Chapter 186: Copper Jar vs. Iron Urn
The battle preparations made by the Fujiao Army in advance, the whole army has already lined up in formation, a huge, boxy hollow array, just waiting for the Huns to attack!
Li Qin retreated into the formation, personally picked up the bow and arrows, he turned around and called a scout, and said: "Go, tell the brothers in the back, let them lift their horses quickly, go to the Hun barracks behind to go around, no need to really start a war, just go around the big camp, and when Liu Jiu returns to the army to rescue the camp, they will retreat to the county seat, making it look like they want to relieve the siege, but there is no need to attack, turn around, and then run back, the circle is a little bigger, try to go north!" ”
The scout agreed, got on his horse and went out to tell the recruits behind.
Li Qin shouted: "All of them, from now on, keep quiet until the end of the battle." After the battle, don't pursue, listen to orders! ”
The Fujiao soldiers immediately quieted down, and the whole army entered a quiet moment before the battle, if Yuan Shao was here, he would be able to learn another move, and it was a very important move, but it was a pity that he was not here.
Li Qin shouted again: "Bow and arrow ready!" ”
The horn soldiers put down their spears, took out their bows and arrows, and silently looked at the Hun soldiers who rushed over!
Looking at the Hun soldiers, Li Qin silently calculated the distance in his heart, and when the Hun soldiers arrived at the land of an arrow, he shouted: "Release!" ”
Immediately, thousands of feather arrows shot towards the Hun soldiers together, and the Huns who ran in the front immediately fell off their horses, only one arrow rain, they shot down hundreds of Hun soldiers, and then the arrow rain wave after wave, in an instant, tens of thousands of feather arrows were shot over!
However, in the blink of an eye, the corpses of the Hun soldiers on the battlefield in front of them lay down thousands, this loss is too great, although not all of them died immediately, but after the war horse was shot, it fell to the ground and pressed on the legs of the Huns, and once the Huns fell to the ground, then they would definitely die, and they would be trampled into pulp by their companions behind!
However, no matter how powerful the arrow rain of the Fujiao soldiers was, and no matter how serious the losses of the Hun soldiers were, the generals of the two armies did not have any reaction, whether it was Li Qin or Liu Jiu, the two of them didn't even blink their eyelids, they all understood in their hearts that this was just an appetizer before the big meal, the big army was fighting, if there was not even this small loss, then what would they fight, what should they do if they slapped their butts directly!
Jia Xu stood in the middle of the formation, he looked at Li Qin, but saw that Li Qin didn't let go of an arrow, just holding a bow, he said: "Ah Qin, I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle today, and our rain of arrows can't stop the Huns." ”
Li Qin snorted, he didn't know, but now that he was at war, what could he do? He faced Liu Jiu today, to put it bluntly, it was a battle that had not been prepared in advance, in essence, it was an encounter battle, and there was no strategy to talk about in a hard-fought war, it was all based on strength. Whoever is strong enough will win, and in the face of absolute strength, everything else is!
Li Qin said: "I'm afraid that we will have more than a thousand losses, and the losses that can be brought to Liu Jiu will not exceed five thousand, the second fierce battle will be after dark, if possible, we will introduce the Hun soldiers to the back of the front fire platform, where to annihilate them." ”
Jia Xu shook his head and said: "It is impossible to be completely annihilated, even if Liu Jiu is defeated in the night battle, he will still have more than 10,000 people left, or even more, even if we pursue, he will not be caught, he is not Li Wenhou, and the Hun soldiers are not herdsmen who have just put down the sheep whip, they are all good at fighting, they are real enemies!" ”
Li Qin slowly put down his bow and arrows, facing Liu Jiu, it was already a big victory to defeat his Hun soldiers, if he wanted to be completely annihilated, it was indeed unimaginable, even if the two armies were equal in number, and the battlefield was not in Fuping, they could let go of the scourge with their lives, then they could only be defeated, not completely annihilated, and they could only cause losses to the Hun soldiers to the maximum, so that they would not dare to come again in the future, in order to correctly describe the results of this battle. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not destroy the Xiongnu with all the strength of the whole country, so it was unrealistic for Li Qin to destroy the largest tribe on the grassland with his own strength, at least at this stage.
Jia Xu said: "The Huns have always bullied the weak and afraid of the hard, if we can beat Liu Jiu very painfully this time, then he will not come again for many years, and other Hun tribes will not go south again, at least they dare not come to the place where we have the Fujiao Army, so we are fighting for our own damage this time, and we must also beat Liu Jiu pain, so that if something happens in the Central Plains, we can free our hands, otherwise once we leave Liangzhou, just like this time, others will come to worry about our hometown, then we can't stand it!" ”
Li Qin gritted his teeth and said: "The key now is to see where Liu Jiu will retreat and drive them to the Western Regions, even if he wants to chase the enemy this time, he must at least chase them out of thousands of miles, and chase them into the Western Regions all the time, and let them out, until Liu Jiu never dares to see me again!" ”
Jia Xu sighed and said, "Catch up thousands of miles away? Then this is really out of the way, you don't want to take the opportunity to take revenge on that Dong Zhuo, right? ”
Li Qin snorted: "Killing two birds with one stone, why not, being a minister of the same dynasty, I'm embarrassed to kill Dong Zhuo, is it embarrassing for Liu Jiu!" ”
"He won't be embarrassed, I'm afraid that Dong Zhuo will be embarrassed to run to him and let him kill!" Jia Xu said.
As he spoke, the Huns had already rushed to a dozen feet in front of the Fujiao soldiers, and the sound of shouting and killing and horse hooves was deafening, and the rain of arrows of the Fujiao soldiers did not stop their charge! Of course, it is not too possible to block this kind of big charge with a rain of arrows, unless there are more dense catapult weapons!
Li Qin shouted: "Withdraw the arrows, raise the gun!" His shouts could no longer reach the ears of the horn supporters at the front, and the heralds beside him blew their horns to convey orders!
The horn-raising soldiers at the front could no longer throw the big bow behind the formation at this time, and the kung fu Hun soldiers who turned around would be killed. The horn soldier threw the big bow to the position in front, then raised his spear, glared at the rushing Hun soldiers, gritted his teeth, and all the soldiers did not dare to make a sound!
Under the sun, the tips of the spears of the horn soldiers are dazzling, their spears are different from the Han army's standard spears, the tip of the spear should grow a section, under the sunlight, reflecting a dazzling light, especially the rows of spear tips raised, which increases the momentum.
For the tip of the gun, the Hun soldiers will not be afraid, even if they are afraid at this moment, it is useless, but their war horses are afraid, the more experienced the war horses, for the tip of the gun, the reaction is huge, the soldiers are more and more brave, the horses are more and more cowardly, especially the wounded war horses, seeing rows of gun tips is even more afraid.
When the war horse charges into battle, the stragglers engage the cavalry to hedge, the more battles the horse, the less affected by the enemy soldiers, at that time it was a man-to-man battle, but in the face of the gun array is just the opposite, it is a man-to-horse battle, the enemy's stabbing target is mainly the horse, not the person on horseback, anyway, as soon as the horse falls, the person on the horse will be finished, and the goal of the horse is bigger!
The Hun soldiers' method of dealing with the fear of the war horse was mainly to put a blindfold on the war horse, although it would not be completely blindfolded like the donkey that pulled the mill, but it was also necessary to ensure that the war horse's sight could only see the front, and not the side, so that it could only rush forward. But because they ran out of the camp and started fighting directly, and they came at a gallop with a large number of people, they didn't have time to put blindfolds on their horses, which made them have some trouble when they rushed over!
The war horses on both sides of the front rushed to a few feet away from the Fujiao soldiers, and at least a third of the war horses turned around, circling around the large array of the Fujiao army, and did not rush to the tip of the spear at all, so that the Hun warriors who rushed to the front were not regarded as warriors, but this not only saved the lives of the horses, but also saved the lives of these warriors!
The war horses on both sides bypassed the tip of the spear, but the war horse in the middle couldn't, and hundreds of war horses crashed into the gun array of the horn soldiers, with great momentum, just like a high-speed train, crashing into another stationary train, screaming, neighing in an instant!
Hundreds of war horses and the Huns on their backs were not spared, all fell to the ground, they almost hit the front of the large array of Fujiao soldiers at the same time, and almost at the same time died, the Huns suffered heavy losses, the large array of the Fujiao army inevitably shrank back, the Fujiao soldiers fell more than a dozen at the same time, the battle situation was urgent, the soldiers on both sides could not spare their hands to save their companions, it can be said that at this moment, as long as they fell to the ground, it means that they were killed, and there was no possibility of getting up and fighting again!
The Huns behind were like huge waves in the sea, and the second wave of cavalry collided again, and the large array of Fujiao soldiers retreated again, and the casualties of the soldiers on both sides expanded instantly. No matter how strong the horn soldiers are, they have lost more than 100 people, and the Huns are even worse, as long as they collide with them, they will all die, and after the two charges, the Huns fell off their horses, and they didn't even stand up!
Li Qin shouted in the back: "Brothers, resist it, they can't exceed five times, we only need to resist five times, five times, and three more!" Before he could finish shouting, the third wave of Hun soldiers had already crashed into him!
Liu Jiu in the back saw the battle situation, he was even more surprised than Li Qin, such a fierce charge, as long as the depth of the enemy infantry phalanx is not enough, not enough to stand in ten rows, then a charge can tear apart the enemy formation, and the second charge can be completely rushed in, as long as there is a small opening, as long as a small gap, the Huns can set the victory!
But the horn soldiers in front of them only stood in three rows, and the front was not all hit, but they managed to withstand two charges, even if it was the Xiongnu Shan Yu's personal guards, they couldn't do this!
Liu Jiu thought to himself: "It's bad, if there are too many dead people and dead horses, the speed of the follow-up soldiers' charge will not be able to be raised, there is no momentum, what kind of formation can be broken, you can only dismount and fight, but once you get off the horse, how can your own soldiers beat the horn soldiers!" ”
At the critical moment, Liu Jiuhuo went out, and he shouted: "Empty bags, all on!" He sent all his most elite troops in one go!
(To be continued)