"Rush up!"

"Kill the elephants!"

Qingji immediately made a decision and gave such an order.

"Kill!"

Facing the fierce impact of more than 50 elephants, Wu Jun was suddenly in chaos.

When an elephant's hooves are stepped on, a Wu soldier can be trampled to death and turned into meat sauce.

With a flick of the elephant's trunk, it could also knock a Wu soldier away, making him spit blood from his mouth, and the whole person flew upside down.

If you don't die, you will be crippled!

As a last resort, the soldiers of the Wu army could only passively climb onto the elephant's body and try to attack the elephant soldiers on the elephant's head.

However, it was all in vain.

Because the war elephants of the Ailao people were equipped with wooden chests, if the Wu army shot, the warriors on the elephant's back would hide in the boxes, and the elephant's skin could not be penetrated.

So at the beginning, the casualties and losses on the Wu side were quite heavy, and the battle was very difficult.

Even if the soldiers of the Wu army wanted to climb up, it was not too easy.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Wu army's position, the Ailao and Dian people on the opposite side spread their feet and rushed towards the Wu army's formation.

These war elephants, like armored vehicles, made Wu Jun unable to deal with them for a while.

In this hurry, even Sun Wu and Wu Zixu have nothing to do.

"Withdraw!"

"Mingjin retreats!"

As a last resort, Qingji could only give the order to retreat, in order to minimize his own casualties.

……

After returning to the Wu army camp on the Lancang River side, Qingji summoned Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Gou Jian and other Wu army generals to the Chinese army's big tent for discussion.

"The elephant is a huge animal, with a long trunk, and it is very powerful to be tamed and then carry people into battle."

"Especially the deafening cry, it is a huge deterrent to people and horses, whether it is size or voice, it is superior in momentum."

Qingji said slowly: "If our army wants to break the enemy, it must break the elephant soldiers of the mourning people."

"What is the strategy of the second and third sons?"

Hearing this, the generals of the Wu army present couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If there is no way to defeat the war elephants of the Ailao people, it is indeed a luxury for the Wu army to destroy the Ailao country and include the Ailao country in the territory of the Wu country.

After a long time, Gou Jian was the first to stand up, bowed to Qingji and said, "King, the strength of the mourning people is stronger than the war elephants."

"In that case, why don't our army make the most of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and send men to rob the camp and fight into the city of Ailao, and take their war elephants for our use?"

Hearing this, Qingji just shook his head and said, "Gou Jian, what you can think of, the mourning people may not be able to think of."

"Although this Wailao City is not a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not something that our Wu army can easily capture."

The war elephant that snatched the mourners?

Gou Jian also really dares to think.

However, the ideal is plump, but the reality is very skinny.

Qingji also didn't want to discourage Goujian's enthusiasm too much.

After Gou Jian retreated, Sun Wu pondered for a moment before saying, "Great King, those who are in the battlefield first and wait for the enemy, and those who are in the battlefield and tend to fight later. Therefore he who fights well causes others but not others."

"He that is able to bring his enemies to himself, so is his benefit; Whoever can prevent the enemy from reaching will do harm."

"Therefore the enemy can work hard, be full of hunger, and be safe and move."

"I think that in tomorrow's battle, we may be able to dig a few trenches and traps behind our army's formation, and if the war elephants fall into it, they will not be able to come out easily."

"In this way, the war elephant can be destroyed."

「……」

Sun Wu quoted a passage in "The Art of War: Fiction and Reality".

It means: whoever arrives at the battlefield first and firmly occupies the battlefield, calmly waiting for the enemy, gains the initiative; Then when they arrive at the battlefield, those who rush into battle will be passive, and thus tired from fatigue.

So, people who are good at commanding battles

, it must be able to successfully mobilize the enemy without being mobilized by the enemy.

It must be able to make the enemy automatically enter the preset area, because Xiaoli lured him; The reason why the enemy cannot reach his predetermined area is to create difficulties for the enemy.

When the enemy is well rested, try to fatigue them; When the enemy is well fed, try to starve them.

When the enemy is still in place, he can try to get the enemy to move.

In general, Sun Wu's strategy is quite pertinent.

Wu Jun can do it.

It's just that how much casualties does this cost the Wu army?

Qingji didn't speak, just sat on the handsome seat, closed his eyes, and said in a surging voice: "If you can take the enemy's place, the enemy will give in, and if you can surprise the enemy, the enemy will be defeated."

"Always attack the shortcomings with the strengths, not the shortcomings to attack the strengths, don't give up the easy and try to be difficult, don't know yourself and forget the other."

What Qingji said was similar to Sun Wu's art of war.

If you can seize the conditions on which the enemy depends, the enemy will succumb: if you can strike the enemy by surprise, the enemy will be defeated.

We should always attack the enemy's weaknesses with our strengths, do not attack the enemy's strengths with our shortcomings, do not abandon the enemy that is easy to solve and seek the enemy that is difficult to solve, and do not only consider ourselves and neglect to understand and study the enemy.

Unknowingly, Qingji and Sun Wu also discussed the art of war......

However, this just proves that the two have a way to deal with the war elephants of the mourners.

Elephants have been used in warfare many times.

Qingji knew that there was a kind of "Elephant Breaking Array", which was specially designed to deal with war elephants.

When it comes to breaking the "elephant array", it is none other than Deng Zilong, the Ming Dynasty general.

At that time, the Burmese army, with 100,000 heavy soldiers, especially the mighty "elephant soldiers" and horse teams, was invincible, devastated the people, and endangered the southwestern border of the Ming Dynasty.

Deng Zilong showed that the enemy was weak, and as soon as the enemy arrived, the fire crossbows were fired in unison, and the sharp arrows rained down...... Suddenly, the "elephant soldiers" were in chaos.

Of course, that was in the Ming Dynasty, and there were firearms and artillery, which was not comparable to the current Wu army.

However, Qingji thought of another method, specifically to deal with the war elephants of the mourners.

"Second and third sons, do you know the natural enemies of elephants?"

"Predators?"

Everyone was confused and puzzled.

What natural enemies can a giant beast like an elephant have?

You know, the elephant is at the top of the food chain, and in general, it has no natural predators, only lions and tigers will attack the elderly lone elephant.

However, this does not mean that elephants are invincible and have no natural predators.

"Lion."

Qingji had already thought of this animal, and it seemed that it could restrain the elephant.

At the very least, no matter how bad the lion is, it can make the elephant have some panic.

So Qingji said that he would do it, and after drawing a drawing by himself, he ordered the soldiers of the Wu army to make a model of the lion overnight, making sure that it was lifelike, and the more the better.

The retreat of the lion soldiers, this example of war is still real in history.

Qingji vaguely remembered that Zong Yu did it once during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Even though elephants are the largest land animals on earth, they weigh immensely and are extremely powerful.

It is dismissive of animals in general.

However, it is afraid of lions. A clever soldier can seize this and subdue the Elephant Soldier!