When tens of thousands of Myanmar soldiers looked at the Ming army vanguards from afar across the river, the Ming army's vanguards stopped moving forward. Most of these Ming army were poor combat effectiveness and simple equipment auxiliary soldiers, but they were led by elite officers selected by Bai Wenxuan. When they found that the Myanmar army appeared in their west, the Ming army vanguards on the east bank of Lijiang were worried about being attacked by the enemy with absolute advantage. After stopping, the vanguard troops received the Myanmar envoys and continued to bargain with them, while sending people to secretly notify the main force of the Ming army in the rear.

After confirming that the number of Ming soldiers on the opposite side was scarce and the equipment was poor, a fierce dispute broke out within the Myanmar army on the West Bank. The monarch and ministers of Yongli did not have any objection within. When Mangbai easily destroyed Yongli's imperial guards and rewarded the property of the Ming monarch and ministers to his subordinates, the opposition weakened. The Burmese ministers who received the benefits praised Mangbai for his wise and divine martial arts, and their majesty was enough to shock the Chinese court.

Amid the praises of praise, some Burmese people were worried that the Ming army in Yunnan would launch an army to punish them. However, until Bai Wen elected the troops, most Myanmar officials still believed that the Qing army was about to achieve a comprehensive victory. The Ming army was unable to take care of themselves under the huge military pressure of the Qing army and could not send troops to invade Myanmar. Through the inspection of the seized Ming Dynasty cabinet documents, Myanmar also found that the Ming Dynasty was suspicious. It seemed that both Zheng Chenggong, Kuidong generals or Deng Ming in western Sichuan all made the Yongli cabinet uneasy and regarded it as potential enemies. In this case, Myanmar judged that the pressure on Li Dingguo would be heavier, and Myanmar did not have to worry about the revenge of Cannon Ming.

Bai Wenxuan's attack on the border undoubtedly gave the Myanmar government a blow. After the army invaded, Myanmar became worried again. Opposition that had almost disappeared began to sound again, and some even advocated returning Emperor Yongli to the Ming army.

But Mangbai could not agree to any compromise plan, because this would shake his not-so-high prestige, and he was also worried that the Ming army would press forward step by step: if Yongli was returned to the Ming army, and the Ming army continued to demand the return of the Imperial Army soldiers, the families of the Ming army, and even their property? Will it be forced to return them all under the military pressure of the Ming army? This would ruin Mangbai's prestige. So the Myanmar finally decided to adhere to a tough stance and gather troops to reinforce Bamo.

In recent days, the Burmese people experienced a roller coaster of great joy and great sorrow. First, they heard that the army had not continued to attack for more than a month after taking down the border. Instead, they were obviously guilty and tried to exchange their emperors with those passes that were not of great value on the border. Myanmar believed that they had completely seen through the reality of the Ming army; and not long ago, there was a sad news that the Ming army raided Bamo, and according to those who escaped, the Ming army thoroughly cleaned Bamo.

If Mangbai's adventure leads to the loss of Myanmar's territory and his people are ravaged, his prestige will still be severely hit. Now the Myanmar army is divided into radicals and steady factions. The former believes that the Ming army is limited in strength, and it is found that Bamo was quickly lost because of a sneak attack. The Ming army that attacked Bamo was only two or three thousand, should be the one in front of him, so he should quickly attack the Ming army to win a brilliant victory for King Mangbai; while the Steady faction believes that it is better to be careful at this moment, and it is best to observe the Ming army crossing the river and attacking the opponent for a period of time.

Although the two sides were quarreling, the radicals gained some advantage and finally decided to observe the Ming army for another half a month, and if they still did not find any abnormalities, they would take the initiative to attack.

When there was a serious disagreement within the Myanmar army, the main force of the Ming army was also discussing the latest situation

"The Burmese people have not fought a war for almost fifty years. Myanmar imitated the system of our dynasty and divided the people into military households, civilian households, military households are responsible for wars, and civilian households are responsible for corvee." The Ming army did not think that the Burmese army would have strong combat effectiveness. More than two generations have never seen wars, the combat level of the Burmese military households should be similar to that of the peasants, and the officers are also hereditary, and they obtained positions entirely by bloodline rather than ability. And they did not have the opportunity to be trained like the Qin and Jin border troops of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming generals and officials who participated in the discussion all estimated optimistically that the combat effectiveness of the Burmese army was probably similar to that of the Tianqi, Shandong and Henan troops in the Chongzhen period.

"But the Burmese people are familiar with geography. How many suitable ferries are there on the entire river and how quickly they can transport large troops, these Burmese people know much more than us." Bai Wenxuan was unwilling to fight a tug-of-war with the Burmese people. If the other party's territory was in a stalemate, the Ming army, who was not familiar with the place, would be at a great disadvantage. Moreover, with such a long supply line from Bamo to Wacheng, it would be impossible for the 20,000 Ming army to set up defenses everywhere.

Therefore, Bai Wenxuan's plan was to lure the Burmese people to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. After defeating the main forces of the Burmese people, the Ming army could go south without worrying about the head-on decisive battle, but it could not fall into a protracted war of attrition. After discovering that the Burmese army was actually marching on the West Bank, Bai Wenxuan was worried that his tactic of luring the enemy would have failed. If the Burmese people wanted to fight the Ming army, they would definitely not deliberately cross a river.

"The Burmese marched on the West Bank to give us the road leading to Wacheng," Deng Ming clicked on the simple map on the desktop. This military map looked like an impressionist work, which could only tell the general direction of the large cities of the Ming army: "But we cannot let such an army be on our side."

If the main force of the Ming army does not care about the tens of thousands of Burmese troops on the other side of the river, after the entire Ming army goes south, there will always be some Burmese people crossing the river to report the Ming army's weaknesses and reality to the Burmese army, which will completely expose the strength of the Ming army. The Ming army knows nothing about how many Burmese troops there are in front of them, and they do not know the garrison of Wacheng and the fortresses around it. If the Ming army suddenly builds the city and the back road is cut off by these Burmese troops, the Ming army will be in a dilemma; even if the Burmese army is not strong enough, they can retreat quickly and rush back to Wacheng to assist in the defense, and at the same time send some people to cross the river to interfere with the Ming army's guards' collection of food and supplies.

In short, the most secure way for the Ming army was to see a main force in Myanmar and wipe out one and rush towards Wacheng with the force of Mount Tai.

"We can't always stay here and do nothing. The longer the time is, the more likely our military strength will be to be exposed," Di Sanxi, who participated in the discussion, thought it would be better not to delay the day, and immediately crossed the river and fought with the Burmese army: "King, Shuai Deng, since the Burmese people dare not cross the river, then we will cross the river and attack them."

Bai Wenxuan glanced at Di Sanxi, and showed a look of praise on his face: "I am worthy of being a hero in Xiying." After that, Bai Wenxuan looked at Deng Ming: "What does General Deng think?"

"Did you cross the river to fight the Burmese?" Deng Ming did not have this idea, but the problem was that he was not familiar with geography. If the Ming army wanted to transport thousands of soldiers across the river, the noise would have been very big. He would definitely not be able to hide the eyes and ears of the Burmese army and other locals, and he would definitely not be able to achieve the effect of a surprise attack: "Where will General Bai cross the river?"

Bai Wenxuan clicked the location of the main Burmese army on the map: "How about we cross the river in front of them?"

Under normal circumstances, forcing a forced ferry must first find a day when the wind blows downstream, and then forcing a forced ferry from the upstream to avoid threats from the water to the greatest extent. The Myanmar navy is not very strong, because there have never been any opponents on Lijiang, so the Myanmar navy is basically for transportation and loading. Just pay attention to this, it should not be a big problem for the Ming army to cross the river.

The next part is the most dangerous part. According to the report of the vanguard, the Myanmar army has about 30,000, and there seem to be some elephants. Even if the Burmese army has not fought for decades, it is certainly understood that such a simple truth is that half-crossing strikes are so simple. The correct order of forced cruising is to first transport a group of infantry to establish a preliminary beachhead position, then a group of auxiliary soldiers, and begin to build and consolidate the positions occupied by the first batch of infantry. Then another group of infantry... It was not until the infantry occupied a large enough position and consolidated it that the cavalry began to land on a large scale, line up with the infantry on the beachhead position, and then start to confront head-on. When fighting with Sun Sick on the bank of the Yangtze River, Deng Ming carried out in a straightforward order in this order.

However, at that time, the Ming army had the advantage of mobile, and the Qing army was dragged exhausted, so the Ming army had enough time to land. Now the Burmese army has no physical strength problems, and in order to ensure the safety of crossing the river, the Ming army had to consider the wind direction, so the appropriate crossing position became very limited. Unless the Burmese officers on the opposite side were all idiots, they would definitely launch an attack when the Ming army crossed the river and used a small number of infantry to resist the charge of the war elephants on the beachhead positions. Deng Ming did not have much confidence in this.

However, Deng Ming knew that since Bai Wenxuan said that, there would be a following, so he waited patiently.

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Everyone discussed to observe for another fifteen days, but just two days later, a large number of new Ming troops arrived at the upstream position, and some ships and rafts seized from Bamo arrived with the Ming army. After seeing the movements of the Ming army, the Myanmar army immediately determined that the Ming army wanted to try to cross in the upstream position.

After seeing the Ming army coming, they not only had cavalry but also had a total of 4,000 or 5,000 people, the Burmese army put away some of the contempt and began to seriously investigate to prevent being caught off guard by the Ming army. The Ming army appeared in such a big way not far upstream, which made the Burmese army a little strange. Although there were local Burmese around all the suitable ferries nearby, the Burmese officers felt that the Ming army should try to cross the river in secret no matter what.

When the north wind appeared, the Ming army was impatient to prepare to cross the river. Seeing that the Myanmar officers could hardly believe their eyes. The Ming army chose the crossing position of the river that was only a few miles away from the main camp of Myanmar, and also chose an empty terrain - which was very conducive to the development of Myanmar's troops.

"The thieves will not fight at all." The Burmese officers almost immediately came to this conclusion. They immediately mobilized their troops to fight, and the generals even prepared the war elephant troops. Once thousands of people from the Ming army crossed Lijiang, one hundred war elephants would cover the infantry and launch a charge, annihilated all the invaders who were alive and dead on the river bank.
Chapter completed!