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Text 862 [The Lone Army Goes Deep]

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    ? To fight a war in Southeast Asia, the battle must be resolved quickly.

    If the battle is won, the troops will be withdrawn, and the fighting time, including marching, is more appropriate within five months.

    If it is necessary to garrison troops after the war, wipe out the remnants of the enemy army, and arrange officials in the newly occupied land, then it must be done within three months.

    Once the time is delayed, we will face high heat and high humidity weather, resulting in a large number of non-combat attrition of troops.

    Therefore, the expedition to Burma has been in preparation for several years.

    If you don't fight, you will die, if you want to fight, you will be thunderous, and you can fight it once and for all!

    The main attack force has four regular divisions.  One of the divisions was specially programmed for Burma.

    In addition, there are 40,000 inspectors, all from Yunnan and Guangxi provinces.

    Regardless of duty and support personnel, there are more than 80,000 soldiers alone!

    The two divisions on the South Road, the division commanders are Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan, and they each brought 5,000 patrol soldiers.

    Yang Zhan is 50 years old this year, and he brought his territory and troops to the new dynasty in Sichuan.  After graduating from the crash course of the military academy, he participated in the recovery of Guizhou and Yunnan, and finally became a division commander two years ago.  This should be the last time he commanded a battle, and then he would either be transferred back to the Dudu Mansion, or transferred to the Dusiguan conscription and training.

    Qin Liangyu's two nephews, also because they were too old, left the front line after being promoted to deputy division commander. One was transferred to the governor's mansion to sit in the government office, and the other served as the commander of the Guizhou capital.

    Standing at the bow of the boat, Yang Zhan admired the scenery along the river: "At this speed, we will be able to reach the capital of Taungoo next month."

    Ding Jiasheng said with a smile: "Meng people are too enthusiastic, they give food and boats."

    Not only give ships, but also send troops to follow.

    The Lower Burma region is the land of Longxing of the Toungoo Dynasty.  The main ethnic group here is the Mon, followed by the Bamar and Karen.  In order to consolidate the regime, the Burmese king must suppress the power of the Mon people, triggering continuous Mon uprisings.  In the past hundred years, the population of the entire Lower Burma region has been halved.

    When the Datong Army landed at the estuary of the Yinrawaddy River, the lurking secret agents took the opportunity to join forces, and a large number of Mon chiefs and merchants recruited troops to help.

    These Mon soldiers did not perform well in siege, and the racial vendettas became fiercer one by one.

    During the march, they often broke away from the Datong Army and rushed to the nearby Burmese villages to carry out massacres. The entire village killed all the Burmese people.

    ? Such behavior caused the Burmese in Lower Burma to flee upstream with their families.

    The Burmese government didn't have to work hard to gather troops, and directly recruited the fleeing people to form troops, and finally pulled up a "hundred thousand troops" to defend Pyay City.

    The strategic position of Pyay City in Myanmar is probably similar to that of Xuzhou in China.  No matter which dynasty wants to fight for the hegemony of Myanmar, it must fight a battle here.

    One hundred and twelve years ago, the Taungoo Dynasty also won the Battle of Prome before finally establishing its dominance in Burma.

    At that time, the Burmese had not yet turned against the Mon, and joined hands to resist the rule of the Shan people of the Ava Dynasty.  Although the Mon people are not good at fighting, they are very good at farming and doing business. They provided 1,400 ships and 9,000 sailors for the Burmese army.

    Now history is repeating itself. The Mon people provided more than 1,200 ships, more than 8,000 sailors, and more than 10,000 civilian husbands to the Datong Army, just to overthrow the brutal rule of the Burmese.

    When Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan led their troops to Prome, they were immediately speechless by the sight in front of them.

    On the city wall, densely packed, all are "defenders"!

    There are Bamar refugees everywhere outside the city. Since the city is already overcrowded, these Bamar refugees can only stay outside the city.

    "Camp!"

    The Datong army camped a few miles south of the city by the mountains and rivers.

    The next day, the artillery was pulled out and fired at the refugee camp outside the city first.  There are too many various shacks, which will affect the Datong army's attack on the city, so they must be cleared first.

    "Boom boom boom boom!"

    ?After more than 20 shells fell, the Bamar refugees fled in terror. Unable to enter the city, they chose to go around the city and flee further north.

    The chief general stationed in Prome City is Mang Tai, a nobleman of the Toungoo royal family.

    His son Mang Sigu said: "Father, we have an superior force, we can go out and fight the enemy!"

    Mang Tai shook his head: "Stick and wait for help."

    Mang Sigu said: "There are too many people pouring into the city, and we don't have time to collect food and grass. We will be besieged for a month or two at most, and we will run out of food by then!"

    "Stick and wait for help!" Mang Tai said firmly.

    The Taungoo Dynasty was similar to the Annan Kingdom, with only tens of thousands of standing troops, and most of them were stationed in the capital and the northern border.  When a big battle is needed, let the local nobles recruit farmers, and the limit force can be expanded to 300,000.

    &nPeople, and organized into a city defense force.  But everyone felt that Pyay City could hold on, and even if they couldn't, they could hold on for two or three months. They just waited for King Myanmar's reinforcements.

    When the Datong army suddenly approached the city, the officials who defended the city thought that the city of Promea had been lost, so they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled.

    The chief officers have all run away, a group of temporarily formed refugee troops, how can there be morale to stick to the end?  After firing the cannon, the city gate to the north opened wide, and the defenders and civilians scrambled to escape.

    "Kill all the Burmese!"

    The Mon servant army, with red eyes, rushed into the city to burn, kill and loot.

    Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan did not stop them, and even allowed the Mon soldiers to plunder.  They took the risk of leading the army northward and had to supply food along the way. It was inconvenient for the Datong army to do such dirty work, so they just let the Mon servant army do it for them.  We divided the goods together, and all the food was taken by the Datong Army.

    After three days of looting, the army continued north.

    The Burmese who fled to the north spread the news along the way, saying that the city of Prome had been breached.  This wrong military situation frightened all the cities upstream, and they all abandoned the city and fled.

    The Datong Army traveled northward for more than 500 miles before encountering resistance in Bagan City.

    Bagan City is also a big city, only 280 miles away from the capital of Myanmar.  There are not only tens of thousands of temporary recruits in this city, but also thousands of reinforcements gathered by the King of Burma, and nearly ten thousand reinforcements are also rushing over.

    And to the south, Mangtai, the chief general of Promea, is also leading an "army of tens of thousands" to chase after him.

    The troops of Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan obviously went deep alone, and they will face the north-south attack of more than 100,000 Burmese troops.

    It's just that, of the more than 100,000 Burmese troops, the standing army that can really fight is less than 20,000.

    "How to fight?" Ding Jiasheng asked.

    Yang Zhan said: "Go back the same way and wipe out the pursuers in the south!"

    "Hahaha, I think so too." Ding Jiasheng laughed loudly.
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