The east gate of Shangdang was opened. Zhang He's crotch got off the white horse, and the tiger-headed golden gun in his hand took the lead in killing it. Behind him, two thousand cavalry poured out like a tidal wave.

The Huns did not cling to the city wall to surround the Shangdang city, but retreated about three miles and set up camp, facing the Shangdang city from afar. Every day, they did not go to the city to challenge, but sent about 20,000 cavalry to cruise around the four city gates, and sent about ten small groups of cavalry to plunder everywhere. Then they swaggered the looted supplies, women and children into the camp, and insulted the captives in every possible way, in order to provoke the defenders of the city and force them out of the city for a decisive battle.

Zhang Heming knew that this was the provocation of the Huns, but when he was angry, why was he afraid of death? As a general, how can he sit on the head of the city and watch his compatriots being slaughtered by the barbarians and remain indifferent? If that's the case, how can you match the word general?

What's more, although the Hun cavalry was large in number and the horses were excellent, they also had weaknesses; Their smelting technology was backward, and the weapons they made were far less sharp and tough than those of the Han army, and their war horse armor was all leather armor, with few bronze and iron armor, and their tactics were mainly guerrilla, lacking discipline, and often fighting separately; The charge rushes up in a swarm, and when it retreats, it recedes like a tide.

There is a huge disparity in numbers, and it is impossible to win, but it is not difficult to break through a bloody path and kill this captive team. Therefore, Zhang Hecai decided to lead the cavalry to attack, and after releasing the captured people, he didn't have to go back to the city.

Seeing the opening of Shangdang City, a cavalry rushed out, and the Huns knew that the Han people were plotting. Preparations for encirclement began.

The three thousand Hun cavalry who were cruising at the east gate belonged to the right big danghu to get rid of the mines, and when they saw the Han army rushing out of the city gate, they were immediately excited, and ordered loudly in the Hun language: "Talie led the troops to meet the frontal attack, Mu Chi led the army to attack on both sides, and the big Danghu responded in the back, so be sure to annihilate this Han cavalry!" ”

Talie and Mu Chi are both Qianchang, Qianchang is a junior military general in the Xiongnu army, in charge of 1,000 cavalry, and his status is equivalent to that of a captain in the Han army. Got the order to get rid of the mines. The two immediately led their troops to meet the attack. Talie swung his sword and charged forward, leading a thousand knights to block the Han army from the front. Mu Chi's troops were divided into two routes, and they rode from two loaves to Han Cavalry.

The horses of the Huns were tall and fast. The impact is strong. Heads-up hedging can prevail. Therefore, he was not afraid to charge head-on with the Han cavalry, and Ta Lie held the Xiongnu's unique long-handled scimitar and charged forward. He roared wildly: "Ignorant Han people, quickly dismount and die, the Great Khan Heavenly Soldiers are here, and they dare to resist!" ”

Zhang Yiyi took the lead, made a move of the tiger head gun in his hand, and ordered: "The light cavalry is separated on both sides, and the heavy cavalry charges!" ”

After the Han cavalry came out of the city, they charged forward in five teams. Each column had four hundred cavalry, with light cavalry at the front, and eight hundred heavy cavalry hiding behind the light cavalry. With Zhang He's order, the light cavalry of the first row parted like a wave, opening up to both sides like a "figure eight", meeting Mu Chi's troops who rushed from both flanks.

After the light cavalry dodged, the heavy armored cavalry in the second row was revealed, still in a column of four hundred, and the knights and horses were all wrapped in jet-black iron armor. Each knight held a spear in his hand, and was also equipped with a machete, the spear stabbed from afar, and the machete was hand-to-hand, which was the battle method taught to them by the main general Zhang He, and when they hedged against the equal number of cavalry, they had not yet fallen behind.

"Rush! Kill Hulu! ”

Zhang Yiyi took the lead, his legs were clamped in the belly of the white horse under his crotch, and he charged first, and instantly became entangled with the Huns' cavalry. The heavy armor behind him pounced on the black horseman, like a dark cloud pressing down on the city.

The Xiongnu Qianchang Talie wielded a long-handled scimitar in front, and collided with Zhang He, and the two sides did not talk to each other, fighting together. Zhang He's spear flew like a poisonous snake, and Talie was caught off guard by a shot in the throat and knocked over the horse!

The generals were killed in an instant, and the Hun cavalry was in chaos. In addition, the heavy armor of the Han army was huge, the two sides hedged, the Hun horses did not have armor to protect the body, many were injured, made a neighing sound, people stood up, the soldiers on the horse were thrown off the horse, and in an instant they were trampled into meat by the surging iron hooves.

One charge from both sides came down, but the Talie Department could not resist it, losing more than 300 people, and the rest of the troops were scattered. And the Han cavalry also folded a hundred and ten horses. Zhang Yiyi took the lead and led the cavalry to rush forward, and did not pounce on the right Dadanghu Delei tribe in front, but turned his horse's head to the south and rushed towards the six or seven hundred captives. Zhang He's purpose in leaving the city is to save people, not to fight!

If it was the same number of cavalry clashes, or even twice as many Hun troops as himself, Zhang He was confident that he would win the battle, but there were 50,000 Hun cavalry under Shangdang City, twenty-five times as much as himself, if they were surrounded, I am afraid that there was only one way to go!

"Honk, pursue!" Riding on a tall red horse, he waved his scimitar in his hand and gave orders to his subordinates.

As soon as the horn was called, it was a signal for help, and the 6,000 Hun cavalry who were cruising at the south and north gates immediately jumped their horses' heads and rushed towards the east, in order to unite with the Delei tribe and encircle and annihilate the Han army that rushed out.

Just when the Hun cavalry at the south gate, north gate and east gate rushed towards the Han cavalry, the door of the Xiongnu camp was wide open, and Zuoxian Wang Hu Chuquan personally led 6,000 heavy cavalry out of the camp and came to help, hoping to encircle and annihilate the Han cavalry with superior troops.

Zhang Hefei is a brave and unscrupulous martial artist, and when he goes out of the city this time, he knows that he will inevitably face a siege ten times his size, and if he wants to enter the city again, it will be difficult and difficult; Therefore, he did not plan to enter the city again, and prepared to break through to the east and return to Yecheng to borrow troops. God knows when the high-level soldiers will arrive? And Yanmen is far away, and the team of Liyi and Yuan Mai may not be able to count on it for a while, so they can only go to Yecheng to borrow troops first.

"After the heavy armor is broken, the light cavalry moves forward, scatters the plundered barbarians, and lets the people escape!" Zhang He's hand waved the spear and ordered again.

The eight hundred heavy armored cavalry received the order, and once again separated in the manner of light cavalry, turned into two groups, and turned back to snipe the Huns who had caught up. The Hun cavalry, which came up like a tide, suddenly stopped rushing like waves crashing into the rocks. The two sides shouted and strangled together, flesh and blood flew sideways, human heads rolled wildly, the sound of fighting shook the heavens and the earth, and the smoke and dust rolled straight up, covering the sky and the sun.

Just when the heavy armored cavalry blocked the pursuers behind, Zhang He led more than a thousand light cavalry to rush straight up against the plundering team, and there was a frantic slashing and slashing. With hatred for the barbarians, and with the anger of avenging their compatriots, more than 1,000 cavalrymen all fought bravely, one by one, spears and swords, and the plundering team of six or seven hundred people killed was crushed and fled in all directions.

The Hun soldiers who were responsible for plundering everywhere were originally the weakest fighting force in the Hun army, and they were killed by Zhang He's department with all their might, killing and wounding more than 300 people.

A Hun centurion carried an ax and fought and walked, just passing by Zhang He, and recognized at a glance that this guy was the demon who had just insulted Han women, how could Zhang He let him go?

"Where is the dog thief? Do you want to leave alive if you insult my wife and children? Come on! ”

The shouts were like thunder, and the spears were like lightning. Just one shot shook this barbarian into a transparent hole, and the tiger's head golden gun entered from the front chest and came out from the back, and the blood suddenly stained the spear head red.

"Go, powder!"

Zhang He shouted loudly, and his arms slammed upward, and he picked up the Hun villain who had not yet swallowed his breath in the air, and then fell to the ground fiercely......

The black iron hooves swept by, and the rumbling sound shook the heavens and the earth. Not long ago, the vicious and vicious gangsters turned into a puddle of flesh and blood, and disappeared from the world, ceasing to exist.

"Save the refugees!"

Zhang He gave an order, personally drew his sword and cut the ropes that bound the people, and the soldiers behind him followed suit, cutting the ropes with knives and guns in their hands, and letting more than 1,000 women and children escape.

"Our army will hold back the barbarians, and you will escape in the southeast direction as soon as possible, don't stop!" Zhang He, armed with a spear, shouted at the refugees.

More than 1,000 women, children, and children are desperate to survive, and they can't care about thanking them, they have fled to the southeast, and the lives of people in the troubled world are as cheap as grass mustard, their life and death are like a mosquito disappearing in the world, silently, no one will pity them, no one will sympathize, they, if they want to live, they must learn to escape!

The heavily armored cavalry desperately blocked the Hu cavalry rushing up from behind, and let the people escape. There were more and more Hun cavalry, and the confrontation was like a meat grinder, with war horses crawling on the ground at every moment, and people being stabbed off their horses at every moment, or being dismembered by random knives, or trampled into meat by horses' hooves.

Compared with the Hun soldiers, the Han army's heavy armored cavalry has the disadvantage of heavy armor and slow running speed, and the advantage is that the whole body is ironclad and not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, so although the face is three or four times that of the Hun cavalry, it does not suffer too much loss. When more than 100 cavalry were lost, nearly 300 Hun light cavalry were also killed.

In the distance, smoke and dust billowed and the sound of hooves intensified, apparently the Hun heavy cavalry had arrived. The leading Hun Qianchang shouted: "The light cavalry in front is scattered, and the heavy armored cavalry under the command of King Huchuquan will rush into battle!" ”

Zhang He saw that the people had gradually fled far away, so he was relieved, and with a move of his spear, he shouted: "Sons, follow me and retreat in the direction of Yecheng!" ”

With Zhang He's order, the Han cavalry began to retreat, the light cavalry was in front, and the heavy armored cavalry was broken, and they fought and left. Due to the strict military discipline and heavy armor to protect the body and horses, the Hun soldiers could not break up the formation of the Han army for a while, and could only hang and fight in the back.

Ran to the east for six or seven miles, turned a hill, suddenly the Hun horn sounded, from all directions poured out a Hun cavalry, about 5,000 horses, headed by the Hun right Xian Wang to humble, reined in the horse and spear, rampant laughter: "Han people in my ambush, waiting here for a long time!" (To be continued......)