Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 733 One hundred thousand troops besieged Qinghua (four more broke ten thousand)
Using war elephants to fight was originally regarded by Ruan Youliao as a killer weapon, but unexpectedly it became a fatal wound.

The three war elephants were either dead or injured, and the rest of the war elephants were terrified by the screams of the injured war elephant. In addition to the round of shelling just now, the continuous loud noise made the war elephants terrified and stopped.

But with the launch of the second round of shelling, the war elephants suddenly collapsed, and they frantically moved, knocked the elephant trainer off their backs, turned around and ran away, trampling the elite formation of the Zheng army into disrepute, Also caused a lot of casualties.

In fact, Ruan Youliao's choice to use war elephants in front of the Ming army, which is second to none in East Asia, was a stupid thing to do. What's more, the highly pragmatic Jia Ding Guard Group is much more weaponized than the ordinary Ming army.

In the war history of cold weapons, the ancients liked to domesticate some animals for combat and logistics transportation. Of course, the most common ones were war horses and camels, cattle and other livestock responsible for logistics transportation. However, in the ancient Indus River and some parts of Southeast Asia, here Since people do not have good horses, they prefer to domesticate elephants to participate in wars. This is nothing new. Of course, the high pragmatism that grew up in the era of information explosion is very clear.

He even knew that because the Indus Valley has been rich in elephants since ancient times, the ancient Indians were the first people to domesticate elephants to fight.As early as the fourth century BC during Alexander's Eastern Expedition, there were elephant soldiers from India in the army of Persian King Darius, and they caused great panic to Alexander's army.

Later, after Alexander destroyed the Persian Empire, Alexander also had elephants in his army. The King of Gandhara once dedicated 30 elephants to Alexander, but Alexander did not send them to the battlefield after carefully understanding the habits of elephants. Instead, it is mainly responsible for logistics and transportation.

It stands to reason that war elephants are tall and mighty, and appearing on the battlefield can cause a great shock to the enemy army. Therefore, in the Middle Ages, many peoples began to tame elephants to fight, and they played a great role in the battlefield, but they are highly pragmatic. You know, this situation changed when Timur invaded India at the end of the fourteenth century, because a fatal weakness of the elephant soldiers was exposed.

At the end of the fourteenth century, the Delhi Sultanate of India had a lot of elephant soldiers. In Central Asia at that time, Timur, the lame man, had already longed for India's wealth. However, many of his ministers advised him not to attack India because Delhi The elephant soldiers of the Sultanate were a very terrifying existence at that time.

Later, Timur even wanted to fight against the newly established Ming Dynasty. How could he put the Delhi Sultanate in his eyes?So he refused to listen to dissuasion and resolutely invaded India.At the beginning, he tasted the power of elephant soldiers in the first battle with the Delhi Sultanate army. His army was defeated by 120 war elephants led by Mahmoud.

Timur was very distressed and had to start looking for a way to defeat the elephant soldiers.

Later, Timur did not know where to find out the news that elephants are very timid: Although elephants are huge, they are very timid. They are very afraid of loud noises and fire. Elephants will be frightened when they encounter these things. war.

After Timur discovered this weakness of the war elephants, he ordered the soldiers to pile up hay and branches on the camels, then ignite them and drive the camels to rush towards the war elephants of the Sultan of Delhi. His own soldiers began to stampede, and Timur managed to secure victory.

Later, when Nadir Shah of Persia invaded India, he also adopted Timur's method and successfully defeated war elephants.

Cannon fire cannon fire, there is not only a huge sound, but also the flames when firing the cannon, how can the war elephant not be afraid?Since Gao Wushi knew that there might be elephant soldiers in Southeast Asia, why didn't he tell Gao Zhang about this?
In fact, if the historical records are true, the Chinese were the first to discover that elephants were timid. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty crusaded against Linyi, he ordered his soldiers to make many lion-like models and put them in front of the battle, so that Linyi's war elephants were afraid. The lions retreated one after another.

Gao Zhang has always admired his master's erudition, and he firmly believes in his saying that artillery can scare off war elephants, and the current actual combat results also prove that the master is really knowledgeable about heaven and man, and he can't even fight in this "land of the southern barbarians". There is such a simple and effective way to deal with elephants, it's simply... Gao Zhang doesn't know how to describe it, anyway, it's awesome.

Huang Hu was stunned by the side for a while, and then spat in his heart: If you have money, you are a big deal!I'm afraid this method is not tailor-made for Gao Sengtai?As soon as the cannon is fired, ten thousand taels of gold, even if I know it, but my mother has to have a cannon to talk!This won't work, I have to find a time to talk to the eldest lady, she and Gao press the table... Well, in short, I should be able to get the guns, I have to get a few guns... Uh no, I have to get a few guns .

Thinking about it, Huang Hu who took the credit was not polite, relying on Gao Zhang's family guards to be all musketeers and artillery, and they paid attention to the orderliness of the lineup, so it was inconvenient to rush forward fiercely.When Zheng Jun's elephant soldiers went crazy and rushed their own formation into a mess, Huang Hu shouted decisively: "Siming wolf soldiers, follow me! The leader is in front, and it is up to you whether you can get a big reward! Kill!" ! Kill! Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Kill!"

Watching the wolf soldiers descending like a tiger rushing down the mountain to grab money, it was Gao Zhang's turn to be dumbfounded.

He touched his neck, which suddenly felt chilly, and murmured, "Damn...fortunately, these wolf soldiers are friendly troops."

And one of his subordinates said nervously: "Ying Zuo, should we hurry up too, or how will the credit be counted? We can't fight for nothing, and the brothers won't be happy if there is no reward."

Gao Zhang waved his hand: "It seems that we can't steal money from wolf soldiers, but you don't have to worry about rewarding money. Our master doesn't use his head to judge military merit. You don't know his habits? Do you understand collective merit? Opposite We have already got the credit for the collapse of the war elephant—the meat has been eaten, so we must leave some soup for others? Besides, we are the master’s servants after all, and he will not lose our credit. When did the master ever be stingy? ?”

The subordinate thought about it, and felt that this was the reason, so he calmly asked the people below to check the cannon quickly, to clean the barrel of the gun, and to prepare the gunpowder.Although it seemed that victory was imminent in this battle, even if they won the battle outside the city, Tsinghua City still needed their artillery to show off.

At this time, since the army's crossing of the river has basically been completed, Gao Wushi also rushed over from the east bank of the Majiang River on Boss Hu's "Xinglong". Launch an attack, and the current offensive is basically going smoothly. If there are no accidents, it is expected to arrive at the city of Tsinghua tomorrow morning to meet with the main force of high pragmatism.

The siege of Thanh Hoa with an army of [-] troops encircling Thanh Hoa is about to start.
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