The iron crossbow arrows came with a huge sound of wind and thunder. You must know that the firing range of the Fuyuan Crossbow can be three hundred steps. In other words, the Han army's front troops were actually within the attack range of the Fuyuan Crossbow.
The huge crossbow arrows that were fired at them shattered the originally seemingly indestructible shield array into pieces, and the wooden camp walls were even more fragile, with most of them broken and collapsed.
At this time, there was actually almost no separation between the two armies. However, due to the pouring rain of arrows from Wuping archers, a large area was blocked, making it impossible for the Han soldiers who wanted to rush through. Every few steps forward, they had to pay a lot of effort. Huge cost.
These thousands of former soldiers were naturally the most unlucky. They would die if they went there, but they had to cover a distance of more than 300 steps to reach a safe position when they retreated.
Seeing that the soldiers under his command who had lost the protection of the shield array were dying one by one, Xie Gui cursed repeatedly. How could he be willing to let Li Yuan easily resolve the brilliant plan he had worked so hard to come up with? He was almost going crazy. He looked back eagerly and saw figures as huge as hills, so close at hand. He was so ecstatic that he immediately issued a military order, and the entire army retreated and spread out, clearing the way for the elephant cavalry behind them to attack.
Xie Gui was so excited at this time that he was even imagining the tragic scene of war elephants ravaging Sergeant Wu Ping everywhere, as if victory was within reach, but he seemed to have ignored the Han soldiers who were frightened by the power of the Fuyuan Crossbow. Confused.
Sure enough, after the horn sounded, the Han soldiers who had witnessed the ferocious and lethal power of the Fuyuan Crossbow immediately retreated like a tide. Just now, they were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, fearfully waiting to die within the range of the Wuping Army's heavy crossbow. Now they were able to evacuate. , so they began to flee frantically, everyone pushing and shoving, eager to push aside the comrades who were blocking the way, so that they could get out of danger as early as possible.
Just because these few steps of retreat have become a hell on earth. The arrows rained down one after another from behind, and each intensive arrow rain would take away hundreds of lives. The surroundings were full of fallen figures and the sound of being hit by arrows. The whistling sound of the arrows rang in my ears, and the squeaking sound of the arrows piercing into the flesh was terrifying.
Many people were knocked to the ground by the crowd, and many people were trapped under the feet of others. Those who were sniped by the Wu Ping Army's crossbows might be able to breathe for a moment or two before dying, but those who were trampled under others' feet died the most simply, turning into minced meat in a matter of seconds. The scene was chaotic and bloody.
Seeing the battlefield in front gradually losing order, and his own soldiers trampling on each other to death and wounded, Xie Gui couldn't help it, and actually cursed angrily: "How can these cowardly creatures be called Elite soldiers?! Where is the supervising team——"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that the nearby ground was shaking from a slight tremor to a violent one, and then a strange and loud sound rang through his ears. Gui became nervous and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly..."
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Look!" Li Yuan stretched out his hand in the Wuping military formation. Zhu Kuangcong and other generals beside him stretched their heads to look. They suddenly opened their eyes in shock and were speechless, but they saw more than a hundred moving hills in the distance slowly moving towards them. Come, with its long nose swaying and its fangs dazzling, it looks like a moving fortress.
"Elephant cavalry, are they the elephant cavalry of the Han Dynasty?" The elephant cavalry was dispatched with great force, and the Wuping soldiers who had never seen an elephant were naturally shocked for a moment. And these hill-sized elephant cavalry are even different from the team that Pan Chongche brought to Chenzhou.
All the war elephants actually followed Xie Gui's order and put on thick iron armor. The iron armor was covered with dense iron thorns about a foot long, which shone with a dazzling cold light under the sun. It is too heavy, and it is even heavier at this time. Perhaps this is the reason why these elephants ride too slowly. But this is still a war elephant, it is already a monster covered in sharp iron armor.
As the elephant training soldiers spoke, the war elephants ignored the terrain and walked straight towards the Wuping Army camp. Their heavy footsteps trembled constantly on the ground, their long trunks swayed, and they snorted loudly.
The war elephants were getting closer and closer, and almost all the soldiers of the Wuping Army were shocked. After all, the Elephant Cavalry was a rumored military unit, unique to the Southern Kingdom, but the legend about the Elephant Cavalry was actually widely spread in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the army. That is a nearly invincible unit)
The elephant cavalry's feet were slow and steady, and from time to time they approached some Han soldiers who were crowding and dispersing. And these Han soldiers who were unable to evacuate saw the Chinese army's banner with the word "Xie" in the distance and began to retreat. How could they not feel despair at the moment they became abandoned? (This chapter is not finished yet!)
Chapter 215 Bloody
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He couldn't help but try his best to dodge in a panic.
"Whoosh!" Several thick iron arrows struck through the air. As soon as they entered the range of Fuyuan's crossbow, Sergeant Wu Ping immediately started to counterattack. Unfortunately, they all missed. Only one arrow almost hit the target, but unfortunately it only missed one of the soldiers. The elephant's armor immediately clanked, and although it only made the war elephant's figure shake slightly, it successfully angered the leader of the war elephant.
But there was an earth-shattering roar, followed by a chorus of echoing roars. The war elephant's footsteps suddenly accelerated at the same time, and its thick soles rushed towards the Han soldiers who were unable to dodge in front of them at all costs.
The soldiers of the Han army immediately became confused. Even the elephant trainers on the elephants' backs could not stop the footsteps of these monsters. They felt very powerless against these elephant cavalrymen from the home camp who were charging fiercely with iron thorns all over their bodies. . There seemed to be no other way but to run away, but behind were Ping's army's bows and crossbows. At this time, he was awkwardly caught in the narrow area in the middle, so how could he avoid it.
There was a commotion in the crowd, and Yu Zhanxiang rushed fiercely into the dense crowd of Han soldiers. At the same time, Wu Pingjun fired Fuyuan crossbows in succession from behind, with a giant elephant in front and a heavy crossbow behind him, and there were endless screams.)
"Brothers, it's the same after all! It's better to fight to the death!" Seeing the soldiers around him die tragically one by one, a Han army general suddenly shouted and led more than ten former soldiers instead of retreating and advancing towards the battle. .
This kind of bloodiness had to be admirable, but they soon discovered that their face-to-face charge was not only bloody, but bloody. The tusks and trunks of the war elephants flew, and they effortlessly flew away the shouting Han general. After he fell from the air, they trampled him over mercilessly, without even a scream. Hearing it, it became a pool of flesh and blood.
Several other Han soldiers tried to attack the war elephant. They were from the same camp. Naturally, they knew that the armor on the elephant's body was motionless and that they could not attack it with their weapons. At this time, they "smartly" noticed that the long trunk of the war elephant was not protected by armor, so they thought they were smart. Cut it off with a knife. When it was removed, the trunk was not cut off, leaving only a white mark.
However, this move angered the war elephant even more. With a flick of its trunk, a circle of Han soldiers screamed and flew several feet away. They fell on the face of another war elephant. The elephant stretched out and stepped on it, and suddenly turned into flesh. Sauce.
All the Han soldiers trampled by the war elephants, without exception, fell to the ground with blood splashing and rolled over. However, some soldiers' bodies were cut with long openings, and fresh viscera and intestines flowed out. They were extremely dead. fear.
The several feet of iron spikes protruding from the armor are the culprit of all this. Like the sharp knives on the axle of the chariot wheel, they are about to cut through the human body, splitting it into two parts immediately, causing blood and flesh to splash.
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