On the small slope, Gongsun Xun immediately stood under a big banner with the word "Han", and his hanging flag embroidered with the word "Gongsun" was also swaying in the wind in the hands of a guard on the side, surrounded by several scribes and officers.

At the foot of the small slope, hundreds of paces away, four or five hundred Xianbei rangers were fighting to the death with an almost equal number of Wuhuan rangers, and the two sides came and went, and from time to time there were people who were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and then even if they did not die at that time, they would become the object of the opponent's bow and arrow.

However, suddenly, more than half of the four or five hundred Xianbei people suddenly divided their forces and rushed straight towards the hillside...... You don't have to think about it to know that there must be a commander with enough identity in this large group of Xianbei people, so that the troops can make such a neat change of formation, and only then can the remaining small half of Xianbei people stay below and desperately block it.

However, the Wuhuan rangers below had no intention of stepping forward to hinder them at all, they just gathered their troops, collected their bows and exchanged spears, and prepared to eat the abandoned sons who stayed behind in one go.

But it doesn't matter, because there is no need for Gongsun Xun's orders at all, the Han cavalry on both sides of the hillside has already moved.

There is a significant difference between the Han cavalry and the Wuhuan Tu cavalry...... Not only the tactics and weapons equipped, but more importantly, the Han cavalry was wearing armor. In this era, iron-clad non-commissioned officers, whether cavalry or infantry, can be called the highest class of troops.

Think about it, if you shoot an arrow and stick it on someone's iron armor, you can't lift your arm when someone shoots an arrow; If you pierce someone with a spear, you only cut through someone's skin, and when someone stabs a spear, your wound will be deep into the bones; In the most extreme case, you slash it and create a spark, and when someone slashes it, your head is gone!

Aunt Gongsun lives in Liaoxi every day and brags to her son, saying that science and technology are crushed, but what is the real science and technology crushing? The iron armor on these Han soldiers is the most outstanding and efficient technological crushing in this era!

However, now that they are clothed in iron armor, they should not expect to have an advantage in speed over these Xianbei people who wear leather robes and have been moving on horses since childhood. As a result, there was another wave of suicidal division of troops, and it was visible to the naked eye that almost more than half of the Xianbei people in this wave of Xianbei people came and directly crashed into the Han cavalry...... The quality is not comparable, and the number of people is not comparable, it is purely suicide.

But at the same time, this bought space and time for the dozens of Xianbei elites in the middle, who did not look at the sides at all, but rushed straight to the banner on the hillside under the leadership of a bald samurai in iron armor. Moreover, in an instant, he was only a few dozen steps away from Gongsun Xun and the others under the banner.

A round of arrows came, and the guards on both sides hurriedly raised their shields, and although Gongsun Xun behind the shield looked worried, he did not move at all, which made the bald head below look very happy.

However, in the next moment, hundreds of crossbowmen who had already been prepared flashed out behind the hillside, and the official material officer in the Han army and the two tun companions, the former held Nu, the latter held the bow, and shot down in one round, and these dozens of horsemen fell to the ground on the spot...... Without exception.

Someone went down to cut the head of the Xianbei leader, and Gongsun Xun didn't bother to look at it: "I used to think that the Xianbei warriors kept their heads bald to show their martial bravery, but now I know that it is to prevent lice." ”

Probably still a little uncomfortable with this kind of big scene, Lu Fan on the side still had to cover his nose when he spoke: "Wen Qi, the enemy army is so crazy, I'm afraid that we have got a death order, we have already encountered this kind of death-defying entanglement twice in one day......"

"Then it's even more important to march quickly!" Gongsun Xun is colorful. "Only by speeding up can these originally scattered Xianbei people have no time to assemble and obstruct!"

Everyone nodded.

"Pass the order, solve the battle quickly, don't cut off the head, don't clean the battlefield, once it's over, immediately get on the horse and go to Danhan Mountain!" Gongsun Xun said as he glanced at an officer with a short figure beside him. "Gao Heng, you are the captain of the general's personal guard, you lead people to restrain those Wuhuan people!"

"Whoa!" This Gao Heng didn't have many words, so he went straight down.

Looking at the other party's back, Gongsun Xun became more and more unhappy.

In other words, he obviously asked Xia Yu to send Gongsun Chan to lead the reinforcements last night...... On the one hand, it is true that he wants to give Gongsun Chan a chance to make meritorious contributions, but on the other hand, he really feels that at this kind of life-and-death juncture, his clan brother is reliable, whether it is blood relationship, ability, or legendary luck. However, such a matter of public and private convenience was rejected by Xia Yu, and instead sent Gao Heng Gao Xuanqing, who had obvious contradictions with his two brothers, and he didn't know if it was to check and balance one or two, or he was not worried about himself, so he simply sent a team of supervisors.

To tell the truth, fortunately, he has been honest since the arrival of this guy, and it's not good to make trouble when the hard battle is imminent, otherwise Gongsun Xun must have found an opportunity to cut down this guy and hold the five hundred sergeants in his hands!

"Wen Qi." Seeing Gao Heng go away, most of the officers at all levels were in their own deployments, but Lu Fan took the opportunity to lean over again. "This Xia Yu assigned us such a task, I'm afraid it's ill-intentioned, right? It's okay now, when it comes to the revenge water, against the tens of thousands of royal court elites of the Xianbei people, even if it is at night, even if it is separated by a river, can it really hold on? It's too dangerous! ”

"Nothing bad." Gongsun Xun's face became even more ugly. "If I hadn't said yes yesterday, he would have beheaded me then...... Who made him a 2,000 stone for holding the festival, and I am just a Sima for a thousand stones? As soon as we succeed and our bones are dry, we are now going to be a stepping stone for others, and we can't help but work hard. ”

"The life of the eldest husband can't be manipulated!" Lu Fan said something casually as if he was agreeing, and then said no more.

The two thousand troops were on the road again, although the speed was extremely fast, but they still encountered several such blockades, although the size of each blockade was different, but this kind of fatal fighting also caused great trouble to Gongsun Xun's vanguard troops.

The loss of arrows, horses, and other military resources is not enough, but the point is that from the next day, the casualties increase rapidly in an uncontrolled manner.

In several battles on the first day, including the one in which more than 500 cavalry were encountered, the number of casualties of the Han army was firmly controlled below a safety line...... This is because the Han army had rested very well the day before, and they had enough mental and physical strength to deal with it, and they could even quietly complete exquisite tactical coordination again and again.

But from the next day, these coping actions became more difficult, and some small problems that did not look good, but were extremely fatal, began to appear frequently...... And on the battlefield, any problem, big or small, will be transformed into casualties and then manifested.

The biggest casualty was naturally the Wuhuan cavalry on the periphery, although Gongsun Xun beheaded a small leader of Wuhuan who dared to make trouble, but there was no way to stop the fatigue and disorder of the Wuhuan cavalry, after four encounters on the second day, five or six hundred Wuhuan cavalry, a loss of more than 100 ...... In Lou Gui's words, it is thanks to these Wuhuan people who live in the Great Wall, otherwise they would have fled or simply rebelled.

The second is the two tun escorts, the escorts are the only troops in the Han army who have not popularized iron armor, and they are also responsible for the most basic camping and burying pots to cook, which is also extremely hard. Therefore, after a retreat, they directly encountered a close assault of the Xianbei people, and at that time they suffered dozens of casualties, and then dozens of people were hacked and killed.

In the end, even the most core and elite Han army armor soldiers suffered a casualty that made Gongsun Xun extremely distressed in the afternoon of the second day...... At that time, the third encounter in a day had just been fought, and Danhan Mountain had appeared in the field of vision, and the Han army soldiers couldn't help but be a little lax, and Gongsun Xun also made an exception to let them temporarily unload their armor, drink water and eat, rest for a while, and then work hard. Unexpectedly, at this time, two or three hundred cavalry from the eastern Xianbei chased from the rear, and the Han army rushed to the battle and suffered great losses.

All in all, by the evening of this day, when Gongsun Xun led this special team to the bank of the revenge water at the foot of Danhan Mountain, there were only 1,4500 of the 2,000 combat strength left...... More than 300 were dead, and more than 200 wounded were on horses, so they might not survive.

Of course, Gongsun Xun in front of the revenge water didn't have the heart to think about casualties at all, because he now had a huge confusion in front of him...... That's right, it's confusion, not a challenge! Because this one was favored by Tanshi Huai, and then the opposite side of the river where the royal court was established by the mountains and rivers, it doesn't look like there is an army in Tun!

There must be an army, but it is by no means the tens of thousands of elites of the royal court as imagined before! It would be nice to have four or five thousand! By the glimmer of the setting sun, an officer who has been on the battlefield can come to this conclusion!

So...... Where did the headquarters of the sandalwood acacia go?

What should I do?

"Tanshi Huai Nai is standing on the water at the foot of Danhan Mountain, going to Gaoliu North for more than 300 miles, and the soldiers and horses are very prosperous." - Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Volume 90. Wuhuan Xianbei Liebiography. eightieth

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