Chapter 0471. People, elephants

In the continuous rainy season, the endurance of the two armies is tested, but the logistics of the two countries are competitive. [Mobile phone, tablet to read novels, please visit m. directly, update faster, more data-saving]

The rear is in the Linyi country, the Indochina Peninsula, in order to attack Tianzhu, Li Jie allocated a mountain-like material hoarding there in advance, and continued to use money to buy from local merchants and Tang maritime merchants, through the newly built roads behind him, grain, medicinal materials and energy sources were continuously transported to the vicinity of this inconspicuous small city in the north of Tianzhu, even after a month of continuous drizzle, the Tang army except for being lazy, but there was no change.

Luo Shun's Tianzhu coalition army was obviously a little embarrassed at this time, lacking sufficient shelter in the gloomy and continuous, a large number of soldiers were injured and cold, and there was not enough awareness of hygiene, and the epidemic was rampant in the barracks, and the people who died of illness in a month were piled up with several large pits on the side.

And the power of Tianzhu in Monsata was constantly decomposed into the hands of one big lord, although in accordance with the order of the co-lord king Aroshun, the vassal states under the Ring Sun Dynasty sent troops one after another, but who paid the military rations was a big problem, the military rations carried by the elephants were eaten within two or three days of arriving at the battlefield, until the hungry soldiers slaughtered the elephants and horses to satisfy the hunger, and the lord Brahmins in the quarrel reached a consensus to share the military rations in a catty proportion, even so, hunger and a full meal were the norm, The Kshatriya class could also feed themselves by sending food by their own wealthy mail, and the army of the Vishya had to endure it.

Rao is like this, a month later, the enemy in front of Li Jie is still a terrifying army of more than 400,000 people, after leaving the camp, the battle line stretches for twenty miles, more than 1,000 hideous-looking bull elephants carrying heavy arrows on their backs in front of the entire army of the army with their teeth and claws snorting, and Wang Xuance, who is in command, is still worried.

Too much!

Before the war, with the last glimmer of hope for peace, Tianzhu put more than a dozen Brahmins and the Fujian Fang Xiao Sheng and other missions met again before the battle, and in the fangs and claws, the Brahmins demanded that the Tang Army withdraw from Tianzhu and compensate for countless Silk Silk Wars.

Both sides are very confident in themselves, the expectations are very high, but there is only one benefit, and of course, the negotiations collapsed.

A dozen brahmins roared back to their own formation, and a moment later, amid the whining horn wailing, the huge Tianzhu army on the opposite side slowly moved into motion.

The war elephants on the central front are too confident, and the 30,000 cavalry that were divided were directly placed in the second place by Luo Shun, sitting at the head of the elephant of the Chinese army, proudly brushing his mustache, A Luo Shun laughed arrogantly and waved the order flag, with the drive of the elephant slaves in the front formation, more than 1,800 male elephants in the front of the rumbling hooves carried the elephant tower and slowly impacted with heavy steps.

The heavy footsteps even shook the earth, and the Indian infantry that followed behind them also rushed wildly with a single sword rattan card, and at the first time, they pressed towards the Tang army like a dark cloud.

There was really a suffocating feeling of black clouds crushing the city, looking at the magnificent scene, Shi Wang Xuance, the marching commander on the command platform, was also beating wildly in his heart, and a series of orders were quickly issued by him.

"The Guanning Iron Cavalry attacked the enemy's right flank to relieve the pressure on the main position, and the engineering troops were put in full force to prevent the enemy war elephants from approaching, and the front army Mo swordsmen and lance soldiers were firmly established and defended with all their might."

"Whoa!"

The command of the big Xu, the war drums sounded in unison, the front was actually 30,000 Fujian King Tielin Tang infantry, countless three or four meters long foot lance really pointed obliquely like Tie Lin pointed ahead, exuding a gloomy murderous aura, in the center of the formation, two thousand selected Mo knife hands were even more shouting and groping the heavy Mo knife in their hands, behind him, was pushed to the front of the formation, and the size of the ship board and iron components were opened one by one.

Crunchy~

In the tooth-souring sound, the steel crossbow string was pulled away hard, the strong man desperately turned the axle, and the ten breeding trebuchets also began to slowly lower their heads, the rumbling heavy footsteps were getting closer and closer, the distance between the two armies was three or four hundred meters, and in the blink of an eye, the war elephant had rushed a little half, and the front foot lance hand had already fluttered and jumped wildly.

"Put!" Finally, the engineer captains calibrated the distance, and under the command of the banner, they suddenly loosened the bamboo shoots stuck in the breeding trebuchet, and under the heavy counterweight throwing, the air was crossed by a buzzing sharp sound, and ten round boulders with more than 100 catties of polished stones were thrown into the sky and smashed to the ground.

Under the power of machinery. Even a giant creature like an elephant could not resist it, and the first stone projectile landed head-on on the forehead of the tallest elephant at the head of the row.

It was really pierced, and the round stone bullet was embedded in the elephant's protruding forehead, and the thick plasma of red and white was squeezed out of the elephant's ears and mouth, and without humming, the behemoth weighing several tons fell straight to the side. Fell on top of the elephant next to him.

Caught off guard, the two elephant towers collided together. The six elephant soldiers in the building didn't have time to escape before they were drowned in the broken wood chips, and the edges of the flying pieces of wood were stained with thick blood.

The other elephant did not escape the fate of overturning, too many elephants also became a disadvantage, the distance was too close, bearing most of the pressure of the elephant, shaking twice The unlucky male elephant also fell heavily to the ground in the desperate roar of the elephant soldiers, and was drowned in the smoke and dust by the rolling elephant herd.

It was a spectacular scene, the remaining nine catapults rolled into the rushing elephant herd like bowling balls, and the elephant's legs jumped with unparalleled strength with incomparable strength and made a crisp sound of bones shattering, and the toppled elephants were connected into nine lines, staggering from side to side, and the stone bullets that remained undiminished even hit the infantry group behind.

People turn on their backs!

Some of the soldiers who were running in front of the Tang army were all sitting on the ground in horror, and the magic power of the Tang army's machinery was shocked, and Luo Shun suddenly left, but after a while, he looked at the still dense elephant herd, and A Luo Shun sat back with a grim smile on his face.

Indeed, a round of artillery bombardment was enough to destroy 80 war elephants, but because the ranks of war elephants were too dense, even so, there were more than 1,700 war elephants in front of the Tang army roaring and roaring forward.

A brief outburst, to no avail.

But it was only the beginning, and as the trebuchet slowly reloaded, hundreds of bed crossbows erupted again with devastating power, and a scalp-tingling trill resounded in the air as the captain gave the order.

In order to cope with the humid and sultry weather in Tianzhu and prevent the bow strength from dropping, the bow and crossbow arms of Fujian were completely replaced with soft steel, and three soft steel crossbow arms more than two meters long were exerted at the same time, and the huge crossbow arrows more than two meters long like small spears passed through the head and pierced into the oncoming elephant herd.

This thing is generally used for siege, if it is not for a month of leisure, the Tang army can not arrange so much, the effect of the giant crossbow is much better than the trebuchet, the elephant herd rushing in a rain of arrows fell to one side, and the elephant trunk elephant leg was pierced by the crossbow arrow The giant elephant finally fled left and right in a panic, and the Tianzhu elephant herd panicked.

"Good!" The Tang army finally gave its first cheer since the beginning of the war, but the cheers stopped abruptly before they could fall, and thousands of war elephants were already surging like a tide through the dead elephants and the mad elephants.

The bed crossbow and trebuchet were still slowly winding, the Tang army's three axes seemed to have been used up, and the war elephant had rushed to the front at this time.

The officers and men of the Tang Army in the front army had already gritted their teeth and raised their long lances to resist the attack of war elephants, but at this time, the corners of Wang Xuance's mouth on the command platform hooked up a strange smile.

The last fifty meters! The soldiers of the Tang Army in the front row seemed to be able to see the white mist spewing out of the elephant's proboscis and the hideous smile of the Tianzhu Elephant Army in the box on both sides.

Boom, boom, boom, boom~

The whole world shook with the sudden loud noise, and the large white smoke in front of the Tang army's battle line covered the collar that rushed wildly for a moment, and the sudden scene even the Tang army was not prepared, the phalanx was in chaos, and I don't know how many people simply sat on the ground with their butts, and after a while, the white smoke dispersed, and a miserable scene was revealed in front of the Tang army.

A hundred cannons were buried in the ground at an unknown time, the whistling artillery fire finally broke through the seal, and the pill-sized lead bullets fired at close range had a terrifying effect, with the cannon as the axis, a war elephant with a blurred flesh and blood fell to the ground, and the wounded and surviving war elephants were finally frightened, and they retreated one after another, and the rich smell of blood filled the nose, and everyone was shocked by this sudden scene.

Wang Xuance breathed a sigh of relief, sealed the last gunpowder in the cannon, used Qin Tianjian to calculate the date of the sunny day, hid it in advance, and then hung the incense before the battle, speculating on the approximate time ignition.

But just when Wang Xuance breathed a sigh of relief, behind the elephant corpse, suddenly there was a burst of neighing, the already eroded elephant corpse was pushed away, and the angry roar of the war elephant appeared in front of Tang Jun's eyes, accompanied by the fierce roar of the elephant soldiers.

"This, how is this possible?" He took half a step back in disbelief, and saw the blindfold and pierced ears of the war elephant in the telescope, Wang Xuance then understood, and at the same time, A Luo Shun finally recovered from the shock of the huge loss, and hissed as hard as he could: "Crush these Tang dogs!" ”

"It's spectacular!" Just when the Tang army was at a loss in the face of the deaf and blind war elephants, a hearty laugh suddenly appeared in front of the battle, the laughter was not loud, but everyone could hear it clearly, and the next moment, countless Tang army soldiers were even more unbelievable to see Li Jie, the king of Fujian, and the eldest grandson of the princess, weaving a hearty smile and came to the forefront of the Tang army with a long lance, and stood up diagonally in the first position.

The next moment, the front line of the Tang army, which was so nervous that it almost collapsed, boiled, and suddenly the blood in his chest was burned, and countless Fujian King Tielin spontaneously broke away from the formation, and blocked Li Jie with his body forward, like an arrow, the Tang army at the front suddenly appeared a peak, looking at the rushing elephant herd, but there was only one thought left in the minds of all Tang troops.

The King is with us! The king fights with us!

Wang Xuance almost threw away the binoculars, and just as he was about to rush down the command tower anxiously, the deaf-blind war elephant at the head of the platoon had finally crashed into the front of the Tang Army line, and boom, the upside-down soldier spat blood backwards and flew out more than ten meters away.

Gritting his teeth, Wang Xuance finally withdrew his foot, and snatched the ...... of the order flag fiercely.