The Battle of Chongqing was over, but the defenders in Chengdu did not know the situation in the rear base area.

Not even a bird can fly out that has been surrounded, and the Chengdu defenders are busy with one thing.

Dry battles.

Fight against the invading enemies under the city.

The method they choose is to fight each other to the death.

In addition to stumbling to the death, the Xia army, which had never fought a large battle, had no other way.

At this time, Dai Shou and Tai Lieutenant Wu Youren, who were in Chengdu, did not have a good time, because Fu Youde's marching speed was too fast, and before they could make any deployment, Fu Youde's soldiers and horses had already surrounded Chengdu and launched a fierce attack.

And Fu Youde, who attacked head-on, was not easy.

In the past, when he fought with the Yuan army, it was often cavalry against cavalry, infantry against infantry, and artillery on both sides.

But on the issue of Chengdu, a lonely city, he made a mistake for the first time.

Because this time he will no longer face confrontation between people.

Rather, it shifts the group.

It became a herd of animals in the true sense of the word.

And this group of animals gave them their first taste of the existence of tall and mighty.

Ever since he joined the army, he had never fought against such a group of animals that were absolutely strong and extremely large.

They are not donkeys, much less horses.

But they were a hundred times stronger than a horse and a thousand times stronger than a donkey, and when they stepped down, their horses were killed and wounded.

They are a bunch of beasts in the truest sense of the word.

In the island country cartoon, Xiaoxin has a figurative name for their group: Why is your nose so long.

Their name is: Elephant.

A herd of elephants with a strong body that the human body simply cannot compete with.

Their real provenance is not from Sichuan, but from Yunnan, which is not far away.

At that time, Ming Yuzhen and the King of Liang in Yunnan were fighting, and Ming Yuzhen, who was in a strong position, got a lot of benefits from the hands of King Liang, and the elephant was one of them.

When Ming Yuzhen found that this group of animals could play a very good and powerful military role in warfare, he raised this group of elephants, gave them good grass and fodder every day, and gave them sufficient nutrition, hoping that they would be able to come in handy on the battlefield in a timely manner.

It really didn't disappoint Ming Yuzhen, although the hard-won elephants didn't see their performance on the battlefield with their own eyes, but he fulfilled his son.

It is time for them to raise soldiers for a thousand days, and now it is time for them to play.

And in the face of this group of absolutely brave and invincible animals, Fu Youde, as the commander-in-chief, truly experienced the difficulties.

Let him fight with people, no problem, he can get his hands on it.

But fighting with a group of completely inhuman animals, he had no countermeasures.

He tried to have his soldiers stab the elephant in the waist with their spears, but before he could get closer, the herd flicked its nose and his men flew away like paper.

He had the elephants cut off their ankles with a big knife, but before the elephants could react, they became a herd of persimmons.

A bunch of bloody but dead persimmons that can't be killed anymore.

These elephants are too fierce to take them down.

What to do?

Looking at the countless dead and wounded soldiers, facing this group of elephants who stepped on a large area and kicked a company, Fu Youde made a mistake for the first time.

When faced with a difficult problem, many of us often choose to escape, trying to avoid the problem by escaping, which can be summed up in a classic word, called fooling around.

But there is a group of people who often don't do this, no matter how difficult the problem is, they will face it head-on, and they will tell us a truth with their own practical actions.

The hardest thing in the world is the human heart.

Except for people's hearts, everything else is nonsense.

As long as you are not afraid of difficulties, even the most difficult problems can be solved.

Fu Youde is obviously this kind of person, and he is also the best among this kind of people.

On the issue of elephants, Fu Youde showed his extraordinary courage as a warrior.

He carefully studied the weaknesses of the elephants, and he found that he could not use the conventional combat tactics of the past against the elephants, let alone the melee strategy.

Melee combat is equivalent to suicide.

Dealing with them is only suitable for long-range attacks.

So he asked the soldier to take out the only weapon in his hand that was suitable for long-range attacks.

Muskets.

Those who have read the previous content should know that the musket at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was far from being as easy to use as our current pistol, and it took at least three people to cooperate if you wanted to use it, one person was responsible for supporting the gun with his body or arm in front, one person was responsible for the device, and the other person was responsible for aiming and firing in the back.

This is a big problem, its speed and frequency of use will not be too high, it can even be said to be very low, and there is a fatal flaw, it will explode if it is not good, which is what we commonly call self-exposure.

This is also the reason why many Ming troops were equipped with muskets at that time, but the use rate was very low.

It is too troublesome to use, and the aiming rate is too low, the lethality is also average, and it will protect itself if it is not good, and these fatal shortcomings seriously restrict its development.

The musket is okay in close combat, and even if you hit it blindly, you can kill a piece.

But there is another fatal problem here.

It's too slow.

Compared to the slice knife, the speed of the musket does not have a slight advantage at all.

In close combat, if you use a musket to fight with the enemy in front of you, before your ** is reloaded, the opponent's knife has already been killed in front of you, which is not much different from suicide.

In the chaotic situation at that time, anyone with a little brain would rather choose a knife to slash the enemy than choose a musket, a weapon that is stupid and extremely low in lethality.

But when dealing with elephants, Fu Youde fully excavated the advantages of muskets, because there is no need to aim at all to deal with elephants, the size and huge body of elephants are a huge live target, and they themselves move slowly, and there is no way to compare with people, people can find a way to dodge when they are in a hurry, but these guys have nowhere to hide if they want to, they can only use their bodies to be shot.

Fu Youde didn't have to do anything, he just had the soldier load and then pull the trigger, and he didn't have to worry about the bullet missing.

After realizing this benefit, Fu Youde put some people in charge of the musket bombardment, and another group of people armed with strong crossbows (snatched from the Yuan soldiers) to take cover.

The two sides will cooperate closely.

In the face of Fu Youde's long-distance attack strategy, the elephants of Xia Kingdom told us a truth with their actual actions.

Cattle are also afraid of pain.

In the face of a huge threat of death, even as animals, they will be deserters.

And they are deserters, and the battle is worse than people.

Under Fu Youde's almost fierce artillery attack, the elephants, as beasts, no longer had the courage to move forward in the past, and they began to retreat, turning around and retreating at the same time.

With the elephant's U-turn, the initiative of both the enemy and the enemy changed in an instant.

The elephant that was originally used to break rings and trample in the hands of the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom became a nightmare for the Xia Kingdom.

Completely disobedient to the command, they began to trample on their camp frantically, ravaging wantonly, and the Xia soldiers led by Dai Shou suffered countless casualties.

The elephant legion, which was originally prepared to inflict heavy damage on the enemy, not only did not have the desired effect, but caused great damage to its own soldiers and horses.

The defenders of Chengdu were defeated.

Even so, Dai Shou, as the prime minister, still did not choose to surrender, he asked all the soldiers to retreat to Chengdu, and then entrenched, trying to wait for the support of friendly forces in Chongqing in the rear.

But what he didn't expect was that the friendly forces he had been waiting for didn't arrive.

All I had come was a letter from home.

The producer is the monarch of the Xia Kingdom, Mingsheng.

The content is very simple, as the Ming army broke through the city, as the monarch of the Xia State, he has led all his subordinates to surrender, and the Xia State perished, so that he should no longer make useless resistance, all surrender, disarm as soon as possible, and strive for leniency.

But at such times, as a subordinate, they will generally choose to go with the flow.

After all, his boss has already disarmed, and it is useless to resist hard.

The sincerity of the expression has already been expressed, and there is no need to make any other expressions of oneself.

Just go down the slope and get off the donkey.

But there are exceptions to everything.

Dai Shou is one of them.

As the prime minister, he didn't seem to be willing to surrender, and he also knew that his group of subordinates who had been beaten and disabled by the Ming army could no longer fight with him, so he chose another reason.

A point of no return that seems to me to be absolutely worthy of a generation of loyal ministers.

He did not embarrass the soldiers.

Rather, they agreed to disarm and surrender.

When everyone was gone, he found a small boat and rowed to the middle of the lake.

At the moment when everyone had surrendered and the Xia regime was completely destroyed, the ship sank itself.

Dai Shou, Shen Jiang died.

Although Dai Shou's behavior is incomprehensible to many people, thinking that he is committing suicide, there is no need to do so.

But I don't think he was suicidal by doing so.

In my personal opinion, his behavior should be called righteousness.

and suicide are two different concepts entirely.

Personally, I believe that suicide is irresponsible for one's own life, the greatest slander against one's parents for loyalty and filial piety, and a great insult to life.

However, going to righteousness is different, it is loyalty and persistence to one's own country, and it is an unyielding struggle against one's own beliefs.

He is completely different from suicide and cannot be confused at all.

There is an outstanding representative of this behavior in history, and his name is Wen Tianxiang.

Perhaps only Wen Tianxiang's poems can show that kind of righteous mind.

The panic beachhead said that it was panicked, and the zero ding sighed in the ocean;

All men are mortal? Keep Dan in mind.

Although Dai Shou's style is not as tragic as Wen Tianxiang, his behavior is equally commendable.

The history books will always leave a strong mark for him:

In the fourth year of Hongwu (1371), Ming Sheng descended to Ming, and Dai Shou chiseled the boat and sank himself.