Chapter 222 Methods of Responding to Soldiers
After the two battalions of cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army switched and attacked, Yang Wenguang, Zhong Hao, Yang Huaiyu and others have been standing on the wall and paying attention to the battle situation below. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info now has a clairvoyant mirror, and the battle situation two miles away can be seen clearly.
The monocular clairvoyance in Yang Wenguang's hand was made of crystal lenses, and its clarity was higher than that of the glass lenses in the hands of Zhong Hao, Yang Huaiyu and Cui Feng. Therefore, Yang Wenguang was the first to see the faces of those Nong Army elephant soldiers.
Originally, Yang Wenguang scolded those cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army for going to the camp of the Nong Army~ Mother, there was still no worry at all, although the Nong Army had tens of thousands of troops, but there were not many cavalry. Besides, the cavalry of the Nong Army are all Lingnan bantam horses or Dali horses riding, and they are skilled, and those elite cavalry who want to catch up with the Zhenxi Army are undoubtedly foolish dreams.
Although the cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army are less than 600 people, they are all older than the elite of the battle array, and if they see that the situation is not good, if they run away, it is estimated that those Nong troops only have the share of eating soil and are unlikely to be in danger.
However, when Yang Wenguang saw those giant beasts with fangs rushing out of the camp of the Nong army, he couldn't help but sink in his heart, afraid that those soldiers in his own Zhenxi Army had not encountered these things, and they would suffer a big loss.
Yang Wenguang couldn't help but nervously grasp the monocular clairvoyant and observe the situation on the battlefield. I can't help but be nervous, these cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army were all brought up by him, and he has participated in countless battles, all of them are old subordinates who get along day and night, and he will feel distressed if he is slightly injured.
Fortunately, Yang Wenguang saw that although the cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army were a little flustered at first, after all, they were trained, and under the leadership of their generals, they were not damaged too much by the impact.
However, seeing that a small number of cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army were crushed by those war elephants with fangs, and their muscles and bones were broken and they died, Yang Wenguang still had a relative.
When he saw that the cavalry soldiers of the two battalions of the Zhenxi Army saw that it was difficult to defeat the Nong army, and quickly broke away from the battlefield under the leadership of their commanders Han Wu and Wang Dazhu, and galloped back to Kunlun Pass, Yang Wenguang breathed a long sigh of relief. Although the Zhenxi Army suffered a slight loss this time, it was a gain to let the Nong Army dispatch this elephant soldier to expose the details.
When Di Shuai arrived at Kunlun Pass with the army, he must tell him to understand the elephant troops of the Nong army. It's a little scary to think about it, if it weren't for the fact that the Nong army knew about these elephant soldiers in advance now, if it was really a decisive battle between the two armies, the Nong army suddenly dispatched these elephant soldiers with unmatched impact, and the Western Army might really suffer a big loss!
At that moment, seeing that those cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army galloped back to Kunlun Pass, and those Nong Army elephant soldiers did not chase after him, Yang Wenguang couldn't help but hurriedly let the soldiers guarding the gate open the gate and let the cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army enter the pass.
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Zhong Hao has also been standing at the head of Guancheng, looking at the battle situation with clairvoyance. Although the clairvoyant mirror in his hand can see far away, because there is too much iron green in the glass at this time, the clarity is affected, but he doesn't have to look deliberately, he can basically see that those giant beasts are the large animals in Dali, Jiaozhi, Siam, Champa and other countries in the southern Song Dynasty - elephants, because their size is too big.
After seeing the terrifying impact of those elephant soldiers, Zhong Hao couldn't help but be a little shocked.
Zhong Hao had only seen the incomparable momentum of the cavalry charging before, and felt that it was terrifying enough, and when the overwhelming cavalry rushed over, the momentum felt completely like an existence that could tear anything. But now in front of these elephant soldiers, the elite cavalry of the Zhenxi Army seems to be helpless at all. The sharp impact of the past could not be shown at all in front of these elephant soldiers.
Those war elephants not only have rough skin and thick flesh, but also wear armor, and there are tusks in front of them when impacting, and it is difficult to effectively kill those war elephants with ordinary blade attacks. And the nong cavalry and archers on the war elephants, sitting in the elephant baskets on the back of the war elephants, were condescending, and when they completely covered their bodies with wooden shields, the cavalry warriors of the Zhenxi army really did not know to attack them.
Although Zhong Hao was still far away from those elephant soldiers, he could also feel the strength of the impact of those war elephants, and the momentum was powerful. If you don't prepare in advance, when fighting the Western Army, Nong Zhigao will send elephant soldiers to charge into battle, which may really cause great damage to the Western Army.
Yang Huaiyu also felt the same way as Zhong Hao, he also found that these war elephants with armor and teeth were afraid that they would be difficult to defeat, if they couldn't think of a way to deal with them, the Western Army was afraid that they would suffer a big loss in front of these war elephants!
"Big brother, these giant beasts are legendary elephants?" Although Yang Huaiyu was born in a family of Jiangmen, he grew up in Tokyo when he was a teenager, and he is also a well-informed person, this tiger, lion, leopard and other fierce beasts, he has seen them, but for this elephant, Yang Huaiyu has only heard of its name, and has never seen this living thing. He only judged from the long trunk of the beast that it was the legendary elephant, because he had heard that the elephant had a long trunk.
"Well, these are indeed elephants. These guys have rough skin and thick meat, and they are trained to rush into battle, and they are indeed very powerful. ”
"The power of these elephant soldiers is really terrifying, although the cavalry of our Western Army is elite, but judging from the situation of the sons of our Zhenxi Army and those Nong Army elephant soldiers just now, I am afraid it is not easy to deal with. If the two armies of our Western Army and Nong Zhigao Army are fighting in formation, these elephant soldiers come to charge the formation, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to stop it. These giant elephants rushed up, and their power was no less than that of a huge battering ram, and I am afraid that they would cause great damage to our soldiers. ”
Zhong Hao frowned and said, "Who says it's not, the impact and destructive power of this elephant soldier is really terrifying." We must come up with a way to deal with this elephant soldier before the decisive battle with Nong Zhigao's army, otherwise our western army is afraid that it will suffer a big loss! ”
These war elephants are like tanks, and if they collide and crush them, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop them at all by relying on the dense spear formation against the cavalry. When the time comes, if these war elephants are followed by the Nong infantry to fight together, just like the Bu Tan cooperation, with the impact and cover of these war elephants, those Nong infantry will be able to easily rush into the Western Army formation, causing great damage to the Western Army formation. If that happens, I am afraid that the operation of the Western Army will be very unfavorable. Zhong Hao was really a little worried when he thought about that situation.
"Is there a way for the eldest brother to break this elephant army?" In Yang Huaiyu's eyes, his eldest brother, except for martial arts, is not good at other skills, whether it is writing poems and lyrics, strange skills ~ skill, or divination and fortune telling, or and bragging, his eldest brother is very proficient. Of course, the ability to brag in the end is not too difficult to master. But his eldest brother's braggadocio can often pull out the depth, and can make you unconsciously believe that it is true, which is a big skill.
It is precisely because Yang Huaiyu feels that his eldest brother is perfect, that when he encounters something, he asks his eldest brother first. And his eldest brother has never let himself down. Yes, this time Yang Huaiyu saw that this elephant soldier was powerful, so he naturally asked his eldest brother how to crack it. He felt that his big brother would definitely have a way! My big brother has never let himself down!
Yang Wenguang, Cui Feng and others next to them were also impressed by the power of the soldiers, and at this time, when they heard Yang Huaiyu ask Zhong Hao if he had a solution to it, they couldn't help but turn their heads and look at Zhong Hao, hoping that he could come up with some clever methods.
Zhong Hao smiled bitterly: "Zhong Rong, you really regard me as a 'jack of all trades', although I know this war elephant, it is really the first time I have seen the power of this elephant soldier." After a pause, he continued, "However, most beasts are afraid of loud noises, and the earth-shattering thunder we brought should have an effect. When the time comes, it should work to let our assault cavalry soldiers throw the sky-shaking thunder into the formation of the elephant army before they rush to our western army's main array. Although the power of the explosion of the earth-shattering thunder was difficult to cause significant damage to those war elephants, the huge explosion was likely to frighten those war elephants, making it difficult for the riders of the Nong army to control these war elephants. ”
Yang Huaiyu and Cui Feng listened to Zhong Hao's words, and couldn't help but think of the situation of dealing with the party cavalry in the front camp of Xixia Mountain during the autumn harvest last year. At that time, they only threw a few explosive bags from the wall into the camp in front of the mountain, which caused the horses of the party cavalry of that battalion to be frightened, so that they completely lost control, so that the soldiers of the middle battalion of the Pingxi Army, who were only novices on the battlefield at that time, easily defeated them.
Thinking of this, Yang Huaiyu and Cui Feng couldn't help but bow their heads one after another, feeling that this earth-shattering thunder should be able to play an important role. Moreover, there are still a lot of explosive bags left in the Pingxi military camp. These remaining explosive packs were originally intended to be used to blow up the gates of Yongzhou City in case of attacking Yongzhou City and not being able to attack it for a long time.
Now for the elephant soldiers, these explosives can also be taken out to deal with those elephant soldiers, and then they can build some small stone throwers that they use on the wall of Jingqiang Village, and throw these explosives bags into the elephant soldiers' array, which should be able to cause a lot of damage.
Although Yang Wenguang had never seen the process of breaking the party cavalry in the Pingxi Army, he had heard Yang Huaiyu say it in detail later, so after listening to Zhong Hao's words, he also nodded again and again.
Yang Wenguang said to Zhong Hao: "This earth-shattering thunder and explosives package should be useful, but this trick alone is always a little unsafe, Wen Xuan knows what natural enemies or restraints these elephants have?" All things are mutually reinforcing, and perhaps there is something else that can restrain this elephant. Yang Wenguang, like most soldiers of the Western Army, had only heard of this elephant, but he had never seen it, and he was not familiar with this elephant. He heard that Zhong Hao had seen an elephant, and he should be more familiar with this elephant than everyone else, so he asked.
Zhong Hao listened to Yang Wenguang's words, and couldn't help but speak: "This elephant has rough skin and thick flesh, and its body is huge, I'm afraid it is difficult to find natural enemies in nature......
Zhong Hao was about to say that it was difficult for this elephant to find natural enemies or restraints, but suddenly remembered a very simple card chess that he often played when he was a child. The beast chess is in the order of "elephant lion, tiger, leopard, wolf, dog, cat and mouse", which can eat big and small, while the rat at the end can restrain the elephant. It is said that rats can burrow elephants, suffocating elephants to death.
There is also a theory that rats can burrow into an elephant's head from its ears and bite its brain spindle.
Zhong Hao couldn't help but search in his mind for information he knew about whether rats could really restrain elephants, and he really remembered an article he had read before that refuted rumors that elephants were afraid of mice. However, while the article shows that elephants are not afraid of mice, it also indicates that elephants are afraid of unfamiliar sights and sounds. And this is the fundamental reason why many people think that elephants are afraid of mice.
Think about it, when the elephant moves, the trunk is generally far away from the ground, even if the mouse jumps up and down, it is futile to do so, and the mouse has no chance to get into the elephant's trunk. When elephants are resting, they usually carefully curl their trunks and place them in a safe place, and rats do not have a chance to touch the elephant's trunk.
And even if a rat does get into the elephant's trunk, it doesn't matter. An elephant can sneze a long way with just one breath, so the argument that a mouse can burrow an elephant's trunk and suffocate an elephant is really untenable.
As for the fact that rats can get through elephant ears, it is even more nonsense. It is not easy for a mouse to climb into the elephant's ears, and even if it climbs in, it is estimated that as soon as the mouse takes its mouth, the elephant will shake the mouse away as soon as it suffers.
However, although elephants are not afraid of mice, the article is very certain that elephants are very afraid of unfamiliar sights and sounds.
Shocking thunder and explosives packs can make terrifying noises to make them panic, and at the same time, Zhong Hao thinks they can also create something that can lead to the elephant's fear and scare them away.
Since elephants have no natural predators or restraints in nature, let's create some artificially!
Zhong Hao thought about it and said to Yang Wenguang: "Elephants really have nothing to restrain in nature, but we can make some!" ”
At that moment, Zhong Hao told Yang Wenguang and others what he knew about elephants and some of his thoughts.
When everyone heard this, they all nodded again and again, they didn't know anything about elephants, and what Zhong Hao said, they all felt that it made sense.
At that moment, Yang Wenguang said to Zhong Hao: "Wenxuan, you hurry up and sort out the method of how to break the elephant soldiers, write a note, and give it to Di Shuai for him to read after he comes!" ”
"Well, it's better for the general to come up, after all, the subordinates are soft-spoken!"
Yang Wenguang said with a smile: "You are now a serious man in the Shuai's mansion, and Di Shuai also has a lot of appreciation for you, how can people say it lightly." Besides, the method is what you come up with, and there are many things that others can't understand, so it's best for you to do it! Obviously, Yang Wenguang wanted Zhong Hao to show his face more in front of Di Shuai again, and Di Shuai would take care of him in the future, which would be indispensable for Zhong Hao's benefits.
Zhong Hao immediately said to Yang Wenguang: "That is the case, then the subordinates obey the order!" ”