Chapter 402 [Nomad's Nightmare!] 】

The Xianbei people thought they were the masters of the grassland, and in the face of the Southern Xiongnu who had been pressed and beaten by them in the past twenty or thirty years, and drove them to be the younger brothers, their psychological advantages were particularly obvious, so they let go of the fighting, and they even regarded the Hun cavalry who had now defected to the Han Dynasty as Wei Yan's captive dogs, which originally came to beat the master, and now the master sent a dog, which is to beat the master even more fiercely in front of the master. Once the Xianbei people let go of their temperament, the Southern Huns, who were used to being bullied by the Xianbei people, were a little afraid, and once they were psychologically afraid, 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, sandwiched in the crowd of Hun cavalry fleeing, retreating to Jilusai, while running, while pretending to be in a hurry to escape, a lot of gold and silver treasures fell from the horse, fell in the dam ditch, and glittered in the sun.

Although Tuoba Jiefen trained the troops well, but the Xianbei people are nomadic people, these people are herdsmen, herdsmen are no different from farmers, and they are even worse in discipline, they saw the Han army fleeing, discarding gold and silver all the way, and they followed in chaos to pick up.

Tuoba Jiefen was originally a arrogant guy, he has always thought that the Han people in recent decades have no decent cavalry, all of them have to rely on hired foreign cavalry to get things done, like Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry, one-third of them are Qianghu people, Wei Yan hired the Southern Hun cavalry to work hard for himself, it is also normal, the Hun cavalry is defeated like a mountain, and it is 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.

Wei Yan personally commanded this ambush battle, because he wanted to personally witness the fall of the ancestors of the Northern Wei Emperor Wu Emperor Tuoba Tao, the Western Xia Tuoba Yuanhao, and the Xishun Tuoba Hongji.

Tuoba Xianbei, who has been evil for more than 1,000 years, is about to be declared dead in this battle, and he will not do evil again.

Wei Yan found that Xianbei's war horses were obviously better than those of the Southern Huns.

The most obvious thing is that Tuoba Xianbei galloped here from the location of the tribe, and the Southern Huns came here, spending the same time, Xianbei's war horses were not tired at all, and they were holding the Xianbei people steadily, on the other hand, the Xiongnu's war horses have been spitting white gas, 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, in addition to losing the spirit of the people, even the war horses are quite inferior, Wei Yan became interested in the 80,000 war horses that the Xianbei people rode together, and when he was in ambush, he quietly gave the order to shoot people and not horses.

Changing to other troops, there is no way to carry out Wei Yan's intentions, but in the past year, under the guidance of Wei Yan, Tai Shici and other archery masters, the level of archery has grown rapidly, although they can't do it now, but they can shoot and wound the Xianbei people without having to shoot their horses, or even shoot the Xianbei people to death.

Wei Yan found that manpower was urgently needed for the construction of the Hetao and the development of the prairie, especially free manpower, so he ordered the army at all levels, on the premise that the tactical objectives could be guaranteed, to annihilate as little as possible, and to take as many prisoners as possible, and that capturing one person was twenty percent higher than killing one person.

In an instant, ten thousand arrows were fired, hitting 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 Wei 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, turned their horses' heads, 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 superb riding skills can rush up on horseback, once they rush up the ditch slope, it is a nightmare for the Wei infantry.

The Wei army's crossbowmen quickly put arrows on the crossbows while quickly retreating, and 10,000 sword and shield soldiers quickly stepped forward, erecting the large shield that had been lying on the ground and erecting a solid shield wall.

The arrows fired by the Xianbei cavalry during their charging were blocked by the shield wall, while the Wei archers shot powerful arrows through the gaps in the shield wall.

Black arrows, with great penetrating power, burrowed into the bodies of those cavalrymen.

Many Xianbei cavalry have rushed to within 100 steps, the Wei army's big yellow crossbow on the mountain, accurately aimed at their bodies, and even accurately aimed at their thighs, these Xianbei cavalry do not have bilateral stirrups, just use their legs to hold the horse's belly to ride the horse conflict, once their thighs are wounded, they are unable to control the war horse, they will fall off the war horse, when the time comes, they can not only get their war horses, but also capture these free labor.

The Wei army's crossbowmen shot arrows one after another accurately, shooting at the thighs of those Xianbei cavalry who were clenching their horses' bellies, and with a terrible scream, blood splashed, flashing a strange crystal light in the afternoon sun, and the withered yellow weeds on the slope of the ditch were instantly dyed a strange red. 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 Huan legs, once the thigh is injured, fall off the horse, and then want to get up and fight with the infantry of the Wei army, it is more difficult than climbing to the sky.

Wei Yan coldly glanced at the Xianbei cavalry who were constantly planting under the horses one after another, 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 with more cavalry.

The bow of the Wei 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 Wei Yan Wei 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 crossbow soldier 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, the crossbow arrows of the Wei 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 Wei 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 to the place where the Hun cavalry was defeated, and simply marched to Jilusai, but he knew that Wei Yan's cavalry had not yet been dispatched, and now the cavalry of the entire tribe was demoralized and exhausted, and he 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, Southern Liang, Western Xia, and Dashun after a few hundred years, which shows that this nomadic tribe has its own place that is different from ordinary people.

Those Xianbei cavalrymen who wanted to find death with a hideous face, they clamped the horse's belly 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 wasted, they did not admit defeat and bit the horse's mane with their mouths, just 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 shoot them to death, so they could admit defeat.

But the spirit that the Wei army inherited from the lord Wei Yan is to let the enemy survive and not to die, and it is more uncomfortable to let the enemy live than to die, of course, for the sake of economic interests, these free laborers will not die heroically.

When the Xianbei cavalry who avoided the arrows of the Wei army's crossbowmen or even if they were shot a few arrows and still insisted on rushing to the shield wall, vainly trying to use the momentum of their horses to break through the shield wall, they finally despaired!

Because the shield of the Wei army, whether it is an iron shield or a wooden shield, there is a long pointed handle behind the shield, this long handle is made of mixed iron, the sword and shield soldiers can hold this shield handle when fighting, when dealing with the cavalry, the long handle is inserted on the ground, and the shield is slightly inclined to the ground, but this shield is more than half a person high, and the Xianbei cavalry is rushing from the bottom to the top, but there is no conflict at all, the war horse hits the shield wall, in fact, it is colliding with the earth, except for hitting the head and breaking the bloodstream, it is meaningless.

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.

They can still wail and gasp, but they just can'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 Wei army crossbowmen behind the shield wall calmly shot each of their arrows that hurt people without killing people, ensuring that they did not shoot the other party but made the other party lose their ability to fight.

Tuoba Jiefen only remembered at this time, why Li Ling could use 5,000 infantry to defeat the Xiongnu and shoot more than 10,000 people with 80,000 cavalry, the Han people's bow and crossbow battle array is 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 Wei Yan left the lives of these Xianbei people, if it is changed to Wei Yan'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 as he was at the border of being caught in a dilemma, Wei Yan gave an order, ending Tuoba Jiefen's pain.

Wei Yan turned over his horse, and the black horse was like a black lightning, 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 Wei Yan 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 Wei Yan's 20,000 cavalry were wielding long weapons, all of which were long knives, spears or spears, not 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 long knives of Wei Yan's elite cavalry had already chopped them off.

Wei Yan wielded the Red Blood Knife and slashed one to death, no matter how brave the Xianbei warriors were, they were not his enemies.

Wei Yan galloped on his horse, like chopping waves, and the Xianbei cavalry that was originally congested in the dam ditch scattered and fled.

The black horse is like a flying dragon in the sky, and it will come to the Tuoba Jiefen who stands under the banner of Xianbei.