The elephant herd slowly approached the Ming army, and every step they took closer, the Ming soldiers became more afraid.

It wasn't that Ta Long deliberately intimidated the Ming army and increased the time for the Ming soldiers to be frightened, the elephants were too heavy and lacked the running ability of war horses, and if it weren't for the rage and galloping, they wouldn't even be able to match the speed of the infantry.

When Mu Qiyuan saw the elephant herd, his heart throbbed, here, finally here, the most powerful soldier of the Donghu people finally appeared on the battlefield.

He didn't know if his method could deal with the elephant soldiers, since he went to Donghu, the elephant soldiers would have to meet sooner or later, if he couldn't cross this hurdle, the casualties of the Ming army would be greatly increased.

Mu Qiyuan waved his hand, and the herald waved the command flag vigorously, and he was most afraid that the herald in the distance would not see it.

The mountain guns on both sides began to tear off the camouflage covering them, and the black barrels pointed at the Donghu Army, and to the left of the mountain guns, the large-caliber guns also shed their armor and began to aim at the battlefield.

With the appearance of the elephant herd, there was a huge reversal of the battlefield in an instant.

The Donghu army was completely silent, and they wanted to see with great anticipation whether there were more Ming soldiers who died under the hooves of elephants, or more Ming soldiers who were stabbed to death by elephant soldiers' spears.

The Ming army had a great fear, especially the war horses, which were originally standing still, and when they saw the elephants, they became restless, some of them stepped on the ground with their horses' hooves, anxious, some looked high, and shook their ears, making a terrible scream, and some desperately flicked their tails, as if they were going to run away at any time.

The cavalry on horseback desperately held on to the reins of the horse, but they still couldn't control it, and there were a few frightened war horses that left the battlefield far away.

When Donghu's elephant soldiers were still a mile and a half away, Mu Qiyuan gave an order to prepare for battle, and as the command flag in the hands of the herald waved violently, the gunners began to load the shells.

"Report to the Commander, the flowering shell has been loaded."

"Open fire."

"Yes."

Ignition is the cheapest procedure for firing flowering shells, the gunner ignites the lead #, waits for the flowering shell to be automatically discharged, and then adjusts the muzzle according to the landing point, striving to improve the accuracy of the flowering projectile and maximize the efficiency of the flowering projectile.

The black flowering projectile, because it was too fast, rubbed against the air when flying at high speed, producing a sharp whistling sound, like a soldier on his back, who first heard this harsh sound.

Originally, they thought it was a stone thrown by a trebuchet of the Ming army, but when the stone flew in the air, it would not make such a strange sound, and they knew that they were wrong.

The flowering bomb hit the ground and again made a loud explosion, which was a secondary explosion of gunpowder.

The elephant herd had never seen such a loud and close explosion, and they panicked.

In this round of shelling, the direct loss of the elephant soldiers is not large, the flowering shells are mostly exploded on the ground, and the high-end soldiers sitting on the back of the elephants, unless they are directly hit by the flowering shells, this is not much more likely than the possibility of Dale # penetrating the five million grand prize.

The elephant's legs on the ground are very thick, unless the flowering bomb is directly smashed on the elephant's leg, otherwise, the fragments emitted by the flowering bomb when it explodes can only leave a few shallow cuts on the thick legs of the war elephant, and the shock wave will hardly do any harm to the elephant.

The greatest threat to the herd was the sound, the loud explosion of the flowering bombs, which disturbed the normally peaceful war elephants, who wandered around trying to find this invisible "enemy", but because they could not find them, the war elephants became restless and even tossed the elephants on their backs to the ground.

Nearly 100 artillery pieces and mountain cannons were fired in three rounds, and the elephants did not die, and the war elephants lost their ability to walk, and they could be counted on one hand, except for a few overly frightened war elephants stubbornly left the herd, which had little effect.

He Long had just seen the artillery group of the Ming army, and he was stunned, so many artillery, if it fell on people, even the Buddha would be beaten into a sieve.

He slowly closed his eyes, there was nothing he could do but pray for the elephant soldiers.

"Your Majesty, the Ming army has stopped shelling."

"Huh?" He struggled to open his upper and lower eyelids, and sure enough, the Ming army's flowering shells stopped firing, "Why?" Is the Ming army out of ammunition? ”

"I don't know, but ...... Our elephant soldiers have suffered little losses, Your Majesty, please see, except for a few war elephants who have withdrawn from the battlefield, the rest of the elephants are still attacking the Ming army. ”

He Long once again set his eyes on the elephant soldiers, the elephant soldiers were really advancing, and as soon as the artillery fire of the Ming army stopped, the war elephants became more relaxed, as if the flowering bullets did not appear on the battlefield at all.

"Yes, the artillery of the Ming army is ineffective against the war elephants," he was ecstatic, damn the Ming army, finally tasted the might, "Ready, once the elephant soldiers break through the defensive formation of the Ming army, the whole army must be pressed, I will defeat the Ming army in a battle." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Opposite him, Mu Qiyuan cursed in a low voice, "Damn, these war elephants really can't be killed." ”

"Commander, don't we still have rockets?" Chen Zizhuang had been following Mu Qiyuan's side, and seeing that the effect of the artillery was not good, he reminded Mu Qiyuan not to waste the flowering bullets.

"Rockets? Well, it seems that there is only that. "Mu Qiyuan is not sure, whether the rocket can deal with these elephants, fortunately, these war elephants are very gentlemen, they move very slowly, if it is a war horse, I am afraid that they will enter the position of the Ming army now.

The rocketeers had already adjusted their direction, and the rockets at this time were not fired upwards, but at the elephant in front.

The Ming army's rocket has an extremely simple structure, which is a bracket fixed to the ground, on which a slightly thick arrow is placed, but with the propulsion of gunpowder, its speed is much faster.

Its maker was Ding Lan of the Daming Firearms Bureau, and Ding Lan's greatest contribution was to control the flight direction of the rocket under the guidance of Zhu Youzhen.

The direction can be controlled, and the speed is much faster than ordinary arrows, so that the rocket can be used on the battlefield.

An object running at high speed is sharp, an ordinary playing card that can penetrate a concrete wall if given enough speed; Even an ordinary piece of white paper, if it flies fast enough, can separate a person's head.

After the rocket is fired, because the speed increases several times, as long as it sticks to the belly of the war elephant, it can pierce the rough skin and rough flesh of the war elephant, and the arrow hangs on the belly of the war elephant.

At first, the war elephant did not feel pain, but the rocket was still bound with ignited gunpowder, which was not too large, but it exploded on the belly of the war elephant, and suddenly the war elephant's skin was open, and even the thick intestines flowed out.

Mu Qiyuan counted that three rockets can abolish a war elephant.

He asked the gunner to fire again, and the flowering projectile did little damage to the soldiers, but the sound could scare the war elephant.

The war elephants passed on their wounds to the elephant soldiers on their backs, and not only did they not listen to the elephant soldiers' commands, but they also lifted off the elephants on their backs and trampled them into meat residues with their feet, as if their injuries were caused by the elephant soldiers.

There was another one-sided massacre on the battlefield, and this time it was the elephant soldiers of Donghu who were slaughtered.

The little hope that he had just ignited was shattered by the rocket soldiers of the Ming army, and he watched the baby war elephant fall under his nose, his heart was dripping blood, and the wound was bigger than the arrow wound on the belly of the war elephant.

In desperation, Talon ordered the withdrawal of the elephant soldiers.

But at this time, the elephant herd was already seriously frightened, and no longer listened to the drive of the elephant soldiers, they seemed to be frightened by the firearms of the Ming army, and either fled to the sides, or turned around and ran back.

The fleeing war elephants had become a scourge, and they went on a rampage, instead breaking up the defensive formation of the Eastern Calling Army.

Mu Qiyuan saw that there was confusion in the Donghu army, so he ordered the whole line to pursue.

Although the Ming army pursued the whole line, it still maintained a certain distance from the Donghu army, and if the distance was too close, not only would it be difficult for the flintlock muskets to fire, but it might also be counterattacked by the eastern and western armies.

The flintlock pistol was really not a sharp weapon for pursuit, and after the soldiers fired the bullets, they had no time to reload, so they had to throw away the flintlock pistol, pull out the war knife at their waists, and start hand-to-hand combat with the Donghu army.

Hand-to-hand combat was not the strong point of the Ming army, but the Donghu army was frightened by the firearms of the Ming army, and the whole army fell into chaos, and did not dare to turn back to resist at all.

The only 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army played their greatest efficiency at this time, they took advantage of their speed advantage and tailed behind the Donghu infantry, they did not want to kill the enemy, but to cut the Donghu army.

The cavalry used the impact of the war horse to cut out the squads of the Donghu army that fled at the rear, and these squads that broke away from the Donghu army were quickly surrounded and eliminated by the Ming army that caught up behind.

The cavalry is divided, and the infantry annihilates the enemy.

The Ming army became the harvesting machine of the Donghu army.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Donghu army at this time could no longer organize an effective defense.

Ta Long fled into the camp of the Donghu army, and with a large number of arrows, he barely repelled the pursuers of the Ming army.

The Ming army was forced to retreat, and their enthusiasm was extinguished by the arrows of the Donghu army in an instant, and on the way back, they vented their anger on the wounded soldiers of Donghu, and all the Donghu soldiers who were wounded and fell to the ground were killed by the Ming army.

Mu Qiyuan ordered the soldiers to pack up the corpses of the Donghu army, along with the corpses of war horses and war elephants, and burned them.

He saw that the Ming army had withdrawn to the camp, so he asked his subordinates to count the casualties.

The number of casualties took him by surprise, and the decisive battle with the Ming army lasted only half a day, including infantry, cavalry, and elephant soldiers, and the Donghu army suffered more than 16,000 casualties.

In fact, there were no wounded soldiers, and all the wounded soldiers were killed by the Ming army.

Combined with the casualties during the attack on the Ayutthaya Dynasty, there are now less than 55,000 of Talon's 100,000 elites, and they have all become frightened birds.

Ta Long knew why Ava City could only resist for a long time, the firearms of the Ming army were so powerful that even his precious elephant soldiers couldn't resist it.

Looking at the generals who looked like plague chickens, his heart seemed to have knocked over the five-flavor bottle, "How about the casualties of the Ming army?" ”

"Your Majesty......" The generals squirmed their lips, how could they know the casualties of the Ming army.

"It's okay if you don't know for the time being, you'll know when you fight next time," Ta Long didn't blame the generals, the situation on the battlefield, he knew better than anyone else, when the morale was particularly low, he didn't want to hit the confidence of the generals anymore, "Around the barracks, send more people to strictly prevent the Ming army from stealing the camp." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, my subordinates will arrange it." The general on duty went out.

"Where is Gyllen now?" He Long knew that Jilunhai was still far away from here, but he just reminded the generals that there were still a large number of reinforcements in Donghu, and the Ming army was deep in Donghu, and the food, grass, and soldiers could not be replenished, and if one died, there would be one less.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid General Ji Lunhai won't be able to arrive until ten days later." The unblinded general told the truth.

If it was in peacetime, Zhun Bao would be scolded by Ta Long, but today the main force of Donghu was newly defeated, and the people's hearts were unstable, Ta Long held back his anger, "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, there is no general who always wins, and there is no use for generals who will always lose, the moment of decisive battle has not yet come, you just have to do the job at hand." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Our army has always fought a tailwind battle, and today's defeat may not be acceptable to the soldiers, so we must find more ways to boost morale." He was reluctant to admit the military disadvantage.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Ming army on the opposite side was not celebrating as he guessed, Mu Qiyuan burned the corpses of the Donghu people and horses, which was the biggest celebration, the main force of Donghu was still there, he didn't dare to take it lightly, just reminded the soldiers to rest early, there will be a bad battle to fight in the future.

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