[What I owe at noon finally caught up today.] 】

As the sound of the trumpets gradually dissipated in the rain curtain, the war drums from the official and military camps sounded.

The heavy sound of drums pierced through the waterfall-like rain, and for the first time overwhelmed the roar of the rushing river, spreading to every military camp outside Thang Long Province, making the horn of the march pierce the sky again.

Amid the cheers of drums and trumpets, thousands of barbarians braved the rain and rushed along the road to several designated locations, and in several places the people of Jiaozhi were forced by the barbarians behind them with swords and guns to rush under the city walls.

Behind them, there were several military formations composed of three or five hundred people, which was the most direct reason why the Xidong barbarians were able to move forward bravely. Different from the poorly dressed barbarians, they all wore iron armor, and they were also draped in thin but easy-to-move dark tarpaulin ponchos, looking slightly bloated, but black pressed like a bear shuttling through the mountains and forests, only a one-man tall horse chopping knife with a pestle on his side, glowing with white light.

Although the number of several military formations is small, they are as heavy as ballast stones installed at the bottom of the ship's cabin to stabilize the ship, controlling the battle situation and not shifting to other directions.

Thang Long Mansion was attacked at the same time in all directions, and the direction of the main attack was to the east where the Song army's camp was located, and it was also the position that Li Changjie was facing now.

Outside the city, there are mostly rice paddies with one or two feet of water, and there are only a few roads left to attack the city. It is equivalent to having a ditch several miles wide, and the troops used to defend the city can be concentrated at several gates. Such a defense is of course much stronger than scattering the city.

"That's all!"

Li Changjie laughed loudly. He had long thought of the siege methods that the Song people might use, and how could it be of any other use to gather so many miscellaneous soldiers to come? Although he had to prevent the Song army from attacking through the gap, it was inconvenient to send the main force out of the city to drive away the miscellaneous soldiers under the city, but he had other more suitable troops to assign.

Seeing the barbarian army driving his own people to the city with bags of dirt, Li Changjie ordered without wavering:

"The elephant army is out of battle!"

The gate of the eastern city creaked open, and a group of barbarians who rushed to the city to look inside, and immediately fled to both sides with a great change in their faces.

A behemoth. The objects rushed out of the city gate, and after forming a little formation in front of the city gate, they immediately rushed forward.

The galloping beasts didn't care about the water that could only pass their knees, kicking up a splash in the rain-soaked rice fields.

The elephant's body looks bulky, but when it gallops, it is like a galloping horse. Every step can cause the ground to tremble, and dozens of heads run wildly together, like a 10,000-pound boulder rolling down the mountain, and its momentum is unstoppable.

The elephant army that rushed out of the city rushed straight into the barbarian army and the people who were about to pile up clods of earth under the city. It doesn't matter if it's the enemy or me, he rolls the person up, throws him on the ground with all his might, and then steps on it again. A bloodthirsty war elephant raised its proboscis and howled, trampling the howling enemies at their feet. The fragile human body is like a clay figure that has accidentally fallen to the soles of its feet, trampled to pieces.

watched as the barbarians desperately fled, leaving the flesh and blood scattered on the ground. Li Changjie, who was holding the pheasant moat at the head of the city, only hesitated slightly, and then pointed forward sharply, "Rush me!" "If you can give Song Ren a head-on blow at this time, the next defense will be much easier.

Hearing the order of the general at the head of the city, the elephant army, which was immersed in the excitement of killing, turned around without delay, aimed at the same target and went straight to the Song army that was pressing the formation.

Dozens of elephants walked side by side, getting faster and faster. The weight of nearly 10,000 catties sprinted, and the water on the ground began to tremble.

The defenders at the head of the city also cooperated and began to sing triumphant songs loudly, their songs were far away, and they should have been very vague, but for some reason, they clearly reached the ears of Zhang Dan, Han Gang, Li Xian and others who were watching the battle.

"Nandi Mountain Henan Emperor Ju ......" Li Xian's face showed a smile that he didn't know whether to say hideous or distorted, "A small country, a barbarian state, is also worthy of being called an emperor?" Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. All the countries in the world, where is not China's belonging? I also dare to say that 'it is completely fixed in the book of heaven'! ”

"They just think they can beat the official army!" Zhang Dian sneered, "Li Changjie probably doesn't know how many elephants the official army has killed before this!" ”

"People are always gambling. At this time, Li Changjie also had to gamble. Han Gang felt sorry for Li Changjie.

His choice can't be wrong, the elephant is afraid of fire, but he can't even light a torch on a rainy day, and the divine arm bow that the Song people rely on the most is also heavily damaged by the humidity in these days, how could a normal general let go of such a good opportunity. But the mistake was that he only rolled a six, and the rest of the game was the worst point. And his opponents, that is, the officers and soldiers, can always ensure that each one is a large number.

The elephants galloped wildly, and the barbarian troops in front of them fled one after another, but the hundreds of Song troops in front of them did not waver at all. On the outside of the armor was a layer of oilcloth poncho, and hidden under the poncho were the arms of the gods that had been opened.

The rain-soaked Divine Arm Bow was even less powerful than the usual one-stone bow, but the 500 Divine Arm Bows, which were specially wrapped in oilcloth and sealed with lard and packed in a lime box to be used as a precaution, still managed to maintain a strength above the level.

However, when the arrows passed through the pouring rain, although most of them hit, they also lost their lethality, and only shot into half an inch of flesh, and the pain was even more exciting to the war elephants rushing over.

"Good!" Li Changjie at the head of the city applauded loudly, and the defenders behind him were also thunderous. The Divine Arm Bow is really useless, once it enters the close battle, how can a person who is only 100 catties of 100 catties be compared with an elephant of nearly 10,000 catties!

But their smiles only existed for a short time, and the Song army's means of fighting against elephants were far more than just a divine arm bow.

The thunderbolt artillery was the first to strike, and although there were six small bodies, only one of the stone projectiles thrown hit them. But this stone projectile that could hit the city wall fell on the forehead of a war elephant, and the thud was a muffled sound, and the war elephant fell to the ground in an instant, which was more effective than an arrow.

"Throw a spear!" At the same time that the thunderbolt artillery began to attack, Yan Da, who personally commanded the battle, also let out a low shout.

Replacing the Divine Arm Bow is the most powerful javelinist under Li Xin's command, the ancient human took a simple javelin with a stone to polish the head of the spear, and put all the giant beasts on the earth into the recipe, and now it has been replaced by a steel spear with a sharp blade, just from the side, the throwing spear that flew out deeply penetrated the soft belly of the five or six elephants in front,

The mortally wounded elephant roared in the sky, causing the elephant army to be in chaos for a while, and the officers and soldiers who stood at the front immediately raised their sabers and rushed forward.

The elephant trunk swung from the head was like an iron rod, and it slammed into the soldiers' bodies, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. But the nimble soldier had time to jump to the side before the war elephant's nose waved, and the saber in his hand swung down, directly cutting off the nose in half.

For people, it is ten fingers connected to the heart. For elephants, it's a proboscis with a heart. The most sensitive parts were hit hard and went crazy, and the wounded elephant's trunk swung wildly, spraying blood in the air

The saber worked, and the spear was also a sharp weapon against huge targets, the sharp head of the spear pierced into the belly of the war elephant, and with just a twist, the war elephant could fall to the ground, which was simpler than the horse chopping knife.

Elephants are extremely intelligent animals, and even have different personalities, hearing the wounded wails of their companions and smelling the thick smell of blood, some war elephants rush forward, while others stop to watch. Even ordinary trained war horses can't do it like an arm, and the rider on the back can't control it in such a situation, and it has undoubtedly become the best target of the divine arm bow.

The aggressive elephant army attacked, but the offensive only took a moment to collapse.

Throughout the history books, there are not many examples of defeats between the Central Plains army and the elephant soldiers, and the livestock will never be as flexible as humans. In front of the Song army, which already had experience in fighting against war elephants, the elephant army that attacked from the city of Thang Long Mansion was not an opponent at all.

The war elephants scattered and fled, and the scattered barbarians surrounded them. They are all used to seeing elephants, as long as they are facing a single one, they can easily solve it.

The victory over the elephant army, which can almost be regarded as a killer weapon, except for the rain in the sky, has never been able to stop the official army from marching towards victory.

Li Changjie's miserable white face was very embarrassed by the rain, but he was still unwilling to admit defeat, if he could resist the offensive of the Song army with the help of the city wall, as long as it was three or five days, a life without clean water could make the epidemic in the military camp rage, and then they would not even be able to retreat and return home.

It's just that Song Jun didn't give him this time. The barbarian army and the people of Jiaozhi who were driven by them were wrapping up the clods of soil with huge banana leaves, not afraid of the rain, piling them up under the city, like bricks, gradually building the road for the official army to attack the city.

There was no threat of bows and arrows, and the defenders in the city could not attack, and the progress of the earthwork was much faster than when Li Changjie was under the city of Yongzhou.

Li Changjie looked down at the gradually rising dirt slope under the city, and returned to Yongzhou a year ago in a trance.

Somehow, Li Changjie suddenly remembered a proverb among the Song people: 'There is a god in the three feet of the head.' ’

In the general colonel behind the "retribution ......", I don't know who spoke everyone's mind.

Li Changjie turned around and looked at the generals with hasty faces, but he didn't speak, "It's too ...... Captain. A small colonel rushed in front of him frantically, "South Gate...... The South Gate is open! ”