To the south! To the south!

Under the scorching sun, the army of the brigade was rolling forward. A crowd shouted like a hissing sound. This is not the ivory soldiers of the Great Burma Empire, but the Song army that marched south from Dali Mansion day and night. They came south at the invitation of the Burmese Emperor Naroti Habo - although the Burmese emperor was very high-spirited and able to speak big, he was not particularly reckless, thinking that he could trample Chen Huaiqing to death with his more than 1,000 elephants and 100,000 ivory soldiers. Elephants are also found in the Khmer country, but the Khmer army has been losing ground during this time, and it is said that it has now retreated to the capital city of Angkor. The Khmer elephants did not stop the Tang army, and the ivory soldiers of Burma may not be able to stop the British army.

Therefore, before Emperor Naroti Habo led his troops south, he sent an envoy to Dali and asked the Song army to send troops south to fight against the tyrants. However, the envoys he sent did not arrive in Dali, and they met Jiang Wanli, the military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, and Jiang Wanli, who personally commanded the southbound Song army...... I don't know how these Song troops got the news of the British invasion of Arakan so quickly?

Anyway, the 50,000-strong army marched all the way south, and it only took more than a month to pass through the territory of Jinghui Province and Guo Zhanbi Kingdom (the area of the Shan State Plateau in later generations), and drove to the Burmese Central Plain on the banks of the Irrawaddy River. After hearing that the Burmese Emperor had commanded an army of 100,000 to the south, the Song army that came to the aid did not care about resting, but just accelerated its pace, and traveled south along the Yijiang River day and night, only to Bagan City, the capital of the Great Burmese Empire.

Jiang Wanli, the military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, sat on the back of an elephant and advanced with the envoys of the Great Burmese State and the edict of the Guozhanbi State (about the meaning of the king). When the Mongols invaded Dali, this Guozhanbi State easily ordered Kublai Khan to be destroyed and set up the Golden Tooth Governor's Office. However, after the restoration of Dali, the Dai royal family of Guozhanbi also took the opportunity to restore the country. As usual, he is still one servant and two masters, and at the same time he is a vassal to Dali in the north and Bagan in the south. However, after the destruction of Dali in the Great Song Dynasty. The state of Guozhan Bi did not claim to the Great Song Dynasty, and now it is only Bagan, that is, a subject state of the Great Burma Empire. Fortunately, Jiang Wanli didn't care. Or invite the army of Guo Zhanbi to go south together, saying that the army is actually a few thousand people, and there are no good weapons, that is, rattan armor bamboo guns, which look a bit similar to the rattan armor soldiers who were burned by Zhuge Liang.

Jiang Wanli sat on the back of the elephant, glanced coldly at the rattan armor soldiers who were marching chaotically, and then turned his gaze to his own Jiangxi regiment training. It is said that it is a regimental training, but in fact, it has long been "feudal landlordization". After entering Dali, all the Jiangxi soldiers were allocated at least 150 acres of land. also helped them marry a local woman in Dali, which can be regarded as having a field and a family, and they can work for the court with peace of mind. It was precisely by relying on these tens of thousands of "landlord soldiers" that the Great Song Dynasty gained a firm foothold in Dali, and now there are some signs of prosperity.

It seems that giving land to officers and soldiers is the only way to motivate soldiers and soldiers! In the past, the military merits of the Qin Dynasty, the military system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as well as Chen Dexing's sergeants and military households, as well as the Great Song Dynasty's own loyal army (Meng Zongzheng, Meng Heng and his son founded the strong soldiers). That's how it all came about. It's a pity that the imperial court had no land to grant when it was in Jiangnan, and the imperial court had no strong soldiers to use, and finally let Chen Dexing seize the country!

Jiang Wanli sighed softly, who doesn't know the method of awarding military merits? But there are many fields in the world. It's too hard to implement! In the past, it was absolutely impossible for important scholars and doctors in Jiangnan to teach people their own fields. Now that I have arrived in Dali, it is to take other people's land and distribute it to the soldiers......

Under the scorching sun. Several cavalry galloped over and saw Jiang Wanli's festival flag. So they rode over, and several of the cavalry were sweating. Reined in front of Jiang Wanli's elephant. Salute and report loudly: "Pingzhang Gong, twenty miles ahead is Bagan City!" The crown prince of the Great Burmese State handed over the handsome hundred officials to greet the prince of Pingzhang outside the north gate of Bagan! ”

Right at the north gate? This crown prince doesn't know if he was too careful, or if the shelf is too big? Jiang Wanli just sneered. The army has already reached the plain, and the small city of Bagan can still hold back the 50,000 soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty? Where to greet and what's the matter? What if the city is closed and defended?

In the past, the kind of mortar cannon that killed Jia Nidao was bombarded by the Ming Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty has also created it. Even the secret of the tyrant H medicine, Da Song already knows it - granule H medicine is only, as long as there are frequent incidents of H medicine damp, it is natural to discover the mystery. After Song Jun went deep into the damp, hot and rainy Dali, the H medicine was often damp, so he was naturally reluctant to discard it, dry it and use it again.

This time when he went south, Jiang Wanli brought four imitation 10-inch mortar guns!

He beckoned backwards, and several of his henchmen immediately rode up to him.

"After the army presses down, the old man will take ten battalions of steel armor soldiers and artillery battalions to meet that prince!"

Yes, the Song army also has ten battalions of steel-armored soldiers! Since the three major Heavenly Dao academies all offer metallurgical courses. Steelmaking technology is inevitably starting to spread! Low-sulphur phosphorus wrought iron and crucible steel are becoming more and more readily available, and high-quality wrought iron is not an export-controlled commodity at all. Da Song can naturally get it, and then there is no need to smelt crucible steel, and directly carburizing (this has been invented a long time ago), and the hard-cased metal can be obtained. Historically, high-quality plate armor in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries was also created in this way.

With ten battalions of steel-armored soldiers plus four mortar guns! It is impossible for Bagan City not to be defeated. Even if it wasn't surrender, the storm was captured! Jiang Wanli thought in his heart. The 100,000 troops of the Great Burma State are estimated to be unable to escape from Chen Huaiqing's palms, and the barbarians of Great Burma will be blessed now, and they will soon be able to enjoy the education of the Great Song Dynasty......

……

"Whoa......"

The earth shook and the mountains shook, and the "ivory" began to attack!

Just when Jiang Wanli was merciful and ready to reluctantly educate the barbarians of Great Burma. On the west bank of the Jida River, a war to determine the ownership of more than 2,000 tusks has begun.

On the Ming side, there were 45,000 British and Song allied troops, 13 brigade infantry (all of whom were sick and therefore not satisfied), two musket regiments and 27 rocket squads. The 40,000 British and Song allied troops took a backwater formation, with the Jida River fortress (three star-shaped wooden forts) on the right and the Jida River behind it.

Facing the battle formation composed of 1,200 elephants, they actually met each other with their backs! Seeing such a formation, all the warriors of the Great Burmese Kingdom knew that they had won. The impact of the elephant array is incomparable, thousands of elephants trample on, and these tens of thousands of tyrant troops are not all allowed to drown in the river?

And what made them laugh even more was that the Tyrant Army did not fight the enemy with a spear formation, but put their shields on the front line! What does that mean? Want to shoot bows and arrows against the Burmese army? The Burmese army is not those barbarians who like archery in the north, and the elephant array of the Burmese army is invincible in the world!

The Burmese Emperor Naroti Habodi, who felt that he had a chance to win, no longer hesitated, and made a big move and gave the order to attack. There was no hierarchy, and a thousand elephants with sharp knives tied to their tusks lined up, trampling on them directly, followed by 30,000 Burmese elite soldiers to cover up and kill. I think that as long as this is the case, I can win completely.

"Killing elephants again, why do these barbarians like to use ivory soldiers so much?"

Seeing more than a thousand long-nosed monsters screaming, Pi Li who was standing behind the shield soldiers muttered with a relaxed face, and none of the soldiers under him showed any panic.

Aren't you here to deliver ivory? On the island of Java, such timid beasts are not uncommon. At first, everyone was a little scared, but later everyone knew how to deal with it - throw a few small thunderbolts to scare, or blast them with flying rockets, or find a few arquebuses to let them go. This beast goes crazy when it is frightened, and when it goes crazy, it scurries, trampling its own people to death more than its enemies! Therefore, the elephant soldiers who control the elephant are armed with hammers, and once the elephant is out of control, they must use the hammer to smash the elephant's skull and kill the elephant, so that the elephant will not disrupt their formation.

So this time, the Anglo-Song coalition army dispatched two regiments of musketeers, ready to shoot the elephant soldiers at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, and then scare them with rockets and small thunder.

"Musketeers! Rack up! ”

The commanders of the various musketeer companies sounded the command, and the muskets with ammunition and arquebuses were immediately set up on the rattan plates, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at the elephants galloping in front of them.

Behind the musketeers was a phalanx of pikes, and the pikemen standing in the first row handed their spears to their partners behind them, while they themselves held lit arquebuses and small thunderbolts, waiting for the muskets in front of them to fire!

"Xiangfu, after this battle, the overall situation of Arakan and Bagan will be decided. Jiang Guxin should succeed in Bagan City at this time, and the country of Bagan can finally be educated by my Huaxia, which is also a blessing for their people. It's time for us to think about taking Tianzhu. Chen Huaiqing, who commanded this battle, looked at the screaming elephants on the battlefield at this time, but he was already discussing the post-war arrangements with Li Tingzhi.

"What His Royal Highness said is extremely true, after this battle, we should enter Tianzhu."

"Tianzhu is a big country, and the Delhi Sultan has strong troops, so it may not be easy to take." Chen Huaiqing said, "The old man's meaning is that it is still necessary to go hand in hand in several ways, and start at the east, west, north and south together, so that it is difficult for the Delhi Sultan to take care of both the beginning and the end." ”

"Southeast, Northwest and Northeast together?" Li Tingzhi pondered and said, "His Royal Highness the King of England will start from the east, King Su and King Fa will come from the north, and my Song Kingdom is going to bypass the Tianzhu Continent and go to the lower reaches of the Xindu River in the west?" ”

"Yes, just to get around! Even if it is inconvenient for the soldiers to go, they have to choose more than 10,000 elites to go around the estuary of the lower reaches of the Xindu River to build a city. I will order Lu Wenhuan to select 10,000 elite soldiers and land on the west coast of the Tianzhu Continent......"

At this moment, a series of gunshots came from the front line, and the battle that was nicknamed the "Battle of Ivory" (more than 2,000 tusks captured by the Anglo-Song coalition forces after the war) had been in full swing. (To be continued......)