Chapter 127: The Iron Rider (2)

Seeing that Lord Chen easily split the Huns' battle formation in half, he couldn't help but be overjoyed that day. He followed Chen Cheng into Linrong City, and cut down so many Xiongnu nobles, he couldn't turn back for a long time. For him, the more powerful Chen Chengjun is, the more beneficial it is to him.

"Kill! The Huns have been defeated! ”

That day one by one shouted, and at the same time led four hundred cavalry to rush forward. The Huns who were following him saw that the enemy on the opposite side showed their decline so easily, and their morale immediately became strong. The Huns, like other steppe peoples, are all wolves, and have the same character as the wolf's distant relatives, and when they see the enemy is strong, they will wag their tails and beg for mercy, and when they see the enemy is weak, they will pounce viciously and bite them.

Seeing that the enemy was so easily broken through the formation, these Huns no longer had any scruples and killed them viciously. Xu Rong, who was in the third formation, was shocked when he saw the battle situation in front of him. As a military commander, he naturally has a new set of equipment, and he knows what the effect will be after using it, but what he didn't expect was that the cavalry that concentrated on using new equipment and weapons would have such a powerful assault force.

In one hedge just now, at least four or five hundred people were killed and shot down, while the assault cavalry only lost a few dozen people.

The scattered Huns scattered on both sides and shot at the Liangzhou army in the middle with bows and arrows. But Chen Cheng didn't fight with them at all, and after breaking through the battle formation of the Huns, he rushed directly to the direction of the pontoon bridge. The Huns who remained by the pontoon bridge saw how their powerful army had been defeated, and their morale was even lowered.

They traveled six or seven hundred miles to come back to the rescue, both men and horses were exhausted, although they rested for a night, but where could they recover in one night? What's more, the enemy is so brave, just now the number of people is several times that of the enemy, and the hedge has failed. Now that the number of enemies is the same, how can this be fought? Slipped, slipped.......

Seeing the enemy fleeing without a fight, Chen Cheng was stunned at first, and then laughed. Nor did he go after the fleeing enemies, shouting loudly for the assault cavalry to turn their horses, and after regrouping, rushed towards the battlefield where the melee was fighting. Some of the fighting Huns wanted to come up and block it, and they cursed loudly while shooting arrows.

Chen Chengbu was unmoved, ignoring the wandering Huns as if they were nothing, and rushed straight towards the crowded place. On the way, hundreds of Huns, who had no time to avoid, were easily killed by the assault cavalry. The iron cavalry charged again, the Huns' performance this time was even worse, some of them scattered in all directions screaming, and some of them were entangled with the day and Xu Rongbu, only less than two thousand horsemen rushed head-on, but they were not in an array, and they were stabbed by the iron cavalry, and they were immediately broken.

The Huns and Liangzhou troops in the back were shocked by the momentum of the assault cavalry and avoided the side one after another. Chen Cheng broke through the enemy formation again, restrained his horse three hundred meters away, and then formed his team again, preparing to launch a third charge. Seeing this situation, the Huns by the river no longer had the will to fight, shouted loudly, and then fled to the south on horseback.

If we can't beat it, we can always escape, right? The Huns were never afraid to escape, and running away if they couldn't win was a trick they often used. For them, it's not about running away, it's about moving in a different direction!

It didn't matter if they fled, they immediately sold the Huns on the pontoon. Xu Rong sent hundreds of horsemen to burn the pontoon bridge with rockets, and the Huns on it, who had no time to retreat, immediately fell into the Yellow River and screamed, and could no longer wash it. In addition to the hundreds of cavalry who were shooting arrows by the river, the other cavalry followed Chen Cheng to the south to chase and kill.

The road to the south is narrow, sandwiched between the Yellow River and the mountains, much narrower than the terrain near Lian County. The Huns fled that way, and the road only got narrower and narrower, until at last there was no way out.

On the west bank of the Yellow River, under the lonely Daxu of the plough, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu heard that the soldiers and horses on the east bank had been defeated and the pontoon bridges had been burned down, and his face suddenly turned iron-blue. He raised his whip in anger and whipped the Huns who were kneeling on the ground and rolled on the ground and screamed.

"Bastard!" The Marquis of the Sulbu Bone roared angrily: "You said that the enemy is only more than a thousand cavalry, and we have passed seven or eight thousand people, how can we still be defeated?" ”

"Ahhhh ”

In the splash of blood, the Huns who reported the news were cut into several pieces, and the fragments of the corpses were immersed in pools of blood. More than a dozen Xiongnu nobles hurried over after hearing the news of the defeat ahead. Lifting the curtain of the door and entering the big tent, what everyone saw was the appearance of the Marquis of the Mustu Bone Du, Shan Yu, standing in a pool of blood with a long knife, impotent and furious.

"Big Order!" A noble man shouted, "We must continue to send troops across the river at once, or the soldiers and horses on the east side will be in danger!" ”

The Marquis of the Bones turned around and said viciously, "Don't you think I don't know? But the pontoons are all burned, how can we get there? ”

"Swim straight over!"

"What?" Rao is Subu Guduhou is now angry, and he can't help but be frightened by this crazy proposal, "The Yellow River is so wide, how can you swim past?" ”

"Although the Yellow River is wide, there are not so wide places, let's find a place where the water is not urgent, and let the soldiers swim over with their horses!" The man who spoke earlier said excitedly: "The enemy only has a thousand cavalry, even if you add those Han people in the city, it is only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and we still have more than 10,000 people here, as long as we can swim half of it, we can win!" ”

".........", the Marquis of Xubu Gudu still put the long knife on the ground, took a deep breath, and shouted outside: "Come on, clean up the ground!" ”

He said to the nobles in the big tent: "I heard from the people who fled back that the enemy had defeated our more than 8,000 horsemen in only a short time, so their strength was at least 10,000 horsemen!" ”

"Not bad!"

"I see! The Han people are so cunning! ”

"Maybe they have more than 10,000 horsemen, and there must be many enemies waiting for us to cross on the other side of the river!"

"So what do we do?" Someone cried, "My people are all lost to the east of the Yellow River, if they are finished, then I will be finished!" ”

The Marquis of Xubu Bone calmed down and said, "We still have tens of thousands of troops at the foot of Yin Mountain, gather them first, and then find a way to cross the river!" ”

"What about the people who crossed the river?"

"Hmph, what else can I do? That's seven or eight thousand elite cavalry, are you still afraid of being eaten by the Han people in one go? The Marquis of the Sulbu Bone analyzed: "At most, they will be scattered, and it is a big deal to lose one or two thousand people." When we're done, it's not too late to slowly close it down! ”

While the great nobles of the Huns were discussing, Chen Cheng had already led his troops to push more than 3,000 Huns into a desperate situation. On the rocky riverbank, there were one war horse after another and the corpses of people. The Huns' mounts were not nailed to horseshoes, and when running along the gravel river, it was easy to injure their hooves or lose their front hooves. As long as the war horse is dropped, even if it is not trampled to death by the horses behind, it will be chased and killed by the Liangzhou army.

The Huns fled all the way until they were blocked by the mountains. Thousands of Hun cavalry had no way forward, and there were pursuers behind them, facing the mountains and rivers, panicking. Even animals, when cornered, will send out a desperate resistance, let alone people?

Seeing that there was no way out, many Huns immediately shouted, "Go back and fight with those Han people!" ”

"Yes, fight, fight!"

"Well, I just saw that there are also Huns on the side of the Han army.......... Why don't we surrender to the past? ”

"You coward! We would rather fight to the death with the Han people than surrender! ”

Chen Cheng led the cavalry to hang behind the Huns, and was not in a hurry to come forward to fight. The tactics of the Huns are very similar to hunting, they like to hang behind the prey, consume the energy of the prey, and wait until the prey is exhausted, and then go up to launch a fatal blow. This tactic is not at least known to the Huns, and Chen Cheng will also use it. With a plug-in in hand, he didn't have to worry about following the enemy, and he could even use this trick better than the Huns.

Seeing that the enemy had stopped, Chen Cheng also reined in his horses, and after letting the remaining 900 cavalry and the cavalry behind him tidy up their formations, they slowly pressed forward in a strict formation. Seeing that the chasing formation was so tight, the little bit of the Huns' will to die was immediately dissipated without a trace.

Some fierce people were unwilling to fail, and shouted and turned around and rushed forward, but they were shot by Chen Cheng and other horse archers. A small number of those who rushed to the front of the army formation were also quickly killed by the Liangzhou army, which had absolute numerical superiority.

Chen Cheng stopped his army two miles away, summoned that day, and asked him to come forward and surrender. He immediately received the order, and stepped forward proudly and shouted: "I am the day of the Huns, lay down your arms and surrender!" ”

Someone who knew was stunned and said, "That..... That day? Wasn't he captured by the Han Chinese? How did you get here again? ”

More people didn't know the day, so they asked the others on the side what was going on. One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and soon, the Huns who were huddled together knew that they had taken refuge in the Han people that day, and they were mixed very well, just by looking at the iron armor on his body.

The Huns have always been short of weapons and armor, not to mention iron armor, even if it is armor or armor, it can be regarded as a family heirloom.

"This ..... Why don't we drop it too? ”

The so-called defeat of the army is like a mountain, and the generals of the defeated army are unspeakably brave, and these Huns have long been defeated by the defeat, and they have long been completely discouraged. Fleeing all the way here, now tired and afraid, under the surrender of that day, he quickly made a decision.

"We are willing to surrender! But we also have requirements! ”

That day and then translated the words to Chen Cheng, in fact, Chen Cheng could already understand a lot of Xiongnu language, but it was not enough, so he continued to let that day be the translator in the center.

"Let them tell me what the requirements are."

After asking in the Xiongnu language that day, he immediately got an answer, "We must keep our weapons and horses, and we can't let us go to war with the Huns in the future!" ”

"This .........", that day looked at Chen Cheng hesitantly, feeling very embarrassed, even he would not agree to this kind of request, let alone Lord Chen, who seemed to him to be like a ghost?

Sure enough, Chen Cheng sneered and said, "That day, you retreat first." ”

That day hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "My lord, I will persuade them again!" ”

The pro-soldiers blocked the day on the periphery, Chen Cheng raised his right hand, and then slashed down hard, "Attack!" ”

There are too many Huns, there are more Huns on the other side of the Yellow River, and now is not a good time to surrender, just now he just wanted to die less, but then he remembered what happened in Luoyang. Sometimes, good intentions don't necessarily lead to good things, but the opposite result.

Since the Huns don't know each other, let's kill them happily!