Chapter 507: Repeating the Mistakes of the Past
Chapter 507: Repeating the Mistakes of the Past
If there is anything in this world that Arroyo is taboo, then in addition to Da Shi, there is only Datang. As for the river valley coalition army, it can't enter his eyes at all, whether it is a coalition army or a secret army, they are all the rabble of the past, except for the difference in quantity, the quality is still the same.
Hearing the captives who came back with the letter say that the so-called river valley coalition army was only more than 20,000 people, and the leader seemed to be a secret prince Ba Tie, Arroyo's contempt could not help but float. How can a defeated general be brave?
After two years, he is stronger, and the 'fat' sheep are definitely stronger, but even if the sheep are 'fat', they are just sheep, a herd of sheep waiting for him to slaughter. In light of this realization, he believes that Jeppel's defeat was nothing more than a fortuitous incident, or that it was related to Jeppel's stupidity. He did not believe that his army of 100,000 could not pacify the kingdoms of the valley.
The two sides met unexpectedly at noon the next day, and the decisive battle took place.
Arroyo was very depressed, and from a distance, the enemy was more than 20,000 men, and in the forefront were the enemy's cavalry, running back and forth in front of the formation, kicking up a large amount of dust, blocking his view, and it was unknown how many enemy troops were behind the dust. From time to time, the cavalry maneuvering back and forth divided into dozens of horses and galloped towards him, released a round of bows and arrows, and then turned back.
To Arroyo's surprise, the enemy horsemen had a very high level of riding and archery, and the bow and arrow were specialized in 'shooting' at the target on the elephant's back, and they were quite 'fine', and more than a dozen soldiers were always 'shot' by them in each round. He felt that such a knight should not be in the army of Pakistan. Fortunately, there are not many such knights, and there are only a thousand of them, which is not worth mentioning compared to his huge elephant soldiers.
"Prepare to attack!" Arroyo gave orders to the trumpeters beside him, and his tone was quite calm, making people feel that the victory was in hand.
Jeppel, who had suffered a loss, promptly advised: "Your Majesty, please let the infantry line up to keep up, protect the flanks and behind you, and prevent their cavalry from 'rioting'!" ”
Arroyo felt justified and obeyed. Tianzhu people worked hard for a long time, and finally got ready.
The elephant array was activated, the momentum was huge, and the hooves were running wildly, shocking the earth.
Arroyo's mount is an elephant king, and on the back of the elephant is his special gold-colored chariot chair, with two rattan baskets hanging from each side of the chariot chair, and in each basket stands a soldier. Sitting on the back of the elephant king, Arroyo was in high spirits, and the charge of thousands of elephants was invincible and unstoppable, and he even felt that he had underestimated his strength, and the third ranking should be able to be further raised.
I don't hate Tang Jun, I don't see it, I only hate Tang Jun and I don't see me!
Arroyo's poems are "sexual" and "desire" to express the frivolity and self-satisfaction in his heart, but he suffers from the lack of literary talent and has no words to use.
"Kill the fuck!" Arroyo thought about it for a long time before he could hold back a sentence of self-satisfaction.
The elephant array is like a torrent of armor composed of heavy tanks, rampage, and has the potential of being invincible in the world. The cavalry, who had just been arrogantly provocative in front of them, had only the right to flee at the moment, desperately hiding on both wings to avoid their edge.
The Elephant Array ignored the fly-like cavalry and continued to charge forward, and through the dust, a large number of enemy figures were faintly visible.
Arroyo seemed to hear something on the other side, a little ethereal, his eyelids jumped, and he tried to 'figure out' the enemy, but unfortunately the movement of the elephant array was too big to cover up the source of the sound.
"Fire?!" In the midst of doubt, Arroyo saw a little ignition source after seeing the 'misty' dust in front of him, and he was moving, moving towards himself.
See, it's a cow, a fire cow, a myriad of fire cows!
"Fire Bull Formation!" Arroyo suddenly remembered the story passed down from his ancestors, a hundred years ago, a Tang Dynasty envoy defeated his ancestors' invincible elephant array with a fire bull array, sweeping through most of Tianzhu. Regarding this story, Arroyo once scoffed at it, thinking that it was a myth spread by falsehood, but he didn't expect that today he actually won the lottery and became the protagonist of the legend.
Compared to the largest animals on land, bulls are nothing, even though they have thousands of them. Arroyo was calm, confident that his elephant array could break through the enemy's boring fire bull formation.
From the comparison of the mount's size, strength and intelligence, single calculation, compound calculation, no matter how it is calculated, Arroyo wins. However, success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He. Elephants have a high IQ and are smarter than cows and horses, but smart people have their own way of behaving in the world, for example, a moth with a zero IQ will put out a fire, while an elephant will not, and will not be forced.
The war elephants panicked in the face of the surging array of fire bulls, they were not afraid of the oxen, but they were instinctively afraid of the phenomenon of the sparkling behind the oxen. The war elephants that rushed to the front began to flinch, and the grandeur of the charge suddenly became anticlimactic, and the attack died inexplicably.
This is just a prelude to the tragedy of the Tianzhu people. After a bull's horn, dozens of lights pierced the sky, crossed the wildly running fire bull array, and fell into the elephant array, bursting out of fireworks of all colors.
The fireworks are Li Huaitang's high-standard greeting gift to the Tianzhu people, and all the fireworks used to transmit signals are collected and used on the Tianzhu people at one time. Unfortunately, the elephants did not appreciate it, and the dazzling light, loud sound and choking smoke made them completely fall into a frenzy of panic, ignoring the shouts of their owners to drive away, or turn around, or deflect, no matter where they go, as long as they stay away from the terrifying fire.
The infantry who were supposed to protect the two wings of the elephant array and the infantry behind them instantly and inexplicably became the targets of the elephant array's slaughter. While running wildly, the mad elephant did not forget to vent his anger, knocking and trampling the two-legged dwarf animals that stood in front of them, forming a bloody 'flesh' road wherever they passed.
The tragedy struck suddenly, out of control. Arroyo was led by war elephants into his own infantry formation, and watched in pain and helplessness as tens of thousands of his soldiers were ruthlessly ravaged by elephant hooves, and there were terrible wails to his left and right.
The soldiers of Ningyuan's iron cavalry were ready to attack, and they all waited sideways for their general's big hand wave.
At this time, Li Huaitang was happily receiving compliments from Ba Tie.
"The general is really a god!"
If he were not on the battlefield, Pakistan would definitely use his five-body throw to the ground to express his admiration.
Li Huaitang waved his hand, he wanted to say that he was just a copycat, and Wang Da was the original, but as early as a thousand years ago, our ancestors had already used the fire ox array, a small trick, and he didn't think it was worth showing off too much. So, with a wave of the hand, it became a signal to attack.
The unlucky Tianzhu people, who were ravaged by the elephant array, encountered a group of mad cows, dodged the mad bulls and had to turn their backs to the enemy's iron hoof scimitar.
The Tiger Riders mounted their pack horses and camels, and followed the defeated Tianzhu people unhurriedly, driving the discouraged enemy into a mass like a shepherd's herd of sheep. The backward Tianzhu rout, who had nowhere to escape, squatted on the ground in pieces, holding their heads and surrendering.
The infantry became prisoners, and the elephant soldiers did not end well.
War elephants will always run slower than war horses.
Hu Yi's arrow followed the fleeing elephant soldiers, and the sharp arrow in his hand locked onto the prey from time to time, delivering a fatal blow.
"No arrows!" Hu Yijian roared in satisfaction, his two quiver bags were empty.
"And another!" Zhang Qiu handed him the last feather arrow. Zhang Qiu was a little distressed, his archery skills were not good, and the horse lance could not reach the enemy soldiers on the elephant's back, so he had to watch Hu Yijian shoot the bow left and right, and he was very busy.
Hu Yijian took the feather arrow, and aimed his bow at an elephant repellent in front of him. When he was about to 'shoot', he suddenly loosened his strings and spared the other party's life.
"What? Is your hand soft, or is your heart soft? Zhang Qiu looked at Hu Yijian in puzzlement.
Hu Yijian ignored it, his eyes stared at the front, and his expression seemed to be a little 'agitated'.
Following the direction of Hu Yijian's gaze, Zhang Qiu also found a high-value target.
"Elephant King! King of Tianzhu Kingdom! Zhang Qiu excitedly pointed to a golden 'colored' chair that loomed in the smoke.
Hu Yijian and Zhang Qiu glanced at each other, achieved a tacit understanding, and the two horsemen brazenly broke into the defeated elephant soldiers.
At close range, the elephant was always a great threat to the cavalry, and the scattered elephant soldiers had a clear advantage over the cavalry in close pursuit, and the elephant soldiers were condescending, and the short spears they threw could easily pierce any flesh and blood.
The elephants finally fought back, and from time to time sporadic short spears were thrown at the daring two horsemen. A short spear grazed the tip of Hu Yijian's nose and almost killed him. Similarly, Zhang Qiu was almost killed in the enemy's formation.
"'Milk' 'milk'!" Zhang Qiu pulled the horse out of the routed elephant array, and the horse lance in his hand unwillingly smashed into an elephant's 'leg' to vent.
This smash had an unexpected effect. Although the elephant has thick skin and thick meat, it can't withstand the sweep of the horse lance in Zhang Qiu's hand when running at high speed. The elephant that was swept away screamed and fell, and with a bang, the dust rolled, and several elephant soldiers on its back were thrown far away, and even disappeared.
Zhang Qiu's surprise was followed by a surprise, it turned out that he could still deal with such a behemoth like this.
"Lao Hu, let me clear the way for you!" Zhang Qiu found a shortcut to meritorious service, he only needed to run behind the elephant soldier and smash the back 'legs' of the elephant in the blind corner of the elephant soldier's sight, and each smashed had several results, far higher than the efficiency of Hu Yi's arrow.
Zhang Qiu easily put down the two war elephants, and the rest of the general's cavalry did the same, and soon, bad luck befell more than a dozen backward war elephants, frightening the rest of the defeated soldiers to scream, raising their hands and vying for surrender. Those who refuse to surrender will die with their war elephants.
Arroyo intends to withdraw a certain distance and then regroup the rout to kill the horse, he is unwilling to admit defeat, believing that the opponent's success is just based on bad and shameless means and luck, but he can't do it again, as long as he kills back, he will definitely be able to save the defeat in the end with his strength.
However, the enemy did not give him a chance, and the 'elite' light cavalry pursued him closely, hunting his soldiers with bows and arrows, smashing his war elephants with spears, 'forced' his soldiers to surrender one after another, and deprived him of his dream of turning defeat into victory.
Arroyo's mood went from unyielding, to anxious, and then to fear. As the elephant soldiers behind him abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, he was almost alone, dozens of horsemen surrounded him, and when he turned back, he even saw the feathered arrows in the hands of the pursuers, which were flashing at him with a cold light.
"Run, run!" Arroyo's thoughts of fighting back are gone, and he has to face the reality that only escaping genius is the most important thing.
How can an elephant outrun a war horse? Although the same four 'legs'.
Hu Yi's arrow condensed and sent arrows, as usual, the feather arrows drew a beautiful arc in the air, stopping the strong forward momentum on Arroyo's body...... Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "War Owl in Tang" written by the wolf under the moon