Chapter 583: Kill through the gap
Tents were set ablaze by the Huns, and the light of the fire almost turned half of the night sky red.
Waiting a few miles away, Liu Bao, who was already a little impatient, saw the fire in the distance, stood up with a "Teng", and shouted to the dormant Huns: "King Zuogu Li has made a move, go with this king to capture the king of Luoyang!" ”
With Liu Bao's shout, 30,000 Huns jumped up, jumped on horseback, followed Liu Bao, who had already mounted the war horse, and rushed towards the Xiongnu tribe that was burning with blazing fire.
Thirty thousand healthy horses galloped with their hooves on the grassy wilderness, making a roar like thunder.
Near the exit of the Xiongnu tribe, King Zuoguli was commanding the Huns to launch waves of attacks on the Luoyang army in the tribe.
At the moment when the Huns launched the most fierce attack, hundreds of war horses appeared not far behind the king of Zuogu Li, and rushed towards him from behind.
Standing in the open space in the middle of the tribe, Liu Wei pressed the hilt of his sword, frowned slightly, and stared at the entrance where the scuffle was taking place.
Beside Liu Wei, Dian Wei held a halberd in each hand, blocking him behind him like an iron tower. There were also several Hun men who were in turmoil inside, trying to break through from Dian Wei and attack Liu Wei, but they were all killed by Dian Wei under the short halberd.
Guan Qing, who was standing behind Liu Wei, had already turned around at this time, the long sword on her waist had already been drawn out in half, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at the chaotic crowd within the tribe vigilantly.
I don't know whether it was out of fear or deliberateness, a Hun woman first rushed not far behind Liu Wei, and then suddenly turned around, let out a terrible howl, and rushed towards Liu Wei's back like a madman.
When the Hun woman was about to rush behind Liu Wei, Guan Qing, who was protecting Liu Wei's back, drew out his long sword and slashed towards the Hun woman.
With the sword light of a long sword, the Hun woman who was rushing towards Liu Wei's back was cut by the long sword with a long cut on her neck, her body was crooked, and she fell to the ground.
After she fell to the ground, Guan Qing glanced down at her corpse, only to see a sharp dagger hidden in one of her sleeves.
If Guan Qing hadn't swung this sword just now, I'm afraid that Liu Wei would have been stabbed in the back by the Hun woman at this time.
Looking at the dagger that was shining in the cold light of the surrounding firelight, Guan Qing couldn't help but gasp, secretly glad that Fang Cai did not show mercy to her subordinates because the other party was a woman.
Compared with the nervousness of Guan Qing and Dian Wei, Liu Wei, who was supported by the two, was much calmer.
He didn't draw his long sword, and since the Huns attacked, he never said a word, just silently looked at the soldiers on both sides who were fighting with a cold face.
The Huns attacked the tribe from the outside, and it was not the heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army who went up to fight with the Huns, but the Mo sword soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding Mo swords.
The Mo knife is long and heavy, and it is a sharp weapon to restrain the cavalry.
The soldiers of the Luoyang Army blocking the entrance, every time they swung a knife, there would be a Hun or a Hun war horse splashed on the ground with blood.
Behind the Modao soldiers, the Pudao infantry holding Pu Dao and shields were already ready to charge, but in the face of the tight Modao formation, it was extremely difficult for the Huns to break through even half a step.
The Pu Dao array had been lined up for a while, but the Pu Dao soldiers did not even kill a single Huns, and could only watch their companions with Mo knives in both hands killing happily in front.
Hundreds of fast horses appeared behind the Xiongnu Zuogu Liwang, and the horses were all dragoons wearing Luoyang military armor and golden feathers on their helmets.
The dragoon guards, who had long been ordered to ambush outside the tribe, under the leadership of Deng Zhan, brandished their long swords and shouted and rushed towards the Huns who were launching a crazy attack on the Luoyang army from behind.
Due to the shouts of slaughter in front, the loud noise drowns out the sound of the hooves of the dragoon guards' horses.
King Zuogu Li stood behind the Huns, waving a straight knife in his hand, and kept urging the Huns to launch wave after wave of attacks on the Luoyang army.
Just as he was shouting loudly, urging the Huns to step up their attack on the Luoyang army, a fast horse rushed up from behind him.
Feeling someone rushing up behind him, King Zuo Gu Li was shocked, and hurriedly turned around to see who was behind him.
But the moment he turned his head, a sharp sword slashed at his neck with a strong wind.
The sword light flashed, and the king of the Hun Zuogu Li didn't even look at who he was wielding the sword in the Qing Dynasty, and the sword light slashed against his neck.
At the point of the sword light, the neck of King Zuogu Liwang was suddenly broken in two, his head flipped twice in the air, and his body splashed with blood in the cavity was still sitting firmly on the horse's back.
The head tumbled and fell from his neck, and just as he rolled off the shoulder of King Zuogu Li, he was grabbed by Deng Zhan, who had killed him with a sword.
"The king of the Huns is dead! The armies come forward! Holding the head of the person in his hand high, Deng Zhan opened his eyes and shouted.
The Huns, who were launching waves of fierce attacks towards the tribe, heard the news that the "King of Zuogu Li" was dead, turned their heads one by one, and looked forward to Deng Zhan, who was carrying the human head, in amazement.
Under the reflection of the skyrocketing fire, the face of the human head in Deng Zhan's hand was illuminated red.
All the Huns who saw the human head immediately recognized it as the head of their king of Zuoguli.
The commander was killed, and the Huns suddenly lost their backbone, and for a while they were pushed out a lot by the Luoyang army guarding the entrance of the tribe.
At the core of the two sides, the Huns and the Luoyang army collided violently with each other. Due to the close distance, the Hun cavalry's collision advantage was completely unleashed, and under the attack of the Luoyang army's Mo sword soldiers, patches of Huns fell from their horses and became dead corpses lying in the core of the battle.
Holding the head of the king of Zuogu Li in one hand, and the long sword in the other hand, he kept slashing at the Huns, Deng Zhan led five hundred dragoons, tore a hole in the Huns, and rushed straight into the blazing Hun tribe.
One after another, the tents in the tribe were engulfed in flames, and the flames became more and more vigorous, and at the end of the tents, they had a momentum that even the sky seemed to be set on fire.
The desperately fighting Luoyang army and the Huns slammed into each other violently, a handle of war knives you come and go, the soldiers on both sides are shouting and waving weapons, and they can't stop slashing weapons towards the enemy's head and body.
One by one, the Huns fell, one by one the Huns went up, and in the same way, the Luoyang army, after a violent collision and hand-to-hand combat, although there were not as many Huns killed in battle, the casualties were still not small.
The cavalry of the Luoyang Army, which had already mounted the war horse, did not participate in the battle to intercept the Huns.
In a relatively small space, the war horse could not exert the advantage of charging and speed, and if the cavalry forcibly stepped forward to intercept the onslaught of the Huns, it would not have a better effect than the infantry array.
The cavalry of the Luoyang army galloped back and forth in the open space in the tribe, constantly brandishing the Pu knife, and chopping the Huns who caused riots from the inside.
At first, the cavalry of the Luoyang Army only brandished the Pu knife and slashed the Hun men who threatened them, but it didn't take long, and some Hun women also attacked the Luoyang Army cavalry from the dark.
Four or five cavalrymen of the Luoyang Army were caught off guard by the Hun woman and fell off the horse, a cavalry officer waved the Pu knife, and a Hun woman who rushed up towards him was slashed to the ground, and then the Pu knife was raised to the ground, shouting: "Anyone who holds a weapon will be killed!" ”
The officer who shouted was not very far from Liu Bian, and when he heard the officer's shout, Liu Bian did not make any move.
He was still tightly frowning, staring at the soldiers on both sides who were fighting desperately under the firelight without blinking.
The Luoyang army, which was attacked by the men and women of the Huns in the tribe, had no mercy at all, and the simple knives in their hands did not slash at those children who had not yet become adults, but wherever the Huns were in front of them, both men and women would become the souls of their swords.
Countless Huns fell, and the open space in the tribe was full of Hun corpses for a while.
The blood of the Huns gathered into a canal, forming a flowing stream on the ground, flowing towards the nearest low-lying pit, and gathering into patches of blood like a small pond.
Shouting and killing in the distance, the Hun cavalry in the distance had already rushed to a place less than a hundred steps away from the battlefield.
The 30,000 Hun iron horsemen led by Liu Bao rode the horses, and the huge roar of the horses' hooves when they galloped was like a continuous rolling thunder in mid-air.
The reinforcements of the Huns were getting closer and closer, and when the 30,000 cavalry rushed to a place only fifty or sixty steps away from the tribe, the strong crossbowmen of the Luoyang army, who had not moved in the rear, immediately lined up in formation, raised the crossbows, and aimed at the Huns who were desperately charging.
"Shoot the arrows!" The Huns were getting closer and closer, and the officer commanding the strong crossbowmen of the Luoyang army, without caring to check the exact angle of the crossbow array, raised his arm high, and then suddenly pressed down on Lu and issued an order to release the arrow.
With the officer's order, thousands of strong crossbowmen of the Luoyang army pulled off the reeds of the strong crossbows one after another, and shot feathered arrows full of hatred and anger at the Huns who were rushing towards them.
In the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, the arrows fired by the strong crossbowmen of the Luoyang Army, the sound of sharp weapons piercing the sky when they broke through the air, were so subtle that even if you listened carefully, you couldn't really hear it.
Arrows flew towards the charging Huns, and the Huns, who were blocked by the arrows, did not expect that the Luoyang army in the tribe would be able to maintain an orderly array of crossbowmen and shoot an extremely lethal arrow at them.
Countless Huns who rode horses and charged, under the attack of arrows, turned over and fell to the ground from their horses. But more Huns, under the leadership of Liu Bao, stepped up the general attack on the Luoyang army.
"Crash through the fence!" Leading 30,000 Hun heavy cavalry, rushing to a place only forty or fifty steps away from Liu Wei and others, Liu Bao suddenly lifted the reins, raised the straight knife in his hand and pointed forward, and shouted loudly to the 30,000 Hun soldiers who were charging: "Kill from the gap!" ”