After a while, a billowing line of dust and smoke rose from the dirt road in the distance, and with the sound of boiling people, a black-pressed procession gradually appeared in front of the forest.

The ranks were chaotic, with most of the soldiers wearing shabby shorts and trousers, and many of the people in the rear of the ox carts were still open-chested, wearing straw sandals on their bare feet, and carrying swords, guns, and flags on their shoulders.

In the middle, a group of cavalry staggering on a short horse, although the military uniforms and weapons were quite neat, also took off their helmets, looking lazy.

Among the cavalry, there was a general-like one, dressed in armor and wearing a golden helmet, but his face was also flushed and sweaty.

To Lin Xiao's surprise, behind the cavalry, more than a dozen war elephants appeared slowly and slowly. Every step the huge war elephant took shook the hard dirt road and made it full of momentum.

On the back of each elephant was a cradle-like saddle, in which stood three or five soldiers, each armed with a bow or a spear.

"No wonder it's so slow, it turns out that a tank has been dispatched." Lin Xiao frowned, raised the binoculars and took a closer look.

He regretted a little that he hadn't equipped several of Duan Zhenghong's fireteam with machine guns.

The front team of officers and troops had already seen the enemy soldiers in the mountain pass, and soon stopped in confusion, and some people hurriedly ran back to report to the leading officer.

Li Fu, the general of Jinwu in the Later Li Dynasty, the Marquis of Wuding, was the commander of the Praetorian Guard in front of the Wangcheng Palace. This time, because it was reported that a small group of unknown bandits had captured Haiphong, Zheng Nahu, the prime minister of the Li Dynasty and the actual consul, ordered his confidant Li Fu to lead the troops to quell the chaos.

After receiving the order, Li Fu, the leading officer, hurriedly mobilized the Praetorian Guards stationed in Haiyang, united with the Taiping garrison, and set out together; At the same time, the Zhiling garrison was ordered to flank the south, in order to defeat it with one blow. It was only because of the slow march of the Janissary war elephants......

Speaking from the heart, Le Phuoc was not a frivolous man, and years of warfare with the Nguyen clan of the Southern Dynasty made him a cautious, brave and cunning general. It's a pity that for a long time, the armies of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Annam were poorly equipped and had poor military discipline, even the Praetorian Guards were called Hanako troops wearing shorts and straw sandals, but the swords, guns, swords, and halberds were neater than the local garrisons.

Looking at the mess under his command, Li Fu's face sank like water after receiving the report, and he frowned and stepped forward.

There were only about 100 enemy troops in front, but they were all dressed in strange clothes, holding a fire gun with a short sword in their hands, Li Fu squinted, raised his horsewhip and called the leader of the Taiping garrison to come forward, and ordered his whole team to organize a charge.

Of course, Li Fu knew that although the lethality of the salvo was acceptable, the speed of the gun was too slow, and the range was not much farther than that of the strong bow, and the most effective way to deal with the fire gun array was to charge the heavy army group, desperately filling it with human lives, and one charge could break the formation.

Therefore, although the Janissaries also had a firearms battalion, Li Fu did not bring them at all, firstly because he was not optimistic about the lethality of the firearms, and secondly, he believed that there was no need to bring a firearms battalion that was not useful to pacify the small bandits.

At that time, the army of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Annam, although the military discipline was not good, the logistics were poor, but they were also equipped with artillery and guns, but because the casting level was not high, the quality of their guns and guns was much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty in the same period, not only the range was less than 100 steps, but also often exploded. Therefore, the two sides of the Civil War still mainly used cold weapons to decide the winner, artillery was mainly used to defend the city, and firearms were mainly used to scare people.

Just as the whole team of Vietnamese soldiers was about to charge, Xu Tianshi and Duan Zhenghong were talking to Lin Xiao through the walkie-talkie, Lin Xiao reminded them that there was a war elephant team in the Vietnamese army, and told them that war elephants were the most afraid of fire, and it was best to use a large number of grenades to deal with war elephants.

"If only there were cannons." Duan Zhenghong muttered after finishing speaking, and immediately shouted loudly: "All of them!" Bullets are loaded, don't shoot without my orders! ”

The starting point of the Vietnamese army's charge, a mile before the skirmish line, was actually within the effective range of the M16 assault rifle, but Duan Zhenghong liked to get closer and fight again.

With an order, the Vietnamese army rushed with swords and guns, screaming.

300 m ......

200 m ...... The Vietnamese army began to speed up, and the soldiers of the old Hong Kong battalion who had just entered the battle formation stood and raised their guns, standing still.

100 meters, it was almost into the killing distance of the Vietnamese archers, and the Vietnamese army began to sprint.

Duan Zhenghong still didn't give an order, squinting and estimating the distance.

80 meters!

"Fire!"

"Papapa, papa!"

As Duan Zhenghong shouted, 50 rifles fired at the same time, spewing out rows of bullets and flying towards the Vietnamese soldiers who were close at hand, and in an instant, the chests of the Vietnamese soldiers in the front row burst out with clouds of blood mist.

The front row fell, and the back row stepped over the corpse and continued to charge. It seems that the people of Annam look at the military discipline is not good, but they are not afraid of death when they start a war! Succession after succession!

The dense gunfire continued, and the fast-handed soldiers had already finished firing the first 30-round magazine, and quickly changed to the second magazine and continued to fire, and the formation was not chaotic at all. The speed of the Vietnamese army's charge obviously began to stagnate, and about 100 meters in front of the straggler line, the 3,000-strong charging team was killed and wounded more than half in a blink of an eye, but it couldn't even rush in front of the enemy! Anyone else will be afraid.

What a war this is! This is a massacre!

Finally, some soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, and they shouted wildly and turned around and ran, instantly driving the entire remnant army to collapse like a tide.

A mile away, Li Fu's own soldiers rode their horses and waved their sabers to suppress them, and they finally stopped the rout.

Li Fu's face was pale, his eyes flashed with unquenchable anger, and his teeth were gritted like an enraged lion.

He had never seen a fire bolt that could fire continuously, the enemy troops in front of him were few in number but had endless firepower, and the dense array of 3,000 people could not rush through, and he knew that he had encountered a hard stubble today.

But he knows that he can't be defeated today, if he is defeated in the face of such an enemy army, then he knows what fate awaits him, losing his official position and losing his life is light, and he is most worried about affecting his family.

The Li family is the royal family of Annam, and although the current lord Li Weizhen is a puppet, he is the nominal king after all. Although Prime Minister Zheng Nahu introduced himself as a confidant, he knew that the entire Li clan behind him was in danger and faced extinction at any time.

I'd rather die in battle than run away! At least if he died in battle, he could still save his family, and Li Fu tragically decided to fight!

War elephants are on the battlefield!

Behind the war elephant array, Li Fu personally led 500 pro-army cavalry to press the formation. Behind is his main force, 10,000 Haiyang Praetorian Guards, charging as a team!

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War Elephant, which can reach speeds of up to 30 mph when charging. The power of the war elephant charge lies in their great strength, they use their proboscis to slash the enemy, trample the enemy with the elephant's hooves, break the enemy's formation, trample the enemy soldiers, and wield their tusks to destroy the fight.

If there is a large herd of war elephants, they will pounce on the enemy like a mountain of mountains, and it will be unstoppable.

But war elephants have a fatal weakness, that is, they are extremely afraid of fire, they will be frightened and crazy when they see fireworks, and sometimes they will be frightened when they hear gunshots, so when the hot weapons appear, the war elephant array has disappeared since then.

Now, more than a dozen war elephants in the Li Phuc army, carrying elephant soldiers, began to charge to the death!