766, waiting for the Huns to come and send them to death
For Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu, the existence of the two small county towns of Yuanyin and Yuanyang only saved them the trouble of building camps.
Cavalry units did not have to build camp walls every time like infantry troops, and for cavalry troops, camps without walls were the best camps, and they could move on horseback at any time without being stopped by the walls.
Therefore, the cavalry unit is basically stationed in a tent that can shelter from the wind and rain, and it can also be directly carried on horseback in peacetime, and there is no need to use another vehicle to carry it.
In this way, the logistical burden of the cavalry unit can be minimized, and the speed of the cavalry will not be affected by the slow speed of logistics.
However, after all, the cavalry of the Han people is not like the nomads, as long as they drive the sheep to migrate with the army, they can drink goat's milk for water and feed on mutton, so they still need to carry some logistics materials with the army, such as grain and grass, such as consumables such as feather arrows.
Nowadays, storing this kind of logistics materials in small counties such as Yuanyin and Yuanyang can ensure the safety of the materials, and can also save the effort of repairing another storage camp.
At this time, seeing the arrival of the Southern Xiongnu army, Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu also took the initiative to lead the army to meet them, and in the northwest of Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties, they had already prepared a battlefield and were ready to block the way of the Southern Xiongnu army.
And the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan was a little surprised when he heard that there was an army of Han people blocking the way in front of him.
Originally, in Luan Tihu Chuquan's opinion, this time the Southern Huns went to war at Yuan Shao's request, which should be an easy game of horse running and plundering, because he had also heard about the war that happened in Luoyang.
Luan Tihu Chuquan naturally knew what Yuan Shao asked him to send troops to attack and disturb Guanzhong, in his opinion, he should have taken advantage of the situation this time, but how could there be a Han army in front of him.
What kind of Qian Tang Marquis Zhu Wei, Luan Tihu Chuquan had never heard of it before, and now he only knew that this was a very young Han Confucian, but he had already laid a large territory in the southern part of the Central Plains, and he could be regarded as having a lot of troops.
But in Luan Tihu Chuquan's view, Zhu Wei may have been a big warlord of the Han people in the Central Plains, but now he has encountered big trouble, and now facing the siege of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the two Han forces in the Central Plains, Zhu Wei's decline should be inevitable.
In Luan Tihu Chuquan's view, Yuan Shao in the north is indeed the strongest force among the Han people in the Central Plains today, and he also has the status of the highest military general in the Han Dynasty, and may become the new Shan Yu of the Han people in the Central Plains in the future.
Therefore, Luan Tihu Chuquan can be regarded as giving Yuan Shao face this time, so he will obey Yuan Shao's recruitment and send troops.
But what is the situation now, Luan Tihu Chuquan naturally does not think that the Han army in front of him is Yuan Shao's army and is here to meet him, so this Han army can only be the so-called army of Qian Tanghou Zhu Wei, who is here to stop him.
But how could this Zhu Wei still be able to divide his army to meet him at this time?
At this time, Luan Tihu Chuquan couldn't help but leave a little impression on Zhu Wei, but at this moment, he naturally would not be easily frightened by the Han army, so he ordered the whole army to rush forward, he wanted to destroy the Han army in front of him in one fell swoop, and planned to use the Han army in front as the first dish of this Guanzhong safari.
Obviously, in Luan Tihu Chuquan's opinion, the army blocking the road in front must be the army temporarily recruited by Zhu Wei, otherwise where would Zhu Wei have so many troops to deploy.
So how can these temporarily recruited troops be compared with the Hun cavalry under him.
As a result, as Luan Tihu Chuquan passed down with a military order, the leaders of the Southern Xiongnu tribes who came to listen to Luan Tihu Chuquan's summoning order came one after another, and led their Xiongnu soldiers to the front of the Han army to kill.
However, the headquarters of the Hun cavalry of Luan Tihu Chuquan is located in the middle and rear areas of the Hun army, and it is still marching slowly and leisurely at this time.
Therefore, after listening to his orders, the cavalry troops composed of some small and medium-sized Southern Xiongnu tribes were mainly in front of the killing, and they were actually the pathfinders of Luan Tihu Chuquan.
Luan Tihu Chuquan can just see the combat effectiveness of the Han army in front of him through the battle situation of these Hun cavalry, and of course they can also become cannon fodder to consume the strength of these Han army.
Luan Tihu Chuquan, as the Shan Yu of the Southern Xiongnu, is naturally not a simple-minded character, so his seemingly random military orders actually have his plans.
If the Han army in front is only a weak army recruited and gathered temporarily, then relying on these Huns in front is enough to defeat them, if this Han army has some combat effectiveness, then after the rush of these Huns in front, and then when facing his army, it will naturally be powerless to fight.
For a time, the number of Huns who obeyed Luan Tihu's order and rushed to kill Zhu Wei's army was no less than 20,000.
Accompanied by the strange sound of shouting and shouting in the mouth of the Huns, it looked like a gray sea of people and horses, covering the area where Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu were on Zhu Weijun's side.
Because the topography of this state is generally a trend of high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and now the location of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu seems to belong to the relatively low southeast direction, so at a glance, the momentum of those Hun cavalry is more spectacular.
It's just that dealing with nomadic aliens like the Huns, Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu are also experienced.
Ma Teng took the initiative to join the army in Liangzhou in his early years, and started by conquest of the rebellion of the Liangzhou Di and Qianghu tribes, which are also nomadic people in the northwest, and the tactics used are similar to those of the Southern Huns, so Ma Teng naturally knows how to deal with them.
As for Zhang Xiu's early years when he followed his uncle Zhang Ji to join Dong Zhuo's army, he could also be regarded as a border guard in Liangzhou, and naturally he often fought with nomads, and he was also familiar with the tactics of nomads.
Therefore, since Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu chose the battlefield in advance, of course, they also made preparations on the battlefield here.
Seeing the Huns in front of them sweeping over like waves, both of them stopped in place unhurriedly and did not move, at this time Zhang Xiu's tiger wing battalion heavy armored cavalry was hidden in the middle and rear of the army, and the main cavalry in front of Zhu Wei's army was the cavalry of Ma Teng Fubo battalion.
The cavalry of the Zhu Wei army also set up a dense cavalry rectangular battle formation here, and all the troops gathered together, as if forming a boxy rectangle.
This is an offensive battle formation, but the troops in the central area are actually not very large, mainly with the help of the soldiers in the front formation to cover the emptiness inside, or the real attack troops of this rectangular battle formation are still concentrated on the two flanks.
At this time, under the cover of about 1,000 cavalry at the front of the Zhu Wei army, Ma Teng gathered four or five thousand archers to form an arrow array, waiting to draw the bow and release the arrows at any time to shoot the Huns who rushed over.
Everything was ready, just waiting for the Huns to come up and send them to death......