Chapter 1074 War Game Deduction
The theme of this imperial meeting was to fight in Myanmar. Before Xu Mingwu stepped into Wuying Hall, the tycoons in the court had already discussed it and formulated several safe ways of fighting.
Xu Mingwu proposed the Air Force's idea, which was known to Zhu Cixuan and the officials of the Huangming Military Academy, but others did not know at all.
It was not until today's imperial meeting that Zhu Cixuan planned to tell everyone about this idea.
Although Zhu Cilang knew the principle of hot air balloons and could be made by man, he was not very proficient in how to operate the Emperor of Heaven, and felt that it was unreliable for military use, and he was even more reluctant to use the lives of soldiers for experiments.
Now there is a guy who is bold enough to use hot air balloons to build the air force, but he was identified by the East Factory as a crazy young master. Emperor Zhu has doubts about this.
As the saying goes, geniuses are often called fools or have abnormal brains, and Xu Mingwu has this condition.
However, judging from the information re-collected by the East Factory, this guy has been very normal in recent days.
If he is excluded from being a genius, there is another possibility. This kid is a fellow traveler and travels through time!
In any case, Zhu Cixuan decided to give this kid a chance first. If he had a mature military hot air balloon method, everything would be easy to say.
If there is no, he is full of nonsense and deceives the emperor, then he will be embarrassed. He can only spend the rest of his life in the imperial prison!
Cao Minghao walked to the sand table with confidence and said with confidence: "Xu Mingwu, let's take a move!"
In the hall of Wuying Hall, everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Mingwu.
The big guys in the hall were all Ming army generals who had been through battle for a long time. They had different expressions, but one thing was the same. They all believed that Xu Mingwu, a inferior student, would undoubtedly lose!
Zhu Cilang's choice of Cao Minghao and Xu Mingwu to play was also a result of careful consideration.
In his opinion, Cao Minghao is the son of Cao Bianjiao and an outstanding graduate of the Imperial Ming Military Academy. He has a literary and martial arts strategy. If Xu Mingwu can really win the battle and make him convinced his loss, it means that his method is feasible.
On the contrary, Cao Minghao can only be given a chance to make contributions.
Cao Minghao was full of confidence and sneered at Xu Mingwu with contempt.
Xu Mingwu walked to the sand table and clasped his fists at Cao Minghao: "General Cao, the student has begun!"
As he said that, he pointed his command pole at the river in the middle of the sand table and the Burmese camp on the eastern front, and sent three thousand troops to make a feint attack.
Cao Minghao sneered and launched infantry deployments of two Burmese brigades along the river bank line, with a total strength of 10,000, defending within the range of the Burmese highland artillery.
On the combat map, the Burmese army had a total strength of 50,000, while the Ming army had only 6,000, and Cao Minghao did not send anyone!
Xu Mingwu gave up his land attack and commanded the Ming warships to start shelling the coastal defense line. At the same time, a thousand Marines sailed to the beach in fifty small landing boats.
Cao Minghao was surprised. Normally, the Ming army could use a large landing craft carrying 200 people when they landed. Unexpectedly, this boy sent a group of small sampans.
He quickly returned to peace and began to mobilize artillery from the Burmese highlands to bombard the landing craft.
However, soon, Cao Minghao suddenly discovered that he had made a mistake. Although the Burmese Army learned to adopt the Ming army's configuration and had artillery battalions, dozens of artillery on the high ground were deployed on the front of the three miles. The firepower was too scattered and it was impossible to easily cause effective damage to the scattered Ming Marines.
Moreover, their main purpose was to defend against the Ming army warships in the river and prevent them from rushing into the Burmese camps on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Cao Minghao made a quick decision and dispatched five thousand troops from the east bank camp to the beach to block the attack.
However, the landing boats of the Ming army rushed to the beach. After losing a small part of their strength, the landing troops quickly gained a foothold on the beach, and concentrated thirty artillery runs and a large number of grenade launchers to focus on the Burmese defense line on the front of the beach.
The Burmese army had a very poor fighting will. It was broken a little bit, and the entire coastal defense line that had just been built collapsed.
A trace of cold sweat broke out on Cao Minghao's forehead, but Xu Mingwu looked leisurely, secretly rejoicing that the combat power of the Ming army was really not overwhelming. The soldiers' fighting will and equipment suppression, and a thousand landing troops could defeat five thousand Burmese troops!
The Burmese army retreated to the coast. Ten miles from the coast, Cao Minghao gathered two brigades of 10,000 troops and built a second line of defense with the east coast camp.
At the same time, there were another ten battalions of 4,000 battle elephant infantry troops attacking the landing Ming army from the flanks.
The landing troops of the Ming army reached 2,000. Xu Mingwu almost transferred all the surface forces and the Ming army on the Western Front, and began to advance towards the Myanmar military defense line, trying to attack the Myanmar military camp, forcing the Myanmar military to withdraw the infantry brigades that defended the 3,000 Ming army army to create fighter jets.
Seeing this, the cold sweat on Cao Minghao's forehead disappeared, and a smug smile appeared on his face.
He easily knocked on the command pole and ordered the Burmese navy in the river to come out in full swing, approaching the Ming army fleet in front of Shazhou, and intercepting the practice of the Ming army and the fleet.
The military tycoons present all saw that the Burmese military defense line, which seemed to be difficult to defend, was actually a trap carefully designed by Cao Minghao.
The two thousand landing troops commanded by Xu Mingwu were in a dilemma under this defense line and became an isolated army.
As long as the Burmese army's war elephants and army gathered together and formed an encirclement of the Ming army outside the east bank's camp, the two thousand Ming army landing troops would be basically reimbursed.
The Ming army of the Red Army had a total of only 6,000 troops, and lost 2,000 at once. This battle had already been lost.
Because in the military history of the Ming army of the Tianwu Dynasty, there has not been a battle to kill one-third of the soldiers. It can be said that he was defeated very thoroughly, and the main general will be shot!
Cao Minghao smiled at Xu Mingwu and threw away the command pole in his hand. He no longer needed this thing.
The four thousand battle elephants army (hundreds of battle elephants), plus 30,000 infantry, and artillery assistance, even if the combat effectiveness of the Burmese army is awful, there is no pressure to eat these two thousand lonely troops into the Ming army!
In the hall of Wuying Hall, the nobles turned their eyes away from the sand table, and no one was interested in watching this levelless battle again.
Even Pingyang Hou Xu Qingshan lost interest in the sand table. His expression was very complicated, and his son lost too much!
Only Zhu Cilang stared at the Burmese army camp on the sand table. At this time, the Burmese army was almost crowded, including hundreds of war elephants wearing thick armor, which were like a herd of elephants on the African prairie migrating. If on the head...
Xu Mingwu let out a sigh of relief and pointed his command pole at his Ming army camp. He was going to mobilize troops!
Everyone looked at him curiously, but saw the boy take out a special flag, hanging all the way with the flag, flying over the three thousand Ming troops watching the show, and then flew above the Burmese army camp...
Cao Minghao laughed and said, "Xu Mingwu, do you think this is playing house!"
Xu Mingwu said with a blank expression: "General Cao, I am a balloon army, please accept it!"
"Damn it, I'll take a big shot!"
Cao Minghao cursed: "Xu Mingwu, you have seen the situation of the battle clearly. My army surrounded your two thousand men, and your three thousand men were still standing there in a daze. At most, you would go to rescue your fleet. You have no need to fight!"
Xu Mingwu said: "General Cao, I said, this is a balloon unit. The 1,000 troops I left in the camp can control the balloons to attack from the air along the wind and throw explosive packs down. When I rained down the bullets, your hundreds of war elephants would probably go crazy! How could your tens of thousands of troops break me?"
"fart!"
Cao Minghao cursed: "What a bullshit balloon army, pure nonsense! I haven't heard of it!"
"Hao'er, the imperial army is not allowed to be presumptuous!"
Among the nobles, the chief military minister and Duke of Xiangguo Cao Bianjiao shouted loudly.
Chapter completed!