Chapter 13 Courage (Part 2)
Di Sanxi's first charge penetrated the front line of the Myanmar army. He circled around and turned around and launched a second charge, destroying the Burmese defeated soldiers who were trying to reorganize the team again. When Di Sanxi's third charge, the sound of muskets sounded on his side, and Burmese soldiers began to shoot at the Ming army scattered. When King Gongchang's subordinates joined the battle group, they were also disturbed by the Burmese firepower.
Two hundred Ming army cavalry kept chasing the Burmese generals and officers. Although the Burmese army, like the Ming army, also used the flagpole to express the status of the commander, after seeing the Burmese army's military flag for the first time, the Ming army was not as familiar with the strange foreign war flags as they were the country, and they couldn't tell which one was the commander of Myanmar and who was the personal guard of the Burmese commander. Therefore, the Ming army could only simply rush towards the flag that was closest to them and seemed to be the highest, and did not pose the greatest threat to the Burmese commander Baiyajian.
With several repeated assaults, the number of Burmese troops scattered in front of the Ming army became more and more numerous, and the targets of the Ming army became more and more scattered. After Di Sanxi and the others began to find out the important targets, they threw the flat-yad and began to randomly attack the enemy troops closest to them and seemed to be organized.
When Deng Ming landed, thousands of people in the 30,000 Burmese army were already retreating in a hurry. From the landing position, Deng Ming only knew that the enemy's central direction was filled with smoke and dust, obscuring his vision, and could not see the specific situation of the battle between the Ming army and the Burmese army.
"If General Di is in a tough battle, we should reinforce them; if the Myanmar army has not been destroyed, plus our 150 cavalry may not be able to break the deadlock; and if the Myanmar central army has been repelled, it would be enough to continue pursuing the 200 cavalry who logged in earlier, so it would be impossible for them to reorganize. I don't need to take three walls to pursue the defeated soldiers." When his subordinates landed one after another, Deng Ming was nervously thinking about his tactical countermeasures. No one could accurately foresee the progress and trends of the battlefield. Therefore, it was impossible to discuss how the Ming cavalry who were invested in three batches in the pre-war meeting. It can only be judged by the commander.
The Myanmar military formation, which was arranged in a north-south direction, obviously the two wings were still in good order. The Ming army had too few cavalry, so the Central Burmese Army's defeat would not immediately spread to the two wings. The first two batches of cavalry of the Ming army had no strength to disturb the two wings.
"Why should we attack the south or north?" Deng Ming weighed the pros and cons in his heart. It seemed that the Burmese army in the south was stronger because they drove from the downstream direction. When the Ming army landed, the Burmese army was not evenly separated. The Danyajian, which was spreading to the east, placed the stronger troops in the central army and the right wing, that is, the south. This was not only to allow soldiers to walk less and preserve some physical strength, but also to concentrate all the main forces to launch an attack after the Ming army landed in. If it was arranged evenly, the Burmese commander felt that the area occupied was too large and some could not command it.
"Although I can't see clearly, I assume that General Di has defeated the central army in Myanmar." If Deng Ming's assumption is not true, then what he should do now is to retreat, so Deng Ming would not take the time to think about what if he guessed wrongly: "If I were the commander of Myanmar, where would I go?"
"I should go to the south, this is the direction to escape back to Wacheng. There are more troops in the south, which are closer to their camp yesterday. Whether the commander of Myanmar launches a counterattack, wants to command the retreat, or continues to stand firm in confrontation with our army, he should immediately go to the south to command the troops - if the commander of Myanmar has been captured by General Di, it is also important to defeat the Burmese army in the south, and they cannot give them the courage to continue to hold on."
If Di Sanxi happened to separate the Burmese Commander from the north when he charged and forced him to command his right wing, it would be that Deng Ming was not lucky. However, excluding the luck relationship, the Burmese Commander's possibility of going to the south is much greater.
Deng Ming turned around and ordered the three wall knights behind him: "The veterans are in front, and the new soldiers are in back."
One hundred and fifty cavalry skillfully lined up in double storm formations, and a small number of rangers were cruising around the military formation, or staying between the two-layer military formations as preparations.
Only fifty of these knights are considered new recruits, and other younger generations have participated in the battle in the Three Walls organization, but even the new recruits mentioned by Deng Ming were only compared to the Three Walls organization. As the only permanent cavalry organization of the Ming army, the selection criteria for the Three Walls are stricter than that of the infantry standing army. Moreover, it is regarded as Deng Ming's guard team by western Sichuan. Every new recruit who joins also needs to perform well in the previous conquests. The fifty new recruits ordered by Deng Ming to go to the back row were only asked to experience the feeling of group combat in the back team because they had not had any experience in fighting within this system, so as not to forget the team training content in western Sichuan because they were too excited.
Deng Ming, who has been charging forward since Wanxian, was naturally in the front row. In the era of cold weapons, the importance of courage cannot be described as an exaggeration. Deng Ming had long discovered that the Ming army always performed particularly well when fighting side by side with him, and his combat effectiveness could be multiple times. Even the three-wall troops that played the most stable, they seemed the most fearless when following Deng Ming.
"Striving for complete victory!"
After the team was arranged, Deng Ming raised his saber and leaned his back against his right chest and shoulder armor, looking around at the people beside him. There were only more than 300 Ming troops, and their enemies were more than 30,000. If he did not attack the enemy with all his might and could not win a great victory, the end would be that the entire army would be destroyed. The ships were all back to receive infantry. If the Burmese army had a chance to breathe, the Ming cavalry would have no ships to escape.
"All victory!" The cavalrymen on the three walls answered Baoguo Duke in a calm and powerful voice. No one didn't know the danger of this battle. They were in a foreign land and fought against enemy soldiers who were hundreds of times more than their own on completely unfamiliar land. The other side also had elephants, which they had never seen before. Are there any other secret weapons that the Burmese people possessed but the Ming army knew nothing about? No one could predict it. Moreover, they were not familiar with fellow scholars who fought side by side with him. Without the cover of the powerful Western Sichuan Navy, the unfamiliar army prepared to cross the river to support the other side of the river. The Sichuan Army, who knew the roots and the bottom of the river, did not arrive at the battlefield.
However, if the golden branches and jade leaves like Duke Baoguo are taking the lead in the charge in the first row, what else can I complain about?
Deng Ming held his head up and looked forward. According to the latest training, the offensive rhythm of the three walls is no longer controlled by the commander, but controlled by the trumpets. Each cavalry team of 100 people (company) will have four trumpets, six out of 150 people, and they are located in the center of two rows of cavalry.
The trumpet sounded. According to the unanimous requirements of the three wall knights, the Charge absorbed many elements of Shaanxi and Henan folk songs, and many paragraphs selected from the songs played during the festive season. In addition, some tones that are motivating to people are combined into the Ming army's Charge - Charge is already a dangerous enough thing. There are some relaxing elements in the Charge, which can make the already nervous knights relax a little.
Together with his subordinates, Deng Ming straightened his body on the horse's back, maintained his saber against his shoulders, and ran neatly towards the Southern Heavy Army Group in Myanmar.
The Burmese army opposite looked like ten thousand people, still a hundred times that of Deng Ming's troops, and their defense seemed to be tighter. After paying attention to Deng Ming's team, a flag flip immediately appeared on the Burmese army, and the officers among them all reminded each other loudly.
As Deng Ming expected, Bian Yajian was in the right wing of the Burmese army at this time. After losing his own flag, Bian Yajian lost control of the entire army, but he was lucky enough to get rid of the Ming army's pursuit.
"Sir, what order do you have?"
The Burmese generals on the right wing surrounded the newly escaped flat-yad Jian in the center and asked loudly. After seeing the flag disappear, the Burmese generals on the right wing were also panicked, but the Ming army had only one or two hundred people. Of course, tens of thousands of Burmese troops would not retreat on their own in front of such a small number of enemies, after all, they had not been directly attacked by the Ming army.
The squid-yad-shouldered in the center and the generals who escaped from the central army with the commander were even more panicked than their colleagues on the right. They finally realized that war was not as simple as written in military books, and that the stories told by their ancestors were full of pleasant plots, and when these heirs of the family business stood in this position, they realized how heavy the fear on the battlefield would be.
"Sir, what orders do you have?" asked the right wing generals who had just handed over the command to the commander again.
"Retreat." Bian Yajian didn't try to fight back as Deng Ming imagined. After he restored his right to act, he made the final decision without thinking. He found that the power of the Ming army was far stronger than that of him. Even if the other party had only one or two hundred people, he would not have the courage to fight in the field in the short term. Now Bian Yajian was only thinking about how to retreat to Wacheng to defend the city: "Let the elephant cut off the back."
There were thousands of defeated soldiers in the center, and Bian Yajian didn't believe that one or two hundred cavalry could chase them, so he did not need to reinforce them. The thousands of Burmese soldiers on the left wing were much more familiar with their own land than the invaders, so Bian Yajian believed that there was no need for support.
"Sir, another bandit is coming." A messenger stumbled into the group and shouted at the commander and generals.
Although the distance is still far, the Myanmar army can see clearly that this is another new Ming cavalry with a scale of 100 people. They are heading straight towards the new commander of Baiya Jian.
Chapter completed!