The use of war elephants to fight was originally regarded as a killer weapon by Ruan Youfeng, but it became a fatal wound unexpectedly. ∝ 8∝8∝ read ∝ books, .◆.o+

The three elephants were killed or wounded, and the rest of the elephants were terrified by the screams of the wounded elephant, and the continuous loud noise of the shelling just now made the elephants terrified and stopped.

With the launch of the second round of shelling, the war elephants suddenly collapsed, moved wildly, turned the mahout on their backs, turned their heads and ran, trampling the elite formation of the Zheng army to the point of not being able to do anything, and also caused a lot of casualties.

In fact, Ruan Youyi's choice to use war elephants in front of the Ming army, which is second to none in East Asia, is a foolish thing, not to mention that the highly pragmatic Jia Ding hùwèituán has a much higher degree of firearms than the ordinary Ming army.

In the history of cold weapons of warfare, the ancients liked to domesticate some animals for combat and logistics transportation, the most common of which is of course war horses and camels, cattle and other livestock responsible for logistics and transportation, but in the ancient Indus River and some areas of Southeast Asia, people here prefer to domesticate elephants to participate in wars because they do not have good horses, which is nothing new, and the high pragmatism that grew up in the era of information **àozhà is of course very clear.

He even knew that because the Indus Valley was rich in elephants since ancient times, the ancient Indians were the first people to domesticate elephants to fight. As early as the fourth century B.C., during Alexander's crusades, the Persian king Darius had elephants from India in his army, and caused great panic among Alexander's army.

Later, after Alexander's destruction of the Persian Empire, Alexander's army also had elephants, and the Gandhara king offered 30 elephants to Alexander, but Alexander did not send them to the battlefield after carefully understanding the habits of elephants, but was mainly responsible for logistics and transportation. [∞ eight [∞ eight∞ read [∞ book,.".o@

It stands to reason that war elephants are tall and mighty, and their appearance on the battlefield can cause a great shock to the enemy army, so in the Middle Ages, many peoples began to tame elephants to fight, and played a great role in the battlefield, but Gao Shishi knew that this situation changed at the end of the fourteenth century when Timur invaded India, because one of the Achilles heel of the elephant soldiers was exposed.

At the end of the 14th century, the Delhi Sultanate of India had many elephant soldiers, and in Central Asia at that time, Timur the Cripple had long been eager for India's wealth, but many of his ministers advised him not to attack India, because the elephant soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate were a very terrible presence at that time.

Timur later even wanted to fight with the newly established Ming Dynasty, how could he take the Delhi Sultanate in his eyes? So he did not listen to dissuasion and resolutely invaded India. At the outset, he tasted the power of the elephants in his first battle with the Delhi Sultan**, and his army was defeated by 120 war elephants led by Mahmud.

Timur was so distressed that he had to start looking for a way to defeat the elephants.

Later, Timur did not know where to hear the news that the elephant was very timid: although the elephant was large, it was very timid, and it was very afraid of loud noises and fire, and the elephant would be frightened and frightened when he encountered these things.

When Timur discovered this weakness of the war elephants, he ordered his soldiers to pile hay and branches on the camels, then set them on fire and drove the camels to the war elephants that rushed towards the Delhi Sultan.

Later, when Nadir Shah of Persia invaded India, he also adopted this method of Timur, and also succeeded in defeating the war elephants.

Artillery fire, both loud and loud, as well as the light of the cannon fire, how can war elephants not be afraid? Since Gao Shishi knew that there might be elephant soldiers in Southeast Asia, how could he not tell Gao Zhang about this situation?

In fact, if the history is true, the first to be cowardly was the Chinese, as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when Emperor Wen of Song was crusading against the Linyi Kingdom, he ordered the soldiers to make many models that resemble lions and put them in front of the battle, so that the war elephants of the Linyi Kingdom retreated one after another because they were afraid of lions.

Gao Zhang has always admired his master's erudition, and he is also convinced that artillery can scare away war elephants, and the current actual combat results also prove that the master is really a pedantic man, and even this kind of war elephants in the "Southern Barbarian Land" have such a simple and effective way to deal with it, it is simply ...... Gao Zhang doesn't know how to describe it, it's awesome anyway.

Huang Hu was stunned for a while, and secretly sighed in his heart: Hold that black, being rich is amazing! I'm afraid this method is not tailor-made for the high press platform? As soon as the cannon goes off, there are 10,000 taels of gold, even if Lao Tzu knows, but he has to have a cannon to speak! This can't work, I have to find a time to talk to the eldest lady, she and Gao pressed the table...... Well, in short, you should be able to get a cannon, and you have to get a few cannons...... Well, no, you'll have to get a few cannons.

Thinking about it, Huang Hu was not polite to grab the credit, relying on Gao Zhang's subordinates to hùwèituán were all fire qiāng soldiers and artillerymen, paying attention to the neat lineup, and it was inconvenient to rush forward and kill fiercely. When the elephant soldiers of the Zheng army went crazy and rushed their own formation into a mess, Huang Hu decisively shouted: "Siming wolf soldiers, follow Lao Tzu!" The first level is in front, whether you can get a heavy reward or not is up to you! Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Kill!"

Looking at the wolf soldiers like the tiger descending the mountain, they rushed out of the mountain to grab money, and this time it was Gao Zhang's turn to be dumbfounded.

He touched his neck, which suddenly felt cold, and muttered, "What the fuck...... Luckily, these wolf soldiers are allies. ”

And one of his subordinates said nervously: "Yingzuo, should we also hurry up, otherwise how can this credit be calculated?" We can't fight in vain, and the brothers can't be happy if they don't have a reward. ”

Gao Zhang waved his hand: "It seems that we can't rob the wolf soldiers to rob the money, but you don't have to worry about the reward, our master doesn't use the head to talk about military merits, don't you know his habits?" Do you understand collective work? We have already got the credit for the collapse of the war elephants on the other side - the meat has been eaten, so we have to leave some soup for someone, right? Besides, after all, we are the master's family, he will not lose our credit, when did the master be stingy? ”

The subordinate thought about it and felt that this was the case, so he calmly asked the people below to quickly check the cannon, the cleaning of the cannon chamber, and the preparation of the huǒyào. Although this battle seems to be about to be won, even if the battle outside the city is won, Thanh Hoa City will always need their artillery to wield it.

At this time, because the army crossing the river has been basically completed, Gao Pragmatic also took Boss Hu's "Xinglong" to rush over from the east bank of the Ma River, followed by news from the upstream: Cen Ling's department has also launched an attack on time, and the current offensive is basically smooth, if there is no accident, it is expected that tomorrow morning will be able to rush to Qinghua City to meet with Gao Pragmatic's main force.

The siege of Thanh Hoa with an army of 100,000 troops was about to begin.

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