[285] Li Dingguo triumphs in Burma 3

When he heard the fleeing cavalry say that the Ming army had crossed the river and that his beloved general Pohoncha had been killed, he felt the irreparable loss caused by his indecision. He was extremely sad and angry, and now he was determined to fight with Li Dingguo no matter what. At this time, although Ta Long also knew that a Ming army on the opposite bank was preparing to cross the river, he took the initiative to retreat and reached a mud-free, flat and hard sandy area, where he let his troops stop and set up a position. The first line of battle was one hundred and fifty war elephants, each about ten meters apart; The infantry stood behind the war elephants and formed a second battle line. Because the horses panicked at the sight of the elephants, so there was no need to worry about the impact of the cavalry in this arrangement, and similarly, the infantry of the Ming army was even worse, if they rushed into the gap of the elephants, not only could the elephants turn around and trample on them, but they were also attacked by the Burmese infantry in the rear row.

However, Li Dingguo, who was on the other side of the river, knew that his advantage was in firearms, and he judged the situation on both sides and decided to divert the enemy, disrupt the formation, and win in the chaos. Li Dingguo placed the firearms in the center and opposed the war elephants of Talon, and instructed them not to enter the battle until they saw their own or artillery disrupt the main force of Talon's cavalry and infantry before charging.

"Bai Wenxuan listens to the order~!" Li Dingguo shouted

"The last general!" Bai Wenxuan stepped forward and responded

"Lead the infantry across the river and set up a moon formation position on the beachhead." Li Dingguo looked at the retreating Burmese army, and he didn't dare to hold it up

"Order!" Bai Wenxuan led the Ming army to successfully cross the Tani River and established four beachheads at the beachhead

"King, let's attack!" Another member of his long, the general Chachai, said

"No, I'm going to wait for the Ming army to cross the river before attacking." He put his hand on the hilt of the sword

Talon simply sent a thousand archers with three old-fashioned artillery pieces to attack the Ming army's booth position.

Now that the Ming army and the Burmese army have entered the range of each other's fire, Bai Wenxuan shouted, and more than 1,000 musketeers immediately fired a rain of bullets at the Burmese army, pressing the enemy position like a mountain and a sea. Talong's archers could not withstand the fierce musket attacks of the Ming army, and they scurried with their heads in their hands.

Just then, the troops of Ainengchi and Tony Jajaja appeared on Talon's left flank. Seeing that Taron had formed a battle formation, Enenche ordered the cavalry and infantry to halt their advance and wait for the firearms units behind to follow. When the firearms unit joined him, Enchi gave them a little rest to recuperate, so as to avoid confronting the spirited enemy before they were too tired to catch their breath.

"The advantage of our army lies in firearms, and the reason why we were killed by the enemy in a panic is because firearms did not exert their power in time." "Later, the Flying Thunder Cannon and the Little Franc Cannon will greet the elephant together, don't save gunpowder and cannonballs for me," said Aineng. ”

"Order."

Ta Long found that his left flank was threatened by the Ming army, so he sent Chachai with 50 elephants, 5,000 infantry, and 5,000 cavalry to protect the left flank.

"Fuck, here it again!" Seeing that the Burmese army was leading the way with elephants again, Ainengqi shouted angrily: "Brothers, let these barbarians grow up our cannons. ”

"Order!"

Boom boom boom ~~

The Flying Thunder Cannon and the Little Franc Cannon tilted the shells to the Burmese elephants, and the frightened and wounded elephants immediately went berserk, and they turned around and collided with the Chachai cavalry, and the Chachai army was immediately in disarray.

"Elephant slave~~ Kill these beasts!" Chachai saw that the elephant was frightened, and had to order the elephant slave to kill the elephant so that his troops would not fall into greater chaos

However, at this moment, Enchi and Tony Jaja pressed closely, holding their positions with their infantry, while firing fiercely at the Burmese army with bows and crossbows and firearms. Zhang Guangbi, the deputy general of Ainengqi, led the cavalry of the Ming army and the Siamese army to gallop up and fight with the Burmese cavalry. The Chachai army, which had lost its elephants, immediately fell into a numerical disadvantage and could only fight and retreat.

Seeing that his left flank was under heavy attack from the enemy, and seeing that he was about to suffer, he hurriedly transferred the cavalry on his right flank. Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Ming army, which had just crossed the river, immediately launched an attack on this pair of cavalry, and the Burmese cavalry suffered from the enemy. Ta Long was again forced to change all his cavalry into a double formation, facing Li Dingguo with a larger number and the strongest fighting force; The other part copes with Enench.

In this way, Ta Long's wishful thinking of launching an attack when the Ming army was halfway across was completely disrupted by Li Dingguo's actions. Taking advantage of the moment when Ta Long divided his troops, Li Dingguo's offensive became more fierce, and the Burmese cavalry facing him head-on was the first to resist, and hurriedly approached their war elephants, as if looking for a shelter from the wind. When Talon's mahouts saw the enemy's cavalry coming, they drove the war elephants forward to stop them. At this time, Li Dingguo's cavalry retreated, and the firearms troops of the Ming army, who had been waiting for the opportunity, cheered and fought bravely, they carried out the machine guns and fierce fire oil tanks, and surrounded the steam ironclad crossbows operated by Dai Zi himself to shoot arrows and breathe fire at the Burmese soldiers and elephant herds who were chasing elephants. The battle was dazzling, encircled, counter-encircled, charged, counter-charged; The two sides attacked and retreated, and the situation was constantly changing.

When the Burmese elephant herd was attacked suddenly, they turned around angrily and charged at the Ming infantry. In the blink of an eye, the infantry in the vanguard of the Ming army was rushed to pieces. Seeing this, the Burmese army mustered up the courage to fight again with the infantry and cavalry of the Ming army. However, in terms of combat effectiveness and combat experience, the Burmese cavalry was no match for the cavalry of the Ming army under Li Dingguo. Not long after, the Burmese cavalry suffered another defeat and had to retreat again to seek refuge from the elephants.

The forward of the Ming army, which had just been rushed to pieces, did not collapse, they avoided the war elephants, and gathered extremely quickly, relying on the superior firearms of the Ming army to carry out a new attack. Now, the Burmese army is being squeezed by the left flank and the front, and the battlefield is shrinking smaller and smaller. The cavalry and infantry of the Burmese army were surrounded in the innermost corner, and the war elephants were also squeezed into a narrow range.

At present, Li Dingguo's two troops have formed a whole, and they take turns to charge, no matter where they rush, they will first inflict heavy casualties on the Burmese army with firearms before retreating. They advance and retreat freely and play with a rhythm. When the elephants came after them, they retreated, and let the firearms bombard the behemoths so hard that as soon as the elephants fled, they chased them, and the musketeers kept moving towards the herd, so that the elephants could hardly hurt them. The snipers of the Ming army specifically attacked the elephant slave on the elephant's neck, and the Burmese army that lost the elephant slave became more and more chaotic.

The Burmese cavalry and infantry were mixed among the elephants, and the wounded or unguarded elephants, in pain, boredom and mania, went mad and rampage, no longer distinguishing between friend and foe. The Burmese army was so angry inside and outside that they had nowhere to hide, many were injured, and many died tragically under the hooves of their own elephants. Eventually, the elephants were too exhausted to run, and they roared and slowly retreated like boats.

"It's now!" Li Dingguo shouted: "Beat the drums, the whole army will assault." At this time, all the Ming troops on the other side of the river crossed the Taba River and participated in the annihilation of the Burmese army with full spirit. They formed a dense formation, constantly squeezing the needles and threads of the Burmese army. The final battle had in fact turned into a massacre of one side against the other, with the two youngest sons of Thron, and all the commanders of the elephant corps, the chariot convoy and the cavalry all killed. There was not much left of the infantry commander.

On Li Dingguo's side, only 450 cavalry and more than 3,000 infantry were killed, most of whom died at the beginning of the battle. Although Taron was defeated in this battle, he performed well in the battle. He doesn't

Only a noble king, but also an outstanding warrior. Seeing his infantry and elephants slaughtered piece by piece, and seeing his cavalry fall beside him, he still galloped on the battlefield, never running away, never laying down his weapons. And the loyal Chachai also held his war elephant in one hand and a steel knife in the other, never leaving his left and right.

"What a warrior!" Li Dingguo saw his demeanor and was deeply admired, so he ordered his soldiers not to kill him. When the battle was over, he still rode his elephant high, wandering lonely on the edge of the corpse-strewn battlefield, unable to bear to leave for a long time. His right shoulder was wounded, and his blood-stained armor was stained, but that didn't detract from his heroism.

"Send a Siamese to persuade him to surrender!" Li Dingguo first sent the Siamese general Tony Jaja to persuade Talong to surrender.

Tony Jajaja came to the elephant where Talon was riding, restrained him from a distance, and said in a loud voice: "Taron, surrender, it is useless to run away." ”

When he looked closely, he saw that it was his old enemy, the Siamese, so without saying a word, he immediately turned the elephant's head and rushed over with a spear. "Die!" With all his might, Taron threw the spear in his hand at Tony Jaja.

Tony Jaja hurriedly reined in his horse's head, dodged the spear, and reluctantly returned to the Ming army's formation.

"Sure enough, it's a hero!" Li Dingguo sighed, "Sniper~~" He waved his hand and said: "The more heroic the enemy king, the more he can't stay." ”

Bang

With a crisp gunshot, his head tilted and he fell headlong into the elephant tower. And Chachai was stunned for a moment, and he didn't hesitate to pull out his knife and kill himself. In the battle of the Taba River, the 100,000 Burmese army was annihilated, and Li Dingguo's prestige was greatly shaken. Subsequently, Li Dingguo marched westward and joined Wu Sangui in Awa, the capital of Burma.

In March of the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, Li Guozhu, the right attendant of the Ming Rite Department, came to Ava, read out the edict of the Ming Emperor, and canonized the pro-Ming faction of Mangda as the king of Burma, and Myanmar became a subject country of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Daming also announced the resumption of the Mengyang Propaganda Division, the Mubang Propaganda Division, the Myanmar Propaganda Division, the Eight Hundred Propaganda Division, and the Laos Propaganda Division in Myanmar and northern Siam; The Ming army established a concession in Yangon; Myanmar joins the Greater China Co-Prosperity Circle and other conditions. Later generations referred to this series of provisions as the Treaty of Min-Burma-Ava.