The surprise attack the night before was finally repelled by the super fast reaction of the Hongtang army.

However, Hong Tang's army of 10,000 people was killed more than 1,000 people because of this, and nearly 2,000 were seriously injured.

Of course, the Burmese raid army suffered a lot of losses, and after leaving behind more than 2,000 corpses, the leading general Sori issued a retreat order and pushed the remaining more than 2,000 Burmese soldiers into the cover of the dark night.

Because of the raid the night before, the siege test that was supposed to be launched yesterday turned into the reorganization and recuperation of the Hongtang army, and once again bought a day for the Sori Department of Bago City.

However, what should come will still come after all, after the Hongtang army suffered the secret loss the night before, everyone in the Hongtang soldiers from Tang Ren and below held back a breath in their hearts, vowing to pay the price for the bastard thing in front of them who made them look foreign.

The Hongtang army, which had been cooking early in the morning and had a good army, began to test the city of Bago not long after the sun first rose.

The field artillery carried by the artillery battalion was the first to exert its might, but with the power of the field artillery, unless it was fired intensively on the gate of Bago City, it was still a little reluctant to open the gate of Bago City through artillery for a while.

However, Tang Ren and the others were not in a hurry, behind them, there were also the backups led by Zhao Simei, who were escorting the main guns unloaded from the fleet to attack the city, which was the most suitable weapon.

Therefore, this shelling, as well as the move of sending a small team to attack the city, were just a tentative attack by Tang Ren and his men on the Burmese army's defense of Bago while they were waiting for leisure.

The Hongtang army took the route of an elite team, which came to invade the kingdom of Burma, and the team of 15,000 people was a whimsical thing to look at any other country and team in the East.

However, after communicating with Westerners for a long time, the Hongtang army gradually changed the rigid thinking of the tactics of the Eastern Border people in this era, and realized that it might be difficult to occupy the Burmese kingdom in such a number, but it was not difficult to cross the territory of Burma.

The Hongtang army held out for nearly a week in this way under the city of Bago, during which the Hongtang army did not actually make much action in the siege operation, except for the field artillery and muskets that took turns to destroy and damage the defenders and the defense of the city walls in the city.

It was not until the arrival of the second batch of reinforcements from the Kingdom of Burma that 20,000 Burmese re-recruited troops rushed to the city of Bago from all over the dynasty that the Hongtang army finally made a big move.

Five 48-pounder guns transported from Dacheng began to be carried onto the forts erected in the front-line positions, and together with the remaining dozen or so 24-pounder field guns, they began to carry out an accurate and intensive non-stop bombardment of the southern city wall.

The Burmese reinforcements rushing to the rear, plus all the original troops in the city, the total reached more than 30,000, at this time, under the fierce offensive of the sudden increase of the Hongtang army, it was understood that it was not the right choice to sit back and wait for death at this time, but it was to abandon the strong city defense of Bago City, and the 30,000 army went out of the city to start a duel with the Hongtang army.

The city of Bago was mountainous, but it was enough for 40,000 troops to fight, and with the army of less than 10,000 people in the Hongtang army, it was certainly impossible to besiege the city, so the Burmese army easily completed the assembly of the troops from behind, and killed them neatly and solemnly.

With the lessons learned from the previous experience at Ta Chong, the Burmese cavalry did not enter the battle at the beginning, but moved their positions at all times, so that the artillery of the Hung Tang army could not effectively hit them.

The 20,000 Burmese infantry, which was even larger, began to charge slowly after completing the assembly, and gradually accelerated the pace of their charge, rushing towards the Hongtang position without hesitation.

In the face of the Burmese army, which was originally outnumbered, Hongtang built a position for a week, and one by one Hongtang soldiers were solemn and resolute, sticking to their respective posts, quietly waiting for the next orders of the Lintang soldiers.

"Loaded guns!"

"Raise your gun and aim!"

"Ready!"

"Shoot!!"

It wasn't until the infantry of the Burmese army charged within a hundred zhang of the forefront of Hongtang's position that the Hongtang soldiers could even hear the heavy breathing of the opponent because of running, and the non-commissioned officers of Hongtang's company gave the order to shoot.

"Bang! Bang bang bang! ”

Crisp gunshots rang out, and the Burmese soldiers who rushed to the forefront fell to the ground one after another like harvested grain.

Fortunately or unfortunately, many of the warriors were able to let out tears and wails of pain and so on when they arrived on the ground, which at least proved that they did not die on the spot; And more Burmese warriors, before they fell, had no breath and heartbeat, in the face of the most advanced firearms of this era, unless it was a heavy armor such as full-body plate armor, which might be able to block the shooting of bullets, the rest of the protective armor was not of much use at all.

"The second team stepped forward and raised their guns to aim!"

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang ......"

At this time, the Hongtang soldiers in front of the Hongtang position, like a numb and standard robot with movements, completed the actions of shooting and cleaning without any emotional fluctuations, and did not worry at all about the Burmese soldiers who rushed over at great speed on the opposite side.

As the best means to break through the constraints of muskets in this era, the three-stage shooting is the greatest reliance of Western Europeans to conquer Africa and the American continent with a small number of troops and enslave the local indigenous people.

"Rush! Rush over! ”

For the first time, the Burmese soldiers who really faced off with the Hongtang army in the field and felt the most advanced tactics of this era, fell down in rows, close at hand but far away, and the distance between them, not only did not get closer because of the fearless charge launched by their own side, but gradually became farther away with the sound of gunfire from the Hongtang army, which made the Burmese generals who were in the rear feel ashamed and angry.

Sori had previously confronted the musket advance of the Hongtang army, he originally did not agree with the plan of the decisive battle out of the city, these days he finally delayed the time of the Hongtang army to attack Bago City through other means, and now the new Taloon king's henchman general Mata, as soon as he came up, he relied on his own holding the token of the king of Talon to hold the armies, and was stunned to forcibly advance this field decisive battle.

(End of chapter)