Chapter 254: General Shenwei
The timing of Liu Ling's appearance was good, and the plan was clever enough, at this time, because of the large number of Burmese troops, it was obviously divided into three parts: front, rear and middle.
The front and rear armies are under shelling, and there are mines that the devil knows when they will explode. According to past experience, the most important thing at this time is not to return the color immediately, but to quickly stabilize the morale of the army, so as to avoid a rout, especially the overall collapse from point to point.
The Burmese army has not stopped fighting for many years, so it is still very experienced, and the three parts of the front and rear have tacitly chosen to assemble and defend on the spot.
But the advantage of defending on the spot is that it is not easy to collapse, but the disadvantage is also more obvious, that is, the three parties are disjointed, no one can expect the other party to save themselves, everyone can only rely on their own ability to survive.
It's a pity that the Liu brothers and sisters want this, because Liu Ling's troops are seriously insufficient compared to the Burmese army. Even if it is an ambush, he can't do it all, at most he can only concentrate on one line to fight ruthlessly, while the other two lines can only delay, delay, and confuse the opponent as the main goal.
Originally, according to Liu Xin's pre-war plan, she wanted to fight the rear army. Because in this situation, if you focus on attacking the rear army, there is a high probability that the front army and the middle army of the other side will accelerate their escape, and how much the rear army can escape depends on their own creation. In this way, it will be easiest for the Ming army to achieve more kills, and the overall result will be the best.
However, Liu Wei disagreed, he thought that the best result was the head of Mang Yingli, as long as Mang Yingli died, even if the Burmese army collapsed, even if it did not collapse, fleeing back to Burma would be leaderless.
Liu Xin didn't quite agree with this statement, because Mang Yinglong was not only a son of Mang Yingli, he also had a younger brother Mang Yingwa. It doesn't even matter if you don't count your younger brother, because Mang Yingli is almost fifty years old, and he still has his son Mang Shi and others who can inherit the throne at any time, these people can't be caught all at once, right?
This obviously made sense, Liu Wei hesitated slightly, but finally decided to fight the Chinese army. Because he believed that even if the Burmese side would not be left without a leader after being killed in Mangyingli, there would definitely be a period of chaos, and this period of chaos would also be very useful to the Ming Dynasty - whether it was follow-up reinforcements or more adequate food and salaries, these would all need to arrive slowly and be deployed in place.
Liu Xin felt that her eldest brother had not understood one problem, that is, the goals of the imperial court and his goals might not be the same.
According to Liu Wei's meaning, of course, it is to eliminate all evil, and since the first war in Burma has begun, it is a situation that will not be completed until Burma is completely subdued.
But Liu Xin always felt that the imperial court probably didn't think so, or even if it thought so, it couldn't do it.
This is well-founded: the imperial court mobilized troops this time, don't look at the 100,000 troops in Yunnan alone, and add some toast, it looks like a huge momentum, not much less than the Burmese army, which claims to be 200,000 troops.
But as long as you think about it carefully, you will find that in this army of more than 100,000, there are only two forces that really serve as the tip of the sword, namely Liu Wei and Deng Zilong - and even if these two armies are counted as reinforcements temporarily strengthened, they are all added together to less than 20,000.
At the same time, according to the news secretly from Gao Pragmatism, Annan sent more troops than the imperial court! Annan dispatched more than 30,000 troops and 20,000 navy (she was not familiar with the ownership of the fleet and mistakenly thought it was Annan's), and there were 50,000 troops here.
Not to mention being pragmatic, they also contacted the opponents of Burma such as Na Li Xuan, the black prince of Siam, and the sisters and brothers of the Lao Dao family, how many soldiers will they have on hand at that time? I don't know the specifics, but there must be tens of thousands, even if the combat effectiveness is not strong, the number of people is always obvious.
Looking back like this, Da Ming actually sent the least troops, what does this mean? It means that the imperial court is either unwilling to send troops or unable to do so.
There are two possibilities for not being able to produce enough troops, either there are not enough troops, or there is not enough silver, and of course it is possible to have both.
It is certain that there is not enough silver, because Liu Xin already knows that the imperial court has begun to issue "bonds". She knew at a glance that this must be Gao Pragmatic's handiwork, but it is not surprising that Gao Pragmatic can operate the "bonds", but it is difficult to say how much "debt" the imperial court can tolerate.
According to Liu Xin's thoughts, the Ming court is very conservative, but I am afraid that it may not be willing to engage in deficit finance. As soon as the war is stable and Yunnan can be ensured to be safe, the first thing the imperial court should do is not to eliminate the evil, but to quickly repay the money to ensure that it is debt-free and light.
As for the troops...... Actually, I was nervous. Because the Ming Dynasty was not a Red Dynasty, the strength of the army was divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the Yunnan side could take it out to attack, except for Liu Wei and Deng Zilong, there was not much left after the less than 20,000 people in their hands, and those troops did not dare to send them out - a large number of Tusi around, who knows if they have "Tong Burma"? If the front foot army just went out, and the back foot Yunnan was occupied by the rebellious Tusi, who could afford this responsibility?
It's a pity that Liu Xin is not Huang Zhiting after all, she only has the right to suggest Liu Ling, and if Liu Ling insists on fighting, she can't stop her. And she knows very well that the reason why Liu Wei has to fight the Chinese army in Mang Yingli is to a large extent because she has to fight for this merit.
Some time ago, although Liu Wei was like a bamboo, he fought all the Tusi in northern Myanmar to preach comfort, and his achievements were not enough. The battle of Longchuan had a chance to fight with the Burmese army, but who knew that the Burmese army ran away in advance, and even Yue Feng himself played a golden cicada shell, causing Liu Wei to almost only take an empty city.
On the other hand, Deng Zilong was not, not only did he resist the attack of the main force of the Burmese army in Yaoguan, but he also had the spare strength to wipe out Hanba's family, which could not help but make Liu Ling feel a lot of pressure - although Deng Zilong was mainly defending, and there was Yaoguan to rely on, but that also had to consider the comparison of troops, Deng Zilong's strength was almost one-tenth of the Burmese army!
So from Liu Ling's point of view, this battle is actually a battle between him and Deng Zilong, since this is the case, it is of course the most indisputable "taking the head of the general among the ten thousand armies".
Oh, not a general, a king? Well...... That's better.
When Liu Wei came out, the formation of the Burmese army was just about to stabilize, but he was killed by a rush, and more than 100 Burmese troops were quickly reimbursed, and he personally killed more than ten people, three of whom seemed to be generals.
Liu Xin also took the battle, but the guards around her were too brave, and some of the Burmese soldiers who dared to stop them were beheaded without even having a chance to meet her.
She quickly spotted the anomaly, but instead of scolding the guards, she deliberately rushed towards a Burmese army general who was clearly dressed in gorgeous armor.
The Burmese general is not young, estimated to be in his early fifties, he saw a female general rushing on the opposite side, and the personal guards under his command were extremely brave, but they did not panic at all, and commanded the personal soldiers around him to meet the enemy with a cold face, and killed the generals themselves.
However, Liu Xin immediately pulled the horse's head after the battle between the two sides and slashed to the other side.
Liu Xin's weapon is not a horse chopping knife like Liu Ling, she uses a spear, and the fighting styles of the two brothers and sisters are completely different.
Liu Wei's style is not much different from his youth, he is strong and heavy, indomitable, without the slightest fancy, and he can kill the enemy with one move without a second move, and often forcibly cut off the opponent's weapon with a knife, and chop people to death and slash them by the trend.
And Liu Xin rarely touches the opponent's blade, more often she relies on dexterous marksmanship to attack, relying on tricky angles and speed to kill directly, and resolutely does not block unless she has to do it, even if the opponent attacks and has to defend, she will also take the way of unloading the force to respond.
A simple summary is a main "fierce" and a main "skillful".
Liu Xin killed four people in a row, and the guards who were ordered to escort her surrounded her again. These guards were so nervous that they would be afraid that in case, they would be used by Liu Wei to sacrifice the flag afterwards, so they would find an opportunity to throw away the Burmese general and "protect" Liu Xin again.
Liu Xin had no choice but to let them go, but he took a look at the situation and found that Liu Ling was rushing towards the side where the white elephants gathered, but two arrows were stuck in his back.
Feather arrows are not terrible for generals, because the armor on the senior generals' bodies is all genuine and good, and now Jinghua's smelting technology is better than in the past, and the two arrows on Liu Wei's back will not hurt him at all.
But Liu Xin knew that the fact that the eldest brother was hit by an arrow so quickly was not good news in itself, because it meant that the resistance of the Burmese army was not weak, and Liu Ling himself rushed too hard - too strong to be shot in the back.
She quickly made up her mind, and with a coquettish sound, she rode her horse in the direction where Liu Ling was, intending to protect Liu Ling's back road so as not to fall into a heavy siege after continuing to go deeper.
But at this time, there was a situation that was not expected before, that is, the elephant soldiers counterattacked.
Elephant soldiers are the characteristics of the Burmese army, the Liu brothers and sisters have considered and arranged before the war, according to the previous battle of Gao Shi Annan and the elephant soldiers, the weakness of elephants is afraid of loud noises and fire attacks, so today's ambush also starts from artillery and mines.
However, since the Chinese army is the predetermined main theater of operations, there are no mines, so as not to blow themselves up. The loud noise of the shelling also had enough effect on the elephants, who were thrown into confusion at the beginning of the ambush, and the wolves rushed in all directions, which had a great impact on the formation of the Burmese army.
However, at this time, Liu Xin found a problem, that is, although the elephant army as a whole collapsed, and it has not been able to gather until now, the batch of white elephants has not collapsed. Although several of the white elephants hissed a few times, and their big noses flicked one after another, they looked a little restless, but they still obediently obeyed the command of the elephant slaves and were forming a formation.
What's worse is that the purpose of these dozen or so white elephants is very clear, and they are all facing Liu Wei!
"Big brother, watch out for those white elephants!" Liu Xin shouted at Liu Wei while leading people to kill the Burmese army behind Liu Ling.
Liu Wei heard the warning of his sister behind him, split the head of the Burmese army in front of him with a knife with his right hand, stretched out his left hand to wipe a handful of blood that had been splashed on his face, and glanced at the white elephant array, and couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart, and said secretly: Why aren't these elephants crazy? And why does it seem to be extraordinarily tall?
He subconsciously glanced at the horse chopping knife in his hand, and said in his heart: "Damn, although my knife is specially made by the Wang family, these beasts are so huge, unless they are directly stabbed into the heart or cut off their heads, I am afraid that it will be useless." But these fucking white elephants are too tall, how can they cut their necks? Heart...... your grandma, where is the elephant's heart?
The hardest enemy to deal with is the one that can't find where the weakness is.
You must know that the height of adult Asian elephants can be more than three meters and five, and the weight is as high as five tons, and now the ecological environment in this era has not been damaged, and Myanmar and other places regard elephants as a godsend, and they are very well protected.
Ren is Liu Ling is as fierce as a tiger, and he can only scratch blind in the face of these huge white elephants that are more than a foot high.
But Liu Wei was stunned here, it didn't mean that the other party would accompany him to be stunned, the other party's elephant herd had already rushed up, and a giant elephant led by him rode a veteran in golden robes.
said to be a veteran, in fact, he is not very old, similar to the previous Na Burmese general, looks like he is in his early fifties, and looks very similar to the previous Na Burmese general.
In his hand he was holding a special spear about a foot long, which appeared to be a special weapon of elephant warfare, and its body seemed to be similar to the weapons of the wolf soldiers, made of bamboo, but painted gold with gold paint.
Liu Wei's mind turned quickly, and he estimated a key data at once: even if he had excellent riding skills and avoided the collision of the white elephant and the opponent's spear, the horse chopping knife in his hand could only reach the opponent's foot at most, and he didn't even think about killing the enemy.
I can't fight this, I have to find another way......
But he is Liu Wei, and he has never taken the initiative to avoid facing people head-on, so he is not very willing to withdraw first.
After this hesitation, the other party had already rushed over, and the Na Burmese general shouted in Chinese: "General Wu Naming, have you ever heard of my reckless name!" ”
Reckless? I've heard of it, Mang Yinglong's younger brother, Mang Yingli's uncle, your head is also valuable.
When Liu Wei heard that the other party was still an imperial uncle—no, it seemed to be Uncle Wang—not only did he not retreat, but he suddenly became excited, and laughed: "I am worried that your eggless nephew has escaped too fast, and there is no one to drink, so you sent it to the door!" Wonderful, wonderful...... Reckless, your head must be taken today! ”
Mang Zhuo was furious when he heard it, although he could speak Chinese, but obviously scolding in Chinese was not what he was good at, and he was so angry that he scolded indiscriminately, slapping the white elephant and speeding forward. Look at that appearance, today I have to trample the unashamed Ming General in front of me into a pulp.
And Liu Wei's reaction was even more bizarre, he actually stepped forward, and it was a rare sudden acceleration - if it weren't for the fact that his mount was the top Uzhumuqin horse given to him by Gao Shishi, the horse would have to recuperate for two or three months after the war.
Uncle Reckless Wang obviously didn't expect this, but he didn't panic, but sneered, lifted the extra-long spear and stabbed it suddenly. According to his thoughts, even if the opponent's war horse would subconsciously avoid the white elephant, his spear would be able to pierce Liu Ling.
Mang Zhuo is also a famous general of the Burmese army who followed Mang Yinglong to kill all over the Indochina Peninsula, even if he is already older, but after he gets older, the main thing that declines is endurance, and the temporary explosiveness is still there, and experience will not decline with age, so he has this confidence.
However, Liu Wei was Liu Wei after all, not only did he not dodge or dodge, but when the tip of the spear was less than an arm's length away from his body, he suddenly abandoned the knife, stretched out his hands quickly, and pulled it strangely, while shouting: "Come down to the master!" ”
Before Mang Zhuo could figure out what the situation was, he only felt a huge force coming from the spear in his hand, as if he was grasping the nose of the white elephant that was suddenly pulling back, and he couldn't resist it at all, and the whole person suddenly rose into the air.
He was actually picked up by Liu Wei at this time, and demonstrated a "butt backwards flat sand and goose style" on the spot, and fell to the ground with a bang, motionless.
Seeing this, the Ming army behind Liu Wei was full of blood and excitedly shouted: "General Shenwei!" Daming Wansheng! ”
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