Chapter 504: Seeking Wealth and Danger (First Update)
This made Long Ji's heart chuckle for a moment, and his heart said Could it be that these people can really communicate with elephants? If that's the case, I'm a little choked this time.
Thinking of this, Long Ji couldn't help but look back, and found that the Peacock Dynasty's foot soldiers, who were originally chasing their own people, had basically stopped in place, silently watching the scene of elephants slaughtering one after another in front of them, obviously, they were also very panicked about these elephants.
At this time, for a general's on-the-spot judgment ability can be very dependent, Long He observed the current situation he was facing a little, and combined with the goal that Xiang Yu had set for himself before, he knew that this was where Xiang Yu and Han Xin were ambushed in the future, and he also knew that there were countless possibilities for this night's battle, and he might be wiped out, and he might return in vain to expose the true strength of 100,000 cavalry to the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty.
Of course, it is also possible to cause the opponent's 300,000 army to cause very heavy losses, and it is also possible to end this war this night, break through the gate of the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty, and capture the king in the city alive!
And which result is obtained, it depends on his own decision, whether he can achieve the effect that Xiang Yu expected before, so that the other party will lose a lot before Xiang Yu and Han Xin intervene.
"Give the order quickly, and wait for the elephant that came out of the camp to rush out before escaping, and once the elephant has rushed up, go around from the direction of the city to the group of foot soldiers who are chasing after us! At the same time, carefully observe what kind of method those Mauryan soldiers are using to control the elephants, and let me know as soon as they find out! ”
Long and lightning had already set a strategy for the 20,000 Hun cavalry he led, and shouted loudly to several lieutenants behind him.
"General, if we go around the side of the city, I'm afraid that the people on the arrow tower will shoot arrows at us, and if they enter their range, they will definitely be damaged!"
Everyone has seen the current form very clearly, and a deputy general couldn't help but remind that the several arrow towers around the capital are not just for lookouts, each towering arrow tower has several floors, and on each floor is a small team of archers, and at this time it is already ready for battle.
The cavalry led by Long Ji had always been out of their range before, but this time, if he really did what Long Ji said, he would definitely be within his range. If the Peacock Dynasty had something similar to the Qin crossbow of Great Qin, the damage caused to them would not be small.
But the reason why Long He made such a decision was naturally for his purpose, and in the face of his lieutenant's questioning, he just retorted coldly, and then waved his hand and motioned to several lieutenants to quickly convey his meaning.
Soon one by one the elephants came out of the camp, and the dragon had been counting, there were more than a hundred, and all of these elephants were adult wild elephants, and all of them had long tusks, and once they touched, they didn't know how they died.
After the elephant came out, suddenly a low voice came from the direction of the elephant, Long He was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly gave an order, and many cavalry directly turned their horses' heads and ran towards the direction that Long He had set before.
The sound was indeed blown out by every person riding on the back of the elephant, the purpose was naturally to command the elephant, these cavalry reacted so quickly, they didn't expect it, but these elephants have not been pulled out for a long time, at this time the physical strength is very good, they believe that it will not take much time, the cavalry of Long and will be affected by their elephants.
Isn't the direction in which Long He fled with his team in the direction of an arrow tower? When the people on the arrow tower saw this situation, they all opened their bows and arrows, ready to shoot and kill, and many of the generals of the Peacock Dynasty who were watching this scene from a distance were also relieved, and said that this elephant was really different.
Originally, these cavalry were so strong, but as soon as they saw the elephants, they didn't wait for anything, they began to run in a panic, and ran within the range of the arrow tower, can they still have good fruit to eat? Before the elephant could catch up, it was shot by the arrow tower first, and I don't know how many.
But what they didn't see clearly was that for their team to suffer from the rain of arrows, Long Ji's lieutenants had already ordered it, and almost every Hun cavalry was blocking their heads with a small shield, which was the standard configuration of the 6,000 sets of armor that Yinggao funded Xiang Yu.
When the 6,000 sets of armor arrived, Xiang Yu asked Yu Ziqi to select some useful things according to the needs of the cavalry under his command, and this exquisite small shield was one of them, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.
If Yinggao is here, he will really find that the foundation of the Peacock Dynasty is actually better than his own, the armor on their bodies and the weapons in their hands, although they have not developed much for decades, but they are actually not bad with the elite equipment of Daqin now, but the only place that is more bad is even the bow and crossbow, the Peacock Dynasty does not have such labor-saving and exquisite things as the Qin crossbow, so this arrow rain is smaller than Long and imagined.
But even so, even though many cavalry have done a lot of protection in advance, there are still many people who have not dodged this wave of arrow rain, after all, the arrows shot down from the sky are not a joke, if it is really a person, then the impact alone can take this person from the horse to the ground, so at this time, the cavalry under the command of Long He began to suffer casualties.
Such a scene also made the Mauryan sergeant breathe a long sigh of relief, because the previous 20,000 cavalry killed their foot soldiers and did not leave a piece of armor, in their eyes, such cavalry was very difficult to defeat, but now, it has only been half an hour, and such a myth has been shattered.
But of course they didn't know that such casualties were prepared by Long He a long time ago, and he was ready to carry this wave hard, because after carrying this wave, although the elephants behind him were getting closer and closer to his cavalry, their position was also closer to the walls of Fahrenheit City, and more importantly, the elephants were chasing them and approaching Fahrenheit City at the same time, and at the same time approaching those foot soldiers who were hiding far away and watching the excitement.
At this time, whether it is the foot soldiers on the arrow tower or underground, they have not felt their danger, in their eyes, this team of cavalry has been panicked, the next step they will definitely pass through the next arrow tower, and then lose one or two thousand people, and then they will be caught up by the elephants, and then the impact is fragmented, so that the cavalry of the Mauryan Dynasty followed by the elephants to be scavengers.
However, the dream of the people of the Mauryan Dynasty did not appear, although they suffered some losses, and it seemed to be extremely hasty, but just after passing the arrow tower, under the leadership of Long Ji, the route of the remaining cavalry suddenly changed.
Instead of continuing quite down the range of the other prepared turret, they began to circle in the direction of the outside of the city, and if anyone could sit on the helicopter and look down at this time, they would find that the dragon was trying to go around behind the foot soldiers who were watching the commotion.
But when such a change was just formed, neither the elephants following behind nor those foot soldiers noticed it, one was that it was still quite dark outside at this time, and the dragon led the army without lighting the torches, but just running in the dark, and the other was that they didn't think it was the dragon and arranged the route in advance.
The impact of the elephant is indeed very strong, but when the sergeant controlling the elephant discovers the dragon and has turned the corner, he can only temporarily stop the elephant, and then adjust the direction, this stop and adjustment, undoubtedly wasted some time, making them a little farther away from the cavalry that was already about to catch up.
But after a short time, the form of the pursuit was formed again.
At this time, Long Ji was very anxious in his heart, his plan had passed for more than half of the time, but he needed to know one thing, if he didn't know about this matter, this plan would basically not be completed.
Just when Long Ji was about to go to the back to carry out this matter in person, a lieutenant general covered his arm and rode to Long Ji's side with a dirty face, but his face was very excited.
"General, those of the Mauryan Empire control the direction of the elephant by riding a musical instrument played by the man on the back of the elephant, and each elephant has a person sitting on its back, and if this person can be killed, the elephant will get out of control when it lands!"
This discovery was made by the lieutenant general with a team of dozens of people who deliberately dragged behind to observe, and finally paid for the lives of almost all the people who followed him, and finally saw how they controlled the elephants, and after braving the rain of arrows, he immediately informed Long Ji of the news.
After hearing this, Long Ji frowned slightly, he really didn't expect that the person who controlled the elephant would ride on the back of the elephant, which was definitely a big challenge for him to do, but the matter had come to this, he knew that he was already riding a tiger, so after thinking about it for a while, he said something to the lieutenant general.
"And you are here to run with the people according to the predetermined route, and no matter what happens in between, bring the team to the position I have set before!"
After throwing out such a sentence, Long He directly anxious about his closest two or three hundred cavalry, and gradually slowed down and broke away from the team, and soon reached the end of the team.
The lieutenant thought about it carefully, and suddenly understood a little bit what Long He was going to do, but it was too late for him to dissuade him, seeing Long He and his party disappear into the night, he could only hope that Long He would successfully complete this matter.
In the blink of an eye, Long He and the people were at the end of the group, and by this time the elephants had started to run again, and they were getting closer and closer to their team, and after Long He gathered the two hundred people in front of him and informed them of his thoughts, these people all showed solemn expressions on their faces, but none of them wanted to retreat.
"We only have one chance to wait, if we can't complete more than half of the hundred elephants, our 100,000-strong army will fail this siege!"
Eventually, Long Ji said this, and all the people around him nodded, obviously, they knew the importance of this attack and the responsibility they were about to take on later.
After saying this, in the darkness of the night, including Long and the two hundred men, they made an astonishing move, they gave up the most important thing for the cavalry, that is, the war horse, and then hid their bodies in the dark, looking in the direction behind them, waiting for the elephants to come closer and closer.
At this time, the Mauryan sergeants who were observing from the arrow tower noticed something wrong.
"If they follow the direction of their escape, wouldn't they have led the elephant to where my Peacock Infantry is?"
"It doesn't matter, my Peacock Dynasty's control over elephants is very proper, they now only have less than 20,000 cavalry left, even if they rush into the foot soldiers, they don't need the elephants to continue to chase, my Peacock Dynasty's foot soldiers can directly wipe them out!"
As time passed, many people discovered this problem, but most of them had this idea, and they were all very confident in the elephants of their dynasty.
Eventually, the elephants got closer and closer to the Hun cavalry, but at the same time, the Hun cavalry also went around to the flanks of the nearly 100,000 foot soldiers who had chased them before the Mauryan Empire, and these foot soldiers had apparently discovered the Hun cavalry's intentions and were ready for battle one by one.
They all knew that the critical moment was coming, and at this time, the sergeants who were riding on the elephant's body to control these behemoths were basically ready, because they involved their own people, so they only needed to use the elephants to block those cavalry, and then let the cavalry behind them and their own foot soldiers close the door and beat the dogs, and it would not be a problem to eliminate less than 20,000 cavalry.
However, the sheer size of the elephant and the darkness of the night did not cause them to find a problem.
When the Hun cavalry really reached their crossroads, the Mauryan soldiers sitting on the elephants knew that it was time to let the elephants run back and forth like this, so they took their flutes and prepared to blow the order to stop the elephants so as not to hurt their companions.