Chapter 260: Revenge
Just like the natural amber formed after a rainstorm, the desert steppe is dotted with trees, the desert grassland is not an endless green grass, but the woods and rivers are an important part of life. @
Yulin riding is very good at drilling woods, the Nanshan dense forest south of Chang'an City has been drilled countless times, and the farther Qinling mountain forest is also the focus of training, the ability of mountain jungle warfare makes them come and go freely in the jungle of South Vietnam, but the coniferous forest in the north is very different from the broad-leaved forest in the south, the trees in the north are tall and straight, and the density of the forest is relatively low, and the hiding effect is not as good as the broad-leaved forest in the south.
Of course, there are also benefits, there are fewer strange poisonous insects in the northern coniferous forest, and the feather forest rider does not need to prepare insect repellent powder to apply to the skin.
Chen Zhang was draped in dark green linen, and the simple protective color made him less likely to be discovered, and he hid in the woods for half an hour with 200 brothers, and 500 feather forest riders who drilled into the woods with him.
The target they are tracking is the Xiongnu army under the Zuoxian Wang, the Xiongnu army has more than 2,000 cavalry, respectively from the tribal cavalry of the six tribes of the Xiongnu left land, they were ordered by the Zuoxian King to participate in the invasion at the beginning of the year, defeated and retreated to the Monan grassland without success but lost a lot of cattle and sheep, the Xiongnu army composed of six tribes also received the order to disband on the spot, and returned to the grassland in the north of Youbeiping with people to continue grazing.
Chen Zhang spent two days in order to track the traces of the cavalry of this tribe, relying on the Xianbei people who were familiar with the terrain to lead the way, and distinguishing the traces of horse manure and camping on the grassland is the basic quality of the grassland cavalry, and the combat power of the Han army has improved very quickly, but the level of tracking is far from catching up with the grassland cavalry.
"Lost power! Did you find their leader? ”
"Nope! The cunning fellow hid in the cavalry and did not come out of sight, and he seemed to find that the situation was not good. ”
Lossless is a Xianbei head. He is also the leader of the Black Armor Soldiers, he is tall and thin. Brown hair and brown eyes, pale skin. Staring at people like a vicious lone wolf in the jungle, most of the Xianbei people are similar looking jungle wolves, he once told Chen Zhang, each Xianbei person must carry five days of dry food for the coming-of-age ceremony, and carry two short knives into the mountains alone to hunt a wolf, or a bear, or a wild boar.
Only the Xianbei who survived the sword-wielding hunt were qualified to become Xiongnu warriors, and it was proved that the Xianbei people could stabilize the Xiongnu in a small-scale military conflict. It's just that the vast forest environment is far less superior than the prairie, the population of the Xianbei people is only more than 200,000, and the grassland is not compared with the ability of individual blade hunting, but the cavalry and archery competition of the cluster charge, which is stronger, and the absolute disadvantage of the Xianbei people in population and military organization leads to the defeat every time they encounter the large force of the Huns.
The name of the Yulin Cavalry Marquis is Deng Qiang, the second son from the eldest family, his brother is eligible to be demoted, and his starting point is only slightly better than the 0-level public pawn of the ordinary people's family. Joined the army as a 1-level public soldier, good luck just joined the army in the difficult year to catch up with the death of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and the new monarch ascended the throne, the head of the household in the world gave the people a level of advancement, and all the people with independent household registration below the 8th level of the public can enter the first class.
Deng Qiang was promoted to the 2nd level and relied on his status as a military meritor. Fortunately, they were selected into the first batch of 2,000 Yulin Cavalry, the first batch of Yulin Cavalry had the highest training intensity, and their initial training goal was to be grassroots officers of the Han Army. Each Yulin cavalry took turns to be an officer, accumulating experience in command and leading troops, and then underwent several readjustments, and the direction of training changed a lot. After the baptism of the South Vietnamese war, it transformed into an elite division.
Glancing at the black-armored soldiers crawling at his side, their armor was exactly the same as that of the Han cavalry. Well-equipped, well-trained, and the morale is very good, judging from the quality of the cavalry of the Hun tribe in the past two days, this two-hundred-man squad can be called excellent, and it is only so in the elite of the Yulin cavalry, and the master of this small army is the general Cao Shi.
Liehou private soldiers.
Deng Qiang recalled that his father's generation often said how powerful the liehou was, the liehou was the commanding heights of the military meritorious, the highest honor of the meritorious hero, the liehou had a lot of privileges, and every son of the military merit was born was very yearning for the life of the liehou, since he was a child, under the influence of his father, Deng Qiang also aspired to be a liehou, but he never thought that the liehou would have private soldiers, at least after the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, he had never heard that the liehou had private soldiers.
Zhou Yafu was forced to death by hiding 500 sets of armor shields, not to mention that he secretly possessed 200 heavily armed armor soldiers on the border of the desert, maybe he thought too much, and with the identity and relationship of the general of the chariot cavalry, he might have the tacit approval of the Son of Heaven, but he always felt that this was not right.
The doubts in his heart were not written on his face, and Deng Qiang asked with a deep groan: "Lost strength, how sure are you to rush over and tear up this Hun army." ”
"Seven hundred, two thousand." The Xianbei head man had cold brown eyes like wolf eyes: "Seven hundred Xianbei people can do it, but I don't know seven hundred Han people." ”
Chen Zhangzhang bared his teeth and grinned: "! Less blow Xianbei invincible, 30,000 Xianbei was beaten like a dead dog by 30,000 Huns, aren't you the one who was captured as a slave in that war, 280,000 Huns were beaten like a dead dog by 300,000 Han troops, who do you say is more powerful? ”
"I can't beat it because the Huns are too cunning." The strength of the angry voice of the argument is slightly insufficient, the onlookers of the Han army hehehe, hehe, the Xianbei people can't beat the Huns' cluster cavalry, not to mention the 30,000 royal tent cavalry dispatched, even the 30,000 tribal cavalry is enough for the Xianbei people to drink a pot, since the fight 60 years ago Donghu was defeated and collapsed, fled to the woods between Xianbei Mountain and Wuhuan Mountain, Xianbei Wuhuan two cavalry is no longer the opponent of the Huns.
The Xiongnu is the overlord of the grassland, no matter how reluctant the Xianbei people are to admit it, no one can defeat the Huns before, the myth of undefeated from Mao Dun Shan Yu directly took more than 60 years, three generations of Xiongnu Shan Yu's painstaking management made the Xiongnu Empire reach its peak of glory, but half a month ago the Yanmen Battle finally broke the myth of the undefeated golden body, the Han army killed nearly 10,000 Huns in a burst, and it was done in front of the Huns' most powerful royal tent cavalry.
This war beat the Huns to no temper, the strongest warriors of the royal tent in Shan Yuting surrounded the black cavalry of the Han army for a long time and had little effect, the cavalry of the royal tent was not willing to touch the shells of the iron turtles at all, and they could not be beaten and killed, and the Huns only fled back to the old nest to lick their wounds in embarrassment, and even the cattle and sheep camp tents were lost.
For more than sixty years, no one had ever allowed the Huns to lose nearly 10,000 people, even if Mao Dunshan faced the powerful Yueshi cavalry for the first time. The 300,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu fought against the 300,000 cavalry of the Yueshi, and the battle losses of the two sides remained more than 1 to 2.
He hesitated for a moment and nodded: "It's nightfall." It should be able to tear smoothly. ”
Chen Zhang smiled and said, "You still need to talk about it at night?" Which of us can't tear it easily, Yulin rode 15,000 people to tear apart the camp of more than 200,000 Hun defenders. Seven hundred of us against two thousand will have to wait until the evening to tear the mouth, and if we get out, we will die of laughter......"
"Don't talk! Someone's coming. ”
The dense forest immediately shut up, hundreds of pairs of eyes stared at the eight Huns who were slowly approaching, they carried baskets to the woods to pick up mushrooms, the grassland herdsmen in addition to eating beef and mutton for three meals a day, but also had to find a way to supplement some vegetables, there are a lot of mushrooms on the grassland in summer, there are a large number of delicious mushrooms in the grass and woods, and the stewed mutton tastes very good with mushrooms. Put it away and dry it and can also be used to make broth in the winter.
Walking to the edge of the woods to look at the brown-black soil and green woods, looking for all kinds of natural mushrooms that can be eaten on the ground, suddenly a person raised his head and shouted a few words of Xiongnu at the woods.
He was asking what was going on inside.
The two Huns raised their heads and lowered their heads and continued to collect mushrooms, only the Huns probed their brains and walked towards the woods, and the Huns held short knives and shouted tentatively.
"He's talking about whether there's a beast or not, and he's trying to scare the beast out of the woods."
Click!
The Huns stepped on the branches, vigilantly glanced at the green grass, and suddenly sniffed and seemed to smell a strange smell, which was the smell of sweat that had been lurking in the dense forest for a long time.
Chen Zhang secretly screamed badly. The direction that the Huns leaned in was exactly where he was, and he silently counted the steps in his heart, gritted his teeth, and suddenly exerted his strength, and the Huns slipped under his feet and disappeared into the bushes.
The whole process was incredibly fast, with only a heavy falling sound. The Huns, who were picking mushrooms outside the woods, heard the movement, poked their heads over and shouted a few times to find someone.
The Huns were very vigilant, and after walking a few steps, they stopped and glanced around. Neither the sound of the beast nor the smell of blood was heard, and they tried to scream a few more times but did not move. Slowly retreating out of the woods.
"Do it!"
Dozens of figures suddenly jumped out of the woods, and the crossbow bolts that followed them instantly burrowed into the lobes of their lungs. Several Huns fell down stiffly even after the screams were released.
Perhaps it was the movement in the woods that attracted attention, and more Huns turned their heads to look into the dense forest, only to see many black shadows suddenly appear in the woods, and when they looked closely, they found that those shadows were actually a large group of black-clothed and black-armored Han soldiers.
"The Han army is coming!"
The first reaction of the Huns was to find the mount, and the second reaction was to get on the horse and quickly escape.
Whoosh!
Hundreds of arrows poured down, and the 100 Huns who were the first to flee were shot out, and even their mounts and horses could not escape death.
"Rush! Grab the horse and the victory will be ours! ”
The black-armored soldiers rushed into the flock like a tiger to fight, and the Huns who were forced to be anxious turned out their war bows and shot at the Han army, but the opponent's armor was complete and the killing was limited, and the Huns' leather armor and unarmored units accounted for more than ninety percent, and a few nobles with simple iron armor became live targets, and a crossbow arrow greeted and did not even give a chance to react to become a hedgehog.
Chen Zhang slashed to death the Huns who were blocking the way, and shouted through gritted teeth: "Grab all the Huns' horses, kill all those who can't be grabbed, and never let the Huns escape easily on horseback!" ”
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Xiongnu nobles mixed in the crowd of defeated and fled looking for horses, and when they reached the halfway point, they were suddenly stopped by dozens of black-armored soldiers, and the black-armored soldiers led by them lifted their hideous masks and laughed loudly: "King Linqu is unharmed, do you remember who I am?" ”
"You...... You are a vulture! King Lin Qu's legs were weak in fright.
"Yes, I am your slave, the Xianbei people lost their strength, every account you abused me and insulted me was recorded in my heart, I swore to let you repay everything, for this I am willing to be the armor soldier of the Han people, I have no bow and arrows, I can only wear the lowest level of black armor, but I am very happy, because I am killing the Huns, today I finally see you, I have been waiting for this day for a long time!"
King Lin Qu sat paralyzed on the ground like a mourner. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)