Chapter 11: The Cavalry Kills

The Burmese army is so numerous that Bai Wenxuan's pace has slowed down. Five hundred cavalry chased behind the Burmese army, because the speed of the cavalry has slowed down, and the saber is very delicate, it is easy to curl the blade after cutting too much, after losing the speed of the horse, it is not easy for the saber to cut people, so the cavalry replaced with hammers, short spears, heavy swords, clubs and other relatively cheap weapons, followed closely behind the Burmese army, chased and killed the enemy all the way, and killed the Burmese army corpses all over the field and flowed rivers of blood.

Bai Wenxuan retracted the treasure knife to his waist and replaced it with a short spear, not fast or slow to chase the Burmese army.

A Burmese soldier in front was overtaken by someone else and lagged behind.

Bai Wenxuan lightly clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the speed of the war horse increased slightly, and he soon caught up with the Burmese soldier, and with a slight poke of the short gun in his hand, he pierced the Burmese sergeant's back in the heart. He pulled out his short gun and went after another Burmese soldier, and soon caught up with the guy, and with a slight poke in the back of the neck, the short gun stabbed out of the front throat, and the Burmese army covered his throat and fell.

The speed of the horse slowed down, Bai Wenxuan did not rush to chase the enemy, but slowed down the horse, and opened a distance of more than ten steps with the enemy, which also gave the war horse a chance to breathe, and then he increased his speed, knocked over a Burmese soldier, and stabbed two left and right in a row, stabbing two Burmese soldiers to the river.

Many Burmese soldiers were pushed and shoved and fell into the river. The water of the river flowed down from the upper reaches, and the Burmese soldiers who fell into the water were quickly swept away by the rapids.

General Zhao Desheng used a long-handled round-headed hammer, and he caught up with a Burmese soldier, and under the effect of horsepower, the iron hammer lightly touched the back of the head of the Burmese soldier, and the Burmese soldier's head burst like a watermelon. Zhao then caught up with the other two Burmese soldiers, knocked over one of them with his horse, and struck the other on the head with a hammer.

Some Ming soldiers used wooden sticks to catch up with a Burmese soldier. With the help of horsepower, he tapped lightly with a wooden stick, and the brains of the Burmese soldiers who were caught up immediately burst out.

In the end, every cavalryman was exhausted, even Bai Wenxuan's arms were sore, and the head of his short spear was bent. But no one in the Burmese army dared to turn back, and everyone was desperately fleeing. All he thought about was that he could run away a little faster than his companions. A large number of Burmese soldiers trampled on each other and were trampled to death, and some were pushed and fell into the river and drowned. Many more Burmese soldiers died in the chaos than the Ming cavalry.

The officers of the Burmese army organized the manpower of the Chinese army, cut down a group of rebellious troops who attacked the Chinese army, and stopped the defeated crowd. At this time, the Burmese army had already reacted and found that there were not many attackers, and the Burmese army, under the shouting of their officers, hastily formed a formation to prepare to resist the Ming army.

"Turn the horse's head and distance yourself. Put on your saber and rush away from them! Bai Wenxuan ordered.

The Ming army left the enemy formation, trotted backwards for a distance, pulled to about seventy or eighty steps, reined in the war horse, turned the horse's head, and aimed at the enemy. The horses snorted, and the cavalrymen put cheap weapons on their horses and drew sharp sabers from their waists. Pointing to the Tatmadaw Army.

"Kill!" Bai Wenxuan yelled.

Although there are not many cavalrymen of 500, there is a momentum of impact even with men and horses. When a person sees a behemoth rushing towards him at high speed. will be moved by fear. At this time, the Burmese army was like this, they were driven back by the warlords and barely formed a formation, and when they saw the cavalry rushing over, their already low morale completely collapsed.

The Burmese swordsmen and pikemen dropped their weapons and turned to run, and the musketeers pulled the trigger indiscriminately, regardless of whether they hit the target or not. Drop the musket and run.

The cavalry of the Ming army put down the sabers and crushed into the chaotic army of the Burmese army, a row of swords flashed, and the heads of the Burmese army fell to the ground one after another.

However, Bai Wenxuan did not attack the Burmese army in depth, but circled the perimeter of the Burmese army's rout. Using the high speed of the war horse to circle around the Burmese army, the saber in his hand crossed with the power of the war horse running, and rows of Burmese soldiers fell into the mud with their heads in different places.

All the Ming troops imitated Bai Wenxuan and drove away the Burmese soldiers, disrupted their formations, and made them trample on each other.

Bai Wenxuan's saber was changed from right hand to left hand, and from left hand to right hand, and I don't know how many heads of Burmese soldiers he had chopped off, and the delicate swords had already been curled.

At this time, the formation of the Burmese army had completely collapsed, and there was no need for the Ming cavalry to charge at high speed, and the commander of the Burmese army could not gather the rebels at all. Even if the Overseer tried to stop the defeat from breaking down, they would be mercilessly knocked down by the rout, trampled into the dirt, and countless pairs of feet stepped over them until they were trampled into flesh.

The cavalry of the Ming army rolled their sabers one by one and cut their arms sore, so they replaced them with weapons such as spears, clubs, heavy swords, and hammers, slowed down their horses, followed behind the rout of the Burmese army, and killed these Burmese people one by one.

Seeing that the formation could not be controlled, the chief general of the Burmese army ordered: "Let the war elephants run over!" The routs refused to get out of the way, so they stepped on them! ”

After receiving the order, 160 Burmese elephants drove 80 war elephants and rushed towards the scattered Burmese army.

But the chaotic Burmese army was huddled together, and it was impossible to get out of the way. These Burmese elephants were knocked over by the elephants one after another, and the people behind were still crowding up, and those who fell to the ground were trampled by the elephants and directly trampled into flesh. The Burmese troops behind them moved to both sides, but the chaotic crowd squeezed them, and they couldn't dodge at all, so they could only watch the huge elephant arch itself to the ground, and the thick elephant legs fell on top of them.

"Ahh The Burmese army on the ground let out a cry of terror.

The elephant's legs were stamped on his body, and only the sound of bones shattering was heard, and the screams of the Burmese soldiers stopped abruptly.

There were also two Burmese soldiers who couldn't dodge, although they were not knocked over by the elephant, but the elephant strode forward, and with a tusk, the two Burmese soldiers were strung into human-shaped sugar gourds.

Eighty elephants, under the control of the elephant soldiers, stepped on a bloody path in the crowd of chaotic soldiers, and slowly crushed Bai Wenxuan's cavalry.

When the horses saw the elephants, they were moved by fear, and they neighed in horror.

Bai Wenxuan reined in his horse, looked at the elephant that crushed him, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that our infantry didn't come up, otherwise they would have pierced the trunk of the elephant with a spear, and these elephants would have turned around and stepped on their own people!" ”

At that time, Li Dingguo did not know that elephants were afraid of fire, and he did not think of using rockets, but used infantry to pierce the trunk of elephants with spears to drive away the elephants of the Burmese army, so that their war elephants would turn around and trample on their own people.

"Let's go! They're slow! We don't fight with elephants, we go around the sidelines. Our mission is to meet the main force of Wang Junmen as soon as possible! Bai Wenxuan ordered to go down.

Five hundred cavalry of the Ming army, in the fierce battle just now, no, it should be said that in the one-sided massacre, the Ming army only lost two horses, and one of the two was accidentally off his horse, and then killed by the Burmese army; There was also a man whose war horse fell, and this Ming soldier did not die, but after losing his war horse, he could no longer follow the team, so he had to cross the river and return to the camp.

Li Dingguo, who was on the other side of the Xibo River, saw with his own eyes that Bai Wenxuan had successfully defeated the Burmese army, and went downstream with light horses, so he gave the order: "Brothers, follow me back to the camp!" Lone must arrange defenses and prepare to resist Wu Sangui's attack! ”

Now the history has changed dramatically, and Li Dingguo originally chose to go to King Qin with Bai Wen, which led to the lack of air defense. After the Ming army penetrated deep into the interior of Burma, it was finally forced to withdraw due to lack of food, and was attacked by the Qing army behind it, and Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were defeated. Now it's different, Wang Xinyu came in from the south to King Qin, and Li Dingguo could concentrate on arranging defenses, blocking the Qing army, and preventing Wu Sangui from going to Burma to take Yongli away.

Back in the camp of the Chinese army, Li Dingguo stood in front of the map and thought carefully for a long time: the terrain around the Xibo River is dangerous, and it can be said that it is impossible to open it for a single man. Wu Sangui is also a man with brains, and he will definitely not attack from the frontal of the Ming army. Li Dingguo judged that Wu Sangui might make a detour to attack, which direction would they come from?

In real history, Bai Wenxuan was stationed on the Xibo River and was attacked by Wu Sangui from Mubang to the back of the Ming army. Although Bai Wenxuan is more than brave, his mind is still inferior to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo observed the map for a long time, and always felt that there was a problem, so he ordered his own soldiers: "Let's go out and have a look, see if there is something wrong!" ”

A tributary to the east of the river is flanked on either side by high mountains that rise into the sky, and a small river runs through the valley. Coming from Yunnan, the main road to Myanmar is by the river in the valley. The Ming army is arranging defenses in this dangerous place. With this kind of terrain, as long as Li Dingguo arranges 500 people on the top of the mountain, he can easily block the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops with rolling wood and stones. Wu Sangui will not be so mindless and attack from the front.

Li Dingguo walked dozens of miles along the mountain road with his own soldiers and found a very dangerous path.

"Where does this road lead?" Li Dingguo asked a Han man living in the area to ask.

"Back to the prince, this road leads to Mubang. But the road is very treacherous, the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, and no one has walked for many years. The Han man replied.

It is an overgrown and narrow mountain road. If Bai Wenxuan had come to observe the terrain, he would not have thought that the Qing soldiers would have made a detour from here. But Li Dingguo keenly felt that the Qing soldiers were very likely to come from this road!

"Build an earthen city on this high ground! Cut this path off for me! Li Dingguo pointed to a piece of high ground on the side of the path ahead, "On the opposite side, build another earthen city!" Pile up rolling logs and stones on both sides, and dig trenches in the road! As long as we stand by the danger, the Tartars will not want to come in! ”

Besides, Bai Wenxuan led nearly 500 horsemen, avoided the Burmese elephants, and after slashing and killing a burst of Burmese troops, he hid in the path, went south along the river road, and ran straight in the direction of Yawa City. Along the way, the Ming cavalry plundered the Burmese mountain villages they met to get food.

Bai Wenxuan was originally a ruthless person, and he would not show the slightest mercy to the Burmese. The Ming army passed along the way, and all the Burmese villages they encountered were slaughtered, leaving not a single one alive, so as not to expose their whereabouts to any Burmese. (To be continued.) )

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