The Eastern Army's main formation, the commander Wei Chi Youqi looked at the war elephants that appeared in the Western Army's main formation, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, when the military discussion before the war, he and the generals guessed the tactics that the enemy might take, but they didn't expect the other party to be able to make war elephants.

The body of the war elephant is huge, rushing up and stumbling on it, the flesh and blood can't stop it at all, Wei Chi Youqi, who is located in the main formation of the Chinese army, although he can't see the specific situation of the battle situation clearly, but the casualties of the soldiers of the enemy's own assault will not be small, and it is likely that he has suffered heavy casualties.

The opponent's war elephant can keep rushing, not only to defeat their own assault team, but also to directly impact their own Chinese army's main formation, once the Chinese army is shaken, even if it takes a lot of effort to solve the war elephant, the subsequent enemy cavalry, their own side is afraid that they will not be able to stop.

Wei Chi Youqi's original plan was to use cavalry to make a central breakthrough, but he didn't expect to be broken through by the other party.

At this moment, Wei Chiyouqi's mind was blank, he thought that he could deal with all kinds of variables on the battlefield, but when the other party entered the war elephant, he was instantly helpless.

Are these war elephants fake? No way.

Wei Chi Youqi calmed down a little, he knew that Yuwen Wen had crusaded against the Chen Guoling area last year, and had also quelled the Jiaozhou rebellion, and even invaded the capital of Linyi State, so these war elephants should have been brought from Lingbiao or Jiaozhou.

However, from Lingbiao Guangzhou to Huangzhou, Shannan, the land distance is more than 1,000 miles, and the roads are rugged and difficult to travel along the way.

Not to mention bringing elephants from Shannan to Huaibei, such a crazy move is just to use war elephants to fight?

You might as well get more horses!

Maniac, madman!!

Wei Chi Youqi cursed in his heart, but now it was useless to scold Yu Wenwen for being a madman, he knew that if he didn't want to block the charge of the enemy's war elephants, the battle situation would be bad.

If it really doesn't work, Wei Chi Youqi decided to fill it with human life, and at this moment, a general said with a happy face: "Don't worry about Shangshu Ling!" The enemy army is killing itself, and defeat is not far away! ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Shang Shuling, can you remember how the Later Han Dynasty Ma Fubo broke the Elephant Army?"

"Ma Fubo?"

Wei Chiyou Qi read these three words, and after a while, his eyes lit up, and his constricted brows instantly relaxed: "I see!" ”

Ma Fubo, that is, the Later Han Fubo general Ma Yuan, "Ma Leather Shroud Return" allusion in the Ma Yuan, in the early Han Dynasty, Jiaozhi had a rebellion on the side and two sisters, Ma Yuan led the Han army south to quell the rebellion, and it is said that he had fought with the rebel war elephants.

The war elephant has a large body, a wooden house on its back, and in it there are not only the riders but also the soldiers, with arrows in long-range combat, lances and spears in close combat, and the war elephants themselves are quite impactful, once the group rushes can be said to be invincible.

However, such a behemoth was afraid of fire, and the Han army shot war elephants with fire arrows, which instantly caused these war elephants to panic, regardless of the scattering and fleeing, directly disrupting their own army formation.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song army crusaded against the Linyi country, the Linyi army was good at using war elephants, and the Song general Zongyu ordered people to be fake lions, when the two armies faced each other and the Linyi war elephants charged, the Song army fake lions came on the field, and directly scared the war elephants into scattering and fleeing.

Therefore, war elephants only look fierce, but in fact they are very timid and afraid of fire, and even afraid of loud noises, which can be described as timid as rats.

Now, Yuwenwen's side has thrown into the war elephants, and it is too late for his side to make fake lions, but it is very convenient to shoot with fire arrows!

"You're right, fire! Fire! Fire! ”

Wei Chi Youqi was so excited that he said the word "fire" three times in a row, and immediately ordered the archers to go forward and fire rockets at the approaching war elephants, while the cavalry that was originally ready to attack the enemy's main formation retreated.

When the war elephant is frightened by the fire arrows and runs back wildly, the cavalry only needs to follow behind to cover and kill, and the enemy can be easily defeated!

The generals took the order and left, Wei Chi Youqi was still excited, looking at the enemy army in front of him, he really wanted to see Yu Wenwen's panicked appearance when the war elephant ran back.

Seeing his own troops and horses mobilized, Wei Chi Youqi smiled slightly: "Do you think you can win with war elephants?" That's self-destruction!! ”

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In the sound of heavy footsteps, the earth seemed to tremble, and the war elephants that had converged advanced like a wall, trampling on everything that stood in front of them, and all kinds of corpses were trampled into flesh by them, and the stubbornly resisting infantry of the Eastern Army could not stop these behemoths at all, and the temporarily assembled spear arrays were broken one by one.

The legs of each war elephant are covered with bright red bloodstains, which looks shocking, the war elephant is covered with armor, and the head and chest are also protected by armor, and the soldiers of the Eastern Army cannot defeat it head-on, and the nose of the war elephant can be rolled in addition to twitching like a whip.

One by one, the unlucky soldiers of the Eastern Army were rolled up by the war elephant with their noses, screaming and being lifted into the air, and then the elephant's trunk was thrown down, and the soldiers fell to the ground and died on the spot.

How much does it cost to kill one against such a giant beast?

Not to mention that there are archers on the small building on the back of the elephant who keep releasing arrows, and the soldiers of the Eastern Army braved the arrows to desperately approach the war elephant to cut off the elephant's legs, but they were stabbed by the soldiers on the small building with their rifles, even if they risked their lives to cut the elephant's legs a few times, but it was completely ineffective.

The officers and men of the Eastern Army, who broke into the central army of the Western Army, could not withstand the onslaught of the opposing war elephants, and soon collapsed, and the battle line gradually returned to its original starting point, and it was a large number of archers who advanced against the defeated army.

Seeing the enemy war elephants approaching, the archers of the Eastern Army stuck their torches on the ground, then bent their bows and mounted rockets, ignited the flammable objects tied to the arrows, and shot towards the behemoths, while at the same time, there were sword and shield men to protect the throwers.

Arrows of fire fell on the elephant like fireflies flying in the sky, and the throwers ventured close to the charging elephants, igniting and throwing the few remaining thunderbolts, while a large number of soldiers beat gongs and drums behind the archers, making a great noise.

The fire flickered in the herd, the explosions came and went, a war elephant was injured in the front foot, unable to bear the huge body weight, the war elephant fell to the ground with a wail, and another war elephant was blown off its nose, and blood flowed.

Many of the war elephants were embellished with fire arrows, and a lot of green smoke came out of the fire arrows, making them look like lit incense burners.

The archers continued to shoot fiery arrows, the herds of charging war elephants were shrouded in firelight, and the attacking throwers looked at the behemoths with anticipation, waiting for them to turn around and run wildly in fright.

"Whew!!!"

The war elephant roared and continued to rush forward, trampling the Eastern soldiers who could not dodge under their feet, blood splattered in the screams, and the war elephants covered in bruises sped up to move and maintain the same direction.

Not a single elephant turned and fled, not even the one with its nose blown off.

In the face of the rapidly approaching war elephants, the archers suppressed the fear in their hearts and struggled to release their arrows, because the generals said that war elephants are afraid of fire, pain, and loud noises, so...

Seeing that the war elephants trampled the soldiers who were struggling to stop them one by one, and that the fire bolts were completely useless against the opponents, the archers began to crumble, and turned around and ran away despite the hoarse shouts and curses of the governors.

The fire was blazing, reflecting the eyes of the war elephants, and even if there was no fire, the eyes of these war elephants were red, as if for some reason they were already in a state of extreme euphoria.

The horn sounded, and countless cavalry of the Eastern Army gathered in a group, flat-ended horses, wielding long knives, charging towards the war elephants of the Western Army advancing like a wall, like a huge wave, and slapping straight at the shore and reef.