Myanmar's geographical position in the Indochina Peninsula is quite superior, at this time the Western powers have not yet conquered the vast Indian subcontinent, and they still have to do business with China, so they have not attacked Myanmar's **, but also need to supply ships, transit goods, and buy local products in Burma. As a result, Burma received a number of firearms from the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch, and the quality of the firearms was good and the quantity was considerable......

After hearing Bianyajian's order, a large number of Burmese soldiers armed with firearms ran to the front of the position, ready to shoot at the Ming cavalry that was approaching. The Burmese army had seen the rout of the Chinese army and knew that the commander-in-chief had fled to its side. The soldiers are not like their commanders, the soldiers have a very poor understanding of the entire battle situation, at this time many people are at a loss, and they can't figure out what happened and how many people there are in the Ming army.

Since the officer gave the order to open fire, the musketeers hurriedly pulled the trigger when they came to the front of the position, fired a random shot in front of him, and took two steps back to reload his ammunition.

Deng Mingzheng led the team to run in small steps, and he first saw the fire glittering on the opposite position, then clusters of white smoke rising, and then he heard the continuous sound of gunfire.

"That's a lot of fire." Deng Ming raised his hand to signal the soldiers to stop, and one hundred and fifty Ming knights stopped their horses and stood hundreds of meters away quietly looking at the enemy army in front of them.

More and more Burmese soldiers had come to the firing positions, and the Ming army heard the gunfire of the Burmese army as loud and dense as showers, and the smoke on the opposite side gradually became thicker and thicker, and the flames sprayed from the muzzles of the guns were not as clear as they were at first, but flickered in the smoke, like lightning hiding in the dark clouds.

"The enemy has no experience," after listening for a while, an officer said to Deng Ming: "They do not have a unified command, they all fight their own, and they do not change ammunition fast enough, far from being comparable to the standing army of the capital." ”

"Not bad." Deng Ming nodded slightly, his opinion was completely consistent with this officer, not only were the soldiers of the Burmese army inexperienced, but even the officers obviously did not know how to use firearms. Deng Ming has seen from many movies that the correct way to use a musket is to fire a salvo, and the closer to the enemy, the better; The officers of the Ming army have been trained in large-scale warfare for decades, although they have not seen movies, and they have heard about the field use of firearms, at least they know that they cannot let the soldiers shoot indiscriminately on their own, let alone blindly fire at such a long distance.

"Is it a charge?" Many of Deng Ming's officers were eager to try. The arquebus did not reload very quickly, and even the capital's well-trained standing arms had little chance to fire a second shot when the cavalry charged at high speed; The Burmese soldiers on the opposite side obviously couldn't do it, and the only thing they had to worry about was how much damage the opponent's first shot could inflict on their own side. And now it seems that the opposing soldiers have a poor grasp of the effective killing distance.

"Nope." Deng Ming shook his head, although the other party's shooting was very scattered, it was still possible that a group of Ming troops were hit during the charge: "The war with the Burmese has just begun, and we must try to avoid losses." ”

The Ming army stood in place and waited for a while, Deng Ming noticed that the gunfire seemed to be starting to thin out, so he ordered the Ming army in the front row to prepare to launch a feint: "After listening to my order for a while, everyone shouted in unison, raised their swords and advanced, but after rushing out twenty steps, they had to turn back." Pay attention to saving horsepower, and the knife may as well be held high. ”

Opposite Deng Ming, a Burmese musketeer was slowly clearing the chamber of his gun. This weapon purchased from the Tessians was so powerful that it was much stronger than a traditional bow and crossbow, and even the power of the steel knife was far from being comparable to it. The great-grandfather of this Burmese soldier was a military household, so his grandfather and father were also soldiers, and now the status of a soldier has passed to him. When stationed in Awa, the Burmese soldier was also trained in firearms, and the main part of his daily drills was reloading. The loading of the arquebus is too complicated, and it is also very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you may blow yourself up half to death; Every time he removed the arquebus and carefully cleaned the fire, the Burmese soldier had to make sure that the arquebus had indeed been safely disposed of - which would undoubtedly have slowed down the reload even further, but many of his companions, who thought they were too skilled to be too skilled to check, were blown up by the gunpowder. The Burmese soldier had seen several of his unfortunate comrades lying motionless on the ground, their entire faces blackened by gunpowder, unrecognizable—so he had to check them again.

In addition to the reloading exercises, every Burmese musketeer has also shot at the target. If it were on the range, no one would have fired at such a distance now, because everyone knows that if the projectile flies to the target, it will have to fall to the ground. But the problem is that today is not a threatening scarecrow, but a Chinese cavalry with a bright saber that wants to rush over and cut off your head.

Therefore, this Burmese soldier, like his companions, fired forward without thinking as soon as he finished loading, without paying attention to whether the distance was appropriate. At least the actual battle proved that their tactics were worthwhile, and now the Ming cavalry had been suppressed by their own firepower and could not break through to the front of the Burmese army.

The noisy shouts from the side became louder and louder, as if the scope of the collapse of friendly forces in the direction of the Chinese army was getting wider and wider. A nervous Burmese soldier accidentally touched the powder bag hanging on his body while untying the fire, and suddenly it was like a string of firecrackers suddenly exploded in the queue, and the Burmese soldier was on fire all over, and after a crackling sound, the soldier and his clothes were scorched, and he fell to the ground on his back. Although the companions around him dodged in time, they still formed a circle and looked at him from a distance with palpitations.

Loading is a highly stressful and easily fatigued task, and after this accident, many Burmese firecrackers slowed down, and the slightly calmer officers and men planned to carefully observe the exact distance between the enemy and the enemy.

"The thieves are rushing up!"

The Ming troops on the opposite side suddenly pointed their sabers at the sky one by one, and let out a terrifying chorus of shouts.

"Hit!" All the Burmese officers shouted in unison, giving orders to shoot. The Burmese musketeers, who were taken aback by the officers, pulled the trigger on the Ming army one after another, and some of them had not had time to complete the loading, and some hurriedly buckled the fire rope before they could load the ammunition and fired empty guns at the Ming army -- some of them had forgotten about it, while others just wanted to scare and stop the Ming army; There were also some soldiers who had already finished loading, but because they were in a calmer mood, they did not rush to fire as before, but planned to catch their breath, and now they were all busy shooting.

The Ming army was clearly unable to resist their ferocious firepower, and the Burmese soldiers saw the Ming army bow their heads in front of the dense fire and retreat like a tide. After seeing this scene, the Burmese officers and soldiers all showed relaxed smiles, and the sound of breathing a sigh of relief was everywhere on the battlefield.

However, although the Ming cavalry retreated, the threat had not yet been lifted, and they flashed to both sides, revealing a row of cavalry behind. These Ming soldiers neatly raised their sabers and put on the same posture as the Ming cavalry just now. Soon there was another shout in unison, and the platoon of Ming troops launched a second round of charge.

"Hit!"

"Hit!"

Suddenly, there was another loud roar from the Burmese army, and the officers were anxious one by one, urging the firecrackers who were stuffy and loaded.

The continuous firing of firearms once again repelled the attack of the Ming army. In front of more than 14,000 officers and soldiers on the right flank of the Burmese army, more than 100 Ming cavalry divided into two teams and repeatedly tried to rush close to the Burmese army. The Burmese army relied on ferocious firepower to block the cavalry of the Ming army, so that the Ming army launched more than ten charges, but returned again and again in vain.

The elephants had been led to the back of the battle, and although they were far from the line, the sound of the fiery guns made the big ones look a little uneasy, and the riders had to do their best to reassure them.

"If you don't stop the firearms, how can you let the war elephants go up?" An officer said dissatisfiedly: "If you don't let the elephant go up, how can you let the elephant break off?" ”

"Now it's all about the firecrackers to resist the thieves, what if you stop the firecrackers and get rushed in by the thieves?" Another officer argued.

The two of them said as they set their eyes on the judge under the banner - Flattooth Jane. And Bianya Jian also felt in a dilemma at this time, the Chinese army seemed to have completely collapsed, and the Ming cavalry over there would sooner or later turn around and attack him; The more than 10,000 Burmese troops on the right flank were dragged by the Ming cavalry in front of them, and if they stopped firing and were disrupted by these Ming troops, the situation might not be able to be cleaned up; If the elephants are not sent to stop the enemy, how can the army calmly retreat to its own camp?

Bian Yajian noticed that whenever the Ming cavalry raised their swords and shouted, the faces of the surrounding Burmese officers and soldiers changed color, and they seemed to see not more than a hundred enemies, but more than a hundred devouring tigers. And when the Ming army rushed up, the officers and guards around Bianya Jian couldn't help but take two steps back - if they were really rushed in front of the Ming army, Bianya Jian estimated that the fate of the right wing and the Chinese army would be similar.

Using hand-to-hand combat soldiers to replace the firecrackers, and then using elephants to replace the hand-to-hand combatants, Bianya Jian thought of this method, but he lacked self-confidence, and he didn't know if he could control a whole set of processes - since the firecrackers could block the Ming army, then go on, and wait and see what happened for the time being, maybe after a while, the Ming army's sharpness would be exhausted.

The north wind kept blowing gunpowder smoke into the Burmese army, and the whole army was enveloped in this choking air. However, the Burmese army officers secretly rejoiced that if there was no north wind and the vision was completely obscured by the gunsmoke, the situation would have become even more terrifying.