Chengdu City.

The city gate was already wide open. Yuan Fang sat on the red rabbit, dragging Fang Tian's halberd with his hand, and slowly stepped into the huge city gate.

On both sides of the street, there were many soldiers of the Qi army, and on the ground beside the street, there were densely packed men, women, old and children kneeling.

Today, one hundred thousand people in Chengdu are here to bow their heads and surrender to Yuan Fang.

Yuan Fang entered the city with his head held high, so high-spirited.

After a long hard battle, many major and minor battles, and many sacrifices of soldiers, today, the prefecture of Yizhou, the core of the Kingdom of Abundance, has finally planted his battle flag, Yuan Fang.

How could I not feel happy.

After entering the city, Yuan Fang went straight to the luxurious Prefecture Mufu.

At that time, Liu Yan had always wanted to be emperor since he became the shepherd of Yizhou, so the city of Chengdu was built like an imperial palace.

After more than ten years of construction by the Liu family and his son, the magnificence of the Chengdu capital has become the largest in the world.

But now, the state capital that the Liu family and his son had worked hard to build has changed hands twice, and just when Cao Cao was still feeling hot, it became Yuan Fang's palace again.

After conquering Chengdu without a fight, before Yuan Fang could enjoy the prosperity of Chengdu, he led his army southward overnight and captured Guangdu City, a hundred miles south of Chengdu.

Although Cao Cao was in a panic and was defeated with his remaining troops and retreated to Jiangzhou in the east, another new force with high morale was approaching.

One hundred thousand barbarian troops have conquered Wuyang and are marching towards Chengdu, and Guangdu City is the last barrier to the south of Chengdu.

Yuan Fang had long known from intelligence that the barbarian army marched northward and burned, killed, looted and looted all the counties they passed. Wherever they passed, there was a scorched earth.

Facing such greedy and cruel enemies, how could Yuan Fang let them approach the densely populated and economically prosperous hinterland of Chengdu.

Fortunately, Chengdu fell without a fight, which saved Yuan Fang a lot of time. One day later, Yuan Fang led an army of 50,000 to capture Guangdu City before the barbarian army.

The day after the capture of the city, before Yuan Fang could take a breath, the scouts rushed into the city and delivered the latest information on the barbarian army to Yuan Fang's case.

At this time, Yuan Fangzheng, Fazheng and other generals discussed strategies to deal with the barbarian army.

The latest intelligence from the barbarian army shocked everyone present.

"Elephant soldiers?" Ma Chao was shocked and said in surprise: "When I was in Xiliang, I heard a businessman from Hanzhong mention that there is a giant beast in Nanzhong. It is called an elephant. I didn't expect that this elephant can go into battle?

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"There are indeed giant beasts like elephants in Nanzhong. Many barbarians use elephants instead of horses. I have been studying before and have seen records in ancient books that there are elephant soldiers in Nanzhong, but I have never seen them before." Fazheng Expo Group

Book. But I don’t know much about the target soldiers.

Ju Yi snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "So what about the elephant, I don't believe that thing can stop the strong bow and crossbow of our first climber."

"The strong bows and crossbows used to attack the camp first are powerful, but they are useless against the enemy soldiers."

Fazheng shook his head and said solemnly, "It is recorded in ancient books that the elephant's skin is very thick, comparable to a layer of natural heavy armor. In addition, the Nanman people also wrapped another layer of elephant on the outside of the elephant.

Bone armor made of bones, in this way, let alone the hard crossbow of the dead man, even the bed crossbow may not be able to hurt the elephant."

Hearing this, all the generals present were in an uproar.

The generals all know how powerful the bed crossbow is. That kind of powerful crossbow can shoot a thousand steps, and after penetrating an iron shield, it can even pierce two armored soldiers.

Now, this elephant cannot even be hurt by a crossbow, and its defense power is so terrifying that it has simply reached the level of sensationalism.

"Giant elephant, giant elephant..." Yuan Fang frowned slightly, thoughtfully.

All the generals in the hall quickly became quiet, each with solemn expressions and furrowed brows. For a moment, it seemed difficult to think of a solution.

The lobby fell into silence.

At this moment, Li Yan, who had been silent, raised his hand and said: "Your Majesty, although this elephant soldier is powerful, there may not be a way to break it."

As soon as these words came out, Yuan Fang was in great spirits, and all the civil and military officials including Fa Zheng in the hall were also greatly surprised.

No one expected that Li Yan, a newly surrendered general, would actually claim to have a plan to destroy the elephant soldiers.

Even Yuan Fang, who was trying his best to capture Li Yan, did not expect that Li Yan would come in handy so quickly.

"Let me tell you what clever plan you have to defeat the elephant soldiers." Yuan Fang's spirit perked up.

Li Yan smiled faintly, cupped his hands and said, "Actually, it's not a clever idea. It's just that Yan served under Liu Zhang in his early years and served as an official in the seven counties of Nanzhong for several years. At that time, he had heard that there was an elephant army among the barbarians, and he saw it again.

Meng Huo was quite ambitious, so he thought that if one day Meng Huo led the Southern Barbarians to rebel, the elephant soldiers would be a big trouble, so Yan secretly got to know the details of the elephant soldiers and figured out a way to deal with them.

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It seemed that Li Yan was also very far-sighted. He had already expected that the barbarians would rebel sooner or later. Yuan Fang secretly thought that his decision to surrender Li Yan was indeed the right one.

Yuan Fang became more and more excited and asked him how to defeat the elephant soldiers.

Li Hui then explained his plan in an awkward manner.

Everyone became more and more curious as they listened, and everyone had a strange look on their faces, as if they thought this strategy was too ridiculous.

"Will this strategy work?" Fazheng also expressed doubts.

Li Yan said confidently: "Don't worry. When I was an official in Nanzhong, I bought an elephant from a barbarian tribe and kept it in my house. I have tried this method many times and it must be effective."

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Yuan Fang didn't hesitate much, and he didn't have time to hesitate, so he said with enthusiasm: "Since Zheng Fang is so confident, then I believe in you, and I will follow your method. Go and prepare as soon as possible."

"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty. I will definitely live up to Your Majesty's trust."

Li Yan thanked him, but said with concern: "However, this method still needs some preparation time. Now Meng Huo's elephant soldiers are on the way north and will arrive in Guangdu in a few days. Time seems a bit rushed. I just want to

I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it in time.”

Yuan Fang told Li Yan not to worry and just prepare, as he had his own way to delay the barbarian army's advance.

Yuan Fang's delaying method was actually very simple. He ordered Wei Yan and Wu Yi to lead a force of troops south quickly and dig ravines along the road from Wuyang to Guangdu to delay the enemy's advance.

Although Meng Huo's elephant soldiers were huge, their movements were slow and inconvenient. Whenever the barbarian army encountered a ditch, they had to stop and fill the ditch before they could drive the elephants through smoothly.

Wei Yan and others dug and retreated along the road. They dug countless ditches on the road of less than a hundred miles. These obstacles at least slowed down the barbarian army's advance by half.

Meng Huo's army stopped and stopped all the way, and it took them ten days to reach the south of Guangdu.

The 50,000 vanguard barbarian troops had finished descending on the stronghold. Meng Huo did not wait for the rear troops to arrive. He immediately wrote a arrogant letter of war and sent people to Guangdu to challenge Yuan Fang.

Meng Huo was mad for a reason, because he had the most powerful offensive weapon in this era, and, in his opinion, the Qi army dug ditches along the way, which just showed that they were afraid of their elephant soldiers.

His own army was strong, and Qi's army was afraid. How could Meng Huo not be arrogant?

The arrogant Meng Huo's idea was very simple: to destroy Yuan Fang's main force in one battle with his elephant soldiers, and then he could ride an elephant and push all the way to Chengdu.

In the city of Guangdu, Yuan Fang received Meng Huo's arrogant letter of war.

Standing at the top of the city, opening his telescope and looking far into the distance, Yuan Fang could vaguely see the giant moving beasts in the enemy camp seven miles away.

Yuan Fang has seen elephants in the zoo before, but this is the first time Yuan Fang has seen such a spectacular sight of thousands of elephants gathering together at the same time.

This is still viewed from a distance. It is really hard to imagine what a terrifying scene it would be if viewed from a close distance.

The sound of footsteps sounded, and Li Yan stepped into the city, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, everything to defeat the enemy has been prepared."

Just right.

Yuan Fang waved his hand and tore the arrogant war letter into pieces, and said coldly: "Since Meng Huo, a barbarian, wants to die so much, I will grant him this order and pass on the order. Tomorrow the whole army will be sent out to fight with the barbarians.

Fight to the death!"

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The next day.

The sky is getting brighter.

Nearly 100,000 soldiers of the Qi army lined up out of the city in an orderly manner and marched silently to the south of Guangdu City. Soon, according to the established plan, a huge military formation of various sizes was formed for miles.

In several large central military formations, there are dozens of huge objects covered by black cloth. Although their true appearance cannot be seen clearly, from the appearance and outline, they look a bit like Thunderbolt Chariots.

Yuan Fang is wearing a silver robe, sitting on a red rabbit, carrying a Fangtian painted halberd, and standing in front of the formation with his hair loose and majestic.

Staying next to him is Li Yan, who has just arrived.

Opening his telescope, he could see dark clouds approaching from the south. Yuan Fang knew that countless barbarian troops were approaching.

In the dark clouds that came slowly, there was a faint roar of "wuwu", buzzing like muffled thunder, which made people feel a little hairy.

Behind Yuan Fang, the soldiers of the Qi army who had experienced hundreds of battles could not help but feel a little uneasy in their hearts.

After all, what they were about to face was a war elephant they had never seen before in their lives, such a powerful and strange opponent.

The black clouds gradually approached, and finally, the new enemies and their ferocious faces gradually emerged from the water.

Almost all the soldiers of the Qi army, including Yuan Fang himself, took a breath of cold air.

The legendary war elephant finally appeared before our eyes.

The war elephant, which was several people tall and as big as several cows, and clad in white bone armor, was slowly approaching with its thick legs and sharp tusks raised.

Thousands of elephants, although the distance between them is wide, but overall, they are still a mass of darkness, like a huge black iron wall, pushing forward flatly.

Such momentum gives people the illusion that Mount Tai is about to collapse and cannot be stopped by human power.

And on the backs of thousands of giant elephants, tens of thousands of southern barbarian elephant soldiers were waving weapons, flaunting their bows and crossbows, roaring strange chants, and showing off their power to the Qi army on the opposite side.

In the formation, on the largest war elephant, the leader of the elephant soldiers, King Mulu, was sitting cross-legged, his hideous and ugly face full of triumph.

In Mulu's eyes, his war elephant is the largest creature on land, has the thickest armor, and is almost invincible.

It seems that this will be a battle without any suspense. All Mulu has to do is to move his war elephant army forward, and then advance again.
Chapter completed!