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  Chapter 870 866 [Killing father and begging for surrender]

  Jingmai (Chiang Mai), Eight Hundred Division once again attracted Chinese envoys.

  It came from the south last time, but this time it came from the north, and it directly brought the imperial decree.

  The envoy's name is Tu Xuan, and he has been issuing imperial edicts with the army. Meng Gensi surrendered, and further south was the Eight Hundred Division. Tu Yan came with a few soldiers.

   "Why don't you send troops yet?" Tu Xuan angrily scolded.

  Zhao Lengzhai knelt on the ground: "Angel Rong Bing, the minister is collecting food and gathering troops, and he will definitely be able to send troops next month."

  Zhao Leng Zhai can also be called Dao Leng Zhai.

  Bazi is called "Meng", and the leader of a Bazi is "Daomeng". The name of the village is "Man", and the leader of a village is "Tuoman".

  口, that is, the leader.

  The custom of Han surnames in the Ming Dynasty spread to the Dai areas, and the chieftains took "dao" (刀) as their surname one after another.

   There are also surnames Zhao and Shao, which come from "Zhao" (king). Dao Mengsai, who killed his brother earlier, usually calls himself "Shao Mengsai". Meng Gensi's family, as well as Zhao Lengzhai in front of him, are all thinking that they are descendants of the royal family.

  Tu Xuan questioned: "You gave the court documents your surname Dao, and privately you called your surname Zhao. What is your surname?"

  Zhao Lengzhai replied: "The surname of the minister is Dao."

   "If you dare to claim your surname again, I will take back your title of Babaidaian Consolation Envoy!" Tu Xuan angrily scolded.

   "Don't dare." Zhao...Dao Lengzhai kowtowed like garlic.

  Tu Xuan unquestionably ordered: "Within five days, gather troops and horses, and you can attack Burma. If you don't send troops after the deadline, you will bear the consequences!"

   "Yes!" Dao Lengzhai was terrified.

  He called himself Zhao, just to refresh himself. He didn't want to fight anyone in the past, he could just keep his one-acre three-point land, but he was sandwiched between several major forces, so he didn't dare to offend anyone easily.

  Now, if you don’t offend, you can offend.

  Dao Lengzhai did not dare to wait until the fifth day of the deadline, and sent troops on the third day. While sending out troops by himself, he asked the leaders in his jurisdiction to quickly lead the soldiers to follow.

  Eight hundred division soldiers, although their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, but the main force of the enemy army has been transferred to the north in the area they attacked.

  Crossing mountains and passing through valleys, conquering villages and towns along the way, it turns out that there is no disadvantage.

   With such a smooth march, Dao Lengzhai showed confidence and felt that he was very powerful.

  The regular division led by Liu Xinyu encountered a similar situation when they came to the border of Mengliansi. Chieftain Menglian not only gave up resistance, but also went to the front line to plead guilty.

  The Eastern Front troops of the Northern Route Army basically did not fight much, and they overwhelmed Che Lisi, Meng Liansi, Meng Gensi and Babaisi. The coalition forces of the imperial court and chieftains on the east line of the North Road rapidly expanded to nearly 60,000 troops, and they rushed towards Mubang in a mighty manner.

  Historically, the Qing-Myanmar War was similar, and chieftains from all over the country chose to surrender one after another.

  Qianlong’s coquettish operation was that during the Qing-Myanmar War, the imperial court did not force the Burmese chieftain to send troops to help. After the war ended, the imperial court only conferred chieftains, but never cared about these chieftains ever since.

   "Yongchangfu Wenzheng" records: Put the three divisions aside and let Burma deal with it. You have to say, Burma has been subject to the world, and there is no other respect. Although the places of Yanggong belong to Burma, they still belong to me.

   The translation is: the Manchu Qing court set up chieftains but did not manage them, allowing these chieftains to be disposed of by Myanmar. It is also plausible to say that Myanmar has been surrendered for generations, and they are extremely respectful. Although the chieftains in Yanggong and other places are subject to Myanmar, they still obey my Qing Dynasty in the end.

  The current attack target is Mupang, Mubang Tusi, which no longer exists and has been completely annexed by Myanmar.

  The Eight Hundred Division's army attacked from the southeast, the patrol division, Che Lisi, and Meng Gensi's allied forces attacked from the east, and Liu Xinyu's regular division and Meng Liansi attacked from the northeast. The Burmese army here has less than 5,000 standing troops. Facing the offensive from three sides, they ignored their heads and fled directly to the capital.

   Without any effort, Liu Xinyu occupied the entire Mubang.

  He knew that this was not the main battlefield. The mountains were rolling and undulating, and most of the time was spent marching. It is estimated that by the time they reached Ava (the capital of Myanmar), the friendly forces had already finished the decisive battle. The main goal of this road is to subdue those Dai chieftains along the way!

   "Han Zhong, my little minister, kowtow to the Great Harmony Army of the Celestial Dynasty, long live, long live, His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Dynasty!"

   Kneeling in front of Liu Xinyu was Hanzhong, the nephew of Mubang Tusi Hangai.

   Before Mubang Chieftain was destroyed, he had been helping the Ming Dynasty to fight.

  Han Zhong’s grandfather is Han Qin, and his great-grandfather is Han Jinzhong, both of whom have made military exploits for Daming. The Han family had been killed by Burma, and now that the Datong army had arrived, they finally waited for the opportunity to take revenge and brought hundreds of people to join them.

  Hanzhong said: "Mubang has resisted the Burmese for hundreds of years, and the war is the most intense. The Burmese dispatched 300,000 troops to defeat our warriors in Mubang. I am a Shan man, all the time..."

   "Remember, the Chinese are called the Dai people." Dao Kangmu, the general of the Dai people, interrupted.

   "The general is right," Han Zhong hurriedly corrected his accent, "I, a man of the Dai nationality, yearn for the heavenly dynasty all the time, and think about overthrowing the Burmese rule all the time. As long as the general gives an order, I can recruit tens of thousands of Dai warriors to help!"

  Liu Xinyu said: "There is an order from the imperial court to allow you to rebuild the Awa Kingdom of the Dai people! You are so loyal and brave, you may be the king of Awa."

  Han Zhong was overjoyed: "Your Majesty is wise!"

  It is true that the Ava Dynasty in Myanmar was established by the Dai people, but it has nothing to do with the Han family. The court simply wanted to bury a nail here.

  The Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar established by the Burmese had very intense ethnic conflicts. There was a big Mon uprising in the south, and the Dai people continued to resist in the north. Only by military suppression can they maintain their rule.

  The meticulous work of the Datong court is very powerful, and it has been connected in advance, and this rare loyalty is also connected by the careful work.

  Unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they did not engage in intelligence work at all. The Qing-Burmese War was fought for two years, and the imperial court did not even know who the enemy was. I thought it was the main force of the Taungoo Dynasty, but in fact the enemy was the partial division of the Gongbang Dynasty—it was not even clear that Myanmar had changed its dynasty.

   "You go to recruit troops, raise food and salaries, and go to attack Ava together." Liu Xinyu said.

"yes!"

  Han Zhong kowtowed to accept the order.

   Liu Xinyu looked to the northwest, the place where Huang Yao entered the army was the main battlefield of the North Army.

  …

   Mengmao (Nankan).

  Mengmao Tusi’s residence was located in Ruili decades ago, which later became Mengmao Town, Ruili City.

   Chieftain Mengmao was the most ferocious dancer in the late Ming Dynasty, and he always served as the vanguard of Myanmar's invasion of the border.

  When Myanmar invaded Mupang, Doan, the chieftain of Mengmao, was chopped down by Hanqin, the chieftain of Mupang, because he rushed too fast. Hanqin took the opportunity to occupy Ruili, built a fort there and farmed fields, and later dedicated the land of Ruili to Ming Dynasty.

  The Han family has these credits, and the new dynasty of Datong naturally misses the old feelings, so it plans to support Han Zhong Jianguo.

  The Datong Army set out from Ruili and went down the river for more than 50 miles, which was the station of Mengmao Tusi.

  The battle here broke out first, even before the Nanlu Datong Army crossed the sea and landed!

  Huang Yao's main force is not here. Only more than 10,000 inspectors and the anti-smuggling ships of the inspectors attacked Mengmao Chieftain.

   Temporarily assigned 36 artillery pieces to the inspectors.

   Chieftain Duo Sifa of Mengmao only had more than 400 soldiers in his hand, because the Datong inspectors came so fast that he didn't even have time to go to the countryside to recruit soldiers.

   "My lord, my lord is willing to submit to the Celestial Dynasty!" The envoy went out of the city and knelt down to ask for surrender.

  Pan Kai, the head of the temporary patrol inspector, said with a blank face: "Cut it down, and attack the city immediately. The Duo clan, all the men are killed! The Duo clan women are all escorted to the north, and they are married to those who have no wives in the north."

  As the vanguard of Myanmar's invasion of the soil, how can you have the qualifications to surrender?

   "Boom boom boom!"

  Duo Sifa hid in the castle, already scared to death.

   Invading Chinese territory, that is what his father did. When he succeeded to the throne, the Datong army had already taken back Yunnan, so he only dared to be arrogant in his own territory, how could he dare to touch the tiger's whiskers of the Datong court?

   Moreover, the city where Duosifa lives is not very strong.

   Their family has lived in Ruili for generations, and that is where the real Mengmao Walled City is. Now this broken city was built later, and it cannot withstand the artillery bombardment at all.

  The Walled City has been surrounded by groups, more than 10,000 people surrounded more than 400 people, and even the idea of ​​breaking out cannot be born.

  Duo Sifa stood behind the wall in a daze. The soldiers on the earthen wall were already scared by the shells and hid, looking left and right, not knowing what to do.

  Son Doche walked over and said bravely, "Father, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide today, so I can only try to use your head."

  Duo Sifa didn't scold his son, and said in mourning, "Even if you kill me, it's useless."

   "Have to try." Docher said, drawing his sword.

  Duo Sifa cried and asked, "Is your knife sharpened the fastest?"

   Docher said, "It's grinding."

  Duo Sifa said again: "Forget it, I'd better hang myself, your sword skills have always been bad."

   Docher urged: "Father, hurry up, or it will be too late."

  Father and son got a rope, Duo Che was watching, and Duo Sifa stood up trembling.

  The sound of cannons outside is still going on.

  Duo thought about it several times and hung the rope around his neck, but he was afraid of death and retracted, looking at his chieftain's mansion with great nostalgia.

  Docher finally got impatient, drew his knife and said, "Father, don't waste time!"

  Duo Sifa gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, hung his neck, kicked his feet, and swung under the eaves.

   It was too late to verify whether he was dead, so Docher took down his father, cut off his head and sent someone out to ask for his surrender.

   "Master General, this is the head of the chieftain. We sincerely surrender this time, please forgive us." The envoy kowtowed tremblingly.

  Teacher Pan Kai was unmoved, and still said the same sentence: "Cut it!"

  It was useless to kill his father, Docher finally despaired.

  He was afraid of being hacked to death with knives, and even more afraid that he would not die for a while, so he subconsciously looked at the rope where his father hanged himself.

   "The wall is falling!"

   "Run!"

  The news that the wall of the village was blown down made Duo Che make up his mind to hang himself by stepping on a stool.

  The chieftain soldiers guarding the city had already dispersed, looking for a place to escape over the wall. But there was nowhere to escape at all, and he escaped half a mile at most, and was caught and killed on the spot.

  In the chieftain's mansion, there were bursts of crying.

   Except for women and children under the age of seven (visual inspection), the military order is to execute all of them, and the Datong Army will use this place as a grain and grass transfer station. Then go down the river and take Meng Mi directly.

  (end of this chapter)