"Knock~Knock~Knock~"

With the sound of low war drums, two huge armies appeared on the vast plain, among which the army from the east was neat and solemn, and the cavalry on the horse were uniformly dressed in black light armor, holding a long horse lance, carrying a horned bow behind their backs, and hanging a scimitar at their waists, which were the steppe cavalry under Li Zhen and Li Yun.

The grassland cavalry side is divided into the middle army and the left and right wings, of which the Chinese army is all grassland cavalry, a total of about 20,000 people, is also the main force of this side, and the left and right wings are composed of black and thin Tianzhu troops, adding up to about 40,000 people, most of them are infantry.

This mixed force of steppe cavalry and Tianzhu soldiers is naturally the army in the hands of Li Zhen and Li Yun, of which the Tianzhu army is called the Apologetic Army, which was built by Li Zhen to recruit new Brahmans, and it is also very elite after more than years of training. And it is worth mentioning that Li Zhen was in the town of the Chinese army of this large army, and Fang Yiai and others who came from Taiwan were also riding on horses, looking at the other party's army from a distance.

The army opposite Li Zhen is composed of all Tianzhu people, but the arrangement of the army is not very neat, and there is no division between the middle army and the two wings, the front of the army is an elephant composed of tall war elephants, together there are more than a thousand, these war elephants are covered with rattan armor, and they are hunched with a strong wooden box on their backs, and there are four elephant soldiers in the box, two of whom are responsible for melee combat with spears, and the two behind are responsible for long-range attacks with bows and arrows.

In fact, the real lethality of the elephant soldier is not the soldiers on the body of the war elephant, but the war elephant itself, whether it is a strong and powerful nose or a thick elephant leg, it can become a killing weapon for the war elephant on the battlefield. And if the war elephant is allowed to charge, the indomitable momentum is almost irresistible. Even more hateful. The war elephant itself will also emit a smell that will make the war horse very uncomfortable. Therefore, cavalrymen who are not specially trained often suffer greatly when facing soldiers.

Behind the elephant soldiers, followed by the Tianzhu infantry, the number is not very large, only more than 20,000 people, they will follow the elephants after the start of the war, charge closely behind, and at the same time be responsible for protecting the war elephants. And behind these infantry, there were about 30,000 Tianzhu cavalry. The cavalry and the elephants were separated by infantry, which was worried that the cavalry's horses would be affected by the war elephants, and after the cavalry, there was another group of dense infantry, about 50,000 people.

This battlefield is located at the junction of Nantianzhu and Zhongtianzhu, where Li Zhen and Li Yun defeated the nominal ruler of the Pallava Dynasty, and at first the opponent's forces shrank to the northwest corner of Nantianzhu, ready to resist stubbornly, but unfortunately later Li Yun stabilized the rule of the newly occupied area. began to push the remnants of the Pallava dynasty step by step, and finally the Pallava dynasty had to flee to Zhongtianzhu.

However, when it comes to Zhongtianzhu, we have to mention the original overlord of Zhongtianzhu, the Louqi dynasty, which was many years ago. It once repelled the attack of the Jieri Dynasty, and it was precisely because of this defeat that the eloquent Jieri lost the opportunity to unify Tianzhu. had to be trapped in the North Tianzhu area.

However, although the Chalouqi dynasty defeated the Jieri Dynasty, it itself suffered great losses. So in the ensuing war, it was defeated by the Palava dynasty that rose from Southern Tianzhu. The country was also occupied, and even before Li Zhen and Li Yun defeated the Pallava dynasty, the Pallava dynasty was the nominal ruler of Zhongtianzhu.

Although the Chalou dynasty was defeated, he was a regional power after all, and the foundation of the country was still there, so even if it was occupied by the Pallava dynasty, the internal resistance was continuous, and as time went by, the power accumulated by the Chalou dynasty became stronger and stronger. When the remnants of the Pallava dynasty fled to Zhongtianzhu, the resistance of the Chalouqi dynasty finally besieged the remnants of the Pallava dynasty under the leadership of the son of the previous king, King Chaori I, and the Pallava dynasty finally suffered a tragedy, the nobles besieging the king were slaughtered, and the remnants of the army were reduced to slavery.

Originally, although the Chaori King of the Chalouqi Dynasty destroyed the Pallava Dynasty, it was not easy for him to restore the original Chalouqi Dynasty's rule over Zhongtianzhu, and this gave Li Zhen and Li Yun a chance to attack Zhongtianzhu, in fact, they were also preparing to do so.

However, it was not an easy task for the Chaori King to be able to restore the kingdom under the rule of the Pallava dynasty, and he soon felt the threat posed to him by Li Zhen and Li Yun in the south. It was also under this threat that he temporarily gave up on restoring the rule of the original Shalou dynasty, and instead negotiated with the various kingdoms and forces of Zhongtianzhu, making it his first priority to confront Li Zhen and Li Yun in the south.

Li Zhen and Li Yun's neo-Brahmanism did touch the interests of the upper nobles, especially the various forces of Zhongtianzhu adjacent to them, and they really felt this deterrence, coupled with the call of the Chaori King, so the entire Zhongtianzhu quickly united at a very fast speed, and integrated the army, ready to fight to the death with Li Zhen and Li Yun.

Faced with this situation, Li Yun and Li Zhen's reactions were completely different, and Li Yun was a little worried that the combined strength of the other party was too strong, and with the army in their hands, it would be unimaginable if they were defeated. However, Li Zhen was obviously very excited, because in his opinion, if the other party could concentrate all the forces together, then he would be sure that all the hostile forces would be defeated in one fell swoop, and then no one would be able to stop the Tianzhu general.

It was also under Li Zhen's repeated insistence that their army went all the way north, and soon hit the original Chalou Dynasty's capital Vatapi area, and at this time, the Chaori King also completed the integration of the military forces of Zhongtianzhu, so the armies of the two sides finally met on the plains south of Watapi, and the decisive battle related to the fate of Tianzhu was finally about to start, and the confident Li Zhen firmly believed that he would be able to destroy the army of the Chaori King in one fell swoop. And the king of Chaori also firmly believes that he will be able to defeat this invader from the south just like his father defeated the Ring Sun Dynasty!

Li Zhen, who was sitting in the grassland cavalry, held a telescope in his hand, carefully observed the formation of the Chaori King opposite, and paid special attention to the elephant soldiers in front of the other party, but after reading it, he pouted disdainfully and said: "It's elephant soldiers again, these Tianzhu people are really unrepentant, under our artillery, these stupid and stupid elephant soldiers may only bring huge casualties to themselves!" ”

However, as soon as Li Zhen's words fell, Fang Yiai, who was extremely burly next to him, said with a smile: "His Royal Highness King Yue's words are wrong, I have read some information about elephant soldiers before I came, and I also asked His Royal Highness King Qi for advice, and he told me that the reason why elephant soldiers have huge shortcomings is because elephants are too smart, so when they see the light of fire or hear the sound of cannons, they will look chaotic!" ”

Li Zhen was also a little surprised after hearing this: "It's the first time I've heard of this statement, but since it was said by the sixth brother, it must be true, it seems that these elephants are indeed very smart, otherwise they wouldn't have started to run for their lives immediately every time they were bombarded by a cannon." ”

In addition to Fang Yiai, Li Zhen also has a military academy graduate from Taiwan, and they are also the best among them, they are all preparing to enter the army, and it just so happens that Li Zhen has a big battle here, so he sent them here to experience the cruelty of the battlefield first, and accumulate more experience in actual combat, so that they can grow up faster.

"His Royal Highness King Yue, is there something wrong with these Tianzhu people, how can they line up the various arms layer by layer, it looks like a mille-feuille cake sold on the street, how can this kind of military formation give full play to the advantages of each army?" One of the young students in his twenties asked.

Li Zhen was very happy about the arrival of Fang Yiai and these students, because he felt that this was an opportunity to show himself, and the generals around him had been sent to the army to lead the troops, so he had a special explanation before, if the students didn't understand anything, they could ask him questions directly.

Li Zhen smiled when he heard the words of the young cadet: "This question is very good, maybe if any military cadet is asked to arrange the formation, I am afraid that it will not be able to discharge such a formation like the Tianzhu people, but in the battlefield of the Tianzhu people, this kind of sandwich military formation is very common, mainly because of two aspects." ”

Li Zhen paused here when he said this, raised his eyes to look at the other party's still unmoved formation, and then spoke: "The first aspect is because the Tianzhu people rely too much on the elephant soldiers, they think that the elephant soldiers are indestructible, even the city wall may be pushed down by the elephants, so when they are in war, they first use the war elephants to charge, generally speaking, as long as the war elephants gain the upper hand, the army behind can rush forward, thus laying the victory." ”

"The second reason is because although Tianzhu is in civil strife, but there are few too large-scale wars, unlike our Central Plains, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops will be torn together at every turn, so Tianzhu's military thinking is very backward, and many generals don't even know how to cooperate and strategize with the troops, so in this case, my grassland cavalry will repeatedly win more with less." At the end of Li Zhen's words, his eyes were full of contempt when he looked at the enemy's military formation.

Hearing Li Zhen's explanation, not only those military academy graduates praised each other, but even Fang Yiai nodded again and again, thinking that Li Zhen and they could fight in Tianzhu and win such a large piece of land, and they really worked hard, and this understanding of the enemy alone was enough for them to gain the upper hand.

"Your Highness, General Wang, please fight!" Just then, a herald came running to report. Although Li Zhen is in charge of the Chinese army, the one who really commands the army is Wang Xuance, a capable minister who has a lot of literature and martial arts.

And Li Zhen looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's already Chenshi, and the sun is just shooting out from behind us, it's a good time to attack, and the herald General Wang, quasi-battle!" ”

"Whoa!" The herald agreed, and quickly conveyed Li Zhen's order, and a war that decided the fate of Tianzhu finally began. (To be continued......)