At dawn, the terrible howl of a beast suddenly sounded in the south, shaking the sky and the earth trembling.

Especially the soldiers under Wu Qi, many of whom came from the north of the Yangtze River, had never heard such a terrible and high-pitched cry in their lives, and at this moment, they couldn't help but stand on end with sweat all over their bodies, and beads of sweat like soybeans oozed from their foreheads.

However, some soldiers from the southern part of Jiaozhou heard the source of this cry and shouted: "Elephant, it must be an elephant!" ”

Where do elephants come from, and are they friends or foes? Is it a wild elephant in the jungle or a well-trained elephant soldier? Doubts were on everyone's minds.

The Han army didn't know that the Kushan coalition army didn't know, and listening to the movement of the mountains and mountains, the elephant team that came was by no means a dozen heads, and it was roughly estimated that there were hundreds, if it hadn't just rained heavily, I was afraid that the south was already dusty at this moment.

The bloody battle quickly stopped, and the Han army retreated northward, and the Kushan army retreated southward, separated on both sides. Everyone fears that it will be a catastrophic scene to be swept into the ranks by a herd of behemoths of wild elephants.

"Where did the probe group come from? Is it the crossing of wild elephants, or the aborigines driving elephants to cause trouble? While commanding the formation of the command, Zhou Yu sent scouts to the south to investigate.

Compared with Zhou Yu's love war, Wu Qi simply and quietly ordered the army to retreat.

The elephants killed in the middle of the road may be wild elephants, or they may be native-trained elephants, or even elephants that the Kushan army has traveled thousands of miles for, but for the Han army, it is definitely not a friend or foe, because there are very few elephants in the current Han territory, which can be called rare.

When he met an elephant herd in the wilderness, he could only walk thirty-six times. Not to mention that there are less than 20,000 people left on his side, even if there are 100,000. When encountering a huge herd of elephants, they can only retreat.

"After He Yuanqing led the military to break off, the whole army retreated to Huai'an City!"

Wu Qi turned over and got on the horse. He made a decisive decision and sent scouts to Chiweitan to inform Jiang Song, abandon the position and withdraw to Huai'an County, defend the city, and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The Han army neither blew the horn nor sounded the gold, first slowly retreated, and after separating from the Guishan army for more than a thousand zhang, the front army suddenly changed to the rear army, and the rear army became the front army. Striding towards the bluestone slope retreated.

Before figuring out the origin of the elephant herd, Zhou Yu did not dare to rashly pursue, in case he was chased by the elephant herd from behind, rushed into the formation and trampled on it, for fear that the corpses would be scattered all over the ground.

Zhou Yu passed down the order, and the whole army retreated to an open area to assemble, placed antlers and thorns in front of the team, and all the crossbowmen bent their bows and arrows, and waited for the battle. And sent more than 10,000 people to collect firewood. It is used to make a fire to drive away the elephant herd.

It's just that it's just raining heavily, and it's wet everywhere, and it's really not easy to find firewood.

At that moment, the scout went and returned. There was a happy report on his face: "General, I understand, I understand!" This herd of elephants is our reinforcement. ”

"Reinforcements?" Zhou Yu and Pei Xingyan were surprised and delighted when they heard this. Knowing that this was the case, the Han army should not have been allowed to retreat calmly, and now it is really too much to regret the loss of a good opportunity.

Pei Xingyan took off his helmet and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead. With a look of surprise, he said, "Although we can occasionally see elephants in our Kushan country, there has never been an elephant in formation. Where did this elephant come from? ”

The sound of horses' hooves was heard, and a procession of more than a thousand horsemen swept in, and the howl of the elephants drew nearer, and the valley responded, and the earthquake trembled.

Pei Xingyan looked at it, and saw that this team was under the banner of Guishuang, and he knew that it was Wang Ben's general, so he immediately pressed his sword and waited patiently.

In a few moments, the cavalry team came to the front of the coalition formation, and a white general with a high nose and deep eyes, blond hair, blue eyes, long brown curly hair, and a stubbled beard turned over and dismounted. Pei Xingyan recognized this as Yue Ji, Wang Ben's right-hand man.

"Hello General Pei, it's been a long time!" The nine-foot-tall Yue Ji turned over and dismounted, struck his left chest with his right fist, and greeted him with the military salute of the Kushan Kingdom, and the tone of greeting was also different from that of Middle-earth.

Pei Xingyan struck his right chest with his left fist and saluted: "Hello General Yueji, long time no see!" ”

As he spoke, the herds of elephants were already close at hand, and the black pressure was pressed as far as the eye could see, and the huge ones were more than two zhang tall, more than four zhang long, and weighed about 15,000 catties, most of them had long white tusks, which was daunting.

"Whew......"

A total of more than 300 elephants let out one after another neighing, fanned their huge ears, shook their thick and powerful noses, and slowly stopped their advance when they were more than 100 feet away from the Kushan army. It only frightened the Guishan and Sun family coalition forces into retreating, and clenched the swords and guns in their hands as if they were facing a great enemy, and the timid even trembled their legs with fright, and they could barely stand.

On each elephant sat a soldier with relatively dark skin and rattan armor, all of whom had two pieces on their chests, one on their arms, a skirt wrapped around their lower bodies, rattan shoes under their feet, and a steel fork in their hands. calmly drove the behemoth under the crotch, making this formidable beast obedient and doing whatever he wanted.

"Within a year of my expedition with General Meng, elephant soldiers were formed in the country?" Pei Xingyan asked questions in surprise.

Yue Ji laughed loudly, and shouted to a barbaric man sitting at the front of a giant elephant that was more than two and a half zhang tall, more than five zhang long, one and a half zhang long, and weighed about 20,000 catties: "King Ge Yaowu, please come down and meet General Pei!" ”

Listening to Yueji's call, the fellow known as the King of Gojou jumped off the giant elephant.

When he sat down, he was not very conspicuous, and when he stood up, he saw that he was tall, at least more than a zhang, with thick and dark eyebrows, and round and large eyes, which were not much better than bull's eyes. Wearing a layer of delicate rattan armor, wrapped in animal skin, and hanging strings of strange-shaped chains on his wrists, ankles, and necks, he looked like a juggler, holding a thick and long steel fork in his hand, which weighed hundreds of pounds.

This King of Ge Yaowu was condescending, and said a barbaric language to Pei Xingyan, regardless of whether Pei Xingyan could understand it or not, and then climbed back to the elephant's back along the ladder on the elephant's belly.

Yue Ji explained to Pei Xingyan: "This is the king of Siam, who is best at driving wild beasts and training wild elephants. When our army passed through Siam, General Wang Ben heard about the ability of the king of Gozhuowu, so he sent someone to invite him to help fight the Han and promised a heavy reward. Therefore, the king of Gohou led an army of 300 elephants from Siam to Jiaozhou to help in the war! ”

"Alas...... If only someone had been sent to let me know earlier! Pei Xingyan shook his head and sighed, feeling sorry, "In that case, we will entangle Wu Qi's team to the death, and let the elephant soldiers of King Ge Burning Wu inflict heavy damage on them!" ”

Yue Ji smiled treacherously, and said in his heart that the credit has been robbed by you, how can we show our ability? General Meng Tian's men and horses have been fighting for nearly a year, and it is time for our soldiers under General Wang Ben to make merit!

"General Pei doesn't have to worry, with the help of elephant soldiers, our army will definitely be able to drive straight in. Just follow behind! ”

Yue Ji swore to Pei Xingyan and boasted about going to the sea, and then walked to the giant elephant of the king of Goyaowu and muttered in barbarian language for a while. Ge Yaowu waved his steel fork, and the giant elephant under his crotch let out a howl of "whoop", flicked his tail, and led three hundred war elephants to charge north in formation.

Between heaven and earth, the earth shook again.

Three hundred elephant soldiers opened the way in front, Yue Ji led a thousand cavalry to follow, and Zhou Yu and Pei Xingyan led more than 30,000 Guishan troops to follow closely and kill Qingshi Slope.

Jiang Song on the Chiwei Beach personally reluctantly repelled the pursuit of the Guishan army, and just retreated from the bluestone slope under He Yuanqing's response, he heard the howl of the elephants in the south shook the mountains, the ground shook the mountains, and hundreds of elephants swept in like a tide.

"Hurry up, return to Huai'an City!" Jiang Song hurriedly urged the team to retreat quickly, and retreated to Huai'an County, ten miles to the north.

The elephant soldiers led by the king of Ge Yao Wu also discovered the Han army, desperately urging the elephants to chase after them, passing over the bluestone slope, like a wind and clouds, all the fortifications built by Wu Qi were flattened, and the arrow towers, crossbow platforms, and antler trenches were all wiped out.

An hour later, under the leadership of the elephant soldiers, the remaining 50,000 allied troops arrived at the city of Huai'an after the bloody battle and besieged the city.

The soldiers under the command of Wu Qi also lost more than 8,000 people after this bloody battle, and there were still 35,000 men and horses left in the city, under the command of Wu Qi, who were closed and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

Meng Tian praised Zhou Yu's performance after being repaid: "This Zhou Gongjin is really talented, indomitable, persevering, well-used, calm and calm, he is really a general!" In the entire Guishan Kingdom, except for General Wang Jian and me, no one in the entire Guishan Kingdom can beat Zhou Yu in terms of military talent! Pass my order, promote Zhou Yu to my lieutenant general, and have full authority to dispatch the front army, and those who violate the order will be beheaded. I'll give it to Your Majesty...... Uh, no, it's the general who repairs the book, and he invites Zhou Yu to be rewarded! ”

Sun Quan heard in Yuhe that Zhou Yu had been awarded the title of Meng Tian again, and he was not angry, and said to Huang Gai and Han Dang: "Now Wu Qi is entangled by Gongjin, and Huo Quji is also entangled by Wang Ben's cavalry. We just drove straight along the Yuhe River, landed from Alin, attacked Rong County, and established some merits, so that Meng Tian was impressed! ”

Huang Gai and Han Dang said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go deep alone!" ”

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger? Don't miss the opportunity! Rong County is empty, don't take it at this time, when will it be? Sun Quan reprimanded angrily in dissatisfaction.

"Can people ask Gong Jin, is this appropriate?" Huang Gai and Han Dang suggested euphemistically.

Sun Quan said angrily: "Is it me or Zhou Yu?" Have you forgotten the kindness of your father and your brother to you? You go and follow Zhou Yu, I'll go to Rong County myself! ”

Huang Gai and Han Dang had no choice but to follow Sun Quan and lead 13,000 sailors south along the Yu River overnight, and they had already left Huai'an for 150 miles in the early morning.

Then abandoned the boat and landed in Alin, leaving 2,000 people to guard the raft, Sun Quan, Huang Gai, and Han Dang led 11,000 men and horses to Rong County, fifty miles to the east, vowing to make a meritorious contribution to impress Meng Tian. (To be continued.) )