The West Lake on the left is as flat as a mirror, quiet and peaceful; The red lake on the right is like a galloping horse, enthusiastic and unrestrained. (?Book レ is in between,Experience two diametrically opposed feelings.,The feeling in my heart really can't be named.。

The simple earthen walls were quickly built, and the earthen ramparts where they hid were quickly dug up, although these could not block the bombardment of artillery, but it was still possible to prevent bows and crossbows and reduce the impact of soldiers.

The enemy troops have not yet arrived, and the soldiers are still hurrying to strengthen the fortifications.

Another hour later, the first enemy forces appeared in the distant mist.

As the distance approached, the earth seemed to tremble.

"Ah, what is this?"

"Mom, I can't stand still!"

"Was there an earthquake? I'm scared! ”

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From time to time, various fearful voices sounded in the position, and everyone was inexplicably panicked about the unknown enemy. But it seems that all the soldiers who are afraid of our army, and the soldiers of Champa do not seem to be affected, but look at our army with a little disdain.

"It's a war elephant unit!" An Boya, who was standing on a mound of dirt in the Chinese army, exclaimed. This small mound of three zhang square circle is the only one that comes out of the surrounding area of this horse and flat river, and it is full of the main generals of our army. I, Amboya, Rajandhara, etc.

Finally, you can see clearly, what is the huge block from far and near, not an elephant?

Although he fought a lot of battles with the Annamite people, and knew that they had such a secret and elite army, they had been hidden by Ruan Zhaoqi Xue and did not participate in the battle. The first time I saw Vientiane galloping, seeing the figure of Xu Gao, feeling the ground shaking between the hooves, and the unparalleled impact, my heart was shocked.

An Boya knew Annan's ace army very well, and he explained to us on the side: "This elephant army has a total of 8,000 elite war elephants, 16,000 knights, and each war elephant carries two camels, one is a royal hand and the other is an archer, and the archer is also equipped with a halberd, and he uses a bow to kill the enemy at a distance, and a halberd is used in close combat. Whether it is a war elephant, a royal or an archer, he has thick armor, and ordinary bows, arrows, knives and axes cannot be injured. In a flat battle, it only takes one impact to dash the enemy's formation. Although there are only 8,000 war elephants, it can reach tens of thousands of elite cavalry. ”

Luo Zhendra nodded, there are also elephant soldiers in the city, and he is naturally clear about the combat effectiveness of the elephant soldiers, and at the same time, he also has experience in how to deal with the elephant soldiers, and a general should naturally know the advantages and disadvantages of his troops, so that he can make use of his strengths and avoid weaknesses when arranging the troops, because he understands, he is much calmer than me, and only listens to him: "Bombardment with artillery at a distance, shoot with a bow and arrow at a close distance, shoot an elephant slave with a arrow, shoot an elephant trunk with an arrow, and it can achieve miraculous results!" ”

I shouted "yes", yes, this is a good way to deal with elephant soldiers, you are not afraid of swords and guns, artillery can always blow you up to the sky! However, then I sighed again, the artillery in Thang Long City was basically transferred to the multi-state defense line, although there were some artillery in the city, but there was no artillery in the coalition army to operate, and the Annam army could not be trusted, what if they fired at our army? So this time the enemy did not bring artillery into the battle. Fortunately, Razhendra gave us a good idea, although the war elephant has thick armor all over its body, but the trunk can never be equipped with armor, although the emperor has thick armor, but its face is exposed, isn't this their weakness?

Razhendra said: "The war elephant is huge, and the rotation is very clumsy, everyone look at the line of impact, pay attention to dodge!" ”

I nodded and was taught, and asked He Ruitian to convey the tactics to every soldier in our army. As for the soldiers of Champa, looking at their calm appearance, I don't need to be careful. Of course, this is not to say that our soldiers are inferior to the soldiers of Champa, but it is understandable that our army is panicked for the first time in the face of such a person.

With the way, I didn't have the previous fear, and watched with interest at the increasingly clear war elephant. The soldiers who survived the battle learned how to deal with the war elephants and quickly calmed down.

The war elephant stopped more than 200 zhang in front of our army's position, and the flying sand raised by the giant elephant was slowly blown by the wind to our army's position, and the enemy army in the ashes seemed to be a killer hidden in the shadows, ready to give us a killing blow at any time. And the army stopped, perhaps because the general who commanded the army did not expect our army to go out of the city to meet the attack, or maybe the war elephant was not in good shape after a long gallop and needed a little rest, or maybe the enemy army was peeping at the reality of our army.

"Do you want to send someone to persuade you to surrender?" I said to Amboya next to me.

An Boya nodded very reluctantly: "You can try, but I'm afraid the chance is not big, looking at the way these people are desperately coming, they must be determined to resist to the end!" ”

I agree with his words, and I think it seems like a superfluous move, but I still have to work hard to find out the result.

Amboya turned around and commanded twice in Annan. The two Annan officials nodded slightly and went down the mound.

The Chinese army got out of the way and let the two pass. Knowing that the front of the position was full of pits, the two of them walked very carefully and slowly, and it took more than 200 zhang to walk a cup of tea.

A group of war elephants in golden armor came out of the crowd, and there was only one person sitting on the war elephant, a man in a blue robe and silver armor. An Boya stared at it and said: "This person's name is Ruan Weijia, he is the second son of Ruan Zhaoqi, he is familiar with military books, has a strong personality, and is decisive in doing things, and is the most respected among Ruan Zhaoqi's thirteen sons. ”

The negotiations over there were very gentle, and there was nothing excessive. Because of the distance, An Boya and the others couldn't hear what they were saying, so they couldn't translate for me, and although I could hear clearly, I didn't understand Annan, so I could only take it as the wailing of autumn insects!

After more than half an hour, the two envoys returned dejected, and I knew that the negotiations had failed, without an interpreter.

As soon as the two envoys entered the position of our army, before they could speak, the elephant soldiers on the opposite side stepped on the trunk of the elephant and knelt on the war elephant on the ground.

Seeing this, I was shocked and said, "It's not good, we have been tricked!" ”

An Boya also understood: "Ruan Weijia, Ruan Weijia, you are really powerful, this delaying tactic is good!" ”

But there was no time to sigh, the enemy army was ready, and the war elephants got up one after another, and rushed towards our army slowly and urgently.

"Prepare for battle!" I shouted loudly, and the sound shook the three armies. With my orders, the army unsheathed its swords and wound its arrows to meet the arrival of the enemy.

I, Luo Rou and other military attaches also took out bows and crossbows to meet the enemy. At the same time, I was secretly annoyed by my own carelessness, Ruan Weijia knew that his war elephant body was not good, and his strength was greatly reduced, so he deliberately stayed in front of the battle to induce our army to send people to negotiate, and he also calculated that our army would definitely find someone to negotiate with him. He used the time for negotiation to replenish the war elephants, and he apparently never had any hope of negotiating. What's even more hateful is that he obviously thought that the other party had some hands, but he still failed to make a contingency plan.

"Ang ......" thousands of elephants rushed towards our positions with deafening cries.

Listening to this shocking cry, the hands of many soldiers couldn't help but tremble.

"Ah......h

Our soldiers did not make a move, and it was the invisible killer on the ground who caused the enemy to suffer - the pit! It's just that these pits are not big to dig, they were originally intended to be used against enemy infantry and cavalry, who knows that the first wave of attacks is actually elephant soldiers, these traps are no problem for people and horses, but elephants are not good, most of them only fall into two front feet, and their heads and buttocks are stuck outside and can't move. As mentioned earlier, it is very inconvenient for the elephant to rotate, and the speed of the impact is very rapid, the elephant in front of it sinks, and the back does not have time to react at all, but it hits headlong. The rough-skinned elephant would not have been hurt much by such a collision, but the soldiers above were not so lucky, and the huge impact force caused them to soar from the elephant's back and fall several feet in front of them, and their doom did not end there, and they were trampled into flesh by the onrushing elephant before they could get up. In the face of thousands of pounds of behemoths, no matter how thick the armor is, it has to be trampled flat.

In an instant, more than 500 fighting elephants and the soldiers above lost their combat effectiveness.

Near, ninety, eighty, seventy...... Fifty zhang, great, into range.

"Shoot the arrows!" I shouted and took the lead in releasing the first arrow.

My accuracy was still good, the feather arrow broke through the air, and the giant elephant that was galloping fast fifty feet away was shot by my arrow into the proboscis, and the elephant raised its front feet in pain and screamed while curling its nose, and the archer was immediately thrown off by the elephant, and instantly trampled into flesh. The emperor held the reins in one hand and grasped the saddle in the other, and was spared.

Officers and men were already on orders, and crossbowmen and musketeers were aiming at the trunks of the elephants and the faces of the enemy.

Many elephants were shot in the nose and screamed, and the elephants were rampaging through the enemy, and there was a clear distinction between friend and foe.

After several rounds of arrow attacks, the elephant soldier formation has been disordered, but the enemy's bow and arrow that returned fire also flew towards us, because the war elephant has a special master, the shooter can aim and shoot very calmly, so its hit rate is very high, and the screams in our army's position are endless.

Soon, the war elephants rushed in front of them, and although the soldiers were told to take precautions, there was really limited space to dodge in the face of the war elephants coming in a line, and many soldiers were pierced by sharp and hard tusks, knocked into the air by huge bodies, and flattened by pillar-like elephant feet.

Feathered arrows in the air are like locusts, and our army can still fight the enemy for a long time. But when faced with the ancient beast-like behemoth rushing in front of them, our soldiers could only flee in panic, rushing to the elephant in front of them, and every place on its body could be used as a murder weapon, the impact of the body, the assassination of the elephant's ears, the trampling of the giant feet, the whipping of the proboscis , every place is a call to death.

In an instant, our army paid heavy casualties.

Of course, the elephant soldiers also paid a great price, but our army was even more miserable.