Just when the soldiers of the Zhennan Army on the front line were ready to die, the heralds at the head of the city waved the banner vigorously.

The north gate of Guizhou City, which had been kept closed for several days, was wide open, and with the sound of rumbling and heavy footsteps, thousands of strange monsters in full armor rushed out of it.

Six meters long, three and a half meters high, the army of war elephants covered in sturdy armor appeared, and the two tusks more than a meter long and more than a meter long were still tied to the two tusks around their mouths.

In addition to this, each terrifying war elephant has a circular elephant on its back, which contains five elephant cavalry armed with muskets, grenades, and armor-piercing spears.

War elephants have a long history, and there were a large number of Asian elephants in the Yellow River valley during the Shang Dynasty, which were tamed by merchants and used in warfare.

"Lü's Spring and Autumn Ancient Music" has a record that "the Yin people obey the elephant, in order to abuse the Dongyi", the Shang army used war elephants on a large scale in the campaign to conquer Dongyi during the Shang Dynasty, and played a huge role, and there were records of the use of war elephants in the Shang Dynasty's campaign against the Qiang people.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, as the climate became colder and humans overhunted, the elephant herd in the Yellow River basin became extinct. Since then, the war elephant has withdrawn from the historical stage of the Central Plains War. However, the ethnic minorities in the south continued to use war elephants in the war, becoming a formidable threat to the cavalry of the Central Plains.

In 445 AD, the Zhenwu general of the Liu Song regime of the Southern Dynasty fought a battle at Xiangpu with King Linyi (central Vietnam). The war elephants of the king of Linyi are numerous and boundless. Zong Yu ordered the creation of a fake lion to meet the war elephants. The production process of fake lions is too high, and it can be confused with the real, these war elephants thought that it was really a lion coming, so they scattered and fled, and the Linyi army was defeated.

Appian wrote in the History of Rome: "When there was a battle, as soon as the horses of the Romans saw the war elephant and smelled it, the ranks were thrown into confusion and began to flee."

War elephants are usually male, as males are more robust and ferocious than females.

As soon as the war elephant arrives on the battlefield, in addition to giving the war horse a deterrent effect, it also has a strong deterrent effect on the soldiers, and the war elephant can also sprint to the enemy formation, and wherever it goes, the soldiers are trampled to death with men and horses.

Strictly speaking, after the appearance of hot weapons, the powerful class of war elephants can no longer charge on the battlefield, because elephants are more sensitive, and as soon as they hear the sound of cannons and guns, they will mess up their formation and flee in all directions.

When these elephants are frightened, they will also become confused and do not recognize their owners, so they trample on their enemies and their own people equally.

Li Nan carefully selected 1,000 of the 50,000 war elephants for training this time, at least now these war elephants will definitely not be afraid of those guns and cannons.

"Our Elephant Legion is coming?" Ruan Xiong and the others looked back in surprise, and the hand that was originally placed on the lead of the explosives bag was also put down.

In the middle of the trenches outside the city, a path had long been reserved for the war elephant army to charge, and thousands of behemoths with amazing lethality gradually accelerated, charging towards the opposite Great Song cavalry team.

The general who led all the remaining cavalry raids of the Song army was Han Shizhong, the general of the Western Army.

After seeing the terrifying war elephants charging over, his heart was as frightened as everyone else, but at this time, if he wanted to retreat, it was too late, he could only clench the spear in his hand and shout loudly: "Fight bravely and kill the enemy!" Wansheng! ”

If Song Jun thought that Li Nan's killer weapon was only these thousand-headed war elephants, it would be wrong, because with Li Nan on Cheng's head let out a long roar, two strange creatures flew out of the city.

The two flying monsters, one red and one green, possessed a long, sinuous lion-like body with a thorny tail, two giant bat wings, four legs with sharp claws, and a large mouth full of fangs.

They were naturally the Western Dragons that Li Nan had brought back from the Ice and Fire World.

At that time, the young dragon, which was only more than half a meter long, has now become more than three meters long and more than two meters high, and has officially entered the youth stage.

The two little ones, who used to look cute, have had a lot of bad problems since they grew up, such as always going out to plunder the cattle and sheep raised by the people, and they have also learned to spit fire.

In the Shanluo War a few years ago, Li Nan used the dragon threat of two young dragons to scare off tens of thousands of war elephants in the Zhenla Empire, so he repeated his old tricks in this battle and released these two dragons to deal with the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty.

When the two dragons flew above the battlefield, they lowered their altitude, and while roaring loudly, they spewed out two extremely hot flames, sweeping towards the Great Song cavalry on the ground.

All the horses and cavalry that were burned by the flames were immediately turned into blazing torches, and the two dragons swooped down, leaving two lines of fire on the earth.

Even the war horse that even elephants are afraid of, after encountering the dragon at the top of the biological chain, was suddenly frightened and knelt on the ground with weak legs and did not dare to move, which made those knights of the Great Song Dynasty miserable.

The galloping horses suddenly stopped, and the powerful inertia threw off the cavalry riding on them, and before the two armies could officially start fighting, a large number of soldiers were killed and wounded.

The Great Song cavalry turned on their backs, but the war elephant army that began to charge had no intention of stopping, and thousands of giant elephants wearing heavy armor rushed over savagely......

Standing on the city wall, Tyrion put down the binoculars in his hand, pointed in the direction of the Song army's camp, and said with a little excitement: "Lord, we can launch a general attack!" ”

Li Nan's eyesight was amazing, and he could see the current situation on the battlefield clearly without a telescope, and immediately ordered: "Send a signal, the general attack begins!" ”

"Whoosh!" A red flare soared into the sky.

After seeing the signal of the general attack, Spartacus and Lin Chong, who had already ordered the whole army to be on guard, immediately led all the soldiers to follow behind the war elephant army and started a counter-charge towards the Song army camp.

The artillery that could still be fired in Guizhou City was also dragged by cattle and horses

This battle was the general attack of the Song army, and it was also a good time for Li Nan and others to wait for a long time, with the might of the two dragons and the war elephant army, the more than 20,000 infantry of the First Army and the Praetorian Guard Legion who were still alive, as well as 5,000 bull roaring barbarian hoplites, all pressed up.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Song army's 200,000 army still had about 100,000 soldiers left at this time, and of course, the more than 15,000 cavalry was completely scrapped.

More than 20,000 people charged against 100,000 people, which sounds like an incomprehensible and incredible thing, but the morale of the Song army, which has suffered one-half of the battle losses, has fallen to the bottom at this moment.

After seeing the terrifying war elephants and the two strange dragons in the air that kept spitting flames, the remaining Song army completely lost their fighting spirit, and there was only one thought left in their minds----- escape!