Wu Wentai is a general, he didn't think that the Ming army was all cavalry with war horses, if the Ming army came from the pontoon bridge, the consequence was that he might be wiped out, but he had no choice, he had to block the progress of the Ming army as much as possible, otherwise the Ming army arrived at Mandalay too quickly, and the morale of the main army in Mandalay would be too damaging.

Moreover, it will cause endless panic among the people of Mandalay, at least he will buy the king more time to arrange his troops.

"Order the army to retreat and let the Ming army cross the river!" Wu Wentai ordered the army to retreat five hundred meters and set aside a place for the Ming army to come.

At the same time, he also sent more soldiers to the rear to collect door panels, wooden planks and other things that could block the bullets of the Ming army.

There were 290 of the 300 war elephants left, and this was his only hole card.

"Closely monitor the movements of the Ming army, and once the Ming army comes over and there are more than 1,000 people, report immediately!" After making arrangements, Wu Wentai ordered to the leader of the spies who were monitoring the progress of the Ming army.

"Yes, General!" The leader of the spies immediately went down to arrange surveillance.

Watching the spies go down, Wu Wentai's eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of cold light swept by. Even if the Ming army and others come from the repaired pontoon bridge, in addition to the pontoon bridge, they are also crossing the Nandu River behind them, and when the time comes, he will besiege the small number of troops that the Ming army crossed the bridge with an absolute superiority, and he does not believe that he will not even be able to win like this.

On the north bank of the Nandu River, seeing that the pontoon bridge had been repaired to the last meter, Zhou Cao also ordered the Ming army to prepare to cross the bridge.

"Bang!" The last thick plank was concealed, and the entire pontoon bridge was built.

The pontoon bridge is about three meters wide, and although it can only accommodate up to two cavalry soldiers and horses at the same time because it is a pontoon bridge, it is already extremely amazing, and it is more than twice as efficient as the way of transportation by boat.

"Order, the army crosses the bridge!" Zhou Cao ordered.

The Ming cavalry began to ride their horses onto the pontoon bridge, jogging across the pontoon bridge.

"Da Da Da" The iron horse struck on the pontoon bridge, and the sound was very far away.

About six or seven hundred meters on the south bank, the commander of the Burmese army, Wu Wentai, knew that the Ming army had already begun to cross the bridge without even a spy to come to report.

"Newspaper"

Sure enough, a Burmese army spy quickly ran in front of U Win Thai.

"General, the Ming army has begun to cross the river!" The spy reported.

"Good! The army is ready, just wait for the general to give an order, and immediately attack the soldiers of the Ming army crossing the bridge! A cold glint flashed in Wu Wentai's eyes, and he ordered.

"Yes, General!"

The Burmese army is preparing, and the Ming army crossing the bridge is also preparing for a sneak attack by the Burmese army.

First a hundred cavalry crossed the river, and then no less than ten machine guns were carried across the bridge and placed in a vantage point on the south bank.

After the machine guns were ready, the Ming cavalry sped up to cross the bridge.

Soon, two hundred cavalry, three hundred cavalry, five hundred cavalry

Finally, more than a thousand Ming cavalry crossed the river.

On the side of the Burmese army, Wu Wentai did not hesitate to draw his sword when he got the news.

"Boom!" The sword is pointed forward.

"Order, the whole army attack! Kill," Wu Wentai ordered.

"Kill" Nearly 50,000 Burmese soldiers who had already been prepared besieged the 1,000 Ming cavalry who crossed the river from three sides.

besieged with dozens of times the number of troops, and the Ming army could not quickly come over more soldiers for a while, so they could only fight against the Burmese army with a number of 1,000 people. However, although they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, none of the Ming soldiers felt afraid.

The one who came to command was a division commander of the Ming army.

The commander of the Ming army watched the Burmese army getting closer and closer with an expressionless face, because there were many woods not far from the riverbank, many Burmese soldiers rushed out of the woods, and the Burmese army that rushed out of the woods was only less than 100 meters away from the Ming army's defensive position.

"Fire!"

More than a dozen machine guns placed on three sides opened fire first.

Immediately afterwards, the platoon of Ming soldiers who had given up their horses and re-became infantry also picked up the rifles in their hands and pulled the trigger on the Burmese soldiers who rushed over, and the bullets were instantly discharged.

Because it is in the subtropics and the weather is hot, although Myanmar is a powerful country of this generation, it is actually not economically developed, and at least one-third of the soldiers are not wearing shirts and charging directly bare-chested.

"Poof! Burst! Poof: A topless Burmese soldier was pierced by several bullets.

The bullet pierced his bare back with blood, leaving several bloody holes on his body, which were not covered by clothes, which looked particularly terrifying.

There is no doubt that the shirtless Burmese soldier could not die again, and his body fell to the ground.

Like the topless Burmese soldier, there are many more.

Under the intensive firepower of the Ming army, the Burmese soldiers fell in pieces, suffering heavy casualties.

Even if there were many trees and dirt slopes blocking the trajectory of the Ming army's bullets, the Burmese soldiers could not rush within 30 meters of the Ming army's position on the south bank.

More and more Burmese soldiers are falling, their bodies almost covered the ground.

Even if these Burmese soldiers are the elite of Burma, and they have followed the Burmese king to conquer the Mughal Empire and Siam, Nanzhang and other countries many times, and they can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, but in the Ming army, which is almost equivalent to a massacre, they will also be afraid.

The number of dead and wounded increased, 1,000, 2,000, and finally, the Burmese soldiers could not bear the fear in their hearts and began to retreat without an order to retreat.

Wu Wentai hid from a high place hundreds of meters away to watch the battle, watching his soldiers suffer heavy casualties under the guns of the Ming army, his heart was dripping blood, and he was also afraid.

The Ming army is so powerful, especially those repeating muskets that will always breathe fire, it is unheard of, he is confident, even the Spanish and other foreigners may not have such weapons, but the Ming army actually has them.

Could it be that the few large armies that besieged the Ming army crossing the bridge with dozens of times the number could not be won?

Wu Wentai gritted his teeth and was extremely unwilling.

"It seems that I can only use the war elephants I brought, and I hope to make a contribution!" Wu Wentai secretly decided.

"How much is the wooden shield ready?" Before using the war elephant, Wu Wentai also turned his head and asked the deputy general beside him.

"General Hui, more than 100 pairs of wooden shields have been made!" The lieutenant replied.

Wu Wentai nodded.

The so-called wooden shields of the Burmese army are made of a large number of door panels, wooden boards and other things collected from the rear, several thickened, made into irregular wooden shields that can block the bullets of the Ming army, which is also one of Wu Wentai's hole cards.

Wu Wentai is a general under the command of the king of Burma, and he has some brains and knows that the hole cards need to be taken by surprise to have an effect.

"Order, all war elephants, make a good wooden shield to attack at the same time, be sure to break through the defense of the Ming army, and defeat the Ming army across the bridge!" Wu Wentai ordered that he should use the trump card in his hand at the same time, two hundred and ninety war elephants, and the thickened door panel wooden shield collected and made.