Chapter 334: A Stalemate War
In the northwest of the Xiongnu grassland, located in the grassland desert in the northeast of the Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions, this is located within the scope of the Xiongnu's right land, and it belongs to the territory of the Hujie King who is nominally within the 240,000 cavalry commanders of the Xiongnu.
The 240,000 cavalry system of the Xiongnu was founded in the era of Mao Dun Shan Yu, similar to the alliance system of the tribe to jointly elect the king, the Xiongnu Shan is the strongest in the grassland desert, so all the grassland tribes will submit to the Xiongnu Shan Yu under the banner, Hujie people as the conquered are naturally among them, but the 240,000 cavalry commanders are in the nature of fetters, and are not too affected by the Xiongnu Shan Yu.
The Hujie people were relatively unfamiliar with the Xiongnu, only in the summer, autumn and winter of each year, the king of Hujie would take some people to Longcheng to participate in the grand event, from there he would bring back all kinds of daily necessities to be used every year, clay pots that could cook rice and contain mare's milk ghee, wooden barrels for washing and holding dried meat, good iron, sturdy caravans, and cool linen clothes.
Of course, there will be no shortage of luxury goods loved by the Xiongnu nobles, such as precious silk silk hand soft and smooth satin, beautiful gold jewelry and Han very tight pancreas, bath beans and green salt, at first glance the upper nobles of the Xiongnu are very contemptuous of the Han land, in fact, the duplicitous people are full of envy for the Han civilization in their hearts, they also want to live a good life where they can eat enough food in the autumn and do not have to run around for life, so the Xiongnu nobles have always been enthusiastic about going south, It's not just an ATM, it's a place of anointing with honey and ghee.
The callers are no exception.
As early as hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the Hujie people and the unformed Wusun people and the Yueshi people came from different branches of a large tribal group, similar to the Tuhe people and the descendants of Jiuyi in the northeast. The Hujie people were also formed by merging with the uncountable alien clans of the north, the Jiankun (Jiankun) and the Ding Ling, but they were often proud of their Rong bloodline and did not despise being informed by the rising Huns.
Hujie people have their own pride. That is from the pride of the ancient civilization, their ancestors were once the kings of all the tribes in the north, even if the ancient times have long been wiped out with the passage of time, but the descendants of the Gurong tribe still look down on the fake Hujie king hiding in the court of the Xiongnu from the bottom of their hearts, and the Hujie people are limited to the corresponding Xiongnu Shan Yu's military orders every year, and send two or three thousand tribal cavalry to deal with the envoys.
Ruo's attitude is more eye-catching among the many conquered Xiongnu tribes, but the Hujie people have a close relationship with the Xiaoyue people and the Wusun people. The Xiongnu did not dare to excessively persecute and oppress, for fear that a situation in the entire Western Regions would not be corrupted, so they had to suppress and exclude the Hujie people by various means. In particular, the era when the Bank of China said that it was favored once won over and divided many Hujie traitors became the lackeys of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, intimidation and suppression frightened most of the Hujie people, and at the same time planted the seeds of hatred, which finally waited for the day when it blossomed and bore fruit.
The Eye of the Desert is located in the prairie a thousand miles northwest of Yanhai. The silver wolf flag that symbolizes the right virtuous king of the Huns is waving in the wind. The 30,000 cavalry of the king's tent stared at the enemy hundreds of miles away, it was a huge alliance of 50,000 cavalry, and the first was a tall man with brown eyes, he was the king of Hujie, Saldang.
"King Youxian, what do you mean by coming to my land for no reason? Depart from my realm at once, or the great Ahura Mazda will fall on you!" ”
"Humph! Stupid Zoroastrians, how can they understand the greatness of Kunlun's plough! Youxian Wang Juli sneered: "Saldang, hand over that group of people and wait for the big order to fall." Otherwise your tribe will be bloodbathed. ”
"Haha, was it a joke I just heard? How dare you come to the territory of the Hujieren and threaten the bloodbath of the Hujie? Do you listen to the eggless Bank of China's demagoguery, or rely on the group of child soldiers behind you who claim to be the king's tent cavalry? Don't think that Maudun alone defeated our king, you can repeat that we are not the same as we were more than forty years ago, and you are ready to pay a heavy price if you dare to come. ”
Saladang issued a threat of war, the proud Hujie people did not care about the Hun Right Xian King, Sal Dang will only go to the right Xian Wang Court in a very small time to stay for half a month and then hurriedly come back, each time he gave the reason with a strong perfunctory words, the Right Xian King has long been tired of this unwilling to listen to the order of the Hu Jietou man, he is more straightforward than the cunning old fox Wusun Kun Mo hunting arrogance, is unwilling to cooperate with the Xiongnu Shan Yu, especially the Xiongnu Shan Yu repeated defeats led to the reversal of the Han and Hun strength today.
King Youxian obviously didn't have much patience, and in anger, he immediately pulled out his scimitar and pointed at King Hujie and scolded bitterly: "Saldang, you and your foolish people still haven't given up the worship of the god of ignorance, relying on Dadan's forgiveness and tolerance again and again to unscrupulously provoke the dignity of this king, this king has long been fed up with your stupidity and arrogance, and the believers of Kunlun will tear you to pieces!" ”
"Plough! Watch out for your neck, I'll make you feel like a sharp blade slicing through your neck, and trust me to let you die a painful death! Saladan blew the horn, and the fifty thousand statue-like horsemen suddenly moved, and quickened little by little with a slow but determined pace.
Not to be outdone, the right king issued an order to march, 30,000 cavalry cavalry rushed to a hundred feet away in the blink of an eye like an arrow from the string, and in an instant the silent grassland was covered by the roar of ten thousand horses, the sound was like the surging Yellow River in front of Hukou Waterfall roaring, and the sound waves of the shock spread far away, and my people's hearts were pounding.
On the edge of the battlefield, whether it is a herbivorous cattle, sheep, deer, rabbit and horse, or a carnivorous jackal, tiger, leopard and bear, they all run without a trace in the blink of an eye, and the sense of crisis of the animals is far stronger than that of humans who concentrate on the development of their brains.
"Speed down! Shoot the arrows! Accelerate the rush! ”
The cavalry of the king under the tent of the right virtuous king is worthy of being the most feared knight, in just ten breaths to complete the sprint from the limit speed of the sprint to the constant speed of the forward, this kind of rhythm change from fast to slow is a great test of the rider's riding level, but also a test of the mount's ability to adjust and adapt, the load-bearing war horse in the high-speed gallop suddenly decelerates extremely dangerous,
An overwhelming rain of arrows fell. I saw that the Hujieren cavalry on the opposite side fell hundreds of horsemen without saying a word, and the cavalry behind them jumped in front of the dead partner, still rushing forward without stopping. Hujie King Sal should be at the forefront, he is the first warrior of the Hujie people, twenty years ago from the decay of the Hujie royal family, the east and west have never failed in a hundred battles, the northern Jiankun and Ding Ling alien races both hate and fear him, and are arrogantly praised as the first warrior in the Western Regions by Wusun Kunmo.
Saledan was accompanied by a thousand brave knights, and their mounts were fine horses as red as fire. Tall and majestic walked up with tigers and tigers under his feet, and it was the famous West Pole Horse in the Western Regions, and the sweat flowing out carefully had a slight bright red brilliance. It shows that the good horses of the Hujie people have the blood of sweat and blood horses.
The Western Regions is the origin of the Ming Code, and it is also the habitat of the descendants of the Rong tribe of the Hundred Tribes, and the Xiongnu people covet the treasures of the Western Regions for more than a day or two. forced the various ministries of the Western Regions to give away some good horses from the Western Regions one after another. Among them is the famous West Pole war horse produced by Wusun.
However, this process is not smooth sailing, the Huns get the West Pole Horse is uneven, resulting in the cultivation of breeding and breeding lineage is very troublesome, decades of training to the eighth generation of mixed-race West Pole horses are only the Hun royal family is qualified to ride, when the Huns' royal tent cavalry sees the high-quality West Pole horse, or has an unknown mixed breed of strong horses, each king tent cavalry has a cluster of blazing fire in their hearts.
In ancient times, horses were the most important means of transportation. Good horses are just as rare as handmade cars, and special types of horses are limited to precious products. Considering that the lifespan of a horse is at most more than 30 years, and the suitable for riding is only a short period of 12 years, the price of famous horses has always been high, and even the Xiongnu grassland, which has many natural horse farms, is difficult to find a special type of famous horse.
Famous horses are limited, but the royal horde cavalry is completely replaced every ten years, and the young royal horde cavalry expects them to be eager to seize these precious horses and gallop on the battlefield, while the older royal horde cavalry is eager to obtain a good horse to pass on to their sons and nephews, so as to take the opportunity to be sent to the next generation of royal horde cavalry.
After all, the treatment of the royal tent cavalry is far better than that of the grassland tribes to treat the warriors, and the high status can also provide a good educational environment for the next generation of children and grandchildren, their children and grandchildren have a good living environment and superior educational resources, and are far more likely to become the next batch of royal tent cavalry than those poor tribal children who have endured hardships and raised cattle on the grassland.
The rush for quick success and quick profit led to a change in the mentality of the royal tent cavalry, and the direct reaction was that the wave level of the charge suddenly disappeared, replaced by a gradual fragmented wave, and the high-speed movement had extremely high requirements for the formation and rhythm, once the formation and rhythm were broken, it would be like the current royal tent cavalry rushing messy.
"Don't rush! There are many people in the West Pole, and they have defeated these Hujie people, and their war horses all belong to us! ”
The right king raised his voice to remind, the crazy royal tent cavalry suddenly woke up a moment ago, nearly half of the royal tent cavalry gradually reined in the reins and lowered the speed, trying to find back the sense of sprint rhythm that has been practiced thousands of times year after year, but there are still some young royal tent cavalry who did not slow down immediately, their first reaction was to hesitate for a moment and then slowly slow down, this one hesitated to deviate from the distance of twenty zhang, and the front and back tears made a huge crack in the originally messy formation.
Salle saw from a distance that the cavalry and archery on the opposite side were scattered in a stagnant formation, and his eyes burst with surprise: "The greatest Hujie people under the sky are listening, the Huns are afraid of our prestige and fall into chaos, this is the god of heaven blesses us to win the battle and conquer the battle, seize the fleeting precious opportunity to rush over, and kill the despicable Hun invaders!" ”
"Kill the despicable Hun invaders!"
The Hujie cavalry was wearing poor leather armor all over the body, carrying an iron scimitar derived from the Wusun craft, and rushed into the scattered array of the king's tent cavalry in an instant, causing violent chaos, and the experienced king's tent cavalry reacted instantly, some with bows, some with knives, and some simply dismounted and lined up to fight on foot, using the layered formation of the combination of far and near, high and low, to seal the Hujie cavalry trapped in the formation.
There is no difference between the cavalry and the standing target, the Huns are very proficient in dealing with the grassland tribes, nominally belonging to the Xiongnu tribes under the court, in fact, there is also a distant and close relatives and sparse 369 and so on, in the Xiongnu steppe under the banner of the Xiongnu grassland under the banner of the Xiongnu will have one or two fierce tribal conflicts every year, each time more or less related to the Xiongnu tribe, especially the number of members who conquer and expand the "Xiongnu" alliance again and again are all led by the Xiongnu tribe.
Perennial tribal warfare. So that the Huns have practiced a set of mature tactics against the grassland tribes, and now the royal tent cavalry of the right Xianwang is using this system to counterattack the Hujie people, dismount and fight on foot to focus on the lower three roads of the Hujie cavalry. In the blink of an eye, the number of Hujie cavalry injured in the thigh increased more than ten times, and a large number of Hujie knights fell into the formation and were besieged by a group and died of grievances.
Looking down from the sky, you can find that the two armies lined up are entangled, like two giant snakes entangled and biting and repeatedly strangling the opponent, especially the cavalry of both sides increased in batches to join the battlefield, resulting in a battle line that stretched for more than a mile.
The Hujieren were stunned.
The Huns were also stunned.
Neither side expected each other's tenacity and bravery.
On the whole, the Huns' royal tent cavalry occupies a greater advantage, although their number is small, but all of them are well-equipped and well-trained, and the 30,000 royal tent cavalry have a distinct sense of hierarchy. The military spirit is stable, tenacious, quick and decisive, and the attack is also very vicious and professional, and the Hujie cavalry who have gone through a few moves from their hands are all dead or disabled, and there is very little chance of escaping with minor injuries.
The Hujie cavalry took advantage of the superiority in strength to continuously attack the two flanks of the king's tent cavalry. In particular, there were many situations on the two flanks in which more fights were few, and the dismounted cavalry of the king's tent were in groups of three or five and combined with each other to rely on each other to show their invulnerability, and it was still difficult to resist the seven or eight callers rushing over and slashing like mad dogs, and the two sides were almost constantly consumed by a one-to-five battle loss.
Later, the Hujie people also found the signs. Saldang also simply ordered the trapped Hujie cavalry to dismount and fight on foot. They found that the Huns were very reluctant to cut to death and wound the precious West Pole horse, and every time they aimed at the Hujie cavalry, they never hurt the horse, so the Hujie people took advantage of the advantage of the war horse blocking the back to line up on the spot, and in turn pulled back the advantage of the Huns little by little.
"How dare the Hujie people dismount and line up? What a joke! The cavalry of the king of my Great Huns has practiced dismounted and foot combat for at least ten years, how can you learn it by imitating it in a short time! All obey the order, don't kill or injure the Hujie people, don't care about those West Pole war horses, destroy the Hujie people, some of them have good horses in their tribe. ”
The right virtuous king shouted loudly, and it really had a miraculous effect. In an instant, the Huns' royal tent cavalry pulled the situation back little by little, and some of the experienced royal tent cavalry rode their horses in the distance to lock the dismounted Hujie people and release arrows. Regardless of the fact that the Hujie people were surrounded by the West Pole war horses, the situation deteriorated again in a short period of time, and a large number of Hujie cavalry who dismounted and fought on foot were killed, and the advantages of the two wings gradually disappeared with the cheering up of the king's tent cavalry.
"Bastard! Why are the despicable Huns so tough! This is the true power of the King's Tent cavalry? ”
Saledan was in a dilemma, he was very eager for the mysterious Han cavalry to stand up and help Hujieren relieve the siege, but when he looked around, he found that there was not even a shadow of a wild beast on the grassland, let alone any Han cavalry to come to the rescue.
In the dense forest of the hill more than ten miles away, three hundred knights in cloats stood in front of the forest and quietly observed the confrontation between the two armies of the Huns and Hujie.
They were just scouts, and the leaders were Xiahou Po and Yu Yu, two guys who had changed from young boys to young men who had grown taller, enduring a telescope to watch the battlefield movements.
"The callers are going to be defeated."
"It makes sense that it's time for us to retreat."
Yu Yu asked, "Why don't you go and seduce again, it's not bad to lure a little farther to the territory of the Kunjian people." ”
"Have we done the Lord? Don't worry if you can't call the shots, Qu Shunhou's request to us is to detect the latest movements of the Huns, and hope that the group of Hujie people can be strong and not be wiped out by the Huns' royal tent cavalry. Xiahou gave a tacit look, and the latter immediately understood that most of the Kunjian people's territory had pits, and not every grassland tribe would be as cooperative as the Hujie people, and entering the territory of the Kunjian people would inevitably alarm the local local snakes, and if they didn't fall into the Kunjian people's ambush circle, everything would be over.
The stalemate of the battle went on little by little, from the morning battle to the afternoon, the cavalry collision strength of the two sides gradually decreased, the exhausted cavalry formation gradually scattered, and they were no longer able to maintain the ability to echo each other, the two sides were more in the competition for the will to fight and the desire for victory, no one was willing to give up the war that had been put into hard work, so many people died and lost, no matter what, it was unacceptable.
In the afternoon, the cavalry of the two sides, which had taken time to eat military rations, fought again, and this time the intensity was no less than the frontal collision in the morning, and the cavalry of the Hun king's tent, which had the advantage, became stronger and stronger. The Hujie cavalry launched a mortal charge without fear of death, and flew over with the impact of the war horse, killing the Huns in a life-for-life fighting method.
The corpse of a person who has been slashed by a knife is shattered, but it does not affect the tendency of the people to fight hard, but has a tendency to intensify. The first man was rewarded with hundreds of people to follow suit in the second time, and the young and vigorous Hujie people were not afraid of death, and it was the highest honor to die heroically for the tribe, and the gods would bless them.
"Why are the Hujie people still insisting? The losses of the Hujie people have already exceeded 20%, why should they stubbornly hold on when they should retreat immediately? If you fight like this, you'll die soon. He frowned constantly, and military common sense told him that 10% of battle losses were a cordon, and 10% of battle deaths would usually have 30% casualties. Far more wounded than killed in battle, more than 20% of combat deaths mean at least 60% of casualties, and most soldiers are hung with a lottery to represent the beginning of the collapse. Once the battle damage exceeds 30%, it is almost impossible to stop the rout.
Xiahou Po shook his head: "You see that the pasture of the Hujie tribe over there can't even see a single cow or sheep, and the king of Hujie, Sal, is using the lives of the Hujie cavalry in exchange for the opportunity for the tribe to retreat, how can they leave?" ”
"So, they're going to fight to the death?"
"The situation of the Huns is not good either. The loss of at least three thousand people was no stronger than that of the Hujie. King Youxian must be mad. ”
The situation on the kung fu battlefield where the two were talking and laughing suddenly changed dramatically, and the Hujieren, who was not afraid of death a moment ago, suddenly turned around and retreated, and the two hurriedly looked over and found that the Wang Qi of the Hujieren was almost crumbling, and the personal guard troops riding a red war horse escorted the Wang Qi to the west, and then the Hujieren also turned around and retreated, and the speed of the change before and after was greatly unexpected.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry of the Xiongnu King was also retreating to the east, and did not chase after the victory as expected, and the two took a closer look and found that the situation of the silver wolf banner of the Right Xian King was not good. It seems that a moment ago, the two kings came to a head-on confrontation, and the result was that both sides were traumatized and ended in a double defeat.
"The right virtuous king has been stuck in the war for a long time. Personally went into battle to assault the king's personal guards and then fought a draw? ”
"I have the opposite opinion with you, the losses of the Hujie people were more than those of the Huns, and the king of Hujie, Saldang, couldn't help but lead his personal guards to attack the personal guards of the right Xian king, and finally ended up losing both."
While the two were talking, a herald came out of the dense forest: "Captain Chen has an order, keep an eye on the main force of the retreating Huns, and there must be no mistake in mastering their camp." ”
"Oh, you're going to fire?"
Yu Yu rubbed his fingers excitedly: "I haven't touched such a big block for a long time, I'm really looking forward to it!" ”
Two hours later.
The cavalry of the king's tent, which had galloped for more than a hundred miles, began to slow down and prepare to set up camp by the unknown river, even if it was summer at this time, the sun had set for a long time, and if they did not set camp, they could only sleep overnight on the vast grassland and dance with the wild beasts that haunted the night, and more importantly, they could not run.
The Huns' royal tent cavalry is a man and three horses, one drags the equipment and baggage, one marches and rides and one is a combat horse, after a whole day of attrition, the war horse of the combat horse is exhausted and cannot be used, the other two can only be ridden in turn, put the combat horse behind him and move forward slowly, two hours is more than half an afternoon to travel more than a hundred miles, it is simply not worth mentioning when the body is full of energy, two hours to run out of two hundred miles is no problem.
But the idle situation is special, can run out of more than 100 miles is also the maximum limit under the premise of consuming potential, and then run fast and tie the war horse behind him to rest slowly will be tired to death, and the Huns' royal tent cavalry is not iron, fight a day of fierce war, eat some dried meat in the afternoon, drink some water, continue to fight until the afternoon, and then turn around and gallop for more than 100 miles, even if the battle is immediately tired and exhausted, I can't wait to get off the horse and fall asleep.
In the makeshift camp, the witch doctor was dancing around the fire, and the Right Virtuous King was holding the wound in his abdomen and enduring the severe pain, pulling out a bloody broken arrow.
"King, your arrow wound is not light, it is useless to wash the wound with hot water this season, only sealing the wound with it can prevent suppuration." The witch doctor took a bowl of spark-bearing ashes from the campfire, and the hot ashes of the plants and trees immediately poured on the wound in the abdomen of the Right Virtuous King.
"Saldan!"
The Right Virtuous King roared with a hideous face, and the wounded Wolf King still trembled violently under the immobilization of several strong guards, this was the greatest blow he had ever suffered in his life, and he hated the Hujie and their king Saldang. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)
ps: I'm really sorry, I've been very busy lately, and I'm probably going to write a book part-time in the future, I'll take time to code more words every week, don't worry about not tj, it's okay to write like this, my pressure is a little less, and I don't have to worry too much about the impact of some pressure, try to write the story in the outline