Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1122
When Gao Silian went out of the city to start the battle, Mangyingli, who had marched all the way northward, had already arrived at Biaoguan.

Biaoguan was the most important pass for the relatively weak Toungoo Dynasty to defend against the southern Pego Dynasty 50 years ago.

But the main thing is the main thing. Since the Toungoo Dynasty was not strong at that time, this Biaoguan was not very majestic.Fortunately, the pass made of mountains and rocks is still strong at last, and it still played a big role in protecting the dynasty.

However, all of this has become history. This pass has now appeared in front of Mang Yingli as a pile of ruins. Not to mention that the city tower has long since disappeared, and even a complete wall can no longer be seen.

There were ruins and broken stones, and not far from the ruins was a pile of cremated corpses.

The burning of corpses was of course done by the Ming army. The purpose was not to humiliate the dead or deter the enemy, but simply to avoid the plague. After all, fighting in Myanmar is different from Mongolia and Liaodong in autumn and winter. The temperature here is too high, and a large number of corpses are not added Handle situations that are prone to contagion.

But this large pile of remains obviously stimulated the proud Jinlou White Elephant King, and everyone could see the anger that the king forcibly suppressed.No one dared to say a word at this time, the large group of nobles and generals were all silent, even the special characters like Captain Reddy were unwilling to open their mouths indiscriminately to touch the bad luck of Mang Yingli.

However, it may be because Mang Yingli has been hit repeatedly recently, he did not get angry this time, or suppressed his temper, and after looking at it for a while, he just said coldly: "March overnight."

This can be fatal.

The Burmese army came here by marching in a hurry. Mangyingli and a group of royals, nobles, and generals had elephants as their mounts. The lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers were miserable, and they all followed on two legs.Counting from going south to returning north, the straw sandals they carried were all worn out, and there was no time to make new ones now, so they could only march barefoot.

Forget about being barefoot, anyway, this road is the southern Myanmar plain (belonging to the Irrawaddy River Delta), but the biggest problem with marching at night is that mosquitoes are inevitable.

If Myanmar's development level is viewed from the perspective of Ming Dynasty, it is even worse than that of Yunnan and Guangxi. Although they also have traditional secret medicines to avoid mosquitoes and insects, it is impossible to distribute them to ordinary soldiers. Therefore, once they march at night, it can be seen that these few Thousands of soldiers have to feed an unknown number of mosquitoes along the way.

The mosquitoes in Burma are no less poisonous than those in Guangxi and Annan. They are full of giant mosquitoes the size of a child's palm. One bite will turn into a big lump, which is so itchy that people can scratch their skin and blood is dense.

But under Myanmar's strict hierarchical system, once the nobles and generals above did not dare to persuade Mang Yingli, the soldiers at the bottom had no room to speak and could only be forced to obey orders. The entire army looked sad and complained.

Mang Yingli didn't care about this, the golden building above his white elephant was specially constructed, and there were many kinds of secret medicines hidden in the exquisite and complicated carvings, mosquitoes, snakes and scorpions would not come close, and they would go around if they were far away.

As for the hard work of the soldiers at night, this is not in his consideration. He just wants to arrive at Ao Dun, a small town thirty miles south of Dongyu City, before tomorrow morning.

According to Mang Yingli's thinking, since the Ming army was aggressively attacking Dongxu City, it stands to reason that the scouts would be at most ten or twenty miles away.I rushed to Odun first, rested for a morning, and the army had lunch at noon and set off. In the afternoon, I was able to catch up with a big battle and relieve the siege of Toungoo City. It would be even better to attack the Ming army together!Under such circumstances, wouldn't a big victory be within reach?

So under the support of this kind of thinking, the main force of the [-] Burmese army could only stop all night and go all the way north.Although many soldiers were extremely tired, they were severely bitten by mosquitoes, and they didn't feel sleepy at all.

Perhaps it was because the Burmese army had been exhausted by the previous rapid march, or maybe the mosquitoes in early summer were too vicious. In short, the speed of the march this night did not meet Mang Yingli's expectations.Although he lost his temper twice before and after, and even ordered the officers to beat the slow-moving soldiers with whips, the final effect was not very obvious.

It was not until the darkest time before dawn that the Burmese army barely entered the border of Odun, but the small town of Odun was still more than ten miles away from them.

Mang Yingli forced the order again, telling the soldiers to gather their last energy and rush to Odun before going to sleep.At this time, the sky finally began to get a little brighter. The soldiers may have seen the small town in the distance in this last night, and they finally cheered up a little. They tried their best to rush to Odun and get a good night's sleep. ——At this time, they were too tired to even bother to eat breakfast.

After walking for a while, rolling hills began to appear on the side of the road.The small hills in these plain areas are not tall, and there are only some small trees on the hills, but Mang Yingli, who has slept in the white elephant and gold building for several hours, is more awake than ordinary people after all, and suddenly realizes that something is wrong with the surrounding situation.

At this time, Mangji Rao, the second person of the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar, the eldest son of Mangyingli and the crown prince, also worriedly asked the elephant slave to lead his white elephant over. Jinlou, who had just approached Mangyingli, reminded: "Father, there's something wrong with this place—the army passed through the woods, why didn't the birds be disturbed? There might be an ambush here!"

Mang Yingli was reminded by the crown prince, and suddenly woke up: No wonder I think something is wrong, it turns out that there is no old bird startled flying!
He suddenly took a deep breath, disregarding the mystery and dignity of Jinlou White Elephant King, and shouted loudly: "Urgent order! The whole army is on alert, form a defensive formation!"

However, his loud roar also reminded the Ming army who had been ambushing on the side of the hill for a long time. Following Huang Zhiting's order, and amidst Huang Bao's angry roar, the Huang Jialang soldiers, who were the main attack force, suddenly appeared on the hill. hill.

The wolf soldiers are now equipped with more sophisticated equipment than before. In addition to starting to be equipped with the common armor of the Ming army (padded armor is too hot in Southeast Asia), there is also a small wooden steel-covered shield firmly fixed on the left forearm. There is no change, it is still the steel-headed bamboo spear specially made by the wolf soldiers.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic originally planned to replace the bamboo spears for the wolf soldiers because of the sufficient steel production, but both Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling said that it was unnecessary, because the bamboo spears are cheap and easy to use, and they have the style of "internal guns". And moves can be used, it is not necessary to change to an iron spear. (Note: The so-called Neijia gun in the traditional martial arts circle generally refers to the gun method pioneered by Yue Fei, that is, the kind of gun with a tough body that is often seen in later movies, rather than the pure and hard guns of earlier generations.)
The sudden appearance of the wolf soldiers, if it were normal, the Burmese army would quickly form a team in a certain panic, but at this time the Burmese army was already exhausted, and it was very dazed before hurriedly looking for their own station position, the array speed was more than twice as slow as usual.

Mang Yingli was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He didn't have time to think about why the Ming army who were besieging the city set up an ambush here, but suddenly thought of the scene of being ambushed by Liu Chen when the northern Myanmar retreated last time.

Ambushed again!How can the Ming army always ambush!

In fact, this is a common problem of the army in areas lacking horses, that is, subconsciously imagine that the opponent's horse detection range and horse detection ability are similar to their own, so that they will always be at a disadvantage in terms of battlefield intelligence.In the early years when the Mongolian army destroyed the Bagan Dynasty in Myanmar, the Bagan Dynasty often suffered from this loss.Of course, having said that, even if the Mongolian army fought hard at that time, the Bagan Dynasty would definitely not be able to fight.

As soon as Mang Yingli was in a trance, Mang Jiluo immediately knew that something was wrong, and regardless of his father's usual sternness, he resolutely snatched the elephant driving equipment from the elephant slave's hands, and drove the elephant to rush forward. Yelling at the officers and soldiers, trying to maintain the chain of command.

But how could the wolf soldiers be able to stop this kind of temporary defense line!Although Huang Leopard was not as brave as his brother Huang Huyong, he was just as fierce. He personally rushed forward with a steel-headed bamboo spear made repeatedly.

He is also a typical wolf soldier who fights like a wolf soldier. He does not ride a horse, but leads the army to charge on foot. Tired, his reaction was much more sluggish than usual. Where was his general, he stabbed several people to death with a few shots, and the Burmese army's temporary defense line suddenly fell into chaos.

"Pumiaohou, stop that man!" Mang Jiluo yelled at a golden-armored general of the Burmese army who had just arrived.

These Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia especially like gold, and this kind of golden armor is almost standard equipment for senior generals.But of course the armor couldn't be made of pure gold, that would be too soft. In fact, countless pieces of small copper foils were made of cooked copper with a color very similar to gold, and then made into fish-scale armor.As for how to distinguish their identities, first of all, there will be slight differences in armor styles, but more importantly, look at the helmets. One of the simplest ways to distinguish them is: the higher the feathers on the top of the helmet, the higher the status of its owner.

The general who was summoned by Mang Jiluo was not young, he looked to be in his 50s, and in terms of strength, he definitely couldn't compare with a young and vigorous general like Huang Bao.However, he has a huge advantage over Huang Bao at this moment, that is... he is riding a war elephant.

Even if he is as strong as Liu Ting, he can only rely on his natural supernatural power to use his bare hands to fly the enemy general from the elephant with a Ujumqin horse under his crotch.But now that Huang Bao was a pacer, he obviously couldn't use that move.

Seeing the other party rushing towards with a special elephant spear more than ten feet long, Huang Leopard didn't dare to force it, stepped aside suddenly, and subconsciously stabbed the spear at the elephant that had rushed over half of its body.

However, the spear didn't have the effect he imagined. Although he felt that he had penetrated a lot in terms of the feel, in fact, the elephant didn't even seem to bleed.

Huang Bao took a quick look, and only then did he realize that his spear had only penetrated two or three inches, maybe it only pierced the elephant's skin and didn't even hurt the flesh.

Huang Leopard has also seen elephants in Guangxi, but it seems that the elephants in Myanmar are not only bigger in size, but also have thicker skins. This is not good news.

He knew that it would be difficult to take down this person, so he subconsciously glanced at the back of the Burmese army.

Looking at the time at this moment, suddenly there was a sound of gunfire behind the Burmese army, and at the same time a large wave of rocket salvos came, and the lineup of the Burmese army's rear, which was not so neat, suddenly became more chaotic.

Mang Yingli had already come to his senses at this time, seeing ambushes on one side, another on the back, and the Xidang River on the other side, he simply shouted: "The whole army will fight forward and rush back to Dongyu City!"

Mang Jiluo was taken aback, and was about to rush to persuade his father, but who knew that Pumiaohou just now had abandoned Huang Bao, and began to retreat as ordered, preparing to escape to Dongyu City.

When he passed by Mangjiluo's white war elephant, he patted it with the pole of the elephant's spear, making it start to turn, and at the same time he said loudly to Mangjiluo: "Your Highness, the Ming army has long been prepared, and they are waiting for this battle with ease. Our army has no chance of winning, so we should withdraw to Toungoo City first and then make further calculations!"

"No, the Ming army will definitely return..." Mang Jiluo was about to retort, but Bei Miaohou interrupted in a low voice: "Your Highness, be careful, this is the king's decision!"

Mang Jiluo was startled.

What kind of person is his own Lao Tzu, as a son, he still doesn't know?No one can question his decision as the White Elephant King of the Jinlou, especially in an unfavorable situation, anyone who dares to question him is asking for death.

However, the problem is that Mang Jiluo felt that since the Ming army set up an ambush so accurately, there was not only this strong army fighting from the side, but also an ambush from behind, so there was no reason why there was no ambush ahead!

Mang Jiluo knew very well that the Toungoo Dynasty had always been undercurrents and turbulent, and the father must not have any accidents, so knowing that he could not persuade him, he could only rush to Mang Yingli on a war elephant, and said: "Father, The Ming army set up ambushes on our flanks and the rear army, I am afraid they may also have ambushes in the front army, I ask for orders to explore the way."

Mang Yingli was startled at first, then squinted his eyes slightly to look at his eldest son, chuckled, and said: "My son is very filial, then you go to find the way. But you have to remember, don't enter the city right away. To enter the city, you must have the appearance of a crown prince, who can only enter the city by the side of a golden tower and a white elephant, do you understand?"

"Yes, my son understands." Mang Jiluo certainly understood in his heart that his father was extremely suspicious. What he said just now seemed to remind him of his precious status as the crown prince, but he was actually afraid that he would enter Dongyu City—now His great king is still outside the city, and there is an army of the Ming Dynasty outside the city. The key is that the current situation is still unfavorable. If he enters the city and does not let him in...

But Mang Jiluo didn't have time to think so much, he hurriedly took orders, and the former army, which gathered tens of thousands of people at random, went to open the way.

Mang Yingli also refused to stay in such an ambush place. After hastily giving the order for the whole army to break through, he started the running mode, regardless of whether these sleepy and tired Burmese soldiers could not run away from the wolf soldiers and were killed. Dead bodies littered the field.

At this time, Huang Zhiting was not standing on the hill where the wolf soldiers rushed out, but was surrounded by a large group of Ruan Song's subordinates at the position of the rear army - it turned out that the army that fired a round of artillery and rockets just now was not the Gao family The garrison army, but Ruan Song's department.

Ruan Song himself hurriedly rode back from the front, and reported loudly from afar with a happy face on his face: "The director is very good at predicting things, and the reckless thief really broke through the siege and went to Dongyu City."

Huang Zhiting's face was extremely calm, but she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, because she was actually betting that Mang Yingli was ambushed at such a short distance from Dongyu City, and her first thought must be to escape to the city. Flee back to his lair.

However, Huang Zhiting, who wanted to win a big victory, was waiting for this scene!
Because ambushing in front at this moment is the Golden Port Guard, which has the strongest firepower among the expeditionary forces and is already in formation! ——
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