Chapter 4 Bloody Battle in the Wild
If there were no Xiongnu men and horses on the way back, then this harassment behind enemy lines would have been a textbook perfect military operation. But there is no if......
The two sides spotted each other almost at the same time, so to speak, head-on, with no possibility of dodging at all. The cavalry that is running cannot be disguised, the speed of the straight line is the fastest, and the disguised will slow down and reduce the impact force. When the cavalry charges, slowing down is suicide.
When the brave meets on a narrow road, the two sides say that they are equal, all the tactics are in vain, and what is fighting at this time is a bloody and brave spirit. Lu Bu, who rushed to the front, pierced through the two Hun cavalrymen with one shot, picked up the enemy's corpse and smashed it at the enemy. Since getting the Moon Holding Black Cone, Lu Bu's combat power has improved again, and as soon as he touches the kung fu, dozens of people died in Lu Bu's snatching.
Zhou Yi was not to be outdone, although he was not as brave as Lu Bu, but Zhou Yi and Zhang Xiaowu and other personal soldiers cooperated closely, and one charged over, and also picked dozens of Hun cavalry. Seeing that their main generals were so brave, the morale of the cavalry behind was also over-boosted.
In the era of cold weapons, most of the army lost more than one percent, and basically collapsed completely. Even a well-known army will be able to hold out until the loss is 2 to 3 percent. Therefore, most of the ancient wars were crushing battles, and there were very few annihilation wars.
This battle ended with Lu Bu stabbing the Hun cavalry general to death and the Hun cavalry fleeing. At the cost of more than 100 losses, the Han army killed nearly 1,000 enemies, which can be said to be a big victory. However, the feedback is not optimistic.
In order to find Zhou Yi's cavalry, King Youxian divided the team into dozens of thousands of pairs, so that the probability of encountering the Han army will be greatly increased, as long as one team can bite the Han cavalry, the other teams can quickly assemble and encircle the Han cavalry. I have to say that the right king is also an old fox, a master of soldiers.
Zhou Yi broke out in a cold sweat, if Lu Bu hadn't stabbed the leader of the Hun cavalry to death just now and defeated the two thousand-man team, the consequences would be unimaginable. If you are bitten by the Huns, maybe this vast grassland is the place where your people are buried. But now things are turning around.
Now that the enemy has discovered himself, there is no need to hide it, the battle scout just now must have seen it, it is better to go south at full speed. Now the troops of King Youxian are scattered, and if you want to completely annihilate the Han army, you have to gather at least 10,000 troops, which will take time. With the momentum of the cavalry advancing at full speed, it may be that the army of Youxian Wang has not been assembled, and the Han army will pass through the defense line, and if you want to stop the Han army, you have to send the nearest thousand people to send them to death to slow down the advance of the Han army. As long as the Han army continued to crush these teams quickly, they could return to the Han defense line before the Xiongnu army gathered.
In this way, it takes time for King Youxian to gather troops if he wants to gather troops, and he has to constantly send out a thousand troops to stop the Han army. And Zhou Yi had to defeat these thousand-man teams. King Youxian exchanged a small number of Hun cavalry for time for the army to assemble. Zhou Yi wants to use battle after battle to reduce the enemy's vital force, and he also needs to use battle again and again to gain time to return to the south.
It's a race of speed, time, will, endurance, morale and luck.
However, this time luck did not favor Zhou Yi's Han army.
When Zhou Yi led his troops to the last line of defense of the Huns, King Youxian had already gathered nearly 10,000 troops, although many of them were the original Xiongnu routs. Originally, King Youxian wanted to gather more troops, but time did not allow it. However, looking at the fact that there were less than 3,000 people on the other side, King Youxian felt that the odds were in his hands. Eat this hateful rat to quench the hatred in your heart. (Of course, King Youxian didn't know that the royal court was destroyed at this time, otherwise he would be even more ruthless about this mouse.) )
Zhou Yi waited for his cavalry to assemble the army formation, and at the same time thought about the strategy of breaking the enemy. The defensive formation of the Huns, the winning rate of their own impact is not large, and it is necessary to let the Huns take the initiative to attack and expose their flaws.
There are clouds in the art of war: there will be five dangers: death, but also killing; will be born, but can be captured; Anger (fen) speed, insulting; Incorruptible, humiliating; Love the people, but it's annoying.
These are the five character flaws of generals, and most of the Huns are angry and irritable, and they can't resist stimulation. Whether it's enough or not, always try. When Zhou Yi asked the head of the nobles of the Xiongnu royal court to be tall, the army of the right virtuous king was in a commotion. Zhou Yi looked at it, there was a play. Ordered the soldiers to shout in front of the formation:
"Iron felling (the name of the right virtuous king), not a son of man, the royal court was broken, and the turtle with a shrunken head ......"
Among the dozens of people, there are the relatives of the Right Xian King and several generals, and all of a sudden the Huns are not the master, they are furious, and they don't care about the defensive formation, they just want to take revenge, and they rush up, and the Right Xian King is no exception.
Zhou Yi sighed: God help me!
Give the order to charge, rush over, and I'll take everyone home!
The disparity in strength is destined to be a bloody battle. Zhou Yi didn't remember that this was the first few enemies to be slashed, but he felt that there was one less soldier around him, and he saw that Zhang Xiaowu's body was full of blood, and it was not the enemy's, it was still Xiao Wu's own, not far away, Lu Bu was still stabbing the enemy to death with one shot. On the periphery, there are large Han cavalry assembled in formation. However, the military formation is precarious.
Zhou Yixin said, it is still a light enemy, and the combat power of the Huns should not be underestimated.
If you don't see reinforcements, you can only rely on yourself!
Suddenly, Zhou Yi saw that the bow and arrow of the Right Xian King were aimed at him, but Zhou Yi was protected by his own soldiers, and the arrows could be blocked by his own soldiers. switched the target and shot at Lu Bu, who was unaware of it at this time.
"Lu Bu be careful!" Zhou Yi did not hesitate to urge the horse to cross the crowd and block in front of Lu Bu. I wanted to use a long knife to collapse the feather arrow, but I didn't expect it to be blocked, and the feather arrow shot directly into Zhou's right shoulder. Zhou Yixin said, it's good that it's not a heart, but it really hurts. It's not that I want to block arrows for Lu Bu, it's just that without Lu Bu, I can't rush out at all, okay.
"General!" When Lu Bu saw Zhou Yi taking arrows for himself, he screamed angrily, and immediately exploded, and when he turned around and saw that the archer was not far away, his brain was hot, and he threw the spear in his hand.
King Youxian originally wanted to shoot Lu Bu, but he didn't expect to shoot Zhou Yi, knowing that this was the highest general of the Han army, and when he was proud, he didn't expect to be pierced by Lu Bu's anger. Even if a pro-soldier is in the way, it is still cool to wear a sugar gourd.
The Han army saw that Lu Bu was brave and their morale was high, and the Huns saw that King Youxian was killed in battle, and most of these Huns were composed of the previous rout, and they were afraid of being killed by Lu Bu. The Han army rushed through the defense line with difficulty.
The Han army fought and retreated, and Lü Bu shot more than a dozen chasing cavalrymen with bows and arrows. The Huns hastily withdrew their troops.
After this battle, there were only more than 1,000 people left in the 3,000 Han army.
The reinforcements are like the policemen in the movie, they always come when the matter is over, but they finally come back, and Zhou Yi couldn't support it anymore the moment he saw the reinforcements, and fainted on the horse.
The bloody battlefield is not mournful, how many people have returned to fight in ancient times?
For the glory of the Han Dynasty, thousands of soldiers stayed in the grassland forever......