Zheng Mi didn't think that a begging river could stop Li Guo's troops, but Li Guo's troops could cross the river so quickly, which was beyond Zheng Miao's expectations. ``x`

Hearing the news that Li Guo was building a pontoon bridge to cross the river upstream, Zheng Mo was ready to send people to attack, but before he could send troops, the news came. All of Li Guo's troops have already crossed the river, including horses and artillery!

Zheng Mo did not dare to despise his opponent, he strictly guarded the city while preparing to face the upcoming Li Guo.

And after Li crossed the river, he was not in a hurry to attack. Because of the sufficient preparation of intelligence work during this period, Li Guo knew Zheng Miao's person and his troops very well, and he was also very clear about the situation in Nantaiyuan.

Li Guo knew that Zheng Mi had a strange soldier, and it was also the trump card in Zheng Miao's hand, which was why Li Guo had to pull the cannon across the river. The cannon was not only to deal with the city wall of South Taiyuan, but also to deal with Zheng Miao's strange army.

The army that Zheng Mi regarded as his trump card had always been invincible, and had repeatedly won battles against the Nguyen dynasty in the south, because the protagonist of this strange army was not a man, but an elephant!

In fact, in the era of cold weapons, elephants are rampage on the battlefield and are indeed extraordinary. And the elephant that fights on the battlefield is called a war elephant, and an elephant soldier is a soldier who fights on an elephant.

The war elephants commonly referred to as Asian elephants are commonly found in South and Southeast Asia. There are also small deposits in the southern part of Yunnan, China.

Elephants live in tropical forests, jungles or grasslands, feeding on wild grasses, leaves, bamboo leaves, wild fruits, etc. Because elephants are huge, with rough skin and thick flesh. Therefore, at that time, some countries in South and Southeast Asia would train elephants to be war elephants.

Despite their thick skin, elephants are unable to withstand javelin and crossbow shots. Therefore, later the elephants were also covered with heavy armor, so that the war elephants were well protected.

War elephants have a fixed place on their backs where people can sit and lie down, and there are guardrails to prevent elephants from falling off the elephants. Usually there are seven people on top of each war elephant, one person is responsible for controlling the war elephant, and two people are holding a wooden pole with an iron spear head on their heads. Used to stab enemies around elephants. The remaining four were javelin-bearers, throwing javelins at enemies at a slightly greater distance.

Even if you don't have to throw a javelin, the momentum of a war elephant when charging is difficult to resist. War elephants, especially heavily armored war elephants, show great defense, mobility, and great lethality in warfare. Especially when the Elephant Array launches a group assault. The oncoming roaring behemoth will cause a great psychological shock to the opponent. The group of elephants rushed forward, black and oppressive, invulnerable, unstoppable; Its long snout curls the person up with a slight touch. Then they smashed the man to pieces: the great elephant's hooves trampled on the man. Man becomes a meatloaf. The enemy will panic, throw away their armor, and run away.

Moreover, most horses are not familiar with the smell of elephants, and untrained war horses will definitely be frightened and flee once they encounter war elephants, and the heavy armor on their bodies makes war elephants the earliest terrifying weapons used on the battlefields of South and Southeast Asia at that time.

But Li Guo didn't care much about this, the reason was that Li Guo knew that elephants were naturally afraid of fire. Other than that. The power of powerful gunpowder weapons is enormous, and an important reason why war elephants are invincible in South and Southeast Asia is that those places are relatively backward. No firearms!!

Therefore, Li Guo was not afraid of Zheng Miao's elephant, but was thinking about how to find a way to take the elephant over.

Because there are so many benefits of elephants, just to say that, elephants have a lot of strength, at least when it comes to transportation. In the whole of Southeast Asia, including Annam, the roads are not very easy to walk, but elephants can easily walk through them.

Therefore, Li Guo thought of a way, he wanted to defeat the war elephants according to his own plan, either subdue some or kill them all.

Zheng Mo has been paying attention to Li Guo's movements, and he doesn't dare to be careless. Hearing that Li Guo had gathered 7,000 cavalry and was about to arrive at Nantai City, Zheng Mo immediately gathered men and horses, set up a formation, and wanted to fight a decisive battle with Li Guo.

In addition to the 20,000 soldiers who stayed in Nantaiyuan City, the rest of the more than 40,000 people followed Zheng Mo out of the city, all of them infantry. However, Zheng Mian underestimated Li Guo's people in the end.

Before Zheng Miao's soldiers were finished, Li Guo's 7,000 cavalry rushed over, and Zheng Miao's infantry was thrown into chaos at once. Despite Lee's strict orders, the cavalry could not use firearms in this attack. But most of these cavalry were the earliest veterans who followed Li Guo, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and the cavalry they slashed with waist knives faced the infantry of the Later Li Dynasty, which was like encountering no one.

The generals who led the team, Li Twelve, Luo Hu and others, yelled and shouted, and when the sword light passed, it was a bloodstain. The soldiers were scattered in the back.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zheng Mo immediately ordered someone to blow the horn! With the sound of whining horns, rows of war elephants rushed out of Taiyuan City. There are a total of 200 war elephants, this is a strange soldier that Zheng Mill regards as a killing weapon, and in the previous battles against the Ruan Dynasty, this strange army is invincible!

Li Guo had already ordered Li Twelve to retreat as soon as he saw the enemy's elephants. Therefore, Li XII immediately withdrew his troops. It's not entirely because of obeying Li Guo's orders, but after the horses saw the elephant, they turned around and ran, and they couldn't stop it.

Zheng Mo was overjoyed, and ordered to urge the war elephants to pursue! He wants to defeat Li Guo's troops in one fell swoop!

The war elephant did not run slowly, and saw that Li Guo's cavalry was scattered to both sides, and Zheng Mo found that a large number of infantry appeared in front. Unafraid! Kill forward! Zheng Mo yelled.

I saw that the infantry holding rattan cards and spears in front of Li Guo's battle suddenly retreated neatly, and the war elephants facing Zheng Mi turned into rows of soldiers with firearms, which were Li Guo's firearms team. In addition to the firearms team, the muzzles of the black holes are also aimed at the war elephants rushing over!

Zheng Mian was shocked and hurriedly ordered to collect the troops, but it was too late.

Although the war elephant was protected by heavy armor, the war elephant that rushed very close was still covered in blood, and with a whining wail, more than a dozen elephants fell to the ground, and the soldiers on the elephant were thrown to pieces.

The entire team of war elephants suddenly stopped, and the elephants had never seen such a formation, and they were all stunned.

However, a shocking loud bang came, and shells erupted from the mouth of the cannon!

Huge iron bullets roared out and shot at the herd of war elephants.

With a click, the head of one of the war elephants was shattered, and the war elephant fell to the ground and died without even making a wail.

The fate of the other war elephant was even worse, a cannonball pierced his stomach, and the elephant was not dead for a while, and went crazy, turned around and ran! The intestines, heart, liver, and lungs in the stomach flowed out of the big hole and fell to the ground, trampled by their own wide elephant feet. So after running a dozen steps, the war elephant slowly fell to the ground and died.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Zheng Yu shouted. (To be continued......)