Chapter 240: Longxi Army

The total number of troops out of the city was 80,000 foot soldiers. After nearly two hours of defense, it not only successfully resisted the charge of the 200,000 Donghu cavalry, but also caused nearly 50,000 casualties to the Donghu cavalry. Of course, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army also suffered more than 10,000 casualties.

The loss of more than 10,000 people in a battle was the first time in the Jiuyuan Army in the past ten years.

More than 60,000 infantry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army advanced dozens of steps, although the momentum of the charge slowed down a little, but the speed of the breakthrough was still very fast.

After nearly two hours of fighting, compared to the Donghu cavalry, which has always maintained an offensive posture and is now tired, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, who has always been in a defensive posture, is also very tired, but it is much better than the Donghu cavalry.

In addition, the Donghu cavalry obviously did not expect that the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, which had been cowering in the giant shield array, would make a counter-charge, coupled with the pressure and impact of the arrival of the reinforcements of the Qin people, so when the Donghu cavalry faced the sudden counterattack of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, they suddenly felt caught off guard, either killing the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army on the spot, or retreating to both sides like a tide.

This is also one of the reasons why the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army was able to break through so quickly.

In the face of the panic and lack of offensive strength of the Donghu cavalry, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, who had experienced a hundred battles, naturally could not let go of this opportunity, although the body was very tired, but the mental excitement seemed to make them take a big tonic, and they still maintained a very fast speed in the Donghu cavalry formation.

When Morton heard the sound of war drums coming from the infantry formation of the Nine Plains Army, an ominous premonition appeared in his heart. Immediately after that, a series of actions of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army confirmed his guess.

Seeing that the Donghu cavalry could only slightly delay the advance of the Jiuyuan Army's infantry, at most a quarter of an hour, the Jiuyuan Army's infantry would completely break through the encirclement of the Donghu cavalry. Once the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army broke through the encirclement of the Donghu cavalry, then the previous battle of more than an hour and tens of thousands of casualties could basically be said to be in vain.

The 100,000 Huns who came from the right flank rode under Morton's order, desperately whipping the war horses under their crotches and rushing towards the Jiuyuan Army's foot soldiers who were constantly breaking through to the left flank.

The infantry of the Jiuyuan Army still advanced and advanced.

Because of the arrival of the Great Qin reinforcements, the situation on the battlefield began to change.

Cruising around the periphery, Li Gang's 40,000 elite cavalry of the Nine-Nine Plains Army, who was already preparing to rush for a while, easily spotted the big banner of the word "Qin" flying high. The movements of Li Gang and the others were a few points faster than the actions of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army.

Finding that reinforcements had arrived, Li Gang, Meng Wei and other four generals quickly changed their strategies.

The horn of Morton's main formation sounded, 100,000 Xiongnu cavalry approached the Jiuyuan Army foot soldiers, Mohuer led the remaining more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry towards the reinforcements, and Su Bu Baye led 40,000 Donghu cavalry towards the 40,000 Jiuyuan Army cavalry slowly approaching.

The elite cavalry of the 40,000 Plains Army, which had been standing still, suddenly moved when Su Bu Baye had just slowly advanced less than a few dozen steps.

The elite cavalry of the 40,000 original army moved from static to moving, like arrows from the string, and rushed towards the 40,000 Hun cavalry of Subu Baye. The distance of two miles, but the kung fu of dozens of breaths is only more than 500 steps away from the Hun cavalry of Sububaye.

In fact, the original intention of Su Bu Baye approaching the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army was only to force these 40,000 Jiuyuan Army elite cavalry to retreat, so that they could stay further away from the battlefield. In this way, even if these 40,000 elite cavalry of the original army want to join the battlefield, the Hun cavalry can make an effective response in time. After all, with the current distance of the 40,000 original army elite cavalry, joining the battlefield to attack any group of Hun cavalry is only a matter of time.

If it was when the Hun cavalry or the Donghu cavalry were fighting with the Jiuyuan Army, this Jiuyuan Army's elite cavalry, which was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, joined the battlefield fiercely, and with the combat power of the Jiuyuan Army's elite cavalry, the harm they could cause did not need to be thought about and known.

The elite cavalry of the 40,000 original army suddenly launched and rushed towards the tens of thousands of Hun cavalry of themselves, which was naturally unexpected by Su Bu Baye.

In the moment when Subbaye gave the order, the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army approached more than 100 paces again, and by the time Subbaye looked again, the distance between the two armies was less than 400 paces.

At this distance, even if he wanted to order the Hun cavalry to turn around, it was too late. What's more, Xu Bu Baye didn't attach so much importance to the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, after all, the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army just now saw the Hun cavalry and immediately fled. As for the Jiuyuan Army's ability to quickly chisel through the 60,000 Donghu cavalry, it was naturally because the Donghu cavalry was too incompetent.

With the order of Subu Baye, the 40,000 Hun cavalry roared towards the elite cavalry of the 40,000 Jiuyuan Army who rushed over.

Seeing that the Hun cavalry did not turn around and flee and adopted the procrastination trick, but greeted them and others, Li Gang and the others were overjoyed.

That's what you want!

The elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, which was originally connected, instantly transformed into two conical formations.

The distance of four hundred paces is only more than ten breaths under the gallop of the war horse.

With a familiar buzzing sound, it sounded from the elite cavalry formation of the Jiuyuan Army. A black cloud rose into the air with a whistling, and in the blink of an eye it had reached the sky above the head of the Hun cavalry, and then with a sharp whistling sound, it slammed into the Hun cavalry formation.

The ghost cried wolf, and the wolf howled desperately, and the charge that caught up with the war horse was instantly knocked down by the Hun cavalry at the front, and the mournful neighing of the war horse and the miserable howl of the Huns before death sounded together.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than 100 paces.

The Hun cavalry that came up had already drawn their bows and arrows, and when they entered the range of the strong bow, they would pour endless feather arrows on the top of the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan army. But how could the Jiuyuan Army, which knew the tactics of the Huns, be beaten countless times like the Huns, and still not have a single surname?

The two conical formations, in the blink of an eye, split in two from the middle to avoid the frontal charge in the middle, and rushed towards the left and right flanks of the Hun cavalry respectively. The same tactics as against the Donghu cavalry.

However, the Hun cavalry was indeed fiercer and better at fighting than the Donghu cavalry.

Although the sudden change of formation of the Jiuyuan army's elite cavalry avoided the frontal collision, the Hun cavalry did not panic, and the Hun cavalry, who had been preparing for a long time with bows and arrows, shot out the feather arrows in their hands without hesitation, and in the blink of an eye, a large number of feather arrows were shot towards the left and right wings.

Now that the two armies have only been together for more than 50 steps, the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army has begun to suffer casualties. From time to time, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army was shot by feather arrows and fell off their horses, or their war horses were shot by feather arrows and fell down.

At a distance of more than fifty paces, the Hun cavalry was basically able to shoot three arrows in a row. Even though the Great Qin soldiers had complete leather armor, these feather arrows still caused more than 3,000 casualties to the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army.

Just broke through the 60,000 Donghu cavalry cone formation, and the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army only lost more than 2,000 people.

But the good fortune of the Huns was only there.

With a bang, the conical formation of the two elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army crashed straight into the Hun cavalry formation. Under the leadership of Li Gang, Meng Wu and other four people, like two black dragons entering the sea, in the Hun cavalry array, the Hun cavalry was cut down like dumplings.

However, in a tea time, the Hun cavalry, which was attacked by two Jiuyuan armies at the same time, was completely cut into three sections and became unable to take care of each other.

Looking at the two elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army rushing left and right in the Hun cavalry formation, as if entering no man's land, Su Bu Baye's hideous ugly face was already pale.

Defeated. And it was defeated so quickly. Let the eyes that have been seen above the head from the territory of Daqin finally know why his Huns have returned from going south again and again for more than ten years, and finally did not dare to set foot half a step south of Yinshan for more than ten years.

If he had been defeated an hour ago, Subakar would never have been what it is now. Although his head is not very bright, he can see the situation facing the Xiongnu very clearly.

The Qin reinforcements arrived, and the great Morton immediately joined the 100,000 Hun army of his own formation to the battlefield to besiege and kill the Jiuyuan Army infantry, obviously he did not expect Mohuer's Donghu cavalry to defeat the Qin cavalry, but let Donghu use his life to drag the Qin reinforcements and create time for himself to besiege and kill the Jiuyuan Army infantry.

The same is true of the 40,000 Qin elite cavalry that Xu Bu Baye led the 40,000 Hun cavalry to watch. As long as there are no Qin cavalry or reinforcements to join the battlefield, then it will be impossible for those foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army to withstand the siege of nearly 300,000 Hun cavalry, even if the combat strength of the Jiuyuan Army is high, it will be a matter of time before it falls.

At this time, he not only failed to complete the task of staring at or blocking the 40,000 Qin cavalry, but also buried tens of thousands of Xiongnu warriors. It can be expected that once these 40,000 elite Jiuyuan Army elite cavalry enter the battlefield, it will inevitably break the great Morton's plan to surround and kill the Qin people's foot soldiers.

Su Bu Baye looked at the Xiongnu warriors who were constantly being cut off by the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army who were constantly being coordinated by the three horses, and seemed to have seen his own end. The miserable howls of the Hun cavalry, which constantly sounded around, seemed to come from the distant sky.

"Kill!" With a desperate roar, he led the hundreds of guards around him to pounce on the Jiuyuan army that was surrounding. In an instant, it was submerged in the continuous three-cone formation of the Jiuyuan Army's elite cavalry.

…… The Great Qin reinforcements who came galloping with billowing smoke and dust finally revealed their true colors. In addition to the black brocade "Qin" flag fluttering in mid-air, a slightly smaller black brocade flag appeared in front of the team, and a big "Xin" character in the center of the banner has already revealed the identity of this Great Qin reinforcement.

Longxi Army. Xin Sheng, the former deputy general of the Jiuyuan Army, is the new general of Longxi.

The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army all know this. But Mohul didn't know. Of course, he couldn't have recognized Xiao Seal.

More than 80,000 Donghu cavalry and 50,000 Longxi troops, who arrived after receiving Meng Tian's order to obtain supplies from Linhe County, were already far away, less than five miles apart. Under Mohuer's instructions, more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry set up a charge formation, slowed down their horses, and slowly stopped.

Mohuer had already seen clearly that the soldiers of this Qin reinforcement army would not surpass his Donghu cavalry. Since this is the case, then why not be able to use the power to oppress the Qin people to stop advancing without having to fight?

However, it is clear that Mohuer's idea is just wishful thinking.

(To be continued)