Chapter 834: Should I go to the jungle to fight guerrillas? Or should I be a noble man from the Ming Dynasty?

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 834: Should I go to the jungle to fight guerrillas? Or should I be a noble man from the Ming Dynasty?

In the ninth year of Zhaowu, on October 11, the Ming army collected Awa City without bloodshed.

On October 20, more than 100,000 Ming troops arrived at the city of Bagan, an important city in central Myanmar. The lord of Bagan surrendered without fighting.

At this time, the news of more than 100,000 Ming troops heading south finally reached the capital Dongxue, and the royal court was shocked.

Dongshuo City, in the palace.

Mangda sat on the throne of pure gold, anxious and angry.

"Mangzhe, this beast, actually threw Awa directly to the Ming army? It's really a waste of my trust in him!"

Mangda is a fat man with slightly white skin, delicate facial features, and he probably had a good appearance, but unfortunately he was too fat.

In late autumn, Myanmar is still hot, and Mangda keeps sweating, even if there are two maids next to him using big palm fan to fan him constantly, he is also wiping his sweat with his handkerchief.

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Below, the second prince who has the right to inherit the throne, Mangbai, who is also the legitimate son of Mangda, took the opportunity to say: "Father, I heard that Mangzhe has fled to Shan State. My son asks to lead 30,000 troops to attack him! He will be tied back and handed over to him.

Reprimand your father!”

Although Mangda's ability is mediocre, he is not stupid. After hearing this, he couldn't help but curse: "Silly! When is it time? I still want to lead troops to attack your elder brother? I don't know that there is a saying in the Ming people, "Brothers are in the wall,

Do you have to be bullied outside?

Now, we should unite with your elder brother and resist the Ming army together!”

After saying that, he instructed a close minister to go to Shan State to contact Mangzhe, expressing his forgiveness for his mistakes, and as long as he is willing to lead his troops back to resist the Ming army.

Mangda didn't notice that Mangbai's expression below was sinister.

In fact, Mangbai had a purpose to seek military power from Mangda for 30,000 people - he also saw that the Ming army was coming in a fierce manner, and he had no confidence in whether Dongxu could block the Ming army in the future, so he hoped to advance.

Obtain military power, at least protect yourself.

At the worst, at the critical moment, 30,000 troops could surrender to the Ming army in exchange for wealth.

In addition, although he is the legitimate son and has the right to inherit the throne, in his opinion, Mangda always favors his elder brother Mangzhe. Mangzhe's mother turned out to be just a lowly palace maid, but Mangda appointed Mangzhe as the governor of northern Myanmar and was in charge.

Tile, with a total of 100,000 troops.

If he succeeds the throne in the future, Mangzhe opposes it, how can his throne be firmly held?

Therefore, in Mangbai's eyes, his father Mangda not only favors his concubine's son, but is also very stupid.

Such a stupid father could lead the remaining army in the kingdom to block the Ming army?

Mangda did not notice the expression of his own son. After he sent someone to contact Mangzhe, he discussed with several important officials of the royal court how to resist the Ming army.

The left prime minister of Touo Mangutu said: "Since Awa was taken down by the Ming army, it is probably impossible for Bagan to protect him. In this way, we can only block the Ming army on the line of Magui and Binwen, otherwise the country will face the Ming army directly.

Military soldiers."

The right prime minister, Sha Zhe, said: "Your Majesty, the Ming army has more than 100,000 elite troops, and we need to make more preparations.

Perhaps we should send generals to the Magui and Binwen areas to arrange defense lines to resist the Ming army, and move the capital to Bogu.

In addition, we need to send people to Shahill to contact the British and Dutch people, and pay to hire them to help us resist the Ming army."

On the other side of the river in Yangon in later generations, Shalian was considered a port city for the opening of Dongxue Kingdom to the outside world.

Earlier, the Portuguese were "leased" by the Portuguese. Later, during the period of Mangyingli, the Portuguese not only directly occupied Shalian, but also contacted the invasion of the Arakan Kingdom in the west, trying to divide the Dongyu, but because of King Liangyuan (Mangyuan).

Yinglong’s youngest son) failed to conspiracy.

After King Liangyuan, Anapilon succeeded to the throne, unify Myanmar again, expelled the Portuguese, and recovered Shalian.

However, the exchanges between Dongshu and the West were not interrupted. During the period of Anabilon and Talon, East India companies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands successively set up branches in Dongshu Shalian.

During the reign of King Taron, the British, Dutch and Touo were in good relations.

This is why the right prime minister, Sha Zhe, said that he would hire the armies of the two countries to resist the Ming army.

Mangda also thought this was a good idea, so he nodded quickly and said, "The Right Prime Minister is right, he has to hire British people and the Dutch people to help us resist the Ming army.

The war reports from the front line show that the army has many guns and cannons and extremely strong firepower. It just so happens that the British and Dutch also use firearms, which can definitely help us block the Ming army."

As soon as Mangda finished speaking, a burst of urgent shouts came from outside.

"Report—"

"Bogu's emergency battle report, the Ming navy landed in Motama Bay, Bogu was in urgent need!"

Before he finished speaking, the Guardian Guardian came into the hall with a letter of help with a serious face.

"What?!"

Mangda and the important officials of the Dongshuo royal court in the hall were shocked when they heard this.

Previously, although they also heard that the Ming navy traversed the South China Sea, first defeated the Dutch and then seized the Great Luzon Islands occupied by the Spanish.

But that is in the South Ocean after all, and the Motama Bay on the southern coast of the Dongyu Kingdom belongs to the Indian Ocean.

Therefore, it was very surprised that the Ming army navy landed on the southern coast, Dongxu was the monarch and ministers.

Then Mangda's face turned pale, and he collapsed on the Golden Throne as if he had lost his backbone, muttering: "It's over, now it's all over."

Bogu took advantage of this for hundreds of miles, and it took several days to get the news. At this time, the Ming army had already occupied Bogu City.

Moreover, the Ming army attacked from north to south, and this was to destroy my Dongshuo!"

Mangutu and Sha Zhe also looked pale. They looked at each other and found that the other party was full of powerlessness.

The Ming Dynasty was too strong, and this attack from north to south was too fierce, and it made Dongxu unable to fight back at once.

The two began to worry at this time that if the Ming Dynasty destroyed Dongyu, would they be in danger of their lives as the left and right prime ministers of Dongyu and whether they could keep their family wealth.

Immediately, Mangutu's heart moved and suggested: "Your Majesty, for the sake of this, you may send an envoy to seek peace from the Ming army."

Logically speaking, they should send envoys to seek peace from the Ming court, but Nanjing was thousands of miles away from Dongshuo, so they could only seek peace with the Ming army entering Dongshuo.

Mangda's scripture reminded me, as if I had grabbed the life-saving straw, and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, we can send an envoy to seek peace with the Ming army. Then I said, I, Dongzhao, would like to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and pay tribute."

Mangutu smiled bitterly after hearing this, and said, "Your Majesty, the Ming army attacked from north to south, and seemed to be trying to take all the land of Dongshou. I am afraid that it would be difficult to satisfy the Ming Dynasty just by paying tribute."

"What should we do?"

Mangutu was silent.

Because of some words, he, a minister, cannot speak, and it is even more impossible for him to make a decision for Mangda.

However, Sha Zhe didn't pay much attention to it, and then he said, "If Your Majesty wants to fight against the Ming army, now he will gather the strength of the whole country to fight against the Ming army to the end. At worst, he will lead his subjects to retreat into the jungle and wait until the popularity is hot next year.

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If Your Majesty has no intention of resisting and is worried about his death and his country's destruction, he can send an envoy in advance to express his intention to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and perhaps he can become a idle nobleman in the Ming Dynasty."

"This..." Mangda cried with a sad face, "How can I know how to decide?"

He must be afraid of death and cannot become the suffering of hiking into the jungle.

But he was unwilling to let him dedicate the country he passed down from his ancestors to the Ming Dynasty. So even though the military situation on the north and south lines was extremely urgent, the matter was deadlocked.

At this time, what Mangda didn't notice was that a strange color flashed in his son Mang's eyes, as if he had made some decision.

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Nanjing, the Forbidden City Jinshen Hall.

As the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Mai did not pay attention to the war in Myanmar.

But at this time she was very nervous because she was about to try to return to the old Zhulin house.

Second update.

Good night ~

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