Under the scorching sun, countless soldiers wearing Ming dynasty coats or rattan armor are rolling southward. This is a plain area, and has been developed by various regimes in southwest China. There are no tall trees to shade the sun, so the sun is shining brightly. The radiation hit the soldiers, making them covered in sweat.
On August 17, three days before Zhu Chu left Mengyang City, the former army to conquer the Burmese army was led by Yan Wu, the commander of the Golden Teeth Guard, Yu Bin, the chief of Mengyang Qianhu, and Dao Fengqi, the magistrate of the state. Depart from Jiangtou City and go south, along the Great Jinsha River (Irrawaddy River) and go straight to Taigong City, which belongs to Myanmar.
Yan Wu sat on the back of the elephant and looked at the soldiers walking beside the elephant. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming dynasty pacified Yunnan and established the Golden Tooth Guard in Yongchang. The Mongolian Guanyinbao was appointed as the commander of the Golden Tooth Guard and was renamed Li Guan, assisted by Chu Jie and Yan Wu, generals of the Ming Dynasty who entered Yunnan, took root in Yongchang from then on.
Yan Wu looked at the group of people approaching him. They were wearing Ming Dynasty coats and were soldiers of the Golden Tooth Guard and the Yongping Guard. These two guards and the other guard of Yongchang, the Tengchong Guard, were both Han and Yi mixed, but usually Considered to be the Han army.
Yan Wu looked at the troops wearing rattan armor a little further away. They were the troops of Meng Yang or Dahou. They were all wearing rattan armor and their helmets were also made of rattan armor. They looked like the ones that Zhuge Liang burned down with fire in the legend. The vine armor soldiers look very similar.
Although rattan armor is very afraid of fire, because its protection is comparable to iron armor, Zhu Zhen really wants a batch of rattan armor to equip some of the army. However, rattan armor is not easy to make, and these local officials do not have much stock, and they are not willing Sold to him. Zhu Zhen exchanged a batch of iron spearheads for 3,000 pairs of rattan armor and equipped part of the army. However, these rattan armor Ming troops were all in the central army and not in the front army, and some changes were made to match the native soldiers. distinguish.
Yan Wu looked back again. Just behind the elephant he was riding, there were several elephants pulling heavy artillery carts. Now the technical level of cannons in the world is very low, with a range of more than one mile. The cannons weighed more than 1,000 kilograms. Even the Mongolian horses in the north required two horses to pull them. The Yunnan horses were small and required four or five horses.
But he discovered an animal in Yunnan that is more suitable for pulling cannon carts: elephants. Adult Eastern elephants can weigh up to five or six tons and can pull several tons of cargo. They are suitable for pulling cannon carts. Although they eat more , but elephants can forage for themselves in the wild and are very suitable for pulling cannon carts.
Just as he was thinking about it, Dao Yubin, who was sitting on another elephant next to him, said to him: "General Yan, Jiangtou City is thirty miles ahead."
"Order the soldiers to rest where they are. The cavalry troops intercept all Burmese people they see." Yan Wu ordered.
"General Yan, why don't you let the soldiers attack Jiangtou City in one go and then rest?" Dahou Zhizhou Dao Fengqi got off the elephant he was riding on and walked to Yan Wu's elephant and asked.
Yan Wu also got off the elephant, pointed at the soldiers and said: "They got up early to march, and now they are too tired. They will not be able to use their advantage when fighting the Burmese. They must take a rest."
"But now Jiangtou City is empty and unprepared. If we rest here, the enemy will be prepared." Dao Yubin said.
"Even if we go straight to Jiangtou City without rest, we will still make them prepare. Besides, they can't prepare anything in such a short time."
"Moreover," Yan Wu pointed to the cannon behind him and said, "We have cannons. And according to the results of the investigation, there are no cannons in Jiangtou City. When these dozen or so cannons are fired, nothing can be fired."
Yan Wu was so confident in taking Jiangtou City because of the cannons dragged by the elephants. In order to ensure victory, Zhu Zhen dispatched six cannons from one thousand to two thousand kilograms with a range of about three miles.
and twelve small cannons ranging from 500 to 1,000 kilograms, with a range of about one mile. Among them, the former army was allocated three large cannons and nine small cannons. Although they did not know whether there were cannons in Ava City, Jiangtou City was
No, so this battle must be won.
However, Dao Yubin and Dao Fengqi did not have such confidence. They had not seen the power of artillery. However, the former deputy general of the army who started the war this time was Yan Wu, not the two of them, and the two of them could not move except for their own soldiers.
It is impossible for armies other than horses to command their own troops to sacrifice themselves for others, so they can only stop and rest.
Yan Wu let them rest for half an hour, then called up the soldiers and continued marching towards Jiangtou City. Half an hour later they saw Jiangtou City.
Yan Wu took out his clairvoyance and looked at the top of the city. Sure enough, the guards in the city had discovered their traces, and the top of the city was in chaos. Taking advantage of your illness and killing you, Yan Wu immediately ordered an attack on the city.
The process of siege was lackluster. Yan Wu ordered the cannon to be pulled in front of the city gate and fired cannonballs. The wooden gate was destroyed in a few hits. Yan Wu then ordered to fire several shotguns at the top of the city and mounted infantry to attack the city gate.
Rush away.
The soldiers in the city were immediately confused and had no idea what to do, so they quickly surrendered.
Of course, regardless of whether the defenders surrendered or not, they still had to plunder. Although the native soldiers of the Awa Dynasty and Mengyang and the princes of Myanmar were all Dai, these soldiers had no intention of giving preferential treatment to their compatriots, or they did not mean to give any preferential treatment to their compatriots.
They did not regard the Dai people in Myanmar as compatriots, and started looting after entering the city.
Yan Wu himself deliberately waited outside the city for two hours, and did not enter the city until it was almost dark, and began to maintain order in the city and let the elite main force stop the robbery. Although there were some conflicts, Dao Yubin and Dao Fengou
Everyone knew that they could not go against Yan Wu's wishes, so they quickly restrained their soldiers and restored order in the city.
When Yan Wu saw Dao Yubin and Dao Fenggou in the evening, both of them had smiles on their faces. Their troops suffered minor losses, with only a dozen people dead in total; but they captured Jiangtou City and from the city
A lot of treasures were robbed and great gains were made.
‘It would be great if future battles could be fought like this.’ Dao Yubin and Dao Fengou both thought.
The two of them also took out part of the property that their soldiers had handed over to the public, and asked the guards to take them into the most luxurious house in the city where Yan Wu now lived, and said to Yan Wu: "Yan Wu
General, the success of this battle is all due to General Yan's superb military prowess, and we are very grateful. In the afternoon, we saw that the soldiers of the Han army did not grab many things, and we felt a little sorry. These things,"
Dao Yubin took a package from the guard behind him and said, "Give it to General Yan; these things," he took another package from the guard behind him, "let the brothers of the Han army share them."
Dao Fengou also said to Yan Wu the same as Dao Yubin.
