Just like hunting, the Donghu people also have a clear division of labor when plundering, and they are very sensitive to ambushes, so they always have to place some elite horsemen outside the large army, scatter in all directions, and climb high and look into the distance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info can be said to say that if the entire Donghu tribe is compared to a prairie eagle hunting, then these sentry horses are the eyes of the eagle, and on the huge prairie, no wind and grass within a hundred miles can escape these eyes and ears.

Therefore, when the large army of the Zhao army surrounded the Donghu people's garrison, there was no way to guarantee a secret approach, and more than 20 miles away, the Zhao army's vanguard first encountered wave after wave of Donghu rangers.

These people, wearing felt hats and rudimentary animal skins, were drinking horse wine in makeshift tents. After discovering the Zhao army, the Donghu people who were on guard on the periphery shouted and warned loudly, and jumped on their horses, some of them turned around and ran in the direction of the main camp, and the other part tried to come over to intercept them, but halfway through the run, they found that the number of Zhao army's forwards was more than their own, and they also turned around and fled.

The vanguard of the Zhao army was not numerous, only a few hundred, all of them were archers, they went to foreign lands, eager to make achievements, how could they let go of the tail that they did not agree to catch? Immediately chased after him.

However, the Donghu people are simply natural riders, and although Zhao Qi is diligent and hard-working, he is not as good as them who have lived on horseback since childhood. Seeing that there were still dozens of steps to be caught up by the Zhao army's forward, several Donghu rangers suddenly turned sideways, only controlled the horses with their legs, let the horses run sideways forward, raised the riding bow in their hands and turned around, but heard the bowstring collapse and sound, and the sparse light arrows shot backwards.

A Zhao horse couldn't dodge, the arrow hit the chest, and he fell to the ground; The rest of the horses were also shot, and their front hooves rolled to the ground, throwing the rider a few steps away.

This is an extremely difficult archery technique, with a saddle and stirrups, it is indeed the icing on the cake for the Donghu people, they can even have the courage to intersperse between the gaps of Zhao Qi, and also stand up with the stirrup, and open the bow with their right hand. Not all of them were equipped with saddles and stirrups, but they still ran the freak.

Not to be outdone, the cavalry of the Zhao army either opened their bows and arrows, or took out crossbows that had been prepared for a long time, and fired back. It's just that their riding and archery skills may be good compared to ordinary people, but they are still slightly inferior to the Donghu people who have been riding sheep and horses since they were children and shooting foxes and rabbits. In a short time, several Zhao cavalry forwards had already fallen off their horses, but there were very few injured Donghu people, and in this back and forth, Donghu rangers ran farther and farther.

The forward cavalry of the Zhao army could only stop, and while their faces were full of unwillingness, they also had lingering fears about the good riding and shooting of the Donghu people.

"A few Donghu rangers are so strong and difficult to chase and destroy, let alone thousands of Donghu main forces?"

After a while, the Donghu rangers, who were more familiar with the terrain and landforms, ran to a slightly safer place, lit the dry wolf dung, and as the dark solitary smoke covered the sky, the news of the enemy's attack had been transmitted to the Donghu leader Liuhe.

Liuhe's felt tent was set up on a small hill, and the tent mouth faced southeast, and when he saw a burst of wolf smoke rising from the west, he immediately stood up, drew his scimitar and held it in his hand, closed his eyes again, and prayed to the gods of Donghu and the goddess of Chishan for revelation.

After muttering a few words on the spot, he made a judgment.

"Retreat! The ministries gave up their tents and heavy money! “

There is nothing wrong with his response, because to survive in the cruel grassland, the Donghu people are very vigilant in camping, and they must leave two horses in the camp, and they will not unsaddle at night to prevent accidents. In case of danger, they only need to mount their horses, set up their cars, and run away at any time.

It's a pity that he chose the wrong path.

"Retreat! Evacuate to Osawa! ”

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A day later, Raole was on the way to Dalenor.

The vast and empty grassland stretches out in front of the main force of Donghu, flat and vast to the end of the pole, and unlike Dalainuoer Lake, which is mistaken for "sea" by the Donghu people, this is a real ocean - a sea of grass. Here, the hills and mountains of the remnants of the gravel mountains are gone, and even the woods, towns and roads are gone, only the endless grasslands.

The climate of the northern grassland is cold, the grassland begins to be green in March, begins to flourish in May, and withers in August.

But in the harbor of this sea of grass bloomed a dark red flower, which was a dry bloodstain, the head that had been cut off from the shoulder of the Donghu people of Dalainorr a few days ago, and a broken neck with a little blood, black hair entangled, and eyes wide, hundreds, thousands.

Looking at the head that was thrown at the feet of the Zhao army like a demonstration and allowed to be trampled by the horse's hooves, Liu He, the leader of Donghu, trembled with anger.

After he encountered the advance of the Zhao army a hundred miles away in the south, he immediately made the decision to retreat, but it was a pity that he chose the wrong way, and the Donghu people never expected that there was already a group of thousands of Zhao army infantry waiting for them in the upper reaches of Raole Water. Unexpectedly, these Zhao people had already swept away their spring grazing land, Dalainuoer, the men were slaughtered, and the women and children were strung together by ropes, only to be taken to Daijun as prisoners after the war and presented to the Marquis of Zhao......

But now, Liu He and more than 10,000 Donghu people don't even have the time to mourn and resentment for those clansmen who died tragically, because as the Zhao army of the Post Cheng Department rode out in front, in the rear, the two Zhao armies of Xinzhigou and Xu Qu had also hit the Donghu people like a big pincer, and their forward was only more than ten miles away!

Almost all sides were blocked, and the nearest grazing place, Dalenor, had also been occupied by the Zhao army, and the Donghu people were in a dilemma......

As the first male on the grassland, the cunning Liu He had faintly realized that a powerful enemy was coming, and he had never been so close. This is a critical moment related to whether Donghu can continue, whether to go one step further and become the master of the eastern and western grasslands, or to die and be wiped out, so that Donghu will be wiped out before it fully rises, it all depends on his decision at this moment......

"Poof!" Liu He rode on his horse and drew his sword: a curved bronze short sword, the steppe people of this era did not have iron scimitars, and most of the weapons were copper and stone, Liu He's sword was the best among them, the golden hilt of the sword glittered with rubies, and the bronze blade reflected the sun.

"There is no room for two eagles on the grassland, whether it is Zhao or Donghu, it depends on today's battle!"

……

"Huang Zhen flag, Liuhe must be under this flag!"

Looking at the main force of Donghu that was half surrounded by the Zhao army, although they were out of breath after a long journey, the new young dog still had bright eyes, and after rushing on the grassland for more than a month, and paying the price of the annihilation of the two thousand Yan army, they finally caught the cunning tiger wolf of Liuhe.

Thinking that this battle will determine the ownership of the grassland for the next hundred years, and the enmity between Tu He and Donghu's Qingxiong Huang Zhen will also be completely divided today, the new young dog is extremely excited.

But he didn't dare to be careless, as a native of Daibei, he knew very well the strength of the Donghu people, at this moment, although surrounded by the Zhao army on three sides, but under the waving of the banner of Liuhe, driven by the innate warlike genes, the Donghu people still made the most appropriate judgment.

Liuhe set aside 3,000 people to monitor the Post Division, and then aimed the main direction of attack at the Xu Qu and Xinzhi Dog Divisions, which had just arrived and were still not in formation. Because he expected that the postal department was waiting for work, and there were many cavalry, but the two chasing troop chariots, foot and cavalry behind each had some, and they were arriving one after another, and they had not yet formed an array, and it seemed better to break through.

A large number of Donghu rangers rushed directly to the banner of the new childish dog, ready to harass these Zhao Junbu riders who had not yet completed the formation. They relied on riding ** Zhan, shuttling in front of the formation and shooting light arrows with their riding bows, trying to lure Zhao Jun out to fight and disrupt their formation, but the new puppies were not fooled.

"Once the Donghu people encounter the enemy formation, they will continue to gather together, gather or disperse, or go out or not, come like the sky falls, go like thunder. These rangers constantly harassed our front, luring our soldiers to leave or waver, and once the formation was unstable, the Donghu people hiding behind the rangers would rush in on horseback and concentrate their assault on the weakest position, which would cause the entire army to collapse. ”

"It's similar to Zhao Jun's Crow Soldier Star Array, how should I deal with this situation?" The military clerk next to him hurriedly recorded it on the wooden board.

"It's not difficult to say, first of all, there must be an impregnable stronghold to protect the army in the rear to complete the formation." At this time, he heard the rumbling sound of the wheel, and the new dog looked back to see that Xu Qu's chariot soldiers had arrived, although they were tired enough, but they were also enough to fight.

"Please ask the Xu army to set up a Wugang chariot formation with chariots and soldiers, and use this as our stronghold, in this way, Hu Lu will definitely have nothing to do!"

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Chariots, the overlords of land warfare in the Bronze Age, began to change from an absolute main force to a secondary position after the rise of the infantry phalanx. After the Zhao clan first advocated cavalry and won the imitation of other countries, it accelerated and gradually withdrew from the war stage, and now Chu is still equipped with a large number of chariots, and the rest of the countries either change to cavalry, or only pay attention to foot soldiers.

However, in the Zhao State, as Sun Wu's art of war was introduced one after another and was applied to practice, the chariot was once again developed by Sun Tzu and became an indispensable armament in the Zhao army.

Wugang car came into being in this situation. This chariot is not quite the same as the previous chariot, more similar to the chariot, two zhang long and one zhang four wide. In peacetime, soldiers, food, grass, and weapons were transported. But when it was time to fight, after being covered with cowhide rhinoceros armor, tied with spears, and erected a strong shield, the Wugang chariot was transformed into a shelter for the soldiers.

At present, in the face of the harassment of Donghu rangers, the 2,000 chariots led by Xu Qu arranged hundreds of Wugang chariots in the front row to become a strong fortress, and there were shooting holes on the cars, so that archers could shoot arrows through the shooting holes in the car, because the distance of foot shooting was farther than that of cavalry shooting, and it was difficult for Donghu's rangers to get close to it. They tried to circle the formation, but were forced back by the cavalry infantry placed on the flanks by the new dogs.

Sure enough, seeing the Zhao army in such a formation, the Liuhe side was a little confused, they also fought with the chariots of the Yan Kingdom, but those chariots were bulky and slow, and they couldn't catch up with the speed of the Donghu cavalry at all, like a clumsy old cow being preyed on by a pack of wolves, and had no ability to resist, but the chariots of the Zhao army were different, they formed a formation, like a herd of cattle working together, the spearmen and bows and arrows on the chariot were like the sharp horns of the ox, if the wolf rushed to pounce, it would be overwhelmed.

Liu He didn't dare to be careless, and after letting the rangers try to harass them several times to no avail, he scolded hatefully: "If the enemy does not have many soldiers, you can also ride around and slack the sentry, and send a shot from time to time to make the enemy work." Holding each other for a long time, the enemy army will go on a hunger strike and lack of water, the array will shake, and the army will rush over, and there is no one who will not collapse, and now the enemy is outnumbered and surrounded, and those methods are helpless against them! ”

So Liu He asked the riders of the Postal Department to stop the north from dragging wooden rakes and branches, so that the dust rose to the sky, covering the battlefield on this side, so as to delay time, and here, he used the old trick of Donghu and the Yan army.

Donghu is generally one person and two horses, now there are nearly 10,000 riders, but there are nearly 20,000 horses and cart cattle, Liuhe is ruthless, let people concentrate 5,000 cattle and horses that no one rides, and keep driving them, let them rush towards Wugang car!

This recruiting horse stirs up the land, which is the killer weapon of Liuhe, which has been crisscrossing the grassland for ten years, and there are few undefeated people in the enemy position.

However, compared to the arrows shot in the Wugang chariot array, the spears lined up densely, and the torches thrown out, the driving and whipping of the Donghu riders was nothing to the cattle and horses, and the herd stopped in front of the Wugang chariot, and there were even some that reversed the array of the Donghu people and scattered them......

There were also some cattle and horses running to the left and right, and these rampaging beasts did break up part of the Taiyuan infantry phalanx that had just finished arranging the formation, and trampled on dozens of people......

But on the whole, Liu He's move was still useless, and he didn't have time to make a new reaction, but he saw that the originally airtight Wugang car formation re-emitted a rumbling sound of wheels, and the mile-long car formation began to slowly separate to both sides......

The 500 Wugang chariots changed from a defensive array in one line to a glaive type arranged on the left and right flanks, replaced by 3,000 armor soldiers in the middle, and 2,000 cavalry on both sides as mobile troops. In this way, it can not only defend against the enemy's attack, but also take the initiative to attack the enemy. As the Wugang car slowly moved forward, the formation, which was only used as a defense, began to turn into a surprise heavy battle formation!

In close combat, the infantry showed their skills under the cover of the military vehicles, and the spears on the military vehicles could also effectively kill the enemy. The cavalry that followed the chariot could both get cover and support the chariot.

In short, the Zhao army's formation of infantry, cavalry, and chariot soldiers coordinated with each other was very effective in both defense and offense.

Seeing that the Donghu people continued to retreat under the pressure of the great array, Xu Qu couldn't help but admire: "Except for Sun Wuzi and Junhou, who would have thought that riding can defeat the car, and the car can also defeat the ride!" ”

The large array of carts, infantry, and cavalry coordination has been formed, and the Zhao army began to slowly advance towards the Donghu people who were poor in donkey skills, and in the north, behind the smoke and dust stirred up by the Donghu people, a cavalry wearing heavy armor also appeared in front of everyone with their heavy steps......

In the contest between the farming people and the nomads, this time it was the people of the city who took the lead, and the Donghu people widened their eyes, this was the first time they had confronted the heavy cavalry of the Zhao State, known as the "Iron Horseman......