There were almost no village houses on the banks of the shore of the Wushui River behind the forest. At this time, thousands of Zhou army soldiers emerged from the forest, and the scene was strange. People rushed towards the camp behind in a mess.

There are mountains on both sides, only this river beach is relatively open. In the wilderness, the beach is even more noisy. There are many camps and towering arrow towers.

After the enemy soldiers and infantry chased out of the mountains and forests, they did not rush to chase them.

But after a while, some huge objects slowly emerged from the edge of the woods at the foot of the mountain! The soldiers in the Zhou army camp were surprised and watched.

"Mu..." A strange behemoth called out. The Zhou army soldiers in the camp finally recognized it. It turned out to be an elephant!

The elephant was not an ordinary elephant. It was caught from somewhere. It was very big, covered with iron armor, and a tower-like thing was carried on it. There was a man sitting on it. Although the elephant walked slowly, it was covered with iron and pointed spears, as if it was invulnerable to swords and guns, and it looked very terrifying!

On both sides and behind each elephant, there are infantry holding swords and shields in front, and behind them are bows and crossbowmen, advancing with the elephants. Those huge war elephants are like warships in the sea of ​​people... and they are very similar to armored army clusters, with infantry forming a battle group with war elephants as the center.

Dozens of war elephants surged out of the mountains and forests, and the Southern Han Dynasty infantry and cavalry followed behind, and their men and horses attacked the camps deployed by the Zhou army on the river beach.

The Southern Han army gradually approached with a strange war elephant system, and for a moment, it seemed like a torrent was slowly surging in the open ground! The elephants' screams and the sounds of people and horses were neighing throughout the mountains, and the wilderness was very lively.

The war elephants spreading horizontally and the infantry holding thick wooden shields gradually attacked within 200 steps! Neither side had fired long-range weapons, but the soldiers of the Southern Han Kingdom on the war elephants had prepared their crossbows; giants came over unstoppable like moving arrow towers!

Soon, some pennant flags planted on the ground were knocked down by the infantrymen of the Southern Han army who were walking over.

At this moment, the "chirp" wood rubbed sounds from the Zhou army camp, and the men were pulling the hemp rope on the catapult cart. "Bang bang bang bang..." Many round stone lumps were thrown out of the catapult cart.

The round stone lump was thrown very accurately! It was just right at the position of the Southern Han army's attack, because the range was marked in advance.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a loud bang, a flash of fire in the air, and the smoke suddenly exploded... The round stone actually exploded in the air!

A moment later, the explosions sounded one after another, and the stone cannons were either in the sky or on the ground, with stone pieces flying around and smoke filling the sky. The army attacking in the Southern Han Kingdom was immediately panicked and panicked and messed up.

The war elephants were so scared that they turned around and ran away. The drivers above could not control the frightened elephants. The elephants turned around and rushed to the infantry and cavalry of the Southern Han army that followed closely behind... At this time, the army was basically very dense except for the horses to maintain combat power. The elephants rushed into the crowd, with huge objects, covered with iron, and pointed spears like hedgehogs; where could the Southern Han army block the elephants? They avoided one after another, and their formations were in chaos.

After the stone cannon exploded, it quickly stopped. Then the real stone was thrown, which could not be exploded... According to the method of the Beiyuan Fireworks Square in Tokyo, it was not easy for people to dig the inside of the stone, and there were very few shells.

But the Southern Han army has been disrupted by its own war elephants!

At this time, the gates between the camps were put down with a "bang". The neatly-clad infantry inside heard the gongs and drums and the flags were set off, and they ran out in a column.

The front army chased the Southern Han soldiers with spears and swords and shields, and killed them when they saw them. The crossbow soldiers and firearms behind them turned into three rows of horizontal lines and advanced forward.

On the battlefield, there were people rushing, shouting loudly, and people were everywhere. The land here was wet and the vegetation was very good. Countless people rushed together, but there was no dust; but the sky was filled with smoke from the firecrackers.

Behind the Zhou army, some people actually played chants, stirring songs, screaming and screaming in fear, and the scene on the battlefield was very strange!

The Zhou army in front fought in a dense battle with the Southern Han Dynasty. The machete spears of the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty were inserted into the plate armor of the Zhou army soldiers, and some of them pierced the hard leather armor between the four plate armors, screaming and screaming. Very few of the Zhou army soldiers died, most of them were injured.

At this moment, the military music stopped, and the men beat the thick bronze instrument "Ding Ding Ding..." and the Zhou soldiers in front turned around and retreated. Some were nervous and didn't hear it, but when they saw that all the accomplices ran away, they turned around and ran away. The riots retreated from the emptiness in the middle of the horizontal lineup.

At this time, the crossbow soldiers were also ready, and the "crackling" sound of strings sounded everywhere. The Southern Han army soldiers were killed and injured and fled in a mess. The Zhou army marched from time to time from time to time, stopping and firing volleys. The firearms and crossbows of each command were fired alternately, and white smoke filled the air.

The Zhou army's infantry chased the foot of the mountain. At this time, all the people attacked by the Southern Han army collapsed and ran into the woods.

The messenger with a triangular red flag on his back rode over, and while running, he shouted loudly against the commanders everywhere: "Central military order, stop chasing and prohibit entering the forest!"

...The army in the camp was cheering everywhere, and it was so lively!

The civil servants and generals around Cao Bin were congratulating him, and Prime Minister Li Gu said with a smile: "General Cao is worthy of being the commander of His Majesty! A group of new soldiers, who were still hoes a few months ago, can defeat the main reinforcements of the Southern Han Kingdom by picking up weapons today. I admire him very much!"

Cao Bin bowed politely: "This is because His Majesty gave him excellent equipment. Mr. Li transferred sufficient food and fodder to the military supplies. I dare not take credit. I joined the army during the Han Dynasty (later) Han Dynasty. If these armored and weapons were not necessarily equipped in the past, the elite soldiers might not have such equipment."

The staff said: "Master Cao sent people into the forest in advance, which turned out to be a trick to lure the enemy!"

Cao Bin did not comment.

At this moment, a group of generals in front entered the tent and started arguing. Someone patted his chest and shouted: "If the central army does not ask us to retreat, we must take advantage of the victory to fight to Shaozhou!"

Someone said, "I won't say that I will fight to Shaozhou, break through this mountain, and camp behind the mountain to approach Shaozhou without any mistakes..."

Cao Bin is in his thirties, with a white face and very elegant every move. He is often praised as a Confucian general. He is not angry at the complaints from his generals, but just said seriously: "It is reported that the Southern Han army has sent more reinforcements in Shaozhou. The mountains ahead are high and dense forests. The central army has not yet controlled the situation. It is a taboo for underestimating the enemy and advancing the military! "

The staff immediately agreed, "Cao Gong's words are reasonable. There are no elephants in Shaozhou. The elephant soldiers of the Southern Han Kingdom obtained the war elephants from Dali and Annan (Wu Dynasty). Only the imperial guards in the capital have appeared in Shaozhou. As Cao Gong expected, the Southern Han Kingdom sent the main reinforcements!"

The generals were making a noise and were stunned by the talk.

Li Gu said: "This battle is a great victory, and Cao Gong can write a letter to report the victory and ask for me."

Cao Bin's eyes swept over the civil servants who "command the army" behind him and said, "I have reported in fact that this victory has not been able to make substantial progress. First, because the Southern Han Dynasty has added reinforcements, and second, there is miasma in the south, and there are many sick people in the army, which has greatly reduced our troops."

Li Gu frowned and worried: "The miasma is really difficult to deal with. I have brought a lot of medicinal materials to the healing camp, but it didn't get better."

...The people in the Central Plains are indeed very afraid of the miasma in the south.

In the Han and Tang dynasties, the south was under the jurisdiction of the court, but the officials least wanted to go to was to be an official in the Southern Han Dynasty, and were regarded as being exiled because of disfavor... because many people came to be officials and died of miasma!

There was an imperial doctor sent by Taichang Temple in the army, who thought the miasma was very terrible, which made Cao Bin and other people in the camp very worried.

Under the arrangement of the imperial doctor and the military doctor, everyone set up camps to live and treat the disease. In addition to copying medical books, the treatment method based on it also found local local doctors and used herbs to treat them. Some of them could be cured, while others were in the lower grades.

After Yu Liang escaped from the forest, he fell ill. That night, he was beaten and sweated all over, and was immediately sent to the injured barracks to live. Kaifeng commander was in the worst condition. He was defeated in the woods and injured hundreds of people, and some people fell ill one after another. The entire commander basically lost his combat effectiveness.

Yu Liang was lying in a temporary straw shed, surrounded by the smell of realgar, smoky and smoky sounds, and he could hear vomiting and moaning. His mood was very bad.

He didn't expect that the war was like this... It was completely different from the poem "If you don't destroy Loulan, you won't return", "Why don't a man bring Wu Gou" and so on, and it was not so poetic at all! Yu Liang's experience after going out of the war: walking, walking, walking, walking thousands of miles of his mother! Then he heard that Xiongzhou was captured, so he came over again, and then he led people to dig trenches and repair walls in the wilderness... As soon as he marched in a line, he didn't even see the appearance of the enemy soldiers clearly, so he ran back in a panic.

Then he fell ill and was sent to this broken place to lie down.

Zhou Jun was sick many people, and the reason why he did not retreat was that the imperial doctor and local local doctors kept recovering. It is said that it was miasma, but it could still be cured anyway.

But Yu Liang has not improved. He lay on the broken bed every day, and no one came to see him... The soldiers who were familiar with were forbidden to enter the healing camp. Yu Liang felt that his health was getting worse and worse, weak all over, and it was a little difficult to get up. He had to think about whether he would die of illness in this broken place?

After all, he is a scholar. Yu Liang is a little questioning now. He has entered the wrong career and is not suitable for martial arts at all... But he can't get into the Jinshi even if he learns literature. It's really a matter of martial arts!

Now he could only wait to die in depression, and his despair deepened little by little.
Chapter completed!