Chapter 61: First Encounter

"Rush over and kill all the Burmese!" Of course, Ye Kai will not miss this opportunity, and it seems that the knife hand on the back of the elephant killed by Anna is still a Burmese general!

He roared angrily, dropped the rifled gun in his hand, picked up the steel spear placed next to him, and jumped off the wall next to the stockade!

With Ye Kai's shouting, the gate of the village was opened, and He Yu'er and Zhu Wensheng each rushed out with more than a hundred people, especially the more than forty sword and shield soldiers behind He Yu'er, which were the mixed Yuan disciples brought out by He Xiwen from the border of Sichuan and Hubei.

The leader is a strong man named Zeng Quan, who used to be the head of the green camp in Xinghan Town, southern Shaanxi, because Shangguan took a fancy to the dozens of acres of good paddy fields at home, and was separated by his wife.

So Zeng Quan was angry and simply killed Shangguan's entire family and defected to the Mixed Yuan Sect, his ancestors were all officers of the Green Battalion, although the position was low, but he knew the old-style Green Battalion Army training methods very well, and the dozens of sword and shield soldiers he brought with him were refined by him.

To be honest, the Southeast Asian army in this period, whether it was Burmese, Thai or Vietnamese, their proportion of firearms was not low, and in the historical Qing-Burma War, the Qing army's weapons and equipment were far inferior to the Burmese army.

The same was true of the Burmese army, where at least 1,500 of the 4,000 or so soldiers had muskets, and although most of them were arquebuses, they were not much behind the brown bess flintlock pistols.

If their formation was not disrupted by their own elephants, or if they were a little more well-trained, Ye Kai could only become a live target if he rushed with a spear like this.

"Ahh A Burmese soldier roared with tears in his eyes, he looked at Ye Kai anxiously loading the fire gun in his hand as he rushed over, although he told himself over and over again to be calm, he only needed one shot to kill the guy who rushed in, but his hand didn't obey the call, and the whole strip couldn't be inserted into the barrel of the gun!

"Die!" Of course, Ye Kai also saw this Burmese soldier who was anxiously loading bullets, in fact, he was even more anxious than this soldier, he was not a god, and he would definitely burp if he was shot!

A flying jump, with the help of a huge impact, the tip of the gun in Ye Kai's hand swiped slightly, and finally pointed the Burmese soldier at the barrel of the gun with a grunt, and the blood on his neck gushed out like a fountain.

"Boom!" After Ye Kai killed this Burmese soldier, he crashed into the Burmese infantry group, the spear in his hand stretched and retracted like a poisonous snake spitting letters, and two or three Burmese soldiers fell down screaming.

"Ye Shuwu, get out of the way!" He Yu'er shouted anxiously, Ye Kai didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately rolled to the side!

As soon as he 'got out', javelins more than three feet long flew over with a whistling roar, and the Burmese soldiers who had just formed a small phalanx and were about to 'shoot' Ye Kai screamed miserably, and were knocked over by this wave of javelin rain seven or eight.

Throwing a javelin, this is a necessary skill for sword and shield soldiers, and it is a sign to detect whether a sword and shield soldier is elite or not!

'Buzz! More than 30 javelins flew in, and the panicked Burmese soldiers were thrust nearly 10 more, and 80 bars killed the younger 20 enemies, which was quite impressive.

As soon as the rain of two javelins ended, Ye Kai jumped out at the right time, and the cold light of the steel spear in his hand was a little bit, bringing up a puff of blood light.

He Yu'er and Zhu Wensheng finally arrived with a small 300 people, and everyone followed Ye Kai is knife and axe, and the Burmese soldiers completely lost their desire to resist, and they fled back with a howl!

The ancient battlefield was like this, morale represented everything, thousands of Burmese soldiers were fleeing, and Ye Kai's less than 300 people were chasing after him!

"Bang! Bang! The sound of fire rang out, and the Burmese soldier in front of Ye Kai suddenly had blood in his chest, and he fell to the ground with convulsions.

"Stop chasing!" Ye Kai roared wildly and stopped his footsteps, although the sound was loud enough, there were still a few overexcited Guangnan soldiers around him who didn't stop their feet!

"Bang! Bang! The two Quang Nam soldiers trembled and fell to the ground.

Everyone looked up and saw that the elephant with the wounded nose had fallen over by the river, and was whining low and convulsive.

At least three columns of Burmese soldiers lined up in a horizontal formation with muskets, and in front of the horizontal array fell a large number of Burmese soldiers who had been shot in the chest, and a tall Burmese general in gold armor was holding a scimitar and roaring.

"Hurry back! Go back to the stockade! Ye Kai didn't expect his own wave of counterattacks to completely knock the Burmese down, and they were ten times as many as him, so they didn't collapse so easily!

However, the record of this wave is also very good, not counting being trampled to death by elephants, being shot to death by the Burmese themselves, Ye Kai and they have at least cut down more than 100 Burmese, plus these, 300 people can't stop it!

'Woo! Ye Kai and the others quickly retreated, but the Burmese did not pursue, and after the two horns sounded, at least twenty or thirty people were escorted out with their hands tied, and then their heads were cut off in the constant cry for mercy.

Ye Kai shook his head, this is the Burmese executing soldiers who fled without permission, hoping to stabilize morale with severe punishments, and the next wave of attacks will definitely be much more ferocious than this one!

Sure enough, after cutting off the head, the Burmese formed a small phalanx, the road to the stockade was not too wide, almost about twenty people could walk side by side, Ye Kai counted, the Burmese people were about two hundred people in each small phalanx, basically no armor, the Burmese soldiers in the front phalanx were all holding various muskets, and each phalanx was commanded by an officer wearing armor.

Of course, this phalanx is only relative, in fact, it is not very regular, it seems to be a little messy, but it is still full of a sense of oppression that a black cloud is pressing down on the city.

"Ye Shuwu, how do we fight?" He Yu'er's face was solemn, and her tone of voice trembled slightly.

All the people around looked at Ye Kai, the disparity in strength was one to ten, even if the Burmese soldiers on the opposite side were not the most elite part, it was not easy to defeat.

"Let them go, let the gunners as a backup stand on the stockade and shoot at the Burmese, Henry, let your men prepare to shoot the platoon!" Ye Kai took a deep breath and said.

The Burmese soldiers did not swarm over, but chose to form small phalanxes more than ten steps apart, just in case the phalanx in front of them was defeated by Ye Kai and them, which in turn caused the whole army to disperse.

Under this kind of strong pressure of one dozen or ten, Ye Kai estimated that the people on his side could hold out at most until they defeated two or three Burmese attacks, and after the pressure was too great, the inferior side, especially his Huashantang and Quang Nam people, was likely to collapse at any time!

And the Burmese have more than 4,000 people, and it is meaningless to defeat only one or two phalanxes of a few hundred people.