Chapter 248: The Vermilion Bird Army Arrives
The reason for the Donghu people's agitation was naturally because of the sudden appearance of a large cavalry from the southeast that did not know where it belonged. Now, they have basically disarmed their horses and become foot soldiers, and there is no chance to resist at all.
The Donghu people know this, and Xin Sheng also knows it.
With Xin Sheng's order, in addition to Li Gang's more than 30,000 Jiuyuan Army elite cavalry who collected the Donghu cavalry war horses, the remaining 50,000 cavalry of the Longxi Army and nearly 60,000 Jiuyuan Army infantry soldiers who originally faced the Donghu cavalry began to quickly change formations and intersperse, but the tea time formation had already changed from facing the Donghu cavalry directly to facing the Donghu cavalry on the side, blocking in front of the more than 200,000 Donghu cavalry who had lost their horses.
The direction in which the Donghu cavalry stood was in the west, and Xin Sheng was in the east, where more than 100,000 Great Qin soldiers were in the east. The sudden change of formation of the Qin soldiers made the scratching of the Donghu people more intense at first, but after a while, with the completion of the formation of the Great Qin soldiers, the scratching of the Donghu people gradually stopped.
More than 200,000 Donghu cavalrymen who had lost their war horses looked at the Great Qin soldiers who formed a black barrier with complicated eyes.
And Mohuer, who was standing with Xin Sheng, was very excited. He also knew very well what it meant for the Qin people to change their formation like this, the cavalry that had not yet shown their heads, if they wanted to attack, no matter how they changed direction, they must first cross the large formation composed of more than 100,000 Qin soldiers.
The Qin people were obviously deliberately protecting the Donghu people who had lost their war horses.
Whether it was Mo Huer or the Donghu people who were protected behind them by the Great Qin soldiers' formation, they were deeply glad and happy about the choice of themselves and others at this moment. Everyone understands that if it is the Huns, then it will inevitably only be the Donghu people who will stop in front of the battle. Even if the Donghu people have lost all their war horses.
The contrast between the Qin people and the Huns is so stark at this moment.
In the face of unknown dangers, the Qin people who have not yet accepted the surrender of the Donghu clan will act in this way, so after the annexation, will the Qin people be more affectionate to the Donghu clan? Originally, the Donghu people who were unwilling to serve Daqin because they had just fought were really close to Daqin from the bottom of their hearts.
Although Xin Sheng ordered to change the formation and protect the Donghu people behind him, he knew very well that more likely to come from the southeast would only be reinforcements from Great Qin, or even the great general Meng Tian.
The direction in which the Huns fled was in the direction of Yunzhong County in the northeast. It is impossible to go around in a big circle and kill again from the southeast. What's more, without the Donghu people as cannon fodder, there are less than 200,000 Huns left, and they will no longer have the courage to kill a horse gun.
The Donghu people don't know about this, but Xin Sheng is very clear. Why did the Donghu people choose to serve Daqin at a critical moment, even if Mo Huer didn't say the reason, Xin Sheng could guess it.
Those who fought with the Jiuyuan army for two or three hours were all Donghu people. Obviously, Morton can concentrate his absolute superior forces in one go, and choose one or several points of the Nine Plains Army's infantry bucket array. Although the Hun cavalry may have some casualties in that case, even if Li Gang's 40,000 elite cavalry cruising around responds from the side, it will be able to inflict greater casualties on the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army before Xin Shenglong's Western army arrives.
After all, the Jiuyuan Army that left the city was much smaller than the forces that Morton had at that time. It is an indisputable fact that the nomads on the steppe faced the well-armed Great Qin soldiers, got rid of the guerrillas, and could only rely on numbers to win in a head-to-head duel.
The reason why Morton gave up the greatest advantage of the Huns was just to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the Donghu people, so that the Jiuyuan army and the Donghu people would be defeated, and then the Huns could pick up the fruits of victory without much effort, killing two birds with one stone.
However, it is clear that the enslavement of the Donghu by the Xiongnu was not just manifested in this war. After all, listening to what Mohuer said, Xin Sheng knew that there were still hundreds of thousands of old and weak Xiongnu women and children who were detained by the Huns as hostages around Wolf Juxu Mountain.
The families of the 300,000 Donghu cavalry who followed Morton to the south were basically in the hands of the Huns.
Xin Sheng acted like this, how could he not buy the hearts of the Donghu people.
The roar of horses' hooves from the southeast grew louder and louder, and the earth began to tremble violently. As far as the eye can see, the flying dust seems to be obscured even by the fierce screams in the sky, and the speed at which the smoke and dust advance is unusually fast, a moment ago when Xin Sheng looked at it was still at the end of the sky was just a small piece, and now this tea time is not enough, and he can already see the dust covering the sky.
Xin Sheng was also a little uncertain at this time. The roar of the horse's hooves was so intense that Xin Sheng estimated that it would take at least more than 200,000 cavalry to gallop at the same time to make such a noise. But Meng Tian returned to Jiuyuan from Xianyang, and from the nearly 1,000-mile journey of Xianyang Road to Jiuyuan, if the emperor really sent so many reinforcements north, the amount of grain, grass and baggage needed was an astronomical amount, and Meng Tian could not have rushed to Jiuyuan in less than seven days.
Moreover, judging from the speed of the unknown cavalry that was approaching at a rapid pace, it seemed that it was not that the horses were tired from the long journey, but that the horses were full of energy. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to have such a fast speed.
Quietly, Xin Sheng whispered a few words to the soldiers beside him, and under the change of the banner, the formation of the Great Qin soldiers who were originally on the defensive suddenly changed slightly. Like a tiger in a hunting state, ready to attack. As long as the momentum is not right, he can take advantage of the unstable foothold of the cavalry coming from the south at any time to rush out and catch him off guard.
When the overwhelming roar of horses' hooves became the only sound in the world, a black banner loomed in the dust that covered the sky, and gradually became clear in the eyes of Xin Sheng and more than 100,000 Great Qin soldiers.
In the white area in the center of the three-zhang long black brocade banner, there is a fiery red winged bird that is about to fly, and the big bird is abnormal. Around it, several bright red flames seemed to jump and burn as the flag waved.
Just a banner can make people feel a sense of slaughter.
This is a banner that Xin Sheng has never seen before. There has never been such an army with birds as its banner in Great Qin's army.
More importantly, this flag is not the general's flag!
Xin Sheng's heart sank suddenly. The rest of the Great Qin soldiers who saw the banner in front of them were even more stunned, and then their murderous aura suddenly condensed. No one recognizes the frontal military flag. Then it seems that it can only be the enemy.
Could it be that it was the cavalry of the Huns who came here? However, the military flag of the Huns has always been a giant wolf, when did it change to a big bird? Or the rebels of the Six Nations? But when did the rebels have cavalry? And it is an elite army with more than 200,000 people. It seems that none of the original six kingdoms except Zhao have used red flags. And it's a red and black military flag.
However, Xin Sheng's doubts were immediately solved.
Immediately after that, behind the big red bird flag, two other black flags appeared in mid-air. A black brocade banner that is several points larger than the red bird military flag is a huge "Qin" character in the center, and the other black brocade banner is almost the same size as the red bird flag, and in the center is a big "Meng" character.
Countless black-armored cavalry figures shrouded in dust appeared in the hundreds of thousands of eyes that stood still in the wilderness.
It's Daqin's reinforcements, it's the general who is coming!
Seeing these two flags, shrouded in the sky above the Great Qin Coalition Army composed of more than 100,000 Jiuyuan Army and Longxi Army, because of the red Big Bird Banner, almost frozen air appeared, and it instantly began to circulate.
Immediately afterwards, the overwhelming cheers suddenly rose from the formation of Xin Sheng's army.
The Red Big Bird Army Flag, Xin Sheng and the others really hadn't seen it, because it had just appeared in Daqin and it had only been more than a month. And the one who used the big red bird as the military flag was the 100,000 Vermilion Bird Army under Wang Qian's command.
The Suzaku Army has finally arrived!
(To be continued)