The battle continued until dark, and both sides withdrew their troops.

When Sun Cheng, Cao Shan and the others returned, they were covered in blood, but they were so happy to kill.

Gao Shun said: "Don't be happy yet, let's go see the wounded first and count the battle damage." ”

In the war of cold weapons, 1,000 enemies were killed and 800 were self-inflicted; Even with the huge advantage, more than 3,000 high-ranking cavalry and more than 4,000 high-ranking infantry were killed and wounded in the afternoon battle.

Fortunately, there are a large number of senior medical workers on Gaoshun's side, who can clean and suture wounds, but there are still a large number of people who become lifelong disabilities; Gao Shun was very happy to be able to save their lives.

The number of casualties among the barbarians was even higher, and unfortunately their wounded were left to die.

The people of the Otsuki clan have been frightened, their will to fight is the lowest, and they have the most casualties, and the 10,000 cavalry is almost completely annihilated.

The Xianbei king Tuoba is weak but full of confidence, they have more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and they still occupy an absolute advantage; He was annoyed that the Xiongnu were not good at taking advantage of their own advantages and fought to the death with the Han people, and they were brave.

For everyone's incomprehension, Xiongnu Shan Yu also had his bitterness, so he explained to everyone: "The reason why this arrangement is made today is to test the combat effectiveness of the Han army, and second, to reduce the vigilance of the Han people. ”

Tuoba Liwei asked, "Now that the temptation has come out, I don't know what Shan Yu's plan is?" ”

Shan Yu said: "The advantage of the Han people is that they are backed by the city, and their disadvantage is that the number of officers and soldiers is much less than ours; Lonely plan, tomorrow continue to let the Han people challenge, away from their city, we can take the opportunity to send a large army to surround them, and send an army to block the connection between them and the city, relying on superior forces, first eat this part of their outings, then the Han army in the city will not be afraid. ”

Everyone felt that this was a good plan, and they all agreed to continue the battle tomorrow.

For those barbarians, it is really difficult for them to come up with such a strategy.

The officers and soldiers of those attached to the small tribes were victims in their eyes.

The next day, Ma Gui and others continued to play, and the formation was similar to yesterday; Gao Shun was still watching the battle from the city.

The barbarians continued to send the officers and soldiers of the subordinate tribes as infantry, holding spears made of trees, in several columns, but instead of attacking, they stuck the heels of the spears into the earth, and lined up the large wooden shields to defend in place, otherwise the heavy spears nearly six meters long would not be effective at all.

Subsequently, they sent 30,000 cavalry on each side to surround the 60,000 Han troops; Later, 60,000 Hun cavalry came out of the battle, directly interspersed between the Han army and the city, these 50,000 people were the main force of the Huns, of which 30,000 dealt with the Han people in the encirclement, and 30,000 blocked the Han reinforcements.

Seeing this situation, Ma Gui guessed that the barbarians wanted to annihilate them completely, so he ordered to immediately change the formation, with the infantry outside, the cavalry inside, the bed crossbow in the east, and the strong crossbow in the west.

On the outside of the circular defensive array, there were also three rows of huge repulsive horses to prevent the barbarian cavalry from charging into formation.

Ma Gui was in the center, and Sun Cheng and others were separated from each other to command.

Gao Shun stood at the head of the city and also saw the mind of the barbarian; He was ready to wait for the war to begin, and according to Ma Gui's situation, he would carry out a counter-encirclement of the barbarians, and it would be best to annihilate all the barbarians.

Xiongnu Shan Yu and Xianbei King and others are very satisfied with the current situation, these surrounded Han troops, no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, will definitely die; So they began to beat the drums and ordered the army to attack.

Li Qiang demanded that he take the lead in dealing with the barbarian cavalry on the east and west sides, so the bed crossbow took the lead in power, shooting out a sharp arrow, and rushed straight to the barbarian cavalry.

Until the arrows are exhausted, the barbarian cavalry cannot get close.

In history, Li Ling led 5,000 infantry and 80,000 Huns to fight in Junji Mountain, killing countless enemies, and finally ran out of arrows, and was defeated and captured.

At that time, Li Ling adopted this formation and tactics.

The barbarian cavalry charged again and again, but they all returned in vain, losing a large number of cavalry in vain, and in the end, the barbarians on the east side had to adopt the method of besieging but not attacking.

On the west side, whenever the barbarian cavalry approached, thousands of crossbows were released at the same time, and the rain of arrows made the people of the Otsuki clan on the west side frightened.

By noon, the war was at a stalemate.

In this case, Gao Shun did not send reinforcements, but hoped that Ma Gui would continue to consume the living force of the barbarians.

In the afternoon, Ma Gui quietly transferred half of the bed crossbow to the south side, and took advantage of the long range and great power of the bed crossbow to attack the barbarian infantry.

"Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh......

The bed crossbow continued to shoot powerful arrows into the enemy's infantry formation, no matter how thick the shield was, it was shattered by a single blow, and the shield and pikemen in the front line were killed and wounded countless times, and the formation was chaotic.

The officers and soldiers of the trapped camp immediately attacked, killing the barbarian infantry in the formation.

Having lost the cover of shields and spears, the infantry behind them was simply unable to stop the attacks of the officers and men of the trapped camp.

10,000 high-ranking infantry followed, expanding the victory.

The Xiongnu Shan Yu immediately sent 20,000 cavalry to support from the left and right sides, preparing to divide and surround this part of the Han army; Ma Gui immediately withdrew the infantry and the officers and soldiers of the trapping camp, and before they retreated, they also took the spears that were six meters long.

Most of the Han army's attacks were far beyond the attacks, and they were so powerful that they caused great casualties to the barbarians; And the barbarians did not approach the Han army formation at all in the morning, and did not cause many casualties to the Han army.

Gao Shun, Ma Gui and others were very satisfied with the results of the morning; The officers and men who were surrounded were not afraid, and they felt that if the situation was dangerous, His Majesty would send reinforcements to meet them.

And Ma Gui and the others had a large amount of food and arrows and other materials in their rings, and they were not worried about the shortage of logistics materials at all.

The Huns, feeling that the infantry were useless, let them withdraw and let the cavalry take their place.

Xianbei King Tuoba Liwei suggested: "Shan Yu, don't rush to attack, just surround them, it is estimated that after three days, its army will be chaotic, and at that time, there will be unexpected gains." ”

The Xiongnu had already planned for a long time, since the Han army had fallen into their encirclement, it was a boiled duck, how could they let them escape? Therefore, the Xiongnu ordered the infantry who had retreated from the battlefield to dig a trench, surround the Han army in the trench, and trap them.

Digging a trench in the frozen soil was not an easy task, and the barbarians had to give up; Subsequently, they made a large number of defense materials such as horses and antlers, and surrounded the Han army camp layer by layer.

The next day, Gao Shun sent infantry out of the city to fight, using strong crossbows and bed crossbows to continuously kill the Hun cavalry that blocked them from a long distance.

In order to cooperate with Gao Shun's attack, Ma Gui also transferred a part of the bed crossbow to attack the Hun cavalry on the north side, making a gesture of breaking through.

In order not to break the encirclement, the Huns died in batches under the bed crossbow and strong crossbow.

In order to relieve the pressure of the Xiongnu cavalry, the Xiongnu had to order several other troops to launch an attack on the Han army in the encirclement; They estimated that when the Han army ran out of arrows, they could only be captured.

In such a war, the Han suffered few casualties, but the barbarians suffered heavy casualties; However, they had their own numerical superiority, and they had no choice but to eliminate the Han army in the encirclement.

Gao Shun and Ma Gui had the same thoughts, that is, they continued to consume the barbarians' living force before the decisive battle, but they gave them a glimmer of hope, so that the barbarians would not flee in despair.