Chapter 173: A Great Victory over the Huns
When the rebel Hulu entered a hundred steps, the sound of Han bows also began to sound, but the two-stone strong bow that could shoot a hundred steps, while the Changshan army only had a thousand in total, and other one-armed crossbows were mixed and deployed, only two hundred in each direction, and it could not completely block the overwhelming offensive of the Southern Xiongnu rebel Hulu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Despite the continuous casualties, the rebel Hulu still quickly crossed the death distance of dozens of paces and entered the distance of more than sixty paces in front of the camp. Just as they were about to perform the nomadic horseman's best horse archery skills, it was here that they suffered the greatest casualties.
The first eighty paces of the camp were interspersed with all kinds of small pits, and the rebel Hu Lu was broken by the pits because of the desperate whipping of his mounts just now, except for a very few riders who were very skilled in riding. The riders immediately fell to the ground, and the immortal became foot soldiers, and many people were thrown into the sky and became the target of the archers of the Changshan army.
The people from behind swarmed and squeezed the people in front into the pit. In addition, after the Changshan army crossed the river, under the six-foot-high and six-foot-thick protective wall that was hastily built, all three thousand one-stone Chang bows could be effectively shot, and the arrows were like a raging storm, shot out in a row, almost forming a line of defense of death here, and countless Southern Hun warriors finished their life paths here, and the corpses were stacked on top of each other, like a hill.
Despite such heavy casualties, everyone was killed. Whether it is the rebel Hu Lu who desperately charges, or the archers who forget their fatigue in the protective wall and keep releasing arrows, and the foot spearmen who are anxiously waiting to show their skills.
War, that's war, merciless killing, endless killing.
The body of the pioneer warrior not only blocked the arrows, but also filled the pit, ruthlessly stepping on the dead or undead body of his partner, and the follow-up rebel Hu Lu could finally shoot the bow and arrow smoothly, without any orders, the warriors who grew up on the grassland did not need extra orders, they all knew that they could finally show their riding and archery skills. Most of these rebel hubs don't have saddle bridles, but they are adept at bending bows and arrows on their horses!
Although the Han army in front of the camp continued to shoot deadly arrows, but the Hu Lu who had entered more than sixty steps were still very calm, and continued to fire arrows at a rapid speed, although many of them had just opened their bows and had been killed by crossbows that had passed through their chests.
But thousands of arrows covered the sky like locusts, whistling from all sides of the wall. The screams came from the camp for the first time, and the first wave of attacks by the riders brought more than 200 casualties to the Changshan army, and if it were not for the thick parapet wall, this number would undoubtedly have multiplied several times.
However, the rebel warriors who had first tasted the results of the battle were very dissatisfied, because the casualties of the Han army were far lower than those of the other army. In their minds, the Han army was a cowardly coward, who only knew how to hide behind thick barriers or Wugang chariots, and used strong bows and crossbows to shoot the warriors on the grassland, but they did not dare to step out of the camp and fight one-on-one with the warriors on the grassland.
Aroused by the shameless cowardice of the Han army, the rebel Hulu simply abandoned their riding bows, lifted their spears, and rushed forward even more frantically and desperately. Although the men and horses continued to fall, they still followed one after another, and most of the pits dug by Changshan Army in a hurry were filled with corpses, and only the soft river beach could slightly block the impact.
The spirit of the Southern Xiongnu rebels who followed one after another and regarded death as their home shocked all the officers and soldiers of the Han army, including Han Yi himself, who watched the battle from the watchtower. He didn't expect that he had always been reluctant to advance and retreat, and he forgot his righteousness for the sake of profit; The Hulu cavalry of the grassland, which swarmed forward when it was defeated and scattered when it retreated, also had such a heroic and fearless fighting spirit.
It seems that the grassland peoples Xianbei and Wuheng, who are similar to the Southern Xiongnu, have dominated the desert grassland and the northern frontier of Weizhen for hundreds of years. With not only excellent war horses, numerous cavalry, and outstanding riding and archery skills, but also a fearless will to fight.
I think that when Mao Dun was alone, and when Mao Dun was the second Tanshi Huai, Hu Lu's cavalry was so invincible. After losing the leadership of these strongmen, the Xianbei and Hun cavalry became brainless beasts, and they only knew how to fight and rush.
Han Yi was very enthusiastic when he saw it, and when he saw the 100,000 Southern Hun cavalry in front of him, he exuded a light of greedy desire. If you have so many horses in your hands, will you achieve a great feat like Maodun?
Although the arrows kept falling overhead, everyone had already entered a state of frenzy. The crossbowmen and archers ignored the arrows above their heads and the threat of the riders in front of them, and fired crossbows and arrows as fast as they could. At this point, there is no need to aim, there are people in front of you, and it is very difficult to miss the shot.
The foot spearmen also strictly adhered to military discipline, with shields on their heads and spears in hand, crouching under the ramparts. Waiting for Hu Qi to cross the barrier, he stepped forward to assassinate him. From time to time, some people were shot to the ground, others never moved. Strong, pay through two or three years of training elite soldiers, the first battle has such fearless willpower. As long as there are several bloody battles, it is definitely a rare elite in the world several times.
At a distance of more than 60 paces, the rebels finally approached the barrier after many casualties. The barrier was already in danger, and the Changshan army was ready for hand-to-hand combat. I saw the first rebel Hu Lu, howling and leaping over the six-foot-high and six-foot-wide barrier, and stabbed the spear in his hand into the chest of a crossbowman in mid-air, and before he could land and kill the other archers, he was immediately stabbed in mid-air by ten Changshan spearmen who rushed forward.
His riding skills are good, and the horses he sits on are also good, and he can jump directly over the barrier, which does not mean that everyone can jump over it. More Hulu dismounted and then struggled to climb over the wall, and some used the power of war horses to hit the low wall and flew over the barrier.
No matter how they crossed the wall, they were all stabbed to death one by one by the spearmen of the Han army. The dwarf barrier suddenly became a slaughtering ground for the bloody battle between the enemy and us, and the bravery and fearlessness of the soldiers on both sides were fully reflected.
However, the Changshan army can give full play to the strength of every soldier, often several people besiege one person, no matter how strong the personal courage of the rebel Hu Lu is, it is often defeated by the shameless siege of several Han soldiers. Moreover, the Southern Huns were not good at foot combat, and once they dismounted, their combat effectiveness would be drastically reduced by half.
The two sides fought frantically around the barrier, but the rebel Hulu on both flanks was not much more than the Changshan army. The small ramparts defended by the cavalry against the foot soldiers, although close at hand, were as brittle as cloth, but it was still difficult to move an inch. It seems that the battle between the two wings will not be able to distinguish the winner or loser until the result of the battle in the center.
However, the battle of nearly 40,000 cavalry soldiers on both sides of the central government is inexplicably incomprehensible. Han Yi found that he had only paid a little attention to the battle of the Changshan army on both flanks, and the battlefield of this cavalry army stretched from the banks of the Weifen River to the south. It's just that the cavalry of the enemy and our armies turned into three teams of men and horses, fighting around the tail of the circle.
The rebel Hu Lu forward pursued the 10,000 cavalry troops of Hu Chuquan and Qubei, while the 3,000 Xianbei mercenaries of Lu Bu, Wen Chou, Gao Ran and other generals pursued the Chinese army of the mud to attack.
Seeing this strange battle, Han Yi didn't know what to do, and wanted to send troops to support, but there were no soldiers to send. The remaining troops also had to guard against a possible uprising by the Southern Huns in the battalion at any time.
Now I have to watch the battle of the cavalry, to see whether Lu Bu and other generals will be the first to break through the Chinese army that leaks mud, or whether the Southern Hun soldiers who are Huchuquan and Qubei will not be the first to break up. I saw that the battle of the Central Cavalry Army was getting farther and farther, and the rebels on both wings were also ready to move, intending to withdraw from the fight with the Changshan Army, and using the convenience of riding to retreat to help the Central Cavalry Army.
Han Yi frowned, and ordered the war drum of the general offensive of the whole army. Although Chang Shanjun was puzzled, there must be a reason why Han Yi, the main general, directly intervened in the battle of the whole army for the first time. Luo Pei, Sun Qing, Zuo Xiao, Li Damu, Zhang Leigong and other Changshan generals did not dare to slack off, suddenly opened the fortress gate, and sent five hundred spearmen to counterattack.
Under the light of the sun, the cold and glistening spearmen surged to assassinate the exhausted rebel Hu Lu in front of him. Hu Lu, who had the intention of retreating, was caught off guard for a while, and was killed on his back. The rebel generals on both flanks did not expect that under the situation of fighting fiercely, the Han people would still have the strength to fight back. For a while, there were doubts about the strength of both the enemy and the enemy.
The Hu Lu on the battlefield was slightly clear, and a team of spearmen, swords and shields surged out like a waterfall. Among the many corpses of the Hulu, they quickly formed a neat phalanx of 100 people, and then combined into a large number of arrays, and the whole army marched towards the Hulu in unison. When all the foot soldiers left the camp, Hu Lu, who was fighting with them, realized that this Han army was different.
This Han army is by no means a cowardly army, they are fierce warriors who dare to face the same number of cavalry and launch a counterattack, and they are the iron-stone Great Wall that countless war horses rush through and cannot break. Almost all waves of cavalry charges could not break through a phalanx of about 1,000 people. After the spearmen of the Han army were killed or wounded, one person behind them immediately stepped forward to fill the gap, and there was an endless stream of soldiers.
Countless Han bows and crossbowmen hid behind spears, swords and shields, and fired deadly arrows at the rebel cavalry. With the cooperation of spears, shields, bows, crossbows and other weapons with different functions, the Changshan army exerted its greatest combat power and killed the enemy with infantry and cavalry.
The rebels finally panicked, and finally, in the midst of the sudden outbreak of the mountain and tsunami in the central cavalry of the two sides, the sound of "the mud has been cut ......down" was heard, and the rebels on both flanks finally collapsed. Countless horsemen scrambled to flee for their lives to the south, as fast as they charged, just as unguardable.
In this battle, the South Xiongnu rebels on the north and south roads suffered a total of more than 19,000 casualties before and after, and Han Yi's army suffered more than 6,000 casualties. Among them, the Southern Xiongnu cavalry in Fuluo lost the most than 3,000 people, the Changshan army was less than 2,000 people, the Xianbei mercenary army was nearly 1,000 people, and the Han Yi headquarters was less than 300 people.
Both sides suffered heavy losses, but after all, Han Yi's army withstood the siege of the rebels with 40,000 regular soldiers, plus 10,000 people, and 50,000 people, which should be regarded as a victory. If it is only based on the casualties of the Han army, this victory is much easier than Han Yi's battle at Daxianbei Mountain.