Chapter 102 Fire Rain
Before Shao Tingda's mechanism was released, the enemy had retreated. He didn't even see what the enemy looked like. This was why he sent someone to report to Chen Mu, the rear, saying that he was going to pursue the enemy.
In this vanguard battle that he had not met, Shao Tingda did not know that there were 2,000 enemies he had repelled. If he really fought, he would be difficult for him to leave alive.
But the magical arrows scared the Burmese army. Many of them had only heard of rockets such as beetles and hundreds of tigers running together, and had never seen them. When they first met, they saw a small iron bead inside, and the arrows that exploded and killed people. It was late at night that the ambush had not yet raised fire, so it was difficult to restrain the soldiers. There was no reason to not retreat.
The Ming army's vanguard army was already very close to Bai Gucheng, and was only about ten miles away. He was extremely unwilling to order pursuit when he saw the enemy fleeing in a hurry. There were people in this world who felt even more uncomfortable than him.
What was even more uncomfortable than Shao Tingda was obviously Mang Yingli standing on the towering wall in the south of Baigu City.
When the little prince heard that the army was really like his military advisor's magic trick, he mistakenly thought that Bai Gucheng was sending troops to attack. He was so happy that he danced and kept fulfilling his wish in front of Brahma. He ran from the pagoda two miles north of the city to the city wall in the south. He wanted to watch the Ming army be defeated by his army with his own eyes.
But unexpectedly, I didn't hear the fighting and shouting on the battlefield in the distance, but I only saw a large area of dense fire from south to north.
If the Ming general stood here, he might not understand who was fighting whom. After all, they had rockets, but they didn’t know if the enemy had rockets.
But Mang Yingli was very clear. They didn’t have such things that could set fire and smoke. They could still emit light, which made the forest turn red for a short time. That must be the Ming army beating them!
If you want to say who is more uncomfortable than Rang Yingli, hey, there is really, just Chen An, who thought he was sure to win and just denied his escape plan.
He comforted Mang Yingli, "The little prince doesn't have to worry. The order said that the Ming army had three routes, and there were up to thousands of troops. The prince had ordered seven thousand troops to encircle him. Will he lose if he fought three thousand and one thousand?"
Just as he finished speaking, the right wing also lit up like the previous central army, but it was not as dense as the central army set off rockets and was fleeting.
That was Huang Dexiang, the commander of the left wing of the Ming army, who also encountered the enemy. When Huang Dexiang entered Chen Mu's command, he received thousands of official positions. He was a veteran general in the Ming army. He was one of the few orthodox Ming generals under Chen Mu's command. The advantages and disadvantages of traditional generals coexisted.
He was reluctant to use all the firepower in his hand at one time, and he took the Shenwei Machinery Arrow as a treasure. He confiscated all the arrows of the general flag. He released one arrow after another on the full screen. The arrows were not dense, so he did not scare away the Burmese ambush with one blow like Shao Tingda. However, he was not afraid of the fierce battles and did not spare the lives of his soldiers.
From the Ming Dynasty to the Longqing generation of Jiajing, the foundation of famous generals was that they were more cowardly. The generals of the ward station were just doing their best and live a life of tyranny, and they were not slapped in the battle, but they were not slapped in the old tradition of running against the wind and waves, and they did not fight to the death with the Japanese pirates.
But the military laws and ordnances of Nanyang have minimized their possibility of headwinds.
When Lao Huang saw that the general flag arrow had exploded the enemy formation, there was no need to hesitate about anything else. He immediately took the sword and commanded the flag army to attack. The flag carrying the small flag arrow on his head and shoulders ran and suddenly knelt down on one knee. A fire-raising flag army ran by his side and fired to him. With a "swoosh" rocket rushed out. The flag army lost its quiver and then ran forward.
The gunmen behind him ran forward with long guns. The hundred households leading the army holding flag spears saw the Burmese military formation blooming everywhere. Without hesitation, they ordered the flag army to chant: "Detect the guns ten steps before the battle, and then release the guns and stab and chase after Erli!"
He also did not forget to communicate with the hundreds of families behind him to let them be prepared for their left and right wings.
The extra military orders are no longer needed. After the general flag arrow is released, the enemy army, which has no torches, has lost its formation again. After being defeated, the result of escaping everywhere can be foreseeable.
They are used to fighting such wars, and even the bravest enemy forces under their superior firepower will be defeated. In the long run, they will create the spirit of this army.
However, the Lou Qimai tribe on the right wing did not release the mechanical arrows. It’s not that the ugly general didn’t like such weapons that could explode. In fact, because his face was damaged by the explosion musket, he was happy to use the general flag arrow, the small flag arrow, the palm thunder, and the divine power mechanism arrow, which can blow up other people’s heads when they run out.
However, the battle situation did not give him a chance. He missed the enemy ambush. Huang Dexiang and Shao Tingda's battles were all about fighting with the enemy head north, but he was about to go west because his army accidentally walked outside the enemy's encirclement and walked forward two miles. He vaguely saw Shao Tingda's troops fighting with the enemy before he could enter the forest.
The Burmese army that fought with him was sprayed back by the general flag arrow after attacking Shao Tingda, but it was not those who were shot on the face. The two sides really fought with only 300 Shao Tingda's troops and 600 Burmese troops. Then the 600 retreated and the large troops retreated, and then they happened to be met by Lou Qimai.
At first, Lou Qimai thought that the army he encountered was Shao Tingda. After dozens of steps, he shouted at each other in the forest and realized that it was the enemy and the distance was not enough to make the Rockets show their power.
The rocket has good power and shock, but its defects are also obvious. The range of this thing is fixed and the accuracy is extremely poor. Even if it is a rocket that was damaged by the Iron Pill explosion after Chen Mu's modified Tiewan explosion, if it wants to hit a person accurately, it is probably difficult to hit one hundred steps and ten shots. It is rare to release ten shots and have seven shots that can eventually fall to the maximum range at different heights.
If the distance is too close, the Rockets will no longer be used.
Fortunately, Lou Qimai had thunder in his palm, which was also an object suitable for fighting in the jungle. A series of grenades were thrown out, and rumbling in the "rear" of the enemy's accidental attack, and then they directly fought each other.
For the Burmese army, the four thousand troops came out of the east and west sides of the ancient city of Bai, and were attacked by the Ming army when they failed to support it. They also used a variety of weapons they had never seen before and were killed. It was like a catastrophe.
Shao Tingda's troops became more and more brave as they fought, and they chased forward for a mile and fought again. The three hundred men simply divided into three formations and jumped in succession, and they were able to fight and retreat at first. When they learned that the left wing of the rear was facing an enemy, they had to retreat to the right wing. Then they received news that the right wing had been defeated by the Ming army. They gathered the remaining defeated generals and had no intention of continuing to fight. They quickly fought and retreated north to retreat out of the dense forest.
Shao Tingda, who led the army to chase after him, only focused on chasing him, suddenly looked up panting, and suddenly opened his eyes. He saw the city wall three miles away holding a fire and the wide moat separated him and Bai Gucheng. Then he stood with a knife. Looking at Lou Qimai, who was also chasing out of the distance and Huang Dexiang, who was fighting all over the left wing, he smiled and cursed softly.
Chapter completed!