Chapter 82: Defeat
But the Huns didn't know that this was just the beginning, in addition to the conventional means of tripping horses and chopping knives, a strategic means to deal with the Hun cavalry that few people thought of in this era was also used, that is, the horse nail.
The protective property of the horseshoe for the war horse is self-evident, but this is the most easily ignored part, even the Huns, who are known as the people of the steppe and the horse nation, did not think of this, and if it were not for Lu Bu, a person with the soul of later generations, the cavalry in Lu Bu's army would not have put a horsehoe on the hooves of the war horse, and now those craftsmen in the army have been able to master this craft, and there will be no more such thing as nailing the horse's hoof to the horse's hooves before or never being allowed to enter the door.
And now it is precisely because of Lu Bu's presence that he has seen through such a life gate as the Hun war horse, which is more lethal than the stumbling horse rope and the horse chopper for them, just when those "bantam tigers" and the Han soldiers who stumbled over the horse rope completed their mission and wanted to retreat, they also threw the horse nails they were carrying that had been made by the craftsmen in the army to the ground.
On the originally flat ground, a large number of sharp nails glowing with cold light under the reflection of the rising sun appeared, these nails are somewhat similar to the pushpins of Lu Bu's previous life, that is, one side is a plane, and the other side is a sharp nail, and only in this way can the nails stand up sharply and face upwards, and the lethality of the enemy's war horses is the greatest.
The Hun cavalry rushed here, but once again fell a person on his back and turned over, and this time it was obviously more severe than the front, because if those Huns were thrown off their horses, the Zama nails covered on the ground were also lethal to them, and because they fell hard, the inertia was very great, even if they saw that there seemed to be a trap below, they didn't have time to restrain their bodies at all, so that those sharp Zama nails were directly nailed into their bodies, and a large piece of blood instantly stained their clothes, The screams converged.
Seeing the Hun cavalry behind this scene, they couldn't help but shudder. At this time, the head that was full of anger from the surprise attack gradually calmed down. Seeing that this round of sprinting down hit several traps of the enemy in a row, and before they encountered an enemy, they lost thousands of people first, and many people began to retreat, and they paused in front of the corpses of those robes, and began to hesitate and wander.
At this time, Lan Huluye, as the temporary commander of the First Army, had already stepped on his own war horse. Seeing this scene from a distance behind, he was first surprised, then furious, and he couldn't retreat no matter what, this was his bottom line, if he was just frightened by the enemy like this. Then what kind of war are they fighting, just go home and farm.
In fact, although these traps of the Lu Bu army really frightened a large number of Hun cavalry behind for a while, making them hesitate to move forward, afraid that they would also be hit, but in fact, the casualties caused by these two or three times were not as many as those caused by the previous crossbows, and the rough estimate may not exceed 4,000 people, which is not enough for the Hun army, but it can temporarily stifle their morale.
However, driven by generals such as Lan Huluye. The Xiongnu soldiers had to suppress their fears. Keep rushing forward.
It's just that Lu Bujun's methods are naturally not limited to this, they are constantly retreating. The Hun cavalry was lured to pursue the past, but to the front there were all kinds of traps and various constraints waiting for them, and the Lu Bu army sometimes mixed some things, for example, when the cavalry was hedging at high speed, a large area of spearmen suddenly appeared on the two wings who had not been found at all and did not know how to ambush here, as soon as they saw their own cavalry passing, the enemy army came and threw the spears in their hands into the Hun cavalry team that was rushing at high speed.
Poof!
Poof!
The sharp spears pierced through the leather armor and pierced into their flesh and bones, and some of them were dead without the knowledge of the horses under their crotches, and the result was a frantic dash with a corpse in tow, and this was no exception.
In addition, the strong men who had rested for a while reappeared again, and after the cavalry rushed behind them, they took over the task of blocking them, and the crossbows in their hands were already ready, and as soon as the Huns entered the range of about fifty paces, they fired their sharp weapons one after another.
Shout!
Woohoo!
The sharp arrow broke through the air, but what brought the Huns was no suspense death threat, and there were constantly people "ah" screaming and falling down from the war horse, and then the corpse became a stumbling block that hindered the companions behind him from continuing to move forward, and the war horse that could not recover was either trampled directly on the corpse and continued to move forward, or was tripped and fell on a horse and turned people on their backs.
Because of the restoration of the superiority of infantry combat, in the beginning of this period of time, Lü Bu's army was unexpectedly the first to occupy an overwhelming upper hand.
But this is only temporary, after all, the preparation of the Lu Bu army was hasty, and the time from the dawn decision to the attack in the morning was not enough for them to prepare anything, and now these things are still the equipment of the army rather than changing out of thin air, and now they have used the power they can exert to the maximum, and the results achieved are indeed good, but it is a pity that the Xiongnu army finally filled in their traps and means by relying on the cost of a large number of casualties, and then almost returned to the original point.
There are still more than 30,000 people left in the Lü Bu army, and even if the Hun army has gone through the previous rounds of tragic traps, the number of losses is less than half, and now there are still more than 70,000 horses, which is twice that of the Lü Bu army, and the natural disadvantage in numbers is still irreparable.
Although they were able to stop the Hun army in a short period of time and even suppress them, but for a long time, they exposed this disadvantage again, and with the passage of time, it became more and more obvious, in addition to the number of people who were not enough to die and one less one, they were almost exhausted after fighting for so long, although the Hun army on the opposite side was not still alive and well, but it was much better than them.
At this moment, in Lu Bu's camp, it was a different scene.
When the situation on the battlefield was slowly filled by the number of Xiongnu troops, and after the cost of nearly 20,000 people finally gradually reversed the situation of being completely pressed and beaten by one side, they were already able to predict what would happen next.
Sure enough, although the morale of the Lu Bu army was like a rainbow, but the difference in numbers was too great, and the combat effectiveness was not able to completely wipe out the enemy's Cheng Dù, but I don't know if it was forced into a desperate situation and was also aroused bloody, the counterattack of the Xiongnu army was even more fierce than yesterday, when more than 70,000 Xiongnu troops worked together to meet the enemy, they let the Lu Bu army know what the real Hun warriors were.
At this moment, every Hun soldier seemed to be able to fight a hundred warriors, they rode on horses, as if they were integrated with their own horses, and the powerful force brought by the charge directly rushed to the formation that Lu Bu's army had just organized, and then it was even more stable to suppress Lu Bu's army, which was only more than 30,000 men and horses in this impact and directly lost more than 5,000 people again. (To be continued.) )