Chapter 151: Good friends, rush again.
Although the Yun family also has elephants, after those elephants arrived in Pingliang, they were sent to Jiguan Mountain as soon as possible. No way, these huge guys are just too big. There is only an open place like Cockscomb Mountain that can meet their training and living needs. Ordinary Qin soldiers, there are not many who have seen it at all.
Anyone who sees this kind of guy with a big nose and fanned ears for the first time will be shocked. Especially ordinary soldiers, they had never seen such a huge animal in their lives. The huge body brought them a spiritual shock.
Since the conquest of India, Alexander has set about training a group of elephant soldiers. With fifty elephants in full training, Alexander the Great, who had a keen military mind, knew their military value at the first sight of these animals.
Unlike the Indians, Alexander put armor on these big guys. The sharp ivory was topped with an iron awl. The long nose is wrapped in steel wire woven armor. It makes these elephants look like the beasts of the wilderness are extremely powerful. This is a real mobile fortress armed to the teeth, a killing weapon. No matter how brave a warrior is, he can only be slaughtered in the face of this thing.
As soon as these guys appeared, the Qin army's military formation, which had just been stabilized by the Modao Battalion, immediately became restless again. These guys are too terrifying for humans to resist. Even Chu Dayong, who has always been afraid of anything, couldn't help but grow his mouth and stop shouting.
From the moment he saw the elephant, his face turned like ashes. This time it's over, let these things rush up. Even the Modao Battalion would be wiped out, and this was simply not something that manpower could resist.
Alexander's face was a little better. The arrival of the giant elephant is enough to take out those guys in beautiful armor and with strange blades. He was confident, because he had suffered heavy casualties in front of elephants.
"Bang ......!" When the battlefield is temporarily stalled due to the appearance of giant elephants. A huge fireball appeared in the eyes of the people. A giant elephant in armor turned into a flaming torch. The giant elephant let out a cry of pain, and the elephant burned by the fire ran desperately. Everything that stands in its way is ruthlessly trampled on, whether it is an elephant of its kind. Still a soldier like an ant!
The giant elephant knocked over the other, and then rushed into a phalanx of spears. Even though the spear pierced the body and pierced the holes, it still carried the flames and went forward. Huge hooves trampled the soldiers into meatloaf, and razor-sharp tusks pierced everything they came across. The Macedonian soldier hanging on it waved his arms weakly, and the wails in his mouth were muffled by the tragic cry of the elephant. The scene was bloody. The entire battlefield was silent. The killers seemed to have forgotten to slash and slash, and looked at the terrifying scene in front of them in a daze.
In fact, these elephants are very innocent, and Yun Yue ordered someone to push the trebuchet up. It's for setting fires. Block the Macedonian attack. But soon he found the guy who should be more attacked, and that was these huge war elephants.
This thing is too lethal to ordinary soldiers, and there is no good way to deal with them on the battlefield. I have already seen their power in Shuzhong, but fortunately, the Yun family has a three-bow bed crossbow. Otherwise. That one was planted.
That's because it's so powerful. Yun Yue thought about bringing back more than two hundred heads from Shuzhong. In terms of numbers, there seem to be more than Alexander's. However, this thing needs to be trained before it can go to war. The war elephants of the Yun family are still training in Jiguan Mountain, otherwise a big showdown of war elephants is still very exciting.
Wild beasts are afraid of fire, and the huge baby elephant is no exception. Although the burning sensation of pain had not yet appeared on them, they still turned around and ran without hesitation. No matter how much the elephant exorcist whips and scolds, it has no effect.
It's easy to come, and if you want to leave, you have to leave something. The trebuchet is loaded with canisters of kerosene. Gather fire and attack at the massive war elephants. Soon, three or four more war elephants fled in flames. The wolf rushed to the bottom of the sudden. Where to do it, it doesn't matter what is one's own people and what is an enemy. The red-eyed guy ran around, and one of them actually broke into the Mo Dao Formation.
Strong armor is a joke in front of war elephants, and thick thighs can kick the strongest warrior to the point of breaking tendons and flying. Even if the heavy Mo knife beckoned to a place without armor, it was difficult to cut through an elephant's skin that was up to a foot thick.
Just as Yun Yue's heart was dripping blood, the three-bow bed crossbow led by Fan Zeng caught up. Dozens of three-bow bed crossbows fired arrows at the same time, and javelins with strong winds pierced through the armor and slammed into the body of the war elephant. One or two branches are simply tickling the war elephants, but dozens of three-bow bed crossbows are attacking with concentrated fire, and the war elephants still can't stand it.
The fiery war elephant was shot like a porcupine, and its tragic wail could burst people's eardrums. Finally, a spear shot into the elephant's head with precision. With a loud wail, the fiery war elephant fell to the ground. Before he died, he also crushed to death six or seven sergeants of the Modao Battalion.
Alexander watched all this with wide eyes, not expecting the war elephants he had carefully prepared to be so vulnerable. Moreover, the frenzied war elephants also broke their own front, and many of the formations were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
Fortunately, the chaotic war elephant also disrupted the military formation of the Modao Battalion. The Modao Battalion originally only had two divisions and more than 4,000 people. In order to resist the onslaught of the 7,000 "friends of the king", the army had to be thinned. When the war elephant was dying, it had already torn a hole in the front of the Modao Battalion.
The perceptive Alexander immediately discovered the opening, as did the knights of the elite kings under his command. The trumpets sounded again, and the "King's friends", who had suffered heavy casualties, brandished their swords and rushed towards the gap in the defensive line.
"Warriors! Rush with me once, then towards that gap. We will succeed and the gods will bless us. Come on! Pamanuelle, wielding his sword, was the first to rush towards the gap. The king's friends, like bloodthirsty hungry wolves, followed him madly.
Chu Dayong was in a hurry, but no matter how much he shouted, it was useless. The Modao Battalion is very powerful, but any class has flaws. The flaw of the Modao Battalion is the lethal mobility ability, because of the overemphasis on defense. Each of them wore heavy armor. If you want to move, you can only take it step by step. How can it come and go like a cavalry like the wind!
The fragile and thin gap was washed down, and Parmanuel was ecstatic. In front of him were vulnerable archers, and frightened hoplites. And behind him, there were not only thousands of "friends of the king", but also tens of thousands of camel cavalry. What's more, he can impact the Modao camp from the back.
Suddenly, there was a rolling thunderstorm in the sky! Alexander's face immediately became solemn.
PS: Yesterday's chapter about "The King's Friend" was somewhat wrong, the Macedonian cavalry was actually armed with spears as well. (To be continued.) )