In the middle of the two river ridges was a wheat field, and the ground was already too smooth because of the ice cast by blood, and the soldiers on both sides could only step on the corpse of unknown people to continue the battle, and the commanders on both sides knew that it was a battle of willpower. The strongest Han army in the field and the strongest alien race in the field are in a head-to-head confrontation, and once the two sides order to retreat on their own initiative, it will cause serious losses to their morale.

"Please send reinforcements." The Wuhuan Khan King Wu Lili looked anxiously at the bear king Ivanov.

But Ivanov was unmoved, he sat in a high carriage and looked out at the rear of the Han army in the distance, where about 100,000 Han troops were preparing for battle.

"No, it's not time for a decisive battle." Ivanov rejected Wu Lili's request for additional troops, "This is a test, I want to see the strength of the real Han army, and I need them to mobilize the main army first." ”

"But ......"

"There's nothing to do."

Wu Lilu said: "If the fight continues, all the Wuhuan people will be killed." ”

Arkaki smiled: "No, no, no, you still have 30,000 soldiers who have not pressed it, take it easy, don't care about the deaths and injuries of some people, because the ultimate belonging of the soldiers is the battlefield." ”

"Yes, the proudest way for a Rakshasa to die is to die in battle." Varianca said.

Wu Lilu scolded in his heart, it was not you Rakshasa who died, and the Wuhuan under him was not the original Wuhuan elite, for this southern expedition, he transferred almost one-tenth of the men in the country, and many Wuhuan soldiers were just farmers on the front line, and even some people sent some old people and teenagers to join the army in order to evade military service. Along the road, half of the 50,000 people who froze to death were Wuhuan people, and most of them were old people and teenagers.

The killing and screaming of the Han and the dog resounded from morning to night, and the sky became dark, and both sides had to retreat. The Wuhuan people withdrew first, and then the Tatars also withdrew back to the camp, and the Han soldiers slowly withdrew from the battlefield, and they didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield.

Dushanbo then sent 5,000 men with torches into the battlefield to look for survivors, and the Rakshasas also sent 3,000 slaves to find survivors.

In the first battle of the first day of the two sides, the Han army retained 8,000 Wuhuan iron cavalry and 5,000 Tatar herdsmen at the cost of 4,000 casualties, and countless people were slightly wounded. It was a crushing victory, and the Han soldiers did not have the joy of victory, they looked at the corpses of the robes, listened to the screams of the wounded comrades, and couldn't help but recall the daytime death fight, and they shuddered.

The 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th regiments of the White Tiger Army were all scarred, and the 9th and 12th regiments, which had not yet entered the battle, were not protected by Du Shanbo, but because most of them were temporarily brought in to fill the numbers. Most of the township soldiers carried out the task of protecting the county seat, and they fought a dozen bandits on weekdays, and it was not easy for the bandits to engage the army head-on, so this frontal battle with Inui made the township soldiers realize the cruelty of the battlefield.

"Did we win?" A recruit asked.

"No, that's just the beginning." The veteran laughed.

"Could it be more brutal?" The recruit's mouth opened wide in surprise.

"Probably not."

"Why?"

"Because the first battle is a battle of morale between the two sides, if the first battle is defeated and flees, there will probably be no confrontation."

"How long will we confront?"

"How long the confrontation lasts, it depends on the food."

"Do they have food?"

"How do I know?"

"Do we have food?"

The veterans were worried, their food came from the imperial court, and they had previously opposed the imperial court to kill Zhang Xiaowu, but at this time, they needed reinforcements from the central commander, so it was really a report and a report.

The losses during the day made Dushanbo worried, the White Tiger Army lost the elite army of the Holy Han, and the Rakshasa Legion lost nothing more than the servant army.

In fact, in this confrontation, the White Tiger Army appeared to have 200,000 people, but in fact there were only 50,000 troops, 30,000 township troops and reinforcements from other places, and the camp of 200,000 people was just a bluff.

"Zhang Xiaowu's reinforcements, when will they arrive?" Dushanbo asked Wang Jingzhi anxiously.

Wang Jingzhi said with a bitter face: "He is forcibly recruiting soldiers in various places, but now he needs to recruit soldiers and collect grain and grass. ”

Du Shanbo frowned and said, "Forced conscription? Are the people unwilling to serve the nation? ”

Wang Jingzhi: "Generalissimo, not everyone is the White Tiger Army, and not every civilian will be loyal to the empire, for many ordinary people, the empire is defeated, and they are just a change of master." ”

Du Shanbo was very helpless, the separation between the common people and the state was gradually increasing, and there were even many people who did not think about it when they heard the arrival of foreign races. The children of the scholar clan have been taught to be loyal and patriotic since childhood, but as for the common people, living is the meaning of their lives. Even if they are all Han Chinese, some people are for life, others are for ideals, and there is no way to prove who is greater.

"It's all this time, the alien race invades the Central Plains, and the Central Plains bloodline will no longer be pure." Dushan Bodao.

The generals had different expressions, but today's daytime battle exposed their family background, and there were only a hundred ballistas, all of which were taken out, and if the Rakshasas had any secret weapons in the future, how would they deal with them.

"Dashuai, will we attack or defend tomorrow?"

"Attack!" "We must attack, but don't attack like today, let's have a fight, how about it?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and burst into laughter.

The next day, Dushan Bo led the army here to behead, and the Rakshasa army also slowly advanced, when the two sides were two thousand steps apart, the White Tiger Army stopped, and then sent a general, this person is the double sword tiger Yang Zhen, is the chief of the guard of Dushan Bo, and is also the eighteen righteous sons of the extremely high force of the people. Before Yang Zhen rushed into battle, he raised the long knife in his hand and pointed at the Rakshasa military formation, and then pulled out another waist knife, facing the enemy's double knife back to touch.

The Rakshasa people didn't quite understand what it meant, and in their minds they didn't have the habit of going head-to-head before the battle, but Wu Lilu saw this and said: "Your Royal Highness the Bear King, the Han people want to have a one-on-one gladiatorial battle with your men. ”

"Gladiatorial fighting?" Ivanov asked, "Why?" ”

"Generally speaking, this is the rule of the battlefield for the Han Chinese, where the winning side of the gladiatorial fight chooses to attack, while the losing side chooses to defend. ”

"What kind of rule breaking is this." Ivanov laughed and said that in the hearts of the Rakshasas, fighting or war is collective, they do not advocate individual bravery, there is a proverb in the Rakshasa that no matter how brave the general is, he will be killed by the soldiers, so the Rakshasa people are not used to the generals going head-to-head - unless it is in the competition for a mate. Rakshasa men only fight alone when they fight for women, and choose to fight collectively when fighting, which is also an important reason why Rakshasa people can survive in the icy ice field, and they are exceptionally united.