Chapter 40: Tragedy

"Boom, boom." A loud noise kept approaching, Xu Kuan's face changed, and he shouted: "It's not good, there is a large force of cavalry approaching, and the Wuhuan people are coming, forming a circle." ”

The circular formation refers to the circular battle formation during the ancient field defense war, which is one of the "ten formations" in ancient times. The circle array is for the garden array to carry out a ring defense, and the golden drum banner is deployed in the center, and there are no obvious weaknesses.

In the era of cold weapons, infantry fought against cavalry on the plain, and it was difficult to block the impact of cavalry without heavy infantry, and a cavalry could easily defeat even more than ten times its own infantry.

Soon, the Wuhuan cavalry appeared in Xu Kuan's sight.

"Spears and shields ready, crossbowmen winding." Xu Kuan ordered.

"The warriors of Wuhuan, cut off the heads of those Han people." Churis yelled.

The Wuhuan cavalry was boiling in an instant, and one by one they rushed towards the Han army with slogans that the Han army did not understand.

The power of the cavalry group's charge is not something that this group of recruits who are usually casual and have not been on the battlefield can bear, and in the era of cold weapons, the cavalry is equivalent to an armored force, and its power is incomparable.

The hands of many Han soldiers have begun to tremble, but fortunately, Xu Kuanbo suppressed these soldiers, otherwise I am afraid that there would have been deserters.

"Crossbowman, let's go." This time, Xu sent a thousand crossbowmen, all equipped with the big yellow crossbows of the Megatron Grassland.

The big yellow crossbow, the divine crossbow that once terrified the Huns, once exerted its power again.

A thousand crossbowmen fired arrows at the same time, and the overwhelming rain of arrows was terrifying.

"Ahh My eyes ......" A black warrior covered his eyes, and a wolf-tooth arrow was stuck in his left eye, blood gushing, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling in his eye socket, but he didn't struggle for a few times before he fell, because the wolf-tooth arrow had already peeked through the back of his head.

Burst! A long wolf's tooth arrow pierced through the thick leather armor on the chest of a Wuhuan general, and the Wuhuan general fluttered his hands a few times, then fell to the ground, and was trampled by the galloping horses behind him.

This kind of powerful wolf tooth arrow, it is really a second-kill attack, whether it is a person or a horse, it will fall immediately, without exception, more than a hundred wolf tooth arrows actually shot down sixty or seventy people.

Qiu Lishi's eyes were about to split, raised his head, looked at the mound, under a banner embroidered with the word "Xu", a cold-faced figure was looking at him, and couldn't help but feel a burst of grief and indignation in his heart, and roared: "Chong, rush to the front, this group of Han people will die!" ”

Ten thousand hooves rushed, this round of arrow rain did not frighten the Wuhuan people, but inspired them to wait for the fierce spirit, a wawa screamed and rushed towards the mound, eager to swallow the enemy on the mound alive.

"Swords and shields are ready to resist the impact, pikemen are ready." Xu Kuan shouted.

"Boom." After a loud noise, the Wuhuan cavalry crashed into the shield of the Han army, and even the men and horses were strung together by spears, but the rapidly charging war horse slammed into the shield under the drive of inertia, and directly knocked several Han soldiers out.

A tragic encounter unfolded on the grassland, at first, the Wuhuan people also suffered great casualties in front of the circle formation of the Han army, but this did not deter the Wuhuan people, and the ferocity of the grassland people was stimulated at this moment.

More and more Wuhuan cavalry crashed into the Han army's circular formation regardless of life and death, knocking the circular array into it many times.

Finally, under the leadership of Chulis, the shield of the Han army was broken, and a massacre ensued, and on the plain, the cavalry faced a group of scattered infantry was a massacre.

At this time, the instability in the Han army appeared, some soldiers under the command of Xu Kuan still desperately resisted, forming many small formations, which also caused a lot of casualties to the Wuhuan people for a while, and some soldiers completely collapsed, scattered and fled, and were soon killed by the Wuhuan cavalry wandering outside.

Half an hour later, Xu Band and hundreds of soldiers formed a circle again, with a large banner of Chinese characters in the middle, while more than 6,000 Wuhuan cavalry continued to wander around the circle.

"The Han army on the other side, I am Qiu Lishi, the commander of Wuhuan, I admit it, you are all real warriors, put down your arms, you have done your best." Churis rode his war horse forward.

Xu Kuan looked at the less than five hundred soldiers around him, and there was also a burst of grief and indignation in his heart, and said: "Brothers, it is I Xu Kuan who is incompetent, I took you out, but there is no way to take you back together, you are all good, if anyone wants to surrender, I Xu Kuan will never stop me." ”

The rest of the Han army was silent for a while, in fact, as a northern border county, how could Shanggu County not have veterans, most of the soldiers in Xu Broadband's this time were the kind of recruits who were loosely trained and messed around, but there were also veterans who had fought on the battlefield, after this battle, most of the recruits had died, and the rest were veterans who obeyed the command and resisted to the end.

"Lord Duwei, you don't need to say it, we Han people don't have a bad race." A wounded soldier said.

"Yes, the champion Hou was able to beat the Huns to cry and cry his mother, this group of Wuhuan people is just a defeated general under the Huns, sooner or later my Han will wipe them out." The rest of the soldiers chimed in.

"Okay, in that case, let me live and die together." Xu Kuandao.

"Hahaha, it's an honor for me to die with Lord Duwei." The Han soldiers laughed one after another.

This scene just verifies one point, just like Yue Fei said: "There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life." As the main general, they are ready to die, the soldiers below are all born poor, and those who are officials do not spare their lives, how can soldiers be afraid of death, so it is said that "one soldier will bear a nest."

Qiu Lishi saw that this group of Han soldiers had already developed a will to die, and knew that persuasion was not available, so he had to order: "Give them a ride." ”

The Wuhuan cavalry pounced like a group of evil tigers, and half an hour later, Xu Kuan was holding a large banner with Chinese characters, covered in blood, and he was already unstable on his feet.

"General Han, I respect you as a man, surrender." Hacha looked at Xu Kuandao, who still didn't give up.

The grassland peoples all advocate the strong, and there is no doubt that this Han army has won their respect.

Xu Kuan didn't answer, but the long sword that slowly pointed at Hacha expressed his answer.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of Wuhuan cavalry swarmed up, and Xu Kuan fell to the ground.

"Bury this group of Han soldiers, they are all real warriors." Chulix stepped forward.

Juyong County, Wei Feng looked at the southwest direction, listened to the news from the scouts, and slowly shed tears, he knew that Xu Kuan's three thousand infantry could not survive the attack of nearly 10,000 Wuhuan cavalry, this iron-clad man led tens of thousands of people to persist for so long without complaining, but now he really couldn't help it.

Xu Kuan is a close friend with him, and this time he came to save him, but he has no way to send troops to rescue, the people of Juyong County may be able to rely on the city wall to repel the Wuhuan people who got off the horse, but it is absolutely impossible to win the Wuhuan cavalry in the field, if he sends troops, I am afraid it will only be a few more corpses.

Now Juyong County is all dependent on Wei Feng to preside over the overall situation, and he is responsible for the lives of 80,000 people in the city.

PS: Thanks for the tip of the baby panda