Chapter Ninety-Six: The Decisive Battle of Mubang
"First Team...... Put! "The first team started shooting.
"Second team...... Put! Then the second team fired.
The soldiers of the Burmese coalition army rushed in front of them immediately suffered casualties, and at this distance, the flintlock pistol had almost no accuracy to speak of, and it relied on intensive fire to inflict casualties on the other side. The Burmese coalition army also increased the speed of the charge, and at this time, the archers in the rear began to release arrows, and a round of bows and arrows came down, and the Longteng army also began to suffer casualties.
The blood on the battlefield made the Long Teng Army seem to have forgotten to be afraid, and now they all have only one thought to kill each other as much as possible. Chen Si watched as people in the team kept falling, and he was also red-eyed.
At this time, the artillery of the right army began to bombard the rear flank of the left army of the Burmese coalition army, although the right army was equipped with a small number of cannons, but it also caused great pressure on the Burmese coalition army.
As the distance between the two armies narrowed, the lethality and accuracy of the flintlock pistol became higher and higher, and the distance between 50 meters and 100 meters, whether it was the right army or the center army, was the death distance that the Burmese and Muslim coalition forces could never cross. The lack of cavalry charges was the fatal weakness of the Burmese coalition army.
Daming's firearms could also fire in the rain, which caught both Han Feng and the Burmese general Miao Lun off guard. Now the Chinese army of the Burmese Wood Coalition Army cannot rush forward, and the left army has a tendency to collapse, which makes the two feel great pressure.
"General, the left army must be increased, otherwise, it will not be able to hold out for an hour." Han Feng said anxiously. The left army is his pro-army and his capital.
"These remaining 5,000 people must not be thrown into it now, otherwise, if something happens to the Chinese army, then the whole army will be finished. Let your men hold out for two more hours, and we will surely be able to defeat the Chinese army of the Ming Thieves. ”
"General......" Han Feng still didn't dare.
"Hanfeng, the left army also asks you to personally supervise the battle! Another order, those who retreat, slash! ”
Han Feng had no choice but to go to the left army, the Burmese army could leg, but he couldn't retreat, once he retreated, there was no way back.
The arrival of Han Feng temporarily stabilized the formation of the left army of the Burmese Coalition Army, which was close to collapse. In the Chinese army, the Burmese army has already committed elephant soldiers.
The war had been fought from morning to afternoon, and had entered a white-hot stage, and the left army of the Ming Dynasty was also advancing. And the right army of the Ming Dynasty is still putting pressure on the enemy according to its own steps, Chen Si's army has suffered the heaviest casualties, and the casualties have been nearly one-third, but the average casualties of the right army of the Ming Dynasty are about one-fifth.
The left army of the Burmese coalition army has suffered more than half of the casualties, and the archers have almost lost all the casualties, if it were not for Han Feng pressing the formation behind, the left army would have collapsed.
"Put another regiment into the right army, and give the right army an order that it must be taken within half an hour." Xiong Tingbi looked at the sky and ordered.
The right army of the Ming Dynasty was joined by a new force of 1,000 people, and the momentum of the right army rose in an instant, and the offensive was like a tide. Even if Han Feng personally pressed the formation, he couldn't suppress it quickly.
At this time, some of the Mubang soldiers who couldn't stand it finally began to run away, and the escape was like a plague, and the speed of transmission was even faster than the plague, and the people in front ran away at first, and the people behind followed before they understood what was going on. The army was defeated like a mountain, and the Longteng army drove the fleeing Mubang army like a duck.
Han Feng couldn't stop the rout of the army even if he killed a few people. Han Feng was carried by his cronies and fled to the camp of the Chinese army of the Burmese Wood Alliance. In the pursuit, it was difficult for the Ming army's phalanx to maintain its formation, and now that the Burmese Wood Coalition Army had not yet been defeated, the Ming Right Army had to maintain its formation, which made the pursuit much slower.
Seeing the rout of the left army of the Burmese Wood Alliance, Xiong Tingbi launched a general attack, and the Chinese army began to advance towards the Burmese Wood Army. Soon the left flank of the Burmese coalition army was also defeated, and the Chinese army was already alone at this time, and was defeated by Xiong Tingbi's Chinese army in less than half an hour.
"Order the Fifth Regiment and the Eighth Regiment to launch a pursuit, and only allow the pursuit to the city of Mubang." Xiong Tingbi commanded.
Since being urgently assembled by Zhu Youxiao once in half a day, the Longteng Army is specially trained to march overnight, if it is only compared to night battles, the Longteng Army can definitely rank in the top three during this period.
The 5th and 8th regiments were Xiong Tingbi's reserves, which did not participate in the big battle, and were full of energy, and 2,000 people chased the remnants of nearly 20,000 troops of the Burmese Wood Coalition Army for more than 100 kilometers.
War is the most human, and once the rout begins, there are often jaw-dropping scenes, and even scenes of a few people or a dozen people chasing hundreds or thousands of people running.
By the afternoon of the next day, the Fifth and Eighth Regiments had arrived at the foot of Mubang, and although their bodies were a little tired, their spirits were very excited.
Moreover, 2,000 people trapped nearly 20,000 remnants of the Burmese Coalition Army in Mubang City. This has a lot to do with the loss of fighting spirit of the Burmese coalition army.
Han Feng fled back to Mubang City, at this time, although Mubang had 5,000 soldiers and horses, plus more than 10,000 remnants who fled back, there were still nearly 20,000 people. However, Miao Lun, the commander of the Burmese army, fled to the south all the time, and did not even enter the city of Mubang, and fled back to Burma directly.
The Burmese army that remained in Mu Bang lost its commander, and with the new defeat, even the 3,000 Burmese troops who stayed in Mu Bang lost their morale, not to mention that the Burmese army that fled from the battlefield made the defeat spread throughout Mu Bang City, and even Mu Bang's own army was very seriously affected, and Han Feng could not suppress this more than 10,000 defeated army at all.
The entire city of Mubang was shrouded in feelings of fear and defeat. Except for Han Feng, all the people in Mubang City were thinking about how to escape from Mubang, not how to defend Mubang.
Xiong Tingbi was afraid that Hanfeng would abandon the city and flee, so he immediately led the army to Mubang without waiting for the army to finish repairing. Xiong Tingbi's arrival made Han Feng completely give up his plan to break through, and he decided to defend it. In the past few decades, Mubang City has been in constant war, and the food reserves are sufficient, enough to eat for half a year.
Xiong Tingbi is not in a hurry now, although he is not very clear about the situation in Mubang City, he knows that Miao Lun, the leader of the Burmese army, has fled back to Burma, and the Burmese army remaining in Mubang City is a group of "dragons" without a leader. Xiong Tingbi decided to recruit the Burmese army.
Dan Tuo was Miao Lun was the deputy general, the highest-ranking Burmese army general captured by Xiong Tingbi, and he was also the commander in charge of attacking Xiong Tingbi's central army, and when the Burmese coalition army was defeated, he was captured by the 5th Regiment on the way to escape.
"Dantuo, now there is a way for you to live, as long as you can persuade the Burmese army in Mubang City to surrender, the general will let you go back to Donghu." Xiong Tingbi looked at the embarrassed Dantuo and said.
"I ...... I hope that the general will also release the surrendered Burmese troops in the city, so that the Burmese troops in the city will return to Taungoo with me. Danto plucked up courage and said.
"Do you think you're qualified to negotiate terms?" Xiong Tingbi said coldly.