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War elephants are more used in warfare in Europe, and the famous Macedonian legions, Roman legions, etc., have suffered from war elephants.

When the Persian Dynasty was still at its peak, the Macedonian army was easily defeated with fifteen war elephants lined up in the center of the military array.

One of the four greatest military generals in European history: Hannibal, there was also a war elephant army in his army, but it was later broken by the Romans, but at that time, no way to defeat the war elephant army was really found.

You can imagine what kind of visual impact and huge psychological pressure will be caused to the enemy on the battlefield when a behemoth weighing four or five tons, coupled with a war elephant in armor and charging at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour!

And the destructive power of its charge is even more powerful, the thighs as thick as wooden pillars can trample on soldiers at will, and the long tusks are no less than any sharp spears in the process of impact.

In addition, the war elephant itself is high and can look down on the height of the enemy's army, and the war elephant carries the spear, longbow and other weapons in the hands of the soldiers.

And that huge weight, as well as the thick skin and flesh of their own defense, make the battle formation of war elephants, whether it is cavalry or infantry, a nightmare, no one is willing to easily fight against it.

Powerful mobility, defense, and lethality, including the deterrent power of the roar, make the war elephant like a true master of war, invincible and invincible.

Especially for war horses who are not familiar with the smell of war elephants, when the elephants even just roar in unison, it is a disaster for war horses that have not been familiar with war elephants.

But the reason why the war horse has always been able to become the era of cold weapons, the existence of the long-lasting cruel battlefield is that it has no fatal shortcomings, nor is it a very perfect advantage, and its perfect balance makes it unyielding, and it has become a combat animal that human beings are more willing to choose on the battlefield.

Naturally, the war horse can be superior to the war elephant in the era of cold weapons, and can become an evergreen tree in the military, which is enough to show that the war elephant has a shortcoming that is difficult for humans to overcome, and once this shortcoming is used by the enemy, then the war elephant becomes not to be feared.

Fear of fire is the Achilles heel of war elephants, no matter how human training is, when war elephants face raging fires, their hidden fear factors will be completely exposed, and once a large-scale fire is formed on the battlefield, then war elephants will not only not be able to traumatize the enemy, but even trample and destroy their own defenses when they go berserk.

Without the enemy's action, the war elephants after being attacked by fire will scatter and flee on their own, leaving the enemy's camp in chaos and fleeing, at this time they can only be slaughtered and waiting for defeat.

Standing on the high platform, Li Hong and Li Zhe, accompanied by lawlessness, looked at the military formation composed of dozens of war elephants on the school field, which was confronting the cavalry troops.

In the absence of fire, except for the personal guard team led by Wei Tuqi, who had just joined, was able to rely on more outstanding mobility and strong ability to control war horses, and could barely roam and engage war elephants, the other cavalry were already in chaos.

In the face of the roar of the war elephant, the war horse often mustered up the courage to run forward for more than a dozen steps under the urging of the master, and then showed a sign of fear, and stopped without listening to the command.

Even when the war elephant is facing it, before it can move forward, the war horse will automatically turn around and run back, and sell the owner's back on its back to the enemy "without money".

The war elephants on the school field are equipped with a sturdy elephant on their backs, and in the elephant sit a soldier holding a horse lance and a bow and crossbow, and in front of and behind the soldier there are two soldiers holding an elephant with a bow and crossbow, and the three of them form a single brave and invincible combat unit.

The three people on the back of the war elephant, when urging the war elephant forward, can not only shoot and kill, but also use the horse lance to the enemy, and between complementarity, they can condescendingly carry out unilateral killing of the enemy without suspense.

And next to the four war elephant legs as thick as a column, each stood a soldier with a sword and shield, guarding the lower plate of the war elephant from being attacked by the enemy in the chaos of the battlefield.

A war elephant with seven soldiers formed a lethal combat group, one can imagine when such a group reaches dozens, hundreds, what kind of damage it will cause to the enemy.

Whether it is the Tang Dynasty, the former Sui Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, because of the restrictions and environment of the Central Plains, coupled with the hostile relationship, the group forces that pose a threat to the Central Plains are all in the west and north, so they rarely fight against war elephants in history.

Now that Li Hong has set his sights on the southwest, the war elephant, which is still a relatively unfamiliar combat machine to the Tang Dynasty, has become a "problem" that needs to be overcome by the war horse.

Lawless and others have led the floating slaughter camp in the Central Army, and have conducted many simulated battles with war elephants, but none of them have been able to break through the enemy's military formation like other cavalry, and it is difficult to gain the initiative in control strategically.

Li Hong looked at the smoke and dust of the school field, the sounds of fighting, roaring, and hissing were mixed, but even if he personally supervised the formation, his lethality against the war elephant group was of little effect.

Lawless frowned, and when facing Li Hong's gaze, the faces of the two were full of guilt and embarrassment, and when they were about to kneel down to ask for guilt, they were stopped by Li Hong reaching out his hand.

Looking at the gate of the barracks, the cavalry troops of the big cannibals slowly came in, and Li Hong said lightly: "The people who lead you can win them, as for conquering the war elephants, don't take it to heart." ”

"Your Highness......."

Lawlessness is still guilty and wants to kneel down and plead guilty, since they took charge of the Central Army, they have always been considered the most courageous generals under His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But now in the face of these 100 war elephants, they suddenly became helpless, and their hearts were full of unwillingness and guilt, feeling that they had failed Li Hong's expectations.

"Don't worry, there's a way. Let's go down and prepare. Li Hong patted the shoulders of the two again, and then took Li Zhe to greet Saleh and the others.

"Do you really have a way?" Li Zhe couldn't wait to ask behind him.

Li Hong looked at the front with pride, looking at the Tang Central Army in the school field, being chased by war elephants and running away, and the laughter was even more presumptuous, not leaving Li Hong with any affection.

"After a while, you will pretend to be annoyed and angry, and then pull all these war elephants into the barracks in Qinling." Li Hong sneered and said lightly to Li Zhe.

"What for?" Li Zhe didn't understand Li Hong's intention to do this.

"Didn't Saleh laugh arrogantly to confuse the enemy, and didn't he just see that we were helpless in the battle elephant battle array? You followed him and said that you would pull all these war elephants into the Qinling Mountains to slaughter ....... ”

"You're not going to be serious, are you? The Central Army has not yet figured out a way to conquer the war elephants, and how can we ...... if we kill us. Li Zhe saw that Li Hong's expression didn't look like a joke, and even the corners of his mouth showed a bloodthirsty expression, so he hurriedly continued to ask nervously.

"Are you stupid, those elephants will be useless for a while, kill them for everyone to eat, and keep the ivory for me. Also, keep those white elephants, they are a congratulatory gift from Zhenla Kingdom to my father, don't kill those heads, otherwise my father will have to be in a hurry with you. Li Hong glared back, and Li Zhe, who was also a little frustrated because of the passive scene in the school field, said at a glance.

The white elephant is tamed to perform, compared with those tamed war elephants to fight, there is no combat power at all, and even in the face of the war horse has to kneel, just like the white Qi who eats and drinks in the palace.

And the difference between Bai Qi and the wild wolf is that one is a pet and the other is a beast, and there is no comparison.

"What are you pulling the elephant into the Qinling Mountains for?" Li Zhe continued to ask without giving up.

Today's war elephant army formation in the school field has caused him a lot of psychological pressure, so at this time, Li Zhe is like a bull's horn, and he has to break the sand pot to ask to the end, and if the fifth child doesn't give him a clear answer, he won't give up.

I was even more worried and worried in my heart, did Datang's iron cavalry really not have a chance of winning in the face of war elephants?

He couldn't accept this fact, after all, today's Datang, in his opinion, should be an invincible and invincible powerful empire, and it should be an existence that no one can defeat.

Now these 100 war elephants have made their most elite Central Army helpless, Li Zheda can't accept such a result in his heart, and even wants to kill them all as Li Hong said to vent his anger.

But as soon as he thought that only by relying on these war elephants could he find a way to conquer it, so that Li Hong, who had been tempered for a long time in Anxi, began to understand patience and could not act impulsively as before.

So when he heard that Li Hong was going to slaughter these war elephants, his first reaction was that the fifth child was annoyed and angry, and he had to stop the fifth child's impulse.

"There is everything you want to know, how to conquer the elephant, there is the answer, hard work and resentment are already waiting for you there, but you have to remember that you can know this method with hard work and resentment, and no one should tell you."

"Don't you even have to tell me?" Li Zhe looked at the confident eyes of Lao Wu, and gradually began to believe that Li Hong should not be stupid, and when he couldn't defeat these war elephants, he chose to kill the war elephants by deceiving himself to deliberately fake the strong image of the Central Army.

"I already knew." Li Hong pushed Li Zhe, and then watched Saleh walk towards him.

(ps: The war elephant is real, but this Tang man doesn't know how to win the war elephant, so it's a bit of a, so the story needs to be more realistic.) Also, there are three shifts today, and I feel that this breath is much longer than yours, so why don't you increase the monthly pass much. )

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