Chapter 145 - The Battle of Bamiyang
"All march!" Traag rode on his exclusive white war elephant and gave the order. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The massive Sindra army began to advance slowly, and soon the distance between the two sides was within range of bows and arrows.
"Archer, release the arrow!" The general of the Sindra Army shouted loudly. Immediately, feathered arrows like locusts flying in the sky crossed the battlefield and smashed into the Badana army array.
Strangely, the Bataanan army only raised their shields to block and did not counterattack. After three full volleys, the Sindra army advanced a full fifty meters without casualties.
It was only then that the Badana army fired the first wave of counter-attacking bows and arrows. It was only when the arrows landed in the middle of the Sindra army that Sindra realized that something was wrong—Badana's bow had a range of nearly fifty meters farther than the Sindra archers! In this way, the Sindra army from the front of the array to the array of one hundred and twenty meters was all within the coverage of the bows and arrows of the Badana army, and those soldiers in the back row who had no time to react suddenly fell.
In just one volley, the Sindra army suffered more casualties than the previous three rounds combined against the enemy.
"Damn Dadaran!" Tragg cursed and waved his hand vigorously to give the order: "Let the war elephant troops go out!" Crush the Badana Army! ”
Following Traag's orders, Sindra's infantry moved out of the way, rushing out behind them as solid as a wall. Nearly three meters tall, these behemoths shook their long snouts and used their solid tusks as a weapon to open the way, sprinting forward with all their might. In order to ensure that the gentle elephants can meet the needs of war in wartime, the elephant slaves usually mix special drugs into the elephant's food, and as long as the dose of this drug is increased in wartime, the elephants will become extremely ferocious. This also created the brilliant results of the Sindra war elephants in the past, and became a nightmare in the minds of soldiers of other countries.
No matter how brave and fearless the soldiers of the Badana army were, it was impossible to block the elephant's attack with their own flesh and blood, as soon as the Bataana army saw that the other party had dispatched elephant soldiers, they immediately began to retreat unconsciously.
Seeing this, Trag immediately ordered the infantry units on the left and right flanks to cooperate and pressed the enemy.
In the main attack position on the right flank, Ye Bixiu and his Guoke Infantry Regiment rushed to the forefront, and the Guoke Infantry Regiment was already widely known for its combat capabilities, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was the strongest corps in the Sindra Infantry Group. Seeing that the elephant soldiers had successfully broken into Badana's military formation, they also followed. He didn't want to fight the elephants, but he wanted to get a closer look at the strange fortifications in the Bataana army that he had noticed before the battle, and he had always had a sense of dread at them.
Unfortunately, the elephants were walking much faster than their legs, and the mad elephants were soon wedged deep into Bataana's formation, and their momentum was amazing, and Bataana's army hid behind the strange fortifications as fast as they could.
At this moment, the Bataina army, hiding behind the fortifications, suddenly picked up rows of ropes from the ground and began to pull hard, so that the fortifications, which looked a little like mounds but not so much like mounds, began to show their true faces.
It turned out that the Badana army had laid a whole row of giant deer barricades arranged with sharpened wooden stakes, the front ends of which were generally more than four meters long, and they were arranged together like a defensive line made of giant hedgehogs. In order to prevent detection by the Sindra army, the Batana army also covered them with a large number of wooden planks and a layer of dirt on top of them, so that the Sindra army could not recognize their true purpose at a glance. It wasn't until the soldiers pulled up the covering planks that the weapons were really revealed.
"Not good!" It only took a glance to see the purpose of Dadaran's move. It was clear that ordinary spears were pointless against the charging war elephants, so Dadaran thought of replacing them with sharpened stakes for a strengthened version of the spear. Stakes don't break as easily as spears, and although they don't pierce as well as spears, the impact of the elephant's running power itself is the greatest force for the stakes to penetrate the elephant's sturdy skin. However, if the weapon had been seen by the elephant soldiers from the beginning, the elephant slaves could have bypassed the stakes, or slowed down in front of them, and the elephants could easily push the stakes off and move on. But the problem now is that the elephant suddenly found so many spikes in front of him in the process of rushing forward, so even the gods could not stop the mad elephant's footsteps.
In fact, there are not many people who have or must practice such enlightenment, especially the elephant slaves sitting on the back of elephants are very aware of their situation, but unfortunately, no matter how hard they try to hold the war elephant under their feet, it is only a futile effort. The galloping elephant almost stuck itself in the stake!
The force of the impact almost broke the stake, which was as thick as a man's thigh, but unfortunately the stake held on after a few shakes. With the glorious sacrifice of the first elephant, the other elephants followed, and the stake array was suddenly filled with pieces of meat. When the stakes were filled with a whole row of elephants, the following elephants crashed into the elephants in the front row, and the elephant slaves flew into the array of Bataana soldiers like kites with broken strings, and then became ghosts under the sword.
By this time, the array of war elephants had become a mess, and the collision of meat balls with meat balls had become the only main theme left between them. But that wasn't the end of the story, as Dadaran's next order was given, the Badana soldiers fired rockets. It turned out that the underside of the stake array, including all the stakes, had been soaked in tung oil, and wherever the rocket went, the raging flames suddenly burned to a height of several people! Before the poor elephant could break out of the pile of his companion's corpses, he was baptized by a new round of flames, and his burning body frantically tried to escape, only to set his companion on fire, and the screams of the elephants and the screams of people within the wall of fire resounded. What is even more tragic is that the elephants that fell behind continued to charge forward, and the elephant slaves saw that the situation was not good, and jumped off the elephants to flee for their lives, only to be trampled into meat sauce by the following elephants. The tragedy played out in front of hundreds of thousands of troops, and everyone froze in place, the difference was that the Bataana soldiers had a triumphant smile on their faces, while the Sindra soldiers were shocked by the scene before them.
And of all of them, the one who was hit the hardest was Syndra's king Traag. His last reliance on this war, the war elephant soldiers were wiped out at once, and the dream of leaving a name in history came to naught at this moment, and Traag seemed to have seen the evaluation of himself by later generations: most of his life of inaction, and the crazy army after fratricide, but finally ended up in a fiasco.
Traag regretted it at this time, but he couldn't think about it, he suddenly felt that the sun in the sky had lost its light, and only darkness seemed to envelop him in front of him.