Chapter 61: The Most Despicable Anti-War Elephant Weapon in History
Who said that the copper horn crosses the river, and the rocket shoots the elephant? Let's look at Ye Qi's most despicable anti-war elephant weapon!
The flag door grinded, and a few trombones sounded.
The ten odd infantry teams lined up behind the artillery team, hearing the sound of the trumpet and seeing the dance of the flag gate, quickly retreated, opening up the distance from the artillery team like a tide.
After retreating about a few hundred steps, under the command of Guan Qi, the original ten phalanxes with Qi as units merged into five thousand-person phalanxes.
The spearmen and musketeers of each circle lined up in dense horizontal formations, each with about 50 men on the front and 10 columns in depth, forming a rectangular phalanx, and the four corners of the phalanx were also lined up in dense square arquebusiers. The swordsmen holding the knives in their hands are lined up in small teams, with each odd as the basic unit, cruising back and forth between the various phalanxes. Nguyen Jiajun quickly changed his formation and showed his training level in front of the South Central Army.
The distance between the phalanx and the phalanx is about ten zhang, leaving an extremely wide passage.
After the square array was formed, there was a neat shouting sound from the array, which must have been the shouting and cheering of Ruan Jiajun.
However, the shouts of the soldiers were quickly drowned out by another voice.
With the ground trembling slightly, dozens of war elephants hidden in the shadow of the long base roared loudly, and slowly came to the front of the formation from behind the battle formation.
War elephants, in this era, are as lethal in the tropics as a tank group. Just imagine, dozens, hundreds of tanks rushing towards the infantry position, the kind of visual shock and psychological pressure on people is unimaginable to ordinary people.
Today's war elephants are dozens, hundreds of tanks!
"War elephants! The war elephants of the Ruan family! "The artillerymen at the forefront were a little flustered. In the same Annan, these people have also seen elephants, and they will not think that these behemoths are long-nosed bull demons.
The war elephants walked slowly, and under the guidance of the elephant slaves, they came to the front of the formation through the passage reserved between the guò phalanx and the phalanx, so that the soldiers of the Nanzhong Army could see more clearly.
Nearly five feet long, long teeth were tied with long knives, and the sharp tips of the blades shimmered chillingly in the sunlight. The huge bodies of the war elephants are covered with leather armor made of cowhide strips, which can protect the enemy's arrows. Five or six people flashed in the bamboo hut on the back of the elephant, and from the small window one seemed to see the barrel of the musket.
As the war elephants moved forward, the soldiers of the Ruan family army got rid of the decadence and panic of being hit by the artillery, and their morale quickly recovered. As the war elephants slowly passed through the phalanx, the soldiers in the phalanx erupted into bursts of cheerful shouts and cheers.
In the past, when the Ruan army conquered the native villages in the south, or the cities that occupied the city, the war elephants played a great role. These big guys, who are tall and weigh thousands of pounds, whether they are on the opposite side of the strong walled wall or tall houses, are all knocked down, and then, after the infantry behind the war elephants, they can rush in, and after the wanton killing, the city will change hands. This is only used to attack fortifications, in the field state, no matter how brave and powerful you are, in front of this seemingly honest and docile guy, you are vulnerable and powerless. As long as its long nose was rolled and flicked, a good man was succumbed to the account.
Soon, under the training of the elephant slaves, dozens of war elephants lined up in front of the phalanx.
The war elephants led the infantry in a phalanx, which was given to Nguyen Jiajun by Lieutenant Fernandez's former coach, a variant of the Spanish phalanx, which was adjusted in numbers and weapons to suit use in Annam.
The war elephants charged in front and broke through the enemy's formation, followed by the Spanish phalanx, in order to be prepared to attack the enemy scattered, and the Nguyen family relied on these two tactics to be invincible south of the Ling River.
Huang Leiting looked at the opposite formation, and then looked carefully at the gunners around him, several gunners' eyes were a little straight, and the corners of their mouths, hands and feet trembled slightly.
I can't blame these gunners for being timid, just imagine, in the face of a hideous elephant, anyone will be afraid. Including Huang Lei Tingting himself.
However, as an artillery officer commanding dozens of artillery pieces, Huang Leiting is still very confident in his firepower strike ability, "Boys! If you fill the cannon with shotshots, I don't believe it, our dozens of cannons, hundreds of thousands of shots, can't kill these dozens of stupid elephants?! ”
In a word, the gunners woke up like a dream, hurriedly went to the auxiliary car to get the grenade shotgun, and the loaders hurriedly loaded the gun chamber with the projectile bag.
"That's right! Boys! According to the general, we, the gunners, either wipe out the enemy in front of our position, or let the enemy walk through the corpses of us, boys! Are you willing to let the enemy walk through your corpse? Are you willing to let the enemy rob you of your property and burn your farm?! ”
The gunners who said a few words shouted angrily, "I don't want to! ”
"We're going to let the enemy pile up in front of our guns!"
Seeing that his subordinates begged for soldiers' morale, Commander Huang was very satisfied. However, when he saw Fang Ningxuan, the commander of Ye Qi's division, panting and leading dozens of soldiers to come, he was a little confused.
After hearing Fang Ningxuan's intentions, Huang Leiting was first stunned, and then laughed wildly, he turned his head and arched his hand towards Ye Qi's flag array, "Ye Shaoning, you are also the best in the world!" ”
With the assistance of the artillery, dozens of soldiers brought by Fang Ningxuan quickly dug more than 200 shallow soil pits in front of the fort, fiddled with the gunpowder bags they carried, and placed them in the pits.
After making this arrangement, they held the fire rope in their hands and waited behind the pits they had dug in a squatting position.
With Ruan Fuyu's voice, "Let the Northern Thief see the combat strength of our army." Ruan Jiajun shouted in unison, "Kill!" Driven by the elephant slaves, dozens of war elephants began to move forward slowly, slowly turning into small broken steps and walking quickly, and then gradually accelerating and running.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" With the sound of war drums in the formation, Huang Leiting also issued a battle order to the gunners, although there was Ye Qi's method of defending against the enemy brought by Fang Ningxuan, but, just in case, he still ordered the gunners to load the scattered bullets and prepare to meet the enemy.
The rangefinder of the artillery division, holding a cannon mirror, nervously observed the black line from far to near, and kept reporting the number of distances in his mouth.
"The enemy war elephant is a thousand steps away from me!"
"Eight hundred steps from me!"
"Seven hundred steps away from me!"
"Six hundred steps away from me!"
"Five hundred steps away from me!"
As a series of numbers were reported, the gunners kept adjusting the firing angle, and the position of the muzzle was lowered little by little.
"Four hundred steps away from me!"
Huang Leiting heard his heartbeat getting stronger and stronger, and he could already feel the strong tremor of the ground under his feet as dozens of war elephants galloped towards him. He licked his somewhat dry forehead lips, "Target! Enemy war elephants! All guns fire! ”
"Ignition!"
At the moment when the gunners were about to swing their fire ropes towards the letter tube, the dozens of people who were waiting in front of the artillery team lit the twists of the powder packets, and then, quickly ran to another dirt pit and lit another powder pack.
In the blink of an eye, more than 200 gunpowder packets scrambled to fly into the air, with a crooked trajectory and a mess in the air.
"Elephants, with their docile personalities, huge bodies, long snouts, and slow pace, have always been the most popular objects for children in zoos. In Annan at that time, it was also a good helper for people's daily life production and labor. Use its immense power to help the people. In the war against the invasion of Li Shouhan's bandits, the elephant changed from a labor helper to a brave and fearless warrior. But it was such a cute animal, people's good assistant, one of Li Shouhan's most ferocious minions, Ye Qi, who used the most appalling and despicable weapon against them. ”
In his writings, Nguyen Phuc Hay specifically mentions this tactic and weapon. There was indignation in the words.
Gunpowder packets exploded in the air, bursting into red fireworks. Hundreds of fireworks form a red landscape in the air, but this scenery is not only beautiful, but also exciting.
"! What's the matter, it's so spicy! So choking! Although Huang Leiting was still hundreds of steps away from this scenery, he was still choked by the pungent pungency that came from him.
The war elephants galloping in the distance were even more miserable, and the shooting area that Fang Ningxuan had scheduled was exactly where the war elephants were about to hit.
The high-pitched, high-pitched screams pierced the eardrums, even overpowering the rumbling cannons, which were the painful screams of war elephants. Even when the first wave of gunpowder packets exploded in the air, the elephant already sensed the danger!
A large amount of chili powder was added to the gunpowder bag, and the classic tactic in the People's Liberation Army's civil work taught by Li Shouhan, the 320 blasting method, was adopted. That is, dig the projectile crater when setting the distance between different targets, set the angle at the bottom of the pit, calculate the amount of projectile charge, the maximum weight of the powder pack that can be ejected, etc., and the length of the fuse on the powder bag used (due to different specifics, the flight time of the powder bag in the air is different, so in order to ensure that it basically explodes above the target, the length of the fuse used as a delay is also different)
A large amount of chili pepper was ejected by gunpowder, and after a short burn, it developed a pungent and spicy taste, forming a barrier in the air that no animal could tolerate. In particular, elephants are land animals that are known to be second only to humans in terms of intelligence.
The elephant is an animal with its large size and great strength, which is very intimidating to those who do not know it, but its weakness is also obvious. Sensitive, intelligent. And one of its major physiological weaknesses is that its sense of smell is also very sensitive, and the trunk of an elephant is even said to be more sensitive than that of a dog. How can such an animal not go crazy when faced with an exciting bioweapon attack? How can you not go crazy?
The elephants roared and rolled, and they collided with each other with their huge bodies, overturning the bamboo towers on their backs, crushing the riders and archer into meatloaf, rolling up the elephant slaves who tried to stop them with their proboscis and throwing them far away, and then their eyes were red and swollen, and tears flowed. Turning around and running wildly, the wolves rushed in all directions except the Nanzhong army's military formation, and the obstacles that blocked them, those Ruan's proud artillery toppled to the ground, and crashed straight into the Ruan's army's military formation.
The soldiers of the Ruan family, who were originally high-spirited and high-spirited, lined up in a neat phalanx, were preparing to accompany the impact of war elephants, and they didn't want to change suddenly in an instant, and their own vanguard had become the enemy's sharp knife! The infantry who followed behind fired at the crazy war elephants in a panic with the muskets in their hands, but it stimulated these already crazy behemoths more and more, and the red-eyed war elephants rushed directly to the flying bullets, and the soldiers in a neat line fell into blood mold, and the elephant herd trampled the Spanish phalanx of the Ruan family's elite soldiers. Everywhere there were scattered severed limbs and bones, and people who fell to the ground and groaned.
Take advantage of your illness and take your life! Ye Qi and the battalion officials are not Song Xianggong. What awaits us is the time when the enemy formation will be chaotic!
Seeing that the war elephant that posed the greatest threat to his artillery team was fascinated by Ye Qi's biological weapon, chili powder, Huang Lei grinned twice. Then he waved the command flag in his hand, "Fire!" ”
The angle of the muzzle of the gun had been adjusted to almost horizontal, in order to shoot the shock formation of the war elephants flat, but now that the war elephants have become their own sharp knife troops, it is naturally difficult to strike again.
"Hey, hey! Add fuel to the fire! ”
Under the command of Huang Leiting, dozens of artillery pieces spewed out a fierce flame in turn, and then white smoke rose, and hundreds of projectiles rushed into the distance under the advance of gunpowder, impacting into the body of a human or a war elephant.
"Change the shells! Change to solid bullets! ”
After one round of shotshots, one round of solid shells, two rounds of artillery fire, the formation of the Nguyen Thia Army was already ravaged by the combined ravages of war elephants and artillery, and became tattered. Fang was still a neat and tidy phalanx, but now it is a mess.
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