(Thanks to Dameng, Chubby, My Heart & Scars, LMJ Liu Liu Liu, Zhao Wuxian 2014.) Well, Grandmaster Zhao hasn't seen you for a long time (^-^)

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The first to attack was not Du Xun, nor was he a strong crossbowman in the front row, but a team leader on the left side of the queue.

This team quickly came out of the ranks, flat-ended crossbows, and pulled the hanging knife - tight! The strong shock shook him backwards.

The crossbow bolt broke through the air, cut through an arc, and fell far away, still some distance from the Huns - this was certainly not his boredom, nor was it nervousness, but ranging. The crossbow bolt firmly planted in the ground is the symbol.

In the mist and dust, the healthy hooves are like a forest, gradually approaching...... Click! Iron Hoof finally stepped on the crossbow bolt.

The crossbow was raised, and the three-edged arrow blade of pig iron (three-edged arrow) shining with lead-gray light pointed obliquely at the Hun wolf rider who had rushed within 100 paces......

Baste! Du Xun hung his sword under the board, his arm shook, the bowstring of the strong crossbow trembled, and the arrows shot like lightning.

Phew-poof!

Du Xun's first shot, the cone-shaped sharp arrow flew a hundred paces, penetrating the chest of a Hun cavalry who rushed to the front, the Huns let out a miserable scream, fell heavily to the ground, and was immediately trampled into a mass of flesh by dozens of horsemen.

The attack of the tun commander was the order, and the drummers of the Han army beat it down.

Tight Tight Tight!

The crossbowmen of the first two teams on the left and right pressed the hanging knife in response, and more than 30 crossbow arrows **** came out, forming a piece of fan-surface thorns.

Snort! The arrows staggered and intertwined.

The light armor of the Huns can block some arrows, but they can never block such powerful arrows, and all of them fall off their horses. Others were shot at horses, and the horses stumbled and fell to the ground.

One of the Hun knights who fell from his horse was very brave, and after landing and rolling, he immediately bounced up, turned over the back of a horse that had lost its owner, and continued to sprint with a roar, and his neat skills won a round of applause from his companions.

Before the color fell, the strings shook their ears, and a huge buzzing sound resounded over the battlefield, and the second wave of powerful arrows followed.

Several more Hun cavalry were shot and rolled to the ground, and one of them pierced the chest of the brave knight in cowhide armor, shot it off his horse, and fell heavily from the air.

On the Han side, after the first row fired, it immediately retreated, and the second row stepped forward, swapped positions, and fired the first shot. After completing the shot, the second platoon retreated to its original position, while the third platoon advanced with a crossbow, turned into the front row, and again pulled the hanging knives, forming a third wave of blows. And so on and so forth, maintaining the continuity of long-range strike output.

By the time the third wave of crossbow bolts was fired, the Huns had already rushed closer to seventy paces, and the rain of arrows that greeted them was even more lethal.

For a while, but in front of the camp of the coalition army, crossbow arrows were like locusts, wave after wave, endlessly. The Hun cavalry dozens of paces away kept falling off their horses, the smoke and dust from the corpses smashing to the ground, and the sorrowful screams of the lost owners of the war horses were mixed together.

The soldiers watching the battle in the camp of the coalition army cheered.

But the face of Captain Wu Guo Xi sank, and the experience of fighting the Huns over the years told him that these steppe wolves were not stupid, and they would never rush into battle stupidly. The reason why they had to brave the rain of arrows was because the Huns' cavalry bow had a short range, and its lethality was about 50 paces, while the armor-piercing force had to be as close as 30 paces. In order to compensate for the disadvantage in range, they had to be baptized with several rounds of crossbow arrows. And now, it's your turn to accept the same treatment.

Fortunately, Gan Yanshou, Chen Tang and others had handed over the command of the battle to him, a veteran of the border army, and Guo Xi had already prepared. But seeing Guo Xi's hand waving the command flag, the two Han and Hu infantry teams of 100 people, who had already been ready to order, took their troops and shields one after another, and gathered under the gate. When the two gates opened with a bang, two hundred infantry shouted in unison, pouring out like a tide.

As Guo Xi expected, when the Han army fired the fifth round, the Hun cavalry had already rushed to sixty paces, and then, with superb riding skills, they turned their horses' heads and ran away in the slanted spurs, and at the same time shot at the Han army's crossbow array one by one.

The Huns were originally a people on horseback, and even children who had not yet learned to walk knew how to ride horses, and any tribe of men and women, young and old, were proficient in the art of riding and archery, and the young and strong people in the tribe were all born riders and warriors. This Hun cavalry is the Zhizhi personal guard known as the "Royal Court Elite Cavalry", and it is one of the best. Although it was a high-speed and bumpy gallop, these Hun cavalrymen only firmly clamped the horse's belly with their feet, stretched their arms, and drew arrows from their quivers smoothly - this was not the bone axe used by ordinary Huns, but a real bronze arrowhead, shining golden and cyan in the sun.

Almost as soon as the Hun cavalry fired arrows, the fifth round of Han strikes was also close at hand.

The arrows are staggered, but the effect is completely different. The Hun cavalry swept past the front flank of the Han army's crossbow array with its rapid mobility, this time, the distance was closer, but the Han army's attack effect was obviously poor, most of the crossbow arrows missed, and there were few hits. The crossbowmen of the Han army were neatly arranged and not easy to move, and the light leather armor on their bodies faced the wolf's tooth arrows with high accuracy and penetration......

In the first round of shooting, the Huns were killed and two were injured. Nine Han soldiers were hit by arrows, and six of them were killed on the spot, including the rangefinder.

The Huns seemed to have the upper hand when they approached the gallop, but the Huns only had time to shoot a round before they saw a swarm of shield-wielding infantry.

Ju Yu Lishou was in the Han Dynasty in his early years, and he had a slight understanding of the tactics of the Han army, and he also knew how powerful the Han army was. But I still didn't expect that if it was a real fight, the loss would be so miserable. Originally, he struggled to suffer a big loss, and he also had to rush close to the crossbow formation of the Han army, not only to regain his blood, but also to suppress the morale of the coalition army. At this time, seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately rolled up the flag and slipped away. The rest of the Hun knights saw their master running away, and they all skillfully reined in their horses and turned around and fled.

The Huns failed miserably and left behind more than twenty corpses lying in pools of blood. However, the coalition forces will not easily let go of such an opportunity, under the shouting of "attack" by Gan Yanshou and Chen Tang, and the banner of Guo Xi flying left and right, Hu Jun of all countries has gathered their own people (departments) and moved with the sound of drums. The first to attack was Du Xun's strong crossbowmen and 200 infantry.

When Du Xun and the others rushed to the city of Zhizhi, in order to cover the cavalry of Ju Yu Lishou entering the city, the Hun infantry tortoiseshell formation stopped them head-on.

Du Xun ordered to stop and confronted the Hun infantry. It wasn't until five transport trucks appeared in the rear that Du Xun and other strong crossbowmen rushed up and pulled the cattails covered by the cars, revealing a six-foot crossbow.

The strong crossbowmen of the Han army lined up again, but this time the winding was with a **** ring with a foot, a force with both arms, and a crossbow with the strength of the whole body. Some of them were still sitting on the ground, their limbs screaming, and the strings were drawn like rows.

When the crossbow arrows were aimed at the Hun infantry, the Huns hiding behind the big shield did not know that what they were going to face was the terrifying baptism of the super crossbow of this era - the "big yellow crossbow" of the Han Dynasty. (To be continued.) )