Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 26 The Battle of Northern Burma

Wu Sangui personally led the army and arrived at Larong. At this time, he had more than 6 soldiers and horses in his hands, mainly his Han army. The Eight Banners led by Ai Xing'a were only a few thousand, and the battle command was still the same. Mainly Wu Sangui.

"This... is too strange after all, have False Ming and Li Dingguo really given up?" After arriving in La Rong, Wu Sangui looked at the formation of the Ming army and asked such a question.

In his opinion, the Ming army was weak and should try to avoid a frontal battle with the Qing army. Sun Tzu said that if you are ten, you can surround it, if you are five, you can attack it, and if you have doubled it, you can divide it.However, the Ming army, whose strength was only a fraction of the Qing army, formed a formation in front of the Qing army. It seemed that it was going to have a decisive battle with the Qing army.

Not to mention Wu Sangui, basically everyone in the Qing army couldn't understand it.

On the side of the Ming army, the atmosphere of all the soldiers was rather chill.Although Bai Mingxiu made the decision to win the field battle, and no one raised any objections, these generals in Nanming were still very guilty of facing the Qing army that was several times larger than their own.Li Dingguo is confident, but not fully sure. He actually doesn't understand Bai Mingxiu a little bit, but he also longs for a head-to-head confrontation in his heart.

Bai Mingxiu asked Li Dingguo: "King Jin, have our arrangements been completed?"

Li Dingguo said: "Yes, Your Highness. Our army has stepped up preparations for the past few days and finally completed our deployment."

Bai Mingxiu nodded and smiled, looking very relaxed, he said: "Then let's wait for Wu Sangui to attack."

At this moment, Wu Sangui also stared into the distance, frowning, as if he wanted to know what the Ming army was up to.

The battlefield was an open plain, and the Ming army was backed by the small town of Larong.Before the camp of the Ming army, the fortifications had already been set up. Zhao Xu commanded the Ming army to dig the connected trenches and set up horse-repelling antlers in front of the formation. After all, Bai Mingxiu couldn't make barbed wire at this time.

The flanks of the Ming army also had complete protection, with line infantry, heavy infantry, and spearmen set up.Of course, in the trench is the machine gun position set up by Bai Mingxiu's guard company. The soldiers of the guard company each hold M1 Garand, M1917 and other firearms. In addition, the first regiment of line infantry is also in the trench, which can be regarded as enhanced firepower.

Bai Mingxiu placed the artillery behind the trench position, with the front protected by the front of the trench, and the wings were also covered by other troops.At the same time, Bai Mingxiu also tested to ensure that his troops would not be harmed within the shooting range of the artillery.

Wu Sangui still didn't quite understand what the hell the Ming army was doing. He said to Ai Xing beside him, "My lord, I think the rebellious army is looking for a dead end. The Eight Banners athletes are brave and invincible in riding and shooting. It's better to send the Eight Banners to my lord." The elite go straight to the Ming army?"

Ai Xing'a looked down on the Ming army very much, but he was not a fool. It didn't matter how many Han people died, the more they died, the better.Wu Sangui is not a good person. It would be better if all his Han troops were killed.But each of the Eight Banners is a treasure, and it suppresses the world.Ai Xing'a also knew that the number of Manchu people was too small to afford to sacrifice, so he directly refused: "Prince Pingxi, you are the main one in this battle, and we Eight Banners just follow, so we won't take away your style."

Wu Sangui secretly scolded Ai Xing for being treacherous, but he didn't say much. He could see that the Ming army's formation was still the way of the game, but he believed in his superiority in strength, so Wu Sangui didn't do more. Instead of probing, he ordered the whole army to attack.

Since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Qing army basically did not fight any tough battles. Whether it was Li Zicheng's peasant army or the Nanming army, they basically fought and fled all the way. They had no fighting spirit, let alone decent battle formations and tactics.Even when Li Dingguo defeated the famous king twice, he fought a poor battle.

In order to open the way for the cavalry to charge, Wu Sangui ordered his subordinates Qi Sansheng and Ma Weixing to lead the infantry to attack and break through the horse-repelling formation.

Xia Guo looked at the large-scale mobilization of the Qing army, and he praised: "After this battle, the world will be settled, and the name of my father-in-law will go down in history, and his achievements are as good as the sun and the moon!"

Wu Sangui was also very satisfied, twirling his long beard with his hands, he felt at ease.

Bai Mingxiu was on the front line, the temporary command post behind the trench.When the Qing army began to press on, Bai Mingxiu showed some smiles, and he said to Li Dingguo, "It's time for our artillery to perform."

Although the Ming army didn't have many artillery pieces, they were quite strong. In order to train his artillerymen these days, Bai Mingxiu had fed them a lot of ammunition, so that they looked a little better.The M1844 Napoleon 6-pound gun used by the Artillery Regiment of the Restoration Army of the Ming Dynasty is not a large-caliber artillery, but it is more accurate and lighter than other Hongyi cannons of this era.

"Load, launch!"

When the Qing army came into range, 18 Ming army artillery suddenly opened fire.In order to maintain the continuity of the shelling, the artillery of the Restoration Army divided the artillery into several battery groups, and one battery group fired and the other battery group followed up, so as to repeat the cycle, making the shelling continuous.

Because the artillery of the Fuguo Army already had artillery watches, and the training intensity in the past few months has been extremely high. At this time, after actual combat, they immediately accurately fired artillery shells into the Qing army formation.The cannonball exploded, immediately blasting a group of Qing army infantry into corpses and severed limbs. The scene was quite bloody.

What's even more frightening is that the continuous shells fell, killing the Qing army continuously, and the lethality was terrible.

Since the era of Napoleon, artillery has leapt from an auxiliary weapon for infantry combat to a protagonist that determines the outcome on the battlefield.Since artillery is a rare thing in this era, and the sound is loud and the scene of damage is scary, the morale blow to any army is serious.

The Qing army rushed for a while, and was beaten to death by the continuous bombardment, leaving hundreds of corpses behind, but couldn't move, and began to flee backwards.

Wu Sangui, who was overseeing the army in the rear, never expected such a thing to happen.

"When did the artillery of the Ming army become so powerful? Where did Li Dingguo get the artillery? Shouldn't his luggage be almost lost when he was in Yunnan?" Wu Sangui wondered.

"Don't retreat! Kill me back!" At this time, Ai Xing'a became annoyed. He immediately mobilized the Eight Banners soldiers to act as temporary military police on the battlefield. The Han and Wu troops rushed back.

However, the Ming army's artillery was really too powerful. This group of Wu troops who hadn't fought a tough battle didn't dare to move forward. Instead, they began to collapse in other directions, so they didn't want to continue to attack.

Seeing this scene, Ai Xing was furious, "Wu Sangui, look at the good soldiers you brought!"

(End of this chapter)