After hearing Deng Ming's order, all the officers and soldiers of the three walls jumped from their horses to the ground, and they were still several miles away from the Ming infantry battle line behind them. It had taken a lot of effort for the Ming cavalry to divide the Burmese troops and drive them into a small area to surround them, and Deng Ming was determined not to give the other side a chance to turn the tide of the battle and create chaos.

"All of them come forward." Deng Ming thought for a moment, stepped forward with a musket in his hand, left his mount behind him ten meters away, he knelt on one knee, held the musket flat and aimed at the slowly approaching war elephant; The twenty knights were divided into two teams, the first team and Deng Ming were in front of each other, and the second team remained in the back to standby.

The cavalry of the Three Walls were not skilled musketeers, nor had they been trained to shoot in a systematic queue, but they imitated the example of the cat and the tiger and took aim at the enemy.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters......

"Next time I can ride a little closer, so I can wait a little shorter." Deng Ming was engrossed in aiming at the enemy's war elephants, and he was still summing up the lessons in his heart.

A cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the war elephant at the head of the group, and white smoke also rose from the two war elephants a few meters away next to it, which was the Burmese intimidating and shooting at the small group of Ming troops standing in front of them.

Deng Ming, who was half-squatting on the ground, didn't notice any bullets flying nearby, and shooting a target crouching on the ground from a hundred meters away could not be done even if the back of the war elephant was stable. Eleven Ming troops in the front row, including Deng Ming, scattered in a horizontal row more than 50 meters wide, and the Burmese army's firepower did not pose a threat to any of them.

Seventy meters.

"Hit!"

Deng Ming shouted and pulled the trigger at the same time, and the fire gun leaning on the shoulder armor slammed back and shook him backwards.

"Go back and swap it." Deng Ming quickly gave the order, and asked the ten subordinates who had already finished shooting to return, and the ten soldiers with three walls who were on standby in the rear stepped forward and knelt down on one knee at the posts of those companions just now.

Deng Ming flicked his empty gun and tossed it to a departing companion, who caught it steadily and strode towards the mount that was waiting for him.

"We're going to get closer this time." Deng Ming said to the ten people in the second row, and he only had a chance to observe the results of the battle, as if they had not hit the main target either, and only one of the Burmese guards beside the elephant fell to the ground.

Deng Ming did not specify the target just now, and the unsatisfactory results made him decide to continue to revise his tactics.

"Let's aim for this one!" Deng Ming pointed to the Burmese war elephant walking in the front and said, he stood in front of the queue and raised a hand: "Wait for my order to open fire together." ”

Fifty meters.

"Hit!" Deng Ming let out a short call while waving his arm.

Ten three-walled soldiers pulled the trigger almost simultaneously.

"Okay, let's go back and change our guns." Deng Ming took two steps backwards, this time the result was good, the elephant led by the Burmese army was walking slowly, but suddenly it jumped violently, like a war horse with a crazy headache, turning the warriors on its back upside down. Several of the foot guards guarding the elephant were also knocked over by the rampaging elephants. The elephant let out a terrifying roar, and after jumping violently a few times, it stepped over a man's back and ran towards Deng Ming.

However, the Ming army had already mounted on their mounts, leaving the rampaging elephants behind with ease.

"The elephant's skin is really thick." Deng Ming looked back as he left, and he couldn't help but admit that what Di Sanxi said seemed quite correct.

After chasing two steps, the elephant let out another long hiss, and fell to the ground with a thud, twitching and chirping, obviously in pain.

"It's not as thick as I thought."

More than a dozen cavalrymen of the Ming army came up head-on, ten of them were subordinates who had just gone to change guns, and six Bai Wenxuan's riders were followed by them. The riders of King Gongchang each held two muskets and handed them to Deng Ming: "Deng Shuai, just give us an empty gun." ”

"Okay." Deng Ming changed into a firearm filled with medicine, and turned around and ran towards the Burmese army's elephant herd.

This time dismounted a hundred meters from the elephant, the soldiers of the three walls took two steps forward, and once again lined up in a horizontal line as before, crouching on the ground and aiming.

"Volley first!"

Deng Ming loudly introduced the advanced experience he had just gained, and as he spoke, he closed one eye and aimed steadily at the target.

Seventy meters, sixty meters......

The war elephant that was leading the way suddenly accelerated, and apparently the rider on its back realized that they had been targeted.

Fifty meters,

"Hit!"

After the smoke erupted, a loud elephant wail came from the opposite side, and the war elephant led by him fell to the ground on his front legs, knelt on the ground and stopped the charge.

To the left and right of the elephant, the other two rushed out, and the riders on their backs also charged with their companions in front of them.

"Left - hit." Deng Ming shouted as he pointed at his target.

The ten Ming soldiers on standby pointed their guns at the position where Deng Ming's arm was pointing without thinking about it, and pulled the trigger.

"Let's go!" The Ming army did not stay in danger, everyone ran to the war horse ten meters away, and shook off the enemy before the third elephant rushed up.

This time it was much more thrilling than the last time, when Deng Ming jumped on the horse, the elephant was only less than twenty meters away from him, and the closest time it was probably only a dozen meters away, and the enemy on the elephant's back also fired a shot. Fortunately, the elephant was running at high speed, and the shot did not know where it went.

Not long after running out, another group of cavalry came in front of him, this time there were much more than last time, and it was Di Sanxi who was the leader. Seeing that they were all holding firearms, Deng Ming stretched out his hand.

"Deng Shuai, you go back and get it yourself, the last general understands it, and the last general is also here to fight." Di Sanxi had no intention of handing over the firecracker, and now more than sixty loaders had been collected in the rear, and they were loading the firecracker at full speed. And Di Sanxi watched two rounds behind him, asked for more than a dozen firearms, and rushed to the front line with a group of subordinates.

Deng Ming didn't argue with him, waved his hand and asked his subordinates to fetch the firecracker, while he turned around and walked side by side with Di Sanxi, leading them to stop a hundred meters away.

"Dismount and get ready...... Wait a minute. "Deng Ming found out that Di Sanxi didn't put the fire rope on the trigger, but took it off and held it in his hand: 'How can you shoot without loading the fire rope?'

"Isn't it just a matter of poking the fire rope over this?" Di Sanxi said with a big grin, he imitated the posture of the three walls he had just seen, knelt down on one knee and pointed the fire bolt forward, and then brought the fire rope between his fingers to the side of the medicine pool - anyway, he didn't have to fill it himself, he could start the fire.

"This affects aiming and stability." Deng Ming whispered, but he didn't argue on this issue, and stretched out his hand to the target: "Let's fight together!" ”

……

Five elephants had already been lost, and the Ming cavalry was still coming to shoot, and Bianya found that his confidence was rapidly eroding. The Burmese army had 91 war elephants in their hands, but now they have covered about half of the journey, which means that they can get close to the besieged troops at the cost of a dozen war elephants.

However, just now Bian Yajian thought that the Ming army was helpless against the war elephants in his hands, as long as he was careful not to let the rout entangle his elephants after relieving the infantry, then he could calmly cover the retreat of the infantry. And now the situation has changed significantly, as long as the Ming army continues this long-range attack, the final result must be the destruction of all war elephants. And at that time, the infantry will still be entangled again by the Ming cavalry.

After figuring this out, Bianya quickly concluded that it was pointless to relieve the infantry of the siege, but would bury all the elite war elephant troops here.

"Withdraw the troops and return to the camp immediately." Seeing that the situation was unacceptable, Bianfang Jian gave a signal and ordered the war elephant troops to stop advancing immediately.

……

"Foolish." Seeing that the Burmese war elephants that had advanced more than a mile suddenly stopped, Deng Ming was first surprised, and then shook his head slightly: "I couldn't help it just now, can I let you run now?" ”

The Ming cavalry immediately began to pursue. When they were still fifty meters away from the rear of the war elephant troops, they dismounted and fired. More Ming cavalry overtook them behind and continued to attack the fleeing Burmese army.

In the incessant attacks, the Ming army became more and more skilled, and one elephant after another was knocked down. Originally, the sound of a small number of fire guns could be tolerated by the elephants, but after seeing the other elephants screaming incessantly, the elephants in front became difficult to maneuver, and finally the rider on the back of the elephant had to abandon the infantry with the out-of-control elephants, and these infantry who had lost the protection of war elephants were ruthlessly slashed by the Ming cavalry.

Seeing the Ming army's relentless pursuit, the war elephants in the front row no longer dared to move slowly, but scrambled to flee the battlefield at full speed.

It wasn't until most of the mounts were exhausted that the Ming army stopped the pursuit, allowing the last small group of elephants to escape.

"Sixty-seven elephants have been defeated," the guards of the Gongchang Palace's palace also participated in the pursuit and shooting in the end, they counted the results of the battle, and smiled at Deng Ming: "There is meat to eat tonight." ”

Deng Ming bowed his head slightly. The Chinese are hard-working, good at learning, productive farmers, skilled craftsmen, shrewd businessmen, and first-class soldiers. Standing around Deng Ming are farmers who dig in the soil, but as long as they are given a chance, they will grow into brave soldiers; These cavalrymen in the western camp can master new combat skills just by watching for a while, which is really not a difficult thing for the Chinese people.

"We are a wise and malleable people, and as long as the rulers do not exert their powers, my motherland is rich in valiant warriors and outstanding workers; But as long as the dictator is determined to fool the people, he can also create a large number of tame minions...... Deng Ming sighed in his heart, and suddenly realized that he was distracted.

"The battle by the river should be about the same, right?" When Deng Ming calculated, Bai Wenxuan should have crossed the river soon, and the progress of the Ming army was unexpectedly smooth: "Go and ask King Gongchang what he plans to do with the captives and the nearby Burmese men." ”

"What else can be done?" Di Sanxi said: "Whether it is the Burmese or the captives, let them help us carry things, and kill them if they are useless; The women were given to the soldiers. ”

"Not good." Deng Ming shook his head and glanced at Di Sanxi: "I think there are only two ways, one is to kill all the men, and leave no one." ”

"And who's going to help us move things?" Di Sanxi asked rhetorically: "What about the other one?" ”

"Another is to sue them that we are here to set things right, administer justice for their ancestor Mangda, and then treat them as allies." Deng Ming said calmly: "Either we will completely kill all the Burmese we meet and only trust the Chinese; Either we will respect them and make them think that we are just reckless enemies. We are now on Burmese soil, and we have only 20,000 people, and the Burmese have millions. It would be too dangerous for us to humiliate the Burmese and then use them. ”