Chapter 268: Sealing the Wolf (4)

After dropping nearly 10,000 corpses, the Huns finally withstood five volleys of red-coated ballistas and approached a distance of about a hundred steps from the Han army's fortifications. At this time, Xu Shu stopped the order to continue firing the cannon, and instead ordered the eight hundred ballista gunners to push the red-clothed ballista from the platform to the platform. Each of these red-clothed ballistas was extremely expensive, and Xu Shu didn't want them to be damaged. After the Huns came into their range, Xu Shu immediately put away the red-coated ballista.

Sure enough, the Huns began their best stunt - rushing. Nearly 10,000 Hun cavalry running in the front raised their cavalry bows at the same time, and began to shoot on horseback, nearly 10,000 arrows flew into the air, and after reaching the apex, they turned sharply and fell towards the fortifications of the Han army.

The reaction of the Huns has long been expected by Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu, and the platform that can carry the red-clothed ballista has another function, which is to resist the Huns' shooting. Nearly 10,000 arrows were shot down densely, all of which failed to cause any damage to the Han army, most of them were blocked by the earthen wall and the platform at its top, only a few arrows crossed the platform and fell to the Han army behind the earthen wall, but were easily shot down by the Han army with a weapon on the ground.

After a round of rushing fire by the Huns, they did not form any effective damage, and they did not even hear a scream from the Han army, which was simply unimaginable in the past. Just when the Hun cavalry was wondering, their doom came again. With the gallop of the war horses, they have entered the trap area dug by the Han army, and those extremely hidden traps have been carefully covered up by the shadow members, and there is no abnormality at all in the appearance.

"Ahh There was no other sound, and it was clear that he had been impaled to death by the saber hanging upside down at the bottom of the trap. This unlucky Hun cavalry opened the door to bad luck, and after him, the galloping Hun cavalry fell into the trap one after another, and were stabbed into a hornet's nest by the saber at the bottom of the trap.

Because of the geology, the trap dug by the Han army was not deep, only one zhang deep. If it is deeper, the sandy desert will probably not be able to bear the weight of the hollowed out, and will collapse on its own. Although the depth was only one zhang, it was superior to the large number of traps, and these traps caused great trouble for the Hun cavalry. A large number of Hun cavalry were lucky enough not to die after falling into the trap. The war horses under them. They blocked the saber at the bottom of the trap, but before they could breathe a sigh of relief, another tribesman fell into the same trap, and the hooves of the clansmen's horses struck them on the heads, smashing out their brains.

The one-zhang deep trap could accommodate up to three Hun cavalry and their horses. When countless traps were filled with bodies and horses by the Huns, the Hun cavalry, who rushed to the forefront, lost thousands of people. It will be buried forever in the yellow sand of the desert, and it will never see the light of day. A gust of wind blew, and the wind unique to the desert drove the subtle grains of sand to move, completely filling the trap dug by the Han army, and also burying the Hun cavalry who were trapped in the trap. On the outside, there is no trace of the existence of the trap, and if it is not for the eyes to see it, no one would have thought that not long ago, in this seemingly gentle desert, there were thousands of living beings, struggling to survive in it.

Qubei, who supervised the battle in the rear, was completely annoyed and angry, he was unwilling to retreat in embarrassment, and his prestige would inevitably form a huge weakening, besides, the current Qubei and the leaders of various tribes had no way to retreat, either fighting to the death to win life, or the whole army was wiped out and died on the battlefield, they knew that the Han army would never spare them.

Drawing his saber, he shouted, "Sons! It's better to fight to the death than to steal your life, rush! The remaining tens of thousands of troops, under the vigorous shouts of the humiliation, at the same time raised their sabers, issued a unique and wolf-like cry of the Huns, and rushed towards the fortifications of the Han army.

Although the red-clothed ballista was temporarily transferred by Xu Shu, this did not mean that the Han army did not have long-range weapons. After Ao Lie's order, the Tiger Ben army came to the back of the earthen wall, raised his arm, and through the hundreds of lookouts on the earthen wall, he aimed the Xizi crossbow that was fastened on his arm and aimed it at the Hun cavalry rushing outside. At the same time, the Blood Killing Army turned over and jumped onto the platform that originally carried the red-clothed ballista, and the Long Xiang Army came to the second platform between the Blood Killing Army and the Tiger Ben Army, and their hands were all doing the same actions as the Tiger Ben Army.

This is also Ao Lie's tactics arranged in advance, because the tiger army is heavily armored, and they themselves are all sturdy big men, although their armor is the heaviest, it is the most suitable team to shoot on the top platform, but Ao Lie is worried that their heavy weight will cause the collapse of the earthen wall, so they can only let them shoot through the lookout in a down-to-earth manner, and they are replaced by the blood killing army.

Peng Peng's voice sounded continuously, and the three elite troops on the upper, middle and lower layers of the earthen wall at the same time pulled the Xizi repeater crossbow on their arms, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot out from all angles and directions, and thousands of crossbow arrows were made of iron. The crossbow arrows shot by the three elites naturally cannot be compared with the red-clothed ballista, but the Xizi repeater in their hands is also improved by Wang Hun and Ma Jun, and the power should not be underestimated, not to mention that the Xizi repeater is one of the conventional weapons of the three elite troops, and they usually do not work hard in this regard, and the accuracy of each elite's shooting is extremely high, and they instantly shot down a large number of running Hun cavalry, bringing a burst of bloody rain.

The most terrifying thing is that the Hun cavalry who were hit by arrows and fell off their horses rarely let out screams, because most of the parts of their arrows were in the throat! Sealing the throat with one arrow is exactly the ultimate pursued by the three elite troops! With such accurate archery, even the Huns, who are known as the best of both bows and horses, are not as good as themselves.

After a single shot, the three elite troops immediately pulled back and gave up their positions to their companions. Another group of elites quickly filled the gap left by them, calmly and calmly pulled the crossbow, and once again inflicted thousands of casualties on the Huns.

Two consecutive accurate shots, so that the Hun leaders who went to Beibei and other Huns all gasped, the Han people's archery skills are too terrifying, even more accurate than the Huns who have lived on horseback for generations, they don't understand at all, how the Han people practiced such a magic shoot.

After the second group of elites finished shooting, they again ceded their position to the third group of elites. The accurate point shooting continued, the death of the Huns continued, the shock of the leaders of Qubei and the others continued, and the whole battle continued as well. Before the official confrontation, the Huns had already lost nearly 20,000 lives under the invincible red-coated ballistas of the Han army and the precise strikes of elite troops! A soldier who surrenders without a fight, Ao Lie uses this to the extreme.

After surviving three rounds of accurate fire from the Han Chinese, the front line of the Hun cavalry had already stepped within fifty paces of the Han army's fortifications. Here, countless tripwires and horse rejection piles await them. Even though the Hun cavalry has seen these threats on the surface, but they have no ability to retreat, behind them, is the hooves of tens of thousands of clansmen advancing, if they dodge, it will make the clansmen behind them chaotic, such a tragedy, has already appeared once just now, they don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Riding their horses into the obstacles laid by the Han army, the Hun cavalry in the forefront soon began to regret it. Those stumbling horses or something, it is simply an illusion of inducement, and the real fatal thing is the trap after being carefully disguised by the shadow personnel! Half-foot-square horse traps lurked in places without tripping ropes, waiting for the Huns' war horses to step in. On the soft desert, the Han people were able to use tactics such as traps and horse traps successively, which greatly surprised the Huns. Only a person like Ao Lie, who has the knowledge of the future, can use such a sinister means on the desert, so that those seemingly flat deserts are actually full of murderous intentions!

The unsuspecting Hun cavalry, riding their horses into the pit, the horse's legs immediately fell into the pit, but the horse's body could not stop at all, still sprinting hard, under the two opposing forces, the Huns' horse legs, with a clear audible click, without any doubt was broken. The legs of the horses were broken, and they lost their strength softly, and they could no longer support their bodies and the Hun cavalry on horseback, and after a painful neigh, the horse stumbled like a front hoof, lying on the ground, and subverted the Hun cavalry from the horse. Even if some of the Hun cavalry were extremely lucky and did not step into the horse trap, they could not control the war horse to avoid every tripping rope or something like that in the high-speed gallop, and finally they were strangled by the tripping horse and broke the horse's hooves, or were hit by the rejection of the horse and injured the war horse, and the Hun cavalry in the forefront of the Huns without exception crashed under the horse, and together with the tripping horse rope, it became an obstacle to the advance of the people behind.

The Hun cavalry who rushed behind were caught off guard, and they had no time to hold the speed of the war horses sitting down, so they could only let their war horses trample on the bodies of the clansmen, trampling the clansmen's bodies into a ball of flesh, and even worse, they were tripped to the ground by the fallen bodies of the clansmen or war horses, which became another obstacle for the clansmen further back.

In the midst of the people turning on their backs, chaos instantly spread in the Huns' array, and all kinds of screams and shouts of the Huns filled the space within fifty steps of the Han army's fortifications. (To be continued......)