"The White Elephant Corps?"
Wang Chong turned his head. Although he had many memories from his previous life, none of them could compare to these old generals who had spent their entire lives dealing with Mengshe Zhao and who had experienced the Battle of Erhai.
"Mm!"
Chen Shusun nodded, his expression extremely grave.
"The Erhai region is different from the Central Plains. The trees there are lush and the climate is hot. There are many wild Behemoths there, and one of them has a long trunk and immense strength. Mengshe Zhao calls it a Giant Elephant. Gelofeng had long ago wanted to tame these Behemoths, and in the end, they managed to train an army called the White Elephant Corps.
"This White Elephant Corps doesn't have many people, but they are extremely formidable. We suffered a great loss at their hands in the Battle of Erhai. A large number of soldiers died at their hands. "
Chen Shusun said.
Rumble! The earth quaked as the Behemoth Corps got closer and closer. Finally, Wang Chong saw the Giant Elephant Corps that Chen Shusun had spoken of. These were massive elephants. Although Wang Chong had seen elephants before, these elephants were completely different from the ones in Wang Chong's mind.
Wang Chong had never seen such massive elephants. Each elephant was six or seven meters tall, with some even reaching eight or nine meters. Just looking at their massive bodies was enough to stun one's heart.
"How could there be such large elephants?"
Wang Chong was also stunned.
Wang Chong had never seen this White Elephant Corps, nor did he have any impression of them. They had probably been destroyed when the otherworldly invaders had appeared. But when he saw these massive elephants, Wang Chong felt an unimaginable shock.
The adult wild elephants of the African continent, even the largest, were only four meters tall, but the elephants of the White Elephant Corps were more than twice as tall, and their bodies were sixteen or seventeen meters long.
Their protruding tusks were three or four meters long.
Even with Wang Chong's experience, he had never seen such massive wild elephants.
"These white elephants are even wearing armor!"
The Eagle murmured. Compared to Wang Chong, who had seen it before, he was still mentally prepared. However, The Eagle was completely unprepared. The Eagle felt an indescribable shock at the sight of such a colossal creature.
"It's Inscription Elephant Armor!"
Wang Chong murmured.
The Eagle was right. These elephants were covered in thick white armor, similar to the white plate armor worn by the Ouzan people. Each plate armor was at least a foot thick and covered in inscriptions.
With just a glance, Wang Chong immediately recognized that those were the toughening and defensive inscriptions that he was most familiar with. Given the thickness of the plate armor, even ballistae would find it very difficult to deal any substantial damage to them.
In fact, the most shocking thing was the size of these elephants.
"Elephant armor, inscriptions … I'm afraid each of these elephants weighs more than ten thousand pounds. They're even heavier than a steel city wall!"
Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
Each of the steel walls that Wang Chong had constructed weighed several thousand pounds, but compared to Mengshe Zhao's elephants, they seemed insignificant. Wang Chong suddenly understood what Mengshe Zhao was planning.
"Assemble the ballistae and prepare to intercept them!"
Wang Chong ordered.
"Yes, Young Master!"
The messengers quickly left to carry out the order. At the same time, Mengshe Zhao's army was also undergoing a transformation.
"Ha!"
"Ha!"
Amidst the shouts, the Mengshe Zhao soldiers surged forward around the white elephants, forming a human wall in front of the elephants as they pushed forward.
And then, the most worrying matter occurred.
Roooar!
"Ha!"
Following a series of shouts, one large shield after another flipped up, forming a huge shield above their heads and pushing it towards the mountain. Seeing this, it wasn't just Wang Chong. Chen Shuchong, Wang Yan, Xianyu Zhongtong, The Eagle, Luoji, and Lin Wushu all paled.
No matter how slow they were, they understood that these shieldbearers were there to protect the white-armored elephants.
Rumble! The earth shook as the White Elephant Corps got closer and closer. Standing on a high mountain peak, one could see one giant elephant after another constantly approaching.
One, two, three, four …
On the vast land, if one were to take a closer look, there were more than a thousand of these elephants that were scattered all over the place, and they were approaching the mountain range. Although there weren't many of them, they were spread out over the vast plain, giving off an intimidating pressure.
"Ha!"
"Ha!"
… …
Finally, with an ear-piercing roar, the first wave of the White Elephant Corps finally reached the base of the mountain.
"Ready, fire!"
With this order, countless arrows howled down from the sky like locusts. Ding, ding, ding, the arrows rained down on the seven to eight meters tall elephant. Ding, ding, dang, dang, dang, all of them were blocked.
The white elephant armor was like a thick wall, blocking all the arrows outside.
"Ready!"
At almost the same time, the White Elephant Corps soldiers reacted, raising their shields high above their heads. Seven or eight soldiers rushed forward. Some of them slid down the elephant's trunk and opened up their shields to protect the elephant's tiny eyes.
Not a single arrow was able to get close.
And it was far from over.
"Begin!"
A white-armored Mengshe Zhao officer raised his sword and swung it down. Swish! Countless chains flew out, vibrating in the air as if they had a mind of their own, quickly locking down the steel walls.
The other end of the chain was quickly locked onto the elephant's body.
"Pull!"
Following the order, smoke and dust billowed on the mountain, and the huge steel wall collapsed with a loud bang. Then, with the help of iron chains, it was quickly dragged out of the mountain.
In the face of the elephant's enormous strength, even the seven to eight thousand jin steel walls that Wang Chong had spent a great deal of wealth seemed insignificant. In the blink of an eye, a huge steel wall was dragged away by the giant elephant.
Without the cover of the steel walls, the Annam Protectorate soldiers behind the walls all had unsightly expressions.
"Let's go, let's go!"
"Hurry and report to the lords! Let them decide!"
… …
In the face of the swarm of White Elephant Corps soldiers, the entire phalanx turned pale and rushed higher up the mountain.
"Hahaha, we've lost, the Tang Dynasty has lost!"
The Mengshe Zhao army cheered.
'The mistakes of the past serve as a lesson for the future.' The previous bitter defeat had left everyone deeply fearful of the Annan Protectorate army. But this time, the situation was completely different.
Without the protection of the steel walls, the Annam Protectorate's advantage was gone, and they could no longer hold on.
"Rumble!"
With a rumble, in the blink of an eye, another steel wall collapsed, bound by seven or eight chains, and was dragged away by the elephant step by step. Boom! Boom! Boom! One wall after another, they fell one after another.
In a short period of time, at least thirty to forty steel walls were dragged away.
"Hold on, don't let them drag you away!"
Behind a steel wall, more than twenty Annam Protectorate soldiers were doing their best to drag the steel walls in front of them, engaging in a tug-of-war with the elephant. But in the next moment, with a rumble, dust roiled, and a huge rumble, more than twenty Annam Protectorate soldiers, along with the heavy steel walls, were all dragged down the mountain by the elephant.
"Ah!"
Screams rang out from the top of the mountain. Although they knew that the elephant was extremely powerful, no one had expected it to reach this level. More than twenty elite warriors at the peak of the True Martial Realm joined hands, but they were still not a match for this giant elephant.
"I'm afraid that even those at the third or fourth tier of the Profound Martial realm wouldn't be a match for it!"
The Eagle's eyelids twitched when he saw this scene.
He had already broken through to the third or fourth tier of the Profound Martial realm. In other words, in terms of pure strength, if he didn't use the Six-Armed Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian, even he wouldn't be a match for this elephant.
And giant elephants like this could be found everywhere in the White Elephant Legion.
"The situation isn't looking good! In order to deal with the Tang dynasty, Gelofeng has schemed and schemed. This White Elephant Corps is actually a result of his meticulous accumulation to deal with the Tang dynasty in positional warfare. "
Chen Shusun said.
"More than a thousand elephants. Their strength is basically between the third or fourth tier of the Profound Martial realm and the eighth or ninth tier. Some of them are even close to the peak of the ninth tier."
Chen Shusun looked at an eleven or twelve-meter-tall elephant in the distance.
That was probably the oldest, tallest, and strongest elephant in the entire White Elephant Corps. Many of the hairs on its body were gray-white. But its steps were still light and agile.
This was probably the Elephant King of the White Stone Legion.
Not even Chen Shusun had the confidence to deal with such an Elephant King. Such an Elephant King in addition to more than a thousand elephants posed an enormous threat to the Tang dynasty.
"If Mengshe Zhao's people completely uproot these steel walls, even if we still have an army of ninety thousand, we really will be doomed."
Chen Shusun said in a low voice.
The Annam Protectorate had dealt with Mengshe Zhao's White Elephant Corps before. Chen Shusun was well aware of the White Elephant Corps' power. In terms of status, of Mengshe Zhao's four elite legions, the White Elephant Corps was actually far above the White Stone Legion.
The reason it hadn't reached Ouzan's First Legion was because the White Elephant Corps didn't have that many of them. There were only a thousand or so of them.
"Hmph, elephants are just inanimate objects. I don't believe they can be as nimble as martial artists. If it weren't for the protection of Mengshe Zhao's troops, these elephants would be nothing more than targets. "
A voice came from the side.
At some point, Lin Wusu and the others had walked up. As soon as they arrived, they turned their gazes to Wang Chong on the summit.
"Young Master, let me lead some men to kill these elephants! This general is confident that we can stop Mengshe Zhao's people at the base of the mountain. "
"No need!"
Wang Chong waved his hand, his gaze fixed on the base of the mountain.
"We still haven't reached that step!"
Boom, boom, boom. Just as everyone was talking, another steel city wall was uprooted and dragged out by the giant elephants, leaving a long mark on the ground.
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