Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 804
On the second day after the Ming army attacked Annan, Li Dingguo personally led the Dragon Banner Army across the Fuliang River and broke through the villages of Choujiang, Yunmei, Wanjie, and Pulai.

Under the cover of artillery, the wooden fence along the river was successfully dismantled, and countless Annan troops were captured and beheaded.

Master Zheng said confidently, "The defense line of nine hundred miles and four rivers that the Ming army could not conquer even a million people."

It took only one day for the Ming army to make a strong breakthrough. Even the defenders didn't understand what was going on, but they suddenly found out that they were prisoners of the Ming army.

In this battle, the Ming army beheaded 13 generals of the Zheng family, causing more than 8000 casualties to the Annan army.

On the third day

The Ming Navy went on to conquer Dongchao, Liangjiang and other prefectures, and defeated the Annan Army's navy on the Muwan River.

Killed more than 3000 people, captured more than [-] officers, and Annan's army drowned countless people.

The two navies broke through the water respectively, Haiphong, Honji, Da Nang, Nha Trang, etc., all the way was like a broken bamboo. Under the attack of the Ming army's strong ships and guns, the coastal cities of Annan had no power to stop them.

On the army side, Li Dingguo's Dragon Banner Army continued to go south to capture Thang Long.

From the southern border of Ming Dynasty to Shenglong, the capital of Annan Kingdom, the distance is only three hundred miles.

Li Dingguo led the Daming Dragon Banner army to advance more than [-] li in just three days.

Killing tens of thousands of Annan's army along the way made the enemy frightened, and no one dared to fight!
On the fifth day of February in the 20th year of Chongzhen, Li Dingguo ordered people to build a fortress in Xianziguan to attract Annan's army to attack.

The Annan army marched from Fuliangjiang in an attempt to harass and prevent the Ming army from staying permanently.

Li Dingguo led his troops to fight against the shore, Huang Fei led the navy to block the attack, and the navy and army perfectly cooperated to defeat Annan's army.

He killed [-] people with almost no effort, and the river was stained red with the blood of Annan's army.

The Annan army fled in embarrassment, abandoned their boats and fled ashore. The Ming army took advantage of the victory and pursued them all the way to Cishan, the last strong city in front of the capital of Annan.

The Annan Cishan defenders practiced non-stop day and night, and arranged defenses strictly.

In order to deal with the Ming army, they even called in the trump card of Annan's army - the Xiang army!
Elephants, strong and huge, can be said to be invulnerable on the battlefield.

And the elephant's attack power is very strong. If you step on it, your liver and gallbladder will be torn, and if you throw its nose, it can lift a person seven or eight meters away and break it into a comminuted fracture.

Alexander, who swept across the Middle East 2000 years ago, was invincible and occupied the entire territory of Egypt and annexed the Persian Empire without a single soldier.

When their army marched to the Indus River Basin in an attempt to conquer India, they encountered Indian elephants.

Alexander's expeditionary army could not kill war elephants with swords and guns. Even the proud Macedonian phalanx suffered unprecedented heavy losses under the impact of the elephant array, and Alexander himself was seriously injured.

During the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the British Duke Zhang Fu led an army to expedition to Annan, and Annan also set up an elephant formation to deal with the Ming army.

At that time, Zhang Fu used virtual weapons. The Ming army used painted lion skins to drape on the horses, and then covered the horse's eyes to launch an impact, and supplemented it with magic weapons, and finally defeated Annan Xiangzheng.

Although I don't know why Annan's elephants are afraid of lions, the British Duke successfully defeated Annan's elephant formation.

After a lapse of 200 years, with the experience of the last failure, the Annan Army, in order to prevent the Ming Army from repeating its old tricks, asked the elephant slaves to blindfold the war elephants and drive the war elephants away.

The elephant army is not a joke. When the elephant formation launched a collective charge, the oncoming behemoths were still a large group. Who can bear it!
Not to mention the impact of the elephant herd, this kind of scene alone would cause great psychological panic to the Ming army.

On February [-], the two armies fought. Annan's army mobilized [-] infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] war elephants to face the Ming army. This was Annan's most powerful and last force.

The Annan army arranged the elephants in front of the infantry, and the cavalry on the two wings. The formation of the army was like a city, the elephants were like a bastion, and the heavy cavalry was like a surrounding city wall.

In front of the Ming army formation, Liu Wenxiu looked at the tall war elephants of the Annan army, feeling a little apprehensive in his heart, and suggested sideways:
"Second brother, I heard that in the past, the British Duke Zhang Fu conquered Annan, and when facing the Chen Chaoxiang formation, he used lion skins on the horses. Why don't we avoid the edge first and follow the example of the British Duke to be fully prepared before sending troops."

Li Dingguo gave Liu Wenxiu a white look:
"There is no preparation in advance, you go find me a lion skin!"

Before attacking Annan, he studied war elephants for a few days, and found that the most fatal weakness of war elephants was their fear of fire. Almost all defeats of war elephants in history were related to fire.

Of course, this time Annan was smart enough to cover the eyes of the war elephants for fire protection. Using the old method obviously won't work!
Liu Wenxiu didn't know how the second brother could deal with Xiangzhen.

When attacking the Toungoo Dynasty, they defeated the Burmese elephant formation.

However, there are only [-] elephants in Myanmar, and Annan has a total of [-] elephants this time, which looks intimidating.

When the battle begins, more than 1000 war elephants sit on their necks or backs.

They usually train the elephants strictly, but at this time they command the elephants to charge forward and cover the eyes of the elephants with cloth.

Following the order of Commander Annan, a large area was immediately covered in darkness, and more than a thousand war elephants swung their trunks, showed their tusks, stepped forward, and carried soldiers on their backs, rushing towards the Ming army's position like a tide.

Faced with the impact of the Annan elephant formation, Li Dingguo calmly ordered:

"The tiger squatting guns were ready to shoot, the grenade throwers threw grenades when the elephant formations approached, and the other soldiers shot and killed the elephant soldiers when they had the opportunity.

Be careful not to line up, and be ready to retreat to the sides at any time to avoid the impact of elephants. "

"Yes"

The Dragon Banner Army artillery and throwers were immediately ready.

Li Dingguo looked at the five hundred tiger squatting guns aimed at the Annan elephant formation, and turned to Liu Wenxiu and said:

"Third brother, lead all the snipers of the Dragon Banner Army to shoot on both sides of the artillery, and cooperate with the tiger squatting artillery to kill the elephant."

Liu Wenxiu immediately gave the order to move to both sides of the artillery with the Dragon Banner Army snipers.

"Da da da……"

There was an earth-shattering sound, and a thousand Annan elephants galloped forward, and on the backs of the elephants sat the elephant soldiers commanding the elephants.

As the elephant got closer, the whole ground began to shake.

Li Dingguo waved his hand:

"Tiger squatting cannon fire."

The orderly immediately raised the order flag in his hand:
"The governor has orders, fire!"

"Rumble..."

At a distance of 500 meters, the artillery of the Daming Dragon Banner Army began to fire.

At such a long distance, shotgun bullets have little effect, and the artillerymen of the Dragon Banner Army began to use solid bullets the size of fists.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Five hundred solid bullets shot towards Annan's elephant formation quickly.

"Puff puff……"

It is said that elephants are invulnerable to swords and guns. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is not realistic to simply kill elephants with cold weapons.

However, under the bombardment of the solid bullets of Daming Tiger's squatting gun, some elephants were shot and fell down soon.

The solid bullet hit the elephant's head with huge inertia, and still blasted a bloody hole in the elephant's head.

It's just that the effect of the attack on the elephant is not very good, and the elephant's attack is also torn to pieces.

However, under the command of the elephant soldiers, the elephant still rushed towards the Ming army screaming strangely.

(End of this chapter)