There are almost no village houses on the shore of Zhenshui behind the mountain forest, and at this time, thousands of Zhou army soldiers came out of the forest, and the scene was strange. People rushed to the camp behind them.

Both sides are undulating mountains, and only this one is relatively open. In the wilderness, the beach is even more noisy. The camps are lined up, and the arrow towers are towering.

After the enemy cavalry chased out of the mountains and forests, they did not rush over.

But after a while, at the edge of the woods at the foot of the mountain, some behemoths suddenly appeared one after another! The soldiers in the Zhou military camp all looked at it in surprise and surprise.

"Mu ......," a strange behemoth called. The soldiers of the Zhou army in the camp finally recognized it, it turned out to be an elephant!

The elephant was no ordinary elephant, it had been caught from nowhere, it was very large, it was covered with iron armor, and it carried a tower-like thing on its back, and a man sat on it. Although the elephant walks slowly, it is covered in iron and sharp spears, as if it is invulnerable, and it looks very terrifying!

On the sides and behind each elephant, with infantry with swords and shields in front and crossbowmen in the back, followed the elephants. Those huge war elephants are like warships in a sea of people...... It is also very similar to the armored corps cluster, where the infantry forms a battle group centered on war elephants.

Dozens of war elephants poured out of the mountains and forests one after another, and the Southern Han State cavalry followed, and the men and horses directly attacked the camp of the Zhou army scattered on the river beach.

The Southern Han Army gradually approached with a strange war elephant formation, and for a while it seemed that a torrent was slowly surging over the open ground! The cries of elephants, the neighing of people and horses resounded through the mountains, and this wilderness was very lively.

Horizontally spread war elephants and infantry with thick wooden shields gradually advanced to within 200 paces! Neither side has yet to fire long-range weapons, but the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty on the war elephant have prepared their bows and crossbows; One by one, the behemoths are coming unstoppably like moving arrow towers!

After a while, some pennants planted on the ground were knocked down by the infantry of the Southern Han Army who came over.

At this moment, the sound of "chirping" wood rubbing sounded on the Zhou military camp, and the men were pulling the hemp rope on the catapult. "Bang bang bang ......" Many round stone bumps were thrown from the catapult.

That round stone lump was cast very accurately! It was just thrown at the position of the Southern Han army's attack, because the range was marked in advance.

"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the fire flashed in mid-air, and the smoke exploded...... The cobblestone exploded in the air!

A moment later, the explosions sounded ......one after another, and the stone cannons exploded loudly in the sky or on the ground, flying stone chips and filling the smoke. The attacking army of the Southern Han Kingdom was immediately like a lightning strike, panicked and chaotic.

The war elephants were so frightened that they turned around and ran, and the riders above couldn't control the frightened elephants at all. The elephant turned around and rushed towards the Southern Han army, which followed closely behind...... At this time, the army, except for the horse team, was basically dense in order to maintain combat strength. The elephant rushed into the crowd, huge and massive, covered in iron, with spears like hedgehogs; Where can the Southern Han army still stop the elephants? They avoided one after another, and the formation was chaotic.

The stone cannon exploded for a round, and then it quickly stopped, and then the real stones were thrown, which could not be blown up...... According to the method of the Hokuen Firearms Workshop in Tokyo, people have to drill holes in the stone to hollow out the inside, but it is not easy, and there are few shells.

But the Southern Han army has been overwhelmed by its own war elephants!

At this time, the fence between the camps and the gate of the village was lowered with a "bang". The neatly armored infantry inside heard the gongs and drums and the flags as soon as they were released, and they ran out in columns.

The former army caught up with the Southern Han rebels with spears and swords and shields, and killed anyone they saw. The crossbowmen and firearms soldiers in the back changed their columns into three rows and advanced forward.

The battlefield was full of people and horses, shouts and shouts, and people everywhere. The land here is moist, the vegetation is good, and countless people rush together, but there is no dust; However, the air was filled with the smoke of the stone cannon explosion.

Behind the soldiers and horses of the Zhou army, some people actually played cymbals, stirring songs, screaming and fearful shouts, and the scene on the battlefield was very weird!

The Zhou army in front and the dense chaos of the Southern Han Kingdom fought in a scuffle. The machetes and spears of the Southern Han soldiers were inserted into the plate armor of the Zhou soldiers, and some of them just pierced the hard leather armor between the four plates, and the screams were endless. Sergeant Zhou died very little, mostly injured.

At this moment, the military music stopped, and those people struck the thick copper instrument "Ding Ding Ding ......" directly, and the Zhou sergeant in front turned around and retreated, and some were nervous and didn't hear it, but when they saw that their accomplices had run away, they also turned around and ran. The rebels retreated from the emptiness in the middle of the column.

At this time, the crossbowmen were also ready, and the sound of "crackling" strings sounded everywhere, and the Southern Han army was chaotic and fled in a mess. From time to time, the ranks of the Zhou army marched and stopped from time to time to fire volleys. The firearms and crossbows of the commanders were fired alternately, and white smoke filled the air.

The infantry of the Zhou army pursued to the foot of the mountain, and at this time, all the men and horses attacked by the Southern Han army broke down and ran into the woods.

The herald with the triangular red flag on his back rode over, and shouted loudly to the commanders everywhere while running on horseback: "The Chinese army order, stop the pursuit, and prohibit entering the forest!" ”

…… The army in the camp is cheering everywhere, and it is very lively!

The civil and military generals around Cao Bin were congratulating, and Prime Minister Li Gu said with a smile: "General Cao is worthy of being appointed by His Majesty!" A group of new pawns, a few months ago they were still hoes, and now they can defeat the main reinforcements of the Southern Han Kingdom when they pick up weapons, and the old man admires it! ”

Cao Bin politely bowed his hand and said: "This is also the reason why His Majesty gave him excellent equipment, and Li Gong transferred sufficient grain and military supplies, so he would not dare to take credit." Ben General entered the army during the (later) Han Dynasty, and these armor weapons, in the past, elite soldiers did not necessarily have such equipment. ”

The staff said: "Cao Dashuai sent people into the forest in advance, it turned out to be a plan to lure the enemy!" ”

Cao Bin was noncommittal.

At this moment, a group of generals in front of them entered the account, and they quarreled, and someone patted his chest and said loudly: "If the Chinese army doesn't tell us to retreat, we have to take advantage of the victory to fight in Shaozhou!" ”

Another humanitarian: "Not to mention hitting Shaozhou, breaking through this mountain, and camping behind the mountain to approach Shaozhou will be ...... no mistake."

Cao Bin is in his thirties, his face is white, he is very elegant in his throws, and he is often praised as a Confucian general, and he is not angry at the complaints of his generals, but he just said: "It is reported that the Southern Han Army has sent additional reinforcements in Shaozhou, the mountains and forests in front are dense, and the Chinese army has not yet controlled the situation, and it is taboo to take the enemy to enter the army!" ”

The staff immediately chimed in: "Cao Gong's words are reasonable. Shaozhou does not produce elephants, the elephants of the Southern Han Kingdom are the war elephants obtained from Dali and Annam (Wu Dynasty), only the forbidden army in its capital city has them, and now they appear in Shaozhou, as Cao Gong expected, the Southern Han Kingdom sent the main reinforcements! ”

The generals were noisy for a while, and they were stunned.

Li Gu said: "This battle is a great victory, and Cao Gong can repair the book to report the victory." ”

Cao Bin's gaze swept over the civilian officials of the "herald army" behind him, and said: "I will report it according to the truth, this is a great victory, but no substantial progress has been made. First, because the Southern Han State increased the number of reinforcements, and second, because there was a miasma in the south, there were many sick people in the army, which caused a great reduction in the strength of our troops. ”

Li Gu frowned and worried: "The miasma is really difficult to handle, the old man brought a lot of medicinal materials to the healing camp, but it didn't get better." ”

…… The people of the Central Plains are indeed very afraid of the miasma in the south.

In the past, during the Han and Tang dynasties, the south was under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but the last thing the officials wanted was to be an official on the side of the Southern Han Dynasty, and they were regarded as having fallen out of favor and exiled...... Because many people came to be officials and died of miasma!

There was an imperial doctor sent by Taichang Temple in the army, who thought that the miasma was very terrible, which made Cao Bin and other people in the camp very worried.

Under the arrangement of the imperial physician and the military langzhong, everyone divided the sick people into camps and lived for treatment. In addition to copying medical books, the treatment methods based on also found local doctors to treat them with herbs, some of which could be cured, and some of which were in poor condition.

After Yu Liang escaped from the forest, he fell ill. That night, he was covered in cold sweat and was immediately sent to the wounded barracks to live. The Kaifeng command was in the worst condition, being routed in the woods, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and some people fell ill one after another, and the entire command basically lost its combat effectiveness.

Yu Liang was lying in a makeshift grass hut, surrounded by the smell of realgar smoke, black smoke and miasma, and he could hear the sound of vomiting and moaning, and his mood was very bad.

He didn't expect the war to be like this...... It is completely different from what is written in the poem, "If you don't break Loulan, you won't return it", "Why don't men take Wu hooks" and so on, it's not so poetic at all! What happened to Yu Liang after he set out on the expedition: walked on foot, walked all the time, and walked thousands of miles of his mother! Then he heard that Xiongzhou had been captured, so he came over again, and then led people to dig trenches and repair walls in the wilderness...... As soon as they marched in formation, they didn't even see the appearance of the enemy soldiers too clearly, so they ran back in embarrassment.

Then he fell ill and was sent to this place to lie down.

Zhou Jun fell ill a lot, and the reason why he did not withdraw from the army was that under the treatment of the imperial doctor Langzhong and the local local doctors, some people continued to recover. It is said to be a miasma, but it can still be cured anyway.

But Yu Liang has not improved. He lay on a broken bed every day, and no one came to see him...... Soldiers who were familiar with them were forbidden to enter the healing camp. Yu Liang felt that his body was getting worse and worse, his whole body was weak, and he had a little difficulty getting up, he had to think crankily, would he die of illness in this place?

After all, he is a scholar, and Yu Liang is now a little questioning whether he has entered the wrong profession and is not suitable for martial arts at all...... But I can't get into the Jinshi in literature. It's really a literal and unsuccessful!

Now he could only wait for death in depression, and his despair deepened little by little.

The Zhou army advanced slowly, almost stopped the offensive, and did not hear of any movement of the Southern Han army after the last battle. After a few days, Yu Liang was not well, and was pulled out of the camp with an ox cart and sent to Xiongzhou, and there were many people who were sent away by Minzhuang with him.