More than 20 elephants galloped wildly, the scene was really shocking, one by one behemoths strode forward, four legs like beams, big ears on both sides like a fan of the wind, roaring loudly, like a fast-moving high wall, the scene is extremely terrifying.

In the face of these long-nosed and fanged behemoths, the soldiers in the front row of the Qin army's array had turned blue and white, and they only felt that the ground trembled slightly, and the small pebbles on the river beach even danced, and the spears in their hands were not very stable......

If it weren't for Han Xin's backwater formation, everyone would have no way to retreat, I'm afraid that someone would have thrown down their weapons and ran away.

After all, thousands of years have passed since the last time the Central Plains countries fought with elephants, but the fear of humans who are taller than themselves is rooted in their hearts and passed down from generation to generation.

Only Han Xin, looking at the elephant herd that appeared in the distance, did not panic, but smiled.

"Sure enough!"

As a military strategist who pays attention to "plan first and then fight", how could Chang Nanhou be unprepared for this?

At a meeting held in Nanning, the Marquis of Changnan asked his subordinates to offer advice and discuss how to deal with war elephants, the killer weapon of the Luo Yue people.

Lu Jiaxian, who was familiar with the classics, talked eloquently, he quoted scriptures, saying that the climate in the north was warmer, and when Henan was still running elephants, the king of Shang had domesticated these giant beasts and used them to conquer Dongyi.

But that was more than a thousand years ago, and there is only one sentence left in the history books, and it is said that when the Duke of Zhou went on an expedition to the east, he threw all kinds of fierce beasts into the battlefield, how does it sound like fantasy......

"Drive away all the beasts, the genus of leopards and rhinos, to help the might?"

So Changnan Hou asked Lu Jia with a smile: "The people of Yin Zhou are so powerful, can they still ride the five-colored sacred cow, the black spot tiger, the ink unicorn, and the elk to fight?" ”

Everyone couldn't understand Heifu's bad jokes, so this one was revealed.

It is also said that during the Spring and Autumn Wu-Chu War, when the king of Chu evacuated Yingdu, he drove the elephants domesticated by the royal family to obstruct the Wu army, tied reeds to the elephant's tail and lit fires, and rushed to the enemy position with a panicked elephant herd, and successfully dispersed the Wu division.

However, it was only the use of frightened elephants, not the battle of elephants, so strictly speaking, the conquest of Baiyue was the first time that the Central Plains collided with this army.

In the first Qin-Yue War, the Cangwu army, whose morale was already low, was frightened by this group of behemoths, the horses were shocked when they saw the elephants, and the infantry were even weaker. As a result, the Locke rode elephants into the battle, and they slaughtered in all directions, their long snouts gently rolled up the man, and then fell to the point of vomiting blood, and the huge elephant's hooves trampled on the man and shattered the bones. Although there were not many people who were actually killed, it caused great panic, and the Luo people took the opportunity to cover up the killing, and the Qin army was defeated and defeated.

But after careful analysis afterwards, Chang Nanhou believed that the elephant soldiers of the Luo people were not as terrible as they imagined.

The Hellenistic countries west of the Green Ridge have long played elephant warfare to perfection, throwing hundreds of heads into battle at a time, and even a historic duel between African forest elephants and Asian elephants.

Although Luo Yue domesticated the Asian elephants in the forest, the armor and tactical technology tree were not yet pointed, and the war elephant had no elephant on his back, nor was there an elephant saddle, and only a driver tied himself to the elephant's back, and no one could stand next to him.

Therefore, Heifu thought that the Luo Yue war elephant was not very harmful, and its real power was to deter the Qin soldiers and break through the military formation.

Toughness is definitely not good, the average army, even cavalry and chariot charges can't withstand the pressure, let alone elephants? Moreover, the mad elephant's skin is thick and bloody, and rushing into the dense phalanx will definitely cause great damage.

In the end, after the subordinates of Chang Nanhou brainstormed and brainstormed, he picked out a few reliable strategies and handed them to Han Xin.

"There are seven or eight ways to break the enemy, you can choose one or two according to local conditions when the time comes!"

Therefore, at the moment when the enemy elephant herd was approaching, charging in clusters, the new soldiers were frightened, and the old soldiers were trembling, Han Xin gave an orderly order, so that the Qin army would turn the dense phalanx into a scattered formation, and make way in the middle, so that the "killer weapon" that had been prepared for a long time in the rear formation came forward.

It was actually dozens of mules with a loud cry, driven by the soldiers, to the front row, chewing beans in their mouths, and still excreting and, smelling unstoppable......

Chen Ying stared at Han Xin like a fool: "Han Sima, are you planning to use this group of mules to block the group of elephants?" ”

Mules were bred as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, they were timid and stupid, far less intelligent than horses and donkeys, but they had better patience, could bear hardships and burdens, were more obedient, and were not picky eaters, and were often used as pack animals when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms.

Chen Ying had only described the power of the elephant soldiers to the shogunate, but he did not know what method had been arranged to crack it. It has always been strange that although in the south, mules are good at climbing high mountains, and are more suitable for carrying grain and straw materials than horses, but this time the boat master is swimming against the current, and there is no need to divide several boats to load mules, right?

Now he realized that this Han Sima was planning to use a mule against elephants?

"One thing descends one thing."

Han Xin was full of confidence, but Chen Ying felt ridiculous, at this moment, the few horses in the army were frightened and uneasy, and the mules were even less courageous, how could they be able to descend to the giant elephant?

Chen Ying could only mutter: "First let the fleet leave, then back the water, and now it's like this, crazy, this Han Sima is really crazy......"

But in the blink of an eye, the elephant herd had approached more than 100 steps, and there was no time to delay, so Han Xin immediately ordered: "Ignite!" ”

At this time, Chen Ying realized that a large bundle of flammable dead straw was tied to the backs of this group of mules.

But because the Qin army erected their spears again, the mules had no way to retreat, but to run in the direction where the elephants were running, with raging flames on their backs, thick smoke rising and a loud scream......

This group of poor mules must be the first victims under the feet of elephants, right? Chen Ying sighed and thought.

But a surprising scene appeared, when the mule herd released by the Qin army approached the elephant herd, the more than 20 mighty elephants, I don't know whether they were afraid of the flames, or frightened by the sharp screams of the mules, they no longer listened to the words of the drivers, and scattered in all directions, or ran diagonally towards the river, or turned around and slipped away......

"This ......"

Chen Ying was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the elephant array, which seemed to be invincible in the world, would be so disrupted by a group of mules?

Not only Chen Ying, but the entire Qin army array, those Qin soldiers who were originally terrified, not only were they not afraid, but they broke out into laughter.

It looks like a behemoth, but it turns out to be a coward!

"Have you ever heard of the Fire Bull Formation?"

Han Xin pointed to Chen Ying in the middle of the Qin army and the Yue people, like a mule barking:

"The people of Qi relied on hundreds of cattle alone, tied reeds and filled oil with their tails, lit them with fire, and rushed into the Yan array, resulting in a great defeat of the Yan division. It's the same now, it's my idea, and it can be called a 'fire mule array'. It is said that the elephants domesticated by the South Vietnamese are even afraid of pigs, and this mule is much louder than that......"

However, only half of the elephants scared away by the mules ran away, and after a few ran wildly, they were manipulated by the driver to turn their heads and continue to rush towards the Qin army.

But this time, the Qin soldiers had long lost their previous fear, and since they knew that they were afraid of fire, the crossbowmen used smoke arrows.

Smoke arrows, that is, rockets, this is a sharp weapon when the ink man defends the city, Qin Mo has been in Qin for a hundred years, how can the Qin army not use it? For a while, the smoke was like rain, shooting in front of the elephant scattered rushing over, on the body, although the elephant's skin was thick, it could not be killed, but the smoke wrapped in a layer of pine resin was inserted into the body and burned, and it also burned out the elephant's only remaining mind.

They became frantic and began to spin in place, shaking their bodies, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but they also threw off their pilots and trampled them to death, and then regarded the Qin Formation, which was constantly firing smoke arrows, as a danger, and turned their heads and rushed towards the Luo people and Ou people who were close behind!

Seeing the elephant herd rebelling, the Ouren Luo people crowded at the entrance of the river beach either ran away and gave way, or stepped forward with bamboo spears, trying to kill the elephants. As a result, after seeing the blood, they became even more crazy, holding their proboscis and giant feet, killing in all directions, trampling their own army, and for a while, Luo Ou suffered heavy casualties and was in chaos.

War elephants, this was once the killer weapon of the Luo people to defeat the Qiang Qin army, but now, it was eaten by it and became the beginning of collapse.

"Sure enough, one thing descends one thing!"

Chen Ying laughed, laughing at Luo Ren finally reaping the consequences, and also laughing at the stupidity of the previous lieutenant of Cangwu County, why didn't he think of such a simple but ingenious idea?

"This is just one of the seven or eight elephant-breaking tactics of Changnan Hou."

Han Xin sighed, and then gave an even more crazy order:

"The whole army is forward, surround the Luo people!"

"Surrounding?"

Chen Ying was startled again.

"5,000 people surround 30,000?"

Although it sounded incredible, the Qin army, which had repelled the elephant herd and whose morale had become high, no longer questioned the words of the young Sima, and the spear changed from flat to diagonal, and he stepped on the pebbles on the river beach and advanced towards the Luo Ou coalition army!

Chen Ying was also among them, and just when he was wondering how to surround it, there was another commotion behind the Luo Ou coalition army, which had just dealt with the crazy elephant!

A Qin army of more than 1,000 people, as if falling from the sky, appeared behind them and caught the Yue people off guard.

Chen Ying was surprised and delighted: "Which army is that, and when did Sima arrange the next move?" ”

"Of course, it's the fleet that Wei Yang Sima has just 'escaped'."

Han Xin laughed, it turned out that this was Wei Yang, who left half an hour ago, with more than 1,000 rowing soldiers, landed on the other side of the U-shaped river beach, and entered the rear of Ou Luo's front from the flank, and the target of the attack was King Luo's conspicuous feather giant fan!

This is also the reason why Han Xin chose this place to lure the Luo people, adding up to less than 6,000 Qin troops, he really surrounded 30,000 Ou Luo coalition troops!

That's why he said, this battle seems difficult, but it is actually easy, and there is no need to draw a sword at all!

With the fall of King Luo's feather fan, the various divisions of the Luo people began to be chaotic, and the Ou people saw that the situation was not good and began to withdraw from the battlefield.

"Kill! Chase the North! How many can be killed. ”

Han Xin threw down the war drums, boarded the chariot, and pointed to the road ahead in high spirits.

"For the new pawn, this battle is a battle of meritorious service."

"For the old soldier, this battle is a battle of revenge."

"But either way, this will be the last big battle! If you win the war, you won't be far from going home! ”

……

In the first battle of Jin Nanshui, due to the clever use of the "fire mule array" and smoke arrows, the elephant herd ran back, King Luo died, Ou Jun fled, nearly 20,000 Yue people were killed and wounded, and the rest of the people also fled in all directions, slipped into the forest, and never dared to show their heads again.

The Qin army suffered less than 1,000 casualties, and arranged for the fleet to pull the wounded soldiers back to report the victory first, while Han Xin took three or four thousand people back to Linchen, where they once docked, and came to the old battlefield of the last war......

In that battle, just here, 3,000 Qin soldiers fell, and in the next rout, more than 5,000 people fell.

Revisiting the old place, the five hundred lord Chen Ying was in a trance, only two years have passed, and the broken flagpole can still be found everywhere on the battlefield in the past, but the military flag was pulled back by the Luo people as cloth, and the rest of the weapons and armor are all missing.

"It's like a flock of crows."

Chen Ying scolded, and this group of crows, in addition to the armor soldiers, also hunted human heads, and hung them at home as honor, unless they were broken heads. They would even cut the flesh and burn it on the grounds that they could inherit their power by eating the flesh of their enemies......

Fortunately, the crows have dispersed and it is dawn.

According to the Luo captives, they found the place where the Luo people abandoned the corpse of the Qin soldier, two years have passed, and the weeds have grown wildly, but there is still a faint smell in the air......

Accumulation of white bones, horizontal and vertical eight fill the ravine, shocking, look closely, most of them are headless, the grass is full of wolf dung, presumably in the past two years, jackals have not patronized this place.

The Marquis of Changnan promised that after finding the remains of the soldiers who died in the war, even if it took a year and a half, he would send someone to dig up their bones and transport them back to the Zhongshi Cemetery in Nanning for burial. But with so many corpses, how can we find our township party robes? ”

An old fellow who had followed Chen Ying from Dongyang County sighed, no less than ten people died here, and their corpses may be mixed with these thousands of bones.

Chen Ying said: "Didn't Chang Nanhou say it? We are away from home, but the Southern Expeditionary Army is the home of 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and the officers and soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, regardless of their origins, are all robes and brothers! ”

Chen Ying pointed to the pile of bones: "They are the same, since they have been integrated, they don't distinguish between you and me, they are all picked up." ”

As he spoke, he brushed aside the long weeds, stepped forward, scared away countless centipedes, and knelt on the ground again, driving away the black ant crawling on a cracked skull, but saw that the skin, flesh, and brain marrow had been eaten empty.

"You are really miserable if you have such a big hole in your head, but you are also lucky, Luo Ren didn't hunt the head of the head, so I can find you."

Chen Ying stared at the empty eyes, sighed, picked up the skull, wrapped it in a burlap bag, held it in his arms, and looked at the bones of the Qin pawns all over the ravine.

"Brother, your expedition is over!"

……

PS: It's so dangerous, I finished writing it today, and I didn't set up a flag.