Wang Shumangzhuo, but also King Baixiang himself. Almost being captured is already a big loss of face.

But at least we can shirk responsibility that time. First, everyone was eager to go south to rescue Toungyu. Second, the other party was a famous general of the Ming army—the son of the famous general Liu Xian. It is not a big problem to mention the famous general in advance. This kind of thinking, so no matter how many soldiers Liu Ting led, everyone subconsciously regarded them as the main force of the Ming army.

But this time is different!
Who is the main general of the Ming army on the southern front has now been investigated clearly, but he was a chieftain from Guangxi in the past, not some famous general who shocked the world.Forget about the chieftain, the key is that the other party is still a young female chieftain, which is even more troublesome.

You must know that in Burmese culture at this time, women have no status at all, and the status gap between men and women is several times worse than that in the Ming Dynasty.Now that the general of the Ming army is a woman, it means that even if the Burmese army wins the battle, it will not be a glorious record. On the other hand, if they lose...

Just thinking about it makes me feel ashamed!
This woman is now here to save her. If the Burmese army withdraws so simply, it means that the previously planned goal has been forced to give up. To a certain extent, it is already a poor performance. up.

Therefore, considering the face, it is not advisable to abandon Bagu City and return to Dongyu. Mang Yingli did not say this clearly, but everyone understood it.

It's just that you understand it, but it's hard to find a solution.

Someone suggested that it is better to find a way to conquer Bagu as soon as possible. Everyone will go back with the glorious record of overcoming Bagu, and the morale of the army will be higher. In addition, Bagu is rich, and the supplies will be more abundant when returning to the army. .

But Captain Reddy, as a military advisor, expressed his point of view very bluntly: it is impossible.

According to his "careful observation" in the past three or four days, although the opponent's bastion is a temporary building that may not last more than a month, due to "uncertain reasons", the strength of these buildings is not bad at all, even It can be said that the quality is superior. The only shortcoming is that the construction time is limited, which leads to the incomplete repair of this "big bastion", and the thickness may not meet the "universal European standard".

In a word, although this is a castrated version of a temporary large bastion, without one or two hundred long and heavy artillery, it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough in a short period of time if it is attacked by manpower.Regarding this point of view, Captain Reddy expressed his willingness to "swear in the name of God" to prove that what he said was true and not alarmist.

Although Captain Reddy has a limited number of troops, he has been employed in Burma since the time of the first emperor, and has participated in dozens of battles, large and small. The generals of the Burmese army are quite convinced of his military quality, so after he said this, " The idea of ​​attacking Bagu as soon as possible" died down.

Since the troops could not be withdrawn casually, but they couldn't take it for a while, there was only one way left: keep some troops to continue the siege, and the main force went back to rescue Toungoo.

But this also faces a problem: how many people will be left to besiege the city?

If you stay less, the siege is a joke. For example, if you keep 1 people, you can't even surround Bago City.

But if you stay too long, everyone feels that it is not safe: the Ming army on the southern front has never declared how many troops it has, and so far the Burmese side can only guess about it.

At the beginning, the Burmese side actually guessed quite accurately. The result of the estimate was that "the Ming army on the southern line has about 4 to [-] people"-they may have counted the fleet.

Later, because the Ming army came up with a new army composed of Mon people, the data immediately began to "float". Some said 15, some said [-], and some even said [-]. Nothing close to the real situation.

Mang Yingli tends to believe that the actual strength of the Ming army does not exceed [-], and Captain Lei Di thinks it does not exceed [-], but regardless of whether it is [-] or [-], one thing is certain: the Ming army that attacked Toungoo must be the Ming army on the southern front. The main force of the army!
This truth is actually obvious-the flag with the word "high" instead of the flag with the word "yellow" is hanging on the top of Bagu City, which means that the leader of the Ming army, Huang Zhiting, is not in the city.

After the loss of that day, the Burmese army's current strength can only be said to be around 7. If there are too many troops left behind to besiege the city, then the strength of the troops returning to rescue Bagu will not have a big advantage compared with the main force of the Ming army. .

What is the level of the main force of the Ming army?According to the strength displayed by Liu Ting's troops that day, even the most arrogant people in the Burmese army felt terrified, subconsciously weighed it, and no matter how they looked at it, they didn't think they could win one-on-one.

This is bad, even according to Captain Reddy's most optimistic estimate, if the opponent counts at [-], then his side will have to have [-] to [-] to feel able to fight.

Megatron Tiannan's Jinlou White Elephant King unexpectedly found that his troops were stretched thin, and Mang Yingli's mood suddenly became worse.After thinking about it for a long time, finally, life is more important than face. Mang Yingli made up his mind: leave 1 people to continue besieging the city, and the remaining [-] troops pack up and return north immediately.

Fortunately, the generals under his command were very "sensible" this time, and they didn't express any objection, but there was a little controversy on the issue of "who will stay".

Because some generals believed that the hundreds of Portuguese mercenaries should also be left outside the city of Pego. Clear, but no matter how you say it will not be less than tens of thousands.

If the tens of thousands of people really desperately go out to fight in the field, it will not be easy for the 1 people on our own side to gather from the state of siege.

Mang Yingli asked Captain Reddy what he thought, and the latter said it didn't matter—"Employees have no right to choose tasks, unless the task is to send them to death."

After thinking about it, Mang Yingli still felt that it was safest to bring Portuguese mercenaries with him, so he rejected the suggestion, leaving only [-] ordinary Burmese troops to continue the "siege" in Bago, while he led the mercenaries, including Portuguese mercenaries The [-] troops, including the Lieutenant Army, immediately returned north.

Of course, the movements of the Burmese army could not be hidden from Gao Silian, who had a telescope in hand, but Gao Silian also had doubts about the withdrawal of the main force of the Burmese army—why did they go north?
Gao Silian was under siege, he didn't know that Huang Zhiting had gone to Dongyu City, so according to his assumption, even if Mang Yingli wanted to find the bad luck of the main force of the expeditionary force, he should go east. What kind of ghost is operating?
Could it be that a coup or even a mutiny broke out in Toungoo City?
Gao Silian was worthy of being a colonial envoy, and he paid great attention to seizing opportunities. Although he still didn't understand the meaning of Mang Yingli's evacuation to the north, it didn't prevent him from making preparations in advance.

what to prepare?Of course it is ready to fight back!

The Burmese army looked down on the Mon army. It was because Mang Yinglong’s battle to quell the Mon Bagu dynasty went so smoothly. More than [-] main forces defeated the "[-] army" led by the king himself in the battle of the Bagu dynasty. Direct war to destroy the country.

But in fact, there is a story behind that battle.

As early as the 13th year of Jiajing, Mang Ruiti had just succeeded to the throne of Myanmar.Mang Ruiti, who was only 19 years old, had just experienced the battle. With Mang Yinglong as the striker, he attacked the Bagu Dynasty in the south.But the result was very bad. Mang Ruiti and Mang Yinglong attacked Bagu three times, but none of them worked.

Three years later, Mangruiti used countermeasures to get rid of the two famous twin stars of the Pegu Dynasty, Binnyalao and Binyajiang, and attacked Pegu for the fourth time. King Meng believed that Gayubi thought he was not an opponent, so he Abandoning the royal capital and leading the army to flee.Mang Ruiti ordered the pursuit, but the vanguard led by Mang Yinglong defeated the main force of the Meng people in the Battle of Nangyou before the main force arrived.After this battle, Mang Ruiti bestowed the title of "Brother King" on Mang Yinglong.

So we can speculate on two points here: one is that the Meng people were killed because of the two famous generals of the town, and they must be in a state of instability. —This shows that if the Burmese army did not suppress the border, there might be civil strife in Bago;

The second is that since King Bagu fled with all his heart, it is very likely that the Burmese forward elite led by Mang Yinglong fought a "beheading battle" unprepared - King Bagu was either directly killed. Slashed, or captured (unknown records), in short, the [-] army just collapsed.

So on the other hand, the Mon people may not be so weak in combat effectiveness. Their failure was mainly due to the lack of power of their own king. ".

For the Mon people, this is a bit of a "crime other than war". Later, the Meng people even restored it for a while after Mangrui's death.As for the rebellions in other periods, they continued one after another without stopping at all, which can also prove from the side that the Mon people were not convinced by the defeat.

In the past few days, Gao Silian has basically understood the old events of the year, and also understood the vengeful mentality of the Mon soldiers, but he still refused the request of the Mon soldiers who came to fight when Mang Yingli's army had just left.

It's not that he refuses to fight, but he has to wait for a while, at least to make sure that the main force of the Burmese army has indeed gone far before he can leave the city to fight.Otherwise, what if Mang Yingli is cheating, trying to lure his main force out of the city?

Taking advantage of the fact that there were only 1 Burmese troops left, and the so-called "siege" was full of loopholes, Gao Silian selected elites to go out of the city to investigate the news. After another day and night, he finally confirmed that the main force of the Burmese army had indeed returned to the north, and it was still possible. In a hurry, it is estimated that he has traveled nearly a hundred miles by now.

Gao Silian did not hesitate any longer, even disregarding that it was already afternoon, he temporarily reorganized the army, gathered more than 100 mid-level and lower-level officers from the Gao family family members into the 1 new army, and then personally led the [-]-man army Out of town to fight.

It is a bold move for ten thousand recruits to fight against ten thousand elite soldiers, but Gao Silian is bold and subtle.

Instead of attacking in all directions, he first sent people to make a big splash in Nancheng, making the illusion that he was going to lead his army to break through and escape.When the Burmese army began to concentrate its troops in the south city nervously, and when the troops at the gates began to relax due to temporary mobilization, Gao Silian suddenly led his troops straight out of the north gate.

At this time, there were only about [-] Burmese troops left in the northern city. Seeing the large army rushing out of the city, the Burmese army called for help urgently, with smoke and drums beating, while gathering troops and horses, preparing to fight this "undead" recruit of the Mon nationality. Come head to head.

This long-established self-confidence has long since turned into conceit, and this conceit has completely ruined them.

For this battle, Gao Silian, who was courageous enough, concentrated [-] of the [-] Wanli Type [-] muskets left to him by Huang Zhiting in the army, and the firepower density on the tower had dropped to the lowest level.

And the two thousand five hundred Wanli style played the greatest role under the conceited attack of the Burmese army.

Gao Silian used a trick he used when pioneering Huaying: the front row held spears as a camouflage, and when the enemy charged at a relatively short distance, he suddenly ordered the soldiers in the front row to squat with spears (the knives in the bayonet formation were replaced with Spear), the back row will immediately start the standard three-stage attack.

No matter how the Burmese army is known as the elite of a hundred battles, it is nothing more than an army with cold weapons. The hot-armed troops they have seen are Portuguese mercenaries, but the number of Portuguese mercenaries is too small, and the scene of "queuing up and shooting" is not that much It's scary, so this Burmese army doesn't know how terrifying it is to queue up and shoot on a large scale.

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