"You're murdering! I am making a senseless sacrifice for the lives of my Burmese warriors! ”

After charging on the battlefield for more than an hour, except for a few lucky lucky people who landed on the Hongtang position and brought some threats and injuries to the Hongtang soldiers who raised their guns and shot, their large troops were destroyed by the ubiquitous death threats on the way to the charge again and again, and fled back in a hurry.

Seeing countless soldiers die in the path of the charge, and finally unable to even complete the task of approaching the Hongtang army, the Burmese general Sori felt heavy and sad.

He sought out the new commander Mata, who scolded him bitterly, trying to persuade him to change his strategy and abandon this useless and costly way of fighting.

"You yourself should know very well that even if we hide in the city and do not have powerful artillery, it will only be a matter of time before the city of Bago is breached by the other side. Now all we need is an opportunity, as long as we can rush into the opponent's position, with the numerical superiority of our army, it is possible to repel the opponent and drive it out of the territory completely! ”

Mata, who can be the manager, is not only famous, but also has some insight in his own right, and his refutation of Sori at this time is the same embarrassing situation they face.

Of course, if Mata had not insisted on going out of the city to fight the Hongtang army, I am afraid that the Burmese army would still be able to rely on the fortifications of Bago City and garrison the city safely.

However, with the long-range weapons possessed by their Burmese army, they wanted to threaten the Hongtang position and the unscrupulous Hongtang artillery on the position, which was really beyond their strength, and they could not reach other people's positions at all.

In the long run, the artillery fire of the Hongtang army will inevitably be opened by the artillery fire of the Hongtang army as it was when it reached the city, and when the Hongtang army presses in again, their huge Burmese army guards the narrow place of Bago City, which is not only not easy for their team to exert, but may even let the Hongtang army catch turtles in the urn.

“……”

The Burmese general Sori was silent for a long time, and finally he couldn't bear to watch today's tragedy happen again, so he forced himself to pick himself up and continue to argue.

"It's better than our army dying so innocently, right? Look at it, it's only been more than half an hour, and more than 5,000 soldiers have already been lost, and my Burmese population is so much, how many 5,000 soldiers are there for us to sacrifice! ”

"Give me one last chance to see if we can attack the positions of the Han army, if not, we will turn back into the city and fight with it without leaving the city."

After all, he is the pillar of the country and his predecessor, and in the face of General Sori's tough attitude, even if Mata has the support of King Talon behind him, he is not too persistent, and said in a slightly soft tone.

"For the last time?"

Sori was a little incredulous, but looking at his sincere eyes and the authority of his own, he had to give in: "Okay, then one last time." ”

"Whew!!"

The long horn sounded, and the Burmese soldiers who had just retreated to the Chinese army camp once again regained their morale at this time, and under the leadership and reprimand of the leaders of the various armies, they took steps and charged forward.

"Elephant soldiers and cavalry are also on me!"

The Burmese cavalry team, which had been cruising around the chariot for a long time, was ordered by Mata at this time, and the knights finally let go of the reins, whipped their mounts and followed closely after the large army of infantry, and launched a charge towards the location of the Hongtang army.

"The front row is ready to shoot!"

"The rear team members put on their bayonets and prepare for hand-to-hand combat!"

The Burmese cavalry on the opposite side began to move, which meant that the opponent was most likely desperate, and without the support of huge artillery fire, the open field would be the best battlefield for the opposing cavalry troops.

The tall and majestic elephant soldiers certainly have their fatal flaws, but just because of their huge size and heavy leather armor, on the way to charge towards the Hongtang position, Hongtang and other muskets may not be able to kill many livestock with tenacious vitality.

This is different from the first battle between Zhao Simei's regiment and the elephant soldiers in the city before, when the upper part was in the narrow city wall collapse position, and the grenades thrown by the Hongtang warriors had the best terrain; And now in the wilderness, the opposite elephant soldier and the cavalry around him have already exerted their speed, even if they use grenades to contain them, they will not pose much threat to this thick-skinned big guy.

The addition of the Burmese cavalry finally put a heavy pressure on the soldiers on the Hongtang front, and soon after the cavalry gave priority to the Hongtang position, the Burmese infantry finally partially rushed into the Hongtang position and gained a foothold in the position.

"Good! Kill Lao Tzu! ”

Mata, who spoke Burmese vernacular, shouted excitedly and excitedly, and it was only now that his heavy heart was relieved.

The shortcomings of the musketeer's relatively slow loading speed have been clearly told to everyone when the Hongtang army used the three-stage shooting, but the three-stage shooting formation made up for the problem of single musket shooting and slow loading of ammunition.

Now, when the valiant Burmese warriors rushed into the line of the Hung Tang army, and the two sides entered a fierce hand-to-hand fight, Mata waited with great confidence for the next change in the war.

The heavy and sluggish elephant soldiers rushed left and right on the Hongtang position, and using their huge volume and weight, the Hongtang soldiers in front of them were all easily trampled under the feet of the elephant soldiers, or simply thrown out by the elephant with a flick of its nose.

"Withdraw!"

Tang Ren and they were not fond of war, after the elephant soldiers and horse soldiers rushed into their positions, they had already begun to take the Chinese troops and the artillery withdrawn from the front line to the second line of defense they had built, and behind them, the soldiers of the Hongtang army who changed from musketeers to pikemen slowly withdrew behind the team that had gone first.

"Raise your gun and aim!"

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

It was a familiar order, and the Hongtang soldiers who retreated to the second line of defense quickly reformed a new battle formation, and in the cheers of the non-commissioned officers, they once again raised their spears to cover the withdrawal of their teammates behind them, and gave the opponent a blow to the entangled team.

After adding a cavalry army and experiencing a ferocious attack, the Burmese army finally taught the Hongtang army a lesson and forced it to retreat more than a mile back.

It was only then that the Burmese army found that if they wanted to pursue, they had to first wade through the plains densely packed with horse pits in the area in front of them, so that they could fight with the Hongtang army again.

It's just that Mata and Sori, who led the army, knew that this seemed to be a horse trap of more than a mile, and it was easy to use infantry to wade through, but if they used elephant soldiers and horse soldiers to wade through, it would be extremely difficult.

"Withdraw!"

Expressionless, he began to persuade again as he watched the battle and the loss of hundreds of Burma's most elite elephant soldiers.

"Withdraw!"

Mata gritted his teeth and looked at the Han army opposite, but he gave an order helplessly.

(End of chapter)