At 2 p.m. on the 10th day of the first lunar month, as the hottest temperature of the day reaches its peak, the song of pheasants also sweeps from the top of the mountain over the treetops, like a breeze blowing across the water, and at the climax, it turns into a curved and beautiful beauty, leaving a long string of grievances.

Hundreds of kilometers long and narrow Mansha Mountain blocked the Yinrawaddy Delta Plain and the Dajinsha River, and the Ming army on the road was like a red dragon that had just crawled out of the volcano, winding its way on the road of the plain.

On both sides of the road are endless rice paddies, and the water ripples in the fields, and the neat rice is like a knife.

The spring breeze blew, and the endless rice fields were like waves like the sea, and the heavy ears of grain bowed their heads shyly like shy girls.

Walking on such a road, the gentle spring breeze sent bursts of rice fragrance, which made the soldiers of the navy Longjiangwei and Henghai guards who were heading to the mountain road of Mansha Mountain high-spirited.

Huang Fei, who was in the middle of the procession, rode on a sweaty and bloody horse, and he looked around, looking at the rice fields that had been stirred up by the wind, and at the villages with closed doors in the distance.

Looking down from the sky, the Ming army's mandarin duck jackets divided the yellow and clear rice fields, even if all the rice ears were churning, as if the brilliant colorful glow was sprinkled on the field, but this did not make Huang Fei relax his vigilance.

The narrow road of less than two zhang and the rice fields more than three feet high limited the movement of the Ming army.

Huang Fei was not sure that there were any traps set by the Burmese army in the rice fields, nor were he sure that there were any ambushes around.

Perhaps with many years of experience in counterinsurgency in Ceylon and India, he grabbed the reins and whispered "Huh", and also issued military orders to the soldiers around him:

"Summons the ministries to inspect the rice fields."

"Check? This...... Governor, how to check? Commander Long Jiangwei next to him was a little stunned.

Due to the lack of numbers in the navy and the need for soldiers and horses to defend the rear, Huang Fei immediately sent more than 5,000 sword players and gunners with all the gunpowder in the army to the rear city after destroying Sutai, and he only marched with 6,000 riflemen.

Therefore, in this case, if the Ming army still has to divide its troops to search the rice fields, it will be very time-consuming.

"Loaded bullets, everyone shoots me at the rice paddies!"

Huang Fei, who had always asked for saving bullets, decisively ordered the extravagant means of using bullets to explore the way, which made the commander of Long Jiangwei a little stunned, but he still complied.

Soon, under the words of Tang Qi, the riflemen on both sides of the Ming army began to load their bullets, and everyone aimed at the surrounding rice fields and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang-"

The dense rain of bullets hit the surrounding rice fields in half in an instant.

The ears of rice fell into the field like snowflakes, and the situation in a radius of hundreds of steps was seen by the yellow dragon.

"It's okay, let's keep marching."

After confirming the safety of the surrounding area, Huang Fei continued to lead the soldiers and horses to march on the Mansha Mountain Mountain Road twenty miles ahead.

In a day and night, Huang Fei led people to travel more than 90 miles, and now he only needs to walk another 20 miles to reach the Mansha Mountain Road, and then he can rest and recuperate.

Tomorrow, if he takes some time to cross the thirty-mile Mansha Mountain Mountain Road, he will be able to reach the alluvial plain in the north of Miaodang City, and his troops will be under Miaodang City.

Fighting here, this battle is over, and his military exploits will be established.

Thinking of this, Huang Fei looked at the Ming soldiers who were walking in unison in front of him, and his eyes were on the bullet belts around their waists and the rifles on their backs.

Due to the progress of iron-smelting technology, the riflemen of the Ming army were often able to reduce their burden by five to ten catties after being equipped with rifles.

In the past, the waist knife and the step gun were subtracted, not to mention, the cotton armor was also removed.

Even though the triple-armor changed to double-armor, the riflemen's casualties were smaller than they once were.

Therefore, after Huang Fei personally led the troops, it became clear that in the future, the armor of the Ming army would only get lighter and lighter, until there was no more.

With less than a dozen catties or dozens of catties of weight, a soldier will be less burdened and will be able to walk farther.

When necessary, they even need to bring a small amount of military rations and water to set off, as in the case now.

Huang Fei glanced at all the soldiers, who were basically carrying rifles, with bullet belts around their waists, and a kind of package from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau on their backs.

This kind of wrapping seems strange to Huang Fei, but if later generations look at it, it can be seen at a glance that this is the tactical backpack of later generations.

The backpack could hold more than 30 catties of things, but Huang Fei only let the soldiers carry 15 catties of military rations and 3 catties of water, as well as 50 or 60 bullets on their waists.

The heavy armor and hood were removed, and only one piece of chain mail was still on the body.

These equipment are not heavy on their bodies, but they give them enough confidence.

Huang Fei is confident, even if tens of thousands of troops raid, he and his soldiers and horses are not afraid at all!

Thinking of this, Huang Fei drove the war horse with high spirits and advanced towards the Mansha Mountain in front of him.

Six thousand lightly armed Ming troops marched in armor, and the carriage dragging them to tie their armor and cover them was also in the middle of the procession, and the whole team quickly crossed this rice field, climbed over a low hill, and entered another rice field.

Due to the lack of horses, the Ming army's Tang cavalry could only ensure that the patrol army was within a radius of ten miles, so when Huang Fei was about to walk through this golden rice field with people, a sudden explosion sounded in the sky ahead.

"Bang-"

"Governor, it's an arrow!"

"Command the whole army to wear armor!"

"Beep-"

When the arrow sounded, the commander of Long Jiangwei was busy reminding, but Huang Fei had already ordered the whole army to wear armor.

Without the need for Tang Qi to pass on information, the Ming soldiers had already begun to help each other the moment they heard the wooden whistle.

Heavy armor and armor require the help of two people to put on, and the steps to put on are slightly more tedious, often taking two or three minutes.

However, the distance of ten miles is enough for 6,000 Ming troops to wear armor.

"Beep-"

Soon, the 6,000 Ming troops were all armored, and a team of twelve Tang cavalry also galloped on the eastern road.

They ran along the edge of the field to the yellow fly, and said:

"Governor, ten miles ahead, I found the Burmese army Butang, the scale is not small, and the headquarters is at least more than 10,000 people."

The Tang cavalry was stepping forward to make a report, and Huang Fei turned his head sideways to the commander of Long Jiangwei and ordered: "Don't care, continue to march, and the baggage carts are ready to line up at any time." ”

"Yes!" Maybe it's the confidence brought by the rifle, Huang Fei doesn't care about the so-called army of 10,000 people at all, even if it is tens of thousands of people, he won't care, but will be excited.

Tens of thousands of people are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and everyone present can share dozens of taels.

Thinking of this, Huang Fei continued to lead the army forward, and Tang Qi continued to bring new news.

The Tang cavalry and Butang of the two armies were also fighting, but they were often one-sided slaughters.

As soon as the Burmese army's Butang showed up, it would be set on fire by the Ming army's Tang cavalry, and it can be said that in this era when there were no chariots and tanks, the cavalry armed with rifles was a humanoid tank.

The heavy infantry, which could pose a threat to them in the past, has now become a paper tiger, because the triple armor cannot prevent the flintlock pistol, let alone the firing gun.

The two armies are constantly getting closer, and Huang Fei is getting more and more information. Four miles... Sanli ...... Finally, when the rice fields in the distance were trampled down and a "black line" appeared on the horizon, Huang Fei raised his hand.

"Array!"

"Beep-"

The sound of wooden whistles and drums, the basic tools of military communication, began to exert their abilities, and six thousand naval riflemen began to lay their wagons across the fields, not bothering to trample on the rice fields.

The military regulations of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are very strict, and unless you encounter the enemy and have to line up, you cannot trample on the rice fields during weekday training and wartime rush.

Although he is now in the Luchuan area, Huang Fei has always implemented the military regulations of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

However, now that we have encountered enemy troops, there is no need to abide by this military rule.

Under Huang Fei's attention, the 6,000 Ming army skillfully pulled the baggage carts into the paddy fields, but because the mud in the paddy fields was too deep, most of the battlefield fell into them and it was difficult to pull.

Huang Fei frowned when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered: "Don't worry about the baggage trucks, if you can't line up, push the baggage trucks to the rice fields on both sides, and line up in the middle of the road!" ”

"Yes!"

When the generals below heard this, they all followed what Huang Fei said.

In Huang Fei's view, since the mud in the paddy fields is very deep, the Ming army's baggage trucks cannot walk, and people also have difficulty walking, the enemy army will also encounter the same dilemma.

Using rammed earth roads as positions, and putting down baggage trucks as obstacles and trench earth walls, this is the basic knowledge that Huang Fei learned in the Yanshan Military Academy.

Although it is a basic knowledge, if there is no hand-drawn formation diagram drawn by Zhu Youzhen, Huang Fei and they will not know how to operate it.

Learning by looking at pictures and learning by reading words are two different things......

"Woo-woo-"

When the Ming army put down the baggage cart, a black head also appeared on the horizon in the distance, and a large silk held high also appeared in Huang Fei's eyes.

The distance is too far for the naked eye to see clearly, so Huang Fei raised the clairvoyant mirror and saw Maung Ji's "Wang Xu" after magnification.

"it! King Dongwu has come to our side, and there are forty or fifty thousand people in the posture! ”

"Governor, what should we do?"

For a while, the generals of the Ming army all saw Maung Ji's Daxu, but in the face of their worries and inquiries, Huang Fei patted the waist knife on his waist:

"What to do? The swords of your loins are not ornaments, but are used to reap the heads. ”

"What if King Dongwu has 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses?"

"Brothers!" Huang Fei shouted to the Ming soldiers around him: "Tell me! How much is the first level of silver reward for a cave Wuyi?! ”

"Ten taels!" The scattered voice kept answering, and Huang Fei also smiled:

"He is hiding in Miaodang City, and we have to share the reward with the Western Army and the Southern Army, and now they are sent to the door, do you want to take these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill ......"

Dozens of generals close to Huang Fei shouted one after another, and the soldiers on the periphery also shouted.

To put it bluntly, this move is to be courageous, but the Ming army does not need to be courageous, because the rifles in their hands give them a sense of security.

"The fighting spirit of the Ming army is very high, and it seems that they are very confident in them."

When the Ming army shouted to kill, the sound spread throughout the plain, and Maung Ji, who was rushing towards the Ming army with a large army, also sat on the back of a war elephant, staring at the Ming army that had appeared in the distance of sight.

The other Burmese generals also stared at the Ming army, and kept leading their troops closer to them.

However, when they were still a mile away from the Ming army, they could not walk.

There is a river in the middle of this plain, so the closer you get to the middle, the thicker the silt, and the more water there is, the easier it is for the land to sink into people.

"Put the water first."

Maung Ki looked at the generals on the side, and when the generals heard this, they hurriedly asked people to destroy the canals in the rice fields so that the river would no longer flow into the rice fields.

"How long will it take for Pindarit to arrive?"

Maung Ki asked a minister, but the minister quickly replied, "According to the speed of the foot soldiers, it will take at least tomorrow noon to arrive." ”

"Then bring someone to surround them first." After Maung Ki got the answer, he gave the order without nervousness.

At this moment, since he went out of the city with a large number of soldiers, he no longer expected Miaodang City to be able to defend it.

But even if Miaodang City couldn't be defended, Hong Chengchou still had to destroy the Burmese troops in Manshakou and Taigong City before he could kill him.

And it is not so easy to cross the Mansha Mountain, only a thousand people need to be arranged in the mountain pass, and Hong Chengchou will not be able to break through even if he comes with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Now what Maung Ki has to do is to defeat Huang Fei and take away their firearms, and at the same time regain the lost territory taken by Huang Fei, stretch Hong Chengchou's supply line, and drag it until the summer, Hong Chengchou himself will stop military operations because of the summer heat.

"My king, can we wait until the water is released and attack with fire?"

A general who is familiar with the fields gives a suggestion for a fire attack, which also makes Maung Ki's eyes light up.

Although the rice has turned yellow, it still needs to be moderately irrigated to promote grain filling and seed strength, and the current rice has basically entered the grain filling and fruiting stage.

Therefore, there is still a lot of water in the rice fields, but as long as the water is drained, then dried overnight, and poured with fire oil, the rice fields will become combustible and help the Burmese army burn the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Maung Ki hurriedly signaled to the general: "You go and do it." ”

"Yes!" When the generals heard this, they began to lead people to release water and dig drainage ditches, and at the same time, more than 60,000 troops brought by Maung Ji also began to besiege the Ming army.

Their intentions, Huang Fei just saw through at a glance, but he was still calm: "They want to surround us, it is estimated that they are ready to abandon Miaodang City." ”

"Since it is going to be surrounded, there must be reinforcements."

"The only reinforcement that can be worth waiting for so many of them at the moment is the 100,000 Burmese troops in Pyina City."

"So what do we do?" Commander Long Jiangwei next to him tightened the handle of the knife in his hand, feeling a little nervous.

However, in the face of his inquiry, Huang Fei smiled and said, "Then let them come." ”

Huang Fei looked around, smiled and pointed around with the reins of his horse and said, "It's all plains here, and the only thing that can be avoided is Mansha Mountain, but Mansha Mountain is too small." ”

"If they are going to besiege us, let them besiege."

"To besiege us and attack us, we need to mobilize troops from other places."

"If we have more troops on our side, the others will have fewer troops, and the city will be easier to take."

"Once the Dongwu army can't eat us, then they will have to face our encirclement and suppression."

"This style of play is very familiar......" Huang Fei touched his chin and then had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately laughed:

"This Dongwu king, he still thinks he is an old slave? Hahaha......"

Huang Fei sneered mercilessly, and at the same time saw the Burmese army's move to release the water.

He looked around, and immediately ordered the commander of Long Jiangwei: "When the Dongwu army finishes draining the water, make a firebreak, and set fire in reverse." ”

"Yes!" Commander Long Jiangwei looked around and understood why Huang Fei had arranged it this way, so he hurriedly ordered someone to do something.

At the same time as their stalemate, with the passage of time, dusk came, and the shouting and killing of Miaodang City finally stopped.

"Go to the **!"

A Ming sergeant rushed to the city gate tower, kicked off the flag of the Donghu army, and planted the flag of the Ming army at the head of Miaodang City.

The strong wind blew the flags, the hunting sounded, the entire Miaodang City completely fell, and tens of thousands of Ming troops began to mend the Burmese troops on the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of corpses were thrown into the Dajinsha River in order to put pressure on the Burmese troops in Taigongcheng, Osingu, and Pinya downstream.

When the sky was completely dark, Hong Chengchou walked into Miaodang City with a red light in the light of the torches.

Although Miaodang City is dilapidated at the moment, in Hong Chengchou's opinion, this seems to be the best treasure in the world.

"Good good ......"

Touching the female wall at the head of Miaodang City, Hong Chengchou kept saying yes, but at the same time, Mu Yi, who was in charge of the vanguard, also changed his clothes and found Hong Chengchou with a piece of news.

"Jingluo, according to the news of the Jinyi Guard in the city, King Talong is estimated to have broken through towards Manshakou."

"Manshakou?" Hearing Mu Yi's words, Hong Chengchou's eyes flickered for a few seconds, and then he said:

"The army rests for a day, tomorrow the army will be on two fronts, you will personally lead the headquarters south to Taigong City, and I will lead the troops to attack Manshakou."

"This Maung Ji probably wants to learn from the old slave and gather heavy troops to besiege Huang Wenlu."

"Siege of Huang Dudu? Then we ......" Mu Yi was anxious when he heard it, it was tens of thousands of heads, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Just without waiting for him to be in a hurry, Hong Chengchou raised his hand and signaled: "No need to pursue it, the tens of thousands of heads will be given to the navy, and you still have the task of sweeping the tail, don't worry about not having a head." ”

"Yes......" When Mu Yi heard it, he could only respond helplessly.

Although sweeping the tail can also sweep out hundreds of thousands of heads, Mu Yi is still a little unwilling to think of missing hundreds of thousands of taels for no reason.

His appearance was seen by Hong Chengchou, but Hong Chengchou didn't say anything, but stroked his beard and said:

"If King Talong wants to attack Wenlu and them, it is estimated that only 70,000 soldiers and horses will not be enough, you send Tang cavalry south to inquire about the news, and let Wu Bikui see if the Burmese army in the north of Pyina City has withdrawn."

"If they all withdraw, then let him quickly take down Binya, and I will basically pacify Donghu before the end of the month and report the good news to the imperial court."

"I'll do it." Mu Yi returned the salute when he heard this, and then turned to leave.

Since Miaodang was only more than 300 miles away from the soldiers and horses, in the case of 800 miles of urgency, Tang arrived at Binya City when he was in the son.

Wu Bikui is brave and strategic, although the soldiers and horses under his command are all his own clansmen, but he doesn't care about death or injury when he fights, after all, the court has enough pensions.

Therefore, he brought 9,000 people into Burma, and now he has only more than 7,000 soldiers and horses.

His role is not to fight with the Burmese army in Pyinga, but to contain it, so he doesn't pay much attention to Pyina City.

When the Tang cavalry sent by Hong Chengchou arrived outside Binya City, Wu Bikui let the artillery battalion investigate the hypocrisy of Binya City.

Not surprisingly, there were many fewer soldiers and horses in Binya City, and the counterattack against the Ming army was weaker.

Wu Bikui saw that Binya was weak, and immediately wanted to use troops to take Binya, but Tang Qi's words made him completely wilt.

"The general army, after a slight order, must not storm Binya City."

With these words, the Tang Cavalry team began to return to the north overnight, and Wu Bikui could only look at Binya City and grit his teeth.

But when he was looking at Binya Cheng and gritting his teeth, Maung Ki was also looking at the sea of fire in front of him and gritting his teeth.

"What a big fireworks, hahahaha......"

In northern Myanmar in the first lunar month, even in the middle of the night, there were fifteen or sixteen degrees, so when the water was drained, without waiting for the Burmese army to make a move, the Ming army poured more than a dozen barrels of fire oil in the baggage convoy around, and set fire to the rice fields.

Huang Fei was laughing, because the wind was blowing on the plains tonight, so when he ordered the fire, the flames began to burn towards the Burmese army in the east.

Maung Gi, who wanted to attack with fire, has been waiting for the wind to change, but instead of waiting for the wind to come, he waited for a fire from Huang Fei.

Maung Ji and other monarchs and ministers were taken aback by Huang Fei's fire, and hurriedly ordered to light a fire and fight fire with fire.

For a time, the two armies of Ming and Burma set fire to each other, the two walls of fire collided and entangled, and the billowing smoke was blown by the strong wind, and it looked like a demonic aura was circling from a distance, gray with some hideousness.

On the pitch-black plain, only the glow of the wall of fire could make some things clear, but then the smoke and suffocating gases spread rapidly.

The Ming army was fine because it was upwind, but the Burmese army in the east was so smoked that they cried and cried their father, and even Maung Ji was sent to the leeward place in a cough before he had time to turn his head and scold.

"Yellow Dragon! You catch a fish of the sea! ”

Looking at the "yellow" flag fluttering under the flames, Maung Gi knew who he was fighting with, no matter how stupid he was.

The news of Huang Long's resignation has long spread all over the Ming Dynasty, especially the countries of Nanyang are extremely concerned, and the newly appointed Huang Fei is no stranger to them.

If it weren't for Huang Long and Huang Fei, Sha Lian in Donghu would probably have to be occupied by Europeans by now.

As the monarch of Donghu, although Maung Ji has never seen Huang Fei, he came from the sea and carried the yellow banner, and there was no one else except Huang Fei.

The failure of the fire attack made Maung Ki extremely angry, and the death and wounds of the Burmese army made him want to vomit blood in anger.

Of the more than 60,000 troops, more than 100 people were killed by fire and smoke, and hundreds of people were trampled to death.

Coupled with the hundreds of Butang that were killed by the Ming army's Tang cavalry during the day, before the two sides started a battle, Maung Ji suffered nearly a thousand casualties on his side.

Thinking of this, Maung Ji couldn't sleep angrily.

He sat all night in a simple tent until dawn.

"My King ......"

When the ministers walked into the tent, Maung Ki looked at them with bloodshot eyes:

"Tell Pindari that I will see him at noon, and I will see Huang Fei's head in front of me in the afternoon!"