Section 13 Courage (II)
Di Sanxi's first charge broke through the Burmese army's battle line, and he circled around and turned around to launch a second charge, which broke the Burmese defeated army that tried to regroup. When Di Sanxi charged for the third time, the sound of fire sounded on his side, and Burmese soldiers began to shoot at the Ming army sporadically, and when King Gongchang's subordinates joined the battle group, they were also disturbed by the Burmese army's firepower.
Two hundred Ming cavalry have been chasing the Burmese generals and cutting down. Although the Burmese army, like the Ming army, also uses the height of the flagpole to express the identity of the commander, but after seeing the military flag of the Burmese army for the first time, the Ming army is not as familiar with the unfamiliar foreign battle flag as it is with its own country, and it is impossible to distinguish which one is the commander of Myanmar and who is the personal guard of the Myanmar commander. As a result, the Ming army could only simply rush towards the nearest and seemingly tallest banner, and did not pose the greatest threat to the Burmese commander, Bian Ya Khan.
With repeated assaults, the number of Burmese troops scattered in front of the Ming army became more and more numerous, and the goals of the Ming army became more and more scattered.
By the time Deng Ming landed, thousands of the 30,000 Burmese troops were retreating from the Empress Cang. Deng Ming could not see the specific situation from the landing position, and Deng Ming only knew that the central direction of the enemy army was billowing smoke and dust, which obscured his vision, and he could not see the specific situation of the battle between the Ming army and the Burmese army.
"If General Di is in a bitter battle, we should go and reinforce them; If the Burmese army had not been crushed, our 150 cavalrymen would not have been able to break the stalemate; And if the Burmese Chinese army has already been repulsed, it is almost enough to have the 200 cavalry that logged earlier to continue the pursuit, so that they cannot regroup, and there is no need for me to pursue the rout with three more walls. When his subordinates landed one after another, Deng Ming nervously thought about his tactical countermeasures, and no one could accurately foresee the course and trend of the battlefield, so it was impossible to discuss how to cooperate with the Ming cavalry that was invested in three batches at the pre-war meeting, and it was only up to the commander to judge for himself.
The Burmese army array, which was lined up in a north-south direction, obviously maintained a relatively intact order on the two wings, and the number of cavalry of the Ming army was too small, so the defeat of the central Burmese army would not immediately spread to the two wings, and the first two groups of cavalry of the Ming army did not have the strength to disturb the two wings.
"Should we attack the south or the north?" Deng Ming weighed the pros and cons in his heart. It seems that the Burmese army to the south is stronger, because they are coming from downstream. At the time of the Ming landing, the Burmese army was not evenly divided, and the Bian Ya Jian, who was facing east, placed the stronger troops in the center and the right flank, that is, in the south, both so that the soldiers could walk less and save some body, but also to be able to concentrate all the main forces to attack after the Ming army had landed - if it was evenly distributed, the Burmese commander felt that the area occupied was too large and some could not be commanded.
"Although I can't see it clearly, I assume that General Di has already routed the Chinese army in Burma," If Deng Ming's assumption is not true, then what he should do now is to retreat, so Deng Ming will not take the time to think about what to do if he guesses wrong: "If I were the commander of Burma, which side would I go?" ”
"I should go to the south, this is the direction to flee back to Wacheng, and there are more troops to the south, which is closer to their campsite yesterday. Whether the Burmese commander wants to launch a counterattack, or wants to command a retreat, or whether he wants to continue to hold on to the confrontation with our army, he should immediately go to the south to command the troops - if the Burmese commander has been captured by General Di, it is also important to defeat the Burmese army in the south, and they must not have the courage to continue to hold on. ”
If Di Sanxi happened to cut off the Burmese commander in the north when he charged, forcing him to command his right flank, it would be Deng Ming's bad luck, but excluding luck, it is much more likely that the Burmese commander will go to the south.
Deng Ming turned around and instructed the knights of the three walls behind him, "The veterans are in front, and the recruits are in the back." ”
One hundred and fifty cavalrymen skillfully lined up in double rows of charges, and a small number of rangers roamed around the formation, or stayed between the two formations for preparation.
Only fifty of these knights are considered recruits, and the rest of the younger generation have participated in the Three Walls Formation, but even the recruits in Deng Ming's mouth are only relative to the Three Walls Formation. As the only standing cavalry establishment of the Ming army, the selection criteria of the Three Walls are stricter than those of the infantry standing army, not to mention that it is also regarded as the escort of Deng Ming by Western Sichuan, and every recruit who joins also needs to have a good performance in the previous campaign. The fifty recruits who were ordered by Deng Ming to go to the back row were asked to experience the feeling of group combat in the rear team just because they had no experience of fighting in this organization, lest they forget the content of the team training in western Sichuan because they were too excited.
Deng Ming, who has been charging forward since Wanxian, is naturally in the front row. In the age of cold weapons, the importance of courage cannot be overstated. Deng Ming had already discovered that the Ming army always performed very well when fighting side by side with him, and its combat effectiveness could be increased several times; Even the three wall troops, who played the most stable dìng, appeared the most fearless when charging with Deng Ming.
"Win all!"
After the line was arranged, Deng Ming put the saber up, let the knife rest against his right breastplate and shoulder armor, and looked around at the people beside him. The Ming army only had more than 300 people, and their enemy was more than 30,000, and if they did not attack the enemy with all their might, if they could not win a great victory, then the end would be the destruction of the entire army. The ships all went back to pick up the infantry, and if the Burmese army was given a chance to breathe, the Ming cavalry would have no boats available if they wanted to escape.
"All wins!" The cavalry of the three walls all replied in a calm and powerful voice, and no one did not know the danger of this battle, they were in a foreign land, fighting a hundred times the enemy in a completely unfamiliar land, and the other side had elephants, a weapon they had never seen before—was there any other secret weapon that the Burmese possessed but the Ming army knew nothing about? No one can predict. And the people who fought side by side with him were not familiar comrades-in-arms of the same Xiucai, there was no strong western Sichuan naval division to cover, and the other side of the river was preparing to cross the river to support the unfamiliar Yunnan army, and the Sichuan army that knew the roots was still in the rear and did not rush to the battlefield.
However, the golden branches and jade leaves like Bao Guogong are all leading the charge in the first row, so what is there to complain about?
Deng Ming held his head high and looked ahead, according to the latest training, the rhythm of the attack on the three walls was no longer controlled by the commander, but by the trumpeter. Each hundred-man cavalry (company) would have four trumpeters, six out of one hundred and fifty, and they were in the center of the two rows of cavalry.
The horn sounded, according to the unanimous request of the knights of the three walls, the charge absorbed a lot of elements of Shaanxi and Henan folk songs, and many passages selected from the repertoire played in the festive season, plus some tones that had a motivating effect on people, and combined them into the charge of the Ming army - the charge was already a dangerous enough thing, and there were some light-hearted elements in the charge number, which could make the already nervous knights relax a little.
Together with his subordinates, Deng Ming straightened up on horseback, maintained a saber on his shoulder, and ran neatly towards the southern heavy army group in Burma.
The Burmese army on the opposite side also looked like 10,000 people, still a hundred times the number of Deng Ming's troops, and their defenses seemed to be tighter.
As Deng Ming expected, Bianya Jian was in the right wing of the Burmese army at this time, and after losing his general banner, Bianya Jian also lost control of the whole army, but he was lucky to get rid of the pursuit of the Ming army.
"My lord, what do you command?"
The Burmese generals on the right flank surrounded the newly escaped Bianya Jian in the center and asked loudly. After seeing the flag disappear, the Burmese generals on the right flank were also panicked, but the Ming army only had one or two hundred people. Of course, tens of thousands of Burmese troops would not retreat on their own in front of such a small number of enemies, after all, they had not yet been directly attacked by the Ming army.
The central Bianya Jane and the generals who had fled from the Chinese army with the commander were even more alarmed than their counterparts on the right wing, and they finally realized that war was not as simple as it was written in the war books, and that the stories told by their ancestors, no matter how thrilling, had a lot of pleasant plots, and when the heirs of these family businesses stood in this post, they realized how much fear could be on the battlefield.
"Your Excellency, what are your orders?" The right-wing generals, who had just handed over command to the commander-in-chief, asked again.
"Withdraw troops." Bianya Jian did not try to fight back as Deng Ming imagined, after he regained his right to act, he made the final decision without thinking, he found that the strength of the Ming army was far stronger than his own, even if the other party was only one or two hundred people, he did not have the courage to fight in the field in the short term, and now Bianya Jian only thought about how to retreat to Wacheng and hold the city: "Let the elephant break off." ”
There were thousands of defeated troops in the center, and Bianya Jian did not believe that the opponent's 1,200 cavalry could chase and kill, so there was no need to reinforce, and the thousands of Burmese soldiers on the left flank were far more familiar with their own land than the invaders, and Bianya Jian thought that there was no need for support.
"My lord, another thief is rushing over." A herald stumbled into the regiment and shouted at the commanders and generals.
Although it was still far away, the Burmese army could see that it was a new 100-strong Ming cavalry, and they were heading straight towards the new headquarters of Bian Ya Jian.
"Firecracker, up! Beat all these thieves with meat sauce! Flattooth Jane jumped up and shouted as if she had been burned by a red-hot soldering iron.