Chapter 504: Solid as a Rock
Finally crossed the Wei army's trap formation and horse rejection formation, and Brodon finally killed the Wei army with the scarred Hun cavalry.
I thought that this time I could finally fight happily, but when I got closer, Broton was a little dumbfounded, the Wei army dug several trenches horizontally in front of the position, and behind the trenches, piles of earthen fortresses were piled up high, and the Wei soldiers hid behind the earthen fortresses and waited for them.
Such a defensive position, for the cavalry, is simply a nightmare, the trench is deep and wide, it is completely impossible for the war horse to jump over, even if it is not possible to sprint with all his strength, the main reason is the earthen ramparts piled up behind the trench, almost half a human height, which seriously affects the jump of the war horse.
If the Hun cavalry wanted to rush over, they had to fill in these trenches, but just looking at the workload of filling the trenches, it was far from the labor intensity of filling the horse pits and rejecting the horse guns, and it would take at least a long time to completely fill these trenches.
Moreover, the Wei archers lurking behind the earthen fortresses were not vegetarians, and they waited for the Huns to come forward before sniping.
This kind of attacking style is not what Brodon likes to see.
Just when Brodon was a little hesitant, there was a horn from the north, which was the contact horn for Brodon to launch an attack at the same time as he had discussed with Meng Du in advance, and when this horn sounded, it proved that Meng Du had made preparations for an attack, and he made an appointment to attack the Wei army from the north and south directions.
Could it be that the situation in the north is better than on his side? Broton speculated secretly.
But in fact, the situation on both sides is exactly the same, the Wei army's defense settings in the north and south are roughly the same, the same digging pits and hiding to resist horses, Mengdu when attacking, also suffered the same setback as Brodon, but Mengdu is cautious, as soon as he saw that the situation was wrong, he urgently made a proper retreat of the soldiers and horses, so the losses of the Xiongnu army in the north were lower than those in the south.
However, after rushing through the two defenses of the trap formation and the horse rejection formation, Meng Du was also at a loss in the face of the deep trench and high fortress Wei army's position.
It can be seen that the Wei army has carefully prepared for defense in Xiliulin, whether it is trapping horse pits, rejecting horse guns, and deep trenches and high bases, all of which are specially designed to restrain cavalry.
Obviously, the Wei army was fully prepared for the attack on the Huns, and if Mengdu's guess was correct, all this should be a trap for the Wei army, and it seems that Liu Yue's previous worries were not unreasonable.
But at this moment, the Huns are already like arrows in the string, and they have to send it, so they have moved the crowd to come, losing hundreds of people, and returning with a feather, I feel that no one can swallow this breath.
However, it is more beneficial to the Huns, that is, the Wei army only has infantry troops in Xiliulin, and the two cavalry teams are a hundred miles away from Xiliulin at the moment, even if they get the news at the first time and rush back from a hundred miles away, it will take at least half a day, plus Liu Yue has already arranged for the other two major leaders to lead troops to intercept it, at least it can be delayed a little more.
Even if the Wei army built a lot of fortifications, but Meng didn't believe that it would not be able to take Xiliulin in one day, so Meng Du did not ask Liu Yue, and directly ordered the Huns to attack the Wei army's position, and at the same time blow the horn to contact Brodon, as long as the Huns can attack from both sides, the defensive pressure of the Wei people will become greater, and the Huns will take advantage of this and the other.
At the sound of an order, the Hun cavalry began to attack, but if you want to cross the deep trench in front of you, the strength of the cavalry alone is not enough, the Huns need to fill the trench in front of them, so that they have a chance to attack the camp of the Wei army.
The Hun cavalry each carried a sandbag, rushed to the front of the trench, and threw the sandbag into the trench.
If each person throws a sandbag, then there are thousands of sandbags, thousands of sandbags stacked together, it is absolutely impressive, if the Hun cavalry runs a few more times, maybe the trench will be filled in soon.
When the Hun cavalry galloped back and forth to throw sandbags into the trenches, as long as these Wei soldiers seized the opportunity, they would suddenly use cold arrows, shoot the Hun cavalry and war horses that rushed in, and constantly sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Huns.
Today's battle of the Huns is indeed both aggrieved and depressed, the cavalry has always been invincible, but today in the face of the Wei infantry, it seems to have kicked to the iron plate, and the endless defense makes the Huns tired of coping, and there are countless losses.
In the past, the Hun cavalry only knew how to fight in battle, and was happy to take revenge, but now they are very cunning as dirt porters, and they have to brave the enemy's arrow rain to advance, and if they are not careful, they will fall in the enemy's trench and become the material for filling the trench.
Cao Liang arranged Yanghu on the southern front, Du Pre on the northern front, and Wang Jun served as a reserve, and the situation on that side was urgent to support that side, no matter what, the Wei army had to hold its position.
The three infantry battalions Cao Liang did not subordinate them to his command, but temporarily disorganized the formation of the three infantry battalions, and now each unit included one-third of the strength of the three infantry battalions, including pikemen, sword and shield men, and archers, and such a combination was conducive to the infantry to build a solid and solid position.
And the layers of defense system, but also let the Wei army is a lot of benefits, before the two sides have a head-to-head confrontation, the Huns because of the light enemy rash, lost hundreds of people, now the Wei army's defense line, can be called impregnable, solid as a rock, the Huns is difficult to cross the thunder pool one step.
In fact, the Wei army held its position, but it was just delaying time, Cao Liang waited for the smooth return of the Yue cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion, before that, the Wei infantry needed to exchange the minimum casualties in exchange for the victory of holding the position.
Now it seems that the defensive measures adopted by Cao Liang are indeed good, and almost without spending a single soldier, he has already blocked the fierce offensive of the Hun cavalry, and was forced to turn to positional warfare.
For the Huns, who are good at cavalry combat, there are not many opportunities to fight this kind of positional warfare, so they naturally seem to be a little hurried and at a loss.
After the cavalry lost the advantage of speed, it naturally became a lot more mediocre, in this kind of trench filling operation, the cavalry was completely reduced to the role of sappers, and I am afraid that even the sappers were inferior, Nuo Da people and war horses, undoubtedly became the live target of the Wei army, and the Huns had no way to fight them.