Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty: Seven hundred fifty-three war elephants

Elephants have been trained by humans to become war elephants a long time ago, and become another combat machine besides war horses. Whether it is used to charge or siege a city, the role of war elephants is extremely significant.

War elephants are more used in wars in Europe, and the famous Macedonian Legion, Roman Legion, etc. have all suffered from war elephants.

When the Persian dynasty was still at its peak, the Macedonian Army was easily defeated by the 15 war elephants in the center of the army.

One of the four greatest military generals in European history: Hannibal, there was a corps composed of war elephants in his army, but it was later cracked by the Romans, but at that time , Did not really find a way to defeat the War Elephant Legion.

You can imagine that when a behemoth weighing four or five tons, coupled with a war elephant in armor and charging at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, such a shocking scene will cause enemies on the battlefield. What kind of visual impact and tremendous psychological pressure!

The destructive power of its charge is even more powerful. Its thick legs can trample on soldiers at will. The long ivory is no less than any sharp spear during the impact.

In addition, the war elephant itself is so high that it can overlook the height of the enemy, as well as the spears and longbows in the hands of soldiers on the back of the war elephant.

The huge weight and the thick-skinned self-defense capabilities make the battle formation composed of war elephants a nightmare for both cavalry and infantry. No one is willing to go with it easily. Be the enemy, fight against it.

Strong maneuverability, defensive power, lethality, including the deterrence brought by the roar, makes the war elephant like the real master of war, invincible and invincible.

Especially for war horses who are not familiar with the smell of war elephants. Even if the elephant roars together, it is a disaster for war horses who have not been familiar with war elephants, even without being attacked. When they come, the horses will flee in fright without following orders, and it is difficult to pose a threat to the elephants.

But the reason why the warhorse has been able to become the cold weapon era, the existence of the enduring cruel battlefield is that it does not have fatal shortcomings, nor does it have perfect advantages. Its perfect balance is to allow It did its part and became the battle animal that humans are more willing to choose on the battlefield.

Naturally, war horses can outperform war elephants in the cold weapon era, and can become an evergreen tree in the military. It is enough to show that war elephants have shortcomings that humans cannot overcome. Once this shortcoming is used by the enemy, then war elephants It becomes unreasonable.

Fear of fire is the Achilles’ heel of a war elephant. No matter how humans are trained, when a war elephant faces a raging fire, the fear factor hidden in its nature will be completely exposed. Once a large-scale fire is formed on the battlefield, Then not only can the war elephants be unable to hurt the enemy, they can even trample and destroy their own defensive formations when they are mad.

Without the enemy’s hands, the elephants after being attacked by the fire will confuse themselves and flee in all directions. The enemy’s camp is only left in chaos and fled from the wind. At this time, it can only be left alone. Slaughtered, waiting for defeat.

Standing on the high platform, Li Hong and Li Zhe, accompanied by lawlessness, looked around. The army formation of dozens of war elephants on the school field was confronting the cavalry unit.

In the absence of fire, in addition to the guards led by Wei Tuqi, who just joined, they can also rely on their superior mobility and powerful ability to control war horses, and they can barely fight the war elephants. The other cavalry are already in a mess.

Faced with the roar of the elephant, the warhorse often mustered up the courage to run a dozen steps forward at the urging of the owner, and then showed fear and stopped moving without following the command.

Even when the war elephant is facing it and has not moved forward, the war horse will automatically turn around and run back, selling the back of its owner directly to the enemy for "no money".

The war elephants on the school field each have a solid elephant on the back. In the elephant sits a soldier holding a horse and a crossbow, and there are two elephants driving in front of the soldier. Soldiers holding bows and crossbows, the three of them formed a single, invincible combat unit.

The three people on the backs of the war elephant can either shoot or use their horses to fight the enemy when they urge the war elephant to move forward. If they complement each other, they can condescendingly perform unsuspecting orders against the enemy. Aspect killing.

Beside the four legs of the war elephant that are as thick as a column, each stands a soldier holding a sword and shield, guarding the bottom plate of the war elephant, so as not to be attacked by the enemy on the chaotic battlefield.

A war elephant with seven soldiers formed a combat group with great lethality. It is conceivable that when there are dozens or hundreds of such groups, the huge destructive power it brings, What kind of damage will it cause to the enemy.

Whether it is the Tang Dynasty, the former Sui Dynasty or the Great Han Dynasty, because of the restrictions and environment of the Central Plains, coupled with the hostile relationship, the group forces that pose a threat to the Central Plains are located in the west and north directions, so history is very Rarely fight against war elephants.

Now Li Hong has set his sights on the southwest. The War Elephant, a combat machine that is still relatively unfamiliar to Datang, has become a "difficult problem" that the War Horse needs to overcome today.

Lawlessness and others have led the Buddha Camp in the Central Army and have conducted many simulation battles with the elephants, but none of them can break through the enemy's army like other cavalry. Strategy It is difficult to get the initiative in hand.

Li Hong looked at the smoke and dust of the schoolyard. The sounds of fighting, roaring, and hissing were mixed together, but even if he personally supervised the formation, his damage to the War Elephant Group had little effect.

Lawlessness frowned. When facing Li Hong's look, their faces were full of guilt and embarrassment. When they were about to kneel down to plead guilty, they were stopped by Li Hong's hand.

Looking at the entrance of the barracks, a large cannibal cavalry unit slowly came in, Li Hong said lightly: "The people who lead you win them, you don't have to worry about conquering the elephant."

"Your Highness..."

Lawlessness is still guilty of wanting to kneel down and plead guilty. Since they took charge of the Central Army, they have always been considered the most brave generals under His Royal Highness.

But now facing these 100 war elephants, they suddenly become helpless, and their hearts are full of unwillingness and guilt, and they feel that they have failed Li Hong's expectations.

"Don't worry, there is a way. Go ahead and prepare." Li Hong patted the shoulders of the two again, and then took Li Zhe to meet Saleh and others.

"Do you really have a way?" Li Zhe asked impatiently behind him.

Li Hong stared at the front triumphantly, watching the Great Tang Central Army in the school field, chased by the war elephants all over the field in embarrassment, the laughter was even more presumptuous, and he did not leave Li Hong any affection. surface.

"For a while, you will pretend to be angry and angry, and then pull all these war elephants into the barracks of Qinling." Li Hong sneered and said to Li Zhe lightly.

"What are you doing?" Li Zhe didn't understand Li Hong's intention.

"To confuse the enemy, didn't Salih smile very arrogantly? Isn't he so proud of seeing us helpless against the war elephants? You just follow him and say you want to pull these war elephants into the Qinling Mountains to kill ……."

"You won't be serious? The Central Army hasn't figured out a way to conquer the elephant. What if we kill us..." Li Zhe saw that Li Hong's expression was not like a joke, even the corners of his mouth were exposed. With a trace of bloodthirsty expression, he hurriedly continued to ask nervously.

"Are you stupid? Those elephants will be useless in a while, kill them for everyone, and keep the ivory for me. Also, keep those white elephants, which are dedicated to the Kingdom of Zhenla Don’t kill the father’s gift, or the father will have to rush you.” Li Hong looked back and said, Li Zhe, who was also a little frustrated because of the passive scene of the school, said.

White elephants are tamed to perform. Compared with those tamed to fight, they have no fighting power at all. They even kneel down in front of the horses, just eat and drink in the palace. There is no difference in Bai Qi.

The difference between Baiqi and the wolf is that one is a pet and the other is a beast, which is incomparable.

"What did you do to pull the elephant into the Qinling Mountains?" Li Zhe continued to ask without giving up.

Today’s army of elephants in the school grounds has already caused him a lot of psychological pressure~IndoMTL.com~ So at this time, Li Zhe is just like a horn of horns, and he has to break the casserole and ask the end. A clear answer, he will not give up.

There are even more worries and worries in my heart. Does Datang’s cavalry really have no chance of winning in the face of the war?

He couldn't accept this fact. After all, Datang today, in his opinion, should be an invincible and invincible powerful empire. It should be an existence that no one can defeat.

Now these hundred war elephants have left their most elite Central Army helpless. Li Zhe couldn't accept such a result in his heart, and even wished to kill them all to vent his anger, as Li Hong said.

But when I thought that only relying on these war elephants could find a way to overcome it, Li Hong, who had been tempered for a long time in Anxi, began to understand patience and could not act impulsively like before.

So when he heard that Li Hong was going to slaughter these war elephants, his first reaction was that the old fifth became angry and he had to stop the fifth impulse.

"There is everything you want to know, how to conquer the elephant, and there is the answer. The hard work is already there waiting for you, but you have to remember that this method is only you know it, anyone Don't tell at all."

"Don't even tell you?" Li Zhe looked at the old fifth's confident eyes, and gradually began to believe that Li Hong shouldn't be so stupid. When he couldn't defeat these war elephants, he chose to kill himself. Elephant, let's deliberately fake the powerful image of the Central Army.

"I knew it a long time ago." Li Hong pushed Li Zhe a hand, then watched Saleh walk towards him.

(ps: The war elephant is real, but the Chinese people don’t know how to defeat the war elephant, so it’s a bit of a joke, so the story needs it, don’t be true. Also, there are three more changes today, I feel this tone is much bigger than you guys It's still long, so why don't you increase the monthly pass.)