Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1282 Breaking through the Encirclement and Suppression
Ainengqi left the camp and headed for Xibo with food. Along the way, he hid part of the food and gunpowder in the forest. When he approached Xibo, each soldier only had more than 20 catties of dry food left.

Ainengqi has been active on the Ming-Myanmar border for five years, and he is familiar with the terrain in this area. He has stored food in advance and built hidden supply points. The army does not need to carry a lot of luggage, and the marching speed is naturally faster than the Toungoo people. .

Mubang and Mengyang areas are full of mountains and forests. Ainengqi marched for five days, and the scouts found the forward of the Dongyu people thirty miles away.

At this time, in the woods on a mountainside, several scouts looked down from the dense bushes, and saw the Taungoo soldiers and horses all over the valley. There were hundreds of war statues, and the rest were infantry, holding bows and arrows in their hands. Most of them are bare-chested, with only a piece of cotton cloth around their waists.

These people look full of wildness, uncivilized barbarians at first glance, which makes people feel a little scary.

This team is the East Route Army of the Toungoo Kingdom, led by General Mang Cang, the goal is to quickly outflank Meng Nai, block Ainengqi's way to the east and the Ming Dynasty, and cooperate with the other two routes to encircle and wipe out Aineng strange.

Although Taungoo State is not big, its ethnic composition is very complicated. There are Shan, Bamar, and Mon. Toungoo is a dynasty established by the Bamar. The Shan people in the north fell into the Under Toungoo's rule.

The relationship between the two ethnic groups was not very harmonious, and this was also an important basis for the Ming Dynasty to make meticulous efforts to bribe and lure the Shan people to support Ainengqi.

However, some Shan people supported Ainengqi, and some Shan people took refuge in Taungoo.

This time, Toungoo marched in three directions and formulated a plan to encircle and suppress, that is, a chieftain of the Shan ethnic group secretly told King Toungoo the location of Ainengqi's activities.

In the past, Toungoo's encirclement and suppression of Ainengqi failed. An important reason was that he didn't know where Ainengqi was hiding. Knowing the exact location this time was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Mang Cang personally led an elite Burmese army of [-] to advance quickly, preparing to outflank Meng Nai.

According to the information obtained by Dongyu, the rebel army has only about 3000 people, and Dongyu's troops dispatched this time are ten times that of the rebel army, and even the East Route Army is more than three times that of the rebel army. No fear.

At this time, the scouts on the mountainside observed for a while, and saw more than 1 Toungoo people marching forward from the valley. Several scouts discussed, and five of them stayed behind to follow and monitor, while the other five left quickly to go to the village. Inform Ainengqi.

Among Ainengqi's subordinates, there are not many old western troops, not even many Han Chinese. Most of them are Tusi soldiers from Yunnan, and there are also Shan people from the Mupang area. They are very familiar with the terrain and adapted to the climate here.

The scouts turned over the mountain. Two scouts at the foot of the mountain looked at more than a dozen Yunnan horses. Five soldiers got on the horses and walked along the path. After walking for more than 20 miles, they found a rest in a forest. There are more than 3000 troops in Japan.

As soon as they entered the woods, they saw more than a dozen soldiers tied behind the tree. It is estimated that some Shan chieftain saw that Dongyu was powerful, so he sent someone to inform Dongyu's army that Ainengqi had already left Meng Nai. He was actually caught by Ainengqi.

Many things, sometimes just a little thing went wrong, as if it was destined by God, maybe the Ming Dynasty's national fortune was really beaten back.

If these soldiers were not discovered by Ainengqi and Mang Cang was notified of the news, perhaps he would be able to raise his vigilance and not be as reckless as his name.

After the scouts came back, they first briefly reported to Qi Sansheng what they found, and then they were brought in front of Ainengqi who was sitting on the boulder.

"General Qi, the Burmese army has 1 people, including [-] war elephants, and the rest are basically infantry, coming east." This scout is from the Shan nationality, and the general Ainengqi is not It was sealed by the Ming Dynasty, and the northern part of Toungoo is the territory of the Shan people. There are almost no Han people. It is of little use to play the banner of the Ming Dynasty. They are from the beginning of the ethnic group, so they can gain a firm foothold in Shan State.

In the words of later generations, he belongs to the Shan rebels supported by foreign forces.

Ainengqi squinted his eyes and asked: "How is the equipment of the army? Are the troops cleaned up?" He must understand every detail.

"Most of the equipment is bows and arrows and bird guns. The soldiers mostly carry short knives and rattan shields. Most of them have no armor. The team dragged on for a long time, not very neat, and looked a little tired."

Ai Nengqi asked again: "How much luggage is there?"

"I didn't see the luggage, but every soldier had grain bags and water bottles hanging on their waists, and no vehicles were seen accompanying them."

Qi Sansheng thought for a moment, then clasped his fists and said: "General, the luggage may still be in Xibo, and the Dongyu people want to outflank us quickly, so they took the lead and went ahead."

Ainengqi nodded, "It should be like this!" He waved his hand to the scouts and said, "After a short rest, you go continue monitoring."

Qi Sansheng went away but asked in doubt, "General, the Dongyu people are exhausted from their haste, so don't they set up an ambush now?"

Ainengqi smiled, "It's not the time yet, wait a little longer."

On the other side, Mangcang was afraid that Ai Nengqi would slip back to the Ming Dynasty again, and the army would be wasted. As Qi Sansheng expected, Mang Cang left the luggage behind, and the main force hurried to outflank Ai Nengqi's retreat.

The army walked until noon, when Mang Cangdi arrived at the camp of a Shan chieftain in the east of Mengnai. The Shan chieftain was named Yang Fuzhen. He was worried that Ainengqi's activities would cause the Bamar to kill the Shan people, and he was afraid that he would be implicated, so Early on, he secretly informed Dongyu.

"Please rest assured, general. I have sent more than ten soldiers to Meng Nai to investigate. If there is any change in the rebel army, they will come back and report immediately. But so far, no news has been sent back. It is estimated that Ainengqi still does not know the whereabouts of the general. .”

Mangcang nodded, he must dispatch troops quickly, otherwise Ainengqi would get the news and slip away to the Ming Dynasty, it would be over.

Thinking of this, he called a man and ordered him to lead 3000 troops to go to Meng Guang who was behind Meng Nai, cutting off Ainengqi's way back to the Ming Dynasty.He said to the remaining 6000 people: "Rest for half an hour, hurry up and eat, and then go west immediately."

Seeing 6000 Burmese troops marching northwestward, Mangcang led [-] men to continue westward soon after, and the monitoring scouts immediately went back to report.

At this time Ai Nengqi got the news, and immediately smiled on his face. He expected that the enemy would divide his troops to cut off his way back to the Ming Dynasty, so he was not in a hurry to ambush him.

After all, the Burmese army on the east route was close to [-] people, which was three times as large as his. If he couldn't take a bite and attracted two other groups, he would have no way to escape.

Dongyu's army only thought that Ai Nengqi would go up several times and escape into the Ming Realm, so the deployment was to intercept Ai Nengqi, never thought that Ai Nengqi would take the initiative to ambush this time.

Hearing that the Burmese army was divided, Qi Sansheng couldn't help admiring Ai Nengqi, and at the same time understood Ai Nengqi's intentions, and immediately said happily: "General, which way should we ambush?"

Ainengqi looked carefully at a map spread out on the stone, put away the map after a while, looked up at the sky again, and said: "Let them cut off the back road, let's sneak attack their main force, Then go straight to Xibo and seize their baggage!"

"According to the distance, when the Burmese army reaches Wake Peak, it will be dark. They have war elephants, we can't fight head-on, and we will fight after dark!" After finishing speaking, Ainengqi immediately ordered: " Send an order to the whole army, prepare to go! Let's go to ambush first!"

Mangcang rested in the chieftain's village for half an hour, then continued to march towards Meng Nai, he didn't know that Ai Nengqi had already left Meng Nai, waiting for him on the way.

6000 troops marched west all the way, with mountains and dense forests on both sides of the road, and no one was seen wherever the army passed.

The Burmese occupy the arable plains near Ava, while the ruled Shan people are driven into the northern forests. The Burmese usually do not come to the northern mountains, so seeing the scenes on both sides is still a little scary.

In order to kill the rebels by mistake, the Burmese army marched in a hurry all the way. After entering northern Burma, the mountain road was difficult to walk. By the time it was near Wake Peak, it was already dark.

Mangcang saw that the soldiers were exhausted, and Meng Nai was unable to fight the rebels in such a state, so he ordered the soldiers to eat and rest on the spot.

With an order, more than 6000 Burmese troops lay in disorder in the valley. Many soldiers were so tired that they only drank saliva and fell asleep.

Ainengqi led more than 3000 soldiers, and went to the woods near Wake Peak one step earlier to hide.

At this time, a scout went into the woods and whispered something to Ainengqi. Ainengqi nodded and waved his hand, signaling the scouts to retreat.

He looked over at the sky, the sun had already set, and a bright moon was rising, so he became more confident.

In a blink of an eye, it was completely dark. In the valley, hundreds of war elephants gathered together to sleep, surrounded by sleeping Burmese soldiers.

They traveled too hard, and most of the soldiers soon fell asleep. Only a very small number of sentry posts were still leaning against the tree trunks, maintaining a certain degree of vigilance.On the entire official road, there were sleeping soldiers lying here and there, only the crackling sound of the fire burning, and the surroundings were silent, filled with the buzzing of insects one after another.

At this moment, a loud arrow shot into the sky with a "swish", and it exploded with a "bang", and then nearly a hundred sparkling objects were thrown from the mountains and forests on both sides, and fell into the bottom of the valley .

Immediately, the sound of "Boom! Boom! Boom!" exploded in the entire valley, dozens of sky-shattering bombs exploded in the valley, and the flames of the explosion illuminated the valley like daytime.Countless sleeping soldiers were awakened by the explosion, and the frightened war elephants in the middle, screaming in panic, rushed through the valley, trampling countless Burmese soldiers to death.

In fact, Zhentianlei didn't kill many people, but the frantic war elephants were terrifying. They crushed everything like chariots, and the valley was suddenly in chaos.

"put!"

Ainengqi roared, and countless flames spewed out from the forest, and some Burmese soldiers who were avoiding the war elephants and climbing up the two hillsides were immediately knocked down by the firecrackers.

The civil war in the valley was rampant. On the hillside, Ainengqi's 3000 horsemen fired guns and arrows. Before the Burmese army could react, they had already failed...

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