What happens when 10,000 exhausted Burmese troops meet 7,000 Golden Harbor garrisons?

Answer: There will be massacres.

The Burmese army is a cold-weapon army, and the ordinary Burmese army does not have much decent protection, and in the face of the garrison army that has entered the era of almost pure hot weapons under the full promotion of high pragmatism, the chances of victory are slim, not to mention that there are many unfavorable factors imposed on it now?

Reckless Laos rode the elephant, which can be said to stand high and see far away, and was the first to spot the Jingang garrison waiting in front. Although he guessed in his heart that there would be such a scene, the formation of the Golden Port Garrison still surprised him a little.

The Burmese crown prince is also almost 30 years old this year, and he has been "training" in the army for no less than 10 years, which is not uninformed, but he has never seen such a dense and well-organized battle formation in the past.

His first reaction was: The Ming army stood so densely, if there was a rain of arrows......

The idea was so tempting that it seemed to be feasible as well, as he found that the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to have only muskets.

Captain Reddy, a Portuguese military advisor, once told him that it was difficult for the musketeers alone to win, because as long as the opponent could withstand the loss of one or two volleys, he could rush to the musketeers without cold weapons and slaughter them, and the defenseless musketeers would quickly lose.

He had also seen Captain Reddy's tactics, usually using spearmen to form three columns, each with fifty to sixty men in front and twenty columns in depth. On the four corners were musketeers lined up in dense squares. The width is about 50 zhang, and the depth is a little more than 30 zhang. A column of musketeers lined up on each of the four sides of the phalanx, and a separate detachment was sent to engage in skirmishes.

The Ming army in front of him did not use its forces like this.

Mangji Laos can see clearly: the Ming army as a whole seems to have formed a zigzag layout, and the mouth characters in front are a horizontal rectangle, compared with the two words in the rear, this lineup in front is extremely huge.

The two words in the rear were much smaller than the one in front, but they were far away at this time, and the sky was not yet bright, so they could not be seen very clearly, and from experience, they were probably cavalry—otherwise it would not explain why there were so few of them.

Mangji Laos believes that the latter two small words do not need to be considered for the time being, because since they are cavalry and the number of people is so small, there are only two functions: one is to harass the flanks before the main force engages, and the other is to be responsible for entering from the flank conflict after the main force divides the victory and defeat, expanding the results of the battle or covering the retreat. In short, when there are too few cavalry, in the face of a well-formed infantry, the advantage is not very great, not to mention that the Burmese army still has elephant soldiers.

As for the main force of the Ming army, the formation laid out by the big mouth, the reckless man thought that he could defeat it with only about 500 casualties - according to the speed of the charge, 500 dead men were enough to rush in front of them.

So without hesitation, he ordered: "The whole team, keep the lineup approaching to three hundred paces, and then charge!" ”

There is currently no musket capable of firing three hundred paces, this is the reply that Mangi Laos received from Captain Reddy. Three hundred steps, about one hundred and fifty meters in later generations - the bullets of the smoothbore gun era are not impossible to hit so far, but the bullets that hit this distance are no longer much lethal, not to mention, the bullets themselves will not know where to fly because of their lack of accuracy.

Captain Reddy's words are actually not a big problem, because the European musket at this time is at this level, the only problem is that he doesn't know that there are already four shallow straight rifling wires in the barrel of the Wanli style, and the gunpowder ratio is excellent, and even granular gunpowder, at a distance of three hundred steps, the Wanli style actually still has a certain lethality, and the accuracy is much higher than that of ordinary smoothbore guns.

But the biggest problem of Mangji Laos was not that he underestimated the Wanli musket, but that he misestimated that one of the two small "mouth" characters in the rear of the Ming army was not a cavalry, but an artillery team.

Although the artillery of the land division was far inferior to that of its own fleet in terms of quantity and quality, it still had 120 guns, of which 30 were No. 2 guns and 90 were No. 3 guns.

When the Burmese army advanced forward and was still two miles away from the artillery position of the Ming army, the artillery team of the garrison opened fire, and the first to fire was of course the No. 2 gun, which was larger in size and range.

Mangji Lao only saw the fire flashing in the distance, and then heard a series of loud noises of "bang bang bang", and in a trance, it seemed that some black spots smashed into the crowd of the Burmese army brigade or nearby.

A terrible scream ensued, and some of the unlucky men in the Burmese army were hit by solid shells, and their bodies were torn apart. Some of the remaining shells smashed mud and rocks on the ground, and some of them continued to kill more unfortunate people in the rolling process.

After all, this thing is not only powerful, the key is that it is not guarded, and it depends on luck who it wants to die, so there was a wave of chaos in the Burmese army, and many people subconsciously hugged their heads and ran, as if they wanted to find a place to hide.

Although Mangji Laos didn't expect that the Ming army would still carry a lot of "Hongyi cannons" on its expedition of thousands of miles, he was only startled at first, and quickly reacted and shouted: "Hongyi cannons are fighting very slowly, don't be alarmed!" Line up and force it out! ”

Whether the crown prince is the crown prince or some majesty, the panic of the Burmese army quickly disappeared, and several soldiers who took the lead in fleeing were killed on the spot by the warlords, and the remaining Burmese troops resumed their formation again and continued to approach.

The second round of artillery from the Ming army came a little faster than Manji expected, but at this moment, the slightest uncertainty would not make him change his plan. Besides, judging from the situation just now, although the power of the cannon is indeed huge, because it is a solid bullet, in fact, there are not many people who are actually killed, and as the commander of the first army, there is no need to make any changes for the bombardment of artillery.

However, after the third round of artillery was fired, the situation began to change, because this round of artillery was obviously much denser than before, and the Burmese army had barely overcome the fear of artillery under the strong order, but this round of artillery seemed to frighten them again - the solid shells falling from the sky increased significantly, and there were few shells that missed the nearby wasteland.

There were a large number of screams in the camp of the Burmese army, and there were corpses and severed limbs flying everywhere, blood and brains were splashed everywhere, and the position that had just been stabilized immediately became chaotic and loose again.

This was a situation that he had never seen such a powerful artillery array, and even the Portuguese mercenaries could not reach this level of firepower - of course, this was also due to the fact that the Portuguese were too small in force.

For the first time, he felt that it was probably a huge strategic mistake for his father to provoke Daming, but this thought was only fleeting, and now was not the time to think about these things.

He decisively ordered: "Charge the whole army!" ”

The Burmese army breathed a sigh of relief, because even ordinary Burmese soldiers knew a truth: after rushing to the Ming army's position and engaging the Ming army in a short battle, it was impossible to continue to be bombarded by artillery.

The only problem is that the distance of the charge becomes too long. Oh no, there's another unexpected problem: the elephants find that they don't listen to their commands - war elephants, though mighty, have two major weaknesses: they are afraid of fire and loud noises.

Under the three rounds of loud noises, each time more dense and ferocious, these war elephants have begun to fall into madness, the elephant soldiers in order to avoid the war elephants trampling to death and killing their own families, can only reluctantly force the war elephants to deviate, more than a hundred war elephants all ran out of the battlefield in a chaotic manner.

Fortunately, he was far away, and although his war elephant was also frightened for a while, he was appeased by the elephant slave and did not take him away or simply fell down.

But at this time, he didn't have time to pay attention to himself, he was paying attention to his army. People are not machines, and the action of charging is like a 100-meter sprint, which belongs to explosive power and is different from endurance, not to mention that it is still in a weight-bearing state, so Mangji Lao is also very worried about whether this charge at too far will lead to no follow-up after rushing over.

At the same time as the Burmese army launched a charge, Gao Sijin, who was standing on a small hillside behind the main position on the opposite side, sneered and gave a steady order: "The first two rows are in bayonet formation, and when the enemy arrives close to 150 paces, the first round of calibration projectiles will start, and when the enemy is 100 paces, the three columns will retreat directly to clean the barrels, and the last three columns will follow the cycle." ”

The nightmare of the Burmese army began with the order of Gao Sijin.

When he saw that his army had approached two hundred paces, the Ming army still did not start shooting, and his heart was beating wildly, thinking that although the Ming army on the opposite side looked neatly lined, it was actually a group of silver-like wax-tipped guns, and it was so slow to prepare the first wave of ammunition. Who knew that when they reached one hundred and eighty paces, the first two rows of the Ming army suddenly "turned guns into knives" and showed bright "long barrels and short knives".

But it didn't matter, the trouble was that they immediately squatted down, and the two rows of Ming troops erected the "long barrel and short knife" in a staggered manner, with a combination of high and low, like a fence made of knives in front of them.

Then the real crisis appeared when the Burmese army rushed to about 150 paces, and the Ming army behind began to fire a salvo of horizontal rows.

When at least 100 people fell at once in the advance of the Burmese army, the heart of the reckless Laos seemed to be jerked: these muskets of the Ming army are probably more powerful than the Portuguese!

The Ming army quickly "responded" to his suspicions - the second volley came at great speed.

There was still a column of fire, and under the white smoke, the advance of the Burmese army once again fell without surprise a hundred or dozens of people. And the most striking thing is that between these two volleys, the Burmese army only ran forward about 20 paces.

To be bad!

The interval between the musket salvos of the Ming army was even more amazing than the performance of the Portuguese mercenaries, and this battle was only afraid of being bad......

When a person has a hunch, the good ones are basically daydreaming, while the bad ones are usually fulfilled quickly, and the reckless man immediately discovers that he is crow's mouth, even if he has not said it just now.

The Burmese army rushed forward again, continued to receive three volleys, and then ...... It collapsed.

Because when they rushed to a distance of only about eighty paces from the Ming army, the ridicule on the faces of the Ming soldiers on the opposite side could be seen clearly, and of course they could see the bayonet array standing in the front row with the tips of the knives scattered high and low.

Rush up? This is suicide!

Those bright half-cut narrow-bladed sharp knives, just from the reflection of the cold as ice blade, can be seen, all of them are first-class treasure knives, even if they wear bright light armor, they may not be able to block it, not to mention that most of them are completely unarmoured?

In addition, they were already exhausted, and the charging distance was too far to run at all, so the momentum of the Burmese army slowed down almost visibly.

The Burmese army is slow, but the Ming army is not slow. The garrison's firing did not stop for a moment, and in the midst of the hesitation of the Burmese army, two more volleys were fired, and by this time the Burmese army had lost at least more than 1,500 men.

The ratio of 1,500 people to the more than 10,000 Burmese troops does not seem to be high, but you must know that the army of the Cold Weapon Era simply cannot afford to pay much direct battle losses, and there are many examples of collapse as soon as the battle losses are achieved, and it is almost a miracle that the Burmese army has not collapsed now.

However, the source of this miracle is somewhat ridiculous: first, they knew the danger behind them and wanted to rush through the current Ming army's blockade and return to Donghu City; The second is that these salvos just now happened too quickly, and they were in the process of charging, and they didn't have time to "discover" how many comrades they had lost around them.

But at this time, in the face of the bright bayonet array and the taunts on the faces of the musketeers on the opposite side, they suddenly realized - where are the comrades in front of me? Why did I come to the front of this?

“လွတ်မြောက်！” (Burmese: Run for your life.) )

With an exclamation that came out of nowhere, many Burmese soldiers began to flee in all directions, and the charging formation suddenly became chaotic, like boiling soup and snow, and turned into nothing.

Some Burmese troops fled to both sides of the battlefield, and some Burmese troops turned around and ran and then knocked down their comrades in the rear who were still unable to figure out their status and continued to run forward.

He wanted to regroup, but he immediately found that it was in vain, because the overseers at the rear subconsciously tried to stop the rout, but they were immediately drowned in the wave of routs and disappeared without a trace.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately knew that he had failed, and that it was irretrievable, and immediately controlled the war elephant to turn around and run. However, at this time, he was surprised to find that the other word "mouth" behind the opponent's pinzi array was long gone, and on his flank, a cavalry team of about 500 people was rushing towards his place.

In order to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, most of the personal soldiers around him were sent out as a supervising team, and now there are only two hundred people around him, and the war elephant has long since run away, leaving only the only one under him.

In other words, he is really "standing out from the crowd" now, outstanding, and really the best target of the Ming army.

The war elephant can't outrun the galloping horse, and the reckless machine is so shocked that he can't even let people answer, so he plans to jump off the war elephant and flee for his life.

However, this was too late, although the cavalry of the Ming army was small, but the crotch was full of good horses, and in an instant, they had already killed not far in front of them.

At this time, the Ming army did not even draw out the saber on their waists, but all held a short gun that the Burmese army had never seen, the body of this gun was half shorter than the ordinary musket, but the magic was that there was no need to ignite - they had already fired directly in the direction of Mangji.

"Bang bang bang", I don't know how many guns sounded, and Manji Lao only felt a sharp pain in several places on his body, accompanied by a strong burning sensation, which made him let out a terrible scream.

And then he didn't know anything.

The last voice he heard was a jubilant Chinese dialect: "The enemy general is dead!" If you don't give up your arms and surrender, when! ”

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