"Boom! Boom!!! "
The drums rumbled and sounded mightily.
The sound of the war drums resounded throughout the city.
The army under Li Shimin's command no longer hid and attacked with all their might. The mighty army swarmed out of Guazhou City and began to chase Du Qi.
Li Shimin himself also led his troops out of the city and chased closely behind.
The mighty army attacked and chased quickly.
Du Qi's army was retreating. Even though the Tang army was hot on their heels, because Du Qi's army retreated quickly, even if they were attacked, only the soldiers at the rear would be slightly affected and the army would not be affected.
The two sides chased and fled.
It didn't take long for the short distance of more than ten miles to be finished.
After Du Qi led the army to this place, the troops under his command continued to move forward and did not continue to descend. When the Tang army chased and approached the position of the elephant soldiers, Du Qi immediately ordered them to stop retreating.
All the troops turned around on the spot.
However, Du Qi did not order them to counterattack.
However, the Tang army was still attacking.
Even the Tang soldiers who were at the front were excited.
Xia Xia's army stopped.
They were no longer running.
The pursuing Tang army did not think about anything else. They only wanted to kill the enemy and gain merit. They only wanted to gain merit.
"Woo! Woo! "
Suddenly, the long sound of the horn sounded.
The sound of the horn came from both sides. The sound was low and vigorous, but it was very long. With the sound of the horn, small mounds suddenly stood up one after another on both sides of the wide road.
Elephants stood up one after another.
These were elephants that had arrived long ago.
Previously, two thousand elephant soldiers arrived at this place and spread out to both sides. Because Li Shimin's attention was on Guazhou City, there were no sentries watching these places, so even if all the giant elephants were lying in ambush nearby, Li Shimin did not know. The giant elephants stood up, and the elephant soldiers quickly climbed into the fence on the back of the giant elephants.
With the command of the elephant soldiers, all the scattered elephant soldiers had already started to attack and pounced on the Tang army at the rear.
This was a scattered attack.
The purpose of the elephant soldiers was not to kill the enemy one by one, but to charge into the enemy formation. No matter what kind of formation it was, in front of a giant elephant, one stomp and everything would be over. As the giant elephants ran, their feet stomped on the ground, causing the ground to tremble. This momentum was far stronger than any horses, and even stronger than the bombardment of mortars.
When this commotion appeared, the attacking Tang army was stunned. They quickly looked around and saw the Elephant Soldiers charging over from both sides. Many of the soldiers of the Tang dynasty had never seen giant elephants before. When they saw these giant elephants, they were shocked, and their faces were filled with fear and uneasiness.
What kind of monster was this?
He was so tall.
Standing on the ground, it looked like a small mountain, even as tall as the city walls.
As the giant elephants galloped, the scattered troops rushed into the Tang army's formation in a short period of time. On the vast land, countless Tang soldiers were chasing after them.
But before they could catch up with Xia's army, the giant elephants suddenly rushed in and neighed. Especially when the giant elephant's feet landed on the bodies of the soldiers, the soldiers were immediately crushed into meat paste. There was no chance for them to survive.
The Tang army, which was originally aggressive, was in disarray at this moment.
The Tang army's formation completely dissipated.
Especially at this moment, all the elephant soldiers turned around and headed in the direction of Guazhou City, which was to say, toward the army behind the Tang army.
Even if the Tang army had been fighting continuously before, some of them had fled and lost tens of thousands of people. Now, there were only a little more than a hundred thousand soldiers left, less than two hundred thousand soldiers. But these hundreds of thousands of soldiers were spread out on the official road in a mighty manner. But even so, after the elephant soldiers scattered, the giant elephants dashed randomly and disrupted the Tang army's formation.
These two thousand elephant soldiers were the vanguard.
They rushed to the front.
At the same time, they disrupted the offensive of the Tang army.
At this moment, Du Qi gave the order to counterattack, and the army under his command quickly counterattacked.
Xue Rengui, Ma Yuan, and Xiao Yuanqi all went out to fight.
They rushed over at full speed.
Once, it was the Tang army that killed Xia's army. But in less than an hour, or even less than an hour, the situation had been reversed. It was Xia Xia's army that rushed over.
Many of the Tang soldiers who had been scattered by the elephant soldiers had lost their fighting spirit and their previous ferocity. At this moment, they were attacked by Xia Xia's army and were immediately killed.
The attack of Xia Xia's army was mighty and mighty.
The Tang army could not withstand a single blow.
This situation quickly spread to the rear of the Tang army and to Li Shimin's ears. When Li Shimin led the army to rush over to kill, although he was far away, he also felt the ground tremble. After all, when two thousand elephant soldiers went out to fight, the nearby ground was trembling slightly. However, although Li Shimin felt it, he could not figure out the reason.
When Li Shimin got the news that Du Qi's army had elephant soldiers, he was immediately dumbfounded.
How could it be?
Du Qi had actually set up an ambush with elephant soldiers in the rear.
It should be noted that when Du Qi's army was marching, including when Du Qi was marching in Rouyuan County, Li Shimin's army had been keeping an eye on them. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for Li Shimin not to know that Du Qi had elephant soldiers.
But from beginning to end, Li Shimin did not know of this news. But right now, Du Qi was relying on such an army to kill the troops under his command, causing the formation of the army to be thrown into chaos.
Zhangsun Wuji also sighed in his heart.
Was Du Qi the nemesis of the Tang dynasty?
The Tang dynasty's strength was extraordinary, but when it came to Du Qi, even if they had strength, they could not display it.
Zhangsun Wuji's heart was already in ecstasy. He even imagined that if the Tang dynasty captured Du Qi alive, he would definitely make Du Qi suffer a fate worse than death. He would make Du Qi pay for all the humiliation he had done to him in the past.
Unfortunately, everything was gone.
Du Qi had turned the situation around again.
Zhangsun Wuji took a deep breath and suppressed the emotions in his heart. He said, "Your Majesty, Du Qi's elephant soldiers have appeared and crushed our army formation. Our attack has been completely defeated, and our soldiers are also fleeing. I think that the only way to turn the situation around is to dispatch the black-armored elite cavalry. "
Li Shimin said bitterly, "Even if it's the black-armored elite cavalry, can they stop the elephant soldiers?"
Zhangsun Wuji muttered, "I'm afraid they can't."
Li Shimin said, "They really can't."
Although the black-armored elite cavalry was powerful, these elephants and war horses were not on the same level. The difference in size between the two sides was too big. Under such a premise, Li Shimin did not have any other choice.
Li Shimin was not an indecisive person. Especially when the situation was worrying, Li Shimin did not dare to waste any time. He decisively ordered, "Pass down the order, withdraw the troops!"
With that order, Li Shimin was already the first to withdraw.
Immediately after, Zhangsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, and the other generals who did not participate in the battle also retreated.
Everyone started to retreat.
Even Yuchi Gong, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin, who were leading the troops, did not dare to continue fighting after receiving the order. Especially in the current situation, no one dared to continue fighting. Du Qi was obviously counterattacking. If they stayed behind to fight to the death, it would be equivalent to seeking their own deaths.
It was the old man hanging himself.
The large-scale withdrawal of the Tang army caused the morale of the Tang army to collapse further. When they were ambushed, the casualties were even higher.
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