Chapter 338: The Decisive Battle of Two (2)
After Yi Xueer waved her long knife and gave the order, the formation of more than 20,000 Hun cavalry immediately changed, and the sergeants in the front of the cavalry were divided into two from the middle, rushing out to the left front and right front respectively, facing the light cavalry on the two wings of the hussar battalion, and vacating the middle position.
This gap in the middle of the military formation just appeared, and it was filled by the Hun cavalry brigade that caught up from behind.
And these Hun cavalry, who caught up from behind, were significantly different from other cavalry in their equipment. The most conspicuous feature is the weapons in the hands of these cavalrymen.
It's not a long knife, it's not a spear or a halberd...... It's a huge piece of wood with an average bowl thickness!
The length of these wooden sticks is more than two zhang, not wet wood but dry wood, the people holding these wooden sticks in their hands are tall and powerful people, and the armor of the whole body is much thicker than that of the ordinary Hun cavalry, although it is not as full of iron armor as the heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion, but its protection standard is definitely more than other ordinary cavalry!
The front ends of these dry logs are sharpened, and when these cavalrymen charge, they just raise the dry wood flat and aim the pointed head at the oncoming hussar battalion heavy cavalry, because its length is longer than the Qin halberd of one zhang eight, so you only need to raise it flat, and you can knock the heavy cavalry knight off the horse first when the hussar battalion heavy cavalry rushes over!
This is the killer weapon that Yi Xueer prepared to deal with the almost invincible heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion, and it is precisely because of this that she dared to lead the army south to the Han border this time, without fear of a head-on battle with the heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion! On the contrary, it was exactly what she expected.
As she herself said, she had already suffered too many losses in the hands of Qin Cheng, how could she not be smarter?
And the post road here is built on flat ground, on both sides are wasteland and farmland with the same level as the post road, which can accommodate cavalry and war horses to gallop, and Yi Xueer previously arranged the main cavalry here, obviously also took a fancy to the terrain of this place, in order to fight a decisive battle with the hussar battalion!
Because today, the Hun army led by Icher is no longer afraid to fight head-on with the hussar battalion!
At a distance of five hundred steps, the Hun army temporarily changed formation, Qin Cheng saw the mystery of the opponent's military formation in his eyes, and his eyes were instantly cold to the bone, but at this time, for the hussar battalion, it was too late to change the formation, and it was impossible to stop or retreat.
"General!" Qin Qingzhi's eyes were better than ordinary people, and he was the first to see the changes in the opponent's military formation clearly. At this time, there were Hun cavalry holding two zhang of more than dry wood in the middle of the Hun army formation to block the heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion, and there were other Hun cavalry on both sides to meet the light cavalry, which made the hussar battalion light and heavy cavalry support each other and rely on each other's tactics could not be brought into play, and this would make the hussar battalion fall into a great predicament, Qin Qingzhi couldn't help but speak out in a hurry.
"General, I'll lead someone to block those wooden soldiers, you retreat first!" Liu Mu, who had a good sense of warfare, also shouted to Qin Cheng at this time, he had been able to foresee the next situation of the hussar battalion, and now the only way was to fight and retreat, and if he could find a post road with a narrow intersection in the back, he could block the momentum of the Hun cavalry! Otherwise, in a head-on battle with these Hun cavalry, the hussar battalion's heavy cavalry and light cavalry will be restrained, and the hussar battalion will have no advantage at all, and the situation will be critical!
"Shut up!" Qin Cheng suddenly shouted, how could he not think of what Qin Qingzhi and Liu Mu could imagine? But the hussar battalion obviously has no way to retreat, the two sides are close at hand, where to retreat? Let the soldiers of the hussar battalion block the knife for him in front, and he will run away by himself? Let's not talk about whether Qin Cheng is willing or not, if he really does this, he will be cut off by Liu Che when he goes back!
"What's the panic?!" Qin Cheng said coldly, "When did the hussar battalion ever fear the Hun cavalry? The devil blocks and kills the devil, the god blocks and kills the god, why are the soldiers of my hussar battalion afraid? After that, he shouted: "Where is Ma Dashan?" ā
The hussar battalion has always been at the forefront of the charge, and Qin Cheng is generally the first, so the distance between him and Ma Dashan is not far.
Liu Mu was in a hurry, he had already seen that Qin Cheng was planning to fight hard, if the advantage of heavy cavalry was still there, let alone facing more than 20,000 Hun cavalry, or facing more than 30,000 Hun cavalry, what was the hussar battalion afraid of? But now the heavy rider does not have the advantage he should have, but is in danger, and the light rider cannot be invoked on both wings, so if you have to fight hard, isn't it too long?
Liu Mu knew that Qin Cheng had always been wise, and he couldn't figure out how Qin Cheng could be so impulsive today.
At this time, Qin Qingzhi said to Liu Mu, who couldn't help but speak, next to him: "General Liu, the general said, after all, winning a battle by seeking victory is a minority, and most of the time victory still depends on the sergeant's sword and gun!" Isn't it 20,000 Huns? Why am I afraid?! "It's like consoling the willow.
Liu Mu looked at Qin Qingzhi for a while.
At this time, Qin Cheng's shouting order to Ma Dashan came: "Arrow array!" ā
"No!" Then came Ma Dashan's response.
Liu Mu looked at the Hun wooden soldiers who had reached a hundred steps away, and smiled bitterly in his heart. The opponent's armor is so thick, what is the use of ordinary bows and arrows? Although the Huns lacked iron and could not forge iron armor like the heavy cavalry of hussar battalions, the cotton armor and leather armor they were all over were enough to block ordinary bows and arrows! Thinking of this, Liu Mu pulled out the long knife with a frosty face, and the moment the long knife came out of the sheath, there was no longer the slightest thought in his eyes.
Glancing at Qin Cheng, Liu Mu suddenly thought that over the years, he had followed Qin Cheng to fight, won countless battles without tasting a single defeat, and every time he won a big victory and accepted the reward from the imperial court, the scenery was infinite.
In this way, today, even if you are defeated and die here, why not?
From the day I joined the army, didn't I plan to be shrouded in horse leather?
When the two armies were just a hundred paces apart, Liu Mu took a deep look at Qin Cheng again, then resolutely turned his head to look ahead, and rushed forward with a loud shout!
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Although when rescuing the 6,000 captives of the Dan Wolf before, Yi Xue'er made a strategic mistake, resulting in only one or two thousand cavalry of the 5,000 cavalry escaping, and the losses of the cavalry temporarily used as foot soldiers were countless, and they were still being chased and killed by the cavalry all over the mountains and fields there, but these were nothing to Yi Xue'er.
As long as you can defeat the hussar battalion, which has been invincible for all these years, it is the greatest victory, and it is not worth paying a small price for it. So when she returned to the formation of the 20,000 main army, and saw the hussar battalion catching up from behind, she felt a burst of excitement in her heart. She knew her chance had come.
For most of the year, she studied the tactics of the hussar battalion day and night, and found a way to restrain the heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion, based on which she selected a large number of strong men and trained a wooden soldier that she thought was sufficient to restrain the heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion.
Now, when it was time for everything to come to fruition, Icher suppressed the excitement in her heart and calmly commanded the army to act. When she saw the light cavalry on both wings of the hussar battalion and her own cavalry on both wings facing each other, and the hussar battalion heavy cavalry could only fight against her own wooden soldiers, she couldn't help it anymore, and a smug smile appeared on her face.
"Qin Cheng, today, this princess has won you." Yi Xue'er looked at the red-robed and black-armored general who rushed to the front of the Han army's military formation, and showed a somewhat naughty smile no matter how she looked at it.
Then, when the two armies were only a hundred paces apart, she saw the red-robed and black-armored general she had "thought about day and night" draw his long knife forward, and then seemed to open his mouth and shout.
Then, she saw a scene that she was destined to never forget in her life, and it was the appearance of this scene that changed the fate of her life and the trajectory of her life.
She saw the hussar battalion behind Qin Cheng and made a uniform movement: she waved her arm forward.
Then, a rain of arrows flew into the air from behind Qin Cheng, slid through a graceful semicircular arc, and fell towards her wooden army!
No, that's not a rain of arrows!
There is no arrow of this size, no arrow that can give people such a feeling of oppression!
That'sāa Qin halberd that is one foot long!
It is a "rain of arrows" composed of Qin halberds!
All the hussar battalion heavy cavalry actually threw the Qin halberd in their hands as a javelin to her wooden army formation!
Ixelle's naughty and smug smile instantly froze on her face!
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"Arrows!"
Qin Cheng shouted, and the heavy cavalry behind him threw the Qin halberd in his hand at the Hun wooden army formation in front of him!
The one-foot-long Qin halberd, weighing more than ten catties, was thrown out, how powerful was it?
Countless Qin halberds rushed into Liu Mu's field of vision, and then he saw the invincible Hun wooden soldiers in front of him screaming one by one, their bodies pierced, and then planted their horses!
Liu Mu looked up in surprise, and when he saw clearly that it was a Qin halberd, the shock in his heart was incomprehensible!
The Hun wooden armor on the opposite side is indeed thick enough, and the arrows really can't cause effective damage to them, but that's talking about a four-edged iron arrow that weighs no more than two!
The four-edged iron arrow is not good, but the Qin halberd, which weighs more than ten catties, can be compared with a bow and arrow?
At this moment, Liu Mu finally understood why Qin Cheng was so confident that he ordered the army to rush towards the Hun army array!
"Draw your sword!"
Qin Cheng watched as the Qin halberds were thrown out one by one, and then ordered loudly!
With a long groan, the heavy riders pulled out the long knives at their waists!
Looking at the Hun wooden soldiers in front of him, the corners of Qin Cheng's mouth hooked a bloodthirsty arc, and he rushed into the Hun army formation first, and the ring head knife brought a burst of blood rain, and shouted: "Kill!" ā
"Kill!" The heavy cavalry of the hussar battalion followed closely behind Qin Cheng, brandished their long knives, and rushed into the Xiongnu army formation.
The hussar battalion, who has been invincible for so many years, proves once again at this moment that they can be as invincible as ever in the face of any situation!
Yi Xue'er was stunned for a while, she couldn't have imagined that her painstaking efforts for more than half a year would be broken by Qin Cheng in one fell swoop at the snap of her fingers.
Countless days and nights of hard work, the pride and pride after the completion of the military formation, and the absolute self-confidence in the face of the hussar battalion, at this moment, just became a joke.
Qin Cheng rushed into the Xiongnu wooden army formation, and after slashing the ground again and again, he saw the pale Xiongnu princess in the crowd.
Then he smiled, glanced at Yi Xue'er, and said proudly in his heart: "Want to pit me for heavy riding?" Hehe, from the day the hussar battalion set up heavy cavalry, Ben General has been planning for today's scene for a long time. ā