Chapter 79 Great Victory

Sun Shao smiled. He brazenly asked people to say to Fan Man that it's okay to fight. Don't sacrifice innocent lives. Just fight between you and me in front of the battle. Whoever loses will surrender. Your eldest son was captured by my men, and your youngest son was caught by my queen. At present, you are the king of Funan.

Fan Man is so angry that he has nothing to say. You, a 20-year-old young man, want to challenge me, an old man over 60 years old? You can say it. Sun Shao was shameless, and Fan Man was still shameless. He was embarrassed to argue with Sun Shao. He stopped talking to him and decided to attack the King City of Jin and Chen. He must attract the two reinforcements of Yue to the city and fight to the end.

Fan Man said impassionedly. In fact, he had another plan in his heart. He was not very sure whether he could conquer the inner city, and he did not intend to damage all the people here. He tried his best to attack the inner city to attract the reinforcements of Vietnam. If he could bite the 10,000 reinforcements, he would achieve his goal. It really not work. Then, he had to retreat after a fierce attack for a while. Although it is impossible for military food to support him to return to the special pastoral city, he is not helpless. At worst, he can borrow some grain from any vassal state along the way. With a large army in hand, who dares not to borrow it?

Fan Man was ready, but as soon as he went to the battlefield the next day, he changed his mind.

The reason is very simple. Sun Shao is out of the city.

Sun Shao took a thousand destroyers, backed by the wall, and laid a array at the foot of the city. The soldiers did not bring bows and crossbows, but only swords and shields and halberds. The shields were outside, and the halberds and halberds were inside, forming a semicircle array.

Fan Man was ecstatic. If Sun Shao didn't leave the city, he had 40,000 troops and could only stare. Now that Sun Shao actually came out, even if he was the elite of his thousand destroyers, could he withstand the rotating impact of tens of thousands of troops? What's more, he also needs powerful weapons and war elephants. He is experienced. Although he has never seen such a strange formation, he soon estimated Sun Shao's intention. Sun Shao stood next to the city wall, hoping to cover it with a Thunderbolt and a strong crossbow at the head of the city. If you want to attack this small array, you must brave the sharp attack of the Vietnamese army and rush through the deadly more than 100 steps. The casualties will be very amazing.

Then, compared with the capture of Sun Shao and the reversal of the war in one fell swoop, Fan Man is willing to pay such a price. Without saying a word, he mobilized 15,000 troops to the front and launched a crazy attack.

The drums rumbled, and the Funan soldiers drove the war elephants and rushed to Sun Shao at the foot of the city like a tide. They even gave up attacking the gate and just wanted to take down this small array and capture Sun Shao alive.

The battle has been white-hot from the beginning.

Fan Man knew that the inner city was small, and the Yue people were worried that he would attack the city on all sides. The ordnance would definitely be evenly distributed on all sides, and it was impossible to concentrate on one side, so it seemed that the city was small. In fact, in terms of one wall alone, the power was not as fierce as the last time in the outer city. He sent twenty war elephants at once, covered by a heavy wooden house, and launched a charge together. No matter how powerful the armaments of the Vietnamese people were, it was impossible to shoot all 20 war elephants in such a short time. As long as one head rushed into Sun Shao's small array, his goal would be achieved.

Twenty war elephants lined up and ran to the small array under the city wall. Each war elephant was followed by dense pawns. Fan Man was fierce and sent 5,000 people at once to win the small array. Five thousand people ran behind the war elephant, and immediately squeezed the in front of the less spacious city.

The Thunderbolts and crossbows at the top of the city began to roar, pouring stones and crossbows into the crowd. Everywhere they went, Funan soldiers let out sad screams. Some were smashed with stones, and some were pierced by crossbows, but they did not dare to turn back. Fan Man's guard camp was watching behind. Who dared to look back? It's just a knife. Instead, it's better to move forward bravely. If you can rush under the wall as soon as possible, you may be able to avoid a disaster. The Funan soldiers had no way out. They could only hold a very limited wooden shield and run behind the war elephant.

The huge crossbow at the head of the city began to shoot at the war elephant. The spear-like crossbow made a sharp roar in the air. It flew more than a hundred steps away, smashed the thick wooden board on the back of the war elephant, shot the soldiers on the back of the elephant, pierced the thick skin of the war elephant, and shot a war elephant in front of the battle.

However, although the strong crossbow is very accurate and the shooting speed is fast enough, the number of war elephants is too large. Fan Man threw 20 arrows at once. Seeing that the crossbows in the head of the city were dense, he shot three war elephants in a blink of an eye. He did not stop, clean and added ten, and ordered all the remaining war elephants to be ready. If necessary, all of them should be escorted up, and in any case, they should rush under the city wall to kill Sun Shao.

The war elephants hisd and the arrows flew. After a short and tragic battle, they paid the price of twelve war elephants. Finally, three war elephants successfully broke through the blockade of the Thunderbolt car and the crossbow and rushed to the small array under the wall.

Fan Man was ecstatic and ordered to throw ten war elephants again to maintain enough pressure to make Cui Qian on the wall very angry. Fan Man sent the war elephant to the battlefield at all costs. Although the gunners and crossbowmen had played beyond the level, after all, the number was limited, and it was impossible to kill all the war elephants within the range. Once the war elephant rushed within ten steps, he did not dare to attack for fear of accidentally injuring Sun Shao. And what Fan Man wanted was this effect. He took advantage of quantity and suddenly forced Cui Qian to the top of the road.

Cui Qian regretted it. If I had known this, I should not have agreed with Sun Shao's tactics at the beginning. In the pre-war meeting, Sun Shao raised a question. What if Fan Man retreats and escapes if she can't capture the city? They are still at the seaside 50 miles away. When they get the news, Fan Man has run away. Even if he catches up, the casualties will inevitably increase greatly in the jungle. In order to leave Fan Man under the city, Sun Shao proposed to go out of the city and set up a formation under the city. On the one hand, he attracted Fan Man to the city, not to escape far away, and on the other hand, he was not completely defensive, and he could counterattack when necessary.

Now the purpose of attracting Fan Man has been achieved. He not only stayed, but also went crazy and went all out at the beginning. On both sides of the attack and defense, the attack is active and the defense is passive. In order to prevent Fan Man from attacking the city on all sides, the Thunderbolt and the crossbow can't move at any time, and can only be arranged evenly on all sides. In this way, when Fan Man concentrates his forces to attack a little, the strength to defend the city is obviously a little weak.

If Sun Shao misses anything, all these victories will be in vain. Cui Qian was shocked. He rushed to the wall and shouted to Sun Shao under the city: "Your Majesty..."

Sun Shao looked up, looked at Cui Qian's white face, and waved his hand with a smile: "Jianzhong, don't worry, everything will be fine. To keep the city at ease is to adjust more archers. Fan Man will fill it with human life. Let's see how many people he will fill it.

Cui Qian was speechless, so he had to turn around and ordered the crossbowmen on the other three walls to come to support him, and he was ready to save Sun Shao to the city at any time.

The three war elephants broke through the interception and ran to the small array under the city. While talking to Cui Qian, Sun Shao paid attention to the people in Funan. The people of Funan rushed through the terrible rain of arrows and looked at Sun Shao and others in front of them. They were ecstatic one by one. They shouted and let go of their feet and rushed here, as if there were no one thousand destroyers around Sun Shao under the city, but he was alone.

Sun Shao sneered, picked up his three-stone bow, pulled the bow and shot.

The long arrow roared away, with a "puff", the eyes of the war elephant running in the front. The war elephant had been hit by several arrows, but it did not hurt the point, so it did not take it seriously and still ran hard. Seeing that Sun Shao was ten steps away, the Funan soldier on his back shouted with joy. The well-prepared crossbowman had already raised the crossbow in his hand and was ready to shoot Sun Shao first. They never thought that Sun Shao's archery was so exquisite that he shot the war elephant in the eye with just one arrow.

No matter how thick the skin of the war elephant is, it has nothing to do with its eyes. The running war elephant was shocked by the sharp pain and shook its head repeatedly. The huge ivory and the sharp blade tied to the ivory hit the Funan soldiers who rushed forward, flying in the wind like leaves, and the formation of the charge was suddenly chaotic.

Without saying anything, Sun Shao raised another arrow. The long arrow shot in from the war elephant's wide open mouth. An arrow hit his throat. The war elephant looked up and roared, his legs were soft, and he fell to the ground. His heavy body shook the earth and the dust flew. The soldiers on the elephant's back were caught off guard and fell down one by one.

Without Sun Shao's order, Zhou Yin jumped up and shouted, "Follow me!"

The soldiers of the twenty destruction camp rushed out with him. While protecting their bodies with shields, they danced the ring sword in their hands and killed the Funan soldiers who rushed in front of them. They were strong and waiting for work. Those Funan soldiers who had just rushed through the arrow array and escaped from death were not their opponents. Once they came into contact. Then they were divided into highs and lows. Although the number of soldiers in Funan was large, the soldiers in the front camp were unstoppable and powerful. In a blink of an eye, they killed more than 30 soldiers around the fallen war elephant, and then rushed over like the second war elephant.

The first war elephant fell to the ground, which made the following war elephant a little surprised. Although the elephant soldier was trying his best to adjust the direction, the body of the war elephant was too large. It was not easy to turn when running with all his strength. As soon as he turned a little direction, he stepped on the fallen war elephant, and his foot was unstable. The soldier on the elephant's back was almost thrown off. He was so scared that he grasped the railing tightly and didn't care about attacking the enemy.

At that moment, Zhou Yin stepped on the back of the fallen war elephant and jumped up. His tongue burst into thunder in mid-air. With a loud shout, the long knife was like electricity. A knife hit the brown rope on the back of the war elephant. The sharp sword cut off half of the brown rope, the skin was open and the flesh, and the blood flowed. The elephant was in pain and struggled to prick it. He struggled twice, and the brown cable was completely broken. The column on his back was scattered. The soldiers sitting in it were shocked and shouted loudly. They grabbed the railing in vain and fell to the ground with a "boom" and threw the soldiers to seven meat and hair. Zhou Yin and others could not wait for them to stand up. They rushed up and took their last names with a few knives.

The two war elephants fell in front of the battle and just blocked the way of the third war elephant. The elephant soldiers used all their strength to finally control the war elephants. They did not repeat the same mistake and stepped on their companions. However, their hesitation gave Sun Shao the best opportunity. Sun Shao fired two arrows in a row, and the long arrows passed through the gap of the wooden house, and the soldiers who controlled the elephant. Shoot.. As soon as his arrow left the string, Tu Hu rushed out, holding the knife in both hands and roaring. The sword roared down and hit the nose of the elephant fiercely.

The war elephant was in pain, with a long hiss, raised his head and threw it at Tu Hu. Tu Hu was tall, but not clumsy. He didn't avoid it. He flirted with a long knife and cut it on the elephant's nose again. The knife collided with the elephant's nose, and the knife body was embedded in the elephant's nose, almost cutting off the whole elephant's nose. He was also hit by the strong strength of the war elephant and retreated a few steps. His face was a little pale, his chest was stuffy, and he almost took a mouthful of blood.

"Tu Hu, you are crazy!" Sun Shao saw it in his eyes and shouted angrily. He stuffed the bow into the hand of a guard. He picked up a spear from the ground and rushed to the war elephant. He looked at the time and tried his best to stab it out.

The spear was like an arrow, stabbed straight into the mouth of the war elephant. With a "kap", the spear rod was broken into two pieces, which made Sun Shao's palm numb. Sun Shao shouted loudly, dodged the long teeth thrown by the war elephant, and threw out half of the spear. The spear rotated and swirled on the face of a Funan soldier who was aiming at Sun Shao to shoot on the back of the elephant. The soldier was hit with a spear and his face bloomed. He screamed, his hand loosened, and he didn't know where the arrow flew. He also fell from the elephant's back. Before he fell, Ao Lei rushed forward and smashed his skull with a wave of the short stick in his hand.

Red blood and white brains are mixed together and flow freely.

The destruction camp roared out and killed three war elephants in front of the battle in a blink of an eye. Not only were the Funan soldiers behind the war elephants stunned, but also Cui Qian and others on the wall were dumbfounded. We all know that the destruction camp is elite, but we didn't expect that the destruction camp to be so strong. We all know that Sun Shao's martial arts are good, but in the past few years, Sun Shao has not been in the battle for a long time. Unexpectedly, his martial arts skills not only did not regress, but more sharply.

In a moment, a war elephant was shot down, a war elephant was killed, and half of the spear also killed a Funan soldier. Who can withstand such an attack? Cui Qian, with Sun Shao and the soldiers of the destroyer camp under the city, a sense of pride surged from his chest, making him unable to raise his arms and shout: "The king is powerful--"

Cui Yan and Cui Wu, who were also stunned, also came to their senses and raised their arms and shouted: "The king is powerful--"

The soldiers next to him also shouted: "The king is powerful--"

The roar stimulated the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the destroyer's camp. They were more brave. Under the leadership of Sun Shao and Zhou Yin, they were like two sharp machetees, sometimes moving forward, sometimes by side by side. In a moment, they killed a war elephant, and at the same time killed more than 50 soldiers followed by the war elephant.

"Shoot me!" Cui Qian's voice trembled with excitement. The four war elephants were killed in front of the small array under the city. For Sun Shao and others, it was tantamount to an additional meat barrier. Even if there were many war elephants rushing over, they could not charge smoothly. It was not easy for them to bypass the huge bodies of these war elephants, but Sun Shao and others advanced between the war elephants. Retreat freely. Now he can rest assured that he can shoot those rushing Funan people wholeheartedly.

Fan Man could not see the situation under the city. All he knew was that the soldiers and war elephants rushed to Sun Shao like a tide, shouting and killing, and the roar of the war elephants was endless. Obviously, the battle was fierce. He then ordered all the rest of the war elephants to go into battle. He did not give Sun Shao a chance to breathe, and he must kill him in front of the battle.

Seven or eight thousand Funan soldiers, nearly fifty war elephants squeezed in front of the small king's city, becoming the best target for crossbows and Thunderbolts. The soldiers of the State of Yue on the city wall were beating smoothly and shooting wantonly. Stones flew into the array of the Funan people, turning fresh lives into incomplete corpses, roaring with sharp arrows, shooting one Funan soldiers one after another. However, the people of Funan were blinded by the idea of capture of Sun Shao alive. They shouted, braved by the dense rain of arrows and cannon stones, and persistently attacked the city.

The city soon became a sea of corpses and blood.

Under the escort of Ao Lei and Tu Hu, Sun Shao clashed, such as entering a no man's land. Although many people in Funan came, they were separated into a scattered crowd by a war elephant corpse. They could not give full play to the advantage of more people at all. On the contrary, they were constantly eroded by their personal strength, which far exceeded their destruction camp, and people were constantly surging. When he came over, he could not form a rib to Sun Shao and others at all. On the contrary, because the bodies accumulated more and more, the situation became worse and worse.

However, Fan Man knew nothing about these situations. He only saw that the killing ahead was inexplicable, but he didn't know what the specific situation was. As time went by, he gradually became a little uneasy. In theory, so many people rushed to the city, and Sun Shao was beaten by iron, and it was time to show defeat. Why did the soldiers at the top of the city shout "King's mighty" with a strong fighting spirit, but he couldn't hear the soldiers cheers? Is it possible that Sun Shao still has an advantage now?

Fan Man stood on the back of the war elephant, put his hand on his eyebrows and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see anything. The city has long been blocked by more than a dozen war elephants and crowds. All he can see is that Sun Shao's war flag has been fluctuant and has not fallen.

Is this young king of Yue really an undefeated god of war who can compete with the war elephant with flesh and blood? Fan Man was shocked for a while. In an instant, he was cold all over. Gradually, he said like fire, but cold sweat came out of his forehead.

"King?" Fan Ru was the first to find Fan Man's uneasiness and quickly shouted.

Fan Man turned his head in a dotonishment, looking at Fan Ru's eyes were full of uneasiness and fear, and his voice became a little hoarse: "A Ru, how many war elephants do we have?"

Fan Ru was stunned for a moment. Fan Man has always been confident in fighting. When will he ask him these questions? He turned his head and looked at it. He roughly estimated and said, "Except for the end where the king is sitting, everything else has gone up."

"A total of 56 war elephants were brought out, and twelve were lost when attacking the outer city. All forty-four war elephants rushed up, but failed to solve a thousand destroyers. This battle... How to fight?" Fan Man raised her hand and stroked her forehead, showing a painful look. Fan Ru was also stunned. In the past, when they fought, the war elephants had always been a sharp weapon. Needless to say, more than 40 war elephants rushed to the battle, even 20 war elephants rushed to the battle could solve the problem. Small-scale war and even a few war elephants can turn the situation around. The reason why Fan Man can ignore the threat of King Yue and is unwilling to accept his conditions is that he has two or three hundred war elephants in his hand. With their previous experience, with these war elephants in hand, they can almost help the land of Nan. But who would have thought that since the war, they have suffered setbacks everywhere. First, the sailors were lost, and now even the greatest reliance has lost their due power. First, Fan Chang, who had a hundred war elephants, was defeated. Now Sun Shao didn't even have to dig a pit. With a thousand steps and a sharp and strong crossbow, he resisted the attack of more than 40 war elephants.

Is it possible that Funan's war, which has been rampant for many years, will be swallowed by the Yue people like the water division, without even leaving any bones?

Fan Ru's face was a little white. He looked up at Fan Man. Fan Man's face was even more frightened. His eyes were dull, his lips were white, and the blue veins of the two big hands on the railing were exposed, and one bean-sized beads of sweat rolled down from his wrinkled cheeks.

"The god of Brahma abandoned us... The god of Brahma abandoned us..." Fan Man muttered to himself, and his face, which had always been calm, was suddenly full of despair.

"Oh--" Suddenly, there was a cheer in front of me.

Fan Ru looked forward in horror and immediately jumped up in horror. There was a difference between victory and defeat on the battlefield. Seven or eight war elephants ran back crazily, followed by the same frightened and inexplicable soldiers. They shouted wildly and ran wildly. No one dared to look at the back, and even forgot to lift the shield, and the Yue people shot to their heart's content. Behind them, Sun Shao's war flag roared in the wind, shouting and killing was endless.

But it is the shouting of the Vietnamese people.

Lost? Fan Ru couldn't believe his eyes. He rushed to more than 40 war elephants, and more than 10,000 soldiers were defeated by a thousand destroyers? This is so incon mindable.

"It's a defeat." Fan Man smiled silently and looked sad: "We lost, 30,000 people lost to a thousand people, lost... lost..."

"No, your king, we still have 20,000 people..." Before Fan Ru finished her words, she saw Fan Man's body shaking on the elephant's back, and then fell straight down like a dead tree blown by the wind. Fan Ru was shocked, subconsciously rushed up to catch him, and shouted loudly: "King-King-"

Fan Ru's shouts alarmed other generals, and the generals who were defeated by the defeat in front of them saw that Fan Man fell down. They didn't know whether he was injured or dead, and the army's heart was suddenly in turmoil. At this moment, the gate of the inner city suddenly opened, and more Yue soldiers rushed out of it. Their morale was high. While shouting slogans, they chased the defeated Funan soldiers and fled east and west.

The army was defeated like a mountain. As soon as Fan Man fell down, the confidence of the Funan people was completely destroyed. In the face of the wolf-like soldiers of Yue, although the number of them still had an absolute advantage, they no longer had the courage to fight. I don't know which beginning, they began to turn around and run wildly.

In the battle of Temu City, Sun Shao used a thousand destruction camps under the city as bait, relying on the Thunderbolt and crossbows on the city to kill and injure a large number of Funan people. After more than an hour of fierce battle, he killed more than 30 wounded war elephants, completely defeated the will of Funan people, won a great victory, killed more than 8,000 people, captured more than 20,000 people alive, and captured Funan alive. Wang Fanman and more than a dozen generals.

According to the news, many small countries that originally had a wait-and-see attitude came to surrender one after another. Sun Shaofeng Jinchen King was blameless as the Marquis of Dunxun. 2,000 households set up Jinchen County. After half a month of rest, the army set off and rushed to the special pastoral city.

(to be continued)