Lin Chengxiang and Chen Zizhuang had to sit down again.
Not long after, an eunuch, surrounded by two civilian officials, walked into the hall with his head up.
Mu Qiyuan and the two army commanders were about to bow down, but the eunuch stretched out his hand to stop them: "This is the emperor's secret decree, the three generals don't need to pay a big salute." He took out the secret decree from his sleeve, and gave it directly to it without reading it. Mu Qiyuan.
Mu Qiyuan held the secret decree in both hands and opened it. In the secret decree, Zhu Youjian asked him to wipe out all the dignitaries in Dongkuo, but he must not harm the Han people, as long as they did not oppose Daming and his army.
He hesitated a little, so he glanced at the eunuch who passed the decree, and when he saw the eunuch nodded, he handed the secret decree to Lin Chengxiang.
Both Lin and Chen had seen the secret decree, but they were also surprised. Why did the emperor issue such a secret decree
At present, Mu Qiyuan bowed his hand to the eunuch, "This father-in-law, do you know why your Majesty will issue such a secret decree?"
"Our family heard that on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Your Majesty was playing in Yuquan Mountain. In order to prevent Daming from sending troops to Dongyu, King Tongyu sent someone to assassinate His Majesty. Your Majesty was furious. This is the secret decree."
"Your Majesty Assassin? The sixth day of the first lunar month?" Mu Qiyuan was shocked, "Then your Majesty was...injured?"
"Your Majesty is safe and sound, and all the Dongyu people who were assassinated have been captured." The eunuch who passed the eunuch cherished his words like gold.
"Your Majesty Hongfu Qitian!" Mu Qiyuan let out a long sigh of relief, and his heart fell from his throat. Daming finally made a strong emperor. If he was injured by the Dongyu Assassin, he would be more wronged than Dou E, Zhu In the secret decree, Yujian asked him to eliminate Toungoo’s dignitaries, but there is no fixed standard for dignitaries. Anyone who is unfavorable to Daming will be classified as dignitaries and eliminated directly.
After sending away the eunuch, Mu Qiyuan once again patrolled Ava city for a week. Ava city was built along the river, which is different from most of the city in Tonggu. It runs northeast and southwest, and the city wall is not a rule. The rectangular shape is approximately elliptical. One hundred thousand Ming army has surrounded Ava long ago.
The Ming army is about to attack the city.
It was Chen Zizhuang's 17th Army that was tasked with the main attack. In fact, there is not much difference between the main attack and the auxiliary attack, but there is a priority in the time of entering the city.
Since the emergence of the bomb, when the Ming army raided the city, it no longer used the ladder to top the city as in the past, and then let the soldiers attack the city along the ladder. That way of siege, the soldiers casualties were too great.
The Ming army is now attacking the city, usually using artillery to blow up the city wall or city gate. After the enemy's vital force is consumed, the soldiers will follow the gap in the city wall and swagger into the city.
The Ming army’s firearms are more advanced than their opponents, and the number of soldiers siege is more than their opponents. Try to minimize the casualties of soldiers. Zero casualties is difficult to achieve, but the casualties of personnel are generally not large.
Except during the Northern Expedition, the North Sea Fleet’s Marine Corps and Jian Slave cavalry were killed and the number of casualties was relatively large. In other battles, the number of Ming Army casualties was rarely more than ten.
So now the soldiers of the Ming Army are relatively stable. Except for a few soldiers who retire because of their age, long service time, or difficulty adapting to firearms, most of the soldiers who are familiar with each other constitute the cornerstone of the Ming Army.
All provinces in Daming have established a military reserve system to train new recruits to prepare for supplements, but there are not many soldiers who really need to be added to the army. Later, Zhu Youjian changed the reserve to a secondary reserve system.
A small number of reserve soldiers are trained strictly, almost reaching the level of front-line soldiers. As long as they learn to use firearms, they can immediately be added to the front-line army. Most reserve soldiers only participate in training during the slack time. They are used for training every year. Time, only one month, most of the time is still engaged in agricultural production.
This has the advantage of not only allowing reserve soldiers to engage in agricultural production and increasing grain output, but also saving the limited training costs of the reserve on the blade, which can train a small number of soldiers with combat effectiveness, and expand it. The breadth of the reserve is conducive to selecting outstanding soldiers from a large number of soldiers.
After Mu Qiyuan visited for a week, he was worried about the solidity of Ava City and the Dongyu soldiers who didn't care about it.
Ava city was once the capital of the Ava dynasty. Its walls were tall and solid. After the army of Toungoo occupied Ava and destroyed the Ava dynasty, they repaired the walls of Ava again.
Ava, which has a well-developed water network, was also an important food production area for the Tunku Dynasty. The Kings of Toungoo in the past have attached great importance to the defense of Ava City. They have continuously heightened and thickened the city wall. Cheng, if faced with thirty or forty thousand soldiers armed with cold weapons, it is estimated that they can hold on for a year.
But the Ming army was not an ordinary army, and they were not holding cold weapons like swords, guns and halberds, but flintlocks and artillery.
Chen Zizhuang launched the attack from the East City Gate. He set up all the forty artillery pieces of the army at a place less than a thousand steps away from the city wall. The closer the distance, the greater the power of the blooming bombs. Bows and arrows will do.
In the first wave of forty blooming bombs, most of them fell outside the city wall, and less than 20 fell on the city’s head. However, the huge sound and shock wave created a terrifying horn of death on the city’s head. A piece of Chinese red on his head was either the flame of a flower bomb exploding, or the blood of the defending army.
The broken limbs of the soldiers suddenly increased the number of defenders several times, if these limbs were also considered as a defender.
Soldiers who can’t find their arms and legs are the most worrying. They screamed, cried, rolled, and even some soldiers suffered severe pain and just connected their broken arms and thighs. After connecting them, They realized that something was wrong. These arms and legs were thicker than their own, or thinner, or their skin was much darker than their own.
In despair, they once again joined the tumbling army.
The soldiers who couldn't find their heads were lucky. They lost all consciousness in an instant. Before they saw God, they walked without any nostalgia or pain.
There were no wounded soldiers, and they were stunned for a while. They had never seen this kind of artillery. Maybe it was fear, maybe it was wounded under the invisible shock wave. They forgot to bandage their companions, and even forgot to escape.
The Ming army didn't let these soldiers tangled for too long, and the defenders had not finished their physical and mental wounds, and the gunners started the second wave of shooting.
This time, there were more blooming bullets falling on the city's head, a total of more than thirty.
If they can escape the two waves of bomb explosions, these defenders are really favored by the Buddha. The remaining defenders are like being summoned by the Buddha. They ran down the city head in a hurry, no matter if their companions were hysterical. Called.
Maybe that was the last sound they made in this life.
The Ming army began to adjust the artillery. Forty artillery pieces were divided into two. Twenty artillery guns continued to fire at the front of the city. The artillery fire extended 300 steps and 500 steps forward. The other 20 artillery pieces were all aimed at the east city gate.
The city walls are thick and the flowering bombs are difficult to destroy. Chen Zizhuang doesn't believe it. The city gates will be so strong, just made of iron. How long can it last under the bombardment of 20 flowering bombs each time
The city gate did not last long. The three waves of bombing, the city gate was long gone. It was either shattered to pieces or blown away by the roots. Chen Zizhuang had already seen the wide open city gate.
Outside the East City Gate is the Shuitang River, but Shuitang River is far from the city wall. The Ming army has already crossed the Shuitang River and launched an offensive from between the Shuitang River and the city wall. The East City Gate across the front of the soldiers has been Wide open.
Chen Zizhuang finally gave the order to enter the city. Now there are no defenders at the east city gate, and the Ming army is not in a hurry. They are holding flintlocks and lined up into the city through the city gate hole in a neat line.
There are soldiers from the Dongyu Army on the front of the city, but they are either dead or wounded. As long as they can move, they will run out of sight.
After the Seventeenth Army entered the city, they first beheaded the wounded soldiers on the city head one by one, and they occupied the city head without firing a shot.
The main force of the defenders in the city was still there, and they still had a greater threat to the Ming army. Chen Zizhuang divided the soldiers into regiments, carried small mountain runs, and began to search in the city, and then the 20th Army, which entered the city, was Acting as guards, they guarded the east city gate and marched along the city wall to respond to the Ming army entering the city outside the city.
The battle was mainly carried out in the city. The Dongyu Army, which had no speed advantage and no long-range strike capability, was simply a target for the Ming Army’s flintlock and mountain running. It couldn’t even rely on the cover of buildings. The Ming Army had mountain artillery. .
Toungoo soldiers ran around the city desperately, but there was no safe place in the city. Ming army search teams were everywhere.
The clever Dongyu Army soldiers began to hide in the residents' homes.
The Ming army who searched quickly discovered their movements. All the people who took in Tongyu soldiers, if they did not report to the Ming army in time, would be regarded as guilty of the same crime as the Tongyu soldiers, and they would all be shot and killed.
If the residents were Han Chinese and were coerced by the Dongyu Army, the Ming Army would be able to open the Internet, but these people will need to commit crimes and prove their innocence in the future.
After Ava's guard Qingfeng found out that the Ming army had entered the city, he felt that his end had come, but he still organized the soldiers of Toungoo in an attempt to reoccupy the city gate and block most of the Ming army outside the city.
The Ming Army did not give him any chance. All the Toungoo soldiers armed with weapons were shot to death by the Ming Army, regardless of whether you were preparing to surrender or not.
Seeing that the situation is over, Qingfeng had to wipe his neck and commit suicide.
In the evening, the sound of flintlocks gradually became thinner, and most of the Dongyu garrison were killed. The Ming army ransacked the city in the name of searching for the escaped Dongyu army.
This time the search mainly focused on the property in the city. Officials and large households were the focus of the search. In addition to paying off the property, the masters and servants of these families were also punishable because they were the nobles of Ava City.
Ordinary people who dared to resist, the Ming army was not merciless, and basically killed the whole family.
The only exception is the Han people. Whether they are ordinary people or wealthy businessmen, they can keep their families and property.
Later, some Burmese who could speak a little Chinese also pretended to be Han Chinese, hoping that the Ming army would show mercy to their men.
The Ming army generally treats the "two devils" of these Burmese people differently. If they are ordinary people and don’t have much money left, most of them laugh at it and let them pretend to be Han, while officials and large families even pretend to be Han. , Will also be questioned by the Ming army. If it is not a Han, it is still unavoidable to confiscate the family.
Three days later, the interrogation in the city was basically over. The original population of Awa, with a population of 150,000, was less than 100,000. Among this 100,000 population, there were also nearly 50,000 Han people, or other ethnic groups who pretended to be Han people.
These Han Chinese and pseudo-Han people, looking at the wealthy businessmen who were still arrogant yesterday, and the Ava officials who have always eaten the cards, one by one became the ghosts of the Ming army. They can't help but secretly sigh: It's great to be a Han!