"They want to go up the mountain and scatter the caltrops." Wang Qi shouted, and the pikemen behind him immediately stepped forward and sprinkled a large amount of caltrops amidst the firing of the gun team. Taking advantage of the mountain, many of them The caltrops rolled down.
"Attack up, don't stop!" The commander and battalion general of the Annan Army loudly encouraged the soldiers to charge upward. The Annan frontier army's charge was quite organized. There were shields in front and fire cannons in the back. The spearmen and swordsmen rushed towards the mountain, but who would have thought that the threatening weapons were actually under their feet.
"Ah!" A soldier screamed, and the soles of his feet were pierced by the long thorns of caltrops. He lost his balance, fell to the ground, and rolled down the mountain. "Ah! Ah! Ah!" Continuous screams came out, and people kept falling down holding their feet. Annan's army, which rushed halfway up the mountain, was in chaos.
Zheng Fu was furious and shouted at the deputy general: "Assholes! Didn't you just investigate? Tell me where these enemy troops came from, trash! trash!"
The lieutenant general also had a confused expression at this moment. He had just checked and found that there were rabbits on the hillside. If there was an ambush on the top of the mountain, how could they not find it? Why didn't those little animals escape? The deputy general was puzzled, but now was obviously not the time to think about the problem, but to think about how to get out.
The lieutenant general shouted: "General, punish the last general. The last general has nothing to say, but no matter what, we have to get out first." Zheng Fu said: "Come on, give the rest of the people to the general, rush on." Out of the valley."
"General! General! Oops, the mouth of the valley is blocked. Brothers have suffered heavy losses." Zheng Fu also ordered an assault, but a frontier cavalry covered in blood rolled back and crawled back. Zheng Fu Looking at him in disbelief, the cavalry shouted with a cry: "Damn civilians, they set up cannons and muskets at the entrance of the valley, blocking the road. The cavalry couldn't form their formation, we couldn't rush out, and the bodies of the men and horses were piled up in mountains. ”
"Ah!" Zheng Fu felt the blood surge in his chest and shouted. His body shook and he was about to fall off the horse. Fortunately, a few guards quickly caught Zheng Fu with quick eyesight and hands. With a pop, he spurted out a mouthful of blood. Unexpectedly, the elite soldiers he brought here would be lost here in vain, slaughtered like pigs and dogs by the enemy.
The deputy general said quickly: "General, the losses will be too great in this charge. Get out first. We still have elephant soldiers. As long as we can expand our troops, we can regain the upper hand."
"Back off, back off." Zheng Fu said weakly, covering his chest. After receiving the general's order, the deputy general immediately shouted to his left and right: "The general has given the order, retreat immediately! The sword players and the fire gun team will cover it. The rear team will change to the front team and retreat towards the entrance."
He grabbed a guard by the collar and said: "Immediately fly to the rear army to report the news and ask them to pull out the artillery. The elephant soldiers will set up their formation outside to meet us."
"Yes!" The guard flew away, and Annan's army immediately retreated under the command of the deputy general.
"They are starting to retreat!" A soldier on the top of the mountain shouted, pointing at the army below. Wang Qi immediately ordered, "Send the signal! The whole army is pursuing them. They cannot be allowed to form formations outside."
Woo! Dozens of war elephants let out long calls, and the successive explosions in the valley made the war elephants a little panicked. Fortunately, the elephant soldiers were well-trained and constantly adjusted the pace of the war elephants to keep the war elephants relatively stable. mood.
In southwest China, elephant soldiers are considered a special force. Not only the Annan Army has elephant soldiers, but also all the armies of various countries, including the Thai Army and the Myanmar Army, are basically equipped with elephant soldiers.
The combat effectiveness of elephant soldiers is very powerful. First, as elephants are vehicles, they have rough skin and thick flesh. Hitting them with ordinary weapons is like scratching an itch and cannot cause serious damage. The second is that the elephant soldiers sit on the back of the elephant and have a good view. The elephant soldiers at that time were generally equipped with firecrackers and bows and arrows, and they could shoot down the troops on the ground from a high position. Even if the elephants are urged to charge directly, enemy soldiers can be trampled into a pulp. Unless the opponent uses muskets and artillery, they cannot pose a threat to the war elephants.
"Drive! Drive! Call!" Gao Heng led more than a hundred cavalry to the rear at lightning speed. But as soon as they reached the rear formation, the soldiers were dumbfounded. They clearly saw dozens of giant beasts appearing in front of their eyes. The elephant soldiers who controlled the war elephants obviously also discovered the unknown cavalry who suddenly appeared from the woods. They shouted and adjusted the direction of the war elephants.
The artillerymen were even more in a hurry. The artillerymen in front retreated to the mouth of the valley, and the artillerymen behind them pushed forward. Enemy cavalry appeared on the flanks. The soldiers became a mess, and many teams were directly crowded together.
"It's not good, general, the war horses are afraid of the elephants and refuse to move forward." Amu said nervously on Gao Heng's side.
It turned out that in front of the majestic and huge war elephant, the war horse was short in stature. Seeing such a huge creature, the horses stopped moving out of biological instinct. This made Amu anxious. The enemy army was now in chaos, although they only had one. There are more than a hundred cavalry, but the enemy can't figure out their strength. If they can take advantage of the situation and kill them, they will definitely achieve great results. But now the horses don't dare to step forward. What should they do?
"What horses see is decided by humans. The whole army is blinded by horses!" Gao Heng roared. In such a critical situation, Gao Heng suddenly had an idea. The war horse was frightened because of seeing the war elephant. This problem could be solved by blindfolding the horse.
Gao Heng tore off his sleeves and covered the black stallion's eyes with a piece of cloth. The soldiers followed suit and immediately covered the horse's eyes. Gao Heng pointed his big gun forward, "Assault! Go around the war elephants, spread out as much as possible, and disrupt the opponent's artillery formation!"
Although war elephants are powerful, they have a fatal weakness when fighting cavalry, which is flexibility. War horses are much more flexible than elephants. The high balance makes the entire army dispersed, and it is difficult for elephant soldiers to aim and shoot, while war horses can. Ramping through the enemy's ranks, it doesn't matter how many enemies they can kill. As long as they can completely disrupt the enemy's rear group, the situation will develop in a direction that is conducive to the survival brigade.
"The survival brigade will win!" Gao Heng took the lead and rushed out.
"Must win! Must win! Must win!" More than a hundred knights followed Gao Heng and rushed out. Some of the spears in their hands were still usable. They rushed to the front. The knights who had lost their spears drew their sabers and followed closely. behind.
"Left and right! The arc spreads out, Amu goes to the left, and the rest follow me!"
With a rumble and rumble, horse hooves beat on the ground, more than a hundred cavalrymen split into two, drew an arc on the left and right in front of the war elephant group, and passed around the flank of the war elephant group.
The elephant soldiers' fingers were already on the trigger, but who knew that the enemy did not follow the routine and did not fight them at all, but went around.
Bang bang bang, the war horses were extremely fast, and the elephant soldiers fired randomly. Only a few cavalrymen were unfortunately shot and fell off their horses. The rest passed them by and plunged into the artillery team behind them. The elephant soldiers quickly reloaded the fire muskets, but the matchlock muskets were slow to reload, and Gao Heng would not give the artillerymen behind them a chance.
With a bang, the war horses crashed into the crowd, and a large number of artillerymen spurted blood and were knocked to the ground. Some people ran away from the cavalry for fear that they would also be knocked away. Some people simply squatted next to the artillery in an attempt to cover themselves with the artillery.
Gao Heng couldn't use his martial arts while on horseback. Like other soldiers, Gao Heng stabbed straight through with the spear in his hand, stringing together several enemy soldiers.
Amu's arms were already seeping with bright red blood, dripping down his wrists. This was caused by excessive force in the previous battle and the wounds on his body burst. But he didn't realize it, and kept changing his body shape on the war horse. The saber in his hand flew up and down, and with a click, several heads were blown away.
The cavalry charged fiercely among the artillery and soon penetrated the rear army horizontally. Gao Heng turned around and thought of a way to create greater chaos.
"Those who have fire seals, throw them into the barrel of explosives and kill these sons of bitches!" Gao Heng charged again. A dozen of the cavalrymen carried fire seals with them. Together with Gao Heng, they took out the fire seals. , the moment the war horse passed by the enemy's artillery, he opened the fire folder and threw it out.
Their aim was not that high, and most of the fire breakers fell to the ground. Of course the Annan artillerymen knew what this meant, and they rushed up one by one to put out the fire breakers.
"Damn it, look at me!" Gao Heng saw the right moment, aimed at an open gunpowder barrel, and threw out the gunpowder in his hand. When he was in the army, he often participated in basketball games. He was the three-point champion of the Southern Excalibur. He usually threw things very accurately. Now he threw it hard, and the fire broke through a beautiful arc and flew towards the gunpowder more than ten steps away. bucket.
Gao Heng quickly hit his horse and ran wildly. There was a gunpowder barrel there. If it exploded, it might harm him. The black male horse seemed to feel the owner's thoughts, and it spread out its long hooves and ran as fast as it could. Amu also loudly ordered the cavalry to disperse. The artillery battalion general watched helplessly as a black flaming object flew towards the gunpowder barrel. He wanted to fly over to stop it, but it was too late.
"No!" the battalion general shouted heartbreakingly. Boom, the next moment, an earth-shattering explosion sounded.
The fire bomb accurately landed in the barrel of gunpowder, detonating the barrel of gunpowder on the spot and detonating all the dozens of barrels of gunpowder in the surrounding area. A huge fireball flashed and a black mushroom cloud rose into the sky. The violent shock wave spread to the surroundings at an extremely fast speed. The soldiers surrounding the gunpowder barrels disappeared in the flames instantly, and even the generals who had no time to escape were turned into powder.
The gun barrel of a Franco machine was thrown directly into the sky by the shock wave. After falling heavily, it rolled on the ground and knocked away a dozen Annan soldiers. Their ribs were broken and the broken bones penetrated their internal organs. They lay on the ground unable to move. It was obvious that he would not survive.
Woo! The war elephant screamed and raised its front hooves high. It was obvious that the huge explosion of the gunpowder barrel at close range frightened the war elephant. Although war elephants are huge, they are still animals after all. As long as they are animals, they have the instinct to fear fire and explosions. When fighting on the front line, these elephants also received targeted training and had certain defense capabilities against ordinary firecrackers and artillery. However, such a violent explosion was indeed beyond the cognition of the war elephants.
"Control it! Control it quickly!" the leader of the elephant team shouted in horror. Obviously, he understood that once a war elephant is frightened, its destructive power is many times greater than that of a war horse. If one is not careful, the war elephant's running around will disrupt his own team.
But war elephants are not so easy to control. Unlike cavalry, which can control the movements of war horses through reins, huge war elephants cannot be restrained by manpower. Elephant soldiers can only use signals, body movements, etc. Waiting to guide and train the elephant, under normal circumstances, it can be effectively controlled, but obviously, this is not a normal situation.
boom! There was another loud noise, and Amu threw the fire stick in his hand, which also ignited a barrel of gunpowder and caused a fatal explosion. Zhan Xiang's spirit finally couldn't hold on any longer. They howled like crazy, then kicked off their hooves and started running. Some war elephants were out of control, swinging in circles and knocking off the elephant soldiers on their backs.
"No! No! Save me!" An elephant soldier was thrown to the ground. His leg was obviously broken and he could only crawl on the ground. Behind him was the crazy war elephant. He watched helplessly as a huge shadow appeared on the ground. , looking back, the war elephant no longer recognized its owner and rushed towards him.
"Help!" After a long scream, everything fell silent. The war elephant stepped over the man and turned him into a meat pie.
Dozens of uncontrolled war elephants ran rampant among the crowd, the artillerymen were crushed to death and trampled to death, and the artillery pieces were directly knocked over by the elephants. Annan's army fled in all directions, while Gao Heng led his cavalry to regroup on the periphery. He relied on his horse speed to escape from the area affected by the wild elephants, and looked coldly at everything that happened in front of him.
Zheng Fu, who had just exited the valley entrance, was completely dumbfounded. He never expected that the rear army, which he had placed high hopes on, would be dashed to pieces by his own war elephants, and could not organize an effective defense at all.
"General! General! They are coming!" A soldier pointed at Zheng Fu and shouted. In the valley, ambushes were everywhere, and the soldiers of the Survival Brigade jumped out of their positions to pursue the enemy.
Bullets are raining down and arrows are like locusts. The Annan army, unable to organize a group to resist, can only fight on its own. The soldiers cannot find generals, and the generals cannot find soldiers. No matter how strong their individual soldiers are, they cannot launch a general offensive. The opponent of the survival brigade. Although the Survival Brigade only had 2,000 people, it exerted the momentum of tens of thousands. After the artillery fired the last cannonball, they picked up their swords and launched an attack together with the infantry.
People were pushing and squeezing people in the valley. The Annan army was pushing and crowding to retreat to the entrance. It was like a purgatory scene. I don’t know how many people were trampled to death by their own people. There were desperate screams and wails. The cry for mercy echoed throughout the valley, forming a symphony from hell.
Gao Heng saw only one general withdrawing under cover of cavalry, and he was keenly aware that this was the enemy's general.
