After settling his subordinates, Xiao Ruxun began to hold a military meeting with King Narui Xuan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The content of the military meeting is very simple, that is, to discuss how to fight against Burma, as well as the coordination of the two armies and logistics support, these issues are not discussed in advance, it will be very troublesome later, and in Xiao Ruxun's strategy, there was nothing to do with Siam at the beginning, Siam himself wanted to join in to help the Ming army, Xiao Ruxun was not easy to refuse, after all, it was also a group of people, and the combat effectiveness was not weak.

The scale of the military meeting was very small, mainly Narui Xuan and Xiao Ruxun's one-on-one discussion, and the rest were Xiao Ruxun's several generals and Lin Yuanshan, probably to discuss logistics issues, Narui Xuan Wang hung out a map, describing his location and the state of Myanmar very clearly.

"If it is a war to destroy the country, according to the judgment of Xiao Wang's staff, Mang Yingli can take out about 300,000 troops, but this number is very controversial even in our country, not to mention whether Mang Yingli can afford this military expenditure, it is also a question whether there are so many people to transfer him, Xiao Wang has lived in Mang Yinglong's palace, and is more familiar with them, and their national population is estimated to be about three million.

According to this population, it is the limit to be able to make up 300,000 troops, and if it exceeds this number, it is estimated that even the elderly and children will be counted, just these 300,000, or counting almost all of their young and strong men, and the most elite troops in it are about 100,000, including the most elite elephants, cavalry and musketeers, and the rest are spearmen, swords, shields, archers and the like.

By the way, among the 300,000 people, there is a considerable part of the miscellaneous servants in the end, these miscellaneous servants are equivalent to the slaves of the main soldiers, specially for those soldiers, some are recruited, and some are prisoners captured when they were fighting the rebellion in the east and west, usually do some rough work, laundry and cooking, etc., if it is really critical, then one person and one knife are pulled to the battlefield to die, and there is a musket team to supervise the battle, and Mang Yinglong often does this.

But strictly speaking, these miscellaneous soldiers cannot be used as the main force, once the main force is defeated, these miscellaneous soldiers run faster than anyone else, so they really threaten our soldiers and horses, that is, more than 100,000, and the rest are some rabble, there is no threat to us, so from this point of view, there are 30,000 heavenly soldiers, 50,000 of our army, and there are 80,000 together. ”

Xiao Ruxun has his own opinion on this.

"However, we can't just ignore the remaining 100,000 people, after all, it is organized, and it is still much stronger than stragglers, even if it is a hundred thousand pigs, it will take time for us to cut and kill, let alone hundreds of thousands of people, if we are really urgent, they can also bring us a lot of trouble, so we must not only defeat the main force of Mang Yingli, but also defeat these miscellaneous soldiers.

If possible, a large number of captives of them, after all, are young and strong, have combat effectiveness, stronger than the old man and children, and do not give Mang Yingli the opportunity to continue to expand the army, and this governor has also heard that the king's soldiers and the cave warrior thieves are very good at driving elephants to fight for mounts, is this so? ”

Na Rui Xuan nodded, and said: "What the Admiral said is good, our army and Mangyingli's troops have a separate elephant army, which is the strongest force outside the firearms army, the elephant is tall and majestic, and after being tamed, it rushes into the enemy formation and is invincible, we put on a strong enough battle armor for the elephant, even the elephant's trunk can be covered with the battle armor, and it can even defend against the bullets of the musket, and the elephant's combat effectiveness has been greatly improved." ”

When it comes to war elephants, King Narexuan seems to be very confident.

"In other words, both the king's war elephants and the war elephants in Mangying are accustomed to the sound of firearms, and they will not be frightened and flee because of the sound of firearms?"

Na Ruixuan nodded: "In the past, war elephants and firearms would be used to fight together in every battle, and after many battles, war elephants will no longer be frightened by the sound of firearms, even artillery, and elephants have rough skin and thick flesh, and ordinary firearms can't hurt a war elephant at all." ”

"Furlong artillery doesn't work either?"

Xiao Ruxun asked, Na Ruixuan was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Unless many artillery pieces shoot at a war elephant at the same time, not to mention whether the artillery can hit the war elephant, the travel speed of the war elephant is not as slow as imagined, the live ammunition from the artillery is difficult to aim at the elephant to hit, and the artillery rate of fire is also slow, the other party is not only the war elephant, but also uses firearms to open the way for the war elephant, I don't know when it will drive the war elephant to attack, our gunners don't even have time to react, so it is very dangerous to simply use the firearms in our hands to deal with the war elephant." ”

"So what to do?"

"War elephant against war elephant, the admiral does not have to worry, Xiao Wang has a war elephant army under his command, experienced in a hundred battles, strong combat power, many times with the elephant soldiers in Mang Yingli, there are mutual victories and defeats, once Mang Yingli dispatches war elephants, Xiao Wang will also use war elephant troops to fight against him, Mang Yingli cannot threaten my army with war elephants, so the admiral does not have to worry."

King Narui Xuan said so, but Xiao Ruxun didn't think so, if the war elephant was really as awesome as he said, then when Mang Yingli used elephant soldiers to attack Yunnan before, he would not have been beaten by Deng Zilong and fled, the elephant is indeed powerful and difficult to deal with, but the elephant is also a very intelligent animal, because only animals with a certain IQ can be tamed by humans and participate in the battle.

Of course, smart is not without a price, for elephants, the price of intelligence is timid, elephants are huge, but the courage is really not big, on weight and combat effectiveness, elephants are definitely better than a lion, but they are often frightened by the roar of lions to run around, there is no courage to fight, in the West, elephant soldiers have been dominant, but in China, elephant soldiers have never occupied any advantage.

In the early days of Chinese history, because the climate in the Yellow River Valley was warm and humid, there were elephants to live, so during the Shang Dynasty, the Central Plains regime also had elephant soldiers, and later the climate changed, elephant soldiers became a unique type of troops in the south, and there were also examples of the southern regime using elephant soldiers against the northern Central Plains regime, but in front of the Chinese, elephant soldiers have never been defeated, Lin Yiguo used war elephants against the Sui army, Southern Tang used elephants against the Song army, Myanmar used elephants against the Ming army, and never won.

Later, when Li Dingguo resisted the Qing Dynasty, he also once formed an elephant soldier army, and achieved a rare victory, once reversed the situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and turned the Qing army's Eight Banners cavalry on his back, but unfortunately the Qing army learned to be obedient later, and used the strategy of traitors to deal with Li Dingguo's elephant soldiers with red-coated cannons, so that Li Dingguo was defeated.