Chapter 172: The Northern Route Army retreats
At this time, due to the different speeds of each Shiwu, the spears fired could not form a neat row, but with the efforts of the crossbowmen, huge spears, one after another, flew out of the wall one after another, and quickly burrowed into the thick wall of flesh and blood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hurry back, hurry back!"
Almost all the Southern Xiongnu rebel kings, and Qu, Danghu, and Du Wei kept issuing the same order in different languages.
The Han people are really hateful, and there are too many strange-shaped weapons. For the perverted weapon of the crossbow, this is the first time that the Southern Huns have seen it, and more than 1,000 soldiers died as soon as they met. The bloody body of the brave body, under this blow, is almost completely useless. However, the killing of the crossbow did not stop, and the suffering was far from over.
It is not easy to adjust a large army, even during ordinary hunting, it takes a lot of time to change the formation of tens of thousands of troops. What's more, under the attack of the enemy, the soldiers and horses are in chaos, especially the soldiers on the inside desperately trying to escape from the battlefield of unilateral killing.
But there were people outside who were in the way, and they couldn't run away at all, and under the instinct of survival, they desperately squeezed out, making the whole team a mess. Moreover, the prestige of the commander of the Southern Xiongnu rebels, the Marquis of Subu Gudu, was not high, and the cooperation between the various departments was not close.
Han Yi and the other generals looked at the crossbow that appeared for the first time on the northern battlefield, and its huge power and lethality surprised the generals. Yu Fuluo, who was on the side, saw the unilateral massacre in front of him, and he was also shocked and trembled, and almost didn't kneel.
However, after all, the Southern Huns had cultivated outstanding military qualities in their long-term safari life, and after adjustments, all of them escaped out of the range of the crossbows. When everyone reined in the equally frightened horses and watched the battlefield, they only found that from the distance of two hundred steps, the outer edge stretched to a distance of three hundred steps, covered with a layer of corpses, and a ring of corpses surrounded Han Yi's camp, separating the two armies and dividing the boundary between life and death.
In the second encounter, the Southern Huns rebels were killed and wounded more than 5,000 people, in fact, less than 2,000 people were really killed by crossbow arrows, and the others were tripped up, squeezed, trampled to death and injured by horses.
Before the Southern Xiongnu fought with Han Yi's army, they all felt a little strange that Han Yi had entered the desert with thousands of horsemen and killed tens of thousands of Xianbei people in the east. Han Yi also felt puzzled by the defeat of 100,000 white wave thieves with more than 10,000 people. At this time, when he was really at war with Han Yi, let him discover Han Yi's awesomeness.
However, this is only the strength of the armament, plus the initial battle with 2,000 cavalry to beat the vanguard of 5,000 cavalry, the Southern Xiongnu rebels only in a short period of time, nearly 8,000 people were killed and wounded. The adults of the various departments looked at each other, and their faces were all pale.
The one with the most casualties just now was basically the elite troops of the Xiongnu rebels on the North Road and the South Road, and they were also the brave men who were ready to take the lead in the charge. Now that the daredevils are basically all killed, is there any need to fight this battle again? If the battle continues, who will be in the head?
Hou Shan Yu, the Bone Prince, asked, "This Shan Yu has carefully observed just now, and Han Yijun's strong crossbow is only so many, and it takes a long time to re-launch. Our army has a large number of soldiers, and as long as they can rush to the front of them desperately, they can trample their barracks to the ground without effort. I wonder if any of you would like to be the vanguard of the army again? ”
The Marquis of the Sulbu Bone Shan Yu turned his head to look at the leaders of the tribes, and everyone turned their heads to one side. The Marquis of the Beard Bone couldn't help but sigh, and if he was a pioneer again, he would definitely suffer heavy casualties. The daredevils are dead, and the rest are cowardly, so no one wants to be the vanguard.
"Our army has tens of thousands of tigers and wolves here, and we can implement a three-sided siege strategy, so that the Han army can ignore the east and west, as long as our army has a little breakthrough, Han Yi will collapse completely. Of course, the tribe that invades first must have suffered the greatest casualties, but also has the most battle exploits, and the reward must of course be the greatest. Chiefs, do you think this will work? The warrior who broke through the Han army camp first received one-tenth of the booty, and the tribe that broke through the enemy camp first received half of the booty? ”
The leaders were still silent, not to mention how much material the Han army battalion had, but the strength of the Han army had always been well known to the Southern Huns. Although the Xiongnu in the south rebelled, they did not dare to kill the Han people on a large scale. just killed Qiangqu Shan Yu, who was too obedient to the orders of the Han Court, and killed Xing Ji, the former Xihe Taishou who forced him too much.
Even if this Han army is defeated today, so what? There will be more Han reinforcements coming, the Northern Huns are nowhere to be found, and the Southern Huns do not want to repeat the mistakes of the Northern Huns.
After rebelling for more than half a year, the Southern Huns also let the Han Court know their own attitude, if the Han Court wanted the Southern Huns to continue to defend the border for the Han Dynasty and fight against the Xianbei people in the northern desert, they would not dare to force too much as before.
The Marquis of the Sulbu Bone watched coldly, not knowing what they were thinking and planning. There are not many soldiers and horses in the headquarters of Hou Shan Yu, otherwise he would not have been elected as Shan Yu. In the battle just now, the headquarters of Hou Shan Yu, the capital of the Xubu bone, suffered heavy casualties, and now he is afraid that there are less than 3,000 horsemen. If you want to force others to fight, you don't have the strength.
Because if you can't fight, the leaders of the tribes can also turn around and surrender to Fuluo, and if Yu Fuluo wants to stabilize the Shan Yu of the Southern Huns, he must not count the rebellion of the people. After all, rebellion is not the act of a few, but of almost the entire people.
The Marquis of Subu Gudu thought that he would not be forgiven by Yu Fuluo, and he knew that the leaders of the tribes would definitely use their own heads to flatter Yu Fuluo. It seemed that it was time to plan for himself, so he said: "Retreat five miles, watch the progress of the mud discharge army on the South Road, and then make plans." ”
"Oh roar, oh roar!"
After the victory in the first battle, the morale of Han Yi's army was greatly boosted, and after the Southern Xiongnu rebels withdrew from the firing range, the crossbowmen also stopped firing. Seeing the brilliant results, everyone excitedly climbed onto the ballista and stood on the huge crossbow arm and yelled at the enemy.
The soldiers standing on the wall were the same, with the help of their partners, they climbed up the wall, stood on it and peed in front of the Southern Huns, screaming, and venting their excitement to the fullest. The mood of victory also affected 10,000 people, and they also shouted and shouted together.
In recent years, the decline of the strength of the Han family has made them, the people of the border fortress, suffer enough of all kinds of Hulu, and many relatives, friends and companions have died under the sword of Hulu, or have been plundered to the desert and become slaves of Hulu. The reason why the number of people in Bingzhou has always been less than one million, and now it is only 600,000 or 700,000, is it not because of Hu Lu?
Although the Southern Xiongnu were relatively peaceful, the rebellion from the end of last year to this year also caused great persecution to the people of Bingzhou. It must be known that when the Southern Xiongnu first joined the Han Dynasty, there were less than 50,000 people. With the continuous support of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, the Southern Xiongnu grew to nearly 300,000 people.
As the people who live together in Yanmen and Dingxiang two counties in Bingzhou, they hate the ruthless and unrighteous rebellion of the Southern Huns even more, even more than the Xianbei people who have been committing crimes. This time, seeing that they were killed without any power to fight back, and suffered heavy casualties, they were very relieved.
Han Yi, Cheng Qi, Che Jing and other generals on the watchtower were also very happy and high-fived each other to celebrate. If it weren't for the lack of clarity about the power of the crossbow, when the rebels retreated from the crossbow's blow, the whole army went out of the camp to pursue them, and the rebels had already been completely defeated at this time.
When Han Yi looked at the miserable and slow retreat of the rebels on the North Road, he ordered the cavalry generals to lead more than 2,000 blood hateful troops, and ordered Zhang Yang and Zhang Liao to lead 2,000 Xianbei mercenaries to fight. Until it is completely withdrawn from the battlefield.
When Han Yi and his army were excitedly celebrating, Yu Fuluo next to him didn't say a word. He was in a very conflicted mood, although he had not had close contact with the spear just now, but he was also shocked by the great power of the crossbow.
As a Shan Yu of the Southern Xiongnu, his mood is extremely complicated. Not only was he glad that the powerful Han army had come to quell the rebellion because of himself, but he was also extremely angry that the Han army had slaughtered his own people, and there was a strong desire to destroy it as soon as possible.
What Yu Fuluo hated was only the mud that killed his father Qiangqu, and a few other people who dared to call themselves Shan Yu, as long as they killed these people who presided over the rebellion, the rest of the people were still good.
Now that Han Yi's army is slaughtering all the warriors of his own future tribes, that feeling can not be felt by others at all except for himself who is Shan Yu. When Yu Fuluo looked at Han Yi's eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful. At this time, Han Yi turned his eyes to the battlefield on the South Road.
The two armies of the South Road had just started the battle, and they saw that the South Hun rebels attacked the left flank of the Han army from the east with 15,000 cavalry, because it was condescending and easy to charge. Attack the right flank of the Han army with 10,000 cavalry 10,000, because it is close to the Yellow River waterway, it is somewhat inconvenient to attack, as long as the Han army is delayed. In the end, with 25,000 cavalry, he fought with the 10,000 Southern Huns led by Huchuquan and Qubei, and the 3,000 Xianbei mercenaries led by Lu Bu and other generals.
The purpose of the mud discharge is very clear, that is, to break the central forward cavalry army of the Han army, which is inconvenient to defend, with twice the heavy troops, and finally encircle the two wings of the Han army with the two wings and swallow all the Han army.
"Woo, woo, woo!"
The long and poignant horn of the bull horn continued to sound on the positions of the South Hun rebels on the South Road, echoing in all corners of the battlefield. With a deafening shout, the first wave of charging rebel knights, leaning over their horses, began to attack, wave after wave.
The rebels began to rush bravely in the posture of steppe warriors, and they used their weapons to beat their beloved partners desperately. War horses also seem to know what time and speed mean on the battlefield, and they bite their horses tightly, keep their heads down, pant heavily, and run hard, and many horses even use too much force, and their lungs crack open and die.
The roar of death sounded, and the first wave of warriors was the first to be hit by the Han army's one-armed crossbow, and many people instantly returned to the earth with their beloved war horses. However, the one-armed crossbows of this Han army were limited after all, less than 2,000, and it was particularly difficult to rewind and load the arrows. As long as it gets closer, the one-armed crossbow is useless. Although people and horses kept tipping over the dust, more riders stepped over their bodies and continued to move forward, approaching as fast as they could.