Chapter 463: The Fourth Crimson Moon of the Peninsula

Like Gokuro, he did not respond to the call of the Nine Kingdoms to raise troops to attack Tang.

He thought that he would be safe and sound if he stayed out of this big war involving many forces on the peninsula, but he didn't want to be in trouble, and he couldn't hide from it.

Hearing that the great demon king Yang Shihong, who slaughtered Shan Ma Ling, Luo Kun, Swijaya, and the Shan Jia Kingdom in turn, led a large army into his country, and the king of Jiluo was scared to death on the bed.

Feeling that a catastrophe was imminent, the country of Jiluo was in chaos, and the people rushed to flee first, hiding in the deep mountains and swamps to avoid the Tang army.

Prince Jiluo was about to flee with the treasures of the country, but he was a step slower and was blocked in the city by the Tang army and couldn't get out, so he had to beg Yang Shihong to surrender.

"King Gora was scared to death in bed when he heard the name of so-and-so?"

Yang Shihong said unbelievably, is he so terrible? How can it be said that he is also a person who has read poetry and books since he was a child, knows benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and is a disciple of a saint, and is not one of those rough men in the countryside who only know how to kill?

"The prestige of Yang Dudu shocked all countries, and it is a lifelong blessing that my father can be scared to death by the prestige of Dudu."

Prince Ura sneered nervously, for fear that the Great Demon King in front of him would order all the people to be slaughtered, and pile his head together to form a kyokan.

It is said that since the start of the war, Yang Shihong has established more than ten majestic Beijing temples with scriptures.

From the head of the Lijing Temple, which only beheaded soldiers, to the present, even the old and young, women and children are not spared, and the large and small heads of the natives regardless of gender and age are piled together, attracting a large number of scavenging birds and beasts to dig the mound every day.

Yang Shihong pretended to regret: "I didn't want to slaughter the Jiluo, I just wanted to discuss the friendship with the king of the Yanluo to move north......"

"On behalf of the Governor, I am willing to obey the will of the governor and move north."

Prince Horo couldn't wait to pray, and the news that Gokuro was held hostage by the Phuket Governor's Office and moved north had already reached Hora. For Prince Gunara, moving north was a blessing rather than being slaughtered, and it was nothing more than a change of place to establish a country, and it was not a big deal.

Yang Shihong was stunned for a moment, why are you so excited? If you move north, you have to move at least a thousand miles north before you are allowed to establish a country, and many people will die on the way, shouldn't you worry about it first?

Prince Qiuluo's sincere prayer made it difficult for Yang Shihong to make it difficult for him, and directly threw him a pardon document.

"Take this document and take the soldiers and civilians of the whole country to move north along the march route of the Phuket Governor's Mansion army due north within three days. When you meet the Governor of Phuket, Lee Rong, show him this document, and he will arrange a place for you to establish a state. ”

"Thank you, Governor, ......"

The happy Prince Jiluo kowtowed to Yang Shihong more than 30 times, but he couldn't express his excitement of escaping death at the moment.

It was really the prestige of Tang Jun's killing, and he was frightened by the warp quickly, he was just a half-grown child who was less than eighteen years old.

There were many survivors in the country who fled from the countries that were slaughtered by the Tang Army, and in their tearful complaints, it made the body of the Emperor feel cold.

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With the support of the military and civilians in the country, Prince Jiluo ascended the throne of the king the day before departure, and with the joy in his heart and his gratitude to Yang Shihong's benevolence, he led more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians across the country to embark on a long journey to the north.

Li Rong, who drove Gogolo to the north to purge the local indigenous tribes who were not hostile to the Tang, now went to Chumphon Province in later Thailand.

Here they encountered a formidable adversary, the Mon tribes, which were widely distributed along the lower Chao Phraya River and the Kra Isthmus.

As for the Thai people in later generations, at this time they were still in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

The Meng people drove seventy or eighty elephants with mooing and hissing, and rushed towards the Tang army with an indomitable momentum.

The officers and men of the Tang Army, from Li Rong to the ordinary soldiers, have seen the largest land animal elephant on land once or twice after arriving on the Polar Peninsula, but they never thought that the natives could also train elephants to charge into battle, so that when they encountered elephants charging for the first time, the soldiers of the Tang Army who had experienced a hundred battles showed a terrifying look on their faces.

In the face of elephant soldiers, who were more shocking than the impact of thousands of elite cavalry, the officers and men of the Tang Army who formed a formation involuntarily retreated backwards.

Li Rong was anxious in his eyes, and ordered King Gokuluo to lead his country's 2,000 soldiers to stop the elephant army, and observe the battle methods of the war elephants so that they could formulate corresponding countermeasures.

King Gokuluo suddenly cried with a sad face, the Tang army had no experience in fighting the elephant army, but he Goguluo had not dealt much with the Meng people who had war elephants, let alone fought with the elephant army, which was obviously using them as cannon fodder.

The two thousand miserable Gokuluo army was pushed to the front of the Tang army, and the war elephants of the Meng people scattered the Goguluo army with a charge, and Li Rong was half angry to death. It's still useful for Nofi to keep the Gogoro people, so he has to capture the Gogoro king and cut off his head.

The cannon fodder was not used, and Li Rong had to personally lead the Tang army to the top.

Judging from the war elephant's attack on the Gogu army just now, the war elephant is not as fast as the war horse charge, but it is superior to its huge size, rough skin and thick flesh, and the military formation used by the Tang army to deal with the cavalry impact cannot be stopped at all.

In addition, the trunk of an elephant is very flexible and powerful, and it can roll up a person and throw it on the ground to trample to death, or use two thick tusks to stab a person who stands in its way. Compared with war horses, elephants themselves are diverse and strong.

After some thought, Li Rong ordered the whole army to disperse quickly, and each team was divided to meet the enemy. Use large axes, knives, and spears to cut the elephant's legs, and the crossbowmen aim at the riding Meng people on the elephant's back to control the enemy.

In order to encourage the soldiers to fight bravely and overcome the fear of elephants, Li Rong took the lead and personally led the only 200 elite horsemen in the army as the arrows of the whole army to rush towards the war elephants of the Meng people.

The commanders all rushed to the front, and the soldiers still had the face to retreat, taking the team as the basic combat unit and rushing towards the enemy under the leadership of the captain, brigade commander, captain, lieutenant and other officers.

Elephants, with their huge size, can bring heavy psychological pressure to the Tang army, but as long as they are overcome, the war elephants of the Meng people are actually not terrible.

The Meng people themselves had no armor to wear, and they were bare-chested and bare-backed, let alone put armor on war elephants.

An elephant without armor and without the speed of a war horse is actually not as scary as it seems.

The elite cavalry led by Li Rong relied on the best Mingguang armor in the world to withstand the arrows shot by the Meng people on the back of the elephant, and the horse avoided the thrown trunk and the tusks that pierced it, and pierced the horse lance in his hand into the thick elephant's legs, and the cavalry's powerful charge penetrated the 16-inch-long horse lance into the elephant's legs.

When the cavalry armed with a scimitar passed by the elephant, they made a hole in the elephant's leg that was six or seven inches deep, and the flesh and skin inside tumbled outward, and the blood could not stop flowing out.

The elephant that was still fierce and terrifying just now was looking up to the sky and neighing miserably at this moment, and the elephant that was pierced into the bone by the horse lance was even more lame and fell to the ground with a bang, and the Meng people on their backs were stunned on the ground, and the Tang army foot soldiers who rushed up were indiscriminately stabbed.

The Mengren infantry who followed behind the war elephant were defeated by the cavalry led by Li Rong, who broke through the war elephant, and the army was defeated with a charge, but the dozens of war elephants dragged the more than 3,000 Tang army foot soldiers.

The foot soldiers shot with bows and crossbows, slashed with Mo knives, and stabbed with spears, and it took a lot of effort to deal with dozens of war elephants.

Li Rong, who had chased and killed the Meng's foot soldiers for more than ten miles before returning, looked at the dead bodies of dozens of war elephants spread on the ground, and couldn't help sighing: "It would be good if our army promised to have these war elephants, put armor on them, and when the two armies faced each other, they would be used to impact the enemy's large array, and the foot soldiers and cavalry would definitely be able to break the formation in one fell swoop and determine the victory." ”

King Gokuluo cautiously stepped forward and sneered: "As long as the governor conquers the Meng people, he can let them sacrifice war elephants." At that point, the governor would be able to organize an elephant army with hundreds of elephants. ”