Chapter 45: Front-and-back strikes

The atmosphere on the battlefield is a little weird, Qin Dong has a good number of people on his side, almost no one speaks and makes noise, the other party has about two thousand people, the discipline is not very good, there is noise everywhere, Qin Dong found that the other party has already prepared, but he just doesn't attack, the reason why Oristes is like this may be for two reasons, first, Oristes is still waiting for the three hundred mercenary cavalry to launch a surprise attack, and second, there is no precedent for infantry to attack cavalry.

Qin Dong is very clear about the truth of "one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion", since Oristes did not mean to do it first, he did not move, to see who could survive whom, the Hun cavalry under his command has a strong discipline after these days of training, and the two thousand miscellaneous troops under Oristes have no military discipline, just after a while, many people are impatient, fight and do not fight, and do not let rest, it is really not good for those idle and accustomed soldiers.

Seeing this situation, the leading general of the two thousand people on the opposite side, Doarik, also knew that something had to be done, and he rode a horse and carried a big axe and shouted: "Listen to the people on the other side, there is still a way to survive if you surrender, and the recalcitrant ones will not end well, so those who know each other obediently drop their weapons, dismount and kneel and surrender!" ”

As soon as these words came out, several officers under Qin Dong were so angry that a group of rabble infantry also wanted to do something about a group of cavalry? Isn't that a big joke? Su He immediately asked for battle, but Qin Dong didn't agree, he carried a spear and rode his horse to the middle of the formation of the two armies and said loudly: "Is it General Doarik on the other side?" Do you know what you're doing right now? Do you want to lead troops to besiege the army of the Xiongnu Empire to start a mutiny or a rebellion? Do you know the consequences of doing this? If someone tells you something, or makes a promise to you, I advise you to think clearly, if you leave with troops now, I will treat it as if nothing has happened, and you will continue to be your general, but you will insist on doing your own thing and making a mistake to the end, it is that you want to die, and drag down your whole clan, no one can save you! ”

As soon as these words came out, Doarik was a little skeptical that what Oristes said to him was true, but Doarik was able to achieve the position of general, obviously not a person who would be persuaded lightly, he sneered: "It's useless to let you talk wildly, if you don't surrender, you will definitely die!" Give you another hour to think about it! ”

In Roman times, the unit of timekeeping was also hours, with a total of twelve hours from sunrise to sunset during the day, and four shifts at night, similar to ancient China, where the night was divided into five shifts.

In the "Gallic Wars", it is mentioned that the length units of Rome are Luo Qi, Luo Bu, and Luo Li, one Luo Qi is 0.296 meters, and five Luo Qi is one Luo Step (1.48 meters, this Luo Step seems to be a little too long, can one step be more than one meter long?) ), 1,000 lo steps is one lore (1.48 km).

"Hahaha......" Qin Dong laughed, "It's useless for you to give me another five hours to think about it!" What can you do with me? After saying that, he shouted: "Oristes, I know your kid is here, you kid will come out if you have a kind!" It's not that easy to kill me, who do you think you are? Rome's savior? Let's tell you the truth, the Roman Empire is already sunset, what you do is useless, you damn spy, doing the official position of the Huns, taking the salary given to you by the Huns but dealing with the Huns in turn, you people with no professional ethics are simply guilty of death, there is a kind of you don't use the money given to you by the Huns, you take the money but deal with your own master, you are a typical villain, hypocrite, the most vicious villain! ”

The two armies were only a few hundred meters apart in the middle, and Qin Dong's voice was loud, and Oristes heard his words clearly, and his face turned purple with anger.

At this time, Oristes was anxious, and promised to let the mercenary army of 300 cavalry launch a surprise attack from the rear, but so far there was no shadow of the mercenary, and he hurriedly found Doarik to discuss countermeasures. It was decided to wait another hour, if the mercenary cavalry had not yet appeared, they would withdraw, and then think of other ways, it would be impossible to attack, Qin Dong and the others were all cavalry, if Qin Dong escaped, could two legs still run over four legs?

Time passed little by little, and more than an hour passed, the mercenaries that Oristes and Doarik were expecting had not yet appeared, it was time to withdraw, but it was a pity that Qin Dong did not give them another chance.

After waiting for such a long time, many of Doarik's men were already sitting impatiently on the ground, and the entire army formation was in a commotion, there was no longer any formation, and many people in the rear were still sleeping on the ground.

After Qin Dong found out about this situation, he immediately launched an attack, two hundred cavalry rushed out from the left and right flanks and galloped in the middle of the front of the two armies, and at the same time bent the bow and shot arrows to the front of the enemy array to launch a running tactic, continuous arrows fell from the sky into Doarik's front army camp, many people were shot dead before they had time to put up their shields, no one expected Qin Dong to suddenly attack, Doarik and Oristes were not prepared, you must know that in their eyes Qin Dong was less than two hundred, but they had two thousand.

Doarik's subordinate officers had to desperately maintain order in front of the battle and organize defenses in time, if the chaos continued, they might collapse without Qin Dong continuing to lead the attack.

Qin Dong's troops seem to be more than twice as many as Oristes thinks, although Oristes and Doarik were surprised, they didn't worry too much, after all, two hundred cavalry is not enough to threaten the two thousand people under them, as long as the army formation is stabilized and does not collapse, there is no need to be afraid of actively organizing defensive measures, but Doarik and Oristes overestimated the combat effectiveness of the two thousand people under their command, and Qin Dong proved their mistake with facts.

The Alan army, which was already very slack, was in chaos after the sudden blow, and this was still the three hundred people who were fully equipped in the front army, because even if they put up a shield to defend, the people who were hit by the arrows fell one after another.

When the remaining 200 people of the front army organized the defense again and all erected their shields, Qin Dong's 200 cavalry divided into two teams and went around the two flanks of the Alan army and launched cavalry fire again.

Due to the short distance between the soldiers and the soldiers of the Alan Army, the formation is dense, for such a formation, the tactic that the archers can maximize their attack power is to shoot on horseback, and neat shooting causes large-area damage, and does not require accurate shooting skills, as long as it causes a dense shooting effect.

Once the cavalry tactics were launched, although there were only 200 horsemen, the continuous salvo caused an overwhelming number of arrows to fall into the Alans' formation.

The Alans were in complete confusion, and the screams, wails, and cries in the army formation caused even greater panic, and at this moment, suddenly a large number of horses' hooves were heard from the rear, and a cavalry rushed at an extremely fast speed, and several consecutive showers of arrows caused complete confusion in the rear of the Alans' military formation.

The rear of the Alans army is the worst in combat effectiveness and Su zhì, and this group is the largest number, there are seven or eight hundred people, these are in chaos after encountering the surprise attack of a hundred cavalry led by Mu Ren, everyone fled from both sides, revealing a wide passage in the middle, the passage is full of corpses that have been shot dead, and Mu Ren rushed into the passage with his hundred cavalry and rushed straight to the three hundred archers of the Chinese army, and the speed was beyond Oristes' imagination.

When Oristes saw the Hun cavalry rushing from the rear, he was so frightened that he immediately called a hundred guards around him to protect him and fled, and his escape immediately triggered a chain reaction, and the three hundred archers collapsed first, and after the first wave of arrow rain, these archers immediately dropped their bows and scattered and fled.

The Alans, who wanted to flee from both wings, were suddenly met by cavalry from both flanks, and there was another rain of arrows, and the Alans died on the way to escape.

Alan's army formation has completely collapsed, and the more than 200 well-equipped heavy infantry phalanx of the front army still have the strength to fight, but the poorly equipped light infantry attacked by the Huns on both flanks can only desperately retreat to the center, desperately dodging the arrows that come from the fire, so they scatter the heavy infantry in the middle.

Now that no one was able to organize the fleeing soldiers, the whole scene turned into a great escape, with two thousand men being chased and killed by three hundred cavalry.