Chapter 463: Officers' Team

As the rainy season enters, the army is blocked by the river and cannot move.

Macheng is not in a hurry. Even if he can't defeat the Burmese royal city, this plundering journey has gained a huge harvest. Since he landed on Myanmar for half a month, the army has seized more than one million taels of cash and fifty rice.

Ten thousand stones make Macheng salivate the fertile land in central and southern Myanmar. It is really a land of fish and rice. The northern part of Myanmar is mountains and difficult to cultivate, but it produces a lot of gold and silver. The southern plains are a natural grain production area. It is really a Feng Shui treasure land.

The battle against bombing across the river is very boring, and the gains are very small, but it is the only tactic that the two armies can threaten the other side. Ma Cheng is also happy to let his artillery battalion perform artillery with no need to worry about ammunition consumption, which will be a great loss.

The generous Governor Ximang sold a large number of ammunition cannons stocked in Malacca to the Taiwan Town Army at a low price of 100,000 taels of silver. There were more than 30 cannons with more than six pounds alone, which was not considered Malacca City

those shore defense heavy artillery.

Talent is another great gain of this trip. There are a large number of Portuguese craftsmen in Malacca City. There are more than 12,000 Portuguese residents in Malacca City. In addition to the families of officers, most of them are military craftsmen, gunmen, and experienced sailors.

It greatly solved the talent shortage problem facing Taiwan. Not to mention that it also gained the entire Malacca City, which was another unexpected big gain.

The artillery battle lasted for two days and suddenly started to rain heavily.

At this time, the detective cavalry came to report that the Siamese army in the east was launching a large-scale move and was taking advantage of the chaos to plunder several Myanmar towns. Ma Cheng couldn't help but curl his lips. The unfamiliar ungrateful wolf, Siam and the Ming Dynasty have always had a good relationship.

There are a large number of Western mercenaries in the army, so it is not worth it to go to war with Siam, so I can bear it. However, this gave up the idea of ​​Ma Cheng's withdrawal and planned a strategy to cross the river. The Siamese people came and broke through as soon as possible.

This natural danger is wonderful, but it will change later.

Thinking about the heavy rain, Macheng was not clueless. This river stretched for more than 2,000 miles, and the Burmese army could not have enough troops to defend it. Just take a detour and cross the river. In order to avoid falling into a heavy encirclement after crossing the river by detour and crossing the river.

Macheng decided to form a cavalry unit on the spot, and use heavy armored cavalry units to cross the river to attack the Burmese army formation. He ordered the construction of heavy armored cavalry units on the spot in the rear of Dagong City. The personnel recruited soldiers from Kaiyuan from each battalion.

The Taiwan Town Army was originally filled with a large number of Atomics, but now most of them have climbed to the position of grassroots officers.

With a command, the three hundred atomic men were drawn from the armies, gathered, and returned to their old careers to work on heavy cavalry. Everyone was excited to return to the commander of the commander.

Yang Tiansheng was stunned and asked blankly: "Master, how can three hundred cavalrymen break through 200,000?"

Macheng looked at the Burmese army camp on the other side and looked at it with disdain. Where did the Burmese army come from? The whole family and the whole family have only about 100,000, including only tens of thousands of elite troops. The most elite troops are

The sign soldiers that remained at the peak of the Dongyu Dynasty, namely light infantrymen fighting with spears and shields.

The Burmese sign soldiers are famous, and the javelins are the killing weapon of the poor in the era of cold weapons.

In addition, there are a large number of elephant soldiers. Elephant warfare is a major feature of the ancient South Asia army. During the Bagan Dynasty, the Myanmar army was divided into infantry, cavalry, elephant soldiers and sailors, among which elephant soldiers were on land combat.

The most powerful army. The selection of target soldiers is also extremely strict. The law stipulates that infantrymen who have been in ten battles can be promoted to horse army, and those who have been in ten battles can be promoted to elephant army. The treatment of the elephant army is very generous.

The monthly military pay for each Xiangjun is fifty baskets of millet.

The Taiwan Staff Department naturally carefully studied the elephant soldiers of the Burmese people. The elephant war was a tactic commonly used by both Myanmar and Thailand. The Burmese people learned the tactics of China's entry from the Kyung-Myanmar War and applied it to the later war against Thailand.

And won victory. Later Burmese troops invaded Thailand. According to historical records, the Burmese army had only about 50,000 troops at that time, which was comparable to the troops gathered by the Ayutthaya dynasty in the capital of the Ayutthaya in the then Ayutthaya king. Because the Ayutthaya king underestimated the enemy and was rashly underground

He ordered an attack on the Burmese army, but was counterattacked by the Burmese army.

At that time, the officer of the Portuguese mercenary smoothbore gun team accompanied by the Burmese army was inspired by the history of Kublai Khan's archers shooting elephants in Burmese army, and ordered the gunman to shoot at the Thai army's elephants. The elephant was in severe pain after being shot.

He endured the rider and trampled on the soldiers under his feet. The Burmese army took the opportunity to fire at the chaotic Thai army, which caused most of the Thai army to be wiped out, and only a few Thai soldiers were able to escape and had to retreat to Ayutah, thus

The land weakened the strength and morale of the Thai army and laid the foundation for the final capture of the Great City.

Elephants are easily frightened, but once they are frightened, they cannot control them. This is an inevitable weakness of South Asian elephant soldiers.

Why are war elephants easily frightened? Burmese and South Asians are naturally confused and ignorant.

But Macheng knows the biggest disadvantage of the elephant soldier, why elephants are easily frightened, this is the advantage of time travelers. Macheng once read an article about why elephants are easily frightened, and why do they attack people after being frightened, because

The elephant is a high IQ animal. Its brain knowledge is obtained through acquired learning. This elephant has been domesticated by humans. Humans use their power to carry huge things, pear fields, pull carts, and force them to

In helplessness, they became so beastly that they attacked humans.

The higher creatures like elephants are not materials for war, and this has been proven many times in history. This is the advantage of being a time traveler. The elephant soldiers of the Burmese army are not worth worrying about, even the tamed elephant

, in the face of dense smoothbore gun fire, it will lose control, go crazy, and hurt itself. The elephant soldiers who broke the Burmese and attacked with heavy cavalry. Macheng planned to repeat the replay of the Han army rolling the pearl curtain under Zhenjiang City that day under the Han army that day

A battle.

These three hundred heavy cavalry are amazing. They are the essence of Taiwan’s town army. They are all Kaiao and the genuine Kaiao Iron Cavalry. Most of them serve as middle and lower-level officers in Taiwan’s town army. A group of purely middle and lower-level officers.

How powerful the combat effectiveness of the officer stormtroopers will be? You can tell at a try that this unconventional tactic cannot be a common example, but occasionally it will often have miraculous effects.

After appeased the morale of the army, Macheng rushed back to Dagong City overnight to supervise the construction of cavalry armor.

Two days later, a large number of Portuguese craftsmen arrived from Malacca and brought a large amount of iron to create the legendary Western heavy cavalry armor on the spot. The craftsman camp, Ma Cheng picked up a piece of fine iron and tried the weight, sighing in his heart, these

The iron material hoarded by the Portuguese was produced in India, with an amazing hardness. The legendary Indian iron-rich. Macheng was a student and ordered the craftsmen in the army to observe on the spot. The Portuguese created the complex technology of Western-style full-body cavalry armor. (Unfinished to wait for it.
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