The situation on the battlefield has changed suddenly, but the few dozen remaining war elephants are still unstoppable.
At this time, there were nearly 20,000 soldiers on both sides, and they were locked in a chaotic battle for nearly half an hour. In order to avoid hurting friendly troops, the Han army's crossbowmen were forced to stop their arrow rain attacks. In the end, these tall figures and their positions were The distinctive war elephants were even more rampant in the military formations of both sides. Even though some of the war elephants were bleeding all over their bodies, they seemed to show no sign of falling.
The elephant training soldiers in the elephant seats and the accompanying Sergeant Wu Ping were in bad luck today. At least a thousand soldiers from both sides were killed or injured in the hands of the war elephants. More than half of them were thrown away and trampled to death on the spot, and they were in a frenzied state. No one on the elephant's back was spared. Almost all of them were suddenly thrown off. Coupled with the overwhelming rain of arrows from the Han army, they eventually became one of these soldiers who suffered heavy casualties.
Without the command of the elephant training soldiers, these beasts became even more unscrupulous. Regardless of the Wuping army or the Han army, they rushed up to scream and trample on anyone they saw. As soon as the soldiers on both sides encountered the bumpy and running war elephants, they subconsciously swung their swords and slashed at the war elephants. The war elephants went berserk in pain, and their tusks and trunks drove away countless people.
Zhai Kewu frowned and held the reins tightly with one hand. He saw the crazy war elephant suddenly jump up and crush several of his bodyguards into flesh like a tall tower. Mortai couldn't help but tremble all over.
Wang Changgeng, who was fighting not far away, suddenly turned around with his sword and shouted loudly to Chai Kewu: "Commander, you have to find a way to bring down these beasts! We can no longer let them wreak havoc, our army has too many casualties... ..”
Chai Kewu frowned and didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't seem to hear Wang Changgeng's words. Wang Changgeng didn't seem to have time to wait for his answer, because a crazy war elephant was running in his direction.
This extremely dangerous neighing made Chai Kewu wake up and immediately shouted: "Old General Wang, be careful! That beast is charging at you..."
"Beast! It's not your turn to take my life!" I heard Wang Changgeng put aside his words and actually led the surrounding guards to charge towards the approaching war elephant.
"Old General Wang, wait a minute—"
Before he finished his urgent words, he saw that Wang Changgeng's figure had disappeared among the cascading soldiers in front.
A moment later, dozens of steps away, more than a dozen large hammers were raised high, slamming into a thick elephant leg with a force of hundreds of kilograms. When the war elephant encountered such a provocation, regardless of whether it was eating its head or not, it shook its head and clapped its ears crazily, and began to raise its thick trunk high, straight towards Wang Changgeng, who was nearest in front of it.
But when Wang Changgeng shouted loudly, he suddenly threw the hammer forward, and pulled it out from his waist with a flash of cold light. More than a dozen soldiers with strong backs and strong waists around them started to attack in tacit understanding, aiming at the same part with swords flashing, and the thick elephant trunk was unexpectedly struck. After cutting it into several pieces, blood suddenly spurted out. The war elephant jumped instantly, and two long tusks immediately pushed forward.
When the danger was extremely high, taking advantage of the moment when the war elephant lowered its head, a crossbow arrow penetrated directly from the war elephant's left eye and went straight into the brain. The war elephant let out a loud scream, then staggered, and soon fell to the ground like a mountain collapsing, roaring and flying sand, and the surrounding soldiers from both sides turned and fled.
Tens of steps away, Chai Kewu put down the strong bow in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief. The surrounding Wuping soldiers immediately cheered loudly. There is no doubt that these war elephants have become a shadow in everyone's heart. They seem to be invincible existences. Now that they have been knocked down by their combined forces, their morale will certainly be boosted.
However, Chai Kewu was not happy for long. He had a headache when he saw the other war elephants still raging on the battlefield. He had just exhausted all his efforts and managed to deal with just one of them. It was not easy to deal with the remaining behemoths. Besides, soldiers on both sides are having a bloody battle, so how can they be distracted from dealing with these beasts?
"Huh! These elephants are really born with supernatural powers. They are much more difficult to deal with than tigers!"
While Chai Kewu was sighing, he suddenly remembered the cart of things that Marshal Li Yuan gave him before leaving. They were dozens of tiger skins presented to him by Peng Shiyujin of Xizhou. At that time, Chai Kewu subconsciously thought that the Marshal was treating him. I didn't pay much attention to the favor. At this time, a strange thought came to me inexplicably. Which one is worse, the elephant or the tiger?
With the idea of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Chai Kewu immediately gave a brief instruction to a general beside him, and then continued to direct the sergeants to fight until a moment later, the rear would fly from behind. Chai Kewu nodded and asked : "Have you brought anything?"
The general pointed to a large driveway pushed by more than ten soldiers behind him: "Commanders, everyone is on the car!"
Chai Kewu immediately nodded and said: "Okay, take action immediately!"
The general promised loudly, prepared a little while with dozens of cavalry guards, and then galloped away together. Under Chai Kewu's nervous attention, he saw the general and dozens of cavalry rushing to a raging war elephant not far away. At this time, the yellow lines on their crotches were very eye-catching, and they were all covered The war horse was covered with a tiger skin, and only a pair of bright eyes and slender horse hooves were exposed from the tight package.
Dozens of "ferocious tigers" suddenly approached. Not only did the surrounding soldiers on both sides fail to react, they were all startled. The war elephant that was trampling everywhere actually stopped in a daze, perhaps coming from the depths of their souls. Out of fear of the King of Beasts, these menacing "tigers" didn't even have time to stop, the war elephants started to neigh and start to retreat.
Seeing that the strategy of bringing the tiger down the mountain seemed to be working, the general was secretly happy but still nervous in the face of this mountain-like war elephant, but he still bravely led dozens of guards and boldly continued to move forward.
With an order, dozens of Wuping sergeants riding "Menghu" roared in unison, exerting force like wild beasts. The arrogant war elephant accelerated its pace of retreat, and then staggered as if it was in a state of confusion. Before he could turn his head, the elephant's heavy legs stepped on a pile of corpses, splashing blood several times before he suddenly lost his balance, and finally fell to the ground with a whimper.
No matter how ferocious this behemoth is, once it rolls over, it can only helplessly stretch its legs, stare, and horn, and it is difficult to get up again. After the war elephant fell heavily to the ground, before it could recover, it was surrounded by the "Mergo" cavalry that rushed up quickly, poking its eyes and breaking its nose. After suffering several rounds of cathartic slashing, it finally rolled its eyes and died. .
"Use a good strategy!" The general, together with dozens of personal guards, raised their swords and shouted loudly.
Chai Kewu nodded and waved his hand. The general immediately understood and began to use the same method to deal with these war elephants. Even if they could not be successfully hunted, they must be driven away from the battlefield. On the currently chaotic battlefield, Wu Ping's army already had an absolute advantage. If it weren't for these war elephants still disrupting the situation, they might have won long ago.
Even though most of the divided Han soldiers had been killed and wounded, and it seemed that defeat had appeared, the remaining Han soldiers in Chenzhou City did not continue to attack, but huddled in the city, neither daring to shoot arrows to help nor It was somewhat unusual to issue a retreat order.
Perhaps dozens of "ferocious tigers" were everywhere in awe, and one war elephant after another was rounded up or driven away. More soldiers of the Wuping Army were able to fight with their fists and feet, and watched helplessly as the number of friendly troops around them dropped sharply. The Han army The remaining 3,000 soldiers finally began to collapse and flee, running back towards the closed city gate at the rear, pleading continuously.
Chai Kewu was galloping on his horse. Although he was a general, he had already led his bodyguards to join the chaotic battle group. He raised his sword and kept slashing at a Han soldier who was retreating from the Mingcang Empress. Wang Changgeng, a veteran in another area, also wielded the long hammer again. At this time, as if he was in a deserted land, he hammered all the way, leaving one corpse after another of Han soldiers behind him.
At this moment, Chai Kewu seemed to have smelled victory.
