What Li Guobao is waiting for is for the elephant soldiers to leave the city. As the saying goes, if a trapped animal fights, if thousands of elephants are trapped in the city, they will cause a lot of chaos if they run around. However, Shenglong City looks pretty good, and Li Guobao still wants to complete it.
It was occupied and used as the base camp for the Conquering Army.
In addition, Li Guobao also took a fancy to these elephants. These big guys may not be very effective in battle, but they are still good as a transport team, especially in the tropical jungle climate of Annan Kingdom, elephants are easier to walk than horses.
Among rivers and swamps, if there is a Qianxiang transport team, the army's logistical supplies will be much easier.
Based on the goal of capturing a complete city and all the elephants, Li Guobao tolerated not attacking the city for so many days. Now the king of Annan, Chen Jikuan, could no longer calm down. This played into his plans.
. Under his arrangement, the Southern Conquest Army outside the city quickly deployed, and a huge trap was waiting for the enemy to escape.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, under the cover of the infantry cane players, all the elephant soldiers came out of the city and formed an array. The total number was no less than tens of thousands.
The infantry looked like they were just filling in. Many of them didn't even have regular weapons, and only used sharpened bamboo poles as weapons, which formed a sharp contrast with the brightly armored soldiers of the Southern Conquest Army.
On the top of Thang Long City, the war drums were still beating loudly. Chen Jikuan gave an order, and an infantry team consisting of nearly a thousand people marched out and slowly approached the position of the Southern Army. Needless to say, these people were here to test.
There was no whole-army assault as soon as they came up. From this point of view, Chen Jikou still had some military acumen.
The opponent did not advance hastily, which was what Li Guobao expected. When the enemy's thousand-man army entered the battle formation, he waved the bow-shaped battle flag, and a team of archers stepped forward, loaded their bows with arrows, and pointed at the enemy formation.
It was just a volley of fire. The enemy troops were busy protecting each other with vine rows, but these bows and arrows could not hurt a few people. This thousand-man team was still advancing.
Li Guobao waved the battle flag with the word "step", and a thousand-man infantry team came out. The shield bearers in front of the formation formed a shield formation and approached the opponent like a big turtle. When Chen Jikuan saw this, his face couldn't help but reveal a smile.
With a look of disdain, he suddenly pulled out his saber and swung it down. The loud drums sounded, and the elephant soldiers finally attacked in full force.
Thousands of elephants charged. The scene was so explosive that the earth trembled. It was comparable to the galloping of thousands of horses. Coupled with the majestic drums and shouts of death, the aura was really strong. However, Li
The national security guards remained calm and unhurried. They took out their green flags and waved them a few times. The front line of the army changed to the back line and began to retreat slowly, returning to cover with arrow arrays.
Before the two armies met, the southern conquering army began to retreat like a tide. When Chen Jikuan saw it, he was overjoyed and ordered the drums to be beaten more intensively, allowing the elephant troops to pursue them and fight fiercely.
However, when the Elephant Corps chased a mile away and were about to catch up with the "fleeing" Zhengnan Army, they discovered that a large amount of dry firewood and straw appeared on the road ahead, blocking their way, and the fleeing Zhengnan Army also stopped.
After taking up the position, archers appeared and a large number of rockets flew over, and the fire broke out instantly. Frightened by the fireworks, the elephant began to stir uneasily.
Just as the elephant troops were hesitating whether to continue advancing, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out from the left wing. Before dozens of elephant masters had time to react, a cloud of blood mist erupted from their heads, and they screamed in pain.
He didn't even have time to send out the message, so he fell directly to the ground. The elephant lost the control of the elephant master and ran around more anxiously. The soldiers standing beside the elephant were knocked down and trampled, and the scene became even more chaotic.
"There's an ambush, charge over there!" in the Annan army formation, the commander of the elephant soldiers shouted, and as soon as he leapt on his horse and rushed towards the direction where the gunshots were heard, he saw a lead bullet piercing the air, and he was directly hit by it.
It shot into his left eye. With a horrified look on his face, he fell down and fell down.
The general died inexplicably, and the elephant troops lost their command and became even more panicked. Some cowards began to run back crazily. The elephants were too slow. Every time they took a step, one or two gunshots were heard from behind.
Afterwards, there will always be one or two mahout masters whose heads are shot and fall to the ground. Although the mahout masters who luckily escaped did not understand what kind of murder weapon this was, one thing was clear. If they did not leave the elephant body, the next one would be headshot.
It was me, so they all jumped off the elephant's back and ran away in the direction of Shenglong City.
The so-called defeat is like a mountain. You run and I run. When the elephant master runs away, the small soldiers will naturally not fall behind. Soon, there are only thousands of elephants left in the battle array, running and jumping around. They can no longer do anything.
Fight again.
On the top of Thang Long City, Chen Jikou saw that the elephant soldiers he relied on had collapsed inexplicably. He was very angry and ordered the supervising team at the gate of the city to come forward to supervise the battle, drive away the defeated troops who had fled back, and let them continue to fight.
Fight to bring the elephant back to reverse the situation.
However, the swords of the supervising team did not scare the fleeing soldiers, because behind them, the army of the Conquering South Army that had been retreating just now appeared again. The pursuers chased them all the way and kept firing guns.
Those who fall behind slowly will be shot to death by flying lead bullets, which is like a reminder of death.
Seeing that the Zhengnan Army chasing after the city was armed with a dark gun, and after one shot, it could quickly load the bullet and fire another shot. This kind of magical gun was beyond Chen Jikuo's understanding.
Although he had seen firearms before, he had never seen one that could fire multiple rounds at such a high speed.
Faced with this magical machine that could shoot non-stop, Chen Jikuan instinctively felt that his scalp was numb, and all the courage he had left was drained out at once. He could not even imagine whether there were sharper ones in the Conquering South Army.
Weapons were not drawn. If that were the case, how could we fight the battle and defend the city?
Just when Chen Jikuan was panicking and at a loss, a rumbling sound of artillery came from the north. He quickly looked up and saw countless projectiles flying in like locusts, directly bombarding the city wall. He felt a shock all over his body.
It was shaken and was blown away by the violent bombardment wave.
This round of shelling was different from the previous dispersed bombardments. This round of shelling hit almost directly. All the shells seemed to have eyes, and they all landed near the city gate and wall. The drop did not exceed ten meters, and two more shells landed near the city gate and wall.
The cannonballs were fired directly at the city gate, blasting the heavy city gate open, and the Shenglong City was immediately opened.
As soon as they saw the city gate being blasted open, the Annan soldiers who were still unable to advance or retreat outside the city were immediately frightened and rushed into the city gate desperately, trying to escape into the city for refuge. However, not only would Thang Long City not become
Their refuge, on the contrary, will become a Shura field, because outside the city, tens of thousands of southern conquering armies appeared, and they all rushed into the city like a tide.
According to the military rules of the Peking Army, after fighting a foreign country and storming the capital of another country, the army can "legally" loot for a day. As long as the official warehouse is not moved and the government is not set on fire, all other actions are "legal".
All the plundered goods were used by the army.
No, as soon as the leading troops of the Conquering South Army rushed into Thang Long City, they began to frantically chase down the Annan Kingdom defenders and control the city gates as quickly as possible. As the army moved in, each city gate would be prioritized.
After taking control, they closed the door and beat the dogs, and an organized and planned robbery began.
This kind of looting of the city seems very barbaric and sinful, but Wan Lei, the promulgator of this decree, understands that this is necessary. Demons and angels are the two faces of the ruler. They are angels when facing their own people.
Facing the enemy is the devil, this is the qualified ruler.