Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 166 Elephant Soldiers
  The Ming army appeared again, this time with more people, and it instantly attracted Annan's attention.

Among the Annan Army, the current leader is called Hu Yuancheng, the son of Hu Jishen. Hu Changwen, who was killed in the bombing yesterday, is his cousin.

The thousands of Ming troops who appeared yesterday not only killed thousands of them, but also killed Hu Changwen. Now more than 20,000 Ming troops came. Hu Yuancheng was a little flustered. He was wondering if the more than 40,000 Ming troops he had left were still Ming troops. opponent.

“Get the pontoon ready!”

Hu Yuancheng arrived outside the camp, looked north, and issued an order: "If we can't defeat the Ming army, you will immediately cover my retreat."

He is still afraid of death.

The Ming army was so powerful that he believed that if he could not defeat him, he could retreat in time so that he would not be like Hu Changwen who died without knowing how he died.

"Your Highness, our elephant soldiers are here!"

At this moment, a soldier came over and said: "We also found a tiger, a tiger that had been hungry for almost two days."

When Hu Yuancheng heard this, he hurried to the back of the camp.

More than a hundred tall elephants are gathered here.

There was a soldier sitting on the back of each elephant. When they saw Hu Yuancheng coming, they quickly came down to salute.

"very good!"

Hu Yuancheng looked at the elephants, then looked at the tiger in a cage with green eyes, and said excitedly: "Tomorrow morning, we will first launch an attack, let the elephant soldiers attack, and then open the cage to release the tiger. Use these Animals, disrupt the Ming army’s formation, if we rush over again, we should be able to repel the Ming army.”

The soldiers around him heard this and hurriedly made arrangements.

This is their only chance to counterattack. If they succeed, they can drive away the Ming army. If they fail, Hu Yuancheng will retreat without hesitation and leave through the pontoon bridge.

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night.

Zhu Xuan and Cen Rui had discussed it and were not in a hurry to launch an attack. They would wait until He Fu arrived and then work together to break through this line of defense, cross the Tao River, and kill in Hanoi. As long as Annan's capital city was breached by them, Annan would be defeated. Almost destroyed.

After setting up camp.

Zhu Xuan went to Cen Rui again to learn some practical experience, which was more useful than Li Jinglong's theoretical knowledge.

When Cen Rui saw that Zhu Xuan was serious and studious, he naturally would not refuse. Seeing that Zhu Xuan's learning ability was so strong, he taught more attentively. Zhu Xuan basically understood a lot of knowledge after listening to it once. Such a student can be taught very well. Comfortable.

Before I knew it, the night passed.

The next morning.

In Annan's army, the sound of war drums suddenly sounded.

As soon as Zhu Xuan changed his clothes, he heard the sound of war drums. He immediately went outside and saw that Cen Rui had also gotten up. He could also see the Annan military camp in the south, taking the initiative to send troops to attack.

But the way they attacked surprised Zhu Xuan.

"Is this an elephant soldier?"

Zhu Xuan asked in surprise. It turns out that elephants are not the most skillful in Siam. Annan also has elephants, and they can be trained into cavalry for battle.

Cen Rui said worriedly: "Elephant soldiers are difficult to deal with. Elephants have thick skin and thick flesh. They are very strong and have much stronger impact than war horses. Even if you hit them with a rifle, they may not be fatal. If you injure them, you will not be able to kill them." Will be more violent."

To deal with such an elephant with thick skin and thick flesh, even if a rifle can injure the elephant, it is not easy to kill it immediately.

It seems a bit difficult to do.

"Bring the Juma up and prepare for defense. Then someone will come to protect the little grandson."

Cen Rui said loudly: "Be prepared to retreat!"

He was more afraid of the elephant soldiers and worried that he would not be able to withstand the impact of the elephant herd.

Many soldiers in Guangxi and Yunnan were also a little afraid of the elephant soldiers at this time. They had heard how destructive the elephants were, and it was still difficult for the soldiers to resist with their flesh and blood.

At this moment, a whistle sounded from Annan's army, like a voice ordering the elephant soldiers. After hearing this, the elephants ran out together and rushed towards Zhu Xuan and the others. There is no rider on the elephant's back.

Because Hu Yuancheng felt that someone riding on the back of an elephant could easily be killed by Zhu Xuan's rifle, and he didn't want to lose any more soldiers, so he just drove the elephants to rush over.

More than a hundred elephants charged at the same time.

The elephant's hooves trampled on the ground, and even the ground shook.

"Come and defend!"

Cen Rui said fearfully.

Zhu Xuan still remembered that he had read an article before traveling through time. Elephants are afraid of sudden sounds or loud noises. As for whether they are afraid of mice, they cannot be sure, but they are definitely afraid of sounds.

"Master Cen, don't be nervous, Wang Er and Li Niu, set up the cannon!"

Zhu Xuan could still speak calmly.

Many of the tiger squatting cannons they brought were destroyed in order to cooperate with Tang Saier's acting, and only three were left.

However, he had given some to Cen Rui before, and now Cen Rui also brought them with him in the army. A total of eight tiger squatting guns were quickly set up. Without waiting for Zhu Xuan's order, the ammunition was stuffed in and the powder was ignited at the same time. The line, the sound of cannon fire, echoed before the camp.

Cannonballs and stones flew out fiercely, hitting the elephants.

The elephants were shocked by the sudden loud noise and paused for a moment. Then the ammunition hit them and let out a terrifying roar. The sound was very harsh.

Seeing this, Hu Yuancheng urged the soldiers and continued to control the elephant herd to rush over.

He didn't know that elephants were afraid of sounds. Seeing that the scene was a bit beyond his expectation, he felt anxious.

The person controlling the elephant was about to blow the whistle when the Tiger Crouching Cannon quickly loaded the ammunition and fired it again, completely covering the whistle, and the shells violently fell among the elephants.

Two elephants were knocked down on the spot.

The remaining elephants roared in confusion, and they were walking around in the same place.

Zhu Xuan saw that it worked and the elephants stopped charging, so he ordered: "Keep firing with the squatting tiger cannon, and the gunmen will come forward."

After a while, gunfire rang out and another elephant was knocked over.

"Release the tiger, quickly!"

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Hu Yuancheng ordered anxiously.

Two cavalrymen were dragging a carriage with a tiger in a cage. When the carriage came to the edge of the herd of elephants, the knights on horseback simultaneously cut the reins of the trailer and opened the lock of the cage. .

They were afraid of being bitten by the tiger. As soon as the cage was opened, they turned around and galloped away, heading back to their camp.

The tiger came out of the cage and let out a terrifying roar.

After being starved for more than two days, it was going crazy now and desperately needed a meal. However, the elephant in front of it was huge and wandering around. It did not dare to fight with the elephant for fear that it would be beaten. Like a foot crushing it.

Ever since, Tiger's eyes fell on Zhu Xuan and the others.

Roar……

The tiger roared, jumped up, jumped over the elephants, and rushed towards the Ming army. In its view, so many Ming soldiers were just bringing breakfast to it.

"No, it's a tiger!"

Hou Xian said quickly: "Hurry up and protect His Highness, I will slide and shovel!"

Zhu Xuan: "..."

Unexpectedly, Hou Xian remembered the sliding shovel so well that it had become a basic move for fighting tigers.

However, under the current conditions, there is no need for a sliding tackle at all. Zhu Xuan said loudly: "Hou Xian is back, gunner, fight the tiger!"

(End of this chapter)