Chapter 147: Victory!
More than 300 elephant soldiers of Zhenla Kingdom advanced side by side, black and pressing, and the huge size made the Tang army look up and down, and the dense arrows shot at the elephant, and soon the elephant became a hedgehog, but with a slight tremble, the elephant was almost unharmed, invulnerable!
The Tang army in the front was a little frightened, but under the reprimand of the military commander, they charged with knives and guns, but when they also came into contact with the elephant soldiers, they were rolled up by the elephant's trunk, thrown into the air, and when they fell to the ground, they were poked out of a few holes with spears by the soldiers of Zhenla Kingdom, and they died so that they could not die again.
The giant shield made of canoes was also ruthlessly trampled to pieces by the elephant, and the galloping war horse hit the elephant, but the elephant lifted its two front hooves under the control of the elephant soldiers, directly crushing the war horse into flesh.
The smell of blood permeated the entire territory, and the Tang army was irresistibly defeated.
"Although the Tang thieves are prosperous, they are not as powerful as the gods." Marshal Wu Cheng of Zhenla Country said with a smile.
Wu Cheng is his Han name, and he is also Han. In fact, there are not many Han people in Zhenla and Linyi countries, and more Han people occupy the ruling class, including the royal families of the two countries, all of whom have Han blood.
"Let the rear army follow, and the cavalry surround the Tang army, this time it must be done once and for all." He commanded.
Behind the mighty army of the Zhenla Kingdom, more than 3,000 cavalrymen appeared, their horses were short, most of them were Dian horses, and their feet almost touched the ground.
The impact power of the Yunnan horse is far from that of the Tang Army's Hexi war horse and Liaodong war horse, but it has one advantage, that is, it adapts to the local environment and has much better patience than other breeds of war horses.
The neighing of the war horses, with the elephant soldiers as the central point, spread out to both sides, forming an arc-shaped semicircle, the purpose of which was to outflank this group of defeated Tang troops.
But just as they approached Huangfengling, the defeated Tang army suddenly stopped, reorganized its ranks, and formed a defensive formation, dense and solid.
Wu Cheng, the marshal of the Zhenla Kingdom, frowned, "Tang thief is luring the enemy to go deeper, and all the troops are retreating!" ”
But he wasn't done yet.
The elephant soldiers had already touched the Tang army in formation, and the raging elephants had swept the Tang army into pieces.
Nearly 1,000 Tang soldiers were trampled to death, and there were Tang army routs jumping everywhere, crawling on the ground like an insect, and then being killed by the spearmen on both sides of the elephant, and some ran to the rock wall of Huangfengling and were shot to death by the soldiers of Zhenla with bows and arrows.
The situation is already clear, and the Don Army has already been defeated. The formation just now was just the last stubborn struggle.
"Inform the prince of Linyi that the armies of the two countries will advance and destroy the Tang army together, and victory will be won in one fell swoop." Wu Cheng laughed, flicked the horsewhip, and there was a sound of breaking the air in the air.
The reinforcements of the Zhenla Kingdom and the army of the Linyi Kingdom gathered enough to 70,000 people, and all the troops stepped on the trumpet and steadily approached the Huangfeng Ridge in front.
And the rout of the Tang army stopped when it reached the inner side of Huangfeng Ridge, and the musket team of the divine battalion was exposed from among them.
The muzzle of the swarthy flintlock pistol was pointed forward, and all the soldiers moved in unison, staring into the distance.
First of all, the elephant soldiers probed the formation, and neither the Zhenla Kingdom nor the Linyi Kingdom knew what the Tang Army was holding in front of them, but they knew that it must not be as powerful as the elephant with rough skin and thick flesh.
To improve the elephant's defenses, they first smeared a layer of palm oil on the elephant and then smeared it with mud.
The history of training elephant soldiers has been going on for thousands of years, and their fighting methods have long been extremely proficient.
At a distance of three hundred paces, the Divine Battalion was still waiting, they hadn't fired their guns yet, and everyone was staring at the front with a calm gaze.
Two hundred steps, some soldiers in the Divine Battalion could no longer withstand the pressure of the "giant" in front of them, and fell to the ground, but there were only two or three people, and the Divine Battalion quickly replenished it, after all, this was the first real actual battle.
One hundred and fifty paces, close to the best shooting distance, the Divine Battalion swallowed up and down, and slowly pulled the trigger with his middle finger.
More than three hundred elephant soldiers quickened their pace and rushed forward, and in an instant the stones trembled, and the noisy shouts and loud roars filled the entire battlefield.
The sharp spear had been raised high by the elephant soldiers, looking down on the Tang army, waiting for the best time to project.
The soldiers of the Divine Barracks pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The continuous sound of gunfire suddenly rang out on the battlefield, directly breaking the entire noisy battlefield, and the battlefield was inexplicably silent for a few minutes.
But the power of the flintlock pistol is not reflected in the size of the sound, but in its power.
The galloping elephant had the largest target, and almost every elephant in the front row was shot, and after running forward for a distance, his front legs were weak, and he fell and rolled over a few times on the battlefield with inertia.
The fist-sized hole in the elephant's body was bubbling with blood, and in a short time the battlefield resounded with the intermittent wailing of the elephant.
Nearly a dozen elephants fell in the first shot, and the others were sporadically hit by some ammunition, but in front of the elephants' massive bodies, the wounds were only minor punctures.
"Rush forward, rush forward at all costs, don't believe they can withstand the trampling of elephants!" Wu Cheng's face remained unchanged and ordered.
This was not uncommon in the usual battles, except that the crossbow had been used before, but this time it had been replaced by the swarthy flintlock pistol.
But no matter how powerful the giant crossbow is, he also has an interval, as long as he rushes to the enemy position in the interval, it means that they have won.
But now the elephant was frightened and trembling by the sudden sound of gunfire, and if it weren't for the constant comfort of the elephant soldiers beside him, I am afraid that he would have fled in a panic.
Although the elephant is large in size, it has a docile personality, and the sound of the flintlock pistol is like the sound of thunder in the sky, crackling, and the fear from the genes makes it keep retreating, but under the comfort of the elephant soldiers, it once again dares to rush forward.
After the soldiers of the God Barracks finished firing a volley, they switched to the next row, without delaying in the middle, maintaining the continuity of firepower.
But no matter how powerful the flintlock guns of the Divine Camp were, the elephants still rushed over, although dozens of elephants died on the way, and they were beaten into a sieve.
"Throw a grenade!" Li Xiaogong watched the battle from the commanding heights of Huangfengling and said with a slight smile.
Waiting for this moment, the armies of the Zhenla Kingdom and the Linyi Kingdom have penetrated deeply, although the terrain of Huangfengling is wide, it is difficult to retreat.
"This time, it's all in one go!" He said.
Boxes of wooden-handled grenades were carried out by the Tang army, and in order to ensure that the elephants could be killed, three wooden-handled grenades were often bundled together and then thrown forward.
A loud bang sounded, hundreds of elephants could no longer sit still, and in an instant the elephant soldiers were in disorder and ran around, and some elephants had just run to the Tang army camp, and they were stabbed into the abdomen with bayonets by the soldiers of the Shen Battalion.
In order to keep the elephants from running to the Tang army's camp, Li Xiaogong asked the bombardier to throw grenades in front of him without stopping, and the ensuing explosion formed a separation zone in front of the Tang army.