Chapter 53: The White Antelope Goes to the Valley
It turned out that they were ordered by the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu Hudun to enter the Nanshan to pursue the remnants of the Dawan people, this trip by the Xiongnu general Xianqin led more than 1,000 cavalry to march, they are one of the teams, responsible for blocking the Bailing River Valley, in order to prevent the Dawan people from escaping from here. And General Yu Xian personally led the army to encircle and suppress the Dawan people in the Bailing River Valley one hundred and ten miles ahead. Liu Ze asked again if their mission was to capture the bloody horses. The centurion nodded yes, and the order they received was to kill all the Dawan people and transport all the bloody horses back to the Xiongnu.
Liu Ze ordered the two soldiers to be buried alive on the spot, tied the Hun centurion to the horse, and the team immediately assembled, lit torches, galloped quickly, and advanced towards the valley of the Bailing River.
On the way, Zhang Fei said vigorously: "Big brother, you are so good, even the barbarian with iron mouth and steel teeth has been pried open by you, seeing that he is also bear-like, he is so scared that he is about to pee his pants." ”
"To deal with this kind of vicious person, that is, he is arrogant and you are more arrogant, he is cruel to you even more cruel, and if he does not defeat the arrogance, how can he be obedient." Dealing with Hu people, Liu Zeke has no intention of being kind and soft-hearted.
Although Jia Xu did not agree with Liu Ze's cruel methods, what Liu Ze said was true.
In order to rush to the valley of Bailing as much as possible, Liu Ze ordered the team not to rest, marched all night, and even had to eat immediately. For the sake of lighting, each team lit dozens of torches, illuminating the winding mountain road, just like a fire dragon. Bailing River is a tributary of Bailing River, both rivers are seasonal rivers, every spring the ice and snow of Kunlun Mountain melts, the river floods, to the summer hot weather, the river water dries up, but the riverbed is very soft, and even there are quicksand in many places, it is not suitable for marching, the team can only go along the rugged and bumpy path by the river.
By the time dawn, Liu Ze's team had approached the valley of the Bailing River, and they only needed to climb over a mountain beam in front of them to arrive. At this time, the sound of horses' hooves, shouts, and the golden sound of weapons intersecting, as well as the screams of people before they were dying, it was clear that the massacre of the Huns had begun. Liu Ze took the lead and rushed up the mountain beam, there was chaos in front of him, the army of the Dawan people was almost wiped out, the unarmed women and children, old and young were fleeing in panic, and the cavalry of the Huns were rampage unscrupulously, with a wave of scimitars, blood splashing.
Liu Ze no longer had time to make tactical arrangements, and if he delayed for a moment longer, more Dawan people would lose their lives, he pulled out his double swords and shouted: "The brave will win when they meet on the narrow road, kill!" "When he was the first horse, he had rushed to the hillside, rushing towards the flank of the Huns, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Pan Feng, Wu and An Guo behind him each led a team of men and horses, followed by Liu Ze and rushed to the position of the Huns.
All the cavalry were the first to use their longbows, and when they rushed down the hillside, they saw that the Huns were already within range of their bows and arrows, starting with a volley of full bows. Before the Huns could react, another volley was fired. The Huns had little iron armor, and most of them were dressed in leather armor made of cowhide, which was fragile like a piece of paper under the sharp steel arrows, and was shot through with a "flutter", and many Hun soldiers fell under their horses, and the whole left wing was in a commotion. The time when Liu Ze launched the attack was just when the sun was rising, and the light was shining, and from the position where the Hun soldiers were standing from west to east, the strong sunlight shook so strongly that they couldn't open their eyes, and there was no way to know how many men and horses had been killed in the east, and they couldn't effectively dodge the arrows that came from the blast.
From the hillside to the river valley, a distance of about six or seven hundred meters, with the speed of a fast horse, at most sixty or seventy seconds, even the most well-trained archers can only shoot two arrows with a long bow and three to four arrows with a compound short bow, but it is these more than a thousand arrows that have brought a large number of casualties to the Huns.
Due to the effect of the sun's rays, Liu Ze led the team to rush into the camp of the Huns, and the Huns had no time to react. Liu Ze saw a ferocious Hun cavalry swinging a horn knife at a young man, the young man was panicked, but he didn't know how to dodge, seeing that the tip of the knife slashed into his neck again, a burly man rushed out of the oblique thorn, knocked the young man down, and rolled on the ground twice, which was worthy of flashing this fatal knife.
The Hun soldier slashed the air with a knife, and he was even more furious, and slashed again.
Just when the two of them couldn't dodge, Liu Zema was fast, he had already pounced in front of him, his sword was up and down, how sharp the Longyuan sword was, like cutting tofu, cutting the Hun soldier in two.
The cavalry behind him had put away their compound bows, drew their shiny sabers, and rushed into the Hun formation, slashing and slashing with great force.
The Hun lord was furious, and ordered the trumpeters to blow the horn, stop the slaughter of the Dawan people, and turn to Liu Ze's side. The Hun cavalry were all battle-hardened men, and although they were temporarily attacked by Liu Ze's troops, causing some confusion, they quickly gathered under the command of the main general Xian and launched a counterattack against Liu Ze's troops.
Those Dawan people who had escaped death stood in a daze, as if they didn't dare to believe that this was true, when suddenly someone shouted: "Sun God!" It was the Sun God who sent an envoy to save us! ”
Judging from their position, Liu Ze did seem to have rushed out of the radiant sun, not to mention that in this desperate moment, in their hearts, this savior must have been sent by God, and all of them knelt on the ground facing the sun, prostrating their heads incessantly, and chanting words in their mouths, as if thanking God for his favor.
But on the eastern side of the valley, the fierce fighting has only just begun. The rapid assembly of the Huns instantly formed an encirclement of Liu Ze's 300 cavalry, and although the Huns suffered hundreds of casualties in Liu Ze's first wave of blows, the total number was still as many as 1,200 to 1,500 people, four to five times more than Liu Ze's men and horses.
From the style of the armor, Yu Xian had already distinguished that the army in front of him was not the army of the Western Regions, but the army of the Han Dynasty thousands of miles away from the East, and he really couldn't understand why there was an army of Han people in this place where they should not have appeared, and as soon as they struck, they were so ferocious, killing hundreds of his soldiers in a row.
Yu Xian was furious, he had fought with the Han army in the Hexi Corridor many times before, giving him the feeling that the Han army's combat effectiveness was very loose, and he could only rely on the strength of the crowd and the dense defensive formation to offset the strong attack of the Xiongnu cavalry, if it were not for the division of the Xiongnu north and south and the continuous attack of the Xianbei people, they would not be defeated in the hands of the Han army in the north of the Northern Desert with abundant water and grass, and fled to the Western Regions full of yellow sand.
Yu Xian's hatred of the Han people is far greater than his hostility to the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions, especially Liu Ze's sudden appearance not only disrupted his deployment to exterminate the Dawan people, but also made a very violent move, killing hundreds of people in a row, so he had to mobilize all his forces to level Liu Ze's team with all his might.
Although the Huns were brave and good at fighting, they were destined to be defeated today, because their opponents not only had the two most heavyweight gods of war in the Three Kingdoms era - Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but also had a Liu Ze with 2,000 years of wisdom, even Pan Feng and Wu Anguo, the two unknown juniors in the Three Kingdoms, they could not match.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each blocked one side, killing the Huns and abandoning their armor, and the corpses were all over the field. Pan Feng made a big knife, Wu Anguo made a pair of sledgehammers, and also killed the Hun soldiers again and again, and the long-trained members of the team of heaven and earth were even more like tigers descending the mountain at this moment, and the newborn calves, all of them blocked ten with one, and the Huns retreated again and again.
Yu Xian was stunned, he had never seen such a brave and tenacious Han army, and the weapons they were equipped with surprised him even more, the long and narrow saber was so sharp, whether it was a bronze or iron scimitar, it was cut off lightly, and cutting off the arms and heads of the Huns was like chopping melons and vegetables. But the blood and arrogance of the Huns will never let him admit defeat lightly, not to mention that his side still occupies an absolute numerical advantage, he waved the command flag, urging more Hun soldiers to join the ranks of encirclement and suppression.
Liu Ze frowned, although he was outnumbered, Liu Ze was also very confident, after all, there were several tiger generals and knights who had undergone severe training, but in such a scuffle, Liu Ze disapproved of killing a thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred, not to mention that he couldn't afford it at all now, so he said to Guan Yu: "Yun Chang, capture the thief and capture the king!" ”
Guan Yu shouted: "No! Swinging the knife and cutting down the two small soldiers in front of him, he clamped his legs and kicked the horse's belly with the spurs of his boots.
Yu Xian didn't expect that the enemy general would break out of the encirclement and come straight to him. However, Yu Xian can also be a general under the command of Hudun Shan Yu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time and kills people like hemp, so naturally he will not be afraid of Guan Yu, who is still completely unknown at this time, raised his spear, shouted, and greeted him.
Liu Ze saw it from afar, and said with a secret smile in his heart, that the famous Hebei general Yan Liangwen Chou was just a move under Guan Yu, Yu Xian actually wanted to compete with Guan Yu without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and he really didn't know how death was written.
But when he saw the two horses and the wrong stirrup, Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife drew a perfect arc, and between the lightning and flint, Yu Xian's head had already rolled to the ground.
Yu Xian didn't understand how Guan Yu's knife was chopped until he died, he only felt a cool breeze blowing around his neck, and the rest had nothing to do with him.
As soon as Yu Xian died, the Xiongnu camp was in chaos, and many Xiongnu soldiers retreated.
However, the battle-hardened Huns still did not mess up the formation, although the main general Xian was killed, but there were still a few of his subordinates, but also the centurion stood up, stopped the deserters, reorganized the attack, and tried to redeem the defeat.
Liu Zenai ordered several sharpshooters to aim at the centurions and shoot them.