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Sun Shao smiled, he brazenly asked people to say to Fan Man, it's okay to fight a duel, don't sacrifice the lives of innocent people, just you and I fight in front of the battle, whoever loses surrenders. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Your eldest son was captured by my subordinates, and your youngest son was captured by my queen, and now he can barely be my opponent, that is, you, the king of Funan.

Fan Man was so angry that he had nothing to say, you, a young man in his twenties, want to challenge me, an old man who is over sixty years old? You can say it. Sun Shao is shameless, Fan Man still has face, he is embarrassed to debate with Sun Shao, compete for the benefit of his tongue, no longer talk to him, and decide to storm the city of King Jin Chen, be sure to attract the two reinforcements of the Yue Kingdom to the city, fight to the end, and fight to the end.

Fan Man said impassionedly, in fact, he had other plans in his heart, he was not too sure whether he could conquer the inner city, and he did not plan to lose all the men and horses here, he made efforts to attack the inner city, or in order to attract reinforcements from the Yue Kingdom, if he could bite the 10,000 reinforcements, even if he achieved his goal, if he really couldn't, he had to retreat after a fierce attack. Although it is impossible for the military rations to support him to return to Temu City, he is not out of the question, it is a big deal to borrow some grain from a subject country along the way, with a large army in hand, who else dares not to borrow it?

Fan Man was ready for both, but as soon as he went to the battlefield the next day, he changed his mind.

The reason is very simple, Sun Shao is out of the city.

Sun Shao took a thousand to destroy the front battalion, backed by the city wall, and set up a formation at the foot of the city, the soldiers did not carry bows and crossbows, but only swords, shields and halberds, shield holders outside, halberd hands, and bridler hands, forming a semicircular array.

Fan Man was overjoyed, Sun Shao didn't go out of the city, he could only stare at it even if he had an army of 40,000, and now that Sun Shao actually came out, even if he was the elite of his 1,000-strong front battalion, could he withstand the impact of tens of thousands of troops in turn? What's more, he also needs a powerful weapon, a war elephant. He was very experienced, and although he had never seen this strange formation, he quickly estimated Sun Shao's intentions. Sun Shao stood next to the city wall, hoping to use the thunderbolt and crossbow set up at the head of the city to cover, if you want to attack this small formation, you must brave the sharp attack of the Vietnamese army, rush through the deadly more than 100 steps, the casualties will be very amazing.

Then, compared with capturing Sun Shao and turning the tide of the battle in one fell swoop, Fan Man was willing to pay such a price. Without saying a word, he mobilized an army of 15,000 to the front and launched a frantic attack.

The drums rumbled, and the Funan soldiers drove the war elephants towards Sun Shao at the foot of the city, and they even gave up attacking the city gate, and only wanted to take this small formation and capture Sun Shao alive.

The battle was heated from the start.

Fan Man knew that the inner city was small, and the Yue people were worried that he would attack the city on all sides, and the ordnance would definitely be evenly distributed on all sides, and it would be impossible to concentrate a large number of them on one side, so it seemed that the city was small, but in fact, the power of a single city wall was not as fierce as last time in the outer city. He sent twenty war elephants at once, under the cover of a heavy wooden house, and launched a charge together, no matter how powerful the Yue people's armament was, it was impossible to shoot all twenty war elephants in such a short period of time, as long as one rushed into Sun Shao's small formation, his goal was achieved.

Twenty war elephants lined up and ran towards the small formation under the city wall, each of which was followed by dense foot soldiers, Fan Man was ruthless, and sent five thousand people at once, striving to take the small formation in one go. Five thousand men ran after the war elephants, and at once the front of the city, which was not very spacious, was crowded.

The thunderbolts and crossbows at the head of the city began to roar, pouring stones and crossbows into the crowd, and everywhere they went, the Funan soldiers let out a terrible scream, some were smashed by the stones and their flesh and blood were blurred, and some were shot through the body by crossbow arrows, but they didn't dare to look back, Fan Man's personal guard battalion was watching from behind, whoever dared to turn back was a knife, rather than this, it was better to move forward bravely, if they could rush to the city wall as soon as possible, they might be able to escape a catastrophe. There was no way out for the Funan soldiers, they could only hold wooden shields of very limited use, and run wildly behind the war elephants.

The giant crossbow at the head of the city began to shoot at the war elephants, and the spear-like crossbow arrows made a sharp whistling sound in the air, flying over a distance of more than 100 paces, shattering the thick wooden planks on the back of the war elephants, shooting the soldiers on the back of the elephants, piercing the thick skin of the war elephants, and shooting the war elephants in front of the battle.

However, although the strong crossbow is very accurate and the shooting speed is fast enough, but the number of war elephants is too much, Fan Man threw twenty at once, seeing that the crossbow arrows at the head of the city were dense, he shot three war elephants in a blink of an eye, and did not stop doing anything, and added ten more cleanly, and ordered the rest of the war elephants to be ready, and when necessary, all of them were charged, and no matter what, they had to rush under the city wall and kill Sun Shao.

The war elephants roared, their arrows galloped, and after a short and tragic fight, they paid the price of twelve war elephants, and finally three of them managed to break through the blockade of the thunderbolts and crossbows, and rushed to the small formation under the city walls.

Fan Man was ecstatic and ordered to throw in ten war elephants again, maintaining enough pressure to make Cui Qian on the city wall very angry. Fan Man sent the war elephants to the battlefield at any cost, although the artillery and crossbowmen had already played at a super level, after all, the number was limited, and it was impossible to kill all the war elephants within the range, once the war elephants rushed to within ten steps, he would not dare to attack, for fear of accidentally injuring Sun Shao. And Fan Man wanted this effect, he used his numerical advantage to force Cui Qian to a dead end all of a sudden.

Cui Qian regretted it. Knowing this, he shouldn't have agreed to Sun Shao's tactics in the first place. At the pre-war meeting, Sun Shao raised a question, what if Fan Man was advancing and retreating, and fled if he couldn't capture the city? They were still on the beach fifty miles away, and when they got the news and came again, Fan Man had already run away, even if they caught up, then in the jungle, the casualties would inevitably increase greatly. In order to keep Fan Man under the city, Sun Shao proposed to go out of the city and set up a formation under the city, on the one hand, to attract Fan Man to the city, so as not to flee far, on the other hand, it will not be completely defensive, and if necessary, it can also counterattack.

Now the purpose of attracting Fan Man has been achieved, he not only stayed, but also went crazy, and went all out at the beginning. In order to prevent Fan Man from attacking the city on all sides, the thunderbolt and the strong crossbow cannot move at any time, and can only be evenly arranged on all sides, so that when Fan Man concentrates his forces to attack a little, the defending force is obviously a little powerless.

If Sun Shao made any mistakes, then all these victories would be in vain. Cui Qian was frightened for a while, he rushed to the city wall and shouted to Sun Shao under the city: "The king ......"

Sun Shao raised his head, looked at Cui Qian's anxious white face, smiled and waved his hand: "Jianzhong, don't worry, it'll be fine." You can defend the city with peace of mind, transfer more crossbowmen, Fan Man wants to fill it with human lives, let's see how many people he has to fill it. ”

Cui Qian was speechless, so he had to retract his head and order the crossbowmen on the other three city walls to come to support, and be ready to save Sun Shao from the city at any time.

The three war elephants that broke through the interception were happy and ran towards the small formation under the city. Sun Shao was talking to Cui Qian while paying attention to the Funan people. The Funan people rushed through the terrifying rain of arrows, looking at Sun Shao and the others in front of them, one by one they were ecstatic, they shouted, let go of their footsteps and rushed over, as if Sun Shao under the city did not have a thousand Destroying Blade Battalions around him, but he was alone.

Sun Shao sneered, picked up his three-stone bow, pulled the bow and shot.

The long arrow whistled away, and with a "pounce", it hit the eye of a war elephant running in the front, and the war elephant had been hit by several arrows, but none of them hurt the vital point, so they didn't take it seriously and still ran with all their strength. Seeing that Sun Shao was ten steps away, the Funan soldiers on the back of the elephant shouted happily, and the crossbowmen who had been prepared for a long time had already raised the bow and crossbow in their hands, ready to shoot Sun Shao first and make a head. They never expected that Sun Shao's archery skills would be so exquisite, just one arrow would hit the eye of the war elephant.

No matter how thick the skin of the war elephant is, it has nothing to do with the eyes, and the running war elephant was so frightened by the severe pain that it screamed, and shook its head again and again, and the huge ivory and the sharp blade tied to the ivory knocked the Funan soldiers who rushed forward into a horizontal flight, flying with the wind like a leaf, and the formation of the charge was suddenly chaotic.

Sun Shao didn't say a word, he raised another arrow, and the long arrow shot into the war elephant's wide open mouth, and an arrow hit the throat, the war elephant raised his head and roared wildly, his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground on his side, and his heavy body shook the ground and the dust flew. The soldiers on the elephant's back were caught off guard and fell down one by one.

Without waiting for Sun Shao's order, Zhou Yin jumped up and raised his knife and shouted: "Follow me!" ”

The soldiers of the 20th Destroyer Battalion rushed out with him, while protecting their bodies with shields, while waving the ring-headed combat knives in their hands, they rushed to the Funan soldiers in front of them. Although the number of soldiers in Funan was numerous, the soldiers of the Destroying Battalion were unstoppable, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and in a blink of an eye, more than 30 soldiers around the fallen war elephant were killed, and then they rushed over like a second war elephant.

The first war elephant fell to the ground with a bang, so that the war elephant followed a little surprised, although the elephant soldier is trying his best to adjust the direction, but the body of the war elephant is too large, it is not easy to turn when running with all his strength, just turn a little direction, and step on the fallen war elephant, a foothold is unstable, the soldier on the back of the elephant was almost thrown off, frightened to hold on to the railing, where can still care about attacking the enemy.

At that moment, Zhou Yin stepped on the back of the fallen war elephant, jumped up, and the tongue bloomed in mid-air, with a loud shout, the long knife was like electricity, and a knife slashed the brown rope on the back of the war elephant, the sharp war knife cut the brown rope in half, the skin and flesh bloomed, the blood flowed, the war elephant suffered pain, struggled to tie up, two struggles, the brown rope was completely broken, the fence on the elephant's back "boom" scattered, the soldiers sitting inside were shocked, shouted loudly, grabbed the railing in vain, and fell to the ground with a "boom", smashed those soldiers to pieces, and before they could stand up, Zhou Yin and the others pounced on them and took their surnames with a few knives.

The two war elephants fell in front of the battle, just blocking the way of the third war elephant, and the elephant soldiers used all their strength to finally control the war elephants, and did not repeat the mistakes of the past, stepping on the bodies of their companions, but their hesitation gave Sun Shao the best opportunity, Sun Shao fired two arrows in succession, and the long arrows passed through the gap in the wooden house, shooting the elephant control soldiers. As soon as his arrow left the string, Tu Hu rushed out, holding the knife in both hands, and roared angrily, and the war knife roared down, slashing at the nose of the war elephant.

The war elephant was in pain, hissed for a long time, raised his head and threw it at Tu Hu. Tu Hu is tall, but he is not clumsy, he does not avoid it, the long knife is reversed, and another knife is slashed on the trunk of the elephant. The knife collided with the elephant's trunk, the blade was embedded in the elephant's trunk, almost cutting off the entire elephant's trunk, and he was also hit by the strong strength of the war elephant and took a few steps back, his face was a little pale, his chest was stuffy, and he almost blurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Tu Hu, you're crazy!" Sun Shao saw it in his eyes, screamed angrily, stuffed the bow into the hand of a personal guard, picked up a spear from the ground with his foot, rushed to the front of the war elephant, looked at the time, and stabbed it out with all his might.

The spear was like an arrow, piercing straight into the mouth of the war elephant, and with a "click", the spear shaft was broken into two, which shocked Sun Shao's palms numb. Sun Shao let out a loud shout, dodged the tusks that the war elephant threw over, and threw out half of the spear shaft. The shaft of the spear spun and swirled into the face of a Funan soldier on the back of the elephant who was aiming at Sun Shao to shoot. The soldier was beaten by the spear and his face bloomed, and with a scream, his hand was loosened, and the arrow did not know where it flew, and the man fell from the elephant's back, and before it fell, Ao Lei rushed forward, and with a wave of the short stick in his hand, he smashed open his skull.

Red blood and white brains mixed together and flowed wantonly.

The Destroying Front Battalion roared out, and in the blink of an eye, it killed three war elephants in front of the formation, not only the Funan soldiers behind the war elephants were stunned, but even Cui Qian and the others on the city wall were stupid. They all know that the Destroying Blade Battalion is elite, but they didn't expect the Destroying Blade Battalion to be so strong, and they all know that Sun Shao's martial arts are good, but Sun Shao has not been in battle for a long time in the past few years, but he didn't expect that his martial arts not only did not regress, but became sharper.

In a matter of moments, who can afford to shoot down a war elephant, kill a war elephant, and kill a Funan soldier with half a spear? Cui Qian looked at Sun Shao and the soldiers of the Destroying Battalion who were in a no-man's land under the city, and a wave of pride surged from his chest, so that he couldn't help but raise his arms and shout: "The king is mighty-"

Cui Yan and Cui Wu, who were also stunned, also came back to their senses, raised their arms and shouted: "The king is mighty-"

The soldiers next to him also shouted: "The king is mighty-"

Under the leadership of Sun Shao and Zhou Yin, like two sharp scimitars, sometimes moving forward side by side, sometimes outflanking left and right, in a moment, they killed a war elephant, and at the same time slaughtered more than 50 soldiers who followed behind the war elephant.

"Shoot me!" Cui Qian's voice trembled with excitement, the four-headed war elephants were killed in front of the small formation under the city, for Sun Shao and them, it was tantamount to an extra meat barrier, even if there were more war elephants rushing over, they could not charge smoothly, it was not easy for them to bypass the huge bodies of these war elephants, but Sun Shao and the others were free to advance and retreat between the war elephants. He can now rest assured and single-mindedly shoot the Funan people who are pouring in.

Fan Man couldn't see the situation under the city, he only knew that the soldiers and war elephants were rushing towards Sun Shao like a tide, shouting and killing shook the sky, and the roars of war elephants were endless, obviously the battle was fierce. He immediately ordered the rest of the war elephants to go into battle, not giving Sun Shao a chance to breathe, and to kill him in front of the battle.

Seven or eight thousand Funan soldiers and nearly fifty war elephants crowded in front of the small royal city, becoming the best targets for crossbows and thunderbolts. The soldiers of the Yue Kingdom on the city wall fought heartily, shooting and killing wantonly, and stones flew into the formation of the Funan people, turning the fresh lives into mutilated corpses, and the sharp arrows roared one after another, shooting one after another the Funan soldiers. However, the Funan people were blinded by the thought of capturing Sun Shao alive, and they shouted, braving the dense rain of arrows and artillery, and persistently attacked the city.

The city soon became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Sun Shao under the escort of Ao Lei and Tu Hu, back and forth conflicts, such as into a no-man's land, although the Funan people came more, but they were separated into a scattered crowd by the corpses of war elephants, and they could not give full play to the advantages of the number of people, but were constantly eaten away by the personal strength far beyond their Destroying Battalion, people were constantly pouring over, but they could not form a threat to Sun Shao and others at all, but because the corpses were accumulating more and more, the situation was getting worse and worse.

However, Fan Man didn't know anything about these situations, he only saw that the killing ahead was inseparable, but he didn't know what the specific situation was, and as time went by, he slowly became a little uneasy. It stands to reason that so many people rushed to the city, Sun Shao was beaten with iron, and it was time to show his defeat, why did the soldiers who had always been at the head of the city shout "The king is mighty" with great fighting spirit, but they couldn't hear the soldiers who had already made a cheer? Could it be that Sun Shao still has an advantage?

Fan Man stood on the back of the war elephant, his hands on his brows and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see anything. The city had already been blocked by more than a dozen war elephants and crowds, and all he could see was that Sun Shao's battle flag flickered east and west, and it never fell.

Could this young king of Yue really be an undefeated god of war, who can actually compete with war elephants with flesh and blood? Fan Man was frightened for a while, and in an instant, he was cold, and gradually under the flames, cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

"The King?" Fan Ru was the first to notice Fan Man's uneasiness and hurriedly shouted.

Fan Man turned his head in a daze, his eyes were full of uneasiness and fear when he looked at Fan Ru, and his voice became a little hoarse: "Aru, how many war elephants do we have?" ”

Fan Ru was stunned for a moment, Fan Man has always been confident in fighting, when did he have to ask him these questions? He turned his head to look at it, and roughly estimated, "Except for the one where the king is sitting, the others have gone up." ”

"A total of fifty-six war elephants were brought out, twelve were lost in the attack on the outer city, and forty-four war elephants all rushed forward, but they could not solve the battle of a thousand devastating battalions...... How to fight. Fan Man raised his hand and stroked his forehead, revealing a painful expression. Fan Ru was also stunned, when they fought in the past, war elephants have always been sharp weapons, needless to say that more than forty war elephants rushed into battle, even twenty war elephants charging into battle could solve the problem. The reason why Fan Man was able to ignore the threat of King Yue and was unwilling to accept his conditions was because he had two or three hundred war elephants in his hands, and with their previous experience, with these war elephants in hand, they could almost support the land of Nan. But who would have thought that since the battle, they have suffered setbacks everywhere, first the sailors have lost everything, and now even their biggest reliance has lost its due power. First of all, Fan Chang, who had a hundred war elephants, was defeated, and now Sun Shao didn't even have to dig a pit, but with a thousand foot soldiers and a sharp and strong bow and crossbow, he was stunned to resist the attack of more than forty war elephants.

Could it be that the war elephants that have been rampant in the Funan War for many years are also like the sailors, and they were swallowed by the Yue people in one bite, and there are no bones left?

Fan Ru's face was a little pale, he raised his head and glanced at Fan Man, Fan Man's face made him even more frightened, his eyes were dull, his lips were pale, the two big hands on the railing were exposed, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from under his wrinkled cheeks.

"Lord Brahma has forsaken us...... The great god Brahma has abandoned us......" Fan Man muttered to himself, his usually calm face suddenly filled with despair.

"Oh-" There was a sudden cheer from the front.

Fan Ru looked forward in horror and suddenly jumped up in fright. The battlefield has been divided into winners and losers, seven or eight war elephants ran back frantically, followed by the same frightened and inexplicable soldiers, they shouted wildly, scattered their legs and ran wildly, no one dared to look behind them, and even forgot to raise their shields, relying on the Yue people to shoot as much as they wanted. Behind them, Sun Shao's battle flag whistled in the wind, and the shouts of killing were endless.

But it was the shouting and killing of the Yue people.

Defeated? Fan Ru couldn't believe his eyes, and rushed forward and backwards, more than forty war elephants, more than 10,000 soldiers, and was actually defeated by a thousand Destroyer Battalion? That's incredible, isn't it?

"It's defeated." Fan Man smiled silently, with a desolate expression: "We are defeated, 30,000 people are defeated to 1,000 people, defeated...... Defeated......"

"No, king, we still have 20,000 people......" Fan Ru hadn't finished speaking, but saw Fan Man's body swaying on the elephant's back, and then fell straight down like a piece of dead wood that had been blown off by the wind. Fan Ru was shocked, and subconsciously rushed up to catch him, shouting loudly: "The king-the king-"

Fan Ru's shouts alarmed the other generals, and the generals who had been crushed by the rout in front of them saw that Fan Man had fallen, and they didn't know if he was injured or dead, and the army's heart was suddenly in turmoil. At this moment, the gate of the inner city suddenly opened, and more Yue soldiers rushed out from inside, their morale was high, shouting slogans, and chasing the defeated Funan soldiers to flee in all directions.

The defeat was like a mountain, as soon as Fan Man fell, the confidence of the Funan people collapsed, in the face of the wolf like a tiger of the Yue soldiers, although they still had an absolute advantage in numbers, but they no longer had a trace of courage to fight, I don't know which beginning, they began to turn around and run wildly.

In the first battle of Temu City, Sun Shao took a thousand Destroyer Battalion to set up a formation under the city as bait, relying on the thunderbolt and strong crossbow on the city wall to kill and injure a large number of Funan people, after more than an hour of fierce fighting, killed and injured more than 30 war elephants, completely crushed the will of Funan people, achieved a great victory, killed more than 8,000, captured more than 20,000 alive, and captured more than 10 people of Funan Wang Fan Man and generals.

After getting the news, many small countries that originally had a wait-and-see attitude came to surrender one after another, Sun Shaofeng Jinchen Wang Wujiao as the Marquis of Dunxun, 2,000 households, set up Jinchen County, and after half a month of rest, the army set off to Temu City.

(To be continued)