Chapter 839: Elephants have six weaknesses and one treasure

Xiao Siye stood under a yellow flag, and the flag was embroidered with a big Xiao character.

In the midst of the army ahead, war elephants are rampant.

Countless Datang foot soldiers were fiercely lifted up, and the lances flew wildly.

Xiao Siye stared at the war elephant's abdomen, but so far, not a single war elephant's abdomen has been pierced.

"The elephant has six weaknesses, one of which is the ear." Li Xuan's calm voice suddenly sounded behind Xiao Siye.

Xiao Siye turned his head suddenly, looked at Li Xuan who came over suddenly, and asked urgently: "King Nanchang, is there a way to solve the situation now?" ”

"Yes!" Li Xuan stopped, and arched his hand with a solemn expression: "The weakness of the elephant is first in the ear, you can gather all the gongs and drums in the army, and smash them on one side of the elephant's ear, and it will flee to the other side. ”

"Two wings." Xiao Siye did not hesitate at all, and quickly arranged it, and more than a dozen war drums were quickly distributed to both sides of the battlefield.

Because only in this way can the outermost two-headed war elephant be driven away.

"The weakness of the elephant is the eye." Li Xuan's eyes fell on the war elephant in the distance, and said softly: "The war elephant has weak eyesight, but it can throw dust in front of the war elephant, once the dust enters the eyes of the war elephant, it will inevitably be frightened, and then turn around and flee." ”

Xiao Siye did not hesitate at all, and arranged it almost instantly.

Li Xuan continued: "The weakness of the elephant, the third is the nose, the elephant trunk is afraid of spicy things, can mobilize a large amount of spicy powder from the rear formation, and then throw it in front of the war elephant, such as the comparison, you can control the war elephant to transfer the direction. ”

Xiao Siye didn't need to say anything at all, just a look, and there was already a team of personal soldiers behind him who quickly walked towards the rear.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and continued: "The weakness of the elephant, the fourth is the foot, the elephant foot seems to be heavy, but the sole of the foot is very thin, and extremely sensitive, there is no need to do more, a row of thistles is enough to firmly control him." ”

"The prince is wise!" Xiao Siye breathed a sigh of relief, these things were the most prepared in front of him.

They were meant to be a weapon against Zama, and even without thistles, a crossbow bolt could have a similar effect when plunged into the ground.

"The fifth weakness of the elephant is fire, and the elephant is a wild beast, born with a fear of fire." Li Xuan pulled out ten rockets from his waist, then gathered together, and said in a deep voice: "With this fire, the flames can rise quickly, and the war elephants will stop immediately if they don't want to rush into the fire." ”

"Go and dismantle the grain truck behind it, lay a fire starter on it, and sprint towards the war elephants." Xiao Siye's ruthless order was immediately conveyed.

Li Xuan nodded and continued: "The weakness of the elephant, the sixth is the lion, and the elephant sees the lion, and the fear is deep to the bone. ”

After a pause, Li Xuan continued: "During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Song Dynasty crusaded against Linyi, and the king of Linyi sent war elephants to meet the battle, and the early Song Dynasty lost, and then heard that the lion was subdued by the beasts, and it was the shape of the beast, and the elephant was in control, and the elephant was frightened, and the people were scattered, and then the Linyi ......"

It is to make its shape, that is, to make a fake lion, and to make a more vivid image, it is a lion dance.

"I have heard of this law, but it is not easy to get to it now." Xiao Siye couldn't help but shake his head, it's too late to do a lion dance at this time.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, and then continued: "The weakest elephant is not the harm from the outside, but because of its huge body, but it is as timid as a mouse inside, once it is impossible to attack, it will inevitably retreat in groups. ”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan continued, "When Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty, he sent Liu Fang to attack Linyi, and Linyi went out to fight elephants again, Liu Fangqiang shot with a strong bow and crossbow, and the elephants were injured and fled, and the rest of the elephants saw it and fled one after another, and the Linyi army was defeated. ”

Xiao Siye couldn't help but nod in agreement: "This is what makes sense, the war elephant is so big, why from ancient times to the present, lions, tigers and leopards are bears of all beasts, but elephants are rarely heard of, and the word cowardice is enough to kill." ”

Li Xuan nodded, his eyes looked at the battlefield, the elephant cavalry was still raging on the battlefield, but Xiao Siye was very clever to let most of the guards go, only the central place leading to his own general flag, was still heavily defended.

Elephant cavalry, as long as you don't fight him, with the huge body of a war elephant, if you want to turn easily, it's not easy.

Although Xiao Siye doesn't know much about war elephants, he has been a veteran for many years, and it is enough to barely deal with it.

Now that we know the weakness of the war elephants, we can naturally deal with them easily.

"That being said, elephants are natural treasures, elephants, elephants, elephants." Li Xuan looked at the war elephant and said softly: "In the second year of the Han Wu Yuan Hunt, Nanyue offered auspicious elephants and raised them in Nanyuan; In the second year of Xianheng in this dynasty, the envoy of Zhou Chengguo came to the dynasty and said: The white elephant is a special product of the Hajia country, where the white elephant goes, the water and soil are fertile, and people drink and wash the white ivory water, and all diseases are eliminated. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xuan smiled and said: "That messenger just wants the Tang Dynasty to send troops to destroy Hejia, so there is such a saying, but in pharmacology, ivory is indeed a miracle effect, which can clear heat and suppress convulsions, detoxify and build muscles, treat epilepsy palpitations, carbuncle swelling and sores; Although His Majesty's illness has no great effect, it has a miraculous effect on other diseases, especially children, fever, palpitations, and carbuncles, General Xiao. ”

"Thank you for your advice." Although Li Xuan's words were vague, Xiao Siye could fully understand them, and sincerely bowed his hand to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan waved his hand and said: "The elephant is a divine creature after all, it is ominous to kill, and it is timid, it is not difficult to tame, just like now, isn't it also tamed?" ”

Li Xuan's gaze fell on the Tubo soldiers above the head of the war elephant, Xiao Siye immediately understood, turned around, and immediately arranged to go.

Li Xuan crossed the battlefield in front of him and landed on the east of the Shazhu Jade River, where endless dust and smoke were surging.

The countless cavalry that suddenly appeared before were stopped by the 10,000 cavalry who suddenly flashed out before they rushed to the main formation of the Qin Tomb.

On the Qinling Tomb was originally at the mercy of 10,000 Tibetan cavalry, and now at this time, someone crossed the Shazhuyu River, and the 10,000 cavalry naturally had to be fiercely blocked.

However, as soon as they intercepted, the other party rushed into the 10,000 Tibetan cavalry, as if the opponent's target was originally them.

Looking at the past from high in the air, the Tubo cavalry was directly crushed by people from the middle formation.

Who is it, who is Liu Renliang transferred?

With such a ferocious cavalry, once they crushed the 10,000 cavalry, they would immediately attack the Qinling main formation without hindrance, and the whole situation would immediately change greatly.

On the elephant cavalry of Qinling, the dark cavalry of Liu Renliang.

The two old foxes said that they were about to fight, but neither of them took the war book seriously.

The entire battlefield has long since spread from the north bank of the Shazhuyu River to the entire Qingnan Basin.

Li Xuan's gaze crossed the right guard cavalry in the west and was cleaning up the mess, and landed further west, looking at Shang Jiezan, who was annihilated by his subordinates to Li Xuan one by one, as well as Su Hegui, who patrolled under the city in the northwest of Chaka Salt Lake, and Wang Xiaojie, who defeated them.

No one saw that Wang Xiaojie's Chinese army had already crossed the Shazhuyu River.

A cavalry was outflanking the back of the Lun Qin Mausoleum.

Simple, direct, ferocious, sinister.

If it weren't for that eye in the sky, Li Xuan wouldn't have been able to see this murderous scene.

Retracting his gaze, Li Xuan landed on the battlefield in front of him.

……

With a "buzz", a crossbow arrow shot straight down from the sky, and then slammed into the wooden frame of the elephant cavalry.

With a "bang", the wooden frame was directly shattered, like the Tubo soldiers on the cavalry, which was directly penetrated.

"Ding", the crossbow arrow directly pierced into the heavy battle armor on the back of the war elephant, although it did not penetrate too much, but the blood gushing out had made the war elephant go crazy in pain, at this time, the countless drums of "dong" instantly sounded on the right side of the war elephant.

The huge sound wave directly hit the eardrums of the war elephant, causing the war elephant to flick its proboscis irritably, and more than a dozen soldiers on the ground were thrown out at the same time.

The next moment, the war elephant suddenly turned around and fled desperately towards the rear.

Ten giant drums were sent to both sides of the military array, and the crossbow arrows killed the Tibetan cavalry, and then the drums sounded, and the east and west war elephants immediately fled.

……

The huge drums are roaring, the powder stones are dazzling, the pungent powder is puffy, and then there are thistles paving the road ahead, and twenty trains rushing forward at great speed.

In the surprised eyes of countless right guards, the war elephant that was originally raging on the battlefield suddenly turned around uncontrollably and rushed back towards the road from which it came.

Only a war elephant with a wounded right leg lay on the ground wailing in desolation.

Li Xuan looked at the war elephants who turned around and fled, and said sideways to Xiao Siye: "General Xiao, a weakness in the back of the war elephants has been exposed. ”

Li Xuan's words made Xiao Siye stunned, and the next moment, he suddenly woke up.

"Archer, aim at the elephant's ass and shoot hard." Xiao Siye arched his hand at Li Xuan, waved his right hand, and inserted the flag forward.

They actually began to chase towards the surface of the Shazhu Jade River, and in an instant, countless bows and arrows had already shot fiercely behind the war elephant.

Li Xuan's eyes fell on the battlefield, and he couldn't help but sigh lightly.

War elephants, war elephants, in less than half an hour, thousands of left guards were killed and wounded on the battlefield.

Although Qin Ling's nirvana failed to destroy the main force of the Left Guard, it was enough to bring a huge psychological shadow to these Left Guard soldiers.

"Come on, go and treat these brothers of the left guard." Li Xuan commanded sideways, Li Zhu immediately stepped forward and gave his hand, Li Xuan said softly: "After the war, if there are those who are willing to go to colleagues, divide the room and land, if there are those who are willing to join the right guard, they will also be appropriately absorbed, and if they want to retire and go home, find time to send them back." ”

Li Xuan's words were very light, but Li Zhu fully understood what he meant, and with a hand, he turned around and left.

The army has never been a place where the weak can easily stay, and it is really difficult to say whether these left guards can continue to stay in the right guard after they are injured.

Injuries, gossip, flaws, psychological torture, a lot can affect them, but it's also an opportunity.

The real use of these Left Guard soldiers to Li Xuan is their familiarity with Left Guard......

Li Xuan raised his head again and looked at the left guard infantry and the right guard army chasing and killing the war elephants in the distance.

Under the overwhelming crossbows, finally, a miserable hiss sounded.

With a "bang", a war elephant fell directly to the ground, and then slammed it on the bank of the river, its butt covered with blood and crossbow arrows.

I don't know when I stuck a crossbow arrow deep into my right hind leg.

At this moment, the remaining war elephants frantically rushed into the Shazhuyu River.

The river did not cross the top of the people, only to the thighs of the war elephants, but these war elephants did not care at all, and rushed forward frantically, but the feather arrows behind them shot wildly.

There was a miserable wail, and a war elephant fell into the river with a clatter.

The rest of the war elephants became even more crazy, rushing directly to the bank of the Shazhuyu River, and rushed directly towards the position where the Chinese army of the Lunqin Tomb was located.

The show is on.

(End of chapter)