Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 78: Liu Dadao's Swiftness (Part 2)
The current King of Burma is called Anawarung, the grandson of Mangyalung, the greatest monarch of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma.
The great ruler Mang Yinglong conquered the largest territory in Myanmar's history (including today's Myanmar, Thailand, the entire Laos, Cambodia, the northeastern tip of India and part of Bangladesh), but he also seriously overdrawn Myanmar's national strength. So after his death, Siam in the east became independent again, and the Mon people in the southeast also began to rebel. Not only that, the great ruler of Siam, Naresuan, even invaded Myanmar and took away a lot of the Burmese's inherent territory.
Fortunately, now that Naresuan is dead, the new king of Siam needs time to recuperate. Therefore, the threat from the east of Myanmar is temporarily lifted. Among the remaining enemies, the Mon people in the southeast need to be appeased, and the Red Barbarians on the southwest coast can be calmed down by giving them some benefits. The most urgent task now is to take advantage of Siam's temporary inability to invade and quickly remove the nail of Mubang!
At this time, the Burmese Kingdom occupied most of the Irrawaddy River Plain between the western mountains and the eastern plateau. The plain area is of course excellent for agricultural peoples, but every time the Burmese rulers looked up to the northeast and saw Mubang, which was located on the plateau and overlooked Myanmar, it was like a thorn in their throats. For decades, successive Burmese kings have been eager to take Mubang, thereby establishing a reliable barrier for the essence of their own land - the Irrawaddy River Plain.
Unfortunately, the national strength of Myanmar was too far behind that of the Ming Dynasty. Even a powerful ruler like Mang Yinglong was not strong enough to fight against a Yunnan governor of the Ming Dynasty. Throughout Mang Yinglong's life, no matter how invincible he was in the Indochina Peninsula and even the northeastern end of the Indian Peninsula, he still had difficulty winning against the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.
So this time, in order to take down Mubang, Anahualong used all his strength.
He mobilized a full 300,000 troops to attack Mubang, which can be said to have emptied out all the men of the country. His plan was to fight a quick battle and take Mubang quickly, using the posture of a lion fighting a rabbit, while the Ming Dynasty had not yet reacted.
The troops were dispatched on the first day of June, and arrived at the city of Mubang on the tenth day. The siege was completed on the twelfth day. After three days of large-scale siege equipment, on the fifteenth day, 300,000 Burmese troops, under the supervision of officers and lords at all levels, began to attack the city without regard for casualties.
It was also on this day that more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Sun Chengzong , Liu Jing and others arrived at a valley more than 40 miles away from Mubang.
After a preliminary investigation of the battlefield situation, Liu Jing decided not to go to Mubang City, but to take a detour and continue southward with the entire army.
On the 28th, after 13 days of frantic attack and at the cost of more than 30,000 casualties, Mubang City was captured...
"Congratulations to the king for defeating Mubang!"
"Congratulations to the king for achieving a feat that no previous king has ever achieved!"
"Haha, this is all the result of everyone's loyalty to the king." Although the Burmese king of this generation is much inferior to Mang Yinglong in military talent, he may be slightly better in political strategy. Therefore, although it is a great sense of accomplishment to take down Mubang, the old enemy that has been entangled for decades, Ana Hualong still keeps a clear mind at this time.
"Is Han Gai alive or dead?"
"Your Majesty, Han Gai has died in the chaos of the army."
"Humph! It's really a bargain for him. What about the other members of the Han family?"
"Some died in battle, and quite a few surrendered. The city is in chaos right now, so it's hard to make a clear count."
"Pass the order down, no one from the Han family will be harmed!"
"Yes, as you command, Your Majesty."
After the generals in charge of the siege withdrew, Anahualong turned around and asked: "He Tailong, have the spies who were recently sent out to explore the north returned?"
"Your Majesty, the spies we sent out three days ago have not returned yet."
"So, the Ming army hasn't been discovered yet?"
"Yes, so far, no Ming troops have been found on the official road from Kunming to Mubang in the north."
"Well, that's good. It seems that this time we are right to bear the cost of the huge loss of summer harvest at home and mobilize 300,000 people to attack Mubang."
"Your Majesty is wise. This time, it took us only half a month to capture Mubang. It is no longer like the previous half a year or even a year that dragged on. In this way, the Ming Dynasty no longer has time to react."
"Well, the wood has been put down. Next, we have to do three things."
"Please give your orders, Your Majesty."
"First, send an envoy with gold and jewelry to Kunming immediately to report the war between Myanmar and Mubang to the Yunnan Provincial Government of Ming Dynasty. You must bribe the civil officials of Ming Dynasty heavily and explain repeatedly that this is just a civil war between the Myanmar Xuanwei Office and the Mubang Xuanwei Office of Ming Dynasty. It is definitely not an invasion of the Xuanwei Office under the Ming Dynasty by Myanmar. Without Mubang, Myanmar will still pay tribute to Ming Dynasty... As long as the local officials of Yunnan do not want to fight, the emperor of Ming Dynasty will most likely not send troops again.
Second, let General Nachaisu lead his troops northward to build fortifications along the official road near Lashio Mountain... Although I think that the Ming Dynasty will not send troops again after knowing that Mubang has been completely destroyed, we must always be prepared for the worst.
Third, we should speed up the gathering of people from Mubang and its surrounding areas. Mubang is a mountainous area with poor production. We should try to move these people to our Irrawaddy Plain, let them cultivate the fertile land there, and restore our national strength! "
"yes!"
In the original plane of history, Anahualong's three moves were effective. As a result, Mubang permanently left the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Not only Mubang, but also the loss of this barrier and the rise of the Jurchens later made the Ming Dynasty no longer able to defend the southwest. Then, Mengyin in the east of Mubang and Mengyang in the northwest were all taken away by Myanmar.
However, in this life, because of the time traveler, the Ming Dynasty sent reinforcements in advance.
Then……
"Report~~Your Majesty, we have spotted the Ming army behind us!"
"What?!"
On July 3, the first group of Burmese troops returning southwards, carrying some people from Mubang, ran into the Ming army that had taken a detour in front of them. The Burmese army was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, losing 700 to 800 people in the first encounter. Many people from Mubang also fled.
"What's going on? Why did the Ming army get behind us?"
The place where Mubang Xuanweisi was located was later called the Shan Plateau. (The so-called Shan (Dan, pronounced three times) is actually the Dai and Thai people. In addition to the geographical location, ethnicity is also one of the reasons why Mubang and Myanmar do not get along.) Although it is called a plateau, its altitude is only about 1,200 meters, which is lower than the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Therefore, most of dense primeval forest.
In the primeval forest, there are no roads anywhere, but there are also roads everywhere. After learning that Mubang was besieged by 300,000 Burmese troops, Liu Jing wisely did not confront the Burmese troops head-on, but instead took a detour southward through the dense forest and ran behind the Burmese troops.
This is certainly an extremely risky move, but otherwise Zhu Youdong's request cannot be met.
Although the Shan Plateau is not very high in altitude, it is majestic compared to the Irrawaddy River Plain, which is only one or two hundred meters above sea level.
Now the problem is: transportation is often extremely difficult in the transition areas between plains and plateaus. It took Anahualong ten days to open up a grain route during this expedition. But now this grain route is blocked by Liu Jing!
