An army was walking through the mountains and dense forests outside Hanlong Pass.

The number of this army is so large that if you stand in the middle of the team and look forward and backward, you can't see the beginning and the end. It is so vast, with tens of thousands of people and horses, that the former army has entered Mubang City.

village, while the rear army is still in Hanlong Pass.

Hanlong Pass was originally the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, and outside the pass was the territory of Mubang Xuanwei Division. Before the rise of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mubang Xuanwei Division had always belonged to the Ming Dynasty. In the decades after the rise of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mubang Xuanwei Division

Weisi began to oscillate between the Ming Dynasty and the Toungu Dynasty. When the Toungu Dynasty was strong, this land would be swallowed up, and when the Toungu Dynasty was weak, this land would become independent and attached to the Ming Dynasty.

In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, King Liangyuan (the grandson of Emperor Mang Yinglong), who realized the second resurgence of the Toungoo Dynasty, unified Burma (northern Myanmar) and once again brought Mu State under the rule of the Toungoo Dynasty.

In the original history, the Han clan chieftain in Mubang, which had been inherited for more than 200 years, was completely destroyed after the fall of Mubang and never revived.

But now history has changed. When the Dashun army pacified Yunnan, Hanside, a descendant of the Han family who was exiled in China, saw the power of the Dashun army with his own eyes, so he had the idea of ​​using Dashun's power to restore Mu State.

Therefore, not long after Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, he led his tribe to surrender to Li Dingguo. When the commander of the elephant soldiers of the Dashun Army entered Yunnan, the Dashun Army also engaged some elephant soldiers. Although it was of no use, it looked like

It is still very majestic! The soldiers who control the elephant are all recruited locally in Yunnan. Hansid has been playing with elephants since he was a child and is a master in this area.

After Dashun pacified Yunnan, he continued to advise Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng that although the Han clan chieftain regime in Tumen had been destroyed for nearly fifty years, the influence of the Han family in Mu State still existed and could help the Dashun court lead the way.

A surprise attack on Mubang! The Mubang Walled City was only three to four hundred miles away from Ava, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty. With the help of the chieftain family of the Han family to lead the way and raise food and grass, it was not difficult to pass the three to four hundred mile mountain road.

And once you pass through the Mubang Mountains and capture Awa, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty, it will be a good place with vast plains. Just plant some rice and it will be harvested three times a year. The Toungoo Dynasty can rise again after pounced several times, relying on a piece of land.

Great place.

If Dashun can conquer the Awa Plain, there will be a way out in the future!

In history, no separatist dynasty centered in Sichuan has lived long! Liu Bei, Liu Adou and his son Shu Han for forty-three years are considered to be long-lasting. And they also have an outstanding person like Zhuge Liang to assist them!

Therefore, as soon as Li Laiheng, the prince of the Fu army in Dashun, heard that he could plot Burma, he immediately took action. Counting from the time Li Zicheng entered Sichuan, it has been almost ten years now! If "Shu Shun" can have the future of Shu Han, only Shu Han will be left.

More than thirty years. Moreover, Li Laiheng and Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and the others do not look like Zhuge Liang!

And the Ming Dynasty has another ZTE hero, who has already beaten the Qing Dynasty to death. Looking at this situation, it is hard to say whether the Dashun Dynasty will have another thirty years of good life!

When Li Laiheng was not able to secure his position as the "Shu Shun" prince, he envied Liu Adou very much. But now, the more he becomes the prince of Fujun, the more interesting he becomes! When he becomes the emperor in the future, he will definitely have more taste. How can he be willing to become Shun Shun?

Successor?

So starting from two years ago, he advocated going south to Tumen and conquering Burma. After Sichuan and Yunnan were gone, he could still be the emperor in Ava. It is hard to say whether the Dashun Dynasty can continue to prosper because of this, but he will not be able to do so in this life.

Worried

And his idea of ​​expanding southward to survive coincided with Li Dingguo's.

It turns out that after Li Dingguo conquered Yunnan, he began to think about expanding to Burma. Because in the process of pacifying Yunnan, he became familiar with many small chieftains in Mu State in northern Burma. Through them, Li Dingguo learned that the Taungoo dynasty of Burma was quite weak in military force.

Because of the aggressive military actions of three generations of kings, Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong, and Mang Yingli, the Toungu dynasty suffered heavy losses. Therefore, after King Liangyuan and King Anabilong re-established Toungu, they changed their previous national policies and no longer

Instead of pursuing expansion, he lived his own small life.

The Toungoo Dynasty's pace of introducing Western military technology was also interrupted by the Salian Rebellion (Portuguese mercenary captain Philippe de Brito took advantage of the weakness of the Toungoo Dynasty to separate the country from Salian and proclaimed himself king).

Therefore, the military power of the Toungoo Dynasty has been slowly declining since decades ago. Now, it has changed from a powerful country that could resist the Ming Dynasty to a weak country that Li Dingguo seemed to be vulnerable to.

As for the vassal relationship between Dashun and Dongyu, Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo don’t care! Dashun is not the Ming Dynasty, they are just rogues!

However, after deciding to go south to Tumen, Dashun's top management decided to use some strategies to make the victory easier. Song Xiance, who was good at calculating but always inaccurate, gave a "sound"

The strategy of "attacking the south from the north".

The Northern Expeditionary Army was set up in Kunming with great fanfare, giving the Burmese people the illusion that the Great Shun Dynasty was about to launch a northern expedition to the Central Plains, and they secretly contacted various small chieftains in Mu State and bribed them to serve as the leading party.

After the news of the restoration of the Qing Dynasty reached Kunming, on March 13, the seventh year of the Dashun rule, the Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army swore to fight for the Northern Expedition in Kunming!

Then, under the leadership of the two commanders Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo, they secretly went south, left Hanlong Pass, and with the help of Hanside, they attacked Mubang Walled City and opened the door to Ava, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty.

There was a sound of horse hooves, and Li Laiheng, who was leading the Chinese army group on the rugged mountain road in Mubang, saw dozens of horses galloping in front of him. The two leading horses were Li Dingguo and Hanside.

"How is it?" Li Laiheng asked loudly before the horses the two of them were riding stopped in front of him, "Has the vanguard crossed the Ava River?"

The Awa River is located south of the Mubang Walled City. The river leads directly to Awa City, the capital of the Toungoo Kingdom. The river is wide and the current is not too fast, so it is possible to sail.

After capturing Mubang, they built rafts of boats and rafts on both sides of the Ava River, and then followed the river and attacked Ava. This was part of the surprise plan formulated by Li Dingguo and Hansid.

However, at the Awa River, Dashun's Northern Expeditionary Army encountered an unknown number of Toungoo dynasty troops blocking their way, and this Toungoo army also had more than a dozen war elephants, which seemed to be a bit powerful.

"We've crossed the river!" Li Dingguo said with a smile, "The Toungoo people's army is vulnerable! We set up artillery on the north bank of the Ava River and bombarded it for a few rounds, but their elephants went crazy and clashed randomly. Our elephants went crazy.

They took the opportunity to force the crossing in a small boat, and a few hundreds of troops killed them, but their thousands of people couldn't hold it anymore. They completely collapsed and asked us to kill a man whose corpses were everywhere."

Hansid added: "This army should be the garrison of Mubang sent by Toungoo. It is the first-class elite soldier in Toungoo. But that's it. After all, Toungoo has not fought in decades.

.His Royal Highness, we should march quickly and capture Ava City in one fell swoop before Mang Dali and Mang Bai gather the army!"

The military foundation of the Toungoo Dynasty was also the integration of soldiers and peasants, known as Ahmudan, so it also had the weaknesses of slow mobilization and the inability to withstand long-term wars. The main reason for the decline of the Toungoo Dynasty was Mang Ruiti, Mang Yinglong

, Mang Yingli overdrafted Ahmudan's power. In the past two or three decades, the Toungoo dynasty almost stopped fighting, which made Akhmudan dull and decadent. After the defeat of a small amount of standing troops, Toungoo

It would be difficult for the dynasty to organize a large number of Ahmedan troops in a short period of time.

That’s why the idea of ​​raiding Hunstead came up with the idea of ​​raiding Ava!

"No need!" Li Laiheng rejected Hansid's suggestion. "The army will rest in Mubang and build warships, giving Mangdali and Mangbai time to gather the army. Now the more troops they can gather, the more casualties they will have."

The more! Our Northern Expeditionary Army in Dashun has many elites who have survived hundreds of battles, and those peasants and soldiers cannot resist it. So we just have to kill more now! Kill them by 100,000 or 80,000, so that the people of Toungoo will not dare to do it again.
Chapter completed!