open sea

Chapter 528
Amidst the roar of artillery fire, Second Master Chen counted the days with his fingers, and felt that he was not far away from the days when his wife and children would be hot on the kang.

That is, before and after the three-eyed gun at sea.

The largest city in Myanmar has been under siege for seven days. In fact, it was breached once on the first day, and twice in the next six days.

But this is the capital of Burma after all, and Mangyingli has done a remarkable job of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields. With the current artillery, breaking the city has become the most difficult problem in the war for Chen Mu.

On the first night of the battle, Shao Tingda, Huang Dexiang, and Lou Qimai led the army to smash the Burmese army's ambush, chased the enemy all the way to the city, and blasted open a heavy gate with gunpowder.

However, because Shao Tingda charged forward, he was shot in the head by the enemy defending the city nearby, knocking his helmet unconscious. The enemy deliberately captured this bald man without a helmet, and before he brought him back to the second gate, he was snatched out of the city by his servants. The left and right parts of the army withdrew from the city.

The second time the city was broken in the early morning of the next day, when Lou Qimai's subordinates saw that the Burmese army was trying to close the city gate, a hundred households led troops and killed them, thus starting the second siege battle.

This time, with the experience of the previous night, the Ming army rushed to control the ladders, attacked together from the lower part of the city and the upper part of the city. The loss was heavy, so Ming Jin withdrew his troops and waited for reinforcements from the rear.

When Chen Mu led his army and supplies to arrive in the evening of the next day, he was not in a hurry to attack, and used a few days of swaggering to siege the city to disintegrate the enemy's fighting spirit, because the three-eyed gun had already been loaded with ammunition.

Chen Mu was in the south, Deng Zilong was in the southeast, and Bai Yuanjie was in the west. The three armies did not enter the army. From time to time, the artillery from the general's department bombarded the defenders at the top of the city.

At the beginning, the defenders had a strong fighting spirit. Seeing that the Ming army had set up camp, they concentrated on mobilizing all kinds of artillery, no matter whether they could hit that far or not, they would bombard them.

But when they bombarded, regardless of whether it was Chen Mu or whoever it was, not to mention the regular two-pound cannon of the Thousand Households Department, the three chief generals not only had the general Zhenshuo's cannon commanding the envoy, but also several ten-pound cannons. It's a big thing, even if the defenders are on the city, how can they get the slightest benefit.

Every time there is artillery fire on the city, no matter where the defenders are bombarding the city, no matter whether their shells are effective or not, no more than half a cup of tea, more shells will fly from the bottom of the city to the top of the city, and even the female wall will be destroyed. Boom to pieces.

The artillery of the Ming army is more accurate, and within the range of the existing artillery that does not exceed the visual range, the artillery of the Ming army is the most accurate artillery.

The same cannon model and the same drilling machine guarantee the caliber of the artillery to the greatest extent. In terms of accuracy, no artillery in the world can surpass them within a thousand steps.

What's more, there is also the emergence of artillery popularization education. Of course, this is precisely the shortcoming of the artillery of the Ming army.

Chen Mu thinks that their artillery education is still relatively bad, and regular artillery should come out of the lecture hall, but there are too few colleges now, and it is too inferior to use officers to fire artillery.

Even so, in just two days, the Baigu garrison's bad habit of shooting cannons was successfully educated by the Ming army with a larger caliber—although Chen Mu didn't know whether their artillery was broken or the artillery was beaten. Killed, or completely frightened by the beating.

In short, there were no more artillery fires from the city. Even if the Ming army bombarded the city occasionally, the head of Baigu City was silent except for screams. Even after four days of bombardment, the defenders on the city seemed numb to their bombardment.

Nobody said anything at all.

It may be a great advantage to believe in Buddhism and seek the afterlife. They are more likely to accept their fate than others.

Just when Chen Mu thought that his combat intention had been achieved, he received a message from Lin Manjue, the northern guerrilla leader of Baigucheng.

After Lin Manjue divided his troops to guard the main roads, scattered gunmen among the dense forests, and intercepted and killed more than a dozen scouts sent by the Burmese army to the north in a few days, a large number of Baigu people left the city from the north and fled northward. The roads were blocked, even through the jungle - he couldn't stop it.

"Mang Yingli is planning to defend the city to the death, he is a smart man."

When Chen Mu said this, he really believed that Mang Yingli's move was particularly ruthless. He had confirmed from the fact that the sent scouts were intercepted and killed that the elite blockade of the Ming army in the north was far beyond his imagination, and he could not give up his father's plan. Bai Guducheng had no choice but to come up with such a method.

He drove the people to the north, and the Ming army could intercept and kill scouts one after another, but it was impossible to kill all the people, let alone keep them all.

There are hundreds of thousands of people, if the Ming army wants to keep these people, let alone how much strength and energy they will spend, just to feed these people, the Ming army can eat half a month in three days. The rations, the Ming army was eaten and retreated before the battle was over.

And the most important thing is that this can achieve Mang Yingli's strategic goal, to send the news of the Ming army's siege of Baigu to his father Mang Yinglong.

There is no need to know the details, these common people know roughly what they should know, and even if they tell Mang Yinglong what the common people don't know, there is no change in essence.

Mang Yingli's question now is whether his father will return to his teacher Bai Gu, if he returns, everything will be fine; if not, Bai Gu will have to fend for himself.

No other results.

"It's quite ruthless. Think about it, Mang Yingli is in the city, what should he do?"

Mang Chong, who had been sleeping for several days with a swollen head, clamored to attack the city first, but Chen Mu didn't want to attack. He said, "I think when Mang Yingli drives the people out of the city, he should send troops to go door-to-door. All the food and grass collected were taken into his own hands, and he has not opened the gate of the city since the vanguard army defeated its army that night."

"How many heads were captured by the vanguard army, and how many corpses were left outside the city. The three or four thousand people did not return to the city. They scattered to the north and became a chaotic army. There should not be many soldiers in Mang Yingli's hands now." Chen Mu In the tent, he raised his finger and pointed to the Burmese strong city in the north, saying, "That's all he can rely on."

"We need military rations. He drove the people out of the city just to send the news to the north in order to get more reinforcements. Baigu went north and traveled at least [-] miles to reach the Mangyinglong Garrison Camp. The news was sent there Mang Yinglong has another one thousand and one hundred miles to rush to help, and Mang Yingli has a long time to hold on, and he also needs rations."

"Baigu used to be the royal city of the Mon clan, and the mang clan occupied the magpie's nest. The people here were not loyal to him. Now he drives the people in the city to the north. Although this is good for the war for a while, it loses the support of the Mang clan in Burma. , is not a bad thing for Daming."

"In this case, why don't we give him this opportunity to raise rations for us." Chen Mu raised his two fingers and pointed in the direction of Baigu City, and said, "I will break through the city just around the corner, and let him live for another three days. After three days, the three armies will be together." Boom, cannon open the city, chasing death and chasing the north!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)