Chapter 125: Dauntless (continued)

The brave men raised their swords and charged directly at the elephant under the cover of the spearmen, many of whom were shot in the face by the archers on the elephant's back, but many more were quickened.

The distance between man and elephant is less than 20 paces, and the soldiers of the Western Army on the back of the war elephant use crossbows set up on wooden houses to fire quicklime paper packets.

The sudden quicklime attack caused a large amount of white mist to spread through the crowd, causing the heroic charge of the Eastern army to freeze, and the war elephants then roared into the crowd.

The elephant's trunk raised high and jerked down towards the crowd, and suddenly the cold light flashed, and the elephant's trunk was cut off by a sword, blood spurted, and the war elephant with the trunk cut off did not wail, but rushed forward violently, knocking several people in front of him into the air.

Brave Warrior, whose eyes were barely open from quicklime, howled and slashed at the war elephant with his sword, which was covered with armor and had ring lock armor on its legs, and even then, the war elephant was slashed with blood.

A war elephant's front leg was cut to reveal the white bones, but it ignored it and continued to rush forward, causing a bloody storm and rain, and a large amount of blood overflowed from the wound on the elephant's leg, mixed with human blood, staining the earth red.

Several war elephants fell to the ground during the siege, crushing many Eastern soldiers to death, while the Western soldiers who fell to the ground were also hacked to death with knives, but more war elephants rushed up and knocked down and trampled to death the red-eyed Eastern soldiers.

The war elephants became more and more crazy, trampling and impacting in the crowd, the original Bai Sensen's tusks had been stained red with blood, screams, roars, and whistling sounds, and the battlefield turned into a Shura hell, with all kinds of stumps and broken arms flying around.

Many of the riders sitting on the back of the elephant were shot like hedgehogs, and even though they were wearing double armor, their bodies were in pain, but they all gritted their teeth and insisted on riding the war elephants, while the archers were also hit by several arrows, but they desperately lowered their arrows despite the arrows.

Some soldiers held spears and rifles to poke at the enemy soldiers around the war elephants, while others held paper-wrapped quicklime and threw them desperately.

Whether it was infantry or war elephants, most of them were stained with blood, and the blood began to heat after being stained with quicklime, and the people present and the war elephants were indiscriminately attacked by quicklime, while the war elephants did not seem to be affected at all.

The fearless Eastern Army fought bravely in front of the war elephants, but only lasted for a while before being defeated.

The bloodied war elephant seemed to feel no pain, covered in arrows and wounds, roaring forward under the command of the pilot, trampling everything that stood in its way, not hesitating in the face of fire, explosions, or swords.

Before the charge, they ate a special diet, and at this moment they were in a state of extreme euphoria, fearless.

I don't know the pain, I don't know the fear, I just know that after listening to the command of the pilot, I can continue to eat the water and food, and I won't feel uncomfortable all over my body, even if my nose is cut off and my stomach is disemboweled, I won't feel pain.

Opium, which should not have appeared in this era, has appeared, and opium can act on people as well as on elephants.

The carefully concocted and experimented opium diet can keep war elephants in a state of euphoria, even if their noses and legs are cut off, or even if they are bruised all over their bodies and on fire, they will not feel pain, and they will not be afraid of fire and loud noises.

War elephants in extreme agitation will fight until they die.

Opium, the main ingredient of this secret medicine, is extracted by only one person who knows how to refine it.

Chen Fozhi, who was sitting on the back of a war elephant, didn't know the secret of the secret medicine, but he knew that his war elephant really wouldn't be scared away by fire and loud noises, and he didn't counterattack his own army formation and cause a big disaster, and the state of the war elephant was obviously abnormal.

As the chief of Lingbiao, Chen Fozhi is familiar with elephants, and wild elephants are produced locally in Lingbiao, and they will be sent to Jiankang as tribute by the chieftains from time to time.

However, the wild elephants in the Lingbiao are smaller, and the elephants in the Jiaozhou, Linyi or Nanzhong areas are larger.

Chen Fozhi knows a secret of elephants, that is, although elephants are behemoths, they are actually very bold.

Whether it is a Lingbiao war elephant, a Funan war elephant, a Linyi war elephant, a Jiaozhou war elephant, or a Nanzhong war elephant, since they are elephants, they have a common weakness - timidity, so it takes years to train elephants into war elephants.

It also has to be trained by a special elephant trainer, and it must be trained from the time of the young elephant, but even after training, the war elephant cannot be fearless, and Chen Fozhi's only evaluation of the performance of the war elephant sitting down at this time is fearlessness.

If last year's war elephants were as ferocious as these now, where could he be so easily defeated by the army of the King of Xiyang?

Of course, in front of the good fighting army of the King of Xiyang, he would still be defeated sooner or later.

Before this battle, Chen Fozhi did not know that the king of Xiyang would transport war elephants, he had the experience of commanding the elephant army to fight, so he was entrusted with a heavy task by the king of Xiyang, and led the elephant army into battle with the attitude of a strange soldier.

At that time, Chen Fozhi was worried that these war elephants would be frightened and would recoil into their own formation, while King Xiyang patted his chest and promised that there would never be any chaos.

King Xiyang's promise before the war has been fulfilled, and the war elephants will not be scared away, so now, it is the time for him, the commander of the elephant army who temporarily went into battle, to make meritorious contributions and create favorable conditions for his own final victory.

A large number of infantry followed the war elephants, which were the Chen clan soldiers under Chen Fozhi, as well as the clan soldiers led by Feng Xuan and Ning Changzhen, who had been recuperating for most of the day, and finally waited for the time to enter the battle.

The soldiers from the Sanhao clan of Lingbiao, dressed in sturdy armor and holding well-made weapons, fought bloody battles on the battlefield together with the war elephants from Jiaozhou.

Their target is not the empty enemy base in front of them, but the enemy on their left flank, that is, on their right flank.

Chen Fozhi blew the horn and ordered the battle elephant herd to turn right, which meant that his left flank was exposed in front of the enemy's central army, and the cavalry of the Hulin Army, which had retreated earlier, stepped forward again to oppress the enemy's main position.

At the same time, there were also cavalry led by Sima Zhang Dingfa of the Xiyang Wangfu, and most of the soldiers were composed of clan armed forces who assisted in the war, and they had to work with the cavalry of the Hulin Army to cover the left flank of the elephant army.

The main formation on the right flank of the Western Army, the stunned Li Jing rubbed his eyes, he didn't understand why his war elephants could be so brave, even if they were subjected to the enemy's fire and thunder, they didn't go crazy.

Such a fearless war elephant completely contradicts the image of a war elephant in the history books as fearful of fire and timid.

At this time, Li Jing was entangled in his heart: Could it be that everything contained in the book is fake? Are they all fools? How is this possible! Clearly...

"Pharmacist, what are you doing in a daze, ready to attack!"

Li Yaowang's shout pulled Li Jing back to reality, he saw that his uncle Han Baohu had already ridden the war horse, and his brother and other cavalrymen were ready to go, Li Jing rushed to Han Baohu's horse, and asked directly without being rude: "Uncle knew about the war elephant before the war?" ”

"Haha, in order to reassure everyone, the King of Xiyang even wants to set up a military order to ensure that the war elephants will not cause chaos!"

Han Baohu twisted his beard and laughed, seeing his nephew's confused eyes, he raised his whip and pointed ahead: "Next, when our army breaks the enemy, hurry up and get on the horse and go to the corpse mountain and sea of blood to make a name!" ”