Before Zhang Xutuo's words fell, a heavy brass horn sounded in the distant Weixian County, which was particularly harsh in the early morning mist, as if it indicated something.

Wang Shichong nodded: "Zhang Dudu, although your official position is not high, but you really have the demeanor of a general, after the end of this southern expedition, your future should be limitless, you are right, we can't underestimate the enemy, it is better to observe the battle situation carefully, after dawn, a few hours later, today's battle will be clear." ”

His face changed suddenly, because he found that a thick fog rose in the mountains and forests behind the city wall of Weixian County, gradually covering the enemy camp in the distance, and there seemed to be some movement in the distance, and a large number of cheers rang out from the barbarian army, and the 100,000 barbarian soldiers all let out a roar like an ape and a leopard, desperately beating gongs and bangs, stomping and jumping, and even the whole earth was shaking slightly.

Wang Shichong's heart floated a huge cloud, an extremely bad feeling came to his heart, this feeling only appeared once when the southern expedition destroyed Chen Guojiang, since then he has been born and died many times, there is no shadow of this death, he can feel the earth shaking rhythmically, and the 100,000 people on the opposite side should not be able to have such a big momentum.

Wang Shichong turned his head to look at Zhang Xutuo, who had a serious expression and sparkling eyes: "Zhang Dudu, you are right, the enemy may have any secret weapons, we have to deal with it carefully, now the fog is thick, we can't see the reality of the enemy army clearly, which will add variables to this battle, this Ningzhou early morning often has a dense fog of about an hour, during which everything can happen, we must be ready to attack at any time." ”

Zhang Xutuoha smiled: "That's what we do." Rest assured. ”

A loud beast roar came from the thick fog in the distance. It is different from the tiger roar and leopard roar that I am used to hearing in Ningzhou this month. This voice sounded even louder, and obviously there was more than one, it sounded like dozens of them were screaming in unison, even if they were six or seven miles away, they still shook people's hearts and blood and felt palpitations.

When Wang Shichong heard this, his face changed suddenly, and he shouted, "It's not good." It's a war elephant!"

Zhang Xutuo obviously hadn't heard of this thing, and looked at Wang Shichong: "What war elephant?" ”

Wang Shichong hurriedly said: "It is a tall giant beast, about two zhang high, weighing thousands of catties, with thick skin and thick meat, only produced in this wild land in the south. ”

Zhang Xutuo gasped: "How is this good, the front army of our army is a Shu soldier with average combat effectiveness." Can you stop the onslaught of this war elephant? Listen to you, this war elephant shouldn't run too fast. After all, it is flesh and blood, and our army shoots with a strong bow and a hard crossbow, can it be stopped? ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "I don't know the Dao, this thing only appears in legends, and I haven't really fought with them, these things have thick skin and thick flesh, if they are hung with rattan armor, I am afraid that our army's bows and arrows may not be able to stop it, and the former army is only afraid that it will be difficult to resist when they see this frame, and the crazy war elephants will rush around on the battlefield, and they will become meat mud when they step on people, I don't know if the long lance hand of the second formation of the Ludao can be stopped." ”

While the two were talking, the movement of the position was accompanied by the roar of the giant elephant, which had approached the front army of the Sui army, as the war drums of the Sui army became denser and louder, and the sound of the crossbow machine was continuous, obviously the Shu army of the front army of the E army under the command of their respective governors, they all responded with traditional routines, but the effect was far less obvious than when shooting the enemy infantry, and there were some screams and huge objects falling to the ground in the dense fog, and the screams of some barbarians also came and went, But more and bigger voices were closer to the array of the front army, sounding less than a hundred paces.

Pieces of arrow rain flashed in the air, that is, the archers of the front army began to take turns to shoot, accompanied by the cheers and shouts of the soldiers in the rear, the archers of Shu quickly tilted the wave of arrow rain towards the unknown enemy army in the thick fog, from Wang Shichong's view, the array of barbarians made a huge sound, a large wave of people flashing with fire, emitting a shocking battle cry, like a burning wave, quickly towards the Sui army's front.

There were bursts of shouting and killing in the dense fog, and the crossbowmen of the Shu soldiers began to retreat after shooting the third crossbow arrow, and the halberders in the back row quickly pressed down, and finally, they saw those terrible and huge beasts flashing out of the dense fog opposite, and many people forgot to put the halberd in their hands flat in shock.

These huge war elephants, which were three people tall, had rattan armor tied to their heads to protect the important part of their foreheads, steel knives were tied to their two tusks, and many of them had dense crossbows and feathered arrows stuck in their legs, and the giant elephants in pain had blood-red eyes, shaking their heads, trying to sweep away all visible obstacles in front of them.

The horses of war were bound with ropes on their backs, and often six or seven brutes sat on them, one of them driving, while others fired arrows downward, and from time to time some of the giant elephants threw the brutes on their backs out of the way because their heads swung too much.

But the situation of the Sui army's front army is even worse, because the Sui army is in an offensive position today, and they are constantly advancing, so there is no trench or barrier in front of them, and they are directly stepped on by these dozens of giant elephants, and the thick elephant legs of the big tree have stepped on, and several people will be trampled into flesh, and they don't even have time to scream, and the governors who command these Shu soldiers have never seen this kind of giant beast, and they are often scared stupid, and they don't know how to command, and when they react, Only then did he shout loudly to command his subordinates to use halberds to stab and barrel elephants' legs.

The line of the Shu soldiers began to loosen slowly, after all, the flesh and blood wrapped in iron armor could not confront these terrible monsters with thick skin and thick flesh and weighing thousands of catties, the two tusks of the war elephants tied with steel knives and iron spears became the most lethal weapons, a shaking of the head can make a few soldiers scream and become trapeze, and there are several war elephants, with corpses hanging on the tusks, continue to rampage through the crowd, even if they are stabbed so that they can't stand and fall down, they can also crush more than ten Shu soldiers before they die.

It was only about half an hour (half an hour), more than 2,000 people died in the front army of the Shu army, which was originally used to defend the two wings, and the archers standing on the chariot also jumped down and threw themselves into the battle, Yang Wutong and Duan Da, as well as Yu Juzan commanded their subordinates respectively, and they were hoarse to resist and not be allowed to retreat, but they still couldn't stop the defense line from loosening a little backwards.

Wang Shichong's face sank like water, the dense fog in the morning had become a little thin, he could see the battle situation of the front army about two miles ahead, the barbarian soldiers invested more than 70 war elephants this time, and more than 10 fell on the way to charge, but fortunately, the huge bodies of these giant beasts blocked, so that the barbarian soldiers who followed up in the rear did not rush to the front to slash at once, otherwise the front army would have collapsed at this time.

There were more than a dozen war elephants that were rampage in the camp of the front army, although more than thirty were also stabbed to death, but the remaining dozen or so were like crazy, trampling frantically in the crowd, the riders and archers on the back of the elephants had already been thrown off by the war elephants and did not know where to fly, and the giant elephants completely relied on the instinct of wild beasts to wreak havoc in the crowd without distinguishing between enemies and me.

Wang Shichong frowned, he saw that the fire of the barbarian soldiers in the distance began to gradually surge forward, thinking that the corpses of the war elephants on the battlefield were being moved away to make room for the impact of the large army, and the Shu army had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and all of them were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, without the support of bows and arrows, they could not resist the impact of a large number of barbarian soldiers. He quickly judged the form, and ordered Zhang Xutuo: "Zhang Dudu, take your troops to support the front army, and kill the remaining ten giant elephants as quickly as possible, remember, their weaknesses are in their noses and legs, and their stomachs are also soft." ”

Zhang Xutuo yelled: "Sons and daughters of the jumping team, the time has come to make meritorious contributions, rush with me!" After saying that, he grabbed the belly of the mount and rushed out of the lull directly. The more than 500 sword players shouted and rushed out with Zhang Xutuo. (To be continued......)