The elephants slowly approached the Ming army, and every step they approached, the Ming army soldiers became more afraid.
It was not that Talong deliberately intimidated the Ming army and increased the time for the Ming army soldiers to be frightened. The elephants were too heavy and lacked the running ability of the horses. If it weren't for the rage, they could not even match the speed of the infantry.
When Mu Qiyuan saw the elephant group, there was a throbbing in his heart. It came, and finally came, the most powerful unit of the Tongyu people finally appeared on the battlefield.
He didn't know whether his own way could deal with the elephant soldiers. Since they set off in Dongyu, the elephant soldiers will meet sooner or later. If they pass this hurdle, the casualties of the Ming army will increase greatly.
With a wave of Mu Qiyuan, the messenger waved the flag vigorously, most afraid that the messenger in the distance would not be able to see it.
The mountain artillery on both sides began to tear off the camouflage that covered it. The black barrels pointed towards the Dongyu Army. Near the mountain artillery, the large-caliber artillery also took off his gun jacket and began to aim at the battlefield.
With the appearance of the elephant herd, the battlefield quickly reversed.
The Dongyu Army calmed down completely. They were expecting to see if there were many Ming troops who died under the hooves of elephants or were stabbed to death by elephant soldiers' spears.
On the other hand, the Ming army showed great fear, especially the war horses. When they were standing still, they stood still. When they saw the elephants, they became restless and restless. Some stepped on the ground with horseshoes, anxious, and some looked up, shaking their ears. , Uttered a stern cry, and some flicked their tails desperately, as if they were about to escape at any time.
The cavalry on horseback desperately held back the horse's rein, but still couldn't control it. In the end, a few frightened horses left the battlefield far away.
When Dongyu's elephant soldiers were still a mile and a half away, Mu Qiyuan issued an order to prepare for the war. As the flag in the hands of the messenger waved violently, the gunners began to reload the shells.
"Report to the commander, the filling of the flower bomb is complete."
"fire."
"Yes."
Ignition is the cheapest procedure in firing bombs. The gunner ignites the fuse and waits for the bombs to automatically exit the chamber, and then adjusts the muzzle according to the point of impact, so as to improve the accuracy of the bombs and maximize the efficiency of the bombs.
The black flower bomb, because it is too fast, rubs against the air when flying at high speeds, and produces a sharp whistling sound. The soldier on the elephant's back first heard this harsh sound.
Originally they thought it was a stone thrown by a trebuchet of the Ming army, but when the stone was flying in the air, it would not make such a weird sound. They knew they were wrong.
The flower bomb fell to the ground, making a huge explosion again, which was the second explosion of gunpowder.
The elephant group had never seen such a huge and close explosion, and suddenly panicked.
In this round of shelling, the elephant soldiers suffered little direct losses. Most of the flower bombs exploded on the ground. High-end soldiers sitting on the elephant’s back, unless they were directly hit by the flower bombs, were five million more than the lottery. The possibility of a huge prize is not much.
The elephant’s legs on the ground are very strong. Unless the flower bomb directly hits the elephant’s leg, the fragments emitted when the flower bomb explodes can only leave a few shallow cuts on the thick leg of the elephant. The elephant hardly did any harm.
The biggest threat to the object group is the sound. The huge explosion of the bombs disturbed the always comfortable war elephant. They wandered around, trying to find this invisible "enemy". Because they couldn't find it, the war elephant became restless. He even overturned the elephant soldier on his back to the ground.
Nearly a hundred artillery and mountain artillery fired a total of three rounds. The elephant soldiers were few dead. The elephants who lost their walking ability can be counted with one hand, except for a few overly frightened elephants who stubbornly left the elephants. Group, almost no effect.
He Long just saw the artillery group of the Ming Army, he was shocked, if so many artillery fell on a person, even the Buddha would be sifted into a sieve.
He slowly closed his eyes, and he was really helpless except to pray for the elephant soldiers.
"Your Majesty, the Ming Army has stopped shelling."
"Huh?" Talong tried his best to open his upper and lower eyelids. Sure enough, the Ming Army's blossom bombs stopped firing. "Why? Is the Ming Army out of ammunition?"
"I don't know, but... Our elephant soldiers have not lost much. Please see, your majesty. Except for a few war elephants that have exited the battlefield, the rest are still attacking the Ming army.
Talon once again turned his gaze to the elephant soldiers. The elephant soldiers were advancing as expected. As soon as the artillery of the Ming army stopped, the elephants became more relaxed and calm, as if the blooming bombs had never appeared on the battlefield.
"Yes, the artillery of the Ming army is not effective against the elephants." He was overjoyed. The damn Ming army finally tasted the power. "Prepare, once the elephants break through the Ming army's defensive formation, the whole army must be pressed. I want to fight. And the Ming Army."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Opposite him Talong, Mu Qiyuan cursed in a low voice, "Damn, these war elephants really can't be beaten to death."
"Commander, don't we still have rockets?" Chen Zizhuang has been following Mu Qiyuan. Seeing that the artillery does not work well, he reminded Mu Qiyuan not to waste bombs.
"Rocket? Well, it seems that there is only it." Mu Qiyuan is not sure whether the rocket can deal with these elephants. Fortunately, these war elephants are very gentlemen, and they move very slowly. If it is a war horse, I am afraid they will have to do it now. Entered the Ming army's position.
The rocket soldier adjusted its direction a long time ago. At this time, the rocket was not launched upward, but aimed at the elephant in front.
The rocket of the Ming Army was extremely simple in structure. It was a bracket fixed on the ground. A slightly thicker arrow was placed on the bracket, but with the propulsion of gunpowder, its speed was much faster.
Its maker was Ding Lan of the Daming Firearms Bureau. Ding Lan's greatest contribution was to control the rocket's flight direction under Zhu Youjian's guidance.
The direction can be controlled, and the speed is much faster than ordinary arrows, so the rocket can be applied to the battlefield.
Objects moving at high speed are sharp. An ordinary playing card, if given enough speed, can penetrate the concrete wall; even a piece of ordinary white paper, if it flies fast enough, it can separate the human head.
After the rocket is fired, because the speed has increased several times, as long as the belly of the war elephant is attached, it can penetrate the rough skin of the war elephant, and the arrow hangs on the belly of the war elephant.
At the beginning, the war elephant did not feel any pain, but there was still ignited gunpowder attached to the rocket. The quantity of these gunpowder was not too large, but they exploded on the war elephant’s belly. All of his intestines flowed out.
Mu Qiyuan counted, three rockets can destroy a war elephant.
He let the gunner fire the cannon again, and the bullets did not cause much damage to the soldiers, but the sound can scare the war elephant.
The elephants passed their pain on to the elephant soldiers on their backs. Not only did they disobey the instructions of the elephant soldiers, they also lifted off the elephant soldiers on their backs, stomping them into scum with their feet, as if their pain were all It was caused by elephant soldiers.
There was another one-sided slaughter on the battlefield. This time it was the elephant soldier from Toungoo who was slaughtered.
The little hope he had just ignited was shattered by the rocket soldiers of the Ming army. He watched the baby war elephant fall head-to-head under his nose, his heart was bleeding, and the wound was bigger than the arrow wound on the war elephant's belly. .
In desperation, Talong ordered the withdrawal of the elephant soldiers.
But the elephant herd at this time was already seriously frightened, and no longer listened to the elephant soldiers' drive. They seemed to be frightened by the firearms of the Ming army, either fleeing to the sides, or turning around and running back.
The war elephants that fled back have become disasters. They rushed and rushed to disperse the Dongyu Army's defensive formation.
Seeing that the Dongyu Army was in chaos, Mu Qiyuan ordered a full chase.
Although the Ming army pursued the whole line, it still kept a certain distance from the Dongyu army. If the distance was too close, not only would it be difficult to fire the flintlock rifle, but it might also be counterattacked by the Eastern and Western forces.
Flintlocks are really not a weapon for chasing. After the soldiers fired bullets, they had no time to reload. They had to throw away the flintlocks, drew out the war knife from the waist, and started a hand-to-hand fight with the Tongyu Army.
Hand-to-hand combat is not the Ming army's strong point, but Dongyujun was frightened by the Ming army's firearms. The whole army was in chaos and did not dare to turn around to resist. If anyone dared to turn back, they would immediately fall into the Ming army's crowd.
The only two thousand cavalrymen of the Ming army had their greatest efficiency at this time. They took advantage of their speed to trail behind the Dongyu infantry. They were not to kill the enemy but to divide the Dongyu army.
The cavalry took advantage of the impact of the horses to cut out the Toungoo Army that was at the rear, cutting out small groups like cakes. These small groups that had left the Toungoo Army were quickly surrounded and wiped out by the Ming army who had caught up behind them.
The cavalry was divided, the infantry annihilated the enemy.
The Ming Army became the harvesting machine of the Dongyu Army.
Defeated like a mountain, the Dongyu Army at this time could no longer organize an effective defense.
He long escaped into the camp of the Toungoo Army, and with a lot of arrows, he barely repelled the chasing troops of the Ming Army.
The Ming army was forced to retreat. Their enthusiasm was instantly extinguished by the arrows of the Toungoo Army. On the way back, they vented their anger on the wounded soldiers in Toungoo, who were wounded and fallen to the ground. , Were all beheaded by the Ming army.
The Dongyu soldiers had been huddled in the camp, and the task of cleaning the battlefield was handed over to the Ming army. Mu Qiyuan ordered the soldiers to pick up the bodies of the Dongyu army, along with the corpses of the horses and elephants, and burn them on fire.
He saw the Ming army withdraw from the camp, and this allowed his subordinates to count the casualties.
He was taken aback by the number of casualties, and he fought a decisive battle with the Ming army in only half a day, including infantry, cavalry, and elephant soldiers.
In fact, there were no wounded soldiers, and all the wounded soldiers were killed by the Ming army.
In addition to the casualties during the attack on the Dacheng Dynasty, Talong's 100,000 elites now only have less than 55,000, and they are all frightened.
He Long knew why Ava City could only resist for a long time. The firearms of the Ming Army were so powerful that even his baby elephant soldiers could not resist it.
Looking at the generals who looked like a chicken, Talong's heart seemed to have overturned a five-flavored bottle, "How about the casualties of the Ming army?"
"Your Majesty..." The generals squirmed their lips, they didn't know the casualties of the Ming army.
"It doesn't matter if I don't know for the time being, I'll know about it next time." Talong didn't blame the generals. He knew the situation on the battlefield better than anyone. When morale was particularly low, he didn't want to hit the generals' confidence anymore. , "Around the barracks, send more manpower to prevent the Ming army from stealing the barracks."
"Yes, Your Majesty, your subordinates will make arrangements." The general on duty went out.
"Where is Gyllenhae now?" He long knew that Gyllenhae was still far away. He just reminded the generals that there were a lot of reinforcements in Dongyu, and that the Ming army went deep into Dongyu. There was no food, grass and soldiers to supplement, and he died. One is one less.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will take ten days for General Gillenhae to arrive." The unopened general told the truth.
If in normal times, Zhunbao would be scolded by Talon, but today Toungoo’s main force is newly defeated, and the hearts of the people are unstable. Talon held back his breath, "Victory or defeat is commonplace in the military. There is no general who wins forever, and there is no general who loses forever. , The time for the decisive battle has not yet arrived, you just need to do the work at hand."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Our army has always fought a tailwind. Soldiers may not be able to accept today's defeat. We must find ways to boost morale." He was reluctant, but admitted his military disadvantage.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The Ming army on the opposite side was not celebrating, as Talong guessed it. Mu Qiyuan burned the bodies of the Toungoo horses and elephants, which was the biggest celebration. Toungoo’s main force was still there. He didn’t dare to take it lightly. He just reminded the soldiers to be early Rest, there will be a bad battle to be fought in the future.