Chapter 445: Back to Water

When the drum beat of the assembly to meet the enemy sounded, Fusu was wearing his eye-catching bronze jacket, which had delicate gluttonous patterns on it, ringed without ruí, with green as the silk, and on top of it were two pale white feathers.

The son with a face like a crown of jade, after wearing armor, is also a little more heroic.

The waiter on the side said: "General Wei said that the battle formation is dangerous, and the Huns have many eagle shooters, who can shoot a bow and hurt people in a hundred steps, please spare the prince when he wears a ......."

Fusu shook his head: "The samurai wears a crown of birds, like his bravery, if he removes his feathers, won't he become a defeated and cowardly fowl?" ”

As a supervising army, Fusu did not have to participate in the command, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy, but he believed that he had the responsibility to advance and retreat with the soldiers.

The crown and the flag, is a sign that the soldiers can see as soon as they turn around, Fusu heard that during the battle of Yanling, Zheng Chenggong ordered his emperor to put away the flag of the monarch behind the car in order to escape for his life, and he fled but fled, but this kind of behavior is despicable.

Fusu would not do this, Lian Heifu proposed before, saying that this victory was unknown, and asked him to cross the river to the west, away from the battlefield, Fusu also categorically refused!

He said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, whether it was the monarch, the secretary, the prince, or the doctor, they all wore armor with the soldiers, fought fiercely against the enemy, and were proud of it. The ancient rites of martial arts have been abandoned in the Six Kingdoms for a long time. Qin is different, the clan does not have military merits, it must not be a subordinate status, even if it is a prince and grandson, he must also go to the battlefield in person and be beheaded and knighted. I now enjoy the honor of a son, perform the duties of supervising the army, and share weal and woe with the generals and soldiers, how can I avoid danger? ”

Fusu's words made him look at him differently from the soldiers, and he was treated with more respect.

He arrived at Heifu's command post, a makeshift building about three feet high, so that he could see the situation in the distance through the dense military formation. There are also watchtowers on the left and right that are responsible for observing the enemy's situation, and under the watchtowers, hundreds of heralds are on horseback and on standby, and when the battle begins, they are the mouthpieces of Hef, passing orders.

Beneath the hill is a large array of hundreds of golden drums, which are responsible for striking different drum beats and delivering instructions that must be executed immediately.

At the invitation of Hefu, Fusu climbed the commanding tower and stood beside him, holding his sword in his hand, looking into the distance......

He saw a sandstorm forming ten miles away, growing larger and larger, covering the entire horizon as far as the eye could see.

"That's the storm that the Huns rolled up."

Heifu pointed to the enemy who was getting closer and closer: "I have been fighting for several years, fighting wits and courage with Wei Wushu, witnessing the collapse of Daliang City, crossing the entire vast land, and witnessing the decisive battle of nearly a million troops. But only outside the plug, can you see such a scenery, 40,000 horsemen galloping together! ”

That's right, Fusu's head, mighty, boundless, like an ocean, that is the dust raised by the 40,000 Hun cavalry when they marched, with the current national strength of Qin dominating the world, the cavalry of the border counties added up, only thirty or forty thousand.

When the Huns approached within five miles and could vaguely see the moving horse formation, the hand of Fusu Fulou car railing also felt a little shock......

The Huns no longer advance, there are constantly aristocratic monarchs galloping orders, let the whole team rest, the Hun soldiers are changing horses, checking the bows and arrows they carry, and they stop for a short time, just for the later rush to attack!

Fusu looked away from the Xiongnu army and looked at his own camp.

The chariots and horses were all taken away by Li Xin, and the 25,000 men at Heifu's hand were all foot soldiers, they were located on the south bank of the Dusi Tu River, in the area where the river meets, and there is water on the left and right, but the open area about ten miles wide in front of them is flat and unimpeded.

"Isn't it a taboo in the army to line up against the water?"

Even though Fusu is not familiar with military affairs, he has heard this sentence said, because the military formation needs space to advance and retreat, if the rear is a surging river, even if you want to retreat and shrink, there is no way to retreat, and the soldiers will collapse by themselves.

"The invincible, keep it; The victor is also attacked. If it is insufficient, it will be defended, and if it is surplus, it will be attacked. ”

Heifu said that he deliberately wanted to line up with his back to the water, because at the beginning, the Qin army was small and the Huns were numerous, so they must be on the defensive first, and the Qin people were not in a hurry and the Huns were anxious, and the other side would attack first.

What the Huns are best at is to use the mobility and flexibility of the cavalry, detour and maneuver assaults, which require a large combat space, if they cannot cross the river, they can only attack from the front, and the pressure on defense will be much less.

"Besides, we have to guard the position of crossing the river for General Li Xin's cavalry."

That's right, behind the array of more than 20,000 Qin troops, there are craftsmen and people who are in a hurry to build a pontoon bridge.

Heff was not completely rigid about the examples he had heard, and although it was the same back-to-back battle, the purpose was very different.

Fusu's gaze was once again on the front, 25,000 Qin troops, about 15,000 Longxi soldiers, and about 10,000 Beidi soldiers. Heifu treated them equally, leaving them on the right and left.

The front line is ten miles long, and in general, every four tuns are divided into front and back, guarding a total of one mile (300 steps, more than 400 meters), bows and crossbows in front, spears, swords and shields follow closely, and 5,000 people are located in the rear, ready to help.

Because the Huns came quickly, the Qin army did not have time to set up a hard walled city, and there were no hills and trees to rely on, so they could only use the limited vehicles at hand to charge the four armies. There are people who keep pushing and shoving, and what Heifu thinks is the killer weapon of this battle, "Wugang Che", is placed in a key position.

This car is Heifu from the Xianyang arsenal to beg, and it is not clear whether it is the invention of Sun Bin or Wu Qi, the car is two zhang long, one zhang wide and four, the car is covered with cowhide, the outside of the car is tied with sharp spears, and the inside is placed with a big shield to cover the bow and arrow that comes from the shot, which is a sharp weapon for defending and counterattacking.

The Wugang chariot was originally used by the Qi people to deal with the cavalry of the Yan Kingdom, and several Wugang chariots could be fastened together to become a strong fortress and slowly spread to other countries. After Qin destroyed Yan Zhao, this car was not very useful, and it was placed in the arsenal and dusted.

Heifu went back to Yunyang and Xianyang last year to hold a combat meeting, and after a trip to the arsenal, he found this good thing, and immediately asked Beidi County to copy it, and in half a year, 800 vehicles were built. When marching, it relies on oxen and horses, and when fighting, it can rest in place as a cover, or it can be pushed forward by several people, and it can be attacked and advanced.

Although there were only 800 vehicles, they also surrounded the ten-mile defense line with antlers, thistles, and chariots, protecting the foot soldiers, and making their own phalanx as stable as a rock.

It's just that Fusu hasn't had a chance to see their effects yet, so it's inevitable that he is a little worried.

Before thinking about it, there was movement on the side of the Huns, first under the banner of the eagle of Touman Danyu, the strong warrior puffed out his cheeks and sounded a huge horn.

It let out a low, loud whimper, and a second horn followed, as long and high-pitched as the first.

Immediately ten, hundreds, until among the Huns, all the ten chiefs who wore horns began to play, like a wolf howling at the moon, and a thousand horns responded at the same time to Shan Yu, to their head wolf, mixed with many whiskers, and louder and louder whistling......

In Baiyang Mountain, the Huns forced the Shangjun soldiers to completely retreat into the hills and forests, but in that case, the Huns could only abandon their horses and attack, and they could not take advantage of it at all, but in the place of Pingchuan, this group of new Qin troops was waiting for them to crush!

"It's finally here."

On the tall building car, Heifu raised his right hand and waved the order flag, as if he was personally manipulating, and on the two flag cars on the side, there were also soldiers who set up Heifu's command flag and passed it to the left and right flag cars and drum cars.

From right to left, after seeing the signal of the Chinese army, several Sima flags were also hung up one after another, and at the same time, with the continuous horns of the Huns, the Qin formation, which had been silent for a long time, and the soldiers were all sitting cross-legged in place, also sounded bursts of drums......

The slow and heavy sound of the drum, as if beating on the heart, in his eyes, on the front line that was ten miles wide, the Qin soldiers of all the tribes, from sitting to standing, holding the long spears in their hands, like trees rising from the ground on the wilderness outside the fortress, they stood tightly together, united as one, ready to withstand this roaring sandstorm......

The heralds under the car blew the brass whistle and galloped away, and they had to immediately inform the various departments, and let the general tell everyone who was going to participate in the fierce battle!

Heifu's words to let the heralds inform the various departments also made Fusu's scalp tingle, and all worries and nervousness disappeared!

"The second and third sons should fight hard, let the Huns know that it is easy to shake the mountains, and it is difficult to shake the Qin army!"