Chapter 682: Fighting with Beasts
The two armies faced each other, and the drums of war were fired in unison.
Under the sun, the troops of the East Vietnamese were neatly arrayed, and the silver armor shone brightly.
On the other side, the place where it was supposed to be the Nanyuan army was empty, but their war drums were beating with great momentum, and the drummers were dressed in colorful clothes. The head is wrapped in strips of colorful cloth, the movements are uniform, and the hands are dancing, changing in a variety of ways, looking like a performance.
The soldiers of the East Vietnamese saw this situation for the first time and watched it with great interest.
Du Changfeng and Li Tianxing were riding on horses, looking at each other, what the hell is this, isn't it a war, what about the soldiers? Is it just a drum beating and dancing to them?
Li Tianxing asked Ning Jiu, "Didn't Nanyuan agree to fight?" What about people? Are you afraid of us and lose without a fight? ”
Ning Jiu's face was expressionless, he looked straight ahead, and raised his chin slightly, "It's here." ”
Several people craned their necks to look, and a black shadow appeared on the horizon in the distance. They were moving slowly, but they didn't look like humans, they were tall and big, pushing towards them like a wall.
Strange, what's that? The soldiers of East Vietnam all looked at it curiously.
At this time, the other party's drum beat changed, excited and low, the rhythm was much faster, and the mouth sang an inexplicable tune.
The slow-moving behemoth suddenly picked up speed and rushed towards this side.
Du Changfeng shouted loudly, "It's an elephant herd!" ”
When the soldiers saw this situation for the first time, they were a little timid, the crowd was a little commotion, the emperor was always calm, and calmly gave orders, "The queue is divided into three formations, each of you will bring a while, Ning Jiu forgets the south, Du Changfeng goes west, Li Tianxing goes north, quickly retreat, if you are chased, abandon the horse and carry the elephant back!" ”
The three of them listened to the order and immediately led the queue to quickly evacuate in three directions. Soon the elephant herd rushed over, sure enough, it was stepped on when it saw people, and it hit when it saw horses, but Dongyue was prepared, and did not cause any losses, the emperor stood still and did not move, his sharp eyes scanned the elephant herd, and his body kept jumping flexibly, avoiding those elephants that collided randomly.
Seeing this, Ning Jiu wanted to turn around and go back, but was stopped by Li Tianxing, "Don't be brutal, be careful of bad things." ”
Ning Jiu looked up and saw that the emperor had jumped on the back of an elephant at some point, it was a tall and mighty elephant, with big ears like a fan, raising its long nose high, and its sharp teeth were exposed, white and scary, the emperor grabbed its thick skin, pulled out the dagger at his waist, and stabbed it at the top of its head, the elephant was in pain, twisted his body hard, and wanted to throw him off, the emperor was thrown out obliquely, and the people who were watching from a distance were scared, but no matter how hard the elephant was shaken, The Emperor clung to its back, and at the same time, holding the dagger's hand, stabbed it in the head one after another.
The elephant was poked with blood, and finally let out a wail, lost its mighty momentum, and staggered and spun in place, and the other elephants that were rampage also slowed down.
The Emperor shouted, "Change the spear, besiege in groups, and break them one by one." ”
The soldiers immediately obeyed the order, used the formation, separated the elephant herd, countless spears stabbed into the body of the elephant, one by one the elephants were stabbed bloody, the skin was open, after a fierce battle, the behemoths fell to the ground.
At this moment, the opponent's war drums suddenly stopped, and the elephants that had not yet fallen also stopped fighting with the soldiers, and turned to run in the direction they came.
Du Changfeng looked at the elephant corpses all over the ground, a little disdainful, "I thought they had some kind of surprise, but that's it." ”
As soon as the words fell, the drums of war rose again. This time the voice was sharp and urgent, and everyone noticed that there were dark clouds in the sky flying towards them quickly. When I got closer, I realized that it was not a cloud, but a bird. This bird is not big, but the beak is very sharp, swooping down from the sky, pecking hard, and then taking away a soldier's eyes, the technique is quite sophisticated, it seems to be specially trained, the soldier covered the bloody eye sockets, screamed again and again, so cruel, so that the soldiers present were angry, brandishing long swords, spears, and fighting with the birds in the air. This time, without the emperor's order, Li Tianxing ordered the archers to fire at the sky in a row, and one by one the birds were shot down, but more birds made up for it. As if they had spirituality, they bypassed the other soldiers and pecked only the archers.
The others were about to go over to help, when a shrill cry came from a distance, and everyone looked up. This was the return of some large birds, dragging their long tails, which fell among the soldiers, and the tails suddenly opened, and there was a faint blue flame on them, which ignited the soldiers' robes. The fierce battlefield turned into a fierce sea of fire.
The Emperor shouted, "Yangsha! ”
Everyone came to their senses and used their long swords and spears to provoke the yellow sand on the ground, which could extinguish the fire and use it as a weapon, as long as the strength was enough, it could also be used as an arrow feather.
The big birds were so large that they were killed by the soldiers when they fell to the ground. The birds were swept away by the yellow sand, lost their balance, and were also cut to the ground, and although the battle was fierce, in the end, it was the East Vietnamese side who won.
But what's worse is that the other party's war drums are beating again.
Li Tianxing couldn't help but scold his mother, "Ge Laozi, if you have the ability to do a real job, what does it mean to send some miscellaneous pieces?" ”
Ning Jiu's face turned pale, "It's here." ”
But everyone craned their necks and watched for a long time, but they didn't see anything.
Du Changfeng asked, "Where is it?" ”
The Emperor said in a deep voice, "Watch your step. ”
Only then did everyone realize that there was a black thing in the yellow sand, "It's a snake!" Someone screamed, many people showed frightened expressions on their faces, and couldn't help but retreat, Ning Jiu and Du Changfeng retreated to the emperor's side, protecting him from left to right, looking at the group of snakes swimming quickly.
These snakes not only bite people, but also bite horses, and the horses are frightened, and they carry their soldiers on a rampage, but they throw the man into the group of snakes, and the snakes immediately climb up and drown him, which makes people feel creepy.
The emperor gave an expressionless order, "Let them take off their robes and tie them to their spears to make torches." ”
The soldiers, who were still panicked, saw that the emperor was so calm and calm, they also cheered up, did as he said, lit their robes with fire folds, lit torches one by one, and threw them at the snakes, and the situation really began to reverse, and the snakes retreated like a rainbow.
After three encounters, although Dongyue lost a lot of troops and the soldiers were very tired, the figure of the commander has always stood in front of them, straight as a pine, tenacious, that is their god, with him, no matter what moths come out of Nanyuan, they are not afraid.
However, the drumming stopped again, and the sky was full of yellow sand, but it was a deathly silence. But no one dared to let their guard down, and they all stared at the horizon in the distance with wide eyes.
After a long time, a small black dot finally appeared there, and everyone was in good spirits, only to find that it was just a man and a horse, galloping towards them. Everyone showed a strange look on their faces, this time they finally sent someone, but why did they only send one person, did the other party want to kill thousands of troops with one person? That's too whimsical!