Chapter 635: First Victory

Ruan Zhengyu saw that the fierce generals in the Central Plains were like clouds, and these people under his command were not opponents, so he no longer pinned his hopes on heads-up.

Ruan Zhengyu wanted to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, since he was inferior to the other party in terms of generals, he would send his own strengths, the four war elephant troops.

The war elephant unit is very popular among the small countries of the South, and these countries see the war elephant force as a symbol of their national strength.

However, due to national strength, most of them only raise a dozen or twenty elephants, because these elephants eat too much, and ordinary countries really can't afford to raise them.

Ruan Zhengyu worked hard and finally trained more than 800 war elephants, these war elephants with his expedition to the north and south, made great achievements, that is, several times to invade the border of the Central Plains, those troops in the Central Plains also fled, so he is very confident in his own war elephant troops.

As soon as Ruan Zhengyu gave the order, the four war elephant troops began to move from back to front, and the foot soldiers in front gave the war elephants a passage to let them come to the front.

In front of his formation, Jia Ke saw that the formation on the opposite side began to change, and after a while, hundreds of monsters gathered in front of the enemy's formation.

And these war elephants were not only seen by Jia Ke, but also by the soldiers under Jia Ke and the cavalry of the Eight Banners.

These people are all warriors of the north, and where have they ever seen such a behemoth, so they are all terrified.

Jia Ke turned around and looked at the troops under his command, although they were still standing there one by one, maintaining the formation without disorder, but seeing that their faces had changed one by one, he knew that if they didn't boost their morale, they were afraid that they would be crushed by these war elephants of the other party in one round.

So Jia Ke came to the front of the battle on his horse and shouted to the soldiers under his command, "What are you afraid of? It was just a pack of beasts, and our army had been prepared for it. ”

After listening to the words of their commander, the soldiers below still didn't believe it, but their momentum rebounded a little, and these people clenched their weapons one by one, and wanted to fight to the death with these war elephants on the opposite side.

Jia Ke didn't finish this sentence and said to Liu Yu next to him: "Go and send the three-bow bed crossbow to the front of the battle, I want to see if my bow and arrows are hard, or the skin of the other party's elephant is hard." ”

As soon as Jia Ke finished giving the order, Liu Yu hurriedly galloped back, and after a while, Jia Ke's formation also began to change, and hundreds of various crossbow carts were introduced.

Jia Ke knew that this time he would inevitably go south to attack the city, which was different from fighting the Tatars in the past, so after getting the secret map of the artifact given by Jia's mother, he ordered the craftsmen to build it according to these drawings, but he didn't expect them to come in handy today.

This eight-bull ballista is equipped with three bows, two positive and one reversed, and it must be pulled apart by at least thirty people turning the axle, and its power can be imagined, which is the longest-range weapon in the world, and can be directly nailed into the city wall if fired at close range.

And this time, these eight-bull crossbows are also equipped with iron buckets on the bow and Xuan, and dozens of arrows can be shot at one time, this kind of arrow is called a bucket arrow, because the scene of random arrows is like a flock of birds flying, and it is also called "jackdaw arrow".

Jia Ke didn't believe that in the face of the jackdaw arrows of the eight-bull crossbow, those elephants were really invulnerable monsters?

On the other side, Ruan Zhengyu didn't know that Jia Ke had already made arrangements, he first ordered all the war elephants to start charging, and then, according to the previous practice, ordered the 10,000 cavalry he had managed to gather to be divided into two parts and outflank both sides, while his infantry followed behind the war elephants to attack Jia Ke's large array.

Ruan Zhengyu's set of tactics is the experience he summed up in the southern and northern wars, don't look at him has no skills, but if he really fights, these small countries in the south are really not opponents, first of all, these elephants have rough skin and huge meat, as long as it is a rush, no matter what formation you have, you will be reimbursed immediately.

And his 10,000 cavalry is even more rare in the south, which is a part of the money he spent a lot of money smuggled from the Central Plains, and bought a part from Hu Shang, so that it can be gathered. With these two armies alone, Nguyen Zhengyu was able to dominate in the south.

Now Ruan Zhengyu is still full of confidence in his troops, he watched the war elephants rumbling forward, and felt that this time he would definitely be able to break Jia Ke, if this battle was fought well, he would have to go north to the Central Plains, and at least expand the territory for a few hundred miles.

Jia Ke looked at the approaching elephants, to say that he was not afraid, that would be a lie, hundreds of monsters kept rushing forward, but everyone would be terrified.

But Jia Ke couldn't show a trace of panic on his face, if he was scared, what would he do with these little soldiers below?

Seeing the elephant getting closer and closer, Jia Ke felt that the time was almost up, and immediately ordered the arrow to be released.

And the crossbow and arrow troops, after getting Jia Ke's order, immediately began to release the Eight Bull Crossbows like elephants.

The troops who controlled the ballista had long been unable to control it, and seeing these hundreds of elephants charging non-stop, everyone was frightened and wanted to attack for a long time, but because there was no order from Jia Ke, they did not dare to act rashly.

Now that the order was given, the soldiers immediately struck the mechanism with hammers. The Eight Ox Crossbow immediately shot countless huge arrows.

And the elephants on the opposite side didn't know that the catastrophe was still there, and they kept charging forward, and suddenly the bowstring on the opposite side sounded, and a few meters long crossbow arrows were fired.

Immediately, crossbow arrows pierced the elephants' bodies, and the elephants screamed, and they were shot coldly, and then they kept rolling on the ground.

In fact, elephants are very timid, once frightened, Bi Ding went crazy, and now that he has suffered such a major blow, those uninjured elephants dare to rush forward, so they turn around and run back together.

But behind them were Ruan Zhengyu's infantry, and this time these infantry could suffer, they were originally elephants charging the enemy's formation, but now they turned around and attacked them, where could these people stand it.

Soon the infantry of Annam was dashed to pieces.

But after all, Ruan Zhengyu has been fighting in the south and the north for so many years, and although there has never been a battle of his own, like the scene of being attacked by the enemy, it is still relatively calm.

When he saw the war elephant, Jia Ke defeated the glimmer of disillusionment in his heart, but he did not stop there, he immediately ordered someone to wave the command flag, let the infantry open the way, and let the war elephant escape.

The war elephants ran all the way to Ruan Zhengyu's formation before they were appeased and controlled by the elephant slaves who controlled the war elephants, and they lined up again behind the formation.

The infantry in front also reluctantly regrouped, and continued to attack Jia Ke under the urging of Ruan Zhengyu's own soldiers.

Jia Ke smiled slightly when he saw this scene, he was afraid that this army would be loosely disciplined now, and then he would have to go to the mountains and forests to arrest these people.

Since they are disciplined, let them return to heaven together again today.

So Jia Ke issued an order for the ballista to continue firing.

This time, these Annan soldiers on the opposite side can be offended, those eight-ox crossbow arrows several meters long, one arrow can penetrate more than a dozen people.

Before the Annan soldiers approached Jia Ke's camp, a large number of people had already lay down before the battle.

Seeing that the opponent's formation had been eaten by himself, Jia Ke immediately ordered the infantry to start moving forward.

Soon the infantry of both sides came into contact with each other, and the battle was immediately distinguished.

The soldiers of the Central Plains were not only tall and large, but also wore armor and held sharp blades in their hands.

And almost no one in Annan approved these soldiers, and the blades in their hands were also uneven, most of their blades had been used for decades, and they had rust.

At this contact, the soldiers of Annan were immediately turned on their backs, and it did not take long for Annan's formation to be cut off a large piece.

Seeing this scene after Jia Ke's formation, he knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and immediately ordered the Eight Banners cavalry to attack from both sides.

The Eight Banners cavalry was originally afraid of those elephants, but now when they saw these war elephants, they were frantically fleeing by Jia Ke's several rounds of crossbow arrows, and they were all relieved, and immediately dispatched after getting Jia Ke's order.

The Eight Banners cavalry covered the army of Annan from both sides, and the movement of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was smoke and dust.

Ruan Zhengyu, the lord of Annam, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the cavalry of the Central Plains covering from both sides, if he let these cavalry rush over, his infantry would probably be wrapped in dumplings.

So Ruan Zhengyu hurriedly waved the order, and his order, which had already followed the infantry charge, immediately divided into two parts to resist the Central Plains cavalry, so that his infantry could retreat to the camp.

The cavalry of Annan galloped in the south, and did not meet an opponent, so they were very proud, seeing that the cavalry of the other side was numerous, but they did not pay attention to it, the general of the horse and the four guards immediately ordered the men and horses to divide into two steps, respectively, and marched towards the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, wanting to completely defeat this cavalry.

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw the other horse's cavalry rushing over, they were now afraid that these people would escape, but they didn't expect this cavalry to throw themselves into the net, so that this group of people was captured, and there was another group of slaves on the grassland.

So the cavalry of the two sides collided together, and the battle was immediately divided.

The Manchu Eight Banners grew up galloping on horseback when galloping on the grassland, and they rode excellent war horses.

And the cavalry of Annan Kingdom are all cultivated, and they are all short-legged horses, and the contact between the two sides was immediately killed by the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

Without a little more effort, the 10,000 cavalry were wrapped in dumplings, and the last few thousand people didn't care whether they were on the battlefield and wanted to escape, how do they know that they themselves are few people, and their riding skills are not high, and they were surrounded by the Eight Banners for a long time, these people couldn't escape at a glance, and they didn't have the determination to fight to the death, so they immediately dismounted and surrendered.

When the Manchu Eight Banners saw that they had surrendered, they were not embarrassed by them, and immediately assigned some people to tie them all up, these people were good slaves, transported back to the grassland, and could herd cattle and horses for themselves, which was a very important property on the grassland.

Ruan Zhengyu saw that his cavalry was defeated by the opponent in only an instant, and now the whole army was annihilated, and the retreating infantry rushed towards the camp in a chaotic manner.

And his elephant soldiers, who had just been assembled, were faced with a rain of arrows before they could be used again.

With the exception of a few that were pacified, the other elephants were either shot to death or ran into the mountains, never to be recovered.

Ruan Zhengyu only knew the power of the Central Plains Dynasty until now, so he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, "Heaven is dead in Annan, what can I do?" ”

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