Chapter 503: Attack on Fahrenheit City (Second Update)
Of course, Xiang Yu didn't know that in the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, the most difficult job to do was feeding and training elephants.
Although the people of the Peacock Dynasty have left a little trick in domesticating elephants since ancient times, they really can't understand the language of elephants as Xiang Yu imagined in his heart, and they only know a little bit about the living habits of elephants.
The reason why the number of peacocks raised by the Mauryan Empire has become less and less in recent years under the condition that Sheli Yijia is in charge of the government, is precisely because taming and feeding elephants is a very expensive work, and the mortality rate of the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty who are struggling to raise and train elephants in the front line is very high.
For these two reasons, there were fewer and fewer elephants under the rule of Sarija, and at the same time, there was no one to make up for the death of the elephant tamper in an accident. I don't know how much worse the level of elephant domestication is compared to the time of Emperor Ashoka.
If you want to say that the Mauryan Dynasty was domesticating elephants during the Ashoka period before, then now it is just breeding, as for training, those soldiers who raise elephants still want to live for two more years.
Of course, Xiang Yu and Han Xin didn't know these backgrounds, and even Yu Shili didn't know that since he became the monarch of this Peacock Empire, he had hardly seen the power of this elephant army with his own eyes, because in his opinion, the smell of elephants was too big.
On the night of the second day after the three of them discussed, Long He led 20,000 Hun cavalry, bypassed a hill, lined up, and slowly approached a military camp on the side.
Because they were guarding the capital, they were fairly tightly guarded, patrolling around the camp in groups, but their purpose was more to protect Fahrenheit than to guard the barracks.
Their barracks have been set up very reasonably because of the good traditions before, and they all think that they don't need to guard it all the time, but this is also giving Long Ji a chance.
From the other side of Fahrenheit, Long Ji slowly walked around to a dead end between the arrow tower and the military camp, and then stopped the army for the time being, because he knew that if he went any further, he would probably be discovered.
He had to observe the lines of the patrolling guards first, so as to choose a time that would be the latest for him to be discovered, for the cavalry he led, every second was precious after the charge.
"After rushing to the camp, kill as many lone sergeants as possible on the periphery, don't go deep into the camp, our purpose is to lure them out!"
After conveying such a sentence at the end, Long He gave an order, and rushed out first, and then the Hun cavalry all rushed out and ran in the direction of the camp in the dark night.
The first to reach the ears of the Mauryan patrol sergeants was the sound of horses' hooves, and they didn't react to what was going on for a while, until a short cry suddenly came from another squad of patrolling people not far away, and they suddenly realized that there might be enemy troops outside their barracks.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
The sergeant who reacted first hurriedly shouted and put a signal, but within half a minute, after a period of horses' hooves approaching, he was also killed by the short knife of the Huns.
But at this time, the situation below had already aroused the minds of the people above the arrow tower, although they could not determine for a while how many enemies were coming, but all they could know was that they were attacked by a group of cavalry.
According to normal logic, these cavalry must have attacked Fahrenheit City, so after being reminded by the guards on the arrow tower, the sergeants in the surrounding barracks all rushed to the gate of Fahrenheit City, forming a formation to guard their city gate.
As soon as he saw this situation, a smile first appeared on Long Ji's face, which was almost exactly the same as the situation that Xiang Yu had guessed when he was leaving, and in this case, the military camp he was going to was caught off guard.
When Long He rushed to the barracks with a cadre of cavalry without any mud and water, many sergeants in the barracks were preparing to go out, wanting to go under the gate of Fahrenheit City, and suddenly found that the enemy army rushed to the gate of their camp, all of them were confused, but when they found that their companions around them were mercilessly killed by the other party on the horse, they finally knew that this wave of sergeants would not directly rush to the city of Fahrenheit. Instead, they will carry out a killing in their own barracks.
This kind of battle can be said to be the best way of fighting for the cavalry of the Huns, in the dark sky, the other side is all infantry, as long as the war knife in the hand is casually lying on their chest, they can take the lives of the enemy one by one in the rapid gallop of the war horse.
The defenders in the Mauryan barracks lit torches because they couldn't see where the enemy came from, but such torches not only did not allow them to see the enemy more clearly, but they became a clearer target for the Hun cavalry.
According to Long Ji's instructions, the Hun cavalry did not go deep into the barracks, but only attacked and killed on the periphery of the barracks, but after all, there were fifty or sixty thousand foot soldiers in this barracks, and when the sergeants inside reacted, they no longer blindly went out, but began to assemble in one place, they also knew that to deal with such cavalry, everyone must go out together, and the thin battle line will not play any role in the other party.
At this time, Long Ji had been observing the enemy's every move, and saw that there were many people in the depths of the camp, obviously already gathering, so he hurriedly ordered the cavalry under his command to continue to chase the lone enemy to attack and kill, while slowly moving in one direction of the camp, and that direction was the barracks full of elephants.
At the same time, the news of the encounter with the enemy outside Fahrenheit City was transmitted to Fahrenheit City as quickly as possible, and reached the ears of the Sarija.
"What? Tens of thousands of cavalry have already attacked the city of my Fahrenheit? Why haven't you heard any advice before? It's just that an inconsequential city on the border has been captured, and how long has it been before it has been attacked under the walls of the royal city? ”
Since he became the master of the Peacock Dynasty, the majesty of the dynasty has never been provoked like this, and it has reached the doorstep.
The relics lost to Gana and wondered, and several of his advisers did not wonder, the cities and armies on the border and the seaside were defeated one after another by the mysterious power of combat effectiveness, which is an omen, if people really want to go against your Peacock Dynasty, the ultimate goal of them is of course your royal city Fahrenheit, and there will be no second place.
"Sovereign, since the other party's cavalry is only twenty or thirty thousand, and the defenders around my Hua City are as many as two or three hundred thousand, we don't have to worry, even if these cavalry have amazing combat effectiveness, they are definitely not the opponent of our hundreds of thousands of troops."
"That's right! Mobilize all the soldiers in the barracks to meet the enemy, if the infantry can't catch up with the opponent's cavalry, then release the elephants of my Peacock Dynasty, this is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, a hundred elephants can trample it, so that they can see the ability of my Peacock Dynasty, so that they can retreat in difficulty! ”
Originally, he was going to attack a Daqin with a scale about the same size as him, and get countless treasures and beautiful beauties from Daqin, but now, not only were the soldiers who attacked Daqin scattered by unknown killings, but even the guide didn't know where to go, and then his dynasty was killed by someone else in the capital, and this contrast between the top and bottom really made the Relic Yijia a little unacceptable, so he wanted to eliminate the twenty or thirty thousand guys who didn't know whether to live or die as quickly as possible.
The people under his command naturally did not dare to disobey the order of the relics, and they really wanted to destroy these enemies as soon as possible, so the generals under his command gave an order at that time to dispatch all the defenders and elephants to annihilate all these cavalry under the city of Fahrenheit!
In this way, it is a bit of a bad fun for Long Ji Originally, because almost all the sergeants went to the direction of the city gate, so he only attacked the people in one camp, and there was almost no pressure, but after the generals of each military camp received the order of the relics to lose Jia, they all rushed to Long Ji's team, and this time Long Ji could see that something was wrong.
"Could it be that they don't want to send elephants?"
After thinking of this result, Long Ji's heart was still very disappointed, if this wave of fierce operations could not lead to the elephant, it would be equivalent to the failure of his mission, even if he killed thousands of enemy troops, it was naturally very cost-effective for their exposure.
But according to Xiang Yu's arrangement, in such a situation, he still has a move, if this action still doesn't work, then he will have to withdraw his troops, otherwise, when the big encirclement of others is formed, most of his 20,000 cavalry will have to be explained here.
Such a scene, Han Xin and Xiang Yu were also secretly observing not far away, they each took thirty or forty thousand horses, respectively in two directions of Hua's City, according to the results discussed by the two of them before, once the scene in their minds happened, they could almost send troops, after all, the current Peacock Dynasty may really only know the 20,000 horses that are currently attacking their barracks, but they don't know that there are 80,000 cavalry behind these 20,000 horses, I didn't know that there were at least 100,000 foot soldiers approaching here in the distance.
At this time, Long He decisively gave the order, and the 20,000 cavalry were killed and left, and the direction was the camp where the elephants were raised.
In the eyes of the Mauryan soldiers, they fled in a panic, and their luck was not very good, and they ran to the camp that they thought was the most terrible, and if the elephants were released, it would be an existence that even their own people feared.
It was also at this time that the elephant-raising camp received an order from the relics to send out the elephants to exterminate the cavalry, which had slipped in the hands of the infantry.
"General, do you really want to send the elephants in this barracks?"
After receiving this order, the adjutant general of a battalion asked his commander with some hesitation, obviously they were not very happy with the news that should have allowed them to show their skills.
"How many elephants can I control?"
"This ...... It's been a long time since I've tried it, but we practice the flute that urges elephants, and I think there should be no problem within a hundred. ”
After this sentence was said, their lord general frowned, and in this sentence, he heard too many uncertain things, but since the relics and the loss of the gar have been ordered, this is under Fahrenheit City, everyone is waiting for their news in the city, and they still have to perform more or less, so that these two or thirty thousand cavalrymen who don't know whether they are alive or dead can see the power of the elephants unique to the Peacock Dynasty.
"Then dispatch a hundred heads for the time being, under this rush and killing, I think it can also make these 20,000 horses fall apart, and the rest is those foot soldiers."
In this way, the pens where the elephants were held were hurriedly opened, and some of the people who domesticated these elephants sat on horseback, following closely beside the elephants, and each elephant's back slowly climbed up a person, and the people who climbed on the back of the elephant, each of them held a flute-like thing tightly in their hands.
On either side of the elephant were about a thousand cavalrymen, who were to fight with the elephants, and if the enemy was lost by the impact of the galloping elephants, they would reap the lives of the enemy.
"It's an elephant, this time they really used an elephant, pay attention to my orders!"
Long Ji, who took the lead, had been staring closely at the gate of the camp, so the moment the elephants came out, listening to the neighing of the elephants, Long Ji knew that the other party had sent elephants.
At this time, he slowed down the march very wisely, if he really faced the elephant that rushed up, then there was nothing to say, and the 20,000 people basically couldn't go back.
By the light of the moon, the dragon noticed that huge black shadows were coming out of the camp, and they followed one after the other, looking very orderly.