Nangwu saw that things were going well, and after discussing the details of the bribe, he resigned and went out to recuperate. The Ming army did not continue to make things difficult for him, and even found a military doctor to treat his leg. Early the next morning, he was carried back on a stretcher.
Of course, he didn't dare to tell Mang Yinglong about the third condition when he returned. He only told the Ming army the majesty of the forbidden army and all equipped with firearms. Mang Yinglong had no intention of fighting, and after hearing the report, he even planned to stop the army.
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After offering a heavy reward to Nangwu who had broken his leg, Mang Yinglong asked for further details of the negotiations. Nangwu responded to the first two points proposed by Liu Xian, and if he was satisfied, he could retreat. Mang Yinglong breathed a sigh of relief and immediately wrote a tribute form, and the army
There were no special items in it, but he wrote down a lot of his own treasures on the gift list, and ordered people to go back by boat to get them. Ming army officials from Liu Xian on down also sent generous gifts.
After writing the congratulatory form, Mang Yinglong sent an envoy to send it off. He looked around and said, "The Ming army has never seen this coming in a hundred years, but I didn't expect that it was because they insulted the envoy."
"His army is here, we can't attack Meng Yang again. Let Si Ge live a few more years - it was not appropriate not to pay tribute to China before, so why throw away benefits just to save face? Let's offer some gifts.
I heard that China’s reward is far more than what it’s worth! Besides, after giving the emperor face, he may not interfere even though we attack Mengyang in the future.”
All the ministers under his command also felt that the opportunity to attack Meng Yang was lost, and retreating with dignity was not a good option. Only Yue Feng and Hanba felt that it was unreasonable for the Ming army to retreat easily after coming here thousands of miles away.
Nangwu had already told Yue Feng about the third condition of the Ming army. Yue Feng knew that the conditions for withdrawing the troops were more reasonable and fully in line with the Ming court's desire to save face and suffer hardship.
If Nangwu had not sent an envoy this time, if other envoys had told Mang Yinglong this condition, based on Yue Feng's judgment of Mang Yinglong's current state of mind, he might have agreed to the Ming army. Whether it was to fight him and then kill him.
Both Chen An and Chen An would be dead if they were killed immediately.
Hanba had firmly opposed contact with the Ming army before, but now faced with Mang Yinglong's authority, he no longer dared to make a sound. Although he had doubts in his heart, he kept silent and stopped talking. He just wanted to find a reason to send his troops to the Ming Dynasty.
Horses are withdrawn from the army - it is never wrong to retain strength.
For the next two days, the camps of both sides stayed put and settled ten miles apart. Chen An, as the prime minister, was left in Bago, the capital of Toungoo. Yue Feng was unable to contact him for the time being and had to bleed heavily by himself.
After the fifty large boxes of jewels, jades and two human heads brought by fast boats and horses were delivered, the Ming army who had received the tribute from Mang Yinglong actually broke out of camp, and Shi Shiran turned around and walked back. Mang Yinglong was completely relieved and also
On the same day, he sent an order to all the troops to pack their bags and prepare to return.
Hanba volunteered to send 15,000 troops and horses ten miles ahead to break up the rear. Mang Yinglong was overjoyed and took off a gold bracelet from his hand and gave it to Hanba. The two met in Bo.
Let’s talk about it again when we meet.
The next day was October 16th, and the big sun in the sky was scorching both sides of Lishui. After the front army set off, Mang Yinglong himself sat on the white elephant, ordered the middle army and the rear army to break camp and follow them, and returned to Bago.
There was no conversation all the way. The army marched for more than 40 miles for a day and was exhausted. To the southeast of Manmo, there was a rolling hilly slope at the turn of Lishui, which was suitable for the army to camp. The relaxed Burmese army bypassed the east side and spread out on the south slope.
In the military tent, pots are buried to make rice.
When it was almost dusk, the whole camp was filled with noisy people. In the camp of the Chinese Army Mang Yinglong, a Burmese soldier was drinking soup with his back to Lishui. Suddenly he found a red flag erected against the setting sun on the top of the hill where his home was.
He rubbed his eyes, pointed at the top of the mountain and grabbed his companion and said, "What is that?"
After hearing this, the companions turned to look at the top of the mountain and saw the red flag, and couldn't help shouting. Everyone was in a trance when they saw the red flag pointing forward and a cavalry rushing down from all over the mountains and plains.
Before they could react, there was another series of dense roars on the top of the mountain. Where the smoke started, a row of black dots rushed into the Burmese army camp and landed more than ten feet away from Mang Yinglong's tent. Then the black iron ball bounced and flew away.
He started and beat the horses, elephants and soldiers around the tent until their muscles and bones were broken.
There was a roar in the Burmese army camp, and a big commotion broke out. Burmese soldiers were everywhere like headless flies. When Yue Feng heard the sound of cannons, he felt chilled, knowing that he had been tricked by the Ming army.
At this time, his son Nangwu was recuperating in the tent, and Yue Feng ignored him. He grabbed a horse, jumped on it, and ran down the hillside. The slope of the hill was extremely gentle, and it was still four or five miles away from Lishui.
, Yue Feng didn't care about Mang Yinglong's life or death, and went straight to the grain ship by Lishui.
He wanted to get on the boat and escape, but the rest of the Burmese army were not stupid either. Those with horses rode on, and those without horses spread their legs, throwing away their weapons and armor, just trying to make a quick move.
Sooner or later, by the time Mang Yinglong came out of the tent in a daze, the entire Burmese army camp had dispersed, and the black mass was divided into several large pieces rushing down the hillside, all rushing towards the grain ships.
Mang Yinglong opened his mouth wide and his head was confused. After Hanba, who didn't know what was behind him, broke away from the large army, he turned towards Mubang without giving him any clues. At this time, he saw the Ming army's divine soldiers descending from the sky.
I couldn't accept it at all, and kept rubbing my eyes, trying to wake up from the nightmare.
However, there was another burst of artillery, and this time the cannonball hit much closer. One of the cannonballs landed just a few feet away from where Mang Yinglong was standing. When the soldiers around him saw the black spots, they went straight to the king, and they all fought with all their might.
He surrounded him on several levels, preparing to protect him with flesh and blood.
The round cannonball was no bigger than the mouth of a bowl. It fell to the ground with a sound of wind, and then bounced up suddenly. It hit the middle of Mang Yinglong's peripheral soldiers. Broken arms and limbs were flying, and blood, internal organs and broken bones were like rain.
Generally speaking, Mang Yinglong was so frightened that he could not speak.
The remaining soldiers saw that they were not the leader and had no time to lead the white elephant. They directly helped Mang Yinglong onto his horse and ran around for his life. Mang Yinglong pulled out the long knife from his waist and looked around to form a team. Where could anyone listen to him?
The soldiers whipped his horse's butt several times and ran straight out.
Before he could run out of a hundred feet, the frightened Mang Yinglong said: "Hurry up and raise my banner to gather troops, otherwise they will all rush to the shore and the whole army will be annihilated."
When Mang Yinglong raised the flag, the Burmese soldiers who were running and looking around began to gather towards them. The cavalry and elephant soldiers ran fast, and there were many officers. Mang Yinglong ordered them all to raise the flag, and asked the soldiers to find the flag and return to the army.
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A group of two to three thousand people had just gathered here, and a large group of Ming army cavalry rushed down from the mountain. These cavalry did not wear armor, and their red military uniforms seemed to be plated with a layer of gold under the setting sun. They were all brave and extraordinary. The Burmese soldiers saw
Take away the energy for it.
Mang Yinglong waved his long sword and shouted, Hedge! Hedge! They have no armor!
The cavalry around them heard this and bravely attacked upwards. When the Ming cavalry saw them attacking up the slope, a sharp whistle sounded. The ones running in front reined in their horses and waited for the large troops behind to arrive, and then dismounted together.
Mang Yinglong was stunned in the formation and said, "What kind of play is this?"
Seeing that the Burmese cavalry rushing in front was only a hundred steps away from the Ming army, the Ming army was still forming a team, and Mang Yinglong's mind was blank again. At this moment, the Portuguese who grabbed a horse and ran past
Ge waved his arms and shouted: "Master, run quickly! Get on the boat quickly, you can't beat them!!!"
Mang Yinglong was furious, and the soldiers around him drew their bows and arrows, and shot an arrow at this bad guy who was shaking the morale of the army. Diego was an excellent horseman, so he hid in a stirrup and hid. After he got up, his face was full of dejection.
With such a look on his face, the horse continued to rush down the hillside.
When Mang Yinglong saw that his cavalry was about to rush into the ranks of the Ming army, his heart was pounding and his palms were sweating. The cavalry attacked from bottom to top. Although the slope of the hill was not large, the speed was still not high. Compared with the
The Ming army from above suffered all the disadvantages of the favorable geographical location.
But for some reason, the Ming army dismounted and formed a whole team, abandoning the advantage of the land. Although the horse army suffered a loss against the infantry formation, the Ming army did not resist the horse or chariot formation, nor did it have weapons such as spears that could withstand the impact of the horse army -
—Use a musket to shoot? How many can you kill?
While he was thinking, there was an explosion in Mang Yinglong's ears first, followed by a series of gunshots that were as dense as fried beans. On the hillside he was overlooking, a thirty-foot-long column of white smoke curled up.
rising from the battle line.
Thirty steps in front of the battle line, there was a burst of blood among the Burmese cavalry. The front row of cavalry seemed to have been cut down by a long knife falling from the sky, and fell neatly to the ground. Mang Yinglong shouted and was blocked in his throat.
, and then my throat became sweet and I felt dizzy.
The front row of the Ming army fired a shot, and based on the middle row of pacesetters, the soldiers in the back row took a big step to both sides. The soldiers in the front row turned back neatly and walked towards the back row through the gap.
The second row of soldiers stepped forward at the same time, a whistle was sounded, and there was another series of continuous gunshots. Then the Ming army followed suit, and the soldiers in the third row, fourth row, and fifth row also fired a row of bullets.
The new army, which was fed with bullets in the capital, and combined with drills on various terrains along the way, finally exerted a killing effect far beyond that of the musketeers from around the world in this time and space.
Because there were only a thousand cavalrymen who rushed down from this mountain. They could only form a thin square formation of five people in each line and 200 people in the front. But the Burmese soldiers who were taught to line up to be shot for the first time were stunned after five rows of guns.
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Five rows of rotations, and there is almost no obvious difference in the intervals between firing. Stimulated by the battlefield atmosphere, the well-trained new army fired an average rate of fire of one minute per round. Five rows of rotations, one row every ten seconds.
The bullets pushed the bloodline farther and farther from the thirty steps in front of the array. After the Burmese cavalry advanced fifty steps, the organized resistance that Mang Yinglong had reunited had completely collapsed.
Then, loud and clear charge bugles sounded all over the hillside. The Ming army turned around, mounted their horses, drew their sabers from their horses, and like tigers entering a flock of sheep, slashed wildly from behind the Burmese army.
It was not yet dark, and Lishui had turned into red water. They were surrounded by the Ming army who then rushed down the mountain. The Burmese army rushed towards the Lishui River. They were crowded with people and horses, and were surrounded in a battlefield less than two miles around the Lishui tidal flat.
The Burmese army officers who had already boarded the grain boat, such as Yue Feng, had already ordered the boatmen to row the boat into the middle of the river. But the tens of thousands of Burmese soldiers who had not had time to board the boat were cut down in groups in fear. The Ming army only had to wave their swords.
, there must be gains.
During this period, some Burmese soldiers who were fighting with their last resort wanted to turn around and fight, but the reserve team, which always controlled the rhythm, threw a few grenades into the crowd, completely blew up the camp and fled. Some Burmese soldiers wanted to kneel down and beg for surrender, but were immediately trampled down by their comrades, causing their muscles and bones to be broken.
Since the time of Emperor Yingzong, the Battle of Lishui River was the most exciting battle for Ming soldiers. They shouted loudly for a fierce battle, and the enemy troops wailed mildly. But Mang Yinglong, who had just turned around to fight, was like a big magnet, attracting the largest number of Ming troops.
Yue Feng saw Mang Yinglong's embarrassment from a distance in the middle of the river, but he did not dare to go to the riverside to meet him. Now the riverside was crowded with wailing Burmese troops. The result of his return was that the boat was also torn apart.
Beyond translation, there is no second result.
Finally, there were fewer and fewer soldiers around Mang Yinglong and he fell into a tight siege. He was riding on the horse and saw Yue Feng with a tangled face in Jiang Xin. With all his strength, he pointed at Yue Feng and shouted
Said: "Let Mang Yingli carry my banner! I pass the throne to Mang Yingli! Yue Feng, did you hear it! Yue Feng! Mang Yingli! Yue Feng!"
Yue Feng's face was filled with tears. He knelt down at the bow of the boat and kowtowed to Mang Yinglong. He stood up and shouted several times before hearing the news. He was afraid that Mang Yinglong wouldn't hear, so he tore off his clothes and cut his wrists.
, wrote Mang Yingli's name in blood, spread his hands, hoping that Mang Yinglong could see it.
Mang Yinglong's last soldier was also dead. His horse had already stepped into the water with its front legs. With one more body, it would have rushed into Lijiang. But with the sound of several gunshots, several small bullets exploded from his body.
of blood flowers.
Mang Yinglong swayed on the horse, used his last strength to raise his hand in the direction of Yue Feng, and then fell under the horse with a plop.