Chapter 55                                                             �

The Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty has always been the military branch that the Ming Dynasty attaches most importance to. Although in South China, southern Xinjiang and other places, there are many jungles, rivers and seas, cavalry is not very useful.

But even so, there were already some cavalry under the prince's command.

However, when we came to the ocean, it was naturally impossible to transport too many horses, so there were about hundreds of cavalry under Wang Zhi as the prince's ceremonial guards. The other part was a cavalry composed of horses temporarily collected by the local area.

These local war horses are similar to Yunnan Dian horses, and some horses sold from India, integrating a total of 1,000 cavalry.

It was precisely because the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to cavalry that even if there were no cavalry in the army, there were no shortage of cavalry experts who could charge into battle.

As long as there are enough war horses, a cavalry can be pulled up.

Although most of the war horses pulled from Myanmar were unqualified in the eyes of many Ming army generals.

Even from the back, the formation of the cavalry is a bit funny.

It is obvious that two different formations are rushing to the front, both horses from the north and south of the desert. Although the overall size of the Mongolian horse is not large, it looks extremely tall compared to the local chaotic war horses behind.

Behind them are some war horses that are not very qualified, regardless of their size or speed.

One before and one after the other, the contrast is very clear.

But even so, this more than a thousand cavalry was only a few percent of the Ming army's Beijing camp in terms of combat effectiveness, but it was like a sharp blade inserted into the chaotic Burmese army after the explosion.

This also shows the superb command art of being a cavalry general.

The Myanmar vanguard has at least 10,000 or 20,000.

The Ming army had only more than a thousand cavalry.

Even if there is some chaos in the Myanmar army, the advantage in numbers is enough to kill the Ming army.

The Ming cavalry almost took advantage of the situation, as if they were jumping a knife between their fingers, inserting the chaos of the Burmese army with one knife.

Turn a little bit of chaos into a big chaos.

It's like pushing down Domiro domino.

More than a thousand cavalry drove 20,000 Burmese troops backwards.

This effect also surprised Wang Zhi a little. He immediately said, "Okay, Xu Zhuangyuan, he has some skills."

Xu Tai, who led the army, was a teenager, but he was the first in martial arts and was called the top martial arts scholar. Although there was no martial arts scholar in the Ming Dynasty, people at that time called the top martial arts scholars, the second-largest martial arts scholars, and the second-largest martial arts scholars, and the Wu Tanhua made a promise to become a custom.

After all, he is the prince's personal guard. Although he is just a young general, he is not something that ordinary people can take charge.

The prince seems to have a distant relationship with Zhu Qizhen, but the prince may not know that he himself is actually learning about Zhu Qizhen in many places.

After all, to cultivate your own trusted generals, start with your own personal guards.

Wang Zhi was promoted step by step from the prince’s personal guard.

The same is true for this Xu Tai.

Wang Zhi's opinion is that Xu Tai is still young, but he has a bit of a general appearance.

Wang Zhi naturally would not waste the fighter jets brought by Xu Tai. With a command, the ambushed troops came out in various ways and forced them to the Burmese army.

Ambushing in Myitsson is both beneficial and harmful.

The advantage is that the Myanmar army is determined not to have imagined that the Ming army would ambush here.

The disadvantage is that the terrain here is actually not suitable for ambushing. Where the army hides, it must be kept away from the main road, otherwise it will be easily discovered.

That is, when the Myanmar army is in chaos, we can approach the Myanmar army.

In order to quickly approach the enemy, Wang Zhi used a vertical formation to advance.

That is, 20,000 Ming troops and four battalions, led by the battalion officials, mixed firearms and long spears and other cold weapons, almost one to one, approaching the Burmese army and then unfolding from a vertical formation to a horizontal formation and launching an attack.

Wang Zhi's eyes kept following Xu Tai's attack. His eyes narrowed slightly and immediately ordered: "Mingjin, let Xu Tai come back."

Wang Zhi saw clearly.

Although Xu Tai took advantage of the Myanmar army's panic and approached the enemy step by step.

However, Xu Tai still has too few troops. Although the Myanmar army looks like it is retreating and it is impossible to regroup for a while, the one who is just in chaos is just the vanguard of the Myanmar army, and the large army of the Myanmar army is still behind.

With follow-up personnel, such chaos cannot shake the overall situation of the Myanmar army.

Of course, letting Xu Tai rush for a while will cause greater casualties to the Myanmar army.

However, the casualties of the Ming cavalry will increase.

Wang Zhi naturally knew that Ci was not in charge of the army.

If Wang Zhi now has three thousand Ming army elites in his hands, he will continue to rush.

Now he only has more than a thousand cavalry mixed with fish and dragons. Soldiers are good soldiers, but the strength of the mount is too poor. He will definitely not lose all this cavalry here.

Xu Tai, who was rushing in front, heard the order and did not dare to neglect it. He was immediately withdrawn.

He was ordered to serve as the general reserve team of the army after the Ming army formation and rest immediately.

Xu Tai turned over and got off the horse without saying a word. He took out a cloth bag, which was filled with fried beans, including soybeans and black beans, and immediately added salt.

Very delicious.

Xu Tai grabbed a handful and placed it at the mouth of his mount. Xu Tai's mount stretched out his long tongue and ate it in one bite. After eating, he arched Xu Tai's body and continued to ask for it.

Xu Tai listened to the movement ahead from afar, and instantly grabbed a handful of beans from the horse's feed and stuffed them into his mouth. Then he grabbed a handful of beans for the horse to eat.

This is something that almost every cavalry has done.

On weekdays, war horses just need to eat grass.

But if during a war, the fine grains eaten by war horses even had better food than cavalry. Every cavalry was responsible for taking care of their own horses, and it was normal to eat some occasionally.

"General, we are rushing to the ground, why do we want us to come down?" Xu Tai's several subordinates came down and asked around him.

Xu Tai said angrily: "You just follow the orders. Javane will not be without us. There is still a big war. Just wait."

Although Xu Tai didn't know much about why they were asked to come down, he knew a little.

This battle cannot end immediately.

Even if it is 100,000 pigs, it will take some time to win them all.

Not to mention the army of 100,000.

It's normal to fight for several hours.

Xu Tai's judgment is not wrong at all.

A sound like fried beans sounded. Xu Tai immediately knew that the army had begun to attack.

Just as Xu Tai retreated, the vertical formations of the four battalions began to spread into horizontal formations. Only the elites of the Ming Dynasty could achieve this kind of array change speed.

Under Wang Zhi's command, the Ming army's formation was very thin.

Through several miles, the entire open space was completely blocked, and the mountains and woods on both sides became natural flanks, not to mention that it was getting wider and wider from east to west.

Wang Zhi's purpose is already very clear, which is to fight with less and more. The more he attacks the Myanmar army, the more difficult it will be to deploy, and the more difficult it will be to deploy, and the fewer contact surfaces between the two armies.

In this way, the advantages of the Myanmar army will not be able to be exerted.

As for the same number, the Ming army and Myanmar military discipline were in line up to fight, who would win and who would lose?

This is simply an unexplained thing.

Facts tell the whole story.

Within the short period of time when the Ming cavalry retreated, the Ming army completed all preparations before the attack.

But the Burmese Army?

He did nothing, and seemed to have just calmed down from the chaos.

There was no time to react.

Wang Zhi had a very accurate grasp of the rhythm of the war, and the Burmese army could not adapt at all. The front of several miles long rose into the air, and almost instantly produced a pungent smell of gunpowder.

Many people in the Myanmar army died in the smoke of gunpowder.

The neat drum beats, and the long array of Ming soldiers stepped on the drum beats, under the cover of spears, swords and shields, they marched forward neatly and slowly while firing.

The deaths of batches of soldiers in the Myanmar army have caused Myanmar's morale to collapse again.

During Zhu Qizhen's military reform, the attention to firearms reached an extraordinary level.

Wang Zhi himself believed in this belief. After all, a large part of the reason why he was fond of Bo was because of his reforms in the naval battle.

Establish a naval warfare system with artillery as the core.
Chapter completed!