open sea

Chapter 530
The arrows of the supernatural mechanism roared in the streets and alleys of Baigu City, and the Ming army invaded the capital of Mang's Dongyu.

Perhaps the siege that the Burmese army imagined was not the case. The two armies fought repeatedly in every street and alley in the city. In just two hours, the tragic street battle not only made the Ming army empty everything it could. The firepower also reduced half of Baigu City to scorched earth.

The soldiers and civilians in the whole city fled, and the Ming army gradually became exhausted after the initial fierce pursuit, and the battle line became stable. In the past, the capital attacked Mangyingli.

Baigu used to be the capital of the Mon Dynasty, and was conquered by Mang Yinglong. They joined Mang Yinglong's army and continued to pay for his conquest of the whole of Burma. It is not a matter of solid loyalty. They surrendered on several battlefields. The soldiers were well taken care of by the Ming army, and after Chen Mu made a promise to reissue the red cards, surveys, and letters, more and more Mon warriors turned to Ming on the battlefield.

Things got so bad that Mang Yingli still did not surrender, and his Burmese army still resisted stubbornly, and followed his order to light the beacon fire at the Baigu Golden Pagoda in the north of Baigu City.

"In the north, he still has an ambush in ambush. If the general doesn't kill me, I can lead that ambush to attack Mangyingli from the back!"

"Can you control that ambush?" Chen Mu's central army has moved to the Brahma Temple in the city, sitting on a big chair and looking at the Ming scholars kneeling on the ground and tied up, his eyes are full of distrust, and he said: "If you can command them, why flee elsewhere?"

It was none other than Mang Yingli's subordinate Chen An who was deeply trusted by the Burmese army and was honored as a military adviser.

On the morning when Baigu City was breached by the Ming army, he broke away from the army in Mangyingli and led more than a dozen of his cronies to plunder property from the city, preparing to escape.

Originally, he was able to run, but unfortunately, he found the wrong person and swept away his and Mang Yingli's belongings. As if he had found a life-saving straw, he went to the Portuguese who had made an appointment and asked him to take him away from Baigu and pass through the blockade of the Ming army. , Step by step, the Portuguese businessman took him to Chen Mujun's camp, and found Pinto, who wrote war novels.

The Portuguese businessman said: This guy is a Ming man, he has a lot of power in Burma, and he wants me to take him out of Burma.

After all, the Ming army entered the city in a hurry. If Chen An fled with his cronies, he might not be caught by the Ming army. Blocked by the Banner Army.

However, he found such a Portuguese businessman who knew him well.

In East Asia, who has the best relationship with the Portuguese?
There is no doubt that it was Chen Erye who defeated the Spaniards and controlled Malacca and Haojing!

Isn't this the rabbit that has entered the wolf's lair?

Chen An wanted to cry, but the only thing that could save him now was his good tongue, but the problem was that Chen Mu didn't believe it.

"They really listened to me! If you don't believe that the general asked me to go to the north of the city, the beacon has already been lit in Mangyingli, and it won't be long before the soldiers and horses will sweep down and attack the officers and soldiers outside the city!"

Chen Mu laughed when he heard that, and said, "Yo, this is the official army?"

As he said that, he waved his hand to ask the flag army to take Chen An down, and snorted, "As a citizen of Ming Dynasty, if you persuade the Mang family to attack three times and six times, and destroy the foundation of the imperial court, no one in Burma will die. This Chen An and Yue Feng is going to die!"

"Send someone to tell the news that there are enemy elephant soldiers in the north to the ministries outside the city, and ask them to take care of their defenses. Once they find a war elephant, they will be bombarded to death with artillery. Tell General Lin to be careful."

Elephant soldiers have always been a tricky thing, and Chen Mu is far less relaxed than it seems on the surface, but he has no choice. Obviously, the source of Mang Yingli's unyielding fighting spirit at this time lies in the fact that he has placed troops outside the city with elephant soldiers. Only by defeating them can Mang Yingli be completely defeated.

The reason for the complete defeat was that during the street fighting in Baigu City, the armies under Mang Yingli had been defeated countless times, but they were only reorganized and continued to be sent to the battlefield. The Ming army was defeated again and again. It is impossible to completely annihilate every army in street fighting.

Therefore, although some troops defected during the battle, Mang Yingli still had thousands of troops in his hands to maintain his defense in the north and outside of the city.

Fighting from early morning to afternoon, Chen Mu knew very well that the three armies under him were exhausted and had no strength left to annihilate Mang Yingli in one fell swoop. For Mang Yingli's second-hand army, Baigu City belongs to them.

But can Lin Manjue stop the elephant soldiers?

No.

In the jungle north of Baigu City, Lin Manjue got the news from Chen Mu from the city, and stopped his attack on the pagoda in the north of the city—Chen Mu actually asked him to fight an elephant!

Lin Manjue felt that he couldn't stop the elephant soldiers, so he put the gun on his shoulder, and turned his head to send an order to his subordinates: "The military order is like a mountain, and there is no other way. .”

In fact, they are more exhausted than the main force of Chen Mu's army. Hundreds of thousands of people have migrated north through this place recently. Escorting prisoners, and occasionally fighting against the rout, was not much easier than Chen Mujun.

Not to mention blocking elephant soldiers, it sounds like a war elephant is nothing more than a target. Although it has thick skin and a huge body, it can be killed by a round of blunderbusses fired from a distance of [-] steps in practice, and a volley of [-]-man blunderbuss.

But that's not talking.

When war elephants appear on the battlefield, riots among the soldiers are inevitable, and even a tough general will tremble; within a hundred paces of a war elephant rushing straight, which army can not collapse?That is human instinct.

As the target soldiers, Lin Manjue specially selected 72 people from the clan's children to act as daredevils, and Hei King Kong carried heavy weapons and prepared heavy weapons. Once the war elephant broke through the front line, it was necessary to rely on them to fight and hack the war elephant to death ——In fact, he has made sufficient preparations, and this is only the final decision.

Nobody wants to actually risk their lives trying to stop a war elephant.

The sound of artillery in Baigu City fell silent in the evening, and the two armies that were hostile to each other tacitly seized the short but precious rest time due to exhaustion.

The new firearms and sufficient training of the Ming Empire have changed the course of the war. Everyone knows that the brief silence is only for brewing a stormy offensive. Mang Yinglong was besieged for seven months before being captured by a duel between the kings. It is very likely that the city of Bogu will completely lose the last trace of resistance in the street fighting of the Ming army tomorrow.

The stubborn Burmese army had no morale to speak of. Mang Yingli announced to the entire army that the ambush outside the city would arrive tomorrow, but this failed to inspire any courage.

The ambush soldiers were not far from Baigu City, and they could arrive within an hour if they could come, but there was no news from them for a whole day.

In the early morning of the next day, the war drums sounded in the city. When the Ming army urged the Burmese troops to descend and attack the Burmese army in the north of Baigu City again, Lin Manjue in the north outside the city seemed to be facing a formidable enemy.

The guerrilla soldiers hiding in the jungle were breathing heavily. Lin Manjue looked at the dense bushes a hundred paces away with his gun in his hand. He heard the heavy footsteps of war elephants behind him. He heard someone shouting hysterically in jerky Chinese. Shouting: "Don't attack, I know you are here, I knew it last night!"

As he stepped on his feet, a white elephant slowly protruded from the jungle and crashed into Lin Manjue's god's eye mirror.

In the middle of the ivory inlaid with gold and jade, a square flag is rolled up on the long trunk of the elephant. On the drooping surface of the flag, the word "Jiang" in ink can be faintly seen, and a person slowly protrudes from the luxurious chair in the elephant's back guard tower.

The man had a golden helmet with the handsome character on his head, a golden forehead, and two tassels on the crown beam that stretched out of the tower. Even the armor of the Ming Dynasty generals was dressed in a bare-shouldered battle robe that showed both civil and military skills. In the elephant tower, a Portuguese matchlock gun was erected, and instead of a weapon, he held a pair of ivory folding fans, which were the most fashionable in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces a few years ago.

The closed folding fan stretched out from the elephant tower, and the man in the golden helmet on the tower had both arrogance and humility. It was difficult to mix these two expressions, but he managed it, and asked with a substandard Yunnan Mandarin with his chin raised. He said: "You are the Heavenly Army, have you heard of Mengshao? Mang Yinglong is Mengshao's elder brother. Don't hit me with the gun. If I hadn't helped you stop my brother from the north, he would have hit me long ago. , I am Meng Shao!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)