Chapter 268: We Surrender
There will always be ups and downs in life.
In the face of the strong and ferocious black armored cavalry, the Hun tribe's response is basically right, the heavy cavalry is indeed slower than the light cavalry, wearing more than 20 pounds of iron armor and light leather armor The physical energy consumed is not the same, the physical consumption directly affects the speed of the knight's knife, the power of swinging the knife and the speed of turning to dodge, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
The single quality of the cavalry of the Hun tribe is only four or five percent of that of the black-armored cavalry, and the frontal confrontation will be slaughtered sooner or later, but if it is replaced by a tired knight who can usually only play at the level of two or three percent of the best state, the scene will be completely different.
Fifty cavalry marksman is the ability to press the bottom of the box, and it is the only bargaining chip to change the direction of the battle, as long as the strongest wave of attack of the Han cavalry is restrained, one blow, and then decline, three and exhausted, the most powerful attack is interrupted and will turn to decline, and every general who is proficient in the battle formation will have a experience.
Although the number of tribal marksmen is small, it is the expectation of tens of thousands of people, and the lethality brought by these fifty people can even be comparable to that of five thousand fresh troops, especially in the attack point to kill strong enemies, and even five thousand cavalry are not as good as fifty horse marksmen.
The results of the battle were also as they expected, ordinary tribal cavalry tried their best to kill a black-armored cavalry, the tribal marksman would kill a powerful enemy with almost every arrow, and occasionally miss the arrow and shoot quickly, killing more than 400 black-armored cavalry as hard as a turtle's shell in just a quarter of an hour, and the powerful attack momentum of the Han army was basically contained.
The morale of the Han army dropped slightly, the morale of the tribal cavalry was greatly boosted, and the crisis was brought back in one go. The heavy iron armor will make the war horses and knights quickly enter a period of fatigue, the tired war horse not only runs at a great speed, but also greatly reduces the flexibility to turn to dodge, and the black-armored cavalry that has fallen into sluggishness is a slow-moving target, even if it is a turtle shell with super defense, it is difficult to escape the fate of being slowly grinded to death.
Everything was planned to be perfect. The tribal kings of the Xiongnu tried their best, and the Han army showed the decay they most expected, but they didn't expect the Han army to give them a chance to breathe and equalize, and the Han army general quickly killed the tribal marksman as soon as he got out of the horse, and he was full of expectations that the tribal marksman could kill the black-armored cavalry, but he was killed in just a few dozen breaths.
The general of the Han army did not stop at all. A horse rushed to the forefront of the battle line, the Han army guards who came to the left and right held swords to strangle the approaching Hun cavalry, the general did not have the slightest fear of the flying arrows, strangled the reins, stood on the horse and looked at the Hun nobles far away, holding a strong bow in his left hand and three sharp arrows in his right hand. Aim at the more than a dozen Hun kings who are 100 meters away.
"Not good! He's going to kill us! ”
"Get out of the way!"
In an instant, three arrows flew together, like three flying crows instantly concentrating on the target.
Click!
The leopard flag of the king of Lou Fu and the sheep's head flag of the king of Aries fell, and a small king flag also fell, and the three king flags were shot in front of the Han army general almost red fruit in the face, and what was even more ridiculous was that the Hun Pi Xiaowang was embarrassed to dodge the arrows, some people simply jumped off the horse and drilled into the heavy protection of the guards, but they didn't expect that the goal of the Han army general was not their lives, just to shoot off their king flag.
The Huns are all face-wrecked. The momentum of the three armies of the Xiongnu was shaken by the seizure of the army, and it was a big matter.
Someone shot down the king's flag in front of him, and he could also be killed by someone in front of him, and the Hun tribe cavalry couldn't come up with a way to resist. The tribal cavalry with light armor and no armor are not good at hand-to-hand combat, and long-range shooting does not take advantage of the slightest, and the tribal marksmen who are most sure of turning the tables die cleanly, and the Huns have no choice.
King Lou Fu suddenly thought of Zhao She's flying knife, the feeling of being stared at by the souls of the dead was too terrifying, and he trembled and chanted: "Retreat!" Retreat now! ”
"What? You want to retreat? ”
"Hurry up. If you don't withdraw, it's too late. ”
The King of Lou suddenly turned around and gave an order, and then looked deeply at the Aries King, who did not look back, and rode away on his horse. The cavalry of the Loufu tribe received the order and immediately went backwards, so that they would not care whether the battle line was maintained or not. They don't care if their allies live or die.
The Aries King was dumbfounded, his old brother dropped the chain at a critical moment, he knew very well that the King of Lou Fu would not be able to fight as soon as he ran, and he did not hesitate when he saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the Aries tribe to retreat quickly, and the two main tribal kings all fled, and the little king also ordered to flee when he saw that the situation was not right, and for a time the situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed one hundred and eighty degrees, and the previous moment he was full of confidence to regain the disadvantage and be confident that he could come to a five-five opening, and the next moment the morale collapsed and all the people fled.
But how could the Han army let them escape?
"Chase! Divide the troops and chase them out in three ways! All the way at the Yellow River ferry, the lazy pig Aries Wang's department, resolutely did not allow them to cross the river to Henan, chased the king of Lou Fu all the way and did not allow his tribe to flee westward, all the way to pursue the scattered Hun Pi Xiao Wang, find their tribe pasture and quickly sweep can not give them a chance to escape! ”
Zhao Junyu took the lead: "I will go after the Aries King who crosses the river and promise not to let the Aries King escape." ”
"I'm going to chase the Huns who are scattered and fleeing, and it's enough to go with heavy cavalry." Zhou Zuoche and Guan Qiang said in unison.
Wei Qing jumped up: "Then let's go after the King of Lou Fu, and resolutely prevent the Department of the King of Lou Fu from escaping to the area of the Youxian Wangting." ”
"You? You can't go. ”
Wei Qing was anxious: "Brother-in-law, why can't I go?" I'm fifteen years old, and I can shoot a two-fight bow with one stone. ”
"You are still too young, your sister sent you to me for training, not for you to go to the reckless commander of the army to fight, first follow me to train for two years and lead the troops alone, and then I should go after the old fox of Lou Fu Wang Yigu Lie."
The first of the several pursuers of the Aries King was also his bad luck, and it happened that when the boats at the ferry port were insufficient, the Aries King was busy collecting boats and cutting trees for rafts, and was caught up by the Yulin cavalry led by Zhao Junyu at this juncture.
Zhao Junyu only took more than 7,000 forest cavalry, and the Aries King's troops were killed more than 2,100 people and still had about 10,000 defeated soldiers. Even the courage to fight was lost, and more than 10,000 people desperately crowded towards the ferry, all trying to squeeze into the few dozen or so civilian boats.
Nearly 10,000 people crowded together and couldn't move at all, and the black-armored cavalry easily flipped the crowd on their backs with a single assault, and almost the lambs who stayed watched the Han army swing their swords and slash them. They cried and begged the king of the ship to help them, but the king of Aries himself was too busy to take care of himself, who would care about the people on the shore, cut the cable and fled desperately to the south bank.
Their king abandoned them and fled, and the morale of the Aries cavalry collapsed in an instant, and the remaining more than 9,000 cavalry of the Aries tribe surrendered. The Aries tribe, which dominated Henan, almost collapsed most of it.
Zhao Junyu was not satisfied, sent 5,000 black-armored cavalry to escort the captives back to the Yinshan camp, and he took 2,000 black-armored cavalry with the most physical strength to collect boats to cross the river to pursue, at this time the Baiyang tribe in Henan was almost an empty village, and almost all the young and strong Huns were left on the north bank of the Yellow River. There were more than 300 people who managed to escape by boat, and these more than 300 people were all nobles and guards of the Aries tribe.
Cross the Yellow River.
Zhao Junyu kept chasing after the Aries King Bala Tulun, it was very interesting when he caught him, this old guy didn't expect the Han army to continue the pursuit, he thought that he would cross the Yellow River and rest easy, and he got off the boat and walked back slowly, and was captured as a prisoner before he walked back to the camp.
"The King of Aries leads the way! We want to go to your camp to see that you, the master, have the friendship of a landlord. ”
"Hahaha. I have heard that the Huns are very hospitable, and the king of Aries is thinking about how to entertain our group of guests from afar. ”
The Aries King Balatulun looked depressed, and was tied up with a bitter face to lead the way. It was probably the most painful time of his life to bring a guest home.
The other side.
Seeing that autumn is coming, the Xiongnu tribes in Monan will not camp north of Yangshan, because the cold air in the north will freeze the cattle, sheep and livestock of the tribe, and ordinary tribesmen can not stand the cold winter in the north.
The Hetao Plain south of Yangshan and Yinshan is the best wintering destination. With mountains blocking most of Siberia's cold air, at least the winter will not be painful in the cold and snow. One of the original conflicts between the left and right Xianwang was the geographical division between Yinshan and Yangshan, and Mao Dunshan ruled that most of the Hetao Plain, including Yinshan, belonged to Youxianwang. This is the hidden danger of the left-right dispute.
Eight thousand heavy cavalry, everyone carrying heavy riding spears and two sharp steel knives, they are very pure melee killers, as long as they are close contact with the powerful explosive power of the combination of war horses and knights to instantly tear apart the enemy, especially the light armor of the Huns, the effect of unarmored cavalry is extremely obvious, and the heavy cavalry is usually cut off with a knife.
The cavalry of the small tribe of the Huns was like seeing a nightmare, and the black-armored cavalry was terrified and desperately fleeing, but the direction of their escape could not be the cold field north of Yangshan, and they would only flee desperately into their own tribe, invisibly luring the wolf into the house before they knew it, and when they realized the seriousness of the situation, it was too late.
Most of the small tribes lay down their weapons almost without resistance, and a small number of stubborn resistance were slaughtered by the heavy cavalry, and it was stupid for the heavy cavalry to return fire with bows and arrows when charging at close range, and every unilateral crushing would bring a deep psychological shadow to the resisting tribes.
"Vulnerable! The Huns were simply vulnerable! ”
Chen He pulled out the steel knife, and the red blood stains flowed down the blade, and the Huns kneeling on the ground trembled like panicked voles that had only encountered natural enemies, and they were trembling.
At the same time, King Lou was blocked in the camp and was reluctant to come out.
Outside the camp were more than 7,000 Yulin cavalry, and more than 1,000 black cavalry of the private army were calling for battle.
Cao Shi shouted: "If the king of Lou Fu doesn't come out to surrender yet, I'll give you a quarter of an hour to think about it, if you don't come out, I'm going to rush in and kill, don't think that those few wooden stakes and fences can block the footsteps of the Han army." ”
"Don't! Don't kill, we surrender. ”
The Xiongnu nobles, who spoke the Han dialect, raised their hands: "Our king has decided to surrender, please bypass our people!" ”
King Lou Fu tied himself with a rope and walked out to surrender, King Lou Fu's relatives and subordinates cried and followed out, King Lou Fu Yi Gu Lie looked up at the sky and shouted in despair: "It's over!" The Lou Fu tribe is finished! (To be continued)