With the issuance of the military order, the city of Xunlin was crowded, and the huge city gate was slowly opened with the joint efforts of several soldiers.

Dozens of teams of Chu cavalry rushed out of the camp outside the city under the leadership of a member of the general, and fought with the Burmese cavalry in the wilderness outside Xunlin City, clearing a field for the follow-up army to go out of the city.

Burma is mountainous, and most of the war horses ridden by the horsemen are relatively short Burmese horses, so they gradually fell into the disadvantage in the confrontation with the Chu State cavalry, and some people constantly screamed and fell off the horse, and then were trampled to death by the galloping war horses.

Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Wu Jianning ordered these cavalrymen who were responsible for wandering and harassing to withdraw to their own formation.

Seeing that the situation had stabilized, in addition to the 20,000 Chu troops left behind, the remaining 40,000 Chu troops slowly walked out of the city and camp under the command of Qu Zhen, and lined up on the plain.

Although Qu Zhen is responsible for the defeat and loss of his land, when it comes to the generals around Zhao Yu, there is no one more suitable than this veteran general who has been stationed in southern Xinjiang for more than ten years.

Although Wang Xiongdan, Zhang Xiu, and Yin Shou are better in themselves and have greater potential, they are not qualified to be the commanders of any army because they do not have enough experience in the army and have no experience in commanding large armies.

For the sake of safety, Zhao Yu finally enabled Qu Zhen.

Several groups of Burmese cavalry thought that there was an opportunity to bypass the Chu cavalry, hoping to take the opportunity to attack the Chu army, which had not yet fully lined up, so as to cause chaos.

It's just that the morale of the Chu army, who learned that His Majesty was on the battlefield in person, was greatly boosted, and in just a few breaths, these cavalry soldiers were repulsed.

With the sound of majestic war drums in the city, the red phoenix banner belonging to the emperor of Chu appeared in front of the soldiers.

Under the banner, Zhao Yu, who was riding a red war horse, wearing a red heavy armor and a white robe, appeared in front of everyone surrounded by Qu Zhen and a group of generals.

The 40,000 Chu army was also divided into four armies by Qu Zhen, the front army was led by Wu Song, the left and right armies were led by Wang Xiongdan and Yin Shou respectively, Qu Zhen and Zhao Yu'an sat in the middle army, and Zhang Xiu led the 3,000 flying bear army as the rear hand.

The Chu army lined up outside the city, relying on the camps and cities in the rear, to confront the Burmese army.

Surrounded by the generals, Zhao Yu rode his horse to the front of the military formation, and Wang Xiongdan beside him held the red phoenix banner.

Wherever the banner of the Son of Heaven went, countless Chu soldiers looked excited, holding their weapons high and shouting "Great Chu Wansheng", making a crazy response to Zhao Yu.

In just a short moment, the momentum of the entire Chu army has climbed to the highest peak.

The commander of the Burmese army on the stage.

Wu Jianning listened to the sound of "Da Chu Wansheng" coming from the opposite side one after another, wave after wave, and his face gradually became solemn.

He didn't expect that the little emperor of Chu was just on the floor in front of the battle, which made the morale of the entire Chu army rise sharply.

As the saying goes, one trades off the other.

The morale of the Chu army skyrocketed, and the morale of their Burmese army fell into a downward spiral.

It's just that if the Jun army is finished, if it retreats without a fight, not only will the morale plummet, but it will also be found by the Chu army and pursued, and at that time, the original retreat will become a real rout.

Knowing that he couldn't delay any longer, Wu Jianning, who let the morale of the Chu army rise, let out a heavy breath of turbid air and waved the handsome flag in his hand.

"Send an order to the front army and let General Li go out of battle!"

After receiving the order of General Wu Jianning, the flag bearer next to him waved the flag in his hand, and the war drums on the high platform were also beaten by the wrestlers, and the strong drums beat on the chests of the Burmese soldiers, making them enthusiastic.

Seeing the flag dancing on the handsome platform, Li Miao, who had been waiting for a long time in the front army, hooked a bloodthirsty smile on the corner of his mouth, and pulled the reins in his hand.

The war horse under the crotch was in pain, and rushed out with Li Miao on his shoulder.

"Sons, follow Ben to kill the enemy!"

Under the leadership of Li Miao, countless Burmese soldiers behind him shouted in unison and stepped forward.

Nearly 10,000 troops in front, under the guidance of the drums, slowly set out.

At the same time, Ji Guangbai and Zhuo Yi, who were responding on both flanks, also led the troops to slowly press.

The entire Burmese army gradually changed from a "one" formation to a cone-shaped formation, and the tip of the cone was the 10,000-strong former army led by Li Miao.

Zhao Yu and Qu Zhen, who returned to the platform, looked at the front of the big array, and saw dust two miles away, mixed with a little blue, and knew that the Burmese army had moved.

"General Qu, these 40,000 troops, I will all be handed over to you. Even if it is me, at this moment, I am also a member of the general's general, and I can send it at will. ”

Zhao Yu retracted his gaze, looked at Qu Zhen, and emphasized his thoughts again.

"Your Majesty is gracious, and the ministers will not dare to live up to it!"

Qu Zhen said, and issued military orders to the flag-bearers around him, and with the flying of the command flags from time to time, the Chu army also began to take action.

However, at a distance of two miles, the Burmese army arrived in a moment, and the fierce general Li Miao led his guards to rush to the front.

At a distance of two hundred paces, the Burmese army suddenly increased its speed and rushed towards the Chu army that was waiting for it.

"Put!"

With the shouts of the junior colonel in the army, the Chu sergeant who controlled the bed crossbow smashed the wooden mallet in his hand hard.

In the crashing sound of bed crossbow bowstrings, the sound of breaking through the air was endless, and dozens of iron crossbow arrows with a length of three feet flew out.

Just a rain of arrows harvested the lives of more than 50 Burmese soldiers, and an unlucky Burmese army commander was even pierced into a gourd by crossbow arrows and three armor soldiers behind him.

But these are not at all insignificant to the front army of the Burmese army, which has nearly 10,000 troops, and a famous soldier continued to advance towards the Chu army's large array under the orders of generals and colonels at all levels.

Li Miao, who was the leader, even cut the crossbow arrow shot at him into two pieces with an axe.

"Crossbowman, prepare!"

"Put!"

Woohoo!

The endless rain of arrows was overwhelming, shooting towards the Burmese army.

"Raise your shield!"

In the face of the rain of arrows of the Chu army, in the Burmese army's formation, countless generals and colonels shouted at the same time.

A Burmese soldier raised his wooden shield in his hand, pressed his body together as much as possible, and then continued forward.

Puff puff!

With a muffled sound, arrows fell from the sky either through the wooden shield or into the cracks in the shield wall, piercing into the bodies of the soldiers beneath the wooden shield.

Amid screams and wails, a Burmese soldier was shot to the ground.

The Burmese army behind him was expressionless, and quickly stepped forward to fill the gap that had just been exposed.

In this way, after a few rounds of arrow rain, the Burmese army fell more than 300 people, but only about fifty steps away from the Chu army's main array.

The Burmese archers, who entered their range, immediately fired several waves of arrows to return fire.

Even if the armor rate of the Chu army is higher than that of the Burmese army, in the face of this rain of arrows, people still fall from time to time.

After a few breaths, only thirty or so paces remained between the two armies.

At this time, I saw the command flag waving on the platform of the Chu army commander, and the passionate war drums sounded again.

The originally dense military formation instantly cracked open, and a soldier in armor armed with heavy weapons came out to meet the attack, and behind them, there were countless ordinary soldiers.

It is the consistent tactic of the Chu army to cut through the opponent's defense line with heavy armor soldiers, and then use ordinary soldiers to expand the results of the battle.

was only a few breaths late, and the drums in the Han army also sounded.

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

A Burmese sergeant shouted slogans and charged the Chu army.

In the blink of an eye, the two collided together.

In the midst of a burst of shouts and killings that seemed to be like a mountain and a tsunami, the moment the two armies met in close arms, nearly 100 soldiers fell to the ground screaming.

On a front of less than 500 meters, there were scenes of blood bursting everywhere.

In the tragic hand-to-hand combat, the formations of the two armies were rushed into chaos, and the generals and colonels at all levels roared, leading their subordinates to maintain a formation that was almost collapsed.

A heavy-armored soldier of the Chu State smashed several people with an iron shovel in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, a dying Burmese foot soldier cut his throat with a dagger.

In the wilderness under the city of Xunlin, the Burmese army launched an offensive against the Chu army one after another, but the Chu army, under the orderly command of Qu Zhen, was like an old turtle retracted into a turtle shell, and there was no flaw in the guard, so that Wu Jianning on the opposite side had nothing to do for a while, so he could only exchange human life for human life.

And Chu Jun's occasional sharp counterattacks made him extremely uncomfortable.

Although the Chu army was on the defensive, facing the Burmese army who were not afraid of death, the situation was stalemate for a while.

The marching drums of the Burmese army sounded again.

Li Miao looked at the battle line entangled in one place, and a ruthless color flashed in his eyes.

"Heavy armor warriors, come forward with Ben!"

With the sound of heavy footsteps, five hundred sharp soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding swords and shields rushed into the battlefield under the leadership of Li Miao.

This is the most elite force in Li Miao's hands.

The two soldiers at the front had been fighting for a long time, and this was the time when the people were exhausted.

Li Miao led the Burmese army to appear at this time and dealt a heavy blow to the Chu army.

The Chu army, which could not resist the enemy, retreated step by step, but in the blink of an eye, it retreated more than fifty steps.

In just a few moments, five soldiers were defeated by Li Miao's army.

"It's Li Miao, give the order, let Wu Song lead the troops to block his offensive!"

On the handsome platform, looking at the front of the Chu army that was forced to retreat one after another, Qu Zhen frowned and commanded loudly.

In the middle of the battle array, seeing the command flag waving on the handsome platform, Wu Song's tense face finally showed a smile.

"It's finally time to do it. Sons, kill me! ”

Wu Songhu roared, holding the Qinglong and White Tiger double swords, leading his guards to kill in the direction of Li Miao.

Li Miao cut a Chu army junior colonel into two pieces with an axe, looking at the frightened eyes of the Chu army around him, he was very proud.

At this moment, a warning suddenly flashed in his heart, and he subconsciously flashed sideways.

A chilling sword light almost touched the tip of his nose.

"You're Li Miao?"

Looking at the axe-wielding man in front of him, Wu Song asked in a deep voice.

"It's your Grandpa Li!"

Almost walked on the Nai He Bridge, Li Miao was frightened in his heart, and at the same time, he roared and slashed at Wu Song with an axe.

Wu Song just flashed sideways, and then flashed easily.

"If it's you, then don't go!"

Before the words fell, Wu Song's figure flashed, and the distance between the two was instantly shortened, and the two knives of the green dragon and white tiger slashed towards Li Miao's forehead.

Where did the monster come out?

Li Miao was frightened by Wu Song's astonishing speed and broke out in a cold sweat on his back, but with his own experience, he used a move to raise fire and burn the sky when he couldn't do anything, and he could use the axe handle to block Wu Song's double slash.

However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he only felt a pain in his chest, and the whole person involuntarily fell backwards.

But it was Wu Song's mandarin duck feet that made a contribution!

"General!"

Seeing that Li Miao was in a critical situation, the guards beside him were suddenly shocked and hurriedly came to support, but were desperately stopped by the Chu army around him.

As soon as Li Miao, who had fallen into a state of flux, got up, he felt a flash of sword light in front of him, and in the next moment, his consciousness sank into boundless darkness.

Seeing Wu Song kill one of the other generals, the surrounding Chu army suddenly boosted their morale.

With a knife in his left hand, Li Miao was beheaded, and Wu Song asked the guards who had just arrived to lift the head and shouted loudly:

"Li Miao is dead!"

The surrounding Chu troops also responded one after another.

For a while, the voice of "Li Miao is dead" resounded in the sky.

When the front army of the Burmese army heard this, they couldn't help but lose their color, their morale plummeted, and they were pushed back by the Chu army in the blink of an eye.

Li Miao...... Damn the Chu people! ”

Hearing that his vanguard was beheaded by the other party, Wu Jianning's face was as ugly as it was.

However, before he could come up with a countermeasure, another piece of bad news appeared in front of him.

"Marshal, the former army came to report, saying that it was going to be impossible to resist."

A scout rider came to Wu Jianning, turned over and dismounted, and said loudly.

A bunch of useless things!

Wu Jianning hated it in his heart, but he had to wipe his ass for the former army.

"Tell the former officers and men to retreat from both flanks."

"Inform the two generals of Ji Zhuo on both wings, if the front army is defeated and the formation is attacked, shoot it directly!"

Being attacked by a rout is the most terrible thing, and if you are not careful, it will cause a snowball effect and trigger a rout on the whole line.

Therefore, even if those defeated soldiers were their own people, they could not be driven by the Chu people to attack their own formation.

In just the blink of an eye, the situation collapsed to this point, and Wu Jianning had to come up with his killer weapon in advance.

"Let General Lang lead the cavalry to charge again after the war elephants launched a charge to defeat the Chu army's formation, don't give the Chu people the slightest time to regroup."

Myanmar is located in a hot and humid climate, rich in elephants, and they regard elephants as the country's auspicious fortune.

Over a long period of time, the Burmese domesticated elephants as weapons of war, and gradually improved them to breed giant elephants that were two feet tall.

The reason why Wu Jianning is full of confidence in the giant elephant as a weapon of war is because in the previous wars with neighboring countries, as long as the giant elephant is dispatched, they will finally achieve victory in Burma.

This time, in his opinion, it was no exception.

He had secretly sent thirty giant elephants to the center of the military formation, so that they could easily charge, break the enemy's formation, and trample the enemy's soldiers.

Unlike cavalry, due to their sheer strength, the war elephant cannot be easily defused by a phalanx of infantry armed with spears after a charge.

Even if the enemy forces are not crushed for a while, they will be driven aside in the face of such a behemoth, or they will have to retreat under oppression.

Even the formed cavalry is at a disadvantage in front of the war elephants, because ordinary war horses are not familiar with the smell of elephants, and they are extremely easy to be frightened in front of elephants.

This is a valuable experience summed up by Myanmar after all wars.

The elephant's rough skin and thick flesh make it less susceptible to injury, and its great advantage in height and weight provides excellent protection for riders on the elephant's back.

This is true of elephants, not to mention giant elephants that are two feet tall and covered in iron armor.

In this day and age, it is simply the existence of a heavy tank.

Let's start with 4000, and make up the remaining 1000 tomorrow

(End of chapter)