Chapter 177: A Thousand Horses Shoot Together

In the face of the Hun army rushing like a flood of beasts, the Donglai cavalry was silent, their eyes staring ahead, and their bodies were also boiling.

As the captain of the Sixth Army, Zhao Yun was in the middle and front of the entire team at this time, holding a command flag in his hand.

Under the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, all passwords are easily confused, and only the command flag can send out signals without interference.

Just like the banner of the general, between the enemy and the enemy who are fighting, only by following the banner can we gather combat strength and guide the direction.

Visually measuring the distance, Zhao Yun waved the command flag, and suddenly the soldiers of the four thousand cavalry captains of the Sixth Army opened their bows one after another, and after a breath, Zhao Yun waved forward twice.

Four thousand sharp arrows flew out, drew an arc in the air, and fell into the galloping Hun army.

Suddenly, countless Huns fell off their horses, and then were trampled to death by the war horses that had been trampled into pulp.

After the first rain of arrows of the Han army, the Huns also began to draw bows and shoot arrows.

The bows and arrows of the Huns were much more rudimentary than those of the Han Dynasty, and their range was far less than that of the well-made Han bows.

Ten thousand arrows flew out and pounced on the Han army.

The Han army was prepared and raised a shield.

Countless arrows were fired at the leather shield.

However, many Han soldiers were shot by rudimentary arrows and fell off their horses.

Then the second wave of arrows from the Han army shot out, and countless Huns dismounted because they couldn't dodge.

The Huns carried out a second wave of arrows, but at this time the Han army moved, the army began to move forward, and the horses began to run.

The second wave of arrows from the Huns either shot too close and stuck on the leather shields of the guards at the front, or fell behind the Han army, and only a few hundred shot and wounded the Han army.

And Zhao Yun's third wave of arrows shot through the air, and it also hit the rear of the Xiongnu.

The two armies greeted each other, no more than fifty or sixty meters apart, and both sides gathered their bows and changed into melee weapons.

At this time, Xu Huang's command flag waved, the guards put down their leather shields, the first two rows were replaced with new short swords, and the two back rows also put down their leather shields and picked up the javelins.

These javelins were learned from Roman squads and combined with Roman cavalry tactics.

"Put!"

With a roar, Xu Huang's order flag waved again, and suddenly thousands of birds burst out in unison.

"Woo ......!"

"Puff puff ......"

The Huns who rushed to the front thought that they could really compete with the Han army, but they thought that the Han army actually left a rear move and put two rows of short horses in the front.

The moment they saw the short crossbow, all the Huns had a bad premonition.

The Huns, who had seen the power of the short horse, suddenly showed horror on their faces.

The short squire doesn't have a long range, but it's fast, and it can shoot ten rounds in an instant, and it's continuous.

A thousand new short crossbows shoot 10,000 arrows.

10,000 swooped down like locusts.

The three or four rows of Huns who rushed to the front all fell down in unison, and there was a blank space.

The 1,000 javelins in the hands of the guards took the opportunity to throw them out in unison, and then shot the Huns from the fifth to seventh rows off their horses.

"Kill!"

After receiving the expected effect, Xu Ding and the generals suddenly became even more demoralized, waving their weapons and rushing into the Hun army that was blocked, stabbing left and right.

The hand-to-hand battle was bloody, countless heads fell from the shoulders, and countless corpses fell under the horses.

Although the Hun army was numerous, it weakened from the beginning of the engagement, and the entire front was emptied, and the troops behind were shocked and stunned.

In addition to Xu Ding, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici and others, they are all mighty and reincarnated as stars.

The soldiers below have stirrups again, standing on the horses and shooting as they please, the more courageous they become.

Killing all the way, the Xiongnu army was directly split in half, and it was impossible to stop it.

The Xiongnu troops did not emphasize coordination and formation too much, and now they were even more chaotic and could not form a joint force to engage the Donglai cavalry.

Soon four or five thousand men were killed, and the troops began to rout and flee south.

"Kill!" Turning the direction, Xu Ding led people to rush to kill again, and this time completely defeated the remnants of Luan Tihu Chuquan.

Luan Ti called Chuquan to see that the situation was not good, and urged the horse to withdraw.

"Chase!"

Xu Ding led the brave Donglai army to drive the Xiongnu rout army and kill it all the way to the south.

It was not until the end of the battle that the troops were withdrawn.

Along the way, there were countless corpses of the Huns, and there were countless unmanned war horses.

In the end, the 6,000-strong army of the Donglai Army was divided into three or four units and pursued in all directions.

When it gets dark, they all return to the assembly.

Seeing that everyone had returned, Xu Ding asked, "Can you kill Hu Chuquan?" ”

All the generals shook their heads, indicating that they had not found Huchuquan, the right sage king of the Huns.

"Count him lucky, I will never let him escape." Although he did not kill Hu Chuquan, the right sage king, he gained a lot from this battle.

After the final count, about 10,000 people of the Xiongnu Youxian King were killed and wounded, and four or five thousand war horses were captured.

The Xiongnu Youxian Wang's department suffered heavy losses and could not recover in a short time.

Of course, the most important thing in this battle was that the Donglai army defeated the Hun army three times its size from the front.

Let the Donglai army establish a strong self-confidence.

Some people will say that the Donglai soldiers relied on the new short crossbow and used a large number of crossbow arrows to win, and some of them were not martial.

But the person who said this can only be said to be a mouth cannon.

This kind of thing is not strange at all in Dahan, and the soldiers are treacherous.

War is to use one's own advantages to win, and to win the war with one's own scientific and technological civilization, what can be refuted.

The results of this battle were quickly passed on to all parties.

The Donglai cavalry unsheathed their swords, and they succeeded in a battle, destroying the Xiongnu Right Xianwang Department head-on, and all parties expressed different positions for a while.

Zhongyang City!

"Hahaha! Bokang is amazing, he defeated the Xiongnu Youxian Wang in a battle and won a complete victory, which is really exciting. ”

Thanks to Xu Ding's great victory, the Xiongnu army left by King Zuogu Li in the south of Xihe County, for fear that Xu Ding's Donglai soldiers would go south to attack them with Cao Cao, so they withdrew north and returned to Meiji.

Therefore, Cao Cao took over Zhongyang City, and the army took over the southern part of Xihe County, and at the same time sent people to temporarily keep the war horses captured by the Donglai soldiers.

While practicing riding in Xihe County, a group of people looked for the shadow of the Huns everywhere, and took the initiative to fight the scattered Huns, especially the Huns in the Youxian Wang's department.

The Huns in this department thought that they were frightened birds, and even these foot soldiers led by Cao Cao had to avoid them.

"What? The 6,000 cavalry of Donglai defeated the 18,000 cavalry of the Youxian Wang's department, and the rebel of Hu Chuquan was incompetent, and the rebel should die. When the Xiongnu heard the news in Luan Tiqiangqu, they had an impulse to tear people.

One to three!

It was lost to the Han Chinese.

The key is still the Han cavalry in the Central Plains.

Can the Han cavalry there be called cavalry?

If the same army is lost to the Han cavalry in Bingzhou, it can be said that after all, the Han people here also grew up on horseback, practiced riding since childhood, are good at arching horses, and often fight, and have rich experience.

"Shan Yu, are we still going to attack Wuyuan County?" Zuo Xian Wang Luan Ti Yuvro asked.

Now the two tentacles going south have been cut off by the Donglai army, and it seems that the gain will not be great if they attack Wuyuan in one direction.

Luan Tiqiangqu did not answer this question, but continued to ask: "Where are the Donglai cavalry now!" ”

A subordinate Zuo General said: "According to the news of King Zuogu Li, after the Donglai cavalry went north along the Qin Straight Road, they got off the Straight Road near Dongsheng and disappeared. ”

"It's gone!"

Luan Tiqiangqu's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, and his face was so black that he could splash ink, as if he wanted to be quiet before the volcanic eruption.

"Yes, Shan Yu, the Donglai army has lost the news, and the Zuogu Liwang Department is worried that Wang Ting Meiji will be attacked, so they dare not send troops to search, so they can only shrink there." The left general explained.

(End of chapter)