Chapter 660 Attacking Burma - Destroying Ava City and the Wounded
"Kill!" Dao Yubin shouted, leading two thousand Meng Yang native soldiers to cross the moat that could be waded through, and forced into a gap in the city wall that was blasted by cannon.
Because the Indochina Peninsula is relatively backward and has poor city-building technology, the city will not be built too high. The city of Ava is only two or three feet high. The continuous firing of solid cannonballs hit the city wall, causing earth and rocks to splash everywhere, and soon the city wall was covered with water.
Big and small holes were blasted.
But as the capital of Ava City, the city wall is three to four feet thick, and these holes blasted out cannot break the city wall. However, under Mu Ying's conscious bombardment, a slope similar to an earth slope was formed, although the slope was very steep.
It's big, but it's easier than climbing the wall. The siege infantry rushed towards the city wall along the slopes.
Of course, the Ava army resisted with all their strength. They used boiling oil or hot water to pour down the slopes. From time to time, soldiers covered with boiling oil or hot water fell down screaming, blocking the passage for those behind them.
Dao Yubin held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed upward. When he encountered someone who was screaming and lying on the ground, he stepped on him and cut him off with a knife - with the technology of this era, large-scale burns cannot be treated at all, so it is better to kill him with a knife.
You can also suffer less.
Fortunately, these slopes are so wide and narrow that rolling logs and stones cannot be used. Otherwise, if a log rolls down, they will all be knocked down.
Another burst of boiling oil poured down, and Dao Yubin temporarily stopped and put his shield on the ground to block the flowing boiling oil. When the boiling oil flowed down from his feet, he endured the pain in his feet and ignored the tragedy behind him.
Yell, stand up and rush forward.
He used all his strength to push the two Ava men blocking the slope to the ground, pierced the wooden edge of the shield with his knife, took from his waist the grenade he had asked for from Zhu Chu before attacking the city, and pointed it forward.
Throw it away. There are only two loud sounds of "bang" and "bang". The grenade killed three Ava people and injured two or three others.
Dao Yubin pulled out his sword again, killed the struggling people on the ground, and rushed to the top of the city.
At this time, the Ava people at the top of the city were already in some confusion. Not only because of the Ming soldiers boarding the city, but also because of the constant bombardment of artillery shells on the city wall. Especially after blasting several slopes, Mu Ying ordered six more
After the cannons were replaced with shotguns to attack the Ava people at the top of the city, they became even more confused. The shells did not do much damage, but this weapon, which they had no way to fight back, had a great impact on their morale.
The bows and arrows fired from under the city also caused a lot of damage to them. Although they could fight back, the enemy's numbers were greater than theirs, and their archery skills were far superior to them;
It is useful to people, but because the land in the plains of central Burma is soft and the rolling logs will not bounce when they hit the ground, they are of little use to the people below the city.
What's more important is that most of these people were ordinary people the day before yesterday, and they couldn't bear such a bloody battlefield. From time to time, someone would scream and run back, and then be killed by the supervising team led by Narota himself.
But as more and more Ming soldiers boarded the city, more and more people could not bear it. As a Ming flag was planted on the city, the Ava people on the city shouted and dispersed.
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The supervising team led by Narota wanted to kill them, but Narota stopped them and said, "Stop killing people. The city can no longer be defended."
"What should we do now?" one person asked. At this time, the Ming army was cleaning up the remaining Awa soldiers who were still resisting, but had not yet reached them.
"Raise the white flag, let's surrender." Narota said calmly.
"Surrender?" they shouted in confusion.
"It means surrendering. Since the city can no longer be defended, we must save the lives of you and your family. You are our most elite army in Ava, and we will need you again in the future!" Narota said.
As they wrapped the white cloth around their spears, someone asked: "Will we have a chance to serve Ava in the future?"
"There must be some." Narota said: "This place is too far away from the place directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to set up a state capital here and can only appoint local officials. Regardless of whether it is to hand over Ava to Meng Yang
, it is better to hand it over to Luchuan or Mubang. The strength of the chieftain who gets Ava will be greatly expanded, and will be close to Luchuan, which was split by the Ming Dynasty two years ago. This is something that the Ming Dynasty will never allow."
"So you will definitely have the opportunity to play for Ava in the future!"
At this time, the Ming army that had attacked the city had noticed the army with the white flag. A man wearing the uniform of a fifth-grade military general of the Ming Dynasty came over with more than a dozen people and said to them: "Put down your weapons!"
Narota first asked his men to put down their weapons, and then said in Chinese: "I am Narota, the eldest prince of Ava, and I want to meet the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty."
The Ming army Qianhu was stunned for a moment, and then said to a person next to him: "Quickly report to His Highness and General Mu to capture alive a man in Ava who claims to be the eldest prince."
"There is no need to tell His Highness that he is the eldest prince of Ava." Suddenly such a voice sounded. Qianhu and Narota looked in the direction of the sound at the same time, and saw Dao Yubin standing next to others.
He jumped over with help. He had just been burned by boiling oil. He didn't feel it when he was fighting. Now he feels extremely painful and can only be helped.
"Narota, long time no see." He continued in Thai.
Narota looked at him for a few times and suddenly realized: "It turns out to be you Dao Yubin. I haven't seen you for two years. What happened to your feet?" They had fought two years ago and met before the battle.
"Your men just poured oil on them and burned the soles of their feet. Don't change the subject. How about it? Doesn't it feel good to have the capital captured?" Dao Yubin said with a smile.
"It's better than losing your life in front of the battle," Narota said.
Dao Yubin's expression changed. His father was killed by the Ava people three years ago. "If I were the commander-in-chief, I would definitely cut you into pieces!" he said through gritted teeth.
"But you are not the commander-in-chief this time, and the commander-in-chief cannot be any local official." Narota said this in Thai, and then said to the Ming army Qianhu in Chinese: "Hurry up and report to you.
Your Majesty!"
This Qianhu had just listened to them talking in a language that he did not understand, and had been standing there in a daze. Suddenly he heard this sentence in Chinese, and immediately asked someone to report it to Zhu Chu.
Dao Yubin stopped talking to him and asked Meng Yangren, who had followed him to the top of the city, to quickly follow the Ming army into the city from the top of the city, while he went down the slope with the help of others.
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Zhu Ming and Mu Ying stood together, looking nervously at the top of the city. Although more and more people rushed up, his heart was still clenched. Until a soldier waved a big flag with the word "Ming" at the top of the city.
Only then did he feel relieved and said: "We finally captured the city of Ava."
The man standing next to him wearing Dai leather armor happily hugged his neck and said with a smile: "The city of Ava has been conquered!"
Mu Ying glanced sideways at Zhu Chu and Dao Baifeng, but said nothing. He didn't like having women in the army, but she was brought by Zhu Chu and was the daughter of Chief Meng Yang, and he didn't want to do it because of this.
When things conflict, you can only remain silent.
"Let the remaining soldiers return to their respective camps. Even those who have reached the city wall must move back and are not allowed to enter the city. Send an order to the generals of each army to gather the soldiers."
"Immediately dispatch the military police to maintain order in the city. It is already dark now. If they loot, they will probably kill each other. We must not let them loot now. All the military police have their arms wrapped in red scarves, and they will be punished if they encounter anyone who dares to loot privately.
Kill them on the spot." Zhu Xi ordered.
"Yes, General." The person who received the order immediately walked out.
Mu Ying gave a few more instructions, and then said to Zhu Zhen: "Your Highness, it is already dark now, and the city has just been captured. It is very unsafe to enter the city now. Your Highness should stay in the tent for one more night like me.
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Zhu Ming didn't care about this. He had lived in a Dai village in Mengyang, and to him, it was not very different from a tent. So he said, "Since we are so lonely, let's stay one night outside the city."
The two of them said a few more words, and Mu Ying said: "It's already so late, so I won't disturb His Highness' rest." Then he exited the tent.
After he left, Dao Baifeng realized that she and Zhu Zhen were the only two people in the tent now, and hurriedly said: "Alang, I'm going back too."
"You can stay tonight." Zhu Zhen said.
Dao Baifeng was shocked and was stunned for a while before saying: "Alang, we are not married yet. When we are married, I will be with you..."
"Okay, I'll ask the guards to take you back." Zhu Zhen said with some disappointment and some relief.
At this moment, Dao Baifeng suddenly came up to him and kissed him on the face, then ran out of the tent with a sweet smile.
Dao Baifeng returned to Meng Yangjun's camp. While she was away on the march, if she lived near Zhu Chu's camp, even if she did not live in the same tent as Zhu Chu, her reputation would be hindered, so she returned to Meng Yangjun's camp every night.
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As soon as she walked near her tent, she heard a cry: "Oh, it hurts me so much!"
Dao Baifeng looked sideways and said with some worry: "Could it be that my cousin was injured when he led the army to attack the city today?" As she said this, she walked towards Dao Yubin's camp.
She opened the tent and saw Dao Yubin lying on the bed, with a soldier squatting next to his feet doing something.
When Dao Baifeng saw that he had no missing arms or legs, he was half relieved and asked: "What's wrong with you?"
When Dao Yubin saw it was her, he said, "It's Bai Feng. I led a charge today, and the boiling oil burned the soles of my feet, which made people pick me up." Just as he was talking, he suddenly said "Oh!"
The voice immediately said to the person who was picking the bubbles: "I said you won't be gentle!"
"Cousin, let me do it," Dao Baifeng walked to Dao Yubin's feet, took the needle from the soldier, squatted down and said, "Men are all messy, how can they do such a job well?
." while starting to pick bubbles.
"Sure enough, it's better for a girl to do such a thing." Dao Yubin said with a smile.
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Thanks to book friend Zhaoyun Muyu for the reward.