Because Zhao Yun had not participated in the Zhongzhi War that year, in order to deal with the battle elephants of the Linyi people, the Han army's central army today was handed over to Gao Shun, who was originally just here to escort food and grass, to carry the line.

But Gao Shun did not lead the camp, only a few thousand Kunming black barbarians, and the level of meat tank was not very high. He could only count on firewood and the arrows of the monkeys tied with cartridges to shock the war elephants.

Gao Shun looked solemnly, looking at the Xiang soldiers rushing closer and closer to each other, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief until he saw the drivers on the Xiang back clearly.

"These Linyi monkeys are really poor. It's fine if they don't wear armor. They don't even wear maroons and are just wearing red bodies." Seeing this, he felt even more confident in his heart, and ordered the archers to stop the archers from taking off the gunpowder arrows for the time being.

"First use ordinary arrows, aim at the driver and shoot! The cone gunman stepped forward and set aside the corridor, and set aside the corridor to light the fire!"

All Kunming Yi were on high alert, and all the local archers in Jiaozhou in the Han army also provided long-range firepower in the back row, and all replaced ordinary arrows first.

The reason for this is that the Han army cannot use crossbows this time, and all the ox tendon strings of the crossbow will be damp and scrapped. If the bow is used to throw the monkey into the sky, the effective range will be further reduced. If the elephant is extremely close to its own side, charging at full speed, and it is very likely to cause huge trampling and casualties.

So for the sake of safety, use other scaring methods to slow down the elephant and reduce inertia. After it has even tended to turn heads, add fire to make the elephant fall into a state of madness.

As for the spearmen, they all stood in the front row without shields, and used cone guns that were nearly three meters long and four-pyramid-headed.

Although Li Su made trouble for the Xiliang Battle, the military department he left behind in Yizhou could easily manufacture. The gun tip of this weapon is not easy to break, and the long-range stabbing effect is better. After the super long spear bar is broken, it can be replaced immediately with a wooden pole lathe mass production and low cost. The senior generals behind now know these advantages.

Gao Shun transported grain to assist Nanzheng this time and brought a group of them, which was considered to be prepared for any eventuality. In addition, they had known in advance that the Linyi people had elephant soldiers two days before the decisive battle, so they shrank for two days and came to fight again with preparation. Naturally, they were very professional and very suitable.

Let me give you a small detail: if you are fighting on the Liangzhou battlefield, soldiers with pyramid guns may have to bring the gun bar shortened by half a meter, which is convenient for one-handed shielding. Because when dealing with cavalry in the Liangzhou battlefield, if you don’t take the shield, you may be consumed by the cavalry’s golf cavalry shooting.

However, in the Jiaozhou battlefield, there is no cavalry at all, and archers are out of touch with the war elephants. The drivers on the backs of the Southern Barbarians do not have long-range weapons, unlike the Han war elephants who also build elephants sedan chairs and crossbows. Therefore, it is completely unnecessary for spearmen to match shields, and there is no need for spearmen to defend against long-range weapons at all.

The physical strength and weight-bearing talent points saved can be all pointed at the length of the weapon, and use a longer gun to directly thrust the driver down from the elephant's neck - the driver riding on the elephant's neck sits at least 100 feet high from the ground, and if the elephant is bigger, it can even be 100 feet and a half feet long. If there is no disposable gun bar nearly 3 feet long, what else can you talk about thrusting the driver? The spearman was trampled to death before he succeeded.

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Linyi General Fan Xiong sat on the only war elephant with an elephant sedan chair in the army. He watched his elephant group charge forward with a black and white elephant group, and felt a little scared inside.

"Why are these Han people not afraid of war elephants at all? Is there any conspiracy?"

Just when Fan Xiong was suspicious in his heart, the archers on the opposite side had already begun to shoot arrows continuously. The effective range of the arrow with the fibre string was only seventy or eighty steps. The killing effect was very little on the elephant's back and the elephant's legs, which made more elephants feel painful and furious, and the pace of rushing forward and raiding was faster.

Among the two hundred elephants, within a charge distance of dozens of steps, only a dozen drivers on their backs were shot by bows and arrows. But even if the driver died, only seven or eight elephants turned around in pain, confusing their formation, and even collided with friendly forces.

The remaining uncontrolled war elephant still numbly hit the driver in the direction he controlled before his death. It was like a driver of a car being shot and killed, but the driver was lying on the steering wheel horn before his death, and his feet were still on the floor, rushing forward straight.

Although there were some casualties, Fan Xiong's heart suddenly calmed down, and he developed a sense of "It turns out that the confidence of the Han army comes from here, that's just that."

However, the development of the battlefield situation quickly made Fan Xiong's mentality ride on a roller coaster. As the front row elephants were less than fifty steps away from the spear array, several gusts of wind rose with the flames, and the Han army ignited all the hay and withered firewood in front of the formation.

In order to ignite faster, the Han army even threw away some scrap cotton rich in crushed cotton seeds and some precious oil materials left when the cotton-pink lint was used.

After the elephant rushed through a distance of only a few dozen steps, the fire head had already become slightly a little bit, and it would burn more and more as time delays.

"The fire is not too big, so you all rushed over and stomped them to death!" Fan Xiong was slightly anxious, but felt that the scene could still be controlled.

The Han army's spearmen all raised their three-foot spears, held them in their hands, and all went to the drivers, eyes and ears to greet them. For a moment, the guns were like hedgehogs. Because there was fire in front of the formation, many spearmen were burned by fire on the edge of the flames.

But they knew that one step back would be the collapse of the front line, so they could only resist the pain of the brief burning of the flames, and insisted on gritting their teeth and clenching the gun without letting go.

"Ku~ Crack~" The sound of bamboo and wood shattering spread across the battlefield. The three-zhang spear could not be made too thick because the front end was not as thick as it would otherwise be unable to hold it, and they were broken by the huge force of the war elephant. The spearmen who had the gun immediately retreated and had their own reserves to fill the gap. After only a short and bloody confrontation, dozens of Lin Yixiang's drivers were stabbed to death.

"Is Zhao Yun's soldiers crazy? They all use such long guns, and they break and shatter with just one stab. Are the Han people so rich? Use long guns as disposable weapons?" Fan Xiong looked at his Zhanxiang drivers and died one after another, and his heart began to drip, and he was a little suspicious of life.

After this delay, the fire became even stronger. The war elephant began to bully the weak and fear the strong and chased the corridor that dispersed, or was in pain and detour, sweeping across the front.

Gao Shun saw the right time and then ordered the archers who were always aiming at the driver's fire throughout the whole process, and took out only two monkey arrows each of them (mainly because gunpowder is expensive, and not many people transporting grain to reinforce the belts)

The killer weapon should be used on the blade.

With the shrill screams of monkeys flying into the sky, the arrows pierced on the skin and the gunpowder gas exploded, and the elephant group completely collapsed, just like the experience of Ailaoyi during the Battle of Nanzhong a few years ago.

If you want to blame, you can only blame Fan Xiong for not having education, not understanding the history of war, not looking at current affairs of peers, and on another battlefield in a state, he didn't even hear anything that happened three or four years ago.

The news about Linyi Monkey is too blocked.

But at this time, the Jiaozhou Army's rear team had already rushed forward. They were originally going to follow the elephant to be brave enough to get the bargain. When the elephant group was in chaos, Shi Xie's Jiaozhou soldiers were also in an instant.

Especially the local young and strong peasant soldiers in the army who temporarily captured the strong men were originally because of the strong army's might and the giant beasts helped him. Zhao Yun probably finished it and stood on the side of the strong. They also knew in their hearts that Shi Xie would not have a good end if he betrayed the court and forced Wang Lang to death, so he took the opportunity to turn against him at the last minute.

Thousands or even nearly 10,000 Jiaozhou men and peasants scattered, fleeing everywhere like headless flies. Those who accidentally bumped into Zhao Yun's military formation either kneeling down or were forced to turn around and kill by Zhao Yun's army like a hedgehog forest.

Shi Xie, the youngest son of Shi Song, who was responsible for leading the peasant army, also wanted to restrain his subordinates, but was directly defeated by the rioters and trampled and killed.

The regular army of Jiaozhou soldiers in the central government performed better than the peasant soldiers, but they only lasted less than a quarter of an hour longer. As the war elephants who were retreating in chaos stepped on more than a dozen bloody paths in the crowd, they had to bear the pain of killing the chaotic war elephants on their own, the morale of the soldiers had also fallen to the bottom.

Gao Shun led the Kunming Yi barbarians to counterattack and cover up the killing, and easily defeated the front of the Jiaozhou soldiers.

Zhao Yun ordered both wings to attack and cover the killing, and personally led the only cavalry unit in the Han army to start cutting vegetables around the back.

This time, Zhao Yun brought a little cavalry to attack Jiaozhi. The scale was not large, with only two thousand people. It was mainly due to the difficulty of transportation logistics, and it was not easy for the cavalry to cross the Lang Sang Pass.

But although there are only two thousand people, this is also the only cavalry unit on the battlefield in Jiaozhou. There are no established cavalry on Shixie's side, only the officers have horses.

Because war horses are easily frightened by elephants, Zhao Yun would not let the cavalry go on the horse before the elephant herd was completely defeated. It is just the right time now.

"The infantry wings covered the Jiaozhou soldiers who killed Shi Xie. The cavalry followed me and attacked the left wing of Linyi Army! Keep a distance and harasse me! You can't charge without my order!"

Zhao Yun led the cavalry team to advance while using the banner to make commands of riding and shooting tactics, and flew kites in circles with a style similar to Parthian tactics.

Obviously, he was also very confident in the expectation of the lethality of the bow and arrow because he saw that all the Linyi soldiers were fighting naked.

I'm afraid of heat! I don't wear clothes, so now I know the pain of flying kites by northern archers.

It's true that as Zhao Yun approached, the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom, who were already worried about not working hard on both sides, soon suffered a catastrophe.

These people have never fought with established cavalry units in their entire lives, and have no tactics to deal with. The high temperatures of 40 degrees in Linyi also made these people accustomed to not wearing clothes all their lives. Their environment is doomed to be unable to use crossbows, and other long-range weapons do not pursue kinetic energy and range, so they expect poison to provide main damage.

Therefore, the long-range weapons of these Linyi soldiers are simply varied. Maxian's single bow is already the best. They use more to throw darts and even blow arrows. The range is far inferior to that of the Han army's cavalry. When they encounter armored Han army cavalry, they cannot break the armor, so naturally the poison cannot be used.

Zhao Yun's small number of elite troops kept pace with the enemy for about fifty steps, shooting wildly in circles. In less than half a quarter of an hour, the Linyi ** team, which had already collapsed morale, scattered. Only then did Zhao Yun allow me to fight in close combat, and the flag command changed, and the entire army chased and died north, killing more than ten thousand levels-

In fact, under normal circumstances, they cannot kill so many people, because after three thousand people died, the rest should basically kneel down and surrender. But Zhao Yun killed even if the enemy surrendered, and rushed to the Red River to drown. Many people were forced to pick up their weapons and escape, even resist, and then they were killed, which led to so many gains.

After all, these are not the people of the great man, and there is nothing to surrender and not kill, and they just set their authority.

After a day's decisive battle, the water of the Honghe River ended up red and became the veritable Honghe River. Shi Xie, a younger brother and two sons, died in the chaos, and Linyi general Fan Xiong was also killed. Shi Xie wanted to escape back to the city, but when he led his direct troops to break through to the city gate, he was waiting for the arrows from the top of the city to shoot down.

Shi Xie was shocked, but saw that Huan Lin, the county magistrate at the top of the city, had changed his flag and shouted and insulted: "Shi Xie! You acted against the enemy, killed the king and betrayed the court! Everyone was killed! The heads of the Shi Gan are here! The soldiers and civilians in our city have returned to the court anyway!"

After saying that, Huan Lin threw the head of Shi Jia, the son Shi Jia, who was in charge of guarding the family in the city, and left him off the city tower. It turned out that he had discussed with several middle-level officers in the city and had completely grasped the situation.

Shi Xie saw that his last son was dead, his hands and feet were cold and numb. He stood there for a moment and forgot to dodge on the spot. He was shot by two arrows by the bow and arrow shot from the city, and screamed and fell off the horse.

Behind him, Zhao Yun and Gao Shun had already killed the enemy troops outside, surrounded him, killed Shi Xie's head, and pacified the army.

After the war, the number of people was counted. Shi Xie's fourth brother and five sons, only two younger brothers served as the prefects of Jiuzhen County and Hepu County respectively. They have not yet died. The other two younger brothers died, and all five sons have died.
Chapter completed!