Chapter 183: Defeated in One Blow
The running of the war elephants will always make a rumbling sound on the ground, and on the bald head of the king of Hongdu, only a few handfuls of hair are flying in the wind, and he finally walked on the plains, and Yanglin gave a rare order to march quickly, it is impossible to run past King Tony's spies, but it will not leave too much time for King Tony to prepare for the show.
As dusk approached, the commander of the herald battalion told the sergeants that the commander-in-chief had said that the battle would be settled before dark, and that the commander-in-chief, who had drunk coconut water for a day, was hungry and waited for the battle to be over.
War elephants and marines quickly line up after the march is a regular training item for this army recently, whenever they arrive at a camp, Yanglin will let the army in a hurry line up first, half an hour to check the number of people and distribute supplies before entering the camp, this time is different, the destination is directly the battlefield, and when the soldiers have run to their own queue position to stand, the war is about to begin.
King Tony's army looked a little flustered, their scouts arrived about an hour earlier than Yanglin's army, but the situation didn't seem to be better than the Tang army, King Tony's army was very loose, the team of more than 20,000 people, an hour had not been lined up at all, in fact, when Yanglin saw them, he already felt that his order to march quickly was in vain, even if they stood here and waited for them to line up, they couldn't line up any powerful formation, at most they could be regarded as lining up.
Yang Lin stood on the back of the tall elephant and swept King Tony's team with his eyes, his eyes were full of disdain, and he even took the entire army to look at King Tony's eyes with disdain, after more than three months of battle formation training, the spirit of the newly formed Tang Army and King Tony's miscellaneous army were not at the same level at all.
"At the third level, the first transverse cannon is ignited, and the second transverse cannon is prepared." The flag was waved, and the loud shouts of the heralds resounded in the military formation, and the army of more than 30,000 people could not all act on the flag, so they had to rely on the shouts of the battalions and schools to convey orders. On the other side, King Tony was still mobilizing before the battle, boosting the low morale and so on, and a roaring cannon sound completely covered out his speech.
"Bang Bang Bang"
The earth was trembling, even boiling, the earth and the stumps of the soldiers were flying in the air, the huge war elephants were frightened by terror, and turned back and rushed towards their own ranks, the Jiaozhi people measured the combat strength on the land mainly by the number of war elephants, King Tony had more than two hundred war elephants, which was relatively powerful among the seven kings. But these war elephants did not help him to play any role, but because of the attack of the Tang army's terrifying Shenwei cannon, he was frightened and turned back and rushed towards his own formation.
Yanglin only put one round of cannons, King Tony's camp set up a pot of porridge, Yang Lin, who has always regarded elephants as cherished animals, of course was reluctant to continue to fire at King Tony's camp, it was okay to hurt people, but it was a big loss to hurt elephants, in fact, this period was in Jiaozhi, and elephants were like cattle in the Central Plains. It belongs to the livestock that must be raised in each village.
King Hongdu looked at the scene in front of him with his mouth wide open, and a layer of fine sweat rose on the top of his half-bald head at some point, and it couldn't be more appropriate to describe King Tony's fiasco with a touch of collapse, and the powerful Tang Army didn't even give him a chance to say a line.
"Scorpions. It won't be difficult for me to get King Tony back from the chaos! "Yang Lin is too lazy to command the battle behind, on this great plain, it is difficult for King Tony's men and horses to escape from the sight of Yang Lin's telescope, just send the marines out in batches to capture the scattered King Tony soldiers. But King Tony couldn't let him run, Yang Lin just clearly saw this overly frightened guy riding his own frightened elephant and running into the distance, with the light skill of a scorpion. It's not hard to catch him.
"No problem, but I want the jewel in his crown, and I have exactly one on my scabbard." The scorpion didn't give Yang Lin time to say he didn't agree, and his body flew out, Yang Lin knew that this guy had been thinking about how to defeat Ji Wutong recently, originally they were all fighting with fists and feet, but now they actually thought of using weapons, which can be regarded as some progress, and when they wanted to return to Chang'an, it was almost the three-year period of their war, and then he would see Ji Wutong who had moved to Chang'an with his clansmen there.
King Hongdu slowly slipped off the back of the war elephant, Chaoyang Lin's avatar position walked over, until now he knew what a terrible opponent he had lost, the Tubo people were simply not worth mentioning in front of the Tang people, he found a new backer, and heard that this new backer is not only powerful, but also very generous to those who surrendered, King Yingji and his brother King Hun Sen are still living a king-like life, and more at ease, now is the time for him to go to Yanglin to show loyalty, Even if his future status is inferior to that of King Yingji, who surrendered first, he is happy to accept it.
"Forgive the ignorance of Hongdu, great and wise commander-in-chief, who is willing to kiss your elephant's hoof as a sign of loyalty and reverence for you."
"Bah."
After saying this, King Hongdu really walked to the feet of the head elephant that Yang Lin was riding, kissed the toe of the head elephant once, and then continued to kneel on the ground, saying what he thought would be the best way to express his deference and loyalty.
"Okay, okay, okay, in front of me personally, don't be popular with this set, you have to remember that you have never offended the Tang Dynasty, the people who offend the Tang Dynasty can only go by the road of death, you are just provoked by the Tubo people, and inadvertently suffered a lesson from the Tang Dynasty, I ask you to remember this lesson, only I Datang is the most powerful in this world, even if it is thousands of miles away, as long as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty shakes his body, you will be trampled to death like ants, obedience is not something that can be expressed in words, I want to see your actions, if you want to become a member of Datang and not be bullied by anyone, you must hand over everything yours. Yang Lin didn't tell King Hongdu to get up, he had already seen a scorpion from a distance with a person rushing here, thinking that it was King Tony, and this was the time to instill these thoughts on the Tang Dynasty to King Hongdu.
"Hong Du is willing to give everything he has, I only hope that the commander-in-chief can make me a Tang man, so that I will no longer be bullied by anyone." Halfway through King Hongdu's words, King Tony's body was still beside him with a scorpion pop.
"Don't kill me, I'm also willing to sacrifice my own qiē and return to the Tang Dynasty." King Tony was a little panicked and kowtowed to the sun forest on his head.
"Okay, very good, King Tony, I'll let you go back now to gather your remnants, tell them to lay down their weapons, and accept the control of the Tang army, you can also try to escape, but I can guarantee that you won't see the sun tomorrow." As soon as Yang Lin waved his hand, the scorpion pulled him aside, signaling him to hurry up and follow Yang Lin's instructions, while not forgetting to pick out the jewels set in his crown.
"As for you, Hongdu, I accept your surrender on behalf of the Tang Dynasty, and after King Tony's defeated army is cleaned up, we will return to your royal city together, and then you will hand over all the land and people in your territory, as for the wealth in your palace, this commander is not interested, but you can give it to our emperor when you meet him in the future, maybe this will make your life better in the future."
For the frightened King of Hongdu, Yanglin doesn't need to be polite at all, the Seven Kings of Jiaozhi, as long as they surrender, will definitely be sent to Chang'an in the end, and it is already good to be able to leave some descendants to be a rich man here, as for the money, Yanglin is too lazy to move it now, as long as it is so dotted into the King of Hongdu, the other kings who surrendered will compete to rush the game to Li Er.
In fact, Li Er is the person who is not short of money in the world, just a day ago, the vanguard army and the firearms battalion broke through the South Jade City, and the accumulation of hundreds of years in the An family is in his hands, it is said that the gold, silver, jade, bronze and other items in the treasury want to be pulled back to Chang'an, at least several thousand-ton water ships must be filled.
"Your Majesty, there are many people in the An clan who have fled into the mountains, among them are those mysterious Gu masters, now the water in Yunan City is undrinkable, and the soldiers who drank it in advance have all shown symptoms of dizziness, there are quite a few of them, and the Xiliang Camp School has already brought the epidemic prevention soldiers to check." Cheng Chumo anxiously rushed in from outside the main hall, this palace-like building looks like a small court, and the style is more like the building of the Han Dynasty, which was originally the place where the An clan held a meeting.
"Well, it was I who made this war a little simpler, and now it seems that this war is far from over, your vanguard army is the first to enter the city, I am afraid that there are many poisoned soldiers, call the medical officer to heal, and pass on my order to tell all battalions, it is forbidden to drink the water of Yunan City, prepare a water wheel, transfer drinking water from other places, and test the poison and boil it before drinking." Li Er put down the jade in his hand and ordered.
There are more than 300,000 people in Yunan City, most of them are controlled by the Tang army, and the Tang army itself controls the drinking water, so why don't the 300,000 people drink water? An's is very vicious, using a trick to draw money from the bottom of the kettle, if this problem is not solved, the Tang army may face more than 300,000 people who are thirsty and crazy, even if the Tang army's war knife is sharp, it will not be able to kill, and they will not necessarily let the Tang army get water, and lightly abandon Yunan City and leave these useless treasures, which is another plan after An's lore plan, it turns out that the water-absorbing stone mountain range is not the final decisive battle field set by An's, Yunan City is.
"Water, water, water, how can we solve the problem of drinking water?" Li Er paced on the main hall, and the rest of the old ministers also touched their beards and thought, in the southern land, people's demand for water is huge, it is precisely because of this that An Miao has repeatedly made a fuss about the issue of water, poisoning is only their first step, and Gu is his real means of harming people's lives, just in this hall, there are Gu worms laid by An Miao's great Gu master in advance, they expected that Li Er would come here, and all the arrangements had already been made.
"Oh, my hand." Li Er inadvertently saw his right hand playing with the jade just now, and at this time there were bursts of black gas, and a sour and painful feeling came from his hand. (To be continued......)