Zhang Yibin breathed a sigh of relief and ordered his people to quickly drag out the corpses of the Donggu soldiers in the city gate hole and throw them by the moat, and then sealed the city gate hole with rocks and soil.
At this time, Ma Xianglin came behind with four thousand Ming army vanguards.
The Ming army entered through the west gate.
Zhang Yibin said to Ma Xianglin: "General Ma, we have lost more than 60 brothers, and more than 100 people have been injured."
Ma Xianglin asked: "How many Taungoo people have been killed?"
Zhang Yibin said: "We killed 327 Donggu soldiers last night, and today we killed more than 400 people.
We also captured more than 600 people from Donglin City."
Ma Xianglin said: "Since there is a war, death is inevitable.
A man must die a worthy death.
This time I was too radical and was blinded by the food.
General Lu has already arrived in Lailin.
Let's wait for the main force in Taunggyi first.
Come and attack other places.
We brought small artillery this time to see whether his trebuchets are more powerful or our artillery."
Zhang Yibin said happily: "Although this trebuchet doesn't do much damage, it is really annoying.
With artillery, we can turn their trebuchets into torches."
The Guards installed small six-pound cannons on the city wall.
The six-pound cannon weighed two hundred kilograms, so they only brought ten of them this time.
They didn't bring many solid ammunition, and they mainly brought blooming ammunition.
The people of Tounguu saw Ming army activities on the city wall and started their trebuchets again.
The trebuchet's stone bullets were slow and had poor accuracy, so the Ming army quickly installed the artillery.
After measuring the ballistics with solid bullets, a burst of shells landed next to a trebuchet, and exploded loudly.
The soldiers next to the trebuchet were all blown to the ground, and the trebuchet was also ignited by phosphorus fire.
The Tounguu people quickly began to withdraw the trebuchets.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ming army used explosive bombs to ignite three trebuchets, killing a group of Tounguu people operating the trebuchets.
After removing the threat of trebuchets, the Ming army began to dig out the city gate hole in the south gate and rebuild the city gate.
As soon as the city gate was repaired, Lu Qin led a large army to Taunggyi.
Lu Qin convened a meeting of officers above the battalion commander.
He pointed at the map and said: "This is still the previous map.
It was revised after asking businessmen and prisoners.
It may not be too accurate, but it is generally correct.
We are now Prepare to attack Yangmiding City first, then Naypyitaw, and hit Taungoo City directly. " Division Commander Tang Jiuzhou said: "General, you only occupy the city and don't care about other places?"
Lu Qin smiled and said: "This attack will only attack the cities and ignore the countryside.
This is the strategy formulated by the emperor.
If we attack the countryside, the mountains are high and the forests are dense.
Our advantage will not be reflected at all.
As long as we occupy the cities, then we can It is useless to control the grain-producing areas around the city.
It is useless to occupy other places.
We should wait for the Toungoo people to help us manage them. " Zhang Yibin said: "The people of Taungoo are very brave.
They don't seem to be afraid of death at all.
If it hadn't been blown up twice with explosives, I really don't know if Taunggyi City could have been saved."
Lu Qin smiled and said: "I don't believe that there are people in Toungoo who are truly not afraid of death.
I do know of people in Ming Dynasty who are truly not afraid of death.
Well, our advantage is firearms, so occupying the city and setting up defenses around the city is the most suitable for us.
Dongyu City is four hundred miles away from here, I'm sure We are going to attack in two directions, with General Ma attacking Yangmiding and Commander Tang attacking Naypyidaw.
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Our goal is to occupy the city, not to kill people.
As long as we capture Toungoo City, the city facing the sea will naturally be occupied by the navy. , then we will be able to control the entire Taungoo."
Tang Jiuzhou asked: "Only occupying the city is useful.
If the Toungoo people harass the countryside, how will we in the city deal with it?"
Lu Qin said: "This question was also asked at that time.
The emperor believed that as long as the cities were occupied, the countryside would not be able to make waves.
Although we don't quite understand the reasons that support the emperor's view, the emperor has never missed it, so Everyone can rest assured.”
Everyone laughed together.
His Majesty the Emperor has indeed never made any mistakes.
In this case, let's proceed according to His Majesty's strategy.
Lu Qin added: "According to our intelligence, the city walls of Yangmiding and Naypyitaw are not high, but Toungoo City is built tall and strong, so we brought artillery this time.
In fact, I think it is really a siege."
After staying in Taungu City, there should be no need to attack the city, and the Taungu people will surrender. " Ma Xianglin led 6,000 men to easily capture Yangmiding City, while Tang Jiuzhou's 8,000 men managed to capture Naypyitaw with some effort.
After leaving two thousand defenders in both cities, together with Lu Qin A total of 13,000 people from the headquarters came to Toungoo City.
The current king of Taungoo is Talon.
After he heard that the Ming army occupied Yangmiding and Naypyitaw, he immediately summoned ministers to discuss countermeasures.
Information about the fall of the two places has also been sent to the palace.
He said loudly: "There are four thousand defenders in Yangmiding and five thousand defenders in Naypyitaw.
Except for a very few people who escaped and reported the news, the rest of the soldiers were all killed or captured.
The Ming army's firearms are extremely powerful, and we don't have them at all."
Way to resist."
Minister Chachai said: "Your Majesty, when it comes to firearms, the Dutch and British also have them.
I have seen them in the offices they set up.
How about we buy some firearms from them, so that it will be easier to resist the Ming army."
Another minister, Woola, said: "Now that the enemy has arrived at the city, is it too late to buy weapons?
The Dutch and British offices only have a few firearms for self-defense when doing business.
Where can they buy them to equip the entire army?"
Cha guessed: "Toungu City is high and thick, with sufficient food and many troops.
How can the Ming army attack?
This will give us enough time to ask them to see how we can get firearms, and then equip them to the army." , the Ming army can be defeated.”
Wu La said: "How long will this method take?
The simplest method is for the king to issue an order for the armies from surrounding cities to come together to besiege the Ming army.
I don't believe it.
Our 100,000-strong army in Toungoo cannot defeat a mere 10,000 Ming army." ” Another minister, Thaksin Mi, said: "We didn't know the news until the Ming army captured Taunggyi from Mengsa to Lailin.
As for Yangmiding and Naypyidaw, we set up heavy troops to guard it, but the Ming army was still in a short time."
It was broken within a short period of time.
It can be seen that there is still a big gap in the combat effectiveness between us and the Ming army, so it would be best if we could negotiate. " Chachai shouted: "What kind of peace talks?
Does he believe you want to surrender?"
Wu La also shouted: "If we surrender without a fight, how can we explain to the Donggyu people?"
In fact, King Long also understood that in fighting the Ming Dynasty, Taungyu's chances of victory were extremely small.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to the Jisi area at all, and there was internal discord within the Ming Dynasty, so it allowed the Liuxuanwei area to do its own thing.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is internally peaceful, looking at the current posture of the Ming Emperor, it seems that he will not give up until Taungu is taken back to the Ming Dynasty.
Although Taungoo was tyrannical on the peninsula, it was not as good as the Ming Dynasty.
But I wanted him to surrender without a fight, but I was unwilling to do so.
He stood up and said: "Let's fight the Ming army first
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