Section 13 Courage I
The commander who commanded the Burmese army was named Bian Ya Jian, a hereditary general's son, and his ancestors were all generals who followed Mang Yinglong and Mang Yingli to fight, so Bian Ya Jian inherited the official title of his ancestors and became the commander of the new generation of the Burmese army. In Mangbai's usurpation of the throne, Bianya Jian also commanded the army to support Mangbai, so he won the favor and trust of the current king of Burma. In the army, Bianya Jian advocated an immediate decisive battle with the Ming army, annihilating all the invaders or driving them out of Burma, so as to ensure that Mangbai's prestige would not fall.
After hearing that thousands of Ming troops planned to cross the river, Bianya Jian did not hesitate to veto the plan of his subordinates to attack half-crossing: "The thieves are few and far between, if they attack in the middle of the crossing, won't the remaining thieves all run away?" These thieves attacked Ba Mo and slaughtered soldiers and civilians, how could they let them run away so cheaply? No, we have to wait for all these thousands of thieves to cross the river, and then annihilate them in one go! β
After seeing that the Ming army could only rely on a small number of rafts and boats to cross the river, Bian Yajian suddenly sneered again: "With such a little wooden row, when will their entire army cross the river?" β
For fear of scaring away the Ming army, Bian Yajian issued several orders in a row, strictly ordering all units to stick to their own positions and not to attack the Ming army that had not yet had time to complete the crossing of the river. Bianya Jian estimated it and felt that it would take at least a few hours for these thousands of Ming troops to reach the east coast. While informing the generals of his estimated time, Bianya Jian also emphasized again: "Those who do not obey the general's orders and attack without authorization will be killed even if they win!" Ben was going to wipe out all the thieves here, so that no one or one horse could escape. β
After seeing that the first batch of Ming troops to land only had a pitiful hundred or so cavalry, Bianyajian's contempt for the Ming army reached the top, and he shook his head and sighed: "The thieves are completely out of order. If it weren't for the general's plan to annihilate all the thieves, the 30,000-strong army would have blown them all down the river with one blow. β
Fortunately, seeing that the speed of the return of the Ming ships was not bad, looking at the Ming ships that were in a hurry to load the next batch of soldiers, Bianya Jian felt that the Ming army would probably not let him wait for a day.
Then the Burmese saw the Ming troops on the shore jumping on their horses, and then marching towards the position of the Chinese army, and the speed of these Ming troops was not very fast, but approached the side of the Burmese army at a trotting speed.
"Are these people messengers?" The Burmese soldiers of the Chinese army looked at each other. If it is a messenger before the war, a hundred people at a time seems to be too much; And if it weren't for the envoy, then what was the intention of these 100 Ming cavalry running towards 30,000 Burmese troops? Is it here to surrender?
Di Sanxi led the cavalry to keep the pace of trotting. When he was on the riverbank, he saw the lineup of the Burmese army on the opposite side spanning the north and south, covering the entire field of vision; Soon after leaving the riverbank, as Di Sanxi got closer and closer to the Burmese position, he soon could not see the enemy's two flanks. He stared at the banner of the enemy army in front of him, watching it become clearer and clearer in his vision. The Burmese army's Chinese army is like a black city wall, horizontal in front of Di Sanxi's eyes, and there seems to be some elephant shadows behind it.
When he was able to distinguish the human form of the Burmese Chinese army, Di Sanxi quickly looked at the left and right sides, the Ming cavalry under his command had penetrated deep into the Burmese army, and the enemy troops on both flanks had formed an encirclement of this small group of Ming troops. The distance on both sides is very long, and all you can see is an impenetrable wall of enemy soldiers.
Di Sanxi felt that his breathing was also a little heavy. Ever since he got the Pioneer Mission, Di Sanxi's head has been a little hot from excitement. When he launched an attack after landing just now, Di Sanxi knew that he was the focus of attention, and the thousands of Ming troops on the other side of the river bank must have been staring intently at his back, which made him feel even more enthusiastic.
And now the boiling blood is a little calmer, and the feverish head is blown by the oncoming wind, and it is much more sober.
"I'm not too old to get a knighthood yet. My colleagues didn't say it on the surface, but behind their backs they were still talking about the last time I took the lead in descending. General Deng was very polite to me, but every time his men saw me, the expressions on their faces were a little strangeβI knew they must have seen the missing teeth in my mouth again...... There are not many opportunities left for me, I am a brave and resourceful general, and I want to make contributions! β
Di Sanxi silently repeated in his heart: "I am the general of the wise and brave under the King of Qingyang. Then he slammed the horse's belly and shouted;" Kill! β
After drinking this sentence, Di Sanxi locked his eyes on the enemy's banner in front of him, his mount soared into the air with four hooves, and suddenly increased its speed to the fastest, Di Sanxi, who was full of wind in his ears, knew that a hundred Jianchang cavalry would definitely follow closely behind him, because he heard a thunderous roar coming from behind:
"Kill!"
Looking at the hundred knights of the Ming army who suddenly increased their speed and rushed towards them at full speed, both Bianya Jian and his personal guards were stunned, and many of them opened their mouths wide but couldn't make the slightest sound: "Your army hasn't landed yet, and we won't fight you, but you will run to die?" β
"Thief, this is ...... Is this an offense? One of the guards beside Jane regained some of her ability to speak, and screamed intermittently.
"Kill!"
The face of the enemy army in front was already clearly visible, and the speed of the Ming army's horses had also increased to the speed of the sprint, and they shouted in unison again, and a hundred cavalry rushed forward, and the smoke and dust behind them soared into the sky.
"Fight, fight!"
Disorganized commands rang out one after another. Many of the Burmese soldiers deployed in the front row of the Chinese army were involved in the Cursed Water Rebellion, witnessing the surrender of the Yongli Emperor's Imperial Forest Army, begging in droves on the ground. On the way to the march, these Burmese soldiers have been proudly boasting about their prestige and martial arts to other troops, and even the Imperial Forest Army of the Great Tomorrow has been defeated by them, so who else in the Ming army can fight with them?
The cavalry of the Ming army who rushed over raised their eyebrows one by one, shouting wildly, as if they were terrible ghosts rushing out of the underworld. It was only then that the Burmese soldiers found that their throats were dry, they could not scream, and their arms holding knives and guns were also so frightened that they could not lift their weapons.
At this time, Di Sanxi had already rushed to the front of the Burmese battle formation, he swung his sword away, and felt that his arm had encountered a little resistance - this was a feeling he was very familiar with, but he had rarely fought in Jianchang in the past few years, and he was a little rusty. Then the wrist was loosened again, and a human head had been thrown into the air. Di Sanxi's long sword slashed from the right side of the horse's head to the left, and he immediately swung his backhand again, and the feeling of sluggishness was completely returned. He had already fallen into the depths of the Burmese army, swinging his sword left and right at full speed like madness, and there were people everywhere, and he would not be able to pounce on him......
On the other side of Lijiang, the infantry of the Ming army had already prepared the pedals, and as soon as the returning ships approached the shore, the infantry ran forward and put the pedals on the boat. The guards of the Gongchang Palace, who were already waiting impatiently by the river, immediately led their mounts and ran onto the boat. As soon as each boat was full, it sailed away from the riverbank, and the sailors rowed their oars desperately with all their strength, and the ships loaded with reinforcements shot like sharp arrows on the opposite bank.
"It seems fine until now." Deng Ming nervously looked at the Burmese army formation opposite, now Di Sanxi has been deeply trapped in the enemy formation, a hundred Ming cavalry is like a stone thrown into the river, there is no trace at all, and he can only judge the possible position of the Ming army's vanguard by the bursts of smoke and dust; What reassured Deng Ming was that there seemed to be no reaction from the Burmese army, and the various units of the Burmese army remained in their original positions.
"Probably the general of Myanmar has lost his ability to command, right? Therefore, he did not mobilize the surrounding troops and horses to besiege General Di's assault team. Deng Ming muttered to himself. This is, of course, an optimistic view, and there is also a possibility that the attack of a hundred Ming cavalry is just an itch for the Chinese army of 30,000 troops, so the Burmese general is not bothered to mobilize the rest of the troops at all, but Deng Ming is unwilling to think in this direction.
"Quick, quick, quick!"
Seeing the second batch of reinforcements begin to land, the knights of the three walls behind Deng Ming all jumped up anxiously, as if their urging could make the ship return faster. When the Ming ships began to return again, the second group of 100 Ming cavalry who landed also attacked, and they also rushed towards the center of the Burmese army along the offensive route of Di Sanxi just now.
At this time, the Burmese army finally began to move, and Deng Ming saw that some Burmese troops began to move or change direction.
"Why hasn't the ship come back yet?" Deng Ming also began to lose his breath, and the task of the three waves of cavalry was to disrupt the Burmese army's position, so that they could not effectively arrange their troops. And after these three waves of cavalry, there are still thousands of Ming armored infantry waiting to rush over and launch the final blow against the chaotic Burmese army.
The ship finally returned, and it felt as if Deng Ming had been waiting for a century. He led his mount to the shore, and several Ming infantry lowered their pedals again, and then held it with all their might, so that the cavalry could get on the boat safely and quickly. Deng Ming took his war horse and was the first to pass the pedal. The small boat used to force the crossing seemed to make his mount a little uneasy, but under Deng Ming's reassurance, the mount remained calm and obediently leaned against Deng Ming's side.
While crossing the river at the Three Walls, Deng Ming heard the sound of firecrackers, which was undoubtedly the firepower of the Burmese army, because the Ming cavalry did not carry any gunpowder weapons. Burma's humid climate did not lend itself to the use of bows and arrows, so it quickly became the favorite long-range weapon of the Burmese after the advent of firearms. When Di Sanxi launched a charge just now, many Burmese soldiers pulled the trigger on the Ming cavalry who had already killed in front of them, only to find that the fire rope had not been lit - I thought that it would take a long time for the Ming army to cross the river and the commander would order an attack, so the soldiers did not set fire for safety, and now the Burmese army finally began to react.