When Gao Silian went out of the city to start the battle, Mang Yingli, who had marched all the way north, had already arrived at Biaoguan.

Fifty years ago, Biaoguan was the main gateway used by the relatively weak Donghu Dynasty to defend against the Bago Dynasty in the south.

However, the main thing is that because the Donghu Dynasty was not strong at that time, this Biaoguan was not majestic. Fortunately, this pass made of mountain and stone is still strong, and it still plays a big role in the process of protecting the dynasty.

However, all this has become history, and the pass is now presented in the form of a ruin, not to mention that the city tower has long been gone, and not even a complete wall can no longer be seen.

The ruins were broken, the rubble was messy, and not far from the ruins was a crematorium.

The purpose of burning the corpse is naturally the act of the Ming army, the purpose is not to humiliate the dead or deter the enemy, but simply to avoid the plague, after all, fighting in Burma is different from Mongolia and Liaodong in autumn and winter, the temperature here is too high, and a large number of corpses are easy to spread the plague without treatment.

But this large pile of remains obviously stimulated the arrogant Golden Mansion White Elephant King, and everyone could see the anger that the king had forcibly suppressed. No one dared to say more than half a word at this time, and the large group of nobles and generals were all silent, even special people like Captain Reddy were reluctant to open their mouths indiscriminately to touch the moldy head in the reckless response.

However, it may be because of the recent blows in Mang Yingli, he rarely didn't get angry this time, or rarely suppressed his temper, and after looking at it with a blank face for a while, he just said coldly: "Overnight march." ”

It's going to be fatal.

The Burmese army's trip was originally a hurried march, and Mang Yingli and a cadre of royal families, nobles, and generals also had elephants as mounts, and the lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers were miserable, and they all relied on two legs to follow. From the beginning of the south, until the return to the north, the straw sandals they carried were worn out, and now there was no time to make a new system, so they could only march barefoot.

Barefoot is fine, and the road is the southern plain of Myanmar (part of the Irrawaddy River Delta), but the biggest problem with night marching is that mosquitoes are inevitable.

If the development level of Myanmar is placed in the Ming Dynasty, it is even worse than Yunnan and Guangxi, although they also have traditional mosquito and insect repellent secret medicines, but it is impossible to distribute them to ordinary soldiers, so once the night march, it can be seen that these tens of thousands of soldiers have to feed the mosquitoes along the way.

The poison of mosquitoes in Myanmar is not bad at all compared to Guangxi and Annam, and they are all giant mosquitoes the size of children's palms.

However, under the strict hierarchical system of Burma, once the noble generals at the top did not dare to persuade Mangyingli, the low-level soldiers had no room to speak at all, and could only be forced to obey orders, and the entire army was sad and dismal.

Mang Yingli doesn't care about these, the golden building above his white elephant is specially constructed, and there are a variety of secret medicines hidden in the exquisite and intricate carvings, mosquitoes, snakes and scorpions will not approach, and they will go around from afar.

As for the soldiers' hard work at night, this was not in the consideration of the White Elephant King of his dignified Golden Tower, he only wanted to rush to the small city of Otun, thirty miles south of Donghu City, by early tomorrow morning.

According to Mang Yingli's idea, since the Ming army is attacking Donghu City on a large scale, it stands to reason that its exploration horses will be placed at most ten or twenty miles. I rushed to Odun first, rested for a morning, and set off at noon when the army had lunch, just in time for a big battle in the afternoon, to relieve the siege of Donghu City - if the battle situation went well, Donghu City might also send troops out of the city to attack the Ming army inside and outside, it would be even better! In such a situation, wouldn't a big victory be within reach?

So with the support of this idea, the main force of the 60,000 Burmese army could only keep going all night and all the way north. Although many soldiers were extremely tired, they were badly bitten by mosquitoes, and they could not feel sleepy at all, but only forced their spirits to move forward, and at the same time a large amount of energy was overdrawn with what little energy they had left.

Perhaps it was because the Burmese army was exhausted by the previous rapid march, or perhaps because the mosquitoes in early summer were too vicious, in short, the speed of the march this night did not meet Mangyingli's expectations. Although he lost his temper twice, and even ordered the officers to whip the slow-moving soldiers, the final effect was not very obvious.

In the darkest period before dawn, the Burmese army barely entered the territory of Otun, but the small town of Odun was still more than ten miles away from them.

Mang Yingli once again forcibly gave the order, so that the soldiers could cheer up the last spirits, and rushed to Otun to go to bed again. At last the sky began to light a little, and the soldiers, perhaps in the last night, saw the town in the distance, and at last they were a little more excited, and tried their best to hurry to Odun, and then get a good night's sleep, for they were too tired to eat breakfast.

After walking for a while, small hills began to appear on the side of the road. The small hills in these plain areas were not very tall, and there were only a few dwarf trees on the hills, but Mang Yingli, who had slept in the White Elephant Golden Mansion for a few hours, was finally a little more awake than ordinary people, and suddenly realized that something was wrong with his surroundings.

At this time, the second person of the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma, the eldest son and crown prince of Mang Yingli, Mang Ji Laos, was also worried that the elephant slave led his white elephant over, and just approached the golden tower of Mang Yingli, he reminded: "Father, there is something wrong with this place—why didn't the army alarm the birds when it passed through the woods?" I'm afraid there is an ambush here! ”

Mang Yingli was reminded by the crown prince and suddenly woke up: No wonder I think it's wrong, it turns out that there is no reason why the birds are frightened!

He suddenly took a deep breath, ignoring the mystery and dignity of the White Elephant King of the Golden Tower, and shouted loudly: "Urgent order! The whole army is vigilant and defensive! ”

However, his roar also reminded the Ming army that had been ambushed on the side of the hill for a long time, and also with Huang Zhiting's order, in the angry cheers of the yellow leopard, the wolf soldiers of the Huang family, as the main force of the attack, suddenly appeared on the top of the hill.

The wolf soldiers are now equipped with more sophisticated equipment than before, in addition to starting to be equipped with the common armor of the Ming army (cotton armor in Southeast Asia is too hot), there is also a small wooden steel-covered shield on the forearm of the left hand, as for the weapon, it has not changed, it is still a special steel-headed bamboo spear made by the wolf soldiers.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic originally planned to help the wolf soldiers replace this bamboo spear because of the sufficient steel production, but Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling both said that it was not necessary, because the bamboo spear was cheap and easy to use, and some of the styles and moves of the "inner gun" were available, and it was not necessary to replace it with an iron spear. (Note: The so-called internal guns in the traditional martial arts world generally refer to the school of marksmanship pioneered by Yue Fei, that is, the kind with a flexible gun body that is common in later movies, rather than a variety of pure hard gun bodies from earlier.) )

The sudden appearance of the wolf soldiers, if it was in normal times, the Burmese army should have quickly formed a formation in a certain panic, but at this time, the Burmese army was already exhausted, and they were very stunned before they hurriedly began to find their own position, and the speed of the formation was more than twice as slow as usual.

Mang Yingli was so anxious that his forehead sweated, and he didn't have time to think about why the Ming army that was besieging the city would set up an ambush here, but he suddenly thought of the scene when he was ambushed by Liu Wei when he retreated from northern Myanmar last time.

Ambushed again! How can the Ming army always be ambushed!

In fact, this is a common problem of the army in the area where there is a shortage of horses, that is, subconsciously imagining the opponent's horse detection range and horse detection ability to be similar to their own, so that they will always be in a state of loss in terms of battlefield intelligence. In the early years of the Mongol army's war against the Bagan Dynasty in Burma, the Bagan Dynasty often suffered this loss. Of course, even if the Mongol army of that period fought hard, the Bagan Dynasty would definitely not be able to defeat it.

Mang Yingli was in a trance, and Mang Ji immediately knew that something was wrong, and he didn't care about his father's usual strictness, so he decisively snatched the elephant chasing equipment from the elephant slave's hand, and personally drove the war elephant forward, shouting at the officers and soldiers, and trying to maintain the command system.

But how can the wolf soldiers be able to stop this kind of improvised defensive line! Although the Yellow Leopard is not as brave as its brother Yellow Tiger, he is no less fierce, and he personally carries a steel-headed bamboo spear that has been repeatedly made to rush forward.

He is also a typical wolf soldier-style combat, not riding a horse, but leading the army to charge on foot, the Burmese army in front of him was not a fierce opponent like him who specialized in killing skills since childhood, plus he was sleepy and tired at this time, and his reaction was much slower than usual.

"Humble Miaohou, stop that man!" Mangji shouted at a general of the Burmese army who had just arrived.

These Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia are particularly fond of gold, which is almost the standard among high-ranking generals. However, of course, the armor cannot be pure gold, it is too soft, and in fact, countless small pieces of copper foil are made of wrought copper with a color very similar to gold, and then made into fish-scale armor. As for how to distinguish their identities, first of all, the armor style will be slightly different, but more importantly, look at the helmet, the easiest way to distinguish is: the higher the feather on the top of the helmet, the higher the status of its owner.

The general who was called by Manji Laos was not young, he looked to be in his fifties, and he certainly could not be compared with a young and powerful general like Yellow Leopard in terms of strength. However, he has a huge advantage over the Yellow Leopard at the moment, and that is ...... He rode a war elephant.

Even if he is as strong as Liu Wei, he can only rely on the advantage of his innate divine power to enter the white blade empty-handed, and directly force the enemy general from the war elephant when there is a Uzhumuqin horse under his crotch. And now that the yellow leopard is a foot soldier, he obviously can't use that trick.

Seeing that the other party was rushing over with a special elephant spear more than a foot long, the yellow leopard didn't dare to come hard, suddenly got out of the way, and subconsciously stabbed a spear at the elephant that had already rushed over most of his body.

However, the spear did not have the effect he had imagined, and although he felt like he had stabbed it quite a bit, in fact the elephant did not seem to bleed.

The yellow leopard looked at it quickly, and then realized that his spear had actually only stabbed two or three inches, and it was not possible to stab only the elephant's skin, and it didn't even hurt the flesh.

Yellow leopards have also seen elephants in Guangxi, but it seems that the elephants in Myanmar are not only larger, but also have thicker skin, which is not good news.

He knew that it would be a little difficult to take down this person, so he subconsciously glanced behind the Burmese army.

At this glance, the time was just right, and the sound of artillery suddenly sounded behind the Burmese army, and at the same time, a large wave of rockets came in a volley, and the lineup of the rear army of the Burmese army, which was not neat, suddenly became even more chaotic.

Mang Yingli had come back to his senses at this time, and saw that there were ambushes on the side, and there were ambushes behind him, and on the other side was the Xidang River, so he simply shouted: "The whole army will go forward and kill and rush back to Donghu City!" ”

Mangji Lao was taken aback, and was about to hurry to persuade his father, who knew that the humble Hou had abandoned the yellow leopard just now, and began to retreat under orders, preparing to flee to Donghu City.

When he passed by the white war elephant of Mangji, he patted it with the spear rod of the elephant spear, so that it also began to turn, and at the same time said loudly to Mangjilao: "Your Highness, the Ming army has been prepared for a long time, and they are waiting for work in this battle, and our army has no chance of winning, so it is better to withdraw to Donghu City first and then make plans!" ”

"No, the Ming army will definitely be ......" Reckless Lao was about to retort, but Na Bei Miao Hou had already lowered his voice and interrupted: "Your Highness is cautious, this is the king's decision!" ”

Reckless Laos was taken aback.

What kind of person is his own Lao Tzu, and he is still unclear as a son? No one can question his decision as the White Elephant King of the Golden Mansion, especially when the situation is unfavorable, whoever dares to question him is begging for death.

However, the problem is that since the Ming army has set up an ambush so accurately, there is not only this strong army from the side, but also an ambush from behind, so there is no reason why there is no ambush ahead!

Mangji Lao knew that there had been an undercurrent in the Donghu Dynasty, and his father must not have any accidents, so he could only hurry to Mang Yingli's side with a war elephant when he knew that he could not be persuaded and said: "Father, the Ming army has set up an ambush on my flank and the rear army, and I am afraid that they will also have ambushes in the front army, so please ask for help." ”

Mang Yingli was startled at first, then squinted slightly and glanced at his eldest son, smiled, and said, "My son's filial piety is commendable, then you go and explore the way." But you have to remember that when you get outside the city, you don't want to enter the city immediately, you have to look like a crown prince, and you can only enter the city next to the white elephant in the golden building, do you understand? ”

"Yes, Erchen understands." Of course, Mangji Lao understands in his heart that his father is very suspicious, and this statement just now seems to remind himself that as the crown prince, his status is precious, but in fact, he is afraid that he will advance to Donghu City - now that he is still outside the city, and there is a Ming Dynasty army outside the city, the key is that the current situation is still unfavorable......

But the reckless Lao didn't have time to think so much, so he hurriedly received the order, and the front army that randomly gathered 10,000 people went to open the way.

Mang Yingli also refused to stay in such an ambush for long, and after hurriedly issuing the order for the whole army to break through, he turned on the escape mode, regardless of the fact that these sleepy and tired Burmese troops could not outrun the wolf soldiers at all, and were killed all over the field.

Huang Zhiting did not stand on the small hill where the wolf soldiers rushed out at this time, but was surrounded by a large group of Ruan Song's subordinates in the position of the rear army - it turned out that the army that had just released a round of artillery and a few rounds of rockets was not the Gao family's garrison, but Ruan Song's department.

Ruan Song himself hurriedly rode back from the front, and Lao Yuan reported loudly with a happy face: "All things are like gods, and the reckless thieves really broke through and went to Donghu City. ”

Huang Zhiting's face was extremely calm, but she was relieved in her heart, because she was actually gambling, gambling that Mang Yingli was ambushed at such a close distance from Donghu City, and the first thing she thought of must be to flee to the city and escape back to her lair.

However, Huang Zhiting, who is bent on achieving a big victory, is waiting for this scene!

Because at this moment, the ambush in front is the strongest firepower in the expeditionary force, and the Jingang garrison has been lined up!

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