Chapter 039: Swimming Dragons and Pearls
After receiving the reward of the scout Wuquan in danger, Qin Shen led the thousand five elite cavalry in advance to rush from the ambush to the Wuquan Pass.
Cheng Liu's palmed banner and Zhu San followed closely behind, their faces full of excitement, the only task they received today was-
Even if you die, you must keep the banner down!
Looking at the Han cavalry rushing from a distance, Gao Tu sneered in his heart, raised his right hand, and the four thousand right troops who were on standby roared and rushed out when the flag was waved.
Then they slashed together, and the horn sounded louder and louder, and the order for a general attack was sounded.
The guards of the wall fought bravely to kill the enemy, and they were happy to see the reinforcements coming, but after a while, they looked at most of the Xiongnu right army that was heading away, and they couldn't help but raise their hearts for their own brothers who looked extremely asymmetrical and insignificant.
The 4,000 cavalry of the Huns came out of the formation, and the thunderous and rolling one was divided into two to meet the Han army at full speed in a V-shape, vowing to annihilate the opponent's encirclement, and it was a shame.
Faced with this, how could Qin Shen throw himself into a fierce battle, just wait for the two sides to gallop to a distance of a few arrows, then suddenly raise the longbow in his hand, turn the horse's head obliquely to avoid the center, and go around to the outside of the Xiongnu that is divided into two.
For the sudden change of strategy of the Han army, the Xiongnu did not have time to make more responses, so they could only chase after the situation, and the formation was instantly dragged into a twisted λ shape, which also made the Xiongnu on the other side want to catch up with each other and will go around a larger circle.
A few arrows away, the two armies rushing forward with all their strength met in the blink of an eye.
When the leader of the army avoided the bag and the outer edge of the bag at a distance of one arrow, Qin Shen led the crowd to shoot the first wave of arrows in his hand towards the nearby Huns, and suddenly the opponent turned over on his back, and the people who fell off the horse and the horses that fell were trampled by the people and horses of the rear team and let out a scream and scream, floating in the open grassland, which actually overshadowed the sound of the siege.
Seeing the bad opportunity, the Hun cavalry once again subconsciously released the arrows in their hands to return fire under the attack, but the farthest only fell ten steps away from the Han army, without any threat.
In view of this, Qin Shen controlled the distance from the other party, and led the Han army, which was determined, to quickly wind up under the best fighters that staggered with the Xiongnu, and fired a second round of arrows......
This time, the casualties of the other side were heavier, and the number of dead was incalculable.
After several shots, the two teams finally staggered and exchanged positions, and the situation changed from the initial head-on to the Xiongnu's oblique horse circling and chasing after him.
Qin Shen also rode back, and circled from the tail of the opponent's team to the other side of the Huns who were chasing him.
Seeing this, the Hun cavalry in the rear team wanted to rein in their horses and turn around directly, but due to the excessive speed of the horses and different ideas, various squeezing and collisions occurred, and they became a mess.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qin Shen led the crowd to shoot mercilessly at him, and with the other party falling to the ground one after another, the Han army became more and more courageous, and actually suppressed the Xiongnu to the point that they had no power to fight back, so that it was obviously the scene of the Xiongnu chasing the Han army, but it evolved into a clear Han army encircling and suppressing the Xiongnu.
At this point, the situation on both sides was completely reversed.
"Wow!"
At the same time that the cavalry of the Han army took away hundreds of people from the other side with another wave of arrows, the guards of the wall burst into cheers, and their tired bodies seemed to burst out with infinite strength......
The innate self-confidence of the soldiers of the Central Plains for hundreds of thousands of years and tempered by thousands of years made them firmly believe that as long as it dragged on for a while and a half, victory would eventually belong to them.
"That's Qin Shen?" Gao Tu Ang looked at the vague figure leading in the distance, and his face was rarely extremely ugly.
"It should be." The Yongxin on his side responded with the same hatred, and then said excitedly: "Subordinates, please kill this person!" ”
"Whew!" Hasazhu, who couldn't take his eyes off the fight in the distance, let out a disdainful sneer without looking back, and his gloomy face, which had been suffering heavy casualties for several days, had a little bit of schadenfreude at this moment.
"You!" Kuyala's heart changed and turned his head on the side of his neck, and when he saw his expression clearly, he was even more angry, and was about to reprimand him with strong words, but was interrupted by the words of his own right king-
"Wait!"
Gao Tu Ang retracted his gaze and glanced at the two of them with a stunning look, and said hatefully: "Order the rear army to go to support, be sure to wipe it out!" ”
Looking at the terrifying appearance of the right king gritting his teeth, Kuyala Yong knew that he was really angry this time.
On the other side of the battlefield, the Huns who fought several times injured no less than a thousand people, not to mention, they did not even touch the shadow of half a cent of Han cavalry, and the anger in their hearts can be imagined.
It's just that the prairie is vast, and if it weren't for the large number of soldiers and the wide deployment of the generals, how difficult it would be to strangle an elite who had no intention of facing head-to-head in a short fight.
The war once fell into a stalemate of chasing and shooting.
Of course, all this is just an appearance, what is real is that Han Qi is slowly eating away at the other party little by little.
The arrow pierced through the body of a Hun cavalryman, and with the other party's blood splashing on the ground, Qu Han was extremely happy in the gallop, and rarely praised: "In today's view, Brother Qin's horse skills are better than those of the Huns, and the opportunity to judge the situation is even more admirable to Qu." ”
The war had reached this point, Qin Shen had already let go of his embrace, and when he heard this, he showed disdain and feigned displeasure and said: "The Huns are just arrogant and stupid, but Brother Qu compares them to him, doesn't he look down on them?" ”
Seeing that he still had the heart to laugh, Qu Han laughed heartily, and shot several rounds of arrows without saying a word, and the two armies staggered again.
At this moment, the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves rumbled from another place behind them.
Qin Shen turned his head to look back, only to see the Hun rear army rushing towards him from the other side, and couldn't help but say with a cold face: "The real challenge is coming." ”
"If you have this pleasure, what's the matter if you die on the battlefield?" Qu Han didn't care about this, and he was full of pride.
"I don't want to die yet." With a quick reply, Qin Shen's decisive leader bypassed the rear of the right army that was chasing after him, and ran straight towards the pass.
Seeing that the reinforcements had been sent and the Han army seemed to have the intention of retreating, the Xiongnu right army, which was annoyed and angry, had been holding back its anger and resentment against the commander or the Han army for several days, and how could he let go of the other party at this moment, and suddenly ignored the sudden sound of the command to collect the troops and the flag waving signal in the rear, but just listened to it and turned a blind eye to it and clenched it, and chased after him.
Listening to the sound of hooves behind him, Qin Shen sneered in his heart and led the army to continue to rush forward.
The first to bear the brunt of this was the hundreds of people who pushed the car that crashed the door.
The Han army didn't seem to have the intention of dwelling too much here, and after a rain of arrows from afar, the other party dropped the door and hit the car, hugging his head and running away, and quickly replaced the spear and halberd that was ready to hang on one side, and rushed into the Xiongnu siege soldiers.
In the face of the murderous attack like thunder, the Hun soldiers all witnessed the Han cavalry with their proudest cavalry tactics to shoot their own side several times, and felt ashamed and indignant in their hearts, both in morale and strength The blow was immeasurable, and at this moment seeing him rushing forward, it was an unstoppable sense of frustration.
Qin Shen rushed and killed in the enemy's army, invincible, and broke up wave after wave of counterattacks.
The morale of the cavalry behind him was high, and under his leadership, he was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, killing the Hun soldiers who were suppressed and attacked from below and did not know how to deal with them.
The soldier in charge of throwing out the oil drum in his hand smashed the oil into all kinds of siege equipment, and the soldier who set it on fire shot rockets.
The flames of the fire were high in the sound of "poof", and soon the outer layer of fireproof paint of the instrument was baked, igniting a raging fire.
The person who was hiding in the car and was accidentally splashed with fire oil was burned by the fire, letting out a cry of pain and screaming.
At the height of the city wall, the archers and crossbowmen of the Han army also went into battle together, desperately using crossbow arrows to suppress the distance remotely to cover it, not allowing the other party to come forward to support, just waiting for Qin Shen and others to pass through, and then the people smashed the boulder rolling wood that had been placed between the wall buttresses and smashed the Hun cavalry chasing behind......
Although there was no communication in advance, the two sides cooperated extremely tacitly and killed the Xiongnu to the ground.
Gao Tuang looked at the battle situation under the pass, his brows tightened, his lips trembled slightly, and then an order was given, and thousands of the remaining left army moved after hearing the order, and came to intercept the pass, vowing to intercept and kill the Han cavalry at the pass regardless of casualties.
At this moment, it seems that it is no longer important in his heart whether he breaks the level or not, because there is a more important thing in his heart, that is-
Qin Shen, you must die!
Looking at the Zuo Army that had finally been dispatched, Qin Shen knew that the time was ripe, and immediately raised the halberd in his hand, and said with a smile: "Gao Tu Ang is ready to make a final counterattack, this is a God-given opportunity for us!" ”
Without waiting for everyone to respond, he suddenly reined in the horse's head and no longer rushed to kill Guanxia, but waved the iron dragon in his hand to split a passage from the Xiongnu besiegers, and led all the soldiers to avoid the left army that came to intercept, and ran towards the Chinese army bravely and fearlessly.
The smoke-billowing chariot behind him collapsed under the fire with an unstable and staggering base......
Countless siege soldiers who could not escape were stoned to death and wounded.
A more rapid drum beat sounded on the pass, and the arrows that flashed cold like rain fell, and the Huns fell one after another in the blood splash, and in less than a moment, the corpses were all over the field, so that this corner of the whole grassland was like a slaughterhouse of flesh and blood.
The war is in full swing.