Li You, the mighty general of the Dashun Army and the right of the Shuai Biao, rode a yellow horse and stood proudly outside the Chaoyang Gate, and Li You's side was Zhou Fengwu, the general of the Ming Dynasty.

Lined up behind was Li You's 300 headquarters elite cavalry.

Li You originally had 5,000 horse infantry troops outside Chaoyang Gate, but he had to leave a sufficient number of troops to deter the hundreds of thousands of troops from the three major battalions of the Ming army, so he could only bring 300 elite cavalry into the city.

However, Li You felt that three hundred elite riders were enough.

Because this time there is no need to fight, only to show military might.

The three hundred elite horsemen behind him were all veterans of a hundred battles who followed him out of the sea of corpses and blood, and picking out a few of them could make the pseudo-Ming officials and nobles tremble.

For the demonstration, three hundred cavalry lined up in a four-way column.

It's not that the Dashun army doesn't want to discharge more columns,

Instead, the doorway of Chaoyang Gate can only accommodate four horses in parallel.

Zhou Fengwu said: "General, I heard that the guard of Chaoyangmen is Zhu Chunchen, this person is the top nobles of the Puppet Ming Dynasty, and when this person leads the Puppet Ming officials out of the city to surrender, the general will humiliate him as a good student." ”

"No." Li You waved his hand and said, "The lord has issued a strict order, after entering the city, you need to be courteous to the pseudo-Ming gentry, and you must not commit any offence against the people, and those who violate the order will be decided!" ”

Zhou Fengwu was a little embarrassed and slapped the horse's legs.

At this time, there was a faint hissing in the urn city.

"What's that?" Li You said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Zhou Fengwu frowned: "It sounds like the neighing of an elephant." ”

"Elephants?" Li You looked dazed, "What is an elephant?" ”

Zhou Fengwu said: "This is an auspicious beast that a small country in Nanyang has paid tribute to. ”

"Auspicious Beast?" Li You said with a smile, "It's quite grand." ”

Li You took it for granted that this was a guard of honor to welcome the Dashun army.

……

The elephant herd has been driven into the city of urns.

The first group of elephants has been herded into the outer gate.

"Holy?" Gong Yonggu looked back at Zhu Gaoyuan.

Zhu Gaoyuan bowed slightly, and Gong Yonggu immediately shouted: "Raise the fire!" ”

When even two family members with torches, they walked behind the first group of elephants.

With a flick of the torch, the fuse connected to the eight powder kegs sneered and burned.

The two men then pushed down, and the cotton cloth soaked in fire oil wrapped around the tails and backs of the two elephants burst into flames.

The flames scorched the skin, and the two elephants immediately felt pain.

Under the severe pain, the two elephants instinctively ran forward, and the direction was a little wrong at first, but the city gate and road, which only allowed the two elephants to go in parallel, quickly corrected the direction of the elephants.

The two elephants immediately rushed out along the outer gate.

Gong Yonggu led the second group of elephants into the city gate and raised fire.

Then there is the third, fourth, fifth...... All 14 groups of elephants soon entered the tunnel.

When the last group of elephants entered the Yongdao, Zhu Gaoyuan raised the three-eyed gun in his hand and led forward, shouting: "Soldiers, follow me to break through and kill!" ”

……

Outside the Chaoyang Gate.

From the first group of elephants rushing out of the city gate hole, rushing across the suspension bridge, and rushing straight towards the queue of the Dashun army, Li You and Zhou Fengwu had already realized that something was wrong.

But it all happened too suddenly.

Li You and Zhou Fengwu only had time to subconsciously dodge to the sides.

"Be careful, disperse quickly, ......" Before Li You finished shouting, the first group of elephants had already stormed into the cavalry queue of the Dashun army.

An adult Asian elephant can grow up to four meters tall and weigh five tons!

And the weight of a war horse is only two or three hundred kilograms, plus the weight of a cavalry, it will not exceed half a ton, so it is not in the same weight class as an elephant at all.

"Bang bang!" With two loud bangs,

The two cavalry captains who bore the brunt had been knocked upside down and flew out.

The elephant, which had been scorched by the flames, continued to rush forward, and the horses that flew out upside down also knocked over more cavalry, and the cavalry formation of the Dashun army fell into chaos in an instant.

Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, the second group of elephants stormed into the cavalry ranks.

Then there is the third group, then the fourth group...... There were a total of fourteen groups of elephants, except for one group that deviated from the drawbridge and fell into the moat, the remaining thirteen groups of elephants all rushed into the cavalry formation of the Dashun army.

At this time, the cavalry formation of the Dashun army had been trampled to the point that it was unbearable to see.

Of the 300 cavalry in the line, except for a few who escaped with quick reaction, most of the rest were knocked to the ground, and many cavalrymen died tragically under the giant hooves of elephants!

Looking at the chaotic riding formation, Li You was stunned.

Zhou Fengwu was also dumbfounded, this is an elephant cavalry? It doesn't look like it.

However, the savage rush of the elephant herd did not stop, and after trampling the cavalry of the Dashun army to a mess, it then violently charged into the military formation of the three major battalions from multiple directions.

I saw where the elephant passed, and the soldiers in Beijing were in turmoil like waves.

Thirteen groups of fire elephants were like thirteen iron rakes, ploughing thirteen deep grooves in the ranks of the three battalions, but the fields were ploughed with dirt, but here they were flesh and blood.

And that's not all, and then there was a series of explosions.

After these thirteen groups of fire elephants crashed into the depths of the military formations of the three battalions, they exploded one after another.

More than 100 barrels of well-sealed gunpowder exploded continuously, blowing up the elephants to the point of flesh and blood, and also clearing more than a dozen blank areas in the ranks of the three battalions.

The edges of these dozen empty spaces are piled with severed limbs!

Looking at this cruel, bloody and chaotic scene, Li You and Zhou Fengwu's brains were completely stunned.

What the fuck is this? I've never seen it!

And that's too cruel, isn't it?

Just when Li You and Zhou Fengwu were at a loss, there was suddenly a tidal wave of killing sound in Chaoyangmen.

When he looked back in a hurry, he saw that the four puppet Ming cavalry had rushed out of the city gate cave, and the first one rode in a mountain armor, with a scarf on his head, a torch in his left hand, and a three-eyed gun in his right hand.

The moment he made eye contact with Li You, the riding general lit the three-eyed gun with the torch in his left hand, and then aimed at Li You with the three-eyed gun that was lit on his left forearm.

Li You subconsciously bent over.

I just heard a bang in my ears.

Then the war horse neighed and fell to the ground, and Li You also fell off the horse.

Fortunately, Zhou Fengwu hit the horse over, grabbed Li You's outstretched right hand and swung it up hard, Li You immediately rose into the air, and when he fell again, he had already landed behind Zhou Fengwu's saddle.

……

"Damn!"

Gong Yonggu held the three-eyed gun upside down, and turned his head to catch up with him as soon as he pulled the reins.

However, less than ten steps after chasing, a sudden voice came from behind him: "Come back!" ”

When he looked back in a hurry, he saw that the holy car had rushed out of the city gate under the escort of Wang Chengen.

"Leave those two thieves alone." Zhu Gaoyuan drank Gong Yonggu, and then pointed ahead and shouted, "Quickly follow the rout of the Beijing camp to disperse the thieves outside, and break out of the siege as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!" Gong Yonggu agreed, and then reined in his horse and turned back.

Soon, more than 600 cavalry of the Ming army rushed out of the Chaoyang Gate, in fact, more than 1,000 people, because nearly half of the cavalry was ridden by two people.

After rushing out of the city gate, he didn't have time to complete the team to charge towards the Jingying soldiers who were in chaos.

Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing battalion outside Chaoyang Gate, at least three-quarters were homeless people or even beggars who were temporarily arrested to make up the number, and the remaining quarter were all indiscriminate.

How can such an army have any combat effectiveness?

was rushed by more than a dozen groups of fire elephants, and then exploded, and the battalion was directly blown up.

These frightened routs only hated their grandmother for having two legs missing, and only wanted to escape as soon as possible.

At this time, the 5,000 thieves who were left by Li You to deter the three battalions also suffered from the pond fish.

Because when the front was in chaos, the back didn't know what was going on, and when the Beijing soldiers in the back also fell into chaos, it was too late to suppress the thieves who pressed the formation.

First, the number of defeated troops is too much.

The second is because the distance between the two sides is too close.

By the time the thieves who pressed the formation didn't realize it and wanted to suppress it, tens of thousands of Beijing soldiers had already poured into their array.

These Beijing soldiers are a rabble, yes.

But when a hundred thousand rabble run, it was an unstoppable torrent.

The five thousand thieves resisted for less than half an hour, and then they were crushed and dispersed by the endless rout of the Beijing camp, and then they also turned into routs and fled in embarrassment.

If you don't run, you won't be able to run, you will be trampled to death.

Fortunately, escaping is the traditional craft of thieves, and it is not a big problem.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoyuan rushed out with "more than 600 horsemen" all the way, and basically did not resist, but there were still many unlucky people who fell off their horses and were scattered in the chaotic army.

A quarter of an hour later, the soldiers and thieves were completely dispersed.

"Phew." Zhu Gaoyuan gently pulled the reins of the horse and lowered the horse's speed.

"Phew." Gong Yonggu, Wang Jiayan and other noble officials also slowed down.

The cavalry behind them also slowed down their horses, and the physical strength of the horses was also limited, and after sprinting at high speed for a certain distance, they had to stop to rest or enter a jog.

After a while, Liu Wenbing, who had been broken, also caught up.

But Zhu Chunchen, who broke off with Liu Wenbing, was nowhere to be seen.

"Holy!" Liu Wenbing chased after him and said, "The Chengguo referendum is a thief!" ”

Wang Jiayan, Wu Linzheng and other ministers were shocked when they heard this, and the dignified prince actually voted for the thief?

"This traitor!" Gong Yonggu said angrily, "Holy Lord, go and arrest him back!" ”

"Let him go." Zhu Gaoyuan smiled and said, "It just so happens that I also want to use his mouth to tell the thieves, and at the same time to tell the subjects of the world that although the Jingshi has fallen, I am still alive." ”

"As long as I am here, the sky of Daming will not fall!"