Chapter 656: The Army of War Elephants
With Fan Man's order to attack.
The two barbarian generals beside him immediately took their maces and began to lead their men and horses to charge.
Liu Zheng did not move, but handed over the command of the battlefield to Sun Jian.
"Wentai, it's up to you, just hold on for a while and wait for Zhou Cang's army to arrive!"
"The last general commands!"
Sun Jian immediately received the order, and at the same time immediately shouted behind him again.
"Sun family, come out!"
"In!"
Some of Sun Jian's own soldiers stood up.
"You protect the adults, and the others will follow me to fight these barbarians!"
After Sun Jian finished speaking, he pulled out his ancient ingot knife, and with a wave of the blade, it brought a cold light, and then rode out on his horse.
Sun Jian took the lead and rushed out first. Several retainers who followed Sun Jian's side would not hesitate at this time to immediately rush out of Sun Jian's left and right and rush out together.
Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others are in the prime of life at this time. The body is tough and does not say. Just talking about combat power is also very brave and strategic. Each led a team of soldiers and horses, and there was no problem in defending against the enemy in front of the battle.
Although these soldiers and horses under Sun Jian were county soldiers, they were all people personally trained and selected by Sun Jian. The strength is naturally not to be underestimated, and it is much more powerful than the county soldiers in other places under Liu Zheng.
These people were distributed on the periphery of Liu Zheng's army, and under the leadership of several generals under Sun Jian, they fought with Fan Man's men and horses in the first wave.
The soldiers and horses of the Funan Kingdom under Fan Man are not bad in individual combat power, after all, they are all people who survive in this rainforest jungle all year round, and their physical strength and hard work are very strong.
And they are almost bad, and the weapons are not good.
These soldiers of Funan have always been too backward in their culture. The creation of tools has always lagged behind the Han Dynasty, so weapons have become a big problem.
The backwardness of weapons on the battlefield will be at a disadvantage in disguise, and at the beginning of the fight, the soldiers around Fan Man, because of the large number of people, have not immediately shown the gap between the two sides.
After the fierce battle between the two sides, Fan Man immediately realized that the fierceness and bravery on the battlefield of these Han soldiers under Liu Zheng far surpassed these Buyeo soldiers around him.
In the blink of an eye, the more than 40,000 soldiers of Funan around him were killed and injured thousands, and there were not many casualties among the Han soldiers and horses around Liu Zheng, of course, this was mainly because of the advantage in weapons, and the soldiers of the Han Dynasty who stabbed the soldiers of Funan with a knife and a shot would immediately cause fatal injuries.
And the damage caused by these soldiers and horses of Funan to the Han soldiers is only some flesh wounds, after the weapon hits the Han soldiers and horses many times, and even only by hitting the vital point, can the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty completely lose their combat effectiveness.
Seeing that the centaurs under his command were not the opponents of these centaurs under Liu Zheng.
Fan Man was also a little anxious immediately. didn't dare to drag it out, so he quickly asked the generals around him to show his hole cards.
Fan Man's hole card is the thousands of war elephant troops under his command.
After the infantry could not take advantage of the frontal engagement, Fan Man could only use these war elephant troops, after all, the war elephant troops, as cavalry troops, had an absolute advantage in the face of these infantry.
This is the experience that Fan Man accumulated when he used these war elephant troops to fight in the south and the north, and defeated the tribes in various parts of Southeast Asia, as long as these war elephant troops are there, it is simply easy to defeat these infantry of the Han Dynasty.
With Fan Man's command, the war elephant troops at the back of the team were finally transferred to the front of the battlefield.
The elephants let out a low, high-pitched roar.
The sound of these elephants is far away, and the mere hearing of these elephants neighing has made many people who have never seen elephants feel daunted.
"Rush! Give me the thieves who trample on these big men! ”
Fan Man's face was full of anger, and after the appearance of these war elephant troops, he became a little crazy, roaring loudly and commanding these war elephant troops, attacking the core battlefield from all directions, only the impact of these war elephant troops can redeem the disadvantage of these soldiers of Funan Kingdom.
With the appearance of these war elephant troops, it really gave these people under Sun Jian a great impact.
These elephants are tall and massive. The height is even four or five meters high, and some of the elephants are covered with some leather armor and even wooden thorns, as if they are like an ironclad tank on this battlefield.
This kind of behemoth, which is close to two zhang in size, no one can resist when it moves on the battlefield, and even the well-trained county soldiers under Sun Jian are only able to resist in the face of the impact of special cavalry such as war elephants.
The appearance of these war elephant armies, with just one impact, caused many casualties among the tens of thousands of soldiers under Sun Jian.
Even if these soldiers under Sun Jian were extremely brave, in the face of this kind of confrontation that was not at the level of combat power, they would be afraid and begin to rout.
The ancient ingot knife in Sun Jian's hand opened and closed widely, and after killing a few soldiers of the Funan Kingdom, he turned his attention to these, rampage on the core battlefield, and slaughtered the war elephant troops in all directions.
"Damn, that's amazing, these things!"
As soon as Sun Jian saw the strength of these war elephant troops, he first let out a sigh of surprise, but he was not afraid to hold the ancient ingot knife and rushed towards the nearest elephant next to him again.
Sun Jian rode a war horse, and his figure was also tall. But they still look small in front of these elephants.
The two sides collided together, and the elephant's nimble and long snout slammed at it.
Sun Jian's eyes were bundled, his eyes were slightly cold, and he instantly slashed in front of him with a one-handed slashing long knife.
Poof.
The ancient ingot knife had already cut off the elephant's trunk.
The elephant's massive body did not stop advancing, but it was cut off because of its balanced nose. The pain was so great that the war elephant wailed.
The whole body fell down like this, and it hit right in front of Sun Jian's war horse.
And the soldiers on the war elephant also launched an attack on Sun Jian at this time.
Sun Jian was keenly aware of the attack of these warriors, and immediately turned sideways to avoid the most dangerous blow.
Despite this, the war horse on which Sun Jian sat was still rammed by the elephant and fell to the ground.
In such a battle situation, even Sun Jian felt that it was very tricky, and at such a time, he could only save his life in front of him.
And Fan Man saw that his elephant army had already caused a lot of damage to Liu Zheng's men, and after the situation changed at this time, he became more and more excited.
finally let Fan Man see the dawn of victory.