Chapter 239: Taking Example as Bait
Thirty miles, twenty miles, ten miles, five miles, three miles, until Zhang Yuan could see the vanguard army galloping in the narrow mountains, those scouts did not pass on the news to Zhang Yuan, because there was no longer a single Han scout west of the narrow mountains of Fuyangju.
In order to let the Han army on this side of the mountain narrow see his position clearly, Zhang Cigong asked the cavalry at the front to rush with the military flag on their backs.
"General Wei, the Huns are following."
Li Fu, who was standing beside Zhang Yuan, hurriedly reminded him.
In this battle, Zhang Yuan did not let Li Fu lead the troops, because it was too important to tolerate the slightest mistake.
Li Fu is still familiar with military affairs, and if he is involved with the Huns in the future, there will be no problem for Li Fu to fight, and now he still lets the experienced generals play.
"It's up to the Marquis of the shore."
To be honest, Zhang Yuan didn't think that Zhang Cigong would really hand over his life.
This is too inconsistent with Zhang Cigong's personality.
"General Wei, the Marquis of the shore has already begun to give the order for the vanguard army to stop."
Li Fuli was very excited on the high place.
He had never seen a war of this magnitude.
Zhang Yuan's location is on the cliff in the narrow south of Fuyangju Mountain.
He was surrounded not only by Li Fu and the officials of the General's Mansion, but also 2,000 foot soldiers, and since yesterday morning, Zhang Cigong sent someone to tell Zhang Yuan to prepare for battle, and Zhang Yuan temporarily transferred 2,000 people from the surrendered city.
As for the 2,000 or so people, only these people on the cliff know.
But now it seems that Zhang Yuan's temporary transfer is correct.
"It's a pity that the vanguard of the Huns really only has 10,000 cavalry."
Zhang Yuan shook his head, the 10,000 cavalry led by the vulture bone was too few.
He needed more Xiongnu troops to enter this mountain narrow, so that the large armies lying in ambush on both sides could come out and attack the Huns.
Some people think why Zhang Yuan didn't choose to block this mountain narrow.
In fact, from Zhang Yuan's ability to lead the army up to the narrow mountains, we can know one thing, the mountains on both sides are very gentle, and the slope is not very high.
The mountain is blocked, and the Hun army can completely cut down the trees from the mountain and make a way by themselves.
It took only one day to die, and the strength of 200,000 people was still very strong.
If there were 50,000 people who had entered the mountain now, Zhang Yuan could immediately give the order to attack, so that Zhang Cigong and his vanguard army could minimize casualties.
"The two sides are fighting!"
When Zhang Yuan heard Li Fu's words, he poked his head down and found that the two sides were really fighting together.
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"Li Shuo! You resist this vulture first.
I'll rush back with a large army! ”
"Yes, General!"
The power of the abrupt bone was very great, and as soon as he came up, he found Zhang Cigong and Li Shuo.
The two teamed up to barely gain some upper hand.
However, Zhang Cigong's goal was not to kill the vultures alone, he wanted to kill more Huns.
So let Li Shuo hold the vulture bones first, and before the army behind the Huns arrived, if he could destroy the five thousand Huns, it would be earned.
"You Han people only run, don't you?"
Seeing Zhang Cigong whip away, the vulture laughed a few times in the direction he left.
"Hun thief, yes yes will meet you!"
Li Shuo carried a spear and rushed towards the vulture, and the two of them quickly began to tremble.
The vulture bone made a mace, Li Shuo could only barely resist, and Li Shuo's hands were numb with every attack.
Zhang Cigong did not let go of such a good opportunity.
After all, there is only one person in the vulture, and the other Hun generals are still following the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King.
The remaining 10,000 Hun cavalry were originally more like unorganized stragglers.
Zhang Cigong raised his arms and shouted, and the 10,000 vanguard troops immediately charged to the west.
Because of the narrow terrain of the mountain, it is narrow in the west and wide in the east.
Therefore, the cavalry of the Han army charged to the west, and the strength could only become more and more concentrated, as if it were a sharp knife.
And the Xiongnu army charged to the east, and the forces would become more and more dispersed.
"Pass the order and let the Qimen army deal with the Hun cavalry that rushed over."
"General Wei, do you want the Qimen Army to be dispatched now?"
"No, just send a thousand men to clean up the battlefield, and don't let the Huns destroy the traps on our side.
Plans have changed, but that doesn't mean the traps have lost their purpose. ”
"Yes."
The Qimen army was at the foot of the mountain on Zhang Yuan's side, and the herald quickly conveyed the order.
In a moment, a thousand well-equipped cavalry rushed out of the mountains and forests, and immediately cleared out the Hun cavalry that rushed over.
The Huns who rushed to the front were a little stupid, they saw a large army in ambush in the mountains and forests.
But they didn't have the opportunity to go back and report the news.
The cavalry of the Qimen Army who came out did not go back, and directly mixed into the chaotic battle.
In this way, it doesn't look obtrusive at all.
The melee of 20,000 cavalry, mixed with 1,000 people, no one can see anything.
Moreover, the Huns did not know how many people there were in the vanguard cavalry of the Han army, they just thought that the size of the estimate was almost 10,000 people, but they did not know how many people there were.
It was these 1,000 men who were enough to quickly turn the tide on the battlefield, because the Huns were caught in a situation of fighting on two sides.
The 1,000 men of the Qimen army are the most elite cavalry of the Han Dynasty, while the 10,000 cavalry led by the vulture bone is not the most elite cavalry of the Huns.
Even if it was the most elite cavalry of the Huns, in the current battle with a huge gap in equipment, it would be a one-sided battle.
Zhang Cigong felt that something was wrong, because he felt that the war was going too smoothly, and it was not until he killed the Huns' army formation that he discovered the existence of this thousand cavalry of the Qimen Army.
It is really more popular than people, the best war horse, the sharpest weapon, the strongest armor, the most exquisite martial arts, and the strongest body.
Because of these five most, the combat effectiveness of the Qimen army far exceeds that of the rest of the Han army.
The Qimen Army and the Yulin Army were the tallest of all the formed armies.
If you have money, you can eat well, eat well, and only when you eat well can you be strong, and when you are strong, in addition to coping with the necessary training every day, you can also have time to learn the art of war and practice martial arts.
In addition, it is necessary to be stationed around the palace at all times, and the equipment is naturally the best.
"Li Shuo, I'm here!"
"General, those Huns are almost unable to hold on."
"Don't worry, within half an hour, if the main army of the Huns can't arrive in time, we will kill all the 10,000 Huns and then retreat."
Seeing that the two of them started to discuss in front of him, the vultures immediately became angry.
"Ahh
Don't think that if you hide a thousand cavalry, you can change your fate.
Today, this husband and Yang Jushan are the place where your bones are buried! ”
At this time, Zhang Cigong and Li Shuo also got serious.
With Zhang Cigong as the main body, Li Shuo as the auxiliary began to fight.
Zhang Cigong's words just now were just to confuse the vulture bones, in case the vulture bones got out of trouble and told the Hun Evil King about the Han army and reinforcements, then so many days of hard work would be in vain.
Stopping the evil king Hutu from advancing eastward is not the only goal, killing more Huns is the goal.
"General Wei, look."
Li Fu stretched out his hand and pointed to the west.
Zhang Yuan looked at it and found that all the black pressure on the west side of the mountain was Huns.
"Finally here, send someone to tell Zhang Cigong."
"I'm afraid it's not right at this time."
"Just do what I say."
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The Xiongnu also learned that the 10,000 vanguard cavalry led by Zhang Cigong began to fight with the vanguard troops on their side.
However, the Evil King was a little confused.
If the Han army was going to fight, why would it have gone earlier.
Because of this incomprehension, the speed of the march of the Xiongnu army did not increase.
"King, the 10,000 cavalry led by General Wutu Gu is about to be killed by the Han army."
"What?"
The Evil King's eyes widened, he couldn't believe such a fact even before his eyes.
"It's only been half an hour, is the vulture's a waste?"
"Great King, General Vulture was entangled by those two Han generals, and the Han army was a little more numerous than us, plus they were well-equipped, so they fell behind in the fight.
Our army has not been reinforced, which has caused the Han army's advantage to become greater and greater. ”
The Evil King frowned, and if he hesitated now, he was afraid that the vultures would have to be put in.
"What are you still thinking? And now you don't have the order to send a large army to support? ”
King Hugh Tu rushed over as soon as he got the news.
The 200,000 Xiongnu army was turned around by 10,000 Han cavalry, and when this matter spread, they had no way to gain a foothold on the grassland.
"King Hutu, why did you say why the Han army fought with us in this place, there are more places to fight along the way."
"I said you are really confused at a critical moment, don't you know where the mountain is narrow.
Only in this kind of place can they quickly bite off a piece of our flesh and escape, and if they don't support it while there is still time, then these 10,000 cavalry will die in vain. ”
"Okay, everyone march at full speed, and the army of cattle and sheep will be postponed for the time being."
"Yes."
As the evil king made up his mind, the Xiongnu army finally entered the narrow mountain of Fuyangju.
Their speed was very fast, and the influx of thousands of people soon filled the entire mountain narrow.
"General Wei, I'm afraid there are 50,000 Huns in Fuyang Jushan now."
"Pass the order and let the army attack!
When throwing spears and crossbow arrows, you must try to achieve the maximum range. ”
The reason why there was such an order, Zhang Yuan still didn't want to see his own people's weapons hurt his own people.
The sound of horses' hooves pouring out of tens of thousands of cavalry at the same time was still quite heavy.
But it is also the particularity of this terrain that makes the sound bounce back and forth between the mountain walls all the time, and the echoes become more and more mixed.
On the other side, the Xiongnu side is also entering, 200,000 cavalry plus hundreds of thousands of livestock, this movement easily suppressed the movement of the Han army.
As soon as the Han army entered the narrow mountains, they began to throw spears.
Under two rounds of attacks, nearly 100,000 spears were thrown.
Thousands of Hun cavalry were killed by spears on the spot, and the next more terrifying thing was the crossbow arrows.
The attack power of crossbow arrows is far greater than that of spears, which is why Huaxia abandoned the spear and vigorously developed crossbow arrows.
The role of the spear was more to reduce the speed of the Huns' charge.
The two rounds of spear projection just now forcibly restrained the charge of tens of thousands of Hun troops.
The current crossbow attack is killing people.
The Huns at the front were about to be purged in a wave, and there were many soldiers of the vanguard army who were injured by mistake.
Many of the vanguard soldiers were mixed up with the Huns, and in just two quarters of an hour, the number of the vanguard was reduced by half, but the Huns' battle losses were at least three times that of the vanguard army.
"You really have an ambush!"
Vulture is one of the closest Huns to the east side of the mountain, he is not a fool, so many spears and so many crossbow arrows suddenly appeared in mid-air, how could it be a cavalry of about 10,000 people.
"Today, this husband and Yangju Mountain are the burial place of your Huns."
Zhang Cigong returned the words of the previous vulture bone to him after turning around.
The vultures were not flustered, and he smiled as he looked at the Hun cavalry that kept pouring in from the west.
"Pray to heaven that your army will last a little longer!"
Zhang Cigong's vanguard army now has a few thousand people left, but it still has to withstand the continuous charge of the Hun cavalry.
Although the Huns' charge was much less powerful because of the tens of thousands of spears stuck in the ground, the numerical advantage was falling to the Huns' side.
Zhang Yuan looked at the battlefield below and frowned.
He found that this battle was likely to not achieve the expected result, even if Zhang Cigong was willing to take the lives of 10,000 people.
Both sides fought in cavalry, and everyone rode their horses.
Some of the horses died and fell to the ground, and some of the horses were alive but they were rushing and crashing in the narrow mountains because of the loud noise and the smell of blood.
The current Fuyang Jushan is too crowded, and the more than 20,000 corpses can't occupy more space than these war horses.
If you want to kill more Huns, you can only make an opening in the east, so that the war horses can rush out.
But if you do this and are caught by the Huns, then it will be the Han cavalry that will be surrounded.
"General Wei, are you worried that this mountain will become more and more crowded?"
Li Fu saw Zhang Yuan frowning when the war was going well, and he thought of this possibility.
As I said before, Zhang Yuan didn't want to block this mountain narrow.
But if it's all horses and corpses, wouldn't it be the same effect?
"yes, is there anything you can do about it?"
"The last general thinks that we can press forward appropriately."
"Push forward? Isn't the more pressure you have, the more crowded it becomes? ”
"Let the army release rockets and force the horses to rush to the west."
Animals have a natural fear of fire, and a fire can be used to drive uncontrolled horses westward.
"If you think about doing this, the Huns may not rush forward."
This is what Zhang Yuan is worried about, now that he has killed so many Huns, he has not actually reached the point of pain for the evil king of Hun and the king of Hutu.
If they endure it, they may think of other ways to pass through the mountain narrows, so that Zhang Yuan will be powerless to resist at that time.
"There will be a way for the Huns to fight hard!"
"What's the solution?"
"You may need General Wei to be used as bait."
"What do you say?!!"