Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1123 The Death of the Crown Prince
What will happen when the [-] exhausted Burmese troops meet the [-] Jinggang garrison who are waiting for work?
Answer: There will be massacres.

The Burmese army is a cold weapon army, and the ordinary Burmese army does not have much decent protection. Facing the garrison army that has entered the era of almost pure hot weapons under the full force of high pragmatism, the chances of winning are slim, let alone now There are many unfavorable factors imposed on it?
Mang Jiluo was riding an elephant, standing high and seeing far, and he was the first to spot the Jingang garrison waiting in front of him.Although he had guessed this scene in his heart, the formation of the Jingang Guard still surprised him a little.

The Burmese crown prince is almost 30 years old this year. He has been "exercising" in the military for no less than ten years.

His first reaction was: the Ming army stood so densely, if there was a rain of arrows...

This idea is so tempting, and it seems feasible, because he found that the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to have only muskets.

Captain Reddy, the Portuguese military advisor, once said to him that it is difficult to win with musketeers alone, because as long as the opponent can withstand the loss of one or two rounds of salvo, they can rush to the musketeers who are not covered by cold weapons. Massacre, at this time the musketeers who have no resistance will soon fail.

Mang Jiluo has also seen the tactics that Captain Reddy is good at. He usually uses spearmen to form three horizontal lines. Each horizontal line has 60 to [-] people in front and [-] lines in depth.On the four corners are musketeers lined up in dense squares.The width is about fifty feet, and the depth is a little more than thirty feet.A column of Musketeers is lined up on each of the four sides of the phalanx, and an independent detachment will be sent out to engage in small-scale sorties.

The Ming army in front of them did not use their forces in this way.

Mang Jiluo could see it clearly: the Ming army as a whole seemed to have formed a character-shaped layout, and the characters in front were a horizontal rectangle.

The two characters at the rear are much smaller than the one at the front, but they are far away at this time, and the sky is not yet bright, so Mang Jiluo can't see very clearly. According to experience, it is likely to be cavalry—otherwise it cannot explain why there are so many people few.

Mang Jiluo thinks that the latter two small words need not be considered for the time being, because since they are cavalry and the number of them is so small, there are no more than two functions: one is to conduct flank harassment before the main force engages in battle, and the other is to carry out flanking harassment after the main force decides the winner. Responsible for entering from the flank conflict, expanding the results of the battle or covering the retreat.In short, when there are too few cavalry, the advantage is not great when facing the well-organized infantry, not to mention the Burmese army also has elephant soldiers.

As for the main force of the Ming army, Mang Jiluo believed that it would be possible to defeat the formation formed by the big words with about 500 casualties—according to the charge speed, 500 dead were enough to rush in front of them.

So Mang Jiluo ordered without hesitation: "The whole team, keep the lineup close to [-] steps, and then launch a charge!"

At present, there is no musket that can hit 150 paces, this is the answer Mang Jiluo got from Captain Reddy.Three hundred paces, approximately equal to [-] meters in later generations - it is not impossible for bullets in the era of smoothbore guns to hit such a distance, but the bullets that hit this distance are not very lethal. Know where to go.

Captain Reddy’s words are actually not a big problem, because the European muskets at this time are at this level. The only problem is that he didn’t know that the barrel of the Wanli Type [-] already had four shallow and straight rifling lines, and the powder ratio was excellent. Granular gunpowder, at a distance of [-] steps, the Wanli Type [-] actually has a certain lethality, and its accuracy is much higher than that of ordinary smoothbore guns.

But the biggest problem with Mang Jiluo was not that he underestimated the Wanli No. [-] musket, but that he miscalculated that one of the two small "kou" characters in the Ming army's rear was not cavalry, but artillery.

Although the artillery of the Lu Division is far inferior to the artillery of its own fleet in terms of quantity and quality, it still has 120 artillery pieces, including [-] No. [-] guns and [-] No. [-] guns.

The Burmese army moved forward, and when they were still two miles away from the artillery positions of the Ming army, the artillery team of the garrison fired. Of course, the No. [-] artillery, which was larger in size and range, fired first.

Mang Jiluo only saw the flames flashing in the distance, and then heard a series of loud noises of "bang bang bang bang". It seemed that some black spots smashed into the crowd of the Burmese army brigade or nearby.

Then there was a scream of misery, and some unlucky people in the Burmese army were hit by solid shells, and their bodies were torn apart.Some of the remaining cannonballs smashed into the ground and splashed mud and rocks, and some took advantage of the trend and continued to kill more unlucky people while rolling around.

Veterans who are not very experienced in fighting firearms are not afraid of guns. After all, this thing is not only powerful, but the key is that it cannot be defended against. It depends on luck if anyone dies, so a wave of confusion suddenly appeared in the Burmese army. People subconsciously ran away, as if they wanted to find a place to hide.

Although Mang Jiluo didn't expect that the Ming army would bring a lot of "Hongyi Cannons" with them when they went thousands of miles away, he was only startled at first, but he quickly reacted and shouted: "The Hongyi Cannons are going to be fired!" It’s extremely slow, don’t panic! Line up immediately and force them over!”

Whether the crown prince is the crown prince is still a bit majestic. The panic of the Burmese army disappeared quickly. Several soldiers who took the lead in fleeing were killed by the supervising team on the spot. The rest of the Burmese army resumed their formation and continued to approach.

The Ming army's second round of artillery came a little faster than Mang Jiluo expected, but at this moment, this little variable will not make him change his plan.Besides, judging from the situation just now, although the power of the cannon is indeed huge, but because it is a solid bullet, in fact, not many people were actually killed. Change.

However, after the third round of artillery was fired, the situation began to change, because this round of artillery was obviously much denser than before. Originally, the Burmese army had barely overcome their fear of cannons under forced orders, but this round of artillery It seemed to frighten them again—the number of solid bullets falling from the sky increased significantly, and there were very few shells that missed into the nearby wasteland.

There were a lot of screams in the camp of the Burmese army, broken corpses and limbs were flying everywhere, blood and brains were splashed, and the formation that had just been stabilized immediately became chaotic and loose again.

This situation was beyond Mang Jiluo's expectations. He had never seen such a powerful artillery array, and even Portuguese mercenaries could not reach this firepower density-of course, this was also related to the fact that the Portuguese had too few troops.

For the first time, Mang Jiluo felt that his father's provocation of Daming might be a huge strategic mistake, but this kind of thought just passed by, and now is not the time to think about these things.

He decisively ordered: "The whole army charges!"

The Burmese army breathed a sigh of relief, because even the ordinary Burmese army knew a truth: after rushing to the Ming army's position and fighting with the Ming army, it is impossible to continue to be bombarded by artillery.

The only problem is that the charging distance becomes too long.Oh, no, there was another unexpected problem: the elephant soldiers found that the war elephants did not obey their orders. Although the war elephants were mighty, they had two major weaknesses: they were afraid of fire and loud noises.

Under the three rounds of loud noises, each time became denser and fiercer, these war elephants had already begun to fall into madness. In order to prevent the war elephants from trampling and killing their own family members, the elephant soldiers had no choice but to forcibly lead the war elephants away. More than 100 war elephants All ran out of the battlefield in a mess.

Fortunately, Mang Jiluo was far away. Although his war elephant panicked for a while, he was calmed down by the elephant slave, and he didn't run away or fall off.

But at this time Mang Jiluo had no time to pay attention to himself, he was paying attention to his army.Humans are not machines. Charging is like a [-]-meter sprint. It belongs to explosive power rather than endurance. Besides, it is still under load, so Mang Jiluo is also very worried about whether launching a charge at an excessively long distance this time will lead to a sprint. There is no successor after the past.

While the Burmese army was charging, Gao Sijin, who was standing on a small hillside behind the main position on the opposite side, sneered, and ordered steadily: "The first two rows of bayonet formations, when the enemy approached 150 paces, Start the first round of calibrating bullets, start three-stage shooting at [-] paces, and immediately retreat to clean the barrels after the three-row row is finished, and the last three rows keep up with the cycle."

The nightmare of the Burmese army began with Gao Sijin's order.

Mang Jiluo saw that the Ming army did not start shooting when his army approached two hundred paces. A wave of ammunition is so slow.Unexpectedly, at the 180th step, the first two rows of the Ming army suddenly "turned their guns into knives" and showed their shining "long barrel and short knives".

But it doesn't matter, the trouble is that they squatted down immediately, and the two rows of Ming soldiers erected the "long barrel and short knives" in an orderly manner, matching the height and height, like a fence made of knives, blocking the front.

Then the real crisis occurred when the Burmese army rushed to about 150 steps, and the Ming army behind them began to show off their power with row after row of salvos.

When the Burmese army's forward fell down at least a hundred people, Mang Jiluo's heart seemed to be grabbed by someone: These Ming army's muskets are probably more powerful than the Portuguese's!

The Ming army quickly "responded" to his doubts-the second round of salvos came at an extremely fast speed.

There was still a row of flames flashing, and under the flying white smoke, the Burmese army's forward fell down again without any surprise.The most astonishing thing is that between these two rounds of salvos, the Burmese army only ran forward about [-] steps.

Worse!

Mang Jiluo felt chills in his heart. The interval between the Ming army's musket salvos was even more astonishing than the performance of the Portuguese mercenaries. I'm afraid this battle will be bad...

When a person has a hunch, a good hunch is basically a daydream, while a bad hunch usually comes true quickly, and Mang Jiluo immediately finds himself in a crow's mouth—even if he didn't say it just now.

The Burmese army charged forward for a while, continued to suffer three rounds of volleys, and then... collapsed.

Because when they rushed to only about eighty steps away from the Ming army, they could clearly see the sarcasm on the face of the Ming army on the opposite side, and of course they could see the bayonet standing in the front row with well-proportioned tips Array.

dash forward?This is suicide!
Those gleaming half-cut sharp knives with narrow blades can be seen from the reflection of the cold as ice blades. They are all first-class treasured knives. ?

In addition, he was already exhausted and the charging distance was too far, and now he couldn't run at all, so the momentum of the Burmese army slowed down almost visible to the naked eye.

The Burmese army was slow, but the Ming army was not slow.The shooting of the garrison army did not stop for a moment, and after the hesitation of the Burmese army, they fired two rounds of salvo again. At this time, the Burmese army had lost at least 500 people.

The proportion of 500 people in the more than 1 Burmese army may not seem high, but it must be known that the army in the cold weapon era could not afford much direct battle damage, and there are many examples of collapse after [-]% of the battle damage It is almost a miracle that the Burmese army has not collapsed yet.

However, the source of this miracle is a bit ridiculous: first, they knew the danger behind them, and wanted to rush back to Toungoo City through the obstruction of the current Ming army; During the battle, it was too late to "discover" how many comrades had been lost around him.

But at this moment, facing the shining bayonet array and the taunts on the faces of the musketeers on the opposite side, they suddenly realized—where did the comrades in front of me go?Why did I come up here?

"!" (Burmese: Run for your life.)
With an exclamation from nowhere, many soldiers of the Burmese Army began to flee in all directions, and the charging formation suddenly became chaotic, turning into invisible like boiling soup pouring snow.

Some Burmese soldiers fled to both sides of the battlefield, and some Burmese soldiers turned around and ran and knocked down comrades who were still running forward and were still confused. In short, the whole battlefield was thrown into chaos in an instant.

Mang Jiluo originally wanted to regroup, but he immediately realized that it was futile, because the supervising team at the rear subconsciously wanted to stop the rout, but was immediately submerged in the rout and disappeared without a trace.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately knew that he had failed, and it was irreversible, so he immediately controlled the elephant and turned around to run away.However, at this time, he was surprised to find that the other character "口" behind the opponent's character array had long disappeared, and on his flank, a cavalry team of about 500 people was rushing towards him. Come.

In order to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop just now, most of the soldiers around him were sent out as supervisors. Now there are only 200 people around him, and the war elephant has long since run away, leaving only the one under him.

In other words, he is really "stand out from the crowd" now, he is extraordinary, he is really the best target for the Ming army.

A war elephant couldn't outrun a galloping horse, and Mang Jiluo was so startled that his brow was in a cold sweat. He didn't even care about getting someone to help him, so he planned to jump off the war elephant and escape for his life.

However, it was too late. Although the Ming army had few cavalry, they had good horses under their legs, and they had killed them not far away in an instant.

At this time, the Ming army didn't even draw out the sabers around their waists, but they all held a short gun that the Burmese army had never seen before. The body of this gun was half shorter than ordinary muskets, but the magic was that it didn't need to be ignited ——They have already fired directly in the direction of Mang Jiluo.

"Bang bang bang bang", I don't know how many guns rang out, and Mang Jiluo only felt severe pain in several places on his body, accompanied by a strong burning sensation, which made him scream terribly.

Then he doesn't know anything.

The last voice he heard was cheering Chinese: "The enemy general is dead! If you don't give up your arms and surrender, when will you wait!"
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