Frontline, Jiangtou City.

On the mountain and jungle shortcuts leading to Jiangtou City, the Burmese army's wooden village stretches for miles.

The Burmese army's wooden fence is a kind of combat fortification formed by relying on the climate, terrain and materials of the tropical rainforest of the Indochina Peninsula, as well as the tactics of warfare.

This is a very unique type of fortification, which is also characteristic of the Burmese army's positional warfare, and can cause considerable problems for the invading enemy.

The Burmese army's wooden fence village uses all kinds of solid local trees, including wet wood, they dig the ground at the station, and then insert the built wood into the thick soil one by one to tamp it, similar to the wooden walls of various countries, and some can also be used as the material of rattan armor and rattan shields, which is extremely strong.

Although the Burmese army's wooden fences are very tightly pasted, there will be a certain gap, and a platform is built on the inside of the wooden fence for soldiers to stand on and shoot the enemy from the gap.

Each wooden fence had a long, deep trench dug into the trench, and a large number of pointed wooden stakes were inserted diagonally inside and out, densely connected together, to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging and the infantry from building ladders.

If the enemy infantry tried to dismantle these obstacles, the Burmese on the wooden walls could attack them with defensive objects such as rolling logs and stones.

The Burmese army is also good at using large wooden stakes with thorns, which are chained to the outside of the wooden wall at both ends, and when the enemy starts to climb, they cut the fixed rope and let the stake fall down the wooden wall, crushing the climbing enemy.

When they were done, the Burmese soldiers could pull up the chains, pull up the stakes, and put them down, and so on.

This is a kind of wooden wall defense tactic used in the Indochina Peninsula at that time, and it is used by Burma, Chiang Mai, Laos and Siam and other countries, which is a characteristic of one side.

After the Ming army repeatedly approached and probed at night, and tortured some Burmese prisoners, it was found that there were five layers of defense on the inside of the wooden fence of the Burmese army, that is, there were five layers of wooden fences, on which artillery was erected, and there were stairs and small wooden bridges in front of each other for connecting and running.

There was a three-foot-deep cellar between these platforms, which could accommodate a man to squat, one for ammunition and food, the other for temporary shelter for the gunners, and for the sentries to rest at night.

Such a large-scale and complex fortification can not only defend against cavalry and infantry attacks, but the sharp logs in the trenches can prevent elephants from ramming the wooden fences, in the humid and rainy climate of the tropical rainforest? It's not so easy to use fire to ignite the wooden fence.

And the Burmese army can still use local materials? Ready to build? It's a lot of work.

In the history of Burma, the Burmese army has relied on this three-dimensional defense to defeat many enemies, including in the battle of Qing-Burma, how did the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion attack? All of them were blocked in the Burmese military camp under the city of Jiangtou.

Until the outbreak of the Anglo-Burmese War in the nineteenth century? This kind of wooden fence was bombarded by the advanced rifled artillery of the British? It became an ornament.

There are a total of sixteen such wooden fence camps in front of the Ming army, and many of them rely on jungle trees to form a natural tall fortification barrier? Some of the camps already have the Burmese army's military formations lined up.

Unlike the small wooden fences that were broken by the Ming artillery before, these wooden fences are stronger and thicker than the wooden fences encountered before, and the main force of the Burmese army led by Mangfu is arranged here!

After the Ming army captured the important town of Xinjie and successfully swept away all the front-line obstacles in Jiangtou City? Get ready for a general offensive!

October 28th? The Ming army marched from the land along the river bank to the left and right in two ways? Gan Hui led the main naval division down the river, attacked the Burmese naval division from the water, and attacked Jiangtou City in three ways.

The Irrawaddy River is about eight miles wide at its widest point, and the rest of the region is four to six miles wide, and there is a large impact plain in the middle of the river.

Jiangtou City is built on the bank of the plain and both sides of the river, and the huge wooden gate city wall on the left and right banks extends to the river, and is linked with the wooden gate on the plain in the middle of the river, and the link is built with a wooden door.

The Burmese army filled the plains and riverbanks with warships, and these wooden gates were built to allow them to enter and exit.

There are a large number of garrisons on the Jiangxin Plain, and if you attack the wooden fence in the middle of the river, you will be pinched by artillery fire from the wooden fence on the left and right banks.

The terrain here is exactly the same as the homework on the map of the Huangming Military Academy's assessment, Xu Qingshan has long known this, after all, it was his son Xu Mingwu who surprised and broke the game!

Xu Qingshan didn't rush up to come up, it was an aerial bombardment, which was a stupid behavior.

The Burmese army's wooden fence outside Jiangtou City is not an ornament, and throwing darts, fireballs, and archery shots from the city wall platform inside the wooden fence will cause great damage to the hot air balloon.

If the air formation is used to raid, at most it will cause some losses to the Burmese army, but it will make the Burmese army camp in Jiangtou City prevent and control in advance.

It's just about to be used on the blade! As soon as the air formation is dispatched, it is necessary to let the Burmese army bomb the camp and cooperate with the land and water army to kill and injure the Burmese army to the greatest extent, so that it will be completely defeated and unable to counterattack!

Therefore, the tactics adopted by Xu Qingshan are to attack together on land and water, attract the main force of the Burmese army to counterattack, and when the battle is fierce, then dispatch a killer weapon to break the enemy in one fell swoop!

The perimeter of the fortifications of the entire Jiangtou City is about five miles, basically the main road leading to the capital of Burma by land and water, Donghu City, is held to death, once the Ming army takes Jiangtou City, Donghu City basically does not have any water barrier dependence.

Therefore, the Burmese army's best wooden fence fortifications and the best materials were used here, and the commander Mangfu swore to die not to let the Ming army step across Jiangtou City!

At seven o'clock in the morning of the 28th, Ma Xianglin led his troops out of the camp with an order, and first attacked the Burmese army Muzha on land from the southeast, and the decisive battle between Ming and Burma officially began!

The Burmese army had already been defeated by the water vanguard before, and the land portal soldiers were also defeated, and the morale was weak, so the reckless man adopted the tactics of strict defense and attrition of the Ming army.

Under the cover of the artillery fire of the light artillery battalion, the Ming army began to forcibly demolish the wooden fence on the periphery of the Burmese military camp.

Just as he was about to continue to break through to the second layer of the wooden gate, the reckless man who personally supervised the battle was anxious, and immediately ordered the Burmese army on the west bank to open the gate of the wooden gate on land and rush out to attack the Ming army.

On the field battle, the Ming army has never encountered the enemy, these little Burmese rushed out majestically, wanted to carry out a sneak attack from the side, but did not expect to be swept away in a few strokes, one by one lying in different forms, part of the leg length picked up a life, hurriedly retreated to the village.

The Burmese army, which suffered a big loss from Ming's father, could only defend it and continue to be the grandson of the turtle.

At the same time, the Burmese warships in Dazhai in the middle of the river took the opportunity to rush out and attack the middle water army of the Ming army.

The rate of fire of the British naval guns on the long-tail ships of the Burmese army was highly praised, no worse than the naval guns equipped by the Ming army, and the warships of the two sides once again engaged in an artillery battle, this time fighting in a decent way.

At this time, Ma Xianglin on the east bank stopped the demolition and relocation work, and ordered the light artillery battalion to turn around and attack the Burmese warships on the river, and carry out a sneak attack without paying attention to martial arts.

"Bang! Boom! Bang ......"

Hundreds of mortars fired in unison, and the parabola formed by the shells collectively smashed into the center of the long-tail ship of the Burmese army like a falling meteor.

The Burmese warship was broken like chopsticks and cracked in the middle, and some of the Burmese soldiers who were paddling were blown up, and some jumped to escape for their lives.

The Burmese army was caught off guard, lost six large war ships, and the whole army retreated to the wooden fence and fired back at the Ming army with flintlock pistols.

The Burmese had limited flintlock firepower, but at least it prevented the Ming army's land and water forces from getting too close.

Xu Qingshan ordered the warships to come forward to bombard the Burmese army, and ordered the rocket battalion to build a launch frame and launch Dongfeng rockets to bombard the Burmese army camp.

If it weren't for the unstable wind direction after the rainy season, Xu Qingshan would really want to come and wipe out these little Burmese with a wave of poisonous smoke bombs and let them build these fortifications in vain!