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Chapter 28 War Elephants

With gauze on his face and a swelling corpse under his feet, Wu Sheng's army began to advance in full swing. Xiaolin and Peng Jiu had already entered the valley, with crossbow arrows and gunpowder opening the way. In a short time, they defeated Nong Zhigao's four or five counterattacks. At the same time, Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, Sun Dazhi and others dragged the crossbows and followed. As long as they found that Xiaolin and others' attacks were blocked, they would immediately throw dense gunpowder bullets over to open the way for them to advance.

Yun Zheng avoided a huge rock rolling down the hillside, looked up and saw that Xiaolin had attacked the mountain. A spear was in a lightning-fire manner. He could not hear the screams of the men, and could only see them rolling down the hillside.

In contrast, Peng Jiu's offensive speed was not very good. Yun Zheng watched his subordinates be hit by a rolling rock, and blood in his mouth spurted out more than ten feet high... The stone that just rolled down came from the left of Peng Jiu's responsible.

The mountains were not high, and Peng Jiu was attacking upwards, and the rolling wood and stone fell down like raindrops, suppressing him tightly on the yam, and could only shoot the enemy there with crossbow arrows. It was very inappropriate to throw gunpowder bullets upwards, because that thing would roll down...

After Wu Jie tested the distance, he cut the twist on the gunpowder bullet to an extremely dangerous level and placed it in his pocket. As soon as the personal soldiers lit up, he smashed the machine with a wooden hammer. The four "death-seeking ghosts" in the pocket flew up the hillside. After a ball of extremely charming white light, the blue flames in the sky sprinkled over the top of the hill. Peng Jiu jumped up from behind a huge rock and roared at the top of the mountain. This time, no wooden stone fell down, only sporadic arrows flew sparsely.

Seeing that Peng Jiu succeeded, Yun Zheng's large group of people continued to stop forward. When he walked up the high slope, Yun Zheng found that there were countless civilians cleaning the battlefield at his starting point. Teams of Song soldiers were constantly coming from behind, and Di Qing's flag was walking in the front.

Yun Zheng smiled bitterly. There has never been a shortage of people in this world who can get cheap, even people like Di Qing are no exception. He probably began to suspect that Nong Zhigao was making trouble. He was waiting for his arrival to make a bloody path for the Western Army.

In his eyes, Wu Shengjun is actually a disposable consumable, unlike the Western Army that can be recycled, so he will never feel any guilt when he takes Wu Shengjun as the leader.

The valley is not long, only about two miles. The Wusheng Army paid a huge price to compete for these two miles of valleys. The complex terrain and mountainous environment largely offset the power of gunpowder bullets. The Wusheng Army had to engage in hand-to-hand combat that it was the worst at being able to capture many nodes one by one. Fortunately, the people were very afraid of gunpowder, and as long as the gunpowder bullet exploded around them, they would often collapse.

"What? Giant beast? Long nose?" Yun Zheng saw the battle report from Xiaolin from the front and took a look and knew what he was going to face. No wonder the attack became easier and easier. It turned out that Nong Zhigao actually found the "Elephant of War".

As far as Yun Zheng knows, it is a special force that has appeared in the history of ancient wars. It plays the role of tanks in modern troops in wars. The trained war elephant charges in battles. It is invincible and can break city gates, destroy camps, break weapons, step on the enemy's troops, and trap enemy formations, and often causes great damage to the enemy.

Now I am not surprised to see the elephant Yun Zheng in Guangxi. Of course, this is for myself. I have been exposed to this thing in many places in later generations. Not only have I seen this thing painting, but I have also received massage from this thing. Although I am worried that it will be trampled to death by its hooves, fortunately, this kind of big guy who is born festive is very docile and there is no danger of rolling up himself with his nose.

But for his subordinates, this thing is so big that even a guy like Xiaolin is frightened, so don't talk about others.

"Order Xiaolin and Peng Jiu to come back, build a position on the spot, set up a firewall at 300 steps, and the crossbows and artillery team immediately delineate the area. Once the battle elephant breaks through the firewall, it will immediately bombard with gunpowder bullets!

This thing is afraid of fire, and even more afraid of gunpowder bullets. Even if it is a giant beast, as long as it is a flesh and blood body, it will be torn to pieces by gunpowder! It is not a long-nosed giant beast, it is an elephant, and there is nothing to be afraid of."

Xiaolin and Peng Jiu quickly retreated from the front, looking terrified!

Seeing that Wu Shengjun stopped moving forward, Di Qing shrank his position and rushed forward to ask Yun Zheng: "What happened."

Yun Zheng spitted out the bloody foam in his mouth and said with a smile: "The forward discovered the battle elephant, and I heard that there were as many as hundreds of heads."

Di Qing looked around the surrounding environment and said decisively: "Retreat, retreat immediately! We, we are not prepared enough, this thing is extremely powerful, and only the "Lion Army" can overcome it. The ordinary flames cannot hurt it at all. We retreat and when we come!"

Yun Zheng said in surprise: "Lion Army? What is that?"

Di Qing said anxiously: "During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Emperor Wen of Song Liu Yilong appointed Zong Qing as General Zhenwu to attack Linyi. King Linyi urgently ordered the ace army to fight. This invulnerable behemoth made the Song army unable to resist, and many casualties were injured.

However, Zong Qi was not afraid of the enemy to avoid war. He thought that the strong enemy of the elephant was a lion, but it was impossible to immediately tame a group of "liu soldiers" to fight against the enemy, so he had an idea and ordered his subordinates to make a batch of lion models overnight and transport them to the front of the formation to intimidate the enemy's "elephant soldiers". This move was really effective. When the "elephant soldiers" of Linyi Kingdom rushed over, the elephant suddenly saw a male lion waiting for the battle. As if he was facing a natural enemy, he turned around and ran away, and no matter how the driver whipped it, he would not turn back to fight. At this time, Zong Qi gave an order, led his troops to be impatient and defeated Linyi Kingdom in one fell swoop.

We have no time to prepare and must retreat!”

As he spoke, the war horse under Di Qing neighed and kept circling, seemingly extremely uneasy. The earth began to shake at this moment. A sound of footsteps that were not too fast came from the entrance of the canyon, as if a golden armored giant was moving closer to Wu Shengjun step by step.

Di Qing's face turned pale. He knew that it was too late to retreat at this time. He raised his hand and took off the horse lance hanging on the war horse and roared: "Stay! Stay!" While slapped the horse and ran towards the military formation on the left, wanting to help Yun Zheng stabilize the formation.

When the elephant appeared, Wu Shengjun had all the souls from top to bottom, except Yun Zheng, and such giant beasts were not comparable to human power.

Yun Zheng laughed and said, "Brothers, you're rich! This is the elephant. As long as you catch it and transport it back to Tokyo Bianliang City, we will send it. I heard that there is only one in the palace. Be prepared and don't let him run away!"

Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, and Sun Dazhi also began to shout with Yun Zheng frantically! Everyone seemed very excited, especially Yun Zheng ran to the front and kept kicking the guys who had already had urine flowing out of their crotch, just like a madman.

However, this effect is very good. I heard from the general that this thing is not a monster, but a valuable treasure. Wu Shengjun, the guys who have long been fascinated by money, immediately became very motivated. If vicious things are related to money, they will not look so scary.

However, there were many war elephants coming from the opposite side. Hundreds of war elephants filled the canyon. The people sitting on the back of the war elephants were covered with patterns, holding spears and making various strange screams, and they rushed towards Wu Shengjun as the mountains swayed.

"Eight ox crossbows are prepared, gunpowder ammunition is prepared, and armor-breaking cone is prepared!" Yun Zheng stood in front and roared.

"Eight ox crossbow preparation, gunpowder bullet preparation, armor-breaking cone preparation!" Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, Sun Dazhi, Xiaolin, and Peng Jiu also roared. At this time, we must believe Yun Zheng's judgment.

The first one to be awakened were the veterans of Jiazi Camp. Their trust in the generals had long penetrated into their bones. Now they serve as chief officers in Wusheng Army. The men are all the leaders, and they immediately roared as the generals: "Eight ox crossbows are prepared, gunpowder and ammunition are prepared, and armor-breaking cone is prepared!"

When the entire army began to roar, Yun Zheng's heart was relieved. At least at this time, the people around him still had the fighting spirit and were not scared by the overwhelming war elephants.

At this moment, Di Qing and his personal guards felt like outsiders. Everyone in Wu Shengjun was roaring and preparing, which surprised Di Qing very much. Wu Shengjun was not what he thought. If it was really an army that was purely fighting for money, it would collapse at this time no matter what, but these people did not...

"Three hundred and fifty steps, three hundred and twenty steps! Baniu crossbow shooting! Incendiary bullet shooting!" Yun Zheng threw the armor-breaking cone in his hand hard. The armor-breaking cone flew for a distance and inserted it on the ground. On the position behind him, the loud noise of the release of the Baniu crossbow sounded almost at the same time, and flew over a distance of three hundred steps and entered the battle elephant group.

The target was too huge. The crossbow gun, which was thick with a sharp roar, scattered into the body of the war elephant, splashing blood in the sky. The hissing of the war elephant suddenly sounded, and more than a dozen of them collapsed like a mountain, while the injured elephants ran like crazy with red eyes.

A wall of fire suddenly rose from the ground, and a shallow trench was filled with tinder oil. The black and red flames mixed with rolling smoke immediately blocked the war elephants outside.

Everyone saw the effect of the Eight Niu Crossbow shooting elephants just now, and more than a dozen people fell to the ground under a rain of arrows. This greatly boosted the morale of the Wusheng Army. As long as this thing can be killed, it is really not a problem. The most powerful gunpowder bullet in the Wusheng Army has not been used yet.

I don’t know what stimulation these elephants were, but they actually came out of the fire wall. They whistled and continued to rush over without caring about the gunpowder they were contaminated on their bodies. Especially the riders standing on the elephant, they looked more like evil spirits after being smoked by the thick smoke, and were still roaring in the room, urging the war elephants to continue moving forward.

Yun Zheng did not intend to use the distance between 300 and 200 steps. He really wanted these elephants. Once his army went deep into Jiaozhi, he needed the elephants to check supplies. Moreover, wherever the elephants went, wild beasts would run away. How could such a good thing be spared!
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