Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

With the final decisive battle on the southern front officially beginning, the Battle of Annan has come to an end.

The Ming army's scouts and cavalry generals' feelings spread back to Li Jinglong's command like running water.

On both sides of Jiaoshui, because Jiaoshui City at the downstream outlet is an alluvial plain of the river, the overall area is getting wider and wider. Dense jungles and swamps everywhere are less common in front of Baixiang City. Instead, they have become Large tracts of farmland available for cultivation.

October is already the end of autumn. At this time, the plains and surrounding farmland are bare, making it a battlefield for large armies to fight.

"Report, the enemy has stopped seven miles away and is arranging their troops."

When the sun was high that day, Li Jinglong received a message from the scouts.

After collecting information around the battlefield, Li Jinglong pondered for a moment and then issued the order:

"After the order is passed, all the soldiers will speed up to cross the river. At the same time, all the troops that have crossed the river will prepare for defense and let the troops at the west ferry continue to move closer."

Because the pontoons at the two river crossing points are limited, it is impossible to transport all the troops on a large scale. Therefore, as of this time, the main force of the Ming army has only crossed three-fifths, which is more than 18,000 people.

Previously, Li Jinglong sent Zhu Youxuan, the king of Runan County, to attack and search along the river bank, in order to replace the attack with defense, to allow the main force of the Ming army to cross the river as much as possible, and to buy time for the troops on the west side to get closer and move forward.

Now that the enemy has ended their march and begun to form a team, it is obvious that they want to press forward slowly, so the Ming army does not have much time to continue crossing the river.

It has to be said that Pan Maxiu's decisiveness actually gave the Annan Army the best opportunity to gain local superiority in strength.

At present, Li Jinglong only has 20,000 servants including servants.

As for Annan's army, except for the more than 16,000 troops who were unwilling to follow Pan Maxiu and stayed in Jiaoshui City, the rest came out in full force, with more than 60,000 troops!

In the decisive battle on the plains, there was a three-to-one superiority in troops. Normally speaking, the odds of victory were already very high.

Therefore, Li Jinglong also knew very clearly that the Annan people must take advantage of their advantage and fight to the death with the Ming army at this time. After all, in this case, no matter how effective the Ming army was in the field, the Annan people would not I will give up this last chance.

But Li Jinglong vaguely felt that this time the Annan people might not just be desperate.

Because the Annan people deployed heavy troops on the glue line and set up so many camps and fortresses along the way, they now did not defend the camps and resist, but instead had to fight the Ming army in the field knowing that they could not defeat them. It is impossible to say that they had any trump cards.

Could it be the Annan Elephant Soldiers whom we have heard about for a long time but have never seen?

This army is very likely to be the final reliance of the Annan people, and even the last trump card of the Annan Kingdom!

After Xu Yingxu learned about his thoughts, he also gave the same guess.

In fact, this can be seen from the performance of Annan's army.

In the previous battles, no matter how the Ming army slaughtered the Annan army, these Annan people did not show too much negative emotions such as fear, fear or grief and anger, but blocked the Ming army from crossing the river at all costs.

This made the top brass of the Ming army begin to speculate about what cruel tricks the Annan people might play this time!

This also made Li Jinglong, Xu Yingxu, Liu Sheng and others become much more cautious in their attitude towards this battle.

The first generation of Xiping Hou had successful experience in using firearms to fight against elephant arrays. However, the scale and combat effectiveness of the elephant array of King Liang of Yunnan in the Yuan Dynasty was definitely incomparable to that of Annan. No one knew what would happen if the number of elephants increased. , will it directly lead to the failure of firearms to be blocked?

But then, Li Jinglong received unexpected news.

"Wang Ruzhou, the commander of Tianchang Road in Annan Kingdom, is willing to surrender?"

Not only that, in order to show sincerity, the envoy sent by Wang Ruzhou also informed Pan Maxiu of the specific situation of his department.

As expected by Li Jinglong and others, Pan Maxiu brought dozens of carefully trained war elephants as a weapon in the decisive battle.

These elephants are battle-hardened and not fearful of loud noises and thick smoke as rumored.

Moreover, the key parts of the elephant's body are also covered with armor tanned by cowhide, which has a very good defensive effect against ordinary arrows and lead bullets.

The limbs of these elephants are thicker than the whole bodies of war horses, and their movements are shocking. If they collide with cavalry, they can definitely tear into pieces the fragile bodies of humans and war horses.

"So, Wang Ruzhou thinks that even if Pan Maxiu has the help of Xiang Zhen, he will definitely not be our opponent?" Xu Yingxu couldn't help but smile.

"Haha, this Wang Ruzhou is a wonderful man."

Liu Sheng answered: "Yes, the Imperial Master has a clever plan and has long expected Annan to have this move. We do have countermeasures."

"Is it possible?" Li Jinglong asked worriedly at this time.

"It's definitely no problem. Before setting off from Guangxi, we tested it on elephants sent as tribute by the Annan people. Although it's not a war elephant, the principle is the same."

"That's good."

Li Jinglong instinctively hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to believe Liu Sheng's secret weapon.

In fact, although the number of Annan's army is indeed huge, Li Jinglong still does not think that he will lose.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Annan Army was incomparable to that of the Ming Army.

If the interference of war elephants from forming an elephant array can be eliminated, then in a decisive battle on the plains, even if the Ming army is extremely numerically inferior, the victory will be slower and the casualties will be slightly higher at best.

What's more, he has fought a lot of tough and big battles over the years, and has long developed a temperament of staying calm in times of crisis. The two sides' combined battles, which involve less than 100,000 people, cannot make Li Jinglong feel nervous.

As long as everything goes well, Li Jinglong is confident that he can crush these Annan people by relying on the quality of his soldiers and the advantages of artillery and other weapons.

Of course, the premise is that the Ming army's secret weapon must be able to eliminate the threat of war elephants.

at the same time.

The Annan Army not far away also detected the Ming Army's movements.

"The Ming army only crossed the river about 20,000 people?"

After listening to the scout's report, Pan Mahiu's eyes suddenly lit up and he thought to himself: "Could it be that God really blessed me this time?"

A strong sense of confidence arose in his heart, because the movements of the Ming army showed that his judgment was correct. At this time, he should really fight to the death with the Ming army!

For him, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

As long as he can defeat these Ming troops who landed, not only can he avenge his previous humiliation, but he can also completely reverse the situation of the entire war and become the biggest hero of this war!

"Come on! Beat the drum!"

After arranging the troops and horses and taking a short rest, Pan Maxiu, as the commander-in-chief of the Annan army on the southern front, led his elite soldiers to kill the Ming army in the southwest.

Due to the direction of the wind, the Ming Army's hot air balloon could not fly in this direction at this time. Therefore, in front, in order to compete for the information initiative on the battlefield, the Ming Army's scouts and the Annan Army's scouts began a fierce and bloody fight. After difficultly detecting the movements of the Annan Army, the news was passed back again.

After receiving the report from the sentinel, someone immediately came to report to Li Jinglong.

The Ming army had already set up its posture at this time, and could start immediately after crossing the river for another two thousand households.

"We have been marching for so long without leaving any time to recover our strength. Are we still unable to hold back after all? Or are we afraid that we will retreat to the other side of the river?"

Li Jinglong snorted coldly and immediately ordered: "Get ready to fight immediately."

Soon, the 20,000 people who came from the two ferry crossings of the Ming Army were completely assembled, and a towering large banner rustled in the wind.

As a trumpet sounded, the forward cavalry of both sides collided, and the bloody decisive battle began.

The tactics of the Annan Army were quite sophisticated. They first relied on their absolute numerical advantage to use a large number of line-filling infantry to attract firepower in the front. Then, because the cavalry had not suffered much losses before, they were able to invest as many as 5,000 cavalry to break into the northern flank of the Ming Army. , and tried to pose a threat to the artillery positions in the rear of the Ming army.

If Li Jinglong had not been prepared in advance and also sent elite cavalry to contain the enemy cavalry, I am afraid that the Ming army would not have been able to continue to advance eastward and would have been forced to retreat.

At this time, the battlefield generally formed this situation:

Ming Army-Annan Army

----glue

The two sides fought on the riverside plain north of the Jiaoshui River, while the cavalry was entangled in the north. The purpose of the smaller number of Ming army cavalry was to protect the artillery positions.

The person at the front of the Annan Army was a cavalry general from the Annan State. When he took the lead in riding his horse and rushed hundreds of steps away from the Ming Army's artillery position, he was blocked by the Ming Army's cavalry. Faced with the obstruction, he immediately waved With his saber in hand, he commanded the Annan cavalry and charged towards the Ming army's formation!

Since the Annan Army had suffered losses from the Ming Army's cavalry guns and thunderbolts before, when it launched the charge, it did not rush forward blindly, but chose to ensure that the team was properly dispersed.

However, their cautious arrangement did not put too much pressure on the Ming army, and they were driven away by the Ming army who had assembled into a more suitable charging formation without much effort.

However, the tactics taught by the Mongols were still effective. At least the Annan cavalry were able to adapt to the situation well. They bent their bows and arrows on their horses and shot down several horses for the Ming army. Seeing that the Ming army was chasing closely, the remaining people saw that The situation was not good, so he quickly turned his horse's head, trying to bypass the Ming army's cavalry formation and retreat first, before organizing a second charge.

In fact, this is also the common tactic of light cavalry, which is to repeatedly mount and shoot in front of the enemy - pull away - and mount and shoot again.

But how could Zhu Youyi, who led the Ming army's cavalry, miss this opportunity to attack the enemy's effective forces?

Under the cover of the rear crossbowmen's skimming formation, the Ming army's light cavalry, who had already prepared to accelerate, took advantage of the enemy's U-turn to slow down and began to accelerate. Then they raised their blunderbuss, pulled the trigger, and fired at Enemy light cavalry.

"Pfft!"

"Plop——"

The Annan army's light cavalry suffered very fast battle losses. In the blink of an eye, the dozens of cavalry behind were all destroyed. The cavalry further ahead also suffered considerable damage under the attack of the Ming army's muskets, and some were even injured. The knight fell from his horse.

"Damn it!" Annan's cavalry general roared angrily, and his riding crop was blown away by the lead bullet.

Then he took out the spare riding crop next to the saddle on the other side and whipped the horse's butt vigorously, urging it to speed forward and break away from the Ming army's formation.

Now they must speed up and stay away from the Ming cavalry, and then use their strength advantage to fight back.

However, something was obviously wrong with the horse. It was actually injured by the bullet. After he beat it hard, it stopped and raised its front hooves, almost knocking him over.

The general's war horse suddenly felt pain and stopped in place, causing the light cavalry behind to lose control, causing even greater casualties in an instant.

Seeing this, the cavalry general's face turned pale, and he quickly issued a new order, asking his men to turn around and shoot arrows to hinder the Ming army. However, the Annan army, which was already in chaos, could not hear the general's order at all.

The Ming army caught up and killed them again, but the Annan army finally did not dare to be reckless after paying a heavy price and annihilating four to five hundred cavalry.

However, since the Annan army saw the strength of the Ming army's cavalry, it could barely maintain the pressure on the front with its superior strength. Although it could not destroy the Ming army's artillery positions, it could still contain the Ming army's cavalry. Here, in this way, the cavalry on both sides have been cheated.

The process of the cavalry fighting each other seems fierce and cruel, but it is actually just the prelude.

In Li Jinglong's view, since Annan's army dared to invest all its cavalry at the beginning, it must be confident in its subsequent moves, otherwise they would not dare to take this risk.

As the saying goes, "soldiers rely on the right combination to win by surprise." If the battle is not dragged into the state of the Ming army's familiar firearms to defeat the enemy as soon as possible, after the Annan army stabilizes its position and relies on its numerical advantage to raise the defense line, it will It will not be easy to defeat this Annan army head-on.

After all, there were 60,000 people on the opposite side, not to mention 60,000 people, even 60,000 pigs. Let the firearms troops kill them freely. They probably wouldn't be able to kill them all until the blunderbuss barrels and gun barrels were exploded.

Therefore, when the Annan army moved forward to attack the Ming army, Li Jinglong did not choose to retreat, but insisted on moving forward with infantry as the main body.

Pan Mahiu, who was behind, was observing the battlefield situation on horseback, but his mood became more relaxed.

Although the performance of the Annan Army's cavalry was very poor, he still felt the hope of victory. After all, he was the general who led the troops in the war. He knew the combat effectiveness of the army very well. The Annan Army's cavalry was only at this level. The dead spots were not important. It can achieve the expected tactical purpose, that is, it can contain the Ming army cavalry and at the same time put some pressure on the opposite artillery position.

"The whole army obeys the order! Attack forward immediately!"

Pan Maxiu shouted: "At any cost, we must defeat the Ming infantry formation in front of us!"

As the formation of the Annan Army began to move, the Annan Army also began to show a rare fighting spirit at this time.

"promise!"

When Pan Maxiu's order was issued, the distance between the two armies was already very close.

At this time, the Ming army, which was only one-third of the opponent's number, was blocked by glue. In fact, there was no way out and they had to fight to the end!

"The Ming army is mighty!"

"Kill all the Annan thieves!"

The generals' voices echoed throughout the camp.

The shouts of the Ming soldiers were equally deafening.

"Fire the arrow!"

The Annan army relied on its large number of people and archers. In an instant, countless arrows rained down on the Ming army.

Because the Ming army was too close to the Annan army, the arrows fired by the Annan army basically hit the Ming army and caused some Ming army casualties.

However, the soldiers of the Ming Army were not idiots. They had anticipated this situation in advance. In the Ming Army's formation, they had already prepared the oar shields as high as one person in the front row and the round shields brought by the shieldmen.

The shield soldiers of the Ming Army quickly stood up and held up their shields to block the rain of arrows. Then the archers of the Ming Army, who had endured for a moment, came to a distance with a better killing effect. They also bent their bows and set arrows, and the rain of arrows fell towards the Annan army. go.

Anyone who has ever shot an arrow knows that this is a physical job, and traditional bows are more difficult to pull than bows made with modern technology. Even if precise shooting is not required on the battlefield, just emptying a tube of arrows will end up with the entire arm and fingers. They were all shaking, and the muscles and bones in the left chest felt like they were cracking.

Due to the different armor rates of the two armies, the Ming army had a small number of people but a very high armor rate. The Annan army had less than half of its armor rate. Therefore, although the absolute number of Ming army archers was smaller, the damage effect caused was greater. Gao. Of course, there are also reasons why the Ming army waited and shortened the shooting distance, and due to terrain and number of people, the formation of the De'an army was denser and easier to be hit by probabilistic weapons.

The Annan army suffered heavy losses under the rain of arrows, but the infantry formation of the Annan army took advantage of this gap to rush to the front of the Ming army's formation and engage the Ming army in close combat.

But although Annan's army mustered up a lot of bravery, it was really difficult to achieve anything against the elite heavy infantry of the Ming army.

The heavy infantry of the Ming army consisted of large shield soldiers wearing full-body armor in the front row, and spearmen and ax soldiers in the back row wearing the same armor. Each one looked like an iron can, and it was really difficult to move.

The stalemate lasted for a while, and the initial charge momentum of Annan's army had faded.

The heavy infantry of the Ming Army took advantage of their weakened momentum and immediately launched a countercharge, using shield walls to force the enemy back step by step, and successfully regained the initiative on the battlefield.

Pan Maxiu personally commanded the battle on the front line in the formation, but when he saw that the army he had recruited and trained so hard was defeated by the Ming army, he was so angry that he clenched his fists and wished he could rush through thousands of troops right now. Block, chop off Li Jinglong's head, and end this battle.

But reason made him calm down. He knew that the Annan Army alone could not do anything to the opponent, and it was too early to use the War Elephant Army Formation now.

As a result, Pan Maxiu had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart for the time being and continue to observe the movements of the Ming army.

The Ming Army's fire gunnery phalanx has also arrived at the rear of the battle site and organized a tight defensive line. There is still a part of the Ming Army's troops as a reserve force, which was pinched by Li Jinglong and stayed behind to hold down the formation. Not participating in the war.

Soon after, Li Jinglong, as if to reassure Pan Maxiu, the Ming army's gun soldiers that he feared the most were thrown into the battle.

In the perception of the generals of the Annan Army, the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army's firearms arms was very terrifying, especially against infantry.

Under the familiar sound of suonas and the orders of officers at all levels, the firearms soldiers of the Ming Army took out the matchlock muskets carried on their backs, lit them and aimed at the formation of the Annan Army in the distance.

The Ming army's first salvo of firepower ended quickly, but the Annan army was not affected.

There is no other reason than that there are too many Annan people.

Sixty thousand people were crowded on the battlefield. It is no exaggeration to say that hundreds of people in the front row may have died in one second, but the back row still felt that there was no loss of strength in the thick front row.

Moreover, because the gunpowder output in this era was very low, and the Ming army fought across the sea, food was okay, but firearms-related supplies were very difficult to replenish. The gunpowder and lead bullets used on the battlefield were only a small amount. Once they were used, After all the ammunition is consumed, the Ming Army will have almost no other channels to replenish it. Therefore, the Ming Army gunners generally will not waste too much ammunition, and will choose to close the distance to ensure the shooting effect.

Of course, some veterans often wrap lead bullets in cotton cloth and stuff them into their cuffs. Everyone knows that lead is poisonous. In the past, no one did this anymore after some idiots who put it in their mouths were poisoned to death.

In the previous battles, Annan's army had roughly figured out the tactics of these Ming army gunmen. They always liked to suppress their side with intensive firepower, so this time Pan Mahiu also deployed some tactics, without any hesitation. Hesitantly decided to do the opposite, taking advantage of the shortcomings of the fire cannons' short range, allowing the Ming army's fire cannons to get close, and then letting the Annan army's crossbowmen launch a counterattack.

As the suona sounded, the gunmen in the Ming army's line began a second round of volleys. Row after row of lead bullets flew towards the enemy, hitting the shields with a ding-dong-ding-dong sound.

The shields of the Annan Army suddenly shattered, and the infantrymen fell to the ground one after another, bloody and bloody.

However, the Annan Army's counterattack came quickly, and a large number of crossbowmen began to shoot at each other with the Ming Army's musketry in a dense formation.

Although this wave of long-range shots by the Annan Army did not achieve the expected results, it slightly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army's gunners. The Ming Army's gunners also reduced their numbers and were unable to suppress the infantry of the Annan Army unscrupulously.

After the third round of salvos, the Ming army's firepower became significantly sparser.

Pan Maxiu looked at the situation in front of him, frowned and thought for a moment, then made a decision and said to the deputy general beside him: "You order the war elephants in the rear to prepare for dispatch, and they will enter the battlefield when I give my order."

"Yes!" the deputy general responded, and then dispatched the war elephants, intending to give the Ming army a fatal blow.

Pan Maxiu, on the other hand, commanded the 60,000 troops under his command and continued to compete head-on with the Ming army.

The two sides fought fiercely for a while. As time went by, the Annan Army seemed to have gained the initiative. However, the Annan Army was not in a hurry to engage in battle. It still needed to continue to consume the Ming Army's physical strength. After all, this high-intensity Fighting can easily tire you out. No matter how elite a soldier is, wearing dozens of kilograms of iron armor and wielding a weapon, at first he can swing the knife in his hand as light as a willow leaf, but in the end, it feels like he has been filled with lead. heavy.

Pan Mahiu's mentality was very good. He believed that as long as the war elephants entered the battlefield, the Ming army would be finished in half an hour at most, so he was not too anxious. He just wanted to hold off the Ming army and consume as much as possible.

At this time, one of Pan Maxiu's lieutenants rode forward and said: "Report to the general! The commander-in-chief of the Ming army on the west side is gathering troops and horses, and it seems that he is ready to join the station! Moreover, there are still troops and horses at the ferry on the west side of the Ming army. Keep crossing the river.”

Hearing this, Pan Maxiu couldn't help but frowned. That was the last reserve team Li Jinglong had in a short time. Then he glanced at the position of the Ming army, and then said: "In that case, let's give him a Cruel!"

Considering that there are still 10,000 people in the Ming army who will continue to cross the glue to come to support, Pan Maxiu feels that the physical strength of both sides should be almost exhausted. The Ming army should be slower to respond to the sudden war elephants, causing more damage. The effect will also be greater.

He turned his gaze to a Ming army in front, and then decisively ordered: "Instruct all ministries to attack with all their strength! Let the cavalry give up the entanglement and turn their heads to support the front!"

"Kill."

The soldiers of the Annan army received the order and swarmed forward, trying to use their numerical advantage to crush the Ming army. The Ming army also rose up to resist and tried their best to intercept the rushing Annan soldiers. The two sides soon became more strangled together.

When Pan Mahiu saw this scene, a smile flashed across his face. The Ming army was indeed very fierce and tenacious. Unfortunately, the number of the Ming army was still much lower than that of the Annan soldiers.

Since Annan's infantry and cavalry had an absolute advantage in numbers, even if the Ming army had firearms support, they could not stop the joint charge of Annan's infantry and cavalry, and soon the front line began to move back.

Upon seeing this, Annan's army became more and more excited. They shouted and rushed towards their opponents, trying to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

On the Ming army's position, Li Jinglong was holding a telescope and watching the situation in the distance.

It can be judged from Annan's army's actions just now that Annan's army intends to show all its cards. This means that the Ming army can make the same decision boldly without worrying about anything.

Li Jinglong did not dare to show any further neglect, and immediately ordered the Ming army's artillerymen, who had been silent for a long time, to start counterattack.

Following his order, several huge clouds of black smoke immediately rose from the artillery positions at the rear of the Ming army, which were all caused by the firing of dense artillery positions.

Dozens of artillery roared together, and the shells roared and landed on the Annan army's array, smashing out limbs and broken arms all over the sky.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops, the Ming army's artillery fired as far back as possible. The Annan army in the middle was caught off guard and suffered a devastating blow. Many people were unable to dodge or were hit by solid iron bombs. They fell to the ground injured and lost their combat effectiveness. Some unlucky soldiers were even hit by rocks thrown away by artillery shells and died on the spot.

However, this time the Annan Army did not retreat in the face of the superior firepower of the Ming Army.

Because Annan's most powerful unit has appeared.

——War elephant.

The ground began to tremble, and the war elephants were driven towards the battlefield, bringing an unparalleled visual impact to everyone.

The most powerful military weapons in Annan are these huge war elephants. Each war elephant is several feet tall, weighs several tons, and has a huge body. The whole body is covered with strong and thick leather armor, except for vulnerable parts such as the eyes. In addition, there are almost no vital points, and ordinary bows and arrows and swords hardly pose any fatal threat to the fighting elephants.

The War Elephant Legion of Annan Kingdom is the most elite legion in Annan. It has amazing combat effectiveness. It consumes a lot of money every year to maintain this legion. This also leads Pan Mahiu to cherish them particularly. Not only Pan Mahiu, but also Annan's Other senior generals were not willing to let the war elephants go into battle easily, for fear that the war elephants would suffer too much loss, but today the situation in Annan Kingdom was already precarious, and for the sake of victory, Pan Maxiu did not care about this possible loss.

Seeing the spectacular sight in front of him, Pan Maxiu was so excited that his whole body trembled slightly. He felt that the whole world was brightening.

After being chased and beaten by the Ming army for so long, I finally got a chance to take revenge!

What kind of picture is this?

A group of giant beast-like beings roared and charged towards the enemy!

Pan Mahiu's expression became excited, his chest heaved violently for a moment, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Pump them down for me!"

The war elephants of the Annan army were indeed carefully selected. Once they started their sprinting posture, they rushed towards the Ming army camp at extremely fast speeds.

With horrified eyes, the gunmen of the Ming Army watched helplessly as these behemoths rushed into the battlefield, then stamped hard on the ground and rushed towards them.

The gunman of the Ming army hurriedly pulled the trigger, shooting a series of lead bullets towards the war elephant's body.

The cannons of the Ming Army fired for a long time, and the barrels began to get hot due to the high-speed firing, but even if they hit the Annan war elephants, there was no threat to them.

War elephants are too rough-skinned and fleshy. The projectiles fired by Ming army musketeers can at most penetrate the outer layer of leather armor of war elephants, but cannot actually kill war elephants.

Are the promised war elephants afraid of smoke and loud noises?

But in fact, this is a kind of rumor. There are too many smoke and loud noises on the battlefield. If the war elephants are afraid of this and run away, then there will be no such thing as a soldier.

When the soldiers of the Ming Army looked at the huge size of the war elephant, they were so frightened that they fled in all directions. This was beyond the control of military orders. This was human instinct.

Who can see an elephant stamping on your head without moving?

No matter how fast they run, someone will always fall at the feet of the war elephant.

The long trunk of a war elephant swung around, picking up soldiers one by one. Many soldiers screamed and fell to the ground in the chaos, and were killed by the war elephant's foot on their vital organs.

The charging momentum of the war elephants was so great that they seemed to completely destroy the Ming army.

Annan's army felt very happy when they saw this, and a strong confidence arose spontaneously. They felt that God was helping them, and if they added more strength, they could completely annihilate their opponents.

"kill!"

Pan Mahiu roared and led the army to charge towards the Ming army, trying to break down the Ming army's defense.

However, just when they thought that War Elephant was going to repeat the battlefield miracles of the past and defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

Accompanied by a harsh "whoosh" sound, the Ming army launched more than 150 strange vehicles, which were somewhat similar to the gate-cartridges, but the middle was filled with densely packed strange firearms. Under the ignition of the fuse, they were driven by gunpowder power. And out.

Suddenly it flew towards the war elephant, and its tail burst into brilliant light in the air, as beautiful as a meteor shower.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The formation of Annan's war elephants collapsed instantly, and the elephants were covered in blood and flesh, roaring in pain.

This is a large-scale armor-piercing and damaging firearm that Jiang Xinghuo and the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau improved based on the historical prototype weapon - "A Swarm of Bees".

The destructive power of this improved new thing after it explodes is extremely astonishing. It can even blow a human body into pieces. It is most suitable for dealing with tall war elephants. There is no need to aim at all, and it can hit accurately every time.

Countless fireworks exploded.

Watching dozens of war elephants fall to the ground, stirring up dust all over the ground.

Everyone looked stunned.

Watching the Ming army put in heavy armored cavalry and infantry reserves, they launched a counterattack.

Hope of victory was fleeting.

Pan Maxiu knew that he was about to face a final defeat in this battle, and at the same time, the fate of the entire Annan Kingdom was irreversible.

He was commanding all the troops on the southern front. The soldiers and horses on the Furiang River on the northern front could not move at all. At this time, the capital of the country, Shenglong Mansion, was empty.

He buried Dayu with his own hands.

Annan will soon destroy the country.

At this moment, a Song poem he had learned as a child suddenly flashed in his mind.

"The east wind blooms flowers on thousands of trees at night, and blows them down like stars like rain."