At this time, Zhuo Jing walked in from outside. He couldn't understand Thai or Yi, but he could understand Chinese. Although everyone was actually a little restrained from speaking because of Zhu Chu's presence, it was still too dirty for Zhuo Jing.
Zhuo Jing said loudly: "What are you doing! If the prisoner makes rude remarks, just kill him. How can you talk like this! Besides, this prisoner doesn't understand what you are talking about."
Everyone stopped talking immediately when they heard Zhuo Jing's voice, and Zhu Chu did the same.
Zhuo Jing scolded him a few more times and asked, "What did the prisoners say that made you curse like this?"
"Xiang Zhuo, the people who attacked our army were local rebels in Bago. They mistakenly thought that we were reinforcements from the Bago government." Chu Jie said. He had replaced the word 'uprising' he used before with 'rebellion'.
Zhuo Jing also felt very puzzled: "Our army is so different from the Bago army, and completely different from the Ava army. How could these rebellious people mistakenly think that we are reinforcements from the Bago government."
However, the reason could not be found out. The captives were informed that reinforcements were coming to attack the Bago government. They did not know anything else. Wang Yong made them go through the torture several times but he did not ask anything.
But this is not important. What is important is what the Ming army does next.
"Your Highness, General Mu, and Right Chancellor, you cannot retreat like this! How can our Ming army flee back in disgrace after being attacked by a surprise attack!" Chu Jie said.
At this time, the Ming army was certainly bragging when they said they were invincible, but the soldiers and generals were full of confidence in their own army and despised all surrounding barbarian armies, including the Mongolian soldiers.
For them, it was a shame to be attacked by barbarians who were not even soldiers. The desire for war was very strong among ordinary soldiers, not to mention military generals.
"Yes, Your Highness, Right Minister, how could the Ming Dynasty retreat like this! We must teach these Burmese people who dare to attack us a lesson and tell them that the Ming Dynasty's army cannot be insulted lightly!" said other generals.
Zhuo Jing wanted to say: These Burmese people in Pegu do not know that our army is the army of the Ming Dynasty, and they have no intention of insulting the Ming Dynasty army; but when he looked at these very excited generals, he could not speak.
Although Zhu Zhen was a little hesitant, he also knew that he could not refute the generals' desire for war at this time.
He remembered hearing a short story told by Yunxi when he was in Beijing: In a certain dynasty before the Ming Dynasty, a soldier was very brave in killing the enemy. When he was beaten in front of the enemy commander, he was kicked by the enemy commander and spit out blood.
Angrily picked up a stone and wanted to kill the enemy commander, but his commander stopped the soldier in order to appease the country after the war. After that, the soldier would never fight bravely to kill the enemy again on the battlefield.
Of course, Zhu Zhen didn't know that this story was what Yunxi had read from the 1983 version of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his previous life, and it was not what really happened, but he also thought that the story was very reasonable. His morale could not be lowered.
If they are prevented from asking for war this time, how can they fight bravely in the future?
"Nago then issued an order to retaliate against the local Burmese rebels and let them know that they should not offend the Ming Dynasty! They had to send people to arrest a few Bago Mon people and let them lead the way to deal with the local Burmese people; Narota,
You have a lot of dealings with the Bago Meng people, and there are many people under your command who understand the Mon language, so I will leave this matter to you." Zhu Ming said.
Narota bowed and accepted the order.
When the news reached the chieftain who had followed Zhu Zhen, there was a sudden burst of cheers. With the Ming Dynasty's gunpowder weapons, there was no city that could not be broken. They could grab a lot of property!
"Alang, in the end we have to fight locally." Dao Baifeng said with a smile.
"Oh, I have to be what His Majesty calls an 'internationalist' for once. I really don't know what to say." Zhu Ming sighed.
"Internationalist? What do you mean?" Dao Baifeng asked curiously.
"This is a word invented by His Majesty. It probably means that the country sends troops to help an unrelated country quell the rebellion, or helps the country without any reward." Zhu Zhen explained.
"It's very vivid. His Majesty can come up with such vivid words. He is also a very interesting person." Dao Baifeng said with a smile.
"Praising another man in front of Alang is not what a married woman should do." Zhu Zhen pretended to be angry.
Dao Baifeng also knew that he was joking, but he still said coquettishly: "Alang, don't be angry, I know I was wrong."
"Alang is teasing you," Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "You have never met His Majesty, how could I be so jealous?"
"Alang, you are so bad." Dao Baifeng smiled and hit him.
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"The village is broken." Mu Ang put down his clairvoyance and said.
"It's impossible to be invulnerable. How can these villages built of wood and bamboo resist cannons? But we don't have much gunpowder. We have to leave some to prepare for emergencies. We can't use them all." Zhu Zhen said.
"We have captured fifteen villages, and this is the sixteenth. Your Highness, please withdraw your troops after capturing this village."
"Not only because there is insufficient gunpowder, but also because the soldiers have been fighting continuously, and in a place like Myanmar that is more humid than Yunnan, they are also very tired and need to rest."
"Besides, His Highness still wants to return to Beijing to celebrate the New Year this year? Then he must return to Ava City immediately. His Highness also has to go from Ava to Guangxi Prefecture in the east of Yunnan to take a boat to the capital. If he doesn't go back now, there won't be enough time." Mu Ang said.
"Yes, I still want to go back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year. I forgot that it is already the end of October and I have to return to Ava City." Zhu Ming suddenly said.
The two of them were talking here, and the soldiers in front rushed into the village through the gap made by the cannon, and began to arrest and rob people. Most of the Han soldiers just searched the house for a while, and then took the Burmese to the entrance of the village; the chieftain's soldiers rummaged through the boxes.
I searched the house vigorously and found many Burmese women and children hiding.
After a while, more and more soldiers were dragging the Burmese people to the entrance of the village. Their waists were bulging and they had smiles on their faces.
Of course, there are also people whose relatives and friends were unfortunately beaten to death with sadness on their faces, but their waists are also bulging.
Almost the entire village was captured, and they looked with horror at the Ming troops holding various weapons and costumes who were guarding them.
Many people's clothes are not very clean and messy, but women's clothes are still neat. Because generals generally believe that an army with completely broken military discipline will not have much combat effectiveness, the Han army strictly prohibits raping women on the battlefield. Not only
Rape was prohibited, and there were many other regulations, including restrictions on looting. Anyone who did not return to the main force within the specified time would be executed, and part of the looted items had to be handed over.
When the allotted time came, all the soldiers had returned to the team, and the bodies of the fallen soldiers were brought back. Wang Yong waved his hand, and several Ming soldiers picked up large buckets and poured some liquid on the houses in the village. Then a Ming soldier
Use a fire stick to light a handful of straw and throw the straw toward the house where the liquid was spilled.
In an instant, this small flame ignited into a huge fire, and the entire exterior of the house immediately burned. The houses in the village were all connected together, and soon the neighboring houses also burned.
The Burmese who were forcibly brought to the entrance of the village became commotion and wanted to rush back into the village; however, the soldiers guarding them were well prepared and immediately executed the rioting Burmese with swords and guns to calm them down.
Then a group of soldiers came towards these Burmese people and pulled out all the adult men; just like before, those who dared to move were executed.
Immediately, these adult men were handed over to the troops of the Bago government who had been watching the show. They pressed these adult men to their knees and then chopped off their heads.
The remaining women and children tied their hands with ropes and were led away by Ming army soldiers.
Salali, a Bago official who led a thousand Bago soldiers to carry out the task of executing adult Burmese men and collect trophies from the fallen Burmese, stepped forward and saluted Chu Jie, who was commanding before the battle: "Thank you very much to the Ming Empire.
Min Fan’s help. I don’t know which village to attack next. After research, we in Bago Kingdom believe that the village fifty miles southeast is the most suitable. The Ming army does not have to go far, and..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Jie interrupted: "No, our Ming army is returning to Ava City."
"His Royal Highness King Min is going to visit His Majesty the Emperor in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and he must arrive in the capital before the Chinese New Year, so we have no time to continue fighting in Bago."
"This," Bago Kingdom had made many plans to continue to use the Ming army. At this time, when he heard that the Ming army was about to withdraw, Sharali immediately said: "General Chu, even if His Highness wants to go to the capital, there is no need for the entire army to be there."
Withdraw to Ava,..."
Unsurprisingly, his words were interrupted by Chu Jie again: "No, His Highness must be protected by the entire army, and no mistakes can be made."
Afterwards, Chu Jie returned to the army station with the soldiers without even waiting for him to say anything.
Sharali stood there with a somewhat ugly expression. After a while, he returned to normal and led the Bago soldiers towards the nearest Bago city.
After Zhu Zhen decided to go to war with the Burmese rebels in Bago, he sent people to contact the king of Bago, Rasudari, and the two sides joined forces to deal with the Burmese, and asked Rasudari to declare himself a minister to the Ming Dynasty.
Of course Rasudhari had heard of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know the strength of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he couldn't immediately agree to become a vassal, but he agreed to join forces very normally.
Subsequently, the Ming army, led by Meng guides, fought against the Burmese and wiped out at least 50,000 Burmese in the field. Although they did not use gunpowder weapons in the field, they still frightened the Bago people:
The neat queue, the rain of arrows and the clever command all made the people of Pegu tremble with fear.
Rasudhari made a decisive decision and came to see Zhu Chu in person and wanted to become a vassal to the Ming Dynasty and form a brotherly state with the Min vassal.
