Chapter 372: War Elephant
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Granny Crane changed into the real body of Golden Feather Crane, she was originally responsible for monitoring the entire battlefield, but at this time, she couldn't help but fly over the battle array. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Chen Hai didn't let her do anything else, but Granny Crane lowered her flight altitude to ensure that those extremely terrifying barbarians in the demon barbarian could not enter her own formation alone, especially at the moment when the two sides came into contact, she could not let the enemy barbarians rely on their individual strong combat power to scatter and disrupt the forward battle line of their own formation.
Granny Crane's worries were obviously superfluous, the war elephant weighing more than 10,000 catties was stimulated by the secret method of blood sacrifice, his mind went crazy, and he rushed up without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and the speed was so fast that even the dirty dense long hair fluttered, trampling on large targets and impacting the enemy's battle formation, not even under the strong of the Dao Dan Realm, the strong man in the demon barbarian tribe, still need to risk killing in front of the formation?
Seeing the thousands of soldiers of the fifth battalion, mixed with the fifteen chariots out of the city, the demon barbarian generals who stood on a stone cliff on the north bank of the Tong River to command the outpost battle, naturally knew which target was more important, and "Huhuhu" blew the horns of the beast to mobilize the soldiers and war elephants who had already crossed the Tong soldiers.
Soon, nearly 200 war elephants gave up the goal of the eastern wing of the corner fort, regrouped into a dense battle formation in front of the snow hills of the corner fort, and trampled frantically on this side, trying to push down the thousands of generals who fought in Hengshan City from the Longxiang battalion in one fell swoop.
The elephant herd is like a moving wall of meat elephants, a mountain of meat elephants is moving, and the momentum formed by the trampling of more than 200 giant elephants is stronger than the thousands of soldiers, war horses and fifteen chariots of the Longxiang battalion that fought from Hengshan City.
The number of chariots is still too small, and although the heavy heavenly chariot weighs seventy or eighty thousand catties, five pairs of load-bearing wheels are rolling through the snow, and it is impossible to compare with the trampling of giant elephants.
Granny Crane could see the snow particles within a radius of several miles, shaking layer by layer, and the heavens and the earth were rumbling and trembling.
Chen Hai stayed at the head of the city and fought thousands of generals, led by Wu Meng, the commander of the fifth war battalion.
Wu Meng was wearing blue-black battle armor, straddled the red war beast, looked at the elephant herd, and saw that most of the demon barbarian warriors rushed over, he ordered fifteen chariots to occupy the southern slope of a low snow ridge and did not continue to advance.
In groups of three chariots, lined up in turn, between each chariot were spearmen and shield-wielding men, who were deployed on both flanks, and their main objective was to prevent the enemy cavalry from rapidly charging and attacking the flanks of the chariots.
After all, the chariot is not omnipotent, and there is no vulnerable weakness, so it needs to be arranged into a closer battle formation in order to give full play to its power unscrupulously.
Although there are fifteen chariots, there are a total of forty-five firing holes on the top and bottom, but the Tianji Academy Palace only made eighteen heavy crossbows at this time, in fact, each chariot only has a heavy bore crossbow on the top firing tower at this time, and the other two firing positions are empty.
Thousands of demon barbarian soldiers drove away more than 200 war elephants that went crazy, and when they approached two thousand paces, in the battle array of the Longxiang battalion, the generals could feel their faces trembling with the earthquake.
At this time, eighteen heavy crossbows roared, and at this moment the heavens and the earth were silent.
Each heavy crossbow fired 12 heavy crossbow shells per breath, and 18 heavy crossbows fired more than 200 heavy crossbow bullets per breath, no matter how you look at it, it is not as spectacular and dense as the quenched arrow rain formed when Chen Hai was in Lucheng and Tiele Ridge and when 100 crossbows fired at the same time.
However, the tip of each heavy ballista is the same as that of the Quenched Heavy Ballista, but is cast from a higher grade 8 quenched iron. Therefore, in the same way, the same initial velocity of the firebolt, the drilling penetration of the heavy ballista is stronger, but the more lethal is that the heavy ballista is under the traction of the rifling, not only the initial velocity of the crossbow is faster, but also at an extremely terrifying speed of rapid rotation, at this time, the penetration and lethality of the drilling, I don't know how much it has improved.
Granny Crane is extremely talented, and her eyes are extremely sharp, and she can clearly see how each heavy ballista pierces through the indestructible old thick skin of those giant elephants, how from a thin crack in the blood, quickly rotates to dig out a blood hole the size of a sea bowl in an instant, and continues to drill deeper into the body of the giant elephant, forming a terrifying blood hole......
The vitality of this giant elephant is extremely terrifying and amazing, especially stimulated by the blood sacrifice witchcraft, I don't know the pain at all, I only know how to charge forward and trample on it frantically, and the first wave of heavy ballbow bullets didn't even knock down a giant elephant.
However, the strong impact of the heavy crossbow barrage still forcibly suppressed the dashing speed of the giant elephant, and the demon barbarian cavalry caught in the elephant herd and charged down more than 100 people in the first wave.
The demon barbarian soldiers only have a rudimentary iron armor, and every heavy crossbow can tear half of their flesh and bones to pieces;
The next step is to constantly change the crossbow magazine, and start a new round of heavy crossbow barrage.
From 2,000 to 1,000 paces, the elephant herd shared thirty breaths, and the eighteen heavy crossbows of the fifteen heavenly chariots fired a total of four rounds, and only then did the first giant elephant fall, but then the war elephant fell faster and faster, so fast that it was shocking.
When Wu Meng gave the order to stop shooting, there were still more than fifty giant elephants barely falling, and they were less than two hundred steps away from the fifteen chariots, but the flesh and blood on their bodies were torn apart, and their muscles and bones were broken by discounts, like a bloody giant elephant skeleton standing tremblingly in the snowfield.
Wu Jinglin stood on the city wall and subconsciously wiped his face, he thought there was sweat on his face, but after wiping his face, he realized that it was sweat oozing from his back.
With more than 200 war elephants, he saw the terrifying war elephants at first, and at this moment they were the target of the Tianji chariot.
"I thought that these demons had learned a lesson in the previous contact battle, and they would not use a dense formation to charge again, but I didn't expect this battle to be so boring. Chen Hai pursed his lips, and seemed to be quite dissatisfied with the demon barbarian's use of a dense formation charge in the face of the heavy crossbow, so that there was no way for him to carry out subsequent tactical changes, and the war was already over.
Chen Hai didn't think that these giant elephants would be a threat, after all, the heavy crossbow and heavy ballista were specially designed by him for the martial arts level Rakshasa Blood Demon. Each end of the martial school-level Rakshasa Blood Demon is twenty or thirty meters high, and the heavy crossbow and heavy crossbow bullets are still very lacking in lethality in front of the martial school-level Rakshasa Blood Demon, but they are not something that the tusked elephant of the Northern Wasteland can resist.
Of course, seeing this scene, Chen Hai was also very sorry in his heart, although the demon barbarian tribe regarded these giant elephants as consumables for siege, but he thought that if he had such a batch of giant elephants, wrapped in a full set of quenched gold weevils, and then put them on the battlefield to charge, it would be called a spectacular.
It's a pity that although they are facing the golden tribe of the demon barbarians, they are not yet extravagant enough to coat these war elephants in a full set of high-grade quenched gold armor that is one inch thick.
If it is placed in Lucheng, 200 sets of high-grade quenched weevils will only be half a year's output of eighth-grade quenched iron.
It's just that the situation of the war has never allowed for assumptions, and seeing the loss of more than 200 giant elephants like this, the demon generals who were in charge of the command in the front were stunned, and they didn't even have the courage to look at the scene in front of them.
Although there were still forty or fifty giant elephants in the corner fort on the east wing, which had completely collapsed half of the corner fort, the demon barbarian soldiers did not have the courage to gather and charge again, and only quickly retreated under the slow advance of fifteen chariots and the generals of the Longxiang battalion.
The more than 2,000 demon barbarian soldiers who were approaching the corner fort on the west wing originally planned to rush to the east wing, but they also quickly retreated at this time.
In this battle, in addition to the corner fort on the east wing of the Long Xiang battalion was torn open, more than 300 defenders were killed and wounded, and 16 stone-throwing crossbows were lost, the main battle formation only had more than a dozen undertrained new soldiers, who were too excited and injured their feet in the muddy and rotten snow with potholes.
At this time, the first war drum sounded in the distance, Wu Jinglin was startled, and looked back to see that the fourth battle battalion and 6,000 cavalry of the Jinshan Gorge Defense Village on the south side of Hengshan City, thirty miles away, had already left the village to complete the assembly, and after the first war drum sounded, it was divided into three roads and moved quickly towards Hengshan City.
Chen Hai wants to assemble the fourth and fifth battle battalions and launch an offensive against the main force of the demon barbarian soldiers north of the Tong River?
Chen Hai wants to fight in the field of the demon barbarian tribe in the ice and snow field?
The auxiliary soldiers stayed to defend the walled city, the fourth and fifth battalions were all dispatched, plus the Huwei battalion, the elite soldiers were only 13,000 people, although in the previous contact battle, the Longxiang battalion gave the demon barbarian an impressive lesson, but the main force of the demon barbarian has not been injured and bruised, on the north bank of the Tong River, the main force of the demon barbarian has also gathered thirty or forty thousand horsemen.
If Chen Hai gathers all the 30,000 elites of the Longxiang battalion, he may be able to fight with the main force of the demon barbarians on the north bank of the Tong River, but if he wants to fight with the main force of the demon barbarians with 13,000 or 4,000 soldiers, Wu Jinglin really doesn't know what to say.
"Are the soldiers of Tianshui County going to battle at this time?" Chen Hai turned his head and asked Wu Jinglin.
Although Wu Jinglin felt that the chances of winning a field battle with the main force of the demon barbarian soldiers were really not high, he was not a person who was afraid of war, and said: "This city is guarded by Tianshui County, and the children of Tianshui are naturally duty-bound. ”
"The demon barbarian soldiers, it seems that there is a blood sacrifice secret method to stimulate the sanity and blood wisdom, and they forget life and death on the battlefield, but what really determines the victory or defeat of the war, in addition to the will of ordinary generals, the general's combat will is sometimes more critical," Chen Hai said, "Over the years, the demon barbarians seem to have been accustomed to the fact that the soldiers and horses of Dayan will not go out of the city to fight, and the camp is still simple and abnormal, so we can't give the demon barbarians a chance to reflect on the north bank of the Tong River at this time......
"An opportunity to reflect?" Wu Jinglin was puzzled, thinking to himself what kind of reflection the demon man could have on the north bank of the Tong River, and even if he reflected, what could he reflect, could it be that he could suppress the strafing of the heavy ballista?
"Several contact battles, the tactics used by the demon barbarians are extremely unstable, sometimes quite clever, sometimes very crude, it can be seen that they also have a lot of internal controversy about how to fight this battle, and there is no unanimity, so there will be such a repetition," Chen Hai has been calmly observing the battlefield, and will not be like Wu Jinglin and them, who are so excited about the victory of a contact battle, said, " We cannot give them a chance to agree among themselves at this time, so we must tear apart their humble camp and drive them out of the north bank of the Tong River before nightfall......"