Historically, between Bagan and Dali, it is roughly bounded by Lushui, and when this river flows into Bagan, it is called Salween River. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the death of Dali to the Mongols, the other side of Lushui has become the new Yunnan Xingzhongshu Province established by the Yuan people, and the original prefectures and villages have also been changed to roads and prefectures, and have been incorporated into the unified administration, although it is almost tens of thousands of miles away from the capital.

Mangdian located on the side of Lushui is a small village with a population of less than 1,000 people, after the restructuring, the original head became the Guanmin thousand households under the rule of the Yuan people, the village became a county, its top is Zhenkang Road, and then go up is the Golden Tooth Xuanwei Division, until the top of Yunnan Province.

It stands to reason that this is the place of the border, it should be heavily guarded, the fortress is gathered, but it seems, it is no different from other villages, on the stone steps by the river, the women carry a large wooden basin, dip a basin of clothes into the water, pick up the wooden pestle and knock it, from time to time make a burst of laughter, the winding road along the river, all kinds of camels, horses, pedestrians come and go, hurry up and do not squint, leisurely from time to time to look left and right, meet the acquaintance will also shout a sentence, Then continue to move forward amid the laughter of the crowd.

When this land was still called Dali, because both sides believed in Buddhism, there was no major dispute between the two countries, and now it has become the land of the Yuan people, and their strength makes these border people feel at ease, because the people will think that it should be nervous about the opposite side, even if it is ...... The two emissaries who went out from here were killed by the stubborn Bagans.

"Whew!" A deep cry suddenly resounded on both sides of the river, and the women who were washing clothes by the river looked curiously at each other.

On the other side of the river is a dense and impermeable towering forest, for some reason, there has not been much human activity, thousands of years of reproduction, the trees will grow more and more, the forest provides ample space for the growth of animals and plants, inside is the paradise of fierce beasts, this kind of cry, dare to belong to one of the beautiful people, one of the top of the food chain elephant.

Lushui is the source of drinking water for all creatures in the vicinity of the two banks, and across a large river, it is common to see hordes of wild beasts coming to the river to draw water, so even if the elephant herd suddenly appears, it is not unusual, and the women are still beating the clothes in their hands, raising their heads and waiting with curious eyes.

Running out of the dense forest is a baby elephant, although its height has exceeded the tallest person in the village, in the eyes of the women, it is still just a small life that has just come to the world, staggering on its legs, looking around with restless eyes, especially after the human beings on the opposite side, it slowly paced to the water's edge, stretched out its long nose and put it into the water, the simple and bowful appearance made the women stop moving, and even the eyes of pedestrians were attracted, because they all knew that elephants were social animals, There will never be just one, and it will be a baby elephant.

Sure enough, after a while, there was a greater movement in the forest, and the tall trees suddenly became trembling, and the leaves shook in the wind, making a "whoosh" sound, and then one after another long whistle sounded, and the earth began to shake slightly, and even the river rippled uneasily, and all the people held their breath, waiting for a huge herd of elephants to appear.

"Boom!" With a bang, a thick tree was pulled up by a nose, and the waist was torn into two, and in the midst of people's stunned, the nose rolled up half of the tree and rushed out of the woods, the huge body was as tall as two adults, the whole body was snow-white, and the long fangs were like two sharp scimitars, it kept rushing to the water's edge, but did not draw water like a baby elephant, but shook its nose violently, threw the tree out, and after flying in the air for a while, it hit the water with a "snap", There was a splash.

"Whew! ~”

The roar of the giant elephant was like a trumpet, and in an instant, the whole jungle was boiling, and before the whistle stopped, the women on the other side all stood up, they were the closest, and they could see it most clearly, this elephant that came out was not a beast, its body was shining with golden light, and its body was hunched with a car, and at the front of the car sat a swarthy elephant slave, and behind it was a small house with a dome, and the people in it were clothed in brocade, wearing a golden crown on their heads, and holding a short golden staff in their hands. He was looking at them with a look of near pity.

"Oh my God, it's Bagan! Run. “

The fast-reacting woman shouted, threw down her clothes and didn't even want a basin, turned around and ran towards the shore, and some ignorant people were pulled, and followed as if they were deadly, and after a while, together with the pedestrians on the road, merged into a torrent of scattered escape, spreading to the countryside.

"Dali, right at our feet, warriors of Bagan, attack!" The brocade-robed man in the giant elephant was pleased with the effect, laughing and raising his cane, shouting.

"Woo! ~”

This time, the real horn was sounded, and thousands of elephants rushed out of the dense forest and rushed to the opposite bank on the river, the first of which was Mangdian County, which is located on the Lushui side.

"That's a lot better than a horse!"

The group of elephants rushing to the right was different from the Bagan people elsewhere, each elephant had two or three Song sergeants on the sittings, and the leader was holding a binocular cylinder, scanning the situation below, and his tall body like a hill provided him with enough vision to see the target in the distance.

It is no wonder that he felt that the water that was more than one person deep was like a small ditch under the feet of these elephants, and he easily stepped on, and those houses made of rough wood and bamboo were just the simplest obstacles, and they did not even have the strength to stretch their legs, and they were directly stepped into pieces.

Huge herds of elephants swept past like locusts, unhurriedly rushing the fleeing people, pushing fear into the depths of Yuan rule.

"What are you looking around? Don't forget the Tartar cavalry. ”

"Remember, they scared away, how dare they get close?"

Although he said it easily, after all, this was the territory of the Yuan people, and the sergeants did not dare to relax their vigilance at all, and in the field of vision of the clairvoyant, in the flow of people who fled, almost all of them were ordinary people, and there were all kinds of costumes of planners, barbarians, and pendulums, but there was no Mongolian cavalry they expected.

This is very unusual, according to intelligence, the Yuan people left at least five Mongolian cavalry thousand troops in Yunnan, Mangdian as an important border town, how should it be equipped with one, but until the big village that was used as a county seat, no trace of cavalry was found.

"Hey, what's that?" A puff of smoke and dust suddenly appeared in the sergeant's camera, just in front of the crowd of the brigade, he muttered in surprise, and found that the smoke and dust did not block the way of the crowd, but divided into two, bypassing the crowd and approaching the elephant herd behind.

"The cavalry of the Tartars is coming, ready." With the appearance of a flag, the sergeants immediately knew that their main opponent was coming, and the number did not seem to be very large, and it was estimated that they had arrived in a hurry after getting the news.

The elephant was carrying three Song sergeants, in addition to a lookout, and two crossbowmen, they untied a jet-black crossbow from their backs, put the tail under their feet and stepped on it, and then kicked hard, pulled the trigger open, revealing a deep string hole, the two of them each pulled out a crossbow arrow from the quiver on the sitting, "snapped" into the string hole, lifted the crossbow machine, put it on the railing of the shelf, squinted their eyes, and waited for the moment when the Tatar cavalry entered the firing range.

Like them, on the dozens of elephants on the right, the Song sergeants were all ready, and countless shining arrows were aimed at the direction of the Tartar cavalry.

"Two hundred steps."

"One hundred and fifty steps."

"One Hundred Steps"

"Ninety."

......

"Self-propelled launch."

With the watcher's order, a "click" sound sounded on the elephant's back, and the crossbow machine was released by the hand holding it, and after a series of complex mechanical transmissions, it was pushed out with a "whoosh" of the featherless crossbow arrow pressed in the string hole, and flew almost in a straight line to the target at a distance of nearly eighty paces.

"God...... Arm...... Bow! ”

One of the fastest Tartar Baihu looked at his chest in disbelief, only a small section of the black crossbow arrow was exposed, he had participated in the battle of the Song Dynasty in China for a long time, and he recognized this famous big killing weapon at a glance, because at this distance, it can only be so accurate and hugely lethal, but unfortunately this is also the last memory of his life.

"Prince Tihadu, your subordinates are really brave and good at fighting." On the huge white elephant, a man who looked like a Song man complimented him in a very rusty Bagan dialect.

"The things of your Song people are also extremely sharp."

"Each other, each other."

Seeing the once invincible Mongol cavalry falling like wheat under the dense rain of arrows, many of them still had lit torches, but they didn't even have a chance to rush in front of the elephant herd, such a result made the man in brocade and the Song man exchange a look, and they both laughed.

"Warriors, let's go all the way and set foot on Dali City!"

"Flatten Dali City!"

"Flatten Dali City!"

......

On this day, the morale-boosting Bagan army, led by their eldest prince Tihadu, suddenly launched an attack and attacked the Golden Tooth Xuanwei Division under the jurisdiction of the Yuan Yunnan Province, all the way like a bamboo. The primitive transmission method of the beacon fire was opened by the local guards in a hurry, and it was transmitted to the core area of the rule, which was the "Dali City" in the mouth of the prince of Tihadu.