Pan Chongche took a deep breath and said calmly: "I'm afraid that the Tang Army got these beasts and got carried away for a moment! Since the Tang Army came to die on its own initiative, the commander-in-chief will help them!"
The general said hurriedly: "Commander, what should we do with those elephants and cavalry? Your Majesty gave them to us. It is extremely difficult to train one..."
Pan Chongche shook his head gloomily and ordered decisively: "The commanding archers are immediately ready to meet the enemy! No matter what, these beasts must not remain in the hands of the Tang army!"
The general was heartbroken, but he had no choice but to pass on the order immediately. The spearmen immediately retreated, and then all the battlements were replaced by Han crossbowmen. As if they were afraid that the quivers carried by the crossbowmen would not be enough, there were soldiers in the rear carrying them back and forth to collect them from the army. The arrows coming.
Not long after, one hundred and thirty-five war elephants arrived at the city gate smoothly. Behind them were a large number of armored infantrymen from the Wuping Army. A shrill neighing sound sounded first, and then all the war elephants waved their noses and roared, and the sound resounded throughout the battlefield. Then the tallest war elephant took the first step under the command of the elephant trainer.
As if they had received instructions from their leader, all the war elephants immediately moved together. The start was a little slow and clumsy, but after a dozen steps the elephants were running at full speed. Although these behemoths looked bulky, they were not slow at all when running. A series of heavy elephant feet rumbled on the ground, and a dull echo could be heard immediately. In an instant, dust and gravel flew everywhere, and a cloud of smoke rose up.
Behind the elephant herd, more than ten thousand Wuping troops also shouted loudly and poured into Chenzhou City like a tide. All the ladders seized from the Han army camp were carried by Wu Ping's sergeants in the charge. Chai Kewu seemed to use all available resources to fight this battle.
Seeing these ferocious elephant cavalry ignoring the obstruction of the copper wall in front of them, they came straight across the entire battlefield and were about to appear a hundred steps away. With their trunks waving and their tusks held high, this terrifying formation seemed to penetrate everything. When Pan Chongche thought that these field weapons, which had been domesticated with all the efforts of the Han Dynasty, were used by the Tang army in such a wasteful way, he suddenly felt angry.
At the same time, a flood of Sergeant Wu Ping also appeared behind the elephant herd, about to enter the hundred-step shooting range.
"Crossbowmen, prepare!" Pan Chongche shouted with a serious face, raising his sword high.
Three hundred strong bows and crossbows began to be loaded with arrows, and there was a solemn and murderous atmosphere on the top of the city. The Han soldiers naturally knew where to aim. The only breakthrough against these behemoths was their eyes.
It's not that the elephant's skin is inherently tough. No matter how tough the beast's fur is, it is eventually covered with flesh and blood. How can it withstand a strong bow and a crossbow?
Just because the Han Dynasty had its own unique way of training elephant cavalry. Obviously, the cost of training an elephant cavalry is very high. Not only does it take a lot of time to train the commands, but it also needs to provide these war elephants with an amazing amount of food, in order to keep them strong and strong until they can become a solid fortress on the battlefield, physically strong. , the fur will naturally become hard.
But just feeding it in large amounts is far from invulnerable. This is about a unique secret method of domesticating war elephants in the Han Dynasty, which is to have the elephant training soldiers smear a very sticky mud from the mountains of Lingnan on the war elephants every day, plus special seaweed, mashed and mixed. The resulting viscous slurry.
Applying it like this day after day, War Elephant will feel nothing like taking a bath. It will not be until a month or two later that this secret method will show amazing results. The sticky slurry applied to the epidermis will eventually condense into a thick layer of outer skin, which is tough and full of elasticity. Not only is it waterproof and fireproof, it is also difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate...
Therefore, in order to deal with these hard-skinned war elephants, the Han army, which understood the secret methods of elephant training, naturally prioritized attacking the most vulnerable part of the war elephant - the eyes.
As Pan Chongche gave a loud order, the screams of the crossbows were loud, and the overwhelming arrows were like fast-moving dark clouds, covering the charging elephant cavalry and Wuping sergeants. In just an instant, the powerful rain of arrows was like cutting wheat, knocking down hundreds of Wuping soldiers who were charging forward.
As for the seemingly unstoppable hundreds of elephant riders, after all, they were all targeted by the Han army. Under the locust-like arrows and crossbows, more than a dozen war elephants were inevitably pierced in the eyes, and their vision was suddenly lost. Coupled with the huge pain, these injured war elephants suddenly seemed to go crazy. Not only did they begin to lose their way, they even waved their sharp tusks in all directions, rolled their trunks, and disemboweled each Wuping Army soldier and threw them onto the ground. Half empty.
If these heavy elephant legs step on anyone, they will be trampled into pulp in an instant. Coupled with the Han army's crossbowmen who kept firing at the top of the city, these more than a hundred elephant cavalry soon became the most terrifying nightmare for the Wuping army, rampaging on the battlefield and invincible.
The battlefield suddenly fell into chaos. The armored soldiers in front of Wuping's army were mercilessly trampled by the elephant cavalry. The elephant-training soldiers in the elephant fortress on the backs of the war elephants were originally from the Han army. Even though Wuping's sergeant was behind him to supervise them, they faced such an unexpected situation. The dangerous situation happened, but there was nothing to do. At this time, there was no way to control these huge beasts that had lost their minds.
But how can Sergeant Wu Ping, who has always been so brave, sit back and wait for death? I saw dozens of sergeants quickly surrounding an elephant, and their sharp weapons kept stabbing the elephant's body. However, the result was unexpected. Although the elephant's body had more than a dozen shallow streaks, wounds, but these dozens of Wuping Army soldiers died one by one under the brutal collision of the war elephants, and the same scene was staged many times in a short period of time.
Seeing all this tragedy, Chai Kewu was already shaken, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it for a while.
At present, Sergeant Wu Ping is pouring into the city like a tide, and a head-on fight between the two sides is about to come. The more than a hundred war elephants in front could not play the role originally envisioned. At this time, they were running rampant in their own infantry formation, almost completely destroying the siege formation. How could they prepare for the upcoming siege? How can we win this battle?
"Okay!" Pan Chongche, the commander-in-chief of the Han army on the top of the city, looked at this scene and exclaimed with great joy.
The battlefield was changing, and in just a short moment, the balance of the two sides seemed to begin to tilt. The Wuping Army was obviously suffering more casualties than the Han Army at this time. The Wuping Army had suffered more than 300 casualties, but they had not even touched the city head guarded by the Han Army.
"Damn it!" Chai Kewu couldn't help but cursed loudly, and then the words seemed to be stuck in his throat. He just pressed the sword on his waist tightly and stood astride the horse with a gloomy face.
The general beside him quickly stopped him and said, "Commander, those beasts are already going crazy. How can our soldiers with mortal bodies resist them? Why don't we retreat for the time being!"
Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was obviously out of control, and the number of casualties among Wuping's troops soared rapidly, Chai Kewu could only reluctantly give the order, and all the soldiers immediately retreated, asking the archers behind to draw their bows and fire arrows as cover. As for those war elephants, as long as they can still be controlled, they will naturally be withdrawn, while those already crazy beasts can only watch and let them continue to rampage on the battlefield until they die of exhaustion...
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