Chapter 446: One-sided slaughter
At the end of spring in March, although the temperature in the Hetao area is much lower than that of the Central Plains, the river has thawed and the grass has sprouted, and the eyes are full of verdant meadows and hillsides, and flowers are blooming along the streams.
The nomads who had been silent for a winter in the cold wind of ice and snow also became active from the cold winter, and on the vast grassland, the leather felt tents of the Xiongnu herdsmen were scattered along the streams with abundant water and grass.
Herds of cattle and sheep, galloping wild horses, mooing and wandering bison, jumping wild deer and foxes, and wolves howling and preying like the wind, all woke up this spring.
The unkempt black Hun herdsmen stripped off their thick leather coats covered with mud and began to busily deliver the pregnant cattle, sheep and horses, these new lives are the source of food and clothing for the next year, both men and women, young and old, are immersed in this joy of spring, and among them there are countless men riding horses gathered together to compete in bows and arrows and equestrian skills, and at the same time can not help but stand on the top of the hillside and look to the south.
It is the country of the rich Central Plains, where there is endless food, docile and beautiful women, and an inexhaustible supply of pearl agate and money and treasures.
"Daddy, why don't you say we can't live a stable life like the people of the Central Plains, and we have to graze and hunt like this year after year?" On the hillside, a young Hun man on horseback asked a tall man beside him.
"Because the people of the Central Plains occupy the most beautiful and rich land, we can only be blocked on the grassland, if one day we can kill the Central Plains and kill the emperor there, we can naturally live a stable life and enjoy their food and women!" The middle-aged man with hair like grass and beard said fiercely.
"Impossible, we can't beat the Central Plains people, the Qin people are fierce, they have sharp metal knives and guns, they have stronger bows and arrows than us, and strong leather armor......"
"Hmph, so what, their horses are not as fast as ours, their horsemanship is not as good as ours, they will only sit on chariots and fight, and their generals and emperors will only play with women and drink for fun!"
"But we still can't break through their walls!" The young man clenched a very old-looking longbow in his hand and said with a little dejection.
"Yes, the people of the Central Plains are too cunning, they actually built such a long city wall to block us, if it weren't for this city wall, the Central Plains would have been the world of our Huns!" The middle-aged man sighed.
"Daddy, do you think they will come to attack us, they will come every spring when the cattle and sheep give birth?" The boy asked with some uneasiness.
"Rest assured, we are three days away from the city wall here, there are several tribes of Ugtu, Bajia and Chalda in front, and there are 20,000 people in the Hutu tribe in the west, and the leader of Hutu Kunjia is very powerful, in recent years, he has annexed several tribes in a row, and he has long wanted to unify our large area, and Bajia and Chalda are also oppressed by it, once the Qin people attack, the Ugtu and Bajia tribes will inevitably bear the brunt, if the Qin people attack, they will definitely come back to inform us to send someone to help, be careful recently, Now that cattle, sheep and horses are giving birth, we must always pay attention to the wild wolves......"
And just as the middle-aged man was speaking, the young man listened and said nervously: "Daddy, listen, what is the sound, it seems that there are many horses coming to us!" ”
The middle-aged man also shook his head and said, "Don't be afraid, it may be wild horses or bison herds, a few days ago I was looking for lost horses, and I saw a herd of wild horses in the pasture near Bajia, there are hundreds of them, they may have come to our side......"
But before the middle-aged man finished speaking, his face suddenly became solemn, and he listened carefully again, his face changed greatly, and he quickly rushed down the hill to a higher hillside in the distance, and shouted in his mouth: "You go back and inform the clansmen, I'm afraid that the Bajia tribe has come to trouble us!" ”
The young man's face turned a little pale, and he turned his horse's head and ran back.
Ten minutes later, the middle-aged man had already galloped to a higher mountain in front of him, but his face turned pale from fright at what he saw.
I saw that on the horizon in the distance, thousands of horses were surging like the same pitch-black tide, although it was still seven or eight miles apart, but the black dragon flag that was rolled up and rolled was clearly visible, and the dense flags were gathered together.
"Driving~" The middle-aged man only glanced at it, then turned his horse's head and ran away.
"Hurry up~The Qin people are coming, the Qin people are coming~"
There are still several miles away from the gathering place, and the man yelled all the way, and the clansmen grazing along the way were still inexplicable, and asked loudly about the specific situation, but the man was already panicking at this time, and the crackling sound of the horsewhip was whipping, at this time he couldn't take care of the clansmen, the Qin army came too fast, and the clansmen were still scattered around for dozens of miles to graze cattle and sheep, even if they were notified next to each other, it was too late.
Run away, the farther away the better!
This is already the only thought of a middle-aged man, and he can't even take care of his wife and children.
Seven or eight miles away, for a horse galloping on the flat grassland, it is only a matter of three or five minutes, and three or five minutes is a time for the scattered grazing Xiongnu tribes to have no reaction at all.
Thousands of cavalry arrived in an instant, all of them covered with burly soldiers in black armor, many of whom still had bloody heads hanging from their saddles.
Under the trampling of the flying iron hooves, the young grass that has just grown and the wildflowers that bloom are splashed with the soil.
I had already seen a flock of sheep scattered on the hillside, which was a gathering of Xiongnu tribes nearby.
The first general wearing bronze armor and a bronze helmet, a pitch-black horse in his crotch, stepped on the stirrups with both feet and took off a spear hanging on the saddle, and waved forward and shouted: "There are Hun barbarians ahead, kill~"
"Kill~~" The Qin soldiers behind him burst out with a deafening roar, everyone knocked the horse's belly with stirrups, stimulated by the blunt thorn, the war horse under the crotch neighed and galloped forward, and the team slowly dispersed during the run, some people began to protrude forward, most of them had released the reins, their legs and buttocks left the saddle, and their upper bodies were slightly prostrated and pulled out of the bow and crossbow from the side of the saddle to open the bracket.
Thousands of troops spread like a black tide to several small hills.
"The Qin people are coming~~~ Run~~"
The grazing Xiongnu herdsmen finally woke up from the trembling ground and the roaring shouts of killing, and in the panic, the men of the tribe began to assemble and wave their bows and arrows to meet them, some rushed to the station, and some were reluctant to drive away their cattle, sheep and horses.
Hundreds of Hun men rushed forward like mantis arms in the black tide that was galloping.
"Crossbow~" With a burst of shouting, a low horn sounded at the same time.
"Xiu Xiu Xiu~~" The bows and crossbows in the hands of countless Qin soldiers buckled down the machine, and the dense crossbow arrows pounced on a small group of Hun warriors who met them like locusts.
"Puff puff~" Ten thousand horses galloped like thunder in the sound of horses' hooves, the Huns who rushed up were shot into hedgehogs like scarecrows, one after another planted off the horses, the war horses lost their owners and turned their heads and fled directly, and the Huns who fell to the ground were immediately submerged by the dense hooves, and after the Qin army rushed through, only hundreds of bloody corpses were left on the messy grass, which had almost been trampled into mud.
"General, many Hun barbarians fled north!" A lieutenant yelled at Li Xin.
"Haha, run, where can they run? Ordered to go down, all must be killed within thirty miles, and if you escape, you will definitely be killed! Li Xintian laughed, and then with a knock of his legs on the horse's belly, he went forward to several yurts, where a group of old men and children were gathered, and in the tent there were men who were jumping out of the tent with bows and arrows on horseback.
"Kill~" Li Xin's spear stabbed out, a Hun boy who had just climbed on horseback was stabbed directly through the back by the spear, the sharp tip of the spear leaked out of the young man's heart, the young man barely turned his head, his eyes were wide with incomparable hatred, and blood gushed out from his mouth and nose.
"Poof~" Li Xin's spear was withdrawn, and the Hun boy fell to the ground like a bundle of straw.
"Kill, don't leave anyone who can run!"
Li Xin held a spear to pick up and stab left and right, all the way into this yurt area, hundreds of domestic servants around him were also brandishing sabers left and right, all the Hun men were slaughtered almost regardless of the old and young, among which many women who were ready to climb on horseback were also cut down, rushing all the way, leaving behind the corpses of the Huns and some women and children lying on the ground trembling.
Twenty minutes later, the battle was over for tens of miles around the entire area.
Li Xin gave the order to attack and the battle was over, only 20 minutes before and after, this Xiongnu tribe of seven or eight hundred people collapsed, the corpses were scattered on the slopes and meadows within a radius of tens of miles, the horses that had lost their owners stopped to graze leisurely, and the herds of cattle and sheep were frightened and scattered in all directions.
"Arrange for doctors to treat the wounded, gather the formation, count the captures and prisoners!" Li Xin jumped off the horse's back and walked to the stream to wash his hands and face, and there was still red blood flowing in the stream, and in the stream not far away, there were still several corpses of the Huns.
It was a one-sided massacre.
Since they entered Henan three days ago, this kind of battle has been experienced several times, some tribes have only a few dozen or a few hundred people, and the larger ones have thousands of people, while the tribe in front of them is not big or small, there are seven or eight hundred people, and men over ten years old account for one-third, and the rest are women, old people and children.
But even women, old people, and children, they did not let them go, and anyone who dared to climb on horseback or had any weapon in their hands was killed.
The Huns are almost all soldiers regardless of men, women and children, and many times in the previous battles are slaughtered by the whole clan, because these Huns are also slaughtered in the Central Plains, and then the grain, gold, silver, treasures and women are looted, and finally the whole village is set on fire, so the Central Plains countries and the Huns and the Hu people will generally fight tooth for tooth, and hundreds of years have formed a hatred that cannot be resolved, and only blood can wash away the hatred in their hearts.
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