At the same time, Lu Gao and Sikong Nan led part of the detour from the east and west sides, and the barbarian army phalanx immediately turned to the defense, and the 10,000 strong archers were divided into two in the east and west, aiming at the two battalions of Longwu and Baotao who rushed to kill in a roundabout.

When they approached half a mile, a salvo of arrows was fired. The arrow crossed the sky and crossed an arc, quickly falling to the ground to cover the path that the two camps of Longwu and Leopard Tao must pass.

But unexpectedly, the arrow stabbed the horse armor to no effect, and the chain mail that stabbed the Xian army was also unscathed, only a few sporadic people were pierced in the thighs and injured and fell, causing insignificant losses.

Projectile is different from direct shooting, when the arrow is in the parabolic downward segment, the power of the arrow given by the bowstring disappears under the action of gravity, leaving only the inertia of the arrow itself, which continues to fly and fall under the action of gravity, and its power is far less effective than that of straight line shooting.

The power of the barbarian army's strong bow at close range is equivalent to the ordinary individual crossbow commonly equipped in the Central Plains, and the steel chain mail equipped by the Xian army has a certain armor-piercing effect at close range, and if you do not wear a secondary armor, the probability of penetrating the chain mail is extremely high. Nowadays, the power of throwing arrows from long distances has been greatly reduced.

By the time the barbarian army prepared the second wave of salvos, it was too late, and the two battalions of Longwu and Baotao were already approaching thirty paces away.

Without waiting for the barbarian cavalry to react, there were countless horses with arrows. Then do not entangle, after a burst of arrows, the two battalions of Longwu and Leopard Tao continue to release arrows clockwise, around the barbarian army's infantry policy. The barbarian light cavalry pursued and killed behind, the salty army fought and retreated, and killed it with cold arrows while retreating, the two armies fought in a melee You have me, I have you, and the barbarian archers have lost their role.

At this time, the two battalions of Su Hong and Bai He were driving tens of thousands of light and heavy war horses, coming from the east and west wings, and their momentum was mighty and overwhelming, and thousands of horses galloped like a flood and a beast swept across the sky. The barbarian army was so frightened that they fired two random bursts of arrows, and quickly moved the spearmen at the head of the platoon to the two flanks.

In an instant, 10,000 horses are surging, its momentum is difficult to parry, the spearmen in the front row have not yet been in place, and the next moment they will encounter the ruthless collision of the heavily armored war horses, like a bowling ball that is completely upside down, under the trampling and kicking of the horses' hooves, and repeatedly crushing and colliding, they fall in pieces, and the front row of war horses also suffered heavy casualties, not to mention the loss of thousands of the best war horses.

A wave of collision, the offensive suddenly slowed down, Su Hong and Bai He once again drove the horses back two hundred steps, and then repeatedly chose the gap to staggered the collision, sparing the lives of the horses at all.

At this time, Baili Yan rode on a horse and watched the battle, only to see that the barbarian archers were still counterattacking, although the position was messy, the position was still stable. The barbarian archers were also well-equipped, with little armor compared to the crossbowmen of the vassal states, who wore hard armor with fur and a long sword for self-defense.

Regardless of their own casualties, they fought with their bows and shot the heavily armored horses that rushed towards them, but they were powerless to resist the collision of tens of thousands of horses, and died like ants trampled by iron hooves.

"These barbarian troops have been training for a long time to plot against the hinterland of our Central Plains, and under such a rush, they can still resist without collapsing, and their will to fight is so firm, how tenacious."

Bai Liyan sighed, and couldn't help but worry about the upcoming fierce battle. When Lu Cheng heard the news, he asked puzzledly:

"Why does the general overestimate the combat strength of the barbarian army so much?"

"You joined our army in the Battle of Guangxin."

"Exactly, in order to redeem Yunzhi, the general who surrendered."

"Then you don't know the details of the battle of Shaoping. In the battle of Shaoping, the general also used tens of thousands of war horses as a formation to rush and kill the spear formation of the Black Turban Thief Army, so as to severely damage thousands of Black Turban rebel troops, causing them to collapse.

Now the barbarian archers are still in a weak position, our army has tried its best, it can still stabilize its position, with flesh and blood to block the collision of our army's war horses, its will to fight firmly, the training method is strict, throughout the Central Plains countries, only the elite of the Xian army and the Zhi army can compete with one of them.

The stubborn enemy in front of me today is just an ordinary war brigade of the barbarian army, and under my clever calculations, it is still so tenacious and fierce. Thinking of the previous attack of 50,000 light and heavy cavalry of the barbarian army, if it were not for our army's strategy, equipped with a continuous archer crossbow to deal with it, I am afraid it would be really difficult to win. When you think about it, it's embarrassing. ”

Lu Cheng was silent, and Bai Liyan undoubtedly pointed out the disparity in the hard power of the coalition forces and the weakness of their equipment. When the strength is not hard, no matter how ingenious the strategy is, there is no strong execution, and the people can only waste their lives to pile up victory, and the current embarrassing situation is obviously a true portrayal of the coalition army.

The battle lasted until dusk, and the barbarian army was also fleshy after all, unable to withstand the rush of horses and the rush of cavalry, and after suffering thousands of casualties, it quickly retreated to the north, and a spear formation of about 5,000 men left the earthen village and approached the south half an hour ago, trying to meet the defeated barbarian army.

Su Hong and Bai He continued to drive the horses to chase after them, until they encountered a 5,000-spear formation of the barbarian army, and then they withdrew their troops. At this time, the armies of Lu Gao and Sikong Nan had forced the barbarian light cavalry to retreat, and the battle had reached this point, and the Xian army had won a complete victory, but it was a very fluke victory.

"Su Hong, how many empty horses are left?"

"There are more than 7,000 people standing, not to mention the loss of more than 5,000 excellent war horses, compared to Shao Ping's battle, we really lost too much today!"

Su Hong said with regret, Bai Liyan disagreed:

"A dead horse is always better than a dead brother, there can be another horse if it's gone, the brothers are gone, where are you going to get it!"

"The general taught me a lesson."

"Go, take advantage of the fact that it is still dark, and bring back the dead and wounded brothers. Let Bai He collect the weapons and bows and arrows of the barbarians, beware of the barbarians who are not dead, don't plant them! ”

"Then you can't cut your ears?"

"Don't cut it for the time being, give priority to the wounded and weapons, and wait until tomorrow it's frozen to cut again."

Cutting off the ears is the evidence and basis for confirming the results of the war and recording the exploits of the war, which is more convenient than the head, and the disadvantage is that the ears can also be had by others, and the head with the hair bun of various countries is indeed the only evidence, so the vassal states of the Central Plains record the war exploits by cutting off the head.

In the south, the left ear is cut as evidence, especially Jin Xuedi's ear, which is golden skin, and the auricle is thicker than that of the Central Plains, with a layer of fine white hair, which is easy to identify and not easy to kill, so the left ear shall prevail.

As for why it is not the right ear, because at present, the Central Plains symbolizes the right to the powerful, and the left symbolizes the poor. The right position is often held by powerful people and cronies, and the left and right positions are held by ordinary people and ordinary promoted military attachés, so the left ear is subject to cutting off the left ear, and there is a hidden contempt for Jin Xuedi.

At the end of the night, the battalions returned to the camp one after another, and Sikong Nan was shot in the leg, grazing the artery and almost dying.

"The wound has been stitched up for you, you need to rest and recuperate, so don't move for the time being."

"Thank you, General."

"Nothing thanks, it's better to be alive than anything else. Remember to wrap it tightly in sheepskin at night to avoid frostbite. ”

Put away the suture needle, touch the alcohol and hemostatic powder, and finally put a bandage, and the bleeding stopped. Compared to Sikong Nan, others are not so lucky.

In the first battle in the afternoon, the Xian army lost more than 400 men, and more than 100 were killed. The casualties of the barbarian army were estimated to be five or six thousand, probably more than that, and the war horses also sacrificed four or five thousand horses heroically, almost one life for one life, and if it was killed by men, the casualties might be even greater.

After nightfall, the camp reinforces the spurs on the east and west sides of the camp, and at the same time erects the spurs on the south side with spears, lances, swords, and arrows captured in the afternoon, plugs the gap with horses, and adds tripwires around the camp. The barbarian army suffered a big loss in the afternoon, and the night attack at night was bound to open the way for the dinosaur again, and the cavalry was behind, and the infantry army was coordinated, so it was extremely necessary to strengthen the defense.

"The barbarian army has suffered a big loss today, and most of them are going to attack the camp at night, and all the battalions are on guard, and they are all crowded to sleep together, so as not to be left alone. Lu Cheng, immediately take back all the scouts, and don't have to keep an eye on them tonight. ”

"General, the barbarian cavalry camp is only a few dozen miles away from our army's camp, what should I do if the enemy in front of me reports to the barbarian cavalry."

"Let them report that the reinforcements from the direction of Mingzhou have not arrived today, and tomorrow, at most, the day after tomorrow, they should appear. If the barbarians knew that our army was nailed to this place, there were only two possibilities. First, they may have misjudged that the plan was already known to our army, and second, our army was the remnants of Pingshuangshan. In the first case, they would most likely retreat to Xiaochi City to join their main forces, and then seek a decisive battle.

If it is the second case, they will suffer a big loss, and they will definitely guess that our army ambushed them three times in Pingshuangshan, and they are bound to retaliate.

In terms of time, from Tusai to the barbarian cavalry camp, a round trip has to be a small hundred miles, their horses do not have the endurance of our horses, how can it be the second half of the night when they receive the news, stay until the enemy camp to clarify the relationship, make a decision to send troops to attack, how can it be dawn. Therefore, tomorrow morning and dusk, our army will immediately go north. ”

"What will happen to the brutes of Tusai?" Lu Gao said.

"Let's not let them out." Bai Liyan said with full certainty.

"This can't be, can the barbarian army listen to us?" Lu Gao was skeptical.

"Of course not, but if they come to attack the camp tonight and return defeated, we will be crushed behind, and they will know whether we will chase or flee."

"This one too. We feigned pursuit, but in fact we fled, and they thought that our reinforcements had bypassed from the south, routed them, and prepared to attack Tusai. As a result, their rout fled back, and Tusai did not dare to open the door. ”

"It is precisely this reason, so tonight the battalions are full of food and drink and seize the time to rest, and there should be something to do in the second half of the night."

The situation at night is complicated, once there is a rout, the enemy soldiers are chasing and killing behind, the situation is unclear, the defending side resolutely does not dare to open the door easily, the Xian army retreats north at this time, it is undoubtedly the safest.