The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1114: valuable
Chapter 1114 Precious
After the battle of Pingyang City, the State of Yan also realized that the huge elephants could not do anything on the snow slide, so as soon as the army arrived, they first compacted the snow to make an ice track.
The generals who were experienced in fighting also understood that all the methods of confrontation were most effective the first few times. Once used several times, the opponent would find a way to crack them. So Murong Yan’s order was… In this battle, we must do our best to kill the Tianfeng Kingdom’s elephant army, and kill as many as possible.
“Your Majesty! We can’t wait any longer, let the elephant army charge out!” the great witch’s disciple shouted anxiously.
Sar Khan held on to the armrest of the seat on the elephant’s back tightly, closed his eyes and said, “Charge out!”
For example, the elephant army of Tianfeng State is blocked in the city, the cunning Great Zhou army refuses to leave the city wall, and the Yan army refuses to come in from outside the city…
If the elephant army rushed out, they would slip on the snow that they had trampled and smoothed in advance, and then the soldiers of the Great Zhou and Yan who rushed forward fearlessly would stab the gaps in the elephant army’s armor with swords or directly pour kerosene on the giant elephants and set them on fire.
This was simply a life-and-death massacre of the giant elephants by the soldiers of the Great Zhou and the Yan State.
The giant elephant was huge in weight and was wearing extremely heavy armor. Once it fell to the ground, the soldiers would pounce on it like ants, using swords and knives. It was very difficult for the giant elephant to stand up again on the slippery ground.
Sar Khan gritted his teeth and said, “Kill them!”
At a command, the sound of bone whistles commanding the giant elephants rang out one after another over Pingdu City.
Bai Jinzhi, wearing silver armor stained with blood, stood on the north gate wall of Pingdu City and inserted the flag with force. In an instant, the black sail and white python flag fluttered in the wind. She raised her hand to wipe the blood off her face, and her long hair and red hairband tied on her head were blown by the cold wind.
Seeing that several giant elephants that had fled out of the north gate in panic and slipped had been trapped by the fearless soldiers of the Great Zhou with more than a dozen iron chains, hundreds of people were holding the iron chains and roaring as they tightened them, determined to subdue the giant beasts, she turned her head and looked inside the city…
The city was almost reduced to a sea of fire, with screams everywhere.
Fortunately, because the Tianfeng Kingdom wanted to make room for these giant elephants, they drove the people of Pingdu City out of Pingdu City early, leaving only the people who serve these giant elephants. Otherwise, who knows how many ordinary people would have died if the giant elephants had charged around randomly.
The east gate of Pingdu City.
Because Bai Jinzhi was the first to capture the north gate, the soldiers had already rushed over, and the troops led by Yang Wuce also accelerated their movement to climb the city gate, and they successfully occupied the east gate.
The giant elephant crashed into the city wall, causing it to tremble and drop rubble and wall dust. The city gate was still stubbornly standing in the east gate arch in an extremely twisted posture. A long and shrill cry from the giant elephant could be heard from inside the city gate, ready for the next crash.
Yang Wuce, who was standing on horseback outside the east gate of Pingdu City, shouted loudly: “Get ready!”
The cavalrymen holding iron chains on the north and south sides of the team immediately ran towards the two sides of the city gate. The iron chains rubbed against the ice road that had been polished to be extremely smooth, waiting for the giant elephant to rush out and slip so as to control it.
The west gate of Pingdu City.
The first batch of soldiers of Yan State had already attacked the city gate. He used the same method that Bai Qingyu had used before, which was to use ropes to trip up the giant elephants that might rush out. However, he replaced the ordinary hemp ropes used by the Rongdi army in the battle of Pingyang City with iron chains. If any giant elephants came out of the north gate, he would capture them alive and take them back to investigate the weaknesses of these elephant troops.
At the south gate of Pingdu City, the fighting was particularly brutal.
The elephant army was fighting their way out of the south gate at all costs, crossing the Danshui River and setting up camp in Quanya City.
Sar Khan transferred most of the Xiliang soldiers to the south gate, forcing them to rush out of the city to fight with the Yan army, and ordered the Tianfeng soldiers to follow closely behind, using horses to drag flammable materials on the snow, trying to melt the snow and create a path for the elephant army to fight.
Under the command of the bone whistle, the giant elephants ran out of the south gate in an orderly manner. The method of using horses to drag flammable objects to melt the compacted snow seemed to have worked. The giant elephants that came out later rarely slipped while running.
Murong Yan, wearing a mask, stood on horseback in the distance and felt the ground shaking violently.
He turned and shouted, “Cavalry, get ready!”
The cavalrymen immediately covered their mouths and noses with wet towels. The soldiers standing behind the cavalrymen’s horses holding torches poured kerosene on the thin iron net with wet peppers and wet chili peppers dragged behind the cavalrymen’s horses’ tails, and lit it with torches. In just a moment, thick smoke rose up.
“kill!”
Following Murong Yan’s order, the cavalry soldiers rushed towards the elephant army as if they were dragging a smoking stove.
The war horses were agile, shuttling back and forth among the war elephants. Not to mention the giant elephants with a keen sense of smell, even the elephant trainers sitting on the elephants’ backs were choked to tears. The giant elephants were like crazy, swinging their long trunks and bumping into each other randomly, not knowing where to escape in the thick smoke.
Some of the giant elephants slipped on the snow, some bumped into each other in the smoke, and some hit their heads against the city wall and fell to the ground with a scream. As long as these giant elephants fell… they were quickly killed by the soldiers who rushed over and worked together.
Under the choking fog at the south gate of Pingdu City, blood was everywhere, and the ground underfoot was all muddy red. The bloody and spicy smells mixed together made people nauseous.
Sar Khan was almost thrown off the back of the giant elephant due to the shock. He covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, looked towards the south, took out the bone whistle hanging around his neck and blew it.
The elephant trainer of the giant elephant that Sar Khan was riding controlled the elephant to rush southward desperately, and the giant elephants, roaring wildly, followed closely behind.
At the same time, Li Tianjiao, who received the news that Da Zhou and Yan State had begun attacking Pingdu City, ordered Yun Poxing to lead the Huoyun Army to attack Pingyang City immediately.
Yun Poxing believed that although the south gate of Pingyang City must be the weakest position after being hit by the giant elephant, but… today the Great Zhou was attacking Pingdu City, and Bai Qingyan needed to guard against the elephant army of Pingdu City rushing towards Pingyang City, so he would definitely deploy the little remaining troops of Pingyang City at the south gate.
If they took the Fire Cloud Army around and attacked from the north gate, they could delay the speed at which the Pingyang City defenders could arrive to reinforce them. However, fighting again after a long raid was a taboo in military strategy and it would also affect how quickly they could obtain the news of whether the Great Zhou had already attacked Pingdu City.
The Huoyun Army had a small number of troops, so it was not suitable to divide them up. Therefore, Yun Poxing decided to use the east gate of Pingyang City as the breakthrough point for the Huoyun Army.
Yun Poxing, Yun Lingzhi, Yun Tianao and several Xiliang generals were sitting by the fire, holding a map of Pingyang City in their hands, discussing how to attack.
Now that Xiliang has its own “Tiger Eagle Army”, they can no longer use the method of forcing people to fight. After all, the soldiers of the Fire Cloud Army are one in a thousand and are very precious!