Chapter 415: The Most Brutal Stampede in History [Asking for Votes]
Boom Boom!
The sound was loud, like rolling thunder, even drowning out the sound of war drums.
What ambush did the Han army have?
Bhutto looked out at the rear of the Han camp.
He used the Eye of War of Cultivation, and the clouds were intertwined with qi and machines, converging into the shape of a pupil, which was viewed from the air.
However, all Bhutto could see was a shrouded fog and shadows, and he couldn't see what was in the rear of the Han army.
Before Huo Quzhi launched, he urged the world to hide from the world, and no one could see through the true situation of his arrangement.
It's just that the sound of shaking the earth is getting more and more deafening, and it makes Bhutto's heart palpitate.
"Shield!"
"Parthia! Parthian! Parthian! ”
The leader of the ironclad army is Tutah, who personally led the crowd.
His tall body, covered in armor, slammed his fist into his breastplate with his arm.
This was Parthia's way of boosting morale, and the rhythm of the percussion was the oldest Pathian war drum sound.
Knock knock!
"Parthia, Parthia!"
All the ironclads are shouting, and the sound is like a flood!
"Enter!"
Tutah raised his heavy cavalry spear and pointed forward.
The Ironclad has never been afraid of any strong enemy.
Tutaj leaned forward on horseback and charged with all his might.
No matter who his opponent is, he has the confidence to turn it upside down.
After the last rout, the troops they urged this time were extraordinarily heavy and did their best.
In front of the ironclad army, a once-towering military barrier was gathered, and the iron cavalry pushed forward.
At this time, the cavalry of the Han army on the opposite side spread out to both sides like a tidal wave, revealing the real scene behind the team.
The ground was even more bumpy......
The scene of a column of more than 60 elephants rushing over with their heads stuffy is simply indescribable.
Elephants are generally taller than two feet, nearly two feet long, and weigh more than four or five tons.
Some of them, such as elephants, are at least a third larger than ordinary elephants.
Their tusks curved in exaggerated arcs, like two giant scimitars.
These elephants have a slightly raised arc on their backs, and they lurk in the elephant towers that the poisoners call the mobile war towers.
The elephant building is square, like a small room.
There were three to five soldiers in it, with bows and spears.
These elephants have two bulges on their foreheads and are hung with bronze armor rings.
They also wore tabernacle-like armor around their necks, which hung down to protect their abdomen and front legs. The elephant tower on the back, the hanging drape supports the two wings.
It's a real war fortress, and while it's bulky, it's invincible head-on.
The Behemoth of Beamon recorded in Western mythological warfare is actually based on hippos and elephants.
The Parthian heavy horsemen struck the breastplate to show their bravery, and all of them stopped at the sight of the elephants.
Between them and the body poison, there is a vast land of the Otsutsuki Clan.
Even the people of the Otsutsuki clan have no experience in fighting with the elephant array, let alone Parthia across the Otsuki clan.
They have a serious lack of understanding of the formation.
Suddenly, I saw a row of elephants, running and rushing into battle. That kind of momentum, when the elephant tower was lying on the back, and when they stomped and trampled the earth together, there was a "bang bang" sound, and the mountain shook the ground.
The visual impact and psychological shock it brings are self-evident.
The eight thousand iron-armored heavy horsemen at the forefront of Parthia were terrified at the same moment.
The elephants suddenly roared in unison, like a giant trumpet ringing.
The poison control man on the elephant's back reached out and pressed it against the elephant's forehead.
The forehead ornament on their foreheads glowed, giving off a kind of qi that stabbed the elephant's head.
This is a means of provoking the wrath of the herd.
Their heads ached, and they flicked their big noses like frantically, and hurried at the ironclad cavalry on the opposite side.
"Retreat!"
Bhutto personally urged the voice and shouted in horror!
But it was too late.
The two sides lined up in formation, and they were already in a state of opposing charges, with a distance of about two hundred zhang.
When the cavalry of the Han army was diverted to both sides, Huo Quai's illness lifted the hiding from the sky and the sea, and it was impossible for the 8,000 heavy cavalry on the opposite side to dodge.
There are also light cavalry on their periphery that need to move first before it is the turn of the heavy cavalry in the core to move sideways!
Bang!
The herd slammed its head over, and its thick legs lifted and stomped forward.
The ivory was raised, and the big nose was thrown out, like a siege tree crashing into the array of the ironclad army!
The sky is falling apart.
The ironclad army gathered like a wall, not broken, but pushed back as a whole, in retreat, completely crushed by strength, and then cracked.
The natural physical advantage makes the elephant herd not afraid of any collision.
The most important means of attack are crushing, trampling, and knocking!
When a male elephant is angry, it is very agitated, like a tyrant, holding a female rhinoceros or hippopotamus and forcing him to lie down.
On both sides of the ironclad army, the flow has just begun to diverge, and the elephant herd has already come up to kill them.
The poisonous elephant soldier on the back of the elephant looked proud.
Their most glorious moment is this moment, invincible.
The strongest charge on the surface!
Jin'an saw that the elephants were stunned for three breaths and held their breath.
Bang! Crackling!
The heavy cavalry was knocked into the air and overturned countless scenes.
Thousands of heavy horsemen overturned, frantically turning their horses' heads in a panic, trying to dodge, and the confusion was in disarray.
Some of the people fell to the ground and were trampled under the pride of the elephants.
Behind the herd, a giant tree thicker than their thighs is dragged.
The elephant herd ran over, and the giant tree behind swept up like a slam on the ground, and the figure of the iron-armored heavy rider was struck by the giant tree, and even the armor was deformed and dented, and the people inside were already blurred with flesh and blood.
Even more tragic was the stampede, the heavy rider who fell to the ground after being overturned was trampled by the elephant and ran over on his body.
The most tragic stampede in history!
In contrast, on the staggered elephant tower, the poisonous archer, the stabbing power of the spear is negligible.
In the forefront of the ironclad army, Tutahe, who relied on his own cultivation and still ran like a fly in heavy armor, turned pale!
In this way, at the beginning of the war, it was suppressed to the point that it had no power to fight back.
The Han army almost established an absolute advantage in one charge, which was a situation they had never thought of before the war!
Like a storm of wind, it raged in the ironclad heavy cavalry.
Even the giant shield was trampled and dented.
Huge hoof prints were left on the ground, and dust and smoke were everywhere.
The Han light cavalry followed, responsible for mending the ironclad heavy cavalry that had completely broken the formation.
"Da Sima, I'm going!"
"I'm going too!"
Zhang Cigong and the Evil King of Hun had their eyes shining, and when they saw Huo Quai, they nodded in agreement, and both led their troops to charge into battle to expand their advantage.
In the study of Weiyang Palace, there was a long silence.
The Emperor led the crowd to watch the battle from afar. The confrontation would kick off in this way, locking in a huge advantage that even the emperor did not expect.
The old prime minister, Sun Hong, opened his mouth slightly.
Dong Zhongshu's heart throbbed beyond words, only a groan was quite appropriate......
On the other side were still the people of the clan who had been summoned.
Everyone was dumbfounded, and the waves in their hearts were like a tidal wave.
The war continues.
The cavalry of the Han army pressed up and engaged the opposing party.
The elephant herd made its way through the enemy line.
With the obstacle of the front army, the Parthian troops in the rear were given the opportunity to buffer and take the opportunity to dodge, and the damage was not great.
The elephant array ran over in a puff of smoke, and made a huge arc in the distance before turning around, ready to attack the Parthian tribes on both sides.
The advantages and disadvantages of the elephant array are equally obvious, with slow speed and a serious lack of flexibility.
"Do you know why I summoned you to wait for days to watch the front-line troops clash with the enemy?"
The emperor opened his mouth and asked the people in the clan:
"The strength of my Han today is the result of decades of accumulation, the life and death of countless soldiers, and the efforts of generations."
"You are a clan, born with fine clothes and food, and you should know your own respect.
You can enjoy prosperity in peace, what is the reason, go back and think about it. ”
Silence continued in the study.
On the battlefield, Bhutto decisively sounded the clarion call for retreat.
In this case, continuing to fight with the Han army will only lead to heavier losses and expand consumption.
Bhutto wanted to get out of the battle and stop the loss in time.
However, the Han army was pressing forward step by step, and the two sides were in a state of entanglement, so it was not easy to evacuate.
Bhutto looks at the battlefield.
The light of the Han army's light cavalry flickered, falling from their horses, mending their swords against the heavy cavalry who had just been trampled by the elephant array and being wounded, attacking and piercing along the gaps in the armor, killing the ironclad army one after another.
Every heavy cavalry is hard-won and is piled up with money.
The loss this time ...... Bhutto's face was pale, his chest was churning, his throat was fishy, and he finally choked on a mouthful of blood.
For this battle, Ben also reserved 5,000 ironclad troops, as well as another arrangement suggested by the commander of the army.
These backhands were intended to be used at critical moments to lock in the battle.
But it's no longer necessary.
Because it's not enough to change the outcome of the battle.
"Order, withdraw the army with all your might, as quickly as possible, withdraw immediately if you can, don't entangle with the Han army!" Bhutto said categorically.
At this time, the defeat is decided, and it is more rational for the gecko to survive with a broken tail.
By the time the Parthians had sorted out the remnants, taken cover with light horses, and cooperated with heavy horses, they had withdrawn from the battlefield, it was already afternoon. The two sides experienced several hours of fighting.
The Parthian retreating queues kept a great distance apart, for fear that the elephant array would take the opportunity to rush over again, leaving room for evasion.
On the battlefield, corpses were everywhere, and more than 10,000 people died.
Heavy cavalry, more than half of which was lost.
In the rear, Huo Quzhi, who single-handedly created the most brutal stampede in history, had a cold face.
This battle would have put Parthia in absolute passivity.
They will not be able to recover for a long time.
"Is there any news from Zhao Anji?"
A few days before the start of the war, Huo Qubing asked Zhao Anji to lead his special operations team to infiltrate Parthia again, with the goal of attacking grain storage.
Rosho was dormant in Parthia, and it was the news that he was probing.
Whether it succeeds or not, Parthia can no longer avoid the fate of being suppressed and unable to fight back.
On the fifth day after the war, the time came to the beginning of September.
Zhang Qian, bearded and ragged, was taken out of the Parthian prison.
He turned his head to look at the sun high in the sky and burst out laughing.
He didn't expect to see the light of day again.
The damned Parthians, previously savage, proud, imprisoned them and cut off the heads of most of the mission.
Zhang Qian thought he was going to die too.
But now that he has been released, it can only be one reason.
It was Parthia who suffered a great loss, was suppressed on the battlefield, and was defeated.
Parthia asks and!
Zhang Qian was in the Parthian capital and was warmly entertained, and he was humiliated.
By mid-September, he was sent by the Parthians to the northeast of Mulu City, where he met the Han army besieging Mulu in layers, as well as the commanders of all the Han armies.
The young figure, in silver armor and red robe, personally waited outside the city to greet him.
Zhang Qian and one of his only remaining deputies were sent out by the Parthians with strong emotional turmoil.
It was the strength of the Han that gave him a chance to continue to live.
Huo Quzhi said with a smile: "When I hit the Parthian capital before, I thought about breaking through the prison and rescuing you, but the Parthian army was stronger than I imagined and didn't succeed."
Fortunately, Bowanghou was safe and sound. ”
Zhang Qian bowed to the ground and was speechless.
In the middle of September, Parthia began to talk with Han.
Han has plundered too much land in the past two years, and it also takes time to digest.
Therefore, both sides actually have the intention of talks, which is a choice for both sides to make a truce and benefit both sides.
Parthia has been defeated in successive battles, and at this time, it is conceivable how many conditions will have to be paid.
After the battle of the elephant array, Huo Qubing did not hesitate to personally lead the army to infiltrate Parthia for more than half a month, with only one purpose, that is, to attack its grain reserves and further amplify the problem of food shortage after the flooding in Parthia.
Parthia was forced to bow his head as the situation continued to collapse.
They agreed to many of Han's conditions.
cut off Mulu City, an important town in the northeast, and compensated it to the Han Dynasty.
The loss of Mulu was equivalent to allowing the Han people to gain a vital strategic position in Parthia, and their troops attacked Nisa, the capital of Mulu to the southwest.
More important is another condition.
Huo Quzhi knew that Parthia was short of food, and offered to sell grain to Parthia.
It is the storage of poison that is used.
Parthia had to agree.
Of course, the high price is terrible.
The final result was that Parthia was broken by the Han Dynasty and lacked food. Huo Qubing sold the poisoned grain to the Parthians at a ridiculously high price, and all the proceeds flowed into the pockets of the big man.
The means to complete the white prostitution of a country, clean and neat.
The amount of gold, precious stones, and cattle that Parthia paid for stretched for miles, and there was no end in sight.
Loss of power and humiliation of the country.
Parthia could only pinch her nose and endure it.
In three months' time, their capital would move from Nissa, along the Tigris River, to Ctesiphon, west of their borders.
Being beaten to the capital will become a shame that Parthia will never be able to wash away.
Huo Quzhi handled many things from the front line, and then returned to Chang'an, it was the end of October.
Winter is coming.
When he returned, he was immediately called to the study by the emperor and unfolded the social map.
At this time, after absorbing the qi of the Imperial Tomb, the social map also completed all the changes and presented a new scene.
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