Lao Wo Division, the full name should be Lao Wo Xuanwei Division, which radiated to this side during the Yuan Dynasty, and later established Lao Wo Xuanwei Division on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

However, like the Mengyang area, this is also a fetter area, which is nominally owned by the Ming Dynasty, but is actually an autonomous area.

Zhu Zhan met Mu Sheng shortly after he set off, and Mu Sheng had already advanced to Mangbei in the last attack, and as long as he crossed the Nanwu River, he would be able to reach the Laowo Xuanwei Division.

It may be a bit vague to say this, so let's put it this way, the Lao Wo Xuanwei Division is at the big corner of the Lancang River, the most obvious place on the map.

Moreover, after crossing the Lancang River, there is Siam on the opposite side, which is the main target of Zhu Zhan Yan this time.

With the arrival of Zhu Zhanyan, the morale of the soldiers led by Mu Sheng suddenly rose, and everyone's eyes were warm when they looked at Zhu Zhanyan.

"How's it going? Why stop here? Zhu Zhan turned over and dismounted, didn't look at Mu Sheng, who was hurrying over, and looked straight in the direction of the Nanwu River.

"What's that?"

Putting down the monocular in his hand, Zhu Zhanyan pointed to the Nanwu River in the southwest with a displeased face.

There, even with the naked eye, you can clearly see a very abrupt place, which is incompatible with the surrounding green.

"Back to Your Highness, it's the elephant army of Siam......" Mu Sheng's face was full of bitterness.

Mu Sheng is a civil servant, but the more acceptable identity is still a military general, and as a military general, the idea of breaking the formation and defeating the enemy is inevitable.

Therefore, Mu Sheng also wanted to attack directly and take the Lancang River occupied by the Siamese elephants in one fell swoop, but ideals and reality are two different things.

Although Zhu Zhan's behavior of burning Jiaozhi was very cool, it also caused a lot of bad results, most of which were for Annan, some of them were for Nanzhang, but a small part was for Mu Sheng.

Forest fires are difficult to extinguish by manpower, even in later generations, especially in rainforest areas like this, and even if they can be extinguished, it will be very costly.

In this era when science and technology are not developed, or even that there is no technology, the lethality of forest fires is naturally higher.

You must know that when the fire was set at the beginning, Zhu Zhanyan made preparations in advance, such as opening up a firebreak, preparing a large amount of sand, and carrying out various methods such as backfire, but even so, Yunnan was still slightly affected.

Although it is not very big, it is enough to make Mu Sheng's heart palpitate.

Yunnan is still like this, and it is self-evident what Nanzhang and other congresses are like.

It is impossible to stop the fire by burning down Annan honestly, Nanzhang and Annan are directly bordered, and Zhu Zhan is burning from north to south, so this fire is directly burned to the territory of Nanzhang.

It burned from the Tao River to the Lancang River, and the fire slowly stopped because it encountered a big river.

It's only been a few years now? Although the vegetation has been restored, most of the saplings have not grown much thicker, except for the fast-growing balsa wood, which is the most suitable terrain for elephant soldiers.

With Mu Sheng's current strength and weapons and equipment, although it is not false to face the elephant soldiers, it is basically impossible to win, and it is even very likely to pay a heavy price.

Historically, there have been only two accepted methods for elephant soldiers.

The first is to attack with fire, and the second is to make a loud noise.

Because the vegetation has not yet been restored, the difficulty of fire attack is very great, and it is basically impossible to achieve, and although it is possible to make a loud noise, the effect is not very good.

The elephant soldiers in Siam have long been trained on this point, and now it is estimated that only the sound of artillery can frighten the elephant soldiers, but there is no artillery in Yunnan.

Don't think that Daming has a magic machine battalion, artillery is a conventional weapon, think about why the surrounding North Korea and other countries don't have it? That's because the Ming Dynasty protected well!

If it was true that the garrisons everywhere had artillery, the formula of gunpowder would have flowed out a long time ago, and where would it be the turn of the Da Ming Shenji Battalion to be dominant?

Therefore, Mu Sheng had to be forced to stop here and look for a solution to the problem of elephant soldiers.

"Pass the order, let all the soldiers get ready, and launch an attack after a stick of incense!"

After listening to Mu Sheng's explanation, Zhu Zhanyan didn't blame him, although this kind of thing can also be solved by manpower, but not everyone can do it.

However, if others can't do it, it doesn't mean that Zhu Zhanyan can't do it.

"Yes!" Mu Sheng was in high spirits and immediately responded.

He didn't ask Zhu Zhan how to deal with the elephant soldiers in Siam, and he didn't even have the slightest question before taking the order.

It's not because he thinks that he can sit back and relax because Zhu Zhan has the blame on him, the difficulty of the elephant army is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and when there is no practical and effective way, the only choice is to fill it with human lives.

Mu Sheng can accept that he listens to Zhu Zhanyan for everything, but he can't accept that those soldiers who have followed him for several years or even more than ten years are used as stepping stones.

The reason why Mu Sheng did not hesitate at all was because he trusted Zhu Zhanyan and trusted Zhu Zhanyan's past achievements.

Even, in Mu Sheng's opinion, if this elephant army can solve it, then the person who solves this problem must be Zhu Zhanyan, and it is the most efficient way.

……

Soon, Mu Sheng's 30,000 soldiers were assembled, plus the more than 10,000 people brought by Zhu Zhan from Yunnan, the more than 40,000 soldiers did not seem to be much.

Zhu Zhanyan, an army of hundreds of thousands, 200,000 and even 500,000 has seen it, compared to these 40,000 people, it is really not much.

"Zhu Ling, Zhu Ping." Zhu Zhan Yan stood on the top of the hill and looked at the Siamese elephant camp below, his eyes narrowed.

"Take out the things, you two will personally sweep the formation, you must ensure that there will be no problems at all!"

"Yes!" Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping took the order and left, and under the curious eyes of Zhu Zhanqi and Mu Sheng, several large boxes were moved out from behind.

"Second Uncle Mu." Zhu Zhanyan turned over and gave an order to Mu Sheng.

"Pass the order, everyone will defend Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping and the people they lead, and they will not attack without an order, only defend!"

"Yes!"

Although it was strange, Mu Sheng still chose to follow Zhu Zhanyan's orders.

"Zhan Qi." Zhu Zhanyan turned his head to look at his younger brother.

"Get on the horse, follow me, and don't run around."

"But your eyes widen to see what this war is all about."

Zhu Zhanqi looked at his brother silently, and only after a long time did he turn over and get on the horse.

……

With the muffled sound of the horn, the Ming army began to advance slowly, and the sound of the horn also alarmed the Siamese elephant troops stationed on the banks of the Lancang River, and they also gathered at great speed.

However, in this relatively suitable terrain, the Ming army did not have the intention of charging, but only advanced slowly, which seemed to be ......

Want to confront the two armies of the elephant troops?

Almost everyone on the Siamese side subconsciously discarded this idea, because it seemed to them that it was simply impossible.

Although they only have about 20,000 people, there are 600 elephant soldiers, don't look at only 600, with the size and impact power of elephants, it is enough to rampage several times back and forth among the more than 40,000 Ming troops.

However, as the Ming army got closer and closer, the Siamese generals suddenly felt a sudden burst in their hearts when they saw the young man on horseback.

He had a bad premonition.

Immediately, the Siamese general ordered the whole army to advance and prepare for battle, while he himself quietly retreated slightly.

Woo~~

The low horn sounded again, and Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping didn't have any warning, they suddenly pried open the wooden box with a knife, and quickly distributed the contents inside.

The Siamese generals also saw Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping's movements, and immediately ordered the elephant troops to disperse, firstly to prepare for the charge, and secondly, to avoid what Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping had taken out.

Mu Sheng's heart jumped because he knew the contents of the box.

The bowl mouth gun is the most commonly used ...... in the Yongle period of the Ming army Artillery!

Mu Sheng really didn't expect that Zhu Zhanyan would be able to bring this thing to Yunnan, and he didn't expect Ying Tian to agree.

However, reality did not give Mu Sheng a chance to think, Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping commanded the guards brought by Zhu Zhan from home to fill ammunition, and the first wave of artillery was fired!

Although there were only six guns, all of them took firearms very seriously.

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the role of firearms, while people from other countries paid attention to the lethality of firearms, in order to be able to adjust the layout of the battle formation in time.

They don't have firearms, they only try to reduce the damage they cause, just like the Warat in history.

However, Siam didn't expect it, Mu Sheng didn't expect it, and everyone except Zhu Zhan Yan didn't expect that this time the artillery was not the same as the regular artillery of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion.

Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping went to the Shenji Camp when Zhu Zhan Yan was conquering the Japanese State, because Zhu Zhan Yan had already asked them to learn more and learn all the experience related to firearms, especially artillery.

It turned out that the total time accumulated for two years of study was not in vain, and the shells flew very accurately towards the elephant troops in Siam.

Everyone's eyes were focused on this, and the Siamese generals were just about to give the order to dodge, but the sudden change made him unresponsive for a while.

Cannonballs, exploded in the sky!

Many people have misconceptions about artillery, because ancient artillery did not explode when it landed, like cannonballs in later generations, but fired solid projectiles to destroy the city walls through impact.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was not that there were no flowering shells, but unlike the cannonballs in ordinary people's conventional thoughts, the flowering shells in the Ming Dynasty did not destroy the city wall with explosive power, but through the explosion to launch some iron nails and poisonous things, thereby causing casualties.

Moreover, this kind of artillery that fired flowering shells was usually only available in the Hongzhi and Chenghua dynasties, but not in the Yongle period.

So, when the people of Siamese were completely stunned when they saw this sight, they couldn't figure out what the hell the Ming army was doing.

However, they soon had an answer.

The shells that exploded in the sky were like fireworks, but the difference was that the "flowers" that exploded by the shells did not disappear, but fell into the phalanx of Siam.

Contaminated by sparks, the Siamese soldiers habitually began to slap or extinguish the fire by other means, but only then did they find out......

This fire is like a maggot attached to the bone, and it cannot be extinguished at all.

If there was a twenty-first century man here at this time, he would have exclaimed.

I'm blanching! Burning eggs!?

Don't bother with that egg should be this bullet, I did it on purpose, for fear of being crabbed.

(End of chapter)