Chapter 353: This Is the Great Qin Cavalry? (2nd Update)
Mao Dun's thoughts, that was really quite beautiful, but the reality soon after, made him a little unaware of what was going on for a while.
Because this battle took place at night, Mao Dun didn't care much at the beginning, but determined that for the time being, only two teams of cavalry with tens of thousands of people in two directions each attacked his team, so Mao Dun naturally liked to divide his troops to resist in a hurry, in his mind, even if Daqin could have a cavalry close to 100,000 coming, he was not afraid, because his cavalry, one cavalry capable of killing Daqin. It didn't take dawn for these tens of thousands of Great Qin cavalry to be solved.
But he didn't wait for dawn at all, and less than an hour later, Mao Dun, who was commanding the cavalry under his command to move forward in waves, got a message from the generals under his command, saying that the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry on both sides far exceeded that of the Huns, and if this continued, the Huns would lose at least 20,000 to 30,000 troops to eliminate the 10,000 Great Qin cavalry.
"Oh? Why are the Great Qin cavalry suddenly so powerful? ”
Mao Dun still knew a little about the ability of the Great Qin cavalry, and he even knew that the reason why the Huns never seemed to have won in the battle with Great Qin before was because of Meng Tian.
And now, Meng Tian is definitely not here, Mao Dun doesn't believe that there can be more powerful than Meng Tian in the territory of Daqin, and he knows more about the generals of the Huns, even if there is, this is an encounter between the two sides of the people, it really depends on the strength of the soldiers, in this case, why can't the warriors of the Huns compare to the soldiers of Daqin? This made Mao Dun a little out of idea for a while.
"Shan Yu, the armor and weapons of those Great Qin soldiers are all different from those led by Meng Tian before, and their weapons seem to be able to restrain my Huns......
Since this general could find that Daqin's cavalry seemed to be able to restrain the Huns' cavalry, he naturally tried it himself, and only came to inform Mao Dun after discovering some problems.
"Weapon ......"
As soon as Mao Dun heard this, a chill suddenly rose in his heart, from Xiang Yu's mouth, he already knew that the current emperor of Daqin, Gongzi, was very smart, and he was a wise person, and this time he came to attack Daqin, although he didn't know what kind of role Xiang Yu played in this, but it was a sure thing to fall into the strategy of Daqin.
So, Mao Dun began to think backwards here, and he suddenly thought that if he was Gongzi Gao, he would not be able to engage in this kind of ambush here if he did not have the certainty of victory, or if he did not find a way to restrain the Hun cavalry, he would not engage in this kind of ambush here, but would put most of his troops around Xianyang to resist the possible attack of the Huns.
"It seems to be very bad, come with me and watch it......"
Although Mao Dun had a bad feeling in his heart, he was not a person who cowered, he knew that even if he died this time, he would have to die to understand, and the cavalry of Daqin suddenly changed from a single soldier combat ability to a cavalryman who could kill at least two of his own cavalry, such an anger, Mao Dun had never been subjected to it.
Soon, under the protection of several generals, Mao Dun came to the front of the battle, and the Huns' cavalry was indeed the same as he imagined before, one by one, they were all fearless to impact the Qin soldiers who poured out from in front of him, but soon Mao Dun found that something was wrong.
Originally, the Huns and the Qin soldiers compared, the biggest advantage is the horsemanship, if a cavalry of the Great Qin and the Huns fought with the cavalry, almost a round will let the Hun cavalry to the horse, this off the horse, half a life is almost gone, basically make up for a knife, even if it is a harvest.
But tonight's battle, but this is not the case at all, Mao Dun observed for a while and found that the Qin soldier's butt seemed to be firmly fixed on the horse's back, and a Qin soldier could be kicked off the horse with one foot before, but now with a foot, people almost didn't even lose their balance, and often took advantage of the Hun cavalry's stunned kung fu to look back on a knife......
Mao Dun found that the wrong place is not only these, the weapons carried by the original Daqin cavalry, which are basically long weapons such as spears, although these weapons are long, but they can only be assassinated, and rarely able to slash, the Huns are different, the Huns are equipped with short spears and long knives, with the combination of the two, they are much sharper than Daqin's weapons, as long as a Daqin's cavalry does not stab the enemy at once, then their lives are enough to choke.
But now, Mao Dun found that almost none of these Great Qin cavalry used that kind of spear, and all of them had a black long sword in their hands, but although this long sword looked a little bulky, but in the hands of these Great Qin Qin soldiers, it was really quite useful, and at this time, it was compared to the Hun weapons that did not dominate in length. You can't reach people with a knife, if you really try to get close to people, they will cut them down directly with a sword, and it will be the life of a Hun cavalryman.
After looking at it for a long time, Mao Dun also found that the changes of the Great Qin cavalry are not only these, whenever there are Hun cavalry and the Great Qin cavalry are inseparable, there will always be some Great Qin cavalry who have been cruising around the periphery to pick up a short Qin crossbow from their own horses, and directly result in the chest cavalry who is fighting with their partners, they don't need to open their bows and arrows at all, they can shoot when they pick them up, and they will die if they are hit by the arrow.
It doesn't matter if you look at this, after reading it, Mao Dun only felt that all his qi and blood were going towards his head for a while, he never thought that he didn't know when Daqin's cavalry would become like this, if he gave such equipment to Meng Tian, Mao Dun doubted whether Meng Tian would try to destroy himself.
His eyes glanced in front of him again, and Mao Dun finally felt that this time he might have come to the wrong place, his idea was too good, and he completely underestimated Daqin's progress, and the current Daqin was no longer the Daqin he knew from his father's generation.
Mao Dun knew that it was time for him to retreat, and if he continued to interrupt, he could only lose all the strength that the Huns had hidden for almost decades at once.
"Herald...... Hey? Hurry up and carry the corpses of the Great Qin cavalry along with the war horses! ”
Mao Dun, who was about to order a retreat, suddenly flashed a glimmer of light in his eyes when he lowered his head, he found something, something he had never seen before, but this thing appeared in a very critical position, that is, the feet of the cavalry, and his intuition told him that the trick of the Great Qin cavalry to become very strong may be here.
Although the generals under Mao Dun almost didn't know what they were going to do, they naturally had to listen to Mao Dun's orders, so without saying a word, several people all followed the corpse of a Qin soldier who was relatively close to them.
Soon, even the people and horses were brought to Maudun's body, in fact, in such a cavalry and cavalry battle, people are quite easy to die, but the war horses are not too easy to die, these war horses, was shot to death by a Hun with a bow and crossbow, it is just right, it fell into the eyes of Maudun.
"What's that, get it quickly!"
Maudun's eyes were directly fixed on the dead war horse, and at a glance he found the stirrups still hanging on both sides of the war horse.
Soon, this pair of stirrups arrived in front of Mao Dun, he carefully looked at the structure of the stirrups, and then looked at the posture of the Great Qin cavalry on horses in the distance, and suddenly, he knew the secret that the Great Qin Qin soldiers could have such a great improvement in combat effectiveness in such a short period of time.
"Give up this battle and evacuate quickly!"
After putting the stirrup on his war horse, Mao Dun gritted his teeth and gave such an order, he knew that there was no point in going on this battle, if he lost more than 100,000 cavalry here, even if he could wipe out all the Great Qin soldiers who were ambushed here, he would not be able to support them to take down the Xianyang City of Great Qin.
If Mao Dun's heart was still full of frustration just now, when he got this pair of stirrups in his hand, the gloom in his heart was swept away.
Obviously, this is a terrible secret, if it weren't for the fact that a war horse died not far in front of him, he estimated that such a secret would not know how long it would take to be discovered, with such a secret, he believed that when he came to the territory of Daqin again, this level of cavalry would definitely no longer be the opponent of the sergeants under his command.
After Mao Dun ordered the evacuation, these Hun cavalry immediately retreated like a tide, indeed, they fought quite aggrieved in this battle, before the riding skills compared to them is simply a heaven and an underground Qin cavalry, this time I don't know what is going on, all of them have become masters of horsemanship, plus their weapons have been suppressed by the weapons of the Great Qin cavalry, these Hun cavalry have long been tired of fighting, when they heard that Shan Yu actually ordered to retreat, that one heart is happy.
"General, the Huns have retreated!"
Han Xin was watching the cavalry he trained kill the Huns on their backs, that is, in more than two hours, they had almost caused a loss of 20,000 or 30,000 to the Hun cavalry, and his own casualties were not even 10,000.
Of course, there are also many reasons such as topography, but the result is such a result, Han Xin originally imagined that when Meng Tian arrived here in a few hours, it was estimated that he would have killed seventy or eighty thousand Hun troops.
But suddenly, the Huns retreated like this, which was a bit unexpected for Han Xin.
"What, retreated? Didn't the Huns refuse to admit defeat? Why is it that this is only attacking my Great Qin's territory and is about to retreat in just two or three hours! ”
Soon, Sima Xin also came to Han Xin's body out of breath, his body was almost covered with blood, but there didn't seem to be that bit of his own. As soon as he saw Han Xin's face, Sima Xin had a question, that is, the Huns had begun to retreat rhythmically, whether to chase or not.
And Sima Xin's experience in front of him is real, he has already laid out all the roads for Han Xin, if he doesn't chase it, in the end, the Huns will retreat and the estimated loss will be more than 50,000, which can be regarded as a big victory for Daqin.
But if you chase it, once the Huns run out of the Great Wall, it is really a large open space, if you chase and kill the Huns on it, the difficulty is really a bit big, in case people turn over and kill back, it is estimated that it will be a lose-lose.
Han Xin frowned when he heard this, obviously, such a change was contrary to the previous fighting style of the Xiongnu, and it was an unplanned change, and now at this moment, it was impossible for him to send someone to Xianyang to ask the emperor what to do about this matter, he could only make his own decisions, and then be responsible for his own decisions to the end, and in this case, if he did not move, it was obviously the safest way.
But after being silent for a moment, Han Xin gritted his front teeth tightly, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "The whole army attacked, and pursued the Huns with all their might!" ”
"This ...... The strength of our army is not as good as that of the Huns! Although Sima Xin was also very bold, he couldn't help but remind Han Xin at this moment.
"General Meng Tian should be on the territory of the Xiongnu, once these Huns meet General Meng Tian in the process of retreating, General Meng Tian is in danger, just rush at General Meng Tian, we also need to chase out!"
As soon as Sima Xin saw that Han Xin's words were released, don't say anything in his heart, just throw off his arms and do it! So when an order came to the front of the battle, the cavalry of Daqin followed closely and began to cover up the Hun cavalry that retreated so quickly.
According to Mao Dun's original idea, Daqin's cavalry was not stupid, and if they retreated, it was a situation that the Qin people were very happy to see, and according to common sense, they would definitely not chase after them.
But as the Qin soldiers were chasing and firing Qin crossbows in the back, Mao Dun knew that he seemed to be unable to avoid this battle.
Although he didn't know why this team of Qin soldiers kept chasing him, he didn't turn around and fight with these people again, it wasn't that he didn't want to fight, but he knew that this was not the place yet, he wanted to return to his own home field, where he believed that even if he didn't have the thing he picked up from the ground just now, the Hun cavalry under his command could completely wipe out these tens of thousands of Qin people.