Nine War Elephants 7

With Li Quancheng's order, Li Xuande waved the order flag in his hand, and the five hundred war elephants of the Jiaozhi and Gao clan coalition forces were dispatched together. Countless behemoths began to spread their four legs and rushed towards the array of the Song army. The thick legs of the elephant stumbled on the ground, raising a thick fog of smoke and dust, making a sound like thunder. The ground beneath his feet began to shake unpleasantly.

Each elephant carries four soldiers on its back, one of whom is responsible for controlling the elephant, one of whom is an archer and is responsible for long-range attacks, and the other two are each holding a spear two feet long and are responsible for melee combat. Behind the elephant herd, followed by the soldiers of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition armies, waiting for the Song army's formation to be crossed by the elephants, and continue to expand the results.

This is the usual tactic of Jiaozhi, first using the elephant to attack the enemy, scattering the enemy's formation, and then the infantry army goes up to close the endgame. With this tactic, Jiaozhi has won many battles against the southwestern countries in recent years. Therefore, Li Quancheng, Li Xuande, and the generals of Jiaozhi also firmly believed that the Song army, like other armies, would definitely not be able to resist the impact of the elephant army.

Although the Song army had been in contact with elephants in the camp during this period of time, and was not curious about elephants, they were still shocked to see elephants on the battlefield. I saw countless white meat mountains, approaching the Song army with vigorous footsteps, and from time to time there was a hissing sound of "Ang, Ang", although the formation was chaotic, the momentum was indeed amazing. Most of the Song troops who went out to Dali were experienced soldiers, and they did not choose the vanguard army to fight against the most elite magnesium futu in the Jin country. But I have never seen that army have the momentum of an elephant army that crushes everything, even if it is an iron float, it is beyond the reach of the dust.

In this way, Gao Jianming watched the momentum of the elephant army rushing towards the Song army in the rear, and he was also full of confidence. I even regret a little that I should have used my three hundred war elephants a long time ago, maybe I would have defeated the Song army with the scriptures.

At this time, the elephant army rushed to about two hundred steps away from the Song army, Yang Yan nodded, and said to Wei Chang: "Wei Jian Cheng, let's start." ”

Wei Chang waved the flag in his hand, and saw that the Song army moved out one hundred and ten large wooden barrels with a height of one person and different thicknesses, and placed them in front of the Song army's formation, and then moved out ten, square on the ground, one every three zhang, lined up in front of the group of elephants rushing over.

Wei Chang waved his flag again and shouted: "Ignition of fire." ”

The medicine twist was ignited, only to hear a few loud sounds of "boom, boom, boom, boom ......", and then spewed out dense smoke, mixed with the choking smell of sulfur and fire, in the thick smoke only heard "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" The sharp and dense sound of arrows breaking through the air resounded endlessly, and countless arrows spewed out from the barrel, with a puff of flames, with a strong force far better than ordinary bows and arrows, shooting towards the elephant herd that was advancing towards the Song army.

The advance of the herd slowed down. Their huge bodies could not dodge in this dense array of arrows, especially the war elephant that rushed to the front, along with the soldiers on the elephant's back, was pierced by dozens of arrows at once, and blood flowed. Even if it was such a huge thing, it couldn't withstand such a sudden and dense blow, and the dozen or so giant elephants that rushed to the front let out a miserable scream as if tearing the atmosphere, and suddenly fell to the ground, making a sound like shaking the earth's axis, and more than a dozen small mountains of meat were piled up on the ground in an instant.

The elephant herd that followed was slightly better, but there were also many giant elephants who were hit by several arrows, and the arrows were shot deep into the flesh of the giant elephant, although it was not immediately dead, but the pain of the giant crack made the giant elephant go crazy, and no longer obeyed the command of the soldiers, raised the long trunk thicker than a human leg, trampled the earth with four feet, and roared wildly, and the soldiers on the elephant's back were thrown to the ground, squeezed by the elephant's body and legs, and once they were stepped on by the thick elephant's legs, the skin and flesh were immediately opened, and the bones were cracked. The heart-rending screams of the unfortunate soldiers suddenly resounded in the sky.

The Song army was the "fire dragon water pipe" made by Wei Chang and Sun Wei together, and this time to pacify Guangnan, Yang Yan brought a total of 100 "fire dragon water pipes", including 10 of 300 bottles, 30 of 200 bottles, and 60 of 100 bottles. This kind of arrows propelled by gunpowder are far stronger than ordinary bows and arrows, and can reach up to more than 400 paces, but the accuracy is too poor, and once launched, it can only be resigned to fate, but it is simply better to deal with such a dense herd of elephants.

Moreover, Yang Yan was afraid that his strength would not be enough, so he had to wait until the elephant herd broke through to within two hundred steps of the Song army before launching. And only ten hundred bottles of "Fire Dragon Water Slip" were used, and I planned to see the effect after using it first, but as soon as I used it, the power was amazing, and even Yang Yan did not expect it. Wei Chang was immediately ordered to start firing the second round.

At this time, the second wave of strikes of the Song army began again, this time it was five two hundred pieces and ten hundred "Fire Dragon Out of the Water Jane" launched together, with a series of loud firing sounds, the arrows that were twice as dense as the previous round brought out a strong force, and once again shot towards the elephant herd, and in an instant, dozens of giant elephants were full of arrows, and they fell weakly, and some were still rolling on the ground in pain, and the roar of indignation turned into a helpless scream. It was as if in a nightmare, filled with the smell of blood.

This was followed by a third wave of blows. After three consecutive rounds of blows by the Song army, more than 100 war elephants fell, and at least dozens of war elephants lost their combat effectiveness, just surviving for a long time. Some of the remaining war elephants continued to rush towards the Song army, but some of them turned their heads and began to retreat. There are also many war elephants rushing wildly in the herd, and the already chaotic formation is even more chaotic at this time.

Li Quancheng, Li Xuande, Gao Jianming, Gao Jianxun and others were dumbfounded, who would have thought that the elephant army, which had high hopes, would be defeated before they could rush to the front of the Song army. What kind of weapon did the Song army use, it was so powerful that even the war elephants couldn't stop it. Li Quancheng only felt a cold air rise in his heart, fighting against the Song army, is there a chance of victory?

Yang Yan nodded, very satisfied with the results. This "Fire Dragon Water Slip" is really powerful, but the cost is also frighteningly high, a hundred pieces of "Fire Dragon Water Jane" is as high as four or five hundred habits, and the cost of the "Fire Dragon Water Jane" is nearly 1,000 pieces, Yang Yan has not been willing to use it. Now that he used forty "Fire Dragon Water Slips" at once, Yang Yan waved his hand and asked Wei Chang to put away the other "Fire Dragon Water Slips". Then he said to Liu Fuwu: "We will also start to use the elephant army." ”