Chapter 691: Fire Horse Array

After Zhu Su gave the first order to dismount, the war horses that were originally ridden by the Zhou royal guards were rushed to the front of the battle by the royal guards.

If you look closely, you can also see that these horses are different from ordinary war horses. Not only are the mane and tail of the horse tied with a lot of dry branches and straw and other fire-causing things, but the body and face of the horse are also painted with many strange and chaotic figures. Even on the horse's head, there are many branches and knives and guns tied, although they have the shape of a horse, they look more like a monster from under the Nine Shadows.

When Zhu Su gave the second order, the Wang guards neatly took out the fire fold in their arms, and after the tail of the lighted war horse, they turned around and fled with their commander Zhu Su. Fortunately, they ran faster, and the horse's tail was ignited, and the flames spread to the horse's body along the mane and the fire-causing things on the horse's body, and the three thousand war horses were suddenly aroused by the flames on their bodies, and began to spread their hooves and rampage.

War horses have spirits, but under normal circumstances, they will be afraid of war elephants, so it is impossible for the horse formation to compete with the elephant array head-on. However, under normal circumstances, in fact, three thousand war horses galloped hard, and the momentum was actually not much different from that of the war elephant. What's more, these three thousand horses are still fire horses.

Zhu Su and his guards quickly drilled into the first trench, and looked out from the trench. Everything was as he expected, except for a few horses that deviated from the predetermined route because they were too frightened, most of the other chaotic fire horses rushed straight to the charging elephant array in front of them. They were no longer afraid of the elephants, and the flames burning on their bodies made them unstoppable in the face of war elephants.

They were like a group of fierce beasts on fire, stepping on the momentum of the flames, and for a while they actually crushed the charging elephant array.

"Come on, poisonous third buddy. In ancient times, there was a single line of fire bull array, and now there is a fire horse array made by me Zhu Su...... Whether your elephant cavalry is invincible, or is the battle strategy of my Chinese ancestors superior, we will compete here today! ”

Zhu Su muttered in the trench, ahead, the fire horse herd had collided with the charging elephant array. The elephants are tall, and each elephant has a tall pavilion-like saddle on its back. In addition to a full-time elephant rider, there are often two poison shooters. They sat on the back of the elephant, condescending, and as the elephant charged, they shot the enemy with their bows and arrows, and they never went against it.

Before engaging the fire horses, they had a faint premonition from the momentum, and they couldn't help but use their sucking strength to stretch their bows and try to shoot the galloping fire horses. However, 3,000 fire horses is not a small number, and the vitality of war horses is often much stronger than that of people. Many of the fire horses were scorched with flames and arrows, but they were still not dead, still wounded and neighing and charged, and the rain of arrows of these invincible elephant-backed archers was only a drop in the bucket.

What made them even more cold sweat was that the war elephants who were supposed to charge forward were really startled by this group of fire horses. Creatures like this, despite their large size, are timid and cowardly, which is why they can be tamed. But at this time, this easily tamable advantage has become a talisman for the poisonous army. The elephants, frightened by the fire horse formation, suddenly lost the courage to continue the charge, and turned around one after another, and were driven by the fire horse to the rear and began to flee, no matter how the rider whipped and scolded, they were still indifferent.

However, before something more terrible could happen, the poisonous soldiers who rode on the elephant were shocked...... These war elephants did not care about it and rushed in the direction of the Chinese army in Sudan.

It's like ...... It was as if they had all turned against each other and charged for the sake of those vile enemy troops!

"Your Highness is so calculating! As soon as the fire horse array came out, this elephant array was used by us! Cao Yuan was already very excited when he rode on the horse. He immediately raised his sword and shouted at the cavalry behind him: "Soldiers, open up the territory and make meritorious contributions, at this time!" ”

"If there is an elephant herd to open the way, the enemy's position will inevitably be in chaos, you will follow the general, and take down the head of the enemy country with me!"

Behind him, the Ming soldiers were also full of blood, and with the sound of war drums, the Ming army with two wings shrunk behind, holding the tail of the fire horse array and the war elephant, and covered the 50,000 poisonous army in front of him.

On the other side, the dogs who also led the cavalry were also indomitable, like two outstretched crab claws, fiercely pincering in the direction of the enemy sultan.

"The sun and the moon shine, and the rivers go to it, it should be the land of my Ming Dynasty, kill!"

The enemy's ranks are in disarray, but the enemy is not all stupid. The 10,000 cavalry on the enemy's flank saw that things were not going well, and they had already begun to urge their war horses, bypassing the chaotic herds of fire horses and elephant formations, and slaughtering Zhu Su's Chinese army. And the 5,000 cavalry on Zhu Su's side also bypassed them and directly took the head of the enemy sultan. The two cavalry armies were like a contest to see who could behead the enemy chieftain first.

Zhu Su only had 3,000 troops in his hands, but he was not in a hurry. The 10,000 cavalry was already within his guard. Most of the poisonous cavalry were Turkic and Mongol mercenaries from Central Asia, and they shot arrows at a gallop while shooting arrows, which could be shot, because the Ming army was hidden in the trenches, and basically all of them failed.

And the Ming army was in the trench, but they were able to calmly shoot them off their horses. As soon as they approached, the Ming army quickly retreated from the vertical ditch in the front and rear trenches, so that the previous trench became a trap for the cavalry to hinder the advance, and the cavalry had to slow down their horses, and once again became the target of the Ming army's firearms.

Relying on these trenches, the Ming army's 3,000 guards and musketeers dragged a full 10,000 cavalry, while Cao Yuangou and others relied on the momentum of the elephant herd to kill the 40,000 infantry array of the Delhi Sultanate like a red-hot iron fork. The two generals targeted the white elephant and spared no effort to kill it quickly.

Cao Yuan was born as a general, and his martial arts are not his strengths, but he is good at commanding. He commanded his right cavalry to amplify the chaos in the enemy's infantry array, and often, as soon as he saw someone commanding the soldiers, he led the Ming army to charge in the direction of the command, so as to make a way for the dogs. Although the commander of the left army was a eunuch, his force was extremely strong, and under the cover of Cao Yuan, he approached in the direction of the white elephant step by step.

His eyes were sharp, and he slashed with his knife while noticing how far he was from the Sultan of Narauszi. Seeing that the distance between the two sides had finally reached two hundred paces, the dog saw the opportunity, slashed to death a poisonous spearman who was in the way, and then drew the rifled fire bolt behind the saddle, and with a vertical leap, his feet came out of the stirrups directly, and stood on the saddle.

The rifled firearm in his hand was specially customized by the master of the Baoyuan Bureau, and it was extremely accurate, and it was a treasure specially created for him by his master Zhu Su to snipe enemy generals. He stood in the saddle and took the gun, aimed, and shot, and the whole action was done in one go. With a bang, the terrified Sultan of Delhi suddenly stiffened, and then looked down in surprise to find that a bloody hole had been cut in his arm.

"Ahh

Even the noble Sultan screamed as loudly as the lowly paupers. Sultan Firuz Shah, dressed in gold, fell straight from the back of the tall elephant, and the white elephant was startled by the sound of the gun, and the man on his front foot stood up, and then immediately stepped down, and by chance, he stepped on the noble Sultan who had fallen from the elephant.

In this way, even if the wound on the arm is not fatal, the power of the elephant's step is not great, and the sultan must have been trampled into a meatloaf.

Standing on the saddle is high, but it is not easy to aim. The dog, who was originally annoyed by his missed shot, suddenly saw such a shocking change, and couldn't help but congratulate himself on his luck. "Your Sultan is dead!" He hurriedly used the only poisonous language he learned from Huang Guanna, and raised his arms to shout up and down the enemy army.

(End of chapter)