"Drive! Drive! Drive! ”

On the backs of the heavy and massive Southeast Asian elephants, the knights in the huge saddles, with swords and shields in their hands, and special leather boots with blunt thorns on their feet, vigorously stimulate the elephant's belly and make it gradually accelerate.

Hongtang soldiers now have a broad vision, although they have not seen elephants, a specialty of Southeast Asia, but they have also seen descriptions of them in books.

However, the description in the book is completely different from the feeling of seeing the real thing on the real battlefield, watching the largest population of land animal species rush towards the gap in the city wall with seemingly bulky and slow steps, and the huge body running even makes the ground begin to tremble, and the charge of hundreds of elephants is not even weaker than the impact brought by the charge of thousands of knights.

"Grenade ready!"

"Put!!"

"Put!!"

Although they did not fight the elephant soldiers head-on, the non-commissioned officers of Hongtang, who commanded the battle on the battlefield, were not idle for a moment, and formulated tactics that were more in line with the current situation according to the changes in the battlefield.

The grenade exploded on the road of the elephant soldier's charge, and the more explosive explosives, as well as the more lethal grenade structure, even the elephant with thick skin and rough flesh suddenly flew flesh and blood, and countless elephants were startled one after another, overturning the knight on his back and starting to launch a madness.

In addition to the system of command and participation in the battle, the Hongtang army also did not forget to sum up the experience after each battle and spread these experiences to the various teams of the Hongtang army to learn.

For the cavalry, the Hongtang army naturally also had a certain understanding, and formulated a series of measures for the battle in response to some of the defects they exposed.

Although the Hongtang army had never had the experience of fighting against the elephant soldiers, the mid- and low-level non-commissioned officers such as the battle commander still responded tentatively and without flinching according to the tactics they had learned to deal with cavalry.

Sure enough, the seemingly behemoths and irresistible elephant soldiers still can't escape the panic of the beasts about the threat, unless they are like the elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty outside the Northeast Pass, sparing no effort to train the horses to overcome the impact of artillery fire and the natural environment, otherwise they will never be able to maintain the stability of warriors on the battlefield.

"Ahh

"Click!"

A Burmese warrior who blocked the escape of the mad giant elephant didn't even have time to escape from the attack range of the giant elephant, and was hooked to the ground by the huge elephant's trunk, and then stepped on the body weighing tens of thousands of catties, and the Burmese warrior who was still whimpering and screaming was gone.

"Phew!!"

More Elephant Riders crouched on top of the elephants, trying to soothe the frightened and injured elephants, doing their best not to drive them mad while making sure they didn't get thrown off by the elephants.

"Aim for the elephant's head and fire!"

The musketeers flat-ended their muskets, under the command of the commander, aimed at the behemoth's broad head that was almost close at hand, and without hesitation pulled the trigger, and the sound of muskets resounded through the battlefield with dense and crisp sounds.

Several elephants that led the charge swayed under this blow, and could no longer hold on to their advancing figures, roaring and letting out a mournful sound, and slowly fell.

Even the most massive animals on land seem to be incapable of much power in the face of the most advanced weapons of this era.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to kill an elephant unless it hits the real target, but with hundreds of muskets in the thick of them, even if these elephants escape, their riders will not be able to escape.

Without the suppression of the riders, the wounded and crazy giant elephant not only could not become a powerful combat aid for the Burmese warriors, but became the last straw that destroyed their formation.

"Rush into the city, set up the first line of defense, wait for the rear support to be in place and then press in en masse!"

In this way, the Hongtang warriors easily broke through the interception of the defenders of the Burmese Dashang City, and completed the formation arrangement at the gap in the city.

On the other side of the city wall, there were still many elephant soldiers who rushed to the battle line temporarily constructed by the Hongtang soldiers with the cooperation of the knights with thick skin and flesh and the same heart, causing some damage to the musket battle line of the Hongtang army.

But after all, these elephant soldiers who could rush to the front of the Hongtang army were only a few after all, and under the fire of the flintlock muskets in the hands of the Hongtang soldiers, it didn't take long for the remnants of the elephant soldiers on the battlefield to be slaughtered by the Hongtang soldiers.

With the arrival of the 2,000 Hongtang soldiers who gave up the artillery attack in the rear, and the 1,000 soldiers in the front line, more than 3,600 soldiers under Hongtang Zhao Simei, except for the first battalion of soldiers in the remaining battleship, the rest have already entered Dacheng City.

As a pioneer in integrating the implementation of post-modern advanced tactical ideas into this era, Li Tianyang participated in and proposed countless tactical training of the Hongtang army, the most important of which was this urban street battle.

It is said to be street fighting, but with the strength of this small country located in the remote area of Southeast Asia, in addition to the most important defensive city wall, most of the residential areas and official residence areas in the city are just some dilapidated wooden houses, bamboo houses, and even grass houses.

This was another great news for the Hongtang army, they simply consigned a few field guns, aimed at the direction of the general march, collapsed and destroyed all the houses that obstructed the view along the way, and then crushed the wreckage of the houses and advanced step by step towards the enemy's line.

"Hold on to Lao Tzu! Whoever dares to take a step back, Lao Tzu cut him! ”

They thought that with the support of nearly 20,000 regular troops in the city and more than 10,000 militiamen, even if their Burmese army could not threaten the Hongtang army on the sea, they would at least be able to ensure that the coastal city of Dafeng City would not be occupied by the thousands of troops of the Hongtang fleet.

However, he did not expect that Da Xiang City, which ranked among the top ten in the city defense fortifications in the Kingdom of Burma, did not even survive two days before it was broken through by the Hongtang fleet, a partial division.

If you are driven straight into by the other party like this, drive your own army of more than 10,000 people out of Dafu City, or even defeat it, then this battle will be funny, and the iron helmet on Sori's head will not be able to keep it.

Sori, who was still a little heroic, personally stood under the banner of his Chinese army with his personal guards, and roared at the group of soldiers beside him who had little experience in battle, boosting their morale.

More and more of the people of Dafeng City were driven by the Hongtang soldiers to flee to the front line where the Burmese army was located, which brought great distress to the Burmese soldiers and added to their burden.

(End of chapter)