Li Fu pulled out his long knife and slashed forward, and the war horse began to speed up, following closely the war elephant, and moving forward!

The soldiers behind raised their long knives one after another, roaring and following closely.

This time, Duan Zhenghong and Xu Tianshi were more cautious, and when the battle elephant array was still about 400 meters away from the scattered line, the 100 soldiers lined up in a horizontal line opened fire. Moreover, most of them are aimed at the elephants on their backs, and once the war elephants lose their control, the formation may be chaotic.

It takes less than a minute for a speedy war elephant to cross a distance of 400 meters.

This is an extremely dangerous minute!

After only a few rounds of three point shots, Duan Zhenghong saw that the war elephant in front was less than 200 meters, and immediately ordered all of them to drop bombs. The melon grenade of the U.S. army, with a delay of three seconds, can be thrown by ordinary soldiers about 40 meters, and a small number of soldiers can be thrown 50 meters away.

However, each soldier only has two grenade bags in his U.S. military tactical backpack, and generally only two per person carry, so Duan Zhenghong asked everyone to throw them together to build a wall of fire.

By the time the first grenade was thrown, the fastest elephant was already less than 100 meters away, and there were already officers and soldiers firing crossbow arrows in the saddle.

Although the distance between the grenade explosion point was not enough, and the fragments of the grenade hardly constituted a kill, the explosion of 200 grenades in the second round did create a wall of fireworks in front of the war elephant charging array, and the fireworks and huge explosion sound produced made several war elephants extremely frightened, and they screamed and rampage, and finally lost their formation. Except for three or four who were still charging forward, the rest either ran sideways into their companions or turned and fled.

At this time, in the woods, the charge led by Lin Xiao personally began!

150 soldiers burst out of the grove a mile away, and the dense fire cut off the main force of infantry that was closely following the war elephants and cavalry.

Lin Xiao took the lead, like a tiger descending from the mountain. In the back, Zhang Chenfeng, Li Hanzhi, and Xia Bomin each led 50 people, charging and firing at the same time, like three arrows, rushing to the flanks of the cavalry and infantry respectively.

At a distance of 500 meters, it only took two minutes to charge, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed in front of the Vietnamese army, and the rain of bullets poured down on the enemy position, and the officers and soldiers who were shot fell to the ground one after another like wheat that had been cut down.

At this time, the war elephants running backward had already disrupted the cavalry formation that followed them, and the infantry further behind saw that the furious war elephants were actually rushing backwards, and they scattered and fled.

At this moment, Duan Zhenghong's team in front of him was in trouble, and there were four war elephants waving their big noses and screaming and jumping forward. The soldiers couldn't stop the desperate shooting, the small-caliber bullets of the M16 rifle were very penetrating, but the stopping effect was still weak, and if it didn't hit the vital point, it couldn't kill the crazy elephant immediately, and what was even worse was that the gun was designed to only shoot single and triple bursts, but not bursts.

A wounded giant elephant violently waved its huge trunk and swept a soldier away, and the soldier screamed and flew thirty meters away, hit the ground heavily, and soon died silent.

The other elephant lunged down at several of the soldiers who were still shooting, and stabbed one of the soldiers with its long fangs in a rage.

"Hemp eggs! Even a shotgun! Duan Zhenghong scolded angrily and immediately shouted to everyone to avoid. In fact, there was no need to greet at all, and the fighters had already dispersed to both sides.

The three elephants rushed across the skirmish line in a blink of an eye and ran straight to the east, but the other elephant did not run forward, but roared and chased after the fleeing soldiers, Xu Tianshi rushed forward regardless of this, aiming at the elephant's head and shooting again and again......

Fortunately, there were not many cavalry behind the elephant to follow the charge, and most of the cavalry were scattered by the war elephants running around, Duan Zhenghong immediately called the frightened soldiers and launched a counter-charge, and the dense rain of bullets all poured on the lone cavalry......

Lin Xiao's target was Li Fu, and at this time, Li Fu's own soldiers had been disrupted by their own war elephants, and many short war horses were killed by the war elephants; More horses were frightened and neighed and leaped wildly, and the cavalry on the horses were constantly thrown off their horses; All the remaining elephants had quickly broken through the cavalry formation and smashed into their own infantry behind, and the scene was chaotic, and the screams were heard one after another.

Li Fu crouched on horseback, surrounded by a dozen or so personal soldiers around him, and was running back behind the war elephant. When he saw another group of enemy troops rushing out horizontally, killing him straight and blocking the way, he understood that he was already dead, and immediately stared at his blood-red eyes, raised his long knife, and rode his horse to rush towards Lin Xiao, who was running at the head of the team.

Lin Xiao was not ready to fight with the cavalry with bayonets, he was determined at the moment, and raising his hand was a point shot...... All three hits. A 21st-century 5.56mm M109 lead-core copper bullet passed through the center of Li's eyebrows at high speed, and Li Phuc only had time to feel a heavy blow to the head before he lost consciousness and fell off his horse......

More than a dozen pro-soldiers around him were also named by Zhang Chenfeng behind Lin Xiao, like logs that had been sawn down, and they were planted on horseback.

The situation that followed was quite simple.

More than 200 soldiers of the Old Port Battalion, armed with rifles, chased the buttocks of the war elephants along the dirt road and shot them, and the wounded war elephants screamed like plows, plowing out bloody paths in the Vietnamese infantry formation at high speed, and blood and flesh flew along the way.

The infantry on the dirt road completely collapsed, some were still fleeing along the road in a daze, some ran to the rice fields on the side of the road, some simply jumped into the river on the other side, and more lay down in the rice fields and surrendered, swords and guns scattered everywhere......

After chasing out the foot of another dirt mountain more than ten miles away, Lin Xiao ordered the troops to be collected and the battlefield to be cleaned up.

Duan Zhenghong, who was red-eyed and led the team to counterattack, did not receive an order, and led the team to chase until the Taiping River, which was twenty miles away, before stopping, and escorted back more than 200 prisoners with all hands and feet all the way.

According to the post-war count, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers were killed in this battle, and nearly one-third of them died from the trampling of war elephants and horses. More than 50 ox carts carrying grain and supplies were seized, 38 live cattle were captured, more than 100 uninjured horses were captured, and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers were captured.

It is estimated that thousands of more routs have escaped by land and water, and the morale of the soldiers of the old port battalion is high when they first enter the battle formation.

"What kind of horse is so small? The horseback is not as high as my belly button. Zhang Chenfeng looked at his subordinates shouting at the horses, pouted and said.

"It's just that it's not as big as the donkey in my hometown." Shandong Han Xia Bomin looked disgusted.

"This is a kind of Yunnan horse, don't look at their short size, their strength is really not big, but they are particularly flexible, have good endurance, and are good at walking mountain roads. It's a dish to be a war horse, and it's okay to use it as a pack horse and pull a horse. Li Hanzhi next to him said a little embarrassed, Li Hanzhi is a native of Yunnan, and his hometown still has this kind of horse in modern times.

"These Vietnamese monkeys use them as war horses, and if I sit on them, I'm afraid I'll be crushed to death." Xia Bomin grinned.

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Eight of our soldiers were killed, and several unlucky ones were slightly wounded by arrows, and one of the less fortunate ones was killed in the pursuit.

After packing up all the bullet casings and cleaning up the booty, Lin Xiao ordered the captives to dig a big pit by the forest, bury the enemy corpses deeply, and then escort the captives to drive the horses, and pull the ox cart to carry the eight dead soldiers of the Old Port Battalion back to the riverside camp.