nanming man

Chapter 1031
Sun Kewang held the reins and watched the confrontation between the two armies on the western front. He saw countless flames sprayed out from the two fronts at the same time, and the smoke that rose up spread along the front lines, forming two parallel smoke belts in an instant.

Liu Wenxiu said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the Ming army may be in trouble again."

Sun Kewang was very unhappy, the Wei army was very powerful in their musket fire, the Ming army was repeatedly defeated in the fire, and now they are fighting with the Wei army, the failure is simply to blame.

However, the line infantry is an infantry formation that radiates frontal firepower to the extreme. Except for the horizontal formation of the Ming army, other formations will only lose worse and faster.

With the development of firearms, the previous military formations were gradually eliminated. For example, in the general battle of the Wei army, the infantry had only two formations, one horizontal formation and the other hollow square formation.

Under the same strength, the horizontal formation has a wide front and can shoot more projectiles at a time, so he restrains the square formation, while the hollow square formation has depth and is equipped with musketeers inside, it can restrain the cavalry, and finally the cavalry can restrain the no depth, flanking soldiers. The horizontal array with weak firepower forms a cycle of mutual restraint.

The Wei army not only has an elite infantry, but also has a large number of cavalry, which owns the entire cycle, while the Ming army lacks one link. Their lack of cavalry is equivalent to one less card, so they are often very passive in battle.

On the western front, bursts of gunshots rang out, and the soldiers of the two armies fell to the ground in groups, and the soldiers in the back row stepped forward again.

Sun Kewang watched the two armies shoot at each other. Wei Jun's horizontal formation of musketeers had already been dispatched. He waited for Wei Jun to play the second card, but Wei Jun's cavalry reined in their horses and did not help the musketeers to quickly defeat the Ming army's horizontal formation.

If the cavalry of the Wei army attacked, Sun Kewang would consider rushing down from a high place, outflanking the advancing Wei army, and flanking the Wei army with the Ming army, but the Wei army's cavalry could not come out, which made him dare not rush into the western front easily.

Just as he was thinking, he forgot to observe the battlefield, when Liu Wenxiu exclaimed in his ears: "No, the Ming army's line has loosened!"

The two armies shot at each other, and the Ming army finally couldn't stand it anymore. During the volley of muskets fired by the Wei army, there was chaos in the front line, the volley was no longer orderly, and some people began to retreat.

Sun Kewang looked up and knew that he couldn't wait any longer. Seeing that the Wei army on the western front would not give him a chance to attack, he made a decisive decision and waved his hands, "The elephants attack and smash the right wing of the Wei army!"

Sun Kewang was going to outflank the left wing of the Wei army, but the cavalry on the left wing of the Wei army did not move, so he did not dare to act rashly, and the coalition army's musket array was shaken, and the left wing might not be able to hold on for too long, so he decided to attack the weak right wing of the Wei army, and then outflank the middle army of the Wei army. Thereby playing the purpose of reversing the situation.

At the sound of the military order, the trumpets and drums sounded suddenly, and the soldiers of Zhou army drove the war elephants out slowly.

At this time, Huang Bingzhong led [-] cavalry and had already formed a large formation.The soldiers of the Wei army had long spears in the front, firecrackers in the back, and rode to cover their wings. The antlers in front of the formation refused to horses, and they were connected with iron hooks. The artillery was placed on the two wings, standing still and ready to go.

"Moo~" Zhou Jun's war elephants raised their noses and let out a long hiss. After walking down the high slope, more than two hundred war elephants gradually picked up their speed.

These behemoths shook the mountain with momentum when they hit, and their intention was very obvious, which was to directly attack the front of the Wei army and smash the Wei army's front into pieces.

The Zhou army's war elephant rushed towards the top of Mount Tai, which made the soldiers of the Wei army change color. Many soldiers of the Wei army who had never seen an elephant couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva and sweating their palms.

Huang Bingzhong's face was gloomy, and he held up his spear, "Arm!"

"Mountain! Mountain! Mountain!" Wei Jun's spearmen shouted in unison, emboldened themselves, and stabbed their spears obliquely.

The cannons on the two wings of the Wei army had their black muzzles raised high, and the ammunition had been filled. The gunners holding torches stared at the charging elephants with an extremely serious expression.

On the Huguang battlefield, the Wei army was defeated several times by the Zhou army's war elephants. The infantry wearing heavy armor and holding long spears more than one foot long, as well as a large number of musketeers, all watched the cavalry charge solemnly.

Although the generals of the Wei army were full of fear of war elephants, the elite soldiers of all battles, knowing that they might die, would stick to their positions under the strict warlord.

The ground was trembling, the defense line of the Wei Army was trembling, and the giant hooves of the Zhou Army's war elephants trampled on the ground like huge waves, coming head-on!

After the war elephant, [-] soldiers of the Zhou army followed closely behind and launched a fierce charge to the right wing of the Wei army, intending to defeat the right wing of the Wei army in one go.

"Bombardment!" Huang Bingzhong ordered loudly.

The soldiers of the Wei army in front of the formation felt the tremor of the ground, and they couldn't help but turned their heads to look at the two wings, hoping that the artillery of the Wei army could give these giants a head-on blow and boost the morale of the army.

The gunners of the Wei army on both wings moved the torch close to the fuse, and the fuse immediately flickered with flames, and burrowed into the medicine room.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The expectant voice of the generals of the Wei army sounded, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the artillery arrays on both sides, and the shells roared out, smashing into the enemy group.

When a puff of mud rose up among the elephants, the elephant that was hit made a frightening cry, and its huge body rolled and rubbed on the ground due to inertia, which immediately made the Wei soldiers cheer.

However, immediately after, the soldiers of the Wei army discovered that the remaining war elephants continued to run wildly without stopping, and their faces immediately showed fear again.

In the distance under the flag of the Wei Army, Gao Yihuan stared at the right wing with a solemn expression, and Chen Mingxia beside him said in a deep voice: "Sun Kewang knows that our army's firearms are powerful, so it must be that we have conducted special training on the war elephants, or made some preparations."

Gao Yihuan remained silent with a gloomy face, but continued to observe with the binoculars.

"Muskets, rockets, thunder!" Huang Bingzhong shouted loudly, the speed of the war elephant was so fast that the distance of several hundred steps arrived in the blink of an eye, and it was too late to give orders one after another.

"Bang bang bang~" In the Wei army formation, the musketeers turned the fear in their hearts into bullets in the chamber, and shot them suddenly, and the gunshots in the formation were like thunderbolts.

At the same time, the Wei army's rocket swished out with tail flames, and the soldiers threw thunder, rushing to the front of the war elephant, and fell to the ground in response. The spearmen in the front row crashed into the air.

Gunpowder smoke filled the front line, and under the bombardment of all kinds of firepower, the Zhou army's war elephants fell halfway, forming a certain chaos, but the remaining war elephants rushed out of the gunpowder smoke and crashed into the Wei army's line.

In an instant, the spear broke, and the huge war elephant smashed the Wei army's line with an irresistible posture. The long ivory arched left and right, and the soldiers of the Wei army were smashed to death and strangled to death.

The spear array, which was effective against cavalry, lost its effect in front of the war elephants. The Zhou army's war elephants opened the Wei army's line like plowing the ground and smashed through the entire army formation.

On the high slope, Sun Kewang put away the binoculars, with a proud face on his face, "Crush the Wei army."

(End of this chapter)