Zhang Jun's decision to fight to the death with the Hun iron cavalry that followed him was actually a forced decision. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hugh said that the terrain of the Pingchuan River to the west could not be escaped, and it was absolutely unbearable to be hung from a distance. The Huns were like wolves, they maintained the oldest hunting tradition, first letting the prey run for their lives, and then swarming when they were exhausted, and getting the maximum results at the minimum cost.

Zhang Jun also found that since the army, he would always put himself in danger, and then use luck and personal bravery to solve the problem. This was the case before riding into the Jincheng camp alone to persuade him to surrender, and now he is taking a foot soldier deep into the enemy's territory. This is obviously a fluke mentality, always trying to take shortcuts to solve the problem.

But a soldier is a matter of life and death, how can he hope for luck every time? He still hasn't found out that he has any protagonist halo and golden finger, and the longer he leads the army, the more afraid he becomes. Now that he is being targeted by the Hun iron cavalry, it should be retribution.

For this decisive battle, not only did the soldiers cringe and fear, but Zhang Jun also had no bottom in his heart.

The Xiongnu were the sworn enemies of the Han people since ancient times, and they lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty when they were replaced by the Manchurian Tatars. Zhang Jun did not have the most intuitive feeling about the combat effectiveness of the Huns in this era, after all, he had not fought with their field troops. But looking at the history books and the attitude towards the Hun soldiers in the observation army, it is enough to have a relatively reliable speculation - it should not be able to beat!

He has always hoped to take charge of the army in person, and then he can take over smoothly, but he forgot the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and professional things should be handed over to professional people to do, for example, Han Hu is very good at leading troops.

Zhang Jun didn't start doubting himself because he faced strong resistance, he just suddenly understood his position. As a major general of Da Liang, it is not impossible to lead the army in person, but he should never put himself in danger, because his strategic value is much higher than his tactical value. To put it bluntly, the victory or defeat of a military operation cannot change the pattern and situation between Liang and Han at all, but if Da Liang's heir is captured, I am afraid that Liangzhou's already weaker situation will completely slide into defeat.

So he can't be captured alive, either fight his way out of the blood, or die in battle in this desolate land!

There was still some time before the real battle, and the Huns did not rush up immediately, but circled around for miles like wolves watching their prey. The scouts came back one after another, and only the two most skilled and experienced veterans remained outside, serving as the eyes of the Liang army.

In ancient wars, if it was not for the absolute crushing of the opponent in numbers or the application of cross-era weapons, then the method of winning can be summed up in nothing more than three points: time, place, and people.

On the day, the Liang army led by Zhang Jun and the Huns who followed were both under the same blue sky and had the same climate and environment, and the two sides were tied at this point; In terms of peace, the Huns were three times larger than their own, and their combat effectiveness was higher, and the Liang army was undoubtedly at a disadvantage; So if you want to win, Zhang Jun has to occupy the geographical advantage, otherwise he should wash his neck and wait for death.

At this time, the Liang army had already crossed the river, and Zhang Jun ordered the whole army to line up near the river, with a vast Taoshui ice surface in front of them and a shrub and grove behind them. In doing so, the ice surface is selected as the preset battlefield in advance.

The reason why the Hun cavalry is famous is that the men and horses are one, and the cavalry and archery are unparalleled. But on the ice, the Huns' horse team couldn't run, and he was forcing the Huns to dismount and fight with himself!

Zhang Jun ordered Zhou Tong to drive all the horses into the woods and tie them up. He also ordered Suo Sanjie to lead the craftsman team to cut down the trees in the distance, sharpen one end, and insert the other end obliquely into the ice on the river not far in front of the army, and densely arranged several layers to become a protective weapon.

In fact, the ice surface is far easier to make a hole than the frozen soil, just order someone to boil a pot of hot water, scoop a scoop and pour it on the ice surface, and a deep hole can be easily formed. Seeing this, Han Hu offered another plan to let the soldiers pour countless bowl-sized holes with hot water on the ice, which could not only cut off the horses and legs of the Huns, but also be used to block the enemy.

Zhang Jun saw Han Hu's sinister expression and happily accepted it. So the craftsman team was very busy, and the surface of the Taoshui River was full of holes.

Everything was ready, and the soldiers put on their iron armor. In this battle, we must win more with less, and defeat the strong with the weak, and we will not be able to reduce the number of troops easily. Therefore, Zhang Jun asked all the soldiers, including the craftsman team, to wear two layers of armor. The generals and veterans with good physical strength even need to wear three layers of armor. A top hood and iron helmet were fastened to his head, and the iron mask was lowered. Ha breath spewed out from inside the mask, and everyone seemed to have turned into an ironclad monster that could swallow clouds and mist.

Zhang Jun is young, and his physical strength must be insufficient, so he is still a two-layer armor. However, he is still wearing a layer of soft armor, which is barely a top three.

The whole army was ready for battle, and everyone's hearts were complicated. This victory was unpredictable, and it was the first time that everyone fought with the Huns' field cavalry, and in addition to faint fear, there was also a trace of excitement.

Even if these Liang soldiers were born in local county soldiers, they were also soldiers. Especially after more than a month of baptism, continuous small victories have also accumulated a lot of self-confidence. It's not that they haven't seen the Hun soldiers killed by themselves, everyone is human, can the soldiers grow one more head? Thinking of this, the fear of the Huns naturally decreased a lot.

Half an hour later, the Huns finally appeared on the other side of the river. They lined up in a long line, slowly surging up the river embankment like a black wave, and confronted the Liang army on the opposite side.

The main name of the Xiongnu general who unified the army was Gu Luli, and he was a battle-hardened general. He once followed Emperor Liu Yao to participate in the two major wars of Luoyang and Chang'an. At that time, the current Emperor of the Han Dynasty was still the general of the Che Cavalry of Kaifu Yi and the Three Divisions, the Yongzhou Mu, and the King of Zhongshan, and the backbone was just a small colonel under the command of the vanguard officer under his account.

At the beginning, Gu Luli was very dissatisfied with the task of chasing and suppressing the Liang Army. The attack on Jincheng has reached a very critical time, and at this time, two thousand elite horsemen are assigned to do such things, which is a bit like killing chickens with knives. In his eyes, to deal with this small force of the Liang army, the local county soldiers are enough.

But when he kept summoning the soldiers who had been sneak attacked to learn more about it, he slowly began to pay attention to this cool army. In the eyes of the battle-hardened backbone, the tactics of the Liang army are commendable and very successful. They were always able to grasp the weaknesses of the local county soldiers of the Han army, which were not subordinate to each other and had poor coordination, and gave each one a breakthrough. But he is not greedy, he can withdraw in time in the face of temptation, and he is as slippery as a loach.

This is an interesting opponent, maybe this operation is not as simple as he imagined, and Gu Luli is gradually paying attention to his opponent.