Deng Ming's attempt to throw torches at the elephant was unsuccessful, and while he was thinking about countermeasures, he saw Di Sanxi also leading three guards up to attack another elephant. Deng Ming watched Di Sanxi's attack, but the latter failed to show his might, and a Ming cavalryman who wanted to rush up and try to attack the elephant's leg was hit by the fire gunner on the elephant's back, and fell to the ground at a considerable distance from the enemy.

The Burmese on the elephant was stunned for a moment, as if he had the intention of pausing to attack the fallen Ming soldiers, but Di Sanxi stepped forward, swept past the fallen companion and leaned down to the ground, accurately grasping the arms of his men. As soon as his waist was forced, he pulled the Ming cavalry up from the ground, and the soldier was also athletic, although he had just fallen hard, but the person had already made a move in mid-air, and then Di Sanxi's arm strength sat firmly behind him.

"Good!"

The young cavalrymen of the three walls watching the battle couldn't help but shout, their riding skills were far from reaching this realm. Kawanishi's training has always been based on group combat, and this individual skill is not very important. And Zhang Yiqian and the other older generation of three-wall knights just nodded slightly, and some people commented on the guard who fell off the horse and said: "This is probably also an old horse thief in Xiying, right?" ”

Di Sanxi rescued his men and ran away, and the Burmese soldiers also hurried to chase the large army, and the firecrackers on the back of the elephant reloaded, while vigilantly watching the Ming army not far away, to confirm that they had really stopped the pursuit.

"Doesn't General Di cultivate for a while?" Deng Ming stood on horseback, facing Di Sanxi who was running towards him.

"It's itchy hands, and Deng Shuai didn't say that offense is the best reconnaissance? If you don't attack, how do you know if it's feasible to cut off the elephant's tail? Di San ran to Deng Ming's side calmly, his face was not red, his heart was not beating, and he couldn't see the appearance of the martial arts god of war who had just performed an acrobatic performance. The three Qingyang palace guards who followed him up were indeed over thirty years old, and it was conceivable that they were all veterans of the West Camp: "It doesn't seem to work, let alone the elephant's tail, even the elephant's legs are not easy to cut." It's okay, you don't have to wait for the confrontation to try again. ”

Deng Ming nodded. From the contact just now, it could be seen that the war elephant moved more slowly than he had guessed, perhaps faster than the infantry, but it certainly could not be compared with the agile Ming cavalry, probably because the elephant had too many things on its back - there was a platform on the elephant's back for the soldiers to sit in, and there were three armed soldiers.

There were also some infantry around the elephants who were not in the distance, guarding the elephants with swords and guns, and if they were guarded, it would be more difficult for the cavalry to attack the elephants closely.

"This is the tank of this era," Deng Ming thought in his heart: "I don't know what tactics the Burmese have to coordinate with each other." ”

"If you shoot the people above with a bow and arrow...... "The Ming army gathered together to discuss countermeasures, and one of them said with a worried face: "I couldn't get close at all, and I was hit by their firecrackers." ”

It is certainly much easier to sit on the back of an elephant and shoot condescendingly than it is for the Ming army to shoot them on horseback.

"What if we also use firecrackers?" As soon as Deng Ming's words came out, he shook his head, the elephant shooting platform is much stronger than horseback, and it must be the Ming cavalry who suffers in the shooting.

Others agreed, with one saying, "Even if the Burmese didn't shoot us, our horses were shot before we could get close to aiming." ”

……

After returning safely to the elephant soldiers' position, he counted the troops in his hands, and now he not only had ninety-one war elephants, but also more than 300 armored infantry guarding the elephants. The war elephants are all high-ranking samurai, well-armoured, and their morale is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and the infantry guards of those war elephants are not ordinary military households, but guards brought by high-level samurai, and the relationship is similar to the relationship between Ming army officers and relatives.

In the distance, the Ming army continued to tighten the encirclement, and more and more Burmese soldiers fell into the Lijiang River and were swept downstream by the river, and some unfortunate soldiers persisted in not being drowned by the torrent, and they struggled to call for help from the war elephant troops as they were swept across the river behind Bian Yajian.

"Team up, get ready to attack." Bianya could only watch the soldiers who had asked him for help continue to rush downstream by the rushing river, he thought for a moment, gritted his teeth fiercely, and ordered to turn around and try to relieve the desperate infantry.

The reason why Bianya Jian, who was busy escaping just now, had such a big turn was because he saw the Ming army attacking twice in vain. The two lone war elephants were not guarded by infantry, but more than 20 elite knights of the Ming army were helpless against them, and even one of the Ming army's mounts was killed by the self-defense fire of the war elephants.

As she escaped from danger, Jane became a little more emboldened and began to think about how to reduce her losses. Today he left the camp with 30,000 troops to intercept the Ming army crossing the river, and was crushed by Di Sanxi with several thousand people, the left flank fled to the west, and the 15,000 soldiers on the right flank faced the fate of being completely annihilated - the 20,000 people left in the rear camp were all soldiers with no combat effectiveness, and if the main force was lost here, the city of Nawa would be in danger.

Now that the infantry of the Ming army is still crossing the river, Bian Yajian hopes to use elephants to force back the thin Ming army and fight for a way for his troops to escape.

Glancing at the dozens of Ming cavalry chasing the war elephants just now, Bian Yajian saw that they had taken the initiative to retreat, and he concluded that the Ming cavalry had been weak-minded, and now was a good opportunity to attack them and save a part of the troops.

"Attack!" Flattooth Jane shouted, causing the war elephant troops to immediately attack.

……

"Shoot people first and shoot horses, if the ancestor is so reasonable, why didn't I think about it?" The cavalryman's concern just now reminded Deng Ming. Shooting at the people on elephants on bumpy horses is a difficult job, but the war elephant is a much bigger target.

Returning to the battlefield just now, Deng Ming jumped off his horse and picked up some firearms thrown by Burmese soldiers from the ground: "Who knows how to load?" ”

Di Sanxi's subordinates shook their heads, most of them were professional cavalrymen, and they didn't use infantry weapons like firearms, and most of them didn't like it either, because firecrackers were slow to reload, and there was a high danger of sword rebirth.

"Good thing I will." Without saying a word, Deng Ming began to fill the fire gun in his hand. Several soldiers in the Three Walls also dismounted to help, because Deng Ming attached great importance to firearms, and these Western Sichuan soldiers also received a little training in firearms, while the older generation of Three Walls Knights did not know how to use arquebuses. There were also some cavalrymen in western Sichuan who hesitated, they were also trained, but there were not many arquebuses in western Sichuan, and this kind of training was not as skilled in equestrianism as cavalrymen, so they weighed their level and did not go forward to join in the fun.

"Deng Shuai only has a chance to shoot," Di Sanxi glanced at the side, he claimed to be good at equestrianism, but with such a complicated and cumbersome loading procedure, Di Sanxi asked himself that he would never be able to complete it on the Mercedes-Benz mount: "What if I don't hit?" And it looks like the elephant's skin is very thick. ”

Di Sanxi's previous words made Deng Ming stunned, and the movements in his hands stopped, but after hearing Di Sanxi's second sentence, Deng Ming laughed instead: "No matter how thick the skin is, it can't stop the bullet, even if it can't be pierced, it won't hurt?" ”

After saying that, Deng Ming looked behind him, there were already more Ming infantry crossing Lijiang, and he said to Di Sanxi: "Find all the people who can use firearms." ”

"Not much, I'm afraid." Di Sanxi shook his head slightly. In the eyes of the Ming army, the firearm with an extremely slow rate of fire was not a suitable field weapon at all, that is, it could be used to defend the city. Xiying, on the other hand, has always advocated the field front, and has a contempt for defending the city - if the enemy is really strong, Xiying's first thought is to retreat and look for opportunities instead of being trapped in a lonely city.

Deng Ming is no stranger to this kind of psychology, and the thinking of the Kuidong Army is quite similar to that of the Dian Army and the Jianchang Army, emphasizing the battle of vision and despising the attack and defense of the city. The reason why Liu Tichun and others are so obsessed with blasting tactics is because blasting can easily simplify siege warfare into field warfare and street warfare.

The infantry participating in today's battle are all under the command of King Gongchang, and most of the soldiers sent by Bai Wenxuan are warriors who dare to charge into battle in armor, and there are not a few firecrackers. Having said that, the guards of the Gongchang Palace's palace immediately rushed to the infantry crossing the river with Deng Ming's request, and Deng Ming told them to divide them into several groups, and make sure that every Ming soldier who could use firearms was immediately found.

When Bianya Jian adjusted the formation, the guards of the Gongchang Palace's palace also brought back more than 20 soldiers of the Yunnan army who were familiar with firearms to Deng Ming.

"Are there only a few?" Deng Ming said with some disappointment that he had collected more than a hundred Burmese firearms, intending to use a salvo to meet the enemy war elephant troops who were about to launch a counterattack.

But there was no time to look for anyone again, Deng Ming had already seen the war elephants in the distance set up in formation, and it was obvious that the final blow of the Burmese army was imminent. The infantry of the Ming army is trying to cooperate with the Burmese infantry to encircle it, and although the enemy army is in chaos, the number is still tens of thousands, holding back half of the cavalry troops of the Ming army.

"You guys are here to fill the potions." Deng Ming immediately gave an order, and asked the twenty knights of the Three Walls to pick up a loaded fire gun with him.

"The enemy soldiers on the war elephants will have a chance to hit our war horses in about fifty paces." Deng Ming briefly explained his assumption: "We shoot at the enemy's elephant at about fifty paces, and then retreat to change the fire, understand?" ”

"Understood."

"Okay." Deng Ming held the fire hammer and turned over his horse, and the enemy soldiers in the distance had already begun to move.

Running towards the war elephant, the distance between the two armies became closer and closer, and about two hundred meters away, Deng Ming suddenly strangled the war horse without warning.

The cavalry of the three walls also stopped.

"It's too hard." Deng Ming said loudly, when he ran over, he made a simple movement, and found that it was almost impossible to keep the fire gun stable, if he shot like this, even the elephant from a hundred meters away would definitely not be hit.

Many knights showed a worried expression, not to mention aiming, it is not easy to put a trigger on the fire rope, and a careless person may lead to a misfire.

"Let's dismount." Deng Ming revised the order again.