A group of whistling elephants flew past the war elephants, and howling sounds came one after another, but they did not achieve the expected effect of the Zhou army: the enemy war elephants were indifferent to these sounds.

Zhou Faming, who had an arrow in his body, looked at a group of giants in front of him in wonder. According to historical records, the war elephants looked powerful but were very brave, afraid of huge sounds, so logically speaking, the howling sound of the whistling sound could disturb the elephants.

The story of General Fubo and Ma Yuan in the Han Dynasty pacifying Jiaozhi will not be mentioned. During the Southern Song Dynasty, General Zong Xu led his troops to attack Linyi Kingdom and fought a decisive battle with King Linyi who had hundreds of battle elephants. The solution to the opponent's war elephants was very simple: scare.

Zong Xu knew that the other party was about to throw into battle elephants on the battlefield, so he ordered people to make many fake lions in advance. When the two armies were fighting, facing the tide of battle elephants, the Song army posed a fake lion and imitated the roar of the lion, which scared the war elephants of Linyi Kingdom so much that they turned around and fled, and collapsed directly.

So it is certain that the war elephants are timid and afraid of loud noises. Why are these war elephants in front of you so calm and deaf ears to the howling sound of the whistling sound?

Zhou Faming led the cavalry to wander around the periphery of the slowly advancing war elephant herd. He had shot several rounds of whistles, but the results were minimal. They kept blowing horns or special bamboo whistles, trying to scare the war elephant with a harsh sound, but it still had no effect.

Zhou Qi was harassing, and Chen Jun was not idle on his back. They kept firing arrows to drive away these annoying "flies". Because they were holding a stair bow, the range was farther than that of a riding bow, so after shooting against each other, almost everyone in Zhou Qi carried arrows on their bodies.

Although he had heavy armor to protect his body, one or two arrows in his body were not a big deal for the cavalry, Zhou Faming still called his subordinates to leave the battlefield because he realized that there was something wrong with the enemy's war elephant.

Either the ears of the war elephants are blocked, or these war elephants are simply deaf, so the loud noises they make are useless.

It is useless to scare with sound, so it hurts the war elephant. A special long cone armor-breaking arrow is two inches long. I will ask if you are afraid!

The Zhou cavalry adjusted their formation and continued to harass the battle elephant herd. They ignored the arrows of the enemy crossbowmen and used special armor-breaking arrows to shoot battle elephants and elephant drivers. However, after shooting countless rounds of arrows, the effect was still very poor.

Chen's army's elephant driver came prepared and wore heavy armor. He was defending against enemy archers who specifically sniped them. Someone was hit by several arrows but was fine. He was still very comfortable to control the elephant.

Seeing that the effect was very poor, Zhou Faming quickly gathered his subordinates and retreated, and then changed to another tactic.

Chen Fozhi sat on the back of the elephant, watching the enemy cavalry around him constantly attacking him, using all kinds of tricks but having no choice but to retreat, and he was very happy.

Although the number of war elephants is a little smaller, this is his treasure and will never be easily defeated by the other party.

That's right, elephants are timid and afraid of fire and loud noises, but after training, war elephants always perform better than ordinary elephants after going to the battlefield, especially those with anesthetics and whose ears are blocked!

The Central Plains government army occasionally defeated the elephant army in the south, and then proudly said that the war elephants were vulnerable. As long as they set up fake lions and ordered people to scream, hundreds of war elephants could scare them and run away.

Can this exception be regarded as true? Whoever believes in it will be unlucky!

What's strange about elephants who have not received long-term training perform poorly on the battlefield?

If the soldiers of the army of all countries in the world are ordinary people who have not been trained, they will take weapons to the battlefield to chop people the next day after joining the army. What's the use of such a soldier?

Even if you can't hold the knife, you will faint when you see blood, and your arrows will be weak when you shoot in front of you. If you go to the battlefield, you will be scared away by the enemy's shooting a few arrows or a charge!

You can't say that "people" are afraid of sounds and pain, so it's easy to deal with them, right? An elephant who has not been trained on the battlefield will definitely be useless!

The Chen family in the Longzhou bought a lot of money and even invited the elephant trainers. When they trained the elephant, they took into account the actual situation on the battlefield, so they often beat drums or make various strange sounds to adapt to various frights.

He also made various strange-shaped "monsters" and danced around in front of the war elephant with the sound, using these means to "train courage" for the war elephant.

Just in case, during daily training, elephants' ears are blocked to adapt to being deaf and obeying the control of their drivers. Such elephants go to the battlefield and block or get deaf and are not afraid of any sound.

The elephant driver invited by Chen from Funan Kingdom was able to prepare a strange anesthetic. After drinking water mixed with this anesthetic before going to the battlefield, the elephant was not so sensitive to ordinary trauma.

With the thick cowhide armor, ordinary arrows cannot cause too much damage to the battle elephants. The battle elephants who drink anesthetics will not be scared by some skin injuries. The driver can control them to fight normally.

Such a war elephant can't be scared away by yelling or shooting a few arrows!

Therefore, when the official army in the Central Plains encounters the temporary elephant army that can easily win, it is because the elephant army has not undergone long-term training, so it thinks that the elephants are all waste, so they are easy to bully.

Funan Kingdom has been using war elephants for hundreds of years, and has a lot of experience in training and use of war elephants. The Funan Elephant Army has a scale of thousands, so it is definitely the number of war elephants that can be used.

Can you drive away the battle elephant by beating gongs and drums and shooting a few arrows? The battle elephant is so easy to deal with. Funan is full and raised thousands of battle elephants to be the main force?

Thinking of this, Chen Fozhi looked at the periphery. The Zhou cavalry had little effect on even the harassment. Now he has retreated in shame. However, he did not rashly order the Zhou army formation to approach the north, because his own war elephant still had weaknesses.

First, the effect of anesthetics is very short and the combat time cannot be delayed for too long. Otherwise, you have to feed the elephant on the spot to drink water mixed with anesthetics.

Secondly, the big crossbow has a strong lethality against the elephant, especially the fire arrows that are lit are even more powerful.

He had to beware of the large crossbows in the Zhou army's formation, which is a large crossbow similar to Chen Jun's Wanjun divine crossbow. The arrows shot by this large crossbow at a suitable distance can easily penetrate the cowhide armor. The damage and pain caused by it cannot bear even the war elephant who drinks anesthetics.

Therefore, Chen Fozhi did not dare to let the war elephant move northward. Once his elephant army enters the range of the Zhou army's large crossbow, he will definitely not be able to withstand the concentrated shooting of the large crossbow. Once the war elephant collapses, a carefully planned drama will be destroyed.

Chen Fozhi's elephant army had already been stationed in the south of the woods between the East and West Camps. In order to keep the secret, he sent many soldiers to station on the periphery to drive away the scouts of the Zhou army in order to implement the combat strategy formulated by the Grand Governor Wang Meng and Lady Xian.

Now the official army led by Wang Meng is in the east, and the Liliao soldiers led by Lady Xian are in the west, forming the word "pin" with the Zhou army in the north. Chen Fozhi's Xiang army is in the middle, and everything is the same as the planned strategy. The self-righteous Zhou army has taken the bait.

His elephant army had to wait for friendly forces on the east and west wings to approach and had flank cover before they could rush forward with confidence.

After all, no matter how much the war elephant trains, the problem of fear of fire cannot be changed.

Chen Fozhi knew his weakness of the Elephant Army, so he was very cautious and had a wishful thinking: when the friendly troops on both sides of the east and west bit the Zhou army's formation, a melee could prevent the big crossbows in the opponent's formation from firing, and his Elephant Army could break through the middle and trampling on the enemy's army to make it more refreshing.

This is just in case, even if the war elephants are scared out of control by the opponent's fire attack, they turn around and run backwards, that is, when they run south, the back is empty, and will not rush backwards or affect the friendly forces on both sides of the left and right.

The carefully formulated combat strategy has taken into account the hidden dangers and details of all parties. Chen Fozhi also participated in the formulation of the strategy, so he is very confident that his side will win in the end.

Then, Yuwen Wen, the one-legged bronze man, I want to cast your corpse into a real one-legged bronze man!

The idea was decided, and he looked at the battlefield again. The Zhou cavalry retreated, but the Zhou army infantry formation that had previously chased Feng Xuan had not yet retreated.
Chapter completed!