Chapter 403: Heavy casualties

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The war is stalemate.

The slaughter for the first fence of the Qin camp lasted for an hour and a half, and the price paid by the Huns reached a shocking 12,000 people.

This loss is painful even if Maudun has an army of more than 100,000 people, not only for the loss of one-tenth of the soldiers, but also because these soldiers who are responsible for the first wave of attacks are the bravest soldiers from all tribes.

Thinking of this, Mao Dun could no longer rest in the tent, and he ignored the advice of the Bank of China, and moved the king's tent to the front.

There were shouts of killing.

The mournful shouts of the Hun soldiers, accompanied by the thunderous and dull war drums of the Qin army, kept coming, and one tribe after another retreated from the edge of the king's tent in Maudun after being crippled, this time, the warriors of the Great Huns no longer had arrogance in their eyes, but only endless fear.

"The essence of the Great Huns died in the service." Looking at these listless soldiers, Mao suddenly had this ominous thought in his heart.

"Bank of China, give an order to the leaders of the various departments, just say that no matter how powerful the crossbow arrows of the Qin people are, they are just a moment of rampant, which one breaks through the crossbow array first, and the cities in Guanzhong are at their disposal except for Chang'an." Mao Dun had a gloomy face and shouted orders.

Li Yuan was unusual, and at the beginning of the battle, he sent the most powerful crossbow troops, which was unexpected by Mao Dun, but the Qin army fought with such a strong formation, which was also in line with Mao Dun's previous judgment.

In the Qin camp.

The emptiness of the army forced Li Yuan to fight with the elite of his department, this bluff, if he changed to other opponents, he might be frightened back by the crossbow array of the Qin army, but he would not.

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.

The Xiongnu coalition army was composed of more than 20 tribes, large and small, and the largest of them was like Helianbi. Reaching the scale of 30,000 or 40,000 people, and more are only about 1,000 small tribes, these dependent small tribes tend to rush up to fight, of course, it is no problem to encounter a good fight, but if they encounter such a hard bone as the Qin army, then these Huns' will to fight will quickly fall.

The practice of motivating with heavy rewards is precisely to prevent this.

Qin army fence.

Fifty paces ahead of the fortress had been filled with flesh and blood by the Huns, and a blood-stained Hun Qianchang leaned on the stake, his eyes were wide, and his right hand pointed straight ahead. It seems to be shouting for the soldiers under his command to continue to move forward, but if you take a closer look at his lower body, you will be shocked to find that his two legs have long disappeared.

Compared to the losses of the Huns.

On the Qin side, the casualties of the first-line troops with foot soldiers and crossbowmen as the main guarding troops were mainly concentrated in close combat, at this point. The defender is always in a better position than the attacker.

Two hours of time.

In the tense and fierce battlefield confrontation, Zhou Ping, who was standing on the high platform, only felt that it had just passed for a while, and when the order to retreat was given, his body was so soft that he only felt that even the strength that had come down no longer existed. If it weren't for the left and right guards, Zhou Ping, who was hoarse, was afraid that he would be surrounded by the Huns.

The Qin army retreated!

Let the Huns, whose attacks on all sides were blocked, let out bursts of cheers, and the order of Da Dan Yu Maodun had spread to all the departments, and the Qin people were only resisting on the front line. There were not many troops inside the real battalion, because their most elite vanguard had been drawn to the south by the Helian tribe.

Good news. To the ecstasy of the small tribes of the Xiongnu, Mao Dun's promise was only a long-term plan, and in front of them was a mountain of baggage in the Qin army's camp.

Unlike the Qin army, which was in charge of logistics and supply by the state, the Xiongnu tribes were still in the stage of self-sufficiency, that is to say, the number of troops sent by a tribe depended not only on the number of men of the appropriate age, but also on whether it could provide the necessary material support.

A conquest of the Hun soldiers, the minimum equipment is to have three sturdy horses, and then to have the necessary equipment, as for the soldiers' rations or something, mainly by looting and hunting, this self-supply logistics method allows the Hun soldiers to fight while calculating the harvest, its combat effectiveness has become up and down.

Therefore, for the Xiongnu tribes who were short of materials, the Qin State was like a rich man with a huge amount of money, and as long as he leaked a little from the gap between his fingers, he could fill up these small tribes.

Attack, attack again!

Killing all the resisting Qin people, escorting the captives to Mobei as slaves, and grabbing the most important baggage warehouse in the Qin camp before other tribes, the Hun soldiers were red-eyed. In their eyes, there were no more Qin people, only their companions who competed with them.

――。

The Qin army retreated to the second line of defense.

This is a special mobile defensive array composed of trenches and chariots, Li Yuan, who has seen the trench warfare in later generations, ordered the soldiers to dig a circular deep trench in the camp, and protrude at the bottom with sharp wooden stakes, as for the excavated soil, it was piled up in the inner circle, so that the condescending posture of the Qin army was artificially formed.

The Hun cavalry entered the camp.

With the shrinking of the territory, the advantage of horseback speed could not be brought into play, and if the tactics of crowds were to fight for attrition, the Qin army would have deep trenches to protect it, unless the Huns once again filled the ravines with the same number of human lives as they did at the first fence.

Crowd tactics.

This extremely cruel method of warfare tests the limits of human nature.

After a battle, it is good to be able to use it once, but if it continues to do so for the second time, the generals who give the order are only afraid that they will be plotted by the soldiers, anyway, on the battlefield, anything will happen, and it is common for one or two tributary arrows to happen to shoot their own generals.

In desperation.

The leaders of the Xiongnu tribes had to order the soldiers to collect the fillings everywhere, and then brave the crossbow arrows of the Qin army to throw the fillings into the ravines.

As long as the ravine is filled, the defeated soldiers of the Qin army hiding inside are nothing. As for the series of chariots placed by the Qin army on the opposite side, the Huns did not pay attention to them, this shape was like a vehicle transporting baggage, but it was just a slow target, and they could be burned clean with just a fire.

Deep ditches are vertical and horizontal.

However, the Huns did not have to fill the trenches in every place, they only needed to fill in a few passages for the attack to be able to enter the defensive position of the Qin army.

Victory is imminent.

The morale of the Xiongnu tribe was greatly boosted, especially the heads of small tribes, who were like beating chicken blood, desperately shouting at the soldiers of their tribe to rush forward and kill.

――。

Zhong Liwu was wearing a red coat, holding a bronze sword, indifferently looking at the Hun soldiers who were busy like ants, at this time, the moon had begun to set, and the dawn of a new day would come.

It's been a long time.

Zhong Liwu didn't straighten his body like he did today, at this point, Zhong Liwu learned a little bit from Li Yuan's appearance, not for anything else, but to be proud.

The pride and pride of being a defending general who resists foreign captives and a hot-blooded man.

The crossbowmen have completed their mission, and the chariot unit under the command of Zhong Liwu will next set foot on the battlefield, but the task of this unit is not to attack, but to defend.

The soil in the ravine has been filled into a slope by the Qin soldiers, and Zhong Liwu's chariot is located at the top of the slope, and their existence is a natural barrier for the Qin army in the defensive side. In contrast, the Hun cavalry needed to attack from the back to be able to kill the opponent, their horses could not increase their speed, and the crosshairs and range of the bow and arrow would gradually lose their effectiveness as the fatigue increased.

The chariot, a sharp weapon that galloped across the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the past, has been washed away by time, and its original role has been unable to play, but under certain conditions, it can play an unexpected role. After accepting General Li Yuan's order and becoming the general of the chariot unit, Zhong Liwu paid close attention to training the soldiers, mainly the coordination between the shield soldiers and the chariot, and how to cooperate with the mysterious force of the Tianlei Army to fight.

Out of familiarity with Tianlei, Wuwang Li Yuan took the lead this time and served as the general of the Tianlei Army, and the one who cooperated with him to command the gunpowder filling was an apprentice of Peng Sheng: Du Chun.

Du Chun is also a native of Peng County, Shu County, and Peng Sheng are still partners who grew up together, but now the identities of the two are already a master-apprentice relationship, if there is not enough trust, Peng Sheng will not tell him the secret of his hard work.

"Du Chun, you listen, after the Huns cross the trench, don't throw it for the time being, wait for my war drums to sound, and then throw thunder." Li Yuan instructed.

"King Wu can rest assured, his subordinates will take care of it." Du Chun nodded and responded.

Li Yuan looked at Du Chun's expression, and found that although this man from Shu County looked a little uneasy, he was quite calm, and he was able to have such a performance when he went to the battlefield for the first time, Du Chun was even more bloody than Peng Sheng, Peng Sheng's first time in battle was when he was frustrated and clashed with the thugs, that time he was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he almost couldn't even light the heavenly fire.

After a long period of patience.

Li Yuan was finally ready to sacrifice the most mysterious and powerful weapon that the Qin army was currently equipped with, with black powder as the core, supplemented by bits and pieces in the clay pot, once this primitive grenade exploded in the crowd, it played a role not only in killing and killing how many enemy soldiers, but more importantly, in frightening.

Compared with cold weapons such as crossbow arrows and knives and guns, Tianlei does not need to make head-on contact with the enemy, and even the most basic aiming of the crossbow can be omitted, as long as it throws a suitable arc hard, and then waits to listen to the wail of the enemy. (To be continued......)