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In that compartment, the elephant herds of the Luchuan Army began to advance, and the Ming army here was also ready to meet the enemy.

But the Ming army did not dispatch heavy cavalry to deal with his war elephants, as Silunfa expected. Their nearly 30,000 cavalrymen all stood still, but there was a battalion of infantry lined up in front of the formation.

What's even more outrageous is that the infantrymen carried neither spears nor crossbows and javelins. They only had short weapons in their hands like fire sticks.

Looking at those short sticks less than three feet long, the Lucchuan army almost burst out laughing. The Ming army used such a short guy to fight the elephant? Before he even got close to the elephant, he was swept away by the elephant's trunk!

Oh, yes, those infantrymen also pushed some trolleys containing wooden boxes. They didn't think that these trolleys could stop the elephant, right?

Just crush it with one foot, okay? Even if you have never fought against a war elephant, it wouldn't be so outrageous, right?

The Luchuan Army was all waiting to see the Ming Army's joke, but the cavalry behind the Ming Army's formation inadvertently covered their ears with their horses.

Amidst the continuous sound of elephant foot drums, the war elephant herds continued to approach the Ming army. The two sides were separated by a hundred feet, fifty feet, thirty feet...

The Luchuan archers in the Xiangbei Battle Tower took out their arrows one after another, put them on their bows, and waited for them to enter the shooting range.

However, it was the Ming army who took action first. As soon as the elephant herd came within thirty feet, they lit the fuses on the carts and boxes.

In an instant, a scalp-numbing whistling sound rang out in front of the two armies, and countless rockets roared out of the boxes and rushed into the elephant herd on the opposite side!

It turned out that inside the box, there were densely packed bamboo tubes arranged neatly like a honeycomb. Each bamboo tube contained three rockets. The fuse ignites the gunpowder barrel tied to the arrow shaft one after another, and the arrow shoots out under the pushback of the gunpowder!

This is the Ming Army’s unique magical arrow!

Thousands of arrows, driven by gunpowder, swarmed into the elephants, making a tinkling sound. Many unlucky elephant slaves and soldiers were hit by arrows and fell down screaming.

But for war elephants with rough skin and thick flesh, and wearing bronze armor, these arrows can't cause much damage, they will only make them angry! Because it hurts a little bit if it hits an unarmored area...

Little did he know that the gunpowder barrel on the divine machine arrow was of a two-kicking nature. Those rockets that made little noise when fired out made a huge explosion when they flew around the war elephant!

The banging sound of firecrackers startled the elephant soldiers who were caught off guard, let alone the elephants. Well, elephants can't jump... but they open their ears, wag their tails, and start to freeze, obviously frightened!

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Zhu Zhen and Mu Ying had previously conducted careful research on the war elephants that Luchuan relied on.

Zhu Zhen not only understands people's hearts, but also understands animals very well. The East Fifth House where he lived when he was a child was affectionately called the 'Animal House' by the eunuchs and maids...

Although there is no way to keep elephants in the 'animal house', His Royal Highness the King of Chu often goes to the elephant room in the palace and feeds the elephants with Fatty Sun, and he has a very good understanding of the elephant's character.

He knew that even though an elephant was tall and had thick skin and rough flesh, it could not be harmed by ordinary knives and arrows. But their weaknesses are also obvious - they are timid and difficult to control, and are afraid of fire and explosions. Once frightened too much, they will turn around and run away regardless.

Later, when they conducted experiments on elephants donated by chieftains in Kunming, they discovered that it had another fatal flaw - elephants are group animals and can act collectively. In this way, as long as some of them turn around and run away, the rest, even if they are not frightened, will follow suit, smashing the own army behind them into pieces, and no matter how controlled the elephant slave is, it will be useless.

At this time, the Ming army only needed to keep up and break through the enemy's formation.

So the key to this battle is to scare away the elephant!

Of course, the countries in the southwest have trained elephants to fight for so many years, so they are naturally aware of their weaknesses and are constantly making improvements.

Luchuan Kingdom is one of them. Their war elephants are all carefully selected and have stable temperaments, calmness and obedience. After the elephant slaves' rigorous targeted training, they are no longer afraid of sudden loud noises.

The elephant slaves used all their strength to regain control of them. Then use the elephant's iron hook to hook up the elephant's ears, and insert a pair of huge wooden plugs into the ear holes on both sides.

At this time, the Ming army's magic arrows had been shot out, and the elephant slaves drove the war elephants to break through the smoke and continue to advance.

The quality of Ming Dynasty gunpowder was worrying. Even if Zhu Zhen made improvements, it still had limited power and was very smokey...

The archers on the Elephant Back Battle upstairs were also blocked by the smoke from the magic arrows. They were clearly within range, but they were unable to shoot.

We can only wait until we get closer and the smoke clears.

But when the two sides reached nearly twenty feet, the Ming army opened fire again!

What fired this time was not the magic arrow, but the fire blunderbuss! It's the fire stick in the eyes of the Luchuan Army...

Although the sight of the Ming army was also blocked by smoke, the huge figures of the war elephants could not be completely blocked by the smoke.

Amidst the dense and huge roars, the Luchuan Army did not know what was happening, but they were shot and screamed as they fell from the Xiangbei Battle Tower.

The elephants were having a hard time too. The power of the fire blunderbuss is much greater than that of the magic arrow. Moreover, the Ming army's blunderbuss tubes were not filled with projectiles, but blunderbuss arrows, which were arrow-shaped bullets that were several inches long!

This kind of bullet has stronger penetrating power. At such a close distance, it can easily penetrate the bronze armor on the elephant and cause damage to it, not to mention the elephant's legs that are not protected by the bronze armor.

Once the blunderbuss arrow hit the elephant's leg, it penetrated deeply, and the entire arrow body did not penetrate the elephant's leg. The elephant's front hooves lifted off the ground in pain and screamed...

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"It turned out to be a fire gun!" Silunfa, who was in the rear, saw it clearly, and suddenly remembered that his father had said that when they fought with the Yuan army, the Mongolian shooting skills had deteriorated to the point where they could only rely on one A fire-breathing tube shoots projectiles to make up for the lack of bows and arrows.

But that thing called a fire gun is very powerful, but it can only be fired once. After that it’s just decoration.

So he stood up and shouted: "Don't be afraid, they have finished firing their muskets, and they won't shoot a second time!"

The elephant soldiers in front couldn't hear what he was saying, but that's what they thought. This thing definitely can't shoot like a bow and arrow, right? Otherwise, is there any justice?

So the elephant slaves tied the war elephants with iron hooks desperately, forcing them to continue to move forward in pain. The damn Ming army must pay the price...

However, the smoke from the first round of shooting had not yet dissipated, and another round of intensive gunfire rang out from the Ming army's formation! Faster than an arrow!

Many war elephants who were hit by arrows again had their endurance completely exhausted and began to let out shrill screams. They raised their heads and nodded frantically, shaking their torsos, trying to shake off the war tower on their backs.

The elephant soldier on the station floor was shaken around and thrown off the elephant's back like a dumpling. He was first thrown to pieces, and then trampled into meat patties by the elephant.

"How is it possible?!" Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, Silunfa was stunned and murmured: "How could they fire in succession? How could they fire in succession?"