After the gate of Mengsa City was opened, the war was no longer in suspense.
As the white pole soldiers and guards entered the city, a large number of Toungoo people knelt on the ground and surrendered.
Ma Xianglin asked people to pick out the officers among the captives in Taungoo and began to torture them about the situation in Lailin, the next city.
Meng Sa's officer immediately spoke as soon as he was executed.
After hearing that Lailin was guarded by only 700 soldiers, Ma Xianglin was impatient and rushed to Lailin with a thousand white pole soldiers and a thousand close guards.
Lailin is more than a hundred miles away from Mengsa.
By the time Ma Xianglin arrived at Lailin, it was almost dark.
Ma Xianglin first asked the troops to rest and eat in the woods two miles away from the city.
An hour later, it was completely dark, and they carefully and slowly moved towards the city wall.
Lailin City is not big, and the city wall is only one foot high.
The white pole soldiers set up a ladder, and Ma Xianglin quickly climbed to the top of the city.
Several Toungoo soldiers were gambling on the top of the city.
They were all shouting and did not pay attention to the arrival of the god of death.
Ma Xianglin waited for more than 20 white-pole soldiers to climb up, then slowly moved towards the Toungu people who were surrounding the torches.
Only when he was about three steps behind the Toungu people did a Toungu soldier call out. : "Ah, you" have been stabbed in the throat by Ma Xianglin.
The white-pole soldiers took action together and quickly killed these Toungoo soldiers.
During the whole process, they could not even make a cry for help.
Ma Xianglin asked the people behind him to continue climbing the wall, and he led the white soldiers down the wall to the city gate.
There was still a group of soldiers gambling together in the city gate.
The white soldiers swarmed up, killed these people together, and then opened the city gate.
Because Ma Xianglin wanted to scare the Dongxu people out so that they could deal with them together, he did not choose cautious methods, so a shrill scream came from the city gate, waking up the Dongxu soldiers in the city.
The Guards who had been waiting at the city gate for a long time lined up and trotted in.
The soldiers who were climbing the city wall also gave up climbing and poured in through the city gate.
The Guards quickly lined up a hundred steps in front of the city gate, squatted down and pointed their muskets forward.
Some of them rushed to the top of the city, and together with the white-pole soldiers, destroyed the Dongxu people on the wall.
The Toungu people rushed forward with a roar, and they were holding torches, making them perfect targets.
After the sound of firecrackers, the people in Dongxu were quickly frightened and fled back.
The attackers suffered too much in the night battle, so Ma Xianglin was not in a hurry.
He ordered people to search a large area of houses next to the city gate, drive out the Dongxu people who had no time to escape, and then set up a circle of sentries around the outside.
Let the soldiers begin to rest.
The next morning, the Ming army cooked and ate the food in the house without ceremony, and then began to search the whole city unhurriedly.
Ma Xianglin originally thought that the Donggyu soldiers should have escaped, but he did not expect that they would focus on Nankou and prepare to resist.
He immediately asked a group of guards to go out of the city and wait outside the south gate, and then began to attack the Dongyu soldiers.
The Toungu people's bows and arrows could not cause effective damage to the Ming army at all, and it was impossible for the Toungu people to achieve close combat.
So the battle turned into a one-sided massacre.
As a result, the Taungoo people realized that there was nothing to do, but they did not escape from the city, so they knelt down and surrendered.
Ma Xianglin was very surprised and asked the guard of Lailin City: "Why don't you run away?"
The guard gave him a strange look and said: "If I don't run away, I will die.
If I run away, my whole family will die.
Why don't you run away?"
Ma Xianglin said: "Is Taungoo's military law so strict?
No wonder Siam and Nanzhang have been in such a state of disarray over the years."
The guard said: "Strict ass.
If we run away, the whole family will be executed.
But if your family is a big family in the capital, no one will dare to care about you if you run away.
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The so-called harshness of military law is only relative to us." of."
Ma Xianglin said with a smile: "You seem to be a little resentful.
If I ask you to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, I will give you a great treasure in the future.
I wonder if you are willing."
The guard kowtowed and said, "The villain Wu Rashu is willing to be loyal to the general and to the Ming Dynasty."
Ma Xianglin smiled and said: "Aren't you afraid that everyone in your family will be executed?"
Wu Lhasa said: "Both of the little man's parents are dead.
Even if he runs away, he has no place to go, so he doesn't run away.
Today, the general is willing to take the little one in, and the little one is naturally willing to be loyal."
Ma Xianglin nodded and said: "Very good, you choose subordinates who are willing to follow you and collect food from us around.
If you do this well, I can appoint you as the guard of Lailin City."
Wu Lhasa said: "Please don't worry, sir.
I will do my best for the Ming Dynasty.
However, the monarch was planning to attack the Ming Dynasty again, so there are large amounts of food reserves in Lailin City and Taunggyi City, which can feed at least 50,000 people for a month." ” Ma Xianglin did not expect such a good thing to happen, so he asked Wu Lhasu to take the quartermaster to sort out the food quantity.
When the quartermaster came back, he was overjoyed and said: "General, the food is enough for us to eat for two months.
There is no need to transport food from the country."
Ma Xianglin curled his lips.
Before coming this time, Lu Qin told him that he must provide food to the enemy.
The country had no plans to transport food here, and each soldier only brought five days' worth of dry food.
The quartermaster didn't know this, and thought that food would be shipped to the large army behind.
He smiled and said: "Wu Lhasu, you can just lead people to collect grain for our forwards.
We have tens of thousands of troops behind us, so this grain can be used by them."
Ma Xianglin originally planned to let the Lailin people escape and attract the Toungoo people to seize Lailin City, but he did not want to encounter this situation.
He discussed what to do next with Zhang Yibin, the commander of the Guards Pioneer Independent Battalion.
Zhang Yibin said: "General Lu said that General Ma can fight however he wants.
I will definitely obey General Ma's orders."
Ma Xianglin said: "I originally thought that we only have two thousand people in total.
The best way is to defend the city first and wait for Mengsa's army to arrive.
Now that Lailin's Toungu people have not escaped to report, then if we go to attack Taunggyi City can harvest a large amount of food and grass to feed more than 20,000 of us for four months, so that the following troops will no longer have to worry about food problems. " Zhang Yibin said: "General Ma's idea is very good.
Let the general guard Lailin here, and then go and seize Taunggyi City."
Ma Xianglin said: "Lailin City must not be lost, but the food and grass in Taunggyi City is even more tempting.
Battalion Commander Zhang, you lead all the guards and five hundred white pole soldiers to Taunggyi.
You must capture the city, and don't Let the people of Toungoo burn the food and grass."
Zhang Yibin saluted and said: "General Ma, please rest assured that the mission will be completed.
The general only has 500 people, so be careful of these Toungoo people rebelling."
Ma Xianglin said: "I know this well.
You can set off quickly and take all the horses away.
We will try to reach Taunggyi City today and capture the city at night
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