The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1312 Breaking the Elephant Soldier (Continued)

"Look, this is Lianhua Peak. This is the main force of the Han army, that is, the main force of the elephant soldiers. This is our focus. The terrain here is not open and it is not conducive to the deployment of war elephants. Send the letter of war to Li Chengwo. Let's fight here."

Zhao Xu slammed his hand on the map. He originally wanted to sneak attack according to Pan Mei's intention, but Zhao Xu refused. What's the point of a sneak attack? It won't affect the overall situation.

"Sir, our secret weapon has arrived. This time, we will eat a roasted whole elephant." Zhao Xu remembered that the elephant pluck was delicious. He had only seen it before when he was on mission in Africa, but had never eaten it.

Humps, bear paws, monkey brains, scarlet lips, elephant plucks, elephant trunks, leopard fetuses, rhinoceros tails, and deer tendons are the nine most famous ingredients for cooking in ancient China. These are all delicious and rare Yes, especially their number is not very large, after becoming a protected animal, it is even more difficult to eat.

"Tell the soldiers, if they win, I'll treat them to something they haven't eaten before, and I'll cook the food myself, that's all." Zhao Xu said to Pan Mei mysteriously.

At this time, we still fight according to the rules as before. No, it basically depends on who is stronger and who is more capable. But this time, Zhao Xu wants Pan Mei to go to war. This is to make it clear. stormed.

"Song Jun is too presumptuous. He actually wants to give us a decisive battle here. Well, this is the place we are most familiar with. Our elephant formations are basically trained in this area. I want Song Jun There is no return." Li Chengwo was furious when he saw the letter of war sent by Song Jun. He looked down on us and wanted to give us a decisive battle at our door. Okay, I will let you die without a place to die.

"Okay, let's study how we can eat Song Jun in one bite, get rid of their arrogance, and let them know that we big men are not easy to bully." Li Chengwo was also very angry.

"Sir, whether you can eat the elephant this time depends on tomorrow's battle. Whether my soldiers in the Song Dynasty can sit on the back of the elephant will depend on tomorrow's battle. Our weapons have arrived. After this improvement, This kind of weapon should be the most powerful, and the elephant soldiers are not opponents at all, so we will see what happens on the battlefield tomorrow."

Before dawn the next day, the two armies were already in full battle, especially in the Southern Han Dynasty, the chief general Li Chengwo followed the previous tactics and lined up tens of thousands of horses on Lianhua Peak.

The Southern Han army arranged infantry and crossbowmen on the two wings, the most elite heavy armored elephant formations were deployed at the front, and limited cavalry was deployed behind the elephant formations as mobile troops.

The nearly thousand heavy armored war elephants of the Southern Han army roared like thunder, and indeed they had considerable momentum. Compared with the Southern Song army, it is relatively shabby. The war horses in front of the elephants are like a child in front of a strong man.

Seeing this, the generals of the Southern Han Dynasty also laughed in their hearts. Once the elephant soldiers passed by, these people should not exist, so they didn't feel that the Song army was strong. It seems that those colleagues in the past were too incompetent. used.

You can see that the Song Army has nothing, at most the archers look a little more imposing, and the others are infantry with spears, which pose no threat to them at all.

Just such a thing, other people in the Southern Han Dynasty looked down on the soldiers of the Song Dynasty. They felt that they should have made meritorious service this time, and Li Chengwo thought so psychologically.

The chief general Li Chengwo directly ordered the heavy-armored elephant formation to launch an attack, and he didn't pay attention to other things, and started the attack directly. These elephants were specially trained, and after receiving the order, they rushed up directly.

The elephant array of the Southern Han Dynasty rushed towards the Song army roaring with overwhelming momentum. The horses of the Song army kept wailing and couldn't stand at all. At this time, the crossbowmen in the battle tower on the back of the elephant were ready to start shooting.

The soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty also started yelling at this time. The elephants opened the way in front, and they jumped up happily behind, but the Song army didn't seem to respond at all.

Just when the elephants were approaching the Song army, the soldiers who were at the outermost edge suddenly moved away, and a road was covered with chariots.

Nearly a thousand heavy ballistas of the Song Army, which had been on standby in advance, began to be ready. It turned out that the soldiers standing at the front were to cover these ballistas.

That's right, it was the ballista. This ballista was used in the early Song Dynasty when he went to Yangzhou, but this one seemed to be more powerful than that one. The secret weapon Zhao Xu was talking about was the ballista.

"Get ready! Let it go!" Following the order of the commander of the Song Army, the arrows and crossbows from the ballista fired at the Southern Han elephant formation in a volley!There are quite a few of these ballistas, and there are a few of them in the hundreds. When shooting, they make a deafening roar like thunder. The arrows fired from the ballista are not ordinary arrows. The arrows of these arrows are thicker than an adult's arm .

Thousands of giant armor-piercing arrows shot out, with death flames and ear-piercing screams, hitting the Nanhan elephant formation like a gust of wind!Driven by the powerful explosive force of the ballista, the sharp steel triangular armor-piercing arrow on the arrow first easily tore through the solid armor of the Nantang War Elephant.It even directly penetrated the strongest steel faceplate and breastplate of the war elephant.

Then go through the thick elephant skin to kill or injure the war elephant.As for the battle tower on the back of the war elephant, it is even more vulnerable, and it was penetrated on the spot. These arrows are definitely the death weapon of the elephant array. It is an enhanced version of the rocket.

Countless crossbow arrows flew towards the Southern Han elephant formation with flames covering the sky and the sun, and the entire Southern Han elephant formation was shrouded in a purgatory-like terrifying "fire rain"!The Song army's fierce long-range firepower killed hundreds of war elephants immediately.

While killing them directly, the Song Army's arrowheads also ignited the surrounding vegetation and ignited a big fire.Like war horses, elephants are naturally afraid of fire, but unlike war horses, war horses can be trained to overcome their fear of fire, but war elephants cannot overcome it anyway.

As a result, the war elephants that were not killed were frightened, screamed and threw off the battle tower on their backs, turned around and rushed into the formation of the Southern Han army, trampling countless Southern Han soldiers to death!Under the frenzied impact of his own elephant array, the Southern Han army immediately fell into chaos and broke up one after another. Some people were directly trampled to death by the elephants.

Li Chengwo panicked when he saw it, and tried his best to prevent everyone from retreating, but what is there at this time, the army was defeated, no one listened to him at all,
At this time, Pan Mei immediately ordered the long-range firepower to move forward and shoot at the Southern Han army formation. At the same time, she ordered the entire army to use the cavalry as the forerunner to take advantage of the situation to charge.As a result, under the powerful impact of the Song army, most of the most elite heavy armored elephants were killed, and the rest were captured after the battle.

The main force of the Southern Han Dynasty with nearly [-] troops was annihilated. The Song Army took advantage of the victory to capture Shaozhou. Seeing that the situation was over, Li Chengwo fled directly. He didn't want to stay as a prisoner of the Song Army. The Southern Han Dynasty was proud of it. The army composed of elephants disintegrated in an instant, most of the heads were turned upside down, and the main general disappeared.

(End of this chapter)