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Chapter 522 Encounter
The moon and stars are sparse, and it is close to the winter moon, and the night in Myanmar is still hot and humid.

In the north of Baigu City, the spire of the Golden Buddha Pagoda towered high, and Mang Yingli, who was anxious in his heart, knelt down piously under the pagoda, waiting for news from the front line.

The staff member Chen An stood behind him, bowed slightly and folded his hands together, the uneasiness in his heart was much more than that of Mang Yingli.

There is no other reason. Some time ago, [-] troops were dispatched from Baigu City to the north. Four of them were defeated by the Ming army. The main force of the dragon was deadlocked.

In fact, the north is still in the stage of confrontation. Both sides are waiting for the opportunity to fight, and they have not started the war with great fanfare. Even the latest news sent back to Baigu said that the Ming army is still planning to negotiate peace with King Baixiang—no one knows whether it is a plan to delay the army , but both sides want to slow down at this moment.

The Ming army was not familiar with the terrain, and the sanitation was not good, so a few soldiers fell ill; Mang Yinglong originally only wanted to deal with Meng Yang's Sigu, but he was not ready to directly fight the Ming army in his heart. If the Ming army in the Guangxi area is not removed, he will always have worries about the future and dare not fight against the Ming army.

Chen Mu was waiting for the outcome of the battle in the north, but he didn't know that everyone was waiting for him.

The victory of the Nanyang army means that the strategy of attacking from the front and back has been completed, and the Ming army can advance to the north. Not to mention annihilating Mang Yinglong in the first battle, the army's morale was shaken and he was driven back to the Xuanwei Division of Myanmar. It is still possible to take him to other places.

With the defeat of the Nanyang Army, Mang Yinglong will have no worries, and he can devote himself to facing the Jusher Army in the north. If he can win this battle, he will naturally go to Yunnan for a walk.

According to Mang Yinglong's understanding of the imperial court, they have always underestimated the Southwest's three propagandas and six consolations. It is very likely that when Yunnan was threatened, the first thought was to negotiate a peace. In five years, he will be able to achieve the great cause of unifying Burma for the second time by removing the pressure of treating the Ming Dynasty as a serious problem!
The praying Chen An is not devout. It is difficult for a Ming person to be as devout to Buddhism as the Burmese. Let him bow down and pray here because of how important he is to the Baigu battle in the Ming-Myanmar war. Seeing that very clearly, and his unexpected access to the decision-making hierarchy in Burma, was a real source of stress for him.

Those five thousand-man teams were sent by him, not by Mang Yinglong. Those soldiers are roughly estimated to have three thousand left, and they are active in the north of Baigu for tens of miles. Heading south, their mission was to join forces to go south after the battle of Baigu, defeat the Ming army that was active in the north of Baigu, and then attack the besieging Ming army with the elephant army and horse army mixed infantry outside the city.

At that time, the Burmese army in the city will also fight, and they will break through the defense line of the Ming army, hoping to win the whole battle!
What he was praying for was that the Ming army would take the bait, mistakenly think that Baigu City was empty, and send troops to attack.

If he wins this battle, his status in Burma will also increase in the future; but if he loses, I am afraid that he can only choose between losing favor and losing his head.

There is no way, the fortress that used to be the camp of the Ming army was too strong for them to break through, not to mention the shock of ships and cannons, I am afraid they will not be able to attack for a long time, it is better to let the enemy army besiege their city - the Burmese army from top to bottom The staff of the Ming Dynasty, including Chen An, believed that the artillery fired from the fortress and the positions were ship artillery, and those heavy artillery could not be used outside the sea.

No way, from the beginning to the end, the Burmese army besieged the fortress for two or three months, but they never managed to break through the outer trench defense line. Sea or land?
Being bombarded by intensive artillery fire is enough to cause headaches, who would have that leisurely mood.

The little prince Mang Yingli could kneel in front of the pagoda for two hours, but Chen An couldn't do that. The irritability made him fantasize even more.

He wanted to defeat Chen Mu's power in Myanmar alone, and he also wanted to escape from Myanmar after the defeat, and where he should flee to—he contacted a few trusted captains who were still staying in Baigu City. If you can escape the search at the beginning of the city break, you may be able to hide in the Portuguese cabin and leave India.

Chen Mu's power in Nanyang is so powerful that he can only escape to places where the Ming Dynasty has not yet touched.

Fleeing to Goa is not safe. In the plan, that is only Chen An’s first stop. In Goa, he will hide his identity and continue north into Mughal. I heard that Akbar there is not bad for foreigners. With his talent and wisdom, he should also be able to be an assistant.

The light and shadow of the light and shadow interrupted Chen An's escape plan. He turned around and opened his folding fan. The soldiers around him should not disturb Mang Yingli. , and then said in a low voice: "Speak in a low voice, how about it?"

Don't dare to speak too loudly. If there is bad news, he must first think about how to stabilize Mang Yingli and flee Burma with all his belongings.

But immediately afterwards, this idea was thrown out of the blue by Chen An, and the rider looked very anxious, but what he said was not bad news to them. He said: "Please report to His Royal Highness from the military division. The Ming army is attacking. Three thousand soldiers and horses came from the Hexi Trail and the Eastern Ancient Forest to meet my ambush soldiers, and the Ming army had not yet been ambushed when I came down!"

"Uh-hahahaha!"

Depressed for a short time, Chen An couldn't stop being happy, and didn't care what Mang Yingli was kneeling down. The folding fan closed and opened with a bang, and shouted three times in a row: "Okay! Good! Good!"

When he turned his head, he was facing the displeased face in Mang Yingli on the lower part of the upper pagoda, and said, "Military Master, what are you laughing at?"

"Hmph, the student laughs at Chen Mu for being unscheming, high-ranking and unwise!" At this moment, Chen An wished he could wear a lun scarf and dance with a feather fan in his hand, and he couldn't feel embarrassed uttering the words and sentences in the story book. Zhizhu was in his hand, clutching the black-bone mud-gold fan, he strode towards Mang Yingli and said, "Come from the south to report that the prince has completed the transfer of the tiger away from the mountain. Three thousand Ming troops left the fortress to go north. They were ambushed by Chen Bu in the south. The battle has just begun."

"The Ming army is here?"

Mang Ying's sullen expression was wiped away, he couldn't help but smile slowly, pointed out two fingers to the south, and said: "He, he really left the fortress? In this way, what else can the Ming army rely on? Our army The victory over Daming is just around the corner!"

"The prince is not at the moment when he is complacent. Although there are many ambush soldiers, there are only a thousand or five hundred. Even if the left and right troops rush to help, they are only worth more than four thousand. In this first battle, our army needs a big victory. It is difficult to move with heavy supplies, and another three thousand soldiers and elephant troops will be sent to give them a blow, and they will kill their vigor in a single battle!"

In the final analysis, I was still worried about the Ming army's combat power. Four thousand fighting against three thousand was still not enough insurance.

This is also the case for Mang Yingli, who immediately ordered: "Send, send troops quickly!"

　Good morning, it's Chinese New Year, I wish everyone a happy New Year, good luck and good luck, see you when you go out!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)