Although the strength of the opponent was far greater than expected, the experience of the previous battles with the Ming army believed that there was no need to annihilate the opponent in a frontal battle in a real sense. Just inflicting a considerable degree of casualties on the other side, and the spread of mosquitoes and even epidemics caused by injuries in such an environment can seriously reduce the opponent's combat effectiveness after a few days to ten days. Even if the opponent's combat effectiveness is the top elite of the ordinary army, it is difficult to compare, one or two thousand people can form a comfortable military formation in such an environment, but it is possible to say that such an army can resist the attack of 100,000 troops and not be annihilated. Say that under the repeated attacks of the 100,000-strong army, it can still bring danger to itself or suffer few casualties? That seems like something simply impossible.

Therefore, when the opponent's position was finally determined and it took more than an hour at dawn for less than two thousand people led by Xiao Xuan to reach a siege from all directions, the attack began violently.

This time, not only the javelins, shield spears, and even the bows and arrows of ordinary soldiers were used in the battle, but also many light artillery and even firearms obtained from the Westerners, which were also scattered to all directions of the attack at this time.

In this case, the enemy troops in the vicinity of the entire new guard battalion were like a steady stream of attackers, which lasted more than ten rounds of attacks from morning to afternoon in just two hours or so, leaving more than 10,000 corpses in front of the position one after another, and the dense corpses soon attracted a lot of mosquitoes and even snakes, insects, and plague, and in just about half a day, many corpses seemed to have begun to show signs of decay.

Although the team was relatively well prepared in terms of epidemic prevention before setting off, Xiao Xuan finally ordered the entire team to break through and move to a safe distance after dark, so as to avoid the harm caused by possible epidemics as much as possible. And just like that, a fierce battle broke out again.

The casualties caused by the 100,000 army in the repeated attacks were only about forty or fifty people, but in the whole process of the transfer of the team, more than 30 more people were killed and injured in the battle. However, after this round of fighting, the Burmese army seems to be well aware of the gap between the two sides in terms of combat effectiveness, and did not pursue again, but only used some peripheral reconnaissance personnel to maintain a general understanding and control of the location of the new guard battalion from all directions.

Through some staff office personnel, Xiao Xuan also roughly estimated what the opponent was likely to pay attention to, but after learning some combat lessons in history, he did not plan to play any tricks to lure the enemy to attack at this time, but launched another attack at dawn the next day.

The Burmese army on the march continued to launch a number of attacks of a harassing nature, but perhaps because too many elite forces were consumed in the previous series of offsets, or perhaps it was not fully exerted, and in the face of such a powerful force as the new guard battalion, at most the attack of a single group of thousands of people could not bring much practical pressure and deterrence.

It was only when the team led by Xiao Xuan approached the area of Ava and prepared to attack the city, the army led by Anabilon finally no longer intended to make any compromises. In the vicinity of this granary, the entire dynasty also threw itself into the decisive battle with the invading enemy with the greatest strength. From the forces of the defenders who went out to attack, the 150,000 troops that the entire dynasty was able to mobilize were thrown into the continuous offensive.

Through some previous reconnaissance, Anabilon believed that the ammunition carrying capacity of more than 1,000 people was limited after all, and the final result under the continuous siege of more than 100,000 troops was only the final game.

However, he did not personally fight the world and win the world, and his combat experience with the most elite forces around Xiao Xuan at this time was still a little too thin. I didn't expect that in many previous operations, in order to deal with various possible situations at close range, the strength of the new guard battalion was not fully exerted, and in many places where the terrain is complex and the visibility distance is not good, the power of the one-headed armor-piercing projectile is not small can not really show its power.

However, in the relatively flat Ava and its neighboring places, the armor-piercing arrows with higher attack accuracy showed a strong ability, often one after another round of attacks, thousands of pre-loaded ammunition, the power of tens of thousands of joules is far from any bed crossbow can be compared to the steel arrows can fly into the crowd with a hit rate of five or six out of ten, bringing thousands of casualties. When the firepower of the entire team could be completely and effectively deployed on a relatively large battlefield, only a few rounds of attacks brought 10,000 casualties and losses, which completely shook the seemingly large enemy group.

Unlike the strong enemies that were still somewhat resilient at the beginning, when the scale of the entire Burmese army's troop mobilization reached more than 100,000 people, to a large extent, it was like the Japanese army at the time of Wanli's aid to Korea, and it was difficult to even reach the level of the main force of the Ming army in the previous period, so it often began to show signs of rout after more than 10% casualties.

When the large army outside the city began to retreat towards the city gates around Ava and even many nearby key roads, the actual combat army formation with limited depth did not exist at this time. The black powder shells that did not seem to be very good in the past also fully reflected the advantage of range at this time, and the whole team did not need to take a certain risk to launch a full-scale counterattack, and they could continue to attack the direction of the most dense fleeing enemy with recoilless steel cannons.

In this case, Xiao Xuan did not strive to use such a small number of troops to completely annihilate the opponent in one battle, but continued to attack Ava.

Although Ava had developed a fairly decent defense over the years, he had never had the experience of dealing with new siege tactics in previous wars, and the forces left behind were in large cases more vulnerable than the previous armies outside the city, so they quickly fell to the new guards.

Under the overwhelming combat strength and firepower, the defenders' will to fight failed to reach some of the heights that the army had reached in previous internal and external operations, and when the city was not large, it was not able to make the defense of the city finally turn into a street battle.

(End of chapter)