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Chapter 688

These days Zhu Yousong stays away from the battlefield and travels around mountains and rivers, especially after arriving in Guilin Mansion, he is accompanied by civil and military officials and beauties every day. There is no fighting on the battlefield, no blood and drums, he seems to have forgotten that he is still a kung fu emperor.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo were defeated and blocked, this memorial stimulated him, and he wanted to exercise his muscles.So he decided to go out in person to deal with King Myanmar and their armored elephant army.Liu Zhaoji, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Gao Guiying, Li Zicheng's wife, accompanied the escort.

A month later, Zhu Yousong appeared on the border of Yunnan with more than 3 Chinese military camps.It's already autumn, but the weather here is still hot.

Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo and others led the crowd to welcome them. After seeing them, the two sides joined forces, with nearly 10 horses.Zhu Yousong set up the imperial camp on a hillside, and then visited the injuries of Li Dingguo, Zu Keyong and Ma Bao. Li Dingguo was not seriously injured. He was shot by a musket on his left arm. Now the bandage has been removed, and the injury is more serious The two generals are Zu Keyong and Ma Bao.

Zu Keyong was shot in the abdomen, and Ma Bao was shot in the back. They were both wounded by the top elephant general of the Burmese army named U Ding Lunya. Now the second general is out of danger, but he is still recovering. It will take some time.

Then Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo gave a detailed report on the battle situation here, the Burmese Iron Armored Elephant Army and Li Dingguo, Zu Keyong and Ma Bao's heavy burden.

After hearing this, Zhu Yousong decided to salute the soldiers first, drew up an order, and sent Yan Ximing as an envoy to bring his handbook to King Mangda of Burma and ask him to hand it over.

After Yan Xi took the order, he brought a few relatives and left Mingying for the capital of Burma.

A few days later, news came that Yan Ximing and others were detained, but Mangda refused to hand them over.Zhu Yousong issued an order to march, and one hundred thousand troops crossed the border, and the two sides fought in Mengxiu.

Zhu Yousong sent an order to pretend to attack the city, and the armored elephant army was dispatched.I saw countless Burmese soldiers sitting on top of the armored elephants. These soldiers were also wearing armor and masks. One or two or three generals sat on each elephant, holding long spears or long knives and other weapons, facing the enemy. The Ming army came surging.

The Ming army was defeated, and Zhu Yousong's troops retreated fifty miles, and ordered to stand still.

Liu Zhaoji, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Mu Tianbo, Gao Guiying and other male and female generals were puzzled. His majesty was also defeated when he came down, and he lost thousands of soldiers and horses. He had no effective measures to deal with the enemy's armored elephant army. Did you win the battle?
But Zhu Yousong knew in his heart that this defeat was not for nothing, he wanted to deliberately pretend that he was powerless even if he went out in person, so as to confuse the enemy by pretending to be defeated.

After Zhu Yousong was defeated first, for several days, he did not raise his account to discuss matters, nor did he enter the army. Instead, he danced swords, wrote, drank, watched songs and dances, and toured the mountains all day long with Ma Jinhua, He Xuanjiao, Huimei, and Xiao Liu. Water, did not mention the matter of breaking the Iron Armored Elephant Army.

Liu Zhaoji, Zhang Xianzhong and others finally couldn't bear it anymore and came to see Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Yousong smiled, "Don't worry if you love me, I already have a plan to defeat the enemy. Since Qing and others can't help it, I guess Sun Kewang and the Burmese army can't help it either." Then he said his strategy, Liu Zhaoji, Zhang Xianzhong and others thought this plan was feasible, but the key was whether they could defeat the Iron Elephant Army. Could this move work?

Seeing Zhu Yousong's full confidence, no one dared to say anything, so they had to follow the plan...

In Mengxiu City, the Burmese general Wu Ding Lunya pouted his mouth in a haughty look. He was ordered by Mang Da to lead [-] Burmese troops and his armored elephant army to fight against Zhu Yousong's troops. Sun Kewang and Ashan led Ten thousand Ming troops are here to assist.

Zhu Yousong was courteous first and then soldiers, and asked Burmese Wang Mang to make friends. Sun Kewang and Ashan heard that Zhu Yousong had personally launched a horse, and the two had a grudge against Zhu Yousong's prestige. How to play, they conducted a detailed study.

U Ding Lunya advocates taking the initiative to attack. He thinks that Zhu Yousong is nothing special, but Sun Kewang and Ashan are not. He said that Zhu Yousong is so wise and brave. Yan, let U Ding Lunya stick to Mengxiu.

However, in the battle of Mengxiu, Zhu Yousong's army was still defeated, without any improvement, which not only made the general Wu Ding Lunya overjoyed, "Haha, what kind of attack is invincible, what is invincible, what kind of kung fu is unrivaled and invincible, he Zhu Yousong It’s just that, you are still helpless in front of a certain armored elephant army, you are scared out of your wits by him.”

"The general is superb, invincible in the world, I admire, admire." Sun Kewang and Miaoren Ashan happily complimented, and they also agreed with Wu Ding Lunya's statement that Zhu Yousongjiang was exhausted and could not deal with this trump card division of Burma.

That being the case, there is no need to stick to the city, and should go out of the city to wipe out the enemy and hunt down the Ming army, so that they will never return, so he asked the king of Burma, and Mangda agreed to take the initiative to attack.

In this way, more than 3 Ming troops led by the Burmese army and Zhu Youlang opened the gate of the stronghold, rushed out of the stronghold for more than [-] miles, and placed the battlefield outside the city.

Zhu Yousong was waiting for this opportunity. He wanted to fight the Burmese army in the field and clean up their armored elephant army in the wild.Seeing that the Burmese army was indeed drawn out, the decree was passed according to plan.Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion, began to choose the terrain to deploy artillery ambushes here, and the digger army of the imperial camp began to bury explosives on a narrow mountain road.

After everything was ready, Zhu Yousong sent an order to retreat in embarrassment.The [-] army threw away their helmets and armor, and threw things as they retreated. Flags, gongs and drums, tents, food, pots and bowls, knives, guns, swords, etc. were thrown everywhere along the way.

Wu Ding Lunya took a look, "Haha, ran away, keep chasing after me!"

"Wait a minute, general!" Sun Kewang hurriedly stopped him, "This must be Zhu Yousong's trick, don't fall for it."

"Can it?" Wu Dinglunya was not in a hurry to catch up, but the Ming army kept retreating, and retreated for more than 20 miles.Sun Kewang and Ah Shan didn't understand either.

Wu Ding Lunya dismissed it even more, thinking that Sun Kewang and Ah Shan were cowards as cowards, missed the opportunity, and ordered the army to pursue them quickly. Tens of thousands of Burmese troops and puppet Ming troops came after them like a tide. Chase while picking up loot.

In this way, they chased for more than ten miles, and they reached the narrow part of the mountain road ahead. Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion who was ambushing here, had been waiting impatiently for a long time. Looking at it now, he finally came, happy, "Grandchildren , Come on, fire me!"

"Dong dong dong dong, chatter..." Dozens of red-clothed cannons roared together, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the shells exploded among the Xiang army and the Ming army (Zhu Youlang's puppet Ming army). The explosives that Zhu Yousong had buried in advance were detonated again. For a while, the shells above were flying, the shells below were exploding, and the explosives were also exploding. The movement was more violent than a mine warfare.

Now the puppet Ming army and the puppet Ming army were bombed to pieces, blood and blood flew, and the tens of thousands of Xiang army and the puppet Ming army were in chaos.

Hearing the sound of cannons and explosions that shook the sky, Zhu Yousong was elated, and ordered to stop the retreat, prepare to counterattack, and wipe out the chasing enemy in one fell swoop.

After the sound of the artillery stopped, Zhu Yousong led Liu Zhaoji, Zhang Xianzhong and nearly 10 horses back to kill. The cavalry was in front and the infantry was behind.

Now the Burmese army and the puppet Ming army have suffered heavy losses. Knowing that they have been fooled by the Ming army's trick to lure the enemy, Sun Kewang and Ashan are thinking in their hearts, how about they know that this is Zhu Yousong's trick, are they fooled now?

But U Tin Lunya, the general of the Burmese army, didn't care. Seeing a large number of Ming troops coming, he ordered: "Iron Armored Elephant Army, attack!"

After saying that, he rode his head like a robot in full body clothes, and brought this armored elephant army to kill the Ming army...

(End of this chapter)