Chapter 1155 1246 Attack

Chapter 1155 1246 Attack

"You refused? That's none of my business."

Hearing the words of the Burmese peace negotiator, Li Chengliang was not surprised at all and spoke lightly.

He didn't even bother to listen to the peace negotiation conditions proposed by that shitty prince. He just waved his hand and asked Qi Jimei to expel the Burmese envoy.

No matter how powerful he was in Burma, it was all in the past. Soon they would all become dead.

Li Chengliang still had to recruit the Burmese soldiers to surrender, but that was until they dared not touch the weapons.

"Send them back."

Qi Jimei didn't say anything. With Li Chengliang here, he could only obey his orders completely.

"Sir, Sir, if you have any requests, or if you are dissatisfied with the conditions proposed by the prince, we can talk slowly. We can always find a way."

When Qi Jimei asked his personal soldiers to push the Burmese representatives and expel them, the Burmese representatives hurriedly raised their voices and shouted.

Qi Jimei glanced at Li Chengliang and saw that he was unmoved. He knew there was no other way.

In order to avoid the suffering of this war, the Burmese representatives had to kneel down and surrender immediately, and follow the conditions proposed by Li Chengliang.

However, from the fact that the other party not only did not agree to the conditions proposed by the Ming army, but even proposed their own methods, Qi Jimei knew that the Burmese prince should be afraid.

And the other Burmese chieftains should have the same mentality, worried that they would be punished by the Ming Dynasty after they laid down their weapons.

He didn't know whether they would be punished later, but Marshal Li was decisive in killing. If he really wanted to kill, he might really kill those people.

"My Lord. My Lord"

The shouts became smaller and smaller, and the Burmese envoys were pushed out of the Ming army formation, and then the sword and shield hands raised their shields to isolate them from the Ming army formation.

A row of spears had been inserted from the shields, representing the attitude of the Ming army at this time.

Seeing this scene, the Burmese envoys knew that it was impossible to do anything, so they could only sigh and walk back with their entourage.

Li Chengliang rode on a tall horse, passed over the heads of the soldiers, and watched the Burmese envoys gradually go away. The corners of his mouth finally raised, and a fierce smile appeared on his face.

"Change the formation, attack."

Without any hesitation, Li Chengliang issued the order to attack.

Before, because of the peace talks, the Ming army gunners and bird gunners temporarily withdrew to the back of the sword and shield soldiers, and the shields formed a shield wall to protect the army formation. This is a typical defensive posture.

Perhaps, it was also because of the change of the Ming army's formation that made the Burmese think that the generals of the Ming army were also willing to negotiate.

However, the situation was out of their control after all, and they had no idea about the plans of the real rulers of the Ming Dynasty for Myanmar.

Even though Myanmar is a very difficult area to control, the British spent a hundred years to completely control it.

Qi Jimei received the order and immediately ordered the flag bearer to give a signal.

"Dong Dong Dong"

The sound of war drums sounded from behind the Ming army formation, reminding all the officers to look at the military flags behind.

Soon, the Ming army formation changed. The gunners were in front, and the bird gunners were in hand. They passed through the gaps between the sword and shield soldiers and entered the front line.

"Swish, swish, swish"

Three sharp arrows flew into the sky, and the sound of arrows spread all over the fields.

The next moment, three more arrows flew into the air on the distant hills, and there seemed to be a sound on the farther mountains.

It was just that the distance was too far, and it was no longer clear in the Ming army formation.

The Ming army formation changed quickly. When Qi Jimei pointed at the Burmese army, the flag behind him slowly tilted forward and issued an order to attack.

"Kuai, kuai, kuai"

The Ming army gunners were in front, and the bird gunners, sword and shield soldiers, and spearmen were behind. The entire army formation seemed to encounter waves and began to surge forward.

Li Chengliang did not give the other side time to react, or in fact, they should have known it when the Ming army drums sounded.

At this time, in the Burmese army camp, Mang Yingli and others had just seen the returning envoys, and before they had said a few words, they heard the beating of the Ming army's war drums.

"What's going on?"

They knew very well what the sound of the war drums meant. It was the same as blowing the horns. They were all used to cheer up and boost morale when they did not issue an attack order.

Mang Yingli was only panicked for a moment, and immediately stepped forward to grab the envoy and asked: "The Ming army refused. What conditions do they have?"

He had no choice but to be anxious at this time. The Burmese army had no ability to resist the Ming army's attack at this time.

Although everyone patted their chests before, they were now remnants and defeated soldiers. Many chieftains were still sending their men to gather troops everywhere.

Because the previous defeat had completely dispersed the Burmese army.

Now, the chieftains and generals only found 60% to 70% of the soldiers.

In this case, how could they form a decent army to resist the Ming army?

Yes, but only about 60,000 to 70,000 people, hoping to use the number of people to prevent the Ming army from acting rashly and create conditions for them to negotiate.

With so many people, even if the Ming army is good at fighting, the losses should not be small if a war really starts.

"No, the Ming generals didn't negotiate at all. After they refused, they drove us out and didn't want to negotiate with us at all."

The envoy was grabbed by the collar by Mang Yingli, so he could only quickly tell the situation.

"Prince, let's retreat to the mountains. It seems that the Ming army is serious."

The guards around Mang Yingli stepped forward and whispered in his ear.

They were veterans with rich combat experience who were carefully selected by Mang Yinglong from the Burmese soldiers.

They can still see the current situation clearly. The Ming army seems to have seen through their current weakness and should be planning to attack with all their strength to completely destroy them.

Therefore, they came out at this time and reminded Mang Yingli in a low voice.

Although his voice was low, there were many people around him now. Although everyone didn't hear clearly, they could still guess what he said from the movement of his mouth.

"Prince, no."

Before Mang Yingli could speak, an official next to him stopped him and said, "Prince, the soldiers here are our last elite. If we abandon them and run away, then..."

Although he didn't finish his words, he did remind Mang Yingli that they didn't have the strength to abandon the soldiers here.

In fact, if they passed through Ava City and returned to the city controlled by Myanmar at this time, if they didn't have enough strength, they couldn't continue to control Myanmar.

Those officials surrendered at this time because his strength was still the strongest here.

Once he ran away like a stray dog, with no one around him, he would be worse than the lord of a city.

At least, he still had hundreds of soldiers in his hands.

As for fleeing with tens of thousands of people over mountains and ridges, it is almost an impossible task.

Just think about the experience of the Chinese Expeditionary Force crossing the Wild Man Mountain to return home, which happened hundreds of years later.

More than 30,000 people entered the mountain, but only 3,000 people finally came out, and 30,000 people were buried there.

Don't think that the Burmese army will be more adapted to the primitive forests of Myanmar, in fact, it is not entirely true.

The areas where the Burmese people live are actually developed areas, and they can only live on the edge of the primitive forests, and they dare not go deep rashly.

Because they know the dangers of these places.

Only Li Rusong, who is so brave that he dares to choose to lead a large army over mountains and ridges to attack Ava City.

All generals who are familiar with Myanmar do not have the courage to do so.

Of course, Li Rusong was able to succeed because of the guide.

The areas they walked through were just sparsely populated, but definitely not primitive forests. After all, they were all areas where caravans had walked through.

This is also the reason why he was able to successfully walk to Ava City.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

At this time, Mang Yingli only had these three words in his mind.

"Surrender."

Finally, someone spoke helplessly and in a low voice, "You can't win."

"Bullshit, surrender means death, it's better to fight to the death, maybe there will be a chance."

The man's words of surrender were immediately scolded by a chieftain.

At this time, the senior officials of the Burmese army were still arguing over their own interests. After two opinions were mentioned, they quickly split into two factions and argued with each other.

"Bang bang bang"

Finally, their argument was interrupted by the sound of artillery. The Ming army had approached, and without giving them a chance to react, the Portuguese cannon began to fire at the Burmese army.

Perhaps, someone was running here to inform them of the intelligence that happened in front, but it was still a step too late.

The dense sound of artillery sounded, and the gunners kept changing the cartridges and firing again.

After nearly a hundred falconets had fired six cartridges, the Ming army musketeers finally began to advance again. They passed the gunners and continued forward, approaching the area closer to the Burmese army.

Then they completed the formation, and under the command of the captain, they fired at the Burmese army in front of them that had already retreated in chaos.

"Pa pa pa"

Another puff of green smoke rose in the Ming army formation, almost blocking the view.

After the gunners finished firing, the spear and shield men stepped forward to hold the formation, waiting for the gunners and musketeers behind to load the ammunition and come up again.

Li Chengliang and Qi Jimei followed the Ming army formation with their personal soldiers, advancing slowly.

Behind them, there were two more Ming army formations following, but the artillery was moved to the front to strengthen the firepower of the Ming army gunners.

These are the five troops around Qi Jimei now. The three formations are moving forward in unison, constantly exerting pressure on the Burmese army in this relatively narrow valley.

"Enough, stop talking, follow me to the front to see the situation."

The messenger in front kept passing the news from the front to Mang Yingli. Knowing that the Burmese army was suppressed by the firepower of the Ming army and kept retreating, Mang Yingli felt bad.

Finally, Mang Yinglong stopped the argument between the two groups and spoke.

Now, he wanted to go to the front to see the situation.

If there was really no chance, he could only choose to surrender according to the requirements of the Ming army to avoid continuing such a massacre.

The space for the Burmese army to move was too small, and there was no way to respond.

Just as they were about to set out to see the front, a messenger behind them squeezed out of the crowd and rushed over, reporting loudly that the rear army was attacked by the Ming army.

The Ming army used a whistling arrow as a contact signal. After Li Chengliang led his troops to attack, Li Rusong also issued an attack order.

In fact, from the moment he received Li Chengliang's order, Li Rusong guessed what his father meant.

Although they caught Mang Yinglong, many Burmese officials escaped, especially the Burmese prince, and those chieftains who followed Mang Yinglong to the Ming Dynasty.

The chieftains have always been a thorn in the side of the Li family. If they want to fulfill Wei Guangde's orders and rule Myanmar for a long time, they must get rid of these people.

With them, it is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to truly rule the Burmese.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty rules the Burmese chieftains, and the Burmese chieftains control all of Myanmar.

This is not the result the Li family wants.

Although when he was in the capital, Wei Guangde once thought that he could divide the chieftains and use them to control Myanmar.

But Li Chengliang was actually worried. Judging from the effect of similar tactics in Liaodong and Southwest China, they were not very good.

The Tusi were still the main leaders of the rebellion in the southwest, and the same was true in Liaodong.

After that, there was a strategy to eliminate the original Tusi group and support new Burmese people to take power.

They relied on the Ming Dynasty to take power and benefited from the Ming Dynasty's rule over Myanmar, so they had to continue to rely on the Ming Dynasty to maintain their status.

Otherwise, Li Chengliang would not have known that a hundred years later, the Qing army relied on hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty surrendered soldiers to rule such a large China.

Taking advantage of this possible last battle, killing as many Tusi leaders as possible was what Li Rusong guessed his father Li Chengliang wanted to achieve.

The purpose was clear, so he could only kill.

The offensive of the Ming army in Ava City was actually more fierce than that of Li Chengliang's troops. After the heavy firepower opened the way, the infantry pressed on all fronts and advanced layer by layer. It was not that Li Chengliang's troops killed the enemy with firearms at all. The infantry only undertook the task of providing escort.

This was actually what Li Chengliang thought of after learning about the battles between the Ming army and the Burmese army many times. Taking advantage of this battle, he directly commanded the battle at the forefront.

Although Qi Jimei was still the nominal commander, his every move was in accordance with Li Chengliang's instructions.

When he saw that the Burmese army had no resistance in front of the sharp firearms of the Ming army, Li Chengliang finally recognized this method of warfare.

At this moment, he smiled at Qi Jimei and said, "You have followed your brother to fight the Japanese pirates. Didn't you learn this trick?"

"Report to the commander, when I followed my brother to fight against the Japanese pirates, I mainly used the mandarin duck formation to fight the enemy. Most of the Japanese pirates attacked in a scattered manner, and rarely encountered large-scale attacks by Japanese pirates."

Qi Jimei also told the truth. He did not catch up with several large-scale battles against the Japanese pirates.

Moreover, the Ming army at that time did not concentrate its firearms troops to fight against the Japanese pirates. The Ming army surrounded them from multiple directions and fought sporadic battles with the Japanese pirates, accumulating small victories into big victories.

After all, the Japanese pirates were not stupid, and would not take the initiative to confront the Ming army, especially after the Ming army's combat power was obviously improved.

"Do you know the chariots that your brother Qi Yuanjing practiced in Jizhen? In fact, it is similar to this tactic."

Li Chengliang said with some boasting at this time.

In fact, this tactic was thought up by him based on the combat methods of Qi Jiguang's troops.

However, he would not say that he referred to Qi Jiguang's tactics at this time, but that he came up with his own tactics.

Qi Jiguang's troops were not only chariot and artillery battalions. In essence, the main force of the decisive battle was actually the infantry battalion, and the pursuit was the cavalry battalion.

However, among Qi Jiguang's three major military branches, the chariot battalion was undoubtedly the strongest in firepower. After all, it was used to resist the charge of the Mongolian cavalry. Without enough falconets, it would not be possible.

"The general is still wise. This tactic that does not cost a single soldier is really hard for me to imagine."

Qi Jimei would not say too much at this time, just bragging about Li Chengliang's sophisticated tactics.

At this time, the situation in front suddenly changed. A group of people appeared in front after the Burmese army retreated. Perhaps they did not realize it because there were still scattered Burmese soldiers fleeing backwards.

"Those should be the Burmese dignitaries."

Qi Jimei pointed at those people and said.