Daming Military Empire

Chapter 353 Forced Landing on Donghu
The 20-strong army drove hundreds of giant elephants and rushed over. The power was indeed a bit scary, but Zhu Cijiong was not frightened. He was only slightly stunned, and then quickly ordered: "Let the infantry on the left and right wings be densely packed in front of the shield wall. The phalanx, firing in sections, ordered the rear artillery to set up their guns and load the shotguns to bombard the front."

The flag was waved, and the formation of the Ming army immediately changed. The infantry on both sides quickly moved closer to the middle, and lined up row after row in front of the shield wall. set up.

As soon as the Donghu army rushed out less than a hundred steps away, the hundreds of cannons erected by the Ming army began to roar, but the shells did not fly towards the charging Donghu army, but fell into the artillery array behind the army." Boom boom boom "The poor artillery formation of the Donghu army immediately remembered the sound of an explosion. The Ming army fired explosive bombs. Many gunpowder barrels were ignited, and a burst of thick smoke shot straight into the sky.

Ping Dali, who was following the army, looked back at the artillery formation of his own side, but his face showed a look of rejoicing, thinking: "It's okay, it's okay, the general of the Ming army didn't know the power of the giant elephant, so he let the artillery bombard the back You don't know how to bombard the elephant soldiers in front, boom, boom, once the elephant soldiers rush in, you will be finished!"

Can the elephant soldiers rush in?He seemed to have forgotten that the Ming army had more than this amount of artillery, and even one legion had more than that, but now there are two legions with more than 1000 artillery pieces!

The Donghu army had just rushed out for less than a mile, and there was a terrible roar in the Ming army. More than 1000 artillery pieces were fired at the same time. , Countless blood sprayed out of Donghu's army in an instant, and the screams were endless.

Ping Dali was lucky, running at the back, the shells did not hit him, but at this time he was already frightened, how could the Ming army have so many artillery!
The last time the Guan Ning army broke the siege of the big city, they invested less than [-] pieces of artillery, and all of them used solid ammunition. Although the rate of fire was amazing and the shells were like rain, how could the "raindrops" be so dense? , he did not know of such a thing as shotgun, for the Dutch and English supplied them with solid ammunition only.

After a round of artillery fire, although Donghu's army was a little scattered, they did not stop charging, because they all knew that it took time to reload the artillery, and they would be able to rush through after one or two more rounds at most.

It does take time to reload the artillery, but the Ming army not only has artillery, but also the Ming army reloads the artillery at an astonishingly fast speed. They continued to rush for less than a hundred steps, and there was another terrible roar, and another cloud of shells. Tens of thousands of people were shot and injured, and even some giant elephants were bombed down!

It's only one mile away, which is about four or five hundred steps. Pin Dali didn't know whether it was because he was overly frightened or he was so fierce. He ordered like a madman: "Rush, keep charging, if you dare to take a step back, you will be killed without mercy." !"

After receiving the order, the leading generals had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the army forward, completely ignoring the casualties.

However, the distance of more than one mile is so far away, as if "out of reach". They had just finished three rounds of shells, and finally rushed to a place more than a hundred steps away from the Ming army. The Ming army's muskets began to rain bullets again. Well, the reloading speed of this musket is much faster than that of a cannon, and the Ming soldiers had a musket, and more than half of them were revolver rifles, and they fired row after row, and the rain of bullets never stopped!

At this time, Donghu's army was already in chaos. Those in the middle were pushed forward by the people behind and had to rush forward, while the two wings had already begun to flee.

Their nightmare did not end. When most of the troops in the middle rushed to less than [-] steps away from the Ming army, countless grenades suddenly flew out from the Ming army formation. "Boom boom boom" this wave came down, and the middle was pushed up Almost none of the tens of thousands of people were not injured, and the Donghu army finally collapsed. The people in front desperately squeezed to the back, while the people behind began to flee in all directions.

Zhu Cijiong was not overjoyed when he saw this scene through the binoculars. He remembered the scenes in some movies of later generations. How similar it was to the defeat of the Qing army. He shook his head and sighed, and then gave the order: The cavalry attacked, and the Tianxiong Army and the Guan Ning Army were ordered to close the net by telegram."

Soon, the two wings of the Ming army sounded the sound of rolling horseshoes, and [-] cavalry rushed towards the collapsed Donghu army like two torrents, and the battle was over.

In this battle, the Ming army did not have any casualties, and Zhu Cijiong didn't have time to take into account the specific casualties of the Donghu army. When the operation to suppress deserters was almost completed, he immediately ordered that Lu Xiangsheng and Qin Liangyu's First Army Corps of the Imperial Guard, Tianxiong The 18 cavalrymen of the Dongjiang Army, the Guanning Army, and the Dongjiang Army took half a month's dry food, and under the guidance of Siamese guides, they went straight to Toungoo City and surrounded it to prevent King Long from running away.

And he took Cao Wenzhao, personally led the 15 infantry infantry of the First Corps of the Imperial Guard Army, Tianxiong Army, and Guanning Army, escorted [-] uninjured Donghu prisoners, and set off with food and supplies.As for the cleaning of the battlefield, it was left to Mao Wenlong and the remaining [-] infantry artillerymen of the Dongjiang Army.

The road from the big city to Toungoo is really difficult. The 18 cavalry did not bring any food, grass and supplies, and it took them nearly five days to arrive with light equipment.

However, at this time, King Long had not received the news of the defeat at the front line. He never thought about the problem of escaping. He just closed the city gate and looked at the 18 Ming army cavalry outside in horror. He had no idea where they came from. out of nowhere.

With 18 cavalry, sleeping in the open air and eating in the wind, after being trapped outside Dongyu City for eight or nine days, the infantry artillery led by Zhu Cijiong finally arrived.

As soon as the two armies met, the dangerous trick of capturing the thief first and capturing the king was almost done, and the only thing left was for him to make an emergency landing in the city, King Long. This was actually no difficulty at all. At this point, even if King Long refused to Surrendering, it would not take much time for the Ming army to forcefully attack Toungoo City.

After Zhu Cijiong rushed to the outside of Dongyu City, he was not in a hurry to act. He first ordered more than 4 cavalry in the south of the city to receive supplies and sent them to the east, west, and north of the city, and asked them to camp separately. Set up camp and had a good rest for a day.

On the second day, he ordered all the artillery to pull more than 3000 cannons to the south of the city and line them up three miles away, while all the infantry escorted [-] prisoners to separate them on both sides.

This formation scares King Talong in the city to pee his pants. You must know that there are less than [-] defenders in Toungoo City, and less than [-] artillery pieces. The army in the south of the city alone is enough to make him Desperate.

Zhu Cijiong's intimidation did not end. He first ordered all the artillery to fire three rounds. Although the overwhelming shells did not enter the city, they shot the Donghu soldiers who defended the city weak. If it really came in, wouldn't they Was blasted into powder!

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiong ordered [-] captives to line up in front of the artillery formation, and Prince Donghu was kidnapped by Wuhuada at the forefront.

In the end, he ordered someone to shoot a letter of persuasion into the city. The content of the letter of persuasion was very simple: order him to go out of the city within an hour to surrender, otherwise he will drive the captives to serve as human shields and attack the city!

Faced with this situation, what else is there to think about? It didn't take an hour, less than half an hour later, the south gate of Dongyu City opened wide, and he, King Long, walked out with all civil and military officials panicking. Donghu finally down!

(End of this chapter)