On the tenth day of the seventh month, Zhao Ziliang's army arrived at Gorba, the border of the Solanki Kingdom, and joined the Xuansi Division of the Ninth Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Ziliang walked into Xuansi's big tent and sat down, and said, "How is the situation in the Solanki Kingdom? Let's talk about it! ”

Xuan Si said: "The rulers of the Solanji Kingdom may not have expected that the Great King would destroy the Zhaohan Kingdom in such a short period of time, so they are preparing to meet us in a bit of a hurry, and now there are less than 20,000 people facing our army, and they are all infantry, Weichen got the news that the 20,000 horses they gave birth to are rushing over here, and their king has ordered to recruit warriors all over the country, preparing to form another army of 100,000 people to fight our army to the end!" ”

Zhao Ziliang laughed when he heard this: "Hahaha・・・・・・ is it too late for them to think of recruiting more than 100,000 troops to fight us?" ”

Xuan Si said: "Great King, according to the information we have obtained, among the 40,000 horses of the Solanki people, there are 30,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and another 1,000 war elephants. Their infantry and cavalry are not very good, but the war elephants are a type of troops that we have not seen, but our army already has experience in fighting war elephants, and Wechen is worried that the king is not mentally prepared and will suffer on the battlefield at that time."

"Oh? A thousand war elephants? Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised, "A thousand war elephants have to eat a lot of food every day, which is a huge expense!" How did our army deal with war elephants before? ”

Li Siye stood up and said: "Fight war elephants with war elephants, now there are two thousand war elephants in the servant army, which is enough to deal with one thousand war elephants in the Solanki army!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked, "Pass the order, rest for two days, and attack the army of the Solanji Kingdom in two days!" ”

Li Siye asked, "Didn't the king just say that he could annihilate the Solanki army in one fell swoop?" Don't wait for the other half of their soldiers to arrive? ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled: "Why wait? The initiative is in my hands, I can fight as much as I want, and when will they gather all their troops and horses? Since they didn't have time to concentrate their forces, it was just time to give us a chance to break through! ”

"Yes!"

On July 12, the Western Qin army and the servant army came out of the camp to approach the Solanki army, and the Solanki army also came out of the camp to meet the battle.

At about midnight, the two armies faced each other in formation.

Zhao Ziliang stood on the handsome platform to watch the formation of Solanki's army, observed it for a while, and asked, "Look at the other party's troops, there are more than 20,000 people, right?" Not only did they have a large number of infantry, but also nearly 10,000 cavalry, which is a full 40,000 men! ”

Xuan Si frowned and said, "Could it be that ・・・・・・ they followed up with another 20,000 soldiers and horses who came last night?" ”

"I'm afraid that's the case, otherwise they wouldn't have suddenly had so many extra soldiers and horses, and they wouldn't have evaded the detection of our detective sentry posts! It doesn't matter, 40,000 is 40,000, we can just do it once and for all! They put the war elephants in front, it seems that they want to use the war elephants to charge head-on, we can't weaken our prestige, and pass the order, let our 2,000 war elephants spread out in the middle of the army, ready to meet the opponent's war elephant attack! ”

"Yes!" Xuan Si agreed, and let the herald behind him convey the order.

Soon, a banner was raised in front of the front of the military formation, indicating that the transfer and deployment had been completed, and two thousand war elephants had been deployed in the front of the military formation, Xuan reported to Zhao Ziliang: "King, it's ready!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Okay, let's not wait, let's finish the battle early, let the soldiers rest early, and give orders to the war elephant troops to let them attack!" ”

"Yes!"

The two thousand war elephants who had received the order rushed towards the war elephants of Solanki on the opposite side under the command of the servant generals, and the war elephants rushed to the opposite side with their thick thighs under the control of the knights, their heads tilted, their long tusks exposed, and their tails flicking.

The commander of the Solanji army saw that the Western Qin army sent out war elephants, and immediately ordered to send out a thousand war elephants to meet the battle, the war elephants on both sides hedged against each other, and the riders on the war elephants began to shoot arrows at each other at a certain distance, there were generally three people on a war elephant, a knight controlled the war elephant, and the other two archers, they were responsible for the bow and arrow to hit the enemy, and the war elephants were all covered with armor leaves, some were leather armor, some were iron armor, and the general arrows hit the war elephants and caused little damage, and the war elephants themselves were very thick skin, If you wear armor leaves, you will have stronger defense, so bows and arrows will not be very useful against war elephants. The war elephants were definitely dominated by duels between knights, who shot arrows at each other.

Soon, both sides were injured by each other, and the first to suffer were the riders, who had to sit in the front because they had to control the war elephants, and they were the ones who were shot first, and the war elephants lost control after losing the control of the riders, and they often ran around and bumped.

After hundreds of war elephants on both sides lost control, they began to fight together, and the casualties of the riders and archers were increased by the close-range shooting, and the battle began to heat up.

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but smile when he saw the battle between the war elephants: "This battle elephant duel is really interesting, it actually uses headbutting, stabbing with teeth, and kicking with legs, I really haven't seen this kind of fighting before."

The generals looked at the past carefully, and sure enough, as Zhao Ziliang said, the two war elephants began to command, and the riders on both sides controlled the war elephants to crash into each other or stab each other's war elephants with their teeth, and the war elephants on both sides kept fighting with their teeth, causing many war elephants' teeth to be broken in the battle collision, because one-third of the elephant's teeth are connected to the skull, so the break in the battle and collision will inevitably cause fatal injury to the elephant, with the breaking of the ivory, a large amount of blood flows out of the skull, Many war elephants fell with a wail.

There were also many war elephants that were pierced by the teeth of the opposite war elephants, causing their heads to break and bleeding, and their intestines to rot through their stomachs, which made the soldiers of the Western Qin Army couldn't help but swallow their saliva when they saw it.

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "No wonder when Chu Ge led the army to attack Beitianzhu, he was killed by the enemy's war elephant and the army was almost scattered, the attack method of war elephants does give people too strong a visual impact, plus our war horse has never seen such a behemoth as an elephant, and it will cause chaos when frightened!" ”

The war elephant troops of the servant army fought for their lives, and the war elephant troops of Solanki fought desperately to defend their homeland, and the will to fight on both sides was very strong, and it was not clear what the outcome of this fight would be at first, and this battle could not be ended in a short time.

Zhao Ziliang looked at it for a while, and said to Xuan Si: "I don't know when this war elephant duel will be able to tell the winner, let's ignore them, and order our army's heavily armored iron cavalry to attack and disperse the opponent's infantry formation!" Order the Slave Legion to attack and charge the opposing cavalry, and the Archers and Light Cavalry of the Ninth Legion to attack and shoot back and forth on the perimeter to kill the opponent's left and right flanks! ”

"Yes, King!"

The real battle began, and rows of Western Qin heavy armored iron horsemen showed their sharp minions, and under the leadership of their respective leaders, they collectively rushed towards the 30,000 infantry in front of Solanki's army.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was much stronger than that of the war elephant troops, and the sound of metal crashing and the reflection of the sun made the Solanki infantry on the opposite side feel like a mountain of momentum.

The tremor of the earth was like an earthquake erupting, and the momentum caused by the 10,000 heavy armored iron cavalry was definitely much stronger than that of the 30,000 light cavalry, looking at the steel behemoths that were close at hand, the Solanki infantry had a frightened expression on their faces, and they couldn't help but retreat one after another, but even if they retreated, they were not as fast as the Western Qin heavy armored iron cavalry rushed fast.

"Boom-" The Western Qin heavy armored iron cavalry was mounted on the Solanki infantry formation, instantly causing a large area of Solanki infantry to fall, as if a large area of the ground had collapsed.

"Ahh The Tianzhu people in the back saw that the more than a dozen rows of companions in front of them were instantly knocked down and trampled into meat by countless horses' hooves, and they were suddenly frightened to the point that their liver and gallbladder were shattered, and their courage was instantly lost, and they threw down their weapons and turned around and ran, they pushed each other, collided, and trampled on each other, and the escape channel was blocked, so they drew their knives and slashed their companions in order to kill themselves out of a bloody way to escape.

The collapse was fully formed in an instant, the heavy armored iron cavalry was definitely a powerful class that had never been seen before for the Tianzhu people, and the destructive power caused by the first time to see this class of troops charging into battle frightened everyone, including Solanki's commander, his face was pale and he looked at his 30,000 infantry in the blink of an eye is to lose one-fifth, the result of this attack casualty is to be completely defeated, and no one has the courage to stay, Solanki's commander immediately turned around and ran, with his escape, The rest of Solanki's army quickly collapsed.

The die is cast! Zhao Ziliang ordered: "Order all departments, the whole army will attack, and pursue and kill the Solanki army!" ”

The 40,000 Solanki army was completely defeated in front of the Western Qin army without lasting an hour, which made all the servant troops and their generals feel related, remembering that it was really unjust to be defeated, captured alive or forced to surrender in the past, so they were even more afraid of Zhao Ziliang and the Western Qin army, especially the charging of the heavy armored iron cavalry, the shock caused by the 10,000 heavy armored iron cavalry was too strong, so that they could not forget that scene for a long time, and what made them even more frightened was the archers and light cavalry of the Western Qin army, The unrivalled mastery of horsemanship and archery was beyond their reach.

The pursuit of the defeated soldiers, the collection of prisoners and the cleaning of the battlefield continued until dark, and Zhao Ziliang sat in the big tent of the Chinese army and waited for the generals of the army to report the results and losses.

After all the generals of the regiment had finished reporting, Gao Shang took the statistical results of the scribe and reported to Zhao Ziliangyu: "King, after statistics, in this battle, our army killed more than 12,000 enemy troops, captured more than 5,000 people, and only more than 2,000 people escaped from the Solanki army, and our army suffered more than 400 casualties, of which 260 were killed and 150 were wounded!" Countless ordnance, supplies, grain and grass have been captured! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked, "By the way, how are the war elephant troops fighting?" ”

Gao Shang replied: "Our army of war elephants won, killing three hundred and sixty-one horsemen, and all the rest surrendered!" In charge of this battle is Singh, a Polomoro! Singh means lion".

Singh stood up and saluted, "Meet the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "General Singh led the war elephants to fight for meritorious service, and rewarded the major general with a set of armor, one hundred taels of gold, two beautiful women, and ten slaves!" ”

Singh hurriedly knelt down and said, "Thank you for the reward!" ”