Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 445

Mang Yingli really did not expect that the Ming army would launch a surprise attack on the periphery.

He even didn't expect that there were hundreds of thousands of Ming troops launching a surprise attack!

At first, when he heard the faint roar of artillery from the south, he thought it was some of his generals who did not obey his orders and attacked the city without authorization.

Who knows, it's not they who are attacking the city, but someone else is raiding them!
Soon, the generals from the east, west, and south all sent people to report that the Ming army suddenly launched an attack. There were so many warships and troops, the number was too many to count!

To be honest, he was a little confused when he received the news.

How is this possible?
It is possible that the Ming army had a lot of warships, because the Ming army had a large number of warships, and he had heard of this.

However, it is rumored that the warships of the Ming army are mainly small warships at the moment, and they can't go to sea at all, so he doesn't care much about this.

Unexpectedly, not only the warships of the Ming army came at this moment, but also a lot of Ming troops!
How is this possible?
Aren't the warships of the Ming army unable to go to sea?

Also, how many Ming troops are too numerous to count?

While he was in a daze, the generals on the southeast, west, and south sent messengers like drowned rats to report to him that the Ming army had cut off all the pontoon bridges!
This time, he was even more dumbfounded.

Obviously, there are really many warships coming from the Ming army.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to cut down all the floating bridges they built in such a short period of time.

And they didn't bring warships here at all!
What to do now?
He was sitting in the tent, frowning and thinking, when the vanguard general suddenly stumbled in, cupped his hands in fear and said: "My lord, it's not good, the cavalry of the Ming army is here, a lot of armored cavalry!"

And armored cavalry?

Mang Yingli was surprised and said: "How many armored cavalry have come and where have they rushed? Why didn't I hear the sound of horseshoes?"

Uh, how do you say this?

They haven't launched a charge yet!
The vanguard general anxiously said: "Your Majesty, the cavalry of the Ming army are gathering in the north of Siam King City, and the dense crowd has been rushing out, countless!"

There are countless!
How much is this uncountable?
Mang Yingli was so angry that he stood up and shouted violently: "Why panic, I want to see how many cavalry there are."

After finishing speaking, he went directly to the outside of the commander's tent, rode on the elephant, and strode away to the front of the camp.

War elephants are unique mounts in the southeast peninsula. To be precise, the most used war elephants are Donghu and Siam.

It is said that when Siam was at its most powerful, there were hundreds of war elephants, and when Donghu was at its strongest, there were thousands of war elephants!
This war elephant is really scary. A war elephant weighs at least 1 jin, and its height is even more than ten feet, just like a moving city wall.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of this mobile city wall is still very strong.

The tusks of war elephants can be easily picked up by war horses.

There are also those elephant legs as thick as pillars. If you step on them, the heavy armored infantry will be trampled at both ends.

This is also Mang Yingli's reliance, although he hasn't gathered thousands of war elephants yet, he still has five or six hundred.

Therefore, he was not panicked when he heard that there were too many armored cavalry in the Ming army.

Because armored cavalry is also a dish in front of war elephants, no matter how thick the armor is on cavalry and war horses, it is still useless, they will be overturned with one tusk, and trampled to death with one foot!
He rode a war elephant to the front of the formation to take a look, and couldn't help being dumbfounded.

There are really too many armored cavalry in the Ming army!

At this time, the north of Siam King City was already lined up with armored cavalry, and the cavalry phalanxes one after another extended over three or four miles!
This is at least a hundred thousand!
He was stunned for a while, and then he shouted: "Hurry up, gather all the war elephants and line up in front of the formation."

Fortunately, the war elephant can restrain the armored cavalry, otherwise, he would turn around and run away in fright.

Cao Wenzhao frowned when he saw the war elephants constantly gathering in front of the formation.

Of course he knew that war elephants restrained armored cavalry, and this could be seen at a glance.

Because the war elephants are so strong and frighteningly tall, they can't reach the people on the war elephants at all, unless they hold Zhangxu spears, otherwise, they really can't reach them.

The problem is that it is impossible for cavalry to be equipped with such long spears, which are used by infantry.

In other words, they can only attack the elephants, but they can't attack the people on the elephants at all.

This war elephant has rough skin and thick flesh, and only the eyes can be pierced with a single shot. It is estimated that it is difficult for ordinary spears to penetrate other places.

The problem is that the eyes of war elephants grow on the tusks, if you stab someone, they will be knocked over by you with one tusk.

How to do it?

He stared at the war elephant opposite him and frowned for a while, then said decisively: "Quickly, report to Mr. Lu that the enemy has hundreds of war elephants, and they are asking for support from guns and artillery."

Hearing this, the messenger guard behind him hurriedly hit his horse and galloped back.

This is how the confrontation started.

Cao Wenzhao did not order a charge, because the elephants on the opposite side were lined up several miles wide, and they couldn't charge at all.

Mang Yingli did not order a charge either, because the armored cavalry of the Ming army were all shrunk within five miles of the city wall. There were artillery on the city wall of Siam King City, and there were quite a few of them.

He has already tested how far the artillery of the Ming army can bombard five miles.

If he swung his war elephant and rushed forward, he would be blocked within the attack range of the artillery, and the artillery on the city wall would definitely bombard them so that they couldn't find the north.

Therefore, he did not dare to rush forward.

The two sides just set up their battles and stared at each other, neither of them moved.

After about an hour or so, Lu Xiangsheng finally rode his horse to the front of the formation.

He looked at the war elephants on the opposite side, and couldn't help curling his lips.

This thing is outdated. In front of guns and artillery, war elephants are nothing!

He directly said to Cao Wenzhao: "Wen Zhao, order all the cavalry phalanx to move forward a hundred steps to make room for the infantry behind, and wait for them to carry the artillery ashore."

At this time, the moat to the north of Siam King City was densely packed with Spike warships, and they had pulled thousands of artillery over.

However, it was a bit troublesome to carry the artillery and gun carriages ashore.

They had to connect the warships into rows of pontoon bridges first, and then put the wooden rafts on the shore before they could be lifted up.

If the rafts were put directly on the shore and the artillery was lifted to the shore, it is estimated that the warship would be crushed and turned to the shore.

The cavalry phalanx slowly moved forward a hundred steps, and the warships here also became a pontoon bridge.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of infantry carried the artillery and artillery carts to the shore. They hurriedly assembled the artillery and artillery carts together, and then pushed the artillery through the gap between the cavalry phalanx and came to the front of the formation.

Mang Yingli was still wondering.

What happened to the armored cavalry of the Ming army? They lined up there without moving for more than an hour, then advanced for less than a mile, and then stopped moving again!

As a result, it didn't take long for row after row of artillery to be launched from the gap between the cavalry phalanx.

Moreover, thousands of Ming army musketeers quickly lined up in front of the formation, half kneeling on the ground, raising their muskets at them.

Finished!

With so many muskets and cannons, war elephants can't handle it at all!

He hurriedly shouted: "Quick, retreat, the whole army retreats!"

When Shuai Qi fell back, Donghu's army immediately let go of their feet and ran to the north, and the war elephants in front of the formation also started to turn around.

Unfortunately, it's late.

The war elephants they discharged were less than three miles away from the armored cavalry phalanx, while the attack range of the medium-sized Thor cannon was about five miles.

In other words, they had to run two miles back to get out of the range of the artillery.

A war elephant is not a war horse. It can turn around and run as soon as it pulls the rein. It takes time for a war elephant to turn around, and it can't run too fast.

As a result, just after five or six hundred war elephants turned around, there was a violent roar of artillery from behind.

"Boom boom boom", thousands of shells hit, at least hundreds of war elephants were shot, and a lot of the baskets on the war elephants were also smashed.

The shells fired by the [-]-jin Thunder God Cannon are not a joke. Even hard rocks can be smashed into debris. How can the skin of a war elephant withstand such a critical blow.

Basically, as long as the war elephant was hit by the last shell, it would go crazy in pain, and it would be out of control at all, crazily arching and bumping wildly.

The entire war elephant herd was in chaos.

"Boom boom boom", thousands of shells hit, this time more war elephants were injured, and the whole herd of war elephants was in a mess.

The roar of the artillery kept ringing, but hundreds of war elephants ran around, just ignoring the command and fleeing to the north. The result can be imagined.

After ten rounds of bombardment, there were not many war elephants left in Donghu's army.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered: "Push the artillery to the back first, and the cavalry is ready to charge."

With a sound of "crash", tens of thousands of infantry pushed the artillery and ran back.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Cao Wenzhao raised his hand and shouted, "Come on!"

"Boom." There was a thunderous sound of horseshoes, and one hundred thousand armored cavalry rolled towards the north like a torrent.

Mang Yingli didn't know if he was killed by artillery, anyway, Donghu's army was already in chaos at this moment.

Of course, even if he wasn't killed by the artillery bombardment, a hundred thousand cavalry could trample him into a flesh!
(End of this chapter)