Section 15 War Elephants (I)
It took a long time for the wall cavalry to turn around and reorganize the lineup, and Deng Ming didn't plan to let the cavalry pursue on their own, the number of the opponent was too much, even if they cut down the routers, they could cut it softly. Turning back, the Ming army shouted again and threw themselves at the Burmese army, which had already been crushed once, and the three walls did not rush into the enemy group head-on, but swept neatly past the edges of their flanks.
The cavalry wall swept through a horizontal area, and any Burmese soldiers who did not have time to run out of this range had to fall to the ground and curl up in a ball, hoping not to be trampled by the Ming army's war horses. The Burmese soldiers hiding on the ground hid behind each other, not caring so much about the crisis, hoping that their companions could be their shields again.
Although Bianyajian, who had just risen, was helped by a few guards, when he ran to the edge of the Ming army's impact range, the edge of the cavalry wall also swept behind him. Countless Burmese soldiers squeezed forward with all their suffocating strength, trying to dodge the sabers. Bianya Jane was among them, with a packed crowd in front of her and countless pairs of pushing hands behind her, and there was often a strong force pouring out from a certain direction without warning. Those who are trapped in it are as if they are in a whirlpool, and they are involuntarily swept up and down by the rampaging flow of people.
Amid the shouts of panic, one or two angry shouts could be heard from time to time, and it was a very small number of officers of particular courage, who also tried to call the soldiers around them to resist.
"There are few thieves ......"
It was not that no one wanted to respond to the call of these brave officers, but the bravest soldiers could not push the crowd out of the way and gather around those who made the call, and each soldier could only be caught in the crowd and casually moved. By the time a few soldiers exerted all their strength, and with some luck squeezed to the place where the shouts were, the officers who had just called for resistance were gone, and they did not know where they had been taken.
Deng Ming and the cavalry stopped again, this time the spacing of the sweep was larger, although it maintained the momentum of advancing in unison, but also left a little room for the knights to shine and move. If you encounter an enemy army trying to resist, although the momentum is still there, the larger interval will reduce the charging power of some wall cavalry. However, the situation was different now, and the Ming army chose to attack those who had already been defeated, and Deng Ming intended to drive them to those who had not yet been in chaos.
As he turned his horse's head to regain his formation, Deng Ming was pleased to see that the Burmese soldiers who had been attacked twice had become more disorganized, and that their hasty flight had caused chaos among the Burmese troops who were adjacent to them.
"We're going to go around them in a little circle," Deng Ming said to his companions as fast as he could. Some of the Burmese routs were fleeing around the positions of their friendly troops, and the repeated battles made Deng Ming know very well that these routs would naturally flee away from the Ming army. If they were allowed to flee the battlefield, it would certainly not cause more trouble to the Ming army, but it would not add chaos to the enemy troops left on the battlefield: "Push them into a ball." ”
"Understood."
"Yes."
When the Ming army charged again, Flattooth Jane was still struggling in the fallen crowd. There are three or four layers of people on top of each other on the ground, and it is not easy to get up from the ground, because the people next to you also want to press your head to get up, and at the bottom there are living people who are constantly struggling, desperately trying to push away their companions who are pressed on their backs.
One foot down can't step on solid ground, only the human body at different angles doesn't know where to reach out and grab his boot with one hand, which needs to be kicked away by Bianya Jane. There were not a few guards left, and with their help, Bianya Jian finally regained her upright state with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Suddenly, they heard another cry of horror in their ears, and through the dense human heads in front of them, Bianya Jian saw smoke and dust rising from the side, as if the cavalry of the Ming army was rushing over again.
The crowd in front of him suddenly retreated together, and the overwhelming force surged, pushing all the people in front of Bianya Jian to the rear. Many of the people who had just fallen struggled to get up from their companions, and were pushed on their backs by the people who came in front of them, and countless people were overthrown and fell back on these people.
Bianfang Jane and the guards reacted quickly, hurriedly took two steps back, and then turned and ran. Obviously, the Ming army changed the direction of the assault, and Bianya Jian judged that the range swept by the Ming army this time was located in the southeast of them, so it was safe to run backwards, if they didn't avoid it quickly, they didn't use the swords of the Ming army, and their own people trampled them to death.
As soon as they ran out of two steps, the people on the side turned upside down again, they no longer ran to the northwest but turned to the southwest, Bianya Jian and the guards around him did not know that the Ming army had turned, but they knew that no one could stop the torrent of hundreds of people, and if they did not follow the turn, they would be trampled to death. Not far after turning, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the side, and the Burmese soldiers, who had been running in front of Bianya Jian at the beginning, bumped back and pushed everyone to start rushing back.
Not long after they ran to the southeast again, the Ming army had already copied their right-hand position. This time, the three walls did not slash and slaughter, but only circled around the rout, preventing these out-of-order rout enemies from leaving the battlefield. After this rotation, the Burmese soldiers who had collapsed earlier squeezed into their neighbors on the left flank from three directions, and the number of Burmese troops in the rout doubled, from more than 3,000 to 6,000.
"Okay, turn around, let's go around again." Deng Ming stopped as soon as he found himself ahead of the rout, he had no intention of attacking the enemy forces that had not yet fallen into disarray, especially when he saw some elephants standing among them, which had been hiding in the rear so as not to be too irritated by the smoke and the sound of fire. After the rout of the Burmese army, some elephants came up to meet and wanted to engage the Ming army, but they had not yet encountered the Ming army, and they were blocked by their own rout.
The Ming army quickly completed another turn, and once again rushed towards the edge of the rout, which was far safer than a frontal assault on the enemy's position, and although the Burmese soldiers had behaved quite poorly, there might still be some high-spirited elites. Besides, Deng Ming didn't have time to feint for more than a dozen rounds to consume the opponent's physical strength and morale.
Surrounded by the crowd, Flattooth Jane had no idea what was going on, and he and his guards could only blindly follow the current, and anyone who tried to swim against the tide would be ruthlessly stepped into the mud and turned into a stepping stone for everyone else.
Although it turned around, in general the rout was constantly being driven to the east, and the confusion was growing in scope, and it had spread to the whole army, and when tens of thousands of people began to push and crowd, no one could turn the situation around.
"The big handsome is here, the big handsome is here!" Jane's guards saw an elephant appear in front of them, and the rout was rushing around the elephant, and several of the guards shouted hoarsely at the rider on the elephant. Many of the people who could serve as elephant soldiers for the Burmese king were the children of nobles, or at least the children of officers in military households.
Luckily, the elephant's rider heard their shouts, and the guards squeezed to the elephant as they approached. Under the command of the rider, the elephant lowered his long trunk and put the flat-toothed Jane on the elephant's back.
"Shuai, I've found you." The rider said anxiously and happily. The dozens of elephants were ordered to search for the missing commander and engage the Ming cavalry, but the surrounding area was full of routs, and the elephants were blocked by their own people, unable to find either the Ming cavalry running around the Burmese army in circles - the Ming cavalry had long since run away before the elephants found a way to rush out.
Jane sat on the elephant's back for a while, finally banishing most of the groggy feeling out of her head. He looked around and saw that the entire right wing was in chaos at this time, and in this sea of people, dozens of elephants were like isolated islands.
"The thieves are driving us to the river." Bianya Jane finally saw the situation clearly. Deliberately driven by the Ming army, the Burmese army had been pushed to the shore on the west bank of the Lijiang River. The situation of the rout is out of control, and even the isolated island of these elephants cannot be called absolutely safe, just now an elephant was squeezed down by the surging crowd, and its heavy body suppressed countless Burmese soldiers.
"Pick up all my people." Bianfang Jian pointed to the guards beside the elephant, these loyal officers and guards were looking at her with their heads up, their helmets had long since been lost, and their faces were blue and purple. There was definitely no way to sit on the back of an elephant, so Bianya stretched out her hand and pointed to a few elephants not far away, and ordered without thinking, "Let them come over at once and load all my men." ”
At Jane's orders, the riders of several nearby elephants threw aside all their scruples and burst through the crowd, and gathered around his mount after picking up Jane's men.
"Get out of here."
Bianfang Jian then issued a new order. Just now these elephants were ordered to stop the Ming cavalry, they became the pillar of the Burmese army, since they could not catch up with the Ming army, then they stayed still, as the Burmese soldiers were constantly driven to the east, their position in the army gradually changed from the inner circle to the periphery, and Bianya Jian was saved.
But Bianya Jian did not think it was a good idea, and the elephant soldiers, who were hindered by their own soldiers, could not maneuver at all, and the Ming cavalry ran past them with impunity. When they got closer, the Ming army would probably be able to throw spears at the elephant targets - no worries about weapons, there was equipment thrown by Burmese soldiers everywhere.
"Get out!" Bianya Jian decided to meet the dozens of elephants in the rear first, and then consider the next move, he pointed to the routs around him: "They don't get out of the way, they just step on it." ”