Section 29 Decisive Victory [5]
"The man is here!"
"The man is here!"
The Huns shouted frantically about this. Even if they haven't met with the Han army at all.
It is strange to say that usually these Huns, especially the young Hun warriors, verbally disdain the Han people, and keep their mouths shut, just to go out and rob the Han people. However, when the knights of the Han army suddenly fell from the sky tonight, these young and strong warriors were the loudest and fastest fleeing group among all the Huns.
However, the speed at which the other group of people fled was not much faster than that of the above-mentioned Hun youths. At least, when Le Jin personally led the team and rushed into the courtyard of Shan Yu's royal court, except for a few frightened servants, only a few fresh Hun corpses were left.
This situation made Le Jin stunned for a while.
Lejin has imagined many situations, including the people who are full of people, and they have escaped without a single one; Including the Huns, who were alerted in time and organized to stand by; Including the Huns fell into confusion and hysterically scurried around the yard......
However, when the Huns fled, these corpses left behind, especially the headless corpse that knew that they were nobly dressed at a glance, made Le Jin puzzled.
If you don't understand, you can't understand it!
Lejin has always been a man of action. He tortured a few of the remaining slaves, and learned the general whereabouts of those Southern Xiongnu nobles, so he left a team of 100 people and occupied the courtyard of the royal court, waiting to meet the army behind. He himself led the main force of his subordinates, hundreds of cavalry, in pursuit of the direction of the Huns' escape.
You must know that among those who escaped, there were such Xiongnu nobles as "Zuo Ri Cha King" and "Right Valley Li King"!
Due to the characteristics of the nomadic tribe of the Xiongnu, these powerful nobles who controlled a large area of grassland and tribes usually lived scattered in the surrounding area of Meiji City. They relied on the men and arms of their subordinates, and even if they were against the Southern Xiongnu, they might not be a little afraid. It can be said that more than half of the current strength of the Southern Xiongnu belongs to a few nobles such as "the king of the left day" and the "king of the right valley".
In the entire surprise attack plan, after the Taixing army leveled the royal court of the Southern Xiongnu, they had to immediately disperse and attack everywhere to sweep away the Xiongnu nobles who had a certain number of troops. Otherwise, it would not be regarded as a complete suppression of the Southern Xiongnu rebellion.
However, since these guys, who usually live in scattered places, rarely come to the royal court to attend the banquet, Le Jin naturally can't let go of these God-given credits. If they can wipe out the "Left Sun Chasing King", "Right Valley Li King" and others, their subordinates will become leaderless. In the future, if the Taixing army wants to control the entire Southern Xiongnu, it can save at least thirty percent of its strength.
"Chase! Don't cherish horsepower anymore! Occupy the Huns, I will give you bastards, one with two good horses! ”
In the wild gallop of horses and whips, Le Jin encouraged his subordinates.
The escape of the Xiongnu nobles was only a short time before the arrival of Lejin. When Le Jin set out to pursue, the Xiongnu nobles had already fled from Meiji City in panic and came to the vast grassland.
When Le Jin led his subordinates to chase them all the way to the city gate, by the bright white moonlight, he could faintly see the smoke and dust raised by these Huns galloping by.
However, this is also the shortest distance that can be reached between Lejin and the fleeing Huns.
The Huns have lived on horseback since childhood, and their riding skills are by no means comparable to those of Lejin's subordinates. Moreover, the Huns, who lived by grazing cattle, sheep and horses, had a good number of horses in their hands, which was completely beyond the reach of the Taixing army.
In addition, Le Jin led the army from afar, and he traveled dozens of miles along the way, and the horsepower was close to exhaustion. As soon as he ran out of more than ten miles, Le Jin was depressed to find that the smoke and dust raised by the Hun knights had gradually disappeared from sight.
"Chief, shall we turn back? Can't catch up! ”
Song Guo's guide knights, who had lived in Bingzhou for a long time, had a deep understanding of the quality and characteristics of horses. At this moment, with his more than 20 years of horseback riding experience, he made suggestions to Lejin.
Lejin glanced at the guide and didn't answer. He just stepped up and whipped twice.
- Unwilling!
Lejin is a stubborn and strong person. Otherwise, when he met Zhang Qiang for the first time, Le Jin would not have fought to the death in the face of the Yellow Turban Army, which had an absolute advantage, and almost fought to the death with Dian Wei. Although in the eyes of others, it seems that it is already impossible. Ke Lajin still made a decision in his heart:
-- Chase ten more miles......
The so-called "military orders are like mountains". Le Jin made a decision, and even if the other soldiers did not approve of it in their hearts, they had to implement it seriously. And it turns out that Lejin's pursuit did not get much gain.
However, they did not do useless work either.
After chasing out of Wulidi, Le Jin still did not find the smoke and dust raised by the Hun knights. But unexpectedly, through the white moonlight, Le Jin directly saw a group of people.
Huns.
A group of dead Huns.
The ownerless war horse still hovered beside the body of its master, snorting from time to time and calling for its master. Even the arrival of the Taixing cavalry did not disperse these well-trained war horses. Le Jin drove his horse to the corpses, bent down and flipped several corpses with a long knife. In the clear moonlight, the cause of death of these corpses can be said to be clear at a glance.
Kill with one arrow.
One arrow kills, these four words are easy to say, but it is difficult to really do it.
Although the bow and arrow can attack from a distance, its Achilles' heel is its low penetration and lethality. Don't be frightened by the so-called rain of arrows, as long as the shooting distance exceeds fifty paces, ordinary bows and arrows are not lethal. There is an old saying in the army that vividly illustrates the low damage of bows and arrows.
-- Three arrows worth a knife, three knives worth a shot.
This phrase, which was experienced by the veterans, means something like this:
Three arrows were hit in the body, which was roughly equivalent to being slashed. Being slashed in the body is roughly equivalent to being stabbed by an enemy.
As long as he has a thin pair of leather armor on his body, a well-trained veteran can have a few arrows stuck in his body and still fight with wounds. Some generals in iron armor, even shot like a hedgehog, can still jump around on the battlefield.
So, in the Han army, bows and arrows were just an additional complementary weapon for soldiers to use for long-range killing. The long-range weapon that was really relied on by the Han army was the crossbow.
However, these Huns in front of Le Jin were basically killed on the spot after only one arrow. Le Jin exerted his strength on the long knife, picked up the arrow feather hard, and pulled out a feather arrow with a "wave". He took a closer look and found that the depth of the arrow's entry into the flesh had reached almost four inches!
Even if these Huns were in a hurry because of the incident, most of them did not wear armor. But such a ferocious arrow is enough to be terrifying. Le Jin is confident that he can't shoot such a fierce arrow!
"Chief, this still has a breath!"
A cavalryman turned over the corpses of the Huns and reported to Lejin.
“~!#$%^&*|……”
The Hun who was not yet dead, dying, still had a few syllables popping out of his mouth.
"What are you talking about?"
"He's saying, 'General Fly.'"
The guide knight translated.
"General Fei?"
In the history of the Han Dynasty, there were quite a few fierce generals known as "flying generals". However, the most famous is Li Guang during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Le Jin remembered the lethality of those arrows just now, and nodded:
"This kind of archery is worthy of a 'flying general'!"
With that, he glanced around at his subordinates and gave another order:
"Chase!"
-- With the archery and martial arts of this "flying general", most of those Huns will not be able to escape.
――But I don't know, who is this "flying general"? Could it be that the lord expected that the Huns would flee to this side, and first sent Tai Shici to intercept and kill in front?
-- No matter what, I'm going to see you!
When Le Jin was chasing, the killing of "General Fei" was still in progress.
Every time the bowstring of the "Flying General" is pulled, there will be a fiery red meteor, which quickly cuts through the sky, and then accurately finds his target, and takes a big bite on the target's flesh and blood hungrily!
Faced with this situation, the Huns had no courage to resist at all. The only thing they do is escape!
No matter where it is in front, as long as there is no "flying general" there, it is the direction in which you can escape!
The Huns did not think about it and had to charge back. However, as soon as they saw the fiery red robes on the arrivals, as well as the bright swords and crossbows, the Huns knew that fighting with the elites of these Han troops would only make them die faster!