Chapter 1026: The Battle of the Prairie (2)
The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast. In spring, the prairie is full of greenery. A scene full of life.
The wind blew, and there was no shadow of cattle or sheep on the ground, only countless flags hunting in the wind fluttering in the wind. And these flags represent tens of thousands of magnificent troops!
The white horse silver spear, with a majestic posture, and Zhao Yunheng spear, who was wearing a cloud-patterned full-body armor with exquisite workmanship, immediately galloped back and forth in front of the huge military array. The snow-white tassels on the exquisitely crafted helmet flutter in the wind, making it look even more heroic.
Behind him, there were nearly 10,000 men and horses all armed to the teeth, and the elite Han army was extremely elite. Since the vanguard of the Han army commanded by Zhao Yun took the lead out of Yanmen County and went north to the grassland, they swept the grassland all the way like a storm and clouds, and rushed straight to the royal court, but in the end they pounced.
After learning that the Han iron cavalry had poured into the grassland, the left and right kings of the Southern Xiongnu had already sent a large number of envoys to gather herdsmen from all directions to prepare for the battle. And Zhao Yun led his troops to turn to the location of the nearest Youxian King to the Beibu after he attacked the royal court.
The grassland is large, but most of the suitable grazing pastures have been divided among the powerful tribes of the grassland. As a necessity for the survival of the entire tribal race, the Southern Xiongnu, who were almost wiped out under repeated blows, also got the current place to recuperate after being the grandson of the Han Dynasty.
The spring of recovery, when everything is revived, is the time to add fat and meat to the livestock, and the herdsmen grazing everywhere are unusually scattered. The Han army was completely assaulted with cavalry, and it ate on the enemy, and the speed of the advance was very fast. Wait until Zhao Yun takes the vanguard soldiers and horses to the right Xian King to go to the location of the Beibu. Qubei has just gathered more than 30,000 herdsmen in the vicinity.
The nobles of the Xiongnu knew much more about the Han Empire than the Xianbei people in the north. After all, they have loved and killed each other for hundreds of years, and it is difficult to understand each other. They understood what it meant for a massive Han cavalry of nearly 100,000 people to enter the grassland.
After being rejected by Gao Yang sternly to pray for surrender. It's not that they don't want to run, it's just that the most important property for these nomads is the big animals. How could it be possible to move such a large herd of livestock and hundreds of thousands of people to a distant place in a short period of time? Large-scale migration under the pressure of enemy soldiers is definitely not something that the Huns can do.
In this era, even the most advanced and powerful men are terrible in road communications, not to mention the nomads who have no technology at all. It takes a long time to gather the scattered herders and their livestock and move them on a large scale just by notifying the people. And this time was enough for the army under Gao Yang to kill several times on the grassland.
"Blow the trumpet!" Zhao Yun, who was holding the war horse, pointed the spear in his hand and pointed diagonally into the air, shouting loudly at several lieutenants behind him.
"Hum~~~" The dull sound of the horn spread throughout the battlefield with the wind, and the Huns in the distance began to stir slightly. After all, they are just a group of ordinary herders. On weekdays, when fighting for pasture and livestock, when have you ever seen this kind of strict army in the true sense!
The Southern Xiongnu have been attached to the Han Dynasty for more than 100 years. Except for those royal court troops who were recruited by the Han family to fight everywhere, the rest of the herdsmen have long since lost the fierce spirit of the Don era. They had not fought much against the regular army, and the royal army, which had fought a formal war, had already been wiped out by this time.
"Blow the trumpet!"
The right virtuous king is a burly man. An old man with a full beard. The large rosacea nose and crimson face show that he is an authentic Huns. When he was young, he also fought for the Han family, and he knew the strength of the Han army. Understand that there must not be a trace of back-down at this time. Because once they retreated, it meant the rapid collapse of the herdsmen who had no organization and discipline at all, and the collapsed herdsmen could only be reduced to the end of the dead under the sword under the pursuit of those Han cavalry. At this time, the only thing to do is to fight to the death-for-tat.
As both sides prepared for battle, the huge army formation began to move slowly.
Zhao Yun was promoted from a small lieutenant to Wei Mo by Gao Yang, and quickly became a general of the unified army in such a short period of time. And it is ranked in the Kannai Candidate. It is impossible to say that he has no gratitude to Gao Yang. Even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the title was still a very rare reward, especially the marquis. Li Guangnanfeng is the best example.
As a natural cavalry general, Zhao Yun quickly showed his strength after being promoted quickly. The elite of the more than 10,000 cavalry under his command was extremely trained, and he showed great strength when he was ordered by Gao Yang to fight rebellions everywhere.
This time, when he went north to conquer the grassland, Gao Yang had already made it clear when the army set off that it was impossible to give the title of Champion Hou to anyone anymore. However, the generals who have made great achievements can enjoy the same sacrificial treatment as Huo Hussar, and even the temple stone carvings can be placed next to Huo Hussar!
It's definitely a great encouragement. For generals who value fame, there is nothing that can compare to Huo Hussar's shoulders and make them more excited. The history books leave a name, and the name will be said through the ages.
Huo Qu's disease. It is a monument that all the Han soldiers will always look up to.
"Attack!" Zhao Yun swung the spear in his hand suddenly, and his legs urged the war horse under his crotch to rush towards the Huns opposite. Behind him, the sound of military trumpets was loud, and the war music with a strong and low meaning of slaughter resounded throughout the grassland.
Iron hooves fly, grass splashes.
The huge steel torrent generally began to accelerate forward, and the strong oppression made the Huns on the opposite side tremble. Looking at the huge military array that was surging like a tide, no army could be indifferent.
It's a real army of steel.
The top materials experts in modern time and space specially developed special alloy materials for the Han army in this era in accordance with Gao Yang's requirements. Excellent strength and toughness, but light weight. It is an excellent solution to the shortcomings of the insufficient number of cavalry horses under Gao Yang's command, and the lack of carrying strength. Let every cavalryman be an elite. At the same time, after using a large hydraulic press in a modern factory, the strength of the equipment produced is completely explosive to all similar products.
The cavalry under Gao Yang's command was all trained using modern cavalry tactics throughout the year. The equipment also adopts a large number of routes that combine the advanced armor brought by Gao Yang from the modern time and space with the products of this time and space. No way. If all the armies were all finished products produced in modern space-time, bringing them over would have a big impact on the space-time channel. And if you bring raw materials, the processing technology here can't do it at all.
In the end, only about 30,000 or so elite cavalry got high-tech products from modern time and space. Includes a full set of half-body armor. This kind of armor with a hard exterior and a soft interior can even resist a hard crossbow fired from a distance! The defense is already about the same as that of a heavy metal shield. The soft bows used by the Huns are not even more important.
In addition to armor, there are also a full set of horse harness, helmets, visors, weapons, spare weapons and equipment, and so on. The horses are also draped in a set of full-body metal horse armor. This kind of horse armor, which has strong defense strength but is very light, is completely a godsend for the Han army at this time, when the quality of horses has begun to degrade.
As a general that Gao Yang greatly admired, the vanguard cavalry under the command of Zhao Yun was all equipped with these advanced scientific and technological products. When this metal army was bathed in golden sunlight and roared towards the Huns. The right virtuous king of the Huns closed his eyes in pain and muttered in a low voice, "It's over." ”
Arrows flew in the sky. Swords and spears flew back and forth in the military formation. The screams of countless people and the sorrowful screams of the war horses were mixed with shouting and scolding, and the sounds of howling and pain played the battlefield march together. Hordes of men and horses lay in pools of blood, dead in battle or still breathing, and falling to the ground in such a dense area of fighting meant being trampled to pulp.
In this most primitive of human violence, the well-trained and well-armed killing machines are significantly better than the messy herders. They are more organized, more effective in killing, and more morale and will to fight.
If the nomads who are good at riding and archery are unable to use the power of their bows and arrows, they will lose most of their combat effectiveness. These herdsmen with soft bows were okay to deal with those herdsmen who were also wearing animal skin and leather armor, but at this moment, when they encountered a professional army under Zhao Yun's command, their whole body was wrapped in solid metal, and even men and horses were wrapped in solid metal, then they could only be cups.
At this time, only the extremely rare archers of the Huns who could use the very rare iron-tired strongbow could shoot these metal cans at close range. However, there are simply too few of them. In this kind of large-scale war calculated in tens of thousands, it is almost an inconspicuous small wave, which disappears without a trace after a few tosses.
The strength of the Condor Archers is not unlimited, not to mention the fact that they also need to pull an extremely powerful iron tire bow. Moreover, the Han army was not blind, and these condor archers were quickly targeted.
After Gaoyang reorganized the Han army, 10,000 people were used as regular legions. In addition to the general commander, each army will of course have a corresponding deputy. Gao Yang's deputy for Zhao Yun's Ten Thousand Cavalry Legion is Tai Shici, who can definitely surpass the top three in the Three Kingdoms era.
At this time, the Han army had basically eliminated bows and arrows, and all infantry and cavalry used powerful chain crossbows. This kind of workmanship is relatively complicated, but without a full set of parts, even if it is only missing an inconspicuous small part, it cannot be assembled and used, and the advanced weapons can only be used on a large scale by the Han army.
Even if other forces get it, they can't use it on a large scale. Because of the complexity of the workmanship, it is extremely difficult to imitate it. In particular, the metal wire drawing was all brought by Gao Yang from modern time and space. Don't even think about the smelting level here.
The huge difference in technology on the battlefield is enough to decide the life and death of the sergeants! (To be continued.) )