The Wuhuan cavalry was about a mile or so away from them, and they were in hot pursuit.

ran thirty miles in one breath to chase the soldiers, and still followed behind unrelentingly, and had no intention of giving up at all.

Han Dang said loudly to Huan Xuan while galloping his horse: "If you run like this, the war horse will lie down for another twenty miles, so let's leave someone to stop it!" Anyway, they escaped one by one, so as not to be served in a pot and not even be able to send a letter back. ”

Huan Xuan nodded, and shouted loudly to Tang He, who was running nearby, "Let's stay and block!" You take three horses with you, and you must rush back to Lulongsai and tell Cheng Guanwei that the Wuhuan and Xianbei people will join forces with an army of 10,000 to attack Lulongsai tomorrow. ”

Tang He nodded nervously.

Han Dang was very pleased, Huan Xuan, an old man, really had a tacit understanding. Staying and stopping the fight means dying! Among the thirty soldiers, Tang He was the youngest, only seventeen years old - Huan Xuan's arrangement was undoubtedly the most reasonable and the most humane.

Han Dang suddenly shouted at Tang He with a fierce expression: "You say it again." ”

Tang He was startled and instinctively shouted: "10,000 troops will attack Lulongsai tomorrow." ”

Han Dang nodded with satisfaction, and then exchanged a look with Huan Xuan. The two of them urged the horse to cross Tang He at the same time, and handed him the reins one left and one right.

Huan Xuan took out a small horn from his bosom and blew the horn to prepare to block. The scout troops of the Han border army also learned to use the horn to communicate with the Hu people during the battle, which was convenient and fast. The soldiers' horses immediately slowed down, Han Dang and Huan Xuan gestured to each other, and the two of them jumped off their horses almost at the same time.

Tang He galloped away with one person and three horses.

On both sides of the Luan River, the soldiers sat quietly on their horses, and one by one they seemed very calm. They were as if they were unaware of the coming battle, of the impending death, as if they were one with the heaven and earth itself.

Han Dang and Huan Xuan stood by the river and watched, the pursuers who were gradually approaching in the distance.

"How are you going to fight this battle, Chief?" Huan Xuan asked.

Han Dang did not answer, but instructed everyone to ride their horses to the river.

"You see, there is a man-high slope between the grass and this embankment fifty paces. Don't underestimate the slope! Fifty paces can make the enemy's horse rapid, unable to impact us. And behind us is the Luan River. If they rush up, if they do not make direct contact with us, they will inevitably rush into the river at the speed of their horses. Unable to get the horse to reach the fastest speed and the possibility of falling into the river, the enemy was faced with this dilemma, and was certainly unwilling to take a strong attack. ”

"If you can't rely on the strong attack of the war horse, you can only take a positional attack, and we will naturally not be able to defeat them with few people, but we can find a way to turn the enemy's advantage into a disadvantage."

The sound of the horse's hooves of the chasing soldiers in the distance came violently like a raging storm, and Huan Xuan shouted anxiously: "Tell me what to do!" The enemy came up. ”

Han Dang glanced at it casually, and continued to say to the soldiers around him: "Everyone has their backs to the river and lined up twenty-seven horses in groups of two to form a semicircular horseshoe-shaped formation. In this way, the thickness and radius of this horseshoe formation is just enough for twenty-nine of us to defend. The enemy attacks us and defends to see who loses and who wins. ”

Han Dang glanced at everyone and said with a smile, "Got it?" ”

The soldiers probably saw the hope of survival, or drew strength from Han Dang's confident smile, and they suddenly roared in unison, "Understood." ”

Everyone immediately tied the war horses together on the river embankment according to Han Dang's request, forming a solid fortress. Due to Han Dang's detailed explanation, the soldiers knew the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and the enemy, so they were all full of confidence, and they were all full of energy.

Han Dang then said to Huan Xuan: "As long as we hold until tomorrow, we will win." ”

"Why?"

"Tomorrow their troops will march from Changyugou and officially launch a military operation against Lulongsai. It doesn't matter to us anymore! If they haven't killed us tomorrow, they'll withdraw and follow the army together. ”

"How can you be so sure they're going to attack tomorrow?"

"Intuition." Han Dang said lightly.

Huan Xuan was anxious when he heard this: "You guessed blindly? ”

Han Dang couldn't help but laugh when he saw his anxious look: "Of course I have to analyze all kinds of situations." ”

At this moment, the sound of the enemy's horn sounded clearly in the ears of the two men—the enemy had finally caught up.

The iron cavalry of the Wuhuan people suddenly stopped a hundred paces away, and their centurion could also see that the defensive formation set up by these Han people with their backs to the Luan River could not be charged with iron horses at all. But let them give up the superiority of cavalry and go to hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, they could not accept it in their hearts. Moreover, the losses of his own soldiers must have been very large before approaching that strange formation, which was a slope nearly fifty paces away.

The Wuhuan hesitated on the grass a hundred paces away, and the soldiers in the horseshoe formation slowly recovered from their initial tension, and the soldiers began to exchange heads.

Han Dang sat on the river embankment and observed the other party's movements from under the horse's belly.

The Wuhuan people began to regroup, and in a moment they began to advance steadily with the sound of bull horns.

Han Dang shouted: "Brothers, the Wuhuan people are going to attack!" Prepare your bow and arrows! Remember that two people work in groups and one group is responsible for one person! Never let them break through the horseshoe. ”

The soldiers were busy for a while, and then they each found their own shooting positions.

The Wuhuan people advanced very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, there were only eighty steps.

Huan Xuan urged: "Shoot arrows!" ”

Han Dang shook his head: "We have fewer weapons, we have to use them sparingly!" Wait for them to get a little closer. ”

The Wuhuan people have begun to shoot long arrows.

Huan Xuan shouted anxiously: "If we don't fight back, we will be shot into hedgehogs." ”

Han Dang shook his head resolutely, "Everyone be careful! If you can't, hide under the horse's belly! Hurry, hurry. ”

After saying that, he drilled through first.

The soldiers moved faster than rabbits, and in the blink of an eye they were under the belly of the horse.

Long arrows roared out, and the amazing strange scream came in an instant. I only heard a puff puff... The sound of arrows burrowing into the horses continued. The neighing of the horses continued to sound, and they became restless, and some struggled to escape, but the reins of the horses were tied together and the soldiers were tightly pulled, and they could not run away, and the grass of the riverbank was immediately filled with the arrows of the enemy.

The Wuhuan people then went out of the second round. Due to the close proximity of the two sides, the power of this round was greatly reduced, and many arrows were fired into the river.

Han Dang was the first to cheer: "It's our turn!" Men and horses were shot down. ”

Twenty-nine men stood in different corners and drew their bows and arrows.

The Wuhuan people tried their best to get closer to the enemy's horse formation through the slope earlier, so that the opponent's long arrows also lost the effective shooting distance. The Wuhuan people also wanted to shoot, but even if they shot out in the face of the tall war horses, the arrows were just nailed to the war horses. One hundred and fifty people can't deal with such a handful of people? No one thinks it can't.

In everyone's anticipation, Han Dang finally shouted: "Shoot ......"

At a distance of forty or fifty paces, the long arrow hit it in the blink of an eye. The Wuhuan cavalry was unstoppable, and immediately fell from their horses. A few horses were also shot, and the horses galloped forward in pain, and then they were shot by more arrows and fell, and the cavalry on the horses naturally became live targets.

More Wuhuan cavalry roared, kicked their horses fiercely, and continued to rush up the slope.

Han Dang shot his tenth arrow, and he saw that the Wuhuan soldier who was hit by the arrow was only ten zhang away from him, and the beard on the soldier's face was much less than that of ordinary people, and it was estimated that he was a young man. He grabbed the arrow that pierced his chest in one hand, and swung it in the air in despair with the other, as if he were about to grasp a life-saving straw. His body stretched out on the back of the galloping horse, and then he rose into the air and fell to the ground.

"The war horse in the inner circle is lying down......," Han Dang turned around and ordered loudly.

Several soldiers standing next to the horse hurriedly grabbed the reins of the horse and patted the horse's back desperately, and the war horse fell down obediently. The enemy will soon be approaching, and if the space under the horse is not blocked, the chances of the enemy surprise attack will be greatly increased.

Han Dang saw his own soldiers who had died in battle, and the three of them were lying in the open space in the middle with several arrows in their bodies. Although there were war horses as cover, there were still brothers who died.

After losing more than thirty soldiers, the Wuhuan cavalry finally rushed to the outskirts of the horseshoe formation.