The elephant is a smart animal, they are also aware of the danger ahead, no one needs to strangle, some of them have not stepped on the thistle terrestris immediately turned around and ran, this time, the Lin Yi army fell into bad luck, facing the elephant, what cavalry, chariots and infantry, all rushed like a devastating and decaying, trampled to death countless!

It's just that there are more than a dozen elephants that went crazy and continued to run forward, so Wei Feng shouted: "Release!" ”

The god arm crossbow and the crossbow bolt ballista are fired at the same time, and the eight-inch iron arrow can only kill horses and people, and generally will not bring fatal injury to the elephant, because the elephant skin is thick, up to four to eight centimeters thick, but the crossbow bolt ballista fires a three-foot giant arrow, which is powerful and heavy, and the damage is more than enough.

The front of the battle is simply miserable, each elephant is a mountain of meat, densely packed, but the elephant's blood is sufficient, not only the ground into a small lake of blood, but also the elephant itself dyed red, which is also mixed with countless flesh and blood blurred corpses, Julia has not killed anyone, on the contrary, there are many people who died in her hands, but at this time, it is also uncontrollable bursts of chest and abdomen churning!

"Lady Julia, hurry up and get on your horse and chase me for a while!" Julia was still struggling with the urge to vomit, and Wei Feng had turned her head to greet her.

"Oh!" Julia came to her senses and stepped on her horse's pedal and flew up.

"Woo woo woo~~" The horn of the pursuit sounded, and the five thousand cavalry bypassed the iron thistle array and rushed towards the defeated Linyi people!

Fan Xuda dispatched a legion of Jaymu's elephants to attack Weifeng's beachhead, but almost all of them were wiped out. 729 elephants, none of them came back, not to mention the injured, because they lost the ability to walk, they could only die in pain, and some were not injured, but they were frightened, and the elephant operator couldn't control it at all!

Of all the riding animals, except for mules, donkeys and other animals that have no military value, only horses do not have excessive undulations on their backs no matter how they run. Elephants are notably among them. It can run at a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour, and at such a speed, the huge bump in the saddle and the warrior on its back are all turned upside down in a short time, and the lucky ones are dizzy. Bad luck. I trampled into a puddle of meat on the spot!

After the elephant was frightened. All fled to the mountains behind Linyi, where there were more than 200 elephants, and Wei Feng did not chase them. While chasing and killing the rout, he also tried his best to collect the war horses, although the war horses of the Linyi people are all short horses in the south, with sufficient endurance and weak sprint power, it is definitely not possible to compete with the grassland Hu cavalry, but they can pull the cart and drag the goods, which is not completely useless.

After the pursuit of the cavalry, there were less than 1,000 Linyi people who could finally return to the city alive, and more than ninety percent of the 10,935 people were killed, half of whom were trampled to death by elephants!

The city has become a slaughterhouse, there is no sound in the city as if it is dead, the people of Linyi never expected that the elephant soldiers they are proud of will be so vulnerable, nearly 10,000 soldiers only one photo went to see the god Shiva, you know, this is two percent of the city's elite soldiers, including the general Fan Jian!

"Click!" Fan Xuda's eldest son, Fan Dizhen, his teeth trembled, which was extremely harsh, and this voice also brought Fan Xuda back to his senses.

Fan Xuda said angrily: "Waste, what if you lose a game? Look at your bear-like appearance, it's not shameful enough, straighten your back! ”

Fan Di really shuddered, forcibly straightened his back, Fan Xuda swept his eyes coldly, and said: "This time the Jin people will raise troops to attack, and they will come to destroy my Linyi, but we have a city, how can a city made of mountains and stones be easily broken?" He came from afar, it is difficult to receive grain and grass, and he will retreat if he can't attack for a long time, and then we can take advantage of the victory to pursue, then again, even if the city is unfortunately broken, but we still have streets and alleys in Linyi, and there are still more than 200,000 people in the city, as long as my Linyi people are not killed, I will fight with him to the end! ”

"Fight to the end! Fight to the end! The defenders immediately increased their confidence, brandished their weapons and shouted vigorously, and the fear in their hearts also dissipated, Fan Xuda nodded with satisfaction, and walked towards the city.

Outside the city, after the cavalry slaughtered the Linyi rout, they quickly gathered and took on the guard, and a large number of sailors rushed to the previous battle zone, on the one hand, they killed the elephants that did not die, and they had to be killed, but the ivory was a good thing and must be cut, on the other hand, the corpses were cleaned, and at the same time, they had to check whether there were gold and silver jewelry on the corpses, and then they were thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

Wei Feng also ordered Xian Enzhuo, who had just disembarked, to take 10,000 slang people around the rear of Linyi, and go down to the village according to the mountain situation to prevent the people of Linyi from escaping to the mountains, this task is no one more suitable than the slang people, Wei Feng's village is located in the south of Linyi, because the east is the sea, there is no need to go down to the village, and the north is temporarily vacant, this position is reserved for Deng Yi, if the people of Linyi take advantage of the gap to escape, it is a good thing.

The cleaning work on the battlefield is very busy, and Julia's pretty face also has a trace of excitement, she has killed several people with her own hands before, the wind-like speed of the cavalry, and the hearty sound of the spear piercing into the enemy's heart and then provoking it to throw into the distance is incomparable, and the cavalry kills people more and more exciting than her original jumping gang on the sea to fight and kill, and she is more and more convinced that she is a competent Roman female general.

Julia suppressed her excitement, turned her head and praised: "Envoy, I can't imagine that the elephant soldiers were broken by you like this, more than four hundred years ago, our Roman Legulus led the Roman warriors to expedition to Carthage, the Carthaginians met with infantry cavalry and war elephants, this is the first defeat suffered by our Romans, most of the soldiers were trampled to death or killed by cavalry, Legulus and 5,000 soldiers were captured, only less than 2,000 people were able to escape, if you can think of throwing thistles with ballistas at that time, I am afraid that Legulus can conquer Carthage that year." ”

Wei Feng smiled slightly: "The elephant soldier is the least cost-effective type of troops, in my opinion, except for scaring people with a fast head, it is useless, it can only deal with the dense infantry phalanx, which happens to be the nemesis of your Romans, but if you use cavalry to meet the elephant soldiers, as long as you have enough patience, it is enough to grind them to death." ”

"Oh!" Julia nodded as if she didn't understand.

Wei Feng beckoned: "Let's go, let's go back to the camp now, and when General Deng comes in a few days, we will attack the city again, this time you can rest assured that the people of Linyi will never surrender without a fight, it will definitely be a fierce siege battle." ”

That night, the whole army enjoyed a meal of elephant meat, all of which were killed, and it was a pity to throw it into the sea, but it was better to taste it, the elephant meat was similar to the taste of ham, except that it was older, the taste was still very good, and the elephant skin was also a good thing, and the toughness was far more than cowhide, and it could be made into soft armor.

In the next few days, the war was temporarily stopped, the city gate of the Linyi people was closed, they also knew that abandoning the city and fleeing must be a dead end, taking advantage of this time, the Weifeng army was busy building siege equipment, on the fifth day, Deng Yi led 10,000 troops to come, and set up camp in the north of Linyi City, fifteen days later, that is, on December 5, the siege equipment such as the chariot, the ladder, and the wooden donkey have all been built, so Wei Feng and Deng Yi agreed to launch an attack the next day, of course, the main attack is Wei Feng, Sin Enzhuo and Deng Yat assisted in attacking the two northwest city walls.

In the early morning of December 6, the horn sounded in the camp, the drum sounded, Wei Feng had a total of 50,000 troops, of which 10,000 were from Xian Enzhuo to the village, 3,000 were left on the ship, and another 5,000 troops were left to guard the village, because there were several small cities and villages south of Linyi, although the news of the siege of the capital could not be spread in a short time, but everything was uncertain, and the camp could not be lost in any case, so Wei Feng could dispatch 32,000 troops, of which the cavalry swept the formation, that is, only 27,000 troops really participated in the siege.

A team of soldiers with siege equipment drove out of the camp in turn, injected into the open space two miles in front of Linyi City, the head is a hundred wooden donkeys, covering 10,000 archers, no way, although the range of the bow and arrow is not as good as the divine arm crossbow, but it can be thrown, can kill and injure the defenders of the city, and the flat fire characteristics of the crossbow limit it can only play a role in suppressing firepower during the siege.

But this was the only way to minimize the casualties of the archers, so behind the archers were 4,000 crossbowmen, who were organized into separate battalions, followed by 300 ballistas, and finally siege soldiers based on ladders and chariots.

The head of the city is also full of tense atmosphere, the Linyi army has long been ready for battle, their defense equipment is similar to the middle earth, the city head is stacked with sassal wood, rolling stones, and a pot of crackling boiling oil, in addition to trebuchets, crashes, fork rods, flying hooks, etc., there are special people in the protection, showing that although Linyi is a small country, the armed forces are relatively strong, no wonder in history can Jiaozhou to be dragged down alive, and finally the local natives will establish a country.

"Knock knock~~" The drumbeat of the attack sounded, and the legions moved forward in an orderly manner, the first to fire was the throwing ballista, which had a long range, and rows of small stone bullets smashed into the city in an instant, which surprised the city guards, and those who couldn't dodge were killed on the spot, and some people were scalded by the splashing oil, and some trebuchets and crashes were scattered into piles of broken wood under the blow of stone bullets!

Fan Xuda, who was hiding behind the battlements, looked extremely ugly, and his trebuchet had not yet come in handy, so he couldn't help but scold angrily: "Damn, no wonder the Jin army dares to come to attack Lao Tzu's Lin Yi!" ”

Fan Dizhen was numb in the scalp, and hurriedly persuaded: "Father, do you want to go to the city to avoid it, Yashi has no eyes, you are the lord of Linyi, you should be careful!" ”

"Get out!" Fan Xuda snorted angrily: "Lao Tzu wants to live and die with the soldiers, give an order, prepare the trebuchet under the city, and launch it immediately as soon as the Jin army enters the firing range!" ”

The herald hurried back.

Nearly 200 trebuchets lined up along the city walls, which was Van Suda's greatest reliance. (To be continued......)