The day after the Datong army left the city of Beiyi, Mang Tai had already discovered it.

He first sent a small force to attack tentatively, and found that the south and north of the city were all empty camps.

Even so, Mangtai did not dare to pursue immediately, fearing that the Datong army would lure him out of the city. This guy was extremely cautious and sent a clipper to find out the news, and it was not until the Datong army traveled dozens of miles north that he dared to be sure that the enemy had really left.

For this situation, Mang Tai was both happy and angry.

The good news is that the Datong army did not capture the despicable, and dared to go all the way north alone, and sooner or later it would be surrounded and annihilated by the Burmese army.

Angry, the Datong army treated him as air, and they were not afraid of him chasing after him at all!

Mangtai left 10,000 refugees to defend the city, and he himself chased after with tens of thousands of troops.

Although he was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to chase too fast.

First, there are only more than 3,000 main forces, and the remaining tens of thousands are all scum, and marching too fast will collapse the team. The second is to be cautious, afraid that the Datong army will kill the horse pistol.

Every time he arrived at a city that had been occupied by the Datong army, Mangtai had to advance to defend the city, and then send spies to inquire about the news and confirm that the Datong army had gone far before continuing to pursue. At the same time, he hurriedly wrote a good news and recovered another city.

Finally, the Datong army approached the city of Bagan and camped several miles outside the city.

This news made Mang Tai completely let down his guard, led his army out of the city of Xiaobu in the south, and slowly advanced to fight in Bagan City. When the time comes, his troops will be in the south, and the Burmese king's reinforcements will be in the north, and with the army of Bagan City, he will be able to completely annihilate this arrogant enemy army!

Outside the city of Bagan, the Datong military camp is still there.

More than 1,000 baggage boats and more than 8,000 Meng sailors were stationed next to the large camp by the river. In the barracks, there are still 3,000 regular troops, 5,000 patrol soldiers, and more than 10,000 Mon servants.

The defenders in the city did not dare to come out and were still waiting for reinforcements.

And the artillery of the Datong army, which continued to bombard the city wall every day, seemed to intend to storm the city, not at all like the main force had already left.

"The enemy is coming, run!"

A small group of Burmese cavalry collided head-on with the dragoons exploring the way, and fled far away.

When Yang Zhan heard the news, he was a little helpless: "The enemy general is not a fool, he is cautious all the way, and he can be called a good general in China." ”

"Abandon your baggage and speed up your march!" Ding Jiasheng immediately ordered.

Thousands of dragoons, the first to chase out.

The Datong dragoons in the southwest region belong to the mountain cavalry to be precise.

He rode all the southwest ponies and was good at climbing mountains and mountains. Equipped with a tiger squat cannon, it is easy to quickly move and fire between paddy fields and mountains. All were flintlocked, without bayonets, only waist knives and cavalry guns. He does not wear cotton armor, only a layer of light chain mail, and wears a rattan helmet to protect him from the sun and rain and arrows.

In the south, Mang Tai received the news and seemed a little flustered, the Datong army actually killed a horse pistol, and was not afraid of being chased and killed by the rank and tail of the Bagan City defenders?

Or, dare to divide troops to attack his own army of tens of thousands?

"The whole army retreats to the camp!"

The so-called camp is a large camp they set up temporarily last night. Some wooden fences were inserted to make the wall, and a small number of trenches were dug, barely enough to be considered fortifications.

Mangtai didn't dare to march back to the nearest city in a hurry, still saying that if he ran too fast, he would scatter the troops.

The main force of the Burmese army was tens of thousands of standing troops, and when the war was fought, the expansion of the army was also to allow the local nobles to recruit peasants. The local aristocracy had their own private soldiers, recruiting peasants in their jurisdiction, which could ensure the combat effectiveness of the peasant army.

But the Datong army killed too quickly, and the local nobles ran away with their private soldiers. Many did not flee north, but avoided the front of the army and fled eastward, to assemble in the cities of Bago and Donghu.

Without the local aristocracy to lead the troops, it was difficult for Mangtai to effectively command the peasant army.

"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!"

Before the Burmese army could return to the place where they had camped last night, the Datong dragoons had already caught up.

Thanks to King Talong, who had died of illness, he actually laid an official road along the river, otherwise the riverbank was full of rice fields, and the cavalry would really not be able to run.

It belongs to the middle and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, and the rice grows two or three times a year.

It's winter, but the seedlings are knee-deep.

Mangtai hurriedly deployed the army, personally led the main force, and formed a formation near the official road. More than a dozen local nobles, led by tens of thousands of peasant troops, stepped on the rice fields and distributed on both wings.

In order to pursue quickly, the Datong cavalry did not bring tiger squat cannons.

"Abandon the horses, line up!"

The cavalry general is called Qin Fuguo, who is Qin Liangyu's nephew.

More than 4,000 dragoons, instantly transformed into musket infantry. They hung their spears on their horses, and armed only with flintlock pistols and swords, and stood in formation on the ridges of the fields.

Tens of thousands of Burmese peasant troops had no organization, and they had to spread out a formation in the rice fields, and they dragged on for a long time. It's a mess everywhere, and it's not as good as military training for middle school students.

Changing to a flat and open terrain, the Datong cavalry must have rushed forward, and the whole army was dispersed after three or two attacks.

Mang Sigu said excitedly: "Father, the enemy only has a few thousand cavalry, and it should be the vanguard. Cavalry is useless in this kind of terrain, but our army has tens of thousands of people, and we should quickly outflank and encircle and annihilate them all! ”

"If you can't do it, you can see how much you can stay," Mangtai said to the herald, "Raise the flag, blow the trumpet, and outflank the right flank!" ”

The local aristocratic generals, after receiving the order, acted immediately and led a small number of private soldiers to move forward slowly. But the peasant army under their command could not quickly learn the military order, so they could only subconsciously follow the action.

Crooked, messy.

Qin Fuguo almost laughed out loud when he saw it: "The whole army got on the horse and retreated two miles." ”

More than 4,000 soldiers ran back to the official road from the ridge, mounted their war horses and drove away. They have all run away, and the Burmese army is still grinding, and the outflanking troops have become a mess.

In this situation, Mang Tai was a little confused.

He had tens of thousands of troops, but he didn't dare to chase them, and if he chased them, they would inevitably be more chaotic, and the whole army would collapse if he didn't pay attention to them.

"All departments are gathered and slowly withdrawn to last night's camp!" Mangtai reluctantly ordered.

Seeing that the Burmese army had gathered half of it, Qin Fuguo immediately ordered: "The rear team will become the front team, catch up and dismount the horse formation!" ”

"It's too much of a deception!"

Mang Tai was furious, did not dare to gather the army again, and once again ordered the troops to be deployed.

Before they were all gathered, they were about to start a formation again, and the tens of thousands of peasant troops became more and more confused.

It's lost!

Mang Tai called his son: "Prepare to lead the main force to retreat, this battle can't be fought." The enemy cavalry is stalling for time, and when the main enemy force arrives, we will surely be annihilated. Except for the baggage on the ship, all the rest were abandoned, and fled back to the city at full speed, garrisoning the city and waiting for friendly forces to move from the north. ”

"Don't want so much food?" Reckless Sigu was a little reluctant.

"It's important to keep the troops." Mang Tai said.

The Burmese ships docked in the despicable have been snatched by the Datong Army. Mangtai can only collect small boats along the way, how much baggage can hundreds of small boats carry? Tens of thousands of people rely on livestock and manpower to carry their baggage.

"Outflank the enemy!"

Mang Tai continued to give orders to the miscellaneous soldiers, and at the same time made the main force prepare to slip away.

As long as the main force can escape smoothly, tens of thousands of civilians will die. And most of them will not die, they will inevitably be defeated and run all over the ground, and there must be many who will be able to escape back to their hometowns.

Seeing that the Burmese army was expanding again, Qin Fuguo ordered a retreat again, and he believed that if he came a few more times, the Burmese army itself would be chaotic and collapsed.

"The whole army is in pursuit!" Mangtai unfurled the command flag and sounded the horn of the charge.

Those local nobles rushed forward with private soldiers, and tens of thousands of civilians also rushed forward. I couldn't rush up, and it was all rice fields full of water, moving forward one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The rice fields are so difficult to walk that more and more Burmese troops are rushing to the official roads and ridges, blocking the passages that can move quickly.

"Let's go!"

Mang Tai felt that the time had come, and hurriedly ordered the main force to retreat.

Qin Fuguo rode on horseback, and was furious when he saw this: "Fuck it, the enemy general has no conscience, and he actually threw down the army to run!" Kill me! ”

Tens of thousands of Burmese troops crowded the official roads, blocking the ridges, and the rice fields were everywhere.

They rushed towards the Datong army with their weapons raised, and the Datong army also dismounted and marched in formation in the rice fields.

"Raise the gun!"

"Bang bang bang!"

With three strikes from the firebolt, a burst of gunpowder smoke dissipated, and the enemy in front of him had already collapsed.

Countless Burmese refugees have run to the official road, trying to escape along the official road and completely block the official road. The Burmese army farther away is still wading over in a mess, and some of them don't understand the situation here.

"Come back, get on the horse!" Qin Fuguo shouted.

The military horn sounded, and the Datong army in the rice fields withdrew to the official road one after another.

The official road is very narrow, and can only accommodate three horses in parallel, and if you want to gallop a horse, you can have at most two horses in parallel.

Qin Fuguo rode a horse and rushed to the front, wielding a knife to slash and kill the routed soldiers blocking the official road. But there are too many blockages in front, and they will not be able to rush through for a while and a half, and the more they slash, the more corpses there will be on the official road, and the cavalry will not be able to rush at all.

The Datong cavalry in the rear, squatting on the official road, quickly reloaded, and fired in turn at the rice fields on both sides.

At this time, more and more Burmese troops found that their main generals had run away with the main force. The local nobles were the first to react, beckoning the private soldiers to turn around and flee, and the nearby militia immediately fled.

The rice fields in Siye are all routed, and the Datong army can't chase them.

After slashing all the way, those routed soldiers on the official road finally knew that they took the initiative to jump into the rice field to escape.

"I'm fucking it!"

When the rout on the official road was dispersed, Qin Fuguo finally found that there were countless baggage blocking the road ahead, and there were even a few artillery pieces blocking there.

The baggage of tens of thousands of troops is all lying on the official road, and the cavalry can pass before it will be a hell.

Qin Fuguo roared angrily: "Get off the horse and enter the field, capture the prisoners, and transport the baggage!" ”

There was no way to chase them, and when the baggage was removed, the main force of the enemy army was estimated to have fled back to the city. You can only try to capture the prisoners, and return the baggage to the errand.

The battle was fought enough nonsense, and although the enemy army was scattered, the main force fled.

Thankfully, the supplies were seized!

When Ding Jiasheng and Yang Zhan led the main force of the Datong Army to chase after them, they were also crying and laughing in the face of this situation.

Thanks to the enemy generals, they came hundreds of miles away, turned around and left after delivering supplies, and didn't stay to listen to a thank you.

In any case, the Chinese army, which is alone in the depths, is not worried about the food problem for the time being.

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