Chapter 474: Car Formation
I only saw Li Erhei's army on the opposite side, which was completely different from the foot soldiers I usually saw. Because if you look at it head-on, you can hardly see any complete foot soldiers, only a large array of carts in front of you. The Huns are actually no strangers to carts, because they often use such things. But the difference between these big cars in front of you is that they are taller, longer and wider, and most importantly, they look very hideous.
Every big car has the appearance of more than two zhang long and one zhang wide. But at this moment, they are not directly facing their side, but lying horizontally in front of them, and the big cars are connected to each other by some means.
Therefore, at this time, at a glance, it feels like it is not a big car, but a black city wall. And in the lower part of the city wall, there are extremely sharp spears sticking out of it, pointing obliquely in the direction of the Xiongnu army, as if a batch of extremely sharp horse repulsion guns.
In the upper part, there are tall shields standing side by side. Behind this shield, you can see the figures of the soldiers of the Huashan Army, and you can almost only see a helmet.
From the bank of the Yellow River in the north to the edge of the woodland in the south, the distance is about 20 miles long, and at this moment it is mostly blocked by Li Erhei's car formation. After Liu Weichen and the others saw this car array, their hearts couldn't help but sink slightly.
There is no way, this thing is a painful lesson for the Huns, and it has a deep impression. Because during the Western Han Dynasty, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to counterattack the Xiongnu, in the previous wars, the Huns suffered a lot of losses from this thing.
At that time, Wei Qing took Wugang to attack the Huns outside the Saiwai, and the advantages of the Hun cavalry could not be brought into play under each battle. Coupled with the fierce Han soldiers, the Huns can be said to be defeated in every battle, and finally had to submit to the Han Dynasty by a brilliant and prosperous Xiongnu Empire.
In this era, the once powerful Huns can only rely on other forces to exist. Therefore, after seeing these chariots at this time, how could the Huns not be angry, how could they not be frightened.
Li Erhei's car formation is deployed in the shape of a zigzag, with two car formations in front and one car formation in the middle and back. The part in the north near the Yellow River was vacated, because this is where the river beach is located, and the geology is relatively soft, even if the Huns are allowed to run, I am afraid they will not dare to go!
Six thousand soldiers and horses, each hiding on these chariots, relying on the defense of the shield carriages, basically even if the Huns wanted to attack, they had to penetrate these defenses first.
Li Erhei knew that these chariots were his dependence, so once they were stationed, they would no longer move easily, just like a city.
After all, it is important to make yourself invincible, and then to attract the enemy to attack you, and to fend off the enemy with ease. Such an approach is a secret way of the art of war.
While Liu Weichen was observing the formation of the Huashan Army, Li Erhei was standing in the car formation behind him, and he was also quietly looking at the situation of the enemy army.
"General, there are not many enemies coming this time, only about 3,000 people." A staff general next to him said to Li Erhei.
"This must be the enemy's soldiers and horses to test us, pass the order, wait for the enemy to attack, tighten the wings, and let the enemy enter the formation to solve it!" Li Erhei looked at it and said coldly.
One by one, the chariots were clasped together, so that when none of them moved, they looked indestructible.
After Liu Weichen watched it for a while, although he was quite afraid of the chariot in his heart, because he had never competed with the chariot, he had only heard of it all along. So, I don't know how powerful it is!
Therefore, after watching it for a while, he sent someone to send an order to the general who led the troops, asking him to charge the Huashan army. After receiving the order, the three thousand cavalry immediately dispersed and rushed towards Li Erhei and them.
The nomads are very good at riding and archery, so the consistent way of attacking is naturally based on riding and shooting. In the beginning, they were all scattered in formation, mainly in small forces, and carried out harassing guerrilla warfare against their targets.
Take advantage of the agility and mobility of the cavalry, and then use the superb archery skills to shoot at fixed points in the enemy's formation. This is actually a process of temptation in itself, first, if the other party can't bear it and sends troops and horses to block and fight back, this can be regarded as a plan of the Huns.
After all, the enemy should be fully mobilized in battle, not mobilized by the enemy.
Second, once they find that there is panic in the opponent's army formation ~ in the process, or if the combat effectiveness is insufficient, then these rangers will all rush over like bloodthirsty locusts.
Therefore, in the face of this kind of attack, the first thing is to stabilize your position and not be disrupted by them. In this case, it is most realistic to fight back later. Otherwise, I will be beaten first, and what kind of counterattack will I talk about.
There is no doubt that Li Erhei is well aware of this. At this time, after seeing the Huns attacking, his response was basically indifferent. No matter how you show off your might in front of the army, how you run away with arrows and horses, I will stand still.
Therefore, the 3,000 men and horses of the Huns ran back and forth like the wind in front of the formation for a while, rolling up bursts of smoke and dust, and the momentum seemed to be very loud. However, because of the blocking of chariots and the defense of shields, no soldiers of the Huashan Army were killed or injured because of this.
Liu Weichen saw that Hua Shanjun did not accept the offer, and his face immediately became unpleasant. Because this means that the set he was good at in the past did not have any effect on the Huashan Army in front of him.
"Order to attack, storm the enemy formation!" So, after thinking about it for a while, Liu Weichen ordered.
The melodious horn sounded, and when the cavalry in front heard the sound of the horn, they immediately gathered up slightly, and then formed a wide front, and rushed directly towards Li Erhei and them.
The black chariot formation, the black cavalry, one of which was like a reef on the seashore, and the other side, like a raging tide, soon collided together.
Unlike the previous contact at a certain distance, this time it was a close-up impact. When the Hun cavalry rushed towards the chariot formation, the two chariot formations on the left and right of the first column did not react much.
The soldiers of the Huashan Army hid behind their chariots, and then fired arrows from the gaps between their shields to defend themselves against the enemy. But this method of warfare does not mean that the entire front is littered with arrows, but there are some peculiarities. Because the counterattack of the Huashan Army was strong and weak, roughly speaking, it was weak in the middle and strong on both sides.
It's like the bottom of the character, and the middle gap is not blocked by a car formation, so the whole defense seems to be broken here. On the front of the two car formations on both sides, arrows kept flying out of the car.
In this way, the Hun cavalry was naturally forced to move closer to the middle. This kind of closeness was not ordered by the generals, but because everyone instinctively converged towards the middle in the process of constantly dodging the arrows of the Huashan army.
After all, everyone wants to move closer to a safer place, especially when there is such a choice. Therefore, after the Hun cavalry had just launched a charge for a while, Liu Weichen and the others who were behind them immediately discovered that something was wrong.
Because his 3,000 soldiers and horses, which were originally scattered, slowly turned into a bunch, like a tide towards the middle of the group. It was as if it were a dough, and suddenly there was a force that pulled them into long strips.
"Shan Yu, it seems that something is wrong! If all our soldiers rushed into the middle of the two chariot formations, wouldn't it be easy to be surrounded by the enemy? Do you want to summon them back quickly? Seeing this scene, one of the generals beside Liu Weichen couldn't help frowning.
"No, let's see! I'm going to see how powerful the opponent's chariot is, we have 3,000 cavalry here, and in terms of combat power, it's not small. If the other party can't resist it, it means that this car formation is just in vain, and the threat to us is not big! After Liu Weichen pondered for a while, he slowly shook his head.
Hearing this, the generals and patriarchs behind him couldn't help but glance at each other. Everyone understood that he wanted to let the 3,000 men and horses be used as experiments to test the confidence and means of the Huashan Army.
Because everyone wanted to see what the outcome would be, no one said anything more. Everyone stared closely at the battlefield opposite, watching the situation develop.
The three thousand cavalry soon rushed into the middle of the three chariot formations, and if you look at the situation alone, this place seems to be leaking everywhere, as if the cavalry can run out from any place after entering here.
But it wasn't that simple, because as soon as these people rushed in, they immediately rushed towards the surrounding chariots, trying to find the Huashan soldiers hiding in them and kill them.
But the problem was that wherever they could reach the passage, they were faced with tall carriage walls and sturdy shields.
In this way, after they all entered the car formation, they did not find a single Huashan Army soldier who could be killed. And whenever they tried to get close to the chariots, to destroy them, one by one extremely sharp spears pierced out of the chariots.
Moreover, the position of these spears is very flexible, some appear on the belly of the horse, and some appear just on the back of the cavalry. In short, from any angle, they will be attacked. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Eastern Jin Dynasty Tang Wang's Claw Book House" for free for the first time.