Chapter 410 Death of the War Elephant
Under the city of Guizhou, both sides were planning and accumulating, preparing to destroy the other party in one fell swoop.
At this time, Yang Yi suddenly sent a message to Guizhou, and there was a high possibility of continuous storms in the near future. He asked Liu Wu and others to analyze the pros and cons and formulate a combat plan to deal with extreme weather.
Legend has it that Kong Ming can borrow the east wind, can Yang Yi predict the wind and rain?
If it were someone else, they might have doubts, but Liu Wu and Yu Xing would not. If anyone dares to doubt Yang Yi, they will definitely deal with whom they will deal with first.
Although Yang Yi did not give Liu Wu and the others a very clear order this time, considering that the rain would seriously affect the use of flintlock rifles and grenades, several people decided to launch a strong attack on Ke Changluo immediately after discussion.
Su Qingliang had 6,000 troops left, plus more than 5,000 Liu Wu and his men. After leaving a small number to defend the city, ten thousand troops drove out from the south gate in a mighty manner, flags covered the sun, thousands of horses roared, and murderous intent rushed towards Ke Changluo's camp.
Ke Changluo's camp is ten miles away from the city, backed by mountains to the west, facing rivers to the east, and connected to the north. In fact, Liu Wu and his team can only attack from the north.
There is another slope of forty-five degrees to the north of the camp. The walls of the village are made of logs and are condescending, which is very unfavorable to Liu Wu and the others. From the camp site chosen by Ke Changluo, it can be seen that this person is not a mediocre in military affairs.
When Ke Changluo learned that the Song army took the initiative to attack, he was secretly happy. Although his camp was not as strong as Guizhou City, it was definitely not easy to break. Ke Changluo was confident that the Song army's blood would dye the West River red again. He personally arranged troops and stood in the North Camp. There were swords and guns on the walls, and thousands of archers were listed in the walls. The pot was full of arrows and bowed in his hand. Just when the Song army attacked, he could shoot the rain of arrows that covered the sky...
In the Song army, Liu Wu had the highest rank and was granted command by Yang Yi. Su Qingliang and others could only follow orders. Cavalry was not suitable for attacking cities and camps, and the main attack task undoubtedly fell on Su Qingliang again.
The cowhide drum rumbling, and the drum beats became more and more urgent. The sound shook the world, and the solemn and murderous aura suddenly spread all over the fields.
Each hundred soldiers in charge of the main attack formed a long formation, with one-person-high shield tightly blocking it to the front and above the head. It was as hard as wind and rain as an iron wall. Unless it was a catapult cart and a bed, ordinary bows and arrows were difficult to cause fatal damage to such a shield formation.
As the drum beats changed, the soldiers took solid and neat steps under the command of Dutou, and the entire shield formation began to advance slowly...
At this time, Yu Xing's 1,000 troops were already lined up on both sides. Yu Xing held a sword in his hand and pointed at the enemy's camp, shouting loudly: "First row, aim and shoot!"
Bang! Bang! Bang...
"Second row, shoot!"
Bang! Bang! Bang...
With Yu Ju's instructions, the flintlock rifle first attacked, opening the curtain of the war, and bursts of smoke filled the air. Rows of bullets roared away, and the Vietnamese army on the village wall caught off guard. Many people were not even screaming, and they spitted blood on their heads and fell to the ground and died.
"Down! Down!" Ruan Ping, deputy general of the Vietnamese army on the wall of the village, kept shouting. The bullet's trajectory was straight. As soon as the Vietnamese army hid under the wall of the village, Yu Xing had no choice but to order the shooting to stop. The battlefield calmed down again, but the air was filled with the smell of choking smoke.
As soon as Yu Xing calmed down, Su Qingliang began to roar again: "Cum!"
"Buzz!"
The huge beep sound made people's ears numb, and the sound of a thousand powerful arrows shot from the arch of the divine arm was even more amazing. The dense arrows were like black clouds, shooting towards the Vietnamese camp. A shower hit the banana leaves, and the Vietnamese village wall was suddenly full of arrows. At the same time, screams sounded in the village. You can imagine what the situation was inside.
As the Song army's shield formation entered the range of bows and arrows, it was finally time for the Vietnamese army to show its power. Thousands of Vietnamese troops in the village were arrows at once, and arrows rose up all over the sky to cover the sky and the sun. Those who have never seen war could not imagine how scary the scene of so many powerful arrows was. It can be said that a thorny jungle could grow on the ground in an instant, making it difficult to stand up;
The sharp arrows hit the Song army's shield like raindrops, making crackling sounds. As long as there are some gaps in the shield formation, strong arrows will drill in and shoot the soldiers behind the shield, revealing more gaps from the surface. If the gap cannot be filled in time, the next wave of arrows will harvest more lives.
In addition to wave after wave of arrow rain, Ke Changluo ordered people to roll huge logs down from the wall of the village based on the slanted terrain in front of the village. If the Song army could not hide, they would be knocked over. The subsequent arrow rain would nail the knocked soldiers to the ground, which was almost physiological.
The Song army suffered considerable casualties and finally approached the village wall. The volley of the Vietnamese army's arrow formation could no longer threaten them. They could only stand on the village wall and shoot down, or throw them into Zheng with a stone spear. In this way, they had to reveal their bodies.
After waiting for a long time, the sound of the gunshots roared again, and the sound of the gunshots were connected together. Since the flintlock rifle used a relatively soft lead bullet, the bullet would explode when it encountered resistance when it entered the flesh, causing the wound to be extremely large. The Vietnamese army who were shot looked bloody and foggy, and some were hit by multiple bullets, and their entire head would even open, like a watermelon smashed by a hammer, with brain plasma sprinkled like rain.
A thousand flintlocked rifles barely reached the range of the Vietnamese arrows, and this distance greatly increased the hit rate of the bullets. The Vietnamese troops who had emerged were shot down in rows and fell under the village wall;
With the cover of the flintlock rifle, the threat to the Song army, who was holding the shield, was greatly reduced. So they lit torches and lit grenades were thrown out of the gaps in the shield.
A huge explosion sounded in the village, and the rushing fire and the rolling smoke made the vision blur. Some broken limbs and arms, burned by the fire, flew out of the flames, emitting a smell of barbecue.
The first round of throwing twenty or thirty grenades made the Vietnamese army inside work everywhere and the village wall was shaking. The Song army then tied up several grenades together and placed them under the village wall. After igniting them, they quickly evacuated.
boom!
With a loud noise, the wooden wall was shaken away by a strong shock wave, revealing a gap several meters wide. The Song army continued to work hard and prepared to blow up the gap a little bigger so that the army behind us could attack.
The Vietnamese army inside was blown up and they were both vicious. Ke Changluo and a team of personal soldiers kept slashing and roaring like thunder: "If you push it, we can only fight to the end. Half of the Song army are cavalry. Even if you want to escape, you can't escape their four legs. They will all be fucked. Who dares to retreat and kill them without mercy!"
In addition, he also sent more than 100 remaining battle elephants. The battle elephants were afraid of fire, and the driver used all their skills, but could not let them move forward. Ke Changluo was quick to make his wisdom, so that he could blind the elephant's eyes, block his ears, and then stab the elephant's thigh with a knife...
Liu Wu was about to order the army to charge when he saw elephants rushing out of the Yue army camp. His tall figure and dull steps were like giant tanks pressing down from the slope. The amazing momentum made people not doubt its invincibility at all.
Behind the elephant group, there were the Vietnamese troops surging out. They roared and waved swords and guns, preparing to wait until the Song army was dispersed by the war elephant, and then they came to kill them and bury the Song army completely here.
Although Liu Wu was used to life and death and could be calm in the face of danger, this sudden change made him unexpected. The elephant was afraid of fire. When the village wall was blown up by the flames, Liu Wu never expected that the elephant would dare to rush out.
His cavalry was far away and there was no danger for the time being. The divine arm archer in front and Yu Xing's flintlock rifle formation were as powerful as stolen eggs. It was too late to pass the orders again, so it all depends on whether Yu Xing and the others could deal with it themselves.
"Cheep! Hurry, shoot! Don't be random, shoot..."
Yu Xing and Su Qingliang were roaring constantly, but the sound of the more than one hundred elephants rushing down the slope was really scary. There were many archers on Su Qingliang's side that could no longer resist the intimidating momentum and began to escape.
Fortunately, Yu Xing's 1,000 troops were trained by Yang Yi himself. Even if Yang Yi didn't let them move, they would not dare to move a little. Moreover, they were on both sides of the left and right and did not suffer the pressure of direct impact for the time being. Under Yu Xing's command, rows of gunfire echoed continuously, and howling bullets blew out.
Those elephants were not afraid of ordinary bows and arrows, but could not resist the whistling bullets. In addition, Su Qingliang's middle area was still half close to the archer of the divine arm, resisting the huge panic. The powerful penetration of the divine arm bow could also make arrows into the flesh. Under the intensive attacks of the three parties, one of the battle elephants fell to the ground with a bang.
The battle elephant in front fell to the ground, and the battle elephant behind was blindfolded and could not see the situation ahead. He would often trip over the battle elephant in front of him because his eyes were blindfolded and could not see clearly.
One thousand flintlock rifles and more than five hundred divine arm bows. Under the heavy rain-like bullets and arrows, more than one hundred elephants finally rushed into the Song army formation and were soon killed by the Song army with grenades. The Vietnamese army, which followed the war elephants, were blocked by the corpses of elephants, and their speed was stagnant, and they couldn't help but break their gallbladders. At this time, the bullets were thrown at them like they didn't have money.
Yu Xing ordered the soldiers to shoot one row and retreat one row, trying to distance themselves from the Vietnamese army. The elephant who was originally intended to defeat the Song army turned into a wall of flesh, a wall of flesh that cost the Vietnamese army a heavy price.
The Vietnamese army could only spread to both sides. Once this formation dispersed, it often meant that the morale of the army was dispersed. In the face of huge casualties, many Vietnamese troops no longer rushed towards the Song army, but turned around and fled.
At this time, Su Qingliang's divine arm bowman gave way to both sides, and the huge sound of horse hooves rang out. The cavalry led by Liu Wu was like a torrent of a broken dam, rolling in, the earth was trembling, and the Vietnamese army was trembling.
From this moment on, the war completely turned into one-sided pursuit. Liu Wu and his team rushed to the ground, rushing the running Vietnamese army into pieces. Anyone who did not kneel down and surrendered was a knife in the head. If the smoke of gunpowder had not dissipated, the desperate Vietnamese army had kneeled down to the ground.
And this is just a prelude to the Song and Vietnam War, and the more tragic war is still waiting.
ps: I am going out to pay New Year's greetings these two days, but I really can't get rid of it. Haoyuan has no manuscripts, so the update will inevitably have an impact. I would like to say sorry to all friends. I wish you a happy New Year and everything goes well.
Chapter completed!