Text Chapter 378 Life is like an ant, an arrow is like hemp

The Huns' horses were fast, and the Huns' arrows were accurate, and with just a few more breaths, they could get into the effective range of the bows and arrows in their hands. When the time comes, thousands of arrows will be fired, and under the cover of the rain of arrows, the Black Eagle Army, even if it is a copper-headed iron arm, will discipline them with countless casualties.

The idea is good, the reality is unforgiving. The Huns would never have imagined that the range of their bows and arrows had already been carefully calculated and a limit had been drawn for them. No matter how many archers you are, you won't have a chance to kill with your arrows!

The burly man galloping to the left of the captain is a famous grassland archer with excellent eyesight and no missed arrows. The target of the bow and arrow in his hand was the man on the horse under the banner of the Han general. Although I can't see what the other party looks like, I think it must be a famous general. He fired his arrows when he was ready to travel two more horses, a distance that would make the hunt a fool's errand.

Suddenly, the war horse running at high speed stumbled under its left hoof and almost fell, fortunately this steppe horse was very miraculous and barely supported, but the other leg was tripped by something, and even the man and the horse fell headlong. At such a speed, if you fall off your horse unexpectedly, will it be okay to end up?

After the Hun eagle archer fell to the ground, half of his body was pressed by the horse, and the bow and arrow were thrown far away, unable to move, only feeling a sharp pain in his thigh, thinking that it had been broken. He endured the pain and was about to find a way to get up, but he heard the people on the left and right shouting and the horses neighed, and it turned out that not only him, but also many horses and horses who rushed to the front suffered the same fate.

The Hun cavalry was so frightened that hundreds of horses seemed to have fallen under a spell, and they fell in pieces, rolling in the endless grass with their masters. Some of the unlucky Huns broke their necks and died, and more of them were injured in their legs and arms, and their feet were too late to get out of the stirrups, so they were pressed by the horses and struggled desperately.

The incident happened too suddenly, and the brigade behind didn't have time to stop at all, and more war horses rushed over and trampled over the people or horses who fell to the ground, causing a large number of casualties. Some people couldn't get up for a while, and just watched as the huge horses' hooves stepped straight at them, trampling them over their bodies, leaving a wail in their wake.

The Hun cavalry captain who first commanded a team of 10,000 people, after being trampled by the war horse, did not die for a while, regardless of the mouth of blood, crawled from the dry grass to his horse with all his strength, when he looked carefully, he saw a cluster of long iron thorns between the horse's hooves and palms deeply pierced into it, he suddenly realized, his heart was sad and angry, and he couldn't help but look up to the sky and shout "Vicious Han people, ......"! Then he died of exhaustion.

Actually, he didn't see the whole story. In the area in front of the Black Hawks, in addition to the countless thistles scattered among the long grass, there were also many tripwires made of fine sawtooth wire, which were everywhere, and could not be detected at all under the cover of weeds and shrubs. Once the horses of the Hun cavalry entered, they were either pricked by the thistle or tripped over, and it was difficult for anyone to be spared.

Seeing the charging cavalry team turning over on their backs, the Huns in the back finally noticed that something was wrong, and did not find that the Han army had moved, why was it like this! Although King Youxian couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, he also knew that it must be the other party's means. Hurriedly shouted orders, beware of ambushes!

Hearing the shouts of the rear army, the unresponsive Hun cavalry was still rushing forward, and those who had reacted were already beginning to try to control their horses, wanting to stop or turn. But with these thousands of horses galloping, it is simply impossible to do this in a very short time. The front army was thrown into disarray.

King Youxian never thought that such a situation would happen, the forward was stagnant, the rear army could not rush over, the horse slowed down, he was about to order the rectification of the rear army to turn to the right charge, suddenly heard a sound arrow straight up into the air, his heart was shocked, when he looked up into the distance, a sudden change occurred, and the attack of the Black Eagle Army began!

The two sides of the Black Eagle Army separated, and as Han Yan shot an arrow, the two rows of bed crossbows flashed hideous faces. This is exactly the kind of bed crossbow that is installed on the ship of the Eastern Expeditionary Tower, and it is about to show its majesty when it comes here with the army today. Although there were only six of them, each of the nine spear-shaped crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm shot out, the wind that brought it seemed to pierce the air!

The greatest effect of this crossbow is not to kill the enemy on a large scale, but to deter it with great power. In this first round, more than fifty giant arrows and crossbows were shot into the army of ten thousand horses with the oppressive feeling of death, and except for a few that missed, all those who were shot died miserably. Some of the Hun cavalry were led through the body and flew out for a distance, some even men and horses were nailed to the ground, and some shot half of their bodies ......!

When have the Huns ever seen such a powerful weapon! Seeing the tragic situation of the people around him dying, they were all horrified, and they led their horses to desperately avoid and escape, lest the next round of death would come to their heads.

However, the Black Eagle Army did not intend to continue firing bed crossbows, it was too time-consuming and laborious to operate this kind of thing, and it was a little too late in the current situation, so after giving the Huns a dismount, they immediately changed the way of attacking, and the nine-armed chain crossbow that the Huns had been vigilant about was finally on the field.

Almost immediately followed, thousands of crossbows fired in unison, and at a position slightly higher than the head of the Huns, rows of crossbow arrows were shot at the chest! After the panic just now, those defensive shields had long since lost their effectiveness, and when they had no time to resist, large swaths of the Hun cavalry who were shot by crossbow arrows fell from their horses.

Nearly half of the 30,000 cavalry, in less than a quarter of an hour, fell into confusion under the head-on storm of the Black Hawk Army, screaming casualties and trampling on each other, not to mention continuing to charge forward, it was already a great fate to be able to escape the fate of death in this huge trap.

I don't know how many thistles the Han army has sprinkled in this long grass within a radius of dozens of miles, and I don't know how many tripping ropes have been set, the Hun cavalry rushed left and right in panic, trying to rush to a safe place under the blow of crossbow arrows, but to no avail, the sky and the earth were covered with nets, and death was everywhere!

There is no need to listen to the Pegasus report of the generals of the Ten Thousand Commanders, the Right Virtuous King has already seen the situation clearly, and the Black Eagle Army used itself as a bait and set a trap, and he did not think much about it, so that it caused huge casualties to the front army. He angrily passed down an urgent general order, ordering all units to fight separately, avoid the front, outflank the past on both sides, and trample on the hateful Han army's thousands of horses, shattering thousands of corpses!

Just when the subordinates of the rear army turned their horses' heads again under the orders of the commanders and the commanders of the thousands, and wanted to act separately, not far from the two wings of their rear, the two cavalry of the Black Eagle Army, which had been in ambush for a long time, appeared, and the black figures destroyed the war horses, like two sharp blades attacking left and right, the horses were like flying, and the arrows were like locusts, and they began to attack on three sides!

The Hun cavalry on the periphery suffered constant casualties, shielding them with shields while taking the time to shoot back with their bows, but the distance was too far for the nine-armed chain crossbow to shoot at them, but ordinary bows and arrows could not reach the range of the Black Hawk Army at all. The Hun general was furious, urging him to hurry up the horse, rush out, and get closer to fight face to face with the Black Eagle Army, after all, no matter what, there is a huge disparity in strength in numbers, although there are heavy casualties, there is still a chance of victory.

For some reason, the two Black Eagle cavalry that appeared from the rear were not close to the Hun cavalry, they galloped and constantly fired crossbow arrows to kill, but they always wandered away from a distance, galloping back and forth. Except for the front army continuing to flee in a panic, the Hun cavalry behind began to raise their scimitars and kill the Black Eagle troops on both sides.

The Black Eagle Army seems to be very proficient in this method of warfare, and the left and right armies are extremely flexible between going back and forth, seeing the Hun cavalry approaching, they fled a little farther away, of course, the crossbow arrows have not stopped, and the death of the Hun cavalry continues.

The Hun cavalry, who had suffered huge casualties, wanted to catch up with the Han army with grief and indignation, and fought desperately, spitting fire in their eyes, dancing with scimitars, and when the horses soared, they swept through the long grass, but suddenly let out a painful and sad scream.

In the place where thousands of horses galloped to the place, the wind and grass were blowing, revealing the killing intention! I saw that there were many obstacles entangled with jagged wolf's tooth-like wires, stretching on the ground and blocking the way. The Huns' war horses were too late to regain momentum and broke in directly. After the four hooves or legs of the war horse were entangled, the iron thorn wolf fangs pierced deeply, and the more they struggled, the harder it became to get rid of them.

The Right Virtuous King was shocked, if the frontal sniping of the Black Eagle Army at the beginning was not worth paying too much attention to, then the current three-sided encirclement and flanking attack was enough to threaten the safety of the entire army.

If you still don't understand that the Black Eagle Army set up an ambush in advance, wanting to swallow the elephant with a snake and completely wipe out the 30,000 Hun cavalry, then King Youxian and his generals are too stupid!

The situation suddenly reversed, and life and death were only in an instant. In such an unexpected way, the Black Eagle Army carved a death zone for them in the direction of the main attack of the Huns north of Longcheng, and the 30,000 high-spirited Hun cavalry rushed in defenseless under the leadership of their prince!

So far, the two sides can only fight to the death! In a short period of time, the Hun cavalry was in a passive situation, thousands of steppe warriors were killed under the dense crossbow arrows on three sides of the opponent, and the rest were terrified and fought on their own, and it was difficult to organize an effective attack.

Suddenly, the heart-shaking war drums sounded, and the majestic warriors behind Yuan Zhao picked up the drum hammer shirtlessly, and in accordance with the general's order, they beat the signal of the general attack in the hunting north wind!

The officers and men of the Black Hawk Army launched an attack from three sides, and the chance of victory or defeat is at this time! The Hun cavalry under the command of King Youxian, like a trapped beast bound in a cage, began to struggle in vain......!