Chapter Ninety-Seven: Ambush
"Chase! Catch up with them! ”
In the dense forest, a group of more than 30 Burmese warriors tracked the traces of the Ming army during the patrol, and the three knights with long knives led their foot soldiers to quickly sweep into the forest.
Their soldiers have their own characteristics, infantry subordinate generals wear iron armor and hold double swords, and subordinates tie their hair in buns and hold swords and spears; The cavalry generals wear more hats and helmets, similar to the Yuan and Ming styles, similar to the helmets, the difference is that most of the Ming hats are spires, and the hats and helmets here have more Mengyuan hat styles, which are carved in Sanskrit.
The integration of soldiers and peasants in Myanmar is the root cause of Mang Yinglong's ability to form an army of 200,000, and this military form often means that the lower the army is weak, and the more upper-level soldiers are more powerful, and Myanmar is no exception.
The promotion of their soldiers does not depend on their military exploits, but on who survives.
The Infantry Army, the Horse Army, and the Elephant Army are the traditions of the Indochina Peninsula's military branches, and in Burma, the strong men who join the recruitment are all infantry soldiers at the beginning, and when they have fought ten battles, they can be promoted to the Horse Army, and the Ma Army has fought ten more battles, and they are promoted to the Elephant Army.
Compared with the previous two armies, and even compared with any army in the world, the salary of the elephant army is very rich, fifty baskets of grain per month.
Although it is unshelled millet, it has more than 1,800 catties, which is enough for them to raise a few servants and live a comfortable life for their families.
Such a military salary is in a different place, and in normal times, it is equivalent to thirteen stone meters per month, which is higher than 100 households in the Ming Dynasty, and only half a stone is different from the 1000 households of the deputy thousand households.
Unbeknownst to the patrol, there was a pair of eyes staring at them through the Divine Eyeglass in the dense forest, and Lin Manjue, who had not been freshened up for a long time, sat on the tree with his back against him, withdrew half of his body and carefully tucked the Divine Eyepiece into the bamboo mirror sleeve at his waist, buckled the wooden pin, and then found a piece of flint on his leather belt.
Lin Manjue is still the same old look.
After a long time, the face is dusty, the helmet is buckled obliquely on the head, the frowns are frowned, the lines are vertical and horizontal, the beard mixed with food crumbs is curled by the helmet, and a pair of eyes are mixed with bloodshot but the gaze is still fierce.
The same as the sloppy face is the breastplate that should be bright and reflective, painted with red mud and scratches, and the water-mill chain battle skirt under the breastplate is even more inserted with a lot of leaves.
What remains unchanged is the crested hand axe inserted in the strap around his waist, which is hideous and bright.
"There are no war elephants, go ahead."
Lin Manjue in the tree couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or happy, he just whispered, and then seriously fiddled with the long pole on his leg, ignoring the enemy army not far away.
He put a god on his leg to kill the general, these two months released dozens of guns, seeing that the second flint is not good, he carefully unscrewed the dragon head rod, replaced it with a craftsman's finely ground new flint, and tried to hit two sparks, only then satisfied with the wear flint into the waist pocket, to the gun charge and ammunition.
The flint is very hard, and when the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau grind out the bite of the flint to fit it neatly into the faucet rod and clamp it, the iron frustration is often struck by the flint, and even if the trigger force of the bird is large, this small stone is not easy to wear.
But for the guns, especially the early skirmishers who are still in the experimental stage and cannot achieve the absolute accuracy of the best range, Lin Manjue must make the big gun in his hand have the best performance at any time, and the new flint is the most reliable, and the seventy percent of the ignition standard when the bird gun was recently released from the Arsenal Bureau.
This firing rate is already very high, not only involving the construction of the gun, but also related to the angle of the lid of the medicine pool, the shape of the flint, and the strength of the spring.
But the more complex the machine, the more likely it is to go wrong, and the more difficult it is to fix it.
This is where the flintlock mechanism is not as good as the arquebus machine at this stage.
Lin Manjue didn't care about the more than thirty enemy soldiers who followed them, those traces were originally deliberately left by him with the Black King Kong, whoever took the bait would die without a place to be buried, this had nothing to do with personal grudges, and he naturally wouldn't bother about it.
Under the tree is the bravest tiger warrior in South Asia Melica, wearing iron armor and iron helmet, the black King Kong still has the courage of ten thousand people, and the two-edged three-pointed knife with a high height is stuck obliquely into the ground, and first leads a dozen of his Nanmo villagers to a war dance against the pursuing Burmese army from afar.
Lin Xiao, who was carrying a flint hairpin with a dragon on his back and a flag, shuttled through the forest with a heroic appearance, and nearly 600 guerrilla troops in several defense lines within a radius of two miles were concealed, and this ambush circle was not prepared for more than 30 people, and these Burmese soldiers would be dead and lifeless if they fell here.
Lin Manjue cared more about some other things, he led his troops to wander through the forest for more than two hundred miles in this circumference, and captured more than 80 captives, around Baigu Bei regardless of whether it was a monk soldier, a Burmese, a Mon, whether a patrol or a regular army, all of them had a fight, and they had a general understanding of the situation in the city.
There are too few troops, and there is no artillery, relying on him to scatter more than 1,000 Pingyuan troops in the general department of the forest, and he can't do big things and get tired of doing small things.
The sound of the ambush in the forest started, and even the black King Kong who had finished dancing under the tree was unwilling to raise a two-edged three-pointed knife to make a hand, let alone Lin Manjue on the tree, he just tilted his head and glanced at it, and then didn't ask again, just took out the letter that he had read several times from his bosom and read it again.
The Minister of Nanyang called the ensuing war the 'Three-Eyed Gun of the Sea', and he was ecstatic that the war would be sealed in the Navy's Lecture Hall Library under this name.
The so-called three-eyed gun is a three-way attack, and the central military headquarters under Chen Shuai of Baigu Fortress; guarding the left flank under the command of Bai Shuai in Yangon; and his guerrilla army, which is worth a thousand people.
In fact, it is no longer appropriate to call them guerrilla armies, after the Battle of Annam, Lin Manjue served as a general in the war, and his nephew Lin Xiao was promoted to a guerrilla general, so now he is divided into two divisions, the headquarters of more than 700 regular troops, and Lin Xiao's more than 600 guerrillas.
In the military, it is necessary to take on the mission of the frontal battlefield.
Although Lin Manjue has never tried to fight the enemy once.
Almost in an instant, the battle was over, since Lin Xiao's first 100-man squad released their guns, the three firearms only fired a salvo to defeat more than 30 Burmese patrols, followed by rows of birds on the side of the road alternately released, and the Burmese troops who were lucky enough to avoid the first salvo were annihilated before they even had time to surrender.
Lin Manjue jumped down from the tree, the black King Kong steadily caught the killer guns that grew a lot longer than the birds, and led a group of American warriors who were also dressed as elite generals, and the banner army quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and swept away the battle gains without the general's order, and they were ready to pack up and move.
"Continue to the north, it's none of our business to attack the city, let's go to the north and set up a camp and cut off their back road."
"Bai Shuai and Chen Shuai join forces in Baigu, as long as they break through the city, the army will definitely go north, how many come." Lin Manjue turned his head to his nephew Lin Xiao and said, "We'll kill as many as we want." ”