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Or, how dare you divide your troops to attack your tens of thousands of troops?

"The whole army retreats to the camp!"

The so-called camp is the temporary camp they set up last night.Some wooden fences were inserted to make the walls of the village, and a small amount of trenches were dug, which could barely be regarded as fortifications.

Mang Tai didn't dare to march back to the nearest city in a hurry, as the same sentence said, running too fast would disperse the troops.

The main force of the Burmese army is tens of thousands of standing troops. When the army is expanded during the war, the local nobles also recruit farmers.Local aristocrats have their own private soldiers, recruiting peasants within their jurisdiction can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the peasant army.

But the Datong army killed it too quickly, and the local nobles ran away with their private soldiers.Many did not flee to the north, but avoided the front of the army and fled to the east to gather in Bagu and Toungoo.

Without local aristocrats leading troops, it was difficult for Mang Tai to effectively command the peasant army.

"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!"

Before the Burmese army returned to the place where they camped last night, the Datong dragoons had already caught up.

Thanks to King Talong, who had died of illness, he actually laid official roads along the river, otherwise the river bank would be full of rice fields, and the cavalry would really not be able to run.

This place belongs to the middle and upper reaches of the Ayeyarwady River, and rice is harvested two or three times a year.

It's winter, but the seedlings are knee-deep.

Mang Tai hastily deployed his army, leading the main force himself, forming an array near the official road.More than a dozen local nobles led tens of thousands of peasant troops, stepping on the rice fields and spreading them on both sides.

In order to pursue quickly, the Datong cavalry did not bring tiger squatting guns.

"Abandon the horse and line up!"

The cavalry general is called Qin Fuguo, who is Qin Liangyu's grandnephew.

More than 4000 dragoons were instantly transformed into musket infantry.They hang their cavalry guns on their horses, and only carry flintlock guns and waist knives, standing in formation on the ridges of fields.

The tens of thousands of Burmese peasant army had no organization at all, and they had to form formations in the rice fields, which dragged on for a long time without getting it done.There is a mess everywhere, and it is not as good as the military training of middle school students.

If it was replaced by a flat and open terrain, the Datong cavalry would definitely rush up, and the whole army would be defeated after three or two impacts.

Mang Sigu said excitedly: "Father, the enemy only has a few thousand cavalry, and they should be the vanguard. Cavalry is useless in this terrain, but our army has tens of thousands of people. We should quickly encircle and wipe them out!"

"If we can't wipe it all out, it depends on how much we can keep," Mang Tai said to the herald. "Raise the flag, blow the trumpet, and the right wing outflanks!"

The local aristocratic generals acted immediately after receiving the order, and led a small number of private soldiers to move forward slowly.However, the peasant army under their command could not quickly learn about the military order, so they could only subconsciously follow suit.

Crooked, messy.

Qin Fuguo almost laughed out loud when he saw it: "The whole army got on their horses and retreated two miles."

More than 4000 soldiers ran back to the official road from the ridges of the fields, got on their horses and fled.They all ran away, the Burmese army was still dawdling, and the outflanking troops were already in a mess.

In this situation, Mangtai was a little confused.

He had an army of tens of thousands, but he didn't dare to pursue him. If he pursued him, he would inevitably become more chaotic. If he didn't pay attention, the whole army would be defeated.

"Close up all ministries and slowly withdraw to the camp last night!" Mang Tai ordered helplessly.

Seeing that the Burmese army had gathered half, Qin Fuguo immediately sent an order: "The rear team becomes the front team, catch up and dismount!"

"Too deceiving!"

Mang Tai was furious, he didn't dare to gather the army anymore, and ordered the troops to be deployed again.

They hadn't gathered yet, and they were about to start forming again, and the tens of thousands of peasant troops became more and more chaotic.

Lost!

Mang Tai called his son: "Prepare to lead the main force to retreat, this battle cannot be fought. The enemy cavalry is stalling for time. When the main force of the enemy army arrives, we will definitely be wiped out. Except for the luggage on board, we will abandon everything else and flee back at full speed. Shaobu City, garrison the city and wait for the actions of the friendly forces in the north."

"You don't want so much food?" Mang Sigu was a little reluctant.

"It's important to keep the troops." Mang Tai said.

The Burmese ships docked in Prome have been snatched by the Datong Army.Mangtai could only collect small boats along the way. How much baggage could a few hundred small boats carry?The luggage of tens of thousands of people was carried by livestock and manpower.

"Outflank the enemy!"

Mangtai continued to give orders to the miscellaneous soldiers, and at the same time made the main force prepare to flee.

As long as the main force can escape smoothly, tens of thousands of civilians will die.And most of them will not die, they will definitely be defeated and run around, and many of them will definitely be able to escape back to their hometown.

Seeing that the Burmese army was unfolding again, Qin Fuguo ordered to retreat again. He believed that if this happened a few more times, the Burmese army would collapse in chaos.

"The whole army pursues!" Mang Tai raised the command flag and blew the charge horn.

Those local nobles rushed forward with their private soldiers, and tens of thousands of civilians also rushed forward.I can't even rush, and the paddy fields are full of water, moving forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The rice fields were too difficult to walk, and more and more Burmese troops rushed to the official roads and ridges, blocking the passages that could move quickly.

"Come on!"

Mang Tai felt that the time had come, and quickly ordered the main force to retreat.

Qin Fuguo was riding on horseback, and was furious when he saw this: "Fucking hell, the enemy general has no conscience, and even left the army to run away! Kill me!"

Tens of thousands of Burmese troops crowded the official roads, blocked the ridges of the fields, and could be seen everywhere in the rice fields.

They rushed towards the Datong army with their weapons raised, and the Datong army also dismounted and marched forward in the rice field.

"Raise the gun!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The firecracker strikes three times, a puff of gunpowder smoke dissipates, and the enemy in front of him has collapsed.

Countless Burmese refugees ran to the official road one after another, trying to escape along the official road, completely blocking the official road.And the Burmese army farther away was still wading over in a mess, and some couldn't understand the situation here.

"Come back, get on your horse!" Qin Fuguo shouted.

The bugle sounded, and the Datong army in the rice fields retreated to the official road one after another.

The official road is very narrow and can only accommodate three horses in parallel, but if you want to gallop a horse, you can have at most two horses in parallel.

Qin Fuguo rushed to the front on horseback, slashing and killing the rout soldiers blocking the official road.But there is too much traffic ahead, and they will not be able to rush through for a while. The more they slash and kill, the more corpses will be on the official road, and the cavalry will not be able to rush at all.

The Datong cavalry in the rear squatted on the official road, quickly reloaded, and fired at the rice fields on both sides in turn.

At this time, more and more Burmese troops found that their main general had already run away with the main force.The local aristocrats were the first to react, calling the private soldiers to turn around and flee, and the nearby militia immediately followed suit.

The four wild rice fields are full of routs, and the Datong army can't pursue them.

After hacking and killing all the way, those defeated soldiers on the official road finally knew how to jump into the rice field to escape.

"Fuck me!"

After the rout on the official road cleared up, Qin Fuguo finally discovered that there were still countless baggage blocking the road ahead, and there were even a few artillery blocks blocking the road.

The luggage of the tens of thousands of troops was lying on the official road, and it would be hell if the cavalry could pass.

Qin Fuguo roared angrily: "Get off your horse and enter the field, capture the prisoners, and transport the luggage!"

There is no way to chase after them. When these luggage are removed, the main force of the enemy army may have fled back to the city.We can only capture the prisoners as much as possible, seize the luggage and go back to the mission.

The battle was nonsense enough. Although the enemy army was defeated, all the main forces fled.

Fortunately, the supplies were seized!

When Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan led the main force of the Datong Army to chase after them, facing this situation, they also couldn't laugh or cry.

Thanks to the enemy generals, who came hundreds of miles away, turned around and left after delivering the supplies, and did not stay to hear a thank you.

In any case, the Chinese army, which is alone and deep, will not worry about the food problem for the time being.

Chapter 864 [Siam and Eight Hundred Divisions]

In ancient China, when marching and fighting, if the food was transported purely by land, the army could bring 5-10 days of food with it, and the projection distance of the troops was about 500 kilometers.If the enemy is strong and clears the field, the projection distance will be greatly shortened, because there will be no food to grab along the way.

At this time, a logistics supply system is needed. If there are vehicles and ships to transport grain, a large station will be set up about 60 miles away.If it is purely transported by manpower, a small station should be set up about 10 miles away, and the peasants will carry it in batches, so as to ensure the speed of grain transportation.

Transporting food is so troublesome, and the enemy cities encountered along the way must be taken down one by one.

Because the army can pass around the city, but the food transport team in the rear cannot.Once the army is far away, the enemy will come out of the city, cut off our army's food roads, and even burn down our army's rear food stations.

However, don't take the situation of ancient China and apply it to other countries in the same period!

Take the European Middle Ages as an example, only 10% of military rations were provided by logistics, and the remaining 90% were provided by soldiers themselves, merchant trade and on-the-spot robbery.

It was not until the Thirty Years War that the logistics system was gradually improved.For example, the military warehouse system in France was established during the Richelieu period.Even with the garrison system, the logistical principle of the Louis XIV era was still: only supplies that could not be obtained abroad were transported from within the country.

More than 100 years ago, when the Taungoo Dynasty fought the Battle of Pyay, the military rations were transported directly to the front line at one time by ships provided by the Mon people.

At that time, there was the army of the Ava Dynasty in the north, and the waterway in the south was completely blocked by Arakan warships.Therefore, the army of the Toungoo Dynasty had no food at all, but they were still able to besiege the city for more than five months until they finally won the war.

This time, if the Datong Army on the South Road is halved and then halved again, there is no need for supplies along the way, and only the grain transport ships accompanying the army will be enough.

And Mang Tai's tens of thousands of pursuers had only one or two months' food when they were stationed in Piyao City.This guy traveled northward, collected food and grass during the march, and ordered officials from all over the country to send it quickly. The tens of thousands of troops were actually tens of thousands of civilians, and they brought their own food with the help of ships and livestock. There was no so-called logistics transportation team at all.

When Mangtai returned to Shaobu City to defend with more than 3000 main forces, good news came from the east.

The local aristocratic troops assembled in Mawlamyine, Bago, Daguang (Yangon) and other places went north from the narrow plain in the east, and then turned west to block the back road of the Datong army. At this time, thousands of people had arrived in Kyaukpa East .There are more troops on the way, all of them can come and join Mang Tai.The troops in the Toungoo area received orders to go to the capital early, and they were rushing from the north to reinforce Bagan City.

Once all the ministries arrive successfully, two-thirds of the Burmese army will encircle the troops of Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan.

Regardless of whether it is a solitary army going deep, or whether the center is blooming, Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan have done too much this time.The aggressive and crazy way of marching straight into the heart of Myanmar is like poking a hornet's nest. The Burmese army can't even care about the northern border.

Huang Yao and Liu Xinyu's North Army only had to face one-third of the Burmese army, and the rest of the Burmese army came to fight Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan.

Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan couldn't fight casually, because they had too few civilians, and their logistics were all on the grain transport boats, so they could only move along the Irrawaddy River.

Just when they were about to be surrounded, fighting broke out on the other roads.

Arakan, the sea bully in the Bay of Bengal, as a loyal subsidiary force of Myanmar, brought more than 40 large and small warships and more than 2000 soldiers in the army, and even came to support by sea.

They collided with the Datong Navy guarding there near the mouth of the Irrawaddy River.

The Datong Navy warmly greeted them and fired a "salute" as a greeting.

The naval commander in Arakan glanced at the ships of the Datong Navy, and immediately issued a very rude order.They didn't even say hello, and didn't fire a few "salutes", they just went back the same way, went back where they came from, and didn't get involved in the war between China and Burma.

On the other side of Siam, King Narai led 500 Datong troops and more than 3 Siamese soldiers, and went straight to the coastal city of Langa in the southeastern part of Myanmar.

Siam and Myanmar are enemies.

More than 100 years ago, the war never stopped.I will surround your capital for a while, and you will surround my capital for a while. Even if there is no Datong Army, there will be a war in ten years. The Siamese army will go straight to Bagan (the city that Ding Jiasheng is going to fight now).

What Langjiashu, what Tuwa, it is impossible to tell whose homeland it is, anyway, as long as it is occupied by the other party, it is said to be one's own lost land.

Due to the rapid advance of the Datong Army, the Burmese army stationed in Langa has quickly assembled to the north.

The Siamese army took a cold shot to attack, and the Burmese army was caught off guard.In just five days, Langashu was captured by King Narai, and then continued to attack the coastal city of Dawei.

Dawei also fell quickly, and the Siamese army pointed directly at Moulmein.

Further north of Mawlamyine is Maduba, the old capital of the Mon people.The Mon nobles in the city were all forced to move to Bagu, but the villages were still dominated by the Mon people.

"Your Highness, please restrain the military discipline and don't plunder the Meng people!"

The speaker was Meng Rui, a missionary officer of the [-]th Datong Army who was borrowed by Siam. He said: "According to the information provided by Xizuo, the Mon people do not accept the rule of the Burmese. The Mon people in the villages of Mawlamyine and Maduba Many, if they plunder, it will arouse the resistance of the Mon people. It is better to use Bayeux to spread the message, saying that we are here to help the Mon people, help them overthrow the Burmese rule, and help them in Madu Bafuguo."

More than 100 years ago, both Myanmar and Siam wrote on Bayeux, and the Bayeux script was invented by the Mon people.

Now using Bayeux to send a message to the Mon people, the content is to help them restore the country, and it will definitely win the favor of the Mon people. The Mon nobles will bring their own dry food and recruit soldiers to accompany them.

King Narai hesitated and said, "But decades ago, when Siam captured Mawlamyine, they robbed the local Mon people. Would they really believe it?"

Meng Rui said: "In order to restore the country, they are willing to believe."

Adviser Yang Dongkui said: "Your Highness can promise that as long as the two cities of Langkashu and Dawei in Siam, Moulmein and Madupa in the north, all will be handed over to the Mon people to rule. Our army will restrain the military discipline and not rob the Mon people. , and captured Mawlamyine with all their strength. Then, handed over Mawlamyine to the Mon people. The Mon people were still grateful for the city? And the north of Mawlamyine is the old capital of the Mon people, Maduba. In order to recover the old capital, they also Why don't you respond?"

King Nalai was a little unhappy about this. His original plan was to take the opportunity to annex Mawlamyine and Maduba completely.

Yang Dongkui persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, accept it as soon as you see it, and don't want to make the Celestial Dynasty unhappy. If you take down Langgashu and Tuwa, you have already regained your homeland. Who else in Siam will dissatisfy you?"

King Nalai thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and said, "Okay, give Maolamian to the Meng people!"

The defenders of Mawlamyine had only a thousand soldiers left at this time.

The [-] Siamese army took two days to conquer.Then they plundered and looted the city, and then handed it over to the nobles of the Meng people after the looting was over.

The Meng people got an empty city riddled with holes, and they had no right to dislike it, so they accepted it happily.This situation quickly spread to surrounding villages and towns, and a large number of Mon landlords and farmers came to help the Siamese army fight.

Because further north is the old capital of the Meng Dynasty!

Meng Rui, a missionary officer, summoned the Mon landlords alone, and promised: "The Toungoo Kingdom established by the Burmese is disrespectful to the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. As long as the Mon people cooperate in the battle, you will be allowed to restore the country in the future. The capital is Maduba, and the capital is Maduba. Dubagu is also fine, and you will have your own country in the future.”

Maduba and Bagu are both the old capitals of the Mon people!

The Mon landlords were overjoyed, and they did not know where to find a nobleman, who was said to be a descendant of the royal family of the Baigu (Pegu) dynasty, and directly declared the founding of the country in Mawlamyine, which had been robbed.