Brother Zhu Youxiao

At four o'clock (14:[-]) on the tenth day of the first lunar month, as the hottest temperature of the day reaches its peak, the chirping of pheasants also passes from the top of the mountain to the forest, like a breeze blowing across the water. The curved and beautiful, leaving behind a series of long grievances.

The Mansha Mountain, which is hundreds of kilometers long, blocks the Irrawaddy Delta Plain and the Dajinsha River. The Ming army on its way is like a red dragon that has just climbed out of a volcano, marching on the plain road. .

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

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

Walking on such a road, the lingering spring breeze brings a burst of fragrance of rice, which makes the soldiers of the Navy Longjiang Guard and Henghai Guard who are heading to the mountain road of Mansha Mountain high in fighting spirit.

Huang Fei, who was in the middle of the team, was riding on a bloody horse. He looked around, at the rice fields being stirred up by the wind, and at the villages with closed doors in the distance. .

Looking down from the sky, the mandarin duck war jackets of the Ming army divided the yellow rice field, even though all the ears of rice were churning, like brilliant clouds falling on the field, but this did not make Huang Fei relax his vigilance.

The narrow road less than two feet long, and the rice fields more than three feet high restricted the Ming army's movement.

Huang Fei was not sure whether there were any traps set up by the Burmese army in the rice fields, or whether there were any ambushes around.

Perhaps because of his years of experience in countering rebellions in Ceylon and India, he took the reins and whispered "Woo" softly, and issued a military order to the surrounding soldiers:

"Order the ministries to inspect the rice fields."

"Check? This... the governor, how do you check?" The commander of the Longjiang Guard next to him was a little dazed.

Because the number of the navy is not enough, and the rear needs soldiers and horses to guard, so Huang Fei immediately sent more than 5000 knives and gunners in the army to the rear city after destroying Sutai. Marching with six thousand riflemen.

Therefore, in this case, if the Ming army still divides its troops to search the rice fields, it will take a lot of time.

"Load and load, everyone shoot me at the rice fields!"

Huang Fei, who always wanted to save bullets, gave the order decisively. The extravagant way of using bullets to explore the way surprised the commander of the Longjiang Guard, but he still bowed and complied.

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

"Bang bang bang-"

The dense rain of bullets was fired, and the surrounding rice fields were shortened by half in an instant.

The ears of rice fell into the field like snowflakes, and Huang Fei had a panoramic view of the surrounding hundreds of paces.

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

After confirming the safety of the four weeks, Huang Fei continued to lead the soldiers and horses to march [-] miles ahead to the Mansha Mountain Road.

In one day and night, Huang Fei led the people on a journey of more than [-] miles. Now they only need to walk another [-] miles to reach the mountain road of Mansha Mountain, and then the army can rest.

Tomorrow, if he spends some more time crossing the [-]-mile Mansha Mountain Road, he will be able to reach the alluvial plain in the north of Miaodang City and approach Miaodang City.

At this point, the battle will be over, and Huang Fei's military achievements will be established.

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

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

Not to mention the previous waist knives, rifles, and pistols, the cotton armor has also been faded.

Even after changing from triple armor to double armor, the casualties of the riflemen were smaller than before.

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

If the load is less than ten or tens of catties, a soldier will bear less burden and can travel farther.

When necessary, they even need to bring a small amount of rations and fresh water to set off, such as now.

Huang Fei glanced at all the soldiers. They were all carrying rifles, bullet belts around their waists, and packages from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau on their backs.

This kind of package looks strange to Huang Fei, but if people of later generations look at it, they can tell at a glance that this is the tactical backpack of later generations.

The knapsack can hold more than [-] catties of things, but Huang Fei only let the soldiers carry [-] catties of military rations, [-] catties of fresh water, and [-] to [-] bullets on their waists.

The heavy armor and armor were taken off, and only a piece of chain mail was still worn on the body.

These equipments are not heavy on the body, but they give them enough confidence.

Huang Fei is confident that even if tens of thousands of troops raid, he and his soldiers will not be afraid at all!
Thinking of this, Huang Fei rode the horse vigorously and headed towards Mansha Mountain in front of him.

Six thousand lightly armed Ming soldiers marched in armor, dragging their armored and armored carriages in the middle of the team. 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 Tangqi of the Ming army could only guarantee to patrol the army's radius of ten miles, so when Huang Fei and his men were about to walk through this golden rice field, there was a sudden explosion in the sky ahead.

"boom--"

"Captain, it's a ringing arrow!"

"Order the whole army to wear armor!"

"Beep--"

When the sound of the arrow sounded, the commander of the Longjiang Guard was busy reminding him, but Huang Fei had already ordered the whole army to wear armor.

Without the need for Tangqi to deliver information, the soldiers of the Ming army had already started helping each other the moment they heard the sound of the wooden whistle.

It takes two people to help put on the heavy armor and hood, and the steps to put it on are a little cumbersome and often take two to three minutes.

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

"Beep--"

Soon, all 12 Ming troops were armored, and a team of [-] Tangqi came galloping on the road to the east.

They ran to Huang Fei along the edge of the field, bowed and said:

"Captain, the Burmese army butang was found ten miles ahead. The scale is not small, and the headquarters has at least more than [-] people."

The Tang cavalry team was about to go forward to report, Huang Fei tilted his head and told the commander of the Longjiang Guard: "Don't worry about it, keep marching, the baggage carts are ready to line up at any time."

"Yes!" Maybe it was the self-confidence brought by the rifle, Huang Fei didn't care about the so-called army of ten thousand people, even if there were tens of thousands of people, he wouldn't care, instead he would be excited.

Tens of thousands of people are counting 10 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 Tangqi and Butang of the two armies are also fighting, but it is often a one-sided massacre.

Once the butang of the Burmese army is exposed, it will be concentrated fire by the Tangqi of the Ming army. It can be said that in this era when there were no chariots and tanks, the cavalry with rifles were humanoid tanks.

The heavy infantry, which used to be a threat to them, has completely become a paper tiger at this moment, because the triple armor can't stop the flintlock, let alone the percussion gun.

The two armies were constantly approaching, and Huang Fei got more and more information. Five miles...four miles...three miles... 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 the sound of drums, these basic military communication tools, began to exert their capabilities, and six thousand naval riflemen began to lay the baggage carts across the fields, ignoring the trampling on the rice fields.

The military regulations of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion are very strict. Unless you encounter the enemy and have to line up, you can't step on the rice fields during daily training or on the road during wartime.

Although he has come to the Luchuan area now, Huang Fei has been implementing the military regulations of the Five Armed Forces Governor's Mansion.

However, now that they are encountering enemy troops, there is no need to abide by this military rule.

Under Huang Fei's watchful eye, the six thousand Ming troops skillfully pulled the cart into the paddy field, but because the silt in the paddy field was too deep, most of the battlefield was trapped in it, making it difficult to pull.

Seeing this, Huang Fei frowned, and quickly ordered: "Don't worry about the luggage carts, if you can't line up, push the luggage carts to the rice fields on both sides, and line up on the road in the middle!"

"Yes!"

When the generals below heard what Huang Fei said, they all followed Huang Fei's words.

In Huang Fei's view, since the silt in the paddy fields was so deep that the Ming army's baggage carts could not move, and people had difficulty walking, the enemy army would also encounter the same predicament.

Use the rammed earth road as a position, and turn down the baggage truck as an obstacle and a trench wall. This is the basic knowledge that Huang Fei learned in Yanshan Military Academy.

Although it is basic knowledge, Huang Fei and the others would not know how to operate it without Zhu Youjian's hand-drawn array.

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

"Woooooo-"

When the Ming army put down the baggage cart, dark human heads appeared on the horizon in the distance, and a big banner held high also appeared in Huang Fei's eyes.

The big banner was too far away for the naked eye to see clearly, so Huang Fei held up the binoculars and saw Maung Ki's "Wang Ban" after zooming in.

"Damn it! King Dongwu has come to kill us, and there are forty to fifty thousand people!"

"What should we do, Commander?"

For a while, all the generals of the Ming army saw Maung Ki's banner, but facing their worries and inquiries, Huang Fei patted the saber on his waist:

"What should I do? The waist knives on your waist are not decorations, they are used to harvest heads."

"So what if King Dongwu has [-] or [-] troops?"

"Brothers!" Huang Fei shouted to the soldiers of the Ming army around him: "Tell me! How much is the reward for a Dongwuyi's head?!"

"Ten taels!" The scattered voices kept answering, and Huang Fei also said with a smile:

"He is hiding in Miaodang City, and we still have to share the reward with the Western Army and the Southern Army. Now that they are coming to your door, do you want to take the 10 taels of silver?"

"Kill! Kill! Kill..."

Dozens of generals around Huang Fei shouted to kill, and the surrounding soldiers also shouted.

To put it bluntly, this move was to embolden courage, but the Ming army did not need to embolden, because the rifles in their hands gave them a sense of security.

"The Ming army has a high fighting spirit, 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 Ki, who was rushing towards the Ming army with a large army, also sat on the back of a war elephant, staring intently at the sight that had appeared in the distance. Ming army.

The other generals of the Burmese army also stared at the Ming army, and kept leading the team to approach them.

However, when they were still one mile away from the Ming army, they couldn't move.

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

"Put in the water first."

Maung Ki looked at the general at the side, and upon hearing this, the general hurriedly sent someone to destroy the canal in the rice field so that the river would no longer flow into the rice field.

"How long will it take Pindarie to arrive?"

Maung Ki asked a minister, but the minister hurriedly replied: "According to the speed of the pawns, it will take at least noon tomorrow to arrive."

"Then lead people to surround them first." After getting the answer, Maung Ki ordered without nervousness.

Now that he has brought a large number of soldiers out of the city, he no longer expects Miaodang City to hold it.

But even if Miaodang City can't be defended, Hong Chengchou still has to destroy the Burmese army in Manshakou and Taigong City before they can attack him.

Moreover, it is not so easy to cross Mansha Mountain. You only need to deploy 1000 people at the mountain pass. Even if Hong Chengchou brings a hundred thousand soldiers, he will not be able to break through.

What Maung Ki has to do now is to defeat Huang Fei, take away their firearms, and at the same time recover the lost land taken by Huang Fei, and lengthen Hong Chengchou's supply line. After the summer, Hong Chengchou himself will stop military operations because of the summer heat.

"My lord, can we attack with fire after releasing the water?"

A general who is familiar with the field gave a suggestion of Huo Gong, which also made Maung Ki's eyes shine.

The late rice was planted in Toungoo. Although the rice has turned yellow, it still needs to be irrigated moderately to promote the filling and strong seeds. Now the rice has basically entered the filling and fruiting stage.

Therefore, there is still a lot of water in the rice fields, but as long as the water is drained, let it dry overnight, and poured with kerosene, the rice fields will become fuel to help the Burmese army burn the Ming army to death.

Thinking of this, Maung Ki quickly signaled to the general: "Go and do it."

"Yes!" The general heard the words and began to lead people to release water and dig drainage ditches. At the same time, more than 6 troops brought by Maung Ki also began to besiege the Ming army.

Huang Fei could see through their intentions just by looking at them, but he remained calm: "They want to surround us, probably because they are ready to abandon Miaodang City."

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

"The only reinforcements worth waiting for so many of them right now are the [-] Burmese troops in Pingya City."

"Then what should we do?" The Longjiang Guard commander next to him tightened the handle of the knife in his hand, feeling a little nervous.

However, facing his inquiry, Huang Fei smiled and said, "Then let them come."

Huang Fei looked around, pointed at the surroundings with a rein with a smile, and said, "This is all plains, and the only place to hide is Mansha Mountain, but Mansha Mountain is too small."

"If they're going to besiege us, let them besiege."

"Besieging us and attacking us requires the mobilization of troops from other places."

"Our side faces more troops, and the others face fewer troops, and the city is easier to capture."

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

"This style of play is very familiar..." Huang Fei rubbed his bare chin, and then a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he laughed loudly:
"This Dongwu king, he thought he was an old slave? Hahahahaha..."

Huang Fei sneered mercilessly, and while laughing, he also saw the Burmese army's move to release water.

He looked around, and immediately ordered to the commander of Longjiangwei: "Wait for the Dongwu army to drain the water, set up a firebreak, and set fire in the opposite direction."

"Yes!" The commander of the Longjiang Guard looked around and understood why Huang Fei made such an arrangement, so he quickly ordered someone to do the work.

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

"Go fuck it!"

A soldier of the Ming army rushed up to the city gate tower, kicked off the banner of the Toungoo army, and planted the banner of the Ming army on the top of Miaodang city.

The strong wind blew the flags, and the whole Miaodang City fell completely. Tens of thousands of Ming troops began to make up for the Burmese army on the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of corpses were uniformly thrown into the Dajinsha River in order to put pressure on the Burmese troops in Taigong City, Exingu City, and Binya City downstream.

When it was completely dark, Hong Chengchou walked into Miaodang City with a red face illuminated by torches.

Although Miaodang City is dilapidated at the moment, in Hong Chengchou's view, it 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 hello, 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.

"Jinglue, according to the news from Jinyiwei in the city, he, King Long, probably broke out towards Manshakou."

"Man Shakou?" 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 attack two groups. You will lead the headquarters to the south of 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 Huang Dudu? Then we..." Mu Yi became anxious when he heard that. That's tens of thousands of heads, a total of several 10 taels of silver.

Just before he was in a hurry, Hong Chengchou raised his hand and signaled: "Don't pursue it, the tens of thousands of heads will be handed over to the navy. You still have the task of mopping up, so don't worry about not having any heads."

"Yes..." When Mu Yi heard this, he could only agree helplessly.

Although it is possible to sweep out 10,000+ heads at the end, Mu Yi is still a little bit unwilling when he thinks that he has lost 10 taels for no reason.

Hong Chengchou saw his appearance, but Hong Chengchou didn't say anything, but stroked his beard and said:
"If King Talong wants to attack Wenlu and the others, [-] soldiers and horses are probably not enough. You send Tang Qi to the south to find out the news, and let Wu Bikui see if all the Burmese troops in the north of Binya City have withdrawn. "

"If they are all evacuated, let him take Binya quickly. I will basically put down Toungoo before the end of the month and report the good news to the court."

"The end general will do it." Mu Yi bowed back when he heard the words, then turned and left.

Since Miaodang was only three hundred miles away from the soldiers and horses, Tang Qi arrived in Binya City at Zishi when he was in a hurry of eight hundred miles.

Wu Bikui is courageous and intrepid. Although the soldiers and horses under his command are all members of his own tribe, he doesn't care about casualties during the battle. After all, the imperial court has paid enough pensions.

Therefore, he brought 9000 people into Burma, and now he only has more than [-] troops.

His role is not to fight against Binya's Burmese army, but to contain them, so he doesn't pay much attention to Binya City.

When the Tangqi sent by Hong Chengchou arrived outside Binya City, Wu Bikui asked the artillery battalion to inquire about the false situation of Binya City.

Not surprisingly, the number of soldiers and horses in Binya City was also much smaller, and the counterattack against the Ming army was weaker.

When Wu Bikui saw that Binya was weak, he immediately wanted to mobilize troops to take down Binya, but Tang Qi's words made him completely shrivel up.

"General Soldier, there is an order not to attack Binya City by force."

After this sentence was finished, the Tangqi team began to return to the north overnight, and Wu Bikui could only look at Binya City and gritted his teeth.

But when he was gritting his teeth looking at Binya City, Maung Ki was also gnashing his teeth looking at the sea of ​​flames in front of him.

"What a big firework, hahahaha..."

In the north of Myanmar in the first month, it was [-] to [-] degrees even in the middle of the night. Therefore, when the water was drained, before the Burmese army took any action, the Ming army poured more than a dozen barrels of kerosene from the convoy around, and set fire to it. The rice fields were lit.

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

Maung Ki, who wanted to attack with fire, had been waiting for the wind to change, but instead of the wind, Huang Fei waited for a big fire.

Maung Ji and other monarchs and ministers were taken aback by Huang Fei's fire, and quickly ordered the fire to be lit to fight fire with fire.

For a moment, the Ming and Burmese armies set fire to each other, the two walls of fire collided and intertwined, and the billowing smoke was blown by the strong wind. From a distance, it looked like a ghostly aura was hovering, gray and grim.

On the pitch-black plain, only the light of the fire wall could make people see something clearly, but then the thick smoke and suffocating gas 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, and even Maung Ki was sent to the leeward while coughing before he could turn his head and curse.

"Huang Fei! You are a catch of the sea!"

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

The news of Huang Long's resignation had spread all over Daming, especially the Southeast Asian countries, and the newly appointed Huang Fei was no stranger to them.

If it weren't for Huanglong and Huangfei, Shalian in Taungoo would still have to be occupied by Europeans.

As the ruler of Taungoo, although Maung Ki had never seen Huang Fei, there was no one else who came from the sea and carried the banner of Huang Fei except Huang Fei.

The failure of the fire attack made Maung Ki extremely angry, and the casualties of the Burmese army also made him want to vomit blood.

More than 6 troops, more than a hundred people were killed by fire and smoke, and hundreds of people were trampled to death.

In addition to the hundreds of butangs who were killed by the Tangqi of the Ming army during the day, the two sides had not yet fought, and nearly a thousand people were killed or injured on Maung Ki's side.

Thinking of this, Maung Ji was so angry that he couldn't sleep.

With a disheveled look on his face, he stayed up all night, sitting in the simple tent until dawn.

"My king..."

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

"Tell Ping Dali, I want to see him at noon, and I will see Huang Fei's head in front of me in the afternoon!"