Chapter Fifty-Eight: Night Battles

As soon as the Qin Wang army and the Ming army clashed, they were defeated and left without resistance, and the soldiers and soldiers of Qin Wang had no intention of fighting, and only cared about fleeing for their lives. Under the leadership of Zhu Jianwen, everyone withdrew towards their own camp in the south. The Ming army pursued closely, and had just chased two or three miles, but saw countless torches burning on the periphery of the Ming army, which was mixed with a strange whistling sound and the incessant neighing of horses.

The commander of this Ming army was Zhu Jianwen's rival, the old enemy of Jinan Mansion who fought against him before, they were ordered to wait here to ambush and completely defeat the Qinwang army that came to attack at night. Yu Qian did not "disappoint" Lu Yunzhi, he really judged the enemy's guess, so he made a series of countermeasures. It shows that the Qinwang army of the night attack is ambushed, and in the case of insufficient shells, it is not enough to rely on the killing of arrows, so he deliberately used ghosts to pull the earth to make the fire on the periphery of the camp gradually smaller, leaving a gap for the Ming army to rush out of the night attack, and then let the spirit vein master lead the people to ambush for a second time, so as to defeat the enemy army. However, what Yu Qian and the Lord of the Living Soul Vein did not expect was that in fact, the Qinwang army led by Zhu Jianwen was also a virtual army.

If the night attack of King Qin's army is successful, it is true. But if the night attack fails and retreats, then this army becomes a void and lures the enemy into this encirclement. The encirclement was composed of troops led by Qu Xiangtian and Qin Rufeng, and when the Lord of the Soul Vein came to his senses, he saw more than a dozen elephant soldiers from Qu Xiangtian rushing to kill. It turned out that the strange whistling sound just now was the neighing of the elephant, the elephant rushed invincible, needless to say that the thick and powerful nose can throw people out a few feet away, plus the nose saw where it passed, the Ming army was all cut in half, and the impact power that the elephant was born with is unparalleled.

Where the elephant soldiers passed, the soldiers were trampled under the elephant's legs, and the cavalry was also knocked to the side, and the formation of the Ming army was instantly disrupted. The master of the living soul vein was not flustered, and ordered the fire hammer of the Shenji Battalion to shoot at the elephant, although the iron sand and iron bullets could not kill the elephant with rough skin and thick flesh, the sound of the fire gun would also startle the elephant, and the frightened elephant would not be able to concentrate, and at that time, whether it was the enemy or his own people, they would all be trampled to death, and when the elephant ran and the elephant soldiers rushed into battle, it would be broken.

After a few rounds of firecrackers, there was no effect, and the Lord of the Soul Vein saw that the huge ears of the elephant were all made of leather, and unless there was a loud noise at close range, the elephant could not be alarmed at all. In fact, Qu Xiangtian used this trick as early as Annan, knowing himself and knowing the other, Qu Xiangtian added earmuffs to the elephant, and the elephant's legs were also extremely easy to be injured, and they were also tied to armor by Qu Xiangtian. The elephant was invulnerable, and the archers on the back of the elephant kept shooting the Ming army who came to fight for their lives.

At this moment, Zhu Jianwen's Qinwang army stopped running, and under the leadership of Leopard and Zhu Jianwen, they came back to kill, but the Ming army fell into a situation of being encircled. The master of the living soul vein beckoned the disciples of the first vein of the beast driving in the team, and under the leadership of the lone wolf vein master who was a deputy general in the army, he led the crowd to fight with the Qinwang army, but the elephant soldiers still trampled on the soldiers of the Ming army, which made the master of the living soul vein heartbroken. The elephant soldiers were followed by cavalry and infantry who rushed towards the sky, and they were effortlessly slowly killing the "fish that slipped through the net" that were scattered by the elephants.

The master of the living vein had this in mind and ordered the men to collect gunpowder and put it in a package, wrap it around the horse's body, cover the horse's eyes, insert a line of fire into the package full of gunpowder, light it, and slash the horse's rump with a knife. The horses ran madly towards the elephants, and the blindfolded horses would only run in a straight line, with no fear of the elephants.

Qu Xiangtian saw the horses and the little sparks on the line of fire, and hurriedly ordered to shoot arrows at the horses of the Ming army, but there were still many horses that rushed into the elephants and exploded in front of the elephants and under the abdomen, and the elephants were still injured in a few, but the plan of the master of the living soul vein succeeded. The elephant was so frightened that it turned around and charged towards its own cavalry and infantry that was following closely behind. Qu Xiangtian and Qin Rufeng were shocked, and the elephant soldiers drank again and again, but how could the elephant care about so much, just running wildly, the feet wrapped in iron armor and the nose tied with sharp knives were stained with the blood of their own people.

The Ming army had no way to take the elephant soldiers, and the same was true for Qu Xiangtiansuo, the knife and arrow shooting did not work, and the Ming army was relieved and was busy fighting with the Qinwang army. The numerical superiority of the Ming army was immediately apparent, and with the heavy damage caused by the Qin Wang army, the Ming army had the upper hand.

Qin Rufeng held two knives in his hand, jumped off the horse, and after a few jumps, he turned onto the elephant's head, the elephant soldier had been thrown down by the crazy elephant, and the elephant at this moment was even more uncontrollable, and only by killing it could the casualties be reduced. Qin Rufeng plunged the knife into the elephant's head, the elephant fell to the ground with a scream, and Qin Rufeng jumped down from the elephant and ran towards the other end.

And Qu Xiangtian is also like Qin Rufeng, who is constantly killing the elephant he has worked so hard for, and the heartache can be imagined. After the time of the two teas, the elephants had all fallen to the ground, and they could no longer trample on the soldiers, whether they were enemies or their own, with a laborious respite.

Qu Xiangtian reorganized the team and killed the Ming army, the two sides of the Ming army were defeated and retreated by the enemy, the situation changed abruptly, and the Ming army, which had previously pursued and killed others, became the fleeing party at this time. Qu Xiangtian and Zhu Jianwen joined forces and chased more than four miles, the Ming army suddenly turned around and killed, and it turned out that reinforcements had arrived. The five ugly and one vein master led 20,000 soldiers and horses from the northeast of the Ming army camp to come to the rescue, but as soon as they rushed out, they saw the hill where the archers were originally arranged, and the Ming army was caught off guard by shooting arrows, and the Ming army was caught off guard, and there were many dead and wounded. Guangliang kept beckoning the soldiers to shoot arrows, and used Fang Qingze's improved ballista and a series of firebolts to shoot at the Ming army under the hill. The master of the five ugly veins is really not a leader of the army, and at the moment he is panicked and flees for his life, only a few generals of the Ming army are still calm, and they ordered the soldiers to raise their shields to defend and retreat beyond the firing range.

After Guangliang ordered a few rounds of shooting, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from behind the hillside, and hurriedly shouted "retreat". At the same time, more than 10,000 people launched an attack on the hill, and when the crossbow was wound, the enemy army had already rushed in front of him, only the chain of firearms and ballista used by Fang Qingze was very convenient, and it was still strafing the Ming army that rushed up. The lonely wood was difficult to support, and the hill was soon flooded by a large number of Ming cavalry, and Guangliang struggled to capture a horse and fled in a hurry.

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