Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 693 Fire Horse Formation

  After Zhu Su gave the first order to dismount, the horses that were originally ridden by the Zhou king's guards were rushed to the front of the formation by the king's guards.

  If you look carefully, you can also find that these horses are different from ordinary war horses. Not only were the horse's mane and tail tied with many dead branches, straw and other fire-starting objects, but also many strange and chaotic patterns were painted on the horse's body and face. Even the horse's head was tied with many branches, swords and guns. Although it had the shape of a horse, it looked more like a monster from under the Nine Netherworld.

  When Zhu Su issued the second order, the king's guards uniformly took out the fire sticks in their arms, lit the tails of their horses, and then turned around and fled with their coach Zhu Su. Fortunately, they ran faster, and the horse's tail was ignited, and the flames instantly spread to the horse's body along the mane and the ignition material on the horse's body. These three thousand horses were suddenly aroused by the flames on their bodies and went crazy. He started to spread his hooves and ran rampant.

  War horses are spiritual, but under normal circumstances, they will be afraid of war elephants. Therefore, it is impossible for the horse formation to compete head-on with the elephant formation. However, under normal circumstances, if three thousand war horses are actually galloping hard, their momentum is actually not much different from that of a war elephant. What's more, these three thousand horses are still fire horses.

  Zhu Su and his guards quickly got into the first trench and looked out from the trench. Everything went as he expected. Except for a few war horses that deviated from the planned route because they were too frightened, most of the other chaotic fire horses rushed straight towards the charging elephant formation directly in front. At this time, they no longer cared about their fear of the elephants. The flames burning on their bodies made them move forward in the face of the war elephants.

  They were like a group of ferocious beasts on fire. Riding on the momentum of the flames, they even crushed the charging elephant array.

  "Come on, the third brother who is poisonous. In ancient times, there was a single-row fire ox formation in the fields. Today, I, Zhu Su, use the fire horse formation... Is your elephant cavalry invincible, or is the strategy of my Chinese ancestors better? Today I Let’s compete here later!”

  Zhu Su muttered in the trench. Ahead, the fire horse group had collided with the charging elephant array. The elephants are tall, and each war elephant has a tall pavilion-like saddle on its back. In addition to a full-time elephant rider, there are often two poisonous archers on top. They sit on the backs of elephants, commanding a high position, and while charging forward with the elephants, they draw their bows and arrows to kill the enemy troops. They are always disadvantageous.

  Before engaging in battle with the fire horses, they had a vague premonition of something bad coming from the momentum, and they couldn't help but stretch their bows with all their strength, trying to shoot the galloping fire horses. However, three thousand fire horses is not a small number, and the vitality of war horses is often much stronger than that of humans. Many fire horses were covered in flames and hit by arrows, but they were still not dead, and they were still wounded and neighing and charging. The rain of arrows from these elephant-backed archers, who were originally invincible, was only a drop in the bucket.

  What made them sweat even more was that the war elephants that were supposed to charge forward were actually frightened by the group of fire horses. Although creatures like this are huge in size, they are timid and cowardly in nature, so they can be tamed. But at this time, this advantage of being easy to tame has become a life-threatening talisman for the poisonous army. The elephants who were frightened by the formation of fire horses suddenly lost the courage to continue charging forward. They turned around and began to flee towards the rear, driven by the fire horses. No matter how hard the riders whipped and scolded them, they remained indifferent.

  However, something more terrifying had not yet happened. The soldiers riding on the elephants were shocked...these war elephants rushed towards Sudan's central army regardless of the situation.

  It's more like... it's more like they all defected before the battle and launched a charge for those despicable enemy troops!
  "Your Highness is so calculating! Once the Fire Horse Formation comes out, the Elephant Formation can be used by us!" Cao Yuan was extremely excited as he rode on the horse. He immediately raised his sword and shouted at the cavalry behind him: "Soldiers, it's time to expand your territory and make achievements!"

  "If a herd of elephants clears the way, the enemy's position will inevitably be in chaos. You should follow me closely and follow me to take the head of the enemy's leader!"

  Behind him, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were also full of enthusiasm. As the war drums sounded, the Ming army, which had been huddled behind on both wings, filed out, carrying the tails of the fire horse array and war elephants, and moved toward the fifty thousand poisonous army in front of them to cover them up. past.

  On the other side, the dogs who were also leading the cavalry were moving forward fiercely, like two extended crab claws, clawing hard towards the enemy Sudan. “Wherever the sun and the moon shine, and wherever the rivers reach, they should all be the land of our Ming Dynasty, China. Kill!”

  The enemy's army is in disarray, but not all of them are stupid. The [-] cavalrymen on the enemy's flank saw that something was not going well and began to mobilize their horses, bypassing the chaotic group of fire horses and elephant formations, and headed towards Zhu Su's central army. Zhu Su's five thousand cavalry also bypassed them and took the head of the enemy Sultan directly. The two cavalry armies seemed to be competing to see who could behead the enemy chief first.

  Zhu Su only had [-] troops in his hands, but he was not in a hurry. These [-] cavalrymen were already within his alert range. Those poisonous cavalry were mostly Turkic and Mongolian mercenaries from Central Asia. They shot arrows flatly while galloping, but the arrows they fired were basically in vain because the Ming army was hiding in the trenches.

  But the Ming army was able to calmly fire cannons in the trenches and shoot them off their horses one after another. As soon as they approached, the Ming army quickly retreated from the vertical trenches in the trenches before and after the traffic. In this way, the previous trenches became horse traps that hindered the cavalry's progress. The cavalry had to slow down their horses and once again Became the target of the Ming army's gunfire.

  Relying on these trenches, the Ming army's three thousand Guards fire riflemen actually held back ten thousand cavalry, while Cao Yuan Gou'er and others relied on the momentum of the elephant herd to charge in like red-hot iron forks. Among the [-] infantry array of the Delhi Sultanate. The two generals aimed at the coquettish white elephant and spared no effort to kill it forward.

  Cao Yuan was born as a general in the original guard. His martial arts was not his strong point, but he was good at command. He commanded his right cavalry to expand the chaos in the enemy's infantry array. Often when he saw someone commanding soldiers, he would lead the Ming army to charge in the direction of that command, making sure to open fire for the dogs. Find a way out. Although the commander of the left army, Gou'er, was a eunuch, his force was extremely tyrannical. With the cover of Cao Yuan, he was approaching the direction of the white elephant step by step.

  His eyes were extremely sharp, and while he was slashing with his knife, he was paying attention to how far away he was from the sultan who was in trouble. Seeing that the distance between the two sides finally reached two hundred paces, Gou'er saw the opportunity and killed an obstructive body-poisoned spearman with a knife. Then he drew out the rifled musket behind the saddle, used his strength to leap forward, took his feet out of the stirrups, and stood up. In the saddle.

  The rifled firegun in his hand was specially customized by the master craftsman of Baoyuan Bureau. It was extremely accurate. It was specially made for him by his master Zhu Su as a treasure for sniping enemy generals. He stood on the saddle, held the gun, aimed, and fired, all in one go. With the sound of a gunshot, the frightened Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate suddenly froze. Then he lowered his head in surprise and found that a bloody hole had opened in his arm.

  "what!"

  Even the noble Sultan's screams were actually the same as those of the humble poor. Sultan Firuz Shah, who was covered in gold ornaments, fell straight off the back of the tall elephant. The white elephant was frightened by the sound of the gun, stood up on its front feet, and then immediately stepped down. By coincidence, it hit the elephant. The noble Sultan fell down from the elephant.

  In this way, even if the wound on the arm was not fatal, the force of the elephant's step was so great that the Sultan must have been trampled into a meat pie.

  Although the posture is high when standing on the saddle, it is not easy to aim. The dog, who was originally upset that his shot missed the target, suddenly saw such a shocking change and couldn't help but rejoice at his luck. "The Sultan of your country is dead!" He quickly used the only poisonous language he learned from Huang Guan, raising his arms and shouting to the enemy troops.

  (End of this chapter)