Chapter 305: Forcing the Huns Back
Xiang Yu led his own cavalry to fight to the death.
In order to let Xiang Zhuang rush out with most of the Chu army, the bloodiness of the Chu people and Xiang Yu's personal bravery were undoubtedly shown in this battle.
Knowing that it is death.
is also looking at death as home, and should also be open-minded, and also fight hard.
Xiang Yu's performance on the battlefield also made Mao Dun feel impressed, this eloquent and strategic Da Dan Yu did not expect that Xiang Yu, a politically naΓ―ve opponent, would be so difficult.
A centurion rushed up, but before he even walked up, he was picked up by Xiang Yu under the horse.
The second commander who went up also failed to bargain, Xiang Yu's head was fortunately on his neck, but the helpless corpse of the Xiongnu general who bleed and dried was trampled on the ground by the black cone horse.
In just half an hour, the number of Hun generals who died under Xiang Yu's halberd reached more than ten, and if this situation continues, in another hour, Mao Dun will become a bare-bones commander.
"Xiang Nanman, you think you are invincible, and here and today is the place where you are buried. Someone came, ordered the generals, besieged Chu Man, and without an order, he was not allowed to fight. When Xiang Yu led more than 1,000 horsemen to rampage in the army one after another, invincible, Mao Dun couldn't help but grit his teeth.
The strength of the Huns lies in mounted archery, not in close combat.
Although Xiang Yu's personal cavalry is only more than 1,000 horses, they are good warriors selected from the Chu army, and their loyalty to Xiang Yu is not in doubt, and these Chu horses are equipped with Gaoqiao saddles, horse harnesses, and even the hooves of the war horses are protected with iron palms, with these saddles, Chu cavalry does not need to worry, they will lose to the Huns in hand-to-hand combat.
In desperation.
Mao Dun had to order Xiang Yu's army to be trapped in a siege way, and at the same time, to gradually weaken the Liliang of the Chu army with sharp arrows, so that it would be. If you want to kill Xiang Yu at once, the difficulty will more than double. Of course, the feeling of slowly bleeding to death is cruel enough for Xiang Yu, not to mention, these more than 1,000 elite horsemen are the backbone of the team he has finally formed.
August 29.
It has been three days since Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Yu were separated, and Xiang Yu's army, which was surrounded in Jixian County, had already arrived at Zuihou. The continuous rush and killing consumed every drop of energy in the bodies of the Chu soldiers, and the Huns' blows day and night also made the Chu army unable to find time and space to rest.
A thousand pro-rides.
Those who were still in front of Xiang Yu were left with less than a hundred horsemen.
Even the 100 horsemen of this zuihou were all wounded, and nearly half of the soldiers and horses were gone, and they only relied on two feet to run and fight in the form of foot soldiers.
Even in this situation, Xiang Yu was not afraid. He inserted the Chu army in the place of the big tent of the Maodun royal court, and held on to this small piece of symbolic place.
"Koto is a good son!"
"Lift your sword and cross the river."
"Three thousand miles to the north, there is no opponent in the vertical and horizontal."
The rough Chu sound spread far away with the singing of the soldiers of the Chu army. The thick blood of the singing voice is not at all the continuous sound of Jiangnan in later generations, it comes from the ancestors of Jiangnan, and comes from the confidence of not admitting defeat left over from the struggle between the Fanyue nation and heaven and earth.
Da Chu!
Never look down.
Even if you die, you have to be upright. No one should be looked down upon.
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After Li Yuan's Chinese army retreated from Xu Buhun, he drove straight in, and soon joined Han Xin's Eastern Route Army, as well as the troops of Gan Yong and Xiang Zhuang, and the three armies joined forces in one place. The coalition forces are gaining momentum again.
At this time, the Xiongnu army in Maudun still had more than 70,000 troops, and the coalition army. The combined strength of the Qin army, the Changshan army, and the Chu army was about 80,000 people. The two armies were evenly matched, and there was almost no difference between superiority and inferiority, but in terms of morale, the Huns no longer had the sharpness they had when they had gone south.
Just when Mao Dun was hesitating, the arrival of the remnants of the defeated army of Ning Hu Duanrong of the Daque clan made the little persistence in Mao Dun's heart dissipate.
The rear of the dam was served by the Qin people.
This unfortunate news made the Huns extremely depressed, busy with a big summer harvest, and when they were about to pick the fruit, they found that the fruit was in the basket of the Qin people.
"King, this Qin people are really hateful, you must be the master for me." Ning Hu was crying, lying on Mao Dun's sturdy body, after a few days of frightening and rushing, her face was pale, and she looked weak.
Beauty is in the arms.
Holding Ning Hu Duanrong's small and weak body, the anger in his heart was also higher and higher.
"Don't worry, this Li thief's first-level book will be taken sooner or later, and he will drown it a few times every day to see if he is still rampant. But now we're going to bear with it. Mao Dun comforted Ning Hu and made up his mind.
An excellent politician is not only able to achieve military victory, but also to be able to rationally analyze the facts and make the most reasonable choice when faced with unfavorable circumstances.
Whether to continue the war, or to choose to retreat and wait for the next year's comeback. For Maudun, no matter which one is chosen, it is a difficult decision, and as a result of continuing to fight, the Huns will face a joint attack by the two countries of Qin and Chu in the south, and with the current situation of the Huns, it is unlikely that they will win.
And if he retreats, he must convince the arrogant and unruly warriors, and in addition, he has to deal with the conspirators who are ready to move, and if he retreats, which tribes will fall into the well and challenge his authority, Mao Dun After judging the situation, the retreat in his heart grows stronger.
Thirty days.
Li Yuan's coalition army and the Xiongnu army fought in Jixian County, under the attack of the coalition forces from all walks of life, the retreating Xiongnu army was defeated on all fronts, but unfortunately, the main force of Maodun was not severely damaged in this battle, and the real blow was the Xiongnu located in the original Donghu area, the right Xian Wang Qiu Lijin, the right valley Liwang Xu Buhun two tribes.
On the battlefield, Zhong Liwu and Xiang Zhuang led the soldiers of the Chu army to find Xiang Yu's singing voice of riding Zuihou, and finally killed it at the Zuihou moment.
"Overlord!" In front of Xiang Zhuang's eyes, there were piles of corpses, the Huns and the Chu people hugged each other, completely torn apart, more than a hundred pro-cavalry, zuihou was rescued with Xiang Yu, only a few four or five people, even Xiang Yu's mount black cone horse also fell to the ground in the battle.
"Zhuang boy, what are you calling? Your grandfather Xiang's life is still there, and the Hun thieves can't take it away! Xiang Yu's face was pale, and he smiled reluctantly, his smile was full of pride and pathos.
"Overlord, what's wrong with your hand?" Zhong Liwu saw it clearly behind Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Yu's left hand was obviously shorter than his right hand, and what worried him even more was that the armor at his wrist was bandaged in layers, soaked in blood.
"Zhongli, you are also here, Xiang Mou knows that you will not abandon Da Chu." Xiang Yu nodded at Zhong Liwu and said, he didn't answer Zhong Liwu's question, but just raised his injured left hand, as if to show that a tough guy like himself didn't care about this little injury.
Compared with being traumatized, Zhong Liwu's return made Xiang Yu feel more gratified.
"Overlord, I'm ashamed, if it weren't for the Shenwu Marquis of Qin State leading the troops to rescue, I'm afraid that even if I want to rescue, we can't do anything." Hearing Xiang Yu's approval, Zhong Limo said with shame.
"Li Yuan, sure enough, it's him-." Xiang Yu snorted, with a belief that he insisted on until Zuihou, he finally collapsed after seeing the arrival of reinforcements, although his body was strong enough, he couldn't help but be tired and torn for many days.
This time the Chu army's northern expedition, the reason why it will be surrounded by the Huns, the root is actually still in Xiang Yu, Huan Chu's rash attack seems to be caused by his youth and lack of experience, but in the final analysis, it has something to do with the entire operational guiding ideology of the Chu army, if it were not for Xiang Yu's slogan of recovering Yanliao and occupying pastures, the Chu army would not have penetrated into the Wuhuan Mountain area.
Of course, these are all later words, this time the Chu army suffered a fiasco, nearly 50,000 Chu army elites went out, and only two or three of the remaining were left, it is these lucky surviving generals, it is difficult to say whether they can go to the battlefield again in the future, after experiencing a catastrophic trap, even the fierce Chu pawns do not want to experience it again.
Xiang Yu fell.
The Chu army was temporarily taken over by Xiang Zhuang, and the position of Zhong Liwu of the Changshan Army became subtle after seeing Xiang Yu's defeat and helplessness, at least from Li Yuan's judgment, Zhong Liwu seemed to have compassion and a little bit of the intention of returning to Chu.
September.
The north wind patronized Yandi as scheduled.
After resting for a few days, the coalition forces began to turn south one after another, especially the Chu people, who were accustomed to living in the Jianghuai area, and were even more unaccustomed to the dry and cold climate.
Swallow land.
The Chu people gave up automatically, one is not used to it, and the other is that they have no face to fight with the Qin State, after this lesson, the Chu people are both hated and afraid of the Huns, and now there are Qin people blocking the Huns, and the Chu army is too late to thank them, and they have no intention of bargaining with Li Yuan at all.
Not only to give up the hard-working territory, in order to thank the Qin army for their generosity this time, the state of Chu decided to reluctantly provide the Qin state with 120,000 quintals of sea salt and 50,000 horses of silk in the south of the Yangtze River, which accounted for almost a quarter of the two annual outputs of the state of Chu.
In order to consolidate the defense of the Yandi area, especially to deal with the possible small-scale attack of the Huns, Li Yuan ordered the general Han Xin to unify the two border counties of Yandi and Daijun, and the Handan County of Zhao was handed over to Gan Yong to govern, after this adjustment, the border between Qin and the Xiongnu extended from Hexi to Liaodong County in the east, and the competition between the two ethnic groups in the future will no longer be limited to one area, but an all-weather competition.
After experiencing the lesson of this time, Mao Dun is bound to be more cautious, and the Qin State must be soberly aware that in the south, Xiang Yu of the Chu State, Wei Bao of the Wei State, Wu Rui, the King of Changsha, and Zhao Tuo of Lingnan still exist and threaten the eastern border of the Qin State. (To be continued......)