Chapter 371: A stab in the back
Li Mingyuan suddenly appeared behind the Xiongnu army with his soldiers. It turned out that they had gone a long way and fought from the south that King Zuo Xian couldn't have imagined. That group of chains was placed in front of the Hun army. And could not meet the troops behind. Because, there are still tens of thousands of people in the middle army. These tens of thousands of people stood in their way.
King Zuo Xian received the news from the spies, and he had no choice but to let the general Qiao Yuanzheng take this chain army to the south first, and then turn back. In this way, it will take a few more miles. This time is enough for Li Mingyuan to rush and kill for a while.
Li Mingyuan ordered Huang Jiu to take a long team of spears to attack from behind the Huns, Huang Jiu took 3,000 people, these 3,000 people were all veterans, they picked up their spears one by one, and they stabbed down like they were dead, they were simply an iron plate, an iron army, some people cut their arms, and blood splashed out, but his spears were still pierced out, and some people were stabbed in the stomach. Li Sanhong was cut in the stomach by a big knife, and the snow-white intestines rolled out. However, he gritted his teeth, stuffed his intestines into his stomach with one hand, and continued to fight. Li Mingyuan rushed over, he took the lead and rushed straight over. Huang Jiu led a large group of men and horses to kill. Those Hun soldiers had to wave their broadswords, this team is cavalry, they are good at riding horses, but riding horses to fight in the open area, in order to exert a strong power and advantage.
However, Huang Jiu pressed down with a spear, and there were too many of them, and the entire battlefield was about to be crowded. Patches of blackened crowds squeezed the horses, which had nowhere to move. Not to mention running. At this time, he was killed by Huang Jiu with his soldiers, killing and injuring many Huns. Huang Jiu shouted: "The Huns are taking their lives." His broadsword slashed down like a cold flash of light, and this flash of light was particularly loud in the dark night.
Several generals hurriedly blocked Li Mingyuan. They shouted, "Don't let Li Mingyuan run away." ”
Huang Jiu killed the two red eyes, and the spear was used whirringly, and the Huns sent two generals to block him. , Two bright big knives slashed down from mid-air, but Li Feng
The uncontrollable braking of the horses that rushed in front of them. The hiss stood up. Some people didn't have time to stand up, so they just ran straight into it. The front braked, but the rear did not have time to turn, and the front and rear horses collided together. I can't stop what was already stopped. Forcefully moving forward. The three horizontal teams have stopped. Each row of spears was moving forward, layers of spears sharp to form steel thorns, and the horses crashed into them. The skin was pierced, the person was hit, the simple cover on the body, the leather jacket and cotton robe, and even the armor and iron pieces could not block the spear tip, and they were pierced through, and they were tantamount to sending themselves up. The spear was also broken, and the Li Jiajun who held the spear was shocked and retreated, but behind him were rows of companions, which was his solid backing. The horse team, which had not run to full speed, was directly blocked, and when they saw that their companions in front were pierced and pierced, those behind hurriedly restrained their mounts, stopped or turned, and their reactions were inconsistent, and they were in a mess. The Hun horse team was most worried about the opponent's cavalry at this time, if they rushed over at this time, it would be a dead end, but to their surprise,
The opposing cavalry did not move. Now that your own team and the opponent's foot team are stagnant, hurry up and get out of this chaos. It turned out that Li Mingyuan also organized a cavalry team, and this cavalry team only had four or five hundred, but they were all brave and good at fighting. They are equivalent to Li Mingyuan's long sword. As soon as the long sword comes out, there will be casualties. So, in general, this cavalry team does not fight, they only play a shock role. They only play in exceptional circumstances.
Suddenly, three cannons rang out. General Zhang Daxian began to exert his might with the bow team, and long arrows fell from the sky.
Suddenly, the sound of cannon fire was heard, which drowned out the screams and hisses, and even pierced people's ears, and then the sound of the bowstring was heard. This group of foot soldiers is indeed stagnant, but the archers hiding in the gaps in the formation can shoot their bows, and at such a close distance, they will not miss, it is simply a hundred shots, and even the recruits can shoot and wound those Huns. Originally, there were only two or three hundred archers in this team, but this time, two hundred new recruits were added, a total of five hundred, and novices shooting arrows like this were equivalent to experiencing a test of life and death.
The rain of arrows poured down, and the people flipped on their backs, and then there was a second round of arrows
The drums sounded again, and the straddle that had just stopped began to move forward, and the men and horses in front of them were mercilessly assassinated. The archers circled around the queue, stopping from time to time to shoot arrows forward, and the Hun horse team continued to scream and fall off their horses, and the ground was in shambles. The wounded and corpses that trampled over the centaurs made the neat squad look a little scattered, but there was nothing in front of them that could stop them.
King Zuo Xian was unwilling to fail, he waved a banner and asked the general Li Nanlong to rush out with a large group of cavalry. One by one, they rode on big horses, brandished long knives with cold light, and killed them, and this one by one the murderous steel knives cut down, crumbling, and bones. Block some long arrows as well.
Li Nanlong shouted loudly: "Kill,...... Rush over with Lao Tzu. They found that they were only three or four hundred feet away from the archers, and if the horses rushed up for a while, and the broadsword swung down, they could completely break them up.
However, Zhang Daxian had already prepared, and when they saw the Huns' cavalry rushing over, they replaced them with hard bows and longer sharp arrows, which were specially made. Each of these arrows is the thickness of an arm. This kind of thick arrow can't be blocked even by that kind of big knife.
The horses either turned into corpses on the ground, or they scattered and ran away, and if they were one step slower, they would be killed by bows and arrows, and the remaining riders did not dare to go around in circles, but scattered in all directions, and if they did not say anything else, they did not leave, and the cavalry of the brigade, which had not moved, caught up. The Hun brigade, which was still shouting and cheering just now, was already silent, and no one could have imagined that the horse team was used to rush the infantry queue but did not rush down, and they saw heavy casualties. The procession in front of them had crossed the obstacle of the corpses of men and horses, and had become neat again, and the distance was only one hundred and fifty paces. The silent Hun ranks were in a commotion,
Li Mingyuan personally stepped out. He led a large army and rushed straight to Li Nanlong's cavalry. Li Mingyuan waved his spear and shouted: "Li Nanlong takes his life." His spear glowed with silver light.
The Hun general Li Nanlong cheered up and fought with Li Mingyuan for a few rounds, but he was Li Mingyuan's opponent, fighting, fighting, collapsing, banging. The big gun was knocked off.
The corner of the line suddenly scattered a little. Someone shouted: "Li Nanlong ran away, Li Nanlong." Run! Everyone looked over and found that Li Nanlong had already beaten his horse and galloped away into the distance, with only two guards following him. See this scene. Everyone is scolding. The already shocked team was even less demoralized. "Master General, let's go too!" Someone came over and said to the Hun general Ji Nanxing. Seeing that Ji Nanxing didn't respond, the man turned his head and said to King Zuo Xian again: "Lord Wang." It's not that the brothers don't fight, but the situation in front of us is strange, even the horse team has been defeated, and we will definitely not be able to defeat it. A few more people came over and said impatiently: "Lord Wang, we are doing things with silver, and we are really going to lose a lot, and it is not easy to explain to the master when I go back, let's go!" King Zuo Xian didn't make a sound, just looked back at the big loss on the Huns' side, everyone had a look of panic on their faces, Li Nanlong ran away just now, so that everyone didn't have the heart to fight at all, not to mention that the horse team that rushed out did not come back, and those who survived were scattered and fled, how far and how far they ran. Seeing King Zuo Xian turn around, a few people hurriedly ran over, gritted their teeth and whispered: "Lord Wang, his Huns are gone, why should we hold on" "Keep an eye on the stockade, don't be taken advantage of!" King Zuo Xian replied non-sensitively. Before everyone could say more, Ji Nanxing broke out over there: "Go fart, don't I want to go, but look at this scene, can we go!" "Roaring and shouting, everyone is silent, even those who persuaded King Zuo Xian." Don't you see the more than 400 horsemen who didn't move? Just look at the three hundred foot soldiers in front of you? Now let's turn around and run, the cavalry will catch up and cut down, how many do you think will survive? Can you outrun a horse on this barren grassy beach? "What to do?" "What else can I do! Just one way, fight!. ”
Ji Nanxing gritted his teeth and said. He's a general in the army, and of course he has some tricks.
Everyone was stunned when they heard it, isn't this what they said before their own horse team was sent out just now? Horses can't succeed, and foot soldiers can't, so what's the use of this obviously failed method.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were shaken, Ji Nanxing's eyes seemed to be on fire, and he roared: "Is there any other way?" We can only do this, if we don't do it, there is only a dead end, hurry up and arrange, hurry up and rush, and then toss the opposite side will be in front of us! ”
Whether it is persuading Ji Nanxing or persuading King Zuoxian, there is no shortage of experience on the battlefield, Ji Nanxing said this, everyone's faces turned pale, but no one continued to speak, they all returned to their own team. "Brothers, this group is less than us, let's rush over and defeat them!" "Those horsemen who rode horses just now were all guts, they didn't dare to fight and run first, we can't be such a bad breed!" "The silver is placed over there, if you dare to go up, you will take it, and if you don't dare to go up, you will come and ask Lao Tzu about the knife in his hand!"
The leaders everywhere were shouting, coercion and temptation were all used, and the low morale was barely mobilized, but the three horizontal teams on the opposite side were closer. "Rush!" "Rush me!" Angry shouts,......
From front to back, the Xiongnu team barely moved, Ji Nanxing and Zuo Xianwang had already drawn their knives, cheering up on the horse, and a few who wanted to turn around and flee were directly cut off their heads, and under such a threat, the team slowly met it.
The brigade started, Zuo Xianwang and Ji Nanxing did not have a trace of relief on their faces, and both of them were already sweating on their foreheads. "This is forcing us to fight them!" Ji Nanxing said in a muffled voice. King Zuo Xian was silent for a while and said: "The other side has been planning to eat us from the beginning, there are few people and many people, how can he have such a mind!" ”
The archers of the Hun brigade ran forward quickly, and the most effective way to restrain the three horizontal teams at the moment was probably archery, and they didn't know whether this method was good or not, so they could only try. As soon as the archers on this side moved, the archers in the gap in the queue on the opposite side also moved, and they also walked up quickly, and the dozens of people in front were dark-faced and not too tall, but they moved very quickly.
The archers on both sides quickly closed the distance to a few dozen paces, and they all opened their bows and arrows quickly. Compared with the archers between the horizontal teams, the archers on the Huns' side were slower.
After all, this is not a good time to throw at the stockade, nor is it a flat shot like a war, but faster and more accurate than whom.
Many of the archers on the Huns' side were shaking their hands, and even arrows fell from the bowstrings, and they were in a hurry to pick them up, and the arrows were already shot over there!
Screaming repeatedly, and more than a dozen archers on the Huns' side fell. The arrows of his companions made people even more panicked. The arrow shot was even more inaccurate, and the movement on the opposite side was really fast, and it was already the second arrow fired from the bow.
After two rounds, the archers immediately dispersed. Ran out in both directions. The archers in the horizontal squad did not pursue. Instead, they returned to the front of the line and ran forward together. As soon as the brigade on the Huns' side began to run, the speed became faster and faster. Everyone is running, everyone is running wildly, and whoever takes a step slower may be knocked down by the people behind them, or even slashed and slashed, falling to the ground, and basically there is no possibility of getting up.
Of course, the ranks of officers and soldiers only know the formation, but at this time, the enemy has a shooter, and they must rush over as soon as possible to engage the white-knuckle battle, and if the formation slowly leans over, just wait to be targeted and killed by bows and arrows, then the casualties will be even more severe. The Hun brigade was so noisy that no one heard it, and no one noticed it, and the drums became monotonous, but they saw the enemy march stop, and the archers lined up in three columns in front of the column.
The queue of archers was not as neat as the phalanx with spears and armor, and the dozens of short men who had run the fastest earlier were even more disorganized, directly at the front of the line.
The sharp whistle sounded, and the Huns all opened their bows here, and the Hun teams that saw this rushed faster, and now everyone is not so panicked, there are so many people on their side, and they look like they are a hundred times the opponent when they rush up, and such a large numerical advantage is enough to drown the other party. There was a muffled "buzz", and the sound of opening the bow was so neat that it sounded like a sound, and the arrows were thrown down,
Then there was a dense whistling, and the first row was cluttered after all. Ten thousand arrows!
Regardless of chaos or neatness, more than 100 sharp arrows roared and landed in front of the Hun brigade, and the sound of arrows entering the flesh and screams suddenly rang out, and the striker was directly knocked out. "Rush, don't wait for them to shoot again!" "Quick!"
The small leaders of the group shouted, and everyone did not dare to stop, seeing that there were still thirty or forty minutes before they could collide, and any closer, any closer, and the archers would not shoot again. It's just that a second arrow can be shot at this distance, but this time there is nothing neat, some of the archers open their bows and take arrows, and some turn around and run back between the horizontal teams.
The damage of this arrow shot did not seem to exist, and it was quickly compensated for by the people who rushed up from behind, who watched the archers on the opposite side running, which made the Hun brigade even more excited, as if victory was in sight. "Catch the enemy, kill!" The person running at the front heard a loud shout, which should not have been very old.
It was so close, and some people could see clearly the flag with red letters on a black background, and the word "Li" was written on it. This must be what Li Jiajun is, how can such a poor place in Liangzhou operate such soldiers and horses, and look at that iron, the chain mail is worn by the leader of his own side, and then look at the many people wearing armor like iron cans, I am afraid that it is useless to slash and stab.
And why is this queue so neat, my own family is training in the battalion, taking an exam every five days, and a school every ten days, and I don't see this kind of training.
Look at the array of spears again, the tip of the spear flickered with cold light, at this moment the sun in the sky has sunk to half of it, and the armor on the Li Jiajun of the horizontal team no longer reflects the light, looking black, like demons, they shot one by one, pierced down. These pikes are all battle-hardened veterans. One by one, they are ten.
Many people rushed to the front and finally realized this, some bravely wanted to pounce and then be pierced by the spears, and some were agile to rush through the gap between the spears in the front row, and wanted to roll on the ground, but this set of things was already tried by the horse bandits in the stockade, and they just dodged the spears in the first row, and the spears in the back were just as deadly.
There are also cowardly, who want to turn when they run to the front, but the team rushes up, how can it be so easy to stop, but they stumble and are pushed to the tip of the spear, just like a piercing through. Some people have lost their temperament, throwing the swords and spears in their hands directly, throwing the swords and spears over, often being driven away by the raised spears, most people are reluctant to do this, without weapons, even a protective home is gone, then it can only wait for death.
It's not just spears that kill, those archers hiding behind the line and on both sides are still firing their bows and arrows, the two sides are already facing each other, and there is no reason why the bow and arrow will not miss as long as it is fired.
Whether it is the officers and soldiers or the soldiers of the Huns, there is no way to endure such a battle, although the two horizontal teams are few, but they seem to be two hills, no matter how the impact can not be shaken, and the more than 100 bows seem to not stop for a moment, keep throwing arrows, each arrow must have dead and wounded.
The spears of the pikes pierced out, and a patch of blood splattered in all directions
I thought that after close combat, my own people could quickly defeat the other party, but I didn't expect that when we held each other, my side began to bleed continuously.
The collapse of the horse team is not because of any weirdness, but because the team is indeed very strong!
If you don't run, will you wait to die? If you run, you may indeed be chased by cavalry, but there is still a way to live. They no longer have any fighting spirit, and they have run away with one mind.
The team that was coerced and lured forward could only hold out for a moment, and then dispersed, and some of the leaders who had been supervising the battle behind them were running away on horseback, which made people even more scolded, and they had no intention of continuing the fight.
King Zuo Xian has only one mind waiting for that chain army to come back! (To be continued......)