"What is this person doing? Why did he go to Zhan Xiang?"
"Are you scared out of your wits? You wanted to run for your life, but in the end you panicked and got trampled by a war elephant. Haha..."
"..."
On Dongwu's side, everyone saw discussions like this, and everyone's face was full of gloating. The meaning was very obvious. You Ming army also had times when you were in panic. This worldly retribution came so quickly!
The Ming army was also very surprised when they saw this situation.
"Who is that and what does he want to do?"
"Could it be that he wants to shoot the war elephant with a bow and arrow? Doesn't he know how thick the skin of the war elephant is? It's useless!"
"Yes, if you fight hard, I'll chop him with a knife before you're hit to death. At worst, I'll be a man again twenty years later!"
"..."
At this time, many soldiers had forgotten about the soldiers and started talking about it. One of them recognized that person and couldn't help but be very surprised. He shouted loudly: "Master Yan, come back quickly!"
"Master Yan, form a formation and swing your sword, all the jade stones will turn into powder, just kill, don't do it and die needlessly!"
"..."
That's right, the soldier who stood out from the crowd, holding a stiff bow and running towards the running war elephant, was Yan Yingyuan, who had just been admired by Emperor Chongzhen.
Logically speaking, he doesn't need to work so hard. The soldiers around him will definitely protect him. However, he just stood out from the crowd, like a canoe in the rapids, going upstream.
Both Yan Yingyuan and the oncoming war elephant were running, so the distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, getting closer, and getting closer.
On the back of the war elephant, King Talong saw the oncoming Ming army soldier with a ferocious smile on his face. He wondered if this Ming army soldier was dizzy and forgot how protective the war elephant was. Stronger, right? If that's the case, I wouldn't mind taking him first and trampling him into a meat pie!
Thinking like this, just when he was about to give this order to the elephant soldiers controlling the war elephants beside him, he suddenly saw the Ming army soldier stop. It was like a galloping war horse that suddenly stopped. For some reason, a sentence immediately popped out of his heart: as quiet as a virgin, as active as a stray rabbit!
At this time, Yan Yingyuan, after an emergency stop, stood as straight as the barrel of a gun. He opened his bow and nocked an arrow, and quickly pulled the string. The bow was like a full moon, and the hand holding the bow did not move at all.
Seeing this situation, King Talong couldn't help laughing. This Ming soldier really wanted to use a bow and arrow to shoot the war elephant. He was really crazy!
However, the twenty Ming army soldiers who followed Yan Yingyuan were shocked when they saw this situation from behind.
They clearly remembered that some of them had the opportunity to try the hard bow that Yan Yingyuan carried with him, but the one with the strongest strength could not fully draw the string.
But at this time, they saw Yan Yingyuan, the civil servant who came to Dongwu to take charge of these barbarians, how easily he drew the hard bow!
Master Yan, this is amazing!
It was too late, but it was soon. Just when they were thinking about it, they saw Yan Yingyuan letting go and shooting the arrow. That arrow was really very fast, shooting towards the target quickly.
When King Long's evil smile was still on his lips, he saw that the arrow had hit another war elephant that was just above the elephant under King Long's throne. The shot was not somewhere else, but the place where all animals have very weak defenses, namely the eyes.
I saw that the arrow penetrated deeply into the war elephant's eye socket, leaving only the arrow feathers outside, proving that an arrow was inserted here.
"Moo..." A sharp cry sounded out, and the unlucky war elephant took a few steps forward, rolled and fell to the ground in a daze, and the Dongwu elephant soldiers on the elephant's back also rolled all over the ground. Ground gourds basically injure their arms and legs, and the unlucky ones will die immediately.
No one expected that this Ming army soldier's arrow could actually shoot down a war elephant. Those who could not clearly see the situation from a distance were very surprised for a moment. They could not understand how the war elephant could be penetrated by bows and arrows and cause fatal damage to the war elephant if the protection was not very thick.
Those who were close, such as King Long, saw clearly that the Ming army soldier's arrow hit the war elephant's eye socket. When they saw this situation clearly, they were even more surprised. This Ming army soldier's arrow could actually hit the eye of a running war elephant. This is really unbelievable. Could it be that it was just a coincidence?
While they were thinking, they saw that Yan Yingyuan had already drawn his bow and arrow again, and with a "swish" sound, he shot another arrow.
The war elephant on the other side of his king was targeted by Yan Yingyuan because it happened to surpass their king. At this time, the elephant soldier on the back of the war elephant shot an arrow. The Ming army soldier pointed his bow and arrow in his direction. Regardless of whether the previous arrow was a coincidence, in desperation, he immediately wanted to block the war elephant's eyes.
Soon after, Yan Yingyuan's second arrow had been shot, reaching the target in the blink of an eye.
The elephant soldier had no time to stop him, but at this moment, the trunk of the war elephant turned up, just blocking his eyes.
However, this is of no use at all. Yan Yingyuan's arrow ignored the elephant's trunk, pierced it directly, and hit the war elephant's eye again until an arrow feather was left outside.
"Moo..." A sharp cry sounded, and the unlucky war elephant took a few steps forward and suddenly rolled to the ground, taking with it the Dongwu elephant soldiers on the elephant's back and their accomplices once again. All the same, they became a gourd rolling on the ground, and they all injured their arms and legs, and some of them were even unlucky enough to die directly.
If a war elephant was shot down, it might be a coincidence; now a war elephant is shot down, it is not a coincidence, but a real skill!
At this time, no matter far or near, anyone who saw this situation would understand that this Ming army soldier was an archer, and a very powerful archer.
Suddenly, Dongwu's army was filled with surprise from a distance and panic from near. How could the Ming army have such a powerful person?
After shooting down two war elephants in succession, the one at the front was King Long.
At this time, King Talong was horrified to find that the Ming army soldier was already drawing his bow and arrow, aiming the arrow towards him. Suddenly, he shouted loudly: "Shield, shield cover, quick..."
Fortunately, the elephant soldier next to him had been frightened and stretched out the shield that was originally protecting him in time to protect the eyes of the war elephant.
At this moment, an arrow was seen flying over, but instead of shooting at the eye of the war elephant, it was shot at King Long.
At this time, King Long was roaring. Yan Yingyuan's arrow just passed through his open mouth, shot out from the back of his head, and hit the head of an elephant soldier behind King Long.
The kinetic energy of the arrow caused King Long to fall backwards, and the unlucky elephant soldier fell off the back of the war elephant together with him.
King Tatlong is one of the focuses of Dongwu's attention, so as long as he is closer, everyone can see this scene clearly. Saw their king, shot through the mouth, and then fell off the elephant's back.
Watching King Long fall, almost all the Dongwu soldiers who could be seen felt as if one of their hearts had been shot by this arrow, and their souls had been shot by this arrow. They were all dumbfounded, expressions of disbelief. Watching all this with a calm expression.
When Yan Yingyuan unfurled his bow and arrow again, the other elephant soldiers were all frightened. No matter what else, they immediately drove the war elephant away. If they could stop, they would stop and turn around. If they could not stop, they would immediately take them to the side and make a diagonal arc. escape.
At this time, I saw Yan Yingyuan standing in front of a group of war elephants. Although he was only one person, he was like a very majestic giant, with his bow and arrows stretched out, and he was unstoppable! In front of him, a large group of behemoths were like timid mice, scurrying around one after another.
The situation on the battlefield once again changed dramatically because of Yan Yingyuan's step forward.
Seeing Dong Wu's war elephant troops fleeing in panic, even trampling the imperial guards following behind, everyone knew that there would be no more twists and turns in this battle, and the Ming Dynasty would definitely win!
On the Ming army side, the infantry soldiers who saw this scene shouted: "Master Yan is mighty!"
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
"..."
Immediately afterwards, the infantry soldiers further away, as well as the cavalry soldiers who were driving away Dongwu's defeated soldiers, also shouted: "The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
At this moment, the morale of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was like a rainbow, and it could not be higher! It was as if the entire city of Ava was filled with the voices of Ming soldiers!
Dongwu's defeated soldiers, who were originally hiding behind to see what was going on, saw that King Long was shot by the Ming Dynasty's divine general, and the war elephant was shot and turned around to run away. They knew that the defeat was certain, so they dared to look at the wind direction. He immediately spread his legs and ran as fast as he could.
The entire Dongwu army, numbering hundreds of thousands, was like hundreds of thousands of pigs, leaving their backs to the Ming army and running all over the mountains and plains.
On the Ming army's side, Emperor Chongzhen clearly saw this scene through a telescope from a distance, and couldn't help but smile and praise: "You are indeed Yan Sanjian!"
In the original history, when Yan Yingyuan took office as Jiangyin Dianshi, at the beginning of his tenure, the pirate Gu Sanmazi led hundreds of warships to invade Huangtian Port. Yan Yingyuan led his troops to defend and fired three arrows in a row, but some people fell down in response. This was because he was merciless and showed off his skills as a sharp archer without taking anyone's life. While Gu San Mazi was frightened, he also admired Yan Yingyuan. Therefore, when Jiangyin was fighting against the Qing Dynasty, he led his navy to come to the rescue.
And in this plane, Yan Yingyuan also had three arrows, one shot at the eye of the war elephant, then the trunk and eyes of the war elephant, and three shots at the cave my king. With just three arrows, the gall of Dongwu's army was broken, paving the way for the Ming Dynasty's army to defeat Dongwu's entire army.
Thinking of these, Emperor Chongzhen felt inspired and said this sentence, but he didn't expect that Yan Yingyuan's nickname would eventually be called: Yan Sanjian!
