Chapter 441: The First Battle Was Unfavorable

While Zhao Kuo was facing the Huns, he had not forgotten the Donghu people in the east, the Hu people were all beasts of the grassland, of course, they would not let go of any opportunity to eat, Zhao Kuo gave Zhao Bi a strict order, if the Donghu people had any changes, Zhao Bi had to guard the hometown of Xue Que's headquarters, and could not let the Donghu cavalry enter the current base camp of the Great Shang Dynasty.

In the area of Nitou Mountain, pomegranate arrived here three days ago, quickly built a defensive offensive, to create a simple camp, when Zhao Kuo led the horse infantry to arrive here, there was already a rudimentary form of the fortress, standing on the high ground of the camp and looking into the distance, you can see the endless grassland, and on both sides is the mountains rising from the ground, the terrain is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Pomegranate this time with 12,000 infantry, will be the courage of the soldiers, Pomegranate's style is very tough, make this infantry is also as meticulous as him, standing there neatly like a stake, if it is not for the breeze blowing the red tassels, people who see them will think they are all dead things.

Ten miles before Nitou Mountain, on the endless grassland, nearly 50,000 Hun cavalry gathered into a huge formation, and the green grassland soon turned black and brown, which gave people great psychological pressure.

In front of the Xiongnu array, Shan Yu's son Touman was wearing black armor, holding a weapon that looked like a spear but not a spear, looking at the Nipple Mountain in front, a camp was built on the gentle slope under the Nipple Mountain at this time, the banner of the Great Shang Dynasty was fluttering in the wind, and more than 10,000 infantry at the foot of the mountain were lined up into more than a dozen phalanxes, waiting for the battle.

Touman felt a little funny, the Great Shang Dynasty in front of him seemed to have some brain defects, and he even wanted to use infantry to block the Huns' iron cavalry, it seems that they should know what it means to fight.

Touman shook the golden arrow in his hand and issued the order, and dozens of cavalry behind him left quickly with Touman's password, and the Hun army quickly completed the formation.

The sound of the horn sounded suddenly, the war drums were also beaten, the sound of the drums and horns made the Huns' soldiers burn with blood, and the monstrous war intent spread among the Huns, as if the bloodthirsty beast smelled blood, and it was difficult to suppress the beast nature in his heart.

In order to show off his might, Touman personally went out into battle, took out his strong bow, put on the wolf's tooth arrow and pointed obliquely at the distant position, only to hear a whoosh, the wolf's tooth arrow tore the air, and flew to the station of the Great Shang Dynasty with a sharp whistle, and shot a defensive shield without abating, and the tail of the arrow buzzed, which shows that Touman's strength is very good.

Zhao Kuo also saw this scene, and appreciated the strength of the Hun general, but he didn't come and was rude, Zhao Kuo took out the sun-shooting bow and pointed an arrow at the Huns' main formation, this arrow was much stronger than Touman, and the two Hun cavalry pierced and fell to the ground, and they were suddenly angry.

Touman's eyes were cold, he was very confident in his cavalry and archery, but his confidence was shattered at this moment, the opponent's archery skills and brawn strength were obviously much higher than him, and the act of exaltation became a self-inflicted humiliation, Touman didn't want his army to be demoralized, waved the weapon in his hand, and said: "Which tribe will take the lead first?" ”

Without waiting for anyone to reply, a group of more than 2,000 cavalry separated from the Huns' main formation and rushed like the wind to the enemy position at the foot of Nitou Mountain.

Zhao Kuo sneered, the weapon he took out in this battle was a double hammer, after waving it twice, the infantry position where the pomegranate was located was divided into a wide open space, and behind Zhao Kuo, there was a team of heavy infantry, about five hundred people, the armor he was wearing was very similar to the iron armor that Zhao Kuo was wearing, but it was much lighter, Zhao Kuo waved his hand, this heavy armored infantry seemed to be infused with strength, and rushed out from the gap left by the infantry, and the heavy iron armor smashed the small stones under his feet, and raised wisps of smoke and dust, It's like stepping on the clouds.

Zhao Kuo can't take the lead in every battle, and he is now lacking in skills, but he doesn't want to let go of such an opportunity, especially in the face of the Huns who want to take advantage of the fire to rob, I saw him holding a double hammer, waving it from time to time, and the heavy armored infantry behind him continued to change the formation with his gestures, and when he was in battle, he had formed a phalanx made of steel.

The iron armor worn by the heavy infantry is very expensive, otherwise Zhao Kuo would have given each infantry a set, and the conditions for wearing this set of iron armor are also very harsh, and it is difficult to play the role of iron armor without the strength of bravery.

Standing in front of the fight were the soldiers of the Huns' Rubbing Jie Division, they didn't say they hadn't seen it, they hadn't heard of such armor, it was so tightly wrapped in people, in their opinion, if people wore such heavy armor, where could they fight!

The Huns were not stupid, they immediately put away the weapons they were fighting for, took out the bows and arrows used on the horse, and formed a defensive barrier formed by a rain of arrows in front of them, and dense arrows fell from the air, but unfortunately there was no picture imagined by the Huns.

The infantry of the Great Shang Dynasty wearing iron armor did not move at all, and those arrows were bounced off by the iron armor when they landed on their bodies, except for the occasional arrows that landed on the blindfold to make them close their eyes slightly, they still marched towards the Huns with a firm pace, and they were bound to overwhelm everything.

When the Huns saw that the arrows were useless, they immediately picked up their weapons again, and wanted to fight hard with the enemy, and the two armies collided together without any tricks, and the blood suddenly splashed, and the sound of the strangulation of the weapons and the screams of the war horses were mixed together, which made people unbearable to hear.

The standard weapon of the ironclad infantry is a spear, which is stabbed out in a neat manner, and the iron party formation composed of 500 people is like a huge iron hedgehog, putting down the Hun cavalry in front of him one after another, and one by one the Hun cavalry fell miserably, and then was trampled into a ball of flesh by the horse's hooves or the footsteps of the iron armor......

There is no shortage of ruthless characters in the Hun cavalry, a Hun cavalry flew up from the mount, and slashed at the enemy in front of him with a long knife, but the long knife saw the iron armor, and did not play its due role, but only made the enemy's movements slow down a little, and then several blood holes appeared on his body.

The phalanx of ironclad infantry was like a life harvester, and all the nearby enemies were stabbed to the ground, and the blood on the battlefield flowed everywhere, gradually exceeding the absorption speed of the grass, turning into small blood potholes.

When the Hun cavalry found that Zhao Kuo was not wearing iron armor, they thought that this was a place where they could take advantage, but then they found that this enemy who was not wearing iron armor was even more difficult to deal with than those who were wearing iron armor......

The battle did not last very long, and the Hun forwards who were originally gathered were combed by Zhao Kuo and others after a face-to-face, and those who were alive were basically injured and could not continue to fight.

In front of the Huns, Touman couldn't believe what he saw, more than 2,000 Hun cavalry were defeated by more than 500 strange infantry, and the enemy's infantry did not have much loss, anyway, he didn't see an enemy fall, Touman's heart was hot, and said: "Another 5,000 people, destroy the enemy in front of me." ”

Zhao Kuo knew that these ironclad infantry could not be compared with him, and it was okay to fight for two quarters of an hour, and after a long time, the ironclad on their bodies would kill them, so he did not hesitate to order a retreat.

Seeing Zhao Kuo leading the team to retreat, Pomegranate smiled slightly and said, "The infantry is ready to shoot." With Pomegranate's order, more than 10,000 infantry prepared their bows and crossbows and slowly advanced.

Pomegranate had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and when he saw that the Huns had entered the firing range, he shouted: "Release the arrows......"

With Pomegranate's order, the crossbow arrows in the hands of more than 10,000 infantry shot one after another, and rows of sharp arrows rose into the air, forming a dense killing array in the air and falling in the direction of the Hun cavalry, and the curtain of killing was opened.

The armor on the Huns could not withstand the fire of crossbow arrows, and they fell to the ground one by one, becoming an obstacle to their continued advance.

The leader of the Hun cavalry felt that this was a great shame, and shouted angrily: "Keep charging for me, rush to the front of the infantry, and kill them all......"

The Hun cavalry finally rushed to the enemy's body, but unexpectedly a huge trench suddenly appeared in front of them, and the trench was full of sharpened wooden sticks.

And the feather arrow fell from the sky again, constantly harvesting the lives of the Huns, looking at it, the battlefield was full of Hun corpses, and the ownerless horses were screaming, seeing that nothing could be done, the Hun leader of this attack fled back to the camp in panic with only more than 300 cavalry left.

Seeing that the initial battle was unfavorable and his morale was exhausted, Touman ordered: "That's it for today!" Tomorrow we will break through the Nipple Mountain again and sacrifice the blood of the enemy to our warriors......"

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