Seeing the battle situation slaughtering on the ground, Zhao Yun seemed to have the strength to squeeze the cavalry troops tightly. Qu Lian was also suffering from pain, sweating profusely, and was tortured by the scorching heat and anxiety in his heart to the point of exhaustion:

"What should I do? It's like this, and Zhao Yun's cavalry is still so idle. I just fought for more than an hour, unless our army's wings were too far and too deep, and he would encircle his infantry formation on all sides.

Zhao Yun's cavalry occasionally attacked, knocking out the part of our wings that was too far away, and then retracting. With this ease, even if our war elephant was thrown into it, it would not completely disturb Zhao Yun's cavalry and form a chaotic battle between the enemy and us.

What should I do? If I rashly play the last trump card, if I get stuck with Zhao Yun's infantry, and his archer brings a ranged weapon that is said to emit sharp strange roars and fire, wouldn't the battle elephant be completely over?"

The lord struggled to hold on, and could hardly help but push all the cards up regardless of the situation.

...

However, just when Qu Lian was desperate, he didn't know that Zhao Yun was actually a little nervous, depressed and determined.

Who made Zhao Yun have the talent of a famous general? He has thirteen years of experience in his military career in this life. He is good at seeing the smallest and insight into the crises lurking in the smallest:

That is, what the Han army is afraid of is not head-on fighting, but the entire army is entangled and has been dragged down for too long.

There have been hundreds of cases of direct heatstroke death after fighting in the scorching sun for more than an hour in Wei Yan's square formation. Even if they can drink a little water, it still cannot alleviate this problem.

Moreover, before the soldiers go to the battle, they can bring at most a light kettle or bamboo tube, and only hold two or three liters of water (Hansheng, only less than half a pound of money). They have already finished drinking it if they have time.

Before the war, who would have thought that the enemy would be so brave and stubborn. No one had any regulations to bring more water, for fear of bearing heavy burdens, which would affect the reaction speed during the charge.

Although the barbarians are not strong in combat, they are not weak in their ability to stick to you. Six times the strength of the troops is roundabout and roundabout. Although the damage is ugly, the casualties are almost ten times that of the Han army.

However, in terms of "not resting all Han troops", the barbarians did it.

Can't delay any more!

After a while, Zhao Yun observed that the soldiers who died of heatstroke on his side had already been killed by the soldiers who fought with each other directly with the sword and gun. After approaching the same order of magnitude - the soldiers who died in battle were about the order of 1,000 and four digits, and the soldiers who died of heatstroke were also estimated to have exceeded 1,000!

He finally decided to decisively dispatch all the cavalry to fight quickly.

"The cavalry prepared, and the entire army detoured from the left wing, squeezed and surrounded the enemy's right wing from the direction far away from the coastline, and must defeat with one blow and drive them to the direction near the sea.

In addition, all cavalry prepared anti-war elephant weapons, and the guard zone company always held elephant soldiers who refused to use, specifically picked our cavalry to chase them, kept a distance from the war elephant, and implemented them according to the elephant-breaking tactics trained before the war!"

Zhao Yun issued several orders in detail, and then handed over the command of the main force of the infantry central army to Wei Yan. He led his cavalry to start detour from the left.

Zhao Yun originally did not intend to kill all these barbarians, but seeing the brave state of these barbarians who are fearless of death, their terrible adaptability in tropical areas, and the degree of hatred of the barbarians towards the Han people, Zhao Yun dared not have the idea of ​​"just defeat and break up".

Unless all these barbarians surrender and undergo transformation, if they are defeated and driven into the tropical jungle far away from the coast, this time they are afraid that the Han army will leave next time and then come out to fight guerrilla warfare, and that will be endless.

On today's battlefield, Zhao Yun is located in the southwest rear of Zhancheng, and the Linyi army in the district is located on the northeast side.

On the right hand side of Zhao Yun's army and on the left hand side of the Nei Lianjun is the sea, and on the left hand side of Zhao Yun's army and on the right hand side of the Nei Lian are hilly and jungle. Therefore, to completely wipe out people, they can only drive people from the jungle to the sea.

Three thousand cavalrymen, who were still physically strong, strictly followed Zhao Yun's Rushan Military Order, rushed away like a torrent. They quickly penetrated the Linyi Army side of the front, and broke out a bloody road, and drove to the rear of the Linyi Army.

However, seeing Zhao Yun suddenly taking action, killing and slaughtering thousands of his infantry in just one cup of tea, the Barbarian King District Lian on the opposite side was not surprised or painful at all, but was a little surprised.

Zhao Yun actually helped him get rid of the pain of decision-making! Zhao Yun actually took the initiative to send cavalry to charge with all his strength when the infantry battle situation appeared to be very good!

"Zhao Yun finally let the cavalry go up? Hurry up, send all our war elephants up! Specialize in picking Zhao Yun's cavalry against it! Don't attack the Han army's infantry archers' phalanx! They have gunpowder arrows!" Qu Lian was overjoyed and thought he was in a desperate situation, so he quickly made arrangements.

At this time, the chiefs of the barbarian tribes in front of him had already cursed the nominal king of Qu Lian in his heart, hating Qu Lian's preservation of his strength and delaying the elephant soldiers from taking action.

After the war elephant finally came up, they were generally relieved and waited for the war elephant to completely restrain Zhao Yun's cavalry.

...

In just half a stick of incense, Zhao Yun personally led his team to rush to kill. He had just achieved a hundred people in this battle, killing through the enemy's formations, stabbing five or six chiefs to death.

Finally, Qu Lian suppressed all the elephant soldiers. A total of four hundred trained war elephants took the lead, and there were more service elephants who usually transport goods, and the total number was as many as a thousand!

I have to say that the more the climate of elephants goes to the south, the more dense it is, the easier it is to collect and tame it. Therefore, in the south of Linyi, the scale of elephants has reached a terrifying level.

If you don’t believe this, you can see how much difference the number of elephants you encounter in future generations can be when traveling to Yunnan and Thailand.

Historically, before the emergence of gunpowder weapons, it was difficult for foreign rulers to establish rule in tropical rainforest areas. Diseases and local conditions were not adapted to the environment, and the rampant mosquitoes were the main reasons, but the terrifying scale of tropical indigenous peoples should not be underestimated.

Three cavalry riding horses have to deal with an elephant! This comparison of troops is also a serious severity that Zhao Yun had never encountered in many years of war.

Although he had three times before and had a lot of experience, the human-elephant ratio was at least twenty times when he fought for the first time, and at least ten times later. Now he is only three times, and the challenge is unprecedented.

...

Zhao Yun couldn't help but take a few deep breaths, and then ordered the troops to take out iron cans of weapons filled with gunpowder, sulfur, and poisonous smoke fuel in an orderly manner, and prepare to throw them to break the enemy.

Obviously, Zhao Yun came prepared. Since he knew that he was going to fight the barbarians of Lin Yi before going to war, how could he not beware of the elephant?

The problem of how infantry breaks elephants is easy to solve. But Zhao Yun also knew that the enemy already knew that the Han army infantry could break elephants, and subsequent battles may not use war elephants to shoot the archer phalanx formation of the monkeys.

If you use war elephants to fight other troops that are not very good at anti-war elephants, you have to be careful.

At the beginning, Zhao Yun tried to let the cavalry unit learn from Youzhou cavalry, and used his bow and roar to shoot monkeys and arrows to scare the elephant and keep a distance.

For this, he also specially asked the military department to produce new noise-blocking bridles for his war horses, blocking the horse's ears, and preventing the roar of the monkeys from striking the war horses.

But later I found that the effect was not very good. The unique gunpowder roar of the monkey was originally specially used to scare large animals, and it could scare elephants so much, let alone horses. Unless the formula is improved to reduce its power, the effect of the object will also weaken.

On the other hand, there were almost no cavalrymen who adapted to the combat environment in the south, because the Youzhou people went to the tropics and the mortality rate was too high.

Although Zhao Yun brought cavalry this time, almost all the personnel were transferred from Jingnan, Yangzhou. These people were not good at riding and shooting, and they could not handle it after several months of hasty training.

Under the attack of various unfavorable factors, Zhao Yun had to find a solution before going to the battle, and told him about his concerns. Please help Sikong, who can do everything, think about the solution and find another way.

After thinking about it, Li Su gave Zhao Yun a throwing weapon used to smash the city during the war, a kind of gunpowder explosion poison smoke tank that the Han army had equipped.

The blasting sound of this gunpowder tank is still very loud, and the fire is still quite fierce, with continuous burning and toxic black smoke, which is basically the same as the throwing bomb weapons that defended the city during the Southern Song Dynasty in history.

The prefabricated fragmentation technology is not yet mature, and the shrapnel damage effect is very poor, so you can only temporarily add some rust iron nails and iron gravel to increase the number of fragments.

But at most, there are only a few dozen fragments. After the explosion is opened, it will be useless, and the amount of explosion pressure of the gunpowder will shake out the person with a slight internal injury.

However, such weapons are relatively flexible to use for cavalry anti-elephants and can be used as a powerful supplement.

First of all, this kind of iron can is only lit with a fuse, blow it for a few seconds, throw it out, and it will only explode after the wire is burned. Therefore, there is no loud noise when taking action, and it will not scare the grenadier's own horse.

The reason why this weapon was made of iron cans instead of clay pots was because it took a detour on the issue of fuses. Li Su first slapped his forehead and was misled by the later movie "Red Cliff" and thought that grenadiers could just use clay pots to fill medicine, which saved money.

As a result, this weapon suffered a loss in the first actual combat, and the dud rate was extremely high:

Because there is no "trigger fuse" in this era, it is necessary to ignite the fuse and burn it on the bullet body before it will explode. The moment it hits the ground, the impact itself will not cause the ammunition to explode.

The result of the pot filling is that before it even explodes, the jar is broken first, and gunpowder is sprinkled all over the floor. The fuse is finally burned out, and it can only detonate the slightest bit of residual gunpowder that is stuck to the fuse.

Only then did Li Su eliminate the whimsical clay pot grenade, and obediently used the iron can that cannot be broken.

However, because this weapon was not originally equipped for cavalry and had iron shells, it was a little heavy, one with at least three or four kilograms of Han.

When defending the city, he had the advantage of dropping, and he could throw it a little further. The cavalry could not throw a solid ball with both hands, and at most he could only throw a shot put with one hand. Li Su tested it before Zhao Yun went to war, and at most he could throw twenty or thirty steps away.

This distance is too dangerous and is not conducive to cavalry flying kites against elephants. So Li Su's first reaction was to increase the power swing arm so that he could throw it farther.

For example, install a grenade handle, or use a catapult rope to throw the iron can up like a catapult...

After a comparison experiment, Li Su finally chose the stone-capping rope structure. The main reason is that this thing was highly accepted by the ancients and was convenient to process. Just make a few ropes and put them outside the iron can.

However, during the actual use test, the iron can also appear irregular in shape, and it is difficult to throw the iron can in the best position when the catapult net bag is taking action. It has been thrown off several times, which is a few degrees more angles from the discus athlete, and the difference is very far when it lands.

Finally, Zhao Yun was very upset when he saw Li Su, so he gave him a suggestion for a last-minute kick: Then don’t bother to make a reusable net bag, just use the net bag with one go! You can’t take it off if you put it on! When using it, swipe it a few more times, and accelerate it to a fast enough, take it off directly and throw the rope net bag and the iron can out!

Li Su thought it was right, he was actually limited by the traditional solidified thinking of slaughtering weapons!

Traditional stone-cattering soldiers need to reuse the stones because the single stone has extremely low lethality, so it requires repeated and continuous firepower output. Moreover, the stones are cheaper, and they are cheaper than rope mesh bags. Of course, the cheap part is one-time, and the valuable part is reused.

But what we want to lose now is the gunpowder iron can. Ammunition is much more valuable than projectors. It can afford to use ammunition, so why save the projector? It’s not just one-time! Stability is the first!

Thinking of this, Li Su's mind suddenly became clear, and he remembered the history of anti-tank warfare in World War II that he had seen in his previous life:

In early 1941, during the Soviet-Finn War, in order to increase the anti-tank range of the "declined cocktail" and improve the survival rate of the anti-tank hands, the Finns combined ancient stone-cat ropes with molten bottles and used reusable stone-cat ropes to increase the range.

However, this "thrifty" approach obviously led to a decrease in reliability, and in fact it still led to slow anti-tank operation and additional unnecessary casualties.

Later, the US military learned this trick and developed a standard anti-tank sticky bomb (the anti-tank bomb called "socks" in games such as "Heroes"). The United States has a wealthy and powerful person, of course, combat efficiency is the first priority, and costs are not considered at all.

The "sock" sticky elastic also requires flexible shaking of the handle to increase the throwing inertia and range, but the American arms dealer directly makes an integrated pose and throws the holding part together.

Zhao Yun advised Li Su to improve the "screw throwing gunpowder tank" into a "one-time integrated design", which is quite charming that the US military improves the Finnish military's local methods.

This is why Zhao Yun's cavalry today has this anti-war elephant weapon in his hands: a solid, ununable hemp rope net bag, with an iron gunpowder jar inside. The tail of each hemp rope is pulled out and twisted into a thread, which is very easy to hold, swing and accelerate.

The cold iron sheets of tentacles and the hemp rope that would not slip at all gave Zhao Yun's general comfort to the cavalry.

They calmly patrol across the front in batches, ignited the fuse with the torch of the team's torch, and then threw five or six circles hard, accelerating the inertia of the jar to the maximum, and then flew out. They could throw at least five-kilometres of things from five kilograms away, and some soldiers with great strength could throw seventy or eighty steps.

The elephant herd of Qulian came raging, and only a few were hit directly by iron cans weighing just a few pounds. But the thick-skinned elephants were hit like this, just like a strong man who was hit by a small stone thrown by a child, at most it only hurts slightly.

But the conflict between their confidence and bravery ended here.

Zhao Yun's grenade cavalry is very flexible because the operation difficulty of grenades is much easier than cavalry shooting. The cavalry's formation is very easy to maintain, and approaching soldiers can easily retreat and keep a distance.

With the sound of gunpowder explosions and firelights, the dazzling sulfur poisonous smoke dispersed, and the elephant group quickly began to fall into chaos, just like the same kind that they encountered in the first three times in the history of the Han army, it quickly trampled on each other.

"Kill back! Chase the elephant group and throw the gunpowder jars behind the elephant group! Don't throw it too far! Force the elephant group to rush towards places where the barbarian soldiers are dense!" Zhao Yun beat the dog in pain, without any mercy, and calmly let these crazy elephants be used by himself, trampling on and killing the barbarian soldiers.

The barbarians had to face the embarrassment of being attacked several times. Many people had to turn around and kill the frightened elephants, but they were still unable to help but step on dozens of bloody paths in the crowd and kill hundreds of elephants.

Zhao Yun took advantage of the situation to launch a general attack, personally led the cavalry with his own unstoppable force, found a gap and directly attacked the already chaotic District Company Central Army.

Zhao Yun personally rode his horse toward an elephant, and first stabbed it hard on the elephant's side abdomen. The sharp iron spear was no better than ordinary soldiers. Under the huge force of the cavalry's sprint, it pierced through half a foot thick rough tough leather, and penetrated into the elephant's belly several feet deep.

Qu Lian couldn't help but sit down like a madman. Zhao Yun cleverly controlled his horse to dodge the collapsed elephant body and then turned around and fought back.

In contrast, the zodiac sitting in the elephant sedan chair is nearly 70 years old, so there is no agility. Naturally, the falling elephant is directly pressed to one leg by the falling elephant, and the leg bones are broken into powder, and the legs are only sticky and the flesh is stuck, and the pain is endless.
Chapter completed!