The efficiency of the harvesting of this Siamese army by two armored vehicles with machine guns and machine guns can be described as amazing. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info more than eighty percent of the Siamese soldiers were killed or wounded, only a few of them successfully jumped into the river and swam away, and dozens of guys directly knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Luo Teng stood next to the armored car, looked at the group of trembling Siamese, frowned and said, "Keeping these captives will slow us down." ”

Wang Tao said: "Is it possible to kill them?" ”

Luo Teng pointed to the severed arm and stump in that place and said, "We have killed a lot. ”

Wang Tao shook his head and said: "Forget it, we have our system, and we can't mess around." Moreover, they should still be able to grasp some information, and if they bring it back to be tortured, they should be able to get something useful. ”

Luo Teng said: "Then there are dozens of captives here, and we can use a few." ”

Zhou Junbao showed his head and interjected: "In other words, we will also form a subordinate army in the local area in the future, just like we did in the Qing Kingdom at the beginning, so these people will still be useful in the future." ”

Luo Teng held the gun, not very optimistic, and said: "That's because the Qing people are Chinese, and they are the same as our Tang people, but the Siamese people are not a story." ”

He himself basically did not think of himself as a Salish, and after many years in the army, Roten had almost degraded his Indian characteristics, he no longer had primitive worship, and he hardly spoke his own language, and was more accustomed to eating Chinese food than Indian food. A considerable number of the Indians who first joined the Tang Army were like him, and the collectivity of this army was related to ideological education.

Although there are some complaints. But Luo Teng still obeyed Wang Tao's wishes. Wang Tao is the team leader. Have the power to decide. And logically speaking, Wang Tao's decision is also correct.

At this time, two armored vehicles, which had just eliminated one group of enemy troops, received a communication from another armored vehicle not far away.

"At the second assembly point, we found the retreating force of the Siamese army, which was not small, about two thousand people. It should be one of their main forces, though, we're in a bit of trouble. This is an army of elephants, we were chased by their elephants after the encounter, and now we need support, repeat, we are being chased by the elephants, we need support. ”

Yang Youguang was dumbfounded and said, "I really don't want anything." Just now I was thinking about not bumping into Siamese elephants, but now I ran into them on the other side. I can't stop the image of a herd of elephants driving an armored car in my head now. ”

Wang Tao shouted: "Quick." What are you waiting for, leave two people to guard these prisoners, and the rest get into the car and immediately support the friendly forces. ”

Of course, Wang Tao knew that this was a war zone, and although the captives were disarmed and bound, the two of them still looked at them not so safely. He immediately called to the rear and demanded that another vehicle be sent to transport the captives away. The Marines had just arrived in Thonburi and did not have a particularly large number of vehicles. There are only 12 tanks in total, and the rest need to be unloaded.

Two armored vehicles, following the instructions of the friendly troops, rushed away. By the time Wang Tao arrived at the battlefield, the eight Type 77 half-track combat vehicles sent by the Navy SEALs had basically arrived on the battlefield. Wang Tao glanced at it generally, this elephant army was not two thousand people, one person and one war elephant. The elephant is a very precious beast in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and it is even rarer than the horse. On the one hand, domesticating elephants is expensive, and on the other hand, it requires skill. The vast majority of the 2,000 people in this war elephant cavalry are the servants of the war elephants, and the number of war elephants that are really used for impact is only about 20.

At first, the Siamese found a lone armored vehicle, and the SEALs, who saw such a large group of war elephants at once, were also a little weak-hearted, so they turned around and ran away while reporting the situation. This run naturally gave the Siamese the illusion that the enemy was afraid. Although the elephants were not invincible, many Siamese troops were superstitious about the elephants' combat prowess. Although they could see that it was the Tang people's iron chariot on the other side, they did not think that the elephant soldiers could not deal with it.

The elephant soldiers were led by Zheng Xin's original war elephant commander Nasu Jie, and after Rama I killed Zheng Xin, he decisively surrendered to Rama I and still led his own troops. After the Tang people came to Siam under the banner of avenging Zheng Xin, Nasu Festival had no idea of rebelling again. In his mind, the Tang people were outsiders after all, and it was impossible for them to stay in Siam for too long, while Rama I was a very prestigious Siamese general, although he was not expected, but he could be accepted.

At first glance, when he saw the chariot of the Tang people, Nasujie was also surprised, he had never heard of the ironclad chariot that could run without animal power, and at this time, the Qiqi chariot did not attack at all, he even thought that this thing did not have the ability to attack at all. Previously, in Thonburi, the Siamese people were very angry after being bombarded by the Tang Navy, and Rama I was also frightened, and Nasu Jie couldn't help but think: "If we can win a game first, defeat the Tang army, and capture this strange thing, it will definitely boost the morale of our army, and let Zhao Phraya Chokri see my ability, and I will definitely have a greater responsibility in the future." ”

He was full of confidence, but an adjutant general next to him said worriedly: "General, that thing is like a piece of iron, invulnerable, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break." ”

Nasu Jie was confident and said, "Even if it can't be broken, we can let the war elephant trample it flat!" If there is a large force of the Tang army, with a sufficient number of artillery or spears, we should be worried, and even if the Tang army sets up a large number of obstacles or tripping horses, thistles and barbs on the battlefield in advance, we may also fail. But this is a chariot of the Tang Army that is too arrogant and runs out to investigate the situation, what can we be afraid of? ”

Immediately, Nasu Festival shouted and ordered the elephant slaves: "Drive away the war elephants, let's trample these Tang people into meat pies!" ”

More than 20 war elephants were driven by their respective elephant slaves with elephant driving tools and began to run in great strides. Although elephants are the largest land animals on the planet and look very bulky, their movements can actually be described as athletic. They can run at speeds of more than twenty kilometers per hour. Moreover, when more than 20 elephants charged in clusters, followed by thousands of infantry, the scene was also quite magnificent and full of momentum.

It did make the SEALs in that infantry fighting vehicle a little apprehensive.

"It's really unlucky, it's bad to run into something, but to run into an elephant."

In terms of speed, the Type 77 half-track is capable of running at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. In the off-road situation, it was also more than 30 kilometers per hour, and the two sides were separated by a mile when they encountered, and the chariot turned around a woodland and accidentally ran into the elephant soldier who was stationing. The seals above were also unambiguous, and immediately stepped on the gas pedal and left. Even though the elephant was not slow to catch up, it still couldn't catch up with the chariot.

It's not that the SEALs on this vehicle don't want to fight back, but if they fire, it will obviously affect the driving of the vehicle, and it is definitely not a wise thing for a lone vehicle to enter the war elephant formation. The SEALs have trained for combat in a variety of situations, seeking water and hiding themselves in the desert, chasing through snow-covered mountains, and even freediving underwater. However, only in their training subjects did they not drive a chariot to fight a herd of elephants.

At this time, the captain of the squadron was not on the front line, and the command automatically came into the hands of Wang Tao, the leader of the first squadron, whose abilities and qualifications were sufficient. The chariot that was being chased asked Wang Tao for instructions, and Wang Tao weighed the situation, the "fugitive" 804 chariot had approached the five chariots that had rushed to support, and two chariots were on their way. Wang Tao naturally thought that he could fight, so he decisively ordered: "804, you are still moving in the preset direction. It formed a platoon with the chariot and me, and carried out a wave of fire on the enemy. ”

Because the chariots are mobile enough, this has evolved into a situation where the SEAL troo's chariots ambush the Siamese elephants, although such an ambush is not an ambush, but it is also very tactically valuable to give the charging war elephants a head-on attack.

Wang Tao couldn't find any dense woodland to cover, so he simply squatted in a rice field with a few chariots. Coupled with their camouflage, it's not particularly conspicuous. However, the charging Nasu Festival was still five or six miles away, and the five chariots were seen in a row.

"Is it an ambush? No, if the ambush can't be only so many, and there are no troops to hide here, so this is all the strength of the Tang army here. Nasu had no problem judging that the six chariots were no match for his elephant troops. However, Nasu Festival was also a little vigilant in his heart, after all, the Tang army had already landed, and he did not report this information to Rama I further behind him at the first time. And at this time, he was not sure how many Tang troops there were on the outskirts of Thonburi, if he defeated this Tang army ironclad chariot, and more Tang troops appeared behind him, then he would be in trouble. He was in the charge and could not ask Rama I for help, so Nasu Jie made up his mind to only seek a small victory, and leave with one blow, not giving the Tang people a chance to encircle him.

He also made the right choice, until he saw five chariots spewing large cannonballs flying towards his herd of war elephants.

"These things have cannons?!"

The thin tube on the roof of the chariot is really difficult to associate Nasu with artillery. However, the 30mm cannon had an even more terrifying rapid-fire capability, with a rate of fire of more than 60 rounds per minute, so that within seconds, a war elephant fell to the ground in a wail. Their flesh and blood, after all, cannot withstand artillery shells, even small-caliber shells. The artillery shells that the Tang army equipped the combat vehicles with were basically 30 mm high-explosive shells, and the fragmentation damage was even more terrifying.

Originally, the Siamese army's morale-like charge was like a sudden blow, the elephant in front stopped running, and the soldiers behind collided and became a mess. (To be continued.) )