The two armies of the Ming Dynasty navy attacked Haiphong, Hon Gai, Da Nang, Nha Trang, etc. through waterways respectively...

Under the attack of the Ming army's powerful warships and powerful artillery, the coastal towns of Annan were unstoppable...

On the army side, three young Ming generals, Li Dingguo, Chen De and Li Erniu, led an army of hundreds of thousands and continued southward to capture Thang Long.

From the southern border of the Ming Dynasty to Shenglong, the capital of the Annan Kingdom, it was only more than 300 miles away. The Ming army was so powerful that it advanced more than 200 miles in only about three days.

Killing tens of thousands of Annan troops along the way, the enemy was so frightened that no one dared to fight!

On May 5, the seventh year of Shenwu, Li Dingguo ordered people to build a wall at Xianzi Pass to attract the Annan army to attack.

Annan's army marched from the Furiang River in an attempt to harass and prevent the Ming army from stationing permanently.

Chen De and Li Erniu led their troops to attack from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Huang Fei led the navy to block the attack. The Ming Dynasty's navy and army cooperated perfectly and quickly defeated Annan's army.

With almost no effort, the Ming army killed more than 20,000 Annan soldiers, and the river was dyed red with the blood of the Annan army...

Annan's army abandoned their ships and fled ashore in embarrassment. Li Dingguo led his army to pursue them and advanced all the way to Cishan. Cishan was the last barrier to the capital of Annan.

The Annan Cishan garrison drilled non-stop day and night, and deployed tight defenses. In order to deal with the Ming army, they even called in the trump card of the Annan army - the Xiang Army!

Elephants, with their strong and huge bodies, were invulnerable on ancient battlefields.

Moreover, the elephant's attack power is very strong. If it steps on it, the liver and gallbladder will be torn apart. If it throws it over with its trunk, it can knock people away and cause them to suffer pulverized fractures.

During the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the British Duke Zhang Fu led an expedition to Annan. Annan also set up an elephant formation to deal with the Ming army.

At that time, Zhang Fu used virtual weapons. The Ming army used painted lion skins to cover the horses, then covered the eyes of the horses to launch an attack. They also added magical firearms and finally defeated the Annan Elephant Formation.

Although I don’t know why the elephants in Annam were afraid of lions, the British successfully defeated the Annam elephant array.

Two hundred years later, the Annan Army experienced the last failure. This time, in order to prevent the Ming Army from repeating their old tricks, the Annan Army had elephant slaves blindfold the war elephants to drive them away.

The elephant army is no joke. When the elephant army launches a collective charge, the oncoming behemoths are still a large group. Who can bear it!

Not to mention the impact of the elephant herd, this scene alone will cause great psychological panic.

On May 6, the two armies fought. Annan's army mobilized 40,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 1,000 war elephants to face the Ming army. This was Annan's most powerful and final force.

The Annan army arranged their war elephants in front of the infantry, and the cavalry on both wings. The formation of the army was like a city, the elephants were like fortresses, and the heavy cavalry was like a surrounding city wall.

In front of the Ming army's formation, Chen De and Li Erniu had never seen the elephant formation. Looking at the tall war elephants of Annan's army, they felt frightened...

Li Dingguo was different from the two. He was very calm. He had defeated the Xiang Zhen before in Myanmar.

Before attacking Annan, he knew that Annan also had war elephants, and conducted research on war elephants. He found that the most fatal weakness of war elephants was that they were afraid of fire. In history, almost all of the defeats of war elephants were related to fire attacks.

Of course, this time the Annan people were smarter and blindfolded the war elephants to prevent fire. The old method obviously wouldn't work!

The battle begins, with more than a thousand war elephants and elephant slaves sitting on their backs.

They train war elephants strictly in peacetime, and in wartime they command the war elephants to charge forward and cover the elephants' eyes with cloth.

Commander Annan gave an order, and more than a thousand war elephants swung their trunks, showed their tusks, stretched out their limbs, and carried elephant soldiers on their backs, rushing towards the Ming army's position like a tide.

Facing the impact of the Annan Elephant Formation, Li Dingguo calmly ordered:

"Tiger crouching artillery and mortars are ready to fire. The gunners are 150 steps away and are firing. Be careful not to form a formation. Be prepared to retreat to both sides at any time. When the elephant formation is approaching, throw out the grenades with your throwing hand!"

"Here!"

Li Dingguo gave an order, and the artillerymen, gunmen, and throwers quickly got ready.

Looking at the five hundred artillery pieces aimed at the Annan Elephant Formation, Li Dingguo said to the sniper commander again:

"The snipers fired on both sides of the artillery and cooperated with the Crouching Tiger Artillery to kill the elephants."

The commander-in-chief ordered the snipers to take up positions on both sides of the artillery.

"Tap tap tap..."

There was an earth-shattering sound, and a thousand elephants came galloping forward. On the elephants' backs sat the elephant soldiers who commanded the elephants.

The elephants were getting closer and closer, and the whole ground began to shake. Seeing the elephants entering the formation more than 300 steps, Li Dingguo waved his hand:

"fire."

The ordering soldier waved the flag fiercely:

"Rumble..."

"Bang bang bang..."

At such a long distance, shotgun shells had little effect, and artillery began to use fist-sized solid bullets.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Hundreds of solid bullets were quickly fired at the Annan Elephant Formation.

"Puff puff puff..."

It is said that elephants are invulnerable. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is not realistic to simply kill elephants with cold weapons.

However, under the bombardment of solid bullets from the Ming Dynasty Tiger Crouching Cannon, some elephants were soon shot and fell.

The solid bullet carried huge inertia and hit the elephant's head, still blasting a bloody hole in the elephant's head.

It's just that the bombardment is not very effective on the elephant. It only breaks the elephant's skin and flesh, and is not fatal for the time being.

"Rumble..."

"Bang bang bang..."

…

But the mortar was different. As the mortar bomb exploded, the war elephant's skin was torn apart, and fragments of the ivory and the war elephant's huge trunk flew...

Continuous shelling, although not many war elephants were killed, more than a hundred war elephants fell forever, some died on the spot, some had their limbs blown off and lost the ability to move, and could only let out a cry...

However, there were a large number of war elephants. Under the command of the elephant soldiers, the elephants still roared and charged towards the Ming army.

Looking at the overwhelming elephants rushing towards him, Li Dingguo waved his big hand again:

"The tiger squats and cannons, exchanges for shotguns, and the gunner kills the elephant soldiers."

"Here!"

The Ming army artillery immediately replaced it with shotgun shells:

"Rumble..."

"Rumble..."

Mortars and tiger cannons roared together, and hundreds of thousands of iron beads and gravel flew towards the charging elephants...

"Puff..."

The elephants had rough skin and thick flesh, and the shotgun bombarded them and penetrated directly into the elephant's body. The elephants were furious and still running. Only dozens of elephants' heads were blown into sieves and died.

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But the mortars once again caused huge damage to the war elephants. It was just damage and not many died on the spot.

"Firegunner, fire!"

Li Dingguo gave an order, and the gunman raised his gun and fired at the elephant soldiers on the back of the war elephant. At the same time, the snipers were also killing the elephant soldiers...

Amidst the fire and explosions, the elephant soldiers controlling the war elephants were shot and rolled down one after another. They were trampled into pulp by the war elephants behind them, with white and red splatters all over the floor...

However, the blindfolded war elephant is still charging, the heavy sound of hoofbeats is like a drum, and the momentum is overwhelming...

Li Dingguo calmly ordered again:

"Fireguns and snipers, shoot at the elephant's legs together..."

"Here!"

The battlefield was filled with smoke, and the Ming army's bullets swept across like rain. The trunks and legs of the huge war elephants were shot one after another...

Some war elephants raised their heads in pain and neighed desperately, turning around and running back. The Annan infantry following behind them instantly became chaotic...

At this time, Chen De and Li Erniu also reacted and ordered their subordinates to use mortars and rifles to attack Annan's war elephants and panicked infantry.

"Rumble..."

"Bang bang bang..."

…

Now the Annan elephant herd is even more chaotic. They are running rampant and attacking indiscriminately. Everyone around them becomes their target...

What Li Dingguo wanted was this effect, to make the enemy's sharp weapon become the Ming army's sharp weapon!

In order to expand the chaos, he ordered a fire strike with mortars, and at the same time ordered dozens of rocket launchers to start firing rockets, shooting directly at the elephants...

"Rumble..."

The rocket penetrated the war elephants in front, exploded in the elephant herd, and quickly ignited a fire. The elephants were afraid of fire attack, and now the elephant herd became even more chaotic...

Rockets are the most effective against war elephants, but Li Dingguo did not dare to use rockets at first. He was worried that the elephants would lose control and rush forward desperately, and he would only dare to use firearms when the elephants would run into chaos...

Just like that, mortars, tiger cannons, rockets and rifles were launched together...

The artillerymen quickly moved the shells, transferred them for loading in an orderly manner, and the skilled loaders stuffed them one after another...
To be continued...