Chapter 220 The horse stepped on the Southern Huns
Yu Fuluo took the lead, led the warriors of the tribe to rush towards the group of daring horse bandits at the foot of the mountain, and then ......
No then.
Without waiting for the Southern Hun cavalry to rush to Murong Ping's resting place, Zhao Yun personally led the neatly draped five hundred Xuanjia black cavalry, like a torrent wrapped in steel, from behind a mountain col, just collided with the Southern Huns.
Zhao Yun, who was riding on the back of a big black horse, targeted Yu Fuluo who was at the front from the beginning, and this time he had no intention of breaking up.
Yu Fuluo, who was rushing up, suddenly saw a team of black iron horsemen rushing out of the nearby mountain pass, and his heart was inexplicably panicked.
Yu Fuluo, who has been playing with war horses for half his life, saw at first glance that the cavalry rushing over from the opposite side was definitely not a good thing, although there were more than 3,000 horsemen who chased and killed the horse bandits, and they had an absolute advantage in numbers, but if they had a hard time with the oncoming cavalry, they would definitely not get any benefits.
"There is an ambush, get out of here quickly!" After Yu Fuluo finished shouting, he wanted to urge the horse to turn around and evacuate, but at this moment, a feather arrow dragged a poignant tail and shot Yu Fuluo in the cheek!
"Ah——!h Yu Fuluo screamed miserably, raising a hand to cover his bloody cheek tightly.
"Thief chieftain, take your life!" Zhao Yun, who had already urged the horse to rush to Fuluo, stabbed out with a shot, and Yu Fuluo was pierced, and then slammed it on the tip of the spear and threw it off the horse.
"The thief chief is dead, brothers, don't leave your mouth alive, kill it!"
Zhao Yun shouted, rushed into the Huns who were already in chaos like a mad tiger, and began to kill one-sidedly. Five hundred Xuanjia black horsemen who had been waiting for work had followed Zhao Yun for several years, and had already formed a tacit understanding, and they were tightly guarded on the left and right sides of Zhao Yun, like a sharp and huge axe blade, slashing into the ranks of the Huns, and harvesting the heads skillfully one by one.
Murong Ping, who stood on a high place and watched the battle. Swallowed a mouthful of saliva, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then muttered quietly, "I'll go that way!" Today, I finally saw General Zilong's archery with my own eyes, and when he was running at high speed on his horse, he could even shoot an arrow at the door of the thief chief, this archery is really speechless, tsk......"
A veteran soldier beside Murong Ping quipped, "Murong Chief, if you were to compete with General Zilong in archery, who would be more powerful?" ”
Murong Ping raised his leg with a kick, kicked this guy aside, and scolded with a smile: "Get out of the way for Lao Tzu." Who thinks that the life is long will compete with General Zhao in martial arts! ”
Talking and laughing on the slope are lively, but down the slope has killed people on their backs and blood flowed like rivers.
Although the Huns had dominated the north for hundreds of years, they were finally defeated by the Han cavalry, and now the Southern Huns are more Wang Xiaoer than their ancestors, and one year is not as good as a year, so when they meet the Youzhou Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, which has been alone in the world, they are not vulnerable at all.
Not to mention that the Xuanjia Iron Riders were all wearing strong steel armor, not to mention that they all used Takahashi saddles and stirrups, but only the long-handled swords they held in their hands. It is a sharp weapon for hand-to-hand combat, and when chopping the Huns who only wear light leather armor to protect themselves, it is simply like chopping melons and vegetables.
When Liu He originally built this ace cavalry, he envisioned that Zhao Yun, who was not a man, would act as an arrow. Relying on the huge inertia and super protection of the heavy cavalry, it acted as a pioneer on the battlefield in the first wave of the battle, completely disrupting the position of the enemy cavalry, and then further expanding the results by the following light cavalry. until the opponent is eliminated.
At the beginning, Zhao Yun led the army to fight a bloody battle with 15,000 Xiliang cavalry under Li Dao on the Wei Bridge, and the first to bear the brunt was the 500 Xuanjia iron cavalry. That battle not only made the Xiliang cavalry understand the horror of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry. It is also to let the warlords of Guanzhong know that the generals under Liu He are not only "hide and seek" outside Chang'an City, but really fight head-on on the battle array, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry led by Zhao Yun is only stronger than the Bingzhou cavalry under the command of Lu Bu!
After that battle, although the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry suffered heavy losses, after nearly two years of selection and replenishment, today's combat power has not only fully recovered, but because of the further update and improvement of equipment, the overall combat power is more outstanding, which is enough to take on the heavy responsibility of charging into battle on the battlefield.
The Southern Huns were so frightened by Zhao Yun and the Black Armor Iron Cavalry that they finally reacted from the great horror of their leader's killing, and then they all chose to flee in all directions, wanting to escape from this place that would give them nightmares for the rest of their lives.
However, today, the Southern Huns can come violently, and if they want to leave peacefully, they must become ghosts and be taken away by the bull head and horse face with chains!
Zhao Yun only used 500 black-armored iron horsemen to attack this time, counting the more than 300 people who Murong Ping went to attack and harass, together they did not even have a thousand horsemen, and Liu He brought a full 9,000 horsemen to the north this time, where did the rest go?
The answer will soon be revealed.
Zhao Yun put 5,000 cavalry on the periphery, and after the Southern Huns approached here, they would surround all the Southern Xiongnu cavalry under the command of Zhang He, so that none of these Southern Huns could escape.
As for the remaining 3,000 horsemen, at this time, they had already divided into two teams and went to Pingzhou and Jiexiu counties, which had been plagued by Murong Ping overnight, to clear the remaining Southern Huns.
The eldest prince has specially explained, "Cutting the grass does not remove the roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows." Although this time passing through Jiexiu was only one of the Southern Huns, whether or not they could achieve a big victory was related to the face of the Youzhou cavalry, so the soldiers were all full of energy.
Liu He and the accompanying scribes stood on the top of a mountain not far away, everyone watched the Southern Huns who were besieged and killed at the foot of the mountain fall one after another in a pool of blood, some people began to whisper whether such a kill would hurt Tianhe, and some people felt that Liu He could completely beat the Southern Huns away and then swagger across the border, and he couldn't make the killer so cruel and domineering.
Cai Yong came to Liu He's side and tugged at the corner of his son-in-law's clothes, and whispered to persuade: "Shiren, did you order your subordinates to stop this one-sided killing?" I see that many Southern Huns have already dismounted and begged to surrender, why do your men still raise butcher knives against them? ”
Liu He turned his head to look at the Confucian scholar in front of him, and wanted to tell Mr. Cai that his baby daughter Cai Yan was taken away by this group of anti-water Southern Huns in history during the Guanzhong Rebellion!
When the Southern Huns attached themselves to the Han Dynasty, the Han court handed over the Hetao area with abundant water and grass to them, and also taught the Southern Huns how to cultivate textiles.
When the Xianbei people came from the north. The Southern Huns turned a blind eye and secretly opened a gap for the Xianbei people to go south; When the central court of the Han Dynasty was in chaos, the Southern Xiongnu took advantage of the situation to cause chaos, directly endangering the peace of the Sili region......
These Southern Huns, in Liu He's eyes, are evil wolves who can't raise a family, and once the master is weak, they will suffer from it!
"Since the scholar has spoken out to persuade him, and the boy should obey, I will order my men to stop attacking." Liu He didn't save Cai Yong's face, and seemed to humbly accept Cai Yong's kind reminder.
When Liu He's order was transmitted to the battlefield ahead. More than 3,000 Hun cavalry have been killed, but there are still hundreds of people who have left a frightened dog life, waiting for Liu He to deal with it.
Because he didn't want to delay too much time, Liu He asked Zhao Yun to send a team of 500 cavalry to escort these prisoners to Xiangling County and give them to Duan Xuan's men, which was a surprise for Duan Xuan.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Liu He suddenly got more than 2,000 war horses, and there was still a lot of horse meat to eat. It can be said that he made a lot of war money.
In the evening, the 3,000 cavalry who had dispersed to clear the remaining Southern Huns returned to the camp and listened to their reports, and the results were relatively rich. It is said that all the men of the Southern Huns, who were taller than the wheels, could not escape this time, and they were all killed cleanly.
After Guo Jia and Tian Chou heard the news, their faces were as usual and they didn't care. However, Zheng Hun, Xin Bi and Du Ji and others, who followed Liu He to Youzhou, turned pale. Looks incredulous.
Guo Jia is very active in dealing with foreigners, and in history, he tried his best to persuade Cao Heizi to venture north to attack Wuhuan's lair, don't look at him as a white-faced scholar who is powerless. The heart is extremely strong, and he doesn't feel cruel and ruthless at all about such a vicious thing as killing people and exterminating the race.
When Tian Chou went to Chang'an, he was chased and killed by the rangers of the Southern Huns on the way through Wuyuan and Shuofang, and he owed no good impression of these anti-bone boys, so after hearing that the tribe of Fuluo had been killed, his face showed an undisguised happy expression.
Liu He didn't have time to stay with this group of scribes around the campfire, he had already taken Zhao Yun and Zhang He and other generals to visit the injured soldiers, so the scribes in the audience started a fierce debate about whether they should kill the Southern Xiongnu tribe today.
There were a large number of contestants on the opposing side, and some of them, such as Chen Yi, Zheng Hun, Xin Bi, and Du Ji, expressed their resolute opposition to this kind of nameless war, especially the exterminating massacre of foreign men. The opposing classmates agreed that Liu He should carry forward the spirit of benevolence and harmony, salute first and then soldier, and when he couldn't persuade him, he would beat the Southern Huns again, just beat them away.
Originally, there were only two contestants, Guo Jia and Tian Chou, and Cai Yan's sister looked a little uncomfortable, so she temporarily joined in to strengthen her momentum. Zhengfang Guo Jia insisted that the imperial court was too merciful to the Southern Xiongnu, and that it was actually a problem for raising tigers, and that it should be resolutely corrected, completely eradicating these nomadic peoples in the north, and creating a safe and stable northern region for the Han Dynasty. Tian Chou came forward to tell the story, enumerating to everyone the brutality and greed of the northern nomads, insisting that Liu He's blow to the Southern Xiongnu was not excessive, and this was the retribution they deserved!
Liu He, who had finished patrolling the camp, came to the bonfire, and saw that everyone was arguing with red faces and red ears, so he said to everyone earnestly: "This is an irreconcilable contradiction and conflict between the two ethnic groups, my Han people take a peaceful inward farming road, while the nomadic people on the reckless steppes in the north take an outward plundering road, we have always been fat sheep in the eyes of the nomads, once they are unable to protect themselves, they will come to plunder our wealth and slaughter us like pigs!" ”
"As we sit here discussing benevolence and humility, perhaps the blood-drinking thieves of the north are contemplating when they will come south to plunder us! You always think of the nomads on horseback as people who know how to teach etiquette, but you don't know that they are really just uncivilized tigers and wolves! This is a life-and-death battle for survival, either we are exterminated by the nomads, or we exterminate the nomads, and there is no possibility of peaceful coexistence! ”
When Liu He said this, he grabbed a pot of spirits and poured a few sips to make his excitement feel better. (To be continued......)
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