All kinds of advantages make people realize that its thick skin can protect it from cold weapons such as arrows and swords in war, and it can resist the early lead bullets fired by the smooth-bore flintlock after adding armor. The tall elephant has a commanding height with a wide field of vision and is not easy to be hit by infantry. Elephants can reach the speed of 3 kilometers per hour when charging, and the method is solved by ordinary spearmen, which is an effective charge and anti-charge arm.
As far as Ran Min knows, the ancestors of the Indus valley first discovered and cultivated war elephants, and then the Shang people domesticated the Yellow River elephants and incorporated them into the army.
The cavalry of the war elephant system is different from others to trample on the enemy array and disperse the enemy array.
Imagine that when a group of four-meter-tall behemoths rushed at high speed, which army could still maintain its formation? Even if you can’t stand still, you can give the enemy a powerful shock.
In 331 BC, the exhibition of the Persian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Battle of Gora Milla, was arranged in the center of the Persian army array, and fifteen elephants brought great shock to the Macedonian army.
It happened that Macedonian soldiers, who highlighted the meteor shower that night, were terrified and trapped by the Persian army.
Alexander stayed up all night and prayed devoutly to heaven. The next day, the Macedonian army suffered the most serious losses from the crusade. The center of the front line was broken by war elephants, and the enemy outflanked the camp, and the enemy front was crumbling.
In a critical moment, Alexander personally led two thousand guards to launch a raid and shoot the javelin at the driver of Darius Iii to win the battle of Gaola Milla.
After Alexander’s death, his successors brought the elephants back to the European battlefield, and the Carthaginians and Egyptians also domesticated the African elephants into kings to mount on the battlefield.
Hannibal, commander-in-chief of Carthage in the Second Punic War, crossed the Alps to attack the Roman legion.
The Roman horses were frightened at the sight of the war elephants, and the formation was chaotic. Forty thousand people had ten thousand lives. More than ten years later, in the battle of Zama, the Romans left gaps in the array to prevent the impact of the war elephants, which made Hannibal’s war elephants return.
Hannibal was defeated and Carthage was razed!
More than a hundred years later, the Roman War broke out, and Caesar commanded soldiers to attack the elephant legs with heavy axes in the Battle of Tapsus to block the impact of the elephant.
This is the last classic example of war elephants in the western battlefield. Since then, the war elephants have become weaker and weaker in the war. The Megara people used to live pigs to attack the elephants because they were afraid of pig barking and fire.
Due to the serious weakness of the war elephants themselves, especially the fire-fearing nature of Falk, it will bring great losses to one’s own side if they play at many key moments in the campaign.
After entering the era of hot weapons, the war against powerful gunpowder weapons is getting smaller and smaller
Ran Min knew that the weakness of war elephants was that they were afraid of fire and pigs barking, so he wrote two personal letters, one for Mulan in Mukchuan City and the other for Wei Zheng, who was attacking Zhanpo.
There are many war elephants in the southwest, especially in the South Asian subcontinent. If you want to take these places into the imperial map more smoothly, you must restrain the enemy’s war elephants.
In fact, artillery is the most powerful tool to combat war elephants!
In the 13th year of Emperor Huang, 300,000 Southern Legions led by Wei Zheng finally arrived in Zhanpo.
It is not worth Wei Zheng’s sending out so many military forces to attack Zhanpo, because it is a small country. Wei Zheng simply left Ranke to lead hundreds of military forces to attack Zhanpo, and he himself led the army to advance into Zhenla.
After the political independence of the Eastern Han Dynasty at the end of the first century AD, the kingdoms of northern China and southern Cambodia fought for a long time without any strong winds.
However, after the rise of Annan people, the Zhanpo people were gradually eroded by their friends hundreds of years later, and they tried to shake up the monarch and lost even worse.
In the end, the pilgrimage to after li in Annan completely disintegrated the country of Annan and was finally assimilated by the Vietnamese.
This ancient country was almost 1,500 years old, and its situation was quite similar to that of the Byzantine Empire. It can be said that a history of Vietnam is actually a history of Vietnam’s occupation and conflict, and in a word, a history of Sino-Indian cultural conflict!
Champa country is also called Linyi country.
Yi Lin’s founding of the People’s Republic of China was from the process of separation from the Han Dynasty (at this time, it was called Xiang Linyi). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was annoying to repeatedly rebel and plunder the prefectures and counties in Xianglin County, South County.
One time, in the second year of Yonghe, Emperor Shundi of Han Dynasty (AD 137), the situation turned out to be very dangerous. The court decided to transfer 40 thousand people from Jing, Yang, Yan and Yu to conquer. Fortunately, Li Guli, a famous official, prevented people from sending troops to surrender. Later, the prestige of the secretariat of the two States in Xia Dynasty was so high that it was famous and fell.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xian killed the county magistrate in Xianglinren District, and Wang Linyi of Yi Lin finally became independent.
At this time, Ranke led the army across the Red River and entered the border of Champa.
Ranke is very curious to ask the side lieutenant Geng Ji "Geng Ji I heard that Yi Lin has different treasures, Jinshan and gold juice flowing out of Linyi countries, so the gods are cast, and the gold people have tens of thousands of pounds of gold! I don’t know if it’s true? "
Geng Jisong shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows? However, it is mostly false. Yi Lin is a lonely place in the south. It is not surprising that grains are all over the miasma and there are some mineral resources. But I can’t believe it if I say that there is gold everywhere! "
"Hey, hey, anyway, it won’t be a fake that the Zhanpo people have the golden statue. When we kill Zhanpo, we will give the golden man to you!"
It didn’t take long for scouts to come over and tell me that Zhanpo’s army was found ahead.
Ranke immediately ordered Wei Jun to be ready to attack.
Although Yi Lin is a small country, it is not a small country with a vast territory and a small population. On the contrary, there are quite a few people with a population of more than 100,000 who can pull out 30,000 military forces, but this is the limit.
Mrs. Zhanpo spoke Chinese, so she sent a team of foot soldiers out to scold Ranke. Not to be outdone, she directly made people curse Mrs. Zhanpo’s ancestors for scolding Yi Lin for being a traitor and thief.
Wait until it’s almost time to scold both sides before fighting.
There are fifty colossus in front of Zhanpo’s army, which looks very scary.
At this time, Ranke didn’t know how to deal with these elephants. He was a little timid, so he sent an army of ten thousand people to rush, but he was quickly rushed to pieces by the elephants of Linyi Army.
Ran Ke was frightened and hurriedly ordered Ming Jin to retreat and withdraw his army to build a trench camp near the Red River.
The Zhanpo people saw that it was getting late and didn’t attack Wei Jun camp, so they camped on the spot.
The war seems to be at loggerheads for a while.
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In the evening, Ranke summoned the people to discuss the matter.
"The Zhanpo people’s war elephants are very powerful. They are much more powerful than our heavily armored cavalry and infantry. As soon as their war elephants rushed over, our formation was washed away by more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and they were scattered when they could not get a wick of incense!"
Ranke blacked out and shouted, "If we can’t even cope with the Zhanpo people’s war elephants, we won’t be able to attack Linyi. It’s a pity that our red artillery hasn’t been pulled to the front, or we will rely on the power of artillery to control how huge an elephant like him is."
Smell speech in the tent, the generals are whispering, and there is no good countermeasure at the moment.
Gen. Geng Ji, General Zuo Wuwei, said, "In my opinion, the enemy’s war elephants are so fierce that the two armies are fighting against each other. No matter how many formations we have, we will eventually be washed away and the Yi Lin army will be destroyed."
"Geng Ji, do you mean we have to wait until the logistics forces pull the artillery?"
"This is unnecessary."
Geng Ji replied, "War elephants must have weaknesses and all living things are afraid of traps! War elephants are no exception! In my opinion, the general might as well continue to send troops to fight against the Shiva, pretend to be defeated and retreat to the back, and set a trap in the retreat. When the Shiva pursues them, their war elephants fall into the trap, and it will be time for Wei Jun to fight back! "
"This plan is wonderful!"
Ranke thought Geng Ji’s method was good, so he ordered to go to the army to bury the pot and cook rice. On the second day, he led 30,000 military forces from Yi Lin to fight in the wilderness near the Red River.
The Linyi Army seems to have expanded. Since wei ren did not restrain its own war elephants and attacked without authorization, it put all the war elephants in the forefront of the phalanx
Fighting an elephant, Linyi Army took the lead in attacking.
Fifty war elephants "rumbled" like hills to Wei Jun phalanx, and then a large number of military forces of Linyi Army followed and seemed to want to attack and destroy Wei Jun in one fell swoop.
But Ranke made things realistic, which made thousands of arrows shoot and kill some enemies, but still could not stop the Linyi army’s elephant attack. When the elephant rushed into the Wei Jun phalanx, it was suddenly a sea of blood, and a large number of Wei Jun foot soldiers scattered their feet and fled behind.
Seeing that Wei Jun had been defeated, there was no room for resistance at all. Those Zhanpo people were ecstatic and rushed over like chicken blood to try to win and expand their achievements.
So Wei Jun routed troops ran ahead, accounting for the Shiva people and horses and chased after them.