On the north bank of the Nandu River, Zhou Cao was riding on horseback to watch the battle.

Seeing many wounded war elephants rushing into the Annan position, Zhou Cao was furious.

"What's the matter, such a little war elephant can't stop it, and it actually let them rush into the position and cause casualties!"

In fact, if it weren't for the Ming soldiers in the south bank position, when the war elephants were injured and scurrying around just now, they stopped shooting for a period of time, but continued to shoot one after another, plus the assistance of grenades, even without the support of the artillery of the north bank artillery battalion, the nearly 300 war elephants of the Burmese army would definitely not be able to rush into the position.

However, things did not happen, and several war elephants had already rushed into the position.

"Order, all artillery volleys, extended bombardment, completely block the way for the soldiers of the Burmese army to attack!" Zhou Cao ordered with a cold face.

Originally, it was only necessary to defend the position on the south bank and let the army continue to cross the bridge, and there was no hurry to defeat the Burmese army on the south bank, so the artillery on the artillery camp position was too lazy to use, and even if it was used, it was only a hundred cannons ready to fire at any time, but in the current situation, not only should the artillery be used, but Zhou Cao also ordered 800 cannons to fire a salvo to extend the artillery bombardment.

South.

Not only did the war elephants rush into the Ming army's position, but the Burmese soldiers hiding behind the door shield also rushed into the Ming army's position, but after all, there were only more than 100 pairs of those door shields, which could provide more than 300 Burmese soldiers to hide behind, and there were less than 100 Burmese soldiers who could rush in front of the Ming army, and there were only more than 40 Burmese soldiers who could kill the Ming army.

However, about a dozen war elephants and more than 40 Burmese soldiers rushed into the Ming army's formation, which still caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

Of the 290 war elephants, about 170 were shot by the Ming army on the road, but there were still nearly 120 war elephants alive, and even if these war elephants were injured, they were blindfolded and continued to control the Ming army.

There were more and more war elephants rushing into the Ming army's formation.

The two Burmese soldiers riding on the back of the elephant kept stabbing the Ming soldiers with spears several meters long, and dozens of Burmese soldiers who also rushed into the Ming army with door shields also fought fiercely with the Ming soldiers with their blades.

In such a close-range engagement, rifles played little role, and a large number of Ming soldiers drew their swords and fought fiercely with the war elephants and Burmese soldiers who rushed into the formation.

Ahead, the Burmese army.

Seeing that there were war elephants and soldiers rushing into the Ming army's formation.

Wu Wentai was overjoyed, and once again the whole army of the Ming army and the Burmese army attacked, and he wanted to take this opportunity to annihilate more than 1,000 Ming soldiers who had reached the south bank.

"Kill" the main force of more than 40,000 Burmese troops charged.

The Burmese soldiers were excited, they were beaten too badly by the Ming army just now, and they couldn't even rush to the Ming army to fight, they were only slaughtered by the Ming army in the distance, but there were war elephants and the forty or so soldiers who rushed into the Ming army's formation to open the way, the Ming army's firepower had been sparsely softened, and they were looking forward to rushing into the Ming army's formation and killing a few Ming soldiers to take revenge.

The main force of more than 40,000 Burmese troops had just launched a charge, and the soldiers who rushed to the front were still forty or fifty meters away from the Ming army's defensive position, and the fierce artillery fire brought by the salvo of 800 artillery guns of the Ming army also fell on their heads.

"Boom Boom"

Eight hundred cannons, a salvo with all its might that did not leave behind, instantly dumped a large number of shells.

The dense explosions of artillery shells continued one after another, almost never stopped, and all three sides of the Ming army's front of the formation, about forty or fifty meters away, were blocked by fierce artillery fire.

A large number of Burmese soldiers were killed in the charge.

Under the volley of 800 artillery pieces of the Ming army, the Burmese soldiers finally knew what it meant to be called a sea of fireworks.

Under such intensive artillery fire, no Burmese soldiers could survive at all, and a large number of Burmese soldiers were torn apart by artillery shells, and their bodies were blown into the sky.

The Burmese soldiers in the back looked at the artillery fire in front of them and those comrades who were torn apart in the artillery fire, and suddenly fell into a stupid place, their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and they did not dare to rush into the sea of fire that continued to explode violently.

However, since the Ming army used all the artillery fire, the role was certainly not only to block the way of the main force of the Burmese army.

I saw that the artillery fire of the Ming army was extended, extending from the place of intensive shelling just now to the back.

"Boom Boom"

Almost instantaneously, the artillery fire extended to where Wu Wentai was.

"Ah" Wu Wentai was overturned by the blazing waves generated by a cannonball that exploded not far away, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

800 artillery shells, almost every shell took the life of at least one Burmese soldier, and in a short period of shelling, thousands of Burmese soldiers were killed and wounded, and the road to the Ming army's position was directly blocked.

The main force of the Burmese army, which had been charged, was defeated and retreated under artillery fire.

At this time, on the Ming army's position, except for about 70 war elephants that rushed into the position and more than 40 Burmese soldiers who rushed in by the wooden shields of the door panels, no war elephants and Burmese soldiers were able to break through the fierce artillery fire and rush in.

At this moment, the Burmese army changed from less than 2,000 Ming troops on the Ming army's position dozens of times to nearly 2,000 Ming troops on the Ming army's position, besieging dozens of war elephants and dozens of Burmese soldiers.

The commander of the Ming army, who commanded the defense of the position on the south bank, had a blue face.

Just now, he was negligent for a moment, and he actually let the Burmese elephant herd and dozens of soldiers rush into the position, which was really shameless and humiliating.

Even if the Ming army does not use firearms, it is also a first-class elite with a horse chopping knife.

Dozens of Burmese soldiers and dozens of war elephants who rushed into the Ming army were besieged by nearly 2,000 Ming troops, and in just a moment, all the dozens of Burmese soldiers were killed, leaving only about 40 war elephants on the rampage.

"Cut off the trunk of the war elephant!" Knowing that one of the weaknesses of war elephants was their noses, the Ming generals immediately shouted to the other Ming soldiers.

Immediately, the Ming soldiers did their best to chop the nose of the war elephant.

The noses of some war elephants were cut off, and even more crazy rampage, and many Ming soldiers were also bumped into and stepped on.

There were also Ming soldiers who directly pulled the fuse of the grenade and threw it into the back tower on the back of the war elephant.

With a bang, not only the two Burmese soldiers in the back building were killed, but the war elephants were also directly killed.

The perfect way to restrain a war elephant is to use a grenade.

Immediately, the Ming soldiers used a large number of grenades, sometimes, at the same time, three or four grenades were thrown into the back tower on the back of the war elephant at the same time, and three or four grenades exploded at the same time, not only killing the Burmese soldiers who operated the war elephant above, but also directly tearing the huge body of the war elephant to pieces.

With the perfect method of restraining the war elephants, dozens of war elephants who rushed into the formation were all killed in a short time, and the Ming army regained full control of the defensive positions, and the machine gunners rearranged the defenses.

On the periphery, the Burmese army actually had war elephants and dozens of soldiers rushing into the position and killing and wounding dozens of Ming soldiers, and the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army continued to extend, chasing the Burmese army's defeat and retreating place and bombarding it fiercely.

"Boom Boom" is equivalent to a cannon with the power of 5,000 redcoat cannons, extending the shelling and shelling in five directions.

The main force of more than 40,000 Burmese troops was not only bombed to the ground, but also continued to be bombed even in the later retreat.

It was not until they fled a distance of nearly 3,000 meters that the main force of the more than 40,000 Burmese troops escaped from the bombing.

The Burmese army general Wu Wentai woke up, understood the current situation, and suddenly his face was full of grief and indignation, thinking that he could rush into the Ming army's array with the trump card of 290 war elephants and some door shields, and defeat the more than 1,000 troops of the Ming army crossing the river.

However, there were war elephants and soldiers who rushed into the Ming army's formation, but the absolute strength of the Ming army was too terrifying, just looking at the artillery fire just now, there was no need for the Ming soldiers to participate, and the artillery alone could defeat the army of more than 40,000 charges.

With absolute strength, any stratagem is useless.

Wu Wentai looked desperate, it seemed that he could not stop the Ming army from crossing the river, and he couldn't even delay the time for the Ming army to cross the river.

"General, the Ming army is too strong, and the soldiers are all frightened, what should I do now?" A Burmese army general asked U Win Tai Dao.

At present, there are about 38,000 remaining troops in the Burmese army, who have been killed and wounded, and more than 10,000 have been damaged.

"Withdraw, withdraw to Mandalay!" Wu Wentai ordered weakly.

There is no way to stop the Ming army from crossing the river, nor can it delay the time for the Ming army to cross the river, retreat is their only choice, otherwise once the Ming army has enough numbers to cross the river, the Ming army may completely annihilate them with the mobility of war horses!

In this way, U Win Tai retreated with the remaining 38,000 Burmese troops and rejoined the Burmese king in Mandalay.

The Ming army was also crossing the river as fast as possible, and after the whole army crossed the river, they immediately went to Mandalay and approached the city of Mandalay.