How did you enjoy the moon last night?

Surin Province.

The southeast of Siam is an important transportation point, over the mountains, and to the south is Chenla. The mountains are dotted with many Khmer and Mon villages, in which the neighing of elephants can be heard from time to time, and occasionally children will ride on the back of elephants and go to the riverside to drink water accompanied by adults.

And the great camp of Wang Bao was set up on the plain in front of the mountain.

As in the previous camps, two trenches and foxholes were dug in front of the camp to serve as fortifications and drainage ditches. The excavated red clay was tamped by the prisoners of war who served as coolies, and a low wall was built five feet high and three feet thick. Then reserve an exit passage on the wall to act as an entrance. On both sides of the passage, artillery barricades were erected, and six twelve-pounder guns and eight large franc machines blocked the possibility of storming the camp.

Behind the earthen wall, the soldiers of the Phoenix Battalion supervised the prisoners of war to cut down trees and erect wooden fences, and between the earthen walls and the wooden fences, a trench eight feet wide and five feet deep was densely covered with bamboo sticks. The earth from the trench was rammed behind the wooden fence and another earthen wall was built, and a small Franc machine was placed on the gun emplacements on the wall, and next to the small Franc machine, there were neatly arranged perforations.

In the middle of the camp, the battalion flag of the Phoenix Battalion and the banner commanded by Wang Bao's Southern Route Army fluttered on the high flagpole.

At this moment, the owner of the banner was observing the formation of the Siamese army on the plain in front of the camp.

The battalion officers of the Phoenix Battalion, together with Wang Bao, looked at the opposite side with a monocular made of brass lenses, and in the clear lens of the telescope, the situation of the Siamese army was unobstructed:

The Siamese army lined up on the plain, as if dyed a golden red in the morning sun. In front of the infantry phalanx, nearly 100 war elephants entered their positions one by one under the care of the elephant slaves, and in the bamboo tower on the back of the elephants, several musketeers could be faintly seen.

To defend against enemy weapons on both the front and flanks, each elephant was draped in huge armor and long knives tied to its long tusks. A few elephant slaves are bowing their heads to untie the thick chains that lock the elephant's legs so that these behemoths can run and kill as much as they want in the upcoming battle.

In front of the queue of war elephants, there are twenty-two cannons, the gunners are nervously carrying shells and gunpowder, and the coolies, under the command of the officers, laboriously adjust the muzzles and positions of the guns, so that the guns can exert the maximum killing effect. The huge body consumption made the upper body of the coolies still sweat in this New Year's weather.

In front of the infantry phalanx, the officers rode on their dwarf horses and looked at the same clairvoyance. Behind him was a crowd of people who couldn't see the eye as far as the eye could see.

The soldiers were armed with spears, slender Burmese swords at their waists, and their dark faces were full of desire to kill, "Kill these Ming people, their baggage, money, and Zhenla, which was once a subject of Siam, will be ours!" ”

"The Siamese army is mainly armed with three types of weapons, spears, Burmese knives, muskets, and artillery and war elephants as killer weapons." The Siamese officer stationed in Surin Province, who was rebelled by the Han Yuan merchants, the Chinese Hongcha, pointed to the Siamese army in the distance with his hand and introduced the situation one by one.

"Who is the general on the other side?" Battalion officer Peng Kun counted the flags of the Siamese army and asked about Hong Cha.

"Lord Peng, the chief general of the Siamese army, if I am not wrong about the banner, it should be Wo Luo Weng, this person is the favored minister of Siamese Song Tan in front of the powerful minister, the most cunning and greedy, this time he commanded the 50,000 Siamese soldiers, more than 100 war elephants, and four or five thousand war horses, undoubtedly a moth to the fire and seek his own death."

"On the left side of the Wo Lo Ong Banner Formation, that small formation, is the Japanese Volunteers in Ayutthaya, all of whom are Japanese people who make a living in Siam, good at using firearms and long knives, and it is said that they are all defeated warriors in the country, who came to Siam to make a living and do business in order to avoid disaster. According to their establishment, judging from the flag, it should be one preparation, up and down six hundred people. Headed by the Japanese people, the leading figures of the Japanese in Ayutthaya, Tsuda and Saemon and Yamada Nagamasa. Tsuda was the general officer of the Wa people in front of the King of Siam Songtan, and he was also the largest official in the Siamese court. Yamada, on the other hand, is the leader of the Japanese people and is the most capable of fighting. ”

"The artillery was cast with the help of the Dutch and Portuguese in Ayutthaya, and the musketeers were also trained by the Portuguese. The Dutch fought openly and secretly with the Portuguese, so this time Wo Luo Ong brought troops to come, and the Dutch excused themselves in every way, and the Portuguese, because of the old enmity with the general in Quang Nam, so they poured in. Commander, please see, on the right side of the Voroon banner array, is the phalanx of Portuguese soldiers, who are good at using spears and firearms. ”

"In every battle, the Siamese army must first bombard the enemy position with artillery, and then the battle is like a surprise attack, and when the enemy formation is confused and rushed, the musketeers come forward and shoot with muskets, and the swordsmen and musketeers then come forward. If the enemy army also has war elephants, it is the war elephants fighting each other, and the musketeers come forward. ”

After listening to the tactics used by the Siamese army, Wang Bao laughed, "For most of the past half a year, in addition to dealing with those savage villages, as well as the tofu soldiers of Zhenla, the real hard battle has hardly been fought, and we only care about the march, everyone will let go of their hands and feet today and kill a big fight, and those guys from the guard battalion and the sailor division of the province laugh at our Phoenix battalion only to march and make a fortune, not to fight a tough battle!" ”

Since Wang Bao received the task under the city of Hue and waved his army to conquer Chenla, almost everywhere he went, the local defenders of Chenla were about to collapse, and the officials who captured the prisoners and surrendered the city learned that over the years, Zhenla has been in the point of being abused by Siam and the Ruan family in turn, and the officials and soldiers have long been accustomed to the days when Qin came to surrender Qin Chu came to surrender Chu, and resisted desperately? Excuse me, why?!

This offensive continued to the city of Phnom Penh.

Phnom Penh is an ancient capital and the largest city in the country. It is located on the west bank of Four Arms Bay, which is the confluence of the Upper Mekong, Lower Mekong, Tonle Sap and Basha Rivers, where these four rivers converge into a wide expanse of water and stretch out into the distance like four huge arms. Cambodians call this water surface "Simian River", and the local overseas Chinese have given it an image name called "Four Arms Bay". At that time, overseas Chinese called it "Jin Ben", in Cantonese, the pronunciation of "Ben" and "Bian" is very close, and over time, Jin Ben evolved into "Phnom Penh" in Chinese, which has been used to this day.

Originally, I thought that under the city of Phnom Penh, I could do a big job, but unexpectedly, I saw from a distance the fleet of the Nanzhong Naval Division moored on the bay, and a tiger head made of gold and silver on the bow of a ship led by Zhang Xiaohu was the front camp of Zhang Xiaohu's Sailor Xuanwu Battalion.

Zhang Xiaohu brought Wang Bao a supply of ammunition and a thousand recruits, two guys who didn't know what they were afraid of, they went hand in hand by land and water, conquered Phnom Penh in one fell swoop, poor Zhenla royal family, even the gold and silver were too soft to pack, they were captured by the soldiers of the Phoenix Battalion, and were sent to Hejing by Zhang Xiaohu to see Li Shouhan.

Zhenla people are called rich and noble, and the palaces and temples in the royal city are often decorated with gold and paved with silver as bricks. The most luxurious. And there is also a saying that "women are easy to obtain, houses are easy to manage, tools are easy to use, and business is easy to buy", less than two days after entering the city, women are in and out of the barracks, soldiers are drunk, and there are signs of laxity in military discipline.

That's not going to work! Looking at those young men who were brave and unbeatable not long ago, and in the blink of an eye, they became heroes rolling in the pile of fat powder, Wang Bao and Zhang Xiaohu immediately made a decision, led the troops to withdraw from Phnom Penh, and sent people north to ask Shouhan to send people to take over this place, Wang Bao led the troops to the west and swept all over Zhenla.

After several skirmishes, more than a dozen large and small stockades were uprooted, and the soldiers of the Phoenix Battalion also recovered to the state they were in before the capture of Phnom Penh. However, in the course of continuing the operation, a new problem arose.

Many Miao villages, knowing that the main commander of the Ming army in front of them is the Miao family, and there are also many Miao family members among officers and non-commissioned officers, they immediately came to join the army, asking to contribute to the army in front of the army, as long as we can be included in the Phoenix Battalion.

There are also people such as Jingpo people who make the same request. The reason is the same, "In your camp, there are my Jingpo people (Wa people, etc.), why can't I join the army?" How do we treat them the other way? ”

How can this be?

Staying is the easiest, and it is also very useful for conquering places. But where do the salaries and weapons come from? If you don't stay, firstly, the troops will be insufficient, and secondly, it will hurt the hearts of your fellow clansmen.

"On the way to the south, if there are those who are willing to join them, they can be organized into foreign battalions, and the required weapons and military salaries will be temporarily spent in the seizure. After being tested and having made meritorious contributions, they will be formally organized and trained as an army. With the permission of the Shouhan, Wang Bao boldly contained and used these tribal soldiers to strengthen his momentum.

"The enemy army has more than 10,000 soldiers of the Phoenix Battalion, and thousands of people in the center, which should be the headquarters of the enemy general Wang Bao, the soldiers on the left and right wings, the formation is chaotic, the banners are complicated, and the knives, guns and instruments are different, so they should be the surrendered troops that Wang Bao received along the way." Wo Luo Weng carefully studied Wang Bao's military formation from the binoculars.

Comparing the lineup of the Siamese army, the size of the formation of the South Central Army is not so imposing, the reason is simple, there are not so many elephants. At the front of the military formation, there were more than 40 artillery pieces of various sizes, 24 large and small guns, 6 12-pounder guns, and 14 8-pounder guns. These cannons, along with the artillery in the camp, were dragged all the way from Hue City by the soldiers, and I don't know how many buffaloes died of exhaustion on the way.

Behind the artillery team, there are cars, there are only wooden frames on the cars, and there seem to be a few winch things that can be vaguely seen next to the wooden frames.

Wang Bao himself and a group of officers rode in front of his military formation, and the lineup behind him surprised Yamada Nagamasa, not the three-fold formation that he remembered that the Ming army was used to, nor the so-called Spanish phalanx that he had seen in Siam and Quang Nam, but another formation.

In front of the military formation, there were several rows of iron gunners, standing side by side, there were more than 1,000 people from the south to the north, and if it was three columns, there were about 4,000 iron gunners. At the end of the line of iron gunners were columns of sword and shield soldiers, arranged vertically from west to east, the long knives in the hands of the warriors flashing sharply in the sun.

Beside the sword and shield soldiers, that is, the outermost layer of the formation, were four columns of pikemen, each of whom was dressed in armor, with an eight-petal hat and an iron-tipped helmet on his head, and held a spear called the mourning spear, which was called the strongest three spears by the Japanese people. Looking at the armor on the opposite side, and then at the iron-clad armor on his body, and the array of feathers outside, Yamada Nagamasa suddenly felt that it seemed that this battle was not so easy. "I hope these Ming people, like what their ancestors said, are beautiful on the outside and cowardly on the inside."

"But that's it!" Wo Luo Weng was full of confidence, "As long as you defeat thousands of people in Wang Bao's headquarters, the rest of the clan soldiers will be scattered in a hurry." In the shot, the soldiers outside the Phoenix Battalion on the left and right wings, although they are also a team of 100 people, they cannot be compared with the Phoenix Battalion in terms of military appearance and discipline.

The banner waved, and a general jumped out, "Please General Mingguo come out and talk!" ”

Peng Kun glanced at Wang Bao, Wang Bao nodded, his legs were clamped, and the little Dian horse under his crotch ran forward unhurriedly.

A few words of the scene are nothing more than why they violated my borders, my Heavenly Empire's army, to be rebellious, you don't know whether to live or die, vainly trying to use your mantis arm as a car to resist the heavenly soldiers.

After that, they returned to their teams and prepared for battle.

"Our army, the various units of the Phoenix Battalion take nine steps forward. Peng Kun, Hong Cha, each of you will bring a sentry musketeer, and go to the left and right flanks to suppress the bullets. Order them not to move in place, to attack when they hear the order, and if they dare to move, behead! ”

With Wang Bao's order, the trumpeter blew the brass trumpet, waved the flag, and the phoenix battalion in the middle of the military formation marched forward neatly, forming a slightly prominent pattern. The two sentry musketeers separated from the Phoenix Battalion, under the leadership of Peng Kun and Hong Cha, sent orders to the left and right flanks respectively.

"Fire!" The Voloon ordered the flag to wave, and the gunners, under the command of the Portuguese officers and sergeants, nervously loaded and aimed.

"Boom!" A shell was fired. Rushed straight towards the military formation of the Phoenix Battalion.

With a muffled sound, the shell struck a soldier, who fell to the ground, his head no longer knowing where it had gone, and the shell slowly swept past the two musketeers, flew behind the formation, bounced a few times in the clearing, and rolled aside.

Boom Boom! The shell just now was obviously a test firing, and the main event was sung. Twenty-two guns, under the command of the Portuguese officer, were divided into two groups, one group opened fire, the other assembled and filled, and the artillery fire was continuous.

Each wave, more than a dozen shells fell into the formation, and the two successive waves killed more than a dozen Phoenix Battalion soldiers were killed and more than 30 soldiers were injured, more than half of whom would be disabled.

"Sure enough, it's a strong army!" The wisdom of the Japanese volunteers on the opposite side, Yamada Nagamasa, stared at the whereabouts of the shells, "I actually suffered more than 40 cannons, and the formation was not chaotic, and I didn't shout or get dry." He looked back at his men, and although the Japanese were known to be strong, and had set a record in Siam for attempting a palace coup d'état with less than 300 men, he did not dare to face such a cannon fire.

After two rounds of artillery fire, the sound of the cannons on the opposite side began to thin out, and the gunners ordered the coolies to bring water from the rear to cool the hot barrels. Buckets of clear water were splashed on the bronze cannon, making a stabbing sound, and the clear water instantly turned into hot gas and flew into the air.

"Order the elephants to rush forward!"

As Wo Luoweng's orders were passed on from one level to another, the war elephants began to move forward little by little under the drive of the elephant slaves, and after crossing the artillery position, the elephants began to accelerate, and the soldiers in the bamboo tower also began to load the muskets with gunpowder and projectiles, and put their spears in the most convenient positions, ready to slaughter in the upcoming battle.

The ground of the earth seemed to begin to tremble under the dense frequency of hundreds of thick elephant legs, and the war elephants let out terrifying neighing sounds from time to time, as if the Shura Hell was just around the corner.

"It's this set again!" Wang Bao put down the monoculars and snorted contemptuously. "The Ruan family is like this, and the Siamese army is the same, so there is nothing new?"

"My lord, are we opening artillery to intercept?!"

"Flag! Fire! ”

The trumpeter waved the command flag in his hand, and there was an immediate roar from the artillery position, and the twelve-pound cannon was the first to speak, welcoming these behemoths in the warmest language.

"You can return the ivory to Ye Shaoning when you go back." Wang Bao looked at the trajectory left by the cannonball in the air, and couldn't help but feel a little proud. "I'll have to add interest!"

Within a range of less than two miles, the Twelve-pounder was the most powerful range, and several war elephants that had been hit head-on fell to the ground in an instant, their armor pierced by shells, and Nail Leaf became an accomplice to the murder.

Two cannonballs hit the legs of the two elephants, the war elephant suddenly let out a mournful roar, fell to the ground on its side, and the warrior in the bamboo tower also fell to the ground with a wolf, and was about to get up from the ground, when another war elephant rushed forward with its head down, and the two musketeers were trampled by the war elephant and the flesh was blurred.

Such a scene of flesh and blood flying and human life like mustard, I have long seen the soldiers of the outer battalion on the left and right wings trembling one by one, it turns out that fighting a war is completely different from fighting a wrongdoer!

The bombardment of the twelve-pounder cannon caused the momentum of the war elephants to stagnate slightly, but only for a moment, and under the order of the officer leading the team, the war elephants adjusted their formation slightly, widened the distance, and lined up in two columns to continue to rush forward.

"Your Excellency!" Seeing that the artillery team was desperately firing shells, but the effect was not ideal, seeing that the advance of the war elephant was only more than a hundred steps away from the artillery team, an officer's face changed, "Why don't I take someone up and kill it!" Pick up the brothers of the artillery team! ”

"No!" Wang Bao roared, "Rocket!" Oil Arrows! Aim at the war elephant for Lao Tzu and shoot! ”

In Voloon's eyes, the winch on the car acts as a high-low machine and a steering machine, and under the violent shaking of the operator, the rocket launch frame is ready, and one rocket after another is taken out of the wooden box and quickly loaded into place.

In recent years, with the continuous promotion of rice and fish farming and other technologies, fish has become less and less valuable on the territory of Shouhan, and fish oil has appeared in large quantities. At first, the people of the Taipingdong Arsenal wanted to make oil jars from fish oil and use them to set fires. However, when Shouhan learned about the design idea, he asked strangely, why not boil the fish oil to refine the benzene inside? Add it to the fire oil or light oil to make the oil semi-solid. In this way, the leakage of oil rockets during transportation, which everyone has been complaining about before, will no longer exist.

What benzene is, everyone does not know, but it is always good to listen to the general. What's more, the use of fish oil to make incendiary materials such as oil jars was a very mature technology in the Five Dynasties period.

As a result, a semi-solid fierce fire oil rocket that resembles human excrement came into being. The amount of oil and the power have been greatly increased.

"Ignition! Launch! ”

Rockets let out a series of strange screams, streaked across the sky, and flew over the artillery positions, frightening the artillery brothers more terrified than facing the onslaught of war elephants. "Damn! Which guy is using this behind Lao Tzu's back? I want to kill the old people! ”

The intensity of rocket firing was obviously far beyond that of artillery, and after the first round of rocket launches, a wall of fire was formed in front of the road of the war elephants, and several small piles of fire were connected to form a wall of fire, which burned on the ground. The war elephants snapped back, trying to figure out where the beating flames were coming from.

"Whoosh!" The second round of launches followed, and this one the target was the formation of war elephants. Several rockets even fell on the bamboo tower carried by the war elephants, and suddenly a fire ignited, and the soldiers in the bamboo tower did not have time to escape, so they were hit by oil rockets, and let out bursts of screams like ghosts. The changes that happened on their backs naturally affected the mood and courage of the war elephants, and several war elephants with fire on their backs began to rush left and right, trying to fall off the danger on their backs, and kept colliding with the surrounding elephant comrades, impacting, and the warriors on the war elephants began to panic, and they tried to control the war elephants and let them temporarily leave this fire purgatory.

"Big Buddha Machine! Change the shotgun! "Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, the officer in command of the artillery is obviously not a caring animal protectionist, and cannot do anything to stop the transport of canines on the highway.

The gunners quickly loaded eight shotguns slightly smaller than walnuts and said, "Fire!" ”

One hundred and ninety-two shotguns, with the help of gunpowder, quickly pounced on the war elephant that was struggling in the flames a hundred paces away, with an incessant popping sound and a muffled sound, about less than twenty percent of the shotguns penetrated the armor and drilled into the body of the war elephant.

Several war elephants were in pain, but after a violent roar, the man stood up, and after the two thick front legs fell, several soldiers who had escaped from the elephant's back and were rejoicing were immediately slapped into meat patties.

When the gunners didn't have time to take out the guns and replace them with new ones, the third round of oil rockets became the murderers who killed the last vestiges of the war elephants.

The rockets were still flying in the air along their own determined trajectory, and the war elephants had quickly discerned the most fatal sound from the many voices of the complex battlefield.

Led by the elephants, all the war elephants roared wildly and turned and fled to the place where they had set out, which they believed was the safest.

"Enough heat!"

Wang Bao's command flag waved, and three columns of musketeers, carrying muskets on their shoulders, marched forward in unison.

"Send someone to inform the left and right flanks, and stand by to attack!"

The war elephants continued to frantically flee towards their own formation, and in the blink of an eye, they had escaped the artillery position, and the elephants still knew very well that these huge canisters would shoot out flames and kill people, oh no, the big iron balls that would kill the elephants, it was better not to provoke them.

Grazing the edge of the artillery position, the war elephants rushed towards their own formation.

"Quick! The formation is scattered! Make way for these guys! Looking at the oncoming behemoth, and listening to the screams of the soldiers in the bamboo tower, Wo Luo Weng was also terrified. The bamboo towers on the backs of several war elephants have been tilted to the side, and the soldiers are crying and shouting on the war elephants running at high speed, and several soldiers are even thrown out of the bamboo tower, grabbing the things on the elephant's back with all their strength, and can't stop making a terrible cry for help. Their companions, the consequences of being thrown to the ground, they all saw it, and the people who were talking and laughing just now turned into a pile of blood and a mess of flesh in the blink of an eye.

6,000 words to offer.,Continue to ask for a recommendation collection evaluation.,And then desperately code words.,See if you can make another chapter at night.。

For mobile phone users, please read it on m.biquge.info.