Chapter 1274 Riding a Pig to Fight
The people were in chaos, Zhang Wei was rushed by a group of people and almost fell off his horse, he held his long sword high, and shouted to the cavalry of the Hanzhong army who followed him here: "Kill all these chaotic people!" ”
As he shouted, the long sword in his hand slashed downwards at a woman holding a child.
Seeing that the sword was about to slash at the woman's head, the woman was already frightened.
At this moment, an arrow flew from behind with a "whoosh" and shot into the back of Zhang Wei's neck impartially.
Clusters of sharp arrows shot in from the back of the neck and ran through the throat.
The long sword, which was already about to slash at the top of the woman's head, suddenly lost its strength, and only slashed at the top of the woman's head, and fell to the ground.
The sword slashed overhead, and the woman felt a burning pain in her scalp, and a stream of blood flowed from the top of her head, down her cheeks, to her neck, leaving a few drops of blood on her chest like plum blossoms.
Although a small cut was made in her scalp, the woman was not in danger of dying, and in a panic, she hurriedly squatted down and held the two children she was holding tightly in her arms.
Zhang Wei on horseback fell with the long sword in his hand, his body was crooked, and he fell headlong.
Zhang Wei fell off his horse, and behind the cavalry of the Hanzhong Army, there were bursts of strange animal roars.
The Hanzhong cavalry, who were about to slaughter the people, heard the roar and quickly turned their heads one by one.
What appeared in front of them was a huge figure under black pressure.
Living in Hanzhong, it is still far away from the Nanban, and many officers and soldiers of the Hanzhong army do not know what an elephant is.
Seeing a huge monster running towards them, the cavalry of the Hanzhong Army suddenly became chaotic and rode their horses in the direction they came.
Ever since he learned that some people were going to Yizhou to find out the route they were going to, Dian Wei had been leading the elephant soldiers to lurk nearby.
When Zhang Wei led his army to intercept the people, he did not immediately rush out.
Zhang Wei did not massacre the people, and this matter can be said to be Hanzhong's own affairs, and it cannot be used as a reason for the Han army to launch an attack.
It wasn't until Zhang Wei clashed with the people and the Hanzhong army had murderous intentions that Dian Wei jumped on a war elephant, set up a bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at Zhang Wei.
Nearly 2,000 war elephants stomped on the ground with their thick soles as they ran, making a dull roar, and the earth seemed to tremble.
The people ran over from the open space between the Hanzhong army and the Han army, and the Hanzhong army, riding war horses, turned around and ran quickly towards the place where the infantry was.
The elephant soldiers under the command of Dian Wei, where would they let them flee lightly, followed closely behind, and the Han army riding on the back of the war elephant took off the longbow, set up an arrow on the bowstring, and shot a puff of feather arrows at the fleeing Han cavalry.
The cavalry of the Hanzhong Army, who only cared about the escape, didn't care about turning around and raising their shields to block, and under the arrows shot by the Han army, pieces of arrows fell to the ground.
After all, the speed of the war horse was faster than that of the war elephant, and by the time the Han army could see the infantry of the Han army, the cavalry had already run out of the range of their arrows.
The infantry, which had been thrown down by Zhang Wei and the cavalry earlier, galloped all the way, but where could the legs of a man catch up with the four hooves of a war horse?
Although every infantry was speeding up, the figures of Zhang Wei and the cavalry still disappeared in front of their eyes.
When they saw the cavalry again, in addition to the fleeing cavalry, they also found that behind the cavalry, there was a behemoth with no end in sight.
The behemoth shook its two huge ears, had a long nose, and its four legs were like thick pillars, and it trampled the ground with a loud bang as it ran.
There was still a long distance from the elephant soldiers, and the heavy infantry of the Hanzhong Army could already feel the ground trembling under their feet.
"Mother!" Stunned, staring at the Han elephant soldiers who were rushing towards them, a Hanzhong soldier screamed, dropped the blade in his hand, turned around and ran.
Escaping, like a highly contagious infectious disease, instantly spread among the Hanzhong army.
Countless soldiers of the Hanzhong Army shouted in panic, turned around and ran backwards.
The speed of the cavalry was so fast that it was difficult for the war elephant to catch up with them, but how could the infantry running on only two legs outrun the war elephant.
Riding on the back of an elephant, Dian Wei, who had not fought for a long time, watched the Hanzhong army in chaos, and an inexplicable excitement surged in his heart, and he shouted loudly: "Soldiers, kill!" ”
The elephant soldiers, who have never been on the battlefield in Luoyang City for many years, heard Dian Wei's shout, where would there be the slightest hesitation, one by one drove the war elephants, and rushed towards the Hanzhong army, which had fled before the battle.
The war elephant roared, and the Han soldiers on the back of the elephant, holding spears that were at least twice as long as the short spears, kept stabbing at the Han Chinese army that they were chasing.
One by one, the Hanzhong army was poked by spears and fell on the way to flee.
Not only did the spears in the hands of the Han soldiers cause extremely heavy casualties to the Hanzhong army, but the damage caused to the Hanzhong army by the war elephants they quickly descended was even far greater than that of the Han army on the back of the elephants.
An elephant rushed into a herd of Hanzhong soldiers, and its thick legs kicked a Hanzhong soldier to the ground.
The fallen Han Zhongjun was about to get up, when he saw a huge foot stepping towards his head.
Let out a frightened scream, the Han Zhongjun raised his hands and covered his head with his arms, trying to use the strength of his arms to stop the elephant's legs from trampling on him.
"Poof!" The thick elephant's legs stepped on the head of the fallen Hanzhong army, and at the foot of the elephant, a puddle of blood and brains, like blooming flowers, splattered in all directions.
When the war elephant's feet moved away, the head of the Hanzhong army that was stepped on by it had been trampled into a thin sheet.
Trampling to death a Hanzhong army, the war elephant did not stop, it let out a long hiss, and at the same time wrapped its long nose around the waist of a Hanzhong army, and threw the Hanzhong army high.
Thrown into the air by the war elephant with his nose, Han Zhongjun scratched his hands indiscriminately, as if he wanted to grab something that could be used to rely on him in mid-air to stop him from falling.
What could he have caught in mid-air!
With a heavy muffled sound, the Han Zhongjun fell face to the ground and fell on the battlefield.
I don't know if he fell to his death or not, but what happened next made it impossible for him to live even if he wanted to.
Countless war elephants ran past him, stout legs stepping over his body.
The Hanzhong army led by Zhang Wei was not very numerous, and the elephant soldiers under Dian Wei were just a charge, and they fell by half.
Most of the Hanzhong troops fled in a panic, but Dian Wei and the Han elephants led by him did not plan to let them go.
Chasing and killing the Hanzhong army all the way, where the elephant soldiers rushed through, all that was left behind were piles of dead corpses that had been blurred with blood and flesh.
Zhang Lu led the army and lined up in Hanzhong, vigilantly watching the movements of the Han army.
The Han army on the opposite side was only lined up from a distance, and had no intention of killing the border at all.
Looking at the array of the Han army, Zhang Lugang breathed a sigh of relief, and a personal soldier ran to him in a panic, clenched his fists and bowed to him and said, "Shijun, it's not good!" General Zhang Wei went to intercept the people and clashed with the people, but the Han army suddenly came out, and our army was defeated! ”
"How many people are there in the Han army?" Hearing that the Han army suddenly killed and Zhang Wei was defeated, Zhang Lu was taken aback and hurriedly asked the pro-soldier.
"Three or four thousand!" Maintaining a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, the soldiers said to Zhang Lu: "There are not many of them, but they are riding monsters with long noses and big ears, and they suddenly kill. Our army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties! ”
"Long nose and big ears?" was stunned for a moment by what his own soldiers said, Zhang Lu frowned and said angrily: "Nonsense! How can anyone go out to fight and ride a pig into battle! ”
was drunk by Zhang Lu, and the soldiers were shocked, and hurriedly said: "Hui Shijun, it's not a pig, but a monster with a long nose and big ears!" ”
"What a monster!" Glaring at his own soldiers, Zhang Lu said with an angry face: "The Han army has no war horses, and they ride pigs into battle, but you are here to confuse the people and disturb the hearts of our army, and you should be beheaded!" ”
Zhang Lu's words revealed the intention of killing him, and the soldiers hurriedly closed their mouths and did not dare to say anything more.
"Get out!" Waving his hand at him, Zhang Lu shouted to another personal soldier behind him with an angry face: "Pass the order, the army will immediately catch up and exterminate this Han army that rode into Hanzhong on a pig!" ”
"No!" The pro-soldier who got the order responded and conveyed Zhang Lu's order.
The officers and soldiers of the Hanzhong Army, after receiving Zhang Lu's order, were all full of wonder.
The Han army has been fighting for many years, and has always paid attention to war horses, and Liu Wei has set up a horse farm in the north to domesticate horses for soldiers.
In the Han army camp stationed opposite the army, occasionally some soldiers on war horses would walk out.
Seeing the war horses of the Han army from afar, the cavalry of the Hanzhong army will be full of envy.
The war horse under their crotch is simply a very inconspicuous little donkey compared to the war horse of the Han army.
The Han army had long had the impression that it was well-equipped and the horses were excellent, and suddenly learned from the order that they actually rode pigs into battle, and also defeated the soldiers under Zhang Wei's command, and the soldiers of the Hanzhong army were even more puzzled.
What kind of pig has such strength?
My heart was full of doubts, but the officers and soldiers of the Hanzhong Army didn't have much time to entangle.
From the return of the horses, the Han troops riding "pigs" were already very close to them, and it would not be long before they would be killed in front of the Chinese army.
The news that Dian Wei led the elephant soldiers into Hanzhong and defeated Zhang Wei in one fell swoop soon spread to the Han army.
In the tent of the Chinese military marshal, in addition to Zhuge Jun, Gao Shun, Xu Chu, and Xu Huang are also there.
"Our army elephant soldiers attacked the city in a battle, and all the generals should prepare as soon as possible, and when Dian Wei rushed into Zhang Lu's array, our army will drive straight into it and defeat it in one fell swoop!" Looking at Gao Shun and the others, Zhuge Jun commanded them in a very flat tone.