"Woo-" The war elephant hissed, flicked its long nose, and two sharp knives tied to the tusks of two huge elephants slashed through the chest of a Wu soldier, who was wearing heavy armor, and the sharp knife only cut through his arm, not through the heavy armor, but the huge force knocked him upside down and flew up, just as he flew in mid-air, the Funan soldier on the elephant's back shot a long arrow, pierced a spear, the long arrow hit his thigh, and the spear accurately pierced his throat. Sergeant Wu fell to the ground with a bang, spit out a mouthful of blood foam from his mouth, his hands and feet twitched a few times, and he died of exhaustion, blood gushed out, soaking the ground below him.

"Kill!" The comrades-in-arms behind him had red eyes, the long halberd flew into the thorns, and hit the elephant's front legs, the elephant was in pain, shook his head violently, and the long nose and tusks rolled over again, knocking the Wu soldier to the side a few steps, unable to dodge, and was stepped on by another war elephant, and immediately spat blood from his mouth, and fell to the ground and died.

Fifty war elephants were divided into two rows in front and back, like two rows of indestructible bulldozers, rampage, although the Wu army was very brave, but in the face of the strong attack of the war elephants and the crossbows and spears of the Funan soldiers on the back of the elephants, they could not cope with it, and retreated one after another, but in a quarter of an hour, the front line retreated twenty steps, and the corpses of the Wu soldiers were upside down on the position, some were hit by the sharp knives on the elephant's tusks, some were trampled to death by the elephants, some were shot to death by bows and crossbows or stabbed to death by spears, The worst thing is to be trampled to death by an elephant, either with a broken hand or a broken leg, or the chest and abdomen are trampled flat, and the internal organs are flowing all over the ground, which is unbearable.

In the face of the elephant soldiers' attack, the Wu soldiers lacked the skills to deal with it, and their morale was greatly frustrated.

Sun Deng held on to the railing, looked at the defeated front, and then looked at the elephant soldiers who were still watching the battle in the distance, his face pale.

"Prince, you can't wait any longer, immediately order the crossbow battalion to shoot." Xie Jing reminded anxiously.

"Hmm." Sun Deng nodded and stretched out his hand to sign. The drums sounded loudly, and the soldiers in front immediately retreated quickly, and the crossbowmen deployed in the second defense line raised the strong bow in their hands, and at the sound of an order, the long arrow left the string, making a heart-stopping muffled sound.

"Huh!" Nearly a thousand long arrows leaped into the sky and swooped down on the fifty war elephants. When the Funan soldiers on the war elephant heard the drums of the Wu army and saw the Wu army retreating, they knew that the Wu army was going to counterattack with bows and crossbows. As soon as the big shield was raised, the long arrow arrived, and it made a sound in the shield, and some of the arrows passed through the gap between the big shields, and hit the soldiers on the back of the elephant, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows let out a scream and fell down, and they rolled and crawled, dodging the war elephants in the back row, so as not to be stepped on, and some were seriously injured when they landed, although they struggled hard, they were still stepped on by the running war elephants, some died on the spot, and some were so painful that they rolled desperately on the ground, which seriously hindered the soldiers behind the war elephants, and the offensive was stagnant.

"Shoot rockets!" Zhuge Ke shouted.

Ling Qibing glanced at Sun Deng, who had a gloomy face, Sun Deng nodded, and there was another drum sound, and more than a dozen strong crossbowmen hit the igniter on the long arrow on the torch next to him, aiming at a distance of fifty steps in front of them, and behind them, the hundred sword players clenched the weapons in their hands and prepared to counterattack.

"Shoot!" At the command of the strong crossbow captain, more than a dozen lighted crossbow arrows roared away, and the fire on the shaft of the arrow was blown by the strong wind, and the distance of fifty paces was in the blink of an eye, and the long arrow shot on the ground, igniting the dry grass soaked in oil that had been laid on the ground for a long time.

"Boom", the flames kicked up two feet high, and the war elephants who were rushing to see the wall of fire that were suddenly kicked up, were taken aback, and suddenly stopped their steps, trying their best to turn their bodies, but they were far from being so sensitive, or involuntarily rushed forward, and were hit by the war elephants behind, and suddenly staggered and messed up.

As soon as the war elephants were in chaos, the Funan soldiers on the back of the elephant couldn't sit still, and fell to the ground one after another, Wu Jun shot a batch of long arrows in time, and these soldiers were killed one by one in front of the formation, and the war elephants with thick skin and rough flesh were also hit by a lot of arrows, the pain and the fear of fire made them more nervous, forty or fifty elephants spun in front of the wall of fire, and a few war elephants that rushed quickly broke through the wall of fire, spread their four hooves, and rushed towards the soldiers of Wu Guo.

"Kill it!" Sun Deng let out an angry cry, raised his arm and slashed down.

The sword players leaped out, and they scattered, allowing the elephants to rush and kill the soldiers who were following them. Without the cover of the battle elephants, where were these Funan soldiers the opponents of Wu Guo's soldiers, they were immediately killed and embarrassed.

The swordsmen who had successfully counterattacked immediately turned to deal with the war elephant that had already run over, and they chased after the war elephant, raised their special halberds in their hands, and stabbed at the Funan soldiers on the elephant's back. Another dozen knife players rushed to both sides of the elephant's hind legs, waved their knives at the elephant's legs and slashed, they were extremely ruthless, chopping in the same position one by one, and the thick elephant skin could not bear their chopping, and soon they were cut open one by one, revealing bright red flesh and white bones.

The Funan soldiers fought back with bows and spears, and turned around with the war elephants. They also know that although the war elephant is very powerful, once it is left alone, it is surrounded by Wu soldiers and soldiers with this tactic, and attacks like a swarm of ants, and this war elephant will be disabled. In the past few months, the Wu army has used this tactic to abolish at least fifty of their war elephants, and of course, they have also paid great sacrifices, and about nearly a thousand Wu warriors have died in front of the battle.

The wounded war elephant let out a terrible howl, and they no longer listened to the control of the elephant soldiers, and frantically rampaged in front of the formation, turning around, knocking the Wu soldiers who stopped in front of it to the ground and stomping on them hard.

"Crossbowman, Shot!" Zhuge Ke once again gave the order in time.

The crossbowmen fired at the war elephants in front of them, ignoring the robes trapped in the array, because they knew that when they rushed forward, they would already be sentenced to death, and that there were very few people who could survive the frenzied war elephant conflict. They couldn't bear it, but now there is only this way to deal with these elephant soldiers, and it has always been this tactic that stopped the attack of the Funan people and stopped them on the west side of the Yangtze Mountain.

The mad war elephant was soon shot into a huge hedgehog, and finally could not hold it anymore, let out a long wail, and fell to the ground with a bang, and the heavy body shook the earth.

The war elephants that had been stopped by the wall of fire had withdrawn, and there were only corpses left in front of the fierce battle, arrows and feathers like weeds, and the extremely humid air was mixed with too much blood, and the smell was disgusting.

Fan Chang watched from afar, this time he lost two war elephants, but almost more than 200 Wu soldiers fell in front of the battle, counting everyone's losses, and he still has more than 100 war elephants, more than 20,000 troops, as long as he is given a certain amount of time, he is still sure enough to defeat the Wu army and attack Yuenan, as long as he can enter Yuenan, the Wu army has no ready-made fortress to rely on, and the battle situation may be much smoother.

What's more, it will soon be the season for the rice to ripen, and they will be able to eat on the spot when they attack the south, and there is no need for long-distance transportation. Transporting grain from Funan for thousands of miles, the loss is too great, Fan Chang knows that now his father Fan Man wants to compete with Sun Shao for the hearts of the people, and he can't just add it, and this grain still has to be used.

Fan Chang was very excited, Fan Jinsheng, the elder brother who had the greatest hope of succeeding to the throne, was unexpectedly captured by the Yue Guo Shui Teacher, and now he has been discredited, otherwise this opportunity to lead a large army expedition will definitely not fall on his Fan Chang's head, if he can win this battle, take Yuenan, and recapture Linyi, then there will be no suspense about the position of Prince Funan.

He was in a hurry, but he was not in a hurry, he had enough patience to entangle with the Wu and Yue coalition forces, and after more than a month of fighting, he felt that he was getting more and more comfortable, and he had gradually touched the routines of the Wu people. The Wu people were better equipped than him, and their combat ability was higher than that of the Funan soldiers, but they did not have weapons that could effectively restrain the war elephants, so they could only use fire walls and counterattack tactics. The wall of fire needs to be set up in advance, which dooms them to only defend passively, not aggressively, and he has plenty of room to adjust.

Fan Chang is very regretful, if he can attack earlier, the people of Wu will not have so much time to prepare in Changshan, in the past six months, the people of Wu have dug deep pits in several places that can be attacked in Changshan to block the passage of war elephants, and used dense arrow rain to prevent the Funan soldiers from coming forward to fill the pit, so the two sides have been fighting for positions here, otherwise, with the impact of war elephants, they would have rushed through Changshan.

But what made Fan Chang happy was that the tactics of the Wu people were passive, and the consumption was also very large, and he roughly estimated that he had lost fifty war elephants, at least the surnames of the three thousand fine tax soldiers of the Wu State had been changed, and the Wu people could not support it for long.

Fan Chang guessed well, Sun Deng really can't support it, more than a month of fighting, Lu Dai was injured, more than 8,000 people under his command lost more than half, although Zhuge Ke brought a lot of county soldiers, but the level of fighting a tough battle is insufficient, I went up twice, as soon as I saw the war elephant turned around and ran, almost disrupted the Wu army's main formation, and now Sun Deng can only use them to guard the front, like the counterattack war elephant This difficult job is not daring to send them, and it is in vain to send them.

However, the massive casualties of elite soldiers were a very fatal blow to morale.

"Shufa, Yuan Xun, if we continue to fight, we won't be able to support it." Sun Deng sat down weakly, lowered his head, and felt like crying. He had already expected that Funan's attack would be very fierce, and he had already proposed reinforcements to Sun Quan, but for more than two months since the song was sent, no reinforcements were seen, and Sun Quan did not have any news, as if he didn't know that he was here to fight the Funan people. Sun Deng's heart was very bitter, and in the gap between the battles, he constantly reflected on his father Sun Quan's every move in the past two years, and gradually understood that his father cared more about him, but this kind of care was just to regain his respect from Sun Shao, and from the bottom of his heart, his father was no longer the father he used to be.

As soon as he thought of this, Sun Deng was shocked, he kept thinking about why his relationship with his father came to this point, and when it began, but he never found an answer. Is it Sun Wei? It doesn't seem to be, although Sun Shao is smart, he is not better than him, is it because of Sun Shao? It seems to be and it doesn't seem to be, he and Sun Shao have broken up, and his father knows it, so why? Because of power? Sun Deng felt as if he had found the answer, but he was unwilling to accept it.

He had been educated in Confucianism since he was a child, and he was himself a relatively mild man, and he was always reluctant to think of his father in that direction. The sage said, the king and the minister, the father and the son, he and the father are both father and son, and in his heart, he has always done according to the teachings of the saint, why does his father still treat him like this?

Every time at this time, Sun Deng thought of those fathers and sons in the history of the country, and there were bursts of sadness in his heart.

"Prince, we ...... Ask Queen Yue for help. Zhuge Ke reminded cautiously.

Sun Deng glanced at him and was very unhappy. When he heard that Sun Shao had left Guan Feng to help him guard the Changshan Front, he felt a little uncomfortable. Sun Shao himself went to Funan Bay with the main force, leaving only seven or eight thousand people including Guan Feng, and it was led by two women, Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang, which was clearly a bit perfunctory. Since the start of the war, he has not taken the initiative to ask Guan Feng for support, and Guan Feng has never taken the initiative to ask to participate in the war, but is stationed on a hillside slightly south. I don't know what kind of psychology it is, Fan Chang has never divided his troops to attack that hillside, as if he is in touch with Wu Guo.

"Will asking them for help solve the problem?" Sun Deng sighed in embarrassment: "Besides, isn't it a bit ...... for us seven-foot men to ask a woman for help?"

Zhuge Ke smiled: "Prince, if you see her as a woman, that's wrong." The fact that King Yue was able to put so many people into her hands shows that he has faith in her. Prince, you know what? At least one-third of the captains in the Vietnamese army are now from the Guan family army. ”

Sun Deng nodded, he didn't know what it was like, Guan Feng was originally the object of his father's proposal for him, Sun Shao just went as a messenger, but he didn't think that it was Sun Shao who would get married in the end. Now Guan Feng has become a big help to Sun Shao, the elite of the Guan family she brought supports half of the sky of Yue Kingdom, he is now going to ask Guan Feng for help, and these people should have been his.

"I'm worried about her...... There are too few people, can you use it when you come? ”

"Lots of people." Zhuge Ke shook his head and patiently explained. He still doesn't understand why Sun Deng has not asked Guan Feng for help, he wants to replace him, and he will invite Guan Feng to come as soon as the war starts. It has been more than a month now, and the Vietnamese army, as an allied army, has not yet been on the battlefield, and it is all supported by the Wu army alone. "What is the most elite centaur in the Yue Kingdom? It's the 5,000-Destroyer Battalion! The king of Yue left 4,000 people, even the general Ding Feng left behind, and there are also Heda's 2,000 auxiliary Yue battalions, which are good at mountain and jungle warfare, Heda is relying on these 2,000 people to pacify Zhuya, the king of Yue summoned him to Funan, is to use his specialty, although the strength of the fifth general's men and horses is not as good as the former, but it is not easy to underestimate, to say the weakest, probably is Zhou Xun's two thousand Lujiang battalion. ”

Sun Deng frowned and hesitated.

"What's more, they also have ten war elephants." Zhuge Ke further said: "The king of Yue put back Fan Jinsheng, replaced ten war elephants, the soldiers on these ten war elephants are all Funan natives, how many have spoken a few words of Chinese, after arriving in Linyi, the king of Yue treats them very generously, with these ten war elephants, they must have a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of war elephants, and when they start fighting, they will naturally be more targeted." ”

"Yuan Xun is right." Lu Dai walked up slowly, just in time to hear Zhuge Ke's last few words: "The biggest headache we have now is the war elephants, although we can contain them with the method of fire attack, but I found that the effect of these times is obviously not as good as the first few times, and the prince of Funan must have a way to deal with it." ”

Sun Deng got up and saluted Lu Dai, and said very politely: "Since the general also thinks so, then I will invite them to participate immediately." ”

Lu Dai smiled, very satisfied with Sun Deng's respect and courtesy, but as Sun Quan's former minister, he could somewhat guess some contradictions between the father and son, and now the situation is unknown, so he should not make too many statements.

"Yuan Xun, let's take a trip."

"Whoa."

When Zhuge Ke arrived at the barracks, Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang were playing against each other, their chess skills were almost the same, and they were inseparable, Sun Shangxiang had an elephant in his hand and was taking a long exam, Guan Feng was not in a hurry, but Sun Luban, who was watching chess, was anxious enough, she stared at the chess pieces in Sun Shangxiang's hand, her eyes were dripping and rolling, if it weren't for Sun Shangxiang is elder, maybe she would have gone up and snatched the chess pieces from her hand.

"Queen, Zhuge Ke is here." Bai Yu shouted outside the tent.

"Zhuge Ke?" Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang glanced at each other, and the corners of their mouths invariably showed a smile. Sun Luban jumped up, clapped his hands and shouted: "He must have come to ask for help, we have a battle to fight." ”

"How do you know there's a fight to fight? Maybe they've already won the battle and come to report the news. Guan Feng deliberately teased her with a straight face.

"Impossible." Sun Luban said with a smile: "Zigao can only read, not fight, and their strength is not as good as Funan, so it is not so easy to win." He can barely fight the battle of bullying the few with more and bullying the weak with the strong, and he can't win this kind of battle with less to win more. ”

"Little girl, be careful that this word reaches Zigao's ears, you won't be able to go back." Sun Shangxiang stretched out his hand and twisted the corner of Sun Luban's mouth and said angrily. Sun Luban twisted his head and said very arrogantly: "Go back? I don't plan to go back, I want to stay in Yue all the time, I want to be a general, go back to Jianye, I can only stay at home and be a princess, it's boring. ”

Guan Feng stopped their jokes and invited Zhuge Ke in. Zhuge Ke first talked about the progress of the war, and then explained the intention. Guan Feng pondered for a moment and said, "You can't support it anymore? ”

Zhuge Ke smiled: "The support can still be supported, but Wu Yue is an ally, and he should fight the enemy side by side." Isn't the queen stationed here on the orders of His Royal Highness the King of Yue to support our army? In that case, why wait until our army can't support it before making a move? ”

Guan Feng glanced at Zhuge Ke unhappily, she didn't like Zhuge Ke's aggressiveness very much, but she didn't say anything, just nodded and said: "Please reply to Prince Wu, our army will arrive in two days, please prepare the camp and grain and grass." ”

"The queen can rest assured that the camp and the grain and grass are ready." Zhuge Ke thought for a moment, and then said: "Dare to ask the queen, is there a good way to deal with war elephants?" Although there are many soldiers in Funan, they are not the opponents of our army when they fight in formation, and the biggest problem now is the war elephants. Although we have come up with a way to attack with fire, the effect is not very obvious from the current situation. ”

"Of course......" Sun Luban blurted out, but was interrupted by Guan Feng: "It's hard to say at present, let's talk about it before the battle." ”

Zhuge Kehu glanced at them suspiciously, didn't dare to squeak, and politely withdrew, but he guessed something from Sun Luban's expression, and couldn't help but feel a lot more at ease. As long as you can deal with war elephants, then this battle is assured.

"Sister-in-law, we clearly have a way to deal with war elephants, why don't you let me say it?" Sun Luban looked at Guan Feng puzzled: "Doesn't my sister-in-law want to save my brother?" ”

"Stupid boy, tell them that they beat the Funan people away, what else are you fighting?" Guan Feng glanced at her and said with a smile.

"Oh?" Sun Luban was suspicious, his eyes swept over Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang's faces twice, and when he saw that they were all holding back a smile, he immediately understood that they were making fun of themselves, and couldn't help but pouted a little depressedly: "You don't tell anyone anything, you always treat others as children, I'm fifteen." ”

"Who treated you like a child?" Sun Shangxiang couldn't help but laugh and said: "You shout that you want to fight every day, and now that you have the opportunity, why are you unhappy?" What are the people of Funan to be afraid of? Aren't they just war elephants, if they know how to deal with war elephants, they don't need us to take action at all to defend Changshan. In that case, what other chances do you have? What other chances do you have? ”

As soon as Zhou Xun was mentioned, Sun Luban immediately changed his smiling face, and laughed repeatedly: "Auntie is right, aunt is right, I can't tell them." ”

Guan Feng said to Bai Xuan: "Fang Qing, bring General Zhou, General He, and General Ding here, and we will discuss how to fight." ”

"I'll go, I'll go." Sun Luban jumped up and rushed out of the big tent in front of Bai Yao, the tent door was still dangling, and her excited voice was already ten steps away.

"Queen, how are you going to fight this battle?" Sun Shangxiang leaned forward.

"Fight slowly." Guan Feng quietly picked up the chess pieces, landed on the chessboard with a "snap", picked up the teacup on the side and took a sip, and then said slowly: "We can't pursue if we win, we can only watch the defeated soldiers go back, in this case, attracting more than 30,000 people from Fan Chang in Changshan will be more helpful for the king to capture Temu City." ”

Sun Shangxiang nodded thoughtfully, retracted his gaze to the chessboard, and was about to rearrange the chessboard, when he suddenly saw the chess pieces in his hand, and immediately exclaimed: "Hey, no, Yinping, now it's my turn to play chess, you see, my elephant is still in my hand." ”

"To deal with elephants, you have to fight fast and slow." Guan Feng smiled proudly and said with a pun.

(To be continued)