Chapter 160: Massacre

The stagnation of the Hu cavalry in the front soon caused confusion in the rear Hu cavalry.

In the midst of the chaos, the Aries King summoned a few of his henchmen to the front and ordered sharply: "You guys, hurry up to the front and see, what's going on?" However, before the Aries King's henchmen could move forward, the dense forests on both sides of the valley suddenly sounded loud and loud trumpets.

"Well, where did this horn sound come from?" The Aries King's face changed dramatically.

The next moment, a tidal wave of shouts sounded in the dense forests on both sides of the river valley, and listening to this momentum, it seemed that thousands of troops were rushing out from the depths of the dense forest!

Huqideng, who was congested in the middle of the valley, was in a commotion.

Time passed quickly in the commotion of the Hu people, and in less than an instant, endless "old Qin people" rushed out of the dense forests on both sides of the river valley, and the king of Aries and more than 10,000 Hu cavalry were horrified to find that these old Qin people were all dressed in scale armor and held strong bows and crossbows, the front rows were strong crossbows, and the back rows were longbows.

Of course, this is not the old Qin people, but the Chu army holding the Qin crossbow and Qin bow!

In the next moment, the arrows as dense as locusts were already shooting towards the Hu cavalry who were crowded in the river valley.

Suddenly, a continuous wail sounded in the valley, and the unprepared Hu people fell down one by one.

The strong bows and hard crossbows captured by the Chu army from Luoyang and Xianyang arsenals made the Hu people suffer enough, especially the crossbows in the hands of the Chu army in the first few rows, which formed a great damage to the white sheep horsemen, and the crossbow arrows shot by more than 2,000 crossbows were thick and heavy, so that even the war horses could shoot through, if people were shot, they would either die or be disabled!

In addition to the two thousand crossbows, the eight thousand longbows also caused a lot of damage to the Hu people.

Although the arrows shot by the longbow and horn bow do not have the penetrating power of the crossbow, they are better than the fast rate of fire, and the time for the crossbow to shoot a crossbow arrow is enough for the longbow and horned archers to shoot three to five feather arrows, and more than 8,000 archers poured a canopy of dense arrow rain onto the heads of the Hu people.

The Hu people were completely stunned, a small number of Hu people were fierce, and without waiting for the general's order, they screamed and killed the Chu archers on both sides of the river valley, but they were quickly killed by the Chu army's crossbows, and many Hu people kept calm, unloaded the short bow from their backs one by one, and began to fire back with arrows, but more Hu people were like headless ropes, scurrying back and forth in the river valley.

If this chaos continues for a few more quarters of an hour, the Aries tribe will be absolutely finished!

"Don't panic, don't panic!" The Aries King drew his sword and roared on horseback.

The leaders of the various small tribes of the Aries tribe also came to their senses and began to rectify the strong men of their respective tribes.

The Hu people, who had been completely in chaos, finally calmed down, and then formed an orderly group under the rebuke of their respective tribal leaders, and immediately launched a tidal charge towards the Chu archers on both sides of the river valley.

The Hu people of the steppe rely on the backward nomadic civilization, but they can repeatedly coerce the advanced farming articles of the Central Plains people, and the biggest reliance is the cavalry who are not afraid of death, these Hu people have lived in a very harsh environment since childhood, and have to fight repeatedly with the cruel nature in order to survive since childhood, so they are all fierce and aggressive, brave and good at fighting.

"Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo......"

"Wow, wow, wow, ......"

"Let's go, let's go, let's ......"

As time passed, more and more Hu people fell under the rain of arrows, and then, at least 5,000 Hu horsemen charged the Chu archers on both sides of the river valley, and these Hu people desperately urged the war horses, waving the short swords and wooden forks in their hands, while letting out a beast-like howl, rolling and crushing towards the Chu archers on the left and right.

In the sound of the horse's hooves like a tide, the surging Hu cavalry was less than a hundred steps away from the archers of the Chu army!

In front of the fierce Hu cavalry, the tens of thousands of crossbowmen and archers of the Chu army are no different from sheep, they can neither resist nor run away, they will only be like sheep, waiting to be eaten and devoured by wolves.

However, just when the five thousand Hu cavalry were about to rush in front of the archers of the Chu army, a sudden change occurred!

Hundreds of deer were erected without warning from the artemisia grass in front of the archers of the Chu army, all of which were spliced together by wooden stakes more than two zhang long, and the tops were all sharpened, and the rows of white miserable and cold fresh stubble were like rows of fangs in the mouth of a giant beast, hideous and indifferent.

The fierce attack of the Hu cavalry turned into a tragic suicide!

The cavalry in the front row were pierced by the sharp wooden stakes without any suspense, and only a small number of cavalry escaped by leaping high with their superb riding skills, but before they could land again, rows of long halberds had already stabbed from behind the deer, and in an instant they were nailed to the air with men and horses.

I don't know when, the eight thousand Chu army armor soldiers have quietly come to the front of the archers' formation under the cover of reckless weeds, and in time to pull up the deer bars that have been prepared long ago, in front of the rows of deer bars, the Hu cavalry who were screaming and preparing to kill was hit their heads and broke the bloodstream, and a large number of Hu cavalry died tragically on the spot.

Witnessing such a towering and tragic scene, the wicked smile on the corner of the Aries King's mouth froze for a moment.

No matter how slow the Aries King is to react, he will also realize that he has fallen into the trap of the old Qin people.

Cunning damn old Qin people, they're just afraid that they have already set a trap here and are waiting for themselves to drill into it, right?

The next moment, the Aries King wailed like a wounded beast: "Ambush, we have fallen into the ambush of the old Qin people, withdraw, quickly withdraw ......"

However, the Aries King has just turned his horse's head and has been reborn!

On the low mountain beam where the Aries people had just entered the river valley, I don't know when there were several rows of armored soldiers in front and back, and all of them were heavy armored soldiers wearing heavy armor and iron helmets and holding large shields and heavy swords, and in front of these rows of heavy armored soldiers, the originally empty and barren mountain beams were also very high and lit a raging fire.

The heart of the Aries King sank infinitely, the raging fire, the rows of heavily armored soldiers, and the retreat of the Aries people had been cut off by the old Qin people.

"Woo Woo ......"

A large number of arrows continued to fall from the sky, and they were as dense as rain.

The Aries King was only slightly stunned, and an arrow had already pierced through his leather armor, and at once it entered his left chest, and a sharp pain struck him violently from his left chest, and the Aries King immediately fell from his horse with a scream, and hundreds of horsemen nearby rioted when they saw this.

"The king is dead, the king is dead!"

"The king was shot to death by the old Qin people!"

"It's over, it's over, it's all over!"

The news of the death of the Aries King spread throughout the valley, and the Aries people, who had not had much fighting spirit left, finally lost their last courage, and scattered one by one, running indiscriminately, however, whether it was the way to enter the valley, or the way to escape from the valley, or the dense forests on both sides, they were all blocked by people, and there was no way to escape!

When the bright white moon rose from the eastern sky, this planned and premeditated ambush was finally over.

20,000 Chu troops against 10,000 Hu cavalry should have been a bitter battle, at least it should have been a fierce battle of equal strength, but the final result was that the Chu army achieved a one-sided slaughter of Hu cavalry! Due to the absolute superiority in intelligence and tactics, the Chu army fought an appropriate ambush battle at the right time and in the right place, and the results are self-evident.

It took two hours to clean up the battlefield, and the results came out, with a total of more than 12,000 heads beheaded and more than 15,000 horses captured, of which more than 6,000 horses were only slightly injured, and they could recover after a while, while the remaining 9,000 horses could only be killed and eaten.

It seems that there is no need to worry about the meat of the Chu army in the future.

Looking at the corpses of the Hu people all over the river valley, Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Tian Heng, Xiao Kai and other Chu generals were all excited, all of them felt that the Hu people were just like this, but Xiang Zhuang's heart was abnormally heavy, although the Chu army won a complete victory in this ambush today, but this does not mean that the Hu people are vulnerable, and it does not mean that the Chu army has the strength to sweep the Hu people in the entire Hetao!

In reality, if it were not for the extremely favorable terrain selected in advance, and then set up a careful trap, the Chu army would never have achieved such brilliant results, if the Chu army was allowed to fight another field battle with the Aries people in a wide area, I am afraid that the result would be completely different, and the Chu army would be able to win in the end, but also would inevitably pay a heavy price.

And, even just now, the Aries are not without the strength to fight.

If the Aries King is calm enough, he gives up the idea of breaking through rashly from the beginning, and then takes the initiative to give up the advantage of cavalry, orders more than 10,000 Hu people to dismount, and then places all the war horses around to form a meat shield to resist the arrow rain of the Chu army, then most of the Hu people can survive the attack of the arrow rain of the Chu army!

In this way, if the Chu army wants to win, it must launch a strong attack on the Aries people who are integrated into the hedgehog group, and the Aries people will not escape the end of destruction in the end, but they can at least form a considerable degree of damage to the Chu army, unlike now, the Aries people are almost completely wiped out, and the Chu army has only killed and injured Liao Liao a few hundred people.

Therefore, Chu Jun's complete victory really can't explain anything.

If it weren't for the defenselessness of the Aries people, if it weren't for the fact that the Aries King was too weak, if it was replaced by the Huns of Maudun, would it still be like this? The answer is clearly no!

At this moment, Xiang Zhuang's heart swelled with an unprecedented sense of urgency.

Before Maudun went south, the Chu army must raise enough horses, and in the shortest possible time, the Chu army must form a cavalry, and then leave the Hetao as soon as possible, otherwise, once the Maudun army enters the Hetao in a big way, it will be too late to leave......