Chapter 720: Elephant Shoes

"Someone, immediately order someone to dig the embankment on both sides and let the sea water irrigate in."

After thinking of a way to deal with the enemy's war elephants, Ning Yuan immediately asked people to dig up the embankments located on the coasts on both sides.

Now the Thai-Burmese army has cut down a large number of logs from the rear, and they want to use the logs to build a passage, and if they do not fill the water, this trench will become a simple obstacle.

While letting the sea water in won't stop the enemy from building a log passage, at least it will make it much more difficult for the enemy to build a log passage after soaking in the water.

Because a large number of war elephants were injured by crossbow arrows, the Thai-Burmese army did not send any more war elephants to carry logs for the next few days.

They built a slope on the opposite bank using sand, pulled the logs up the slope by hand, and then rolled the logs down the slope, causing them to fall directly into the ravine filled with seawater.

Faced with this stupid method of the Thai-Burmese coalition army, the Condor army south of the trench was suddenly helpless, and they could only use trebuchets to cause as much trouble as possible for the other side.

As a large number of logs rolled down into the trench, an improvised passage was soon formed from the accumulation of logs.

In the days that followed, the Thai-Burmese forces withstood the trebuchet bombardment of the Condor Army, throwing bags of sandbags full of sediment on top of logs.

After paying a certain number of casualties, the Thai-Burmese coalition forces successfully built a passage tens of meters wide.

As soon as the passage was completed, the Thai-Burmese army sent out the War Elephant Legion, and the Condor Army set up all the ballistas on the other side of the passage.

In order to protect the war elephants, the Thai-Burmese army had a heavy infantry with shields walk in front of the war elephants and asked them to block the war elephants' crossbow arrows.

Under the cover of the heavy infantry, most of the crossbow arrows fired by the Condor Army were blocked by the heavy infantry.

Although the heavy infantry were all spitting blood after blocking the crossbow arrows, they at least managed to protect the war elephants behind them.

After approaching the trench, the mission of the Thai-Burmese heavy infantry was completed.

They quickly flashed to the flanks and handed over the rest of the task to the War Elephant Legion.

As soon as the hoplites gave way, the elephant slaves drove the elephants into a charge at the Condor position.

At the same time, the Condor Army's ballista position also fired a final round of crossbow arrows.

After losing a few war elephants, the Thai-Burmese army successfully passed through a passage made of logs and sandbags.

After seeing the war elephants pass through the passage, the Condor soldiers who were responsible for firing the crossbow arrows immediately abandoned the ballista and fled along the earthen wall towards the east and west.

Looking at the war elephants that had successfully passed through the passage, a smile finally appeared on the faces of the top brass of the Thai-Burmese coalition army.

However, before they could rejoice for a few moments, a painful elephant chirping suddenly sounded in front of them, and the smiles on their faces disappeared.

After the war elephant reached the earthen wall, and saw the Condor soldiers waiting behind the earthen wall, the elephant slaves immediately drove the war elephant to rush towards each other.

However, as soon as the war elephant stepped down from the earthen wall, it suddenly stumbled and slid into one pit after another.

In the middle of the pit there was a thick plank, with a large hole on the top that could only hold an elephant's foot, and a deep pit underneath the hole.

In the deep pit under the planks there is a sharp iron cone with the tip pointing upwards and embedded in the bottom of the pit.

Because the mouth of the pit is surrounded by a smooth pot-shaped slope, the war elephant slid directly down after falling into the pit, and then an elephant foot accidentally slipped into the small pit inlaid with an iron cone, and was directly pierced by the iron cone.

Because of the weight of the elephant's body, and the sharp iron cone piercing its feet, it could not extricate itself, and in an instant, it had to lie on the ground.

Although the trap could not kill the war elephants, it succeeded in restricting their movements, and then, if no one rescued them, they would have to starve to death in the pit.

The method used by Ning Yuan to deal with elephants was called elephant shoe hunting method in ancient China, and the elephant fell into the trap and the elephant's foot was penetrated called "shoes", that is, the elephant put on the elephant shoes, and the wooden board and the iron cone below were the so-called elephant shoes.

Although the "shoeed" elephant cannot rotate its body, it can still hurt people with its tusks and nose, so it is still not possible to get close to it at this time, but to stay up with it.

After several days of hardship, the elephant with "shoes" lost too much blood because its feet had already been pierced by an iron cone, and lost the strength to fight back.

At this time, people rushed up, knives and axes were added, and the elephant was killed.

In order to deal with the war elephants of the Thai-Burmese coalition army, Ning Yuan directly asked people to set up a large number of elephant shoes under the earthen wall.

When the enemy elephant army rushed down the earthen wall, it was impossible to stop the car, so they fell into the elephant shoes that were covered by thatch.

For those war elephants who were imprisoned by elephant shoes, Ning Yuan did not kill the killers, he just ordered people to shoot those elephant slaves, and then immediately let his own war elephant army rush up the earthen wall along the reserved safety line.

After the war elephants of the Condor Army climbed the earthen wall, the war elephants of both sides immediately collided with each other.

At this time, the Condor soldiers who had fled in front of them and operated the ballista also returned, and after loading their crossbow arrows, they fired wildly at the Thai-Burmese war elephants.

More than half of the Thai-Burmese war elephants fell into the elephant shoes, and the remaining war elephants became live targets for ballistas after being held back by the war elephants of the Condor Army.

Seeing the war elephants pierced by crossbow arrows, the hearts of the Thai-Burmese alliance leaders were bleeding, but at this time they had no choice, because they had no idea how their war elephant army was wiped out by the enemy on the other side of the earthen wall.

Not knowing how the Condor Army would deal with the war elephants, they couldn't come up with a countermeasure, so they had to let the heavy infantry corps rush up again to cover their own war elephants to withdraw.

Although they knew that retreating at this time would likely lead to defeat, they were really reluctant to lose any more war elephants, so they could only hope that the Condor Army would not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

It's a pity that their expectations are destined to be disappointed, because what Ning Yuan is best at is beating the water dogs.

When the number of war elephants on his side had the absolute upper hand, Ning Yuan would never let the enemy retreat like this.

After seeing that the enemy wanted to retreat, Ning Yuan immediately ordered the War Elephant Legion of the Condor Army to kill them along the passage built by the enemy.

Other Condor soldiers used ladders and other tools to cross the trench and beat the Reservoir Dogs directly behind the War Elephant Legion.

Faced with the war elephants of the Condor Army, the Thai-Burmese alliance could not come up with a good solution, so they could only sacrifice a player army to go to the rear of the palace, and the others all retreated to the base camp located in the rear.

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