The sky began to fall again, and the north wind blew up the snow and dust like sand, and made a tinkling sound against the frosted leather armor.

The setting sun struggled to shine behind the clouds, but it was quickly frozen on the edge of the sky, filtered by the layers of clouds, turning into a faint pink crumb, dyeing tens of thousands of miles of vast wilderness pink.

This seemingly beautiful scenery falls in the eyes of the herdsmen, but it is more like the heaven and the earth are covered with blood.

This is the third day that the tribes of the royal tent have fled from the holy land of Danhan Mountain, and have trudged and struggled in the wilderness and snowfields.

Three days may sound like a short time, but only those who have actually experienced it know what a difficult time it was. The cruel natural environment of the grassland is not the main reason for the hardship, what really makes the herdsmen want to die is the Han army light cavalry that follows behind.

The steppe people have always prided themselves on being the descendants of wolves, and they are like wolves hunting when they fight, and their greatest characteristics are patience, perseverance, and swiftness.

The herdsmen have always believed that the strength of the Han army lies only in the well-made armor in their hands and bodies, or in the strong physique and art of war that can eat well every day. If patience and tenacity are compared, then the Han army is like a pampered flower of the Central Plains, far from being comparable to the weedy steppe people.

Therefore, when the resourceful Elder Murong proposed to fight and retreat, bear certain losses, and also use the geographical environment of the grassland to exhaust the enemy and retreat the enemy, and even annihilate the enemy in turn, even after receiving everyone's approval.

The people of the grassland do not have the broad and profound art of war in the Central Plains, but they also understand the truth of meeting the enemy's shortcomings with their own strengths. The experience passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors also shows that the way to defeat the Han army is not to fight hard. Instead, after using all the conditions available to weaken the other party, the opportunity to win will naturally appear.

Even if it was a hero of the Han family like the flying general Li Guang back then, when he fought the decisive battle in Mobei, didn't he get lost in the wasteland and finally kill himself? Although this wasteland has all kinds of bad things, it is the best battlefield for the people that Immortal God has given him!

Murong Duo's strategy is not complicated, simply put, it is to abandon Danhan Mountain, and while fighting and retreating, he has been changing the direction of the march until the Han army is dizzy. I don't know where I am.

If all goes well, the fleeing tribes will join up with the first batch of tribal cavalry that had captured the Han people somewhere north of Baishan, near the source of the Lishui River, and flank the Han army in pursuit.

After repeated deliberation by the elders. They all thought it was a flawless plan.

It is difficult to find directions on the grassland, and it is even more difficult to find a definite place. Here, only the mountains are always moving, and the rivers cannot be used as signs, because those rivers often change their course on their own. When many Han people arrived on the grassland, they couldn't even identify the direction clearly, so Li Guang got lost back then. Missed the military period.

The courage of the Han general Zhao Yun is more than that of the flying general of the year, but he is still just a person, not a god, so. He may kill and injure many people along the way, but it is impossible to discover Murong Duo's scheme.

When he was tired and sleepy, he suddenly found that a new force appeared behind him, even if he was Wei Huo's resurrection. Nor can it be turned around.

The herdsmen who have lived in the steppe Gobi for generations do not have as many skills and knowledge as the Han Chinese. However, in terms of identifying directions and finding paths, there are many means that the Central Plains people cannot understand, let alone master.

With this gap, they were able to easily complete the strategy of attacking separately and together, and flanking the Han army.

Of course, the premise is that they can escape to the preset battlefield smoothly.

The elders didn't think it would be difficult, the characteristics of the steppe tribe were that everyone could ride a horse and shoot a bow, and more than 100,000 people gathered together, even if they were all old and weak, women and children, it was not something that five thousand cavalry could shake.

If it is the legendary mounted iron cavalry, of course, it is a different matter, but the light cavalry, even the strongest light cavalry, cannot force the defense line of more than 100,000 people. Once the light cavalry loses its speed, it will become weaker than the infantry, and when the time comes, more than 100,000 people will rush up and bite the Han army to death with their teeth.

However, after it was actually implemented, they found that this Han cavalry that dared to rush to Danhan Mountain was far from being as easy to deal with as they imagined.

It is true that the Han army did not dare to rush into the battle queue of more than 100,000 people, but they effortlessly used the tactics of the steppe people, like wolves hunting, constantly circling around the tribal alliance, squeezing cold and pounced on it to bite, almost every time it could hit the vital point, and every time it would tear off a large piece of flesh and blood, so that the tribal elders would suffer into the bone marrow.

At first, the elders thought it was a coincidence, but when the same situation happened a few times, they finally understood that the opponent they had encountered was even more terrifying than they had imagined!

The grassland people used wolf pack tactics, and they had to go through repeated tests to confirm the enemy's weaknesses and flaws, and Zhao Yun, as long as he observed from a distance, he could accurately point out the flaws.

It seems to be about the same, but the gap between the actual fight is huge.

If the Hu people had this ability, in recent years, the frontier of the Han Dynasty would never have stopped like this, and Hu Qi would not have gone to Jizhou, Qingzhou, or even Sizhou every year. How many thousand miles does the Han frontier end? Everywhere is on guard, all taking care of one and losing the other, since Emperor Ling, the border army has been repeatedly reduced, and there are flaws everywhere on the thousands of miles of frontier.

Hu Qi wanted to find out this flaw, the border army wanted to hide these flaws, and the two sides fought wits and courage, which is what Gongsun Zhan and Lu Bu did before going to the Central Plains to compete for power. The border army failed to completely block the Hu people, but except for the time when Zhang Chun rebelled, the Hu people did not see obvious flaws, and the two sides were tied.

And what Zhao Yun is doing now has raised the tactics that the Hu people are proud of to a new level. At a glance, he found a flaw, and then immediately launched a highly targeted attack, whether in terms of timeliness or attack power, he far surpassed the Hu people who created this tactic.

The shepherds were miserable, and the elders were even more sorrowful.

The Han army used a limited number of men in a single attack, usually one or two hundred-man teams, and sometimes even only one team, that is, fifty horsemen, so even if they hit the vital points, the results achieved were not very large.

But the frequency of their attacks was high enough - 5,000 Han troops took turns to fight. Killing and injuring dozens of shepherds at a time is thousands in a day, which is equivalent to the extermination of a medium tribe! If left to the Han army, such an attack could be launched nearly a hundred times a day, so the casualties of several thousand people were not an exaggeration at all.

It's not that the shepherds don't fight back after being beaten, but the gap between the combat power of the two armies is indeed a little bigger. If there are fewer people to counterattack, they will be cleanly slaughtered by the Han army, and there will be more people. The Han army avoided it directly, retreating and releasing arrows.

Relying on the range and power of the herdsman's riding bow, it often happens that two or three hundred herdsmen chase a hundred Han troops, and after chasing them, they find that they have fewer men than the other party. When he wanted to escape again, he was chased by the other party and slaughtered like melons and vegetables.

Before leaving the fortress, the wind cavalry was a configuration of one person and three horses, and after slaughtering more than a dozen tribes along the way, Zhao Yun captured countless war horses and baggage, and now the Han army is one person and a few horses. He didn't bother to forget it, anyway, no matter how he ran openly, there were enough horses available.

As a result, the Tempest Cavalry is now far superior to the Horde Alliance. If they can't beat it, they can't get rid of it, and the elders have no choice but to grit their teeth and persevere.

They reduced the frequency of their counterattacks and instead tried to strengthen their defenses as much as possible. The shepherds weave dead branches into circles and cover them with a layer of cowhide. as a shield. The strongest means of the wind cavalry is horse archery, and the most restrained bow and arrow is undoubtedly the shield, through which the shepherds want to curb the killing of the wind cavalry as much as possible.

Originally, they also thought about whether it would be enough to exhaust the arrows of the Wind Cavalry, just like the right school king back then.

However, they underestimated the adequacy of the Qingzhou army's supplies. When Li Ling went out of the fortress, it had reached the end of the Han-Hungarian War, although the Xiongnu were greatly injured, Emperor Wu also felt constrained in his hands, and the supply of the border army was basically within his means, and the card was very strict, so Li Ling went out of the fortress, and there was no arrow to use, and he had no choice but to surrender.

Zhao Yun was prepared for a long-term battle before he set off, and he also knew that there was no way to capture arrows from the hands of the Hu people, so he deliberately reduced the amount of dry food he carried, and brought several times more arrows.

Wang Yu attaches great importance to logistics, the Qingzhou war machine is in full swing, and some war materials are openly supplied, so Zhao Yun is not afraid of running out of arrows at all.

Not only the wind cavalry, Yu Ban was able to fight Qian Man at the horseshoe beam without any power to fight back, although there were terrain factors, but the massive supply of arrows also contributed to it. Even if Qian Man could equip his subordinates with the strong bows of the Han army, he would not be able to fight with Yu Ban at a long distance, because he could not afford to buy so many arrows.

Arrows, but they are very expensive.

The previous dozen battles were all one-sided, and the arrows were not used much, because every battle was won by the Han army, so you can also recover some when cleaning the battlefield.

As a result, the elders were waiting for Zhao Yun's arrows to run out, but what they were waiting for was an endless storm, and in the end, in desperation, they could only try to make a shield array, thinking that even if they could not completely restrain the Han army's cavalry, they could weaken some of the damage.

Their wishes are good, but the reality is skinny.

Seeing Hu Ren's shield array, Zhao Yun was only a little surprised at first, but quickly came up with a countermeasure.

Instead of wasting his horsepower and constantly changing the position of his attacks to avoid the shield array, or other skillful tactics, he chose the most desperate means of breaking the shield array......

As soon as he gave the order, the cavalrymen lowered their bows and arrows and flashed their crossbows!

Cavalry crossbows!

The big oars and iron shields used to deal with the Han army may be insufficient, but the simple shield array used to deal with the Hu people is enough to describe it in just four words - devastating!

Under the storm of strong crossbows, the flesh and blood of the Xianbei people are flying, and the corpses are everywhere!

This is completely a contest between civilization and barbarism, and when the civilized side is trapped by internal troubles, the barbarians may be able to occupy some of the upper hand by virtue of their animal nature, and with the help of shameless traitors, they will see the upper hand expand.

But after the civilized side gets serious, no matter how they struggle, they will only be crushed by all kinds of ends.

This is the universal truth.