The wild land of Myanmar is different from the mainland.

Under the confrontation between the two armies, neither fighting generals nor fighting formations is simply fighting the army.

To put it bluntly, it is two rabble armies rushing forward, slashing and killing, and whoever can't support it loses.

The only outcome of this way of fighting is to kill 10,000 people, lose 10,000 yourself, or even lose 12,000 yourself.

There is no tactic at all on both sides of the enemy, and it is completely a fight for the total number of people. If one side dies, it will naturally lose.

After the Great War, the battlefield was littered with dead bodies. The only benefit is that the population can be reduced quickly.

If it is placed in the mainland, it is all a desperate last resort, that is, a suicidal attack under the dying throes.

Why did the Ming army's three southern expeditions fail? It was because of the extensive use of firearms, and the personal combat effectiveness of the soldiers was almost close to zero.

Whoever faces a scuffle of chaos, the final defeat is bound to be the Ming official army, and there is absolutely no accident.

More than 200 years of historical experience proves that once the gunpowder is used up, the Ming army will be completely defeated, and finally the whole army will be annihilated.

In the past hundreds of years, every battle has been a total annihilation, and the number of times it happened in the Ming Dynasty is beyond count.

Whether it was a civil war or a foreign war, the annihilation of the army of the Ming Dynasty has become a norm.

The army of the Ming Dynasty went to war with only two endings: either they would return victorious, or none of them would return.

The number of victories is too few, and one slap is too much.

The number of annihilations is too much, and it is not enough to add toes.

Yang Hu was educated by Xiong Chu, of course it is okay to rush and fight, and the dead should be avoided as much as possible.

Once there is a melee of thousands or tens of thousands of people, the best result is a one-to-one battle loss.

Xiong Jiajun is not afraid of death, but it does not mean that Xiàn is going to die.

Dare to fight, avoid melee, and preserve strength, these are the three principles that Xiong Chu gave to the troops, and Yang Hu certainly remembered it.

The Xiong family's army has limited strength, and the number of fighters must be inferior, and they definitely can't afford to die, so they can't fight like the wild land of Burma.

Avoid scuffles, that's why Yang Hu has been frowning.

Yang Hu frowned, just because whether there was going to be a scuffle or not was not necessarily his own decision.

If the enemy must start a melee, your side will either retreat or raise your hands and surrender.

Raising your hands to surrender must not be considered, and appropriate evasion of battle and retreat, avoiding the enemy's edge, this can be considered.

What Yang Hu considered was how to avoid the enemy's edge.

Avoiding the enemy's edge and returning to the division to fight again requires a broad strategic depth.

Yang Hu just didn't have a big depth to retreat, and five miles behind him was Tianma Pass.

Once the battle began, five miles was really not a distance, and it was almost enough to reach it with your feet raised.

Someone said: Yang Hu is really stupid, why don't you set off in advance and go farther, so that you have more room for maneuver.

If there were more than 10,000 people under his command, of course Yang Hu would do so, and even directly cross a hundred miles to surround Bamo Town.

However, his cavalry battalion only had 3,600 people, and it also needed to guard Tianma Pass, and the troops that could be used for frontal combat on the front line were only 2,000 at most.

Among the mountains and ravines, let alone 2,000 people, even if 20,000 people throw them in, they can't see half a hair.

The barbarians in the land of the Southern Barbarians are all rock dwellers, and no one knows where they live.

Once besieged by the enemy on all sides, total annihilation is the only outcome.

Go deep into the enemy's hinterland and destroy the enemy's foundations, the biggest difficulty is to face enemies on all sides, even every grass and tree is your enemy.

An experienced general would never dare to take risks alone, and of course Yang Hu would not.

According to the city, it is self-fortified, step by step, defending and counterattacking, taking advantage of the gap, and Qi Zheng is compatible, sweeping the hole and plowing the court.

This is the method of employing troops that military advisors have repeatedly emphasized, that is, to avoid the disastrous consequences of falling into a heavy encirclement.

The chief general of the Western Road Army, Huang Yanying, was careless, and then died in an ambush, which is a lesson in blood.

In other words, every time you march, you must aim to capture a city, and you must not camp in the wilderness. Once you've established your footing, look for opportunities to deliver a fatal blow to your enemies.

This kind of fighting method is just the opposite of that in the desert and the Hexi Corridor.

Because the desert and the Hexi Corridor are one and the same, the elite cavalry troops can gallop thousands of miles.

Taking advantage of the speed of the war horse, every battle is maneuverable and flexible, and the enemy can not figure out the reality with one blow.

Under that kind of terrain conditions, it is possible to use a force of 1,000 people to fight 30,000 people.

But not in the land of the Southern Barbarians, because it is all mountainous, and then there are river valleys.

The cavalry speed advantage of the cavalry battalion was greatly weakened, and it was impossible to maneuver quickly at all, and the possibility of blitzkrieg was lost.

Yang Hu frowned here, the enemy on the opposite side didn't have such good patience.

They stayed for a while, but it was just to restore the fù body, mainly to let the war elephant recover the fù body.

Half an hour later, the war elephant finished drinking and resting, and the whining horn finally sounded, and the kraft drum was exciting.

Bang Bang Bang -

One hundred and twenty war elephants rushed over in four layers of trotting, and the huge elephant hooves stepped on the ground, which made Yang Hu feel the earth tremble slightly.

Yang Hu already had a specific impression in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching: "Damn, the war elephant is really evil! Each end weighs nearly 10,000 catties, and such a behemoth can run." The movement of one hundred and twenty war elephants is equivalent to the formation of five hundred cavalry, and this thing is absolutely incapable of the enemy. ”

At such a time, the thirty war elephants in front had approached about five hundred paces, and the shaking of the earth was getting stronger and stronger.

At this moment, one of the prisoners' foot soldiers shouted from behind: "General, get behind the fence quickly! Our nine-tiered horses can't stop the war elephants at all, because their noses can be swept away, and then they rush in!"

Yang Hu was still sitting on the back of his horse, and raised an iron rod in his right hand: "Don't panic, everyone! Twenty crossbow carts are ready, and they will start to release arrows at three hundred paces! However, be careful, raise the crossbow arrows by half an inch, shoot the enemy on the back of the war elephant as much as possible, and do not hurt the war elephant." ”

The Kong Ming single-wheeled ballista of the Xiong Jiajun has re-improved and improved bow arms and bowstrings, and the range of the copper three-edged crossbow arrows is more than 400 steps, that is, more than a mile.

Three hundred steps had already entered the killing range of Kong Ming's crossbow car, and the iron rod in Yang Hu's right hand fell, and four hundred and eighty crossbow arrows let out a terrible howl, bringing a piece of golden light to pounce on the war elephant.

This kind of terrifying and terrible howl was not available in the past, but only appeared after improvement.

The root cause of the whistling sound is mainly to save brass, and at the same time reduce the weight of the crossbow arrows to increase the number of carrying, so each crossbow arrow has three small holes on the tail of the arrow.

This Kongming single-wheeled crossbow cart made by the Tang Gate in Shuzhong is not a repeating crossbow, and of course it cannot be shot continuously. Instead, twenty-four crossbow arrows were fired at a time to deliver a face-to-face blow to the enemy.

Four hundred and eighty crossbow arrows were shot out in an instant, and even a blind cat would touch a dead mouse. Besides, it's not a blind cat now, it's still a behemoth on the other side.

As a result, most of the archers and spearmen on the backs of the thirty war elephants in the first row were lost, and three war elephants were shot into hedgehogs on their heads, and they fell to the ground on the spot and died.

"The second group of twenty ballista carts scattered left and right, flanking the enemy's second row of war elephants, and letting in the first row of war elephants!"

Giving a loud order, Yang Hu had already hung the iron rod on the victory hook, touched his longbow with his hand, and then shot three arrows in a row, killing the three remaining archers on the backs of the first row of war elephants.

Yang Hu is one of the four great divine power generals, and his longbow is a six-stone bow, which can also shoot special birch arrows out of two hundred and forty steps.

The archers and spearmen on the backs of the enemy's first row of war elephants were all cleared, and the remaining two dozen or so war elephants had rushed to the side of the horses.

Because there was no command from the riders, these war elephants didn't know what to do in the face of the rejection of the horse, so they stood there motionless, but instead formed a wall of flesh for Yang Hu and them.

As the archers and spearmen on the backs of the second row of war elephants were shot down by crossbow arrows, the whining horns sounded again, and the enemy attacking forces slowly retreated.

The enemy's first attack failed, and he didn't shoot a single arrow from beginning to end, Yang Hu already knew it in his heart.

The archers on the back of the war elephants could not shoot strong bows, and their range could not reach two hundred paces, which was much worse than those sharpshooters in the Chige Shooting Battalion.

Yang Hu didn't want to think about it, how could people in this world be as perverted as him, and the ninety-six pounds of iron rod was too light.

The soldiers of the cavalry battalion had nothing to do with the war elephants left by the enemy on the scene, but among the recruits who had just been converted from captives, there happened to be many guys who could tame elephants.

These guys didn't wait for Yang Hu's order at all, they rushed out as the enemy retreated, and then surrounded more than fifty war elephants and screamed wildly, and even let them get the war elephants behind the fence.

The enemy lost a total of 120 men and 60 war elephants, of which seven were killed, 18 were wounded, and 35 were intact.

It wasn't until his soldiers took back the equipment on the enemy's corpse that Yang Hu discovered that the archers on the back of the war elephants were actually using hunting bows.

The hunting bow is small and suitable for use in dense forests, but the hunting bow is a soft bow with less than three stones, the maximum range is only one hundred and twenty steps, and the killing distance is only about fifty steps.

With a clear judgment on the enemy's attack distance, Yang Hu had a quasi-spectrum in his heart: "The third and fourth groups of crossbow carts are on alert, and the others are on fire." ”

Bamboo tubes are ready-made, pine branches are ready-made, and of course it is necessary to cook rice, and not in an iron pot.

After a common battle, and without a single casualty, the new recruits, who had been converted from captives, finally began to change.

This is a change that desperately wants to be able to truly integrate into a team, and Yang Hu sees it in his eyes and is happy in his heart.

The most obvious point of this change is that the soldiers of the newly organized infantry barracks, there are a few bold guys who stand up and directly ask Yang Hu to fight:

"General, if you believe us, while the enemy retreats, we will follow and kill, and they will completely collapse. ”

Nodding, Yang Hu smiled and said, "You know, if you have bows and arrows in your hands and long knives, then you can kill me at any time." If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't be at the front and put you behind me. You're right, aren't you?"

This is a very common truth, but also a very shocking truth, and it is also a basic truth that convinces people's hearts.

Ordinary people didn't dare to do it, but Yang Hu did it, so he got a group of dead soldiers at once: "Since the general has put his life in our hands, we should rush out and kill the enemy to repay the general." ”

"No, you're going to kill a lot of people like this. Yang Hu still smiled, but shook his head: "You are all warriors, I absolutely believe it, but I don't want you to die casually." As for the enemies on the other side, now you can be on guard after dinner, and I have a better way to deal with them. ”

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