Chapter 235: The Returning "Deserter"
As the highest-ranking leader of the Donghu clan today, although Mao Dun wanted him to die, he did not let Mohuer personally lead the army to attack the Jiuyuan Army.
Mao Dun knew very well that the reason why the 200,000 Hun cavalry could make the 300,000 Donghu cavalry obey was that Mohuer played a great role in it. If it weren't for the fact that the surnames of the entire Mohuer clan were in the hands of Mao Dun, Mao Dun believed that Mo Hu and the Donghu people would definitely not be so obedient.
Although Mohuer may have died at the hands of the Qin in the battle, Maudun could not guarantee that the Donghu would only lock their hatred on the Qin and not ignore his role as a Xiongnu Shanyu.
Before the Jiuyuan Army was truly defeated, Mao Dun didn't want to take any chances.
Mohuer led 100,000 Donghu cavalry in the wilderness less than ten miles away from the Jiuyuan Army. He obeyed Maudun's order to sweep the Donghu cavalry here, or rather, for Maudun.
After sending a team of 60,000 people into Yunzhong County to plunder the Qin people, there are still 140,000 Hun cavalry in Maodun's own formation.
Every roar in the Nine Plains Army formation made Mo Huer's heart tremble. Compared with the ordinary soldiers of Donghu who knew little about Great Qin, Mohuer, as one of the top nobles of the Donghu clan, was very aware of the sharpness of the Qin people's weapons.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in Donghu who control the strings, but they rarely go south to invade the almost empty counties of Liaodong and Liaoxi, so it is naturally not that the king of Donghu has no idea about plundering the Qin people. It's just that they're afraid.
Daqin, who was under the territory of the Donghu clan, had a war to test the surname and completely cut off the mind of going south. He no longer dared to go south, and even approached the border of Daqin for half a minute.
That was still in the Great Qin Ping's battle to destroy the Yan Kingdom. The Donghu cavalry, who were about to take advantage of the fire to rob, happened to encounter the Great Qin army that had marched to several counties in eastern and western Liaoning. The two Donghu 10,000 troops, facing the 20,000 Great Qin cavalry, were almost wiped out in less than two hours, and only more than 1,000 cavalry were left to flee.
When the rest of the Donghu people who entered the territory of the Yan Kingdom at that time followed the rout to find their place of battle, it was an hour later. And all they saw was a trampled mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. All the Donghu cavalry were headless mutilated corpses.
Tens of thousands of angry Donghu cavalry followed the trails left by the Qin army all the way. Fifty miles away, he caught up with the Qin army, which had just fought a big battle.
This Qin army is not the Jiuyuan Army, nor is it the Longxi Army. It's just an ordinary one of Great Qin's many armies. But it was the 20,000 Qin army that had just destroyed the 20,000 Donghu cavalry, and they had already ridden their horses when the sound of the hooves of the Donghu cavalry arrived.
In a battle with the Donghu cavalry, this Qin army lost nearly 5,000 people, and more than 2,000 casualties! There are only more than 10,000 people who can really fight.
But it was these more than 10,000 people that made the Donghu people see the difference between the Qin army and the Yan army for the first time.
The cavalry of the Qin army, of more than 10,000 people, launched a counter-charge in the face of the swarming Donghu cavalry of nearly 30,000 people. This was the first time Mohuer had seen the Qin army's small hand crossbow, and it was also the first time he felt the ferocity of the Qin army.
At that time, Mohuer was still very young, and had not yet taken over as the leader of the Donghu tribe he was in. However, he is already the commander of the Donghu cavalry. After the first battle, 30,000 Donghu cavalry left more than 10,000 corpses and fled in disarray.
Since then, the Donghu clan has never had the heart to go south! Of course, it can also be said that you don't dare!
Every sharp whistling sounded, and Mohuer seemed to see countless Donghu cavalry fall under the sharp crossbows of the Qin people. That scene more than ten years ago has been imprinted in Mohuer's mind.
After the slaughter of the Donghu clan by Maoton, there were only 300,000 people left in the clan. The life and death of every Donghu cavalry means that their Donghu clan has less hope of escaping from the enslavement of the Huns.
Mohuer, trembling and staring at the battlefield that had been scorched! He knew that this was deliberately done by Mao Dun, and what he did was nothing more than to take the opportunity to consume the vital strength of the Donghu cavalry, so that the Donghu people would be defeated and injured by the Jiuyuan army.
Outside, there are continuous crazy collisions of Donghu cavalry regardless of life and death, and feathered arrows fall from time to time in the sky!
When the banner flickered, the outermost soldiers began to converge behind the Jiuyuan Army holding the giant shield, while the Jiuyuan soldiers in the circle began to gather towards the most central area!
Instantly form a defensive formation in the shape of concentric circles!
"Buzz!"
The familiar humming sound sounded again from the middle of the Jiuyuan Army's circular formation. Fortunately, the longbow in the hands of the Donghu cavalry had a range of only sixty to eighty paces. The only ones that could be attacked were the outermost soldiers around the Jiuyuan Army's circle array.
The crossbow arrows that rose into the air drilled into the dense Donghu cavalry formation.
The Donghu cavalry, which was wandering around the infantry circle of the Jiuyuan Army, was suddenly hit by the strong crossbow of the Jiuyuan Army, and was caught off guard, and suddenly people turned on their backs and fell off their horses. The crossbow arrows of the Jiuyuan Army could only temporarily alleviate the wave after wave of collision of the Donghu cavalry.
In the overwhelming charge of the Donghu cavalry, the 80,000 Yuan Army, which had been completely surrounded by more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry, was like a huge black reef covered with countless spikes in the vast sea. And the Donghu cavalry was the stormy waves in the sea, wave after wave of front and back crushing towards the Jiuyuan Army.
Every collision between the two sides will set off countless blood flowers.
In the face of the Jiuyuan Army's giant shield that was more than a foot high and the long sharp spears that stretched out from the gaps in the giant shield, it was often a spear that penetrated the body of one or two Donghu cavalrymen at the same time, and then was broken.
In less than a moment, the outer circle of the Jiuyuan Army had already fallen to the corpses of the dense Donghu cavalry and the corpses of horses. This also greatly hindered the charge of the Donghu cavalry.
But the spears of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army were also rapidly consumed, and they were broken by the Donghu cavalry who rushed over with men and horses! Most importantly, by this time, the strong bows in the hands of the Donghu cavalry began to exert their swift power. It's limited, but it's always a few arrows from time to time.
Fortunately, now that the two armies have joined the battle, the strong bow of the Donghu cavalry is only sixty or seventy paces at most. They didn't dare or have no way to shoot feather arrows into the infantry circle of the Jiuyuan Army, and it was very likely that they would also shoot their own people.
But even so, the casualties of the Jiuyuan soldiers are also increasing dramatically.
Although from time to time, the Donghu cavalry company led a horse to break through the giant shield on the periphery of the Jiuyuan Army and burst into the round formation of the Jiuyuan Army's foot soldiers, but they were soon stabbed to death by the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army behind the giant shield with swords or spears.
The 80,000 foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army knew very well what the point of them leaving the city was. It is to drag these hundreds of thousands of Huns under Jiuyuan City. Wait for the upcoming general Meng Tian.
Even if everyone dies in this wilderness, these hundreds of thousands of Huns will be dragged in Jiuyuan City until the moment when the general arrives.
This is the truest thought in the heart of every foot soldier of the Jiuyuan Army.
The fight continues.
Whenever the feather arrows of the Donghu cavalry fell, a large number of soldiers of the Jiuyuan army who fought with the Donghu cavalry would fall to the ground in the Jiuyuan army soldiers in the outer giant shield circle. Even many of the Donghu cavalry were shot by their own feathered arrows. And after that, the tens of thousands of Jiuyuan troops gathered in the center of the Jiuyuan Army's infantry circle formation will immediately divide a part of the Jiuyuan Army to take over the dead Jiuyuan Army and maintain the defense of the periphery.
Everyone knows what will happen after being broken through the outermost giant shield by the Donghu cavalry, and being rushed into the infantry circle by more than 100,000 Hun cavalry.
The Jiuyuan Army, standing majestically in the turbulent waves composed of the Donghu cavalry, let the Donghu cavalry crash and smash on the reef.
The roar of horses' hooves, shouts of killing, and the whistling of crossbow arrows and feathered arrows resounded for dozens of miles. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, on this battlefield of blood and fire, staged the most primitive instinct of human beings.
Although the giant shield on the periphery of the Jiuyuan Army has been crumbling, it has always stood tenaciously in the outermost part of the circle, resisting the impact of waves of Donghu cavalry.
Nearly half an hour has passed since the battle.
It can be said that the tenacity and ferocity of the Jiuyuan Army made all Donghu people really chill from the bottom of their hearts. Even if the Jiuyuan Army was protected by a huge shield, it still had no chaos in its formation until now when it resisted the continuous impact of the Donghu cavalry, which was almost twice as large as the Jiuyuan Army, and the rain of arrows falling from the sky overhead.
However, the Donghu cavalry also gradually adjusted the way of charging in the fighting. War is always the most stimulating to creativity and imagination. The Donghu cavalry soon no longer wanted to break through the circle formation of the Jiuyuan Army in one go, but chose several points of the shield array to carry out a continuous charge.
In this way, there will be more Donghu cavalry that can have enough distance and space to cruise around the circle formation of the Jiuyuan Army, and use strong bows to shoot at the strong crossbows in the hands of the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army.
The Donghu cavalry suddenly used the method of breaking the surface to forcibly break through several points of the shield array of the Jiuyuan Army, which suddenly increased the pressure on the Jiuyuan Army. Coupled with the feather arrows of the Donghu cavalry that suddenly became dense, from time to time the soldiers of the Jiuyuan army were shot by the feather arrows that came out of nowhere.
The casualties of the Jiuyuan Army are expanding dramatically!
Mo Huer, who was sweeping the formation in the rear, saw that the Donghu warriors under his command fell in pieces under the strong crossbows of the Jiuyuan Army, but they never broke through the shield formation of the Jiuyuan Army, and his heart kept twitching and dripping blood.
He felt like he couldn't wait any longer.
"Woooooo
A low trumpet suddenly sounded in Mohuer's array.
Hearing the sound of the horn, the 100,000 Donghu cavalry began to ride their horses in unison, adjusting the formation while slowly approaching the battlefield where the battle was in full swing. Mao Dun, who was originally expressionless in the Hun cavalry formation on the right flank, heard the horn suddenly sounding in Mohuer's army, his eyes suddenly became gloomy, and he looked at the 100,000 Donghu cavalry who were moving forward.
At this moment, several horsemen from the flank of Mohur's army appeared and rushed towards Mohuer. The scouts were still hundreds of paces away from Mohur, who already knew what was going on.
Behind the cavalry, at the end of his line of sight, a long black line appeared on the horizon.
The cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army who "escaped" finally appeared on the battlefield!
(To be continued)