Chapter 466: The Great Elephant Breaker
Rumble...... The second round of artillery roared, and the fire in the sky rained down in the center of the charging elephant herd, and after the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the sand and rocks were flying, the Ming soldiers saw that the scene a mile away was a mess, and there were overturned giant elephants everywhere, and frightened giant elephants were scurrying around everywhere, and for a while, the whole elephant array was messy.
If the first round of artillery is a test firing, the second round is equivalent to moving seriously, most of the giant elephants have already entered the firing range, and the gunners of the sailor division are not too polite, and after adjusting the direction slightly, they ignited the yin line without hesitation.
Countless giant elephants are screaming, more giant elephants began to stir, the archers who manipulated the giant elephants obviously could not control it freely, the giant elephants ran wildly, even the elephant soldiers on their backs could not stand such bumps, many people fell down and then were trampled by the giant pillar-like elephant legs, the invincible elephant team obviously did not experience such a scene, let alone see that these cannons can be so powerful, for a while people began to jump off the back of the elephant and began to flee.
Woowoo......... The horn hissed again, and Pandeit, the prince of Sunk, was visibly angry, and with red eyes, he drew his javelin from his majestic back, and threw it with all his might, piercing the soldiers who were trying to flee in vain.
"Forward." Pandit roared with his axe, and the seated elephant apparently began to rage, and quickened his pace.
The guards beside the "Pandit ......" raised their weapons and shouted, obviously this prince has a high reputation in the elephant army, not to mention that the targets hit by the artillery of the Ming army are mostly the elephants rushing to the front, so although the elephant soldiers in the rear are frightened, they are inspired by the warriors and cheer up.
Pandit aimed at the Ming army formation in the distance, and looked into the sea area farther away, where the huge figure cannons of the warships were shot from, he knew that there was time, and he must rush to the Ming army's phalanx as soon as possible and enter a state of melee, only in this way, those gunners were afraid of accidentally injuring themselves before they would stop the roar of the artillery, gritted their teeth, and shouted: "Sprint." ”
Woo woo woo woo ............ There is no sign of stopping, constantly buzzing this is the signal of the sprint, the giant elephant is different from the war horse, because the size is too large, so it can not charge at a long distance and slowly accelerate, until the enemy is about 300 steps in front of the final strength to sprint, if you sprint early, the power will be greatly reduced when you pour into the enemy formation. It's just that now I can't care about so much, I must rush through the range of the Han people's cannon rain, otherwise the entire elephant herd will collapse before it sprints.
"Avawu." The elephant soldier who was manipulating the giant elephant roared, and the axe and shield hand behind the elephant desperately pulled out a long whip full of thorns from his waist and slammed it towards the elephant's buttocks without hesitation.
Rumble Rumble......... The thousand giant elephants sped up to speed, sprinting over the craters of corpses in front of them and sprinting into the beach.
Thundered......... The sound of artillery did not stop. There seemed to be an extra hell barrier between the Ming army's phalanx and the sprinting ground elephant herd, and the mad ground elephant herd tried to rush over. But most of them were blown up and rolled over and fell to the ground. The surviving giant elephants had apparently lost control of themselves under the stimulus of the artillery. It's just that the out-of-control giant elephant doesn't seem to be on the right track. Instead, they rushed faster towards the Ming military formation.
Artillery kept falling. Thick gunpowder smoke rose in front of the Ming army's ground formation. Flying sand and rocks. Zhang Youde only saw the faint people in front of him. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Dozens or hundreds of giant elephants he is not afraid of the ground. But thousands of giant elephants rushed at it. If there is no artillery ground support. I'm afraid that even if they were able to withstand their attack, the Haidu Legion would suffer heavy losses. Honor is important. Although the merit was robbed by the group of kings and lambs of the water master. But for Zhang Youde. The lives of these soldiers are more important. Go and play hand-to-hand combat with the elephants. It's a suicidal act.
"Liu Er, that bastard." Zhang Youde still couldn't help but scold. It's a bit of a self-respecting thing. Originally, it was the landing operation site with the Haidu Corps as the main force. Now it is the sailor who helps the Haidu Legion defeat the enemy. I want Liu Er to talk about this. Even if no one laughs at him, Zhang Youde. He, Zhang Youde, I'm afraid that when he sees people, he also feels that he is three points shorter.
Zhang Youde was angry now. Always ready to sprinkle to those brutes. He didn't believe that these barbarians were riding elephants. At that time, they will be caught. Don't kill back to the original one.
"Your Excellency. Take a look. One of the soldiers yelled.
Zhang Youde looked in the direction of his soldiers' fingers. I only saw dozens of wild elephants suddenly rushing out of the smoke of gunpowder. The direction of the ground is the local formation of the Chinese army.
"Meet the enemy." Zhang Youde warned loudly, in fact, all the Ming soldiers had already seen the giant elephant rushing wildly.
"Ready." The officers of the various teams roared one after another.
The soldiers in the first row had already raised their firearms.
"Shoot."
"Bang bang ......" a burst of gunsmoke rose in front of the phalanx.
The giant elephant that rushed to the front was obviously been
became a sieve, and the flesh and blood were blurred for a while, but they did not fall, and they continued to rumble and sprint.
"Bang ......"
"Bang ......"
"Bang ......"
The officers had given the order to scatter freely, and round after round of soldiers stepped forward, firing horizontally, and then quickly disappeared into the ranks......
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Under the continuous shooting, every giant elephant that sprinted was full of blood holes, and finally the first giant elephant was unwilling to roll over and fall, and then fell more and more, the sprint and fright of the party had consumed their mental and physical strength, and thousands of lead bullets shot into the huge body at high speed, even if the skin was rough and thick, it could not withstand the lead bullets like a sieve to hit the face, the body was already full of dense holes, the flesh and blood were blurred very terrible, due to the intense exercise and the loss of too much, The giant elephant that rushed to the front fell with a bang at a distance of only more than 20 zhang from the Ming army, and then fell to the ground one by one like a multi-bone noir effect.
Zhang Youde's face turned red, and he breathed two breaths fiercely, it was really dangerous, as long as a giant elephant rushed into the phalanx, then the next consequences would be unimaginable, what he didn't know was that the reason why these giant elephants couldn't support it was actually thanks to the prince of Pandit, if he hadn't ordered to sprint in advance, which greatly consumed the physical strength of the giant elephant, plus the giant elephant was frightened when he rushed through the artillery array, the trained giant elephant was definitely not so easily shot by the firebolt.
Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... The fire is still roaring, although the elephant team in the rear has stepped up the sprint, but the frightening power of the artillery on the elephants is huge, many elephants after the roar of the artillery fire began to crash around, the result is only to make the formation more scattered, if the elephants hit by the artillery are only part of it, but the losses caused by the trampling of the elephants account for the majority of the losses.
The reluctant Prince Pandit gave the order to retreat when his giant elephant and his guards were about to sprint the artillery array, the Han artillery was so powerful that he felt the horror only when he felt it up close, thousands of artillery pieces were constantly bombarding an area on hundreds of warships, and the horror can be imagined.
Since he could not rush through, Pandit chose to retreat, because his elephant soldiers had suffered too heavy losses to the point of being unbearable, and many elephants were also frightened and fled in all directions, and now there are only more than 600 of the more than 1,700 elephants left, and the rest either fell on this beach, or ran away from the battlefield in a frenzy.
"Go and tell the king to get out of this land that does not belong to us immediately, or Shiva will punish us." Although Pandit is fierce on the battlefield, but he is more self-aware, he knows that this war is probably going to fail, in the face of such a novel army, even the most powerful elephant soldiers are not opponents, so far, Pandit has not damaged the other side a single hair, the only way is to retreat as soon as possible, move the battlefield of the decisive battle to the territory of the Sunk King, after all, the terrain and hearts here have not fallen on the side of the Sunk King, most of the Indian locals have now embraced Neo-Hinduism, Seeing them as devilish beings, if they start a war here, they have no chance of winning.
The remaining 600 or so war elephants quickly broke away from the field and ran in the direction of Xincheng, without paying any attention to the wails and terrible roars of countless companions in the land that had been bombarded by artillery.
Zhang Youde wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and began to order to clean up the battlefield, as for the pursuit, he didn't think about it, once he went deep into the land and lost the artillery support of the battleship on the sea, catching up was to find a draw, he was a veteran, and he was not impulsive, and his brain was not dazed by the victory in front of him.
"My lord, what are these captives going to do?" One thousand households were obviously very cold about the Indian elephants left behind, and did not know what to do with them.
Zhang Youde waved his hand, and a Sikh non-commissioned officer trotted over behind him, this Sikh non-commissioned officer was a member of the colonial legion, and now he learned simple Chinese in night school.
"You take your people to interrogate them."
"Yes, General." The Sikh non-commissioned officer had a happy smile on his face, it was their forte to rectify the damned Malati and the Indian natives, and a few years ago, the Sikhs had had enough of the Malati rule and the Indian natives' lackeys, and now it was time to declare a personal vendetta.
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I have a small suggestion here, in India, the superior people are Han Chinese, followed by the Sikhs and Malati Convenient for next visit