The theme of this imperial meeting was to fight in Burma, and before Xu Mingwu stepped into the Wuying Palace, the bigwigs of the DPRK and China had already discussed it, and worked out several safe ways to play.

Xu Mingwu's idea of the Air Force was known only to Zhu Cihong and the officials of the Huangming Military Academy, and the others did not know about it at all.

It wasn't until today's imperial meeting that Zhu Cihong planned to share this idea with everyone.

Although Zhu Cihong knows the principle of hot air balloons and can also order people to make them, he is not very proficient in how to operate them after heaven, and he feels that it is unreliable to use them in military affairs, and he is even more unwilling to experiment with the lives of soldiers.

Now there is a guy who has the audacity to use a hot air balloon to engage in the Air Force, or Xu Ershao, who was identified as crazy by the East Factory, and Emperor Zhu was suspicious of this.

As the saying goes, geniuses are often called fools or have abnormal brains, and Xu Mingwu has this condition.

However, judging from the information recollected by the East Factory, this guy has been very normal in recent days.

If it is excluded that he is a genius, then there is another possibility, this kid is a peer, he has crossed over!

In any case, Zhu Cihong decided to give this kid a chance first, if he has a mature military hot air balloon method, everything is easy to say.

If not, full of nonsense, bullying the king, then I'm sorry, the rest of my life can only live in the edict!

Cao Minghao walked to the side of the sand table in response, and said with confidence on his face: "Xu Mingwu, make a move!" ”

In the hall of the Wuying Palace, everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Mingwu.

The big guys in the hall are all battle-hardened generals of the Ming army, they have different expressions, but one thing is the same, they all think that this inferior student Xu Mingwu will definitely be defeated!

Zhu Cihong's choice of Cao Minghao to play against Xu Mingwu was also the result of careful consideration.

In his opinion, Cao Minghao is the son of Cao Bianjiao, and an outstanding graduate of the Huangming Military Academy, with a Wentao martial arts strategy, if Xu Mingwu can really win the battle, let him lose the heart, it shows that his method is feasible.

On the contrary, Cao Minghao can only be given the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Cao Minghao was full of ambition and sneered contemptuously at Xu Mingwu.

Xu Mingwu walked to the sand table and hugged his fist at Cao Minghao: "General Cao, the students have started!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed his command rod at the big river in the middle of the sand table and the Burmese army camp on the eastern front, and sent 3,000 troops to make a feint posture.

Cao Minghao sneered, and deployed two brigades of infantry of the Burmese army along the river shoreline, with a total strength of 10,000 troops, to defend within the range of the Burmese army's highland artillery.

On the battle map, the total strength of the Burmese army is 50,000, and the Ming army is only 6,000.

Xu Mingwu abandoned the land offensive and commanded the Ming warships to begin shelling the coastal defenses, while a thousand marines sailed to the beach in fifty small landing craft.

Cao Minghao was taken aback, the normal Ming army could use a large landing craft carrying 200 people, but he didn't expect this kid to send a group of small sampans.

He quickly regained his composure and began to mobilize artillery from the Burmese army to bombard the landing craft.

However, soon, Cao Minghao suddenly discovered that he had made a mistake, although the Burmese army had learned to adopt the configuration of the Ming army and had an artillery battalion, dozens of artillery pieces on the high ground were deployed on the front of the three miles wide, and the firepower was too scattered to easily form an effective killing force against the scattered Ming marines.

Moreover, their main purpose was to defend the Ming warships in the river and prevent them from breaking through and shelling the large camps of the Burmese army on both sides of the strait.

Cao Minghao made a quick decision, and transferred 5,000 men and horses from the east bank camp to the beach to block the attack.

However, the Ming landing boats rushed onto the beach, and the landing force, having lost a small number of troops, quickly gained a foothold on the beach, and concentrated 30 artillery guns and a large number of grenadiers to concentrate a little bombardment on the Burmese line in front of the beach.

The will of the Burmese army to fight was very poor, and when one point was breached, the entire newly built coastal defense line collapsed.

A trace of cold sweat broke out on Cao Minghao's forehead, but Xu Mingwu had a leisurely face, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was really not covered, the soldiers' will to fight plus equipment suppression, and a thousand landing troops could also beat five thousand Burmese troops!

The Burmese army retreated to the coast, and at a distance of ten miles from the coast, Cao Minghao gathered two brigades of 10,000 troops, relying on the large battalion on the east bank to build a second line of defense.

At the same time, another ten battalions of 4,000 war elephant infantry troops attacked the landed Ming army from the flank.

The landing force of the Ming army reached 2,000 people, and Xu Mingwu transferred almost all the surface forces and the Ming army on the western front, and began to advance towards the Burmese defense line, trying to force the Burmese army to withdraw the infantry brigade of two brigades defending the 3,000 Ming army by attacking the Burmese army camp and creating fighters.

Seeing this scene, the cold sweat on Cao Minghao's forehead disappeared, and a smug smile appeared on his face.

He easily knocked on the command pole and ordered the Burmese sailors in the river to pour out of the nest, directly approaching the Ming fleet in front of Shazhou, and intercepting the practice of the Ming army and the fleet.

The military bigwigs present all saw that the seemingly difficult defense line of the Burmese army was actually a trap carefully designed by Cao Minghao.

The 2,000 landing troops commanded by Xu Mingwu fell into a dilemma under this line of defense and became a lone army.

As long as the Burmese army's war elephants and large army are assembled and form a joint encirclement of the Ming army outside the camp on the east bank, the landing force of the 2,000 Ming army will basically be reimbursed.

The Ming army on the red side had a total of only 6,000 troops, and at once lost 2,000, and the battle had already been lost.

Because in the military history of the Ming army of the Tianwu Dynasty, there has not been a battle in which one-third of the soldiers have been lost, and it can be said that the defeat is very complete, and the main general will be shot!

Cao Minghao smiled at Xu Mingwu and threw away the command rod in his hand, he didn't need this thing anymore.

An army of 4,000 war elephants (hundreds of war elephants), plus 30,000 infantry troops, and artillery assistance, even if the combat effectiveness of the Burmese army is scum, there is no pressure to eat the Ming army that has penetrated deep into these two thousand lone troops!

In the hall of the Wuying Palace, the nobles took their eyes off the sand table, and no one was interested in watching this levelless battle anymore.

Even Pingyang Hou Xu Qingshan has no interest in the sand table, his expression is very complicated, his son has lost miserably!

Only Zhu Cihong stared at the Burmese army camp on the sand table, and the Burmese army at this time was almost piled up, including the hundreds of war elephants with heavy armor on their bodies, just like a herd of elephants migrating on the African savannah......

Xu Mingwu exhaled lightly and pointed the command pole at his Ming army camp, he was about to transfer troops!

Everyone looked at him curiously, only to see that this kid took out a special flag, held the flag in the air and moved all the way, flew over the 3,000 Ming troops watching the play, and flew above the camp of the Burmese army......

Cao Minghao laughed and said, "Xu Mingwu, do you think this is a playhouse!" ”

Xu Mingwu said expressionlessly: "General Cao, I am a balloon unit, please take it!" ”

"it, I'll take a fart trick!"

Cao Minghao scolded: "Xu Mingwu, you kid has seen the battle situation clearly, my army has surrounded your two thousand men and horses, and your three thousand men and horses are still in a daze, at most to rescue your fleet, you have no choice at all!" ”

Xu Mingwu said: "General Cao, I said, this is a balloon army, the 1,000 men and horses I left behind in the big camp can control the balloon to attack from the air along the direction of the wind, and throw explosive bags down. How can you break me with your tens of thousands of horses? ”

"Fart!"

Cao Minghao scolded: "What kind of bullshit balloon troops, pure nonsense!" I haven't heard of it! ”

"Hao'er, the imperial military discussion, don't be presumptuous!"

Among the nobles, the chief minister of military aircraft, Cao Bianjiao, the prince of Xiangguo, raised his voice and shouted.

"Yes!" Cao Minghao replied unhappily.