Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 782
For Mu Tianbo, fighting in Myanmar, even the most powerful Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar's history.

This well-equipped 3 people is enough, not to mention the Daming Dragon Banner Army and the two navies.

He led the Ming army in Yunnan, and the deputy general Liu Xiang accompanied the army to assist him. He entered the northwestern part of Myanmar and then went south.

In order to unexpectedly appear in Xinjie, an important town in front of Laoguantun, the Burmese army was caught off guard.

He knew that the war to conquer Burma must not be delayed, although the supply line of Ming Dynasty was very strong.

However, in multi-line operations, the sooner the better, they had better reduce the consumption of logistics.

However, when the Ming army set foot in Burma again, Duke Qian Mu Tianbo found that Burma was not as easy to fight as imagined, and the environment was too harsh.

Mu Tianbo has been in Yunnan for so many years, and he thinks he is very familiar with Myanmar, but it was only when he really entered the jungle of Myanmar that he discovered how harsh the environment in Myanmar is!
Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian, knew that he had underestimated the rainy season in Myanmar.

This is too fickle. Not long after the Ming army left, the weather began to change, and suddenly it rained heavily.

The air was very humid and hot, with a smell of mud and grass. The soldiers had marched for several miles and were already sweating profusely and panting.

Originally, there were no roads, but now they have become rotten concrete roads, roads made of water and mud, not concrete cement roads.

In some places, the horse's legs could sink half a foot deep, and the speed of progress was very slow.

During World War II, when the expeditionary forces entered the virgin forests of Myanmar, they couldn't bear it, and suffered heavy losses as a result. It must have been even more difficult to go in the Ming Dynasty.

If Emperor Ming hadn't given the most suitable road map, the speed of the Ming army's advance would have been even more difficult.

Dragging dry rations and tents, the horses of the Ming army struggled along the forest path, and the horse accidentally stepped into the mud and slipped.

This kind of situation often happened during the march of the Ming army. Mu Tianbo did not expect that the bad roads in Myanmar would be so difficult, even more difficult than the mountain roads in Yunnan!
What's even more frightening is that the weather fluctuates from sunny to rainy. I was shivering from the heavy rain just now, and suddenly I was exposed to the sun again.

At night, they could only rest on the side of the road. Soldiers often had their upper body drenched in the rain while their lower body was still stepping on the muddy ground.

Over time, many soldiers began to catch colds, diarrhea and other symptoms. If they were not treated in time, non-combat attrition would definitely occur.

Fortunately, the Ming emperor had prepared for this. They brought a lot of modern medicines exchanged from the central system, and the soldiers recovered quickly after taking the medicine.

Although the Ming army led by Mu Tianbo was like this, Li Dingguo's Dragon Banner Army marched much better.

They were carrying light equipment, almost all kinds of canned food, and their purpose was to march quickly and win battles quickly.

They don't worry about being wounded by branches and thorns, and they don't worry about getting infected in the rainforest, because they all have anti-inflammatory drugs and don't care about it.

Some road sections were very narrow, and the soldiers walked slowly on their horseback, marching much faster than Mu Tianbo and the others.

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Almost all of Myanmar has a geographical environment dominated by mountains and jungles.

Li Dingguo's Dragon Banner Army is fast, because they are equivalent to special forces, and they go into battle lightly.

However, it had a great impact on Mu Tianbo's leadership of the ordinary Ming army. Whether it was the supply route or the march, it caused great trouble.

When Mu Tianbo's army arrived at Jiajiu with hardships, the Dongyu troops stationed there had already withdrawn.

When they withdrew, they also snatched all the food and payment reserves, obviously a prepared retreat.

In fact, this was a tactic commonly used by the Toungoo Army. Whenever the Ming army went to a place, the Burmese army would withdraw in advance.

They did this to test the supplies of the Ming army to see how long the Ming army could last.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Mu Tianbo decided to leave a thousand-man team stationed in Jiajiu.

This place is the main route for marching into Myanmar, and it is responsible for the logistics supply transfer point from Yunnan to the front line.

Therefore, Mu Tianbo must be prepared to prevent the supply line from being cut off by the stragglers of the Toungoo Army.

Mu Tianbo led the army to continue going south.

Two days later, they finally arrived at Chieftain Menggong City, and it had been five days since they left the customs.

Fortunately, chieftain Meng Gong was close to the Ming army. Seeing the arrival of the Ming army, the chieftain immediately donated hundreds of cows and hundreds of shi of grain.

Mu Tianbo asked the army to recuperate here for a day, and bought thousands of cows and thousands of shimi as supplies.

The Ming army did not attack them. Chieftain Meng Gong was very happy and strongly expressed his allegiance to Daming to Duke Qian.

Chieftain Meng Gong is a part of the Mengyang Military and Civilian Propaganda and Consolation Department set up by the Ming Dynasty in northern Myanmar.

Although the Ming Dynasty reformed the land in the southwest, the Xuanweisi in northern Myanmar outside Yunnan was still managed by the chieftain himself, and the soldiers and horses were also local soldiers summoned by the chieftain himself, and they only paid taxes to the Ming court.

With the rise of Myanmar, these propaganda and consolation divisions have limited capabilities and are under great pressure. They pay tribute to both Ming and Myanmar, and play a balancing strategy between Ming and Myanmar to ensure their own interests are maximized.

The Mu family has been rooted in the southwest for more than [-] years, and the Mu Palace is very prestigious among the states and chieftains in the southwestern border.

Together with Taigong City, Malay City, Anzhengguo City and Bagan-Myanmar King City, Jiangtou City is called the "Five Cities in Central Myanmar".

Once the Ming army takes this place, they will be able to enter the middle of Burma, which is a flat plain, and go straight to Awa, the capital of Taungoo, Burma!
Jiangtou City is called "Old Street" by the local Chinese, and it is also recorded as "Laoguantun" in Chinese history books

After sufficient supplies, Mu Tianbo continued to lead the army southward, marching to the territory of chieftain Mengyang, and joining forces with Li Dingguo's army.

Along the way, when the pro-Burmese chieftain saw the dragon flag of the Ming army, he didn't dare to resist at all, and fled immediately, leaving behind a large amount of supplies.

The soldiers of the Ming army took over a dozen chieftain territories without bloodshed, and cleared all the property in the territories, which relieved the burden of the Ming army's supplies and accelerated the marching speed.

Mu Tianbo took the lead in attacking Jiangtou City, occupying favorable terrain.

When Mu Tianbo arrived at Muman, the Burmese army retreated again, but the scouts sent news:
The Taungoo Army has already prepared land and water troops in Laoguantun and Xinjie, and the Taungoo Army's reconnaissance ships have already appeared on the river to patrol.

Mu Tianbo knew that the Dongyu Army guessed that the Ming Army was going to attack Jiangtou City.

When the Ming army went south, the Toungoo Army who got the news sent several small boats to search for information on the Ming army.

More than 80 Burmese sailors headed north along the Irrawaddy River in light boats.

The Ming army had not been seen, and the sailors of Burma Toungoo Army thought that everything was calm, so they boldly continued to march northward, trying to learn as much information as possible about the Ming army's march.

After advancing for more than ten miles, the sailors of the Taungoo Army seemed to see something strange on the weedy banks on both sides.

When they opened their eyes wide and were about to take a closer look, suddenly there were bursts of gunshots on both sides of the bank.

"Blah blah blah..."

There were bursts of gunshots, and dozens of Toungoo soldiers were shot dead on the spot, and their bodies fell into the river.

The rest of the sailors turned around immediately in fright, paddling frantically to escape.

Burmese warships are characterized by fast speed and flexibility, and the Burmese army is very confident in this.

But no matter how fast they are, it is impossible for them to be faster than the bullets of the Ming army.

In half a stick of incense time, only floating corpses and warships battered into holes remained on the river.

(End of this chapter)