But this was not the most frightening thing. The most frightening thing was that these Erhai elephants were completely unaffected by the weakening effects of the Bane of the Battlefield Halo. At this moment, they had become the sharpest weapons the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang armies were using to break the formation.
Roar!
With a deafening roar, two massive elephant hooves rose into the air and stomped down on the Annam Protectorate on the edge of the battle line.
"Ah! … "
Their faces were brimming with fear, but in the face of these fully-armored, invulnerable Erhai elephants, the Annam Protectorate's resistance was negligible.
As the elephant's hooves descended, the Annan Protectorate army soldiers didn't even have time to dodge, and even their armor was crushed into meat paste.
Roar! The elephants raised their trunks high and began to rampage through the Tang army on the summit, none of them a match.
Roooar!
Suddenly, a sound wave arrived, the enormous strength contained in this sound wave jolting aside the metal ornaments in the elephants' ears and blasting into their minds.
But just when the elephants raised their heads in fright, a metal halberd flew through the air, stabbing deep into the elephants' eyes and into their skulls. The huge elephants' knees went soft, and they knelt heavily on the hillside. Dark red blood gushed out of their eye sockets, and then they stopped moving.
Although they possessed powerful vitality and enormous strength, beasts were not humans, and the intelligence of elephants was far inferior to that of humans. In the face of top-class human experts, they were still vulnerable to a single blow.
"Axemen, chop off the guards on the elephants' heads!"
The middle of the mountain was in chaos. A fully-armored general was shouting at the top of his lungs, his eyes red with madness. The Annam Protectorate had never been in such a perilous situation. The lives of more than eighty thousand soldiers were on the line. If they could not stop this wave of attacks, the entire Annam Protectorate would be wiped out.
In order to resist this wave of attacks, all of the generals fought with all their might, using all of their strength.
"Elephant Stabbing Guards!"
Bang! Bang! Two soldiers of the White Elephant Corps were struck by the spinning axes and dropped from the elephants' heads. A moment later, two Tang Dynasty soldiers nimbly climbed up the elephant's trunks. Squelch! Two sharp swords stabbed into the elephant's eyes.
"Capture them!"
"Damn it, don't let them get away!"
Countless sabers, swords, and spears stabbed at the Tang Dynasty soldiers on the elephants' heads. But before they could arrive, the elephant stabbing guards immediately rolled off the elephants' corpses and vanished into the crowd.
In these five days, Dalun Ruozan and the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army had truly thought of many ways to protect the elephants from the Tang, but Wang Chong had also thought of many ways to deal with the Erhai elephants of Mengshe Zhao.
"Rumble!"
While the battlefield was in a stalemate, there was a massive boom from the southeast. In the most intense moment of the battle, the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army in the southeast suddenly retreated without warning. All the Annam Protectorate soldiers were stunned, but in the heat of the battle, their bodies couldn't help but follow the pursuit.
"Interesting, they're copying me!"
On the summit, Wang Chong was surveying the battlefield. When he saw this sight, his eyes brightened and he couldn't help but laugh. This scene was incredibly similar. Dalun Ruozan was using the methods he had used against the Mengshe Zhao army against himself.
"Pass on my order. Have General Luoji move to the southeast."
"Yes, your subordinate will go."
The guard stood up and quickly left to carry out the order.
"Dalun Ruozan, if you want to use my methods to deal with me, you first have to look at who your opponent is."
Wang Chong's lips curled into a cold smile. For Dalun Ruozan to be able to grasp his tactics in such a short time and train an army to deal with him was truly formidable. However, he was still far from being able to use his spear against his shield.
Luoji's army was extremely skilled in offense. As long as there was the slightest opportunity, they would not let it go. If the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army revealed an opening in front of him, they would only be humiliating themselves.
Wang Chong only needed a glance to know that the level of tactics the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army had displayed was absolutely incapable of dealing with a commander of Luoji's level.
It was like how a bag could hold a stick but not a spear.
Turning his gaze away from the southeast, Wang Chong quickly turned his attention to the north. There, an army dressed in dazzling armor of gold and white was charging through the mountains. Even the elites of the Annam Protectorate were incapable of stopping them.
The Dragon Son Corps was the most elite guard of the Mengshe Zhao Empire. Under the leadership of Crown Prince Fengjiayi, it displayed a terrifying offensive power. Without the protection of the Giant Elephant Corps or the support of other armies, this corps had already pierced through more than half of the Annam Protectorate's lines.
Weapons, equipment, strength … the entire Dragon Son Corps stood at the apex of the Mengshe Zhao Empire. In terms of individual strength, neither the cavalry of Ouzan nor the Annam Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty could compare to the Dragon Son Corps of Mengshe Zhao.
Even Wang Chong's Bane of the Battlefield Halo was greatly weakened against them, making it far less effective than it was against other armies.
The Dragon Son Corps was the trump card of the Mengshe Zhao Empire. In the battle of Erhai, Gelofeng had used this sharp sword to pierce through the defenses of the Annam Protectorate and crush Xianyu Zhongtong.
In the frenzied assault of the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army, the one that posed the greatest threat to the Tang people was not Duan Yangyan's Giant Elephant Corps, but the Dragon Son Corps led by Fengjiayi.
To Wang Chong, the Dragon Son Corps was the pawn of the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army that he wanted to eliminate the most.
"Begin!"
Wang Chong turned his head to Lin Wushou.
"This general will go!"
Lin Wushou's expression was solemn as he bowed and quickly left, vanishing from the summit.
… …
"All soldiers, hear my order!
"Everyone, obey my orders! Anyone who falls behind will be executed!"
… …
Fengjiayi's eyes blazed with an unprecedented fighting intent. His gaze remained fixed on the summit, and in the entire world, he could see nothing but Wang Chong.
"Kill him!
"For Jiaosiluo, and for myself!"
Fengjiayi's mind was in turmoil. He was like an arrow released from a bow, never stopping until he had reached his goal. There was only one thought in his mind: eliminate Wang Chong.
"Crane Wing Formation! Advance at full speed! "
Fengjiayi unsheathed his sword, his body covered in blood as he continued forward, stepping over the corpses of the Tang Dynasty soldiers. Behind him, pieces of armor seemed to have a life of their own. They broke free from the corpses and turned into iron men.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Fengjiayi extended a palm, and before the Annam Protectorate soldiers could get close, their swords flew out of their hands and their armor twisted and deformed as they fell to the ground with screams.
Rumble!
Just as Fengjiayi was leading the Dragon Son Legion in a triumphant march, the sound of galloping hooves came from behind him, accompanied by an unending stream of screams.
Fengjiayi trembled and turned his head. He saw that a cavalry unit had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and cut Fengjiayi's Dragon Son Legion in two.
"The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty!"
Fengjiayi's pupils constricted, all the hair on his body standing on end. After fighting the Tang Dynasty for so many days, Fengjiayi had never seen the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
The sudden appearance of this Tang Dynasty cavalry was like a needle stabbed into Fengjiayi's heart.
"Retreat and defend!!!"
Fengjiayi's body went cold as he let out the most mournful howl he had ever let out in his life. For an army to be cut in half at the waist was an extremely dangerous signal to any soldier.
If they were cut in half by the Tang Dynasty, half of the Dragon Son Legion would end up in the Tang Dynasty's pocket. On the first day of the battle, Fengjiayi had personally witnessed the fate of the eight thousand Ouzan cavalry that had fallen into the Tang Dynasty's encirclement.
If they could not promptly break out of the encirclement, the Dragon Son Legion would suffer unprecedented damage since its founding.
"Boom!"
The nearly one hundred metal men were the first to charge back, and then the rest of the Dragon Son Legion followed suit.
"Retreat and defend!"
"Retreat and defend!"
Fengjiayi's hoarse roar threw the entire army into chaos, but it was already too late. "Kill!" With a heaven-shaking roar, a unit of Tang Dynasty axemen fiercely charged forward, their massive axes whistling through the air as they smashed down.
Amongst the infantry, axemen were the most powerful in terms of attack power, and at the same time, they were also the best type of soldier for breaking through defenses. Fengjiayi had never imagined that Wang Chong would use this army to deal with him at this time.
"Stop them!!!"
Fengjiayi's eyes were wide with rage, his entire body filled with an unprecedented tension. But before all of this could begin, there was a scream as the axemen appeared and another unit of shieldmen charged out from the left.
"Kill! — — "
Battle cries shook the heavens and the earth. The Annam Protectorate, which had been steadily losing ground, suddenly charged from all sides, cold light flashing and a forest of swords. Not even Fengjiayi knew how many soldiers Wang Chong had prepared to deal with him.
"Success!"
In the midst of the chaos, the wild cheers of a Tang Dynasty general suddenly came from behind him. Fengjiayi turned his head. To his left and right, countless soldiers of the Annam Protectorate were cooperating with the Tang Dynasty cavalry. In a short period of time, they had completely surrounded and cut up the Dragon Son Legion.
"Damn it, I've been tricked!"
Fengjiayi was both shocked and furious, his vision going black. He had never imagined that Wang Chong's reaction would be so swift and fierce. By the time he could react, it was already too late.
"This is what they call the hard but easy to break!"
On the summit, Wang Chong watched as the army gradually closed in and the Dragon Son Legion fell into a tight encirclement. With a sneer, he quickly turned his attention elsewhere.
In the end, Fengjiayi was still too young, and his attainments in the art of war were far from his own level.
"If one could unify the world by relying on a strong army, then wouldn't the Tang Dynasty have already unified the world? What use would they have then for the art of war?"
The fate of the Dragon Son Legion had already been decided. To Wang Chong, there was an even more important matter for him to complete.
"Careful! — — "
"All soldiers, on guard! Put everything on the defense!"
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