Two days later, at the southern foot of Yangshan.

On the flat and open grassland, the Chu-Qin coalition army was slowly advancing forward.

The infantry of the Chu army set up a standard offensive formation, with heavy infantry armed with halberds and heavy armor as the front team, light infantry armed with arm crossbows, waist crossbows, and crossbows as the second team, and archers with longbows as the three teams, and then the Qin cavalry was responsible for protecting the two wings, and the chariots were behind the guards, and the whole army was like an iron-armored monster slowly advancing towards Gaoque.

In front, on both wings, and behind the combined forces of Chu and Qin, there were endless Hutu cavalry.

40,000 Hugh Tu cavalry, it sounds like a small number, but if it is scattered on the flat grassland, it is definitely an incomparably strange and magnificent picture, if you look down from the sky, within a radius of more than ten miles, almost the entire grassland is annihilated by the sea of Hugh Tu people's cavalry.

Once the Hugh Tu cavalry began to run and sprint, it was even more impressive.

However, the Chu and Qin soldiers are not frightened, the Chu and Qin coalition forces that have been placed in an attack formation are like a reef in stormy waves, no matter how fast you are in the wind and waves, I will not move, if the Hutu cavalry only dispatches a small group of cavalry to harass, and has its own Qin cavalry to deal with it, but once there are more than a thousand Hu cavalry approaching, it will immediately be hit by the thunder of the Chu army's bow and crossbow!

For the Hutu cavalry wearing thin leather armor, the strong bows and crossbows of the Chu infantry were definitely a mortal threat.

From the afternoon of the day before yesterday to the present, the Hutu cavalry has tried hundreds of attacks and countless harassments, and has also paid a heavy price of thousands of cavalry casualties, but in the end it still failed to stop the footsteps of the Chu and Qin coalition forces, and finally let the Chu and Qin coalition forces advance to the Gaoque Pass.

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Looking at the Central Plains army rolling over in front of him, King Hutu couldn't help but sigh.

Just now, the small-scale attack of the Hugh Tu cavalry was broken up by the Central Plains army, except for the hundreds of corpses thrown on the battlefield, the Hugh Tu people got nothing, as for the Central Plains army, there were not even casualties, all they lost was arrows, damn arrows, the Central Plains army seemed to never run out.

At this moment, King Hutu was already very clear.

Unless the Hutu army invests elite cavalry in a large-scale decisive battle at any cost, otherwise, only a small number of cavalry to attack or launch a small-scale attack is not enough to scare back or stop the Central Plains army.

But then again, let King Hutu withdraw from Gaoque and give up the dream of occupying the Hetao, he will not be willing to do so anyway, Hetao, that is the pearl on the plug, if the Hugh Tu people can occupy the Hetao, within fifty years at most, the population will surge, and the strength will soar!

Huo Ran turned around, and King Hutu instructed the captain of his own cavalry: "Go, call a few thousand cavalry commanders to this king!" ”

The captain of the pro-cavalry suddenly agreed, and then took the order, looking at the figure of the pro-cavalry captain in the distance, the corners of King Hugh Tu's mouth gradually bloomed with a trace of hideous murderous intent.

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Chu Jun, under the Great Xu.

Bai Lixian raised his feather fan in front of his forehead, looked at Gaoque Guancheng in front of him, and then turned his head and smiled and said to Xiang Zhuang and Wei Yu: "General, military advisor, King Hutu has no great ability, he is greedy, and if he doesn't let him suffer a little, he will never give up Hetao, so next, the army of Xiu Tu should attack in a big way." ”

The words fell, and the low and desolate Hu Ren horn sounded in the four fields, and in the continuous horn sound, the Hutu cavalry that was originally wandering around the Chu army suddenly retreated back to the front like the tide of the ebbing tide, and after less than a moment, nearly 40,000 Hutu cavalry opened a dense cavalry formation under the Gaoque Pass in front.

The corners of Xiang Zhuang's mouth suddenly bloomed with a sneer, and he said in a deep voice: "Ziliang is really like a god. ”

Since King Hutu wants to play, then play with him, Xiang Zhuang raised his right hand at the moment, and said indifferently: "Daxu has ordered the whole army to stop advancing and form a formation on the spot - a circular defense array!" ”

Xiang Zhuang gave an order, and the combined forces of Chu and Qin began to change formations in an instant.

The heavy infantry, light infantry, and archers of the front team stopped one after another.

The baggage soldiers of the rear team continued to move forward, forming three barriers inside and outside the entire periphery of the entire formation, with hoplites armed with halberds and heavy armor on the periphery, crossbowmen holding crossbows with arms, waist crossbows, and crossbows in the second encirclement, and archers, Qin cavalry, and Xiang Zhuang's personal soldiers hiding in the inner perimeter. ,

The Chu army was in good formation, and the Hutu cavalry in front also began to move.

However, Xiang Zhuang didn't care too much about the changes in the Hugh Tu cavalry.

Because the Hu people at this time were in a very primitive stage in terms of strategy and tactics, unlike the Central Plains, after hundreds of years of the Warring States Period, whether it was strategy or tactics, or humanities, philosophy, etc., they had developed to a fairly high level, and tactics could never be learned in war!

Even the Huns, before Maudun, had no tactics at all.

Before Maodun, the fire between the various Xiongnu tribes was basically similar to a group fight, who had more people, whose fists were hard, who was the leader, and who was Shan Yu.

However, the emergence of Mao Dun completely changed this pattern, Mao Dun was smart and studious, and there were a few exiles around him who died to the Central Plains slave of the Mobei grassland, although he did not systematically study the various theories of the Central Plains, but at least had the enlightenment of each theory, which laid an extremely solid foundation for his future growth.

It was precisely because of the appearance of Maudun that the Xiongnu were able to conquer Donghu.

At that time, the Donghu people were stronger than the Huns in terms of total population, number of strings and technology, but because of the appearance of Maudun, the Donghu people were finally defeated by the Huns, and since then they have been in a slump until five hundred years later, as a branch of the Donghu Xianbei people re-emerged and occupied the entire Mobei grassland.

Therefore, Xiang Zhuang did not pay attention to the changes of the Hugh Tu people.

Wei Yi and Bai Li Xian also did not take the movement of the Xiu Tu people to heart, for the Hu Tu people, Wei Yi and Bai Li Xian are no strangers, the Xiu Tu cavalry cannot pose a substantial threat to the Chu army's defensive array, and the Xiu Tu cavalry will not come, if it really attacks, it will definitely hit its head and bleed in front of the Chu army's defense array!

Moments later, the Hugh Tu cavalry finally attacked.

Tens of thousands of cavalry lined up in a slightly scattered horizontal formation, slowly crushing towards the circular defensive array of the Chu army, and as time passed, the speed of the Hugh Tu cavalry became faster and faster, and in the end, tens of thousands of horses' hooves knocked on the ground, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves almost shattered everyone's eardrums.

Many timid soldiers of the Chu army suddenly became agitated.

Tens of thousands of cavalry charged in clusters, horizontal queues that could not be seen at a glance, countless moving horse heads, countless galloping horse hooves, countless horsehair fluttering in the wind, and countless Hugh slaughterers waving all kinds of weapons and shouting, that kind of unrestrained scene, that kind of momentum that crushed the world and the world, people who have not experienced it can not imagine it at all.

However, the vast majority of veterans were unmoved, because they knew that it was just bluffing.

Originally, although the Chu-Qin coalition army had a small 20,000 people, it could be placed in a dense circle defensive formation, even if the baggage carts were added, the width was only about 100 steps, but you Xiu Tu cavalry opened a cavalry horizontal formation that could not be seen at a glance, what is the practical significance? It's not that I want to overwhelm the Chu army from the momentum and deter it psychologically.

For this set, the nomadic tribe is very familiar with it.

When it was less than five hundred steps away from the Chu army, the Hutu cavalry rolling forward was like a turbulent torrent on a reef, and suddenly split into two strands from the middle, and began to cut diagonally to the left and right sides of the Chu army's formation.

It's a little interesting, and a faint smile has bloomed at the corner of Xiang Zhuang's mouth.

Suddenly, Xiang Zhuang had already raised his right hand and said lightly: "Da Xu's order, prepare to attack." ”

Jin Xiang, who was guarding behind Xiang Zhuang, boarded the chariot in two steps, took the Daxu from the hands of the four personal soldiers, and waved it vigorously in front of him, and the next moment, the commanders of the various armies and battalions who were staring at the Chinese army Daxu turned around one after another, and issued combat orders to their respective troops.

The heavy infantry in the outer ring erected their halberds one after another, and a dense forest of halberds was formed in an instant.

The crossbowmen in the middle circle tightened their crossbow machines one after another, and aimed their arrows at the surging Hugh Tu cavalry in front.

The archers in the inner circle also unloaded their longbows, untied the quivers from their backs, and took out the heavy arrows from the quiver one by one, and slowly inserted them into the heel of their right foot.

When the distance between the two armies was less than two hundred paces, the longbowmen of the Chu army took the lead.

With the sound of "whoosh" breaking through the sky, the four thousand longbowmen had already shot four thousand wolf's tooth heavy arrows into the void, and then they were intertwined into a dense rain of arrows in the air, and they fell fiercely towards the heads of the Hutu cavalry approaching from the front.

In the terrible wail, at least more than 200 Hugh Tu cavalry fell off their horses with arrows, and before they could get up, the Hugh Tu cavalry behind them had already roared over their heads like a storm, and countless horse hooves suddenly stepped down from the air, and in an instant, the hundreds of Hugh Tu cavalry who had fallen off their horses were trampled into flesh!

When the Hugh Tu cavalry entered within 100 steps, the Chu army's crossbows, waist crossbows, and arm crossbows also attacked, and the hit rate of crossbow arrows was much higher than that of the longbows that relied on a wide area to kill and injure the enemy.

By the time the group of Hutu cavalrymen wearing multiple leather armor rushed to the front of the Chu army's outer car formation, the entire cavalry formation had already thinned out a lot, and in less than a hundred paces, the Hutu cavalry had paid at least thousands of casualties! 【Provided by Sailing】