Daming Military Empire

Chapter 352

By the way, Donghu’s current territory is really not small. The entire southeast peninsula is almost occupied by them except for the small strip in the east belonging to Annan and Champa. Especially after Siam was suppressed in the Ayutthaya area, Donghu’s territory is close 200 million square kilometers, can such a large place be taken in a month?

According to Zhu Cijiong's original plan, one month is naturally far from enough. It turned out that he wanted to work step by step, steadily and steadily, and use the railway line to advance slowly. Wherever the railway line is reached, the railway will be repaired. Donghu, who is absolutely capable of fighting, has no temper.

However, now that the big powers are clearly coming to interfere, he has to change his strategy and take a risky gamble. The so-called capture the thief first and capture the king. He is going to attack all the way, rushing directly to the capital of Donghu, and forcing him to land on King Long!
It is only over 1000 miles from Ayutthaya to Toungoo, the capital of Donghu. If you hurry up, you can reach it in three days. It seems that it is a very simple matter to win and rush to Toungoo. Why do you say it is a risky gamble?

First of all, there is still a 20 army of Donghu north of the big city. It would be a joke not to defeat the 20 army and go straight to the capital of Donghu, waiting for people to attack from both sides?After the defeat of the 20 troops, it is not all over. If they want to use the terrain to disperse the attack, it will be very troublesome. With the 30 Ming troops assembled in the big city, it is impossible to wipe out so many defeated troops in a short period of time.

Also, the distance between Dacheng and Toungoo City is not flat, and there are several mountains in between. The terrain is complicated and it is difficult for the army to move.

Finally, there is the most crucial question, if he, King Long, flees and abandons Dongyu City, then all his work will be in vain!

But Zhu Cijiong can't control so much now. There are a lot of problems, but it is not completely without hope of success, because he is very confident in the forced landing of King Long. As long as he surrounds King Long in Dongyu City, this guy In all likelihood, he will surrender, because in history, the king of the Donghu Dynasty was not a diehard who resisted to the end.

In fact, the Southern Myanmar where Emperor Yongli was finally defeated in the Southern Ming Dynasty was the Donghu Dynasty. As a result, as soon as Wu Sangui rushed over, King Talong immediately sent Emperor Yongli and his family to the Qing army in order to ask the Qing army to retreat!
This shows that his King Long's will is not very tenacious, and he admits to being cowardly before the fight begins. Of course, it is also possible that he does not want to go to war to protect Emperor Yongli and the Qing army, but everyone beats you at the door! Not even letting anyone admit to being cowardly is enough to show that King Long is a bully and fears the tough.

Since they are afraid of hard work, let's try hard with them. Zhu Cijiong directly ordered that the Beiyang Navy go to Annan to bring the Tianxiong Army over, and hand over the slow progress of the railway construction to the Dingliao Army, Wuwei Army and the No. [-] Frontier Defense Army. The Second Army Corps was in charge, while the First Army Corps of the Imperial Guard, Guan Ning Army and Dongjiang Army were all working together to make dry food and prepare to march in a hurry!
Annan was not very far from Siam. Two days later, the Tianxiong Army arrived in Ayutthaya. Zhu Cijiong immediately summoned four generals to discuss the grand plan of marching on Toungoo.

During the march and battle, Zhu Cijiong generally tried to avoid red tape and etiquette, and the five people just discussed around the sand table model.

To enter Toungoo, we must first deal with the 20 Donghu army north of the city. The camp of the Donghu army is quite important in the art of war. It is backed by mountains and easy to defend but difficult to attack. , It's just a little extra effort, the most discussed by everyone is how to annihilate the 20 army in one fell swoop.As for what to do after the 20 troops are settled, it depends on the outcome of the battle. Everyone cited various situations one by one and discussed various countermeasures. A huge battle plan was slowly formed in this way.

Early the next morning, Zhu Cijiong personally led the First Corps of the Imperial Guard Army and the Dongjiang Army to march eighty miles north of Dacheng, and set up camp opposite the Donghu Daying Camp, attracting the attention of the Donghu Army, while the Guanning Army and Tianxiong Army marched from the left and right. The two wings lurked in the past, and surrounded the Donghu camp with a distance of twenty or thirty miles.

The chief general of this shareholder Hu Dajun is East Hu King Prince Ping Dali. He is not as timid as King Long. The so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. He thinks that the Ming army has more artillery. If you really fight hard, you may not necessarily fight Can beat the Donghu army!
The reason why he retreated a hundred miles was not because he was afraid of the Ming army, but because he didn't want to fight with the Ming army. He didn't even understand the Ming army's intentions, so he just fought with others. Isn't that sick? He's not sick, so He was waiting for the Ming army to send envoys to explain their intentions.

In the end, what he was waiting for was not an envoy from Ming Dynasty, but an army of 20 troops!
This made Ping Dali immediately angry, and early the next morning, he directly ordered the 20 troops to form a formation on the plain in front of the camp, preparing to challenge the Ming army, and let them see the strength of the Donghu army.

Zhu Cijiong was still thinking about how to break through the Donghu camp, but he didn't expect them to run out by themselves and set up a formation to provoke there!
Dare to face the Ming army on the plain, court death!

Zhu Cijiong immediately ordered that 20 infantry form a shield wall at the front to block the enemy's sight, and the remaining infantry and cavalry lined up on the left and right rear wings of the shield formation, while the artillery was all arranged directly behind the shield formation. Press forward.

Seeing that the Ming army was pressing down in such a formation, Ping Dali couldn't help showing a look of disdain. The general of the Ming army must be sick. Can the shells be blocked by shields?He has dozens of cannons!And he still has tens of thousands of elephant soldiers, just step on such a shield formation!
Zhu Cijiong naturally knew that Donghu's army had forty or fifty cannons, so he put the one hundred Shenwei cannons with the longest range at the front of the artillery formation, and waited for the opponent to fire.

Behind the shield, the infantry and artillery generals on horses kept using binoculars to estimate the distance between each other, six miles, five miles, four miles, three miles.

The front shield formation of the Ming army just reached the position about two and a half miles away from the Donghu army, "boom boom boom", the Donghu army finally couldn't help firing, but their artillery was all placed behind the formation, and the range was not enough. The farthest shell fired was still hundreds of steps away from the shield formation of the Ming army.

At this time, the Chinese army ordered the flag to be waved, and the leading generals in front ordered one after another according to the flag:

"Come forward a hundred steps to erect the shield wall."

"Go forward and line up a hundred steps, ready to charge."

"Go forward and set up a gun, ready to bombard."

After the entire formation of the Ming army moved forward a hundred steps, it suddenly stopped, "Puff puff puff" The Ming army in the front row inserted their shields into the ground, quickly forming a shield wall, and the Ming army behind seemed to stop there without moving.

Just as Ping Dali guessed what the Ming army was doing, a row of gun barrels suddenly erected behind the shield wall, about a hundred, but the length was a bit surprising, a large part of the shield wall was high!

Seeing this, Ping Dali's expression changed. Looking at the length of the gun barrel, he knew that the artillery of the Ming army would definitely be able to shoot into his own formation. What should we do?A hundred cannons are not so scary. At such a short distance, he rushed over and received at most [-] shells. After struggling, he gritted his teeth and roared: "Beat the drums, the whole army will attack."

"Dong dong dong dong" the war drum sounded, and the 20 Donghu army roared in unison, driving the giant elephant to rush towards the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)