Even Xiang Kang, who has seen countless winds and waves, has only seen such a huge scene that makes people feel chills when he met the Qin Army Zhanghan Corps in its heyday on the Suiyang battlefield.

On the snow-covered land, there are neatly formed Hun cavalry in pieces, the left and right wings are west from the black tiger beam west of the half-day ridge, and the small peak mountain is more than ten miles away in the east, the black pressure is endless at a glance, all kinds of dragon flags, eagle flags and wolf flags cover the mountains and fields, like a dense forest, the soldiers and horses are dense, almost like the ocean, and what is even more daunting is that so many soldiers are arranged in formation, and the Hun army can hardly hear the voice of people, only the horses neigh, showing the discipline of the iron army style.

This is not counting, when the 80,000 Han army stopped three miles away in the south and urgently arranged the formation, first a Ming Di roared out from the flag array of the Hun army, and then without waiting for the Ming Di to land, more than 300,000 Hun soldiers pulled their bows and released arrows at the same time, and shot out more than 300,000 Ming Di almost at the same time, bursting out with a huge whine like a storm, directly shaking the eardrums of every Han army soldier, the first sound, and the momentum is unparalleled!

Fortunately, Xiang Kang personally commanded the front team of 80,000 Han troops in the north, all of which were the core essence of the Han army stationed in Guanzhong, not only every soldier had received strict training, but also countless elites in the army who had participated in the anti-Qin war and the civil war of the princes, so naturally they were not frightened by the Huns' preemptive voice, even if they were inevitably a little nervous in their hearts, they still arranged the battle formation in an orderly manner, and quickly formed an equally tight and neat infantry battle array.

During this period, Zang Di, who hated Xiang Kang so much, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said to Mao Dun, who was sitting in the middle of the flag array: "Great Khan, we can't let the tyrant army form a formation smoothly, the infantry is the best at formation battles, if they are allowed to smoothly line up the formation, our next battle will definitely be difficult to fight." His Majesty suggested that we should immediately send troops to charge into battle, and kill the tyrant army in a single formation. ”

Mao Dun is also a person who never talks about etiquette rules when fighting, and after nodding, he immediately ordered to raise the banner and order the soldiers on both wings of the Xiongnu formation to send 10,000 troops each, and attack the two wings of the Han army that had not formed the formation at full speed, in a vain attempt to disrupt the formation of the Han army and facilitate the next main attack.

At the same time, Li Zuoche and Xiang Guan and others also confirmed that Xiang Kang personally led the army to fight with the Xiongnu army on the Bantianling Heights. This is troublesome, ......, Your Majesty, he is notoriously not good at battles. ”

"Don't worry." Li Zuoche said in a calm tone: "Your Majesty personally led the army north to lure the enemy to a decisive battle, and what he brought must be our core elite, and this little trick of the Huns will not be difficult for them." Also, His Majesty is not good at battle battles, and it is only compared to the masters of battle like Xiang Yu and Zhang Han, the kings of Western Chu, it is definitely more than enough to deal with the Hun barbarians who only like to rush to fight, so we just have to wait and watch the show with peace of mind. ”

was expected by Li Zuo, although the Hun cavalry screamed and immediately launched a charge, but the Han soldiers who were still in the formation were still not chaotic at all, just as much as possible to speed up the speed of the array, and indeed succeeded in completing the formation when the Hun cavalry rushed to the Han army's crossbow arrow range, and then accompanied by the Han army's flag array, the Han army's two wings of the first to shoot crossbow arrows neatly, splitting their heads and covering their faces to shoot at the Hun cavalry team that rushed straight forward.

This is also the first time that the poor Hun cavalry encountered the elite crossbow arrows of the Han army, all of which were iron arrows whistling and rotating, easily piercing the thin leather armor on the Hun cavalry, and the remaining momentum did not disappear, directly into the flesh, the Hun cavalry team also suddenly fell off the horse, people shouted and neighed endlessly, the Han soldiers were expressionless, and took three sections of shooting ** flow forward to shoot, through the Wangshan (sight) shot out of the crossbow arrows are also extremely accurate, almost all of them are shot into the Hun cavalry crowd, The Hun cavalry was shot off their horses one after another, and the war horses were also shot so that people were neighing, and they ran wildly in all directions uncontrollably, and the formation quickly became chaotic.

"Go pick up some barbarian crossbow arrows right now."

After Mao Dun gave the order with an expressionless face, soon a guard stepped forward and picked up some crossbow arrows shot by the Han army soldiers and brought them to Mao Dun, Mao Dun casually picked up two crossbow arrows and looked at the arrows carefully, and saw that they were all black iron arrows, and couldn't help but snort coldly, "It is worthy of the army led by the barbarian emperor, and sure enough, all of them are iron arrows, no wonder our losses will be so big." But it's okay, if we win this battle, we can make a fortune. ”

At this time, after paying a heavy price, the Hun cavalry had successfully rushed to the front of the Han army in close combat, and the result was to the surprise of Zang Tu and Xiang Guan, who were familiar with Xiang Kang's temper, that Xiang Kang did not let the two wings change into a circle formation, and chose to meet the enemy with a phalanx. ”

The cruel truth soon stunned Zang Di's eyes, and in the shouting of killing, the Han soldiers who were fighting in line waved their knives in the front row, stabbed spears in the back row, and waved strange shields with two iron hooks (hook setting, see chapter 48 of this book) to block the weapons of the Hun cavalry, which quickly offset the offensive of the Hun soldiers, and the Hun cavalry, who were forced to dismount and fight without stirrups, not only could not advance an inch, but were also killed by the Han soldiers and retreated, and the Hun cavalry who hid in the rear and released arrows were also killed and injured by the Han army's throwing feather arrows, The screams continued.

Mao Dun had already stood up, walked to the edge of the high ground and tried to look ahead, seeing that the Hun cavalry was extremely passive, Mao Dun was inevitably surprised, and said to himself: "What's the matter? Even if the barbarian army is all elite and the equipment is much better than ours, and we also have advantages in physical strength and arm strength, how can we fight like this? ”

"Great Khan, our offensive is not going well, do you want to send another army forward?" King Zuo Xian next to him hurriedly asked.

Mao Dun shook his head and said: "Don't worry, anyway, there is no chance to stop the barbarians from arraying, tell the front team to come back first, you go and ask the soldiers who went out to fight, why are we fighting so passively?" ”

According to Mao Dun's order, the Xiongnu army that did not attack well quickly withdrew to the team in the cheers of the Han soldiers after throwing down the corpses all over the ground, and the Hun generals also hurried to the army to understand the situation, and then it didn't take long for the king of Zuo Ri to rush back to Mao Dun's front and played: "Qi Qi Great Khan, basically ask clearly, there are two main reasons why our close combat is not smooth, one is that the leather armor worn by the barbarian soldiers is sewn with iron pieces to protect the vital point, and it is difficult for our weapons to cut or pierce through, The second is the kind of weird bronze pecking used by the barbarian soldiers, two iron hooks can easily hook our peck, so that our pecks can't be immediately retracted to re-launch a second attack, and then the iron knives of the barbarian soldiers can take the opportunity to cut our soldiers, and there are spikes in front of the strange shield, which can directly kill people with shields, and our soldiers are not used to this kind of weapon, so it is very unsmooth. ”

As he spoke, King Zuo also presented a hook-inlaid shield that the Hun soldiers were lucky enough to grab, and Mao Dun only took a cursory glance, and immediately found that the two iron hooks on the hook-inlaid shield were indeed easy to hook the bronze peck, a melee weapon that the soldiers liked to use, and the spikes in front could also be directly used as weapons, and he couldn't help but cry out angrily, "Dog barbarian, how could you come up with this kind of weapon?" Now it's hard for us to fight in close combat without suffering. ”

"Great Khan, no matter how hard it is, you have to fight." King Zuo Xian hurriedly said: "It is very likely that the rear army brigade of the Central Plains barbarians has begun to dispatch, we must hurry up and destroy the front team of the barbarians, otherwise when the rear army brigade of the barbarians arrives, our battle will be even more difficult to fight." ”

Mao Dun nodded expressionlessly, and said: "It seems that it can only rely on the advantage of numbers, the order, the left and right wings send 30,000 troops, rush to the flanks of the two wings of the barbarian army, and then send 20,000 troops from the left flank, and return to the back of the barbarian army. ”

After the order was delivered, the Xiongnu army suddenly strengthened, 60,000 cavalry from the two wings, howling and rushing to the flanks of the Han army's two wings, and another 30,000 troops detoured forward, interspersed with the Han army's rear of the battle, Xiang Kang was to respond to all changes with the same, without making any adjustments, let the Han soldiers meet the enemy on their own, and at the same time ordered the Han soldiers on the Chinese army positions who were not affected by the enemy to hurry up and eat, ready to meet a decisive battle that was destined to be a long time.

The fierce battle quickly started again, the Hun cavalry killed on both wings after withstanding the Han army's arrow rain, all chose to go forward with 20,000 soldiers to fight in close combat, leaving 10,000 troops to hide behind and release arrows, the Han army soldiers were resolutely firmly grounded, lined up in a dense horizontal team to hold on, using the advantage of equipment and the Hun cavalry with tall horses to fight to the death, the Han soldiers in the rear team also desperately released arrows, and used iron arrows to suppress the Hun archers who were hiding behind and throwing arrows.

The huge shouting and the sound of gold and iron crashing quickly drowned out all the sounds on the battlefield, in the fierce battle, the swords, spears and axes of the two soldiers pecked back and forth, constantly smashing hot blood on each other's bodies, the blades cut through the skin, deep into the muscles, the spear pierced the body, and brought up the blood arrows, axes and copper pecks continued to cut off the heads, cut off the limbs and arms, blood and brains sprayed together, the soldiers in the front row just fell, and the companions in the back immediately filled the position, and continued to greet the enemy on the opposite side with red eyes. There were also feathered arrows constantly whistling and staggering in the sky, falling into the rear teams of both sides, taking away the lives of the two soldiers who were hiding behind and firing arrows.

"Long live the Great Khan!" The roars of the Hun soldiers came and went, inspiring more Hun cavalry to move forward frantically, even though there was already a surging crowd of people and rivers of blood in front of them.

"Long live the Great Han!" This is the roar of the Han army soldiers in response, along with these shouts, as well as the crazy split of the ring-headed iron knife, the sharp iron spear stabbed out, Xiang Kang after the enthronement of the mass production of the hook shield played a huge role in the fierce battle, effectively restrained the Hun cavalry's melee weapon bronze peck, greatly offset the combat effectiveness of these steppe bandits.

The battle situation fell into a stalemate, Mao Dun finally began to be a little unbreathable, after careful calculation, Mao Dun decisively sent 20,000 cavalry soldiers to help shoot on two roads, with the Hun cavalry's best bow and arrow to cover the Han army's position, the result of this finally played a certain effect, the crossbow arrows that could not be used The Han soldiers all relied on the rear team to shoot back with bows and arrows, and suffered a great loss in the frequency of attacks, and the casualties began to increase under the dense feather arrows of the Huns, and the position of the right flank also began to loosen, and was forced to shrink the position to strengthen the defense.

The Hun cavalry behind the detour was waiting for this opportunity, just saw the right flank of the Han army shrinking its position, and the Hun cavalry behind immediately shouted and killed, surrounded the right flank of the Han army on three sides, and the onslaught of cutting and shooting continued, Xiang Kang saw helplessness, and could only hurry up to play the banner and order the right wing of the Han army to change the formation into a circle formation to strengthen the defense.

During this period, Chen Ping, who came with the army, made a suggestion to Xiang Kang and said, "Your Majesty, is it time to use that kind of weapon?" As long as that weapon is used, our right wing will be able to turn the corner in no time. ”

Xiang Kang shook his head and said: "Until the last moment, it must not be used, it is best to save it for a full-scale counterattack, so that we can have a chance to severely damage the main force of the Huns barbarians." ”

Xiang Kang's deliberate reservation, of course, pitted the 20,000 Han soldiers on the right flank, who were already at a disadvantage in terms of strength, and after being attacked by 20,000 Huns from behind, the Han army on the right flank was left with only one choice to stubbornly defend to the death, all the phalanxes and conical formations were all forced to turn into a circle formation to meet the enemy, and several thousand people were forced to fuse themselves, helping each other grit their teeth and persisting, but the Hun cavalry on the opposite side was one after another, rushing continuously, exerting great pressure on the right wing of the Han army all the time.

Fortunately, after all, the soldiers of the Han army had an advantage in equipment, no matter how critical the situation was, they finally survived the sudden strengthening of the offensive of the Hun cavalry, gradually stabilized their positions, and pulled the battle into a stalemate again.

Seeing that the opportunity for the right flank to finally appear gradually disappeared, and looked up to see that it was not early, and the light was gradually weakening, Mao Dun's heart inevitably began to be anxious, and after careful calculation, Mao Dun simply sent 10,000 fresh troops to the right wing of the Han army to strengthen the offensive, and at the same time sent 20,000 troops to return to the left flank of the Han army, and rushed behind the left flank position of the Han army, in a vain attempt to drown the Han army on both wings by relying on the tactics of crowds, and at the same time lured Xiang Kang to separate forces from the Chinese army to rescue the two wings.

Xiang Kang, who was not good at fighting, was really fooled, seeing that the right flank was even tighter, and the left flank was also besieged by the Hun army, Xiang Kang first ordered all the Chinese positions to light up the torches, and then said to himself: "It's time to be fooled, play the flag, and draw 10,000 troops from the Chinese army position to the east to reinforce our right flank." ”

The banner was raised, and the 10,000 Han troops on the Chinese army's position immediately shouted and killed, charging and killing the right-wing position that was already full of people. King Zuoxian, you personally lead 30,000 elite cavalry to return to the middle army formation of the Central Plains barbarians, and find an opportunity to storm the back of the barbarians' Chinese army position, King Youxian, you lead 30,000 elite cavalry and 20,000 archers to the front of the battle, and when you hear the war drums, you immediately attack the Chinese army formation of the Central Plains barbarians. The rest of the elite cavalry was commanded by Ben Khan himself! ”

"King Li, you lead 30,000 cavalry, specifically responsible for monitoring the barbarian army on Bantianling Mountain, and always prevent them from going down the mountain to rescue the barbarian emperor!"

Mao Dun didn't dare to forget the Han army Li Zuoche's department, which still had the strength to fight a battle, Li Zuoche had also been silently watching the situation on the battlefield under the mountain on the heights of Bantianling, judging the signs of the Hun army by the light of the torches, Li Zuoche suddenly smiled dumbly, and said with a smile: "If you want to dilute our Chinese army by storming our two wings, and then concentrate elite heavy troops to besiege our banner formation, the tactics are very correct." But it's a pity, with the temper of our majesty, how could it be possible not to bring that army? How could he not leave that army by his side and obey orders? Be prepared to suffer a big loss. ”

After sneering, Li Zuoche decisively issued an order, asking the soldiers of the Han army on the Bantianling Heights to hurry up and feed the horses and eat more dinner, and bring more torches to prepare for the night battle, and then Li Zuoche said with a smile: "If nothing else, since our majesty dares to use the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops as a rear army, the commander of the troops must be Uncle Zhou." Captain Zhou, it's up to you, when you can rush to the battlefield with the rear army, this battle will definitely be decided when the winner will be decided. ”