Chapter 239: Overwhelming
Rolling muffled thunder roared from the direction of Jiuyuan City. Let the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, as well as the Donghu cavalry, Morton, Mohuer, Li Gang and others who are in full swing, all look sideways.
The fierce battlefield was in full swing, so much so that there was a brief lull.
Those who can come from the direction of Jiuyuan City seem to be unable to find anyone other than the Qin army. However, because Morton had sent 60,000 Hun cavalry to leave the camp before, thinking of the omnipotent Morton, the Hun coalition army still had a trace of extravagant hope and expectation in their hearts.
However, if it is really the Qin reinforcements, and all the Xiongnu coalition forces know about it, then this originally very simple war will definitely have some variables because of the Qin reinforcements that suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
Before the war, both the Xiongnu and the Donghu people thought that this would be a one-sided slash. After all, the Qin people only had more than 100,000 soldiers out of the city, and most of them were foot soldiers, and in the face of the Xiongnu coalition army that was at least four times that of the Qin people, and it was also a cavalry, the fate of the Qin people's defeat seemed to have been seen by everyone.
However, the 80,000 foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army faced the impact of the Donghu cavalry several times their own for nearly two hours, and it is still a watertight shield array until now, which cannot help but make the originally confident Xiongnu coalition army feel a little more worried.
But it was only apprehensive, after all, everyone knew at that time that in the face of hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry in the wilderness, it was only a matter of time before the destruction of the real 80,000 foot soldiers.
Next, the 40,000 cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army broke through at a high speed and accurately, and the number of tens of thousands of cavalry was obviously tens of thousands more than the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, and even forced the great Morton Shan Yu to send the Hun cavalry that had been sweeping the formation to force the Jiuyuan Army to retreat and then march away, but it made the anxiety of the Xiongnu coalition army rise several levels again, to the point of fright.
In the dusty place, a black brocade flag can be seen flying high in the air. The word "Qin" on the black brocade banner looms.
Although he was ready to face the Qin reinforcements in his heart, when he really saw that the real reinforcements were really Qin reinforcements, it still made all the soldiers of the Xiongnu coalition feel a strong gap in their hearts.
Fortunately, the Qin reinforcements who rushed to the rescue are still a long way from the battlefield. If you want to join the battlefield, you need at least a cup of tea.
Morton's orders soon reached Morhull.
The great Morton Shan Yu ordered Mo Huer to personally lead the 100,000 Donghu cavalry who were originally preparing to join the battlefield and break through the phalanx of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army to intercept the Qin cavalry that rushed to the battlefield.
Now that the Great Qin Elite Cavalry appeared was still far from the battlefield, Morton couldn't see clearly how many soldiers there were in this sudden Qin reinforcement. But that's no longer his concern. Subu Baye led the 40,000 Hun cavalry, still on guard, and after just breaking through the Donghu cavalry cone formation, he flew away, like a maggot on the tarsal bones, and the 40,000 Jiuyuan army elite cavalry.
Get rid of the 100,000 Hun cavalry around him, and the only thing he can use is the 100,000 cavalry of Donghu. Of course, now there are no more than 100,000 Hu cavalry, but more than 80,000 people.
Either let the elite of the Huns under his command go to meet the morale of the Qin reinforcements who rushed to help, and let the more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry behind Mohuer's group continue to help the 200,000 Donghu cavalry who are still besieging the infantry shield array of the Jiuyuan Army; Either Mohuer went to meet the Qin reinforcements, and Morton personally led the Xiongnu elite to assist the Donghu cavalry, which had surrounded the Jiuyuan army's foot soldiers.
How to distribute it is a question that hardly needs to be considered.
The sound of a desolate trumpet came from the main camp of Morton's army.
With the sound of the horn, the 100,000 elite Huns of Morton's own formation began to slowly approach the battlefield from the right flank. And Mohuer, under the protection of thousands of guards, joined up with more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry and greeted the Great Qin reinforcements who were still far away from the rear.
The Donghu cavalry, which was surrounded outside the infantry shield formation of the Jiuyuan Army, temporarily offensive, also suddenly became more ferocious. Sub Baye also took the 40,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry under his command and slowly forced towards the 40,000 Jiuyuan Army elite cavalry two miles away.
Because they were besieged by the Donghu cavalry, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army in the shield array could not see the Great Qin Jingcai who came to help. But the reaction of the Donghu cavalry who came to attack had already told them the answer. Linked to what Meng Hong had said before leaving the city, the two infantry commanders quickly understood the situation in front of them.
Although the Donghu cavalry's sudden and ferocious offensive put a lot of pressure on the Jiuyuan Army's infantry, fortunately, even when the Donghu cavalry's offensive was suspended, the Jiuyuan Army's infantry did not relax their vigilance. On the battlefield, any small mistake can cause irreparable consequences. This is something that all the foot soldiers of the Nine Plains Army know.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The sound of war drums, which had been silent for a long time in the infantry shield formation of the Jiuyuan Army, suddenly resounded throughout the battlefield when the horn of Morton's main formation had just stopped. After a few breaths, the originally slow and heavy sound of war drums suddenly became rapid and high-pitched, one swift and one high, and finally it was like a storm.
The whole world seemed to be left with the roar of the war drums.
At the same time as the drum sounded, the infantry in the center of the shield array began to slowly move towards the left flank of the circle array, and at the same time as the foot soldiers in the center of the shield array moved, the entire Jiuyuan Army infantry circle formation was also slowly adjusting.
The moment when the drums stopped.
The familiar humming sound sounded from the left flank of the Nine Plains Army's circle at the same time. A fan-shaped black cloud rose into the sky, and countless small black crossbow arrows with a sharp whistling sound hissed from the sky and slammed down on the Donghu cavalry in front of the left flank.
With the whistling sound of crossbow arrows, the original round formation of the Jiuyuan Army's infantry formation began to change rapidly from the left flank. The entire left flank began to move forward and launched an attack on the Donghu cavalry, which had been thrown into confusion by crossbow arrows.
From the beginning of the city to the present, this is the first time that the infantry of the 80,000 Nine Plains Army has begun to attack.
If you don't move, it's enough, and if you move, it's earth-shattering. It can be said to be a true portrayal of the 80,000 foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army today.
The entire Jiuyuan Army's infantry circle formation was like a whole, and as soon as the left flank moved, the entire large array had become the most suitable cone formation for attack before the Donghu cavalry could react.
No one would have thought that the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, who had been passively beaten, would suddenly take the initiative to attack at this time. By the time the Donghu cavalry reacted, the round infantry phalanx originally composed of 80,000 original army foot soldiers had turned into a conical arrow formation with the most ferocious attack power, forming a huge fan shape, and launched an overwhelming attack on the beaten Donghu cavalry.
Caught off guard, in the face of the attack of the Jiuyuan Army's foot soldiers, who had been beaten for nearly two hours and had been holding back the fire in their stomachs, like a tiger descending from the mountain, the Donghu cavalry surrounding the Jiuyuan Army's infantry phalanx either directly turned into corpses or spread out to both sides like a tide, and did not block the Jiuyuan Army infantry at all.
In less than a few dozen breaths, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, which suddenly changed formation, had already advanced dozens of steps in the huge thick encirclement composed of 200,000 Donghu cavalry, and was deeply entangled in the surrounding Donghu cavalry formation.
If the Donghu cavalry could not organize an effective defense, then there was no doubt that the 80,000 original infantry soldiers only needed to break through less than 200 steps to penetrate the entire encirclement formed by the Donghu cavalry, and by the way, they could also divide the formation of the Donghu cavalry in two.
The momentum is nothing more than that.
(To be continued)