Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 789 The Fierce Elephant Soldier

It was also his idea to tear up the Daming notice last time and kill the Daming envoy.
King Talong is old, and he is a bit powerless to control the Toungoo Dynasty.

Dongyu Prince Mangda also doted on his younger brother, which made Mangbai even more indulgent.

Without waiting for King Talong's permission, Mangbai rushed out of Ava City, the capital of Toungoo, with five thousand imperial guards and one thousand elephant soldiers.

Elephant soldiers are a relatively important force in the Indochina Peninsula army. When they fight each other, it often depends on whose elephant soldiers are more fierce.

One thousand elephant soldiers were in front, followed by five thousand imperial guards. Mangbai was going to use the elephant soldiers to defeat the Ming army.

They rushed out of the south gate aggressively and rushed directly towards the Ming army on the opposite side.

The defenders at the south gate were none other than Mu Tianbo's Yunnan soldiers, and his deputy Ma Yunzheng led five hundred soldiers on patrol.

Suddenly, he saw the south gate of Ava City open wide, and then countless elephant soldiers rushed out.

Ma Yunnai is the deputy general of Yunnan, and he still has some understanding of the elephant soldiers in the Indochina Peninsula.

I have also experienced the attack of elephant soldiers before, but it was only a few dozen elephants, which is not as many as there are now.

Seeing so many elephant soldiers rushing out suddenly, he immediately guessed that Toungoo was making a final struggle.

"Come on, hurry up and inform Duke Qian that the last main force of Dongyu has left the city."

Ma Yun ordered his troops to go down to inform Mu Tianbo, and at the same time commanded the Ming army to set up the formation.

Elephants, strong and huge, can be said to be invulnerable on the battlefield.

And the elephant's attack power is very strong. If you step on it, your liver and gallbladder will be ruptured. If you throw a trunk, it can lift people seven or eight meters away and break them into comminuted fractures.

Alexander, who swept across the Middle East 2000 years ago, was invincible and occupied the entire territory of Egypt and annexed the Persian Empire without a single soldier.

However, when their army marched to the Indus River Basin in an attempt to conquer India, they encountered Indian elephants.

Alexander's expeditionary army could not kill war elephants with swords and guns. Even the proud Macedonian phalanx suffered unprecedented heavy losses under the impact of the elephant array, and Alexander himself was seriously injured.

During the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the British Duke Zhang Fu led an army to expedition to Annan, and Annan also set up an elephant formation to deal with the Ming army.

At that time, the British public Zhang Fu used virtual weapons, and the Ming army used painted lion skins to drape on the horses, and then covered the eyes of the horses to launch an impact, supplemented with magic weapons, and finally defeated Annan Xiangzheng.

Although I don't know why Annan's elephants are afraid of lions, the Ming army succeeded.

After 200 years, in order to deal with the Ming army, the Burmese army also resorted to their final trump card.

Moreover, there were as many as one thousand elephant soldiers. In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking, the elephant slaves blindfolded the war elephants and drove them away to attack.

The elephant army is not a joke. When the elephant formation launched a collective charge, the oncoming behemoths were still a large group. Who can bear it!
Not to mention the impact of the elephant herd, this kind of scene alone would cause great psychological panic to the Ming army.

Mangbai arranged the elephants in front of the infantry, and the cavalry on the two wings. The formation of the army was like a city, the elephants were like a bastion, and the heavy cavalry was like a surrounding city wall.

In front of the formation of the Ming army, Ma Yun looked at the tall war elephants of the Toungoo army, and felt apprehensive for a while.

At this moment, Mu Tianbo rushed over upon hearing the news, and Ma Yun hurriedly stepped forward to salute:

"My lord, in the past, the British Duke Zhang Fu conquered Annan. When facing the Chen Chaoxiang formation, he used lion skins on the horses. Why don't we avoid the edge first and follow the example of the British Duke to be fully prepared before sending troops."

The Ming army was besieging Ava, and its troops were scattered, which was not conducive to the large-scale attack of elephant soldiers.

Mu Tianbo also encountered such a large-scale elephant soldier this time. Although he was a little bit upset, he felt that the Daming Firearm should be able to deal with the elephant soldier.

Mu Tianbo shook his head:

"We can't use the British public set now. Order the soldiers to form an array to meet the enemy. Pay attention to dividing into multiple squares, not too dense. If you find something wrong, immediately retreat to the nearby woods and use the cover of the big tree to shoot the elephant soldiers."

"Yes"

Ma Yun took the order and immediately commanded the Ming army to line up, 200 people in a row, shooting elephant soldiers in the front row, and shooting elephants in the back row.

A large herd of elephants came galloping driven by elephant soldiers, and their aura was absolutely earth-shattering.

Even Mu Tianbo felt a little flustered, and hurriedly grabbed the walkie-talkie to call Li Dingguo:

"I'm Mu Tianbo. There are thousands of elephant soldiers going out of the city at the south gate to fight desperately. Does the governor have any good solutions?"

When Li Dingguo heard it, he was also a little surprised at the time. He looked back at Liu Wenxiu and asked:

"How did you deal with the elephant soldiers?"

Liu Wenxiu was taken aback:
"Elephant soldiers? Let's shoot one at a time! Under the Minie bullets, it is estimated that one of the elephants will be shot three times, but I have not tried it. If there is a Mokang bullet, it will be easy to handle..."

Maokang's bullet was on the battleship, but because of the bad road to Burma, he did not carry it this time.

But when Liu Wenxiu said one shot at a time, Li Dingguo immediately said:
"Third brother, if you bring five hundred snipers to reinforce the South Gate immediately, it is estimated that Qian Guogong and the others will have difficulty blocking the impact of a thousand elephants."

"Decree"

Liu Wenxiu took the order and immediately rushed to the south gate with [-] snipers to support Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian.

South gate
Mangbai also rode on an elephant and personally directed the elephant soldiers to attack, followed closely by five thousand imperial guards.

These elephant soldiers held long sabers tightly in their hands, and stared bloodthirsty at the battle formation of the Ming army ahead.

The Ming army had five battle formations, each with 400 men, divided into two rows for defense.

In order not to be scattered by the elephants and killed by the elephant soldiers, Mu Tianbo did not dare to face the enemy head-on with the large army.

Seeing that there were only about [-] Ming troops lined up to meet the enemy, a sneer appeared on the corner of Mangbai's mouth:
"Come here, order the elephant soldiers to speed up their impact and try to make a charge to kill all the Ming soldiers in front."

"Go ahead!"

"Kill Guangming Dog, defend Toungoo..."

“Da da da da”

One thousand elephant soldiers and five thousand imperial guards, together with the neighing of the elephants, made people tremble with fear.

In particular, the thousand elephants flapped their huge ears, and rushed towards the small phalanx of the Ming army with two long tusks.

Once the elephant soldiers rushed into the phalanx of the Ming army, they would definitely kill the Ming army in seconds.

Mu Tianbo didn't dare to gamble, and Ma Yun didn't even dare to gamble. They couldn't bear the heavy casualties of the Ming army.

Now the lives of Ming soldiers are the most precious. With so many weapons ahead, if there are huge casualties, the emperor will rot their heads.

In the past, he always started to kill the enemy at around 120 meters, but this time Mu Tianbo changed his mind and ordered to shoot at 180 meters.

It is impossible to kill an elephant with three or two shots. If the distance is too close, the elephant will soon rush into the Ming army.

"Shoot, the first row shoots the elephants, the second row shoots the elephant soldiers!"

"Bang bang bang..."

Several phalanxes of the Ming army fired immediately, and the elephant soldiers who rushed to the front were killed on the spot.

But the elephants were shot twice and rushed towards the Ming army as if they were all right.

"Shoot, shoot quickly..."

Ma Yun hurriedly ordered the Ming army to shoot and kill the elephant, but the elephant was still rushing forward after being shot more than a dozen times!

"Quick, shoot and kill the elephant soldiers, and retreat to the forest immediately if the elephants approach."

(End of this chapter)