What Wei Changfeng is most worried about in his heart is the back camp.

It can still be resisted elsewhere, but there are few soldiers in the back camp, most of them are craftsmen and the like, especially the majority of the Huns, in case they are attacked by the Huns, those Huns will not fight with their compatriots for the sake of the Han army!

He turned his head to look and saw that hundreds of Hun soldiers had rushed into the rear camp, and his own guards were full of casualties.

Wei Changfeng sighed.

It seems that this time he is going to be defeated. But the Han army is different from the Xiongnu army, the Han army went deep into the desert, there were no reinforcements after that, and it could not withstand the defeat, once it was defeated, it was the failure of the entire battle against the Xiongnu, and it was impossible to attack again, but I was afraid that it would be impossible in a few months. Moreover, Zhu Ling will turn a blind eye to his victory, will he still turn a blind eye to his defeat?

His hands trembled slightly. He was even thinking that he was only afraid that he would be loaded into a prisoner car, sent to Chang'an, and then hit the ground with a knife.

At this time, suddenly there was a loud sound of "Woo, Woo, Woo", the sound was like a thunderbolt, the smoke and dust in the back camp were loud, and the smoke was not ordinary dust, but pale yellow smoke, and then, I saw that the Hun army fled out with a strange scream as if it had encountered a ghost, and there were actually some people with broken arms and limbs, and the flesh and blood were blurred, as if they had been slammed by something.

"Bah, Bah, Bah"! The sound started again, and I saw that the chests of several Hun cavalry who were retreating slowly suddenly exploded like air bags, and minced meat was splashed everywhere, and the other Hun cavalry were even more frightened and helpless, desperately running away.

At the back of the camp, a general rushed out, it was Li Quan, and there were dozens of Han soldiers lined up beside him, some of these Han soldiers were holding torches, and the other part was holding a strange-looking weapon in their hands. The weapon was like an iron rod, but the head was divided into three thick cylinders, the outer side of the cylinder was not closed, and it could be seen that the cylinder was hollow, but the three cylinders were basically empty, and the other cylinder was still stuffed with something, and a rope hung out from the mouth of the cylinder.

Li Quan shouted loudly, and continued to move forward with dozens of soldiers, seeing another wave of Hun cavalry rushing forward, he gave an order, only to see the soldiers raise this strange weapon in unison, pointing the cylinder at the Hun cavalry, and the soldier with the torch immediately put the torch up and lit the rope hanging from the cylinder.

The rope seemed to be soaked in grease, and at one point, the flame ran down the rope into the cylinder.

"Bah, Bah, Bah"! The loud noise rose again, and a terrible flame bloomed in the cylinder, and in the flames, an iron arrow shot out, and the Hun cavalry in front of him immediately fell in a row, and the other cavalry turned around in fright and ran.

The three cylinders of the soldiers were empty, so the man with the cylinder placed the end of the weapon on the ground vertically, took out a pocket from his back, and poured the yellow powder from the pocket into the cylinder. Soldiers with torches carry swords in front of each other.

Wei Changfeng was really surprised and delighted at this time. I had never heard Li Quan say this thing before, it seems that Li Quan secretly made some kind of sharp weapon, it is so powerful, but I don't know why Li Quan didn't tell himself about this thing? If it is made on a large scale, it can be more lethal than a repeater flying spear.

Wei Changfeng was sighing, but he heard a loud shout outside the formation. He hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see the flag fluttering, and Bai Qi and Zheng Kejin's cavalry team had come back!

Zheng Kejin took the lead, holding two large amazing maces in his hands, the spikes of the mace were full of flesh and blood, he roared like thunder, sweated, and rushed straight to the back of the Hun cavalry, on the other side, Bai Qi commanded the soldiers to move forward quickly, approaching the Hun cavalry, and gave an order, and the crossbow arrows rained. God knows how Bai Qi managed to control the consumption of crossbow arrows in such a fierce battle.

At this time, the Han army front was settled, the rear camp had driven the Hun cavalry away, the god locomotive continued to release arrows, and a group of Hun soldiers under the supervision of the Han soldiers operated the crossbow arrows from the rear and replenished them to the Han soldiers who retreated into the god locomotive. On the left and right, Bai Qi and Zheng Kejin defeated the main force of 30,000 Huns and returned to help.

The shouts rose again, Tong Haoran led the heavy cavalry to attack, and this group of heavy cavalry rushed straight to the enemy formation against the Hun army.

An Ran gave orders again and again in the infantry team, and after the infantry replenished the repeating crossbows, they crossed the god locomotive one after another, and Li Quan had already returned to the command position with the group of soldiers with strange weapons.

Wei Changfeng let out a sigh of relief.

This was really a narrow escape, although the Han army was still unable to counterattack for a while, but after all, a major defeat was avoided.

A short horn sounded.

Mao Dun saw that his cavalry was gathered in the Han army's array, but he couldn't take advantage of it for a while, so he had to order a retreat. However, the Hun cavalry did not all retreat in one direction, but still scattered and retreated in all directions, and it was obvious that Mao Dun still wanted to find an opportunity to attack again.

Wei Changfeng saw that he was afraid that he would not be able to get any advantage in this battle, so he ordered the whole team to retreat slowly.

The Hun army followed for a while, and when they saw that the Han army was retreating, they did not dare to approach again, and they also returned with their divisions.

In this battle, the Huns suffered about 20,000 casualties, and the Han army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, which was more than the Huns.

Of course, if you only look at the results, it can be considered a small setback, but everyone knows that the reason why this setback is small can be said to be quite large.

If it weren't for Li Quan's mysterious weapon, the rear camp of the Han army would not be able to be rescued, and the rear camp would not be able to be rescued, and the infantry in front would not be able to replenish the crossbows.

The battle between Bai Qi and Zheng Kejin can be said to be another key to the salvation of the Han army. If these two people could not defeat the 30,000 main forces of the Xiongnu, or if they could defeat it, it would take a considerable amount of time, and the Han army would still not be able to avoid a major defeat.

Naturally, Tong Haoran's timely attack also helped a lot.

But in retrospect, if any of these things happened later, the entire Han army would be doomed.

Although everyone was reborn, no one was happy, and they all walked silently with their heads down.

After retreating for another two miles, Wei Changfeng ordered to set up camp. In this battle, the Hun army pushed the Han army back for forty miles, and Mao Dun must have been very proud.

Wei Changfeng ordered Bai Qi to personally patrol the camp and arrange defenses in case the Hun army came again, and then recruited generals.

The generals gathered, and Wei Changfeng first said: "The defeat in this battle is because the commander expects the enemy to be unknown, everyone is brave, no one has ever had it, everyone has merit, and the failure of this battle is the problem of the commander." The commander will explain to the Ministry of War. ”

Several generals glanced at each other, and Li Quan first spoke: "General Wei, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and the self-defense general commands the army and wins the Huns in a row, just this time there is a small setback, why blame yourself?" ”

Wei Changfeng sighed, thinking to himself that I don't blame myself, but who is to blame? I'm not Zhu Shangshu, I won and grabbed the merit, and I was defeated.

He didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he asked Li Quandao: "General Li, what kind of weapon did you use to save the rear camp?" Why didn't you tell me sooner? ”

Li Quan was shocked in his heart, you must know that concealing military aircraft is a big crime, fortunately, Wei Changfeng is not Zhu Ling, the purpose of asking this is really to ask what this thing is, not to catch someone to help him take the blame.

He hurriedly replied: "This is by no means deliberately concealed by the general. It will be called a "musket", which means fire-breathing spear. This thing is to be cast in fine iron, filled with explosives, the previous thunderbolt has used most of the explosives, this explosives have to be mixed with wolf fat and a variety of things, raw materials are extremely difficult to obtain, and it is extremely dangerous to manufacture, and it will explode if you are not careful. Although the musket could release fire and flying sand, the explosive power was large, and only three or five shots were placed in one gun hole before it was blown up. This time, the situation was urgent, so I had to take a risk. ”

Wei Changfeng was relieved, the test thing naturally does not have to be reported to him, not to mention that this thing is so rare, depending on the situation during the battle, every shot must be loaded for a while before it can be put again, unless it is equipped on a large scale, it should only be used in special circumstances, if it is a large-scale battle, I am afraid that it is not as good as a bow and arrow, this kind of thing is indeed not a sharp weapon for the Han army, but Li Quan once said that the small cart of explosives has exhausted all his inventory, and it seems that there is also a suspicion of lying, I think Li Quan was afraid that he would be caught off guard if he used it again, so he set up an ambush. This matter can be big or small, and since there is no harm, it is not necessary to know.

He nodded and said, "General Li is not to blame for this matter. If it weren't for General Li's timely rescue, the Han army would have been in danger. ”

Li Quan breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "This time it is indeed an accident, General Wei, in the eyes of the last general, although we have a small setback, but the Huns are also poor." ”

Wei Changfeng was secretly happy in his heart.

He had already thought of this conclusion, but Li Quanneng thought of it, which naturally made him happy, and he deliberately wanted to praise Li Quan's merits, pretending not to understand, and asked, "How did General Li say this?" ”

Li Quan really hit the plan, seeing that General Wei needed his opinion, he was proud, and replied: "Although the Huns army used this method of dividing troops, it is obvious that there is no other way except for tactical changes, as long as we have developed a means to deal with this tactic, supplemented by crossbows and flying spears, and cavalry and infantry, the Huns have no other good way." ”

Wei Changfeng nodded and smiled: "General Li is reasonable. We can't say that the Huns must have no other way, but at least for now, what we need to deal with is this method of dividing troops. ”

The generals nodded. At this time, all the generals were holding their breath because of this battle, and as soon as Wei Changfeng talked about it, everyone spoke up and came up with their own ideas.

Wei Changfeng listened to the generals' ideas.

Li Quan's meaning was to lure the enemy into a pocket formation dominated by god locomotives and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Although this idea has a wonderful prospect, the problem is that the Hun army attacks in turn in many ways, even if one or two roads are lured into the pocket array, the other roads cannot deal with it like this, not to mention that such a pocket array is difficult to move, but I am afraid that the Hun army will not attack easily, but continue to retreat after continuous impact. If you want the Hun army to be tricked in this way of fighting, you are afraid that it will be difficult.