(Thanks to Dameng, Xiaopang, Zixi Moxi, Xuanyuanzi)

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Booming, hooves like thunder, nearly 100 Kangju cavalry urged the horses, drew swords and bows, and approached the chariot formation. On the left and right, dozens of enemy cavalry were slowly approaching, not only to contain the Han army's vehicle formation, but also to find opportunities to break through.

In the face of threats from three sides, the only thing Gao Zhen could do was to lead his team to block the front, Du Xun led a team of men and horses and a team of servants to block the left flank, and Xi Nu led a team of herdsmen to guard the right flank.

The oncoming nearly 100 horsemen were less than a hundred paces away from the formation, and the appearance and attire of these Kangju knights could be clearly seen: they were short and stout, with large, round heads, all but a bunch of hair on the top of their heads, all of which were shaved. Most of the knights' features were hidden by thick beards, and many wore holes in their long earlobes and a bronze and iron earring. They wore loose, calf-length, slit robes, some with or without armor, and had belts around their waists, to which bows and quivers and quivers were fastened.

Every Kangju warrior saddle was hung with scimitars, stones, spears and other melee weapons, which were blue and gray in color and stained with blood. Obviously, they are all guys who have drunk blood and cut meat. In other words, these Kangju cavalry are all warriors who have been on the battlefield.

When the Kangju cavalry galloped to a hundred paces, they put down the buffer momentum, and slowly entered, making all kinds of strange noises in their mouths, and with the whirring and rotating knives and spears in their hands, it did give people considerable pressure. When they approached sixty paces, the Kangju people dismounted one after another and began to draw their bows and arrows. In the era when there were no stirrups, it was difficult for cavalry to ride their horses and shoot arrows stably, so in order to obtain better accuracy, they could only dismount and shoot on foot.

Gao Zhen leaned out from behind a cart full of grain and grass, and raised his hand to signal: "Crossbowmen are ready." ”

One of the great weapons of the Han army against the Hu people was the crossbow. If there are enough crossbowmen, with the car formation, they can even suppress the Hu people. But it's a pity that this is a baggage team, and there are crossbowmen, but there are pitiful few, only three. Gao Zhen's team of men and horses has more than 30 horses, according to the proportion of bows and crossbows in the Han army's formation, it will not be so few, but if you take a closer look at the outfits of his more than 30 horsemen, you will know a lot - there are only about ten Han soldiers in this team, and the rest are all Hu soldiers.

The three crossbowmen used the three-stone crossbow, which is a crossbow that can be shot on horseback with arm strength and strings, which is more flexible, but the effective range is not too far, similar to the Hu bow, but it is more accurate.

The three crossbowmen were all in a half-kneeling position and aimed at the Kangju people sixty paces away. As soon as Gao Zhen's arm fell, he was tense and tense, the three arrows flashed and disappeared, and two Kangju people sixty steps away fell on their backs, and one of them screamed and threw his bow to cover his arm.

Almost at the same time, a rain of arrows poured down from the Kangju people.

"Hide!" Gao Zhen shouted and clung to the wall of the car with the three crossbowmen, and the arrows whizzed overhead, causing the roof to pop and grass clippings flying. Since the range of this wave of arrow rain only reached the edge of the array, it did not cause any damage to the people and animals in the center of the array.

After dodging this rain of arrows, the guards of the baggage team also leaned out from behind the car and raised their bows to fight back.

The Kangju people brought war horses and used the horses to cover and avoid arrows; The baggage guards used the grain wagons as cover and fought back from time to time. The two sides come and go, arrows are staggered, flying all over the sky, sneering and screaming make people's scalps tingle, and occasionally there are one or two screams.

The nomadic war, at any time, opens with an arrow to greet each other, and this sudden encounter shows this very simply and crudely.

When the frontal attack and defense were in a stalemate, the Kangju cavalry, which was cruising on both wings, suddenly galloped and rushed towards the two wings of the chariot formation.

Suppressing head-on with bows and arrows, and attacking with two wings of sudden cavalry, this is the tactic of the Kangju people.

"guys, we're here!"

Du Xun roared violently, raised the crossbow board in his hand, and shot a puff of arrows with his squad sergeant, then quickly threw down the crossbow and pulled out the ring sword. Their breath was short, their chests heaving, but their hands were as determined as their eyes—even if they were outnumbered? They are soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and even the invincible Xiongnu have been defeated, and Kangju is nothing.

The arrows were like a puff, shooting several people, and the blood shadow rolling in the yellow dust and the mournful roar of the war horse could not stop the Kangju people from rushing in the slightest. After only a few breaths, the Kangju people rushed close to the car formation.

A skilled Kangju cavalry took advantage of the speed of his horse to lift the reins, and with a long neigh, the war horse leaped through the junction between the two grain carts and jumped into the chariot formation.

"Kill!"

The sword flashed, blood splattered, and a horse's hoof flew out.

The Kangju cavalry snorted and fell off their horses, and before they could struggle to get up, their eyes were dark-poof! A knife from top to bottom, through the chest and back, nailed him to the ground.

"Lao Tzu is open." Du Xun wiped off the blood beads on his face, revealing his white teeth, violently pulled out the ring knife, and raised his hands above his head, "Next!" Hudding and throwing the long knife with both hands.

The ringhead knife swirled and made a hairy snoring sound...... With a pop, it penetrated deep into the belly of a Kangju man who had just jumped into the grain cart.

The rest of the Kangju people were like crazy, or they took the horses with them, or jumped up from the horses, and threw themselves into the chariot.

Du Xun and his subordinate sergeants tried their best to intercept them, but in the face of several times the enemy and the lack of strength of the temporary organization, they still could not prevent the Kangju people from breaking through, and fell into a bitter battle.

Xi Nu on the other side was even more unhappy, Du Xun still had a sergeant, but he was only naked. Although he was given more than 30 herdsmen, there were few young and strong. I also know that Qingzhuang has long been conscripted to join the army, and most of the people who drive and shepherd sheep like this are old. To make matters worse, many people don't even have a decent knife in their hands......

When the Kangju people jumped into the grain cart with a scream and pounced like steppe wolves, the herdsmen were so frightened that they retreated. A few who retreated slowly were thrown to the ground, stabbed with their blades, and blood was sprayed.

"Hah!" The Kangju man, who was sprayed with blood, raised his head, his face was hideous and twisted, and his mouth was wide open, with a blood-red tongue and a mouth full of yellow fangs, as if he was about to transform into a werewolf.

While! A herdsman fell to the ground with a wooden fork in his hand, exclaimed, turned his head and ran. This move was immediately contagious like a plague, and the rest of the herders all turned around and fled.

Whew!

The screams behind him made the fleeing herdsmen look back in shock, but they saw the wolf-like Kangju man screaming with his hands and falling down.

Xi Nu's arrows.

Xi Nu pointed at the fleeing herdsmen with the tip of his bow, and his voice was fierce: "This chariot array is your last fortress, where else can you escape?" Fight hard here, and still have a chance to wait for the rescuers to escape from the car formation, just wait for the 'Wrist Breaker' to collect your wrists! ”

Xi Nu suddenly turned around, flashed a short blade dripping with blood, and pulled out an arrow, stabbing it into the left eye of the Kangju man who raised the blade to kill, and before he could howl, he kicked it down, and the bloody arrow pulled out of his eye socket was placed on the bow, and the string was shot, and then one person was overturned.

"Ha-" Xi Nu, who overturned the three Kangju people in one breath, seemed to be a wolf, his arms were spread, and he looked up to the sky and spewed out.

The sky is like a whirlpool, and under the rolling dark clouds, the killing is blazing.