Under the bewitchment of the King of Joy, the King of Wusun and 60,000 cavalry hid in the Tianshan Mountains, allowing the King of Qiuzi to fight with the Yan army's iron cavalry under the city of Quci. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, as time passed, when the news of the heavy losses of the allied infantry came, King Wusun could no longer remain calm.

In the big tent, King Wusun was in a very bad mood. The battle reports from Qucicheng had been delivered to him one after another. His mood deteriorated from that time.

Everything was originally planned, but he underestimated the combat power of the Yan Army's iron cavalry, so that he forced himself into a dilemma.

Now that the situation is obvious, if he continues to sit idly by, once the allied infantry is completely wiped out, the fate that awaits King Wusun and his men will not be much better.

King Wusun still knew the truth of the cold lips and teeth, so after careful consideration, he had to immediately order the cavalry to attack.

The allied cavalry had not yet arrived, and the Yan infantry, which had received an urgent report from the scouts, had begun to operate in a tense and orderly manner.

The battle of the Western Expedition has been planned for a long time by the Yan Kingdom, and all parties are very well prepared. Like the bed crossbow, which has always been a sharp weapon against the Hulu cavalry, it was heavily equipped with the infantry of the Western Expedition.

Knowing that the coalition cavalry was coming, Wei Shuo immediately clarified the generals' duties: Chen Antong led 3,000 elite cavalry as a reserve, and was responsible for pursuing the deserters on a large scale at that time; Suo Bao was still in charge of the entire army of crossbowmen, responsible for destroying the first wave of cavalry in the Western Regions; Deng Yue commanded the spearmen and was responsible for resisting the cavalry head-on.

Not to mention Chen An, even Suo Bao has studied in the Martial Arts Academy for many years, and he has interned in the Yan Army, so he is familiar with the various rules and regulations of the Yan Army, so he doesn't need Wei Shuo's detailed advice.

Only Deng Yue is slightly different, although he has been a general of Wang Dun for a long time, familiar with military books and proficient in battle formations, he is the most admired by Wei Shuo in both civil and military style.

However, after all, Deng Yue had only joined the Yan Army for half a year, and if he commanded relatively high-tech crossbowmen, he would inevitably be a little rusty due to the specificity of large equipment.

For this reason, Wei Shuo had no choice but to hand over the relatively simple spearmen to Deng Yue's command, so he still gave an explanation to them.

The arrival of 60,000 cavalry from the Western Regions did not make the generals of the Yan army feel any nervousness. Because over the years, by fighting with the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other nomadic peoples, and combining their own advantages, the Yan army has summed up a set of effective methods to deal with the Hu cavalry.

The basic strategy of the Yan army to deal with Hu Qi is: the first battle is to be heavy and light, and the counterattack is to be fast and fast.

Of the two basic points, the first battle is the key link in the large-scale annihilation of the enemy, so it is the most important. The so-called "heavy to control light" actually refers to the advantage of the Yan army's sophisticated equipment to kill and damage the main force of Hu cavalry to the greatest extent in the initial defensive battle.

Because, only at this time, the Hu cavalry's charge is the most unscrupulous, and it is easy to achieve major results.

Once the pursuit battle is entered, the enemy will flee with all their might, and the chance of gathering annihilation and killing will be greatly reduced.

The axis of the Yan army's defensive warfare in this battle was more than 3,000 large machine-fired repeater crossbows, plus ballistas, horse rejection arrays, longbows and other equipment.

In order to deal with the incoming cavalry of the Western Regions, Wei Shuo had several specific locations selected, where he secretly dug trenches with excellent concealment, and hid a large number of crossbows. The so-called specific location is enough to form a dense and cross-fire strike when the cavalry of the Western Regions launches a charge.

The mission that Wei Shuo gave to Suo Bao was to immediately familiarize himself with all the large equipment distribution points and deploy them to the most lethal coordination situation.

"This battle is left to everyone! In addition, send someone to tell Yang Yu to slow down the offensive for a while, in case it will be bad to scare the coalition cavalry away. ”

"Don't worry, the king! The bud has not fought for a long time, and it has long been suffocated to death! ”

"The last will too! Hu Qi of the Western Regions knows that my Yan army is by no means easy to mess with! ”

Before the war, Suo Bao and Deng Yue, the two powerful generals Long Hu Xuan, Wei Shuo, Wen Qiao, Lu Chang and others couldn't help laughing comfortably.

In the early morning of the next day, at the beginning of the rising sun, 60,000 cavalry from the Western Regions finally appeared in the eyes of the scouts. Then 60,000 cavalry from the Western Regions swept across the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains like a hurricane, and when they arrived in front of the Yan army camp, it was the sunset in the afternoon.

At this moment, King Wusun is ambitious, this expedition is very different from the past, not to grab some cattle and sheep people and goods, but to eliminate the main force of the Yan army's western expedition in one fell swoop, and then stably occupy the rich and fertile oasis at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, just like the king of Yan unified the Central Plains in the Western Regions to establish a country and claim the king, and then try to enter the heart of the Central Plains.

Only in this way, the country of Wusun can be said to be dispatched by various tribes, and 40,000 cavalry were dispatched at once, plus 20,000 cavalry, and the banners were like forests for a while, and the people, horses, cattle and sheep were like a sea, surging boundless under the vast blue sky.

As soon as the 60,000 cavalry crossed the Dunxushui (now Kaidu River), they pressed towards the Yan army's position like a vast flood.

Wusun and Yuebanhu, who believed in fighting and did not pay much attention to tactics, were very direct, and the 60,000 troops advancing in the middle were divided into three groups, 20,000 on each road, and launched a fierce attack on the Yan army.

With the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the sand and gravel land that stretched for dozens of miles suddenly boiled.

The entire Yan army formation was no threat in the eyes of Hu Cai, and it seemed to be the widest in front of the entire army array, with dozens of war horses in parallel, and its terrain was relatively gentle, and it was not easy to defend and difficult to attack on the outside.

What's even more bizarre is that there is no danger in the open area in front of the formation, and the most necessary trench for defense is said to be the cavalry of the Western Regions can directly reach the front of the spearmen.

However, when the Western Regions Hu cavalry spread all over the mountains and fields, the Yan army's military array was silent except for the hunting flags, spears, and many unrecognizable artifacts from a distance.

Just when the cavalry of the Western Regions swept four or five hundred paces in front of the formation like a flood, the Yan army's battle drums suddenly sounded like thunder.

Suddenly, the entire battlefield seemed to be a landslide and the ground cracked, and a fierce battle that had never been seen by the people of the Western Regions suddenly broke out.

The flags in the Yan army's formation suddenly waved, and the large repeating crossbow machines arranged in three echelons in the large array fired a salvo of ten thousand arrows, all pouring towards the central area in front of the formation. The ballistae and longbowmen on both sides of the crossbow array also shot out endless flying stones and arrows, roaring into the sky and smashing into the surging Hu cavalry.

The latest crossbow machine equipped in the Western Expeditionary Army is rare in the world, and the range is as far as 600 paces. Each long arrow is as thick as a child's arm and about a foot long, and the arrow is almost like a spear, even an ordinary city gate cannot withstand a moment's volley.

At this time, the big arrows of the crossbow machine flew wildly, and each arrow could almost pierce or shoot down several knights of the Western Regions. In addition, the infantry troops on both sides of the army fired thousands of rockets with individual crossbows and longbows, and flew into the Hulu cavalry group in the Western Regions with whistling and dancing flames.

The leather coat and leather armor worn by the Wusun and the rider immediately became the best thing to fuel the fire, and for a moment the flames were rising, blood was splashing, and people were on their backs, and the entire battlefield was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire......

The cavalry of the Western Regions was furious, roaring and rushing to kill in turn, without the slightest fear and retreat.

However, the Yan army is even more experienced in battle, and the experience of fighting is extremely skillful. Under the command of generals at all levels, they did not take the initiative to attack, but only fired arrows and flying stones with repeating crossbows, bed crossbows, ballistas, and longbows, pouring down like a torrential rain, seemingly endless and endless.

Even though the cavalry of the Western Regions repeatedly rushed to kill the mountains and tsunamis, they could not cross the shooting area of hundreds of paces in front of the formation. More than an hour has passed, and the Yan army's formation has not moved, but the Western Regions cavalry group is already stacked with war horses and knights' corpses in front of them, which further hinders the army from continuing to charge.

Seeing the heavy losses of their own side, the king of Wusun and the king of Yueban, who were in charge of the command of the cavalry, had to temporarily stop the generals under their command who were still roaring and ordered a temporary retreat.

In the first encounter, the cavalry of the Western Regions was caught off guard by the sharp ordnance of the Yan army, and suffered heavy casualties. According to preliminary statistics, the total number of cavalrymen killed in the battle was more than 8,000, and the number of minor and serious wounded was even more difficult to count. In other words, nearly one-third of the 60,000 troops lost their combat strength in the first battle, while the Yan army did not even come out of the camp.

"Angry too!"

King Wusun thumped his chest, and he had no idea for a while, and even the ambitious King of Woo was also at a loss. It can be said that this battle basically set the tone for the Great War of the Western Expedition, and the people of the Western Regions could not escape the fate of destruction unless they fought back to the death. (To be continued.) )