Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 785 Attacking Jiangtou City

This time the Toungoo army was not defending, but attacking. They could not defend the wooden fence. Compared with the Ming army, their muskets not only had no advantage, but were actually several grades behind.

Relying on superior performance rifles and the combat quality of the soldiers, the Ming army kept shooting and killing the Toungoo army, and the only killed Toungoo army had no power to fight back.

After shooting into chaos the Dongxu army's position, Mu Tianbo led the Ming army to charge.

The Taungoo Army's position was unstable, and after a burst of fighting by the Ming Army, the Burmese Army fled in a rout.

Mu Tianbo took down several camps with ease, and seized countless weapons and food from the Toungyu Army.

But their equipment is useless to the Ming army, it is too bad, and it is not as good as the equipment of the bandits.

In this battle, the Ming army killed more than [-] enemies and successfully captured the area on the east bank of the river.

The river beside Jiangtou City is criss-crossed and surrounded by lush Burmese virgin forests. It is a typical pass.

When the two armies were fighting, Li Dingguo, the leader of the Dragon Banner Army who came to support him, found an abnormality in the woods ahead through the binoculars. Any fool would know that it was the reflection of the Toungoo Army's blade!

Of course, Li Dingguo, who had experienced many battles, judged at a glance that there were a large number of Taungoo Army ambushes in the jungle.

If he rushed to the jungle rashly, he would easily be ambushed by the Taungoo Army.

Coupled with the hot and cold weather, the soldiers were exhausted physically, and cavalry and infantry formations could not be used in the jungle.

In this environment, the Ming army may be ambushed by the Toungoo army.

Li Dingguo also got information that in the Burmese army camp around Jiangtou City, there are the most elite elephant formations in Dongyu!
But Li Dingguo didn't care, he didn't care about elephant soldiers at all in front of Daming mortars and grenades.

The battle was unfavorable, so King Talong of Toungoo began to feel uneasy. He leaned on the throne for a while, and walked back and forth in the hall for a while.

The officials in the hall all frowned, and they also felt the crisis.

Previously, he ignored Da Ming, encouraged the king to fight against Da Ming, and beheaded the envoy of Da Ming, but now he did not say a word.

Bad news from the front line came one after another, making the Taungoo dynasty feel bad, and they began to feel that the situation was not optimistic.

In just ten days, the Ming army had reached Jiangtou City, leaving King Talong puzzled.

Under normal circumstances, the Ming army should still be struggling in the primeval forest, but this speed is incredible.

"Uncle Wang!"

King Thalom asked one of the officials below:

"Is what the British said true? The Raksha Kingdom really invaded Ming's northwest border?"

The prince, who was kneeling under the throne, walked to the center of the hall in a panic and replied respectfully:
"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence of the British, the Raksha Kingdom prepared to send troops half a year ago, and there is another powerful khanate that is also preparing to send troops, but the time has not yet been determined..."

King Thalom couldn't help being furious:
"Fuck you, we were going to send troops but we didn't. Now it seems that we have been fooled by the British. If the Raksha country doesn't send troops, we will have to fight to the death..."

Now most of them start to regret provoking Daming, killing the envoys of Ming Dynasty, King Dongyu to the ministers.

They never thought that the Ming army would be invincible in fighting in the jungle.

In their minds, the original Daming is like a soft persimmon, the kind that can rot if you don't squeeze it.

But ever since the battle to defend the capital, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have had his blood pumped. When he saw someone who was not pleasing to his eyes, he immediately fucked him!
First, he put down the bandits and wiped out all the Mongolian tribes, and then wiped out the Eastern captives in one fell swoop.

Later, North Korea was declared the province of Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was quickly recovered, and the Nanyang countries were taken to drive away the Western powers, and then they went east to Japan, which almost made the Yamato nation extinct.

Laos and Siam were merged into Ming Dynasty again, and now Ming Dynasty wants to encroach on the territory of Toungoo step by step through three declarations and six consolations.

Dong Yu thought that he was strong enough to resist Da Ming alone, but now it seems that he is a bit overconfident.

If I knew it was so, it would be better to have a good talk with Daming, and try my best to fight for the best interests of the Toungoo Dynasty.

But it's too late now, and we can only rely on our geographical advantages to carry it to the end.

"Uncle Wang, go to the British embassy in person and ask them to send troops to support Jiangtou city!"

Hearing that the king wanted help from the British, the prince looked helpless:
"Your Majesty, the British garrison has been withdrawn, and only one embassy exists. How can they send troops?"

After being reminded by the prince, the king remembered that the British soldiers had retreated to India a long time ago, and he wanted to scold his mother at that time.

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On the mountainous and jungle shortcuts leading to Jiangtou City, there are wooden fences of the Taungoo Army everywhere.

The wooden fence of the Burmese army is a kind of combat fortification formed by relying on the climate, terrain, materials and even tactics of the tropical rainforest of the Indochina Peninsula.

This is a very unique fortification, and this kind of fortification is also a feature of the Taungoo Army's positional warfare, which will cause huge troubles for the invading enemy.

The Muzha stockade of the Toungoo Army uses a variety of local solid trees, including wet wood and other wood.

They dug up the ground at the station, and then inserted the forged wood into the thick soil one by one and tamped it down, similar to the wooden city walls of various countries.

Some can also be used as materials for rattan armor and rattan shields, which are extremely strong.

Although the wooden fences of the Burmese army are tightly pasted, there will be certain gaps.

There is a platform built on the inside of the wooden fence for soldiers to stand and shoot the enemy from the gap.

Each wooden fence has a long and deep trench dug, and a large number of pointed wooden piles are inserted obliquely in the trench.

They are densely connected together to prevent enemy cavalry from attacking and infantry from building ladders.

This was a wooden city wall defense tactic commonly used in the Indochina Peninsula at that time.

Taungoo Dynasty, Chiang Mai, Laos, Siam and other countries all like to use it, maybe they are more suitable for this kind of fortification here! .

After repeated inspections by scouts from the Ming army, some Toungoo prisoners were tortured.

Finally, it was found that there were three layers of defense inside the wooden fence of the Taungoo Army, with artillery on it, and there were stairs and small wooden bridges in front of the platforms for support.

Such large-scale and complex fortifications can defend against both cavalry and infantry attacks.

Historically, the Qing Dynasty, which was nothing, also suffered heavy losses when it attacked Burma.

Moreover, the Burmese army can also obtain local materials and build them at any time, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

In the history of Myanmar, the Burmese army relied on this three-dimensional defense to defeat many enemies, including the Battle of Qing and Burma.

It was not until the outbreak of the Anglo-Burmese War in the [-]th century that this kind of wooden fence was bombarded by the advanced artillery of the British and completely lost its function.

There are many such wooden fences standing in front of Jiangtou City, one row after another.

Among them, there are many camps relying on the big trees in the jungle to form a natural tall fortification barrier, and there are also battle formations of the Taungoo Army outside the camps.

It was also the first time Li Dingguo saw this kind of defense. Looking at the wooden fence in front of him, he couldn't help saying:

"How come the Toungoo Dynasty didn't even have a city wall. It's a pity that they didn't carry heavy artillery, otherwise they would just blow it into sawdust."

Liu Wenxiu chuckled and said:

"Second brother, since they did this, it must have some effect. In my opinion, the best way is to blow them up with explosives. It's a pity that we didn't bring so many explosives."

Li Dingguo smiled slightly, reached out to pat Liu Wenxiu on the shoulder and said:
"Third brother, if we can't even deal with this log, why do we still need to fight Toungoo? Just keep your heart in your stomach, and elder brother has his own way."

(End of this chapter)