Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 338 332. Going to War
"Don't panic. This is just an animal from the southern part of China called an elephant. Sun Quan once gave one to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao's child prodigy Cao Chong, who died young, once measured its weight."

Feng Xi rode over, his tone was unusually calm. The original Feng Xi had never seen such a giant creature before, and if he suddenly saw one, he would probably be no better than everyone else. But the future Feng Tunan had seen all kinds of dinosaurs several times, not to mention elephants, although they were models.

Even if it was a real elephant, the future Feng Tunan had seen it in the zoo, and he wouldn't feel anything special when seeing it now.

"Elephants are herbivores that mainly eat leaves and wild fruits. Their main means of attack is to rely on their huge bodies to ram and trample. Don't forget that our Han army has palm thunder. This thing of thunder and fire is the natural enemy of these beasts. Soldiers don't need to be afraid!"

Feng Xi took down his big iron trumpet from the side of the saddle, and after a few words, the trembling Han soldiers instantly felt a lot better.

Yes, as long as humans hear that something is a herbivore, no matter how tall it is, their sense of fear will be greatly reduced.

Moreover, as Feng Xi said, the Han army is currently only using explosive arrows similar to fireworks, and has not yet used traditional palm bombs.

Although the soldiers from central Sichuan brought by Guan Xing were somewhat confused about Feng Xi's words, the Shenwu Camp, which had fought with Feng Xi for several years, became excited.

"Bao Feng, come with me and lead the Shenwu Battalion forward. To deal with these elephants, just throw palm thunder at them."

Feng Xi waved his spear and ordered Bao Feng and the Shenwu Battalion to be the vanguard. After all, the Shenwu Battalion was Feng Xi's trusted troops, and in some sense, like Guan Yu's school swordsmen, it was Feng Xi's exclusive army. Now that they were going to lead the charge, it was natural for them to let the elite troops come, and a good start would have the effect of making a strong push.

"Yes!"

Hearing that the Grand Commander was going to fight with him after a long absence, Bao Feng also perked up. It was just a beast. Bao Feng had seen how those beasts fled in panic under the explosive arrows of the Shenji Camp. Now the elephant was just a larger beast.

Although Bao Feng didn't understand Feng Xi's things like explosive arrows and palm thunder, he was too lazy to learn the principles, just knowing how to use them was enough. Just like most people in later generations cannot disassemble or install a computer or mobile phone, but they have no problem using them.

Bao Feng naturally knew the power of palm thunder. From the beginning, it was just a small-scale explosion, relying on fragments to kill people. Now it can blow a small hole in the ground, and the killing ability of fragments has not decreased in the slightest. Bao Feng also wanted to know what the result would be if the palm thunder faced these behemoths.

After a while, a group of Han soldiers in white robes took the lead and charged into the still somewhat chaotic Nanzhong army formation, while the Han soldiers in orange armor followed closely behind.

The Shenwu Battalion was able to remain calm in the face of tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves. The spearmen of the Shenwu Battalion, who used hook-and-sickle spears instead of ordinary spears, could easily rip open those beasts under the cover of sword and shield soldiers.

As the Han army advanced deeper, they were no longer facing those chaotic and disorderly beasts, but King Mulu, the army of beasts that gathered around him and regained control, and the most oppressive giant elephants.

"Grenadiers ready! Free throw, target, elephant!"

Bao Feng shouted. Feng Xi specially selected the role of grenade thrower from the army. Just like in the TV series called Bright Sword in the future, Li Yunlong would select those who can throw grenades far and accurately. Feng Xi also selected those talented soldiers from the Shenwu Camp and even the Jingzhou Army.

What follows is various specialized trainings, which require them to conduct actual bombing training every now and then to avoid the lack of realism caused by just using rocks or cans.

After all, Jingzhou's production capacity is enough for Feng Xi to conduct live-fire training. This is not a war in some literary works, where they can only use potatoes to simulate grenades and say weird things like "grenades are more precious than your life." In addition, because grenades at this stage actually still need to be ignited by fuses, but thanks to Jingzhou's semi-industrialization, the length of the fuses is fixed, so even if they want to do something like air explosion, the operation difficulty is not high.

After many experiments and calculations, the explosion time of grenades in Jingzhou is now about five seconds, which allows plenty of time to throw them.

Following Bao Feng's order, many spearmen who were originally mixed in the Shenwu Camp stuck their spears into the soft soil, took out the tinder, and lit the tinder by rubbing it with a flint under the cover of their comrades. Then they took small cans from their waists and lit the section of the fuse that was exposed outside.

Many experienced grenade throwers did not throw it out immediately, but silently counted two numbers in their minds and then threw it out suddenly.

These homemade grenades drew a graceful arc in the air and flew towards King Mulu's herd of beasts.

"What is the Han army doing..."

King Mulu looked at the Han army in confusion as they threw small bottles towards him. Before he could finish his words of doubt, he saw something strange happening.

"Boom!"

“Roar! Awooo…”

With a loud noise, a fireball appeared out of nowhere in the air, injuring a black panther below. The black panther had no time to react, and its head was instantly engulfed by the fireball.

When the fireball disappeared, there was only a black panther lying on the ground with its head blown into a bloody mess and even its white bones exposed.

Needless to say, it was doomed to die after being blown up like this. The other beasts around were not much better off. There were many iron spikes, caltrops, and stone fragments in the jar. The air explosion just now directly shot out these fragments with huge kinetic energy, and then stabbed many beasts around.

These beasts were suddenly attacked from an unknown source. In addition to howling unconsciously because of the pain, they also became panicked.

The beasts, whose emotions had been calmed down, began to stir again because of the loud noise and explosion just now.

"This……"

Just as the Han army was shocked by King Mulu's giant elephant, it was now King Mulu's turn to be stunned. He couldn't believe the Han army's method of summoning "thunderbolt" out of thin air.

Although King Mulu claimed that he could cast a spell to make the battlefield full of flying sand and rocks, in essence, he was still trying to achieve a similar effect by making wild animals run. The sudden thunder from the Han army really frightened King Mulu.

But this was just the beginning. As the first homemade grenade exploded, subsequent explosions followed one after another, even drowning out the sounds on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)