Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 805
Looking at the overwhelming elephants rushing, Li Dingguo waved his big hand again:
"For the shotgun, the rifleman kills the elephant soldiers on the elephant."

The orderly immediately waved the command flag:
"The governor has an order to change the shotgun!"

"Yes"

The artillerymen of the Dragon Banner Army immediately switched to shotgun shells:
"Rumble..."

"Rumble..."

Five hundred tiger squatting guns fired together, and hundreds of thousands of iron beads and gravel flew towards the charging elephant.

"Pfft..."

The elephants had rough skin and thick flesh, and the shotgun bombarded them directly into the elephant's body.

But the elephants were still attacking the Ming army, and only a dozen were killed by the shotgun.

There are so many elephants that killing a dozen of them will have no effect at all.

Li Dingguo saw that this was not going to work, and the elephant herd would soon rush to the artillery.

"Riflemen, fire!"

As the general order was issued, the musketeers of the Ming army took a step forward, raised their guns and fired at the elephant soldiers on the back of the elephant!
Amidst the flames and crackling sound, the elephant soldiers controlling the elephants were shot and rolled down one after another. They were trampled to death by the elephants behind them mercilessly, splashing white and red all over the ground.

However, the war elephants are still charging, and the heavy hoofbeats are like beating drums, and the momentum is huge and unstoppable!

Li Dingguo calmly ordered again:

"Shooting elephant legs and trunks..."

The Musketeers of the Dragon Banner Army lowered their guns one point in a uniform manner.

The front sight aimed at the long trunk of the war elephant, regardless of whether it could be shot or not, the state was put on display.

The battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the Ming army's bullets swept across like rain, and the huge war elephant's trunk and legs were shot.

Some war elephants neighed and screamed in pain, turned around and ran back, trampled to death for a while in order to expand the chaos.

Li Dingguo ordered the light artillery battalion to be transferred over, and used mortars and grenade launchers to attack and force the war elephants back.Annan infantry.

What Li Dingguo wants is this effect, so that the enemy's sharp weapon becomes the Ming army's sharp weapon!

In order to expand the confusion, he ordered the use of mortar fire to force the elephants back.

"Rumble..."

Mortars began to explode through the elephant herd.

In this way, mortars, tiger squat guns and rifled guns fired together. The soldiers quickly carried the shells, delivered them in an orderly manner, and the skilled loaders stuffed them one after another, tilting their heads to hide from time to time. He covered his ears aside.

The fast-firing mortars and tiger squatting cannon shells took off and fell into the herd of war elephants, igniting black smoke.

At the same time, the muskets of the Ming army kept shooting at the front of the elephant formation. Although they could not cause lethal damage to the elephants, their deterrent effect was quite powerful. At least they could prevent the elephants from continuing to charge forward.

In the end, the galloping war elephants couldn't resist the Ming army's weapons, and they were screamed and bumped in shock. They turned around and ran away, and scattered the Annan infantry who were about to take advantage of it.

So many elephants turned around and fled, but Annan's infantry were in bad luck. Countless people were trampled to death, and Annan's army suddenly became chaotic.

"attack"

Li Dingguo ordered to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the Ming army shouted and killed the Annan army who was in chaos.

Facing the fierce attack, Annan's war elephants turned their backs one after another, and Annan's army, which fled in panic, completely lost the courage to resist, and tens of thousands of people collapsed without a fight.

The Dragon Banner Army quickly attacked, crossed the heavy trench, climbed the city with ladders, and took advantage of the situation to capture Cishan.

Guarding Cishan was Zheng Qiao's second son, Zheng Qiao. He left his family and ran away, and was shot by a Ming army sniper during his escape, and his whole family was taken prisoner.

In the battle of Tsz Shan, the valiant Annan army collapsed at the first touch. More than a dozen senior generals were captured, and the remnants were chased to the Red River by the Ming army. Except for those who committed suicide by jumping into the river, the rest all surrendered.

The Dragon Banner Army wiped out the Annan Army camp on both wings of Thang Long, and quickly rushed to Thang Long, the capital of Annan.

As the capital of Annan Kingdom, Shenglong City is tall and strong, and if you want to make a strong attack, you will have to pay a high price.

Li Dingguo decided not to give Zheng the slightest chance to react!Kill them directly!
Thang Long Palace.

On the throne, Zheng Bing closed his eyes and meditated, motionless, as if he was about to ascend to heaven.

Two days ago, the Ming army's powerful offensive made him faint on the spot, and he was in a coma for two days.

A palace guard came with small steps and said softly:

"Your Majesty, the crown prince is seeking an audience outside the palace again, saying that he has something urgent to report."

Zheng Yan said displeasedly: "There is something urgent again? Let him in!"

In recent days, Zheng Bing has been very displeased with the performance of the eldest son, and has the idea of ​​changing the establishment of the eldest son and letting the second son Zheng Qiao succeed him.

Now that Zheng Qiao is guarding Cishan, if he can defeat the Ming army with the elephant formation, his prestige will rise greatly, and it will be a matter of course for him to change his son.
In his thoughts, the eldest son Zheng Zuo came in a hurry, and said in a horrified tone:

"Father, something is wrong!"

"What's so alarming about?"

Zheng Bing opened his eyes angrily, and waved his hand to order the servants beside him to go down.

"Father, the Ming army has already attacked outside Shenglong City!"

Zheng Zuo was out of breath and didn't catch his breath, tremblingly said:

"They are approaching the city, ready to attack the city!"

Zheng Bing slapped the table angrily and shouted:

"Nonsense! Your second brother Zheng Qiao is still guarding Cishan. If Cishan is not destroyed, how can the Ming army reach Shenglong?"

The old man's lungs exploded with anger, and the son seemed to be frightened by the emperor's will. Every day he preached how powerful the Ming army was, but today he went crazy, indicating that the army is coming!
Could it be that the Ming army can fly?Bypass Tsz Shan and kill Ben Thang Long?
Zheng Zuo said with tears:
"Father, I didn't lie to you, you can go and see for yourself!"

Shizi didn't believe it at first, but when the guard dragged him up to the tower to have a look, he was dumbfounded.

The day before yesterday, I received a report from my second brother Zheng Qiao that the Ming army was coming to Tsz Shan, but the second brother who was good at fighting made a strong promise in the letter that he would use the elephant array to defeat the Ming army. If he failed, he would be able to defend Tsz Shan for a month!

But in less than two days, the Ming army broke Cishan?

If he hadn't seen dozens of elephants in the formation of the Ming army, the prince would never have believed that Cishan, which was heavily populated by soldiers, was gone!

Zheng Yi looked at Shizi suspiciously, and suddenly asked:

"You let me go to the tower? Are you trying to force my father to step aside?"

The prince always wanted to meddle in state affairs, and he got quite close to the generals who defended the city, so Zheng Yi had to guard against it.

After all, things like usurping the throne are not uncommon in Annan.

The son was stunned for a moment, what time is it, his father can still think so.

He was completely disappointed with his father's way of handling things. If the Ming army hadn't already called, he really wanted to contact his trusted generals to launch a coup and seize the old man's throne!

Seeing his father like this, Shizi didn't want to talk anymore, so he turned and went to the tower.

After a quarter of an hour, Master Zheng came out of the palace and went straight to the tower.

Wang Jiazhong and Zheng Bing also faintly heard the chaos in the surrounding streets and alleys, but this street has been cleared by the palace guards.

He was very puzzled, but he still didn't believe that the Ming army appeared under Shenglong City.

When the guard saw Wang Jia, he hurried to see him, and presented a letter from the Ming army:
"Your Majesty, the Ming army issued an ultimatum. They threatened that if Your Majesty does not surrender today, they will kill the entire Zheng clan!"

(End of this chapter)