Wu Wentai was one of the generals under the command of the Burmese king, and after coming to the south bank of the Nandu River with 50,000 Burmese troops, he was immediately surprised to learn that the Ming army did not directly cross the river on rafts, but built pontoon bridges directly on the river.

"Can you still let the army cross the river like this?" Wu Wentai had never heard of crossing the river with a large army like this, but he would not think that this was a useless work done by the Ming army, since the Ming army built the bridge in this way, it means that after the bridge is built in this way, the Ming army's iron cavalry will definitely be able to come from the bridge.

Originally, on the way here, he also considered killing and injuring the Ming army by attacking half-crossing, but now it seems that it is impossible.

"Prepare the rockets, the army will attack, and you must destroy the pontoon bridge under construction by the Ming army!" Wu Wentai ordered.

Under the orders of U Win Thai, the Burmese immediately threw themselves into the first wave of rocket attacks.

Since it was impossible to place too many soldiers at one time by the river, Wu Wentai only used 2,000 archers in this first wave of attacks.

"Kill"

Two thousand Burmese archers lit rockets and quickly rushed towards the river.

With the appearance of the Burmese soldiers, the Ming machine gunners, who had been defending the north bank of the river, immediately pulled the bolt and pulled the trigger.

The "Da Da Da" machine gun spat out one after another fire snakes, constantly strafing the crowd of Burmese soldiers who rushed out.

The "Bang Bang Bang" rifles also fired in unison.

The bullet pierced the bodies of the Burmese soldiers, and the Burmese soldiers who rushed out fell like wheat harvesting, suffering heavy casualties.

The Burmese soldiers only had time to shoot a round of loose rockets, and only a dozen rockets were planted on the pontoon, and it was impossible to burn the pontoon bridge with such a few rockets.

The Burmese soldiers also wanted to ignite rockets on the spot and continue shooting arrows at the pontoon bridge, but they had no second chance.

Under the powerful firepower of the Ming army, the first wave of 2,000 Burmese soldiers killed and injured hundreds of people in just a dozen breaths, and because the Ming army's firepower was too strong, the bullets fired were dense, and the Burmese soldiers were quickly completely repulsed, and even the Ming army's artillery was not used.

After the Burmese army was repulsed, Ming soldiers rushed up and wiped out a dozen rockets stuck on the pontoon bridge with a bucket of water.

The Ming army continued to build pontoon bridges.

In the rear of the south bank, the commander of the Burmese army, U Win Tai, heard the battle report, and his face suddenly turned dark.

"What! The army of 2,000 was shot by the muskets of the Ming army and killed hundreds of people in just one shot, just one shot, and only had time to shoot a round of rockets, how is this possible! How could the muskets of the Ming army be so powerful! Wu Wentai said in disbelief.

But even if he doesn't believe it anymore, the facts are in front of him, and he can't help but believe it.

Wu Wentai's heart was dripping blood, and he was also afraid. The lethality shown by the Ming army is too strong, no wonder the soldiers crossed the river in the south in such a short time, if the Ming army crossed the Nandu River, the consequences were unimaginable, he came here to intercept the Ming army crossing the river, try to kill and injure the Ming army, so a failure, and the price made his heart bleed, but he must also try to destroy the Ming army's pontoon bridge again.

With the first lesson, feeling the power of the Ming army's muskets, if you want the soldiers to get close and shoot a large number of rockets to burn the pontoon bridge, then there must be something to block the bullets of the Ming army.

This is a difficult problem, the Ming army is not slow to build pontoon bridges, and there is not much time for them to find enough planks and so on.

After all, Wu Wentai was one of the generals under the command of the king of Burma, and his brain was quite good, so he quickly thought of a way.

After a while, the Burmese soldiers drove ten war elephants forward.

Seeing the appearance of the war elephant, the Ming soldiers on the north bank were obviously stunned for a moment, the war elephant ran wildly, and soon approached the river, at this time, the second wave of 2,000 Burmese archers also rushed out and quickly rushed towards the river.

"Fire!"

"Da da da" The Ming army opened fire fiercely.

The first to hit the dense bullets were the ten war elephants that had almost rushed to the river.

Dense bullets hit the war elephants, blood splashed everywhere, the war elephants roared in pain, but the bullets of the Ming army were too dense, one bullet, ten bullets may not kill the war elephants, but a hundred bullets hit the war elephants, and the war elephants had only one way to die.

In an instant, ten war elephants fell less than ten meters away from the river, and with a range of 100 meters from the bow and arrow, the rockets fired from hiding behind the corpses of the war elephants were enough to threaten the Ming army's pontoon bridge.

Although the carcasses of ten war elephants could not cover many places, it was more than enough for one or two hundred Burmese archers to hide behind and shoot arrows.

Sure enough, nearly 200 rockets were fired at the pontoon bridge built by the Ming army.

With just one salvo, at least dozens of rockets were planted on the pontoon, and the flames began to slowly ignite the planks on the pontoon.

In a short interval, the Burmese archers had already fired a second volley, dozens of rockets were pierced on the pontoon bridge and burned, and two Ming soldiers who were about to go to fight the fire were also shot.

"Yes, the Burmese army actually came up with such a trick! Immediately order the artillery to open fire and blow up the carcasses of those war elephants! Zhou Cao calmly ordered.

"Boom, boom, boom", a total of 100 Ming artillery guns fired at the corpses of ten war elephants.

Hundreds of shells exploded, and although the corpses of war elephants were torn apart almost instantly, a large amount of minced flesh was blown away.

"Ahh

"Da da da" Ming army machine guns and rifles fired together.

None of the Burmese soldiers hiding behind the carcasses of war elephants were able to escape, and all of them were wiped out by the Ming army's artillery fire and bullets.

Due to the intense and powerful artillery fire, a large number of corpses of Burmese soldiers and war elephants were blown into minced flesh and blood mist.

A large area of ground on the south bank was covered red with blood, like a battlefield of Shura.

This second wave of attacks once again ended with the Burmese army losing hundreds of men.

After the Ming army quickly extinguished the fire on the pontoon bridge, it continued to accelerate the construction of the pontoon bridge to the south bank, at this moment, the pontoon bridge has been repaired for most of the time, only less than ten meters to the opposite bank, it is expected that it will not take half an hour.

South Bank, Burmese Army.

Wu Wentai's heart was dripping blood, he lost ten war elephants, but he didn't expect that the Ming army was not only powerful in muskets, but also even more powerful in artillery.

With the artillery and muskets of the Ming army, it was impossible for them to destroy the pontoon bridge that the Ming army was building.

For the sake of today's plan, the only way to send the news back to His Majesty is to organize preparations for war, and prepare to kill the soldiers of the Ming army when the Ming army begins to land, and kill and injure the Ming army as much as possible before the Ming army lands is completed.