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Chapter 643

Boom boom boom!The heavy war elephants trampled on the ground, making the ground tremble slightly. More than 30 war elephants tamed by the Chenla Kingdom were pushed out by Chenla soldiers and lined up in front of the army formation with great momentum.

Deng Qianlong put away the binoculars, he had never fought against such a battle elephant formation.

"General, you have to be careful of their elephant formation. Their usual tactic is to let the elephants take the lead, and then the army will press in behind. If the attack fails, the infantry and archers will retreat first, and then the elephants will stand behind to block the enemy." Ruan Youcai Remind Deng Qianlong.

He didn't expect that Deng Qianlong would go crazy and wanted to take down the royal city of Chenla Kingdom, so he could only regard Deng Qianlong as an out-and-out lunatic.On the same boat as the Kyushu Army, Ruan Youcai had to stand in Deng Qianlong's position.

"What kind of broken elephant array, push our artillery to the front and load it with flowering bullets." Deng Qianlong was just curious about the elephant array, but it didn't mean he was afraid.

Soon the eight field guns were pushed to the left and right wings of the front row, forming a cross firepower.

"Kill!" Relying on its large number of people, the Chenla Kingdom took the lead in driving away the elephants and launched an attack on [-] Nanyang Fleet soldiers.

"Bombardment!"

As soon as the army formation of the Chenla Kingdom moved, the gunners of the Nanyang Fleet began to bombard their elephant formation first.

boom!Boom!The strong recoil caused the bronze artillery to stop, and then the white smoke from the gunpowder filled the air, and the artillery fell into more than 30 war elephants!

From the king to the ordinary soldiers in the Chenla Kingdom, the artillery has been seen before, but the artillery I saw was an immature bronze cannon produced in the early or mid-Ming Dynasty. Unexpectedly, the range of the smoothbore cannon after 200 years has improved a lot. Their formation is within the artillery range of the Nanyang Fleet!
The explosive bomb landed, the fuze exploded, and the broken shrapnel flew around, piercing into the war elephant's body!The huge body of a war elephant is originally suitable for charging in the cold weapon era, and it is more powerful than a chariot.But at this time, it became the target of the explosive shrapnel attack!The sharp fragments pierced into the elephant's body, and the elephant groaned in pain as it suffered.In addition, the thick limbs of the war elephant were scratched by shrapnel, and its bulky body fell to the ground, crushing the shield soldier beside it to death.

Just eight flowering bombs fell into the elephant formation, which caused a riot in the elephant formation, which hindered the Chenla soldiers behind.

"Load the artillery and prepare for the second round of shelling!" The gunner of the Kyushu Army saw that the elephants were in chaos, so he calmly directed the gunners to clean the barrel and load ammunition.

Eight field cannons fired one after another, and just these eight cannons alone could make more than ten thousand soldiers of Zhenla Kingdom into a mess, unable to rectify their formation and start attacking for a long time.There was even a riot in the rear of the troops, wanting to run back to Wudong City, beating on the city gate, asking the defenders to open it.

The King of Chenla Kingdom stood at the head of the city, watching his subordinates in a hurry, scratching their ears and scratching their heads, wishing he could go down and put on his armor to fight.

"Trash, it's all trash!" The King of Chenla Kingdom could only grieve. He wanted to command the troops to change formations, but the soldiers of Chenla Kingdom who had been defeated repeatedly did not have such good discipline, and the more they adjusted, the more chaotic they became.

Deng Qianlong also felt baffled, the army of the Chenla Kingdom was too poor, and after being bombarded by him with artillery, it became a mess. He couldn't help but feel that the 2000 people on hand might really be able to take down the royal city of the Chenla Kingdom.Although it is impossible to conquer all the tribes and villages in such a large place, even the king of Chenla did not dare to say that he could control a specific village.So as long as Wudong City is captured, it can basically be regarded as controlling the Chenla Kingdom, and if you want to crusade against the tribes in the Chenla Kingdom in the future, you can become famous.

"Since they are already in chaos and unable to attack us, let us fight over by ourselves." Deng Qianlong waited impatiently, gave the military order, and rows of Nanyang Fleet soldiers holding muskets formed a line square to the Chenla Kingdom Press over.

Originally equipped with breech-loading rifles, soldiers of the Kyushu Army have begun to use skirmishers, but the skirmishers are used to abuse and use arquebus line arrays, and to deal with the Chenla army, which is dominated by cold weapons and has worrying discipline, is still Line array free fire has great lethality.

At a distance of 200 meters, the muskets used by the soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet could already shoot and kill the soldiers of the Chenla Kingdom, but the bows and arrows of the soldiers of the Chenla Kingdom could not hit the soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet anyway.

Every time the Kyushu Army moved forward, a large number of soldiers fell in the army of the Chenla Kingdom, and the remaining soldiers retreated in fright!They have repeatedly failed in battles with the Siamese country, and they cherish their feathers very much. Seeing the bullets that will fly from the opposite side and make the surrounding companions fall down, they are scared out of their wits!
"Open the door and let us in!" The soldiers behind the Chenla formation couldn't bear the pressure of being shot at any time, and finally gradually collapsed.

They slammed on the gate of Wudong City, urging the defenders to open the gate.The Kyushu Army in the back is like a shepherd driving a group of sheep to be slaughtered into the sheepfold.

"Don't let them enter the city!" Seeing that his subordinates not only failed to defeat the enemy, but were also driven back by the Kyushu Army, which was far smaller in number than them, the King of Chenla couldn't help stamping his feet anxiously.He knew very well that the city gate could not be opened at this time, otherwise the defeated army would cause the situation in the city to get out of control, and the enemy army would also invade the city.

"Your Majesty, the city guard is the brother-in-law of a general outside the city, and he has already opened the city gate privately!" The imperial guards at the bottom of the city hurried up the city wall, asking the King of Chenla for help.

"This idiot!" The king of Chenla yelled, and hurriedly led the imperial guards down to close the city gate.

But the gate of the city was already full of soldiers from the Chenla Kingdom who crowded in, rubbing against each other, like a flood that was released from the flood, and they couldn't be blocked even if they wanted to.More Chenla soldiers in the rear also want to enter the city that they think is safe.

"Commander, should we take the opportunity to capture Wudong City in one go?" Deng Qianlong's subordinate Sun Xu asked.

"Let's attack, I really didn't expect their formation to be broken in one blow. This is not a battle, it is clearly a massacre." Deng Qianlong didn't expect that Chenla's foreign powers were completely empty shells, so many soldiers were purely for scaring. The city is under siege.

"However, we still have to leave 300 people as a reserve team to stand still, so as to prevent their retreat from being deceitful." Although Deng Qianlong saw the retreat of the soldiers of the Chenla Kingdom, he still kept his eyes open and was fighting wits and courage against the air.

What surprised him the most was Ruan Youcai who came with him. He witnessed the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Fleet and how vulnerable the Chenla Kingdom was.

"Even if our Ruan family sends thousands of people, we can conquer them." Ruan Youcai said with emotion.It's a pity that the Ruan family wanted to fight the Zheng family, so they never had a chance to take over the Chenla Kingdom. As a result, the Kyushu Army is now at a disadvantage.

(End of this chapter)