Located in the northwest direction of Gaowolf, 30 miles away from Gaowolf County, Hushui River is a seasonal river that originates from the Luliang Mountains and flows into the Yellow River diagonally from north to south. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The biggest feature of the seasonal river is that the water volume is low in winter and spring, and the river water is shallow; In summer and autumn, the water volume is large and the river is deep. It's April and the river has risen, but it's not noticeable, and it's not yet time for the rainy season to flood.

Gao Shun has basically grasped the characteristics of the water flow of the water, and has also fully reconnoitred the topography and topography of the two sides of the strait.

The 2,000 soldiers who went out with Gao Shun to fight, to some extent, the overall combat strength was even higher than the 2,000 elite cavalry that Lu Bu brought to Mayi. Lu Bu took away all the cavalry, which was the strongest in mobility, and among the two thousand people brought out by Gao Shun, there were a full 1,000 warriors from the camp!

The strongest point of the trap warriors is that they are good at fighting fortified battles and positional battles, and in front of them, the enemy has no difference between cavalry and infantry, only the difference between living and dead. This time, a thousand cavalry and a thousand trapped warriors cooperated, and the lethality and mobility were accounted for, and it seemed that Gao Shun did not intend to let go of any enemy.

After the troops arrived at the river, Gao Shun immediately sent scouts to completely control the nearby thirty miles, and then personally led the warriors to lay wooden stakes in the upper reaches of the river to build a simple dam. The improvised dam was not fully closed until no enemy was found, leaving a gap in the middle to allow the river to flow normally.

Soon after, Jia Kui and five hundred herdsmen also rushed to the vicinity of the river.

Where there is water, the grass grows more luxuriantly, and it is normal to come here to herd horses.

Thousands of sturdy horses were scattered on the river beach on the east bank of the river, eating grass slowly, and there were some old shepherd slaves guarding it, looking a quiet and beautiful picture.

About five days later, Gao Shun received an urgent report from the scouts that a large number of Qianghu people had been found fifty miles west of the Yellow River from Gaowolf and Lin County, and the total number was initially estimated to be about 5,000!

Gao Shun was not frightened by the number of five thousand, he even felt that the enemy came a little less, if he could come to eighteen thousand, this time the harvest might be greater.

Gao Shun immediately sent people to Cao Xing and Li Feng, who were stationed in Gaowolf and Lin County, and ordered them to hold the city and not fight without authorization, otherwise they would be punished by military law.

A day later, the Qianghu quietly crossed the Yellow River east at dawn. Their method of crossing the river is very distinctive, which is to blow up the urine bubbles of many livestock, and then tie them to the ventral sides of the rafts and war horses, so that they can use the buoyancy provided by the urine bubbles to support people and horses to cross the wide Yellow River safely.

The Qianghu people were very cunning, and instead of directly rushing to the temporary horse farm on the edge of the water, they sent two thousand people to feign an attack on Lin County. A few days ago, Zhang Yang, who was stationed in Lin County, had just led the troops to leave, and Li Feng quietly took over the defense with his troops, and the Qianghu people did not find out about this situation.

The Qianghu people used a strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain, and wanted to transfer the defenders in Gaowolf City out of the city. It seems that these robbers have great ambitions, not only to the war horses on the river beach, but also to loot greater benefits from the cities of Gao Wolf and Lin County.

Gao Shun saw the sinister intentions of the Qianghu people, and immediately gave Cao Xing an order, asking him to send some soldiers to prepare to reinforce Lin County, but not to send the troops too far, so that they could withdraw to Gaowolf City at any time.

The Qianghu people did not find anything abnormal, thinking that the Han army was in a plan, so they dispatched 3,000 hidden soldiers and horses to easily cross the water that was only up to the belly of the horse.

When the Qianghu people were crossing the water, Jia Kui commanded the herdsmen to ride on their horses, pretending to be panicked, and fled all the way into Gaowolf City. Although these herdsmen are old, as Huns, they have grown up on horseback since they were children, so their speed of running on horses is not slower than that of the Qianghu people.

The Qianghu people who were crossing the river saw that the fat meat that was about to reach their mouths had run away, so they hurriedly accelerated to cross the river, and pursued in the direction of Gao Wolf City without organization.

When Jia Kui rode into the north gate of Gao Wolf City, the soldiers who pretended to reinforce Lin County from the west gate also urgently withdrew. Cao Xuan immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, mobilized all the crossbowmen to ascend to the top of the city, and waited for the arrival of the Qianghu people.

didn't wait long, and the Qianghu people rushed to the foot of Gao Wolf City one after another. Looking at the well-defended Han crossbowmen at the head of the city, the Qianghu people realized that they were probably going to return empty-handed this time.

The Qianghu people under the city gathered more and more, and they were unwilling to try to approach the city wall and attack the Han army at the head of the wall with arrows, but they were met with a head-on attack from Cao Xing.

Dare to play the trick of air-to-air shooting with Cao Xing? It's not asking for hardship!

After being shot dead by the Han army at the head of the city, the Qianghu realized that this was not an option, and decided to turn to Lin County to join up with the feins there and see where they could find a breakthrough.

Just as the Qianghu people decided to reinforce Lin County to the west, Gao Shun led a thousand trapped warriors to force up from behind the Qianghu people.

In the face of the 1,000 infantry commanded by Gao Shun, the 3,000 Qianghu cavalry did not seem to feel threatened, and they immediately organized a cavalry to charge, intending to disperse this Han army.

Looking at the Qianghu people who rushed over shouting, Gao Shun did not have a trace of expression on his face, and he calmly gave the order, allowing the trapped warriors to form a solid defensive counterattack formation.

At the front of the formation, the halberd man in steel armor and iron helmet inserts one end of the halberd handle into the ground, pointing the halberd blade diagonally at the enemy. Beside them were crossbowmen with large yellow crossbows, and behind them were axe shieldmen with shields in one hand and axes in the other.

Trap warriors don't rely on a shield wall to defend, and their formation is combined with the goal of attacking at any time.

The halberd hand cuts the horse's leg and hooks the rider off the horse with a divination-shaped branch.

The rhubarb crossbow used by the crossbowman was one of the most terrifying long-range lethal weapons in the Han Empire, with a range of up to two hundred and fifty paces and an excellent accuracy. Originally, there were no big yellow crossbows in the Bingzhou army, and it was only after the arsenal was looted that five thousand such precision weapons were obtained.

The axe and shield bearers were the strongest infantry in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and if the Qianghu fell from their horses, they could not escape the fate of being chopped to death by the axe.

There are some other special combat warriors in the trap camp, such as those who specialize in climbing the city wall, such as those who specialize in setting fires, such as those who specialize in digging tunnels, and these warriors are all left in Lishi, because they are not needed for field combat for the time being.

The rhubarb crossbowmen attacked first, and with their precise shots, they told the Qianghu how the Han army in front of them was different from their opponents.

At the end of a round of angry shooting, the rhubarb crossbowman quickly withdrew to the rear, and the halberd hand clenched the halberd handle, waiting for the Qianghu people's war horses to rush up and seek their own death.

However, the Qianghu people were already frightened by the powerful crossbows of the Han army, they came to rob, not to fight the Han army, after the Han army obviously put on a desperate posture, they coaxed.

The Qianghu hurriedly retreated northward, intending to cross the river from the river to the north, first getting rid of the fierce Han infantry outside Gaowolf City.