Section 70 Trapped

The left flank of the Huns collapsed.

The Xiongnu Chinese army followed closer and closer, Liu Bei did not dare to use a frontal attack to fight with the left flank of the Huns, he led the soldiers to run, while squeezing, driving, snatching, and controlling the running route, the parallel Hun left wing cavalry knocked off the horse one by one. After only a moment's delay, the Xiongnu Chinese army had caught up with the Qingzhou soldiers.

The situation became more and more sinister, and Liu Bei had to advance to Xiaozhai with difficulty under the entanglement of the Xiongnu Chinese army. More and more Qingzhou soldiers were knocked off their horses, and these guards fought endlessly after falling off their horses, but their efforts did not hinder the enemy for a moment in front of the surging cavalry tide.

The military horn sounded, which was an order for the Qingzhou soldiers to move the road. Liu Bei looked up, and after the chase battle with the left flank of the Xiongnu just now, the Qingzhou soldiers had deviated from the front of the enemy. Do you want to deviate a little more?

took out the copper whistle and put it in his mouth, Liu Bei whistled loudly, waved his hand slightly, and the Qingzhou soldiers responded and ran further to the left.

A rain of arrows came, and the Huns who followed too closely fell off their horses. Zhao Zilong, who had a white horse and a silver spear, opened the gate of the village and went out of the village to meet Liu Beijun. Qingzhou's left cavalry was like a sharp axe, splitting the advance of the Hun cavalry.

After eliminating the trailing Hun cavalry, Liu Bei got a respite and turned back to observe the enemy. After a period of wild running, it turned out that Liu Bei was not far from the camp. Looking back at Zhao Yun in the deep enemy formation, people are like fierce tigers and horses, the spear is poured from the left hand to the right hand, the right hand is poured into the left hand, and in his hand it is like a magic trick to change back and forth, picking, stabbing, smashing, splitting, the whole person is like a big thorn, crashing into the Hun formation, the Hun soldiers close to him cry wolf howl, any angle, any distance is not a safe place, I can't figure out where Zhao Yun's spear will attack from the next moment, in the blink of an eye, you will find that the spear is in your throat.

Repelled the first row of Hun soldiers, Zhao Yun rescued several fallen Qingzhou soldiers, and the second row of Hun soldiers swarmed up, and immediately, another swarm of bees retreated.

Seeing that in the distance in the Hun formation, there were still a few Qingzhou soldiers who had fallen off their horses and were fighting endlessly, Zhao Yun made a spear move and led his troops to rush towards the Hun formation. Facing each other, the Huns dodged one after another and gave way to the road.

Danger, Liu Bei sounded the alarm in his mind: "Come with me", Liu Bei shouted, leading the cavalry to follow Zhao Yun to attack.

Zhao Yun had just passed the front line of the Huns, and more than a dozen Hun soldiers rushed to block Zhao Yun's back road. Liu Bei fought hard to kill, and he was invincible.

Strictly speaking, the invincible is the war knife in Liu Bei's hand, this war knife is made by Zheng Hun himself, the material is made of high-carbon manganese steel, the blade is 6 meters thick, and the hardness is more than 60HRC. With a full swing, you can cut an ordinary kitchen knife into two pieces without hurting the blade, or you can cut off nearly 10 cm of bamboo stubble. In front of this knife, the simple weapons of the Hun soldiers were broken one after another, and the power was reachable, and many Hun soldiers who blocked the grid were waved into two sections.

Only then did he kill the Hun soldiers who were blocking the way in front of him, Liu Bei saw a thrilling scene: several Hun soldiers were on the horse, and even people and horses rushed to Zhao Yun, several horses collided together, Zhao Yun's white dragon horse fell down violently, and four Hun soldiers urged the horses to approach and stab with guns.

"Hugh injured my general", Liu Bei screamed, urged the horse hard, and killed Zhao Yun.

The silver light flashed, the two Hun soldiers turned over and fell off the horse, Zhao Yun jumped up from the ground, the spear lightning shot out, blood splashed, a Hun soldier was shot in the throat, whimpered and shook his body on the horse, the next moment, the tail vertebrae of the spear appeared in the throat of another Hun soldier, with a touch of blood, the sharp tail vertebrae fluttered lightly, and the remaining silver light was still floating in the air.

Zhao Yun's spear was given by Liu Bei when he was a child, and given that Zhao Yun could open the bow left and right with both hands, the tail vertebrae of this spear were also extremely sharp. In Zhao Yun's hands, like a two-headed snake, he devoured people on both sides, swinging left and right, and in a moment, the Hun soldiers surrounding Zhao Yun had been killed by him.

The white dragon horse rolled on the ground and fought again, at this time, Liu Bei had already killed Zhao Yun's side, gently took the reins of the horse, Liu Bei stopped in front of Zhao Yun, taking this opportunity, Zhao Yun jumped up and jumped on the war horse.

Zhao Yun, who was remounted on the war horse, became more and more powerful, the spear shook slightly, and the enemies stopped by Liu Bei had fallen off their horses one after another. With a copper whistle, the Qingzhou soldiers followed Liu Bei and Zhao Yun out of the encirclement and ran diagonally towards the camp.

"Collapse collapse", the sound of continuous misdemeanor bows and crossbows sounded, and the Hun soldiers who followed stopped chasing after losing most of their manpower.

Qingzhou soldiers reformed the crossbow design last year, and the bowstring installation began to use eccentric wheel technology, so the instantaneous impact force when shooting increased by 4 to 6 times (greater than 3600 Newtons), although the power is not as good as the black shark and the hunting crossbow from the king of the forest in later generations, but the indicators have approached the standard of the hunting crossbow of the Kaba warriors. The effective range of flat fire is 100 meters, and the accuracy of fire is from 30 cm to 60 cm. Shooting from the top, the maximum range has reached 430 meters. At a distance of 75 meters, one arrow can shoot through a 3 mm steel plate. This round of shooting was quite accurate, causing heavy casualties to the Hun forwards.

In the camp, Liu Bei was anxious to interrogate the captured Hun soldiers, this series of strange battles made him puzzled: "The Huns do not cross the border with each other, it is a custom, this Hun soldiers come from the direction of Wu County, as far as I know, that is the territory of the right Huns, I came to find Yu Fuluo of the left Huns, is it that Yu Fuluo dares to detour to the right Hun territory to attack me?" ”

The Hun captives were silent, and after a while, a Hun soldier replied: "If you return to the general, we are the right Huns." ”

Speaking pure Chinese - Liu Bei carefully observed the Hun soldier: he is a Han Chinese, definitely a Han Chinese, different customs and habits determine the different behaviors of a nation, and the Hun soldier's answers prove that he is definitely a product of Han culture and education.

There was no time to ask him how he became a Hun soldier, Liu Bei was puzzled: "I don't agree with Yu Fuluo of the left Huns, and I came to this matter to find his bad luck, what do I have to do with the right Huns, why did the right Huns send troops to fight me?" ”

It turned out that Yu Fuluo sent people to the Right Huns to cry that Liu Bei was asking for the spoils of war he had plundered, which angered the Right Huns, and the Right Huns decided to send troops to maintain their dignity.

The court of the Central Plains has always respected the habits of foreign peoples, and it is recorded in the Confucian classics that when the Yellow Emperor was in power, the Yellow Emperor visited a foreign people, and they had the habit of not wearing clothes, and the Yellow Emperor took off his clothes and entered their tent to talk to them. There was no writing during the Yellow Emperor's period, and it is unknown whether the Yellow Emperor told his later Confucian scholars that he had indeed done so. But the Confucian scholars made up this passage to reflect their idea of "benevolence".

The Han court had always respected the habits of the Xiongnu, including their hobby of plundering, and even during the most friendly period with the Han court (the time of harmony), the Xiongnu did not stop their annual "autumn wind" action. No Han official ever asked them for what they had looted, which is why Zhang Yang ignored the cry of the robbed woman in Luoyang - let the children of your three dukes and six kings go to the pocket of the Huns, and they are the property of the Huns.

Liu Bei demanded that Yu Fuluo hand over the plundered Han ladies, endangering the ownership of the looted by the Xiongnu. In order to teach Liu Bei a lesson, the right Huns sent 110,000 troops to attack Liu Bei as agreed.

"Agreed", Liu Bei playfully played with this word, and continued to ask: "What is the agreement between Yu Fuluo and you?" ”

The tribes on the steppe are still in the stage of primitive society, and for such a major action as sending troops, they must pass the tribal assembly and be unanimously approved by the elders (senators). Although these people are small soldiers, they will also be well aware of the military plans of the clan.

"After the death of Hou Shan Yu, the Southern Xiongnu did not set up a new Shan Yu, and it happened that the son of Qiangqu Shan Yu (Yu Fuluo) was bullied in my Han Court, and returned to Zicheng, and after the tribal elders (elders) deliberated, it was decided to re-establish Yu Fuluo as Shan Yu. Da Dan Yu (Yu Fuluo) asked the right Xiongnu to occupy the east bank of the river and cut off the return route of the Qingzhou soldiers after the whole army of Qingzhou soldiers crossed the river. Later, we saw the fire in Mianshan and thought that the battle had begun, so we began to attack. ”

At this time, all the generals understood - "I am Han Ting", which confirmed that the person in front of him was originally Han.

Dian Wei drew his sword and stood up: "Pifu, a good Han person is not appropriate, what kind of Hun soldier, I have to kill you." ”

Liu Bei waved his hand to stop Dian Wei, and the Hun soldier argued strongly: "As a Han person, the officials are tormented day by day, how can they survive?" As a Huns, not only do you not pay taxes, but the robbery is all your own, and the officials do not interfere. General, I was born in the border land, the land is barren, I don't want to be a Hun, and the grass on my grave has already grown so tall. ”

Liu Bei grabbed Dian Wei - why is this incomprehensible? We have been doing this for thousands of years, and it is nothing new that foreigners can get national treatment on our land, while Chinese cannot enjoy national treatment on Chinese soil. The government is not clear, and the whole culture is a capitulation orientation. It is not surprising that when the Manchus entered the customs, the most brutal killing of the Han Chinese was the Han who surrendered to the Manchus. For example, the three massacres in Jiading were made by the Han people. They surrendered to the alien race, and in order to gain appreciation, they could only show ferocity to their own countrymen. Speak benevolence and righteousness to other races, and kill yourself.

"How many troops are there in the Left Huns, and they intend to fight us there?" Liu Bei continued to interrogate.

"I don't know!"

"I don't know, then you're useless, Dian Wei, this person is handed over to you."

After the Southern Xiongnu rested, they defeated the Northern Xiongnu, and the Northern Xiongnu were forced to move westward, and the 70,000 cavalry troops left behind defected to Wuheng, thus contributing to the strong Xianbei Wuheng today. After the Northern Xiongnu were defeated and fled, there were 70,000 remnants of the army, and their strength can be imagined, and the Southern Xiongnu who could defeat such a strength had 200,000 soldiers, which was probably not all his strength. Dealing with the Xiongnu is a long-term matter, and it seems that we can be cautious in the future.

The Han Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Chinese cavalry, according to historical records, Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty used 270,000 cavalry to the south; When Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty invaded the Song Dynasty, he crossed the Huai River with 600,000 cavalry and approached the Yangtze River; In the battle of Liang Wei Zhongli, there were 240,000 cavalry among the 800,000 Wei troops. It can be said that the scale of cavalry warfare in this period far exceeded that of previous generations. And the ephemeral heavy cavalry in Chinese history appeared during this period.

The reason why the heavy cavalry was short-lived came from a bad habit of the Chinese army: military horses must be castrated. In ancient China, the war was protracted, in order to prevent the spring military horses from estrus, the war horses were short-tempered, disturbing the military camp and military formation, and all military horses needed to be castrated. This habit was retained until after the founding of New China, when the border cavalry still retained this vice.

The best horses became military horses and were castrated, and then the cavalry could only choose the slightly better ones to be castrated in the horses that had been eliminated at that time. Castrated for thousands of years, the majestic Chinese horse was castrated into a dwarf Chinese donkey. Strictly speaking, it is no longer a horse, it can't run but walks, and we have coined a new term for it: walking horses.

"In the future, the battle with the Huns will be a large-scale cavalry battle, and we will force Yu Fuluo into the Hun tribe, and we will be single, although there is an excuse to deal with the entire Huns, but the Huns are in a group, is it a blessing or a curse for us?" Liu Bei pondered to himself. At this moment, Liu Bei has understood: why Cao Cao dared to expel Wu Heng in history, but did not dare to attack the Xiongnu, and agreed to spend money to redeem Cai Wenji.

The strength of the Southern Xiongnu was so strong, it is no wonder that Liu Bao dared to be the first to establish a country among the Wuhu and establish himself as the king.

"The Huns have begun to attack," Guan Hai came in from outside the tent and reminded Liu Bei.

"Facing the battle", Liu Bei waved his hand, interrupted his train of thought, and walked out of the camp proudly.

For five days, the right Huns attacked repeatedly like a frenzy, but they were all repulsed by Liu Bei. The trees at the foot of Mianshan Mountain had been burned by Liu Bei, and the Huns could only climb halfway up the mountain to collect trees, and the rudimentary tools made them delay the work of making wooden shields for a long time, however, they could not delay it any longer. On the evening of the fifth day, many Huns were already attacking with newly made shields.

Liu Bei only brought 300,000 arrows on this trip, which was still 7% of the total number of arrows in Yecheng after the war. A powerful bow and crossbow can repel enemy attacks, but it also brings a disadvantage, arrows are easy to deform, and arrows must be of standard length. Despite strict savings, there are still fewer and fewer intact arrows, and the arrows that can be effectively shot are still bottoming out after several assemblies.

On the sixth day, there were still 20,000 arrows in Qingzhou, which was the last arrow, and the last moment was coming.

On the other side of the river, the Xiongnu's left side of Yu Fuluo's team still did not appear, and the situation became more and more strange.

"Is the ship ready?" Liu Bei asked.

"The ships that have been built are enough to fit all the soldiers, but I am afraid that the war horses will not be able to put it down." The leader of the baggage soldiers replied.

"Yes, it would be nice to fit all the soldiers, and one horse should occupy the seat of five soldiers. As long as these soldiers are there, I will always ask for them back, and order the soldiers to unload the stirrups, take off all the iron tools on the harnesses, and throw them into the Fen River. Liu Bei pulled his war horse, stroked its neck, comforted it in a low voice, and then pulled out his saber and stabbed it into the neck of the war horse.

The Izumo god horse fell down, Liu Bei was carrying the saber, blood dripping down, and his face seemed to cry and smile: "Are you ready?" ”

The leader of the baggage troops bowed his head and replied, "Ready."

"Kill the horses, and the whole army will get on board. Yu Fuluo, you underestimated me Liu Bei, I am here to bring you blood and fire, let me give you a final lesson. ”

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