The cannonballs pulled out more than two hundred slightly curved curves in the air and smashed into the queue of war elephants.
At least twenty rounds of artillery shells hit the approaching war elephant. The rough skin of the war elephant might be able to withstand the tiger's claws, but it could not stop the steel and flames. The sharp conical steel core bullets broke like drills.
It opened the elephant's head and chest and penetrated into the body of the war elephant.
More than twenty war elephants were unable to even scream and were killed by this huge cannonball.
Then the explosive bomb exploded inside the body of the war elephant. More than 20 kilograms of nitrocellulose exploded in the thick elephant's body, causing a huge shock wave, violently exploding the elephant's body. The huge air wave had nowhere to discharge,
They can only rush towards the gap created when the cannonball enters the body.
Li Laosi saw in the telescope that the head and chest of a war elephant were blown into pieces and shot out more than ten meters away. The headless body of the war elephant was like a hill. He paused and then
Fell to the ground.
The two Vietnamese soldiers on top of the war elephant were stunned by the air wave caused by the explosion, and fell unconscious next to the elephant. It was not known whether they were dead or fainted.
Li Laosi also saw that another war elephant had one of its front legs broken by a cone-shaped cannonball and fell down screaming. The cannonball hit the soil below the elephant and was just pressed by the fallen elephant's belly. Then only
Hearing a huge "bang", a cannonball weighing more than 20 kilograms exploded under the war elephant. The elephant's body, which weighed several tons, was blown up and turned violently to the right.
The two Vietnamese soldiers on top of the war elephant were violently carried away by the flying elephant body, and flew to the right. Fortunately, the two of them were lucky, and they were not crushed by the elephant carcass that was blown up and had no belly.
The three Vietnamese infantrymen on the right were unlucky. They were crushed hard by the flying war elephant corpse. In an instant, their ribs were broken and they died screaming in the blood and minced flesh of the war elephant.
These soldiers who were crushed to death were unlucky, but the Vietnamese soldiers around the other war elephants were equally unlucky.
More than two hundred rounds of artillery shells exploded on the land between the war elephants, killing some soldiers and frightening the elephants, animals in the rainforest. Some war elephants who were not hit were frightened by the huge power of the explosion.
Lost control.
The several-ton rainforest animals roared loudly and ran wildly in the queue of Vietnamese soldiers, almost hitting or trampling a soldier to death every few steps.
At least fifty war elephants lost their minds and fled in all directions. All soldiers who blocked the way of the war elephants' escape were regarded as enemies by the war elephants, and were angrily knocked away and trampled to death by the war elephants.
Where did the Vietnamese soldiers dare to form a queue? They ran around the panicked elephants, just trying to save their lives.
Nguyen Phuc Bin, the leader of South Vietnam, looked at his war elephant team in chaos, and his eyes suddenly turned blood red.
This war elephant corps was his trump card. He brought it out from the beginning, intending to deliver a fatal blow. He also wanted to rely on this corps to severely damage the Ming invaders. However, he did not expect that Li Zhi's artillery was so sharp that it could hit
His own war elephant troops were blown up into disarray.
He roared loudly and let the Chinese army's horn sound.
Hearing the sound of the horn, the hundreds of elephant tamers in front rushed to the running elephants, started to drag the elephants' ears, pulled hard on the elephant's reins, and loudly comforted the elephants, trying to stabilize these powerful and fragile animals.
Terrestrial organisms.
After some efforts, half of the war elephants calmed down.
But the horrific bombing had just begun.
Only sixty breaths later, the Vietnamese soldiers, who were overwhelmed by war elephants, were bombarded by another round of artillery.
More than two hundred rounds of explosive ammunition were fired into the war elephant team.
The rumbling bombs sent cruel shock waves in all directions, covering the area where the war elephant team was. Sparks bloomed like fireworks during the New Year, blasting the recently calmed down war elephant team into bloody pieces again.
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More than thirty war elephants were hit and were blown to pieces by powerful explosive bombs. Not only were the war elephants killed, the artillery shells also claimed the lives of the infantry. I don’t know how many soldiers were killed or shot
Cut to death by the steel slag sputtered from the shell.
After two rounds of bombing, the war elephant troops had completely collapsed.
No matter how much the elephant trainers dragged and comforted them, the elephants were unwilling to stay in the team, but ran away one by one. Wherever the war elephants went, panicked Vietnamese soldiers ran and jumped, desperately trying to avoid both sides. 6
More than a dozen war elephants were like more than 60 steamrollers, crushing everything in his way and throwing the Vietnamese queue into chaos.
Seeing the effect of the twenty-four-pound explosive bomb, Li Dingguo and Nobuyuki Sanada were stunned.
The two of them had only heard of Li Zhi's round shells before, and they knew that the shells could be fired into the interior of the fortress for bombing. They had never seen the effect of the eighteen-pound shells, but today they directly witnessed the effect of the twenty-four-pound shells.
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The lethality of these 24-pound explosive shells is so terrifying. Not only can the shells explode, they can also directly penetrate into the body of a war elephant and explode.
What would be the effect if this kind of conical cannonball were used to attack city walls? What kind of city wall could withstand the high-speed rotating conical steel projectiles?
Li Dingguo was stunned by the effect of the artillery bombardment. He now understood why Li Zicheng was beaten so badly by Li Zhi in Henan and was driven to Shaanxi in an almost devastated manner. What kind of city wall and fortress was useless in front of the king's weapons?
meaningless.
The king is really terrible.
Sanada Nobuyuki was also horrified and his face turned pale. He sighed and said, "This is really unheard of."
If the old warrior was still ashamed of his surrender before, now he was shocked by Li Zhi's methods and felt wise for his decision.
Li Zhi's tiger and benign army cannot be resisted by human power at all.
Ruan Phuc Bin was dumbfounded by the Vietnamese's central army. The firepower of Li Zhi's troops far exceeded this era, which gave Ruan Phuc Bin an unreal feeling.
Even if the Portuguese and Dutch join forces to attack Dai Viet, they will not be able to form such a powerful firepower, right?
The iron-blooded storm set off by those twenty-four-pound explosive bombs was too terrifying. This was obviously the seventeenth century as the Dutch called it, so why did such weapons appear? This is completely firepower that should not belong to this era.
Ruan Phuc Bin stared blankly at his war elephants running around in the queue. The more than one hundred war elephants he deployed at no expense were so powerless in front of Li Zhi's cannonballs. You must know that Ruan Phuc Bin relied on these war elephants countless times.
The elephants attacked the Zheng family in the north and conquered the Champa Kingdom in the south. In Ruan Phuc Bin's heart, these more than a hundred war elephants were extremely powerful.
However, the reality is so cruel. After just two rounds of shelling, Ruan Phuc Bin's war elephant completely turned into a manic beast that crushed his own people.
Without the war elephant, what can I do to fight against Li Zhi's Tiger and Ben army?
Nguyen Phuc Bin has not yet become accustomed to the fighting methods of the Tiger and Bien Army. You must know that this is still 1650, and Asia in this era should still be an era dominated by cold weapons. Nguyen Phuc Bin has introduced Western hot weapons, which is already at the forefront of the times.
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However, facing Li Zhi's troops, Ruan Phuc Bin realized how far behind he was.
The war elephants were tired of running, so they slowed down and slowly fled away. The soldiers no longer suffered from the danger of being trampled by the war elephants, and began to regroup cautiously, trying to continue to press against the tiger and Ben troops.
