On the tenth day of July, Zhao Ziliang's army arrived at Gorba, the border of the Solanki Kingdom, and joined the Xuansi Department of the Ninth Army.
Zhao Ziliang walked into Xuan Si's central army tent and sat down at the head's seat, and said, "Tell us about the situation in the Solanji Kingdom."
Xuansi said: "The rulers of the Solanki Kingdom may not have expected that the king would destroy the Zhaohan Kingdom in such a short period of time, so their preparations to fight us seemed a bit hasty.
Now there are less than two people facing us.
Thousands of people, all of whom were infantry.
The minister received news that the 20,000 horses they had given birth to were coming here, and their king had ordered to recruit warriors from all over the country to prepare to form an army of 100,000 people to fight with them.
Our army will fight to the end” Zhao Ziliang laughed when he heard this and said: "Hahaha, is it too late for them to think of recruiting more than 100,000 troops to fight us now?"
Xuansi said: "Your Majesty, according to the information we have received, among the 40,000 Solanki people, there are 30,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and another 1,000 war elephants.
Their infantry and cavalry are not very good. , but war elephants are a type of arms we have never seen before, but our army already has experience fighting war elephants, and Wei Chen is worried that the king is not mentally prepared and will suffer a loss on the battlefield."
"Oh, one thousand war elephants."
Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised.
"One thousand war elephants need to eat a lot of food every day.
This is a huge expense.
How did our army deal with war elephants in the past?"
Li Siye stood up and said: "Use war elephants to fight war elephants.
Now the servant army has two thousand war elephants, which is enough to deal with Solanji's one thousand war elephants."
"Okay."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked: "Give me the order to rest for two days and attack the Solanki Kingdom army in two days."
Li Siye asked: "Didn't the king just say that it was just right to annihilate Solanji's army in one fell swoop?
Didn't he wait for the other half of their troops to arrive?"
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "Why do we have to wait for the initiative to be in my hands?
I can fight however I want.
How long should I wait for them to gather all their troops?
Since they have no time to concentrate their troops, it will give us the opportunity to defeat each other."
"yes" On July 12, the Western Qin army and its servant army came out of camp and approached Solanki's army, and Solanki's army also came out of camp to fight.
Around 4 o'clock in the morning, the two armies formed their positions facing each other.
Zhao Ziliang stood on the commander's platform and watched the formation of Solanji's army.
After observing for a while, he asked: "Look at the opponent's strength of more than 20,000 people.
They not only have a large number of infantry, but also nearly 10,000 cavalry.
This is a total of 40,000 people."
"People" Xuan Si frowned and said: "Could it be that they followed up with another 20,000 soldiers and horses who arrived last night?"
"I'm afraid that's the case, otherwise they wouldn't be able to suddenly have so many soldiers and horses, and they wouldn't be able to escape the detection of our detectives.
It doesn't matter.
Forty thousand is forty thousand.
We can just stop them once and for all.
They put the war elephants in It seems that we want to use war elephants to charge head-on.
We cannot weaken our majesty.
Send the order to have our two thousand war elephants spread out in the middle of the army, ready to face the opponent's war elephant attack."
"Yes" Xuan Si agreed and asked the messenger behind him to convey the order.
Soon, a flag was raised in front of the military formation, indicating that the mobilization and deployment had been completed.
Two thousand war elephants had been deployed in front of the military formation.
Xuan reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, we are ready."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Well, let's not wait any longer.
Let's finish the battle early and let the soldiers rest, and then send the order to the war elephant troops to launch an attack."
"yes" The two thousand war elephants who received the order, under the leadership of the servant generals, rushed towards Solanki's war elephants on the opposite side.
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Under the control of the knights, the war elephants opened their thick thighs and rushed towards the opposite side.
They raised their heads and exposed their long legs.
It has long tusks and a tail that keeps swaying.
When the general in command of the Solanki Army saw the war elephants dispatched by the Western Qin Army, he immediately ordered a thousand war elephants to fight.
The war elephants of both sides faced off against each other.
The riders on the war elephants began to shoot arrows at each other from a certain distance.
There are usually three people on the war elephant.
One knight controls the war elephant, and the other two Archers are responsible for striking enemies with bows and arrows.
War elephants are all covered with armor.
Some are leather armors and some are iron armors.
Generally, arrows hitting war elephants will cause minimal damage.
War elephants themselves have very thick skin.
If Wearing armor leaves has stronger defense, so bows and arrows have little effect on war elephants.
The absolute mainstay of the War of Elephants was a duel between knights, who shot arrows at each other.
Soon, both sides suffered injuries to each other.
The first unlucky ones were of course the riders.
They had to sit at the front because they had to control the war elephant.
They were the first to be shot.
The war elephant lost control after losing control of the rider.
Control, they tend to run around and crash.
After hundreds of war elephants on both sides lost control, they began to fight together.
Shooting at close range caused greater casualties to the riders and archers, and the battle began to become more intense.
Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but laugh when he saw the battle between the war elephants: "This war elephant duel is really interesting.
They use headbutts, stabs with their teeth, and kicks with their legs.
I have never seen this kind of fighting method before."
The generals looked over carefully and found that it was exactly what Zhao Ziliang said.
The melee between the elephants on both sides began and the riders on both sides controlled the elephants to ram into each other or stab the other's elephants with their teeth.
The elephants on both sides kept fighting with their teeth, causing The teeth of many war elephants are clashing.
Medium fracture.
Since one-third of an elephant's teeth are connected to the skull, fractures during battles and collisions will inevitably cause fatal injuries to the elephant.
As the ivory fractures, a large amount of blood flows out of the skull.
Many war elephants fell down with howls.
There were also many war elephants that were stabbed by the teeth of the opposing war elephants, resulting in bloody head injuries and punctured intestines and stomachs.
This made the officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army swallow their saliva after seeing this.
Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "No wonder when Chu Ge led his army to attack Beitian Zhu, he was killed by the enemy's war elephant and the army almost collapsed.
The attack method of war elephant really gave people too strong a visual impact.
In addition, our war horses never I have never seen such a huge animal as an elephant, and it will only cause chaos when frightened."
The War Elephant Troops of the Servant Army fought desperately for merit, while Solanki's War Elephant Troops also fought desperately to defend their homeland.
Both sides had a strong will to fight.
At first, it was difficult to see what the outcome of this fight would be.
This battle cannot be over in a short time.
Zhao Ziliang watched for a while and then said to Xuan Si: "I don't know when the winner of this war elephant showdown will be decided.
Let's ignore them.
We will order our heavy armored cavalry to attack and disperse the opponent's infantry formation.
We will order the slave army to attack." , attack the opponent's cavalry, send an order for the cavalry archers and the light cavalry of the Ninth Legion to attack, and shoot back and forth on the opponent's left and right wings on the outside."
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"Yes, Your Majesty" The real battle began.
Rows of Western Qin heavy armored cavalry showed their sharp claws.
Under the leadership of their respective leaders, they collectively rushed towards the 30,000 infantry in front of Solanki's army.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves was much stronger than the noise caused by the war elephant troops.
The sound of metal collision and the reflected light of the sun made the Solanki infantry on the opposite side feel that the momentum from the opposite side was overwhelming like an overwhelming force.
The earth trembled as if an earthquake had erupted.
The momentum caused by 10,000 heavy armored cavalry was definitely much stronger than that of 30,000 light cavalry.
Seeing the steel behemoths rushing over so close at hand, the faces of the Solanki infantry showed With frightened expressions, they retreated involuntarily, but no matter how fast they retreated, they could not rush as fast as the heavy armored cavalry of the Western Qin Dynasty.
"Boom" Western Qin's heavy armored cavalry was mounted on the Solanki infantry formation, instantly causing large areas of Solanki infantry to fall, as if a large-scale landslide occurred on the ground.
"Run, let's run!"
The Tianzhu people behind saw their companions in the dozens of rows in front being knocked away and trampled to pulp by countless horse hooves.
They were so frightened that their livers and gallbladders were broken.
They lost all their courage in an instant.
They dropped their weapons and turned around and ran away.
They pushed, collided, and trampled on each other.
When the escape route was blocked, they drew their swords and hacked their companions in order to carve out a way for themselves to escape.
The collapse took place in an instant.
The heavy armored cavalry was definitely a powerful unit that the Tianzhu people had never seen before.
The destructive power caused by this unit charging into the formation for the first time scared everyone, including Solanki.
The commander of the army, he looked at his thirty thousand soldiers with a pale face.
In the blink of an eye, one-fifth of the infantry was lost.
The casualties caused by this attack were a complete defeat.
No one had the courage to stay.
General Solanki immediately turned around and ran away.
With his escape, the rest of Solanki's army quickly dispersed.
The overall situation has been decided.
Zhao Ziliang ordered: "Send orders to all ministries and the entire army to attack and hunt down Solanji's army."
The 40,000 Solanki army was completely defeated in less than an hour in front of the Western Qin army.
This made all the servant armies and their generals feel sad, thinking of being defeated, captured alive or forced to surrender in the past.
Not unjust, they were even more afraid of Zhao Ziliang and the Western Qin army, especially Not to mention the charge of the heavy armored cavalry, the shock caused by the ten thousand heavy armored cavalry was so strong that they could not forget that scene for a long time.
What frightened them even more was the cavalry archers and light cavalry of the Western Qin Army.
Their unparalleled superb riding skills and riding and shooting tactics were beyond their reach.
The pursuit of defeated troops, gathering prisoners and cleaning the battlefield continued until dark.
Zhao Ziliang sat in the Chinese army's tent and waited for the generals of the army to report the results and losses.
After all the army generals had finished reporting, Gao Shang took the statistical results conducted by the scribe and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, after statistics, our army killed more than 12,000 enemy soldiers in this battle and captured more than 5,000 trained people. , only more than 2,000 Solanki troops escaped, and our army suffered more than 400 casualties, of which 260 were killed in battle, 150 were injured, and countless ordnance, supplies, and grain were seized."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked: "By the way, how is the war elephant unit doing?"
Gao Shang replied: "Our army's elephant force won, killing 361 of the enemy's cavalry, and all the rest surrendered.
The man in charge of this battle was the Paramoro man Singh.
Singh means lion."
Singer stood up and saluted: "Meet the King."
Zhao Ziliang said: "General Singh has made great achievements in leading the war elephants in battle.
He will reward the major general with a set of armor, one hundred taels of gold, two beauties, and ten slaves."
Singer quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."