Bright Spring

Countless war horses walked slowly, and there was a dull sound on the ground.More than two thousand cavalry quickly spread to the sparse forest.

Zhu Gaoxu ran out of the edge of the woods on horseback first. He looked into the distance, observed for a while, then stretched out his hand and pulled out the long-handled knife from his back, pointed it at the sky slowly, and shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill!" The soldiers shouted one after another, conveying the will of the Chinese army.Countless iron hooves began to jog on the grass, gradually picking up speed. "Boom boom boom..." The iron horses galloped together, and the blackness was like a flood, spreading towards the opposite side at a visible speed!

The elephants of the chieftain army are rushing forward, but the speed of the cavalry is the fastest tactical mobile force in this era.The Tusi army could only watch helplessly as the Ming cavalry kept approaching. They wanted to temporarily change their formation, but it might be too late.

The sound of strings "cracking" in front was as dense as fried beans, and the arrows shot by riding flew into the air like rain.The light cavalry column rushed to the front of the enemy's central formation first, and then turned around and shot. The enemy also returned fire with bows and arrows, and the sky was densely packed with black shadows.Moments later, the cavalry brigade of the Ming army in iron armor and holding cherry guns rushed forward.

Before the iron cavalry of the Ming army rushed over, the chieftain infantry was already in chaos.The cavalry rushed directly into the crowd, and the battlefield exploded, screaming everywhere.Many chieftain soldiers held long-handled short-bladed weapons and wanted to besiege the Ming cavalry; however, when groups of iron horses rushed past, they immediately avoided scattering, which was just human instinct.

Holding a long knife, Zhu Gaoxu swept across from the right side, and with a "cha", he saw blood droplets splashing in the air, and a native fell to the ground.

All the surrounding soldiers took the lead bravely, and they all seized the opportunity to stand out in front of the prince. The swords flashed randomly, and the fierce cavalry was simply terrifying.

A torrent of iron cavalry swept through the crowd, and the chaotic infantry could not resist at all, and the enemy soldiers had almost no power to parry.Some natives gathered with wooden shields to resist the iron cavalry, but the heavy horses rushed and directly smashed through the shield wall.The chieftain army was very numerous, but the formations of the four fields were all broken up.

"Woo!" The elephant's cry came from the north, and the large group of war elephants slowly approached.

If the cavalry attacked the elephant soldiers with their backs, they would definitely suffer.However, the battlefield is open, and the cavalry can run easily; how much water must be in the general's brain, will he have to use the cavalry to fight recklessly when he is clearly able to run?

Zhu Gaoxu took a red flag guard to roundabout to the left wing, turned around and counterattacked.Wang Bin and others were Zhu Gaoxu's personal generals in the "Battle of Jingnan". At this time, the cavalry teams did not need military orders. Everyone followed the red flag here and changed direction one after another.

After a while, the elephants in the north gradually stopped.Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and saw that after the cavalry, the infantry of the Ming army ran forward, and even the muzzle guns were carried and ran.

Diao Tuyu did not even see a single person deployed on the two wings.They were so slow that they hadn't crossed the woods yet; so that the wings of the Ming army were now empty.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said: "You two, go and order Wang Bin to transfer the left thousand cavalry corps to the right wing, watch the main force of the cavalry, and wait for the opportunity to advance and retreat."

The two soldiers got the order, stretched their necks to see the position of Wang Bin's banner, and patted the horse away.

"Crack, click..." The footsteps of Ming army infantry battalions in the center came one after another, and they ran and quickly entered the battlefield.Countless iron helmets with wide eaves undulate on the ground, like a dense torrent of steel. Even if there are only seven to eight thousand infantrymen, the formation is very large.

The chieftain infantry ran all over the place, and when the Ming army infantry approached, they ran faster.The crowd that had been dispersed by the cavalry had no choice but to face the neatly arrayed dense infantry formation.There are also natives who are not afraid of death, screaming and rushing up, and immediately face rows of shield walls and countless spears. They were poked like a hornet's nest, bleeding all over their bodies.

The group of elephant soldiers that Meng Yangjun had just brought in was rushing back again, trying to run away.The infantry of the Ming army carried large and small firecrackers.

At this time, the formation of the square formation in front of the Ming army changed, three rows of firecrackers fired in volley, and the muzzle guns everywhere also "boomed".On the fresh grass, the flames flickered for a while, and the smoke was everywhere.

The range of the copper fire blunderbuss could not hit the elephant at all, only a few chieftain soldiers were shot sporadically, and the stone bullets of the Zhangmu blunderbuss just bounced around on the ground.But the elephants were frightened and ran to the north, and many natives followed the elephants, and the enemy soldiers on the entire battlefield were routed.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered the cavalry to attack again.The iron cavalry followed and rushed, slashing from all sides. This kind of battle is nothing unusual. In the Battle of Jingnan, after countless battles were decided, both sides used cavalry to follow and slaughter like this.When the defeated soldiers are chased by the cavalry, it is like a nightmare. They cannot run and cannot win.

At this time, the sun had just risen to mid-air, and it was still early at noon.

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Chapter 283 The Soul Returns to Hometown

When the troops of the Diao family of the Ping Burma Army rushed to the battlefield, the frontal enemy's battle formation had completely collapsed.The natives of the Ping Burma Army chased after them in droves, but they still couldn't catch up with the fastest Ming cavalry.

Zhu Gaoxu stopped his horse and agreed to Zhao Ping's request to continue chasing the enemy bandits.

Zhao Ping first found Diao Ya, a native girl, and then led his fine cavalry to the north. They ignored the rout of the natives along the road, and hundreds of cavalry went straight across the chaotic battlefield.

The battle started in the morning, and the winner was decided in less than an hour; but the chaos of chasing and killing deserters continued until the afternoon.Expanding from the battlefield to the surroundings, there are headless corpses and messy ordnance everywhere in the grass and bushes in the field.

Later in the evening, Zhao Ping returned to the Chinese army with his troops.He reported to Zhu Gaoxu that the guard cavalry had found and captured Sixingfa, the leader of Meng Yangsi, alive!

At this time, the Chinese army was setting up tents on a low hilly grassland.When Zhu Gaoxu was stationed on the hillside of the horse, he saw a thin native with deep eye sockets tied to a horse coming over.

Zhao Ping and others pulled him off his horse and pushed him over in front of Zhu Gaoxu's mount. Several soldiers forced him to kneel on the ground.

Sometimes when Zhu Gaoxu thinks about thinking and acting, what comes to mind is a strong, bearded, brutal man with a fierce look in his eyes.Unexpectedly, at this time he saw such a skinny native... Zhu Gaoxu looked around, his eyes stayed on Diao Ya's face, and he said, "You ask him, is he really thinking and doing?"

Diao Ya made a phone call.

The man hummed, turned his face away and did not speak.

Zhao Ping clasped his fists and said, "My lord, the general will first capture some native captives. When the natives see this man, they all confirm that he is the way of thought and action!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded his head, and thought: The cavalry officers and soldiers are all busy to grab the head, only Zhao Ping first brought the translator and captured the prisoners, and only focused on finding the enemy's head, this guy's mind is really very active.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu finally couldn't bear the confusion in his heart, and asked face to face: "Think and act! I don't want to lose my life, so I sincerely negotiated peace with you first. Why did you kill my envoy?"

After Diao Ya translated, Sixingfa still didn't answer.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help asking again: "You deployed a large number of troops today, thinking that you have a chance to defeat the Ming army?"

Si Xingfa straightened his neck, his face flushed, and he was unwilling to say a word other than humming meaningless sounds.

...A few days later, the Ming and Ping-Burmese coalition forces arrived at Mengyangsi's headquarters one after another, and saw that the city was almost empty.After Meng Yangjun was defeated in a decisive battle, most of the native nobles and slave owners had already fled.

Zhu Gaoxu then led the army to the "Da Ming City" to inspect the Ming Dynasty village farthest to the southwest.

"Da Ming City" has become a ruin.In just a few months, the abandoned gates and city walls have been covered with weeds and vines under the irrigation of rain.From a distance, it doesn't look like a recently built village, but it looks like an ancient relic, so desolate that there is no trace of human habitation.

Zhu Gaoxu and others came to the village on horseback and saw the same scene, with weeds growing everywhere.

What made him most angry was that no one collected the corpses of the soldiers and civilians of the Ming army who were killed, and they were all thrown into the weeds, turning into miserable bones!Fortunately, after so many dead | corpses were exposed to the sun and rain, they did not turn into terrible zombies.

The army set up camp near the "Daming City", and Zhu Gaoxu ordered: collect the bones in the village for burial, and then send them back to Kunming for burial.

The soldiers went to Mengyangsi to search for coffins, and at the same time felled wood on the spot to make coffins.After Zhu Gaoxu settled down, he began to revise his memorial repeatedly, and planned to send someone to Kunming first, and then played to the court to report his victory.

... Han Chinese in this era are a bit superstitious.How to collect the body | The ceremony of the body is not important, everyone believes that people have a soul, and to kill a person from a foreign land, to call back both the soul and the bones is the most important thing.

Zhu Gaoxu sent people to inquire among the nearly 2 soldiers and civilians, and found two men who had been Taoists.

The two Taoist priests were ordered to write talisman papers and make paper money in the army, calling for the souls of the soldiers and civilians who died tragically in the "Daming City".Paper money was scattered everywhere at the south gate of the village, and two Taoist priests who returned to their old professions beat the gongs and sang lyrics in a long voice.

The army also arranged for a group of food delivery men to wear sackcloth and filial piety to pick up the bones of soldiers who had been violently killed in the wilderness, put them in shrouds, and carried them into coffins.

Eight people carried a coffin and came out of the village one after another. According to the instructions of the Taoist priests, people gave out paper money from time to time to bribe the local ghosts and gods;The Taoist priest wore a Taoist hat made of temporary paper, and sang and yelled at the same time. The accompanying young man heard the order and wept mournfully.

Zhu Gaoxu and many soldiers of the Ming army were outside watching the summoning of souls, and even the method of thought and practice was brought out.Diao Tuyu and many others were equally curious to observe the funeral of the Han people from a distance.

After a while, groups of chieftain soldiers strung together with bamboo poles and ropes were captured by the soldiers.They were crying and screaming, and they were in a mess, but they couldn't run away. It was really difficult for the people tied up in a row in the panic to cooperate, and they stumbled and were driven to the side of the road.

At this time, the three long rows of infantrymen of the Ming army began to set off firecrackers obliquely towards the sky "bang bang bang bang..." to use them as firecrackers, and they blew three times in unison.

Immediately, many soldiers with machetes of different lengths rushed over, and began to hack|slash at the heads of the captives.

For a moment, ghosts were crying and howling on the side of the road, screams everywhere, bloody|drenched heads rolled on the ground, and a disgusting bloody smell soon permeated the air.