Chapter 405: Breaking the Huns
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Pottery shards scattered.
Sharp stones, tiles, and impurities and hard objects made by the soldiers pierced deeply into the bodies of the Hun soldiers as the clay pots exploded one by one.
Not long ago, the Hun soldiers, who were still complacent, screamed in despair, trying to dodge one monster after another that would suddenly explode, but on the sloped terrain, they were able to dodge one, but could not dodge the vengeful thunder bombs dropped by the Qin army.
The sound of explosions.
Resounding through the wilderness river, the wounded Huns wailing in pain, the frightened war horses, and the defeated army crowded at the ditch connecting the passage, but could only helplessly look at the other side, all this happened suddenly, and its thrilling and exciting degree was like the Haolaiwu action blockbuster in later generations.
Sky Thunder.
This primitive grenade was created by human intelligence, and was used on the battlefield on a large scale for the first time, and its power not only frightened the Huns, but also stunned the soldiers of the Qin army.
"How can this be?"
"How is this possible?"
Witnessing the scene of the Huns turning over on their backs, Mao Dun on the opposite side of the trench was furious, and nearly 20,000 of the nearly 30,000 Huns who crossed the trench were his cronies.
"Da Danyu, we can't do anything, it's better for us to retreat?" The Bank of China said that his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly stepped forward to admonish.
"This, hey, regret not at the beginning, and fall for the evil of Li Thief again?" Mao Dun muttered, and after hesitating for a moment, he didn't move, and at this time he still had a bit of luck in his heart.
Opportunity.
Lost under Maudun's hesitation.
On the side of the Qin army, after three waves of thunder, the officers and men of the Qin army went down to the mountain and attacked the tigers, and the whole army counterattacked.
"Brothers, kill, drive the Huns into the trenches. Buried them alive. Zhong Li roared angrily, and he, who had always been calm, took the lead and rushed into the chaotic Hun formation.
"Kill the Hun bandits!"
"Kill these mongrels and avenge the people who were bullied." Yang Yu, Zhou Ping, and thousands of Qin soldiers roared angrily, exerting all their strength, holding high swords, spears, and spears, and launched a long-awaited counter-charge.
On the side of the trench communication road, a bearded Hun cavalry commander with a team of cronies squeezed to the front, but he didn't want the defeated troops in front of him to block the road, no matter how he shouted. There was also no way to get the Hun soldiers, eager to escape, out of the way.
"Cheap slave, look for death!"
The commander of the ten thousand horsemen scolded viciously, raised his bronze spear without hesitation, and swept towards the defeated pawns in front.
Screams rang out again and again.
It was too late to beware of the swept Hun soldiers standing unsteadily, their bodies swaying and planting to the bottom of the trench, and the wooden stakes erected towards them were like deadly thorns, piercing the Hun defeated soldiers with blood holes all over their bodies.
There is no way out.
The remnants of the Xiongnu army were defeated and fell into helpless despair. In order to find a way to survive, they had to raise their butcher's knives to their companions.
A quarter of an hour later, the bearded man showed surprise on his face, and relied on the help of his cronies and slaves to fight for his life. He finally succeeded in squeezing through a filling passage, and seeing that he could clear the more than ten defeated pawns in front of him, he would be able to step into the sky in one step.
"Whoosh!"
A stray arrow mingled with a noisy shout, landing precisely under the bearded man's back. The pain was intense, causing him to collapse to the bottom of the trench with a thud. With the identity and status of the commander of ten thousand horses, he is quite noble among the Xiongnu tribes. But at the time of the great defeat, he was no different from the ordinary soldiers who were lying beside him.
What is even more suspicious is that the stray arrows that hit him were obviously not the crossbow arrows of the Qin army, but the sharp bows from the Huns, that is to say, it was the brutal killing of the bearded Han that caused the hatred of the Huns, who did not dare to resist the high Hun nobles in person, but in secret they could also resist the power.
The 30,000 Hun generals who crossed the trench completely fell into chaos, and the Xiongnu rear army that was divided on the opposite side of the trench did not understand the battle situation in front, some of the Xiongnu who were eager to make meritorious contributions, Qianchang was still desperately commanding the soldiers of the tribe to step forward, so that the Huns who were out of ground were crowded together at both ends of the trench, and the defeated soldiers in front had to retreat, and the soldiers behind were to squeeze up.
As the saying goes, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.
At this time, Mao Dun was already anxious to have some six gods and no masters, the 30,000 Hun generals who entered the river in advance were pursued and killed by the Qin army, and they were already unable to form an army, and the trench that the three people could reach by standing was about to be filled with layers of corpses of the Huns, and what was even more terrifying was that the command system of the Huns had been disrupted, and the only thought of those panicked and frightened generals now was to escape, and the farther away from the Qin army the better.
"Quickly withdraw, if you don't withdraw, you won't be able to leave." The Bank of China shouted, and yelled at Maudun's close attendant.
"Retreat!" The calm and strong admonition of the Bank of China finally calmed down Mao Dun's once chaotic mood, and after glancing at Qin Jun's Li character on the side of the big curtain, Mao Dun turned his horse's head and fled towards the north bank of the river.
Maudun's departure.
The already chaotic Xiongnu tribes had no will to resist, and the leaders of many small tribes fought together before the war, and now, they can't wait to grow their wings and fly all the way back to Mobei from the battlefield.
The battle lasted until dusk.
The confrontation lasted for a month, fiercely tore apart for nearly two days of the Qin-Hun war, and finally ended with the defeat of the Huns on all fronts, and the Huns directly killed and froze to death an astonishing 40,000 people, including nearly 10,000 soldiers who were buried alive who filled the deep trenches.
In contrast, the people who were injured and killed by the thunderbolt were not too many, the role of this new type of weapon was more of the deterrent effect caused by the explosion, especially in dealing with the cavalry, the role of the thunder was more obvious, and the Huns' war horses were frightened and galloped wildly after hearing the loud noise, and the Huns' formation was completely disrupted.
After learning that after the collapse of the Maodun army in the direction of Bainijing, the Helian tribe that attacked Yongdao also lost their fighting spirit, and they suffered heavy losses in the struggle with Li Zuoche and Cao Xin, and after the retreat of the Xiongnu army, the Helian tribe became a lone army, if they did not wait for the opportunity to retreat, they could only wait for the end of being surrounded and annihilated by the Qin army.
The various units of the Qin army crossed the river in pursuit, and Zhong Liwu, Yang Yu, Zhou Ping, Hu Xu, Cao Xin and other troops chased after the Huns all the way, killing those who were lonely, wounded, and unable to escape one by one.
Two days later.
Jiuyuan City was recovered, and the 3,000 Zangyan rebels guarding the city voluntarily left the city to surrender to the Qin army after being abandoned by the Huns. For these shameless traitors who betrayed the interests of the Qin State, Li Yuan didn't even have the heart to interrogate, and directly ordered these traitors to be driven into the icy river and drowned.
As for Zang Yan, the great traitor, after being abandoned by Helianbi, he surrendered to the Qin army on the grounds of betraying the top secret information of the Huns to the Qin army, trying to exchange his life.
It's just a deal.
At the beginning, Zang Yan betrayed the intelligence of the Qin State to the Xiongnu and won the trust of Mao Dun, and now, he can also sell the intelligence of the Xiongnu to the Qin State, and Zang Yan is very confident in this.
It's just that he obviously underestimated Li Yuan's dislike of traitors, about the true situation of the Xiongnu tribes, Zang Yan must know more than the Qin army scouts, but, with the strong performance of the Qin army after the victory, it is not necessarily necessary for Zang Yan to get information, I believe that those tribes who have opinions on Mao Dun will also take the initiative to move closer to Qin after seeing the reversal of strength and weakness.
Therefore, in the face of Zang Yan's invitation, Li Yuan just sneered, and didn't even mean to see Zang Yan's side, and directly ordered his generals to bring Zang Yan to the battlefield on the bank of the river, so that he could see with his own eyes how his subordinates were swallowed by the river, and let him take a look at the corpses of the Huns.
Zang Yan was very cooperative this time, he didn't ask for his life to be saved, but just said a word, so that he could take poison and commit suicide and die.
In exchange for this treatment, Zang Yan wanted to write out the information of the Huns word for word.
Zang Yan's fate.
It was the inevitable result of his choice to defect to the Huns.
As his master, Da Shan Yu Maodun, who fled in embarrassment in the white mud well, was fleeing helplessly in the ice and snow at this time, and behind him, Cao Xinzheng led the Qin cavalry to chase and kill closely.
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Han Nan River East.
An expeditionary force under the banner of the Qin army was also marching with difficulty in braving heavy winds and snow, and the general of the Qin army who led this expeditionary force was none other than Han Xin, the general of the Qin State in Yanbei.
This time, the Huns launched an attack on the Qin border on all fronts, compared with the pressure on Hexi and Hetao, the pressure on the Qin army in Yanbei was the lightest, this is because Qiu Lijin's department has not recovered from the shadow of the last defeat, and at the same time, with Qiu Lijin's slippery character, he obviously left a hand when executing Maoton's order.
The reason why he attacked Mayi, which was garrisoned by the Qin army of Yunzhong County, instead of going south directly from Yuyang and Youxiangping, was that Qiu Lijin wanted to avoid Han Xin's Yanbei Qin army.
When the battle in Hetao was in full swing, the powerful Han Xin, in addition to sending Yang Wengzi to aid Sujiao, decided to personally lead the 5,000 cavalry of the Qin army into Mobei.
Mobei.
It is the nest of the Huns, if you can't eradicate the foundation of the Huns in the Hannan River valley and the Beihai River basin, it won't take a few years, and after recuperation, the Huns will make a comeback.
Five thousand rides.
If this amount of strength had been changed before, Han Xin would have been beaten by the Huns, but now, in order to fight a decisive battle with the Qin State, Mao Dun had almost evacuated all the liliang in the northern tribes, and the rest of the tribes were all old, weak, sick and disabled. (To be continued......)