Soon after Qin Bangping returned to Mubang with his troops, he found that a large number of Burmese soldiers appeared not far from the entire Mubang city, which was overwhelming."
Looking at the scale of this joint venture, it is estimated that there are no less than 200,000, and they should have started to move along the mountain roads very early, relying on the terrain that is more familiar with us here, and want to concentrate most of the troops, cut off our grain routes, and turn our Ming army left in Myanmar into a lone army!
In this way, with the help of the troops of Tusi in various parts of Burma, all the troops sent into Burma by our Ming Dynasty can be eaten, and the tide of the war can be reversed; I can also borrow the hands of my Ming army to consume the Tusi troops in various places, and the chess pieces played by the Burmese king are quite big!
”After Zou Weilian carefully observed these Burmese soldiers, he returned to the city and said to Qin Bangping.Qin Bangping nodded: "My sister-in-law guessed correctly, and the Privy Council also guessed correctly, this King Talong will really aim at our grain route, and secretly dispatch a large number of troops to cut off my grain route while my sister-in-law is leading the main force to advance vigorously!"
Although we are well prepared, we only have more than 15,000 troops, and the difference in strength is too great, and in addition, my sister's side is still attacking Ava, and this Mubang can't be surrounded all the time!
I still have to go back to Yunnan to ask the imperial court for reinforcements. ”"I'll go, I'll take my pacesetters to stand out!"
Zou Weilian said at this time.After hearing this, Qin Bangping pondered for a while, and said, "There is a labor platform!"
”So, Zou Weilian led his standard battalion soldiers to break out.Here, Qin Bangping began to order his soldiers to draw barbed wire, dig trenches, and set up various traps within five miles outside the city, and personally led 6,000 white pole soldiers to seize the north and south high slopes that had just been occupied by the troops of a certain Tusi in Burma."
Kill!"
Zou Weilian led his standard battalion soldiers to kill in the middle of the contact between the two Tusi troops in Burma.But the Burmese army had been prepared for a long time, knowing that the Ming army would break through.Therefore, when Zou Weilian and his standard battalion soldiers were raiding a Burmese army camp, they encountered a large number of elephant soldiers gathering towards him.Zou Weilian therefore had to order his standard battalion soldiers to form a three-line formation to deal with these elephant soldiers.Zou Weilian's pacesetter battalions were all his study of Zhu Xieyuan, and during his tenure as an envoy to Yunnan, he began to take in the orphans of the Miao people and raise the trained armed forces, which were all under his command, although there were only more than 1,000 troops, but the combat power was still very strong.However, although Zou Weilian's pacesetter battalion used flintlock pistols to repel several attacks by Burmese elephants, the Burmese elephants did not plan to let Zou Weilian and others return to Yunnan, but still besieged Zou Weilian's pacesetter camp.Zou Weilian therefore had to consult with Wang Jun, the general of his standard battalion: "You take the most powerful 500 rattan pacesetters to break through the mountain road, and I will take the rest of the troops here to resist them!"
”"How can this work, it will be more auspicious for you to stay here, it is better for us to withdraw to Mubang, as long as we withdraw to Mubang, these Burmese soldiers will not stop us with all their might!"
Wang Jun said."
But it's useless to go back like this, we came out to report the news to the court and ask for help!
Mubang did not lay a wired telegraph, as long as you rush back to Yongchang, you can inform the imperial court through the wired telegraph that has just been laid to Yongchang, and the imperial court will know immediately!
If I stay here and fly the battle flag, I will be able to attract the attention of Burma, and you can just follow the mountain road back to Yunnan, not to mention, this official is weak in the end, and it is a drag to follow you along the mountain road!
”Zou Weilian said."
But?"
Wang Jun wanted to say something, but Zou Weilian waved his hand and said, "It's nothing!"
Obey orders!
Although this official is now the governor, His Majesty has asked me to temporarily assume the duties and powers of the governor of Meng Gong, and you must not disobey the order!
”"Yes!"
Therefore, Wang Jun had to select the most elite 500 Yunnan rattan soldiers and went into the mountains.Zou Weilian was met with a large-scale attack by Burmese elephants early the next morning.Zou Weilian was only defending according to the terrain at first, and used a three-line formation to repel the Burmese elephants several times in a row, but later because he ran out of ammunition and food, he had to directly order his pacesetters to put bayonets on the flintlock pistols, and he himself drew his sword and charged out together.Burmese elephants sat on large elephants and condescendingly attacked the Ming army.In the end, Zou Weilian and the 500 pacesetters around him were all wiped out, and he himself was surrounded by the Burmese elephant corps.But before being captured alive, Zou Weilian simply killed himself.Qin Bangping did not know about Zou Weilian's situation here, and he was now preventing the officers and soldiers from digging ditches to drain the water.Because the cunning Burmese soldiers blocked the river upstream of them, obviously drowning them with floods, Qin Bangping simply ordered the whole army to dig ditches to drain the water downstream, and some dry ditches were directly dug through.When the Burmese soldiers saw that the flooding plan had failed, they simply attacked directly.A large number of Burmese soldiers armed with darts, bows and arrows, and all kinds of Western firearms like locusts, densely packed towards the city of Mubang.The roar of the elephants resounded even more in the four fields.Qin Bangping was also calm and calm, and didn't think about whether Zou Weilian had broken through.He was now only bent on holding Mu Bang, and it was even better to force Burma to withdraw his troops, because his sister Qin Liangyu was still attacking Ava.Therefore, Qin Bangping decisively commanded the white pole soldiers under his command to directly take the initiative to attack, and first defeated the Burmese soldiers all the way, so that they could not succeed.Moreover, Qin Bangping directly asked to take the initiative to attack the strongest two-way elephant soldiers in the Burmese soldiers."
Kill!"
Several white-pole soldiers who had fought several times took the initiative to rush towards the Burmese elephants with a rattan card in one hand and a white-pole gun in the other.Then, therefore, the dense white pole guns, braving the rain of bullets, stabbed the huge but clumsy elephant into a painful and scurrying way, so that many Burmese soldiers were thrown off their horses and stabbed to death by the white pole soldiers behind.Of course, the casualties of the white pole soldiers were also very large, and they were shot and killed by the Burmese soldiers sitting on the elephants, and in addition, they were also trampled by the elephants running wildly.It can be said that this is a vicious battle.In the end, because the casualty collapse rate of the white pole soldiers was still smaller than that of the Burmese troops, it was the Burmese elephants who were defeated and retreated.After all, the white pole soldiers are all from the same Tusi, and they all know that if they don't win this battle, they and Qin Liangyu, the actual ruler of the Shiqi Tusi who is still attacking Ava, and their own brothers who followed Qin Liangyu to attack Ava will not be able to go back to Sichuan.Because of this, the Burmese soldiers still gave up the assault and changed to a siege and cut off the water source, believing that the Ming army would not save much food, guns, bullets, and crossbows in Mubang.But Zou Weilian brought a lot of food and ammunition to Mubang in advance, and also took precautions, before Qin Bangping returned, he directly built a storage reservoir with cement here, and directly built dozens of storage reservoirs in the city.Therefore, next, Qin Bangping did not run off food and water.Qin Liangyu's side has already defeated Ava, but King Talong has been transferred to Lashio.Qin Liangyu asked Jiao Lian to lead the Guards Special Battalion to stay in Ava, while she herself rushed to the aid of Mubang with the rest of the officers and soldiers, and she had already learned through her scouts that a large number of Burmese troops had suddenly appeared in the vicinity of Mubang.