Chapter 916: The Times
The shells pulled more than two hundred slightly curved curves in the air and smashed headlong into the queue of war elephants.
At least twenty or so shells hit the slain war elephant, whose rough skin might have been able to withstand the tiger's claws, but it could not stop the steel and flames. The sharp, conical steel core bullet pierced the elephant's head and chest like a drill bit, burrowing into the war elephant's body.
More than 20 war elephants could not even scream when they were killed by the huge cannonballs.
Then the flowering bullet exploded inside the body of the war elephant. More than 20 catties of nitrocellulose exploded a huge shock wave in the thick elephant's body, violently blasting the elephant's body apart. There was nowhere to drain the huge wave of air, and it could only rush to the gap created by the shells entering the body.
Li Laosi saw in the telescope that the head and chest of a war elephant were blown into minced flesh and burst out more than ten meters away. The corpse of the headless war elephant looked like a small mountain, slammed back, and then fell to the ground.
The two Vietnamese soldiers above the war elephant were stunned by the air wave caused by the explosion and fell unconscious next to the elephant, not knowing whether they were dead or fainted.
Li Laosi also saw another war elephant that had broken one of its front legs by a conical cannonball, and fell down with a hiss. The cannonball smashed into the dirt beneath the elephant and was just crushed by the tumbling elephant's belly. Then only a huge "boom" was heard, and more than 20 pounds of shells exploded under the war elephants, and the body of the elephant weighing several tons was blown up and flipped to the right.
The two Vietnamese soldiers on top of the war elephant were violently carried away by the body of the flying elephant, and they pounced and flew to the right. The two of them were also good fortune tellers, and they were not crushed by the corpse of an elephant that had been blown up and had no stomach. The three Vietnamese infantrymen on the right were unlucky, they were crushed below by the corpses of the war elephants that flew over, and their ribs were crushed in an instant, and they died screaming in the blood and flesh of the war elephants.
The soldiers who were crushed to death were unlucky, but the Vietnamese soldiers around the other war elephants were also unlucky.
More than 200 shells exploded across the land between the war elephants, killing some soldiers and startling elephants, animals in the rainforest. Some of the war elephants who were not hit were frightened by the tremendous force of the explosion and lost control.
Heavy-ton rainforest animals roared loudly and raced through the ranks of Vietnamese soldiers, killing or trampling a soldier almost every few steps.
At least fifty war elephants lost their minds and fled in all directions. All the soldiers who stood in the way of the war elephant's escape were regarded as enemies by the war elephant, and were angrily knocked away and trampled to death.
Where did the Vietnamese soldiers dare to put up a queue? They ran around the panicked elephants, hoping to save their lives.
The lord of South Vietnam, Nguyen Phuc Binh, watched his war elephant team become chaotic, and his eyes became blood-red in an instant.
This war elephant corps is his trump card, and he took it out at the beginning, intending to deliver a fatal blow to the ship, and he also wanted to rely on this corps to inflict heavy damage on the Ming invaders. However, he didn't expect Li Zhi's artillery to be so sharp that he could blow up his war elephant troops.
He roared loudly, letting the horn of the Chinese army blow.
Hearing the sound of the horn, hundreds of mahouts in front rushed to the side of the running war elephant, began to drag the war elephant's ears, pulled the reins of the war elephant, and comforted the war elephant loudly, trying to stabilize these strong and fragile land creatures.
After some effort, half of the war elephants calmed down.
However, the terrible bombardment had only just begun.
Only sixty breaths later, the Vietnamese soldiers, who had been disrupted by the war elephants, were bombarded by another round of artillery.
More than 200 flowering catapults were fired into the ranks of war elephants.
Rumbling flowering projectiles sent a brutal shockwave in all directions, filling the area where the war elephant team was. The sparks burst out like fireworks during the Chinese New Year, blowing up the war elephant troops that had just calmed down into a bloody blur again.
More than thirty war elephants were hit, and they were blown to pulp by powerful flowering shells. Not only were war elephants killed, but artillery shells also killed infantrymen. I don't know how many soldiers were killed by the explosion, or cut to death by the steel slag sputtered from the flowering bullets.
After two rounds of bombardment, the war elephant force had completely collapsed.
No matter how the elephant trainers dragged and appeased, the elephants did not want to stay in the group, but ran wild one by one. Everywhere the elephants went, panicked Vietnamese soldiers ran and jumped, desperately dodging in both directions. More than sixty war elephants were like more than sixty steamrollers crushing everything that stood in his way, and the Vietnamese queue was thrown into chaos.
Seeing the effect of the twenty-four-pound flowering bomb, Li Dingguo and Sanada Nobuyuki were stunned.
The two had only heard of Li Zhi's round flowering shells before, and knew that the kind of shells could shoot into the interior of the fortress and bombard. They had never seen the effect of the eighteen-pound flowering bullet, and today they directly witnessed the effect of the twenty-four-pound flowering bullet.
The lethality of these 24-pound shells was so terrifying that the shells could not only explode, but also penetrate directly into the body of the elephant and explode.
What would be the effect if such a conical shell were used to storm the city walls? What wall can hold back a high-speed rotating conical steel bullet?
Li Dingguo was already stunned by the effect of artillery bombardment. He now understands why Li Zicheng was beaten so badly by Li Zhi in Henan, and he was almost driven to Shaanxi like a devastation. What kind of city fortress is meaningless in front of the king's weapons.
The king is terrible.
Sanada Nobuyuki was also frightened, his face turned pale, and he sighed and said, "It's really unheard of." ”
If the old samurai was ashamed of his surrender before, now he has been shocked by Li Zhi's methods, and he has turned to feel wise about his decision.
Li Zhi's tiger army is not something that manpower can resist at all.
In the Chinese military department of the Vietnamese, Nguyen Phuc was already dumbfounded. Li Zhi's firepower far exceeded that of this era, which made Nguyen Phuc feel unreal.
Even if the Portuguese and Dutch joined forces to attack the Great Viet Kingdom, they would not be able to form such a powerful firepower, right?
The iron-blooded storm of those twenty-four-pound flowering bombs was terrifying. This is obviously the seventeenth century in the Dutch population, why did such a weapon come out? This is completely firepower that should not belong to this era.
Nguyen Phuc watched in amazement as his war elephant ran through the queue. The more than 100 war elephants he did not hesitate to arrange were so powerless in front of Li Zhi's cannonballs. You must know that Ruan Phuc has relied on these war elephants countless times to attack the Zheng family in the north and conquer the southern occupation of the city. In Ruan Phuc's heart, these more than 100 war elephants were extremely powerful.
However, the reality is so cruel that with just two rounds of shelling, Nguyen Phuc Binh's war elephant has completely turned into a manic beast that crushes his own people.
Without war elephants, what can you do against Li Zhi's Tiger Army?
Nguyen Phuc Binh had not yet gotten used to the combat methods of the Tiger Army, knowing that this was still 1650, and Asia in this era should still be an era dominated by cold weapons. Nguyen Phuc was on the verge of introducing Western thermal weapons, which could have been regarded as being at the forefront of the times.
However, in the face of Li Zhi's troops, Nguyen Phuc knew how backward he was.
The war elephant was also tired of running, so he reduced his speed and slowly fled into the distance. The soldiers, no longer in danger of being trampled by the war elephants, began to tremble and regroup in the ranks, trying to continue to press the Tiger Army.
They were greeted by Li Zhi's rockets.
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