The boats of the Burmese sailors were beaten to pieces, and some of the Burmese who were not killed turned their boats and fled upstream. On the small boat of the Burmese army that was jumped on by the Ming army, the sailors of the Burmese army had lost their fighting spirit and knelt on the small boat to surrender.

Solving the interference of the small boats of the Burmese army's sailors, the Ming army's six large ships, more than 30 small boats, and large rafts began to besiege the two largest inland river warships of the Burmese army.

Six Ming warships took turns firing at the two large ships of the Burmese army, and the cannonballs smashed over them like hailstones, raising columns of water on the river. Many shells hit the Burmese warships, scarring two Burmese ships and strewn corpses on board. The small boat of the Ming army took advantage of this opportunity to approach the big ship of the Burmese army.

A loud "boom" suddenly sounded on the river, and a large Burmese army ship that had been heavily bombed was hit with a powder keg, which exploded and caught fire, and the whole ship burned into a fire boat, slowly sinking in the raging flames.

Another Burmese warship attempted to escape, but was surrounded by Ming boats and rafts. The Ming soldiers hooked the Burmese ship with an iron hook.

"Kill!" Zhang Dou led people to jump onto the Burmese army's big ship.

A Burmese sailor was about to slash at him with a knife in front of him, but was blocked by Zhang Dou's plate axe in his left hand. With an axe in his right hand, Zhang Dou cut off the head of the Burmese sailor.

Zhang Dou smashed into the enemy group, and the two plate axes danced up and down, like an indestructible chariot crushed into the enemy group, blood splashed everywhere he went, and the Burmese soldiers were cut down one by one. In the blink of an eye, six Burmese sailors have been cut down.

A Burmese musketeer hiding in the shadows picked up his musket and was about to aim and shoot, but was slashed on the deck by a Ming soldier who jumped out from the side.

A Burmese army officer picked up a torch and attempted to burn the ship, but was shot down by a Ming soldier.

The Ming army quickly cleared the Burmese army from the large ship and captured the ship.

The remaining Burmese warships, large and small, turned around and ran away when they saw that the situation was not good. The Burmese warship raised its full sails and fled upstream in disarray. Sailors on the small boat of the Burmese army paddled desperately. Flee the battlefield as fast as you can.

At this point, the 12 Western-style warships of the Burmese army have been sunk, four have been captured, and only three warships have escaped. The rest of the Burmese boats suffered heavy losses, with more than 40 boats sunk and more than 20 captured. More than 2,000 Burmese sailors were killed or missing, and more than 1,000 were captured. The losses of the Ming army themselves were minimal, with only eight small boats and six rafts, and about a hundred people were killed. More than 300 people were wounded.

The boats and rafts of the Ming army traveled back and forth on the river, rescuing their own soldiers who had fallen into the water and capturing the Burmese soldiers who had fallen into the water.

"General Qiyu, our army has won a complete victory!" Zhang Dou and others came back to report.

Wang Xinyu looked at the Burmese ships that were on fire and sinking on the river, as well as the Ming warships that were salvaging prisoners, the fighting had subsided, and although the Burmese naval division had escaped a few ships, the main force had been basically lost, and the remaining Burmese naval divisions no longer had the ability to intercept the Ming army on the river. Now all that's left is land warfare.

"Now send a land division to land, land and water! Advance in the direction of Yawa City! Wang Xinyu gave an order.

Advancing by land and water, the land division can deal with the Burmese artillery on the shore, and it can also cut the barrage. Prevent a sneak attack by the Burmese army. The sailors marched in the river, not only to provide fire support to the Ming army, but also to provide transportation supplies, and the land division could get on the boat to rest when it was tired. Change a group of people to walk ashore, so as to advance in turns, and reduce the fatigue of the Lu division's soldiers.

On the surface of the Ayeyarwady River. The fleet sailed through the river, with elite infantry on each side heading north along the embankment. The Ming army drove straight in, and along the way, only small groups of Burmese troops resisted sporadically, and were quickly defeated by the Ming army.

The Ming army entered from the south along the Irrawaddy River, and the news of the Burmese army's naval defeat had not yet reached Yawa City, but Mang Bai expected that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan would inevitably send troops across the river.

Yawa City is a translation of the Ming Dynasty, which is called Yawa City in some historical materials of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was translated as Ava City during the Qing Dynasty, which was later Mandalay. Originally, the capital of Burma was set in Bago, but it was later conquered by the Akha people and Westerners, and the capital was moved to Yawa. It was estimated that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan would send troops across the river to attack, and Mang Bai was not worried at all, because since the Burmese had launched the curse of the water, they had already prepared.

Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were ready to send troops to rescue Yongli, but because there were too few ships, only two small sampans, how long would it take to send more than 10,000 troops across the river! According to the calculation that one sampan can send 20 people at a time, and two sampans send 40 people at a time, it takes about a quarter of an hour to send 160 people across the river, and it will take several days to send more than 10,000 people across the river, and there is interference from the Burmese army on the opposite side, so the speed will be even slower.

Deng Hong said: "The main force of our Wang Junmen has come in from the south, you don't need to send too many troops, just five or six hundred elite cavalry to contain the Burmese army, and leave the rest to us to deal with." Your main forces should be careful to set up their defenses and don't let the Tartars take advantage of the situation! According to the information we have received, the Tartars have long wanted to send troops to Burma! This thing broke out, and the Tartars will definitely come! ”

"I have heard for a long time that your army lacks cavalry?" Li Dingguo asked.

"Yes, we just lack cavalry, so we need your cavalry to cooperate with us." Deng Hong arched his hand.

"Good! Then the king sent five hundred elite horsemen to cross the river! Li Dingguo asked his soldiers to pass the order.

Bai Wenxuan stepped forward and said, "This king is willing to lead the team personally!" ”

"With King Gongchang personally leading the team, Lone is also relieved!" Li Dingguo touched his beard and nodded slightly.

On the side of the Xibo River, Bai Wenxuan personally took five hundred elite cavalry to the riverside.

Flags were waving in the jungle on the other side, and figures swayed in the trees, as if thousands of Burmese troops were in ambush. According to the spies, 30,000 Burmese troops on the other side of the river were ready to attack the Ming army crossing the river at any time.

Deng Hong was very surprised when he saw the Burmese army ambushing in the jungle on the other side: "Two princes, the Burmese have tens of thousands of troops, and they are waiting for their work, just waiting for our army to attack halfway, we only have two boats, one time with people and horses, at most more than ten people." If the Burmese army stops us, how can we get by? ”

Li Dingguo laughed and said: "The 30,000 Burmese army is nothing more than a local chicken!" See how Lone deals with them! ”

Two years ago, the Ming army that was heavily damaged in Mopan Mountain entered Burma, and the Ming army at that time lost most of its baggage materials, lost almost all of its artillery, birds, guns and bows and arrows, most of the soldiers only had a wooden stick in their hands, and only a few people had swords and spears in their hands.

"I don't know how to deal with the Burmese army?" Deng Hong didn't know what Li Dingguo's plan was.

Li Dingguo said: "This king is here to drag the Burmese army, and King Gongchang will lead the army to the upstream to smuggle across the river, and then kill it from the upstream, and then defeat the Burmese army on the opposite bank in one fell swoop!" ”

In real history, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were divided into two ways, and Li Dingguo arranged for people to pretend to negotiate with the Burmese in the front, and as a result, the Burmese army killed the envoy. Bai Wenxuan smuggled across the river from the upper reaches and broke the formation with hundreds of horsemen. Subsequently, Li Dingguo took advantage of the chaos to cross the river and defeated the Burmese army. But later, the Ming army was forced to withdraw because of the lack of food and grass due to the lone army. The Qing army took the opportunity to attack from behind the Ming army, and Bai Wenxuan was defeated and forced to surrender to the Qing.

This time, because Li Dingguo did not need too many soldiers and horses to cross the river, Li Dingguo did not send people to cross the river to negotiate, but ordered the soldiers to go to the mountains and forests to cut down wood, set up wooden rafts on the bank of the river, and pretend to cross the river by force. Bai Wenxuan took five hundred elite cavalry and detoured upstream.

There are no warships in the Bai Wenxuan Department, but the war horses can swim. When Bai Wenxuan's troops arrived upstream, all the cavalry held a piece of wood and drove the war horses down the river, and the cavalry followed the war horses and crossed the river with the wood. The auxiliaries set up wooden platoons and sent the armor and weapons of the cavalry across the river. In this way, five hundred elite cavalry quietly crossed the Sibo River and appeared above the Burmese.

On the front, Li Dingguo still made a bluff and prepared to cross the river on a large scale.

Bai Wenxuan's cavalry marched slowly through the jungle, and when they reached a few hundred steps away from the Burmese army, the Burmese army had not yet noticed a small Ming cavalry emerging from the left.

Looking at the dense Burmese army on the riverbank, Bai Wenxuan sneered, pulled out his sword and pointed forward: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!" Five hundred spirits rode over the earth with horses' hooves, making a drum-like roar, the war horses gradually accelerated, and the cold swords were aimed at the endless Burmese army crowd, the speed of the war horses became faster and faster, and the sound of horses' hooves was like rolling thunder sweeping over the earth.

The Burmese army focused its attention on the direction of Li Dingguo, who knew that a cavalry suddenly came out from the upper reaches and killed the Burmese army. By the time the Burmese discovered the surprise attack on the flank, the Ming cavalry had already rushed to the front at high speed.

One can imagine what it would be like when a group of war horses saw a group of war horses coming at high speed. Unless it's trained, formed pikemen, who have been trained many times and are able to hold down the formation. But the combat effectiveness of the Burmese army is really not worth mentioning. Seeing hundreds of galloping war horses rushing towards him, the Burmese soldiers were already frightened. The Burmese soldiers in the front row dropped their knives and guns, turned around and ran. The Burmese musketeers in the back row were about to raise their guns, but they were hit by the defeated soldiers in front of them, pushed and pushed back.

"Kill!" Bai Wenxuan took the lead and was the first to rush into the crowd of Burmese soldiers.

The saber was laid flat and tilted downwards and aimed at the back of the neck of a Burmese soldier. The war horse galloped over, and the sharp saber was under the speed of the war horse, and with just a slight touch, the head of the Burmese soldier flew into the sky, and the headless corpse stood on the ground, blood spurted more than three feet high, shook a few times, and slowly fell.

Bai Wenxuan knocked another Burmese soldier into the air, and then slashed the head of a Burmese soldier again.

Five hundred cavalry slaughtered into the crowd of the Burmese army, and the horses slammed, the horses' hooves trampled, and the sabers chopped. A large number of Burmese soldiers were knocked into the air, trampled into flesh by horses' hooves, and cut to different places by sabers.

The Burmese turned and ran, but how could two legs outrun a four-legged horse. The Burmese soldiers who failed to escape were ruthlessly killed, and the Burmese soldiers who ran away caused even more chaos and pushed the Burmese army formation behind. Suddenly, tens of thousands of Burmese troops collapsed, and were chased and slashed by a mere 500 Ming troops, leaving corpses everywhere. (To be continued.) )

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