Chapter 328: Jin Liang fights
Tuoba Jiefen had long expected that the Han Dynasty army would come out of the city to engage in battle, and he unhurriedly sent the most 'elite' cavalry to line up in front of the battle to meet the Han army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When the Hun cavalry first started, it was still quite imposing, but once the two armies met, they quickly fell behind.
If the 20,000 Southern Hun cavalry is led to deal with the general Han army, it is okay, but for the Xianbei cavalry, it is a bit of an egg to hit the stone, because since the Xianbei Great Khan Tanshi Huai was born, the Xianbei people have been pressing to fight the Southern Huns, the Southern Huns have been facing the Xianbei people for many years of psychological disadvantage, originally they saw Xu Huang kill the other party's general, morale was greatly boosted, but once they rushed to the Xianbei people's position, they saw the Xianbei cavalry more fierce and more confident than their appearance, they did not feel soft hands and feet, It's like a Japanese meeting an American.
After Xu Huang killed the Xianbei general, he shouted and rushed to kill, then turned his horse and swept to the side, watching the Hun cavalry and the Xianbei cavalry hedge, the result is self-evident, this group of newly formed Hun cavalry is not the opponent of the Xianbei cavalry at all. In addition, the Hun cavalry only had 20,000 horses, and the Xianbei cavalry had 40,000 horses, and the Hun cavalry experienced the defeat of Qingyan Mountain. Their morale had not yet recovered, and a one-sided situation soon appeared.
Tuoba Jiefen could see that these enemy troops turned out to be Hun cavalry who surrendered to the Han Dynasty. couldn't help but be furious and said: "You Huns, traitors to our grassland children, you are pawns for the Han people, what face do you have to meet the Kunlun God?!" ā
Do they want to tell Tuoba Jiefen that their wives, children, livestock and property are under the control of Jin Liang's central army, and Jin Liang will implement the mature administrative system of Jizhou and Prefecture to the grassland. Any place within a radius of 20 miles will build a dock fort, set up a Han pavilion chief, command the township soldiers, every ten pavilions set up as a county, by the Han county lieutenant to lead the county soldiers, every ten counties set up as a county, by the Han county lieutenant to lead the county soldiers. There is also a battalion of the 'elite' cavalry of the Central Army in each county, and the administrative and military governors at the three levels of county, county, and pavilion are all Han Chinese, and the officers above the rank of commander in each level of the army are Han Chinese. can only let Jin Liang drive.
The current Huns have just been reorganized into an army, and they have not yet been joined by the Central Army at all levels to do ideological work, have not been brainwashed, and have not had time to be sinicized, so they still have the idea that they are Huns and sons and daughters of the grassland, so when they heard Tuoba Jiefen's words, their morale began to be a little low.
Xianbei people think they are the masters of the grassland, in the face of the last twenty or thirty years have been pressed by them to beat, driven as the younger brother of the Southern Xiongnu, their psychological advantage is particularly obvious, so they let go of the fight, they even now defected to the Han Dynasty there Hun cavalry as Jin Liang's captive dog, originally came to beat the master, now the master sent a dog, is to see the master to fight more fiercely. Once the Xianbei people let go of the 'sex' to beat, the Southern Huns, who were used to being bullied by the Xianbei people, were a little afraid, and once there was fear in their psychology, their knives and guns began to become a little dull.
Xu Huang then understood why the lord sent this group of Hun cavalry over, because these Hun cavalry really couldn't resist the Xianbei cavalry, one Hun turned around and fled, and the rest of the Huns turned over and fled like a swarm of bees.
Fortunately, Xu Huang and the Han generals at all levels knew in advance that this was a battle that would be lost, and they were all prepared, caught in the crowd of Hun cavalry fleeing, retreated to Jilusai, and pretended to be in a hurry to escape while running, and dropped a lot of gold and silver treasures from their horses, fell into the dam ditch, and shone in the sun. *
Although Tuoba Jiefen trained the troops well, but the Xianbei people are nomadic people, these people are herdsmen, the herdsmen are no different from the peasants, and even worse in discipline, they saw the Han army fleeing, discarding gold and silver all the way, and followed in a chaotic manner.
Tuoba Jiefen was originally a arrogant guy, he always thought that the Han people in recent decades did not have any decent cavalry, all of them had to rely on hired foreign cavalry to get things done, like Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry, one-third of them were Qianghu people, Jin Liang hired the Southern Hun cavalry to work hard for himself, it was also normal, the Hun cavalry was defeated like a mountain, and it was all in his expectation. Tuoba Jiefen didn't think much about it, urged the war horse, chased after it, and he didn't continue to send scouts to climb the ditch slopes on both sides to check if there was an ambush.
The 40,000 Xianbei cavalry led by Tuoba Jiefen were like tigers entering the wolves, killing the Southern Xiongnu cavalry to the point that they were overturned on their backs and collapsed.
The Southern Huns couldn't get up with any thoughts of resistance at all, so they all hurried up their horses and fled for their lives, only Xu Huang and other hundreds of Han generals were busy riding their horses back and shooting, shooting a few Xianbei generals, and provoking the Xianbei people to continue to chase and kill.
When the last few cavalry of the Southern Huns came out of the dam ditch, the first few cavalry of the Xianbei people had already rushed out of the dam ditch, and on the slopes of the ditch on both sides of the dam ditch, 10,000 Han crossbowmen suddenly stood up, and the arrows were like rain, shooting at the Xianbei cavalry who were concentrating on chasing the Huns.
Jin Liang personally commanded this ambush battle, because he wanted to personally witness the destruction of the ancestors of the Northern Wei Emperor Wu Emperor Tuoba Tao, the Western Xia Tuoba Yuanhao, and the Xishun Tuoba Hongji.
Jin Liang found that Xianbei's war horse is obviously better than the war horse of the Southern Huns, the most obvious is that Tuoba Xianbei galloped here from the location of the tribe, and the Southern Huns came here, spending the same amount of time, Xianbei's war horse did not get tired at all, and held the Xianbei people steadily, on the other hand, the war horses of the Xiongnu have been spitting white gas, and some of the weaker war horses even foamed at the mouth, knelt on the ground, and threw the Hun cavalry off the horse, it seems that the Southern Huns are not Xianbei's opponents, except for the loss of people' In addition to the spirit, even the war horses are quite inferior, Jin Liang became interested in the 80,000 war horses ridden by the Xianbei people, and when he was in ambush, he quietly gave the order to shoot people and not horses.
In the past year, under the guidance of archery masters such as Jin Liang, Huang Zhong, and Cao 'sex', the archery level has grown rapidly, and now they can't do where to fight, but they can shoot and wound the Xianbei people without having to shoot their horses, and even don't have to shoot the Xianbei people to death, because Jin Liang found that the construction of the Hetao and the development of the prairie urgently need manpower, especially free manpower, so he ordered the army at all levels, On the premise that the tactical objectives can be guaranteed, as little as possible, as many prisoners as possible, capturing one person is twenty percent higher than killing one person, and there is no need to fight a war of annihilation in such an ambush battle with an advantage.
In an instant, ten thousand arrows were fired, shooting seven or eight thousand Xianbei cavalry who were caught off guard, only two or three thousand Xianbei cavalry were in pain, turning over from the war horse and falling, for a while, the war horse saw the master falling, and kept wailing, and the cavalry who fell to the ground kept wailing, wailing painfully, because the ambush of the central army was launched in a flash, and the pace of the Xianbei people chasing the Huns had not had time to stop, and the war horses behind had trampled on the Xianbei cavalry under the horse in front, and if they stepped on their limbs, they could still survive, If you step on your head and chest, you will die.
There were also five or six thousand Xianbei cavalry who were hit by arrows but did not hit the vital point, and turned their horses' heads fiercely, and wanted to rush to the ditch slopes on both sides.
The slopes on both sides of the dam ditch are barren and grassy, and can ambush 20,000 infantry, but the slope itself is not steep, and the Xianbei cavalry with 'fine' riding skills can rush up on horseback, once they rush up the ditch slope, it is a nightmare for the infantry of the Central Army.
The crossbowmen of the Central Army quickly put arrows on the crossbows and quickly retreated, and 10,000 sword and shield soldiers quickly stepped forward and erected the large shield that had been placed upside down on the ground, erecting a solid shield wall.
The arrows fired by the Xianbei cavalry during their charging were blocked by the shield wall, while the crossbowmen of the Central Army shot powerful arrows through the gaps in the shield wall.
The black 'colored' arrows, with great penetrating power, drilled into the bodies of those cavalrymen, because many Xianbei cavalry had already rushed to within a hundred paces, and the big yellow crossbow of the Central Army was aimed at their bodies accurately, and even. Precisely aimed at their thighs, these Xianbei cavalry did not have bilateral stirrups, but only used their legs to fight with their horses in the belly, once they were wounded in the thighs, they were unable to control the horses, and they would fall off the horses, and when the time came, they could not only obtain their horses, but also capture these free laborers.
The crossbowmen of the Central Army shot arrows one after another, shooting at the thighs of those Xianbei cavalry tightening their horses' bellies, with a terrible scream, blood splashed, flashing strange crystals in the afternoon sun, and the withered yellow weeds on the ditch slope were instantly dyed a strange red 'color'. Those Xianbei cavalry have fallen off the horse, these Xianbei people who have been used to living on horseback since childhood, and because there is no bilateral stirrup, they must use their legs to fasten the horse's belly, their legs have become Luo ring legs, once the thigh is injured, fall off the horse, and then want to get up and fight with the infantry of the Central Army, it is more difficult than climbing to the sky.
Jin Liang coldly glanced at the Xianbei cavalry who continued to fall under the horses, you nomadic barbarians, as long as we Han people are united and rely on the strong bows and crossbows developed by our smart brains, what can you do if you are more cavalry.
The bow of the Central Army is a strong bow of three stones, ordinary people want to become a qualified archer, they must exercise their arm strength and waist strength day after day, without strong enough arm strength and waist strength, they can't pull the three-stone bow at all, even with the elite of the Jinliang Central Army, there are only more than 10,000 qualified archers, and the rest are crossbowmen, because the strength spent on the crossbow is smaller than that of drawing the bow, and there is no need to train archery day after day for three years and five years to become a teacher, and a crossbowman who shoots accurately only needs six months to train well, Three months with a good understanding can be pulled out against the enemy.
Among the 10,000 crossbowmen, there were only 2,000 archers, but there were 8,000 crossbowmen, and these crossbowmen had gone out with the army many times, and they were very familiar with the battle, and under the command of the captain and battalion commander, they were methodically divided into three rows, and after one round of shooting, the second row of crossbowmen followed, and the third row of crossbowmen were advancing crossbows to the crossbows.
Within a hundred paces of distance, the crossbow arrows of the Central Army were simply not in vain, and the Xianbei cavalry suffered heavy losses, even if some of the Xianbei cavalry had superb riding skills, dodged the arrows of the Central Army, rushed to the shield wall, raised the spear and wanted to knock down the shield wall, but saw a spear suddenly poking out of the gap in the shield wall, and the sharp spear pierced the thigh of the Xianbei cavalry, and the Xianbei cavalry could no longer hold on and fell off the horse.
Tuoba Jiefen, who was safe and sound under the protection of several elite cavalry with large shields, was dumbfounded, he had heard that the bows and crossbows of the Han people were strong, but he did not expect them to be so strong.
Tuoba Jiefen wanted to retreat, but the rear cavalry reported that many boulders rolled down the ditch slope, blocking the exit from the dam to the Xiongnu's homeland.
Tuoba Jiefen once thought of continuing to rush towards the place where the Hun cavalry had been defeated. Just march to the chicken and deer stuff. But he knew that Jin Liang's cavalry had not yet been dispatched, and now the cavalry of the entire tribe was demoralized and exhausted, and they still wanted to rush to Jilusai, which was a dead end.
Tuoba Jiefen had made up his mind, so he ordered all the remnants of the tribe's cavalry to continue to charge the slopes of the ditch on both sides, and strive to break through the shield wall.
Tuoba Xianbei was able to establish many countries such as the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Southern Liang, the Western Xia, and the Great Shun hundreds of years later, which shows that this nomadic tribe has its own differences from ordinary people. Judging from the present, it is manifested in the fierceness of the Tuoba Xianbei people who are not afraid of death, and rush forward to kill without evading.
Those Xianbei cavalrymen who wanted to find death with a hideous face, they clamped their horses' bellies with their legs. Their legs were shot through, they grabbed the reins with both hands, their hands were shot through, and when their limbs were destroyed, they did not admit defeat and bit the horse's mane with their mouths, just because they did not want to be thrown off the horse, because in this situation of ten thousand horses galloping, they were either killed or injured, and it seemed that they had to be shot to death before they could admit defeat.
However, the spirit inherited by the Central Army from the lord Jin Liang is to let the enemy survive but not to die, and let the enemy live is more uncomfortable than dead. Of course, for the sake of economic interests, these free laborers will not be allowed to die heroically.
When those Xianbei cavalry who avoided the arrows of the archers of the Central Army or insisted on rushing to the shield wall even if they were shot a few arrows, in a vain attempt to use the momentum of their horses to break through the shield wall, they finally despaired, because the shields of the Central Army, whether they were iron shields or wooden shields, had a long pointed handle behind the shield, and this long handle was made of mixed iron, and the sword and shield soldiers could hold this shield handle when they were fighting to deal with the cavalry. The long handle was inserted into the ground, and the shield was inserted on the ground at a slight inclination, but the shield was more than half a person high, and the Xianbei cavalry was rushing from the bottom to the top, and there was no conflict at all. When the war horse hits the shield wall, it is actually colliding with the earth. There is no point in breaking the blood except for bumping into each other.
At this time, spears stretched out from the gaps in the shield and stabbed at the non-lethal places of the Xianbei cavalry, often just the right way to traumatize the Xianbei cavalry to the point of losing their ability to fight, and it was not appropriate to let him lose his life.
In front of the high shield walls on both sides, countless Xianbei cavalry had fallen, and they could still wail and breathe, but they just couldn't stand up and fight.
The layers of the fallen Xianbei cavalry in front, as well as the war horses that the fallen cavalry rode before, also affected the charge of the Xianbei cavalry behind, and the Xianbei cavalry fell into a disorderly chaos, while the orderly crossbowmen of the Central Army behind the shield wall calmly shot each of their arrows that hurt people without killing people, ensuring that the opponent was not shot but the opponent was incapacitated.
Only then did Tuoba Jiefen remember why Li Ling could use 5,000 infantry to defeat the Xiongnu and shoot more than 10,000 people with 80,000 cavalry, and the Han people's bow and crossbow battle array was really a nightmare for the children of the grassland.
Tuoba Jiefen glanced at the dam ditch, this shallow ditch has become Tuoba Xianbei's cemetery, no, most of the people lying on the ground are not corpses, but Xianbei men who are rolling and wailing and losing the ability to continue fighting, many of them have been scrapped, even if they are rescued, they can no longer be slashed immediately, they are completely wasted, but Tuoba Jiefen doesn't know that if these waste people do some general physical work, it is barely enough, this is the fundamental reason why Jin Liang left the lives of these Xianbei people, if it is changed to Jin Liang's previous temper, If you don't kill all these 40,000 Xianbei people, you will not give up.
Tuoba Jiefen was speechless, what should I do now?
Just when he was in a dilemma, Jin Liang gave an order to end Tuoba Jiefen's suffering.
Jin Liang turned over and got on his horse, and the red rabbit horse was like a red lightning bolt, leading 20,000 elite cavalry to rush in from the entrance of the dam ditch.
Tuoba Jiefen was surprised to see that the 20,000 cavalry led by Jin Liang were all wielding weapons with both hands, and they did not need to clamp their legs on the belly of the horse, and they sat firmly, and the 20,000 cavalry of Jin Liang were wielding long weapons, all of which were halberds, spears or spears, rather than the usual sabers.
Those remnants of the Xianbei cavalry raised their sabers and rushed forward, their short swords, before they could form a sword wind, the halberd of Jin Liang's elite cavalry had already picked them off.
Especially Jin Liang, he wielded the stone dragon broadsword, a halberd to pick up one, no matter how brave the Xianbei warriors are not his enemies, Jin Liang galloped on horseback, like chopping waves, the Xianbei cavalry that was originally congested in the dam ditch scattered and fled, the red rabbit horse was like a flying dragon in the sky, and the Tuoba Jiefen who stood under the banner of Xianbei came over.
The shield walls on both sides of the ditch slope suddenly opened, and those swords and shields that were originally shields on their shoulders held cold and shining scimitars, and rushed towards the Xianbei cavalry who had completely lost the ability to charge cavalry in the chaos. (To be continued.) )