Chapter 112: The Northland (12)

In the middle is the avenue, on the left is the village, and on the right is the field. The Huns on the avenue had all been expelled to both sides, and Chen Cheng asked the cavalry who were good at galloping to use bows and arrows to support their comrades on the side. After shooting a few arrows, many cavalrymen simply jumped off their horses and stood on the ridges to shoot the Huns stuck in the mud.

After getting off the ground, the speed and accuracy of the archery immediately increased. Many of the Huns were nervously confronting the enemy in front of them, but arrows suddenly shot at the side or behind them, knocking them down one by one. Especially those soldiers who came out of the Yue cavalry battalion, most of them brought two bows, and after dismounting, they changed to foot bows and shot hard, which could inflict great damage on the Huns within fifty paces.

This group of Huns was not the vanguard of the first battle, the main purpose was to reconnoiter the enemy situation in the south, and they did not have the intention of fighting to the death. In addition to the heavy casualties of the Huns who jumped into the farmland, the Huns on the road, who had taken refuge in the villages and woods, saw that the situation was not good, so they turned their horses' heads and fled to the rear.

Zhao Yun rushed out of the farmland with spears like dragons, provoking the last Hun who had fallen, and blood splattered on him, dyeing the already dotted robes even more red. He rushed to Chen Cheng's side, reined in his war horse, and said loudly: "Lord, don't chase anymore, the reinforcements of the Huns are almost here!" ”

Chen Cheng nodded, and said to the soldiers behind him: "Blow the horn and collect the troops." ”

The remaining forty or so pro-soldiers looked at each other, and one of them stood up and said, "Feng Er, who is in charge of the horn, was stabbed off his horse just now. ”

Chen Cheng said: "What about the gong? ”

"Boss Zhang is also dead."

“.......... What about waist drums? ”

"Here!"

Chen Cheng said angrily: "Then beat the waist drum!" ”

The drums and trumpets sounded several times before the soldiers who were fighting withdrew. Many of the soldiers' mounts were still tied to the heads of the Huns with bared teeth and grinning heads. It took a little half an hour to gather the soldiers, and after regrouping, they found that they had won more than 400 ranks, and their own side had also suffered nearly 100 casualties. Among them, the ratio of war dead to minor and serious injuries is close to 1 to 1.

The soldiers and generals were excited, believing that this was another big victory. Chen Cheng felt that this was a normal thing, and those soldiers who followed him out of Luoyang City also thought so. Although the Hun cavalry was brave, it was still a little worse than the northern army. The main thing is that they are too poorly equipped. Not to mention iron armor, most people are just fur or cloth robes, and their defense is about the same.

And their weapons are also very bad, the Xiliang army can finally make their own weapons, even if the quality is a little poor, the workmanship is a little rough, and they can basically be self-sufficient, while the Huns mainly rely on looting, and then rely on captured Han craftsmen to build. Therefore, although the Xiongnu were strong and strong, they could only occupy one-third of the inheritance left by the Xianbei people.

For more than ten years, they could neither defeat the Wuhuan people in the east, nor defeat the Qiang people in the west, and the south was a huge Han court, even if the court was already boiling in the sea, even if Zhang Jiao responded to the call and stirred the world, the Huns still did not dare to provoke. This time the troops were dispatched to break the situation of being surrounded on three sides.

Of course, by the way, I still want to grab more things and plunder more people. Therefore, after breaking through Lian County, the Huns have been plundering the surrounding villages and forts, and sent them to the direction of Linrong together with the people and property in the city.

The Huns moved quickly, and as soon as the formation was completed, their follow-up troops appeared at the end of sight. In the pond next to you, the surface of the water rises and falls, as if the earth is shaking.

The faces of many soldiers changed slightly, and they said in their hearts: "The Huns are coming so fast!" ”

Chen Cheng raised his spear and said in a loud voice: "Yao Qiong! ”

Yao Qiong immediately responded loudly: "Lord, what are your orders?" ”

"You order a hundred men and bring back the dead and wounded soldiers and prisoners." Chen Cheng raised his voice and said to the surroundings: "Others, come with me to the west!" ”

He marched along the Yellow River, on the far right of all the troops and horses, and his original intention was to see if he could cooperate with the naval army down the river. As a futuristic person who has once fantasized about "blitzkrieg", "mechanized combat wave", "air-ground integration", and "multi-arm synthesis", he knows that sometimes "one plus one" can exert a magical effect.

But unfortunately, as far as he saw, there was probably no hope for land and water cooperation. In an era when there was no human interference, or human interference was not very serious, there were not many places to dock ships along the Yellow River. At most, you can shoot arrows on the side to support it, but the difficulty of wanting an amphibious landing is too high.

In addition, the current on the river is fast, and it is easy for boats to go down the river, and it is troublesome to come back. This is a killer feature that can only be used once, and when it is released, it is a throw.

While Chen Cheng pondered the possibility of advancing by land and water, he led the cavalry to the west. Cheng Yi and Yang Qiu also encountered the Huns' reconnaissance troops, but they did not win so neatly, but fought with the Huns.

The armies on both sides were in the wilderness, in the fields, on the highways. In the woods, in the villages scuffle. Because most of them are highly mobile light cavalry, when the army that joins the battlefield is broken up, it often loses its structure, and the soldiers cannot find officers, and the officers cannot find soldiers.

When Chen Cheng led his troops to attack from the side, the Hun rangers who were quickly placed on the periphery quickly discovered it. The desolate horn sounded from the north, and in the low sound of "woo woo woo", the Hun cavalry of the brigade broke away from the entanglement with Yang Qiu Chengyi's troops and quickly left the battlefield to the north.

Seeing that the Huns began to flee, a deafening drum beat suddenly sounded in an abandoned village. In the sound of drums, a large flag was picked out diagonally. On the flag, there is a big "Yang" character embroidered. Under the banner, Yang Qiu carried a spear and led five hundred iron cavalry to pounce out of the village, biting the tail of the Huns fiercely.

With the cooperation of Chen Chengjun, a Hun army of more than 400 people was surrounded. The Huns were quickly routed, and only a few dozen horsemen fled, and the others were either annihilated or dismounted and surrendered.

"Hahaha", Yang Qiu laughed as he turned the handle of the gun upside down and whipped several Hun captives hard.

Chen Cheng persuaded: "Yang Taishou, don't fight yet, the reinforcements of the Huns are coming soon." ”

Yang Qiu knocked over another prisoner of war, and then said, "I know, that's what they did last time, and it's the same this time." Chen Yuanjun, we called Shang Chengyi and retreated together as planned. ”

Chen Cheng agreed, and asked the soldiers to knock the gong they had picked up. After a while, Cheng Yi's army also broke away from contact with the Huns and began to retreat. Behind them, thousands of Huns rode on the back of war horses, and the cavalry galloped on the ground in clusters, and the sound of hooves shook the earth like a muffled thunder in the sky.

This kind of power is several times stronger than the previous Hun cavalry?

On the one hand, it is in a rapid retracement, and on the other hand, it is in hot pursuit. The two sides rushed one after the other, and soon ran out for more than 20 miles.

The wind whistled in his ears, and the grass and trees quickly drew closer, and then quickly fell behind him. The war horse galloped faster and faster, and if you didn't clamp the horse's belly hard, I was afraid that the horse would fly out of the way. Suddenly, a war horse bent its front hooves and its huge body fell into the field by the roadside.

The cavalryman on horseback was thrown to the ground, broke his neck, and died on the spot. Chen Cheng pulled the reins, ran diagonally to the side, rushed more than forty meters before stopping, and his soldiers also ran down the avenue with him.

Chen Cheng pointed to the mourning war horses and motionless soldiers on the ground, and said, "Go and see what's going on." ”

One of his own soldiers ran over on horseback, jumped off his horse and was examined, and then came back and said, "The horse's hooves are cracked, and then ........."

He gestured and said regretfully, "Then he fell to his death." ”

Chen Cheng sighed and said in his heart: There are too many things to do, promote words, farm, build better saddles and stirrups, and now do you have to add the nail horseshoe?

He said to his soldiers, "Go and bring the corpse with you." ”

The one who was killed by the fall was also a member of the pro-soldiers, strong in martial arts, very brave in battle, and followed him to charge into battle several times without being injured, but he didn't expect to die here, and he died so aggrieved.

The sound of horses' hooves behind him became closer and closer, and Chen Cheng said to Zhao Yun not far away: "The Huns are chasing too closely, we have to let them taste the bitterness." Zilong, you lead the troops to ambush behind the mound over there, and when the fight starts on my side, you can kill it again. ”

The mound was more than a hundred meters from the avenue, and there was a height difference, which was enough for the cavalry to increase their speed to the maximum. Zhao Yun whistled and led two hundred cavalry to ambush behind the mound. Chen Cheng led more than 100 cavalry to form three columns on both sides of the avenue. He himself took more than forty of his own soldiers in the position of the first column, the second column of shock cavalry using spears, and the third column of all kinds of weapons, but the main equipment was bows and spears.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the Huns' pursuers had already arrived. The Huns in the early days were no different from what they had seen before, they were all wearing felt hats, or bare with two small braids, and their clothes were dirty and torn, stained with grease and mud, and looked dirty.

If you get closer, you can still smell the fishy smell and stench on their bodies. In fact, it is not only the smell of the Huns, even the soldiers on Chen Cheng's side will have a great smell on their bodies. After all, this is an era when middle and low-level officials only take a shower once every ten days. It was still in the warmer Central Plains.

However, no matter how big the smell of the soldiers on the side of the Liangzhou army is, it can't compare to the Huns. On the grassland, a person may not be able to bathe a few times in his life. As far as Chen Cheng knew, the later Temujin wrote the Zaza that herdsmen were not allowed to bathe in the rivers on the grassland, so as not to pollute the water source.

When the Xiongnu were dominant, Mongolia did not even have a shadow, but there was no difference in personal hygiene.