Chapter 813: Sacrifice

Juili Pass is a large pass, located between two mountains. Beyond it is the Fuliang River Valley, and it is a flat river all the way to the river.

Shen Jingfu was a civil servant and had no knowledge of military affairs, but he had read basic military books and tactics. He urged Hong Zhenhou: "Master Hou, the Song army has recently arrived and is very aggressive. It is better for us to return to the pass and hold on to weaken its morale."

Hong Zhenhou disagreed: "What the prefect said is a common policy, but it is not suitable for today's Jiaozhi. It belongs to an unknown enemy."

"The Song army came thousands of miles away and heard that they were infected with the epidemic when they crossed the Nanling Mountains. How much morale could they still have?"

"The important combat force of our army is the elephant army. How can the elephant army defend the city? It needs to be outside the pass to attack the enemy's formation."

"I heard that the Western Army's cavalry is very powerful. The horses are two feet taller than our southern horses. Without the elephant soldiers to compete with them, how can we fight this battle?"

Shen Jingfu held up his hands and said worriedly: "Master Marquis, this is what I want to say. Since the Western Army is a cavalry army, attacking cities is definitely not its strong point. We only need to use elephant soldiers to defend the pass as the Taibao said.

The infantry is guarding Huanglang and sniping at the enemy at every level. Is it..."

Hong Zhenhou said sternly: "Prefect Shen! You are a civil servant! I allow you to participate in military affairs because of your loyalty to the king and to give you face!"

"Our army has not even fought yet, but you are so afraid of the enemy!"

"Guo Kui's vanguard, Zhang Shiju, only has a mere ten thousand men, but he still marches long distances; while our army of thirty thousand men, waiting for work, has natural dangers to rely on!"

"He has a cavalry army, and I have an elephant army. Except for those useless earth warriors of yours, the ones my men brought are all the Emperor's Shinrei who guard Thang Long!"

"If you don't dare to fight with foreign enemies in the wild, then what's the point of keeping you and me in the imperial court?! Then how can I, Vietnam, still be able to declare power in all directions and be victorious in all directions?!"

"You don't need to worry about the military. Go back to Huanglang to organize civilian workers, transport grain and fodder, and conquer the passes. You are not needed!"

Shen Jingfu wanted to argue, but what Hong Zhenhou said was reasonable, and he was the current emperor's uncle, so he had no choice but to sigh: "I know the crime, and I will go back to Zhuanglang to mobilize the military supplies."

In the middle of November of the ninth year of Xining, the Song and Vietnamese armies had a tragic battle at Juili Pass.

The war was initiated by the Cochin side first.

Zhang Shiju's cavalry advanced too fast and broke away from Guo Kui's Chinese army, forming a lone army. Hong Zhenhou was determined to seize this favorable opportunity and use his superior strength to annihilate them.

The battle started ten miles outside Juili Pass.

As soon as the Song army came out of the valley, they were attacked by Jiaozhi elephant soldiers. Behind the elephant soldiers were 20,000 Jiaozhi elites.

"Array up! Array up!" Zhang Shiju saw that the situation was not good: "Where are the grenadiers? Come forward quickly! Crossbowmen! Where is the crossbow commander?!"

It can be said that at the beginning of the battle, the advantage was with Hong Zhenhou. The Song army was blocked in the mountain pass and the road was narrow, and it fell into chaos for a while.

Wang Zhongzheng waved his hand: "Unload the van! Then push the van up to block the entrance of the valley. The artillery team goes up the mountain and organizes positions!"

After speaking, he shouted to the rear troops: "Everyone who can go up the mountain, go up to me! Grenadiers! Crossbowmen! Get to the slopes!"

A fat figure jumped out of the van with a pipe in his arms, and ran up the hillside with his team.

After many years of improvement, the gun barrel and chassis of the Fulu Cannon have become much lighter and lighter. From the original 130 kilograms of cast iron pipes, they have been reduced step by step to 40 kilograms of steel pipes. Now a team of five people is ready when the team takes action.

With forty-five bullets, Fatty Guo could run while carrying the barrel.

The remaining car soldiers have a different way, carrying boxes and various parts to run on the hillside.

The Perak Cannon is powerful, but it is too heavy. Now it can only be equipped on the sea ship. The intersection terrain limits the operation of the Thunderbolt. Therefore, Wang Zhongzheng can carry it.

Guo Huai ran to a small slope and turned to look at less than two miles in front. The warriors had rushed over. There was a small bamboo arrow building on the back of the war elephant.

"It's too late!" Guo Huai went to the ground to the ground: "Just here! Put the gun!"

The team began to assemble the Fu -ku gun with seven -handed and eight -footed. Guo Huai kneeled halfway down, stretched out his right hand, and began to measure with his left eye and right eye.

Wang Zhongzheng held the command knife with his left hand, holding the rotor in his right hand, and led a dozen people to come over: "Big baby, hurry up! Let's stop you in front of you!"

Hundreds of war cames out, and the scene was extremely horrible. After Wang Zhongzheng's artillery team jumped off the car, Zhang Shiju ordered the pioneer cavalry to step down and pushed the car to the car and tried to accumulate in Tanou to resist the war.

The impact of the elephants.

But the time is too late, the assault of the Jiaozhian has just been just right. Li Yuechao fought for decades around. Hong Zhenhou's tactical conductor was also above the standard.

At this time, a car that hadn't unloaded the car suddenly rushed out of the valley. The sergeant on the car waved his sword and kept piercing on the hips.

The carriage bumped off the carriage that hadn't closed, and then the elephant group that came alone launched a backbone!

Wang Zhongzheng took the rotor to the top of the helmet, and some stunned: "Who is that?! Bold is the sky, oh is not good on the car is our ammunition!"

The horse was not stupid. He ran forward and slowly, and began to struggle to turn around, trying to escape the fate of being trampled by the elephant group.

Then I saw the boy jumping down in the car, quickly cut the torrent with a knife, jumped into a naked horse, ran back.

I ran while running, "Fire -Fire -Send Cannon-"

"Damn!" Wang Zhongzheng took the magical machine in the hands of the sergeant around him, stood up, and faced the carriage carriage in the distance.

With a sound of "pop", there was no movement over the carriage.

Seeing that Gukou's interception measures have not yet been completed, the cavalry is still in chaos, and the elephant group has rushed to the high speed.

Guo Huai didn't care about him at all, jumped from the ground, flew to the Fusu gun just assembled, and began to shake crazy.

The Jiao toe soldiers on the elephant group began to send arrows, long arrows flew over and inserted on the side of Guo Long.

Wang Zhongzheng waved: "Protect Guo Sima! We can fart all, he can't die!"

Five or six sergeants immediately rushed over, kneeling in front of Fu Lu, and forming a human flesh screen.

The arrows of the Jiaozhi were not weak, and soon the arrow branch was inserted on the leather armor of the former sergeant.

Wang Zhongzheng also kneeling in front of the sergeant, regardless of the arrow feathers flying around him, ride a knife flat: "One team! Thirty degrees left in front, free goal, shoot!"

The magical machine in the hands of the sergeants rang, but the five or six guns did not have much impact on the hundreds of war elephants.

Wang Zhongzheng motionless: "The second team! The guy on the far right! Shoot!"

This time it was somewhat effective. The war elephant was obviously shot. There was even a dark-skinned Jiaozhi sergeant on the elephant seat who fell down with a javelin. He just let out a scream and was trampled into a pulp by the elephants behind him.

But this victory did not affect the situation at all. Seeing the elephants about to cross the carriage, Wang Zhongzheng's face turned livid: "Team 3, it's that guy again, shoot!"

At this moment, there was a muffled "bang" sound behind him, and a captive artillery shell flew up from behind Wang Zhongzheng and flew high into the sky. Immediately afterwards, the trajectory became stable and landed in the direction of the carriage just now.

Go down.

Wang Zhongzheng kept praying in his heart: "We must hit, we must hit..."

At this moment, there was another "bang" behind him, followed closely by another "bang".

"Fuck!" At this moment, Wang Zhongzheng was ecstatic. He wanted to get up, turn around, hug Guo Huai and dance wildly for a while. How did this trick happen?!

Then there were two more shots, and the two shells took off again.

In the blink of an eye, the first cannonball had fallen. With a "bang", a war elephant was overturned, and the one next to it was obviously staggered by the explosion, and its speed was obviously slowed down.

Immediately afterwards, the second one also fell into the elephant herd, bounced off the seat of an elephant, and then suddenly exploded in mid-air. This time, the flying shrapnel caused huge damage, and the Jiaozhi sergeants screamed.

and the wails of war elephants echoed in the front.

Before the elephant soldiers in the rear could take any chances, the third shell finally fell into the compartment of the boxcar just now!

"Boom——"

The explosion of the Fulu artillery shell caused a strong explosion of ammunition in the carriage. Wang Zhongzheng saw that the elephants around the carriage were pushed off the ground by the huge air wave, and then fell to the ground whining and struggling.

Immediately afterwards, countless white spike-like air needles protruded from the flames of the explosion, and then an even larger air wave shock wave spread to a range of tens of meters in an instant!
Chapter completed!