Chapter Eighty-Four: Half a Cavalry?
As the largest town on the northern border of Shanggu County, Yangtou Town has always played an important role in defending against the Huns in the north, and there are three tuns in the town alone, and it is the only town near the Great Wall that has the ability to fight independently with the small group of Hun cavalry that often invades southward. But this is not the real strength of Sheep's Head Town, the main reason why Sheep's Head Town was able to achieve some victories in the past defensive battles against the Xiongnu, and kept the town without major losses, and sometimes even supported other towns, is still its terrain.
Sheepshead Town is surrounded by hills, although the mountains can not be compared with the majestic mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the north of this flat grassland, it can already be regarded as standing out, plus there are some maple forests on many hills, which can hide the cavalry, and the old army Hou Xiahou of Sheephead Town can make the Hun cavalry who are not long-eyed suffer all these years. However, the terrain of Sheep's Head Town also determines that Sheep's Head Town is only suitable for defense, not for large-scale attacks, because beyond the small hills around Sheep's Head Town, further north, is a grassland with a flat river.
Today, the defenders of Yangtou Town, Hou Xiahou, received a military report and a top-secret military order, the content of the military report was very abnormal, and the content of the military order surprised Xiahou Neng even more, which made Xiahou Neng, who had also seen a lot of big scenes, secretly gather the five commanders of the defenders immediately and arranged the tasks assigned in the military order.
After arranging everything, Xiahou Neng stood at a mountain pass in the small mountains in the north, looking out to the north. This pass is not small, not suitable for entrenchment, but it is also a place that can barely fight a blocking battle. Of course, it depends on how many people there are on the other side.
There are several more in this group of small mountains like this pass.
Just now, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, Xia Hou could not pat his horse out of the mountain pass to see what was going on, the military order was very clear, he could not get out of this mountain pass.
"Marquis, what is the matter in today's military report?" After all, the deputy military marquis couldn't help but ask Xiahou Nengdao, he and Xiahou Neng have a very close personal relationship, and they also have a very tacit understanding in the enemy's actions, it can be said that the two of them are the two heroes of this sheep's head town.
Xiahou could see that he didn't ask about military orders, only asked about military reports, and there was no reason to keep concealing it, looked at the surrounding mountains, and said slowly: "In this group of mountains, a large group of Hun cavalry was found. ”
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It is said that Li Guang led the cavalry of Shanggu to the side of a small hill, but when he saw the strange shape of the small mountain, what an ugly word, Li Guang saw the mountain and decisively ordered the army to stop advancing.
The Shanggu cavalry, whose momentum was only larger than that of the three thousand cavalry, reined in their horses one after another, and looked ahead with a suspicious expression, where Li Guangzheng looked thoughtfully at the Hun cavalry running in front.
"General, why don't you chase it?" Ma Dashan asked, the one in his heart is in a hurry, I think our general must not stop fighting at this time, isn't this to suffocate me to death?
Sure enough, Li Guang did not disappoint him, and directly ordered the whole army: "Withdraw, return the same way!" ”
"Huh?!" Ma Dashan's rough face suddenly turned red, and the bitterness in his heart, what kind of song is this?
"General!" Ma Dashan shouted, and wanted to persuade, Li Guang didn't wait for him to speak, his face sank, and his voice was also gloomy, "Ma Junhou, didn't you hear the general's military order?!"
Ma Dashan sighed secretly, and when Li Guang, who turned around, passed by him, slapped his palm on the saddle fiercely, and shouted in a loud voice: "Withdraw, withdraw!" ”
The Han cavalry, who had been fierce and would not give up if they did not catch up with the Huns, had to turn around suddenly, and the sergeants looked at Li Guang with resentment in their eyes, and they were unwilling, and the cavalrymen who were more puzzled looked at the Huns who were still running before turning around.
The team had just turned around, and before they could start their stance, they heard a cavalry shouting from behind: "The Huns have chased back!" ”
When everyone heard this, they looked back one after another, and their eyes immediately became murderous.
Those Huns, who were originally fleeing for their lives, estimated that they also discovered the abnormality of the Han army, and even began to turn around and chase the Han army!
"I'm going to you!" Ma Dashan scolded, but was yelled back by Li Guang's words.
"Retreat the way you came!"
Where is this?
Everyone said that they were all old cavalrymen, and it was not the first time that they went out to fight, the other party was just 2,000 cavalrymen, and they were chased by themselves for a long time, and they wanted to turn around and chase themselves at this time, which sergeant could not be angry?
The horn sounded.
When the soldiers of the Han army who were angry heard the sound of the horn, they looked left and right in confusion, and saw that their companions all looked the same as themselves, and then they were sure that they had heard correctly.
This is not the clarion call of the Han army at all!
Those 2,000 Hun cavalry who were chasing the Han army blew the horn!
Then, as if in response to these Hun cavalry, the same sound of horns sounded in the mountains next to them!
That voice, the momentum is called a strong!
Then, the sound of the third horn sounded in the distance in front of the Han army!
Ordinary sergeants may not understand these horn sounds, but the generals who have been in the Shanggu military camp for many years are extremely familiar with such horn sounds, which is the signal of the Huns' attack!
The sound of the horn was followed by the earth-shattering rumbling hooves of horses and the savage shouts of the Huns.
From before, from behind, from the mountains!
At this time, even a general like Ma Dashan couldn't be straighter in his mind, and he knew what kind of situation he was facing - his Han army had fallen into siege!
it!
Ma Dashan couldn't help but scold, the dog-mother-raised Hun thieves, they really have an ambush!
it!
There are really more than 2,000 of these barbarians going south this time!
The more flexible generals also reacted at this time, and it turned out that they had fallen into the trap of the Huns from the beginning!
Originally, when they first set out on the expedition more than ten days ago, many cautious generals were still worried about whether there was still a Hun army hidden behind the five Hun cavalry this time, so they waited for themselves to bite the bait of the 2,000 cavalry, and then wiped themselves out. But later, the army of the expedition beheaded the Hun cavalry a bend of the people, and did not see their army to retaliate, and then later, people are a run plus a hide, the town is clearly into a state of defense, hundreds of people can not fight at all, the Huns are also burning houses and trampling on the crops, and finally can't help but can't help the attacking camp was also caught in an urn by the army, almost annihilated the enemy who came to attack, after that time, the Huns disappeared, if not only two thousand people, Why didn't the Huns, who suffered heavy losses one after another, retaliate?
Until the Han army finally withdrew, the Huns who had been hiding for a long time came out again, this time they gathered together, burned another town, and then ran, which made the Han army angry.
You must know that although the Han army was a little cheap before, but after all, the town was burned a lot, and it couldn't attack, and it was not easy to hold back that anger in my heart, especially when I finally returned to Qiansang, and was pulled out to pursue in the middle of the night, this anger is not monstrous?
Well, this anger came to an end, which made Li Guang and Qin Cheng's Han army, which had previously been stubbornly suppressed, fall into the trap.
At this time, the Han army knew that the Huns raised by dogs and mothers were really going to be wiped out! When the army only came out before, there were towns around to protect it, and there were 500 cavalry from Lao Mayuan to take care of the back road, and it was impossible for the Huns to destroy the Han army, and it was impossible for the Han army to be destroyed for a few days, and Liu Che transferred the Han army from Daijun and Yuyang to reinforcements! Therefore, this Huns showed weakness to the enemy from the beginning, and even sacrificed hundreds of cavalry as bait, just to completely anger the Han army, and make the Han army believe that they only had 2,000 cavalry, in order to lead the Han army to this vast grassland today, and annihilate them when the Han army has no support!
What a deep scheming, such a ruthless method! This is really not something that ordinary people can do!
It seems that this Huns can endure more than the Han army!
What kind of madman could come up with such a vicious scheme?
If the actions taken by the Huns four months ago in order to prevent the development of cavalry in Shanggu were a conspiracy, this time it was completely a conspiracy!
Yangmou is the avenue, and the meaning of the avenue is that you are not allowed to ignore the avenue!
Although Li Guang discovered it early at this time, although he retreated decisively, although he had not completely fallen into the encirclement at the moment, at least his front foot had stepped into the trap, and looking at the momentum of the Huns, I am afraid that there were no less than 10,000 people!
Where is this that more than 3,000 new cavalry of the Han army that have just been reorganized and have not yet formed much combat effectiveness can compete? !
At this time, General Li Guang's demeanor was fully revealed, he looked at the terrain of the small mountains on the right, pulled out a long knife, and let out a roar that overwhelmed the momentum of the Hun ten thousand horsemen: "Attack formation, target, six miles ahead of the right mountain pass!" ”
Not to mention Li Guang's prestige in the army, just his earth-shattering roar stabilized the position of the Han cavalry. The Han army, who couldn't help but be a little panicked, listened to Li Guang's order, and immediately began to gather momentum to move forward and adjust the formation.
The generals drew their long knives and repeated Li Guangjun's order to their subordinates, and their voices were louder than the other: "Attack formation, target, five hundred zhang in front of the right mountain pass!" ”
"Offensive formation, target, five hundred zhang in front of the right mountain pass!"
All around, the Hun cavalry was thousands of troops, the momentum was like thunder, the sound of horses' hooves was rolling, and the sound of killing shook the sky. In the center, thousands of Han cavalry were calm and calm, and the formation changed in an orderly manner.
"Three thousand Han rides, three thousand Han rides, three thousand Han rides!"
Li Guang personally assumed the role of his herald, running back and forth on horseback and forth at the edge of the formation, conveying military orders that only the generals could understand.
"Pull the distance!"
"Pull the distance!"
The generals shouted.
At this time, the north wind is no longer cold.
When the Hun cavalry and the Han cavalry inevitably rushed into the range of each other's bow and arrow attacks, the horn sounded in the Han army's formation!
There was no response, and the Han cavalry only took it as an offensive signal, although it was a little late.
I have to say that Li Guang's previous vigilance was very useful to alleviate the pressure of the Han army's impact at this time, because the Han army did not completely enter the encirclement, which also made the distance between the Han army in the encirclement and the surrounding Hun cavalry different, the three or two thousand Huns in front were already a hundred zhang away, and the Hun cavalry in the back was still a thousand zhang away.
If it weren't for this, more than 10,000 Hun cavalry would shoot down in one round, and half of the Han army would have suffered casualties!
"Bow!"
Li Guang stared at the Hun cavalry in front of him, raised his sword and shouted.
100 steps!
"Arrows!"
With Li Guang's order, in the Han army's formation, a rain of arrows flew in front of the Hun army! At the same time, the Huns also sent out the first round of shots!
The iron arrows of the Han army were planted into the Hun army formation, which immediately caused a group of people to turn over on their backs!
The rain of arrows shot by the Hun cavalry into the Han army's formation was much less effective!
Heavy Ride!
Especially the heavy cavalry led by Ma Dashan at the front, it was a complete set of heavy cavalry armaments! One of the killer weapons of the heavy cavalry is the defense of fear, and ordinary bows and arrows cannot cause them any substantial damage at all!
"Bow!"
"Shoot!"
Li Guang quickly repeated these two words, and as soon as he finished shouting, another rain of arrows flew out!
The heavy cavalry was originally composed of the old cavalry of the Shanggu military camp, and the horse archery was only the basic skill, and in the past four months, Qin Cheng had deliberately let them train them with archery skills, so the power of this round of shooting should not be underestimated.
After several rounds of shooting, the two sides finally inevitably collided together.
Short weapons to meet?
Don't forget that Heavy Riding Foresong is a fully Heavy Riding outfit.
Heavy cavalry charges, there is no reason to use a long knife at the beginning.
What they hold in their hands is a kind of halberd whose shape is slightly different from that of ordinary halberds, and this difference is reflected in the toughness, strength and sharpness of the halberd head, and of course, there are slight differences in shape.
This is the Qin halberd that has been transformed by Qin City!
The heavy cavalry took the lead, and the awl-shaped formation suddenly plunged into the Hun army formation!
This is the shortest distance from the Han army, and the three or two thousand Hun cavalry who were the first to contact the Han army at this time are destined to become a meal on the plate of heavy cavalry!
The Qin halberd in the heavy cavalry of the Han army has become a nightmare that will never go away in the hearts of these Huns!
Before the long knife in the hand of the Huns could be swung down, it was stabbed off the horse by the long Qin halberd in the hands of the Han army. The powerful impact inertia of the heavy cavalry, the Qin halberd with amazing lethality, and the terrifying defensive iron armor, the first time they go to the battlefield, their combat effectiveness can be described as earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods!
Everywhere Qin Ji went, people turned on their backs, blood splashed, heads flew sideways, and life fell humbly!
The poor Hun cavalry, in the face of the heavy cavalry of the Han army, which they had never seen before, had no time to react, let alone fight back, and were rudely killed by them. This kind of cavalry of the Han army has completely subverted their cognition, and they never thought that there could be such a terrifying cavalry in this world.
These three or two thousand Hun cavalry are like weak lambs, and the heavy cavalry of the Han army is a fierce hungry wolf!
With Ma Dashan's heavy cavalry forward curve as a sharp knife for the battle, the heavy cavalry behind easily expanded the results, and in the middle of the Huns' military formation, a big hole was torn open! And this opening is still expanding!
"Kill it!" Li Guang'er listened to the six roads and looked in all directions, and knew that the other six or seven thousand Hun cavalry were about to rush over, and there was not much time left for the Han army to break through, so he roared decisively!
"Kill!"
The soldiers of the Han army's heavy cavalry did not expect that they would suddenly become so powerful, those Hun cavalry who were invincible before were so vulnerable in front of them at this time, they didn't even have to swing the Qin halberd, as long as the Qin halberd was stabbed diagonally forward, and then fixed it hard, with the huge impact inertia and cooperation with their companions, they could easily harvest the lives of the Hun cavalry! At the moment, one by one the excited ones are difficult to kill themselves, and they kill even harder!
"Kill!"
"Kill, don't stop, speed up the kill!" Ma Dashan rushed to the front and shouted at the top of his throat, he knew that the most taboo speed of the heavy cavalry was to slow down, so there would be a danger of being surrounded by the Hun cavalry, once that situation was formed, the heavy cavalry with poor flexibility would suffer a big loss, so he kept in mind the trick that Qin Cheng had repeatedly emphasized, and kept drinking orders.
When the Huns were completely killed, the heavy cavalry finally broke through the military formation of the Hun cavalry, and the mountain pass of the target was also in front of them.
At this moment, three hundred Han cavalry rushed out of the mountain pass, one left and one right rushed to the Hun cavalry army formation that had been chaotic, and the middle-aged man led by Ma Dashan greeted Ma Dashan with a "enter the mountain", and then killed into the Hun formation.
Ma Dashan is not ambiguous, Li Guang has already explained very clearly, there is no need to look back after the heavy riding to break out of the encirclement, just go directly into the mountain, and there are people inside to answer it.
The Huns had already been killed in chaos, and Xiahou was able to lead the army to rush out from behind to respond, which made these Hun cavalry even worse. The cavalry of the Han army, which followed closely behind the front curve of the heavy cavalry, rushed into the mountains after disrupting the Hun cavalry formation.
"Let's go!" When Li Guang, the queen of the palace, came out of the Hun army formation, six or seven thousand Hun cavalry from other directions had almost followed, and he greeted Xiahou Neng, who was fighting hard.
Xiahou was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Guang suspiciously, his eyes full of incomprehension.
"The general's cavalry has all rushed out, what are you still stunned about, go!" Li Guang shouted loudly, and roared so loudly that Xiahou Neng was shocked, and immediately turned his horse's head and followed Li Guang.
Seeing that all the cavalry of the Han army retreated into the mountains, the Hun cavalry, who knew that there were few mountains here and had no depth, were about to come forward to chase after them, and dozens of people were shot down by a rain of arrows, so they retreated.
Yi Xue'er, who led the small 2,000 Hun cavalry to escape and then turned back, saw that the Han army easily broke through the 3,2000 Hun cavalry army and entered the mountain