772. Defeat the Huns

The heavy cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion of the Zhu Wei Army entered the Chinese army area of the Huns in order to carry out the decapitation tactics, and the target was naturally directed at the Huns Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan.

Even if Luan Tihu Chuquan sent his most elite Shan Yu's personal guards to meet this Han heavy armored cavalry, and mobilized all the troops that could still be commanded to surround this Han heavy armored cavalry army, he still couldn't stop the heavy armored cavalry of Zhu Wei's army from charging at his position.

This made Luan Tihu Chuquan very annoyed, so he must also exterminate this Han army here in order to maintain his Shan Yu's prestige.

Of course, the more important reason for this, to be honest, is that Luan Tihu Chuquan is a little hot about the equipment on these Han cavalry, if he can completely annihilate this Han army and get the equipment on them, then the combat effectiveness of the Hun cavalry under his command can be increased several times.

It's just that when Luan Tihu Chuquan sent almost all the Huns in the rear to besiege and kill this Han heavy armored cavalry, he seemed to ignore the counterattack of Zhu Wei's army on the frontal battlefield.

Or at this moment, in the chaotic Hun army, Luan Tihu Chuquan has no time to take care of anything else.

Although he sent a large number of elite Hun cavalry to surround and kill this Han heavy cavalry, he himself was also targeted by the other party, as long as Luan Tihu Chuquan's Shan Yu Wang Qi moved, the other party would rush towards him.

Even though there were many elite Hun cavalry blocking this Han heavy cavalry, there was still no way to stop them from approaching in the direction of Shan Yu Wang Qi.

Later, Luan Tihu Chuquan had to keep Shan Yu Wang Qi away from his place, so that he could have a chance to stop and breathe, but this also caused Luan Tihu Chuquan's military order to be a little sluggish, so that the other Huns could not find their Shan Yu's location and could not report the battle situation in time.

Therefore, when Luan Tihu Chuquan found that the Han cavalry on the frontal battlefield had broken through his own attacking troops and counterattacked towards his side, it was too late for him to mobilize the army to block it.

It can be said that the nearly 6,000 heavy armored cavalry troops of the Tiger Wing Battalion led by Zhang Xiu, although they were firmly besieged by nearly 20,000 Huns, he also completely contained these Hun cavalry.

In this way, when Ma Teng counterattacked with the cavalry of the Fubo battalion, the Huns, who were still besieging and killing the Han heavy cavalry with all their might, did not put on any defensive formation to meet the offensive of the cavalry of the Fubo battalion.

As a result, Ma Teng led the cavalry of the Fubo battalion into the already chaotic battle situation here, which suddenly changed the battle situation here, and the lack of strength of the heavy armored cavalry that was originally surrounded was finally leveled, so that the strong combat effectiveness of the heavy armored cavalry was reflected again.

Under the two-phase attack of the heavy armored cavalry and the cavalry of the Fubo battalion, the Huns finally couldn't resist it completely, and the battle situation as a whole became that the cavalry of the Zhu Wei Army chased the Hun cavalry and killed.

When Luan Tihu Chuquan found that Zhu Wei's army was counterattacking from the front, he knew that the situation was not good, so he began to retreat to the northwest under the protection of more than 1,000 Hun cavalry.

"Woo woo woo ......"

With the sound of the Huns' withdrawal horn, all the Hun cavalry began to retreat to the northwest, but at this moment, the Huns, who originally had an army of 50,000, could still follow Luan Tihu Chuquan and run away, and there were less than 10,000 people.

At least 15,000 or 6,000 Huns were killed or wounded on the battlefield, and no less than 20,000 other Huns scattered and fled.

At this moment, the huge Hun army was like a mud scattered by a punch, completely lost its command and fled to the northwest, which was originally composed of many Hun tribes, and at this moment it was once again dispersed into countless Huns with tribes as a unit, and fled back in the direction of their respective tribes.

It was difficult for the Southern Huns to regain his Xiongnu army at this time, and even among the more than 10,000 Huns who were still fleeing with him, the tribal cavalry belonging to him only accounted for most of them.

The remaining Hun cavalry of other tribes, as Zhu Weijun continued to pursue and kill, was still dissipating little by little, and the Hun cavalry under Luan Tihu Chuquan would only become fewer and fewer.

After the Huns retreated, Ma Teng still led the cavalry of the Fubo battalion to chase and kill closely, he wanted to ensure that these Huns could not be gathered again, and he wanted to kill these Huns and never dare to invade Guanzhong again.

This is also the tactic that Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu discussed before, so for Ma Teng, the war has just reached the middle of the war, and he has to wait for the result of his pursuit of the Huns this time before this war ends.

The best thing is to catch up with the Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan, and if you catch the leader of the Huns, you can have a great influence on the Huns in the northwest and south of Bingzhou.

At this time, Zhang Xiu took the heavy armored cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion and began to cooperate with the logistics troops that came up to clean up the battlefield, and the heavy armored cavalry was not suitable for long-distance raids and pursuits, so what he had to do at this moment was to capture the prisoners and reap the dividends of this battle, such as the Hun prisoners, the war horses, cattle and sheep left by the Huns.

Although many Huns had fled, in addition to the Huns who were killed in battle, there were also many Huns who were only wounded on the battlefield.

Therefore, after killing the seriously wounded Huns, they still captured five or six thousand lightly wounded Huns, and these Huns could be transformed into slave laborers and slave soldiers to make up for the battle losses of Zhu Wei's army.

To tell the truth, this time Zhu Weijun defeated the 50,000 army of the Huns with a force of less than 26,000, and his own losses were not small.

In particular, the heavy armored cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, which forcibly broke into the Hun army, suffered almost the greatest damage since the formation of the army, and only more than 3,000 of the nearly 6,000 troops were left after the war.

Although it is not that the other nearly 3,000 heavy armored cavalry were killed in battle, most of these people were also seriously injured, and it will be difficult to return to the formation of heavy armored cavalry in the future.

This is also the reason why cavalry can only be a rare class in this year.

As in this battle, although the heavy cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion played a decisive role, they also lost nearly half of their troops because of the battle, but it is not a simple matter to restore the original strength of the troops.

If it is infantry, then it is natural to replenish the source of troops from the new barracks at any time, even if Zhang Liao's light cavalry wants to replenish the lost source of troops, it is relatively easy.

However, the source of heavy armored cavalry is not so easy to find, in addition to the requirements for physical fitness, war horse riding is also an important selection condition.

Previously, Zhu Wei could only merge Zhang Xiu's original Xiliang cavalry with part of Lu Bu's side and the state cavalry because he couldn't find a suitable source of troops, thus forming the number of heavy armored cavalry today.

Now if you want to replenish the establishment of heavy cavalry, it is estimated that you can only find a way to recruit troops in the northwest and Liangzhou, but this will naturally take time.

It can be said that although this battle was a great victory over the Huns and eliminated the threat of the Huns to Guanzhong, the heavy cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion was difficult to use for the time being......