Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 732 War Elephant VS Cannon
Huang Hu is not a cavalry general, but a typical Guangxi wolf soldier king-style foot general, but he has a high prestige among the wolf soldiers in southern Guangxi. The wolf soldiers began to gather towards him.

Huang Hu didn't wait for all the people to get close. When about 2000 people gathered around him, he began to yell at these people to form a team. The problem with landing on the beach is that everyone tends to run away during the process of boarding, disembarking and rushing to the beach. Dispersed organization, so the front line is a little stable at the moment, and he, who is rich in experience, immediately seized the opportunity to form a team.

To say hurry up is really to hurry up. Before the time for a stick of incense came, Huang Hu initially completed the formation of the team, and temporarily fine-tuned the command sequence (some units were short of personnel), and then immediately led this group of people move forward.

Attack is the best defense. Huang Hu may not have heard this sentence, but he must have drawn this conclusion from years of war experience. He knew that Zheng Jun's attack just now was defeated because the main general was killed. Retreat, but the level of that player may not seem too high in the future. Now that this period of attack has failed, the opponent will definitely make adjustments, and they will immediately regain their strength and attack again.

After all, when the Ming army landed, Zheng Jun basically had no choice but to defend the isolated city of Qinghua.

So now we have to fight for time, waiting for the opponent to attack has never been the habit of wolf soldiers, rushing to collect heads is their hobby, so Huang Hu's actions made these elites of Huang Zhiting's direct line very excited, 2000 people gathered into a fist, Zheng Jun slammed him face to face.

Face to face, Zheng Jun was indeed reorganizing, preparing to charge back again, and at the same time they called for reinforcements to the rear.

Zheng Jun's troops of about 3000 people had just assembled, and the wolf soldiers led by Huang Hu arrived.

This is not the confrontation between the two armies before the start of the war, and there is no time for the archers to cover and shoot from a long distance before the infantry move forward. The wolf soldiers at the moment are all a group of hungry wolves, catching the enemy is charging and killing.

Of course, the habitual round of javelins by the wolf soldiers is still unavoidable.

It has to be said that although these wolf soldiers do not require height like the high-spirited guards, their strength is really not small. When throwing the javelins in their hands while running forward, it is estimated that the average distance is more than [-] feet-this is far from The javelin world record of later generations is about three feet away, but it is their average level.

Zheng Jun has a variety of weapons, including javeliners, but they don't like to use them intensively like the wolf soldiers. In fact, the wolf soldiers used to prefer small-scale concentrated use, but Gao Pragmatic gave Huang Zhiting advice, and Huang Zhiting let Huang Hu I went to experiment a bit, and took a single hundred households as a small organization to form five or six hundreds of households to throw javelins together. One wave of javelins was divided into three overlapping waves.

This tactic is obviously modified from the musket three-stage strike. It is very likely that it will not work well for ordinary Ming army troops, because these people are equivalent to rushing to javelin against the threat of the opponent's bow and arrow or even a musket salvo. Amazing courage is definitely not enough.

But the wolf soldiers have such courage. These people have long been indoctrinated by the chieftains with too many weird concepts of dignity and values ​​that are difficult for outsiders to understand, just like some religious brainwashing.

For them, after rushing past a few rounds of javelins, the enemy will collapse. If they are lucky enough not to collapse, then the second move is to go forward and let them try the bamboo spear formation.Some people in later generations believed that the original idea of ​​Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation came from the spontaneous formation of "groups of three or five to cooperate with each other" by wolf soldiers from the same hometown. Although it may not be true, it at least shows that the wolf soldiers' bamboo spear formation The power is huge.

Huang Hu is also an experienced player in battle. Seeing that the opponent is about to complete the reorganization, he ordered a three-stage javelin throw without saying a word.Needless to say, the discipline of the wolf soldiers in carrying out the chieftain's orders, four teams of one hundred households took one round, and the three-stage javelin passed Zheng Jun's back.

Many unlucky ones who were close were even nailed to the ground by the inertia of the javelin, and some who survived were screaming and miserable.

This kind of puncture injury, as long as it hurts a slightly vital part, is basically useless in this era, and because the bamboo pole is not very thin, even if it penetrates through the thigh, arm, etc., it is easy to cause blood vessels to rupture... Come on, this is also hopeless.

After the three-stage throw, more than 400 people were directly reduced in Zheng Jun's face-to-face. In this era, the casualties were already heavy, but Huang Hu's strength was not exhausted. After throwing a javelin, the wolf soldiers retreated for a while (because they had to run up and throw with all their strength), The remaining about [-] wolf soldiers who did not participate in the three-stage throw have already formed a bamboo spear formation and rushed forward.

The Bamboo Spear Formation is somewhat similar to the Mandarin Duck Formation. It does not have to stand in place and line up obediently, slowly approaching, but can directly charge forward—in fact, this is somewhat similar to the "infantry soldiers" of later generations. Squad offensive tactics", which emphasizes small-scale coordinated operations.

Gao Yushi understands the truth, but doesn't know much about specific training and command, while Huang Hu is just the opposite. He doesn't necessarily know the truth, but he is definitely good at applying it.

These [-] wolf soldiers are actually divided into [-] "infantry squads". Each infantry squad has a small flag, which is equivalent to the squad leader. He chooses the enemy, and then the whole "squad" cooperates under his command. .

In a round of rushing, Zheng Jun collapsed in front of him. In fact, no more than 200 people were killed by this round of bamboo spears, which was not as good as the previous three-stage javelin throw. Throwing from a distance feels different.

This group of wolf soldiers not only cooperated tacitly, ten of them were like one person, and these guys were full of fanaticism and excitement, as well as some inexplicable cruelty. Zheng Jun was rushed and killed by them, almost all of them were slaughtered, and all kinds of resistance Almost did not cause any harm to the other party.

This is a fart!
I don't know who was the first to throw away the weapon in his hand, yelled and turned around and ran away. Anyway, it turned into thousands of Zheng Jun all throwing away their weapons and turning around to run away. Many people even took off their busts while running. Armor, in order to escape lightly.

This 3000-strong Zheng army completely collapsed.

Here, Huang Hu defeated Zheng Jun in front of him, and more wolf soldiers approached from the rear and from all directions. Huang Hu took the opportunity to reorganize again to form a greater combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

The collapse of Zheng Jun in front of him annoyed Ruan Youliao, the chief general of Zheng Jun's defense line along the river who was watching the battle in the rear. Ruan Youliao was furious and mobilized his troops to fight in person.

This time, not only his [-] elite descendants accompanied him in the battle, but also twenty war elephants that Ruan Huang had sent.

While Huang Hu formed his team, he did not forget to observe the situation ahead. Those war elephants were too tall, so Huang Hu spotted them from a long distance away.

There used to be elephants in Guangxi—Da Ming even set up an elephant taming guard in Guangxi, which was under the jurisdiction of Nanning Prefecture, in Hengzhou to the east of Nanning—so Huang Hu is not very unfamiliar with war elephants.

However, there are fewer and fewer elephants in Guangxi, and the Elephant Taming Guards are actually just empty shells. They don’t know if they can form a circus, and it’s completely nonsense to use them for war. Head mascot of Tuntian Soldier.

But this is enough for Huang Hu, he knows that it is not difficult to deal with these war elephants, the difficulty is that he did not expect to encounter war elephants, so he is not prepared at hand-for the wolf soldiers who fight bravely He said that there is no need to use fire to deal with war elephants, as long as there are elongated bamboo spears, a group of wolf soldiers surround the war elephants and poke at the eyes of the war elephants. As long as they can blind one eye, the war elephants will go crazy.

There is no need to attack the parts other than the eyes. Although the bamboo spear with the iron tip can still penetrate the elephant's body, it is actually very dangerous to stab the elephant with the bamboo spear when the elephant is moving, because it is easy to be attacked. Take it to fly, and then no one can tell what will happen.

Moreover, war elephants have thick skin and thick flesh, so this kind of skin trauma is not fatal to them. The truly deadly and effective attack part is the eyes.There is a high probability that war elephants will go crazy if their eyes are stabbed, but they are intelligent creatures after all. They know that the enemy who pokes their eyes blind in front of them will not be offended, so they usually turn around and run away-this will cause them to completely destroy their lineup. overwhelmed.

But the problem now is that he doesn't have an extended bamboo spear. Ordinary bamboo spears can also be poked, but the danger is more than ten times higher - being slammed by such a giant beast, no matter how you usually look like Cows are dead.

Huang Hu's mind was spinning wildly, he thought of a way, and immediately shouted loudly to gather the wolf soldiers who were usually the most accurate in throwing spears - yes, he planned to use the method of throwing spears to stab the eyes of the war elephants!

But he didn't have time to implement this method, Gao Zhang hurried over from behind.

Coming along with Gao Zhang is Gao Yushi's direct lineage in this battle, his servant guard group.

At the same time, in addition to thousands of Longqing Type [-] muskets, there were also cannons.

Gao Zhang listened to Huang Hu's brief introduction of the battle situation, and told him the threat of war elephants, and decisively ordered the deployment of artillery—as Gao Yushi always emphasized, the artillery should be used intensively!

Since the large No. 120 Frang cannon had not yet been transported across the river, Gao Zhang placed [-] relatively small tiger squat cannons in front of the formation, and all preparations were completed in the shortest possible time.

The elite soldiers under Ruan Youliao's personal command, surrounded by twenty war elephants, had already killed a mile away.

Huang Hu quietly winked at the javeliners under his command, meaning that if the Gao family members can't handle these elephants, they still have to attack. Hu nodded, indicating that he understood.

Gao Zhang didn't pay attention to Huang Hu's side, but carefully observed the distance. When the war elephant was approaching the hundred feet distance he asked the artillerymen to locate, he suddenly shouted: "Fire! Fire!"

"Bah... bang!"

"Bah... bang!"

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The 120 tiger crouching guns that Qi Jiguang likes to bring in battle roared in unison, and all the projectiles were thrown towards hundreds of feet away.

People turn their backs on their backs—no, people turn their backs on their backs.Three unlucky war elephants were directly hit by the artillery, and one of them was blown out of the head by a cannonball, blasting a mass of blood and bones, falling to the ground, and crushing two Zheng Jun by the way.

The other two were hit in the back, and of course they were shot, and the elephant trainer sitting on its back had no bones left.

The last one had better luck. Due to the angle, it broke a hind leg and fell to the ground with a crash, throwing the elephant trainer on its back several feet away.The war elephant let out a painful whistle like a siren, which suddenly caused the other war elephants to become unsteady.

The elephant is actually a timid vegetarian animal.

Afraid of fire, afraid of loud noise.
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