At the front end of the huge phalanx of the Ming army, on the ground between the soldiers holding weapons, there are countless wooden stakes with the thickness of the mouth of the bowl obliquely inserted, and the soil is almost two or three feet deep, and the sharpened front end is pointed obliquely ahead, like a huge spear.

As the military flag rolled, the tens of thousands of Ming troops in front of him obeyed Mu Sheng's orders and slowly retreated, and when they retreated, some people kept igniting the wooden stakes coated with fire oil with the blazing torches in their hands.

The elephant soldiers of Annam rushed violently, and when they were not yet close to the Ming army, they saw that in the open space in front of them, thousands of wooden stakes were already in flames, and black smoke was billowing out, like a huge burning spear, separated between the elephant soldiers and the Ming army's forward.

On a slightly higher hillside behind Mu Sheng's army, Zhang Fuyao, the Marquis of Xincheng, saw the dense Annan soldiers in the distance following behind the elephant soldiers, and immediately waved his hand and gave an order.

More than 100 artillery pieces lined up on the hillside, and Qianhu, who was holding a pennant flag, saw the commander's flag on the hillside issue an order to open fire, and immediately waved his right hand vigorously.

The gunners of the Ming army, who had been on standby for a long time, immediately lit the cannon twist with the torches in their hands, but in a moment, the muzzle of the black hole spewed out flames, and the deafening sound of the huge cannon resounded in the sky, and the sound shook all over the world.

At this time, the vanguard composed of more than 200 elephants was already approaching the "fire spear array" set up by the Ming army, but it was difficult to advance an inch. It turns out that it is the innate nature of animals to be afraid of flames, and these elephants with huge bodies are not stupid, approaching the front of the fire spear array, seeing the flames in front of them, feeling the heat rolling in, no matter how loud the master scolded and lashed fiercely, he also involuntarily slowed down the pace of running wildly, and gradually stopped.

Hundreds of shells whistled through the air above the heads of Mu Sheng's army, smashing into the crowd of Annan's infantry soldiers.

At this time, the artillery shells were all several pounds of round, solid iron balls. A cannonball flew diagonally, hit the ground with a bang, and the dust splashed down and killed two Annan soldiers on the spot, and then jumped backwards, and hit several soldiers with broken feet and hands, and rolled to the ground one after another with a miserable scream. Hundreds of iron balls bombarded and crushed the enemy army as dense as an ant colony, and the damage caused can be imagined.

Mu Sheng saw that the "Fire Spear" array was effective, and successfully slowed down the impact of the enemy elephant soldiers, and immediately ordered the soldiers holding the "Divine Arm Bow" at the front of the army formation to release arrows.

Two thousand Ming soldiers holding the "Divine Arm Bow" picked up the strong crossbows that had already been wound, and pulled the machine at the elephant knights at the end of the "Fire Spear Array". One arrow after another let out a sharp roar that pierced the air, and flew forward. After the arrows were fired, the soldiers each wound the "Divine Arm Bow" with the power of their feet, and shot incomparable arrows one after another.

When a roaring elephant knight was whipping his mount, he suddenly felt a heart-rending pain in his chest and abdomen, and when he looked down, he saw an arrow in his chest penetrate his body, and after screaming, he fell to the ground, and in an instant he trampled the foot soldiers who rushed behind him. One by one, the elephant soldiers and knights were pierced by arrows under the fierce shooting of the "Divine Arm Bow", and the elephants were also shot screaming again and again, even if the skin was thick and the flesh was thick, it was difficult to bear.

It turned out that the weapon "crossbow" had been widely used in the Qin army during the Warring States Period, and it was a sharp weapon used by Chinese ancestors to restrain nomadic infantry cavalry. Appeared in the Song Dynasty Shenzong period of the "Divine Arm Bow" is the ultimate masterpiece of the crossbow, with the foot pedal, the use of a pulley-like machine to wind, the strength is as high as four stones, within 20 zhang can penetrate any armor, even if these elephant soldiers and knights wear tough rattan armor, holding rattan cards can not stand such a powerful crossbow fierce and unrivaled shooting.

At this time, the disgraced army of Hu Hancang's army braved the enemy's artillery bombardment, and had already rushed to the front of the "fire spear array", shouting and waving the war knife in his hand, and slashing at the wooden stakes that were still burning. They knew in their hearts that as long as they could break through the "fire spear array" set up by the enemy and let the remaining elephant soldiers rush again, they would be able to recover their decline in one fell swoop.

In the large array composed of 60,000 archers in the rear of Mu Sheng's army, a group of soldiers heard the first crisp sound of the gong striking, and immediately stretched out their right hands to pull out the feather arrows in the quiver on their backs.

With the sound of the second gong, the archers let go of the two fingers of their right hands, and the charged arrows flew out with the sound of the strings vibrating like beads, and disappeared into the air. When the two armies were fighting, thousands of troops and horses were fighting, and the archery skills of a hundred steps through Yang were actually of little use, and the duty of these archers was to open the bow to the fullest, and just follow the unified order to release the arrows. As dense as possible parabolic arrow rain, in order to give the dense enemy the maximum damage, this is the cold weapon era of battle arrays, the use of bows and arrows. Therefore, Xiping Hou Musheng had already asked the commander Zhang Fu to transfer all the archers in the 300,000 army to himself last night.

Hu Hancang, whose face was full of smoke and fire, only felt that the sunny sky suddenly darkened, and he had not yet come back to his senses.

Countless Annan soldiers were hit by arrows one after another, and the blood gushed and wailed and turned over and fell to the ground. After an Annan soldier used the rattan card in his left hand to block the two arrows flying diagonally above his head in a row, he only felt that his thigh was pierced by the arrows, and he fell down after a tiger roar, and in an instant, he was hit by several arrows in his body, and finally stopped struggling after a few convulsions of his hands and feet.

60,000 arrows came overwhelmingly, killing and wounding countless soldiers. As far as the eye could see, the open space between the bloodied corpses and the wounded who fell to the ground and wailed was densely packed with arrows with their tail feathers still trembling, like artemisia grass that grew in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the rain of arrows of the Ming army had stopped for a while, Hu Hancang, the commander of the Annan army, came out from under the shield of his own soldiers, and angrily shouted the order to attack, and a group of Annan soldiers danced their swords towards the fire spear array in front of the general, which had gradually become smaller, and advanced with difficulty.

The archers of the Annam army also appeared from behind their shields and fired back with their bows in a hurry. It's just that the number is far inferior to the enemy's, and it can't be as calmly arrayed as the Ming army, and the arrows released are much sparser than the Ming army. It turned out that Hu Yiyuan, Hu Hancang thought that he could rely on elephant soldiers to break the Ming army's infantry formation in one fell swoop, so most of the archers who were not conducive to close combat stayed in the city of Duobang, but did not bring them out of the city to fight.

In the Ming army's large array, more than 100 artillery pieces had to stop shelling after three rounds of continuous bombardment. It turned out that the artillery in the world was limited by the casting technology, and the chamber could not withstand high heat, and the cannon must be dissipated after a maximum of three shots, otherwise the high heat chamber was added with gunpowder, and it was very likely to explode.

Although Annan's soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties in the rain of artillery and arrows, they were not yet in a state of collapse. At this time, the chilling sound of the enemy's artillery bombardment was no longer heard in the ears, and the morale of the gray-headed and dirty-faced generals from Hu Hancang and below, almost all of them, recovered slightly, brandished their swords to drive the soldiers to break through the "fire spear array" that was gradually decreasing, and carried the more than 100 elephants that survived under the shelling crossbows, regardless of life or death.

The firecrackers in the Ming army's ranks, seeing those huge barbarian elephants approaching, immediately lit the medicine twist of the firecrackers. With a burst of green smoke, the lead pellets were shot out by the huge thrust generated by the burning of gunpowder, and bombarded towards these "earth tanks".

At this time, although the range and power of the firearms could not be compared with the rifles of later generations, the "earth tanks" were not invulnerable to steel bodies, and their bodies were huge. The first dozen or so elephants were also splashed with blood under the concentrated bombardment of the fire guns, and the strange screams were repeated again and again, and the severe pain was so great that they were scurrying around regardless of east, west, north and south, and they trampled a lot of the officers and soldiers of the Annan Army.

In the large array of the Ming army, there were soldiers who were constantly screaming and being injured by the arrows that came from them indiscriminately and fell to the ground. Although the robes beside him saw the enemy approaching, there were many people who showed fear, but few dared to retreat. Just because the commander of the Yungui Ming army not far away, Xiping Hou Musheng has already reached out and pulled out a three-foot long sword and slashed diagonally, with the military flag unfurled, the horn soared to the sky, this is the general order to meet the attack, at this moment dare to escape the battle, it is difficult to escape the end of the head to the ground, hanging the head of the order.

The main phalanx of the Ming army, composed of spearmen and axemen, gradually advanced forward. It turned out that the wooden stakes that were burning to stop the enemy elephant soldiers from charging were gradually burning out. Under the leadership of the main general Hu Hancang, the Annan army relied on the ferocity of life and death, and gradually broke down the obstacles layer by layer. Fierce white-knuckle battles are inevitable.

The Annan soldiers who came like a tide finally waved the weapons in their hands and pounced viciously, colliding with the oncoming Ming army's large array, arousing countless screams and splashing countless blood. It was uncountable, brandishing a war knife, the scarred Annan soldier was crowded with comrades behind him, pushed and screamed and crashed into the spear held six feet away in the hand of the Ming army's forward soldier, screaming for his life.

It turned out that after Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established the country, according to his experience in the past years of fighting horses, he had already had a will, and among the foot soldiers of all the Ming Dynasty army, there were strict regulations on weapon training and combat, that is, 100 foot soldiers in the fire gunners 10, sword and card players 20, archers 30, spear and spearmen 40. Soldiers who wield spears and spears had to take advantage of the strength of an inch long and an inch, and they were bound to be in the vanguard position when engaged. The soldiers only need to raise their spears and spears in unison, and when the enemy is attacking, they often do not need to deliberately stab forward, just wait for the enemy to crowd in, which can cause great damage.

Under the bloody battle between the two armies, many soldiers had no time to draw out the spears they stabbed, so they gave the enemy's spears through their bodies, and they fell to the ground with blood.

The Ming army relied on the advantage of artillery bows and arrows to inflict heavy losses on the enemy at the beginning of the battle, and the generals of Annan relied on the help of elephants to rush forward regardless of life and death, and also gave the Ming army a lot of casualties.

Seeing that the front army was already fighting fiercely, Zhang Fu, the Marquis of Xincheng, who was looking at the hillside in the rear, immediately rushed down the hillside on horseback, and issued a military order, ordering the 150,000 troops to press up, intending to rely on the absolute superiority of the army to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Although the elephants on which the Annan army relied were thick in skin and meat, they had no choice but to fight with artillery, fire bombardment, crossbow shooting, and fire roasting and smoking, but they were also covered in blood, screaming and struggling forward.

After an elephant collided with several Ming soldiers, its long trunk stretched out gave a slash to the steel knife in the hand of a tall and powerful man, and the blood flowed like a note. The elephant roared again and again, and when he stepped on the hundred households of the Ming army, a soldier with a sharp axe jumped in front of him, and cut off the elephant's trunk for more than a foot, and the blood gushed between the broken nose and the chaos, and the severe pain finally couldn't help but slowly turn around and escape.

In the Ming army, the spearmen and the enemy engaged in a fierce stabbing fight, and the soldiers armed with swords and axes were specially engaged in dealing with these elephants, and the sharp blades in their hands did not cut at the thick fleshy limbs of the elephants, but specifically called for the long trunks.

The elephants who were forced to participate in this fight were bombarded, and after the crossbow was fired, they were already covered in blood, and even the nose was cut into a blur of flesh and blood with arrows all over their bodies, and finally they all let out a shocking wail, and almost all the knights on their backs were shot by the enemy's "Divine Arm Bow" crossbow, lacking restraint and drive, and gradually began to turn around and flee.

Shot all over with arrows, the hedgehog-like elephants turned around and scurried around, no longer recognizing their own people or enemies, and they collided head-on, trampling and trampling on the Annan army in a big chaos.

After a general in armor pushed the fleeing soldiers in front of him to the ground, he didn't have time to get up, only to feel that under the trembling ground, a huge elephant's foot stomped fiercely between his chest and abdomen, and blood spurted out of his mouth in a shocking scream, and he was trampled into a meat pie.

It turned out that when Mu Sheng, Marquis of Xiping, followed his father Mu Ying when he was a teenager, and when Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, conquered the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty, he had seen the Tartars drive the elephant to charge for the forward, and knew that the elephant was such a huge animal as it seemed to be powerful, but in fact, the nose was its weakness. Therefore, he first used fire to prevent the elephant soldiers from rushing into battle, shot the elephant soldiers with the "divine arm bow", and finally slashed the elephant's trunk with the brave sword and axe hand in the army, and finally defeated the brute elephant vanguard relied on by the father and son of the Hu family in Annan.

At this point in the battle, dozens of surviving elephants were frightened and ran wildly, clashing in the crowd, scattering and fleeing, trampling countless Annan soldiers.

Seeing that the enemy was gradually beginning to break down, the Ming army was demoralized and rushed forward to kill.

Hu Hancang, the commander of the Annan army, saw the elephants scattering and fleeing, and more and more of his generals began to throw away their weapons and turned around to join the ranks of the fugitives.