361 The Battle of the Two Heroes (Part II)
The artillery team withdrew, and the artillery of both sides ended, and then according to the custom, the infantry began to fight against each other, more than 3,000 musketeers and a group of archers here in Burma were ready, and the musket team of more than 1,000 mercenaries trained by the Portuguese and more than 2,000 Burmese gunners was the largest musket team in Southeast Asia at this time, and the Siamese musket team of about 2,000 people was facing each other.
Not only that, but the other branches of the army are also ready, ready to attack at any time, and even Narixuan has faintly heard the sound of elephants, and any Siamese in Burma will also be ready.
It's not that there is no cavalry, not to mention the quality of the horses here, just in this kind of terrain and situation, the cavalry is useless at all, the cavalry needs to play the maximum effect in the open wilderness, and Southeast Asia is often heavy rain downpours jungle dense forest, Xiao Ruxun only brought more than 500 cavalry and more than 1,000 horses as symbolic meaning, Burma and Siam will certainly not use cavalry in such a situation.
In fact, if this is really a plain, Xiao Ruxun will definitely bring a group of Jurchen cavalry and Liaodong Han cavalry over, first use firearms to drive away the other party's elephant soldiers, and then let Li Rusong, the cavalry warrior, lead the cavalry to rush and fight, it is not a dream to destroy Burma in a battle, and there is no need to rush in the mud with such difficulty as now, of course, if this is the case, Myanmar would have been destroyed a long time ago, where did the courage and Ming come from?
Seeing the Burmese side, Min Qide lined up a musket team and archers to prepare for a long-range attack, and the melee regiment with a large shield followed closely behind, and Narexuan also immediately dispatched his musket team and archers, intending to retreat to the second line of defense after blocking a wave, so as not to consume too much strength here, and there are still a large number of traps waiting for the Burmese to trigger and buy more time.
The musketeers of the two armies had come close to a critical distance, and they could see that the arquebuses on each other's muskets were emitting white smoke.
"Fire!!"
I don't know who shouted the first order to attack, the musket teams of the two armies crackled and began to shoot at each other, using a fairly classic three-stage shooting, lining up, shooting at each other, hitting up and down while fighting, the lead flew everywhere, and then there were archers who took advantage of the gap between the reloads to rush closer to the front and shoot arrows, Narexuan's archers stood directly at a high place and threw them, the range was longer, the arrow rain was more intensive, and the musket gave the Burmese army a very serious blow.
People on both sides were shot and fell down every moment, people died every moment, as soon as the gun rang out here, there were people falling down and dying, and the smoke of gunpowder gradually filled the entire battlefield, no one let anyone, no one retreated, and in the end, they were relying on perseverance to support and see who was the first to collapse.
This time it seems that the Siamese collapsed first, and the artillery team that had retreated to somewhere suddenly reappeared, and bombarded the Burmese army, and then quickly retreated, the musketeers and archers all retreated, giving up the defensive line, and the Burmese army in confusion did not have time to pursue, and by the time they regrouped and could pursue, the Siamese had already run away.
Min Qide was furious, reprimanded Lochai who failed to reorganize the line in time to pursue the enemy, and then ordered Lochai to lead the vanguard army to charge over, and the musket team and the archer team were personally led by him, followed closely to prepare for the attack, Lochai was reprimanded, a burst of depression and displeasure, and immediately waved his army over the hill defense line to pursue the Siamese army, but before rushing a few steps, a large number of Burmese soldiers fell into the trap pit dug by the Siamese in advance.
Luo Chai's luck was better, he didn't touch it, but the 1,000 or so people in the front army were considered to have suffered, three or five hundred people fell into it and died on the spot, and the sharp wooden thorns placed in it were cold and cold, and there were a few people who were particularly unlucky, the wooden piercing came out of the mouth and directly pierced the back of the head, and the dead could not die again.
The rest of the luck was also pierced through the arms and legs, lying on the bottom of the pit wailing, only a few lucky people fell into the middle of the thorns and thorns, luckily did not die, seeing the one by one seeping pit, Luo Chai was shocked into a cold sweat, called Min Qide over, Min Qide was also shocked into a cold sweat.
How can this be a large-scale pursuit? Who knows how many potholes lie ahead?
There is an indelible psychological shadow in the hearts of the Burmese soldiers, and this shadow directly causes the main force of the Burmese army to dare not pursue quickly, and even looks at the cool breeze on the back of a no-man's land in front of him.
What to do? Forcibly drive the soldiers forward? Nope! How could the main forces suffer such useless losses? It was impossible for Min Qide to agree, so he rolled his eyes, picked a hundred lowly people from the miscellaneous troops, asked the musketeers to point their guns at them, and ordered them to stand in a row, and rush forward with an indomitable momentum, never stop, if they dare not run, they will be shot and killed immediately!
Miscellaneous soldiers are former captives or criminals who were conscripted to atone for their crimes, the purpose is to serve the main army or to reduce casualties for the main army and die, now is the time when they need to die, but they are also people, who wants to die? So he cried and didn't want to go forward, so in a fit of rage, he ordered the musketeers to shoot, and after a volley, all the hundred people died, and then another hundred people were brought in and asked if they could run.
Seeing the miserable death of the 100 people in front of them, these 100 people can think about it, if they don't run, they will definitely die, if they run, maybe there is a glimmer of life, then the choice is very clear.
Lined up, Sa Yazi ran forward, shouting and screaming as he ran to counteract the fear in his heart, running really faster than any moment in his life, until he ran far enough, it was almost impossible for Luo Chai to see, but there was still no big pit, as if the big pit was only here, and there was no one in front, and the more than a hundred people were about to run out of this mound wilderness, but they were still good.
Luo Chai looked at Min Qide suspiciously, Min Qide was also confused at first, but after thinking about it, he suddenly blushed and waved his hand angrily.
"Give me a chase!! The whole army presses up!! ”
He had become aware of Narexuan's methods.
Create an atmosphere of fear, forcing him and his soldiers not to pursue immediately, for fear that there will be other ambushes, in fact, they have only arrived here for a little more than a day, and no matter how much overtime they work, they will definitely not be able to dig a big hole all over the wilderness! That's a game! A scam! A scam to buy themselves time to regroup the army!
That bastard might be secretly laughing at himself somewhere!