Chapter 4: Wisdom and Courage

"Lu Bu, get up quickly, come with us, the Huns are here again. When we came over, I heard that Jiuyuan County had been besieged, and my father asked us all to hide back in Tunzi, and my horses had all rushed back, so I sent you, didn't I come to find you? Hurry up, as soon as we run into the Huns' rangers, we will be unlucky. "Cheng Lian is very anxious." Boss, I brought you your bow and spear," Song Xian struggled to unload a pack of bows and arrows and a spear from his horse, the bow and spear seemed to be the standard equipment of the Han army, and I don't know how many generations it used, the spear edge had a trace of blood stained in, and the bow was a standard three-stone long-tip bow, which was called a composite bow in later generations, and only Lu Bu could pull a three-stone bow among the four. "And what do you use?" "Wei Xu and I use a crossbow, Cheng Lian still uses his father's halberd, I still have a ring-head knife, don't worry, these things have long been cooked, maybe you can see blood today." Song Xian seems to be the weapon keeper among the four people, and when it comes to the head of the weapon, he has a feeling of eagerness to try it when he sees blood. Surname... Song Xian, don't be nonsense... Nonsense, I... I... I don't want to run into the Huns. "Wei Xu on the side stuttered a little, and when he was excited, he was even more powerful." Okay, you don't say a few words, listen to you and die of exhaustion, let's go, Lu Bu, the Huns saw the Han man with high wheels and killed him. Cheng Lian urged.

Lu Bu also knew the seriousness of the matter, the Huns were nomads who grew up on horseback, and their ability to fight on horseback was innate, and the ferocity of the Han people was not a joke. The four men mounted their horses, caught up with the herd, and hurried back. The camp of Lu Bu's second uncle Tuntian is still twenty miles south of Jiuyuan County, and it is said that it is a mountain, but in fact it is just a few hills on the grassland, and the small hill is not high, and it is only more than 100 meters above sea level. When the border army opened up the barren tuntian, they built a simple camp, the adobe wall had long been old, and a trench was dug around the camp, there was only one walled gate, and a suspension bridge, and a beacon tower was built at the commanding height of the stockade for the purpose of communication. When they were still more than ten miles away from the camp, Lu Bu and others saw the wolf smoke rising from the beacon tower from a distance, lighting cigarettes during the day and raising fires at night. "Oh no, Tunzi was beaten, and I don't know if the siege has been broken." Song Xian shouted anxiously. "Don't panic, let's get the horses behind the hill over there, and then we'll sneak up and have a look." Both Lu Bu and Lao Lu had seen the cruel scenes of war in their previous lives, not to mention their firm psychological quality. Lu Bu led the three of them to drive the horses to a hillside in the distance, and then fixed the head horse. The four men did not dare to ride their horses, but with the reins in hand, they quietly leaned over and climbed up the last hill, and at last they could see the situation around the stockade.

Sure enough, it was the Huns who came, and I saw two or three hundred Hun cavalry around the stockade, most of them were only wearing a wide leather jacket, and only a few Huns wore a homemade leather armor. The weapons in his hands were also very messy, including sabers, forks, and spears captured from the Han army. They surrounded the village on all sides, and in front of the gate of the village, dozens of Huns got off their horses, used self-made ladders, set up on the low walled walls and ditches, and were struggling to climb, trying to attack Tunzi. There were also dozens of Huns shooting arrows at the wall to suppress the counterattack in the wall. The other Huns rode around the stockade on horseback, screaming and screaming to cheer on their besieging comrades.

The military camps and residents of the border area all live in such camps and live in clusters. Therefore, if the Huns wanted to plunder the property and rob the grain and grass for the winter, they had to gnaw on the stockades one by one. Lu Bu saw that several Huns had climbed the wall and were fighting hand-to-hand with the Han army and the people on the wall, and the situation was critical. After a moment's thought, he said to the other three, "The Huns are too stupid to be afraid, so you three go and sneak my horses behind the woods to the east, tie branches behind the horses' buttocks, and then run as hard as you can, and raise the dust as high as possible, back and forth, but you must not run out of the woods, for if you are exposed, it will not work." After doing this, Cheng Lian and Wei Xu will come over to help me, Song Xian, you give Cheng Lian your crossbow, and you can stay in the woods, drive the horses all the time, and create a dusty scene. ”

The three of them obeyed Lu Bu's words and drove the horses as instructed. Lu Bu gently flipped onto the horse's back, and it was only then that he noticed that there was only a saddle on the horse's back, not a stirrup. It's still quite difficult to get on the horse, and the short ones may have to use the terrain or the bench. "I must invent stirrups when I go back, otherwise the cavalry will suffer too much if they start a war." In the past life of the military history major, the importance of stirrups for cavalry was well understood. There were no stirrups, and people in this era fought with their legs tightly clamped, and most of them stopped when shooting arrows, shot an arrow, and then moved on. When the group charged, it was archery in motion, but it was more dependent on numerical superiority to cover the shooting.

Quietly came to the top of the mountain, and after waiting for a while, he saw smoke and dust rising behind the woods in the east, and it looked like a large group of people and horses were moving from a distance, and after a while, Cheng Lian and Wei Xu both rushed over, "Lu Bu, according to your method, Song Xian is driving the horses back and forth." Lu Bu nodded, urged the reins, and rode up to the top of the hill. The chaotic battlefield is in full view, there are more Huns on the wall than just now, there are several houses in the village that were set on fire by the Huns' rockets, billowing smoke came out, the wall of the wall is full of corpses, look at the costumes, a small part of them are Han, most of them are still Huns, and I don't know what happened to their families. The Huns' lap legs are very unsuitable for ground combat, so siege warfare has always been their weak point, and a small military camp will waste them so long and lose so many people.

Lu Bu settled down, looked up to the sky and let out a long roar, like a dragon roaring like a tiger, with a sound to curb the clouds, piercing the power of clouds and cracking stones. Everyone on the battlefield turned their heads to look, and the people in the tunzi naturally knew Lu Bu, "Isn't this the kid from Lu Lao'er's family?" It's called Lu Bu, right? "But isn't it, is that kid, don't run for his life, come back to die?" "The stockade is about to be broken, isn't he here to send him to death? But this kid's voice is very bullish, and his momentum is really strong. "No matter what others say, Lu Bu's second uncle is in a hurry, isn't the stupid boy coming back into the mouth of a sheep? I have the heart to shout at him to let him run for his life, but I am afraid that it will be too late.

The Huns, who were wandering in the rear, immediately had four or five of them who came close, beating their horses and rushing forward. Lu Bu took off the long bow on his side, four arrows in a row, each arrow hit the throat of a Hun, the last Hun rushed to the front, with the iron fork in his hand to stab Lu Bu, Lu Bu did not know when there was an extra spear in his hand, faster than him, more accurate and more ruthless, like lightning, stabbed into his chest and abdomen, raised his hand, picked the Huns off the horse. In the blink of an eye, the five Huns were cleaned up by Lu Bu alone. The people in the village were stunned, they all watched Lu Bu grow up, yes, this kid's usual archery skills are very good, and he also has strength, but he seems to have never killed anyone, the first time he went to the battlefield, he killed five enemies so cleanly, "Great, Lu Er, your old Lu family is going to be a big man." Cheng Lian's father praised with a thumbs up.

After killing five Huns, Lu Bu didn't feel anything, the experience of his previous life had already made him unfazed, as for the feeling of killing people for the first time, was it still a problem for him? Lu Bu raised his spear, pulled the reins, the horse under the crotch stood up, kicked his front hooves twice in the air, Lu Bu yelled: "Jiuyuan Lu Bu is here, don't panic, folks, I went to the clouds to bring rescuers, don't be afraid, reinforcements will arrive later." When the soldiers and civilians in the village heard this, their morale was greatly boosted, and they launched a counterattack against the Huns around them, and the Huns retreated again and again.

Yunzhong is in the east of Jiuyuan, Yunzhong County is the county seat of Yunzhong County, and it is the closest Han border fortress to Jiuyuan, with a garrison of 2,000 troops, but it is the most likely force to come to the rescue of Jiuyuan. The centurion of the Huns looked up to the east, and sure enough, the smoke and dust in the direction of the woods in the distance to the east were vacated, and there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, there were a lot of them, but seeing that the military camp was about to be captured, a great opportunity was in front of him, and now the troops were withdrawn, and the soldiers in front of them died in vain, gritting their teeth, the Huns were determined to attack one last time, and the reinforcements of the Han army came, and they were not as fast as their horses, and they had time to run.

Lü Bu saw that the Huns not only did not retreat, but stepped up the attack, half of the Huns who were wandering around the periphery just now joined the siege team and increased the intensity of the siege, while the other half lined up facing the east, preparing to meet the reinforcements of the Han army. Of course, Lu Bu knew where there were reinforcements, and after thinking about it, he saw three Huns in leather armor and the appearance of a leader in the ranks of the Huns gathered together to direct the siege. "Capture the thief and capture the king first, and I will arrest their leaders to see if they will retreat." Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Cheng Lian and Wei Xu behind him, "Two brothers, are you afraid of death." When the two of them heard this, they both straightened their chests, the bloody nature of the big man and the tradition passed down from generation to generation in the border army have been implanted in the bloodline, "I'm afraid of a bear, when did Lao Tzu coax it." "Yes, no. Don't be afraid, I. I'm no better than you. Ahh "Okay, since the two brothers are not afraid of death, then follow me to charge into battle, catch the three Huns in leather armor, and capture the thief and capture the king first." Lu Bu nodded. At this time, more than a dozen Huns rushed up again, starting to shoot arrows while running, Lu Bu urged the horses to meet them, and they shot at them, although the nomads grew up on horseback, they could shoot arrows on the go, and the quasi-head did not dare to compliment, but Lu Bu relied on superhuman arm strength and accuracy, and he could also do a hundred shots and a hundred hits during the march, but not all of them were shot in the throat. Cheng Lian and Wei Xu used the Han army's hand crossbow, although the range of the crossbow was short, but the trajectory was straight, it was easier to get accurate, the requirements for archery were not so high, the speed of the crossbow arrow was also fast, and it was not easy to dodge at close range. So the three of them fought against the Huns, but the Huns suffered a big loss, so they simply abandoned their bows and arrows and rushed up to fight hand-to-hand.