The mortar artillery extended the fire to suppress the fire on the gun positions at the head of the city and the batteries in the city of the Burmese army.

There are several watchtowers seven or eight zhang high in the camp of the Ming army, far higher than the city wall, Wang Xinyu's personal soldiers can stand on the watchtower, and clearly see every move of the Burmese army in the city. As the small flag waved, the mortar artillery extended its fire, aiming at the Burmese artillery who were pushing the artillery, and following the bombardment, preventing them from erecting their artillery to pose a threat to their brother troops.

No matter where the Burmese moved their artillery positions, they could not escape the mortar shells that fell from the sky. These large-angle curved guns can be said to have no dead spots and can cover any position in the front half of the city.

After suppressing the Burmese artillery, the three-pounder and four-pounder guns of the Ming army were also pulled up and erected on the earthen platform, and the muzzles were aimed at the direction of Tucheng.

The war drums rumbled, and the Ming army auxiliaries pushed shield carts and carried carts of sandbags, slowly advancing in the direction of Tucheng.

Under the supervision of the officers and the overseers' whips and steel knives, the Burmese soldiers trembled and climbed up to the top of the city, and fired their muskets at the Ming army auxiliaries pushing the shield carts forward.

The city was filled with white smoke, and bullets rained down like a torrent of bullets, hitting the shield carts, but they were all blocked by the shield carts.

The Ming army's three-pounder and four-pounder guns fired a burst of fire, causing sand and gravel to fly across the city, shattering wooden fences, and shells smashing into the crowd of Burmese musketeers, and sending Burmese flesh and blood flying.

"Up! Fill in the trenches! Wang Jinzhong roared, brandishing a steel knife to command the auxiliaries.

The auxiliaries approached the city with their shield carts. At this time, there was no Burmese army on the head of the city, and no Burmese dared to stand on the head of the city that could drop shells at any time to shoot at the Ming army auxiliaries.

Shield carts were pushed to the trenches, and the auxiliaries removed sandbags from the wagons and threw them into the trenches. Soon all the sandbags on the shield carts were dropped. The auxiliaries returned safely with their shield carts. Not a single hair was missing. A group of auxiliaries pushed the shield cart up again and continued to throw sandbags into the trench. After a while, the section of the city wall that was bombarded by mortar shelling, the ditch was filled in by the Ming army, and a passage appeared.

The Ming soldiers lined up and marched in unison in the direction of Tucheng. Several nest carts were also pushed out. Standing on the nest car several feet high, the Ming soldiers could clearly see every move of the Burmese army in Tucheng.

It is clear that the Burmese were trying to block the gap by building a second earthen city behind the earthen city that had been smashed open by mortar artillery. Behind the gap, the Burmese army also launched several artillery pieces, just waiting for the Ming army to pour into the gap, with artillery bombardment, it can inflict a fatal blow on the Ming army densely crowded at the gap.

All these actions of the Burmese were discovered by the Ming army on the nest car, and the Ming soldiers standing on it immediately sent a flag signal. Tell the mortar shooter that the Burmese are gathering within thirty paces behind the gap, and at the same time tell the artillery officer of the mortar artillery of the Burmese army in the city in the flag.

The mortars of the Ming army mercilessly attacked the Burmese army auxiliaries who were mending the gap. A burst of cannonballs whistled down from the sky and landed in the dense crowd of Burmese soldiers, shattering the bones of the Burmese and screaming again and again.

The Burmese army auxiliaries who were shelled immediately abandoned their tools and fled in all directions.

The mortar cannon once again let out a dull roar, and the shells rose into the air and fell on the top of the Burmese artillery positions in the city.

Cannonballs the size of watermelons fell. A large number of Burmese gunners were killed and wounded. Some shells hit the gun emplacements and smashed the cannons into the air. The gun carriage smashed to pieces. Broken planks and flying artillery tumbled into the Burmese crowd, causing secondary casualties.

Seeing that the Burmese army auxiliaries and gunners in the city had fled, the Ming soldiers on the nest car waved the small flag again and sent out a flag signal.

The mortar artillery extended the fire, and on both sides of the Tucheng City, rows of shells were smashed.

"Attack!" Wang Xinyu gave the order loudly.

"Kill!" Groups of Ming army short knife soldiers wielded bright Miao knives. Rushing towards the gap in the earthen city.

A large number of Ming troops rushed into the city at the breach, but without resistance from the Burmese army, they rushed through the breach. Rushing to the unfinished inner wall of the Burmese army, the Ming army in front pushed open the unbuilt inner wall and killed the center of the Burmese army camp.

in several other directions. The Ming army, carrying improvised trench bridges and improvised ladders, shouted and rushed towards Tucheng. A simple trench bridge was erected on the trench, and the Ming army rushed through the trench, and the simple cloud ladder was erected on the earthen city. A large number of lightly armored soldiers quickly climbed the ladder and appeared on the top of the city. In the process of climbing to the top of the city, the Ming army was not attacked by the Burmese army.

"It's so easy to get to the city?" Shi Fu, who was wearing light armor, felt very strange when he landed on the top of the city.

Someone said: "This Burmese is much easier to fight than the Tartars!" We only had a few shots to scare them all away! ”

The continuous bombardment of mortar artillery and various gunpowder made the Burmese army dare not climb the earthen city to intercept and shoot, so that the Ming army quickly seized the city. More Ming troops climbed up, but met no resistance.

"Attack the city!" Wang Jinzhong ordered.

More and more Ming troops poured into the city from the gap, and at this moment, the fire in front flickered, only a series of gunshots were heard, and the white smoke rose up, and the Burmese musketeers in the city hid in the camp and shot bullets at the advancing Ming army.

These Burmese musketeers did not dare to enter the city for fear of the power of the Ming artillery, and they hid in the city until the Ming army attacked, and then suddenly came out and opened fire.

There were constant gunshots in the city, and it sounded like the Burmese army was fighting very fiercely and lively, but there were not many Ming soldiers who were shot and fell.

The Burmese army did not have the courage to come forward to meet the battle, they only dared to hide in the camp and shoot indiscriminately from a distance with muskets.

"Hurry up and reload your ammo!" The Burmese army officer shouted

The Burmese musketeers lowered their heads and hurriedly loaded their ammunition, and after hastily reloading, another round of indiscriminate firing was completed.

Gunfire roared, and through the smoke of gunpowder, the Burmese soldiers saw several Ming soldiers falling. There was a burst of cheers in the Burmese army's camp, as if a few more rounds of shooting would collapse the Ming army.

Behind the Ming saber soldiers, followed by a dense crowd of flintlock musketeers. After entering the earthen city, the musketeers quickly lined up in three columns and advanced side by side.

In the Burmese army camp in the city, the musketeers of the Burmese army fired sporadically, and the musket bullets fired from a long distance in a panic hit the Ming army shortsword soldiers in front. The thick iron armor blocked the bullets that were about to become the end of the crossbow, and did not cause much damage to the Ming army, only a few Ming soldiers fell.

Zhao Haisheng stood in the queue, holding a steel knife and a short gun hanging from his waist. He is the general and does not need to shoot himself.

Bullets from the front kept coming. Some of the bullets passed through the formation of the short knife men in front of them, hitting the weakly armored musketeers, and the musketeers who were shot fell with a scream. But the musketeers in the back immediately replenished and kept the formation moving forward.

In the hot weather of Nanyang, the scorching sun shone on people, and Zhao Haisheng fell beads of sweat the size of beans on his head, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or sunburned. The soldiers around were also sweating profusely, but everyone kept their pace.

When there were still forty paces away from the Burmese army, a long shout came from behind: "Release!" ”

Zhao Haisheng's long knife pointed forward. Raise your voice and shout at your team of hundreds: "Shoot!" ”

Rows of flintlock pistols were neatly and neatly raised, with the muzzles pointing forward.

"Aim!" Zhao Haisheng yelled.

The muzzle of the gun was flattened and aimed at the Tatmadaw army.

At this time, the Burmese army was still busy loading ammunition, and it was too late to fire at the Ming army.

"Put!" Zhao Haisheng used all his strength to roar.

A team of 100 fired a salvo, and the gunshots like fried beans rang out, crackling into a piece, like firecrackers for the New Year. Dense bullets burrowed into the crowd of Burmese soldiers, blooming countless dazzling blood sprays. Smoke fills the air. The Ming army could not see the casualties of the Burmese army in front, but from the screams from the opposite side. It can be heard that the Burmese army has suffered heavy casualties.

Zhao Haisheng roared: "Backward reload!" ”

At the same time, Wu Guoming, who was behind, shouted: "Forward, end the gun!" ”

The second centurion moved forward, flintlock pistols pointed forward.

"Aim!"

The muzzle of the gun was pointed at the dense crowd of Burmese musketeers behind the wooden fence in front, and with an order to "release", the second centurion erupted into gunfire like fried beans. The bullets passed through the gaps in the wooden fence and burrowed into the crowd of the Burmese army, causing blood and flesh to fly behind the wooden fence and scream in misery.

By the time the third centurion pressed up and started shooting, the Burmese musketeers had already dropped their muskets. Turning his head and running for his life, leaving behind only the stunned hand-to-hand fighters behind the wooden fence.

A row of gunshots rang out, and the Burmese hand-to-hand fighters standing behind the wooden fence fell.

"Ahh The hand-to-hand fighters of the Burmese army finally reacted and turned around and ran.

The Ming musketeers split off on both wings, and the bird-fired soldiers behind also followed, outflanking from both wings. Short knives rushed in frontally, slashing through the wooden fence and smashing into the Burmese barracks.

More and more Ming troops poured in from the gap, and the pikemen rushed in and immediately formed a formation, followed by the knife soldiers, like a razor, and began to advance from the Burmese barracks, shaving all the way, and the Burmese troops fell everywhere they went. None of the Burmese soldiers dared to turn back and fight against the Ming army, and when they were attacked by the Ming army, they immediately turned around and ran. Every Burmese army is on the run, and the only thing they have to do now is run faster than their companions.

The Ming army's flintlock musketeers and bird gunners advanced from both flanks, and while slowly advancing forward, they stopped from time to time to reload their bullets, and fired a volley from their guns, constantly firing dense bullets from the side, reaping the lives of the Burmese soldiers in the middle.

Archers and auxiliaries also entered the Burmese army camp, and many of them carried torches in their hands or carried cans of fire oil, ready to help the archers light rockets at any time to prevent the Burmese army's war elephants from counterattacking. Without seeing the Burmese war elephants counterattack, the archers fired rows of rockets at the Burmese army camp inside, setting fire to many camp tents.

Bian Ya Kun led the high-ranking samurai to crush the defeated Burmese army, but the samurai could not control the scene, and were coerced by the defeated army and joined the ranks of the rout.

"Let the war elephants fight back! Stop the thieves! "A ministry general made a suggestion.

But Bian Yayu shook his head: "The thieves don't have cavalry, and our infantry can run away." If our elephants attack, once they shoot back with rockets, I am afraid that more of our own people will be trampled to death. Let's retreat quickly! After saying that, the fangs climbed on an elephant and evacuated with the elephant team.

The Burmese elephants withdrew from the camp, and the cavalry also followed behind and rushed out of the wide-open gate to the east, and fled all the way in the direction of Yawa City.

The slowest infantry, who also followed, escaped from the blazing earth city and fled in the direction of the city of Yawa.

The cavalry led by Bai Wenxuan hid in a forest to the east, watching the Burmese army camp become a mess, and then a fire broke out. At this time, the gate of the fortress opened, and a group of Burmese elephants rushed out of it and fled to the city of Yawa. The Burmese cavalry, which was following the war elephants, also rushed out and tried to run eastward.

"Lord Wang, are we going to attack now?" General Zhang Guoyong asked.

Bai Wenxuan said: "Don't move now!" When the thieves come out, we'll chase them down! ”

Using cavalry to chase elephant soldiers is an egg hitting a stone, and chasing a cavalry is too horsepower and thankless.

After a while, Bai Wenxuan saw the chaotic infantry rushing out of the Burmese army camp and fleeing in the direction of Yawa City to the east.

"Lead the horse out of the woods!" Bai Wenxuan yelled. This is to maintain the horsepower of the horses, and before launching an attack, it is best for the cavalry to lead the horse slowly, and wait until it is close to the enemy, and then get on the horse and charge to kill.

Nearly 500 cavalry of the Ming Army led the horses, slowly walked out of the woods, and approached the avenue where the Burmese army fled step by step.

When there were still two hundred steps away from the Burmese army, Bai Wenxuan gave an order: "Get on the horse!" ”

The cavalrymen mounted their horses one after another, but they kept their speed slow, and their horses slowly approached the enemy. When there were still one hundred and fifty steps left, Bai Wenxuan pulled out his saber and pointed at the chaotic and dense crowd of Burmese soldiers: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!" Nearly 500 cavalry shouted in unison, and the shiny sabers flashed in the sun, rushing towards the crowd of Burmese soldiers who could not see the end.

Five hundred cavalry rushed into the crowd of the defeated Burmese army, and the horses knocked away a group of Burmese soldiers in front. Then the sword flashed, and the heads of a row of Burmese soldiers flew up.

Bai Wenxuan galloped on his horse, led the cavalry to cut the Burmese army's formation into two parts, and cut a pair of piercings, leaving a bloody path where the horses passed. Nearly 500 cavalry almost rushed to the river, Bai Wenxuan reined in the reins, the war horse stopped, turned the horse's head, and stood on the war horse.

All the cavalry stood on their horses, and their horses snorted at their crotches. After a short pause, Wen Xuan shouted again: "Kill!" ”

The cavalry of the Ming army once again slaughtered into the crowd of Burmese infantry, killed from the north to the south, and fought a counterpart, and the war horse crashed into the air and trampled on countless Burmese infantry, and each cavalry cut off an unknown number of heads.

Bai Wenxuan led the cavalry back and forth to kill three times, until the corpses of the Burmese army were all over the field and rivers of blood flowed.

The horsepower of the cavalry was consumed, and Bai Wenxuan changed his strategy. The cavalry of the Ming army no longer rushed through quickly, but surrounded the south of the Burmese army, using weapons such as hammers, short spears, and heavy swords to slash and kill on the periphery. The Ming cavalry drove the Burmese army to the north of the river like a sheep.

The Burmese infantry was driven from the flanks by Bai Wenxuan's cavalry, slashing and slashing all the way, killing corpses all over the field. There were also large groups of Ming infantry chasing after them, muskets roaring, bows and arrows fired in volleys, and the slow-running Burmese troops kept falling. The Burmese soldiers, who were caught up by the Ming infantry, saw that they could no longer escape, and knelt on the ground and surrendered.

In desperation, the Burmese army fled to the river, only to see gunboats on the river spitting out flames, and shells whizzing into their crowd, beating the Burmese army with blood and flesh flying. (To be continued.) )

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