It is not too uncommon for one or two hundred imperial cavalry to run after thousands of Hu people, and it has become a norm for thousands of imperial cavalry to crush an enemy five times their own in recent times.

The Imperial soldiers were armed to the teeth and had an advantage in weaponry, more because of the confidence that came from repeated victories.

When the Hu people faced the imperial army, they were defeated again and again, and when they faced the imperial army again, they would hesitate and fear, and they were very strong to be able to use four or five points, which was already considered courageous, and they thought about how to escape before they started fighting.

There was a time when a very strange scene happened, and what was invincible turned from a joke to a fact, and the result was that the few people crushed the majority was taken for granted, and it was taken for granted that it was oneself and the enemy, and once they all thought that it should be like that, the false would become true.

A herd of sheep faced a tiger all the time, and even if there were many sheep that were weak, they would not be the opponent of the tiger, and for the Hu people who had been defeated repeatedly, when they fought with the imperial soldiers, they felt in their hearts that they were facing a fierce tiger.

The military books of Chinese civilization have repeatedly mentioned that "husband fights, courage also!" Isn't it about the morale of the army when the war is fought? Chen Yu ridiculed Han Xin for being bold, that is, he also recognized that the imperial army was better than the Hu people in an all-round way, and one imperial soldier was worth at least five Hu people.

"There are not only 60,000 Hu people out there, but at least 200,000." Liu Bang wasn't afraid, so he continued: "I heard that a grassland man can kill four or five people from the Western Regions, so our soldiers alone can be worth the combat power of more than twenty people from the Western Regions?" ”

Arithmetic is not calculated like that, but neither Chen Yu nor Han Xin corrected Liu Bang's intentions.

Since they retreated to this valley on their own initiative, they have never made contact with the Wehrmacht side again, and on the premise that they have lost communication, although the envoys are not worried about the front being broken by the Hus, it is not like that to stay all the time.

Han Xin said that he hadn't seen the shadow of Mao Dun's department in the past day or two, and Liu Bang and Chen Yu heard the sound outside the words, did it mean that Mao Dun had noticed something wrong?

"Definitely." Chen Yu nodded: "Mao Dun can repeatedly escape the killing of the imperial army. It shows that he has a very sensitive sense of smell. ”

"Yes, we came here head-on, and Mao Dun probably knew there was a conspiracy in it from the beginning." Liu Bang was not stupid, he squeezed his palm and sighed: "He drove the soldiers to attack a day or two ago, to see if he could break through, but our counterattack was too fierce, and he didn't see any hope of breaking through in the short term." ”

Han Xin can't be blamed for counterattacking too fiercely, in fact, the escort team of the envoy regiment has been very restrained, they are just passive defense. did not take the initiative to attack, Rao is like this, the Hu people can't get close to hand-to-hand combat, so the Hu people can only be blamed for being too incompetent.

"Now that Maudun's army is no longer here, what are we going to do next?" Liu Bang asked Chen Yu.

"It can't be ruled out that Maudun is hiding in the dark, maybe he just wants us to be able to move." Chen Yu pondered for a moment and said: "After all, our troops are small, and it is not a problem to hold the position, and there will be flaws everywhere in the movement." ”

"I can take two thousand cavalry to try to attack on the initiative." Han Xin had an incomparable confidence on his face: "Attack the camp of the Hu people, if you really hide in the shadows." He will not watch our cavalry horses on the joint camp. ”

Liu Bang hesitated for a moment, and finally bowed his head: "You are the commander of the escort team, try it if you think it is necessary." ”

Han Shin naturally thought it was very necessary, and they had lost contact with the Wehrmacht. There are more than 200,000 Hu people on the periphery, and they must need to test their combat strength, so there is no better temptation than taking the initiative.

Early the next morning, the prepared 2,000 cavalry marched out of the camp, and the Hu people on the opposite side found that there were cavalry in the camp of the envoy regiment. The beating of the drum, the blowing of the trumpet.

In the chaos of the Hu camp, several Hu people, who were obviously leaders, gathered together. They pointed at the Imperial cavalry as they left the camp.

"What do you mean?"

"I guess I found something."

"Now that they're out, it couldn't be better."

"The big tribe sent 2,000 troops, the middle tribe 1,000, and the small tribe 500. Anyone comes up with more soldiers, feel free. ”

"Let's do it!"

It is obvious that the Hu people do not have a leader who can subdue all the people, and in a certain way, doesn't it also confirm that Mao Dun is not there? If Maudun is there, it should be Maudun who will order the dispatch.

Han Xin led the army out of the camp and did not immediately attack, he led the team to form in the open space in the middle, as if waiting for the Hu people to send troops out of the camp to fight in the field.

The Hu people tossed for more than an hour before the team came out of the village, and the first to appear were some cavalry wearing yellow linen clothes and mixed equipment, if you are familiar with the horse thieves in the Western Regions, you will probably exclaim in surprise when you see the person with a hideous scar on the face at the front of the team, just because this horse thief is still famous in the Western Regions.

Han Shin smiled contemptuously when he saw the appearance of the team's uniforms.

A well-known team of horse thieves, isn't it? Horse thieves may be very good at plundering, but their excellence is based on the weak, and martial arts are reflected in the weak, no matter how famous they are!

About three thousand horse thieves came six or seven hundred meters in front of Han Xin and the other two thousand horsemen, and the scarface rode out alone, and he didn't know what he was shouting while moving forward slowly.

"Don't shoot," Han Xin turned his head to look at the adjutant next to him, and said, "We want to let them know that we are not only strong in defense, but we will also be invincible in the field." ”

Scarface stopped in the middle of the two sides, and he looked at Han Xin, who was the commander at a glance, and looked at it quietly.

Han Xin didn't ride out alone, and the Hu people began to make noise, as if they were laughing at the cowardice of the empire or something.

Scarface began to provoke, not only yelling, but also drawing the bronze sword and swinging it continuously, riding his horse in a gesture of charging and then retreating, laughing from time to time.

"We're just watching?" Yu Fanjun kept touching the crossbow hanging from the side of the horse's neck, and said, "Just nail him to death." ”

Han Xin was happy and said with a smile: "There is a profession called clown in the countries of the extreme west, which is to use all kinds of funny actions to make people amused. Don't you think the man in front of us looks like a clown? ”

It seems that he finds it boring, and it is also the Hu people who have camped a lot of teams, and Scarface rode back to his team. As he turned his horse's head and returned, the Hu people let out a tsunami-like cheer, as if they had greeted a terrible hero.

Maybe it's because Scarface's treatment is too grand. As a result, many Hu people also rode out alone, they shouted something, and then made all kinds of insulting actions in the face of Han Xin and other cavalry, and even took out the guy to pee.

The man who took out his guy was so carried away that he actually went close to a hundred meters to pee, and when he was halfway through the pee, an arrow flew over, and the arrow cut his guy in half very accurately, causing the man to roll on the ground with a miserable roar and a bloody lower body.

The terrible screams seemed to become a signal, and the envoys began to fire crossbow arrows at the Hu people who were showing off their might, and there were screams one after another. Dozens of Hu people became hedgehogs in a very short period of time.

There was an exclamation and an uproar, after which the Hu people began to curse at the cavalry of the envoy regiment, as if it was natural for the envoy to do this.

"I finally know why the natives of the Western Regions are the worst and most useless of all the forces." Yu Fanjun's face was full of contempt: "Who do they think they are?" Is it possible to make a rule for insulting people without being killed? ”

Han Xin's face was also full of contempt, and he motioned for the herald to blow the horn.

With the sound of a horn, more than 300 cavalrymen at the front of the 2,000 cavalry moved, and they slowly moved forward in a trident formation.

Then, the sound of the horn changed to "woo-woo-woo-", and the cavalry led by Han Xin divided into five hundred cavalry on the left and right wings, and they distanced themselves from the main formation. Swim slowly.

"There are only seven hundred men left in their own army." Scarface was actually very little frightened in his heart, and he was glad that he didn't release arrows from the Imperial side when he provoked in the past, otherwise he would have been one of the people who was shot into a hedgehog.

After some arrangement, Han Xin's main formation did indeed have only 700 cavalry left. The seven hundred cavalry did not stand still. The cavalry, if not in motion, was inferior to the infantry, and they slowly cruised in a range, echoing the left and right flanks and the more than three hundred cavalry who had already charged.

In the camp of the envoy group, Chen Yu stood on the arrow tower more than ten meters high. He pointed to the cavalry that had already launched a charge, and said to Liu Bang next to him: "I'll just say it, Han Xin's courage is greater than that of a tiger." He sent 300 cavalry to charge against nearly 10,000 enemy troops. ”

That's right, the number of Hu people out of the camp is definitely tens of thousands, including infantry and cavalry, about half and half of the number, and the cavalry on the side of the three hundred empires formed a trident formation aimed at the front of the infantry.

The speed of the moving cavalry was very fast, and when Han Xin ordered the cavalry to move, the Hu people were not stupid to stay in place, the Hu cavalry followed and moved, only the infantry stayed in place, and these infantry were now facing the imperial cavalry that was charging in a trident formation.

"Shields? Where did the shield come from? Hurry up and order the spearmen to erect a wall of guns, and the archers are lined up to release their arrows! ”

The Hu people did not come from the same force, their uniforms and equipment were not uniform, and the most important thing was that even if they were the army of the same country, in terms of the productivity of the Western Regions, it seemed that only a few countries had enough financial resources to arm an armored infantry.

What is the outfit? From the ancient pre-Qin period to the Tang and Song dynasties, "Gu" has always been a pan nail, to the Far East under the rule of Kublai Khan, because of some differences in pronunciation, there are also Central Asian Ah ~ La ~ Bo culture is full of factors in the Yuan court, the title of "Gu" has withdrawn from the stage of the land of China, and has been replaced by "armor" or "armor".

There are few metal armor in the Western Regions, and generally being able to have a set of leather armor is already considered rich, so at a glance, whether it is cavalry or infantry, only a few have leather armor, and those leaders will have a set of metal equipment.

The Western Regions is also a very interesting place. This is the intersection of the East and the West (referring to Central Asia) side, before the Chinese civilization did not spread so far, but because of the strength of the Persian Dynasty, the Western Regions was first influenced by Persian culture, and you can see traces of Persian culture in many places. Later, Greece rose strongly, Greek culture replaced Persian culture, starting from Alexander the Great's crusade to the east, Greek culture not only became the mainstream of Central Asia, but also began to be full of Greek cultural characteristics in the Western Regions.

If you pay attention to the Hu people in the battalion, quite a few soldiers are wearing a kind of skirt-like clothing, they are barefoot to show their fluffy calves, some of the skirts are ankle-reaching, some of the skirts are knee-high, and basically no more trousers are worn.

Not wearing pants was not exactly a habit of the Greeks, and in Persian culture, they also wore robes and no longer wore pants, which was related to the climate where they lived.

When the light infantry faced the cavalry charge, the shadow area in their hearts became larger as the rumbling sound of the horses' hooves getting closer and closer. When the imperial cavalry forming a trident formation approached a distance of 400 meters, some of the Hu people turned around and ran towards the camp, while others tried to organize a defense, and the inconsistent actions naturally caused chaos.

The infantry ranks were disorganized, and two of the Hu cavalry that had been cruising changed their trajectory, seemingly stealthily inserting diagonally to the side of their own infantry.

"Let them rush up, as long as they charge the infantry, then they will be slowed down. At that time, we can cut in and delay a little, and we can use our numerical advantage to destroy this enemy army of three hundred people, and their armor will become ours. ”

Scarface didn't think about how the infantry tasked with holding back the Imperial cavalry would feel, and he was sure that his peers from the Raiders wouldn't care.

"Those two indigenous cavalry are horse thieves." Yu Fanjun raised his finger and said, "I also found that there are basically stirrups among them. ”

The empire was the first to equip stirrups, and stirrups were not a technical thing, and no one had made them before because they had not thought of it. The Xiongnu and other Hu people sensed the benefits of stirrups from the side of the empire, and they brought the stirrups to the Western Regions, and if nothing went wrong, it would definitely spread to Central Asia, and even to Europe and Rome.

"While they were still playing with knives, we were already using our crossbows; They haven't learned how to make a power crossbow yet, and we're already using flintlock pistols and artillery. Han Xin showed a rare smile: "We are not only the leader in armament. Our lead also lies in the use of ordnance. ”

Yu Fanjun smiled and said nothing, he understood what Han Xin meant, isn't it just strategy and tactics or something! (To be continued.) )