Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 783 Crowd
On the 20th of the first month of the 29th year of Chongzhen, Li Dingguo arrived at Buniuba, and the two armies of the Ming army joined forces.

Haijiao led the navy down the Irrawaddy River and directly attacked the Burmese Army Dazhai in Jiangtou City!

However, the warships of the Ming army are not warships. The largest warship can only accommodate 80 people, and there are fifty ships.

The second class of fifty ships can accommodate more than 60 people.

Forty ships of the third class accommodate a small number of sailors and small-caliber artillery.

All kinds of small warships have mortars of large and small models.

Because large warships cannot sail in Myanmar's inland rivers, this is specially prepared for a small country with many rivers like Myanmar.

More than 100 warships have formed a powerful combat force on the broad Irrawaddy River, and the Ming army is about to formally attack Jiangtou City!
On the [-]th, Admiral Haijiao personally led the warships down the Irrawaddy River from Muman. On the river, they met twenty Burmese warships traveling against the current. The artillery battle between the two sides began!
Haijiao is the captain of an ironclad battleship. He has participated in many large-scale naval battles. He participated in the recovery of Taiwan in his early years and served in the Japanese Navy.

Surfing the vast sea all year round, he is a person who has seen big scenes.

Let him deal with the Burmese navy, and the Ming court can be regarded as giving face to Burma.

The main force of Burmese warships is the long-tailed boat. The artillery is generally mounted on the bow and stern. On both sides are rowing sailors, and then some musketeers.

The long-tail boat is characterized by flexibility and speed, but it is not easy to shoot, but there are ship-mounted guns provided by the British on board, and the rate of fire is good.

However, the cape did not give the Burmese army the advantage of speed, and ordered the use of mortars to bombard the Burmese warships.

"Rumble..."

Compared with the rate of fire and the power of shells, the Ming army is world-leading. It has not lost to any country. Even the artillery and shells in the British army are still imitations of the Ming army!

"Boom! Boom! Boom"

I don't know how many times it exploded, the river was full of flames, and the eight warships of the Burmese army were blown to pieces in an instant.

The poisonous smoke all over the sky blew towards the warships behind, and the other Burmese warships turned around and ran away.

Running and stopping, because their speed is still not comparable to the mortar.

The Ming army won the first battle of the water battle without any effort!

Then, the Ming army brigade continued to march, and captured a Burmese army camp in Xinjie, an important town in front of Jiangtou City.

Killed 720 and eight enemies, captured three alive, and captured the horses and many equipment of the Burmese army. The land battle also won the first battle.

The Ming army is ruthless, and the Burmese army is also screaming.

When the Ming army arrived at Mu Man, the guard of Jiangtou City sent someone to notify King Talong of Burma.

He has been stationed in Laoguantun for many years, and he was also guarding here in the previous battles, but this time the intention of the Ming army made him understand that Daming is serious!
King Thalom ordered Nafaro, the artillery commander of the Burmese army, to command 36 elite troops, 6000 people, hundreds of war elephants, and [-] horses, to march from the west bank of the Irrawaddy River to Jiangtou City to support the east bank of Laoguantun.

The Prime Minister of the Right, Mahaduluo, led fifty naval troops, a total of 5 troops, and went directly to support Jiangtou City by water, and also faced the Ming army simultaneously by land and water.

On February [-], the vanguard of the Burmese army arrived at Xinjie. This troop was led by chieftain Mengmi and the vanguard of the Burmese army. Among them were many savage tribes recruited temporarily.

The vanguard of the Ming army was led by Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian, with about [-] people.

I saw that the soldiers of the Burmese Army had a complex composition, with various long, square, and triangular banners covering the field.

Some of them are painted stripe patterns, some are animals, and some are completely incomprehensible characters.

As he expected, these Burmese soldiers are the troop marks of chieftain soldiers and tribes in various places.

The soldiers of the Burmese army are all like a triad brother, with all kinds of tattoos. Some of the weapons they hold are spears, some are long knives, and more are iron weapons of different lengths.

Occasionally, there would be a war elephant in the middle of an army of hundreds of people, but the equipment of the war elephant was very simple. There was no seat or weapon rack on the elephant's back, but an elephant slave riding on it with a long sword.

Mu Tianbo looked at it for a long time, and felt that this army looked more like it was here to do things rather than fight.

The Burmese army is not all mobs, there are also elite units that use firearms.

Since the era of Mangruitti, the hero of the Taungoo Dynasty, Myanmar has had guards dedicated to defending the royal family, and the capital, Taungoo City, also has a king's guard.

The elite troops of the king of Burma are within the range of the capital Toungoo City, leaving other states in this area. The army is similar to a loose military alliance. These states regularly pay flowers and horses to the king of Burma, and send troops to help when there is a war .

When the Burmese king was powerful, he could control these areas. Once the power weakened, these areas would rebel, stop paying tribute and even raise troops to attack the capital.

Since the Bagan Dynasty, the Burmese army has been divided into elephant soldiers, infantry, cavalry and water troops. It is stipulated that infantry can be promoted to cavalry after ten battles and enjoy important war resources such as horses.

After becoming a cavalry, you have to go through ten more battles before you can be promoted to an elephant soldier, controlling the most important heavy weapons on the Indochina Peninsula.

In order to maintain their rule, the Burmese kings of the Taungoo Dynasty were very shrewd. They used the firearms brought by the Portuguese.

There were musket troops and artillery, but at that time the main force of the firearms troops were mostly directly served by Western mercenaries.

As a ruler, how can foreigners control military power?
Thus, the King of Myanmar began to target the Portuguese. Four hundred Portuguese mercenaries were captured, and the leader was brutally executed by the King of Myanmar.

The remaining Portuguese soldiers were relocated to the vicinity of Stier County, where they would serve as musketeers and gunners for generations.

The Portuguese did very poorly in Myanmar and gradually withdrew from the Myanmar market.

Now it is the United Kingdom that provides firearms to the Burmese army. As early as the Apocalypse, the British East India Company set up a branch in Burma.

Although the British withdrew from Myanmar under Daming's warning, they still provided weapons to Myanmar before Daming did anything to Myanmar.

The British also assisted in the training of the Burmese army, which greatly improved the combat capability of the Burmese army's musketeers.

What Mu Tianbo encountered today was not the main force of the Burmese army, but just an ordinary force.

This group of gate soldiers has no armor and protection, only tattoos that symbolize marks.

They are divided into three battalions, left, middle and right. The left belly is painted on the left, the right belly is painted on the right, and the whole is painted in the middle, as a troop logo.

The act of tattooing has gradually become a symbol of soldiers from various countries in the Indochina Peninsula. One is a mark, and the other is as a talisman of faith. It is estimated that this thing can make them invulnerable!
The Ming army attacked aggressively, and the head of the Burmese army had no choice but to use them as cannon fodder in a hurry.

Seeing that the Ming army moved, beating gongs and drums, the Burmese army was taken aback, and the general panicked even more, fearing that the Ming army would strike first and disrupt his own position, so he gave an order to order the Burmese army to move. attack.

The Burmese army began to roar and charge, and the chaotic infantry mixed with more than a dozen elephants rushed over together.

(End of this chapter)