The next day, no trace of the Huns was found, Gao Shun and others checked the terrain around the three forks, so that they knew it well, and at the same time, Li Qiang and Gao Shun agreed on the location of the fortress to be built in the future. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Xiong and others piled up a few piles of rocks in the Zhujiachuan River to block the passage of the Huns, so that they could only go up the Qinglian River; Moreover, several sections of breastwork more than one meter high were built along the east bank of the river to facilitate the protection of oneself and the fight against the enemy.

On the third day, the tenth day of the fifth month, Gao Shun and others had just finished breakfast, and there were bursts of piercing gongs from the high places of the western hills, which was a signal for the Hun cavalry to attack.

Li Qiang shouted excitedly: "Hahaha, these barbarians are finally here, let me wait." ”

Shi Chang said: "General, the Hun cavalry is still at least 20 miles away, and it will take at least 2 hours to reach here. ”

Li Qiang said dissatisfiedly: "Then what kind of gong are you knocking, let me be excited in vain." ”

Gao Shun said to Li Qiang: "Don't embarrass them. ”

"Hey, hey! General, I'm not thinking about killing the enemy. Li Qiang said embarrassedly.

Gao Shun ignored him, but said to Shi Chang: "Okay, you have done a good job, you now concentrate the soldiers, return to Taoyuan Fort as soon as possible, and report the situation here to Captain Ma, so that they can prepare for battle." ”

"Yes, General." Immediately after the long salute, he went to arrange a retreat.

An hour later, the two soldiers stationed in the western hills returned and reported to Gao Shun: "General, the enemy is all cavalry, the journey is very fast, it is estimated that he does not carry a large amount of baggage, and he can reach here at about noon. ”

"Okay, you are doing a good job, immediately follow your chief back to Taoyuan Fort to rest."

"Yes, General."

By noon, the sound of "rumbling" horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and Gao Shun and the others had already waited for the arrival of the Hun cavalry after a full meal.

At half past 12, the Huns marched along the valley of the Zhujiachuan River, less than 100 meters away from Gao Shun and others who were waiting at the three-way crossing.

Each man carried his bow and hung his arrows and was ready for battle.

Gao Shun hid behind the breastwork and said, "Don't move, get closer to 10 meters before shooting." ”

The breastwork was facing the direction from which the Hun cavalry was coming; The river valley is more than 30 meters deep, and if it is condescending, it will definitely miss the arrows, while it is difficult for the enemy's bow and arrow to shoot so high, and when the time comes, it can only be beaten passively.

Li Qiang reported the enemy's whereabouts from time to time, "General, there is still a distance of 50 meters!" ”

"Keep waiting!"

"Thirty meters to go!"

"Twenty meters to go!"

"We've crossed the 10-meter line!"

Gao Shun stood up, took out his bow and arrows, prepared to shoot, and shouted, "Kill the enemy!" ”

6 people shot arrows quickly, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", each fired 3 arrows, and more than 10 Hun cavalry who walked in the front line were immediately shot under their horses.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The Huns kept shouting.

When the Huns in front saw that the troops in front of them were attacked, they knew that they were ambushed and immediately stopped, but the people behind did not stop immediately, and the men and horses were crowded together, and they were very confused. The Hun cavalry within the range of bows and arrows squeezed back desperately, and the scene became even more crowded.

Some Hun cavalry fired back, but the height of their arrows was limited, and they could not pose a threat to Gao Shun and others at all, so they could only scream angrily "wow".

After shooting for a while, I felt that the effect of the bow and arrow was not great, and the Huns had retreated outside the range of the bow and arrow, leaving a corpse in one place, at this time Gao Shun and others took out a strong crossbow and fired it at the enemy's dense place, and more Huns were shot.

The retreat of the Hun cavalry was not smooth; And Gao Shun and others unhurriedly stretched the strings, loaded the arrows, aimed at the target through Wangshan, and then pulled the hanging knife back, the crossbow arrows shot out at high speed, "poof", the huge impact of the crossbow arrows, directly penetrated the chest of a Hun cavalry, brought out a burst of blood mist, and the unlucky ones behind were either killed or injured, causing secondary damage to the Hun cavalry. Because Gao Shun and others used a 9-stone pedal crossbow, although the rate of fire was slow, the range was long, and the hit rate was high, and they could hit the crowded Hun cavalry every time.

Those crowded Hun cavalry, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, could only be beaten passively.

In 10 minutes, there were no Hun cavalry within range.

The Huns gradually shrank back, away from the range of the strong crossbow, and Gao Shun and the others stopped shooting.

"Haha, it's nice and cool to shoot like this." Li Qiang was greatly satisfied with the results.

Gao Shun estimated that at least more than 100 Huns were killed and more injured by their shooting.

In the past, they were all close combat, and they did not pay attention to the range of the crossbow, but this time it was condescending, the range of the crossbow was very long, estimated to be more than 200 meters, and the Huns underestimated, and retreated again and again, still within the range of the crossbow, which made their casualties exceed expectations.

Cao Shan said: "Shi Chang, it is convenient to kill the enemy now, if they climb up, our shooting effect will not be so good." ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Gao Shun instantly thought of the stirrup, the temporary strength was low, and it was inconvenient to expose the stirrup, so he replaced it with a rope, so he took out a thumb-thick hemp rope from the space ring, made a few strokes in the saddle, adjusted the length, and then fixed it, and tied it in knots at both ends to make it two fixed collars.

"General, what are you doing here?"

"Haha, this is a sharp weapon to kill the enemy; These two rings are for the feet, and I have named them stirrups, so that you can reflexively shoot arrows on your galloping horses to kill the enemy. Gao Shun said proudly: "Everyone has to learn my way to handle it." ”

"Yes, General." Although everyone had doubts about Gao Shun's words, they still acted separately.

"Don't cut the end of the rope first, and leave a margin to adjust the height of the ankle ring." Gao Shun instructed again.

Everyone was very fast, only more than ten minutes, according to Gao Shun's method to install the rope stirrup, Gao Shun said: "Let's get on the horse to test the effect, and then adjust the height of the foot ring." ”

Except for Sun Cheng, who was still monitoring the Huns, everyone rode on their horses, put their feet in the foot ring, first walked in the camp, then trotted, and made a few movements to turn around and shoot back.

After a while, everyone returned to dismount.

Gao Shun just looked at their excited expressions and knew that the effect was good.

Li Qiang said: "General, convenience is convenience, but Le's foot hurts." ”

Gao Shun looked at his ankle ring and said, "You are not careful enough, you see that I am tying a dead knot, and you are tying a slipknot, of course Le's foot hurts; Let's carefully observe the knots I tie and try again after adjusting them. ”

Everyone observed each other, and Cao Shan studied carefully, only he tied a dead knot. Cao Shan said: "General, you are so powerful, in this way, you can easily reflexively shoot arrows, this time you must kill the Huns." ”

"Hehe, we are small in number, we can't kill many enemies, it's enough to teach them a profound lesson, I hope they learn a lesson, and don't fight our bad ideas in the future." Gao Shun doesn't want to have a full-scale confrontation with the Huns now, otherwise he will only cheapen the Xianbei people.

Li Qiang suggested: "General, in that case, let's put the Huns up to fight!" ”

Gao Shun analyzed: "Two fists are hard to beat four hands, no matter how powerful we are, we can't fight against so many Huns, we can only rely on the terrain, so that they can't exert themselves, and gradually consume their vital strength; If we put it up to fight, we won't be able to kill many people, and if they implement the tactics of crowds and charge without their lives, we will only have to flee for our lives. ”

Li Qiang smiled awkwardly and stopped talking.

Gao Shun arranged: "Zhou Fei went to replace Sun Cheng, and Cao Shan helped Sun Cheng set up stirrups." ”

"Yes, General!"

The steppe cavalry units are all masters of roundabout warfare, and seeing that the road ahead is impassable, the commander immediately sent people to inspect the line, bypass the obstacles in front of him, and it is best to go around the rear of the opponent and surround the enemy; At the same time, two hundred-man teams were sent to seize the high ground on both sides of the river valley to avoid being attacked again.

The centurion who had withdrawn from the front was very annoyed by the surprise attack, and he was very distressed by the loss of so many soldiers, so he immediately approached the commander and suggested: "Commander, I can see from the density of the enemy's bows and arrows that the number of enemies is very small, send people to surround them as soon as possible, and it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart if I don't chop them all into pulp." ”

The commander didn't dare to be careless, he lost a hundred-man team last time, and this time he lost a hundred-man team, which greatly damaged his strength; And fighting here, the terrain is very unfavorable to them, and said: "Don't be in a hurry, first go find someone who is familiar with the local terrain and bring it as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Commander!"