It's a war elephant. Click
On top of the huge war elephant, a wooden frame was fixed, with several crossbowmen on it to shoot.
These elephants have undergone special training and dare to charge and trample.
After rows of war elephants came out of the city gate, they immediately caused great damage to the Ming army.
This kind of rampaging war elephant cannot be stopped by human power.
Especially siege ladders.
If the war elephant collides with it, it will completely fall apart.
These are adult elephants that have been trained for a long time. Each elephant weighs ten tons according to future calculations. Click
Coupled with its own impact force, the one it hits will basically be destroyed.
The trunk of a war elephant is also a special weapon. Once the trunk is whipped down, people can be knocked away.
"woo woo woo woo!!!!"
A long horn sounded, which was the sound of Ming Dynasty's retreat.
There was no time to worry about the siege ladder, and a large number of soldiers began to retreat to the Ming army's base camp.
It is difficult for infantry to cause too many casualties to target soldiers.
At this time, there are still a steady stream of elephant soldiers coming out of the city. Click
The elephant soldiers who came out first, under the control of the animal trainer, were not in a hurry to attack the Ming army's camp.
Waiting to assemble.
"Hahahahahaha!!!"
At this time, Hu Jiya, who was already on the city wall, let out an arrogant laugh.
He looked at the scene below and felt extremely relaxed.
This wave alone caused at least thousands of damage to the Ming army.
In Hu Jiya's preparations, there were fully two hundred war elephants. Click
"Today I will let the Ming army know that we, Annan, are not easy to mess with."
"Speaking of which, the Ming army is quite powerful. When Meng Yuan invaded, they didn't even force out our elephant soldiers. Now the Ming army can still attack here."
"But this time, I want to let the Ming army know what a disastrous defeat means."
Hu Jishen, surrounded by local military commanders, spoke loudly on the top of the city.
At this moment, his heart was extremely happy.
The surrounding managers also laughed arrogantly.
"Let the Ming army be completely defeated tonight."
"If you don't give them some color, you really think that our Annan can be manipulated by Ming Dynasty."
"This time, we must let the emperor of the Ming Dynasty know that we, Annan, are not someone we can offend."
Some smart people have already begun to curry favor with Hu Jiya.
"Prime Minister Hu will definitely annihilate the Ming army tonight. Not only will it be recorded in the history of Annan, but it will also be recorded in the Ming Dynasty. This will be remembered in history."
"Seconds, summon the record officer quickly and ask him to write down tonight's details in detail. If Daming doesn't understand, we can also send him a copy, hahaha!"
"The people opposite are two princes of the Ming Dynasty. I heard they were some of the founding heroes. After tonight, the Ming Dynasty will never dare to provoke me, Annan, easily again."
"From now on, in the whole territory of Annan, only Prime Minister Hu will look forward to it."
Listening to the flattering voices around him, Hu Jisao enjoyed it very much.
How tortured my mentality was a few days ago, now my thoughts are so clear.
Thinking of the huge pressure he had endured before, Hu Jisao wanted to vent it all today.
But what he didn't notice was that although the Ming army in front was retreating frantically, there was no reason to panic in the Ming army's base camp.
"This guy really can't keep his temper. He sent out the elephant soldiers so quickly."
"I thought we would wait until we got inside before we would move out."
"There are quite a lot of them. Looking at their appearance, there must be two hundred of them. They are much more powerful than those guys in Yunnan."
Puding Marquis Chen Huan said calmly.
For the powerful elephant soldiers in front, it was completely
There is no scruple at all.
Annan hid the elephant soldiers, could Daming not know?
As far as Southeast Asia is concerned, what other secret weapons can there be?
Besides, the elephant soldiers are all leftover from the ancestors’ play.
In the past ten years or so, when fighting in Yunnan, we often encountered elephant soldiers, and we were already familiar with them.
The soldiers are indeed not used to this hot and muggy climate, but this does not mean that Ming Dynasty knows nothing about the Southeast District. Click
Zhu Yuanzhang had little interest in small countries like Nanyang, not because he didn't understand them, but because he understood them, so he felt there was no need to conquer them.
Even in Yunnan, Zhu Yuanzhang actually didn't pay much attention to it.
That is to say, Mu Ying has been guarding Yunnan, teaching, cultivating, and suppressing rebellions. Otherwise, Yunnan would be no different from Annan today.
There is no such reliable talent as Mu Ying or Prince Mu.
Annan, who was defeated by Zhu Di, was in such a situation that he would eventually split.
Hu Jiyou didn't know that during the expedition to Annan, the Central Plains Dynasty army had already fought against the elephant soldiers.
Puding Marquis Chen Huan had participated before. Click
He had already guessed the possibility of encountering elephant soldiers, and had made preparations and arrangements.
At this time, the elephant soldiers under Duobang City had already gathered, followed closely by the densely packed Annan army, estimated to number three hundred thousand.
This is intended to be a direct decisive battle.
Woo woo woo~~~~~
A long horn sounded on Annan's side, followed by a feeling like the earth was shaking.
The perspective impact brought by two hundred elephants is still very shocking. The morale of Ming Dynasty has obviously dropped greatly.
"Commander, it should be almost done." Puding Marquis Chen Huan said in a leisurely tone under such circumstances. Click
Ye Sheng also nodded with a smile, and then ordered: "Send out the lion soldiers."
Following Ye Sheng's order, a messenger immediately shouted: "The commander-in-chief ordered, send out the lion soldiers!"
Then each messenger began to shout: "The commander-in-chief ordered, send out the lion soldiers!"
The sound rippled, and the army spread out through a large number of passages.
I saw simple carts being pulled out one by one.
On the cart, there are carved lions.
There are hundreds of wooden lions. Click
These are the preparations for the Annamian elephant soldiers.
What elephants fear most is lions. This has been confirmed as early as on the battlefield in Yunnan.
Including history, Zhang Fu defeated the Annan elephant soldiers and also put lion paintings on his horses to scare off the elephant soldiers.
Ye Sheng is even more ruthless here.
The large lion is directly carved, and because the elephant cannot see clearly, it is still an enlarged version.
Each wooden lion sculpture is two meters high, which is almost the same as the back height of an elephant.
Of course, this lion is hollow inside. Click
Not only that.
Ye Sheng even ordered again: "Light the fire!"
Because it was night, these lions might not be seen clearly by the elephants, so the lions' bodies had already been coated with a layer of grease.
After Ye Sheng's order was given, the soldiers quickly lit the wooden lions and turned them into fire lions.
The soldiers just pushed the fire lions and rushed directly towards the opponent's elephant array.
Behind the fire lion, a large number of infantry followed the charge, and there were cavalry auxiliaries on the left and right wings.
War is about to break out. Click
Hu Jiya, who was on the city wall, saw the fire lion burning in the distance, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately felt that something was wrong.
"How is it possible? How could they know that we have elephant soldiers? Who spread the news?"
Hu Jishen said in disbelief.
Elephants are naturally afraid of lions.
right
In front of him was a lion whose whole body was burning with flames.
Hundreds of fire lions have obviously been prepared for a long time. This is not something that can be made in a day or two.
In the flames, these wooden lions appeared in different shapes, just like real lions. They must have been made by masters. Click
This has been prepared a long time ago, in order to defeat his elephant soldiers at this time.
The general managers on Hu Jiya's side were all silent and their minds were blank.
These elephant soldiers were gathered together by the general managers of various places.
The training of elephant soldiers is not so casual. Ordinary elephants need to go through at least several years of training, especially war elephants. Most elephants have been involved in training since they were young.
Elephants eat a lot, and they only recently gathered here in Duobang City.
Two hundred heads is the number that the local governor can only scrape together here and there.
In the sight of both parties. Click
The war elephant didn't react at first, but when he saw the fire lion clearly, he was frightened and turned around and ran away without paying any attention to the trainer on his back.
This time, the problem becomes bigger.
You must know that behind the elephant soldiers are a large number of densely packed Annan soldiers.
He was immediately trampled upon.
Collision, trampling, and the sounds of Annan soldiers crying for their fathers and mothers were heard everywhere.
Because they were not prepared beforehand, the Annan soldiers were very dense. Some soldiers watched the elephants rushing toward them without even any room to escape.
All he could do was watch himself being trampled to death. Click
It's messed up, it's all messed up.
At first there were only a dozen.
Then dozens of them, and finally spread to all the elephants, all of them were frightened.
The soldiers on Daming's side naturally pushed the fire lion towards the elephant.
The size of these war elephants themselves is very obvious on the battlefield.
And because it was night, the elephant's back was still burning with torches, which made the goal even clearer.
For a time, Duobang City immediately turned into a place of purgatory. Click
The first frightened elephant rushed to the city gate. The narrow city gate was quite spacious for an elephant. When he came out earlier, he could wait in line slowly.
But at this time, the elephant would not care about the trainer's command, and immediately wanted to run in.
So the city gate was blocked by several elephants.
Annan's soldiers did not dare to go over, and they even lost the chance to retreat.
On the city wall, there were Hu Jiya and the local governors, as well as the soldiers defending the city.
Just watching helplessly, 300,000 Annan soldiers continued to die under the trampling of two to two hundred war elephants.
Ming Dynasty will naturally not miss such a good time. Click
The cannon was immediately brought out.
They bombarded the herd of war elephants wildly.
This made the elephant even more frightened, running around trying to escape from the battlefield.
But you can't get in through the city gate.
There are fire lions here in the Ming Dynasty, and the elephants don't dare to come.
The Annan soldiers had no choice at this moment. They would die if they stayed where they were. They could only throw away their weapons and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
On the Ming side, they immediately began to accept prisoners. Click
"It's over, it's all over."
Hu Jiya felt his eyes go dark, his body swayed, and he almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the guard next to him quickly caught him with his quick eyes and hands.
Even so, Hu Jiyou felt his body become hollowed out.
In fact, there are still 200,000 troops gathered in the city.
But this no longer makes any sense.
Because there is no way to close the city gate. Click
Elephants piled up at the city gate, and occasionally an elephant would rush past, so the city gate had to be kept open.
The soldier who wanted to close the city gate was killed by the elephant.
Occasionally the Ming Dynasty
There will also be one or two artillery pieces coming over there. If you are lucky, they will hit the war elephant and be knocked down directly.
The fallen war elephants whimpered, and with the loud noise, the elephants could not stop at all.
Those Annan soldiers were surrendering to the Ming Dynasty in large groups.
There were also some who charged, but they were directly killed by the Ming army's muskets and crossbowmen, and could not pose any threat to the Ming side.
"Hu Xiang, let's go. If you don't leave, there will be no chance."
"Yes, we still have 200,000 troops. We are retreating to the capital. There is still hope. As long as we can delay it, the Ming army will not be able to live with us for a long time."
"Hu Xiang, give the order. If it's too late, it's too late."
Seeing this situation, the general managers abandoned the city and fled.
Duobang City can no longer be defended. As long as the elephant herds disperse, the Ming army will surely be able to capture the city gate easily.
At that time, don't expect the 200,000 troops in the city to have any effect.
In addition, the morale of Annan's soldiers has been completely lost. With the morale of the Ming army high, even 50,000 soldiers cannot resist these 200,000 soldiers.
The combat effectiveness of the Annan soldiers was not at the same level as that of the Ming army. Click
Especially when it reaches a certain amount, it becomes more obvious.
"Let's go."
Hu Jiyou felt that all the strength in his body was completely drained. The secret weapon he had prepared for so long became the reason for the defeat of his army.
If there were no elephant soldiers, a 600,000-strong army guarding the city would really not be something that could be captured in just a few days.
Now, in just three days, it was lost.
There is no way to close the city gate.
An army of 300,000 people can only give up. Click
Hu Jiya left with the remaining 200,000 troops, and also took away all the food in the city.
He wanted to put a large enough burden on the Ming army to the point where it could completely defeat the Ming army.
More than two hours passed, the eastern sky became slightly brighter, and the line of sight became wider.
Under the city wall, the war elephants have basically stabilized, and the Ming Dynasty has accepted more than 200,000 prisoners.
Despite the rampant elephants, not many soldiers actually died under the elephants.
Mainly because of trampling each other to death.
Even so, the total number of deaths overnight was only 70,000 or 80,000, but there were many injured. Click
The Ming Dynasty had no choice but to accept these more than 200,000 prisoners and this empty city.
Now it was suddenly delayed.
The number of prisoners was already enough to defeat the Ming army.
Processing and arrangement is a big problem.
